evan

evan, 10 months ago to random

I am not open to your ahistorical take on Google Chat and XMPP.

Google didn't do anything wrong by using an open standard.

They didn't do anything wrong by building a good interface that people liked to use.

And they didn't do anything wrong by disconnecting from the network when the spam and harassment outweighed the benefit to their users.

We, the XMPP community, failed to capitalize on success by diversifying the network. It's our own fault not enough nodes were there.

evan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Small Fedi or Big Fedi?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Do you know a Palestinian?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 9 months ago to random

Fediverse developer, when someone reports a security issue with your software, there is one and only one correct course of action.

Say thank you. Prioritize an immediate fix. Publish a hot patch version for all applicable major versions within hours or days. Publicly acknowledge the report.

Avoid minimisation, whataboutism, personal attacks, and complaining about the work involved.

evan, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Should the United States recognize the State of Palestine?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 1 year ago to random

Fediverse developers! There's a social web community group (SWICG) meeting tomorrow at 9am EDT.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023May/0124.html

If you're not yet a member, you should join!

https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

I'll see you there!

evan, 8 months ago to fediverse

I think it's been mentioned before but I just want to make sure that everyone here knows that we are having THREE #SocialCG #Swicg #ActivityPub sessions at #TPAC next week.

TPAC is a hybrid working event for the W3C. Some of us will be in person in Seville. If you're not, you can call in and participate remotely.

Details here!

https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/participation.html

evan, 1 year ago to random

I just got back from a walk with @atomicpoet and I think I need a few days to incorporate all the ideas he dropped on me.

evan, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I'm doing a survey about Mastodon instances and cooperatives. Can you take a few minutes to fill it out? Anonymous, no gotchas.

UPDATE: survey is full. Thanks everyone who responded!

evan, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

"Sponsored posts in the Fediverse should be tagged with the #sponsored hashtag."

#EvanPoll #Poll

evan, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Here are some things you can do to stop the genocide in Gaza:

• Write to your government representatives
• Talk to friends and family
• Donate to charities providing food and shelter in Gaza
• Join a march or demonstration

If you feel helpless, there are things you can do to help.

evan, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

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

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

How many browser windows do you usually have open?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Welcome to the fediverse BBC!

@BBCRD
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

evan, 4 months ago to opensource

Is there an #OpenSource #ttrpg Web server? That is, a roll20.net clone that I could run on my own site?

evan, 8 months ago to random

evan, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

"UN agencies are calling for a ceasefire because they have an anti-Israel bias."

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

I've been working on the command-line API client, ap, for the #ActivityPub book I'm writing for O'Reilly Media. It's a Python program that implements commands like ap inbox (read the inbox) and ap reject follower (reject a pending follower).

https://github.com/evanp/ap

Originally, I was testing it live, just running it against onepage.pub. This weekend, I buckled down and wrote real unit tests with unittest.mock. It's been amazing; what a great tool.

evan, 2 days ago to random

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, 4 months ago to random

You can support Israel's right to exist, you can denounce the October 7th attacks, you can support Israel's right to defend itself, you can demand the immediate return of the hostages, and still oppose the eradicationist policies of the far-right Netanyahu government. You can be a conservative Israel hawk and still oppose genocide.

evan, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Of these ways of learning, which is best for you?

#EvanPoll #poll

evan, 3 months ago to random

Letting you connect to other people you care about is not unethical or immoral.

You have a lot of options for whether you want to participate in the BS bridge -- either by managing your follows directly, by blocking users from that domain, or by blocking the whole domain.

This is how federation works. You have absolute control over who you interact with.

evan, 1 month ago to random

You may hear that this or that protocol has an incremental feature advantage over ActivityPub. Sometimes this is true; often it's just misunderstanding of how AP works.

But incremental features don't win. We have a structural advantage over any other protocol. ActivityPub is a formal standard, backed by one of the most respected organizations on the planet. It has hundreds of implementers, tens of thousands of instances, and millions of people on the network. Diversity is our strength.

evan, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

How many domains do you own?

#EvanPoll #poll

joemcl, 5 months ago to random

@evan any updates, impressions, etc from the meeting with the Threads folks re fediverse interop? Thanks!