Edent,
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🆕 blog! “The Fediverse of Things”

One of the most frustrating things in modern technology is the effort spent trying to artificially restrict abundance. Take, for example, this tale from museum-worker Aaron Cope: I was out with a friend who worked for Twitter and I asked them whether it would be possible for the museum to “create 200,000 Twitter accounts, one […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/the-fediverse-of-things/

andypiper,
@andypiper@macaw.social avatar

@Edent I mentioned this to @evan previously, and I think it's an interesting idea; it may benefit from some spec extensions depending on what the things are transmitting.

Re: the Twitter version of this, I was involved in the UK environment agency implementation; large-scale creation of accounts was always a tricky thing to handle to avoid misuse.

Generally, I love the fediverse of things concept! Also, there's some fun stuff doable around sensor data and LLMs e.g. https://harper.blog/2024/03/26/our-office-avatar-pt-1-the-office-is-talking-shit-again/

steve,
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Inspired by the article written by @Edent on the Fediverse of Things (#iot, #wot), I experimented with using an LLM to interpret home automation requests that could be sent using #ActivityPub and convert them to JSON device commands. I documented the results in the following blog article:
https://www.stevebate.net/fediverse-of-things-and-llms/

christianp,
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@Edent could I send an activitypub activity to OpenBenches to say I've sat on a particular bench?

Edent,
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

@christianp
In theory, yes. There is an "Arrived" verb in ActivityPub.
I haven't yet turned @openbenches into anything other than a broadcasting bot.

thisisaaronland,
@thisisaaronland@orthis.social avatar

@Edent while not specifically activitypub-related / any excuse to remember and shout out the “hello lamp post” project is a good one – https://tomarmitage.com/projects/hello-lamp-post/

evan,
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

@Edent I have a whole section in my book about FOT!

Edent,
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

@evan looking forward to reading it :-)

tshirtman,
@tshirtman@mas.to avatar

@Edent reading people's love letters to trees always make me a bit teary I must say 🥹. Nice point about a private iot social network.

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