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mikedev ,
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Please boost if your immediate circle contains fediverse developers outside of Mastodon.

I'm trying to determine the scope of support for the Mastodon's platform "Move Account" activity across the fediverse. We intend to use this in the relatively near future to convert all of the streams repository's ActivityPub facing accounts to nomadic digital identities - without losing all of our ActivityPub friends in the process.

I'm certain we'll find a number of fediverse projects that don't support this activity and will require manual re-friending. If you have knowledge of any platforms which don't - please reply with the platform name so that this procedure is well documented and we don't have a lot of surprises and missing friends. Thanks.

notjustbikes , (edited )
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com avatar

Nebula gift cards are now available ... and you can pay for them with iDEAL!

I have had so many people tell me over the years that they would sign up to Nebula, but only if they could do it via iDEAL. Now that it's available, I am expecting half of the Netherlands to sign up by the end of the weekend.

iDEAL and Giropay are NOT yet available for normal subscriptions, but you can "gift" yourself a subscription if you'd like!

More info is here:
https://gift.nebula.tv/notjustbikes

bas_spr ,

@notjustbikes great, I don't know what iDeal is and giropay is being phased out by the end of the year

BoukevanderSpoel ,

@notjustbikes
Okay, I overreacted. Mistake, not malevolence. Sorry for that. I still have to wonder: how is it possible that a mistake in the referral url changes the product? I guess it says something about me that I am unwilling to give companies the benefit of the doubt, but I've seen too many dark patterns to do so.

ernie ,
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

A half-finished fediverse integration is worse than no integration at all.

https://tedium.co/2024/06/21/meta-threads-fediverse-unfinished-business/

JamesGleick , (edited )
@JamesGleick@zirk.us avatar

Trump and Republicans Have Launched an Unprecedented Campaign of Deception to Poison the Presidential Race with Fake Videos and Lies about Biden

is what the NY Times means to say. Instead, they somehow manage to twist this into another story about Biden being old and vulnerable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/politics/biden-age-videos.html?smid=url-share

lunaticatlarge ,
@lunaticatlarge@stranger.social avatar

@JamesGleick I guess I'm glad that the NYT is usually behind a paywall. That way I don't have to look at the nonsense.

havvyhh2 ,
@havvyhh2@mas.to avatar

@JamesGleick I like Biden's new attack focus on trumpo...."he's even worse than before". Brilliant, and true!!

dangillmor ,
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

I'll wait for the experts to weigh in on this, but it's hard to keep trusting Mozilla when it buys an advertising company that claims -- contrary to essentially all available history of the genre -- to protect user privacy.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying that I have reason to doubt this promise.

I would hate to abandon Firefox, and would hope that Ublock Origin and other plugins will keep working.

But this is, at best, a worrisome development.

rzeta0 ,
@rzeta0@mastodon.social avatar

@dangillmor

What do the experts recommend as alternative Firefox forks?

alcinnz ,
@alcinnz@floss.social avatar

@rzeta0 @dangillmor As an amateur browserengine dev I recommend webdevs avoid relying on JavaScript so its easier to develop alternative engines. Seemingly a tough sell...

Keep an eye on Dillo, Netsurf, LadyBird, & Servo. Or I'm developing my own. Or there's several commandline options!

But still keep Safari or Firefox (even if you don't like Mozilla's actions) on hand in case a site needs it!

weekinfediverse ,
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social avatar
julian ,
@julian@community.nodebb.org avatar

I'm happy to announce that I have tagged the latest commit in the activitypub branch as v4.0.0-alpha. That designation means (mostly symbolically) that we have moved past the "proof-of-concept" stage of ActivityPub research and development, and into the alpha phase.

This release has been a long time in coming. Work on the ActivityPub integration back in late 2023, although work accelerated around February of this year. The initial idea was to create a proof-of-concept build of NodeBB that could communicate with other fediverse apps, and federate local content outwards for other applications to consume.

As it turns out, it is difficult to temper your expectations when using a protocol with implementations that expect richer compatibility than one can provide! It seemed like a disservice to only offer a minimal subset of expected features, and so we started a deeper integration into ActivityPub with the aims of providing full user-to-user following, notifications, and two-way communication.

In the interim, FediForum happened, causing us to once again re-evaluate our short-to-medium term plans. Devs from NodeBB and Discourse, along with many other interested parties, formed the SWICG Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force, which aims to promote the use and broader acceptance of threaded discussions as a modality of communication, as opposed to the expected "microblogging" format.

What this release contains

The alpha build contains a fully-capable ActivityPub server instance, including:

  • Two-way follow relationships between local and remote users
  • Two-way communication with fediverse content
  • A dedicated page (/world) to view remote content that is not organized into local categories
  • Categories followable from the fediverse (via FEP 1b12)
  • Integration with local flagging tools (reports sent to originating server)
  • Server-wide domain blocks (allow/deny list capability)

What this release does not contain

  • Support for emoji (images are federated out, which are sometimes stripped)
  • Support for non-public notes, as NodeBB does not currently have the facility to maintain or display them. Research on this problem is ongoing.

Roadmap

Now that the alpha has been tagged and released, I will be making our working roadmap public → you can take a look at it here

I will be starting a new backlog/roadmap for beta items, and existing backlogged items will be carried over.

Final Thoughts

We wouldn't have even thought to implement ActivityPub if it were not for the funding granted to us by the NLNet foundation. They allowed us the runway to pursue the necessary R&D work, and we're pleased that everything has been pointing positively so far!

This entire time, it has been particularly satisfying to continually see the integration working on this instance (the NodeBB support forum). Expanding the reach of NodeBB beyond the confines of the "local" mindset and into the "global fediverse" mindset has been daunting, but is well worth the price of admission.

I'm happy to also say that now that we've proceeded to the alpha stage, it signifies a commitment toward a beta phase, then an RC, and then towards the release of NodeBB v4. ActivityPub has legs, and we're invested in making it work!

mbajur ,
@mbajur@mastodon.social avatar

Any ideas for a fun tiny website i could implement to demonstrate the rails activitypub library I’m working on? :)

JamesGleick ,
@JamesGleick@zirk.us avatar

This smells like a real story. The headline says “mystery fundraising firm,” but there’s no evidence of a fundraising firm. There is a Delaware LLC, apparently a ghost or a shell—no address except a post-office box—that has received $3.1 million in Trump campaign cash.

Where did the money go then? Into thin air?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/mystery-fundraising-firm-takes-millions-trump-campaign-rcna156755

PattyHanson ,
@PattyHanson@mastodon.social avatar

@JamesGleick Trump has more than $600 million reasons to hide money: $450 +/- million to the State of NY & another $90 million owed to E. Jean Carroll. These totals don't include the interest that's accruing every day on those 2 obligations OR the money he owes multiple lenders waiting in the wings for the court monitor to dole out pmts on outstanding debt.

The registered agent for is a big company that acts in this capacity.

is money Plain & Simple

julz ,
@julz@sfba.social avatar

@JamesGleick follow the money...

indivisibleteam ,
@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social avatar

30% of voters still don’t know who to blame for the end of Roe v. Wade. We’ve got to change that: https://indivisible.org/resource/majority-over-maga-weekend-action-june-21-24

video/mp4

tultican ,
@tultican@awscommunity.social avatar

Louisiana Just Put The Ten Commandments In Every Classroom. Here’s The Other Danger With That Law - So whose religion is foremost for La. politicos? Whose 10 commandments. I prefer the fourteen slanders. @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2024/06/20/louisiana-just-put-the-ten-commandments-in-every-classroom-heres-the-other-danger-with-that-law/

darwinwoodka ,
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heidilifeldman ,
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social avatar

According to the Court nothing in created an unbounded right to keep handguns in the home and nothing in disturbs the government's authority to regulate firearms possession by those who have been found to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of others. 7/

heidilifeldman OP ,
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social avatar

Now at the part of the opinion that explains where the Court thinks the lower court, the Fifth Circuit, and the dissent by both err. Both insist on a historical twin to justify a law disarming those who pose a credible threat of domestic violence, when what is required is an analogue. Furthermore, the Fifth Circuit went out of its way to make up a conflict between the domestic violence law and the Constitution.

This criticism of the Fifth Circuit is key. 8/

heidilifeldman OP ,
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social avatar

Great passage from : "Under [] approach, the legislatures of today would be limited not by a distant generation’s determination that such a law was unconstitutional, but by a distant generation’s failure to consider that such a law might be necessary. ... 13/

Strandjunker ,
@Strandjunker@mstdn.social avatar

In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

GeriAQuin ,
@GeriAQuin@mstdn.social avatar
erlend ,
@erlend@writing.exchange avatar

If there are any folks around who wouldn’t mind a minor challenge:

https://github.com/commune-os/weird/issues/69

Lots more context about the Weird project can be provided in conversation with us, but see ththe repo description for the gist of it.

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