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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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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

b0rk, to random
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the git zine is coming out on ★ ★ ★ Friday ★ ★ ★! Here's its about page

evan,
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@b0rk I CANNOT WAIT.

evan, (edited ) to random
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"ActivityPub servers should use IPFS as storage for public binary files like images, video, and audio."

evan, to random
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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

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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What level do you play games at?

evan,
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@mihira well, I guess I can't live with regret

evan,
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I guess this makes sense. I'm "Normal" on first play, usually "Hard" on second or later plays, which I would say I do about 10% of the time. I don't find extreme modes fun, and I don't have small kids, so I don't need to play on Easy. So, on balance, Normal.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should citizens of your country who live abroad be allowed to vote in national elections?

evan, to Bloomscrolling
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I woke up this morning and chose violets

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, to random
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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?

evan, to random
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Another ActivityPub question! I haven't seen a good description of using the provideClientKey and signClientKey properties. We've had a couple of questions in the AP GitHub issues about how to use them. Where did they come from? Does any AP server have a working implementation? They seem very mysterious.

evan, to random
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I'm excited about IFTAS Connect. It's a great platform, and considerable though seems to have gone into making it safe and productive. Seems like a great tool for the Fediverse community.

https://connect.iftas.org/

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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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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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What level do you play games at?

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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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Friends, she was fine with it.

evan,
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@trwnh That'd be great. I don't think you saw either of the reference appendices. I'll check with Sarah.

evan,
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@pch you don't have to! It's available in early release right now.

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/

evan, (edited ) to random
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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.

evan,
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@jack That's not JSON-LD, though.

evan,
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@Gargron @jack Is there another way to add schema.org metadata to a site that I don't know about?

evan,
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@Gargron @jack It is? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm thinking of the schema.org microdata markup added to HTML pages. I get that it's "linked data" but I don't think it's JSON-LD.

https://schema.org/docs/gs.html

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@jack @Gargron Oh, neat. I wonder how relatively popular the two formats are? Either way, that's likely to be a lot bigger than AP.

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