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deadsuperhero

@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org

Somewhat ridiculous. The clump of brain cells responsible for We Distribute, VidCommons, and Brands.Town. Goofy but lovable, passionate about many things.

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hannah, to accessibility
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Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, because I have brain cancer.

I would like to connect with the dev community, something I have never figured out, probably in part for neurodivergence reasons. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

jalcine, to random
@jalcine@todon.eu avatar

Journalism students are being held under threat of arrest to not leave their dorms. Investigative journalism is about to come back HARD.

dansup, to fediverse
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

Loops onboarding screens are done!

Loops app onboarding screen
Loops app onboarding screen

julian, to random
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Had a chance to listen to @pfefferle on WeDistribute's Decentered podcast. Surprisingly informative, and eye opening just how locked down shared hosting providers are.

Things we take for granted like the ability to mount routes on /.well-known (they could be blocked!)... or that you can't always assume cron is available.

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/wordpress-matthias-pfefferle/

Having used a VPS for years, I would never go back to shared hosting, but you definitely cannot argue with the convenience, ease of use (CPanel, et al.), and most of all, value for money. However, those three come with significant trade-offs in terms of flexibility and power.

Kudos to you Mattias for having the patience to try to get those shared hosting providers to change. If I were in your shoes I'd just tell them to hop on over to a different provider!

dansup, to Polls
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

Pixelfed Groups even supports and

This opens up so many more federation possibilities 😍

quillmatiq, to fediverse
@quillmatiq@mastodon.social avatar

Some personal news: I'm now a contributor at @news! I'm so excited to work with the team over there reporting everything happening in the world of distributed social media.

For my first post, I wrote about Ghost joining the 🙏🏼

What's exciting about this is that it isn't just an ActivityPub plugin - it's a top-down re-thinking about what Ghost is as a service. This is ActivityPub for publishers done right.

Congrats to @johnonolan and team!

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/ghost-implements-activitypub/

quillmatiq,
@quillmatiq@mastodon.social avatar

I wrote a follow-up post about Ghost's entry into the Fediverse on augment!

I believe Ghost's integration will have larger implications for the newsletter landscape, eventually bringing the slow death of another social silo:
Substack.

The network effects of the Fediverse are in play and will skyrocket Ghost's discoverability further than Substack does. It's time to make the switch.

Read more here: https://www.augment.ink/ghost-substack-discoverability/

hello, to fediverse
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The #ActivityPub ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. One project, #ActivityPods, is making an ambitious effort to combine the Fediverse with the power of #Solid.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

rimu, to Pixelfed
@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

and are the only platforms with a print stylesheet.

Gotta do the basics right.

Flipboard, to threads
@Flipboard@flipboard.social avatar

We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building . That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org@snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/

box464, to fediverse
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Since , the demo of Emissary has been wiggling around in my brain. This article from @deadsuperhero of @hello walks through the process of using the framework to create just about any federated object you can imagine. 😱

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/emissary-social-web/

markstos, to fediverse
@markstos@urbanists.social avatar

is beginning development for Ghost, while also still figuring out exactly which features they want to implement.

They have a form here for feedback, particularly for Ghost blog managers:
https://tally.so/r/m67X4P

markstos,
@markstos@urbanists.social avatar

has started implementing endpoints for /actor/:id, /key/:id, /inbox/:id, /outbox/:id and /.well-known/webfinger

https://webfinger.net/spec/

From commit:

"WebFinger is the protocol which allows different ActivityPub implementers to find information about Actors, it's could be thought of as the entrypoint. Given a username like @user, we can look up the URL for the Actor at

https://website.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:user@site.com

This would then give us info needed to discover the Actors Inbox & Outbox"

kissane, to random
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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org avatar

Looks like has solidly returned to active development!

You can follow their progress by following @firefish.

@fediversenews

rabble, to random
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I just realized that the mastodon official iOS app doesn’t show polls. The web app does. There’s no indication that there is functionality missing.

makkhorn, to Arizona
@makkhorn@c.im avatar

Arizona judges can be fired in next election2024

makkhorn,
@makkhorn@c.im avatar

@deadsuperhero

See this
https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/

Pass it on

mikedev, to random

For years we've been using an alternate protocol between our own sites because ActivityPub wasn't capable of providing the services we require for federated communications. This is how we've supported things like nomadic identity long before the concept was even viable in ActivityPub. Now that I've got a usable framework for nomadic identity over ActivityPub, I went back and had a closer look at what else I might need to add to ActivityPub in order to finally put the Nomad protocol out to pasture.

I've mentioned transport encryption in the past; but that's only a big deal if you don't trust HTTPS security or your government. For true nomadic identity, we would also be sending sync packets so that your alternate identities are kept up to date with everything you do on other instances which share that identity. We'll also be offering a partially shared identity as mentioned in previous posts. This won't be a true clone but will instead be a way to link your various fediverse profiles in a cohesive way - like we do with our Fediverse Identity Manager. These are all pretty easy - just a 'Simple Matter Of Programming®'.

But I overlooked a real biggie. Permissions, permissions, permissions. A concept completely lacking in ActivityPub; and which can't be discussed rationally with other fediverse developers because folks raised on Twitter don't even understand the concept.

I'm remedying that situation right now.

mikedev,

For nomadic identity I'm just implementing FEP-ef61, and using a resolver on all nomadic objects so that they're backwards compatible with the existing fediverse.

I'm in the early phases of permissions, and my implementation has not yet been finalised, but it will no doubt consist of a new actor endpoint called 'permissions'. Fetching it with a signed request will return an unordered Collection of rights that I have granted you. The specific object representation of those rights is still up in the air, but I'll write something up once I settle on it. It has to be extensible so I'm currently thinking of using an array of URI like

"https://purl.org/nomad#canReply",
"https://purl.org/nomad#canSearch",
"https://purl.org/nomad#isModerated",
"https://purl.org/nomad#canImpersonate",
"https://purl.org/nomad#canPost",
...

so that different permissions namespaces and extensions can exist.

At the moment this work is being done in the 'nomadic' branch of https://codeberg.org/streams/streams

That branch should be considered unstable and not deployable for the immediate future, but that's where I'm doing this and anybody is welcome to monitor the repo activity.

box464, to random
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Have fun. Learn something.

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

hello, to threads
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In response to @potus enabling federation via #Threads the other day, a number of people asked: why can't the White House self-host their own Mastodon server?

Our writer @deadsuperhero dives in with some thoughts on the current hurdles

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/us-government-hosted-fediverse/

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

A movie that stars:

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Alicia Silverstone
Uma Thurman
Chris O'Donnell
George Clooney
& COOLIO

Is just peak 90's, and while never happen again.

puercomal,
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@bransonturner @RickiTarr

hello, to fediverse
@hello@social.wedistribute.org avatar

It's now possible to follow President Biden and the White House on the . Both accounts have enabled the integration via .

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/president-biden-on-fedi/

mattblaze, to random
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Hey, for the record, I’m not a piece of software. I’m an actual living person, trying to figure out the world just like you are. So if you’re going to send me a message out of the blue about how awful I am, you need to be specific about what you’re complaining about. Otherwise, I might misunderstand and improve the wrong one of my many flaws and deficiencies.

mattblaze,
@mattblaze@federate.social avatar

@msokolov I’m sorry my content isn’t working for you. Please contact my subscription department for a pro-rated refund.

ernie, to random
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

Can we stop acting like idiots in the replies of the relatively well known people who post here? There is no reason Matt Blaze (or anyone else) has to answer to anyone about what he does or does not do.

foxysen, to fediverse
@foxysen@pawb.fun avatar

Here is your Daily Reward for checking :
🐾 :blobfoxartist:

Come tomorrow to extend your streak.

hello, to random
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We are pivoting from niche journalism to a shipping and distribution company!

https://www.wedistribute.com/

haichqueue, to random
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I don't know how to say this, but it's time we came clean.

Brands Town isn't real. All of the accounts are fake. We did this because we thought it was funny.

I'm so sorry to the small business owners that were fooled into thinking this was a legitimate business effort. 😭

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