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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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A hard rain.

A view from my front balcony of our small street in the Plateau Mont-Royal. A heavy rain is falling. The camera scans from north to south, across two-story stone and brick townhouses. It pauses on the running gutters.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should you get a notification from your server when someone unfollows you?

evan,
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@kikobar https://evanp.me/pollfaq#qualified

evan,
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@trebach The question is about you, though.

evan,
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@smallsco abuse by whom? You, or the people unfollowing you?

evan, to random
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Eggplant parmigiana for .

evan, to random
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I've said what I needed to say. Let's go back to the fun stuff.

hanjabanja, to random
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I made some bowls. Here are a couple of my favorites.

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evan,
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@hanjabanja wow!

evan, (edited ) to random
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It is bad business to start your own protocol when there's an existing open standard.

It's like making a new brand of air.

Open standards are a commons. They're a gift. Some idealists and eggheads have already worked out the hard parts. You get that part of the stack 100% free.

Why in the world would you put any effort whatsoever into replicating the free part?

Work on the other parts. The parts people care about and pay for.

evan, to random
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One way for us to have verified public figures on the fediverse is for @wikipedia to include rel=me links so the user account can be validated.

So https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama has a rel=me link to https://example.org/@obama and vice versa.

Or maybe it's a @wikidata thing...?

Either way, I don't think there's another entity that has such a comprehensive set of notable people and as much trust from people around the world.

evan,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua so, don't verify that account.

evan,
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@lucasgonze Obama's Twitter handle is on the Wikidata page, for example. I'm not sure why a Webfinger address would be qualitatively different.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76

kissane, to random
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I really only ever spend time and energy criticizing things if I think my notes might help make them better.

That is 100% the vibe I tried to bring to the Mastodon criticisms here—I really like this place, but I really want it to work better for more people who aren't like me.

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

evan,
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@kissane I really appreciate the post.

I agree that we need much better onboarding, people search to find your friends, referral loops, and content search.

It's work that needs to be more distributed. It can't all be up to Mastodon gGmbH.

The number one thing that is going to get people here, and keep people here, is the social aspect.

I just did a big piece of HCI research on personal social connections in Mastodon for my graduate program at Georgia Tech.

I'll be publishing my work soon!

evan,
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@michaelcoyote @kissane

I would not!

evan,
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@maplesyrup ha! Thanks. I didn't even have grad school in there.

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It might be easier to work until I die instead of figuring out how to plan for retirement.

evan, (edited )
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@rasterweb in the ageist tech industry, you're going to have a harder and harder time finding work the older you get.

Don't plan on writing code for a living when you're 60.

evan, to random
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It's OK that our conversations are intense here. It means we care a lot.

These conversations are how things get made and how things change.

evan, to random
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One of the parts of that I find really interesting is using for evaluating verbal prototypes.

I think, because it's trained on so much content from so many authors, ChatGPT provides a good approximation of an "average" user.

Here's the transcript of me talking to ChatGPT about signifiers on a profile page for relationships and categorisation.

https://gist.github.com/evanp/f9f333ba6d8e0a0bb686554947ab2061

evan,
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@judell thanks Jon!

jay, to random
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Depending on where you are:

Good morning! ☀️😃
Good evening 🌝 😀
Or Good afternoon 🌞😃

[posted automatically by Shortcuts on iOS]

evan,
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@jay so, do you have a blog post or other docs on how you created this process? I think it's neat that you used Shortcuts for posting to Mastodon.

Stv, to random
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Attempting to rematch all Star Wars in rough chronological order:
Ep 1
Ep 2
The Clone Wars series
Ep 3
The Bad Batch
Obi-Wan
Solo
Rebels
Andor
Rogue One
Ep 4
Ep 5
Ep 6
Mandalorian
Boba Fett
Ahsoka
Ep 7
Ep 8
Ep 9

I think that’s right? Are we missing any? Rebels is the series I’m not sure where to put.

evan,
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@amd @Stv yeah, pretty unfair labeling!

evan, (edited ) to random
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"The way to fix a mistake here is to edit the original post."

evan,
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I didn't comment on this.

I'm qualified yes. I think editing small and large mistakes makes sense. But I also think you should just delete posts that have a bad tone or take.

I'm not that attached to keeping mistakes around for some kind of historical record.

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Do you let social apps read your contacts so you can find your friends?

evan,
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This is a big bummer. I'm a qualified yes; I let security-minded apps use my contact list to find friends.

I think it would be a great way for us to help with bootstrapping new Mastodon users' social graph, especially now that the Twitter friend finders are gone.

evan,
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@mav well, for example, it could use Gravatar to map an email address to a Mastodon account, to find people you know on the network.

strypey, to fediverse
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For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the conference we had in late 2020:
https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos

Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.

evan,
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@strypey I'm happy to go. Definitely talk to @J12t and @Identitywoman about their thoughts.

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