@evan@cosocial.ca
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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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Do you say "Fediverse" or "Social Web"?

manlycoffee,
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@evan

I'm trying to get more people to join the Fediverse, and for this reason, I tell people "I'm working on the social web."

clacke, to random

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

How are you celebrating?

clacke,

Tonight when I should have been sleeping or writing some stuff for work, I accidentally took a walk down fedi memory lane. Someone posted on their profile which accounts they had when, and I was inspired and made yet another attempt to locate some fragments of posts on servers long gone.

This time I was successful!
RE: libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-1…

clacke,

A brief timeline Fedi and my life on it:

2008-05-18 @evan fires up identi.ca, the beginning of it all:

web.archive.org/web/2008061816…

This is my first post.

2008-10-14 I joined identi.ca. I don't know what my first post was.

web.archive.org/web/2008121206…

boris, to random
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[[PeARS]] is “People's Agent for Reciprocated Search”, an open source search system written in Python. Federated server plus local version to run from your desktop.
https://pearsproject.org

clacke, to random

I was going to ask Evan if he could find the current URL for the very first identi.ca post, but turns out he already did that for the anniversary post a year ago. =)

Cert on identi.ca is currently failing.

clacke,

Posted by Evan for (last year):

identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQ…
web.archive.org/web/2/identi.c… @evan

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.web.archive.org/web/2008061816…

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QY…

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

Someday soon-ish I'd like to have identi.ca working with ActivityPub. When I get the time for it!

grimalkina, to random
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I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.

*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long has it been since your last subway ride?

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#never

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Reminder for underrepresented folk feeling sad discovering that some of the "founders" of Open Source are also open eugencists. Don't feel so sad! Because a lot of founders of Open Source are openly and vocally disdainful of those eugenicists, racists, and other bigots. ♥️👍🏿

There are a lot of different personalities in Open Source. And given the demographics of what OSS looked like back in the days, the percentage of bigots is higher than the public at large.

1/N

J12t, to meta
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Finally I'm getting around to listen to @mike 's Dot.Social episode with @rklambo and @pcottle from #meta, talking about #threads.

Mike asks the most important question first: "why are you [Meta] doing this [Fediverse integration]?"

[cont]

J12t,
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Peter: one of the advantages of is that you can limit exposure to other servers.

is all public, and that's another reason why is a better match for Meta.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How often do you carry a water bottle?

evan, (edited ) to random
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How many domains do you own?

#EvanPoll #poll

Jyoti, to ethelcain
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Hallo! Would you like to hear what White Town sounded like 34 years ago, when we a three-piece indie guitar band?

You would?

Well, today's your lucky day!

Car Park Love Songs gathers the songs that ended up on the early Parasol singles and some other totally un-released rarities.

It's a mix of jangly, twee, shoegaze, grungy and everything else we were listening to back then.

Enjoy!

https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/album/car-park-love-songs

evan, (edited ) to random
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How important is equality?

#EvanPoll #poll

mpjgregoire,
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@evan To quote Harry Frankfurt, “If everyone had enough, it would be of no moral consequence whether some had more than others.”

torgo, to random
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The revolution may not be televised but it will be .

aardrian, (edited ) to random
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“Digital Ocean” is a…

andypiper, to random
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Co-authored an update from the @MastodonEngineering team with my friend @renchap - a sneak peek at what is coming in 4.3 (and looking ahead from there). We'll aim to make these updates a regular feature for the blog. Let us know what you think! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2024/

evan, (edited ) to random
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Has the Trump campaign coordinated with the Netanyahu government to keep the war in Gaza going because it hurts President Biden's re-election prospects?

#EvanPoll #poll

evacide, to random
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I see that today on the internet people are discovering who Meir Kahane was.

scalzi, to random
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Over at Uncanny Magazine, I have an essay about the aesthetics of spectacle, relating to the Dune films of 1984 and the 2020s: How spectacle in each film was treated and why, and what makes the look and feel between the eras so very different.

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scalzi-on-film-the-aesthetics-of-spectacle-a-look-at-dune-in-1984-and-2024/

ben.werdmuller, to random

Something it’s taken me years to really understand:

A lot of the people with power in tech - investors and founders alike - already come from money. Both their networks and cultural norms are at least partially pre-formed.

You can sometimes shortcut this by making lots of money, eg by being early at a Google - but even then, hiring is largely network-based. It’s about who you know. And if you’re not from those circles or that world, you likely don’t know anyone.

w3cdevs, to random
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🗳️ The @ab election is starting, with 6 candidates for 5 seats. The @w3c membership has until 29 May 2024 to choose their Advisory Board representatives.

The 6 candidates are: Wei Ding (Huawei), Tatsuya Igarashi (Sony), @frivoal (), Hiroshi Ota (LY), Max Gendler (The News Corp.) and Elena Lape (Holopin).
▶️ Read their statements: https://www.w3.org/2024/04/ab-nominations

The @ab provides ongoing guidance to the @w3c team. Their work priorities for 2024 are documented in: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2024_Priorities

cydonian, to random
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Sending a bee signal to other Yellow Jackets here on Fedi. 🐝🤘🏾 😀 @evan @Riedl

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