These two actors are hosted on different servers, but they are actually the same actor:
@nomad@mitra.social
@nomad@public.mitra.social
My server merges them and displays as a single account in UI. I guess that means portable actors are working. The next step is implementing outbox forwarding, and with that I'll be able to demonstrate merging of objects and activities.
After watching enough @notjustbikes, I’ve become sufficiently orangepilled, to be standing at a random bus stop in exurban Germany, and be pleasantly surprised by the lane narrowing and curvature introduced by this pedestrian island
Four years ago, Koo began as a social media platform for Indians, by Indians, directly serving language-specific communities and local personalities; now, its challenges in engagement, monetization, and partnership have brought it to near closure.
“80% of the world speaks a native language, other than English, and they too deserve a language first platform to express themselves and connect better.”
We're living through one of those moments when millions of people become suddenly and overwhelmingly interested in fair use, one of the subtlest and worst-understood aspects of copyright law. It's not a subject you can master by skimming a Wikipedia article!
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Honestly the things outlined here and addressed in the FEP is going to introduce a bluesky-like data portability to the fediverse;
You can dictate the domain and URL that your identity (a small document saying important critical elements) is hosted at, and migrate that.
You can dictate where your DATA lives, on your own storage provider, or at an instance, and migrate that easily as well.
If this is true, it'd fix many of the problems that migration currently has on fedi, and allows a true continuous identity and post history to exist. It'd require a refactor of many many many different fedi softwares, but imo it is worth it, since it transforms fedi into something else.
Tonight I set aside some time to listen to @johnonolan on @mike's DotSocial podcast.
A lot a lota lot of what John says mirrors the very same potential that many ActivityPub devs see as well. There are far too many points in that podcast that made me nod my head in agreement (and wish I was a third guest too!), but there was one that was incredibly timely:
Mike: ... you've been thinking about actually embedding the whole article in the ActivityPub post, which is a mind-blowing thing... it's not a link to something else... the whole article is in the post. John: Yes, this is something that makes perfect sense but is somehow completely new, which is weird... Mike: You can have formatted text... images? video? John: ActivityPub is fairly agnostic, you could in theory shove almost anything into it. The question is what is the client on the other side prepared to receive? Do they have some way to display it? John: If we get platforms in the ActivityPub network to start innovating with content types, it might cause those things to be adopted and it might drive the standard and what it is possible to display
Emphasis mine.
John, Mike, this is almost word-for-word exactly what the Forum and Threaded Discussions working group has been working towards! The main problem is we need buy-in from implementers to push this forward.
We can do this, we can send richer HTML across the protocol in such a way that all those things you two mentioned — in-line images, embedded videos, tables, etc. — can all show up as intended by the sender.
We've got commitment from (but not limited to) representatives from NodeBB, Discourse, and WordPress, and having Ghost and Flipboard sign on would help push this forward just that much more.
Let's do this, let me get you caught up with the state of the protocol re: the Article object type. Let's chat (but publicly, since I can't receive DMs here on NodeBB).
The hashtags tab has received a makeover and now includes the ability to create Hashtag Lists! Curate multiple hashtags into a single timeline that you can access the same way you can access regular Lists. Currently available to try on Mac and iOS over on TestFlight.
The last beta featured our new share sheet extension and we know it’s been a long wait for the App Store release, but we are almost there! Trying to finish up a few more tasks so we can get this big update out ASAP.
I get frustrated when folks get angry at others for being "not normal". I think "normal" people often assume that "not normal" people are attacking them or trying to invalidate them by being counter to their culture. The reality is the "not normal" person is just trying to exist with what is normal to them. I wish folks allowed more space for others to live their own reality.