ActivityPub
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- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … is (was?) an organization dedicated to independent federated trust and safety on the ActivityPub/Mastodon network. That’s one of the options we have for a decentralized social …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … But then I was checking out ActivityPub apps and there’s this one called Bookwyrm, which... let’s you track your books, and does it all over ActivityPub …
- The Great Social Network Heist … What, I thought you said ActivityPub was good? Hahahaha. ActivityPub is good because in principle an open protocol is better than a closed protocol. Actually “ActivityPub” is a …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … With so many companies now wanting to speedrun content moderation, plus the rise in usage of protocols like ActivityPub, and then on top of that Meta’s roadmap …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … Mastodon, the federated social network built upon the ActivityPub protocol (the Mastodon API provides access to an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol), provides for interoperability in the sense …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … It's not like Mastodon or activitypub interoperate with each other, where you can reach both audiences easily. The need for profit and control lends to walled gardens …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … presence that handles schedule posting and managing replies, that software also provides Mastodon/ActivityPub compatibility That's it. The thing is, the question "should governments be on Mastodon …
- The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That Works For You Right Now … 1.2 Some brief notes Another way of thinking about Activitypub is like RSS crossed with Track/Pingbacks or rather "RSS items/articles but you can do things …
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace … I am still, unsurprisingly, thinking about Mastodon, the application built on top of activitypub that is front-runner for "interesting social network" and a weak signal of the …
- Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation … If Tumblr's dashboard inserts ads after it becomes an ActivityPub reader too, then... it will be selling ads against ActivityPub posts -- which includes Mastodon posts. Here's …
- Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency … Jan Lenhardt wrote a very humble (in my opinion too humble) write-up of his searchtodon search experiment for ActivityPub/Mastodon networks. Caught my attention because: this is …
- Substack; The Health Technology Surveillance Complex … so hot right now" tinted glasses on, Substack also could spin up an ActivityPub/Mastodon interface to show that it's not too tied to Twitter, but really …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … Eugen appears to want Mastodon to be the dominant social network application running on the ActivityPub protocol: otherwise he would be more encouraging of compatible forks. Eugen's …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … As an aside, I weirdly think it's more likely for Microsoft to accidentally adopt the ActivityPub protocol and roll it into Teams/Outlook and so on than …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … One strong opinion that the ActivityPub protocol (and thus Mastodon) has is the lack of quote tweeting, that practice where you take what someone has just said and …
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More … The first news organization to stand up a Mastodon / activitypub server at, for example, follow.washingtonpost.com gets a medal. [2] Here's how it works in practice …