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Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace","title":"Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace","publish_date":"2023-02-08T21:22:48.637242+00:00","year":2023,"month":2,"season":14,"episode":14,"episode_label":"s14e14","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e14-someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2153,"context":" … I am still, unsurprisingly, thinking about Mastodon, the application built on top of <mark>activitypub</mark> that is front-runner for \"interesting social network\" and a weak signal of the … ","reading_minutes":11},{"id":"9175a986-997e-469d-97a9-e4b56d82adf2","slug":"s14e09-building-and-documentation-making-new","subject":"s14e09: Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation","title":"Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation","publish_date":"2023-01-25T19:24:14.139676+00:00","year":2023,"month":1,"season":14,"episode":9,"episode_label":"s14e09","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e09-building-and-documentation-making-new/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2586,"context":" … If Tumblr's dashboard inserts ads after it becomes an <mark>ActivityPub</mark> reader too, then... it will be selling ads against <mark>ActivityPub</mark> posts -- which includes Mastodon posts.\n\nHere's … ","reading_minutes":13},{"id":"e6f3567c-989d-4b50-bbea-b89bff7d51cf","slug":"s14e08-some-combination-of-efficiency-and","subject":"s14e08 - Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency","title":"Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency","publish_date":"2023-01-17T17:00:34.382101+00:00","year":2023,"month":1,"season":14,"episode":8,"episode_label":"s14e08","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e08-some-combination-of-efficiency-and/","is_premium":0,"word_count":393,"context":" … Jan Lenhardt wrote a very humble (in my opinion too humble) write-up of his\nsearchtodon\nsearch experiment for <mark>ActivityPub</mark>/Mastodon networks.\nCaught my attention because:\nthis is … ","reading_minutes":2},{"id":"c421dba8-4786-472d-b083-ac1778ec6fda","slug":"s14e04-substack-the-health-technology","subject":"s14e04: Substack; The Health Technology Surveillance Complex","title":"Substack; The Health Technology Surveillance Complex","publish_date":"2023-01-05T18:34:52.304860+00:00","year":2023,"month":1,"season":14,"episode":4,"episode_label":"s14e04","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s14e04-substack-the-health-technology/","is_premium":0,"word_count":686,"context":" … so hot right now\" tinted glasses on, Substack also could spin up an <mark>ActivityPub</mark>/Mastodon interface to show that it's not\ntoo\ntied to Twitter, but really … ","reading_minutes":3},{"id":"386ffe25-df66-49e3-97a2-47b1bd94b778","slug":"s13e23-colliders-speedrunning-benevolent","subject":"s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch","title":"Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch","publish_date":"2022-11-22T19:49:34.747989+00:00","year":2022,"month":11,"season":13,"episode":23,"episode_label":"s13e23","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e23-colliders-speedrunning-benevolent/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3002,"context":" … Eugen\nappears\nto want Mastodon to be the dominant social network application running on the <mark>ActivityPub</mark> protocol: otherwise he would be more encouraging of compatible forks.\n\nEugen's … ","reading_minutes":15},{"id":"542bc823-2c4a-4de2-b8bb-424faf040bfb","slug":"s13e19-just-because-we-can-doesnt-necessarily-8337","subject":"s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition","title":"Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition","publish_date":"2022-11-08T19:28:26.271373+00:00","year":2022,"month":11,"season":13,"episode":19,"episode_label":"s13e19","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e19-just-because-we-can-doesnt-necessarily-8337/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3403,"context":" … As an aside, I weirdly think it's\nmore\nlikely for Microsoft to accidentally adopt the <mark>ActivityPub</mark> protocol and roll it into Teams/Outlook and so on than … ","reading_minutes":17},{"id":"68566582-63e2-48fd-a3ea-57ae01c865f4","slug":"s13e18-mastodon-or-what-happens-when-your-7233","subject":"s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices","title":"Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices","publish_date":"2022-11-01T20:59:04.364353+00:00","year":2022,"month":11,"season":13,"episode":18,"episode_label":"s13e18","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e18-mastodon-or-what-happens-when-your-7233/","is_premium":0,"word_count":4393,"context":" … One strong opinion that the <mark>ActivityPub</mark> protocol (and thus Mastodon) has is the lack of quote tweeting, that practice where you take what someone has just said and … ","reading_minutes":22},{"id":"b7921797-525a-4ceb-aae7-024b32b157bd","slug":"s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon","subject":"s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More","title":"A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More","publish_date":"2022-10-28T20:31:41.340398+00:00","year":2022,"month":10,"season":13,"episode":17,"episode_label":"s13e17","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1545,"context":" … The first news organization to stand up a Mastodon / <mark>activitypub</mark> server at, for example, follow.washingtonpost.com gets a medal.\n[2]\n\nHere's how it works in practice … ","reading_minutes":8}]}