The times they are a changin' - it's quite the popular topic in #Fediverse_City and closely followed by many....
But, how 'bout you enlighten many with a few #dark_theme pics? It's very pretty - and more importantly, intuitively operable by the average user due to the simplified UX it exposes :)
Thank you for your envisage of what social communications can be today, right now, without waiting!
A great adaptation and reinterpretation of “Beauty and the Beast” as a Japanese anime set in modern times.
I love how they used Virtual Reality as a plot device only; and avoiding the pitfall of explaining things that are not needed to be explained.
I now understand why this received a 14-minute standing ovation at Cannes (the 7th longest at the festival). It truly deserves it. A Masterpiece. I've never seen this level of reinterpretation of the classic “Beauty and the Beast”.
I searched online for " Bruno Gerussi" and " Celebrity Cooks", a daytime cooking show he hosted when not filming "The Beachcombers" . I found compilations including clips from a Bob Crane episode, taped days before Bob Crane's murder in June 1978, and this blog post: https://vote4bobcrane.blogspot.com/2015/10/celebrity-cooksthe-real-story-behind.html
That’s the common refrain. If you only want to server smaller communities and never have an impact on the mainstream, that’s a choice that can be made. But journalists aren’t the only people who want QPs, I assure you. They are just the people we need to popularize decentralized networking as something that can replace the big silos for serious news producers and analysts.
It's not a refrain.For observant, privacy conscious folks, it's not even a random thought - it is what it is - We Own our stuffs and We are Happy!👯 🕺 💃 🎵
What journalists are doing is stupid - creating accounts on silos that only support a paltry 500 characters per post, like #mastodon_social.
And the deprecated monolithic silos have been obviated.
I don't really give a shit what the subjugated chattel do.
Finally, someone understands the value of requiring someone to pay "SOMETHING", in order to alleviate #Spam and hold people posting their thoughts accountable as the individuals that have done so.
It's a proven concept by the #Stellar Foundation that has proven that even some pittance of monetary consideration breaks Spam because Spammers follow the path of least resistance (zero cost).
Everything is better when it's cooked in an #Iron_skillet.
I baked a few cakes in that oven, which is a real challenge - adjusting the type and amount of wood in the firebox as well as the redirect of the heat to the oven box.
It takes constant attention. The first cake, I had to cut out the center, which wasn't done, like a bundt cake.
There's a new kid on the block - and there's no punches being pulled here either - I would love if some of the folks could weigh in here with their thoughts about the developer's observations...
Jake Edward Brown, AKA Thomas Tracy Burum, died in 2003.
He was 36 years old when he murdered Teri Lynn Hollis on Thanksgiving Day 1972.
He got away with #murder and wasn't identified until 11 September 2019.
Teri and I were the same age, 11 years old. she was my neighbor, abducted from my neighborhood, raped, strangled, and her body was discovered the next day, dumped on the rocks at the beach.
My parents put me on lockdown after that, and it has haunted me my entire life.
8 years ago today (yesterday, actually), 20 September, 2015, when I was a contract engineering mgr for GoDaddy in #Culver_City - a company they had just acquired in the process of an #IPO.
I'm not quite sure how that all works, but everytime I get in the middle of one of those, all the C-Level folks and those who hired me disappear a few days later, buy #yachts and #islands, and I end up being one of the big bosses working for bunch of people I never meet, lolz.
(Fediverse survey post, asking people to click on a web link to a Mastodon post and say what their app does with it.)
UPDATE: Aaaarrgghhhhhhh! 😱 I had a number of people asking me for clarification of the poll, so I edited option wording, but this caused it to reset the responses to zero. I am so sorry! 🥴
The latest figures before I messed this up were this:
About 75% of people clicking on a link to a Mastodon post saw it displayed a normal post, 25% saw it displayed in a browser window.
It actually stands to reason; people often find after they publish a poll that they could have worded a question or option better, then try, then discover that the meaning of the question or option now takes on a new defining intent - that's unacceptable manipulation, whether intentional or not.
When you start a DM, #Mitra won't let you add/remove addressees; last time I checked, mastodon will - it shouldn't that's a potential breech of privacy & security.
Okay I have to apologize before doing this, lolz. I won't actually beat the drum again with that particular joke you mentioned, but this little ditty is indeed about guylands.... 😜
This is an mp4 file but it's simply a transcribed audio file, so you can simply relax and listen and not miss a thing... Oh, but you might want to go pee first :p #tallship
Would it make sense for Notesnook to be able to publish notes to ActivityPub? Is that a right use case for it or would it require hacks? What would be the best way to approach/implement this?
From a very quick research, it'd require a self hosted fediverse compatible server. Users would have to sign up or their accounts would need to be created there.
Thank you for putting out that query - short answer is...
Yes. You definitely have a use case here, but first, being just a little familiar with your product I'd like to welcome you to the #Fediverse even though your arrival coincided with the November Rain phenomenon that was much todo about nothing, and in the end, most Twitugees simply returned there after creating accounts here - I'm glad you stuck around! You're product is FOSS, and this is a #FOSS world here in the Fediverse, so it makes sense, this being your natural home and where people can expect to find you :)
Ever since I decided to ditch the proprietary Evernote, I've been using a #Vim Plugin that uploads my buffer to a Gist in an easy peasy way - it would be really kewl if I had a way to send (encrypted or unencrypted) notes to myself as a Fediverse DM, or share some of them with a select group of others in such a manner - Maybe (if it's textual in nature) actual clips I've saved. The graphics, well, if they are uploaded as a graphic that will work too, and they can even be sent to #Pixelfed accounts (if there is a graphics or movie file).
So, you're concerned about having to setup a centralized server or something that your userbase can be recognized on or something? Perhaps like a relay of sorts? I don't think that's the way to go actually. It sounds like a lot of heartache that might not even surivive beyond the intial proof of concept is rolled out - Spam being just one reason that makes the likelihood of failure a distinct possibility.
Here's what I think you can try doing, and it will alleviate any grandiose plans you may have been kicking around - Keep it in the client. A feature mechanism that either lets you clip and post it as an #ActivityPubNOTE to a user's actual instance (server) where they already have an account - You can collect the user's Fediverse account credentials and use that to post to their own existing account - no additional infrastructure is required on your part.
Those posts can be a single post to oneself (a private Fediverse DM to themselves) or it can include a list of recipients - just like any other post you can make.
This will also afford you the absolute maximum in #Spam_control too! You don't have to accept any registrations obo your Fediverse features - you're merely allowing people with existing Fediverse accounts to enter their credentials into your client and then your users make the decision as to whether they want to use your existing store or their Fediverse account to publish the clips to their stores there.
Since you've been around here for a while now, I'm sure you've realized how severely limited mastodon is when it comes to ways you can exploit the existing capabilities in the Fediverse - I've already mentioned Pixelfed, but there's a lot of other platforms that support HTTP signatures necessary for backfills and e2ee constructs; the support for BBCode and/or Markdown; post containing text with character counts greater than the paltry 500 characters that masto can muster, #LaTEX (actually, only Misskey and Firefish support that at this time AFAIK); local only posts (shared only with those who have accounts on the same instance), and a host of other unsupported features in masopub.
I appreciate that you made the effort to address this as an ActivityPub and Fediverse capability, and not simply, "yet another mastodon branded feature". Especially when mastodon won't be able to take advantage of many of the advanced features you already offer that other more capable Fediverse platforms can make use of :)
If you focus on adding support for people to enter their Fediverse account credentials, or multiple accounts like #Takahe and #Fedilab and #Misskey support, Then those are the servers you need right there! The spam problem remains as it is with the particular instances, since they control the new account registrations.
There's also the rapid adoption of #smolweb and single-user focused Fediverse platforms too, such as:
And of course, any platform, now matter how heavy or resource intensive can be deployed as a smolweb or single-user instance (even the klunky kludgey mastodon). And speaking of which, there are several popular forks that don't have these limitations that are very popular like #Hometown and #Glitch-soc, Etc.
There may even be some use cases for #Lemmy and #Kbin too, as link/discussion boards too - perhaps posting from a users vault/store to those platforms? There's a lot of different possibilities but ActivityPub can open up a huge market for you while at the same time Fediverse is exposed to large numbers of people who will discover that they too may have a good use case to adopt for themselves a Fediverse account :)
tl;dr: Basically, yes! there's a huge use case for your thoughts there - and if you're reading this on a Mitra, #Pleroma, Soapbox, #Akkoma, Firefish, Friendica, Hubzilla, or Misskey server, you'll see some very pretty formatting in Markdown - if you're reading this on a regular mastodon server (not one of the really good and popular forks), then... not so much - but at least mastodon does degrade Markdown and HTML somewhat gracefully :)
Well I hope that helps and do feel free to reach out to me via my contact methods listed in my profile or in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, and I'm sure that we can get a few of some of the more prominent Fediverse platform devs to round-table with you for some wire framing sessions.
I'm confident that you'll find a lot of support in your endeavor to achieve this initiative.
WhatsApp will likely set the global standard for messaging interoperability: This is Why and possibly What
The world already has quite a few good open-source, E2EE and secure messaging protocols like XMPP, Signal, MTProto, Wickr, Wire, and more. But none have ended up dominating across messaging apps. Also, there is no defined W3C open standard for messaging, like ...continues
I've never used (and prolly never will) #Whatsapp. As I understand, is only Signal protocol anyway with back doors installed of some form... not that I pay any attention to proprietary products like that.
But IMO, #Signal's not gaining any "global standard" status accolades until, at the very least, they remove the #DID requirement, drop #contact_database_farming, and ensure that email is optional too.
And then there's the hard requirement that it be #decentralized.
Yes that's indeed a common complaint (fear, even?) That those users cite for remaining.
I should also apologize, there's a growing ambiguity wrt "DID" - in this context, I was using it in the correct standards context (Direct Inward Dial); i.e., a phone number 🙂
The acronym has taken on another entirely different meaning as of late, although amusingly enough, both do relate to unique identifiers for people 👍
Thanks for your (as always) insightful observations Danie!