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

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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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So here's my question: why the hell do we mess around with so many proprietary OTT services? Why do you have some friends who WhatsApp, others who Telegram, others who Signal? Why do we have to figure out whether to Zoom or Meet or FaceTime or Jitsi? We are literally all carrying phones 24x7. Let's just use our phones.

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@jerclarke irc isn't federated.

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@driscoll yeah, agreed. I think that's less of a big deal now. My SMS messages are free and unlimited.

Also, wow, those well.com accounts are cool!

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@preinheimer so, it's because the address is important that you want to avoid it.

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@steely_glint oh, yeah, I'm not saying it's great. It takes a lot more to break into telecom than to start a Fediverse server.

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

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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.

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Every once in a while I start feeling like I'm a big deal and then I read that my Crunchbase rank is 151,395 and I feel a little more humble.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/evan-prodromou

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What level do you play games at?

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Are screenshots of posts on other social networks a valuable contribution to the Fediverse?

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@pl nice!

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I'm still mad about this. How did Atari win? They were the worst.

https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari-acquires-intellivision-brand

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I had a whole chapter for the ActivityPub book that I never got around to doing. I just finished it. I don't think my editor is going to be happy, since it's going to make the book too big, but I'd rather have to cut back than live with regrets.

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Just listened to @pjvogt and @crumbler on how we survive the media apocalypse. The answer? "We have to finish building the fediverse." Hell yeah.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cWLSWAq9LxwUWVbsdagKw?si=CcHMNROGShKTjzB9AqcaFA

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THEY STOLE OUR REVOLUTION. NOW AI IS STEALING IT FROM THEM IN TURN.

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Nothing quite as ephemeral as the chat log in a videoconference.

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I liked this observation from Holly Herndon on the Ezra Klein Show this week, talking about the Berlin electronic music scene.

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What level do you play games at?

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@blaine I'm trying to do some research on the origin of WebFinger for my ActivityPub book. Do you have a favourite page that lays out the story? Wikipedia is not that helpful. I am pretty sure it was you, @bradfitz and Eran Hammer who originated the idea..?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger

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I really liked this interview with Bernie Sanders and Naomi Klein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3-CSRTVwys

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