If you're still using Substack for your newsletter and want to migrate to Ghost, which has announced that it will join the fediverse this year, here's a step-by-step guide by @wes. It covers costs, what you'll need, setting up Mailgun and Cloudflare, how to move over your posts and subscribers and numerous other helpful details.
I was thinking what would it look like if a Flohmarkt instance pulled in a @bookwyrm book to list as an item to sell. How would that make the most sense to represent through #ActivityPub?
I just had a radio flavored #activitypub idea. lets say I wanted to share a list of radio stations I like listening to: What if I had a list of them and each one was marked up in AP as a favorite that was linked to being a favorite of my account here maybe with rel="me" but like rel"my-stations" or something. and then other fediverse accounts could follow my list & automatically receive a OPML, PLS or M3U with all my stations that they could open in Transister or VLC or any app that supported it
Reposts are now done in #Smithereen. You can only make "quote-posts", not Announce reposts because Announce is too confusing and doesn't fit my vision. However, Announce reposts are no longer this half-assed thing like they were before. They now show up in people's profiles and use a different icon from my native reposts.
I was looking at implementing #ActivityPub with #dasblog a while back, and I admittedly struggled and lost my enthusiasm for the project. However, I have found @mapache explanations and tutorials incredibly helpful and intuitive.
DasBlog is not static so some of this does not apply, but enough does, and for the rest I can easily overlap gaps with the rich blogging engine. I am currently on step 5, this is happening!
#Ghost to popularny system bloga z newsletterem, niektórzy twierdzą, że na odwrót, alternatywa dla WordPress, popularna za granicą, u nas mniej, bo nie wystarczy mu biedahosting z PHP (inb4: kocham PHP i tanie czy darmowe hostingi).
Chyba stwierdzili, że #Fediwersum się jednak przyjmie, bo nie tylko zaimplementują #ActivityPub w systemie, ale również piszą czytnik, który w końcu sensownie będzie pokazywał Artykuły (tak, Mastodon od lat NIE CHCE tego zrobić, trzyma się Notki jak Twitter i blokuje tym rozwój Fedi, tzn. jego popularność, Mastodona, w mojej ocenie).
The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding #Activitypub to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
This move definitely puts a dent in my trust in Mastodon. Let's hope for the best, but I will also start looking for alternative implementations of #ActivityPub.
#activitypub It seems like we will need to define a Podcast ActivityStreams object type. I’ve been trying to see if we can just transmute a podcast into an Audio or Video object type. But the loss of fidelity is so high. I think a dedicated object type is going to be pretty necessary.
Some folks on here really went to bat for #Meta to join the #Fediverse including the creator of #activityPub (who also ranted unhinged while twirling his moustache that all Twitter users are evil - when Musk had just bought the place)
I wonder if they'll regret it soon enough? This was entirely predictable...
Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using #ActivityPub
We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release!
Fascinating look at how #ActivityPub is being used by the SFO art museum to help encourage revisiting its cultural objects. Still early days, but you can see the potential here -> “The reason I am telling you all of this is that SFO Museum has written it's own limited ActivityPub server implementation and we have, in fact, created an ActivityPub account – a social media, account – for every object in our collection.” https://orthis.social/@thisisaaronland/112339899293624779
The fedify inbox command, which will be shipped in the next #Fedify release, is a tool that creates an ephemeral #ActivityPub server so that you can debug and test the activities you send.
It seems like the #ActivityPub Recommendation primarily focuses on behaviors related to received Activities, especially in an S2S federation context. Exceptions include inbox forwarding (7.1.2), shared inbox delivery (7.1.3), and broadcast of public messages to all known servers (7.1.3). However, for specific activities, like Delete, the behavior related to sending them is unspecified (e.g. which recipients should be included and so on). Am I missing something?
I have finally written up the notes from the talk I gave to a #museum studies class at usf recently / this one is long even by standards and covers a lot of ground / it is titled "talking about the pen without talking about the pen" – https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
“…one of things that makes a technology like ActivityPub interesting is that it provides a working implementation for the means by which that information, in all the curatorial files in all the museums, might be distributed. Crucially, it provides the means to do so without the Faustian bargains that we've seen the earlier social media platforms extract in exchange for reach and access.”
your comment about how the #SocialWeb fixes the blog response problem is key. I'd add the ability to do boosts. #ActivityPub has the potential to keep creators in total control of their work, while also putting them in the center of how their work interacts with others (social networks usually controlled by others). this is our killer app. thank you so much for doing the work.