No point in moving your identity if your content server shuts down unexpectedly. I'm actually working on nomadic content over ActivityPub right this moment. Centralising it destroys everything I've done with nomadic identity over the last dozen years. We have clonable identities (identity and content) right now with live synchronisation. If your server cert expires or goes offline right this second, go to your clone and nothing has changed. You have all your content, friends, and settings. Everything. I'm not giving this up and neither should you. Content-addressable mechanisms don't work because the url changes if you edit the object. Every project has completely different URL paths and object-type mappings.
I'm currently convinced the only way to solve this is with a mapping table, so that /item/something on my system can be found at /object/something on your system (or whatever). We also have 30-40 different object types that most other projects haven't even considered. This is the only way to make them portable. Just store the object in the mapping table instead of the local path mapping for that object. Done. The portable url could just be $apgateway/$did/$resource-id. If my software supports that kind of object I'll redirect to where we store that kind of object. If it doesn't, I'll just return the portable object.
@smallsees@erlend@dmitri (also the spec indirectly explains how to build a microservice that could run for $1/mo on a little heroku-style platform you could point myname.com at-- we can hopefully provide a prototype soon and, if people demand it, add more explicit detail about how to build one's own or adapt the idea to other form factors?)
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.
Bluesky has reply-gating (you can set who can reply to a post, like people you follow or a given list or no one) and is now testing out post-publication reply locking.
I just want to yell for a second about how humane and consent-forward these features are, especially after seeing some people here losing their minds when someone asked for gating recently because they felt (alas, not a paraphrase) entitled to always be able to respond.
I've tried to take on the question of what it would take to make the internet public interest technology. This took me on a trip through transnational infrastructure, standards, governance, industrial policy, and a whole cast of creative thinkers and next-generation projects.
Hi Fediverse, we are NLnet. We support people and organizations who contribute to a free and open internet. We offer small and medium grants to projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data.
We're the lead of @NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet. (Made possible with financial support from the European Commission).
We've been stealthily present in the Fediverse behind the NGIZero handle but have now finally set up our NLnet instance. With special thanks to @nlnetlabs for their patience :).
Another way we've been involved is we've funded many fantastic ActivityPub related projects. See the image for a visual overview.
Happy to be here and looking forward to meet you in this pleasant space.
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Could our technology serve us better if we start centering the most impacted and at-risk members of society in the tech design process?
In this 2022 report, the “Design from the Margins” framework offers an alternative that reduces harms caused by blindspots and makes technology better, safer, and more resilient for everyone.
Today, the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader eleven short years ago on July 1, 2013.
To honor their memory (and in leiu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.
Did you ever wonder why there are 90 degrees in a right angle instead of 100, and 24 hours a day instead of 10?
Perhaps you can blame Napoleon.
In 1795, as part of the French Revolution, the French passed a law requiring that clocks have 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 seconds per minute. They also brought in a system of angles with 400 degrees in a full turn, or 100 degrees in a right angle. Now the earth would rotate 40 degrees in an hour - and thanks to how the meter was defined, each degree of latitude would be 100 kilometers long.
Of course, changing to the new system would require a lot of work. The economist Condorcet proposed that teams of unemployed wig makers be used to calculate mathematical tables with the new units. Why wig makers? Because after the revolution, aristocrats no longer needed them! (You don't need a wig if you don't have a head.)
The mathematical physicist Laplace was enthusiastic and had his watch converted to the new time. His great five-volume work Traité de Mécanique Céleste, was written using the new units of time and angle! But in general the metric system for time and angle did not catch on at all. And in 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte decreed that the French calendar should revert to the old style.
The "Pay or Consent" advertising model of Meta fails to comply with the Digital Markets Act.
Our preliminary findings show that this choice forces users to consent to the combination of their personal data and fails to provide them a less personalised but equivalent version of Meta’s social networks.
The Internet is successful and valuable to society because it is decentralised. I've signed an open letter to the United Nations that explains how some proposals for the Global Digital Compact endanger it. #OpenInternet
@mnot much appreciated, though as a casual observer of this development I would greatly appreciate some concrete examples of the proposals which have been deemed to be maligned with the open web.