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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, to random
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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.

evan,
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"I mean, this might sound strange, but music is a kind of coordination technology. So 4/4 techno beat is maybe the most clear communication of that. It’s so easy to participate in. It’s fairly easy to make. It’s also fairly easy to dance to and understand. So I feel like as a kind of — if I want to call it a kind of protocol, it’s an easy way to communicate what to do in that scenario. So I think that that’s why people have organized around it so much."

evan,
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-holly-herndon.html

evan, (edited ) to random
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"Public opposition to the War in Gaza is due to manipulation of social media."

evan, to random
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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

evan,
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I didn't even know what a Crunchbase Rank was until 90 seconds ago and now I am determined with every fiber of my being to win at Crunchbase.

evan,
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I'm pretty sure @timbray took that photo, too.

chockenberry, to random
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I’m calling it now: the slop feedback loop is going to ruin the Internet.

Look at the second toot in this thread: Google’s AI Assistant got the gasoline recipe from AI generated content.

We’re playing the shittiest game of telephone ever.
https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

evan,
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@chockenberry there's only one solution: mentat training.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Mentat

brooke, to random
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The lathe was once cutting edge technology

evan,
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@brooke BROOKE

gretared, to random
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HEY HEY! HO HO! SAM ALITO HAS GOT TO GO! I am fairly certain this is not the first time I have posted this.

evan,
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@gretared endorse

evan, to random
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Nothing quite as ephemeral as the chat log in a videoconference.

evan,
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All the links that were important enough that we had to share them in the meeting are lost like the snows of yesteryear.

kissane, to random
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That Jackie West debut album that just dropped is very beautiful.

evan,
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@kissane dang, The Trinity Sessions is such a good album. I'll check this out.

blogdiva, to random
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no ytboi, go fuck yourself for disrespecting Sonia Sotomayor and Kentanji Brown-Jackson. with or without spoons, not on my watch.

evan,
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@blogdiva GET EM LIZA

quillmatiq, to random

"I don't know if the Fediverse is going to take off, even if I'm being optimistic and all signs are pointing toward that being true. What I do know is that a protocol-based solution is likely the right one if we want the next generation of social web products to be owned by us, the humans. To me - that's worth rooting for."

Fediverse Threads, more below 👇🏼

RE: https://www.threads.net/@quillmatiq/post/C7UXfJrJvCJ

evan,
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@quillmatiq spoiler alert: it has already.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long has it been since you last posted a photo on a fediverse account?

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#never

evan, (edited ) to random
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Student protesters, humanitarian organizations, and the International Criminal Court are usually not on the wrong side of history.

evan, to random
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If we can build an open social network, we can have open source mobile devices.

evan,
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@brooke yeah, agreed. I think the way to slice this Gordian knot is with PWAs, but maybe there's another trick. Regardless, it feels like a very parallel struggle with federated social networks.

andypiper, to fediverse
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An excellent and explainer! (and it doesn’t even refer to any specific platform) https://youtu.be/VmSWPj0T9IQ

evan,
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@andypiper @steve telephone service is also a good analogy. Lots of carriers, but anyone can call or text anyone in any country.

evan, to random
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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,
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@trwnh probably not? That is untrue and would not help my case.

evan,
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@trwnh OK. If I get indicted for war crimes, I hope my friends will tell it like it is.

evan, (edited ) to random
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When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

evan,
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@TerryHancock yeah, absolutely. I started this poll when I saw that an Open Source maintainer posted about a trip he'd been on, and one of the commenters asked him when a particularly requested feature would be included in the software. It's just dismissive and dehumanizing.

evan,
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@TerryHancock Exactly. "You're not a person, you're a code-generating service."

evan,
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@dneary ha! No, it's fine. We're friends.

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