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chrismessina

@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz

Inventor of the hashtag
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evanprodromou, to fediverse

I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working on improvements suggested by the technical reviewers who agreed to look over the book, and from my own re-read.

In total, my TODO file for this month has about 250 changes to be made. Some are small — just changing a word or two — but one required adding a whole new chapter, and many required multi-paragraph sections.

I took the last week of May off from my work at Open Earth Foundation to concentrate on making changes. My team was really supportive, which I deeply appreciated. I went to our country house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and I spent the week writing, editing, drawing and thinking.

Now, the next stage of book making starts: production. The production team at O’Reilly will be copyediting, indexing, and laying out the book. Their designers will be taking my UML diagrams and turning them into professional-looking illustrations. We have two rounds of quality control on code samples and fact checking on content.

In September 2024, the final e-book will be available for sale. I’ll have a link here for the pre-sale version when it comes out. If you’re eager to read the book, I highly recommend reviewing the early release version.

Thanks so much to my friends, family and colleagues who’ve made space and time for me to do this work. It has meant a lot to me. I hope the final product helps more developers create cool projects using ActivityPub.

https://evanp.me/2024/06/03/i-turned-in-my-manuscript/

chrismessina,
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@nicholas_saunders @evanprodromou Check this out — @samsethi can tell you more.

https://www.futureofpodcasting.net/what-activity-streams-could-enable-in-podcasting/

chrismessina,
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@nicholas_saunders @evanprodromou @samsethi There's actually a proposal already in the Podcast Index work here: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md#social-interact

chrismessina, to random
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Hatching some plans with the man, the myth, the legend... @Gargron!

Lots of great stuff in the works for the open, social web in 2024 and beyond!

andypiper, (edited ) to fediverse
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Today was a great set of meetings and discussions, moving the forward. Nice to reconnect after too long with @chrismessina - and to meet @snarfed.org@snarfed.org @J12t @anca @frozencanuck in person, lots more connections to make tomorrow. It is an exciting time in the and ecosystem!

chrismessina,
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@andypiper @snarfed.org@snarfed.org @J12t @anca @frozencanuck Great to see you and catch up! Looking forward to moving the open, social web forward!

chrismessina, to random
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"Frank McCourt, the executive chairman of a family real estate giant, McCourt Global, and founder of tech and innovation initiative Project Liberty, [..] plans to buy and rebuild TikTok as “a new and better version of the internet where individuals are respected and they own and control their identity and their data.”"

Oh brother. 🙄

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/15/2024/tech-critic-frank-mccourt-mounts-tiktok-bid

mpesce, to random
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AI-savvy teachers are armed with the power of carefully crafted prompts for tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. These innovators are quietly revolutionizing their classrooms.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/14/5-ai-prompts-for-educators-using-chatgpt-and-google-gemini/

chrismessina,
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@mpesce Talk to Gabriel Yanagihara. He's training up the next generation of students to be AI native.
https://www.gabrielyanagihara.com/ai-101-workshops

michelle, to random
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Wrote a thing: https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

chrismessina,
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@michelle I remember advocating for "web citizens" back in 2008. I'm with you!

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/7927453/diso-the-web-citizen-distributed-social-networking

MikeElgan, to random
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It now costs the US more than 3 cents to make each penny. (This makes no cents.) https://sherwood.news/power/it-costs-the-us-3-cents-to-make-1-penny/

chrismessina,
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@MikeElgan Actually, it makes -2¢. 😆

tessala, to random

Great talk tonite by @chrismessina on the importance of open source.

And of course he invented the which I taught about for so many years!

chrismessina,
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@tessala Thank you!

johnonolan, to random
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Excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🎉

https://activitypub.ghost.org

chrismessina,
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@johnonolan hooray! 🚀

samsethi, to random
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When I first heard Elon Musk was going to charge newbies on X, like most I thought well that's the end of X.

  • Pay to post
  • Pay to reply
  • Pay to like

But then I thought isn't that exactly what Podcasting 2.0 is trying to encourage users to do?

  • Pay to stream
  • Pay to boost
  • Pay to zap

If Elon can (re)introduce micropayments to X for the payments and give everyone a wallet then maybe he is helping train the mass market to pay for content creators.

/cc @chris @chrismessina @samsethi

chrismessina,
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@samsethi @James Elon is simply expanding the “Not-a-Bot Program”, which has been live since last October.

The best way to understand this is that it’s a captcha with 1000% friction, unless or until bots can fabricate credit card numbers (don’t bother holding your breath).

It has nothing to do with micropayments for content, although Jack’s Twitter previously had tipping.

https://legal.x.com/en/not-a-bot-terms.html

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Experimenting with separate hashtags in the @pixelfed app

Before vs After

Wdyt?

Hashtag buttons
Inline hashtags
Hashtag buttons

chrismessina,
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@dansup @pixelfed I would caution against lowercasing tags since concatenated CamelCase words are useful for legibility and accessibility.

Visually this style is more pleasant, but might cause people to new to the platform to not know how to create tags (i.e. by prefixing words/phrases with a #).

You'll also have to contend with how this content appears in feeds or via the API.

Also: how would appear inline?

chrismessina, to random
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This is the first ad for Mastodon I've seen in the wild — on @Techmeme. Baby's growing up!

https://www.techmeme.com/

chrismessina, to random
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An eclipse AND the Threads API? On the same day?! Praise be!

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads

chrismessina,
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If you are interested in building integrations with the Threads API and want to share feedback, fill in this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemLeRfJHEbHVs1EvJwomOGMARjNYM9WbbPjFc1WOswfju2Jw/viewform?usp=pp_url

chrismessina,
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@mshiltonj I had hoped they'd be hewing closer to ActivityPub, but I guess not. 😕

J12t, to fediverse
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What about an session next week where we remind each other what we wanted the to be ≈15 years ago before the big platforms took over and it all became non-viable since?

Which parts of the vision are again relevant and can we make them happen this time around now that we have a resurgence of the ?

Off the top of my head: @evan @chrismessina @blaine @daveman692 @DickHardt @snarfed @jpanzer @jsmarr Who else is here of the old gang?

chrismessina,
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@J12t @evan @blaine @daveman692 @dickhardt @snarfed @jpanzer @jsmarr Is it better to go back in time or imagine what would be relevant to today's audiences, given the maturing of fundamental enabling technologies?

chrismessina, to random
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Great... moderated lecture from @mala with @mmasnick on as relates to the animating purpose behind the pursuit of decentralization.

We do not decentralize simply to decenter, but instead to preserve the muscle that affords us choice, agency, and self-sovereignty when we get lazy through centralization and (1/2)

chrismessina,
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"efficiency".

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2j2PBGoyaTZx9WCrRvf3OM?si=30D3PJwXSoeaeWTIHoMvsw&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes (2/2)

chris, to random

PSA to the Fediverse Threads — if you want your hashtags to remain intact when your posts are federated, make sure to always include the # prefix.

On the left is Threads, on the right is my post federated and viewed in elk.zone.

Topic tags (without a prefix) are treated as plain text.

chrismessina,
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@simonwood @BeAware @chris to be clear, even without linkification, the hashtag is preserved as long as there's a # prefix. If you use a Threads-native topic tag, which can include spaces and other characters, it'll be treated as plaintext elsewhere.

At least if you use conventional hashtags on Threads, they'll be searchable as text on the fediverse.

bdrell, to random

People sharing with the Fediverse, reply here and tag Fediverse Threads please!

chrismessina,
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@mjgardner @chris If you use fully expressed hashtags (i.e. not Threads's ), then they'll pass through.

See this:

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chrismessina, to random
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Some number of Mastodon instances plan or are blocking Threads, but Threads also reserves the right to not federate with everyone.

Here's its current policy:

https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176/

chrismessina,
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@FinchHaven @wbpeckham Please share screenshots... hard to comment when I'm not sure what was actually blocked.

chrismessina, to random
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Threads has entered the fediverse. (Yes, it's opt-in by default)

https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/

chrismessina,
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@hajovonta You can do it on your instance.

bojanfurst, to random

Catching up on my 100+ open tabs in TO READ group… This is excellent from @pluralistic. Really excellent: https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5

chrismessina,
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@bojanfurst @pluralistic I can’t believe the FT actually published that. Clearly the FT has been enshittified! 😜

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