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Reuters : Serbian Scientists Experiment With Mealworms to Degrade Plastics


Interesting Solution

#Science #Serbia #News #Reuters

#News #science #Reuters #Serbia

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Heribert and I are both a bit overwhelmed by the awesome reactions and comments we received to yesterdays little comic.

Didn't expect that to some random brain dump of me. Thanks to all! Heribert wanted to say thanks too!

#art #mastoart #comic #fountainpen

A small open sketchbook with fountain pen next to it. (It's a Kaweco Sport in turquoise) The comic on the page shows: Image 1: a little dragon that is hiding his face with his arms. Text: Heribert is a little overwhelmed by the feedback. Image 2: the little dragon waves his arms and smiles. Text: But he still wanted to say hi! Image 3: The liddle dragon smiles and holds up a drawing, childlike with a heart and stars that says thanks in big letters. Text: Heribert made a drawing - just for you! and another heart drawn. The comic is just line and ink, no color, but looks adorable and very simple.
#art #mastoart #Comic #fountainpen

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My brain woke me up with a little story of the dragon Heribert, who is very much in love with his art supplies and loves to draw. But sadly humans are a bit afraid...

Inked with fountain pen, because... why not?

Have a creative day and use your hoards little precious creative dragons!

#art #mastoart #comic #fountainpen

A little comic in a little sketchbook with a turquoise fountain pen on the right. The ink used is turquoise. First image shows a dragon who waves friendly at people, who run away in fear. Text says: This is Heribert the dragon, who tries to be friendly. Second image: Little dragon lies on grass drawing flowers on a piece of paper. Text says: He just loves to draw. Third image: A curled up dragon sleeps on his hoard of papers, artworks, pens and pencils. Text says: That's why his precious hoard are art supplies and paintings.
#art #mastoart #Comic #fountainpen

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Somehow missed this:

Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is experiencing one of the most rapid #solar revolutions on the planet, even as it grapples with poverty and economic instability.

Suddenly about half the country’s electricity comes from solar. It’s not industrial solar farms or state-led: it’s a bottom-up revolution: households fed up with rising power costs and blackouts buying what are now ridiculously cheap solar panels.
cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pak…

#solar
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dance tree

The Dance Linden

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.


"At the center of many German villages, it used to be common to find a old linden tree with a sturdy trunk and large, spreading branches. Often, these are called "Tanzlinden"—dance lindens—and they served as a gathering place and were frequently the site of celebrations."

@Christoph S Do you have one of these in Paderborn?

The Dance Linden

ugc (Atlas Obscura)
@Christoph S

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Doc bringing the glamor this #Caturday!

#CatsOfMastodon

A gray tabby with very plush fur lying on a carpet in dappled shade and sunlight. He is turned partly on his back so his white tuxedo tummy is visible, and partly on his side, so his face is not upside-down. The edge of a sun patch illuminates his big bronze eyes, making them look green; and lights up his pink nose and luxurious whiskers. His ears are alert and he looks lazily playful and relaxed.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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How did we land on #CatsOfMastodon and not #meowstodon
My cat-niece resting her head comfortably on my knees on the couch, just about to fall sleep
#CatsOfMastodon #meowstodon

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Catio Cats lounging on their chairs.

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Two cats laying on top of brown seat covers that are on the seats of two red plastic lawn chairs. There is one cat on each chair. On the right is a black and white tuxedo cat, on the left is a grey/brown tabby cat. The chairs are angled slightly inward, giving the cats and chairs somewhat of a mirror image. In the background is a sun dappled maple tree with large gree leaves.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
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Dual boot gone wrong? Master the solutions for a seamless Linux and Windows experience.

itsfoss.com/dual-boot-issues/

7 Common Issues While Dual Booting Linux and Windows

Tried dual booting Windows and Linux and facing some issues? Fret not, we got solutions to some of your issues here.
Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
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@jues 🤣
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FreieSoftwareOG
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If one must, I would recommend to get a second SSD and install Win in that. Clean separation this way.

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Judge tells regime it can't halt funds to Boston and Cambridge just because they won't help ICE drag away brown people


Judge Extends Injunction To Protect MA Cities vs Trump & ICE

#MA #Trump #Immigration #ICE #JudgeOrrick #HUD #FundsInjuction #News

#News #Immigration #Trump #ICE #MA #HUD #JudgeOrrick #FundsInjuction

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Oleander aphids on my milkweed 🙁 #bloomscrolling #insects
Bright orange aphids on a plant stem
Bright orange aphids on a stem and under a leaf
#insects #bloomscrolling

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Pearl crescent #SilentSunday
Orange and black butterfly closeup. Long antennae, fuzzy body.
#SilentSunday
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He is maxwellposing.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

A black cat (Jiji) sitting on the bed like a loaf of bread, with his tail wrapped around him, reminiscent of Maxwell the Cat.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
in reply to Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™

Eugen Rochko
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@GroupNebula563 Shouldn't it be this one? youtube.com/watch?v=kOG0_qjKWE…

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
@Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™

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#phoebethecat #catsofmastodon #caturday You ask Phoebe to deliver for #caturday and she never fails!
A calico cat lies on its back on a stone surface, playfully stretching with its paws in the air.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #phoebethecat

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Happy #Caturday everyone! Here's a photo of Clyde.

#CatsOfMastodon
#Photography
#FilmIsNotDead
#BelieveInFilm

Clyde on the deck. He's a Scottish Fold but has "normal" ears. Kodak Ultramax 400 Nikkor-S Auto 1:1.4 f=50 Nikon F2SB
#CatsOfMastodon #Photography #Caturday #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm

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Let's get started. 😉

#linux

Tell me your distro without telling me its name.
#linux
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Ponali
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Ponali
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i love kde but i get snap shoved down my throat when installing firefox with default config

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97% of teachers pay for their necessary classroom supplies out of their own pockets, spending an average of $895 per year. They can write off only $300 of that on their taxes, while billionaires can write off their entire cost of their unnecessary private jets and yachts.

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1. What my daughter posted on Instagram.

2. What Instagram put over her post.

A flowery message saying, "Immigrants make the country great" in white text on a pale green background, with flowers around the words.
Instagram slaps a warning over the entire screen, saying, "Sensitive content. This photo may contain graphic or violent content." There is a button saying "See why" and another saying "see photo."

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Ditch the cloud with these five local AI tools for image creation.

itsfoss.com/local-ai-image-too…


5 Open-source Local AI Tools for Image Generation I Found Interesting

I discovered these interesting open-source AI tools for image generation that run locally. Explore their features, capabilities, and how they empower creativity without relying on cloud services.
Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)

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Hi Mastodon, Greg here. I just joined the fediverse and I'm excited to learn how everything works.

I'm a scientist studying wildlife interactions with energy infrastructure. I run a blog highlighting current research on this topic. gregforcey.com

Looking forward to connecting with folks here.

#Introduction #Introductions #NewHere

Greg Forcey, PhD, CWB®, Wildlife Biologist

Researching effects of energy infrastructure on wildlife
Greg Forcey PhD, CWB®
#introductions #introduction #newhere

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AMD briefly open sourced its FSR 4 tech recently.

news.itsfoss.com/amd-fidelityf…

#opensource #amd


AMD’s Open Source Moment Reveals Their Future GPU Plans

AMD did an oopsie with FSR 4.
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
#opensource #AMD

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Text post: What if everyone got a month of paid leave each year to molt, to shed their rigid exoskeletons in order to grow? Not vacation. Not sick leave. Just recognition of a natural necessity. What if the exoskeleton wasn’t literal? What if the growth wasn’t always visible or aimed at obvious profit? What if nobody expected us to pretend to be machines detached from or inconvenienced by a world whose heart beats via seasons and cycles.

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📢 Atención:

Mañana a las 11 horas la Coalición Feminista Descolonial por la Justicia Digital y Ambiental presentará
«Tecnologías – Tramas – Territorios. Desenredando los impactos socioambientales de la tecnología en Latinoamérica».

Será presencial en la CDMX pero también virtual, más información:

sursiendo.org/2025/08/presenta…


Presentación de «Tecnologías - Tramas - Territorios. Desenredando los impactos socioambientales de la tecnología en Latinoamérica» | Sursiendo

El desarrollo tecnológico acelerado –liderado por las corporaciones y acompañado de narrativas tecnosolucionistas– no se responsabiliza de los impactos…
sursiendo (Sursiendo)

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GSConnect lets you quickly transfer files between Android and Linux, among other things.

itsfoss.com/gsconnect/

Seamlessly Connect Your Android Phone and Linux Using GSConnect

Let's improve the 'relation' between your Linux computer and the Android smartphone.
Sreenath (It's FOSS)
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el_haych2024
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el_haych2024
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I was reading how to install and went, "nope, too difficult"

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The Creature doesn't need no car 🚲​

#CargoBike #LosAngeles #California #Bicycle #Bike #EBike #Merchtodon #Photo #Photography #Plushtodon

Photo of the Creature Mastodon stuffed toy sitting on a large pile of luggage strapped to the rear rack of a cargo e-bike at a harbor loading dock during one bright afternoon. The Creature is in its purple tote on top of two full black military-style duffle bags, which rest on a pair of blue suitcases ratchet-strapped together and positioned sideways on either side of the bike's running boards. The front of the cargo bike is positioned 10 o'clock to the camera, with the red rear light shining toward 4 o'clock. All around the Creature in the surrounding parking lot are parked cars, and in the distance, palm trees and shipping containers are visible.
#photo #Photography #losangeles #california #ebike #bike #Bicycle #merchtodon #plushtodon #cargobike

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CARGO blends off-roading with a action-focus Mad Max like delivery sim gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/carg…

#CARGO #Gaming #PCGaming


CARGO blends off-roading with a action-focus Mad Max like delivery sim

CARGO is not your usual delivery sim. Blending together off-roading co-op madness in a post-apocalyptic world.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #pcgaming #cargo

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Wild Blue really does look like Star Fox and that has me excited gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/wild…

#WildBlue #StarFox #Gaming #PCGaming


Wild Blue really does look like Star Fox and that has me excited

I have fond memories of blasting through Star Fox 64 and Wild Blue might end up being the closest thing to it on PC.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #pcgaming #starfox #wildblue

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Those first two seem like villain hideouts. 🦹‍♂️

#linux #bigtech

#linux #BigTech
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@nazokiyoubinbou Agree 🤣
@Nazo

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Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) arrives September 19 for co-op PvE spaceship fun gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/jump…

#JumpSpace #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS


Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) arrives September 19 for co-op PvE spaceship fun

Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship) actually looks incredible if you're in the market for a new co-op game and it arrives September 19th.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #steamos #SteamDeck #pcgaming #jumpspace

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Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/lets…

#LetsBuildaDungeon #Proton #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames


Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists

I'm too stupid to make a game, but a game about managing a game studio building an MMORPG? Oh yeah, Let's Build a Dungeon sounds like my jam.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #gaming #proton #pcgaming #letsbuildadungeon

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Deep Dish Dungeon looks like a great co-op dungeon crawler gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/deep…

#DeepDishDungeon #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming


Deep Dish Dungeon looks like a great co-op dungeon crawler

Deep Dish Dungeon is a recent announcement from publisher Raw Fury, a dungeon crawler with an emphasis on exploration and player ingenuity.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#indiegames #gaming #pcgaming #deepdishdungeon

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is now Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/holl…

#HollowKnight #Silksong #SteamDeck #SteamOS


Hollow Knight: Silksong is now Steam Deck Verified

With Hollow Knight: Silksong now finally having a release date, Valve have managed to test it early and given it a Steam Deck Verified rating.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#steamos #SteamDeck #hollowknight #silksong

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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) now available for all developers with FidelityFX SDK 2.0 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/amd-…

#AMD #FSR4 #FSR #GameDev


AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) now available for all developers with FidelityFX SDK 2.0

AMD have finally released FidelityFX SDK 2.0, which includes support for FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), so now all developers can use it.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gamedev #AMD #fsr #fsr4

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Nexus Mods announce age verification for UK users gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nexu…

#Modding #NexusMods #OnlineSafetyAct #UK #Gaming


Nexus Mods announce age verification for UK users

The Nexus Mods team have announced they're adding an age verification requirement for certain mods, and it sounds like eventually for the EU too.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #UK #modding #nexusmods #onlinesafetyact

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ducks
hehehe! Valid measurement!

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Hey, @Samuel Smith! I found this in my files. Look at the painting the character is making. It's your nuclear tree!!!
@Samuel Smith

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#SCOTUS just let #Trump take an ax to scientific #research. Justice Jackson's blistering dissent: "By
today’s order, an evenly divided Court neuters judicial review of grant terminations by sending plaintiffs on a
likely futile, multivenue quest for complete relief... With potentially life-saving scientific advancements on the line, the Court turns a nearly century-old statute aimed at remedying unreasoned agency decision-making into a
gauntlet rather than a refuge."

supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…

#Research #Trump #scotus

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Photobombed 😁

#Flora #Spain #Nature #Photography #Botany #BloomScrolling #Andalucia #Flowers

A different passion flower this time. A crazy purple one, surrounded by green leaves from the vine. A bee on the left is flying into the picture but the camera has focused on the flower.
#nature #Photography #Spain #flowers #botany #flora #bloomscrolling #andalucia

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This is a fantastic intro to the open social web tech under the hood of the Bluesky app.

I know folks here are sometimes apprehensive about what the Bluesky PBC is building, but I think it's worth understanding why a whole bunch of nerds like me are excited about AT Protocol, even though we also cheer for, build on, and spread the word about ActivityPub.

@mackuba does a great job of simplifying complex ideas, and I highly recommend giving this a read.

martianbase.net/@mackuba/11506…

Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 (@mackuba@martianbase.net)

I've been working for some time on an "Introduction to #ATProto" blog post, and it's finally ready 🙂 It goes through basic things like records, lexicons, DIDs, then PDSes/AppView/relays etc. and how it all works together.
Martian Base
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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It's an intro to AT Proto. I don't see how calling it an intro to "the open social web tech" is helpful, since there is no such thing--there is ActivityPub, and there is AT Proto, and they are distinct protocols. An intro to one is not an intro to the other.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

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Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋
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@Gargron "intro to the open social web tech under the hood of the Bluesky app", i.e. intro to that open social web tech which is under the hood of the Bluesky app
@Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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I am usually a careful and attentive reader, but even I struggled parsing that sentence correctly. What purpose does the "open social web" serve there except marketing Bluesky as part of it?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Anuj Ahooja
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@Gargron I think we have two different definitions of "the open social web." I consider any open social protocol that enables cross-platform interop (and cross-protocol interop for that matter) as a part of that umbrella.

ATProto, therefore, is open social web tech in the same way that ActivityPub and Nostr are, based on that definition.

@mackuba

@Eugen Rochko @Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋
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Laurens Hof
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@Gargron
curious gargron, how do you define 'open social web'? is it activitypub, activitypub+atproto, activitypub+atproto+whatever else? i dont think theres a correct or wrong answer here, just that im seeing different people define the term differently, and wondering where you fall
@Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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@laurenshof When I was using the term a relatively short period a few years ago, it was a less technical term for "the fediverse" to me. However, as soon as people started using it as an umbrella term for multiple incompatible technologies I moved back to using "fediverse". "Open social web" perfectly describes the abstract goal of where we want these technologies to take us, but it is too broad to be useful when talking about the technologies themselves in my view.
@Laurens Hof
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Anuj Ahooja
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@Gargron I too have started separating "the Fediverse" from other protocol-based networks, like "the ATmosphere", but also say "open social web" as the combination of these spaces. I'm not sure anyone has *decided* if these terms have formal meanings, but I'm more than happy to use specific terms if we all ever align on them!

(I doubt we ever will, but I guess the chaos is kinda part of the fun?)

@laurenshof @mackuba

@Eugen Rochko @Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 @Laurens Hof
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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@laurenshof Well, Threads is part of the fediverse, whether people like it or not, it natively speaks ActivityPub. Should be in that left corner.
@Laurens Hof
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Luis Carlos
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@Gargron @laurenshof What even about diaspora and those other protocols? We need to understand what the Fediverse was, and revive what it truely was
@Eugen Rochko @Laurens Hof
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Boris
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Boris
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It does not natively speak ActivityPub. It can optionally bridge to the Fediverse. Its core codebase is not “an ActivityPub server” and does not internally use AP objects for everything.
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Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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@bmann.ca @laurenshof By that logic, Mastodon is not "an ActivityPub server", since it does not internally use AP objects for anything. By that logic nothing speaks ActivityPub "natively". Of course, in reality, it, like Mastodon, does speak ActivityPub natively. I can request a Threads actor and receive the JSON-LD directly from the Threads domain without any bridging services.
@Laurens Hof @bmann.ca
in reply to Ted Han ★ 韓聖安

Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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@knowtheory.net @bmann.ca @laurenshof I’m confused by your use of “then”. What in my statement relates to bridging services? If you need a bridge to communicate with something, then it doesn’t speak the protocol natively. If you don’t, then it does.
@Laurens Hof @Boris @knowtheory.net

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I am so, so excited to help launch my colleague Lori Emerson's extraordinary new book, Other Networks. We've got two events coming up—mark your calendars!

In Boulder (9/10): calendar.boulderlibrary.org/ev…

Online (10/8): lu.ma/4kfjgd6a

Other Networks: Beyond the Internet Imaginary

Lori Emerson will celebrate the publication of Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) with a 30 minute lecture performance involving handheld FM...
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