Are there any #ActivityPub blogging services that automatically slice up long posts into 500-character (maximum), threaded posts when you publish? I like the idea of an ActivityPub compatible blog but I know a lot of people (myself included) aren't wild about huge, 10K character posts showing up on their feed.
I can imagine a service like this that provides a clean looking article when viewed on the originating site, but provides threaded posts on the federated TL.
Maybe this already exists?
Beyond that, even if you think being literal is pedantic: It is practically incorrect
There is no way to guarantee even what we have for any set of systems. To the degree this is true, which it isn't, it is not a characteristic of the fediverse and it is not even a characteristic you can know is being applied in the vast majority of cases.
The latter two points about splitting your timeline and muting just reposts is closer to correct, but is not actually anywhere in the protocol as written. #ActivityPubdoes not include these features. They are useful, but they simply do not exist in AP, and to a greater or lesser extent they have either not been formalized or only barely formalized with a #FEP
This is something we can correct and probably should correct, but we also need to stop telling people it is true of the "fediverse."
If you are a #Threads user aged 18+ with a public profile, you can choose to share your posts to other #ActivityPub-compliant servers. Read more on how we're continuing to integrate Threads into the fediverse, our technical challenges and the solutions we've uncovered along the way. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ba3esO https://bit.ly/4ba3esO
#Fedify's tutorial, which previously assumed you were using #Deno, can now be followed using #Node.js and #Bun! (What is Fedify? It's an ActivityPub server framework.)
However, they are written for Fedify 0.8.0, which hasn't been released yet. You can test it with the pre-release version, 0.8.0-dev.164, though.
I'm building #umpire, an anonymous registration of #missing and #murdered people, intended to match missing against murdered people's profiles. My spouse is a forensic genetic genealogist who specializes in marginalized communities and found existing sources to be lacking in their ability to search, match, and review. Follow my progress live on Mastodon, here, or over on GitHub: https://github.com/aeveltstra/umpire-web and https://github.com/aeveltstra/umpire-db.
Umpire is being built in vanilla PHP, HTML, JS, CSS, and SQL, backed by a MySQL database. The intent is to distribute the system as #FOSS, and have instances around the world federate with each other much like #ActivityPub instances do. We already created a different application (written in Python and SVG) that can extract the data and turn the people's profiles into paper posters and social media posts. We seek to keep the tech stack as straightforward as possible, to allow easy collaboration.
Groups of people just coming up with new ideas, new designs, new innovations.
Not Google vs Apple vs Facebook and no one else.
This is pretty amazing. This list has grown tremendously since I started checking out the #Fediverse in I think like 2017. This just blows me away and makes me excited again for the internet.
Okay, so another set of stats now that April is over.
As I've said before, I am posting concurrently to Pixefed and Instagram to see what the differences are.
Let's break it down by month first. Here are average likes by month for the year to date:
January - Insta 20 / Pixelfed 8
February - Insta 21 / Pixelfed 8
March - Insta 27 / Pixelfed 11
April - Insta 26 / Pixelfed 9
Year to date, we're averaging 23.7 likes per post on Insta and 9.1 likes per post on Pixelfed.
First, let's look at most likes of the month. For April, my most liked post on Instagram was my post for Wotakoi, Volume 4 with 43 likes. For comparison, the same post on Pixelfed got 9 likes. https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/680406871658815035
Year to date - cat pics are averaging 20 likes per post on Insta and 25 likes per post on Pixelfed. Manga does well on Instagram with 28 likes per post on average; on Pixelfed? 5 likes on average.
Flowers or "Bloomscrolling" does well on Pixelfed with 25 likes per post; on Insta it's 23 likes per post.
Basically, trends in what I post show an interesting top list.
In a world of algorithms, my manga posts are being caught into their algorithm pattern and being seen by more people. In a world without algorithms (i.e. Fedi), people like to see pictures of flowers and cats.
I mean, I get it.
Oh - and year to date, I'm averaging 0.05 likes per follower on Insta and 0.08 likes per follower on Pixelfed.
And current follower count:
Instagram - 454 (+68 since 2023)
Pixelfed - 117 (+40 since 2023)
When he built a bridge to connect Bluesky to Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered platforms, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org started a new chapter for the fediverse. The software engineer opens up to @mike about his rollercoaster ride in the latest episode of Dot Social:
With its long-form Articles feature (for Premium+ users), #Twitter is going after not just #Substack, but also blogs. This worries me because it might actually work. This level of centralization won't be healthy, because it actually prevents innovation and experimentation for building better reputation systems. We will be stuck with Twitter's algorithms for a long time.
A lot of action is happening in this space lately. #Meta launched #Threads , #Ghost is going to federate over #ActivityPub , #Mastodon is becoming a US non-profit (with a Twitter co-founder on the board).
An open publishing network - now THAT is exciting!
Bemerkenswert, wenn solche wichtigen Projekte nicht mehr im freien Fediverse bekannt gemacht werden, sondern auf Threads.
Es geht um nichts anderes, als eine E2E Verschlüsselung für AP.
♲ threads.net/
Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a #SummerOfProtocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for #ActivityPub DMs, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.
@molly0xfff all of the above. The very early days were hugely exciting. The late nineties, really powerful possibilities started to open up – that was when I was promoting the Web as cheap client-server Lego. Since then we've seen the relentless growth of corporate walled gardens, which are now the overwhelming experience of the Web for a majority of users. But there are still really exciting ideas bubbling up – #ActivityPub is a great example.
Iemand vanuit #Mastodon benadrukt het belang van #OpenStandaarden. Hij roept op dat daar meer financiering voor moet komen om deze door te ontwikkelen. Zeker in het licht van verregaande koppelingen tussen andere sociale media zoals Instagram en Facebook die hier grote budgetten voor hebben.
Een interessante link voor #Overheden is ons #ActivityPub for Administrations 3-delige workshop die we in 2021 georganiseerd als #SocialHub hebben. Hier is de link: