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evan

@evan@cosocial.ca

He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.

Director of Open Technology at Open Earth Foundation (OEF).

Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. CTO of Breather, TRU LUV and MTTR.

Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.

Co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of ActivityStreams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.

Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.

This network has been my life's work. Thanks for making it.

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evan, (edited ) to random
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How many times have you left your native country?

evan,
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There wasn't a lot of information in the levels I set up originally, so I restarted the poll with broader categories.

evan,
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@joeyh I rebalanced the numbers since we were pegging the meter. I hope I didn't mess up your count!

evan,
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@erincandescent but Germany isn't your native country

evan,
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@BlahBlah I shifted it around, thanks!

evan,
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@bobjonkman wild! The numbers reset for me.

evan,
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@vesperto that's a very interesting statement! Could you elaborate?

evan,
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@hyperzonk right, but crossing borders between countries neither one of which you were born in doesn't count.

evan,
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@den I'm sorry to hear that.

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@psychoalpastor do you think it gives you a different perspective on the world?

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@EmmaPaulay wow! No visits back since then?

evan,
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@EmmaPaulay I moved to Montreal from San Francisco about 20 years ago. We go back to California to see my parents and brothers and in-laws once or twice a year. So I think I'm well over the 25 or more line.

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@tokyo_0 @erincandescent you seem to be imputing a meaning to the question that I don't get. What meaning do you think is there?

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@erincandescent @tokyo_0 it's not a competition!

evan,
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@tokyo_0 @psychoalpastor it's funny that we all look at it as a privilege, when having to flee your native country because of war or persecution or economic necessity is a tragedy.

evan,
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@vesperto So, you're asking if leaving to live abroad and leaving to go to the beach and leaving to flee a civil war all count the same?

They all count the same. The question is, how many times have you left.

rands, to random
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How modern news works. Find a scary fact and/or graph. Construct a weak narrative without sourcing to support that fact and/or graph. Profit. Repeat.

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@rands find a fact, say it's "tantamount" to a worse situation, which is "practically equivalent" to something even worse than that, and so on and so on, until everyone is hyperventilating and freaking out.

evan, to random
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Is there an easy way to generate a CSV of at least username, display name, and email from a Mastodon instance?

We need it for to correlate our OpenCollective member list with the Mastodon member list.

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@mick I think this one is it. @alkatandan is the one who needs it. I was hoping there was a tootctl command for it, but a pg query is fine too.

Could Tech Ops set up a cron job to generate the report for Membership working group like once per week or so?

https://social.theokadas.com/@mr_vinn/110262354768973843

lmorchard, to random

I just read "Notes to Self on Mastodon" from @jimniels and see the common wish for "moving" content between Mastodon instances.

That's one of the trade-offs of this particular protocol. You can copy the address book, but you can't (easily) change history.

You said what you said, when & where you said it. When you said it, it was replicated to thousands of servers. It might live at a particular URL on your local instance, but it also lives in many remote databases.

To properly "move" would require updating every instance to which you've ever sent a message. Otherwise, no one knows where your stuff went. References and reply threads would all be broken.

We sort of get this for edits and deletes on individual fediverse messages. But, doing this for the entire history of an actor would be fraught & onerous.

It would be like expecting that if you moved from Yahoo Mail to GMail, all the messages you've ever sent get an updated "From:" header in all the remote inboxes and mailing lists to which you've ever sent a message.

Instances could maybe accept imports of content, if only as archived history. But, this would likely be unsatisfying for most other purposes.

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@lmorchard @jimniels I think the "archive" option probably serves most people's needs.

It's interesting how important this is to people, give how impossible it is with other social networks. There's no way to move your Instagram to your LinkedIn, or move your Snapchat to your Twitter! It's cool the pattern grew here.

I love that we're concentrating on data portability and the freedom to move. This is one of our big strengths, and we can keep making it better.

evan, to random
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@cosocial hello! Who's here?

evan,
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If you're at you can try the @cosocial guppy group. It's kind of cool!

loresjoberg, to random
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I don’t know how my conversation with Jenny drifted to the topic “How would Donald Duck and Popeye go about kissing?” but it has and there’s nothing I can do about it now.

evan,
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@loresjoberg bills, chins

evan,
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@loresjoberg that said, they dress the same, so a lot to talk about

evan, to random
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Folks, I'm going to run a big tournament next week for in the fediverse.

4 brackets -> Final four -> big winner!

Help me out and tell me your favourite bots, and why you like them, so we can get them in the running.

Please boost for reach!

ben, to random
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11yo: papa can I help you stack these test ballots?

Me: there's 2,000 of them, you might get bored.

11yo: you know there are things that most people find boring that I find really interesting.

Me: 🥹🥹🥹

evan,
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@ben it's so lucky to learn that so young!

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