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erlend, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to fediverse

Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing #ActivityPub! 🙌

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247

The end-goal is to support AP for merge requests (aka pull requests), meaning git.alice.dev can send a merge request to gitlab.com/Bob/project.git

First bite-sized todo on the implementation path there is ‘subscribe to project releases’.

Smart move by #GitLab; through ActivityPub they’re getting a distributed version of GitHub’s social layer.

@fediversenews #fediverse #GitHub #git

erlend, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to fediverse

I suspect the ideal size of an #ActivityPub server to be around 100-200 people. It’s very possible to scale way past that size, though it becomes exponentially harder to do in a responsible & calm manner with every 10x 100x 1000x multiplier of co-tenants.

Let’s not fight our current state of evolution as a tribally oriented species. We don’t make very good hive-minds of our collective consciousnesses yet, but the #opensocialweb glue of the #fediverse will get us there eventually.

erlend, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to rust

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

Three months ago I submitted a post to the #Rust sub-reddit called 'Building a better /r/rust together' wherein I hailed #Lemmy as a fitting successor.

Today we have 3 moderately active Rust spaces on the threadiverse. To counteract community fragmentation we need the ability for #ActivityPub groups (Lemmy community or #Kbin magazine) to follow other groups.

Help needed from fedi-curious Rust developer out there: Implement FEP-d36d for Lemmy!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d36d-sharing-content-across-federated-forums/3366

erlend, 10 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to fediverse

Communal Bonfires; creating space for group-scale discourse on top of @matrix

https://blog.erlend.sh/communal-bonfires

Today we're pre-releasing Commune, our first foundational step towards a community platform built specifically for alignment with digital gardens.

Cyber-ecological messaging anyone?!

It's an evolving piece of software serving as the primary bonfire component of the overarching Community OS concept.

https://github.com/commune-os/commune-server

#fediverse #opensource #threadiverse #community #matrix #CommuneApp

erlend, 6 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to opensource

Marketplaces do not self-correct. Ecosystems do.

A marketplace is not an ecosystem. It is merely a single organism, a megafauna, whose sole purpose is to consume and grow as much as possible.

An ecosystem on the other hand has no inherent growth-imperative. The primary objective of an ecosystem is equilibrium; circular exchange of energy. A secondary objective is emergent diversity for the sake of adaptability & robustness.

Make ecosystems, not marketplaces 🌱

#OpenSource #ecology #economics

erlend, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to SmallWeb

Is there any TLD registry (not registrar) and accompanying domain name extension (.com, .net and so on) out there that’s owned by a small/independent, i.e. trustworthy business? Feels like they’re all owned by some creepy mega-corp.

.blog owned by Automattic is a decent example, though they’re not exactly very indie anymore, and have come under strong scrutiny of late. I wonder if there are even better alternatives.

UPDATE: .tel is a pretty interesting one.

#lazyweb #SmallWeb #askfedi

erlend, 1 month ago to fediverse

https://blog.erlend.sh/evergreen-content-gardens

Social bookmarking is a novel use case for #ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.

Things like #Bookwyrm are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs.., they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.

Thanks to @raffomania and @eb for the indirect prompts leading to this article mixing their ideas with my own.

erlend, 8 months ago to fediverse

Y’all, @github just arrived on the #fediverse, fully verified ✅

erlend, 1 year ago to fediverse

https://write.as/openindie/sense-making-in-federated-discourse

We lack tools to meaningfully move critical conversations forward in the #fediverse . I'm seeing fedizens talking past each other, repeating questions that have already been answered multiple times, and making false statements.

Our shared purpose is to break down systems of oppression, such as surveillance-based social media. In reinventing that tired old game, only mechanics that function in service of our pro-social agenda should be carried over into the new.

erlend, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to fediverse

There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across #fediverse applications, #Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well.

Like the separation of church and state, it seems prudent to keep the management of our digital identities separate from our social network servers.

Domain-based OIDC accounts with web sign-in, especially when self-hosted, serve the function of a minimum-viable #nomadicidentity

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/autonomous-identity-for-the-pluriverse-based-on-oauth-oidc/3675?u=erlend_sh

erlend, 6 months ago to fediverse

Could a simpler path to #NomadicIdentity be charted through OAuth/OIDC and the #Solid protocol? I think so!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/how-solid-and-activitypub-complement-each-other-best/727/14?u=erlend_sh

I want my root digital identity and follow-contacts stored in a Solid pod, letting me log into all fediverse platforms via Solid-OIDC.

#ActivityPub & #Mastodon et.al. should just provide the send/receive pipes, relegating the job of primary identity provider to the ID-centric protocol that is Solid.

erlend, 1 year ago to random

Via @pluralistic

> What's a Venture Predator? It's "a startup that uses venture finance to price below its costs, chase its rivals out of the market, and grab market share."

> The predator sets $m or $b of dollars on fire chasing "rapid, exponential growth" all in order to "create the impression that recoupment is possible" among future investors, such as blue-chip companies that might buy them out, or sucker retail investors who buy in at the IPO, anticipating years of monopoly pricing.

erlend, 8 months ago to fediverse

Regarding the upcoming W3C meeting on data portability:

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/111036813575691039

..I’m in favor of (mostly already supported) redirects as opposed to rewriting the ownership of legacy posts.

I think of my AP posts as physical letters being sent out en masse. Once sent, the address on that letter can’t be changed, but response letters send to my old address can be forwarded to my new one.

When I move to a new server, here’s my plan:

(1/2)

#ActivityPub #fediverse

erlend, 1 year ago to internet

#P92 is equal parts scary and exciting. What gives me hope is that while the product is dictated by the deeply untrustworthy #Meta company, it’s being developed by engineers who are amenable to the #OpenSource ethos, as evidenced by React, Docosaurus, RocksDB, PyTorch, LLaMA etc.

If you believe in the #fediverse like I do, you’ll see we have a far more compelling story for fellow techies to come along with. If we make it easy for them to do the right thing, it’s harder for Meta to do wrong.

erlend, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to fediverse

https://blog.erlend.sh/the-age-of-coordination

Protocols are interoperability frameworks, and we are witnessing a sea-change in comms protocol convergence.

The past two decades have been the age of disruption; move fast and externalize the costs.

Far better than your regular social-engagement network, the fediverse is a movement. And unlike the walled silos whose only metrics are captive users & clicks, the success of a movement is measured in its ability to inspire change and drive coordinated action.

#fediverse

erlend, 10 months ago to religion

I was raised atheist, and by most definitions I still am. But what I actually practice is non-dualism.

You can just as well call me a theist and I wouldn't disagree with you.

To me these world views are just two different ways of looking at the same, one thing. Two sides of the same existential coin.

Make no mistake though: Atheism is a religion just like the rest. It's the religion of non-belief, which if practiced puritanically can cloud good judgement.

#religion #atheism #theism #writing

erlend, 7 months ago to opensource

Heather Meeker - esteemed legal scholar in open source licensing & commerce (i.e. sustainability) - has written a book that every single #OpenSource maintainer ought to read, now available for preorder.

From Project to Profit: How to Build a Business Around Your Open Source Project

https://a.co/d/gTe77TK

You know what’s harder than maintaining an open source project? Making a living off of it. But it is possible, and it’s better than subsiding your OSS practice with a closed-source day job.

erlend, 10 months ago to fediverse

At this rate there’s going to be two networks: the open #fediverse and the gated #defediverse.

Which is fine, I guess. It’s your instance; do as you’d like.

I for one am here to make myself available on the public address book of the World Wide Web.

I’m not interested in preemptively blocking calls from people who aren’t in my very privileged position of being able to operate my online persona on indie infrastructure.

Free time, education and economic safety brought me to #mastodon.

erlend, 9 months ago to fediverse

Mighty jealous of everyone who can make hyperlinks in their #fediverse posts 🥹

erlend, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to opensource

https://blog.erlend.sh/big-ai-commons

"They’ve already laid claim to our collective land, labor and attention. With AI, they want to own our thoughts and the last shred of agency that comes with them. If we fail to defend our personal sovereignty at this juncture, a dark age of the corporate singularity awaits us."

"To land a real blow, look for where the machines are at their most materialized. Take aim at their massive bodies of data and strike there with conviction."

#opensource #ai #openweb

erlend, 10 months ago to random

@mariusor 👋

Would love to talk more with you about go-littr and our project Commune:

https://writing.exchange/@erlend/110712778752844998

Are you on any chat like Matrix or Discord?

erlend, 8 months ago to mastodon

https://blog.erlend.sh/group-convergence

Stubborn holdouts of the increasingly off-putting Twitter/X and Reddit commonly point out how their open source alternatives don't really offer any cool new features.

You know what will never happen? Twitter and Reddit being in direct, seamless interaction with one another. With groups FEP-1b12, #mastodon #Lemmy & friends are at the precipice of a brand new social networking experience defined by app symbiosis.

Friendship is the “killer feature” of the #fediverse! 👯

erlend, 7 months ago to fediverse

A simple #ActivityPub <-> #Bluesky interop MVP I don’t see mentioned a lot is the ability to fully oEmbed an apub/atproto post on its opposite platform. This would allow for a kind of quote-posting across networks.

If that could somehow be combined with a WebMention to inform me that my apub post has been shared elsewhere and vice versa, we’d have significantly greater cross-border connectivity than the status quo.

A Bluesky dev has responded with interest:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716#discussioncomment-7261438

erlend, 1 year ago (edited 11 months ago) to fediverse

UPDATE: I’m setting up a #Lemmy instance and would love to hear from #UI people!

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https://blog.erlend.sh/juicy-clients 🍹

If I'm peeking into an #ActivityPub instance, show me its preferred UI form.

..on mastodon.social, show me the #Mastodon
UI.
..on calckey.social, show me the #Calckey UI
..on bookwyrm.social, show me the #Bookwyrm UI.
..on mitra.social, show me the #Mitra UI.
..on pixelfed.social, show me the #Pixelfed UI.
(..on bluesky.social, show me the #Bluesky UI.)

erlend, 3 months ago to random

From @pluralistic in https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/08/permanent-overlords/

The authors [of the paper "Coopting Disruption: Has Big Tech disrupted disruption itself?”] propose a four-step program for the would-be Tech Baron hoping to defend their turf from disruption.

1️⃣ First, gather information about startups that might develop disruptive technologies and steer them away from competing with you, by investing in them or partnering with them.