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erlend

@erlend@writing.exchange

Bullish on kindness.
Founder of Spicy Lobster studios and Commune.
https://blog.erlend.sh/assembling-community-os

Formerly VP of Community / Product Manager at Discourse.

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Just as the map is not the territory,
the metaphor is not the map.

erlend , to Random
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https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-7952-roadmap-for-actor-and-object-portability/4332?u=erlend_sh

I think this is the most important (WIP) Fediverse Enhancement Proposal of this year for the protocol:

FEP-7952: Roadmap for Actor and Object Portability — by @by_caballero and @dmitri

It ties a lot of elementary building blocks for neatly together, most succinctly summed up by one particularly magic feature:

Bring-your-own Actor ID! 🪪💫

Actor profiles can now be hosted separately from the instance (including as a static JSON object (…)

erlend OP ,
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(…) on a personal website), which in turn enables service providers to offer their users a “BYO (Bring Your Own) domain name” feature.

That’s really all I ever needed from the notion of a ‘single-user instance’. All I want to manage on my own is my identity, not a full AP server.

In this paradigm, someone’s tiny personal website could also be their Actor-ID Provider, and nothing more. That ID could in turn be used to as a (reasonably nomadic) account on any FEP-7952 compatible instance.

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From @by_caballero:

> the idea is to detach the Actor object (which could be operated by a microserver that consumes almost zero resources, and basically just operates a big redirect table like a link-shortener) from the Service Provider, to be a little more like
> email (in the use case where you point a domain that you own and configure at protonmail or mailgun or some other provider)
> or SMS service (in that regulation enables you to keep your number when you switch phone co’s).

erlend OP ,
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@by_caballero @smallsees @dmitri full disclosure: the Weird team is building such a turnkey service:

https://writing.exchange/@erlend/112560134076469201

erlend OP ,
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@Crell sounds right, yup. What your ‘own server’ is exists on a spectrum of course, depending on how much upkeep/security you wanna be responsible for yourself.

erlend OP ,
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@Crell not sure, you’d have to ask the authors of the FEP.

pfefferle , to Random
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it's often so complex to add to an already existing platform (for example ) and it gets even more complex if it is not built for social media 😱

For example

  1. Deleting Users from the Fediverse, that still exist on the blog.
  2. Delete the whole blog from the fediverse, but take temporary plugin deactivations/deletions into account.
  3. Caching by third party plugins.
  4. Shared hosting.
  5. Posts and Comments in different DB tables
  6. Publish only a subset of posts
erlend ,
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@pfefferle could be a lot easier if all the WordPress site had to carry was the Actor ID:

https://writing.exchange/@erlend/112684879834557152

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This seems exactly correct. I make computational art, and I write about the same technical topics that LLMs aren’t terrible at. But I genuinely don’t think I’m losing my audience to the latest gpt model. It’s not my skill as a coder or an artist that makes people care about my work, it’s the connection between the author and the audience that makes it work. I’m not stackoverflow, I’m a human being who shows herself in her work

erlend ,
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@djnavarro exactly. I don’t read first and foremost for the beauty and flow of prose. I wanna know the author’s view; their opinion on the matter at hand.

LLMs are empirically devoid of any opinion, therefore I am thoroughly uninterested in anything an LLM has to say.

benpate , to Random
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Ok kids, here we go:

, the open alternative to is ready for its first steps into the light.

I have a waitlist online at
https://bandwagon.fm if you'd like to try it out.

I'm planning to build the first (dozen? I don't know) profiles in the waitlist personally, with an email questionnaire and FaceTime follow-ups if necessary.

Once I'm confident in the UX, we'll open up self-serve signups for everyone.

erlend ,
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@benpate link doesn’t open for me atm.

erlend , to Random
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is the only way to truly be

I will not elaborate.

dajb , to Random
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New time:

👋 Hey, I've been here on the Fedi (via different instances) for the last 7 years.

Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of , & .

Was PM of , a decentralised digital commons built on from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.

Wrote doctoral thesis on . Was on Mozilla's team. Now pursuing MSc in

I like 🏔️🥃⚽

erlend ,
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@dajb excitedly following the project! We’re working on something that’s very aligned. Give us a few more weeks and I think it’ll become increasingly self-explanatory.

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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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Question for the Fediverse hive mind. Is there any evidence that the models hallucination rates are getting ANY better over time?

I'm wondering if a 5 to 15% hallucination rate may just be the nature of the beast with LLM's and an unsolvable problem.

erlend ,
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@tchambers there’s much more evidence to the contrary:

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/evidence-that-llms-are-reaching-a

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/facing-facts

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Announcing Aurora - James' Coffee Blog

https://jamesg.blog/pages/_layouts/post.html

erlend ,
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@jcrabapple link is broken; you probably meant to post this one: https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/18/aurora/

fox , to Random
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can’t even make this up — for all feminist and antiracist reading in my books app, they reckon i should maybe try jordan peterson

erlend ,
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@fox ‘have you tried giving up and subjugating yourself to the patriarchal hegemony?’ 🤣

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Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/
http://www.techmeme.com/240618/p8#a240618p8

erlend ,
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@Techmeme @tchambers @anildash @nilaypatel this seems like an opportune time to renew pressure on Threads to support a two-way integration with the fediverse (the parts of it that want to federate with Threads anyway) that isn’t attention-extractive.

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I always strive to be kind to everyone. This world is hard enough, and you never know what someone is going through.

But the truth is, this kindness never extends inward. It pains me to admit that I'm quite mean to myself—meaner than I've ever been to another person, ever.

I'm working on it, but it's a hard habit to break.

So I want to know: what's one simple thing you do to show yourself some kindness?

erlend ,
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@SJHoodlet daily walks, usually with a deeply compassionate and contemplative podcast in my ear like On Being with Krista Tippett 🥰

johnonolan , to Random
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I'm a lot more excited about ActivityPub than I am about AI atm. Both are cool, but very different energy.

What's most interesting to me about ActivityPub (at least right now) is less the specific technology, and more the people who it's bringing together.

ActivityPub, the idea, is a little campfire attracting a fascinating band of misfits to gather around it.

erlend ,
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@johnonolan Mainstream AI is as MEGACORP as it gets. The fediverse is the best kind of counter-cultural scene, where real friendships are made.

erlend ,
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@johnonolan please just bury me in a web-of-2005 time capsule 🥺

erlend , to Random
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oy, dear fedizens:

We're in the process of adding a basic tagging system to our app. This feels like one of those things we have some pretty established conventions for already in order to make tag-entries exceedingly user friendly on both desktop, mobile et.al., soo

got any good resources for 'Best Practice of Tagging UX'?

erlend , to Random
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https://blog.commune.sh/weird-happenings/

After two months of development, a LOT has happened in the Weird project.

Weird is a web application built to increase the agency of internet users. We are building three interconnected pillars as our foundation:

  • Independent social sign-in rooted in the OIDC standard as keymaster
  • A personal web space creator
  • An actually-social network of shared purpose

In two weeks we're starting our pilot with the Norwegian Buddhist Foundation!

erlend OP ,
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https://webdirections.org/blog/reweirding-the-web/

Funny how this lovely article by @johnallsopp is practically like I asked an actually competent GenAI ‘please write a “state of the web” article from the POV of the Weird project’.

Will definitely refer to this in our future writings! 🫶

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