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?
@Gargron Stuffing a binary object into a text medium. It's not very efficient, but if you don't want to host some small images, like an icon, it might be useful.
@Jonathanglick I think for many anti-war protesters, they see an equivalence between the experience of racialized and underrepresented people in the United States and those in Israel/Palestine.
@mlinksva it is fun, though, to read very old articles about identi.ca and realize that the shortcomings mentioned are just as relevant today as they were then.
"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."
"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."