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boris

@boris@toolsforthought.social

Web tinkerer. Building my #SecondBrain on the web for 20+ years, from blogging to wikis to TFTs and beyond.

Believer in #OpenSource #DWeb Commons Networks

#TiddlyWiki for my FoodWiki https://foodwiki.bmann.ca

#Obsidian for editing my main site running #Jekyll
https://bmannconsulting.com

Waiting to start building the #Noosphere with #Subconscious

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boris, to random
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[[PeARS]] is “People's Agent for Reciprocated Search”, an open source search system written in Python. Federated server plus local version to run from your desktop.
https://pearsproject.org

boris, to opensource
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Cap.so is an open source alternative to [[Loom]] — desktop screen recording and sharing. It uses [[Tauri]] for a desktop client.
https://cap.so

ratkins, to random
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WTF is an “employer of record” and do I have to be any nicer to some idiot spamming me about their “employer of record” services than I do to recruiters?

boris,
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@ratkins it’s for hiring people as full time employees, most usually for international hiring.

eg I can hire someone in Germany where they have a local employer of record without having to setup a company in Germany

I think this might be a thing in the US for different states, too?

But spam is spam so blast the dude ;)

mcc, to random
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More rambling about problems with doing "bluesky" outside the blue sky walled garden (https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112340957577471735). Giving this one its own thread because I'm not sure I'm being fair.

So now I have a PDS working, the first thing I'm experimenting with is: Since I have my own data hosting, can I use this to make posts that are longer than 300 characters? And if I do, what happens? I want to crosspost from Mastodon; mastodon.social allows 500 characters.

So far the answer is: I cannot tell?!?

boris,
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@mcc the lexicon defines the message length. The micro-blogging lexicon that is the default is coded to be 300 IIRC

boris,
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@mcc 🤷 looking at the blogging lexicon may help https://bmannconsulting.com/journal/2024-03-24-2040/

cc @bnewbold who works at Bluesky.

@mackuba a knowledgeable Bluesky hacker

maegul, (edited ) to ghost
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I think the and federations pose interesting questions about what platforms can and should be.

Do we actually want blogs and feeds of blogs folded into a mastodon/microblog social feed?

Do we want to read and comment on blogs on mastodon?

Do we want all the diversity of the fediverse fed into a single platform's UI and hope that it works well?

Are we worried that some choices by our platform or instance admin might hinder this process?

I'm rather skeptical.

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boris,
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@maegul @Loukas actually making use of types - Note for microblogging, Article for long form text - would go a long way.

If Ghost’s goal is to be kind of like Substack, then that looks a bit more like Threadiverse: a community of members commenting.

If all they do is post updates and suck in replies (like Wordpress), that’s pretty mediocre.

And yes, more client work needed.

boris,
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@Loukas @maegul I don’t mean only notes. Active Substack / Ghost / Wordpress sites are communities.

I think of a healthy end state looking more like a Reddit.

That might look like an AP server per site OR a default Ghost account (a bit like Medium).

boris,
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@Loukas @maegul people bring their own social graph, no need for a new account, stream of updates for many types of content from one client.

And: not a proprietary platform - so creators and members can move their accounts.

There are different benefits for the platform (Ghost), creators using Ghost, and also members.

From there we quickly get into UX concerns that @maegul pointed out.

Building social feed clients has always been difficult!

boris, to fediverse
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ActivityBadges extends Open Badges with ActivityPub support.

Seen via @mapache
https://github.com/assemblee-virtuelle/openbadges.app

boris, to fediverse
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John O’Nolan, founder of Ghost, makes a post asking for feedback on federating Ghost with ActivityPub. Please share what you write in the survey!
https://tally.so/r/m67X4P

boris, to fediverse
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Ben Pate has posted a demo video of a federated Bandcamp, built using his ActivityPub “Social web toolkit”, Emissary.
https://kumi.tube/w/pmqy4eUy6iz88Z6Rh1cM5K

boris, to random
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Ivo Velitchkov @kvistgaard talks about what he’s missing from the reMarkable:

Export of highlights from PDF and EPUB
Links between notes and related to that:
Persistent IDs of every object (note, notebook, folder, tag) so that they can be referred to from other places and opened up in the desktop or mobile app.

Strong agree!
https://x.com/kvistgaard/status/1778789885911962026

boris,
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@preslavrachev I’ve done some writing around this from the perspective of building a developer ecosystem (something that remarkable hasn’t wanted to do) https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2022/06/01/kickstarting-app-ecosystem/

boris, to opensource
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Ubicloud is “an open, free, and portable cloud. Think of it as an open alternative to cloud providers”.

Open source AGPL that you install on bare metal servers to run your own cloud.
https://www.ubicloud.com

fission, to random
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We just posted a farewell to our blog about winding down operations of the company https://fission.codes/blog/farewell-from-fission/

Thank you to everyone for your support, interest, & collaboration over the years.

We're proud of the UCAN, WNFS, and IPVM stack we developed, and hope to see them have continued growth across different ecosystems as open source standards and implementations.

boris,
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@travisfw heya! The humans formerly of Fission are still around, and various Fediverse servers are still up.

@expede is my cofounder and the protocol inventor.

The UCAN, WNFS, and IPVM specifications and code are open source and available in their own repos, and usage and adoption continues around them to varying degrees.

boris, to opensource
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Glyph writes Software Needs To Be More Expensive, mostly suggesting that low barrier “let engineers expense $50 per month to any open source project” could help.

The underlying intent is what I’d like to promote: pay to support software you care about. From end users to developers, this can be promoted.

It can fit alongside current real world movements to “buy local”.
https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software-needs-to-be-more-expensive.html

boris, to random
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Substack introduced a “Follow” feature that makes it more like a social network destination rather than a newsletter / blog platform.

And they don’t share follower email addresses with authors.

Yet-another-proprietary-social network. Yes, I told you so.

Write up on The Wrap
https://www.thewrap.com/substack-follow-feature-problems-subscriptions-down/

boris, to random
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robots.txt isn’t relevant here.

The strong yes answers here do indicate that there are many people who want allow-list federation. https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112151166936972706

gavcloud, to random
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register for @causalislands Los Angeles tomorrow and come hear me talk about @TiddlyWiki and 🌱digital gardens

thanks to @fission for sponsoring and @boris @mai for organizing the first Causal Islands Community event.

https://fission.codes/blog/causal-islands-la-community-edition/

boris,
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@gavcloud @liaizon @causalislands @mai one of these days I will meet the elusive @liaizon IRL

Back in Vancouver. Lots of thoughts still swirling about my experience. Great people! Great discussions!

boris,
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@liaizon @gavcloud @causalislands @mai yeah I think a lot of people would come out for

boris, to random
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Radicle has reached v1.0. It's a "distributed code collaboration stack" – local first nodes that connect p2p and stores everything in git, identities are DID-based Ed25519 keys.
https://radicle.xyz/

boris, to fediverse
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Fedify:

…is a Deno/TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards

Still in early development. Also using Deno’s new JSR packaging format.
https://dahlia.github.io/fedify/

boris, to telegram
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I recently installed Telegram desktop to my Mac. The disk image has this really cute illustration in it.

https://bmannconsulting.com/journal/2024-03-08-1018/

boris, to fediverse
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Gitlab has a backlog item for enabling support.

There isn't a lot of consistency in this stuff yet, don't know if they'll conform to what is designing, or just aim for "can subscribe in Mastodon"

(really, they should be supporting both)

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

boris,
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@fleeky yep I know the team, met them when they were just getting started.

Not using it (I’m not much of a dev)

boris,
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@fleeky this was a bit muddled: the important part is discovery and social recommendation, so Radicle should also think about interop and what to do in those areas, rather than just becoming another island protocol.

The team has a funding / dependency network they just started called Drips.Network that tackles some of this.

Work on social code layer is just starting.

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