Notices tagged with activitypub
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 14:39:02 EST 
Bob Jonkman
Darn. Really have to upgrade this instance to #ActivityPub -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 22:09:16 EST 
lnxw48a1
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub [www theverge com]
The Verge article extolling the #Fediverse. I personally think the writer has the wrong point. #Facebook isn't good. Its attraction is "everybody I know is on Facebook" and not any of its half-baked features. Therefore, multiprotocol / multi-network federated social is important to dethroning #corpocentric #socnets like XTwitter ( #x.com / #twitter ) and Meta's Facebook & #Instagram.
We need bridges to connect #Nostr, the #OStatus and #ActivityPub fediverses, #Diaspora, #Farcaster, #Bluesky's #ATProto, etc. Or we need instances that speak all of the above protocols / languages.
I feel this writer's exuberence will turn out to be fantasy, mostly because of misunderstanding what keeps people in the walled gardens and what it will take to free them. -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 12:37:47 EST 
Ji Fu
Anyone know a good way to find people who would be interested in being #paid to #develop a, likely #unpopular, #FreeSoftware app, that is beyond my own skill. I want something that will allow me to access an #ActivityPub feed via email. I can send an email to post new, send a different email to receive a reply that includes recent posts from my friends. Possibly wider scope after initial release. #paidGig #$$$ #softwareDev #dev #Engineering #fediverse #GNU #Linux #OpenSource #git #TootyMail
I want to pay you to develop a Free Software app https://kill-the-newsletter.com/alternates/5zswll8os1l51imm.html -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 14:44:38 EDT
Ji Fu
@Evan Prodromou I follow several people on identi.ca from my #Friendica account, some time ago the pump.io plugin quit working. Once you turn #ActivityPub on do you think I'll automatically get all their status updates again? -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 13:47:16 EDT
lnxw48a1
The Iris #Nostr client on #Android now has a "block and mute" function, so I've started using that against the #spambots.
Nostr has some great ideas that are way beyond what either #OStatus or #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse are doing, but the spam and the fact that there's a really big #Bitcoin "Maxi" faction there are chasing regular people away. -
Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 04:19:56 EDT 
Michael Vogel
Eben kam im Radio (Deutschlandfunk Nova) ein Beitrag zum #Fediverse. Es wurde die mögliche Problematik beschrieben, was passieren könnte, wenn Meta #ActivityPub unterstützt und weiterentwickelt. Der Beitrag war richtig gut recherchiert und ausgewogen. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 16:08:53 EDT
lnxw48a1
https://beach.city/@vantablack/110563155848847142
#Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them.
The participants appear to be deleting evidence.
I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers. -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 00:16:07 EDT
Ji Fu
This sounds awesome 😎 but I'm getting perement failure :-\ #gemini #fediverse #activityPub
gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/tootik.gmi
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Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 16:08:51 EDT
Ji Fu
What's even more amazing is the comment from @Evan Prodromou that they are Integrating #ActivityPub into #identica What's old is new again.
♲ @mlinksva@mastodon.social: According to identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQ… 15 years and 2 days ago @evan wrote "This is my first post."
I recall feeling excited at the time. Go Evan! Always.
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 13:37:25 EDT
lnxw48a1
@fu I think he's aware of the #Nostr - #ActivityPub bridge ... though #SPC blocks it for good reasons.
He's a contact of mine on Nostr. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:19:58 EDT
lnxw48a1
I did a #Mumble voice chat this evening with @a@pl.nulled.red. However, the connection here is exceptionally slow, so my client's connection kept timing out every few minutes. This happened on two different servers. Finally, we ended the voicechat.
Afterwards, I did a test connection to the #Federati #Murmur / Mumble server. It disconnected once over a ten minute test.
So if I do another #Office_Hours voicechat soon, understand that my connection may be interrupted.
Anyway, I got some great ideas. A has been trying to document #ActivityPub itself (S2S and C2S designs), various implementations (including the Mastodon API that is often used instead of AP_C2S), as well as other #federated communication protocols such as #Matrix and #XMPP. They suggested that "a better Matrix" might be able to be built atop AP.
I used to watch their game streams years ago, but the voice sounded different over Mumble. I'm told that getting a better microphone made the difference. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Feb-2023 21:12:32 EST
lnxw48a1
Mostr: a bridge between #Nostr and the ( #ActivityPub ) #Fediverse https://gleasonator.com/objects/e6e981ad-5e27-4fbe-bb35-c8a53fbdcab3
Blog post: https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/
Source: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 19:48:26 EST
Ji Fu
Meta: Fediverse
Yes #itWorksLikeEmail but still I really don't understand how #friendica works. For example on this thread libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1… the original post was sent to 103 remote servers, my friend digit@iviv.hu commented on it. My response to his comment was sent to 24 servers, but my response to my own comment was sent to 105 servers. I suspect him being on Diaspora* and most of my contacts being on platforms like #Mastodon than only support #ActivityPub has an influence here.
If I try to reference the same post from my Masto account, I thought it would look super weird, like I was talking to myself in a way that didn't make any sense, but I actually only see the OP https://hostux.social/@fu@libranet.de/109835482564374801 https://hostux.social/%C2%ABblock-4359556512123479765-0%C2%BB while when I search for my later comment I see it libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2… and the comment of my own I was replying to, but not the OP !Friendica Support -
Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 05:56:05 EST 
Tobias
Thank you to the developer community of #Friendica @Friendica Developers for keeping up their work on the project!, especially @Michael Vogel @Hypolite Petovan @Fabio and @Philipp Holzer
And thank you @mike for funding the project and all the work you put into it. Thank you @Evan Prodromou for identi.ca and your work with @Christine Lemmer-Webber and many others on #activitypub #ilovefs -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 21:20:57 EST
lnxw48a1
https://500ish.com/mastodon-brought-a-protocol-to-a-product-fight-ba9fda767c6a
#Medium link; don't be surprised if it does weird things before showing you the article.
"Mastodon brought a protocol to a product fight"
> Yes, yes, the network is under immense strain as people flee the Elon strain infecting Twitter. But come on, there are folks who really believe this is going to replace, or even stand alongside Twitter, as a massively scaled social network? I call bullshit. While it’s impressive that millions of users have apparently given Mastodon a try, the product is far too slapdash and clunky to keep folks engaged. A lump of coal.
No, it isn't meant to be a #Twitter replacement. Keep your Twitter account until you no longer want it--or the company closes and the site shuts down--you can use Mastodon alongside Twitter.
And the #Fediverse networks are much more than just #Mastodon. Don't think you have experienced the network and all it has to offer if all you've done is briefly tried to use Mastodon, because you haven't experienced it.
> I’ve somehow avoided signing up for the service up until now. Largely because signing up was and is so comically obtuse — pick your server everyone, hope you choose wisely!
Have you not used e-mail? It works the same way. You pick a server, such as Gmail or Outlook dot com, and sign up. Please tell me you realize that the people you communicate with are not all on the same e-mail service that you use.
> But, but, it’s not a product, it’s a protocol. Yeah, that’s a nice thing to say. And to believe in. But I truly believe the ship has sadly sailed for such idealism in this space. Jack Dorsey can talk about how this should have been what Twitter was from the get go until he’s bluesky in the face. It’s just not going to happen. And he’s more to blame for that than most everyone else. As is he for the Elon element of this current equation. But that’s a different story.
Okay, so how about this story: Twitter has only been profitable two or three years of its entire history. Since it started, it has existed by burning through investors' funds. Eventually, with or without Elon Musk's ownership, that runs out. Without such funding, their corporate-centralized ( #corpocentric ) model cannot exist very long. And same for their centralized competitors, such as Post.news, Gab, Parler, and so on. What is left is either #federated or #peer-to-peer approaches, where no single entity is responsible for funding and managing the entire network. So whether it is the #Fediverse ( with #ActivityPub and #OStatus and their successors ) & the Federation ( with #Diaspora ) or #Bluesky, or #Twister, or #NOSTR, the eventual future of #socnets is #decentralized, if not entirely peer-to-peer unless a national government takes over Facebook and Twitter in order to provide effectively unlimited resources. It is the protocol that makes it possible for thousands or millions of instances to displace and replace one big centralized instance.
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 12:12:46 EST
Bob Jonkman
@clacke Our #KWNPSA user group chatted with the #GetTogether developer a few months ago. He said demand for self-hosted G2G instances was minimal, and event interchange even more minimal. So #ActivityPub support on G2G has stalled, and he considers G2G more or less stable and mature. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2022 12:55:07 EST
lnxw48a1
Libervia / Salut a Toi project is working on a protocol bridge, so that !xmpp based #socnets and #ActivityPub + #HTTP based social networks can interact.
See https://goffi.org/_ap/item/goffi%40goffi.org/libervia-progress-note-2022-w45-MTdL -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 15:23:02 EST
lnxw48a1
#Pjuu ( #OtterSite ) starts planning a rewrite that adds #federation ( probably only #ActivityPub ). Looking to become an alternative to #Mastodon and #Pleroma, while still joining the #Fediverse.
https://pjuu.com/joe/5b0383de620211edba040242ac140002 [pjuu com] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 20:33:57 EST
lnxw48a1
https://nu.federati.net/url/288425 [ar al]
Aral Balkan explains why the current designs of #Mastodon and #ActivityPub promote centralization. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 00:26:23 EDT
lnxw48a1
I actually think that the overwhelming majority of blocking should be done by individuals curating their own timelines. I am sensitive to the effect on the Fediverse as a whole, especially as we've already been through this.
Even the original #bifurcation (when the largest instance at the time, Identica, severed communication with #StatusNet / #GNUsocial & #OStatus and switched to the #Pump.io protocol and software) and the subsequent #ActivityPub - #OStatus split have caused untold breakage. I've seen AP-side devs, admins, users patting themselves on the back while commiserating about brokenness that is built into the protocol itself or at least its common implementations.
I have also seen people telling other people to create "alts" on various instances, so that their posts can reach all of their intended contacts. Not for resilience against instance shutdowns or separating by posts and recipients by topics and interests (which is what groups and Diaspora style Aspects / GPlus style Circles are for), but because #blockwars prevents posts and members from one instance to be seen on certain others.
For the record, I think that instance governance is something that Mastodon should include in its instances.social instance-picker, along with instances' topical foci. People should have a way to see what they're agreeing to (and what the alternatives are) before the sign up.
In other words, it isn't my way or the highway so much as it is making it possible to know what one is getting into. I am certain that there are (or were) instances with democratically chosen rules. I also believe that we're not doing the people who use an instance any favor by not making it possible for them to contribute to the financing and administration of the instance. If you're paying all the costs and doing all the work to maintain and moderate the instance, it is difficult to let an election institute a policy that you disagree with. (I've started to really disagree with the idea of individuals hosting public instances wholly out of their own financial and time resources. Besides the "truck factor", it is much easier to keep an instance going if everything was already handled by a team and at least partly member supported.)
On the other hand, if the instance encourages those in its membership who can do so to participate in keeping it going, then it is perfectly reasonable to expect the admin team to carry out the decisions voted by the membership. I do realize that not everyone can contribute funds, nor can everyone do the technical labor ... but as @simsa04 will remember, things like writing documentation, contributing in discussions about improving the software, designing and implementing themes, and even marketing-type tasks such as creating a logo and a favicon or promoting the instance to people outside the #Fediverse are beneficial.
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