For the avoidance of doubt: at no point have I or will I ever give an interview in my capacity as vice-chair of the W3C's Board of directors. Any indication to the contrary is disingenuous.
@yatil I’m positive I’m even slower formulating words than I am structuring them in writing! At least in writing it’s all in front of me, unlike spoken words which for me disappear and dissolve into other words.
Something I worked in in @tag (the Ethical Web Principles) was quoted in a UN report on human rights in technical standards: https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/53/42. It's nice to see our work picked up here, and it's also nice to see that there is a rising awareness across the board that ethics and human rights need to be taken into account in the technical standards process.
The report also mentions @w3c 10 times, including
• @wai,
• the @tag Ethical Web Principles,
• the Design Principles,
• and the Privacy Principles.
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In which I offer an overview of where Mastodon stands now in 2023/08; what’s good/bad, keeping an eye on the alternatives, etc. Not terribly technical (social-media technology is boring, it’s the “social” parts that are interesting).
@timbray I can’t fathom how Bluesky’s at:// protocol would figure out post/content migration other than with some redirection. Which, like for ActivityPub software operators would rely on Bluesky continuing to exist and being well-behaved.
@timbray I was expecting to find in your overview the fact that many interactions/responses are hinted at, but unavailable to people who are added to ongoing conversations.
I don’t know how to describe it. It’s related to the fact that some make their posts available only to thair followers. But when these add new people in response, said people only see a fraction of the thread. It amounts to much noise and frustration.
There isn’t any way I know of to avoid this. "Mute thread" hardly scales.
Why did the W3C, which is part of MIT, a supposedly respected academic institution, take my name off the RSS 2.0 spec? They should explain this, fix it, and probably apologize.
@andreas_kuckartz thanks for drawing my attention to this.
Hi @davew it looks like the license is respected and that the documents this particular document draws from do not credit individuals either. I'm happy to help fix any error but I'm not finding where the error(s) is/are.
@davew I'm happy to help fix this, I'm not trying to be difficult :) Having just tuned to this, my train of thoughts was that if the author(s) of our page chose to compile from pages from this group (with which we have no relationship otherwise) instead of original pages, there must have been a good reason. Anyway, I'll have a look ASAP.
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