@erlend i applaud the effort…but not long ago we had a thriving news industry where fact-checking was the norm and readers/viewers/listeners had faith that the presentation was objective.
i wish there was more attention to reviving the industry (in new technologies) and in raising awareness that without a strong unbiased and healthy media we are growing less informed and more divisive.
thanks for the link. look forward to the report. dm me when you publish. thanks.
@erlend i should add that my reaction above is to your first article on your site.
i have long objected to the “value” and emphasis on growth, often at all costs. i wish “improve” and “do better” were valued more.
@saul we’re more of a facilitator for that kind of thing. Weird can help make the initial connection, but the message transmission would be left to any of a number of E2EE messengers we’d defer to (by integration), like #matrix, #signal, #Veilid, #polyproto etc.
The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.
I sincerely hope the vast majority of “GenAI enhancements” will go the way of the 3D glasses which the movie theaters unsuccessfully tried to foist onto our noggins as the upsell no one had asked for.
Remember those things? They were kind-of-okay for Avatar, and then nothing else ever again. Today there can be no doubt that the novelty was ultimately not worth its weight in plastic pollution.
Took nearly a decade for corporations to largely give up on that forced fad, so, hang in there! 💪
@erlend I appreciate the long-term optimism but do we have another decade for this BS though? The "AI" fad may soon gobble up resources to rival the ongoing cryptocurrency idiocy.
@fanden correct. What I’m hoping for is a decade of lackluster adoption, leading to continuous divestment in AI until it’s unilaterally viewed as yet another incremental technology, as opposed to a revolutionary one.
A visible ‘Online’ status (as opposed to ‘Offline’) should be earned, not shared by default.
I’ll grant you insight into my online status once we’ve established asynchronous connectivity as our norm, and I can rest assured that you’ll be respectful of my time and attention regardless of my availability at any given time.
This is the kind of granularity that is woefully lacking in our communications software.
Social bookmarking is a novel use case for #ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.
Things like #Bookwyrm are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs.., they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.
Thanks to @raffomania and @eb for the indirect prompts leading to this article mixing their ideas with my own.
As you may know I started delightful project of curated lists. Though decentralized via sub-lists with independent maintainers, its still burdensome to keep lists up-to-date.
@db0 hmm right, there’s nothing readily prepared for Python yet, so you’d have to work through the bindings yourself; I believe pyo3 is the standard way to do that.
Maybe Rauthy isn’t what’s best for you though, but rather any OIDC-compliant identity provider? Authentik seems like the go-to for Python projects. You could advocate for FedCM adoption there, pointing to the ongoing work in Rauthy: https://github.com/sebadob/rauthy/discussions/145#discussioncomment-8831943
@db0 though, no direct Python integration with Rauthy should be necessary if all you’re looking to do is set up a Rauthy instance and have your app defer to it for logins via OIDC.
I could be wrong about this (feel free to ask in Rauthy’s Discussions on GitHub) but in that case I’m guessing all you need is an app-side authentication and access management library for integration with OIDC enabled authentication services like Rauthy et.al.
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.
Let's envision what a truly federated chat like #Matrix could do to improve the cross-connectivity of chat channels. Most of these features are already possible, they just haven't been implemented yet in a community-oriented client experience.
I wonder which of them will go off and conquer BlueSky, setting off another to corral X, leaving the third in sole control of the Internet?
I cannot wait to see what happens when the second gets destroyed by X, giving the third the courage to invalidate the BlueSky conqueror and take all the Internets all for them-selves.
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism.
> The older you get, the more complex your social connections grow. A Gen Z kid in middle school doesn't have to worry about losing touch with their high-school buddies if they switch platforms (they haven't gone to high school yet – and they see their middle school friends in person all the time [..]). Middle-schoolers don't have to worry about coordinating little league car-pools or losing access to a rare disease support group.
Is there any TLD registry (not registrar) and accompanying domain name extension (.com, .net and so on) out there that’s owned by a small/independent, i.e. trustworthy business? Feels like they’re all owned by some creepy mega-corp.
.blog owned by Automattic is a decent example, though they’re not exactly very indie anymore, and have come under strong scrutiny of late. I wonder if there are even better alternatives.
@Edent I sent them an email to make them aware of this conversation:
> Your company might have a rather unique opportunity to position itself as one of the few independently owned TLD registries still around, which is a very appealing prospect to people in the resurgent fediverse and indieweb.
Would be really cool to have an especially fedi-friendly TLD registry around.
@Edent@erlend it was always my hope that webfinger (plus some extra bits) could be used for contact details (I think webfinger is properly understood as "DNS for People[/things/etc]").
By using the ability to do key lookups, it's not too complicated to build an authenticated profile server that wouldn't rely on a shared/trusted service.
I imagine something like a Facebook profile page with "friends-only" visibility for profile details, etc. Could work really well with Signal's new usernames..