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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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smallcircles, to fediverse
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In reaction to the "Godfather of AI" resigning from Google to warn about the dangers ahead, some thoughts of how "personal social networking" on the , supporting genuine and intimate human connection between people online, will become increasingly valuable as generated will start flooding the web.

The that has matured over years of slow growth and which we continue to foster together is very important. Here we have a .

https://discuss.coding.social/t/personal-social-networking-resistance-to-the-ai-onslaught-adds-value/338/3

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @atomicpoet @fediversenews

    I think you are looking for this one?

    https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @ernest @fediversenews @atomicpoet

    Indeed. I agree. Great project going ๐Ÿš€

    Natureshadow, to fediverse

    I am creating some ontologies that I will use for both my https://codeberg.org/Denkar.io/denkario knowledge graph and for my https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata server.

    (In general, I will define ontologies for general purposes, but I will make them compatible with AP as well.)

    Where should I root these namespaces?

    • Under one of my own domains?
    • Under some umbrella others in the are using?
    • Under my own domain, with a PURL redirect?

    https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/where-to-root-my-own-vocabularies/3163

    smallcircles,
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    @Natureshadow

    OT to the question, but regarding the project I'd like to point to a idea I wrote down that may be inspiring.. I called it , social knowledge fabrics, which are combining and technology to allow universal / community / personal 'knowledge gardening'.

    https://discuss.coding.social/t/semmy-social-knowledge-fabrics/76

    smallcircles, to random
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    A retail formula aimed at deceiving customers by means of product placement and marketing in order to sell ever more inferior products with maximum profit.

    tunda, to random German
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    Collective Code Construction Contract ()

    Das finde ich gar nicht schlecht.
    Habt ihr Irgendwelche Kommentare dazu? Egal ob positiv oder negativ, ich wรคre an eurer Kritik interessiert.

    Es geht darum bei Softwareentwicklung soziale Beziehungen der Entwickler:innen mehr in den Vordergrund zu rรผcken. Also Freie Software als Ausdruck einer Sozialen Praxis, so meine Lesart.

    https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/

    smallcircles,
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    @RyunoKi @tunda

    Es ist toll, mein Deutsch manchmal ein bisschen zu รผben :D

    atomicpoet, to random
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    Bluesky vs. Mastodon is not as black and white as many seem to think.

    Let me explain why. ๐Ÿงต

    1. A Twitter founder funds and advises Bluesky.

    Okay, a Twitter founder (@ev) runs a for-profit instance, and another (@biz) has offered to advise Mastodon.

    1. Bluesky accepted VC money.

    A VC firm owns 3 of the top 5 largest Mastodon servers

    1. An evil corporation (Twitter) helped develop Bluesky.

    An evil corporation (Google) helped develop the Fediverse

    I have further thoughts here...

    smallcircles,
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    @paul @atomicpoet

    We have the Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process, the where ever more protocol-level mechanisms and extensions are defined. The process is open to anyone, and proposals are then discussed in the developer community.

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

    How AP extensions are best defined isn't yet well-documented. It should become a FEP. Btw, on best-practices I recently posted..

    https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/best-practices-for-ap-vocabulary-extensions/3162/5

    smallcircles,
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    @paul @atomicpoet

    Yes, loosely it does. The process is simple-as-possible for now. The first FEP defines it, and various improvements to it are discussed on the community forum.

    smallcircles, to fediverse
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    @EDPS @EC_OSPO I was reminded on of the @EU_Commission pilot and was curious about further plans with and now that there's such an uptick in all kinds of organizations establishing their presence on the 'verse.

    smallcircles, to random
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    Fascinating

    https://scrapscript.org

    " solves the software sharability problem"

    "Modern software breaks at boundaries. APIs diverge, packages crumble, configs ossify, serialization corrupts, git tangles, dependencies break, documentation dies, [..]"

    "To make software safe and sharable, scrapscript combines existing wisdom in new ways:

    • all expressions are content-addressible โ€œscrapsโ€

    • all programs are data

    • all programs are โ€œplatformedโ€

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712163

    smallcircles, to fediverse
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    View the survey results from the W3C SWICG about topics to address for future versions of the -related open standards / and related technology.

    https://fediforum.org/other/w3c-swicg-april-2023-survey-results.html

    mjc, to random
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    I don't know anything about internet protocols other than that they exist and somehow enable this beautiful mess -- could I realistically read and understand something like the ActivityPub protocol? Is there a lay translation of it?

    smallcircles,
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    @mjc well, it isn't actually really non-technical, but the -Vocabulary spec mentions just ontology with textual explanation and JSON(-LD) samples.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary

    When it comes to extending - adding a vocabulary/ontology that supports body temperature or RBI - then doing so according to best-practices is still a bit tricky but can be done.

    For it requires following a technical path via the .

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

    csgordon, to fediverse

    My $10 take on this vs dustup is: Maybe algorithms are a net good?

    I've always scrolled chronologicallyโ€”maniac that I amโ€”so this isn't the issue I'm getting at. Looking at the unintended consequences of how design influences practice: I think I waste more time on Mastodon than I did on because I'm seeing the same couple dozen popular (unarguably relevant) posts reboosted x10000.

    And this seems to be a consequence of "People are the algorithm" design.

    smallcircles,
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    @csgordon @codesmith @BrianJohnson

    It strikes me how Bluesky is taking the tech approach (I don't really like the term "techbro" but it is in that area), move fast / break things. Let's give 'users' technological freedom, then see what happens.

    Whereas Fediverse matured at a much slower pace. Taking care of social, and humane technology aspects. Being more deliberate before adding tech capabilities. That approach plus years of slow growth has brought about a fine and rather unique culture.

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    @csgordon @codesmith @BrianJohnson

    So much of the discussion wrt BlueSky and Nostr too is focused on the tech.. "which tech is better?"

    "It isn't about the tech, stupid, it is the culture that matters". It is a 'unique selling point'. If Fediverse goes mainstream, say, and becomes the dominant decentralized tech, but with the same toxic tendencies then not much is won.

    Well, the tech may win, but the resulting culture is what one is stuck with afterwards.

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    @csgordon @codesmith @BrianJohnson

    Yes, you are right in saying that, and of course all the same unwanted social dynamics are witnessed to certain extent on the Fediverse.

    I am not a researcher on the subject, but my gut feeling says that culture matures and ripens more slowly than technology. And my observation is that that often is ignored in discussions, where people merely compare various techz purely on their technical merits.

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    @the_roamer @csgordon @codesmith @BrianJohnson

    Yesterday on Hacker News a "My Product is My Garden" blog was discussed, mentioning different development cultures.

    https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden

    Given how many FOSS projects start the big focus on tech is understandable. Startup world is focused on product growth hacking, and that shows in dev approach too.

    Briefly in research the term 'Social experience design' was coined. I'm interested to rediscover SX in context of fedi.

    https://fedi.foundation/2022/09/social-networking-reimagined

    cevado, to elixir

    wondering if now that is free would be good on working in something that connects to it in ๐Ÿค”

    smallcircles,
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    @cevado open licensing the binaries was a delivery model I wasn't really aware of until 's announcement. I guess it is slightly better than proprietary closed source licenses and SaaS. An additional guarantee on open-sourcing in case of a bankruptcy would further mitigate risks of using the software. They have an good product, yet I would opt for personally, when using in FOSS projects.

    smallcircles,
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    @rap1ds @cevado

    Nice DB. You might consider PR'ing to https://delightful.club/delightful-databases

    dansup, to fediverse
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    Making great progress on the new https://fediverse.info People Directory, hope to ship this in the next few days ๐Ÿ˜

    smallcircles,
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    @ruari @dansup

    Indeed. Thanks a lot for your outstanding work. It looks beautiful. Well designed as always, Daniel.

    vwbusguy, to fediverse
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    What's something cool you've found or are doing with that isn't specifically related? I'm interested in the scope of use cases for it.

    smallcircles,
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    @vwbusguy I might inspire with 3 fedi-related curated lists that can be found at https://delightful.club

    lobingera, to random German
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    @jwildeboer

    You seem to have some ActivityPub background ... do you know where these claims have started from?

    https://floss.social/@Natureshadow/110260650847647074

    smallcircles,
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    @lobingera yes, @jwildeboer phrased it well. There's no "deliberate". Mastodon as a FOSS project always made practical choices when bumping into gaps in the spec. having product needs in mind/ For a microblogging app.

    This btw is no different than how other projects progressed too. E.g. think of Peertube's video extensions. I call it ad-hoc interoperability but a better word may be Protocol Decay.

    That its deliberate is imho a kind of social dynamic at play.

    strypey, to fediverse

    For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the conference we had in late 2020:
    https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos

    Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.

    smallcircles,
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    @strypey

    Ping @fedidevs @activitypub

    See the call above by Danyl.. anyone in for attending / co-organizing an online ?

    atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    Metaโ€™s ActivityPub-enabled Twitter competitor is moving ahead.

    The project is called โ€œBarcelonaโ€.

    It will be its own independent app, and itโ€™s being pitched as โ€œInstagram for your thoughtsโ€.

    How do you feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?

    Hereโ€™s a screenshot of Barcelona.

    https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-barcelona-is-taking-shape/648482/

    @fediversenews

    smallcircles,
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    @retiolus @atomicpoet

    I don't think it was announced, but rather speculated on. In March there were a series of posts in news channels that hinted at it. A Quick search gave this one: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html

    tchambers, to random

    I'm just saying: the launch of
    @wikipedia
    @wikidata
    @wikiresearch
    nableDev
    @wikisusdev
    and @mediawiki ...

    All that does feel like some big new steps.

    So does moving to integrate Mastodon identify verification into software itself.

    "The end goal is that I can put e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm as a URL item and Mastodon will be able to verify it."

    I'm going to be watching this VERY closely and supporting it however I can .๐Ÿ‘€

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs thank you! The site itself was created by @yarmo and the contents reflect the aggregate work of sublist maintainers and people contributing entries to these lists. Whichever of these topics interests you enough to maintain a sublist for.. the top-level project can include it as well.

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs Yay, contributions most welcome ๐Ÿค—

    There's a guide explaining some rules on the top-level repo at https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful/src/branch/main/delight-us.md

    But if you want to start a sublist, easiest is to copy from an existing sub-list.

    (Guide needs some updating, e.g. only a delightful-contributors.md is required next to README.md and license file)

    @yarmo

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