evanprodromou

@evanprodromou@threads.net

Co-author of ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0. Founder of identi.ca and StatusNet. I ♥️ the social web. Primary account: evan@cosocial.ca

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evanprodromou, to random

Friends, if you haven't turned on Fediverse sharing from Threads yet, now is the time! It's really easy and makes your posts visible across the social web. Best of all, it's really easy.

https://help.instagram.com/760878905943039

pjvogt, to random

Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI summaries to you, instead of favoring human-written articles. We talk to @crumbler about why this is happening and what any of us can do. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cWLSWAq9LxwUWVbsdagKw?si=epC_8StHRJGUDrLXmail2A

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cWLSWAq9LxwUWVbsdagKw

evanprodromou,

@crumbler "We have to finish building the fediverse."

I'm in; LFG.

evanprodromou, to random

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.

Fediverse Threads

evanprodromou, to random

The EU now has a permanent home on the fediverse.

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/112455456338250699

evanprodromou, to random

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a Summer of Protocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for ActivityPub, 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

evanprodromou, to random

Hello, this is Evan Prodromou and I pronounce "fediverse" as "social web".

evanprodromou,

A tribute to the days when Linux users had exactly one multimedia file available to listen to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg

evanprodromou, to random

Most social media is like the multiverse in comic books or sci-fi movies. There are hundreds or even thousands of worlds, each one with a slightly different version of you. Every social network app is its own world, and your account there is a version of you.

evanprodromou, to random

@mmasnick have you read this? You might like it.

https://summerofprotocols.com/dangerous-protocols-web

evanprodromou, to random

The University of Innsbruck in Austria set up a Mastodon server for all 5000 employees. This is how we grow the Fediverse.

https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/

evanprodromou, to random

Our dream for the fediverse is a world in which you don't have to make a screenshot to share something from one network into another network. The fediverse is all one big network. It's all connected.

evanprodromou, to random

Fediverse Threads if you're in Canada, please sign petition e-4769, which asks our government to use open social networking protocols to connect with citizens. Let's get our government on the Fediverse! (Link in next post)

evanprodromou,

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769

evanprodromou, to random

Open standards bring us together. Every company or Open Source project that implements ActivityPub grows the fediverse and makes it better for everyone. Every person, every influencer, every publisher that joins the fediverse makes the network more active, interesting, and vibrant. We're all part of building a new and amazing social world, right now.

evanprodromou, to random

Welcome to the "Fed"-iverse, @potus !

evanprodromou, to random

@chris I'm working on the section in my ActivityPub book for O'Reilly about conversational interfaces. I wonder if you've thought about how conversational UIs fit into the social web?

evanprodromou, to random

To celebrate the cherry blossom animation on Threads, I'm starting a thread about some of our lovely nativeplants in North America in the Prunus genus. Please give them likes so they can get the little bloom.

evanprodromou, to random

Friends, I need some suggestions for my Easter playlist. What are your ideas?

evanprodromou, to random

You deserve to connect with your friends and family, neighbors and colleagues, no matter which social network platform they use.

It's all about connecting people.

evanprodromou, to random

Don't bet against the Fediverse.

evanprodromou, to random

I am not a civil engineering expert, but I have watched all 5 seasons of "The Wire", so I feel more than qualified to comment on institutional responsiveness in Baltimore, or, as I call it, Ballmer. In this essay I will

davew, to random

A question for the federistas.

If I paste the URL of a Threads post into a Mastodon site, shouldn't it be able to get a federated copy of the post and have the URL be a way to summon up a specific post?

I honestly don't understand how to create a link between the two. I don't think I've ever seen a Threads message on Masto.

As with everything in ActivityPup, the way to do something wonderful always escapes me! I'm not kidding.

evanprodromou,

So, we don't have a standard way defined in the spec for how to go from a page like https://host.example/path/page.html to an ActivityPub object like https://host.example/path/page.jsonld.

The best practice right now is to include a <link rel="self" type="application/activity+json" href="..."> to the HTML <head>.

I'd like to see this better supported -- I was just asking about it on Mastodon a few days ago. We'll probably publish a report on this from the W3C soon. It's pretty important.

evanprodromou, to random

If Meta can join the Fediverse, what's your excuse?

johannes.ernst, to random

Hey @threads, consider adding a rel=http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page entry to your WebFinger. It makes it easier to find human-readable profile pages from a fediverse handle. The profile URL that goes with a handle is hardly secret.

Use case: create clickable links from handles as we do on FediForum.org E.g. We can easily link to https://social.coop/@J12t given @j12t, but need to write Threads-specific code to do so to, say, https://www.threads.net/@pcottle from @pcottle .

evanprodromou,

You can do discovery of the Actor endpoint (links rel=self type="application/activity+json") and then use the "url" property of the returned actor. That doesn't require platform-specific code; it's part of the ActivityPub spec.

evanprodromou, to random

When sharing content from another service, why do people prefer a screenshot of the text, rather than just copying the text and including a link?

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