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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, (edited ) to random
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How many times have you left your native country?

evan,
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@blit32 I think "native country" means the one you were born in.

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@tokyo_0 @erincandescent you seem to be imputing a meaning to the question that I don't get. What meaning do you think is there?

evan,
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@tokyo_0 @erincandescent OK, but what is the "true meaning" you were going for?

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@EmmaPaulay I moved to Montreal from San Francisco about 20 years ago. We go back to California to see my parents and brothers and in-laws once or twice a year. So I think I'm well over the 25 or more line.

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@vesperto So, you're asking if leaving to live abroad and leaving to go to the beach and leaving to flee a civil war all count the same?

They all count the same. The question is, how many times have you left.

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@tokyo_0 @psychoalpastor yes. What I'm saying is, we're framing border-crossing as something that rich people do and poor people don't, which is only true in certain countries in certain circumstances.

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@EmmaPaulay wow! No visits back since then?

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@tokyo_0 @psychoalpastor it's funny that we all look at it as a privilege, when having to flee your native country because of war or persecution or economic necessity is a tragedy.

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@tokyo_0 @erincandescent OK.

You said in order to have any meaning, the poll should count emigration for more than tourism or other reasons to leave.

And I was wondering what you thought this poll was trying to measure.

Maybe a proxy for cosmopolitanism?

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@psychoalpastor do you think it gives you a different perspective on the world?

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@Cassandra either, or for any other reason.

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@bobjonkman wild! The numbers reset for me.

evan,
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@lightweight I think your native country is the one you're born in. I'd say "home country" for someplace you moved to which became home.

evan,
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@blit32 I mean, it's up to you to decide how you want to respond. Here's the dictionary definition, though:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/native-country

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@den I'm sorry to hear that.

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@erincandescent @tokyo_0 it's not a competition!

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@hyperzonk right, but crossing borders between countries neither one of which you were born in doesn't count.

evan,
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@tobyink This is the story I made this poll for, and I didn't know it!

evan,
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@vesperto that's a very interesting statement! Could you elaborate?

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@TrillionB I was surprised how low the 0 number was.

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@blit32 were you born right on the border?

loresjoberg, to random
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I don’t know how my conversation with Jenny drifted to the topic “How would Donald Duck and Popeye go about kissing?” but it has and there’s nothing I can do about it now.

evan,
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@loresjoberg that said, they dress the same, so a lot to talk about

evan, to random
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Is there an easy way to generate a CSV of at least username, display name, and email from a Mastodon instance?

We need it for to correlate our OpenCollective member list with the Mastodon member list.

evan,
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@mick I think this one is it. @alkatandan is the one who needs it. I was hoping there was a tootctl command for it, but a pg query is fine too.

Could Tech Ops set up a cron job to generate the report for Membership working group like once per week or so?

https://social.theokadas.com/@mr_vinn/110262354768973843

strypey, (edited ) to fediverse
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The ActivityPub we've built couldn't have happened with an invite-only federation protocol. The only way to build up enough fedizens (beyond true believers like me) to make the network useful and attractive, was to make joining it as frictionless as possible. The network only exchanges messages online, so the potential for harm is limited, and mute/block tools are adequate to mitigate abuse.

evan,
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@bhaugen @strypey @cwebber I use the .pub domain a lot, so yes.

evan,
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@strypey no it wouldn't.

You can do the invitation out-of-band. Then, refuse activities that come from outside the network.

Also, "pub" refers to the publish-subscribe model, not to publishing data. Create, read, update and delete are four activities in the base vocabulary. But there's much more possible!

I did a talk at MozFest about using AP for dating apps. I think it's a great use case!

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