Hey @Daojoan, I came across your post and it really resonates with me. I went through a similar experience myself.
You see, I had the privilege of working at Hootsuite in the early days. I was actually their 8th employee. I started off doing marketing for them and eventually launched their customer support department.
In 2016, I decided to start my own social media consultancy. However, as the year went on, I began to dislike everything about it. I felt that social media was moving in a direction that didn't align with my values, becoming less and less authentic.
In 2018, I began working on a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app. It had great potential. But when I saw ActivityPub getting validated by the W3C, I felt that other decentralized options were becoming less viable as this was the protocol most likely to gain momentum.
Then in 2021, I embarked on work for a Fediverse video app (#GreatApe). Suddenly, I felt a strong sense of purpose: building social media that couldn't be owned by any individual, but rather owned by everyone.
Now, I'm putting lots of my effort into @spacehost and I genuinely believe in the impact of my work. Of course, my work doesn't define me entirely. I still pursue my passions, including writing about other things I deeply care about.
Every day, on my other account. @atomicpoet, I strive to share 12 interesting things. Sometimes they're whimsical, nonsensical, ponderous, or even devastating. But I keep putting it out there because it brings me joy.
I truly enjoy your writing, and I know many others in the Fediverse do too. Keep doing what you're doing. The journey of life is full of surprises, but it also presents countless opportunities and rewards waiting for you.
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As someone who enjoys audio interactions, #TwitterSpaces is the one thing that I miss from the birdsite. It's a great platform for live audio conversations. It all works really well and the conversations can be excellent.
Anyone seen anything in the #Fediverse that provides a similar #audio capability?
First off, @evan sees this from the perspective of someone who's co-authored #ActivityPub. It's his job to spur and enable adoption -- and that's something he's done exceptionally well for 20 years. Of course he wants to help Meta abide by open standards. Which, even if you dislike Meta, you would hope they would do.
My perspective is as one who is building products that compete with Meta. Ideally, I would like people who use Meta to migrate away from there and instead use #Calckey, #GreatApe, and the numerous options available on #SpaceHost.
But even from the perspective of a competitor, I want interoperability with #Barcelona. And even more, I want interoperability based on open standards.
Yes, yes, yes -- "embrace, extend, extinguish". At this point, that phrase is a broken record.
But every time that phrase comes up, I keep asking folks: when has the "extinguish" part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" ever worked?
People say #RSS, but RSS is still here and I use it every day. Hell, Calckey even has an RSS widget and it works like a charm. RSS is not extinguished.
People also say #XMPP, but I can run an XMPP server right now -- no problems. People say XMPP "died" because it's no longer as popular now, but is it because Meta and Google dropped support, or is it because Slack, Discord, Signal, WhatsApp, and even Matrix have come along to eclipse it in popularity? Regardless, even if XMPP is no longer so popular, it's not extinguished.
The most ludicrous example of "extinguish" people bring up is Gmail's dominance of email. But email is the most popular communications technology we have today, even though it's 50 years old. What's more, look at the raw stats. Gmail is only 18% of the email server market -- that's no monopoly. Go have a look at the stats for yourselves:
The pessimistic notion that we will "lose" by allowing Meta to interoperate with ActivityPub -- again, an open standard -- just doesn't convince me. In fact, if Meta is adopting standard ActivityPub, I think "losing" is impossible.
With Meta adopting ActivityPub, we're not losing. We're winning. We're not conceding to Meta by adopting their proprietary APIs for interoperability. They're conceding to us by adopting ActivityPub.
Again, I'm not saying you should all federate with #Barcelona. I'm saying that Meta adopting an open standard that allows for interoperability is a win because, remember, they're adopting our standard. We're not adopting theirs.
Some also ask, "But what if Meta does a bait-and-switch and drops ActivityPub support?"
Well, there's kind of precedence for that.
Not enough people realize this, but Google once adopted the predecessor of ActivityPub. Specifically, they used OStatus for Google Buzz. Certainly, like many Google products, Google Buzz shuttered.
But the development for an open social media protocol lived on, and we all use what was developed right now.
No doubt, if Barcelona becomes Meta's Google Buzz, ActivityPub will live on. It will still be developed. We'll keep using it.
In the meantime, I'll consider ways to help Meta users migrate to platforms that I believe are better.
Monday, at 10am est, I'm going to be interviewed by an AI about ... AI.....LIVE.
It should be fun.
It will be pumped out to my LinkedIn, Youtube, Facebook, and other channels. I use to pump these things out to Periscope too but no more. It would be nice to have a Periscope-like service here. (Ya, I've played with Peertube but I'm looking for live video embeds)
@fringe@jimcarroll Live video is supported by PeerTube and @owncast. Along with @reiver, I'm also developing software for live streaming video to the Fediverse. It's called #GreatApe.
The more I use different #fediverse apps, the more I feel that we are on the edge of a different future, in the early stages of something that we haven't seen before.
In the last few months, I've used #Mastodon, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Funkwhale, #lemmy, #Peertube, #Bookwyrm and #Pixelfed. Soon, I'm going to try an install of #kbin. In the not too distant future, we will see #GreatApe bringing more options for video chat to the Fediverse. There are countless more platforms that I haven't had a chance to try.
The network formed by the interconnections between those apps is the Fediverse; a Federated Universe. Federated, because everything out there is connected with everything else, in one giant network. What I am truly beginning to appreciate is just how real that vision is, and just how disruptive to our future it's going to be. More than a truism, these the fediverse platforms really will allow us to see and interact with nearly anything else out there.
The platform we use no longer determines the information we can access; it doesn't build walls around us. Instead, what out choice of platform determines, is how we interact with information, rather than determining what information we are able interact with in the first place. The walls in the walled garden haven't so much been torn down, as simply never built.
I can write a blog post, and someone on Mastodon can reply to it. I can make a group post on lemmy, and someone from Calckey can reply to it. I can see an awesome photo on Pixelfed, bring it in to #Akkoma and boost it for everyone else to see. And then anyone who sees it can interact with it.
The cross platform interactions are still imperfect. Standards are still being developed, code is still being written and features are still being defined, but the future is right here, we are on the cusp of something new and amazing.
Of course, this is all old news to someone who has been part of the fediverse for years now, but it feels different now. The momentum is here, we are seeing a shift and I think once we cross that precipice, once we have normalised the cross channel interactions we are starting to develop, it's going to be very hard to go back.
activitypub based twitch alternative for streaming
Does anyone happen to know if something like this exists?
Is there a good fedi or p2p alternative to twitch?
Live video streaming, i mean