manlycoffee

manlycoffee, 1 month ago to random

manlycoffee, 7 months ago to fediverse

Could I ask members of the Fediverse in Vancouver a favour?

Could you take a moment to share with folks not on the Fediverse that I will be hosting a "masterclass" to help people onboard onto the Fediverse.

It was inspired by @reiver's idea of a Fediverse JoinFest.

Here's the link to the event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-media-masterclass-fediverse-edition-tickets-746447904777

#Fediverse #Vancouver #JoinFest #LearnFediverse #FediverseIntro #BC #Canada

manlycoffee, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

I probably wrote tens of thousands of words on my Fediverse account about social skills.

All of it could have been compressed down to the following tweet that I'm screenshotting.

evan, 30 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

Do you say "Fediverse" or "Social Web"?

#EvanPoll #poll

manlycoffee, 5 months ago to random

The awesome parts of social media:

people sharing all the cool stuff that they are doing.

I want more of these people.

manlycoffee, 3 months ago to random

People building Fediverse software using ActivityPub are not implementers; they're pioneers.

manlycoffee, 1 month ago to random

Energy cost is going negative in California in the spring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEzNzU4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MTQwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTM3NTg0MDAsImp0aSI6IjRlYTE1ZjM4LTk3ODQtNDVhYy05MjZlLWRjYjgxNGNhMmY5ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDQvMjIvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1zb2xhci1kdWNrLWN1cnZlLXJvb2Z0b3AvIn0.oWYOHLgrSaZNKLvmYZ45KaNCBacVFoD7USdTV2JwmNA

manlycoffee, 2 months ago to random

Just learned of an open source Stripe alternative, called Lago.

Could be useful for what I'm working on.

https://www.getlago.com/

manlycoffee, 11 months ago to random

Before even Meta gets to it, a major money-making opportunity is a way to manage customer service profiles on the Fediverse.

#SpaceHost is sort of working on this.

Rather than companies creating a mastodon.social account, they get their own domain name, and spin up employee profiles on their company domain.

People can ask questions, etc.

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to fediverse

Ideally, at the bare minimum, ActivityPub should have explicitly specified the "shape" of JSON (not JSON-LD) documents.

For example, the spec could have stipulated:

"An Actor document MUST contain the following fields, and MAY be extended via JSON-LD contexts"

And then also stipulate:

"Clients SHOULD expand incoming JSON-LD documents".

This way, applications could skip the expansions step for significantly large subset of the Fediverse.

This is important because not all environments (languages, runtime environemnts, etc.) have the luxury of expanding JSON-LD documents.

#ActivityPub

manlycoffee, 9 months ago to fediverse

Are there any Fediverse software that doesn't respect JSON-LD?

I could have sworn there was one.

I think it was Pleroma #ActivityPub #JSONLD #Fediverse

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to fediverse

People's idea of a federated social media platform feels so Mastodon-centric.

ActivityPub is capable of doing so much more.

#Fediverse

manlycoffee, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Look, I don't really care about preservatives and "chemicals" in my foods, but this is hilarious.

manlycoffee, 2 months ago to random

So there's this AI music-making platform, called Suno, which I talked about before.

But looking at the name, I was thinking "wait, are the founders South Asian?"

For the uninitiated: in many South Asian languages, a word homonymous to "suno" literally means "listen", in the imperative mood.

So I had to look it up, and Google lead me to this small thread on Hacker News, which confirms that Suno's name is derived from a South Asian word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745674

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to random

There's a lot of "view source" advocates that claim Tailwind makes HTML tags more obscure, and if you wanted to learn from someone else on how to build beautiful UI, then you're SOL.

But that's not true.

Copying and pasting styles from other websites became so much more easier with Tailwind.

Like, let's say I really liked a style. I could have recreated it myself through trial+error, but I decided to just inspect element, copy the class attribute, and I didn't have to waste much time.

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to fediverse

Pro and con of using RDF-like data interchange specification (e.g. JSON-LD) for a social media network specification.

Pro:

• extensibility, without needing to amend the actual specification; you do you

Con:

• too many edge cases

#JSONLD #Fediverse #ActivityPub

manlycoffee, 3 months ago to fediverse

Is ActivityPub considered to be synchronous "request/response" specification/protocol, or is ActivityPub considered to be an asynchronous fire-and-forget specification/protocol?

#ActivityPub

manlycoffee, 2 months ago to random

We'll see what happens once we convince people that you can get paid to post to the Fediverse
https://atomicpoet.org/objects/fee90d29-9e25-4ae2-b29c-2a48e59c0dd3

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to random

If the Fediverse gains mass adoption, I hope it ends up being used seamlessly; simply inconspicuous and unassuming.

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to fediverse

I want a Fediverse where if people want to build their own federated software, they don't have to maintain a separate WebFinger endpoint.

Yes, implementing WebFinger is trivial compared to ActivityPub, but it's still something else to maintain, and people should have the power to opt out of it.

#Fediverse

manlycoffee, 4 months ago to fediverse

I might sound like I'm speaking poorly of WebFinger, I'm not.

WebFinger is powerful.

But what is also powerful is the ability opt out of it.

#Fediverse

manlycoffee, 26 days ago to random

Millennials were told "the cake is a lie".

Gen Zs are told "everything is cake".

manlycoffee, 1 month ago to fediverse

The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.

A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.

It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.

That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #BlueSky #WebFinger

manlycoffee, 1 month ago to random

I will never vote for a politician who attacks the BoC for raising interest rates in the face of higher than 2% inflation rate.

The Bank of Canada has one job: keep inflation at 2%.

They only have one tool for the job: monetary policy, which includes the overnight lending rate.

Yelling at the Bank of Canada for interest rates is like yelling at a tree for having its leaves fall during autumn. They can't help it.

It's also the government's job to manage inflation rate, by keeping a close eye on the economy.

Several things that lead to inflation that we're seeing today:

• high housing costs
• supply-chain issues
• uncontrolled immigration, even in the face of inflation

Inflation doesn't only mean more money in circulation; it also means market can't meet demand.

So combined with supply-chain issues, red tapes behind housing starts, and high immigration all lead to the inflation that we are seeing today.

Governments should have been on top of this.

#canpoli

manlycoffee, 2 months ago to random

I just read two articles that has me believe that social media is not a net negative, and is probably a net positive overall.

More validation that me working on software in the social media space shouldn't have me feeling morally bankrupt.

Definitely time for me to go all in on the Fediverse.