Would it be reasonable and non-intrusive to suggest to some #academic organizations and #science#news magazines that I enjoy to consider establishing presence on the #Fediverse? Many of them currently post on Twitter or Facebook, and with a growing number of academics switching to #Mastodon, it seems like a logical step.
Good morning and Happy Friday all you wonderful people of the #Fediverse!
Time to have a #KoffeeWithKyle and let us know what you have planned for today and the weekend ahead. If you have already accomplished anything, you can include that also! Let us know in the comments below ⬇️.
For me, just the regular work from 9:30 to 6. After that, not sure what I’ll be doing.
Because weekends have an infinite number of hours, I'm exploring the idea of adding #ActivityPub support to #Plone.
Does anyone knows of a good #python implementation that could be a starting point? #fediverse#oss
#Twitter invested at least $13M in #Bluesky.
Sure, they say it operates independently, but Musk must still retain significant influence and control through Twitter's stake. Moving from Twitter to Bluesky might seem like flipping off Musk, but is it really? Did moving from #Facebook to #Instagram make you feel like you just flipped off Zuckerberg?
Maybe this why Bsky is getting such a boost on birdsite right now. The goal was eventually to integrate it to Twitter (Verge reported).
Meanwhile, there is a true #Fediverse that is not built and controlled by billionaires.
I know I've been posting a lot on Bluesky and mostly not flattering stuff. The fact is we have our own shit on the fediverse to work out. We have ease of onboarding problems, ease of use problems, account portability problems, etc. Perhaps some of what they or others are doing could help fix some of those problems, my big beef being the account portability issue. However it is important to be aware of the hype bubble that is blowing up around Bluesky versus the reality of what is going on there. They are getting the full court press in the MSM and tech media. What comes of it is TBD. We saw the same hype cycle with Mastodon in the Twitter Migration, and that sword obviously cut both ways. In the mean time I want to work to get the fediverse, specifically my network Friendica, in a place where I can just recommend it to my non-tech savvy relatives versus recommending it with qualifiers at best to even my tech savvy friends. #fediverse#friendica#bluesky#mastodon#TwitterMigration
@anders Absolutely someone could, and very likely will. When it happens, I hope its bi-directionnal. The one way relays from #nostr to #fediverse, and those from twitter, are not very engaging.
I was thinking earlier that it would be pretty cool to have an #ActivityPub-powered app that uses something like the old #WordPress#PostFormats feature that, in turn, supports post formats that other #Fediverse services use.
For example, the app can post regular posts like this one, structured link posts that work with services like #Lemmy, galleries through @pixelfed and videos through #Peertube.
Unless #ActivityPub automatically reformats posts based on what they contain when a user of services like these receives them in their feeds? I'm not sure how this works under the metaphorical hood. 🤔
Based on the amount of spam signups on https://pixelfed.social, I wouldn't be surprised if spam accounts correlate to other platforms recent user influx as well.
I'm not saying all growth is spam, but they are significant enough on my :pixelfed: instance to be noticable.
Luckily, 90% of spam accounts on Pixelfed are caught and hidden before any user sees them thanks to our Autospam system. #spam#fediverse
More random thoughts: how would running a #Fediverse instance scale if I run it off my home lab?
Mostly wondering about the network traffic side of things, I don't know how the federation works and if I'll end up having every instance on the internet talking to me eventually.
Need to sit down and actually read through the #ActivityPub spec some time.
So, I think I've dug as deeply into the #hachyderm drama as I need to, and settled on some conclusions.
Most basically, the best insights came from seeing conversations on another platform: discord.
Admins from both sides were talking. And as it's a chat platform, the engagement and conversation was clearly more direct, free, expressive and clarifying.
If the fediverse wants to be the new internet, seriously, it needs to growup and move on from just microblogging.
This is noise - the #Fediverse is over 40 codebases for this to be signal you would likely have to be talking about #mastodon and even then it's still kinda noise.
#mainstreaming is bringing a "signal-to-noise" issue to the #openweb this is not a big problem, but it is something we need to mediate.
@micahflee
This is good news.
For the same reasons 4chan has found its users, Facebook has grandpa, and we have #fediverse/#mastodon, they have have Bsky and Nostr. Eventually, we all find the community we deserve. Its more fun to belong.