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mobileatom, 3 days ago to meta

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies. #cara #meta

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/a-social-app-for-creatives-cara-grew-from-40k-to-650k-users-in-a-week-because-artists-are-fed-up-with-metas-ai-policies/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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w3c, 3 days ago to random

W3C tech in the news: "Google Is Now Indexing EPUB Files"

"Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index.

EPUB is an XML-based eBook publishing format based on a standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, which in 2016 was subsequently merged with the World Wide Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-now-indexing-epub-files/517586/

pfefferle, 4 days ago to wordpress

we just released version 2.4.0 of the #WordPress #ActivityPub plugin:

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.4.0

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

mobileatom, 4 days ago to random

WordPress Playground – A New Tool You Need To Try Right Now. #WordPressPlayground

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-playground/518048/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Blog me! @blog

davidbisset, 4 days ago (edited 4 hours ago) to wordpress

#WordPress 6.5.4 is out. Fixes an annoying (to some plugin developers) item related to the onboarding process for plugins.

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/06/wordpress-6-5-4-maintenance-release/

pfefferle, 4 days ago to wordpress

@alex just released v0.9.0 of the Enable-Mastodon-Apps Plugin for #WordPress This is such a big release that also includes our changes from the #CloudFest #Hackathon!

https://notiz.blog/2024/03/21/enable-mastodon-apps/

The plugin allows you to use a Mastodon App with your WordPress Blog 🎉

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-mastodon-apps/

mobileatom, 4 days ago to random

WebPros Partners with Extendify to Elevate WordPress Experience. #WordPressHosting #WordPressSiteBuilding

https://news.cpanel.com/webpros-partners-with-extendify-to-elevate-wordpress-experience/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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davidbisset, 5 days ago to webdev

"In Praise Of The Basics"

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/05/in-praise-of-the-basics/

"Long live the basics! Long live the “a-ha!” moments that help us all fall in love with the World Wide Web." #webdev #oldschool #html #css

palantir, 5 days ago to drupal

Public sector organizations need help with their digital transformation journeys as much as anyone. Our experience in this area has helped us create a digital communications governance guide that covers the fundamentals. Read on for:

• The evolution of digital governance and transformation
• Agile practices for communications governance
• Auditing and identifying stakeholders
• Documenting communications governance policies
  https://www.palantir.net/blog/digital-communications-governance #drupal4gov #civicdesign #drupal

mobileatom, 6 days ago to random

What is visual hierarchy, and why do you need it? #WebDesign

https://www.noupe.com/design/what-is-visual-hierarchy-and-why-do-you-need-it.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Responsive Design, UX, UI, and more @responsive

LaurensHof, 7 days ago to fediverse

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 71

Moderator communities, government petitions, and also how I think that PieFed latest small update is more meaningful that it seems. I also spend some time looking at Nostr and Farcaster, as there are interesting developments happening on those networks that are relevant for the fediverse. Let’s dive in:

The News

IFTAS, the Independent Federated Trust and Safety organisation, has launched IFTAS Connect, a ‘new community of practice designed specifically for Fediverse moderators.’ IFTAS has regularly held surveys under fediverse moderators, the Moderator Needs Assessments, and one of the most requested items was a better way to convene and communicate. With IFTAS Connect there is now such a platform, that features an extensive library, forums and a place for group discussions.

The Canadian House of Commons was presented with a petition to for the Canadian government to “enact policy and dedicate budgetary resources to enable the Parliament of Canada to provide an open, trusted, federated, social media presence”. Here’s the video of the petition being read in the House of Commons.

Newsmast wrote last week on the fediverse as a hub for the social web, and how they are integration people into their communities from across multiple platforms, including Threads and Bluesky. They posted a research report this week, Mapping the Social Web, that takes a closer look at where different communites are on different platforms. Some of the main takaways: Most communities are present on only one of two of the platforms, and only US Politics and Politics have strong communities on both Threads, Bluesky and the fediverse.

Link aggregator platform PieFed can now federate with PeerTube. Furthermore, PieFed is using its ‘Topics’ system to promote some PeerTube channels as well. PieFed’s Topics take an aggregation of different Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin communities and group them together under a certain Topic. For example, the Linux Topic now contains a collection of Lemmy communities such as !Linux, as well as @thelinuxexperiment_channel. I think this is something worth paying attention to, as it signals a shift in thinking about how the link-aggregator platforms can work: Platforms like Lemmy (or Reddit) work by having users push content into the platform and are thus fully dependent on user-submission. This addition by PieFed allows for a pull-method as well: PieFed now pulls content into their Topics from other platforms automatically by subscribing to them.

Darnell Clayton draws some more attention to Loforo.com, a Tumblr-like fediverse platform, and points out that it actually has quite a sizable community. The platform reports around 15k MAU, which makes it a top-10 instance in the fediverse by MAU, even though the service is virtually unknown. As I reported a few weeks ago, Lofoto has apparently been integrated with ActivityPub for a while, but never made any formal announcement about it, as for as I can tell. Clayton reports that it is likely that Loforo uses the Mastodon API to a significant extend, as logging into Loforo with a Mastodon client works, and fediDB lists Loforo as a Mastodon instance.

Hollo is a new single-user microblogging platform that is currently being build by Hong Minhee. Hong is also behind Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework, which just got updated this week as well. Hollo is build using the Fedify framework.

FediVision 2024 has concluded, the yearly song contest where artists that are on the fediverse can submit their songs. This year, 72 entries were submitted, and the winner is Misaligned Aardvarks by The Island of Nothing.

Some news from Farcaster and Nostr

Some news from the crypto-affiliated decentralised social networks:

I wrote about Farcaster this week, with the goal of answering the question: why is a social network with 80k daily users valued at 1 billion dollars? While the height of the valuation seems questionable to me, it is clear that Farcaster provides a social network that is indeed valuable for (crypto-focused) VCs. There are enough interesting ideas in Farcaster that it is worth paying attention to.

Talking about Farcaster and why I’m paying attention to what is happening there: Neynar is a company that builds tools that help people create products on top of Farcaster. Neynar announced that they raised 11M USD in a series A. What we’ve seen in the broader ecosystem of decentralised social networks so far is that Nostr has managed to punch above their weight (in terms of active users) with the amount of products being build for Nostr, and a major contributor to that is relatively easy to build other products on top of Nostr. This is in contrast with Bluesky, which has the least amount of developer activity, even though it has the largest active user base, with developers saying it is hard to develop for ATProto. A company that makes it easy for developers to build on top of the protocol can have a significant impact.

Jack Dorsey’s Block mentioned Nostr in their Q1 Shareholder letter, saying that “Creative endeavors will rely heavily on micropayments, something that’s been discussed since the dawn of the internet, and finally being realized at scale with things like “zaps” (transferring small amounts of bitcoin via lightning) on the NOSTR protocol.” Block says that they see an opportunity to build systems that connect the existing financial system with emerging systems, heavily implying Nostr’s Zap system. Rumour is that TIDAL and CashApp (both owned by Block) are working on integrations. Websites for both companies have a link that follows a standard Nostr reference structure: https://tidal.com/.well-known/nostr.json?name=TIDAL and https://cash.app/.well-known/nostr.json. Nothing is officially confirmed however, as far is I can tell this is the only reference to TIDAL and CashApp doing something with Nostr.

(EDIT 2024-06-03: another reference to Nostr in the TIDAL code base)

WeDistribute joined Nos Social’s Journalism Accelerator Program. Nos Social is a client app for Nostr. WeDistribute writes about why they are joining, and seeing value in expanding their writing to include Nostr: “different [networks] offer unique and novel approaches to solving common problems that every decentralized network struggles with. We’re all tackling different pieces of the puzzle, in an effort to make the Social Web a viable alternative”.

The Links

• Project Defiant, the 10k USD seed grant to build an alternative for DeviantArt on the fediverse, has some more detailed information on the grant application process. The deadline is June 4th.
• A work-in-progress on a new Mastodon-Matrix bridge.
• A Fediverse Developer Network meetup on June 5th.
• The next meeting for the ForumWG will be on June 6th.
• Micro.blog has made their podcast hosting option available on their 5USD/month plan.
• A security patch for Mastodon (4.2.9).
• Ghosts “only-mildly-unhinged” weekly update on their work on adding ActivityPub.
• This week’s updates to fediverse software.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading.

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-71/

stephaniewalter, 7 days ago to random

My curated weekly UX Research, Design, Accessibility & Tech Newsletter is out.

In this week's edition:

• Accessibility for Designer Workshop
• Sensory Environment Checklist
• North Star Metric
• Hidden vs. Disabled
• Chatbots vs. Humans
• New CSS Tricks
• AI and Accessibility
• Figma Plugins (OKLCH Color Variation Plugin, Vector to 3D)
• Design Salary Database
• Accessible Text Resizing
• Container Queries
• Apple and Google's Accessibility New Features

👉🏻 https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/pixels-of-the-week-june-2-2024/

thepracticaldev, 7 days ago to random

Color Psychology In Web Design

Can you paint with all the colors of emotion? 🟢🟡🟠🔵🔴

#DEVCommunity
https://dev.to/amolsasane_/color-psychology-in-web-design-4cmf

TechDesk, 9 days ago to internet

Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.

The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.

https://flip.it/6fN4-y

You can also read the full reports here:

https://flip.it/208p7a
https://flip.it/i-HVZr

#SocialMedia #Misinformation #Research #MIT #Tech

luciolcw, 9 days ago to academicchatter Italian

🚀 The DeWeb'24 Workshop @ The 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is just around the corner! ✨

🗓️ Save the date for our keynote by @andypiper (Developer Relations @ Mastodon 🐘)

⏰ June 3 at 9:00AM EDT (15:00 CEST)

💻 Join us on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/81882532221?pwd=ancA9kJDfbuBTfGM7XkgmI5R7eRC1C.1

📚 Check our amazing program: https://deweb-workshop.github.io/

@computationalsocialscience @networkscience @complexsystems @academicchatter

mobileatom, 9 days ago to random

A guide to design systems and their benefits, #DesignSystems

https://salsa.digital/insights/a-guide-to-design-systems-and-their-benefits?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Responsive Design, UX, UI, and more @responsive

mobileatom, 9 days ago to Facebook

Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram over privacy fears. #facebook #instagram

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/31/spain-bans-meta-from-launching-election-features-on-facebook-instagram-over-privacy-fears/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into THE FEDIVERSE VS. CORPORATE SOCIAL MEDIA @the

topher1kenobe, 10 days ago to wordpress

At WordCamp Canada I'm going to be speaking on how to increase diversity in your project, company, and world. Yes, I am an old, white, American man. You should come watch. #WordPress https://canada.wordcamp.org/2024/

adactio, 10 days ago to random

1. When publishing an article on the web, avoid padding it with unnecessary words.
2. A picture is worth 1000 words.

Therefore, the best editing you can do is to remove a picture (especially if it's stock photography or AI slop).

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21173

euronews, 10 days ago to random

Meta will soon use your public posts to train its AI. Can you prevent it?
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/30/meta-will-soon-use-your-public-posts-to-train-its-ai-can-you-prevent-it?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Europe @europe

annette, 11 days ago to wordpress German

Wie steht es denn inzwischen mit den Antworten auf per #ActivityPubPlugIn aus #WordPress veröffentlichten Beiträgen? Werden die auch im Blog gepostet? Und kann ich dann von dort wieder antworten? Oder funktioniert ein weiterführendes Gespräch nur unter Einbeziehung des Autorenaccounts? Ist das am Ende ohenhin #bestpractice?

mobileatom, 10 days ago to Facebook

We're Watching Facebook Die. #facebook

https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into THE FEDIVERSE VS. CORPORATE SOCIAL MEDIA @the

mobileatom, 10 days ago to Facebook

The People Deliberately Killing Facebook. #facebook

https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into THE FEDIVERSE VS. CORPORATE SOCIAL MEDIA @the

salcode, 10 days ago to wordpress

Hey #WordPress Friends

I'm presenting an "Introduction to Unit Tests" at @WordcampMontclair on Saturday June 1, 2024.

The full schedule is online at https://montclair.wordcamp.org/2024/schedule/

I had a lot of fun at this #WordCamp last year. If you're in the area, I hope you check it out.

#WCMontclair

mobileatom, 11 days ago to tumblr

Tumblr launches its semi-private Communities in open beta. #tumblr

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/28/tumblr-launches-its-semi-private-communities-in-open-beta/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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