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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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LALegault, to Ottawa
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Way to go 1 down 3 more to go!

evan,
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@LALegault wow!

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long have you been on the fediverse?

evan, to random
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Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

evan,
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Thanks especially to people building software, making art, telling their personal stories, inviting friends or organizations, joining groups, making jokes, thinking hard, making connections, liking, reading, listening, watching, administering, moderating, supporting, sharing, being kind, making friends, answering questions, and otherwise laying down the careful and intricate network of connections between people, software and content that is slowly but surely changing the world.

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@jesseplusplus Probably not. I think I had a very romantic idea of how powerful Open Source and open standards were at that time -- that they would inevitably wash away proprietary, siloed systems. It's also worth noting that there were hundreds of Twitter-like services, and Facebook-like services, and so on during that period. So the idea of federating them made a lot of sense.

evan,
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@jesseplusplus I had a much more pessimistic feeling about federation by the early 2010s, when that ecosystem had collapsed into a few dominant players. It wasn't until we started the Social Web Working Group at the W3C in 2014 that I started feeling optimistic again -- and even then, I expected the social web to be mostly enterprise social networks, small open source networks, etc. The entry of major commercial social networks has been a big and welcome surprise.

evan,
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@csarven I'm still glad to see you here!

cato, to random
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Will replies to toots on my old account get redirected to my new account?

evan,
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@mwfc @cato no, sorry.

evan, to random
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McGill, stop suing and start divesting.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mcgill-injunction-request-1.7203666

ClimateNewsNow, to climate
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As sea levels rise, DeSantis signs bill deleting climate change mentions from Florida state law.

As Florida copes with rising seas and record temperatures, lawmakers are going to exceptional lengths to delete many mentions of climate change from state laws in a new bill that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/desantis-bill-climate-change-florida/index.html

evan,
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@ClimateNewsNow this guy

evacide, to random
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"Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

evan,
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@evacide I think transphobes hate that term because it is clever and Latin and it makes them feel dumb

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@jsit ohhhhhhhhh

I hadn't thought of that!

evan, to random
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Fediverse, we need to do better than this.

https://indieweb.social/@funkatron/112446491382518489

evan,
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@alexhammy @askDNA fuck off.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Someday we should hold an in-person here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedExForum?wprov=sfla1

evan,
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@mikedev have you gone to one?

evan,
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@mikedev hmm. We should do an Australian/Asian time zones event!

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"The consensus opinion on the fediverse is more representative of public opinion than the consensus on siloed social networks."

#EvanPoll #poll

evan,
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@chrisjrn OK, fair

evan,
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Interesting results.

I am somewhat disagree. I think algorithmic feeds distort the apparent consensus on many siloed networks, but that this effect is offset by the type of people currently on the fediverse.

evan, to random
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It's Nakba Day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day

evan,
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This article has more info for those who are unfamiliar with the Nakba.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-nakba-history-b5cea9556e516655c25598d5dbe54192

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"Israel’s rejection of what Palestinians say is their right of return has been a core grievance in the conflict"

This is a factual error. The right of return is a right for all refugees. It's not a matter of opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return?wprov=sfla1

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For the Palestinian people, it was encoded in UN Resolution 194.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_194?wprov=sfla1

evan,
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@CartyBoston @boulder offers that require abandoning your rights under international law and accepting illegal settlements.

evan, (edited ) to fediverse
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Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for DMs, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/sop-2024-pig-and-pog-grantees/1270

evan,
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@cdevroe @tomcoates oh! Then thank you.

evan, to random
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We saw Dune 2 tonight. It was really good.

evan,
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@dneary ikr!

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