@fediverse What type of social media do you feel is lacking most in the fediverse?
To elaborate, there are a lot of different types of social media already on the fediverse such as microblogs, regular blogs, image sharing, link sharing and video sharing.
Personally, I'd love to see a gaming-focused social media platform on the fediverse.
A federated #forum software. But most likely there are a couple in the works. There's The Pavilion cooperative working on a plugin for #Discourse and some time ago a #Flarum maintainer told me they are working on adding #ActivityPub support too. And there's #LemmyBB which has forum-like aspects.
Why in the world is Wordpress.com charging $300/year to access its ActivityPub plugin. Just paid for 3 years of personal account only to find this out. WTF. Anyone have a good host for a Wordpress.org site with easy ActivityPub integration? Been trying to get it to work on Bluehost since November with no luck. #wordpress#activitypub#indiedev
The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But we’ve been here before.
For most of the last 15 years, the social web has felt like a settled market — and then Elon Musk bought Twitter
“I have lost count of how many times since then, I have been asked whether Twitter is going to fail, and I have always said no.
But now, I am not so sure - for a number of reasons.”
Yesterday I started messing around with Pixelfed via Pxlmo and I do like it. Very early Instagram feel. I posted 3 posts last night- a post with 4 images first, and 2 single ones after that. Below is a screenshot of what all 3 look like via the Pxlmo interface in Chrome (browser version, there's currently no Android app I could find) on an Android.
I just clicked on the link to my profile here in Tusky and my account does load in the app, but only the first 4-shot post is showing up. It's a start! 🤣
Again, my profile link is https://pxlmo.com/jake4480 and if you're on there, hook it up, I'll follow back, etc.
— Decentralized
Like #Mastodon, #Bluesky intents to be decentralized. This means that not Bluesky as a company will be part of it, but others can also join in.
The exciting part is that this is happening on multiple levels: where your data is stored, and how your feed is composed for your timeline.
Note: Right now the devs are working hard on making this happen, while currently everyone invited is on the same server.
— Protocol and APIs
Even if #BlueskySocial is still in closed beta for users, the API is already open for usage. And AT is open-sourced. So for developers it’s possible to get started creating new tools or improve the protocol.
I believe the previous posts on discoverability, portable user data, support do algorithms are valid reasons to create a new protocol by #Bluesky.
It doesn’t invalidate #ActivityPub used by #Mastodon. But it might indicate a concern on its slow development.
I hope we’ll see more third party apps of devs that worked on their #Mastodon clients also consider #BlueskySocial as a potential place to earn fame and money.
Who knows in the future we’ll might see some more collaboration between the various decentralized protocols from #Bluesky, #Nostr, #Farcaster and #ActivityPub. It really is hard to predict the future and the relevance of each while all the players are relatively small.
Right now they also seem to cater to specific groups of people.
@volkris many of the limitations people have with #Mastodon, or the underlying #ActivityPub, haven’t been addressed in years. I read very old blogs already pointing it out.
My best bet a new standard comes along that could be adopted, with the necessary work. I do see a lot of opposition against any new protocol, without trying to understand the need (of progress).
I believe Mastodon and ActivityPub are far from perfect, and we should blindly praise it. But that’s just me.
Does anyone know a Federated app (one that uses ActivityPub) that allows for multi-user access to a single profile?
For a contra-example, if I use Mastodon to create a profile for an organization, I can only create one account and one password. Sure I could share that password with other org leaders, but if one person changes the password, the others are locked out.
So I need an app that can create a multi-user profile and that people can access with their own username and password and give "admin" rights to multiple people, less privileged account rights to others, etc.
🆕 blog! “How do you decentralise emergency alerts?”
Twitter's decision to hobble its API has meant that a number of useful alerting bots might no longer function. Your local subway might not be able to Tweet each morning about delays on the line, nor will a tornado warning be displayed as you scroll through photos of brunch, and forget about …
Rejected a lump sum of money from an incubator to convert Owncast into a business.
Told a person who wanted to sell things to Owncast users, offering me a cut, to go to hell.
Shut down an initiative from some "AI" company to offer a version of Owncast with their proprietary "content filtering" to stop people from saying naughty words and showing no-no stuff.
I might not have any income, but I can sure sleep well at night.
@mmasnick Mike, this is a great write up. These ideas (composable moderation combined with a marketplace for algorithms) can and should be implemented via #ActivityPub. There's no technical reason why this can't happen via the developer community here in the Fediverse.
It’s effectively the web3 alternative to #activitypub . It’s a good North Star for the fediverse to aspirationally build towards.
But I’m only interested in BlueSky insofar as it interoperates with the existing #fediverse .
And I think they recognize that the the fediverse movement & community would turn on them if they cannibalize the existing network instead of adding to it as a friendly & compatible node.
I'm off tonight to photograph more swing dancing. My goal tonight is to aim for a more pleasing compromise between ambient light and flash, while still freezing motion. (Wedding photographers have a tough job, I'm learning).
A single speed light, on camera, but bounced behind me was insufficient power last time. Tonight I'm setting up a couple speedlights off camera to bounce off the wall, and another across the room to back light. We'll see.
Over in Twitter, you create the original post, then for every succeeding post, it should be a reply to the OP. This method works here in the #fediverse, too.
But, if I'm not mistaken, the suggested way—according to creators of #ActivityPub—is to reply to every succeeding reply. So, you sort of create a tree of replies. Then apps that supports #unroll or thread view will be able to display it correctly.