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Whoa! BBC has set up their own instance (http://social.bbc) in #fediverse / #mastodon ! 😲👏
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
It is such a no-brainer for media, academic & govt orgs to own their identity AND platform on social media. Nothing really beats "user@domain".
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.BBC R&D
Here's my offer:
I will provide free managed hosting to any Indian media org (or any other type of institution) who wants to set up their own fediverse instance, like BBC did.
Please spread the word! 🙏
#ActivityPub app developers take note..
A #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal has reached FINAL status:
FEP-f1d5: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software
" #NodeInfo is a #protocol intended to standardize upon a way to provide server-level metadata to the public. This enables tools and clients to utilize this metadata to assess server health or facilitate end-users choices about servers and software to use on the Fediverse."
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-f1d5.md
So exciting! Please consider mirroring these talks on #peertube as @penpot did with their latest #penpotfest @penpot_app
What better way to promote #decentralized platforms and #foss #floss alternatives, it seems like a perfect fit😀
Frage | Friendica: Federiert Friendica schneller zu Diaspora als zu ActivityPub?
Kann es sein das von Friendica aus die Federierung zu und von Diaspora wesentlich schneller als zu und von ActivityPub ist? Ich hatte jetzt schon mehrmals den Fall das ich auf Diaspora nach kürzester Zeit Reaktionen auf meine Beiträge bekam, während Reaktionen von anderen via ActivityPub verbundenen Servern erst ein gutes Stück später Reaktionen eintrödelten.
#Frage #Friendica #Federation #Diaspore #ActivityPub #2023-07-13 !Friendica Support
(Sowohl der Kommentar auf den Beitrag als auch die 'Gefällt mir', kommen alle von Diaspora Nutzern)
A good read. Key bit:
"Obviously, the social networking space is undergoing a major shakeup. Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service. With #Threads and #Mastodon both embracing #ActivityPub, it might not be one platform that wins out—but an open standard. "
Last thought on #EEE: We need to support our standards makers STAT. The best defense against "extend" is a clear line of what we are defending.
#ActivityPub has needed a robust "test suite" to test compliance for a while & good efforts were unfinished. They need to be picked up at warp speed. To see an example of his working for other tech see: https://webmention.rocks/
The creator of the Wordpress ActivtyPub plugin said that he *wished* he had this.
More on why in my last post next.
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Hi @evan @cwebber @pfefferle
Timely question: Does anyone know the status of a formal or informal building out an #ActivtyPub test suite, akin to the one used to test http://webmention.rocks but for Acitivity pub.
I know the activitypub.rocks effort ended & I see this one that seemed to evolve from that but has been derelict for a while.
Is there any other effort active?
#activitypub #activitypubdev #socialwg
https://github.com/go-fed/testsuite
and: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/unofficial-test-suite-go-fed-testsuite/805
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023Mar/0215.html
GitHub - go-fed/testsuite: Unofficial ActivityPub test suite server, which runs machine-assisted test cases against federated software.
Unofficial ActivityPub test suite server, which runs machine-assisted test cases against federated software. - GitHub - go-fed/testsuite: Unofficial ActivityPub test suite server, which runs machin...GitHub
A group of over 40 European organisations have recently released a statement calling for the EU to set up a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund.
They call for this fund to support Digital Public Spaces, that are, among other things, based in FOSS, and ensure privacy by design. The statement gives three examples: #Mastodon, #PeerTube and #ActivityPub, stating that they would benefit from such a fund to further flourish.
Entire statement: https://shared-digital.eu/statement/
Civil Society Statement on Democratic Digital Infrastructure
Civil society statement in support of the creation of a European Public Digital Infrastructure fund, in alignment with the 2022 European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade.Civil Society Statement on Democratic Digital Infrastructure
RE: ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress: let's assume I would work on a feature that would allow you to follow a complete blog, what would be the best identifier for that account? `@feed@example.org`? `@blog@example.com`?
What are your ideas?
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/1
#activitypub #wordpress #plugin
Catchall-Account · Issue #1 · Automattic/wordpress-activitypub
Hej, I write my comment here because I am not sure if your OStatus-suite has a future with ActivityPub at the horizon. It would be cool if it was possible to follow the whole blog and not just acco...GitHub
#Barcelona, #Meta's Twitter competitor, will be ready by summer.
And lest you believe #ActivityPub integration was just some rumour, think again. In a slide, Meta confirms that Barcelona will indeed be decentralized and will be compatible with Mastodon.
Everyone who thought that AT protocol would easily win over ActivityPub, and that #Bluesky would kill Mastodon just because a few influencers joined doesn't understand the sheer marketing power and pull that Meta has at its disposal.
But believe me, I'm not exactly cheering on Meta here. Generally, where Meta goes, shenanigans happen. I simply don't think Meta is capable of releasing a product without dark patterns.
Nevertheless, I don't think the Fediverse is even close to preparing for what will happen once Barcelona starts federating.
We should all be taking Barcelona very seriously.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak
@socialmedianews@venera.social
This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor
A leaked marketing slide from Lia Haberman gives us our first look at Instagram’s upcoming “text-based” app that’s supposed to take on Twitter.Jay Peters (The Verge)
With pandemic-related things calming down a bit, and especially with the surge in fediverse use over the last 6 months, it seems like a good time to regroup. Would anyone be interested in attending an online fediverse conference, or helping to organise one?
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/anyone-keen-on-a-fediverse-conference-in-2023-24/3167
#fediverse #ActivityPub #conference
Anyone keen on a fediverse conference in 2023/24
I got a lot out of the ActivityConf online event in 2020, even though the pandemic had already started to affect my capacity to participate in fediverse stuff.SocialHub
For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the #ActivityPub conference we had in late 2020:
https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos
Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.
#videos #PeerTube #ConferenceTalks
ActivityPub Conference
A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub, the world’s leading federated social web standard. This two day event will include presentations of prepared talks on Saturday followed by a loosely structured unconference on Sunday.ConfTube
WordPress.org is counting 3.000 installations of the #ActivityPub Plugin so far 🎉
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
ActivityPub
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.WordPress.org
That's exactly the approach the e.g. TCP/IP standards bodies chose and it quietly worked, the telcos and IBM were unseated.
Eugen, please stop #hellthreading yourself, please?!
It's a total pain trying to hunt down your #serialized publishings all over the place in chronological order and in #context when you do that.
Just put your thought into #one_single_post like everyone else or wait until you're sure you've finished what you have to say before clicking on the #publish button, okay? Pretty please?
#tallship #Fediverse #ActivityPub #comprehension #netiquette
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Really Eugen?
Your interview with Time Magazine notwithstanding?
That was IMO, a grave error on your part - conflating mastodon with #Fediverse and without one single utterance of the word "Fediverse" throughout.
It served to cause much of this confusion on the part of n00bs and as a result, now jeopardizes your trademark.
Fact: There's no such thing as a mastodon network. Only the #ActivityPub powered Fediverse
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# that itself came out of the outreaching #activitypub to the #EU, which a group of people organized.
What would a fediverse "governance" body look like?
This reply is related to an off-topic comment in What would an ideal fediverse organization do? A formal organization can have a variety of structures and you can assign roles and power in a variety of ways.SocialHub
The Future of ActivityPub Standardization and Related Subjects
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 10-11am pacific daylight savings time.
https://fediforum.org/fediforum-w3c-swicg-2023-03-29/
#w3c #activitypub #mastoadmin
It mentions that it supports #Pleroma, #Friendica, #Hubzilla, @pixelfed, #SocialHome and #Misskey as well as @Mastodon which is great to have explicitly mentioned in a news article about the #fediverse
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-acquires-an-activitypub-plugin-so-blogs-can-join-the-fediverse/
#FediNews
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse | TechCrunch
ActivityPub is not the only protocol Automattic is testing.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Yep.
The thing you announced this through: #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse 😀
The Fediverse is probably the most critical infrastructure to save democracy.
ActivityPub is the world’s leading federated social web standard.
A large community had given their last shirts to make it happen. It feels like a locomotive which is pulled by sewing thread.
Co-organised some Confs
https://redaktor.me/#home
The next Community meeting is Mar 29 virtually.
PS: Please all, see also https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/public-broadcasters-create-public-spaces-incubator/
Public broadcasters create "Public Spaces Incubator" - Public Media Alliance
Four public broadcasters are partnering to develop solutions to address increasingly toxic, polarized and unsafe online discourse.Harry Lock (Public Media Alliance)
If you come from an RDF world there is a mapping #wikidata to #rdf https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Relation_between_properties_in_RDF_and_in_Wikidata
@bengo
Just a clarification question re.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023Mar/
What does “signed claims” mean exactly?
We are on the way to federate #wiki and use
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#connections
(its own section) and think that
things like https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-c390.md could help
Currently it is signed traditional by instance which syncs with wikidata, OSM etc.
Thanks to Elon Musk, the number of downloads from my #ActivityPub (#WordPress) plugin and my followers on Mastodon have increased at least tenfold!” Pfefferle said in a post on his blog in January 2023. “This inspired me to work more actively on the plugin again and some great changes came about.”
https://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-activitypub-plugin-for-wordpress
Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress
Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress from German developer Matthias Pfefferle, who will be joining the company to continue improving support for federated platforms. Pfeffer…WP Tavern
We do live in instresting times, agen for #openweb tech and its social power.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/twitter-bluesky-discord-community/1997/37
Twitter Bluesky Discord community
Looking like the flow of history is going to be a step to the #openweb with the recent #dotcons take up of #activitypub this will push Twitters #bluesky to a “me to” project, unless they bridge to AP which they will very likely will refuse to do, lik…SocialHub
Wait. People are saying Meta's decentralized app will be powered by #ActivityPub, and will interoperate with Mastodon.
On top of it, it will be Instagram-branded.
Surprising. But again, I'll believe it when I see it.
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html
@fediversenews
Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon
P92 team wants to use data of all Instagram users regardless of their participation in the new platform being planned by Meta, according to sourcesMoneycontrol
This, to me, is absolutely key. Many of the things that made Twitter, Twitter, came from the developer ecosystem - having a vibrant ecosystem around #ActivityPub, #MastodonAPI and #Pixelfed and others can be instrumental for future growth and diversification of the communities.
Meta: Fediverse
Yes #itWorksLikeEmail but still I really don't understand how #friendica works. For example on this thread https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1163-e510-d442-32c014292555 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 while when I search for my later comment I see it https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2063-f7e8-a037-f64709822385 and the comment of my own I was replying to, but not the OP !Friendica Support
Ji Fu
I wish more #local #governments worked this way. If enough folks in town want it, it will happen, if they don't, than its done. No need to #steal from your #...libranet.de
We’re supporting @Mastodon through #FastForward because @Gargron, @renchap, and the entire #Mastodon team are doing important work and we want to help them scale it with integrity.
Well and it’s pretty neat to have a front-row seat (walk-on part?) to the revolution 😎 #TheFutureIsFederated
https://dev.to/fastly/welcome-mastodon-to-fast-forward-11g4 #ActivityPub #fediverse #OpenSource
Welcome Mastodon to Fast Forward!
We’re thrilled to announce that Mastodon is now a member of Fast Forward. We believe things are...Hannah Aubry (DEV Community 👩💻👨💻)
Wildebeest does not let you transfer your followers to/from it, ergo it should not be used, lest you find yourself locked-in to Cloudflare's ecosystem forever. Whether or not you like #Cloudflare is irrelevant, you should not tie your fediverse identity to any company permanently.
It's very frustrating for me to see even large ActivityPub implementations that have been around forever not implement follower migrations. Even #Pixelfed doesn't (although I hear that may be coming this year). Anyways... I asked them if they might implement it, but I don't exactly have my hopes up. https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest/issues/238
Support for account migrations · Issue #238 · cloudflare/wildebeest
Mastodon supports redirecting profiles and moving your followers between different Mastodon accounts with its account migrations feature. Is this something Wildebeest might support in the future? I...GitHub
this is huge https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/public-broadcasters-create-public-spaces-incubator/
#eu #ca #activitypub #fediverse
Public broadcasters create "Public Spaces Incubator" - Public Media Alliance
Four public broadcasters are partnering to develop solutions to address increasingly toxic, polarized and unsafe online discourse.Harry Lock (Public Media Alliance)
RE: https://mstdn.io/users/taoeffect/statuses/100636247630527679
Greg Slepak 🐢 (@taoeffect@mstdn.io)
Mastodon.social is the gulag of #ActivityPub. Join you an instance that doesn't censor.Mastodon
Do you have an interesting ActivityPub-related project? The next deadline to submit proposals is December 1st - that is next week. And the best thing is: you can submit today!
How NGI supports open, interoperable, decentralised and trust-based Internet applications through Fediverse projects like Mastodon | Next Generation Internet
Within the Next Generation Internet Initiative, we have been working towards alternative futures for the internet to create a resilient, trustworthy and sustainableinternet.mariahelena (NGI - Next Generation Internet)
https://youtu.be/vnciCz83t70
#fediverse #mastodon #talk #presentation #aNewHope2022
A New HOPE (2022): ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi
Friday, July 22, 2022: 1:00 pm (DAC 416ABC): ActivityPub celebrated its fourth anniversary as a W3C standard this January. The spec defines protocols which a...YouTube
“I have not been this excited about federated social networks since we published ActivityPub. The shift has started. … We’re doing this. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.” @evan
Blog post here: https://evanp.me/2022/11/11/its-happening/?utm_source=thenewstack&utm_medium=website&utm_content=inline-mention&utm_campaign=platform
It’s happening
I have not been this excited about federated social networks since we published ActivityPub. The shift has started. Get a Mastodon account as soon as you can. Set up servers for your companies, you…Evan Prodromou's Blog
It's good to see that you're actually posting content here in the #Fediverse and direct links to project sites instead of links to the deprecated, privacy disrespecting, legacy monolithic silos like #Twatter and #InstaSPAM.
Welcome to the Fediverse! 🤘😎🤘
#tallship #FOSS #Privacy #ActivityPub #Mitra #Soapbox #Quanta #Misskey #Friendica #PeerTube #Pixelfed #FunkWhale #Lemmy #rPi
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She's even got a video up there from...well, I won't post the exact year. ;p
https://musicbyyo.com/for-once-in-my-life/