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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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J12t, to fediverse
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The Free Software Foundation Europe set up a website to help move governments from proprietary social media to the .

Excellent idea!

https://fedigov.eu

J12t, to meta
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Some notes on the Meta/Threads "Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue" meeting last week.

https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/

#meta #threads #fediverse

J12t, to fediversenews
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I’m starting a Lemmy group to collect mainstream press coverage of the Fediverse, ActivityPub and the like. When you see an article on a news site or such, consider submitting it there?

The idea is to “crowdsource” a repository of what the world says about us in mainstream outlets that have a significant audience.

https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press

@fediversenews

J12t, to Vivaldi
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data .

Very nice write up for a very ugly situation.

https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/

J12t, to random
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“Nationally, COVID-19 remains the primary cause of new respiratory hospitalizations and deaths, resulting in about 1,000 fatalities a week.”

A thousand a week. Are we insane?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-27/respiratory-viruses-covid-rsv-flu-california

#covid

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The third-largest state in Germany has an official #mastodon server.

https://bawü.social/about

(With an umlaut in its domain name!)

Imho all #governments in all countries on all levels should communicate via the #fediverse, instead of via commercial services. Why should a profit-maximizing feed #algorithm, and an ad placement algorithm get between the citizen and their government in a democracy?

J12t, to random
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At this point Elon Musk is not just an enabler, but a leading instigator.

“Elon Musk Calls to Imprison Therapists Helping Trans Kids.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/173201/elon-musk-calls-imprison-therapists-helping-trans-kids

J12t, to random
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No further comment.

J12t, to fediverse
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Congratulations @pfefferle for getting Automattic to offer on all Wordpress.com blogs starting now !

This is huge!

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

J12t, to fediverse
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We are going to do a developer network call Thursday morning California time. The main agenda item is discussion of what might mean for us as developers shipping code as part of our projects.

If you are a developer, feel free to participate, details are posted to Matrix (go to https://fedidevs.org/ and sign up)

J12t, to internet
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So a rep has shown up in the that works on . That’s a good sign in my book … it indicates Meta is serious implementing it, and it wants to be standards compliant in doing so.

Of course, no guarantees, but we take all steps in the right direction as a form of progress.

J12t, (edited ) to fediverse
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@steve has published his suite. He says it's "proof of concept" but I think it's a bit more. I very much like his structure with a "Server Abstract Layer".

Maybe we can talk him into doing a session at about it?

https://github.com/steve-bate/activitypub-testsuite

/cc @activitypubtestsuite

J12t, to meta
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I'm going to go visit in San Francisco tomorrow for their "Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue". Not exactly sure what to expect, or who else is participating, but I figure I can listen and learn and make up my mind afterwards.

They say it's Chatham House rules, meaning I can post this and whatever else interesting transpires. No NDA involved.

Regardless where you stand on the meta-and-the-fediverse question, I think having more info is better.

J12t, to random
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“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate

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"If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces."

@davidpierce for The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon

J12t, to fediverse
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Very much agreeing with @evan here on the strategy for and related.

https://evanp.me/2023/10/06/activitypub-the-socialcg-and-the-social-web/

J12t, to random
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The world is not lost yet.

USENET is back!!

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

J12t, to fediverse
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A few weeks ago I asked about Fediverse apps that are as unlike as Mastodon as possible. People pointed me to some quite interesting ones, like playing chess over ActivityPub or public transport delay announcements https://social.coop/@J12t/110843539252937792

Today I hear that is working on decentralized merge requests over ! If this comes into being, this could be a really major development for the . https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

J12t, to random
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I am devastated by the news that Naomi Wu aka SexyCyborg has been silenced by the Chinese authorities.

She represents so many things that the world desperately needs: competence, confidence, ability to communicate, ability to cross cultures and languages, shattering of old stereotypes, a positive view of the future, and much more.

The repressive old guard should put itself away instead. In China and here because similar people are coming for the Naomis here, too.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

J12t, to fediverse
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The has a business model problem. (Use the term "business" loosely if you like.)

Today's exhibit: Guppe groups is a loss-making project, donations are insufficient, and the developers will need to shut it down if that doesn't change asap. Given all the things they tried already, that seems unlikely.

Lots of projects will end up like this if we don't solve this.

https://web.immers.space/2023/05/farewell-to-guppe/

J12t, to twitter
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Very interesting feature comparison of Xitter, Mastodon, threads and a few others from Dewey Square’s most recent Twitter migration report.

http://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-XTwitter-Migration-2023-Q3.pdf

#x

J12t, to opensource
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Nextcloud "acquires" Roundcube. This is amazing!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/open-source-email-pioneer-roundcube-comes-aboard-nextcloud/

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@ben has a great piece on why the Fediverse is -- well, should be! -- so very important for media and news organizations.

https://werd.io/2024/the-fediverse-for-media-organizations

Of course, we had @cubicgarden doing an excellent Q&A on the BBC's Mastodon server at the last FediForum. I wonder whether we could somehow get a whole bunch of news organizations into the same (virtual) room at the next in March, and figure out together what it will take to get broader adoption.

People want news in the Fediverse!

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A tough but very important piece by @deadsuperhero .

Read this. We need to fix this.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

J12t, to bluesky
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On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, CEO Jay Graeber says:

“We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..”

How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

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