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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 meta
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Finally I'm getting around to listen to @mike 's Dot.Social episode with @rklambo and @pcottle from #meta, talking about #threads.

Mike asks the most important question first: "why are you [Meta] doing this [Fediverse integration]?"

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Mike: what are the next steps?

Rachel: first milestone was the publish out from Threads.

2nd and next: get engagement from the fediverse back into threads ie comments and likes etc

3rd: follow people from the fediverse in Threads.

J12t, to meta
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And that, I believe, is the real reason is implementing : So that they can cross-post across all their apps, such as from to , without running afoul of antitrust law specifically in the EU.

@Sarahp here has a piece on that cross-posting, although she does not mention ActivityPub. (Which they may or may not use for that purpose between their own apps .. whether they do is not really important)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/meta-tests-cross-posting-from-facebook-to-its-twitter-x-competitor-threads/

J12t, to random
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“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.

Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?

From a headline in about .

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/flipboard-deepens-its-ties-to-the-open-source-social-web-aka-the-fediverse/

J12t, to fediverse
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So there's a new Twitter-like mobile app called that promises (Yea, I know) to integrate with the Fediverse real soon.

Assuming it happens, all the innovation happening in the is great to see.

https://lyrak.com/

J12t, to fediverse
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Discussing Embrace-Extend-and-Extinguish, @Gargron on @mike's podcast uses as a historical analogy of how things can go wrong. He points out that XMPP had some self-inflicted problems, eg that the standard did not support new, desirable features quickly enough, like stickers in chat.

I hope we won't get the same problem in the . was created in 2018 and there is currently no W3C standards activity.

Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize?

J12t, to mastodon
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in ?

After an instance accessed a remote account for the first time, it fetches name, avatar, number of followers etc. When will it fetch it next to potentially update?

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We need a better framework for how to think about online relationships between people, and between people and organizations/websites. Logged on/off from a authentication perspective and follow/block from a social media perspective are really not quite right and not at all complete.

We did a bit of work on this when I was on the board of what was still called the Me2B Alliance, and of course there is seminal work by Doc Searls in ProjectVRM, but much remains to be done. The social web needs it!

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Brave woman, fought back and got killed. And no surprise, some guy thought what a great opportunity. Disgusted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68840881

J12t, to twitter
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This @theverge_com article points out that many would-be alternatives have gone down, but the ones still standing all connect to the . Hmm, I sense a pattern?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

J12t, to fediverse
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Also, why aren't Wikis -enabled by default? I'd really like to follow certain articles on , for example.

If you must, it could be following something like @Fediverse but interpreting the actual URL to the article like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse as the actor's primary identifier would be so much better. Well, either would be better than not being able to follow at all...

J12t, to fediverse
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The is like a startup in many ways.

Some days you are totally elated about all the amazing things that are becoming possible and within reach. We are changing the world!

Some other days you are in the depth of despair that this is never going to work and how could you possibly ever have thought otherwise.

This week definitely is the former. A movement is forming, good people are coming out of hiding and are getting excited and involved. So glad to be part of it!!

J12t, to privacy
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"Navigating User Privacy in the Decentralized Social Web".

Online webinar, sponsored by Meta.

Just fluttered into my inbox.

https://www.privacylaws.com/events-gateway/events/fediverse2024/

#privacy #meta #fediverse

J12t, to random
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BASIC! Those were the days.

https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/

I had forgotten that : (the colon) was the statement separator.

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What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.

Let’s go.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

J12t, to fediverse
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There were two other sessions on the at Internet Identity Workshop this week. One by me, on Identity in the Fediverse and one by @dmitri on Data Portability.

To my surprise, many attendees were not or only very marginally aware of the Fediverse. We need to communicate what it is and why it matters much more broadly than we have so far, apparently.

J12t, to random
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I really don’t understand why people use Chrome.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

J12t, to random
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Anybody know who coined the term "Fediverse" and when that was?

The Wikipedia page was created in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fediverse&oldid=783488155

J12t, to random
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The Social Web Community Group in the W3C is restarting monthly calls. Join us?

https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

J12t, to fediverse
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In preparation for and various other things, I'd love to hear people's opinions on:

  • what are the next three things we need to accomplish in the ? (anything goes, from tech to moderation to funding to ...)

  • how would we go about this?

J12t, (edited ) to fediverse
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“I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators”

Great interview with @nilaypatel, very worthwhile and and enthusiastic.

https://www.theverge.com/24087834/hank-green-decoder-podcast-google-youtube-web-media-platforms-distribution-future

J12t, to random
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“…a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake” according to CHEQ, a cybersecurity firm that tracks bots and fake users.

https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

J12t, to random
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Twitter usage down 30% in one year.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/03/06/usage-of-elon-musks-x-dropped-30percent-in-the-last-year-study-suggests/

J12t, to random
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Why is that web browsers, after 30 years, still cannot properly format HTML pages for printing?

J12t, to fediverse
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"There is a real future to the Fediverse. It might not be instant, but there is this vibe of: are we at the end of platform monopolies?"

Said by CEO of Medium, @coachtony, on @mike's podcast. https://flipboard.video/w/71s7rayWcY5VWRGPMjV1CH

J12t, to random
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"Currently, Threads accounts do not see individual likes on their federated posts, instead getting a notification that says ‘4 fediverse users from 3 servers liked this post’. According to Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput, Threads cannot use profile info from fediverse accounts on Threads yet because they are not allowed to do so yet by their Legal department."

h/t @fediversereport

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