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erlend, 3 days ago to ruby

Any #ruby dev out there willing to do a simple plugin for #discourse?

A handful of indie devs are pitching in with working examples of FedCM, an important new identity standard with direct implications for the #fediverse: https://wrily.foad.me.uk/sign-in-with-big-tech-only-or-sign-in-with-whom-i-prefer

The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.

cc @Discourse

erlend, 20 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to ai

I sincerely hope the vast majority of “GenAI enhancements” will go the way of the 3D glasses which the movie theaters unsuccessfully tried to foist onto our noggins as the upsell no one had asked for.

Remember those things? They were kind-of-okay for Avatar, and then nothing else ever again. Today there can be no doubt that the novelty was ultimately not worth its weight in plastic pollution.

Took nearly a decade for corporations to largely give up on that forced fad, so, hang in there! 💪

#ai

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, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

https://blog.erlend.sh/weird-netizens

To free ourselves from feudal identity fiefdoms, we must simultaneously de-centralize and re-centralize identity.

Decentralize ownership.
Recentralize agency.

By de-centralizing the ownership of identity away from platform monopolies and back to individuals, we can re-centralize the agency of personhood.

The central authority of ones digital identity must be the individual. That's how we regain our digital sovereignty.

#NomadicIdentity #IndieWeb

erlend, 1 month ago to Matrix

https://blog.commune.sh/federated-webrings/

In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.

Let's envision what a truly federated chat like #Matrix could do to improve the cross-connectivity of chat channels. Most of these features are already possible, they just haven't been implemented yet in a community-oriented client experience.

#CommuneApp #fediverse #community

erlend, 1 month ago to fediverse

I nominate @kissane & @molly0xfff & @Mer__edith for Internet President triumvirate.

#fediverse #IndieWeb #socialmedia #internet

erlend, 1 month ago to threads

https://blog.erlend.sh/what-meta-corp-can-give-the-fediverse-money

I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism.

Money can mitigate the risk of #Threads :

'coopting the fediverse': $200k for Test Suite.
'overburdening moderators': $200k for moderation.
'locking in users': $200k for #NomadicIdentity

erlend, 2 months ago to Matrix

https://blog.commune.sh/beyond-discord/

Like any other major network incumbent, Discord cannot simply be side-stepped altogether; appropriate off-ramps are required.

#Matrix bridging enables an incremental, non-disruptive transition from the old to the new.

We invite anyone interested in the development of #CommuneApp to join our newly opened space: https://matrix.to/#/#home:commune.sh

The first half of our product rollout starts next month, as we begin publicly testing our uniquely community-oriented Matrix client.

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, 2 months ago to ai

https://blog.erlend.sh/credit-your-genai

It's bad enough that GenAI mashes together thousands of similar drawings and repaints them at your behest with the signatures of its contributors scrubbed out, their record of work erased. Don't add insult to injury by omitting any credit of the machine assistance whatsoever, as if this work was painted by your hand.

Whenever I see an uncredited image online, I assume foul play. Every uncredited image is non-consensual exploitation of art.

#ai #genai #art

erlend, 3 months ago to conservative

anyone who considers themself an “effective accelerationist” is by definition a deeply unsophisticated ecologist, to a point of willful ignorance.

#effectiveaccelerationism #ecology #philosophy

erlend, 3 months ago to rust

https://blog.commune.sh/what-is-commune/

Commune has been in sporadic development for three years. A lot has happened in this time, so for old-timers and newcomers alike, here's a comprehensive summary of our past, present and future as we head into 2024 with renewed focus and conviction.

We're also soft-announcing our newest initiative on the path to production readiness: Our backend is being rewritten in #rust 🦀

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

Foundation set by @estebanborai

#OpenSource #CommuneApp #matrix

erlend, 3 months ago to random

@opencollective any chance OpenCollective might start offering a lightweight equivalent of Stripe Atlas? Aimed strictly at commons-aligned, public benefit corporations and the like.

I find myself wanting a super simple way to get small OSS startups and coops off the ground with a paid product.

I collaborate with some people who are unbanked. I really want to them to have all initial profits of whichever product we sell together, but without a bank that’s not an option.

(1/2)

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.

erlend, 3 months ago to Matrix

https://blog.commune.sh/chat-is-minimum-viable-anything/

Two or more people together in a group chat room; that's a minimum-viable community.

A few drivers together in a group chat; that's a minimum-viable ride-sharing platform.

One person together with an LLM in a chat interface; that's a minimum-viable AI assistant.

---

Lots of ventures started as nothing more than a group chat. It’s how you throw kindling on the initial spark of an idea: a test of resonance ❤️‍🔥

#CommuneApp #Matrix #OpenWeb #SocialMedia

erlend, 4 months ago to aitools

@creativecommons we are in dire need of a non-commercial content license made with the #opensocialweb in mind.

The CC org could spark a lot of generative dialog by simply drafting such a license in the open, long before calling it Done.

I don’t know how to put this in generalized legal language, but I know what I oppose.

I do NOT consent to my content being used in:

• for-profit #advertising
• for-profit LLM/SMM #ai training
• for-profit profiling

My content belongs to the NC-SA #commons

erlend, 5 months ago to beeper

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back

Kudos to #Beeper for their competitive compatibility hijinks as of late.

No doubt they’re intentionally building a case for regulators. They’ve forced Apple’s hand, effectively showing that cross-platform comms is a matter of willingness, not technical limitation.

Seeing as Apple’s company policy is provably anti-competitive, we the users rely on state-mandated policies to overrule them in favor of adversarial interop.

cc @pluralistic

#SeizeTheMeansOfComputation

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, 5 months ago to random

Partially in response to the excellent juxtaposition of Effective Altruism/Accelerationism by @molly0xfff, @pluralistic writes:

“But the superintelligence true-believers and their criti-hyping critics keep dragging us away from these important questions [about pro-social automation] and into fanciful and pointless discussions of whether and how to appease the godlike computers we will create when we disassemble the solar system and turn it into computronium.”

Amen! 🙏

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

erlend, 5 months ago to opensource

Thank you @NGIZero! 🙏

https://blog.commune.sh/grant-from-nlnet/

#OpenSource #Matrix #Fediverse

erlend, 6 months ago to opensource

@photomatt & co have talked about making Tumblr fully open source for a long time. In light of Tumblr’s downsizing, this is the time to do so!

Since it’s failing to make a profit they may as well release it for the wider internet community to go nuts with it.

Better yet, spin Tumblr out as a standalone co-op venture to succeed or fail on its own merits.

https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733551497286172672/translation-of-internalspeak-to-externalspeak

#OpenSource #coop #tumblr

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, 6 months ago (edited 1 month 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, 7 months ago to fediverse

@pfefferle in this new world of apub-enabled WordPress blogs, there’s going to be a need for Good Practice material on how to participate in the #fediverse via ones WP blog.

I imagine there are different ways to go about it, some of which can be configured explicitly in the plugin settings while others come down to user conventions.

Things like:

• Whole blog as AP feed
• Segment out specific microblog for AP feed
• Comments only
• Connect with existing Masto/AP account
• Tumblr integration?