evan

evan, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 1 day ago (edited 8 hours ago) to random

Should citizens of your country who live abroad be allowed to vote in national elections?

evan, 23 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

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?

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evan, 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

Which major change would a time traveler from 1974 notice most about cities today?

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evan, 4 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

"ActivityPub servers should use IPFS as storage for public binary files like images, video, and audio."

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evan, 16 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Do you say "Fediverse" or "Social Web"?

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evan, 22 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

How important is equality?

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evan, 4 days ago to random

One of the things we talked about in the Social Web Working Group was how to include binary data in the ActivityPub objects, like an Image. One proposed technique was to base64-encode the data and include it in content; another option was to use data: URLs in the url property of the object. Do any ActivityPub processors currently include inline images or other binary data?

evan, 3 hours ago to random

Our voice phone systems are seamlessly federated. You can call people across carriers, over national boundaries, instantaneously, and the only friction is slightly more numbers to dial.

evan, 3 days ago to random

Is there an Internet Media Type for social microsyntax, the plain-text source format that is used to convert @-mentions, hashtags, and URLs into links in HTML5? I've been unable to find one, and have fallen back to text/plain.

evan, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to fediverse

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a #SummerOfProtocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for #ActivityPub DMs, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/sop-2024-pig-and-pog-grantees/1270

evan, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

"International law should apply equally for all people and for all countries."

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evan, 13 days ago to random

Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

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.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

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

#Fediverse16

evan, 28 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

Which of these body parts do you still have?

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evan, 15 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

"The consensus opinion on the fediverse is more representative of public opinion than the consensus on siloed social networks."

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evan, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

How long has it been since your last subway ride?

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https://evanp.me/pollfaq#never

evan, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

How long have you been on the fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse16

evan, 8 days ago to random

When the best thing your defenders can say about your warrant for crimes against humanity is that it was announced alongside the wrong people and should have been done separately, well, that's not really a ringing endorsement.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-government-reacts-icc-arrest-warrants-1.7210073

evan, 27 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

Should your country accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza for resettlement?

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evan, 28 days ago to random

I just dropped my Summer 2024 semester class for #OMSCS so I can concentrate on the Summer of Protocols grant for adding E2EE to ActivityPub. I'm pretty bummed; this is my second semester in a row that I've had to drop out. But I just can't hold down a day job, work a full-time role on the grant, and do graduate school classes. It's just too much.

evan, 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

When you have access to a bidet, do you use it?

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evan, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

"Public opposition to the War in Gaza is due to manipulation of social media."

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evan, 23 days ago to random

I do not consent to instruction via Socratic method.

evan, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

What level do you play games at?

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evan, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

So, as far as I can tell, ActivityPub is by far the most popular JSON-LD application on the Internet, with billions of actor, activity and content documents published and linked.

Is there any other application of JSON-LD that comes even close in terms of documents published, number of interoperable implementations, and importance in people's lives? I don't think VCs are even within 4 or 5 orders of magnitude.