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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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Daojoan, to random
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Trouble brewing. https://mastodon.social/@theindex/112469925900411283

evan,
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@fifilamoura @Daojoan if he's dead, won't there be a war?

evan,
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@fifilamoura @Daojoan Yeah, seems like a great possibility for instability. The death of a president under mysterious circumstances only weeks after an interchange of missiles with Israel seems like a very dangerous situation.

evan, to random
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Just found out that all Arabs in Argentina and most of Latin America are called turcos ("Turks") and finding it hard to process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Argentines?wprov=sfla1

evan,
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@Osteopenia_Powers I have not, and: booo

evan,
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@dneary TIL!

evan, (edited ) to random
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Buenos Aires

evan,
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Muy Buenos

evan,
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@hueso nice

evan,
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@hueso also, fixed

evan, (edited ) to random
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When you have access to a bidet, do you use it?

evan,
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@fdrc_ff are you surprised that bidets exist, that this poll exists, or at the results?

LALegault, to Ottawa
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Way to go #Ottawa 1 down 3 more to go!

evan,
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@LALegault wow!

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long have you been on the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse16

evan,
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This is an interesting response. I find the clustering around 2-5 interesting. I'm 11 or more.

evan,
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@pfefferle wowowow

evan, to random
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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

evan,
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Thanks especially to people building software, making art, telling their personal stories, inviting friends or organizations, joining groups, making jokes, thinking hard, making connections, liking, reading, listening, watching, administering, moderating, supporting, sharing, being kind, making friends, answering questions, and otherwise laying down the careful and intricate network of connections between people, software and content that is slowly but surely changing the world.

evan,
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@jesseplusplus Probably not. I think I had a very romantic idea of how powerful Open Source and open standards were at that time -- that they would inevitably wash away proprietary, siloed systems. It's also worth noting that there were hundreds of Twitter-like services, and Facebook-like services, and so on during that period. So the idea of federating them made a lot of sense.

evan,
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@jesseplusplus I had a much more pessimistic feeling about federation by the early 2010s, when that ecosystem had collapsed into a few dominant players. It wasn't until we started the Social Web Working Group at the W3C in 2014 that I started feeling optimistic again -- and even then, I expected the social web to be mostly enterprise social networks, small open source networks, etc. The entry of major commercial social networks has been a big and welcome surprise.

evan,
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@csarven I'm still glad to see you here!

cato, to random
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Will replies to toots on my old account get redirected to my new account?

evan,
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@mwfc @cato no, sorry.

evan, to random
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McGill, stop suing and start divesting.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-injunction-request-1.7203666

evan, (edited ) to random
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"The consensus opinion on the fediverse is more representative of public opinion than the consensus on siloed social networks."

#EvanPoll #poll

evan,
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@chrisjrn OK, fair

evan,
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Interesting results.

I am somewhat disagree. I think algorithmic feeds distort the apparent consensus on many siloed networks, but that this effect is offset by the type of people currently on the fediverse.

evan, to random
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We saw Dune 2 tonight. It was really good.

evan,
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@dneary ikr!

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