I've listend to 3 of the 4 available episodes of Dot Social podcast.
Very interesting podcast if your interested in the history and possible future of the Fediverse.
"Learn about the Internet’s next wave on the open social web and what it will unlock for how we connect, communicate, and innovate online. Hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue."
Should be available in all the places that podcasts are available.
I understand why people are upset and concerned about #Threads joining the social web. Most of us have been burned, or considerably worse, by #Meta before.
But this is the promise of the #SocialWeb. The point is to break down the walls. To give us all the opportunity to connect, while retaining our right and freedom to choose who and how we do so, on a personal and on a community level.
The internet as we know it is now over 30 years old, and author John Battelle says we must get over the "extraordinary inertia" of the system we’ve built. How do we create a better internet? Federation may be the answer. Listen in as Flipboard CEO @mike catches up with the WIRED co-founder, journalist and entrepreneur.
What’s the BBC up to in the Fediverse? What have they learned so far from their experiments? And how is all this like the early days of the internet? In the latest episode of Dot Social, Flipboard CEO @mike chats with Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), Senior Firestarter at @BBCRD. (How cool is that title, btw!)
Do not misconceive of a ‘social construct’ as something that isn’t real.
Make the mistake of disregarding our social reality as a way to circumvent it, and you will find yourself banging your head against the very real walls of sociality until you go mad.
Once you accept the reality of our social constructs you will see they can only be deconstructed and made anew by the collective imagination of our socialized power.
A new episode of Dot Social, the first podcast about the open social web, is out! In it, Flipboard CEO @mike chats with ActivityPub co-author @evan about what the protocol unlocks for builders and entrepreneurs, how open-source social networks change our relationships to content and each other, and why any of this matters at all. Learn more and take a listen!
I'm thinking I might stop using the term #fediverse#fedi or #activitypub when I want to talk about this community of federated social media services.
It's confusing and to be honest sounds way too much like a corporate brand trying to sell something.
I'm thinking I might start using something like "open internet" in general and "open social media" in particular to make the point that fedi isn't some specific thing; it's the default social media for the open internet.
Don't think you're wrong. As long-time fedizens we are kinda used to hear fediverse / fedi. To the uninitiated it sounds weird and off-putting.
I avoid "social media" (media too much associated with broadcasting, selling your message), and use "social networking" there, which we also do offline for ages already.
Instead of #Fediverse I increasingly refer to open/decentralized #SocialWeb, which makes it more broad and inclusive (e.g. different network stacks than #ActivityPub-based).
Imho the abstraction of apps we apply to the #Fediverse is hampering potential of the #SocialWeb.
If "social web" means "the online world where people interact and socialize" then a current fedi #app is like a pair of glasses one has to put on to perceive a particular aspect of that world. And you can only put on one pair of glasses at a time.
Compare: In daily life I consume services in a steady stream of activities (#ActivityStreams, get it? 😜).
The #IndieWeb service #Bridgy is ready to handle bridge AT protocol and ActivityPub protocol posts and replies once federation is enabled in production (already working in sandbox test server).
The format will be:
To follow a #Fediverse account from BlueSky / AT protocol: <username>.<server_domain>.ap.brid.gy
To follow a BlueSky / AT protocol user: <username>@atproto.brid.gy
Example: @atp.youronly.one@atproto.brid.gy
This allows users from each side to see new posts and to reply to these threads.
What is more interesting is that, if you have IndieWeb support on your website or blog, you will see comments from BlueSky / AT protocol appear as a comment, thanks to #Webmention. It is already possible to do this with Fediverse / ActivityPub. ^_~
What makes the lack of algorithms in the #Fediverse great? I get to see posts and talk with people all around the world.
You don't get that on #SNS with algorithms because they filter things for you, and you have no control over it.
Don't get me wrong, algorithms by itself are not bad. Just that, it is used in a way that limits your exposure (your posts to the world; and the world to you); and you have no control.
Another improper use of it is, like in #Facebook's case, they push #ads as well as to control the narrative and shape people's minds and opinions.
@cliffwade Yep! Before the #Fediverse was born (2008). That era (pre-2008) was when the real #Web3 was coined and defined (not the crypto thing) when discussing the #SocialWeb.
A lot of ideas were discussed, which led to #Diaspora and the Fediverse.
The new #SNS: #Pebble (formerly #T2#T2social) just announced that they are shutting down the free service this coming November 1st.
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The painful truth, however, is that we were not growing quickly enough for investors to believe that we will break out. Combine that with a crowded space of alternatives - and the uphill climb is even steeper. In order to continue to build out a complete Pebble, we would have needed more investment, and more time.
Interesting essay on #SocialMedia that may resonate with other #Mastodon users. It left me wondering why I post at all and whether to vacate the #SocialWeb
“Academics Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy, both of the MIT Media Lab, along with MIT Sloan professor Sinan Aral, recently conducted a study that reached the conclusion that false news spreads faster than the truth. Their research, published in Science, found that #misinformation is ’70 percent more likely to be retweeted on #Twitter than the #truth,’ and that the #FakeNews ‘reached 1,500 people about six times faster than the truth.'”
(He admins mastodon.social & mastodon.online too — whew!)
I've had the pleasure to get to know him in his work as a core contributor to #Mastodon through #FastForward, and I'm thrilled — his thoughtful approach and deep knowledge of networking ++ will help us scale in a sustainable and healthy way.
The #fediverse#socialweb is facing some tough problems, but we're in great hands with Renaud in this role!
"In a world where we all struggle with how much we use our devices (let’s be real, we mean our phones), I think it’s kinda nice to have some places that just give up and tell us, “My dude, you’ve read it all, go do something else.”"
The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:
"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."
It's huge. But they have verified their identity on THE #FEDIVERSE, not Mastodon. maybe the #socialweb.
all journalists/outlets just joining together to start their own instances and regain their independence and convince everybody to follow them here is how the social media platforms (that have profited so much via ads and data mining off their work) should die.
The #BBC now has their own #fediverse instance. An experiment, but this is exactly what we need, journalistic outlets with their own space on the decentralized #socialweb. Just like when media created their own first websites in the early days of the public internet (going beyond AOL keywords etc). This place is about news imo, so being embraced by journalists is key. I hope their list of accounts grows quickly, and other outlets follow their lead.
We need to understand that the #socialweb is the only actual social network. That unlike the platforms, we are ultimately not about the personal, but our culture. We will only win if this place is understood as our best way to restore the power of the public to decide what information, ideas and art should go viral. Big media, whether it's social or old school, only exists to retain that power for owners and their advertisers. We are the revolution.
#Threads killing #Twitter and then being forced to fully support #ActivityPub (and not try to fuck with it) thanks to #EU regulation would be pretty awesome. And other governments could then adopt similar laws and other corporations could comply by just joining us here too. A simple path forward. Pretty cool. #fediverse#socialweb
best opening line on the fedi #socialweb is "that's fair". it means we're getting somewhere, not just personally, but as a civic culture. #LiberalValues