oh for fuck sake... Moderna (the covid vax maker) is fully partnering with OpenAI, and they even mention using it to help make "optimal dose recommendations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3UHnKLVS1M
I was watching a video about the disastrous flood situation in Brazil this morning and they mentioned that there was an anarchist space doing #MutualAid support there called #Espaço and just now I was scrolling thru my feed and see they are active here! So go follow @espaco and if you like what they are doing throw them a few dollars to help folks on the ground provide support. #AnarchistSolidarity
For every post I see about people mourning the death of someone named Steve Albini there should be a 100 posts about the brutal murder of Palestinians in Rafah today.
So #Bluesky is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public.
I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe #ActivityPub is next?
If you post to #StackExchange, you license that content to them under CC-BY-SA. You can't revoke that license, so you can't remove that content.
It shouldn't surprise you that they stop you from trying. Imagine a Wikipedia editor trying to remove their edits.
However, what it does give you is the right to host all of SE elsewhere. To fork it, if SE violates its contract with the community. This is how SE was always designed to work. From an interview with Spolsky:
@pbloem this is super interesting so theres nothing stopping us from making a totally free fedi version of all of StackExchange content on here without their bullshit?
Looking into this Summer of Protocols thing that @evan and @tomcoates got accepted for to work on adding encryption to #ActivityPub, and realized its a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. I am not opposed to crypto slush money flowing into more useful projects like the #fediverse but thought it was interesting that I hadn't seen anyone mention this fact yet.
@tomcoates yeah I looked through a bunch of it. It's a strange mix of things. I know quite a few people who have managed to get some money from the Ethereum Foundation for non Blockchain stuff. I do expect you will both get some pushback at some point about this though so maybe be prepared for that. There's many valid reasons to be suspicious or sceptical of anything touching crypto capital.
If I were to run a #fediverse instance for the official accounts of a small town, which implementation would you recommend?
Ideally, it'll be able to accommodate more post formats like e.g. events in the future, so extensibility would be a big plus. Built-in theming (colors at least) would also be a requirement, because I don't have the time to maintain a custom theme that potentially breaks when updating the software.
I had to get a German bank account and decided to go with the only one with a presence on the #fediverse. I finally got into my new account (after waiting a very long time for them to snail mail me a code) and just attempted a transfer and it worked so I am now officially a @glsbank member...
Just had my first exchange across networks with @shreyanjain.net@bsky.brid.gy and it was quite seamless. I think I am officially on team bridge. #fediverse#bluesky#bridgyfed
XWiki added ActivityPub a few years ago! but I haven't seen anyone really use it for much. I did test it out and managed to see that it worked when it was released
Still in development, but got #ActivityPub replies working! Once it goes live, replies from the fediverse will show up on Remark.as.
Last major issue is to add some basic moderation. Already got instance-level blocking done so I can easily defederate from bad servers, but want to make sure we can handle any potential abuse from individual users too.
