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mitra , 1 hour ago to Random

#Mitra v2.24.0

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/releases/tag/v2.24.0
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web/releases/tag/v2.24.0

• Web UI localization (partial). The language can be changed in Settings, under the "Experiments" section (currently only English and Dutch are available). You can contribute translations via translate.codeberg.org
• Various improvements to FEP-ae97 C2S API
• Portable actors located on other servers can be imported and merged with local ones.

forgejo , 1 hour ago to Random

The #Forgejo monthly update was published ✨ It is a high level overview of the project activities.

The User Research effort that gained momentum two months ago continues with a new round of user testing sessions. It is key to build a roadmap.

Building blocks for both ActivityPub federation and data portability improvements were merged into the codebase. They are not yet used for any user visible feature but they are a stepping stone.

https://forgejo.org/2024-06-monthly-update/

dansup , 3 hours ago to Random

Pixelfed Starter Kits will federate and be compatible with Mastodon and other platforms*

You will be able to create and manage them via our app!

I am also writing a FEP for this 😎

• • via a 3rd party intermediate app for non-Pixelfed servers

Pixelfed Invites Settings

0xabad1dea , 17 hours ago to Random

Every time my posts go viral by mastodon standards, I get mean-spirited replies from strangers who then inform me that I cannot criticize them because they're autistic. I'M ALSO AUTISTIC. WE'RE ALL AUTISTIC. THIS IS THE AUTISM SOCIAL NETWORK. IF YOUR REPLIES ARE REGULARLY UPSETTING THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SENDING THEM TO, THE PROBLEM IS NOT AUTISM

sarajw , 19 hours ago to Random

Ethical Web Principles

https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

textfiles , 1 day ago to Random

The Internet Archive is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. In my opinion, this is the most crucial and important position we have had open at the company in some time. The right person in this position is not just helpful, but a make or break key between success and merely acceptable levels of technological advance for the archive. It's a non-profit level of pay but the work is world changing.

https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/91807-director-of-platform-engineering

jimniels , 1 day ago to Random

Better to blog for yourself and have no traffic, than to blog for the traffic and have no self.

strypey , 1 day ago to Random

A list of tech co-ops around the world;

https://tech-coops.xyz/

Some of them are presumably platform co-ops;

https://directory.platform.coop/

So hopefully the people curating these lists are aware of each other's work.

#cooperatives #TechCoops #PlatformCooperatives

ernie , 1 day ago to Random

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

wearenew_public , 2 days ago to Random

RESEARCH: Backchannel moderation tools like “Chillbot” that prioritize communication over punishment could be effective in nudging members of online groups towards positive norm engagement and creating a more equitable and transparent content moderation process.

https://joseph.seering.org/papers/Seering_etal_2024_Chillbot.pdf

baldur , 2 days ago to Random Icelandic

“How do we build the future with AI? – Chelsea Troy”

https://chelseatroy.com/2024/06/23/how-do-we-build-the-future-with-ai/

> Here’s why: It’s not “building for yourself doesn’t shift paradigms.”
>
> It’s “building for yourself on a saturated platform doesn’t shift paradigms if you are already the main character.”
>
> Technical product teams are overwhelmingly led by people who are already main characters in tech. So those main characters building for themselves produces incrementalist, weak willed, un-visionary work.

silverpill , 2 days ago to Random

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.

#fep_ef61

js , 2 days ago to Random

Here's an informed appeal for a easy one-click #fediverse subscription button from Dave Winer @davew (who's seen this before with RSS)

Latest episode from his new podcast. Short enough to embed here in its entirety.

Go subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: 👉 https://episodes.fm/1753971770

boris , 2 days ago to Random

I presented [[Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead]] yesterday. I did a quick survey tour of some interesting licenses I like sharing, and in other ways promoted a kind of back to basics: open source is working together.
#opensource https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/open-source-beyond-licensing-the-evolution-ahead/

wearenew_public , 2 days ago to Random

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.”

https://restofworld.org/2024/twitter-alternative-koo/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-restofworld&utm_content=later-43589526&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

pluralistic , 2 days ago to Random

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!

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/#ask-questions-never

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laurenshof , 2 days ago to Random

the problem is the server model that is tied your identity, not purity-tests about the size of m.s.

fedi is stuck as long as we keep talking about the size of m.s. being a problem

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112689564391564028

pirijan , 3 days ago to Random

[new blog post] Open Sourcing Kinopio

https://pketh.org/open-sourcing-kinopio.html

parismarx , 3 days ago to Random

Technology is often used to justify climate inaction, but what would it look like under degrowth?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @jasonhickel about how degrowth isn’t anti-technology and would allow us to approach tech development in new ways.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

#tech #degrowth #climate #climatechange

julian , 3 days ago to Random

Tonight I set aside some time to listen to @johnonolan on @mike's DotSocial podcast.

A lot a lot a 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).

ivory , 3 days ago to Random

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.

Screenshot of iOS showing the home timeline with the “Swift” Hashtag List selected as well as how to access it from the Title menu.

erlend , 3 days ago to Random

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 #ActivityPub protocol:

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

It ties a lot of elementary building blocks for #nomadicidentity 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 (…)

mauve , 3 days ago to Random

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.