I can’t get over how cool it is to view my posts from any server. I’m definitely going to use activitypub for my social media I’m planning on making. I was going to use @Discourse , but considering it’s like #GitLab where you are only able to self host and each instance of discourse can’t interconnect makes me kinda sad. But activitypub seems like the only way I feel happy in both ways.
Since we just had issues with a #Discourse upgrade AGAIN on the OctoPrint community forums (the admin team is trying to fix things up as I'm typing this), does anyone here have experience with migrating from Discourse to #NodeBB by any chance?
Seriously considering a future move right now. We've had nothing but bad experiences with their "official supported way" of doing a self-hosted setup, and I feel really bad for the admins.
Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Rom Harré, 1990
"The academic ‘we’ might seem at first glance to be just a version of the editorial ‘we’. Like the latter it is mutedly egocentric but it is not mainly used to imply teamwork. Rather, it is used to draw the listener into complicity, to participate as something more than an audience. "
Ce matin... deux BOT de scrapping pour alimenter des modèles d'IA/#LLM ont abusé du forum d'@osm_fr
C'est pas la première fois et ça devient vraiment une plaie, surtout quand #ClaudeBot requête les URL de notre ancien #phpBB, remplacé il y a plusieurs années par #discourse
Malgrès plus de 130 000 erreurs 404 rien que ce matin, il continuait à un rythme effréné...
Autre bot albert-bot... de albertai.com (rien avoir avec l'Albert cocorico), bloqué lui aussi.
The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.
Thinking about Hacker News but sprinkled with #activitypub
imagine being able to reply and participate to any #HN post from the #fediverse and with #webmentions have fediverse comments mingled with native HN activity.
🤔 I never ceased to be amazed how many #MastoAdmin feature requests waiting on design could be easily and effectively implemented by just copying #Discourse.
I have been permanently spoiled by #OpenSource software that empowers people who run it, rather than purposely limiting them.
Un forum #Discourse pour une association, c'est super... mais pas simple à installer et maintenir. Est-ce que vous connaissez des prestataires éthiques et pas chers (style #chatons ) qui proposent ce genre de service ?
N'hésitez pas à re-pouetter !
Übrigens: Beim Kuketz-Forum findet kein User-Tracking statt und es wird auf jegliche Werbung verzichtet. Die Daten werden ausschließlich für die Nutzung des Forums verarbeitet. Ihr könnt das Forum also mit dem guten Gefühl nutzen, dass euch niemand beobachtet bzw. über die Schulter schaut. 👇
I feel a lot of people look back at Gamergate and just think "gamers are easy to radicalize" as the only take-away, but if you look deeply I think a much more importantly lesson is there to learn:
It's easy to take a valid problem, attribute the wrong source, and drive people to a malicious solution.
I'm so dreadfully sorry but I'll need at least one more post for this so 1/2?🧵
Ich habe mal einen Test gestartet. Über das Konto @kuketzforum werden neue Themen, die im Forum erstellt werden, automatisch verlinkt. Es wird nur das initiale Thema verlinkt, keine Antworten darauf. Praktisch eine Art RSS-Feed, der die neuen Beiträge vom Forum im Fediverse verlinkt.
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser. Mich erreichen viele Anfragen. Ich freue mich über das Interesse, gleichzeitig kann und werde ich nur einen Bruchteil der Fragen beantworten können. Es ist einfach eine Frage der Zeit. Ich würde mich daher freuen, wenn ihr eure Fragen öfter über das Kuketz-Forum stellt. Dort gibt es kompetente Teilnehmer, die euch in den meisten Fällen weiterhelfen können. 👇 💬
I’m doing my best to avoid latest #discourse because people trying to make it a thing have no idea how nonprofits work and as someone who spends most of his working time in or around nonprofits I really don’t have time to explain things to people who clearly have no interest in understanding it.
Disappointed, but not surprised, by the utter lack of interest in #ActivityPub over at #XenForo.
XF 2.2 was released in Sep 2020. XF 2.3 will drop sometime this year, however, IMHO, none of the new features were worth waiting 3+ years (a lifetime ago) for.
A call to everyone in the wider @gstreamer community:
In addition to providing a more modern system for realtime and non-realtime discussions for the @gstreamer community, one of the main goals with setting up a #discourse and @matrix instance was to provide an official location for discussions on the development of, and with, GStreamer instead of several different silos.
Over the years (decade?), we have all moved those discussions in various places (reddit, stack-overflow, discord, slack, internal company chats, etc...). Now is the time to bring those discussions back to a central location so we can all benefit from our shared knowledge and expertise.
Having all those discussions in various places are impossible to follow, and sometimes only the outcome is shared in "official" places (gitlab, discourse, matrix) which means that a lot of the background and thought process is missing and has to be repeated again. A waste of time for everybody.
Same for new ideas or questions; discussing them in other places misses the feedback of the whole collective. Maybe someone else has looked into that problem/idea; the earlier you share it, the earlier people can chip in and point out their experience or thoughts (or heck, even a link to the solution/code !).
I have definitely fallen guilty to only discussing such things in closed silos, and sorely miss the "old times" where all discussions were happening in an official open location.
Some might think that such and such discussion isn't worthy yet of discussing it in discourse/matrix. But keep in mind that those places have search features (your discussion might provide an answer to someone else later), and referencing previous discussions is also much easier. So by having those discussions there you actually enrich that collective knowledge.
Furthermore, as discussions and topics grow, it is trivial to create new rooms/categories to have discussions more centered and avoid information overload (which isn't great either).
The next time you have a discussion related to GStreamer in closed/other silos ask yourself the question "Shouldn't we be discussing this with in the GStreamer discourse/matrix?"
@gstreamer isn't great just because of the code, it's great because of its community and collective knowledge and what we can build together.
Someone asked me recently about the ability to "Read the Room" and whether or not this was a skill that can be developed. I certainly believe it is a skill and can be cultivated. Perhaps the most impactful maxim which can guide us in this regard was taught to me by a Jedi Knight who went by the name Zenchi from the Temple of the Jedi Order. He told me, "Learn to Observe without needing to React."
The Internet, particularly the social media algorithm demon, has created an incentive not just to React to everything, but to Observe specifically to React. In this way we often bias our interpretation of that which we observe with a skew towards the least charitable interpretation so that our reaction can be as extreme as possible.
To counteract this and hone this skill of reading the room, we can practice several behaviors that will improve our lives.
First, be the last person to speak in an interaction. When you allow everyone else to have their say, it gives you a chance to examine their perspectives and gauge their intentions.
Second, questions are better than statements. The cultivation of curiosity leads to more robust conversations. A statement can often be viewed as dismissive or ultimate in nature, sometimes leaving a conversation partner feeling as though there's nothing left to say. Curiosity, by contrast, is almost always viewed as an invitation to continue discourse.
Third, speak in a way that is pleasant. We've been taught to rely on flippancy and sarcasm in modern discourse as we assume the intentions of others or deliberately misconstrue them to make ourselves look superior. By engaging with someone in a pleasant way, we can disarm hostility. Even if others fail to uphold this standard, we will still maintain our own peace which is of a value beyond measure.