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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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jef, to random

"Folks totally don't understand much about this ridiculously serious AI tech that is literally blowing up our world with its insane ability to think like a person. This shit is incredible—believe it!"

Example of the [ output from a typical human.]

smallcircles,
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@jef there are many of those, yes. I also see a lot of:

"Oh noos 😱 the tech world is once more stumbling over each other in a crazed hype to move fast and break things, because there's just so much big $$$$ potential. They are blowing up our world with their insane ability to think like hypercapitalists and conveniently forget about externalities!"

amberage, to fediverse
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Ok so I was told that when you delete a post, a "tombstone" is left in place that points to the post before that so that a thread doesn't get broken. But when I try this (just posted three posts, deleted one, looked them up via the API), the deleted post (api/v1/statuses/:id as well as :id/context) only returns "Record not found", and the next post points to the no-longer-existing record, listing no descendants nor ancestors in /context.

Am I doing something wrong, or have I been told bullshit about ActivityPub and the Mastodon API?

smallcircles,
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@amberage @mariusor

The observations re:tombstones are valuable. If the W3C spec leaves so much open for different impls, creating an might be considered to document the recommend best-practice approach.

Overall the more Enhancement Proposals there are, and interaction with the process, the greater the likelihood that devs build interoperable code. And less reference to "Mastodon does this, you can look in their codebase" is needed :)

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

smallcircles, to random
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The World Press Freedom Index by Reporters withouth Borders.

is in a very bad state worldwide.

https://rsf.org/en/index

smallcircles,
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@futureisfoss thank you!

smallcircles, to random
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"$50 Billion to his name? Wow, how does he do it?"

(Khalil Bendib for OtherWords, CC-BY)

smallcircles, to random
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"50$ Billion to his name? Wow, how does he do it?"

(Khalil Bendib for OtherWords, CC-BY)

dansup, to random
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I dedicate the new v0.11.6 @pixelfed release to my cousin who passed earlier today.

This doesn't feel real, I'll never forget the good old days all the crazy shit we used to get into.

May we meet again ❤️

smallcircles,
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@dansup

Terrible and sad news Daniel. I am very sorry for your loss. My condolences to you and your family.

atomicpoet, to fediverse
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Evan Prodromou (@evan), the co-author of , does not like Bluesky.

He believes it's a setback to the Fediverse and slowing its growth.

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110300493306700391

@fediversenews

smallcircles,
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@aswath @reiver @gvlx @atomicpoet @evan @fediversenews

cc @dachary
cc @helge

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Yay, another new submitted 🎉

FEP-fffd: Proxy Objects

"A proxy object is an [ActivityPub] object that is semantically identical to an entity on another, non-ActivityPub protocol. For example, an ActivityPub-to-Nostr bridge creates Actors and Notes that are proxies for Nostr users and notes."

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-fffd.md

DrPen, to fediverse
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Im beginning to create the slides for my HCII2023 paper. Its partly about the and as solutions for citizen participation and contribution to civic knowledge repositories, Its the first paper Im writing about this stuff, but it wont be the last :)
Im gonna use a few AI Art creations. It may spark other related discussion.

smallcircles,
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@DrPen oww, very interesting!

smallcircles, to fediverse
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In reaction to the "Godfather of AI" resigning from Google to warn about the dangers ahead, some thoughts of how "personal social networking" on the , supporting genuine and intimate human connection between people online, will become increasingly valuable as generated will start flooding the web.

The that has matured over years of slow growth and which we continue to foster together is very important. Here we have a .

https://discuss.coding.social/t/personal-social-networking-resistance-to-the-ai-onslaught-adds-value/338/3

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @atomicpoet @fediversenews

    I think you are looking for this one?

    https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @ernest @fediversenews @atomicpoet

    Indeed. I agree. Great project going 🚀

    Natureshadow, to fediverse

    I am creating some ontologies that I will use for both my https://codeberg.org/Denkar.io/denkario knowledge graph and for my https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata server.

    (In general, I will define ontologies for general purposes, but I will make them compatible with AP as well.)

    Where should I root these namespaces?

    • Under one of my own domains?
    • Under some umbrella others in the are using?
    • Under my own domain, with a PURL redirect?

    https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/where-to-root-my-own-vocabularies/3163

    smallcircles,
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    @Natureshadow

    OT to the question, but regarding the project I'd like to point to a idea I wrote down that may be inspiring.. I called it , social knowledge fabrics, which are combining and technology to allow universal / community / personal 'knowledge gardening'.

    https://discuss.coding.social/t/semmy-social-knowledge-fabrics/76

    smallcircles, to random
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    A retail formula aimed at deceiving customers by means of product placement and marketing in order to sell ever more inferior products with maximum profit.

    tunda, to random German
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    Collective Code Construction Contract ()

    Das finde ich gar nicht schlecht.
    Habt ihr Irgendwelche Kommentare dazu? Egal ob positiv oder negativ, ich wäre an eurer Kritik interessiert.

    Es geht darum bei Softwareentwicklung soziale Beziehungen der Entwickler:innen mehr in den Vordergrund zu rücken. Also Freie Software als Ausdruck einer Sozialen Praxis, so meine Lesart.

    https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/

    smallcircles,
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    @RyunoKi @tunda

    Es ist toll, mein Deutsch manchmal ein bisschen zu üben :D

    atomicpoet, to random
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    Bluesky vs. Mastodon is not as black and white as many seem to think.

    Let me explain why. 🧵

    1. A Twitter founder funds and advises Bluesky.

    Okay, a Twitter founder (@ev) runs a for-profit instance, and another (@biz) has offered to advise Mastodon.

    1. Bluesky accepted VC money.

    A VC firm owns 3 of the top 5 largest Mastodon servers

    1. An evil corporation (Twitter) helped develop Bluesky.

    An evil corporation (Google) helped develop the Fediverse

    I have further thoughts here...

    smallcircles,
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    @paul @atomicpoet

    We have the Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process, the where ever more protocol-level mechanisms and extensions are defined. The process is open to anyone, and proposals are then discussed in the developer community.

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

    How AP extensions are best defined isn't yet well-documented. It should become a FEP. Btw, on best-practices I recently posted..

    https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/best-practices-for-ap-vocabulary-extensions/3162/5

    smallcircles,
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    @paul @atomicpoet

    Yes, loosely it does. The process is simple-as-possible for now. The first FEP defines it, and various improvements to it are discussed on the community forum.

    smallcircles, to fediverse
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    @EDPS @EC_OSPO I was reminded on of the @EU_Commission pilot and was curious about further plans with and now that there's such an uptick in all kinds of organizations establishing their presence on the 'verse.

    smallcircles, to random
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    Fascinating

    https://scrapscript.org

    " solves the software sharability problem"

    "Modern software breaks at boundaries. APIs diverge, packages crumble, configs ossify, serialization corrupts, git tangles, dependencies break, documentation dies, [..]"

    "To make software safe and sharable, scrapscript combines existing wisdom in new ways:

    • all expressions are content-addressible “scraps”

    • all programs are data

    • all programs are “platformed”

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712163

    smallcircles, to fediverse
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    View the survey results from the W3C SWICG about topics to address for future versions of the -related open standards / and related technology.

    https://fediforum.org/other/w3c-swicg-april-2023-survey-results.html

    csgordon, to fediverse

    My $10 take on this vs dustup is: Maybe algorithms are a net good?

    I've always scrolled chronologically—maniac that I am—so this isn't the issue I'm getting at. Looking at the unintended consequences of how design influences practice: I think I waste more time on Mastodon than I did on because I'm seeing the same couple dozen popular (unarguably relevant) posts reboosted x10000.

    And this seems to be a consequence of "People are the algorithm" design.

    smallcircles,
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    @the_roamer @csgordon @codesmith @BrianJohnson

    Yesterday on Hacker News a "My Product is My Garden" blog was discussed, mentioning different development cultures.

    https://herman.bearblog.dev/my-product-is-my-garden

    Given how many FOSS projects start the big focus on tech is understandable. Startup world is focused on product growth hacking, and that shows in dev approach too.

    Briefly in research the term 'Social experience design' was coined. I'm interested to rediscover SX in context of fedi.

    https://fedi.foundation/2022/09/social-networking-reimagined

    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.

    smallcircles,
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    @strypey

    Ping @fedidevs @activitypub

    See the call above by Danyl.. anyone in for attending / co-organizing an online ?

    tchambers, to random

    I'm just saying: the launch of
    @wikipedia
    @wikidata
    @wikiresearch
    nableDev
    @wikisusdev
    and @mediawiki ...

    All that does feel like some big new steps.

    So does moving to integrate Mastodon identify verification into software itself.

    "The end goal is that I can put e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm as a URL item and Mastodon will be able to verify it."

    I'm going to be watching this VERY closely and supporting it however I can .👀

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs thank you! The site itself was created by @yarmo and the contents reflect the aggregate work of sublist maintainers and people contributing entries to these lists. Whichever of these topics interests you enough to maintain a sublist for.. the top-level project can include it as well.

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs Yay, contributions most welcome 🤗

    There's a guide explaining some rules on the top-level repo at https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful/src/branch/main/delight-us.md

    But if you want to start a sublist, easiest is to copy from an existing sub-list.

    (Guide needs some updating, e.g. only a delightful-contributors.md is required next to README.md and license file)

    @yarmo

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