Inside: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
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Have you had a look at #Nostr too? It can be bridged with #ActivityPub and it appears to be totally resistant to #enshittification by design.
A little bitcoin-bro heavy in these early days, but it can outgrow that I think.
The choice is simple when you consider one is funded by a crypto VC firm, and the other is truly decentralized
Particularly intriguing: his chapter on “Far Horizons”: ideas on what else could be built with ActivityPub that goes beyond today’s typical social media functionality. Need an idea for a new project or startup? There are several interesting ones in there.
* Running two Mastodon instances against each other
* Running Mastodon against WordPress + plugins
and even running three Mastodon instances against each other, for tests such as "if A posts, B reshares, and C gets it, and then A deletes the post, will it disappear on C" Happy to report that in case of Mastodon, it does!
Check them out: https://feditest.org/contrib/results/
you are asking what features the new ActivityPub plugin version has?
thanks for asking! ☺️
* Support for post visibility - you can choose between "public", "only followers" and "no federation".
* Attribution-Domains - that should fix the fediverse:creator issues, if you had issues
* Improved compatibility with caching plugins
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/4.0.0
I've been refreshing the website of my project #TheRealists and I'm taking full advantage of the #ActivityPub#Wordpress plugin to share articles straight to the #Fediverse.
This one is from earlier this year, but it feels timely, with everything that's going on in the social media space. Most popular platforms feel like Pinocchio's Pleasure Island IMHO.
"From the attention economy to the addiction economy": https://therealists.org/2024/10/the-addiction-economy/
feat @JustinH
Follow the blog: @elena
However, @verge published a timeline of when @threads would integrate with the #Fediverse & integration with #Mastodon was late 2024.
👉🏾 A peek at the Threads / #ActivityPub roadmap. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24035256/a-peek-at-the-threads-activitypub-roadmap
Also @j12t can confirm this roadmap too: https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/
Notes from @tomcoates too: http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/
"POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/270596/inbox HTTP/1.1" 404
Any ideas? #wordpress #activitypub #mastodon
I'm leveraging my expertise* in Autospam, along with my 3 year old dataset to build the best fediverse Akismet alternative.
Are you interested? Boosts appreciated!
This week's news:
- @Mastodon has launched their latest version, 4.3
- ClubsAll is a new Reddit-like build on #activitypub
- IFTAS is slowly launching their Content Classification System that allows servers that have opted in to scan for CSAM
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-87/
Minutes from 3 October 2024 WG Meeting
Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.
Of note:
as:Article) into statuses, and that this serves as a working proof-of-concept towards getting this merged upstream into Mastodon proper.context is not a properly currently seeing any usage.Quoted posts
After the last WG meeting @thisismissem@hachyderm.io @trwnh@mastodon.social and I chatted a bit about how NodeBB handles quoted posts, but also in relation to quote posts. I thought that it was an interesting chat that merited further discussion; also because some of it was over my head.
When asked how NodeBB handles blockquotes specifically, I replied that blockquotes themselves are rather simple. We set a copy of the text wrapped in <blockquote>.
The rationale is simple: forums typically represent content in a linear fashion, and quoted posts are a handy way to reinforce subcontext within a topic. A typical topic/thread could have many separate discussions all happening together (aka thread drift), so quotes help others know what you're responding to. We don't have special handling or references to our blockquotes because there is a history in forums of edited blockquotes.
Perhaps you want to have a block quote and add some emphasis?
It's also better netiquette (god, that term is old) to trim down the quote to only the relevant parts.
Another upside is that a copy-paste of a post preserves that post to history. That can be useful if the quoted user tries to edit their post later, etc.
vis-a-vis the concept of "quote posts", which I take to mean an embedded post within a post, allowing for replies, likes, etc. How that is represented via ActivityPub is probably detailed in some FEP, but NodeBB doesn't implement that yet. It's a more complicated mechanism that requires a lot more thinking through, and to be honest, we haven't had the need for that in the 10+ years we've been building NodeBB.
Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!
october pixelfed
seventh social
the new social pub, with friends.
This is a feature I was looking for myself and due to the amazing work of @pfefferle on the #ActivityPub plugin things like this are now possible to realize pretty straight forward. The hardest part for me is getting UI right.
This was a little side project, and I was challenging myself how fast I could get a prototype to work. But #Gutenberg and #React is something you do not get used to in an hour. I'll try to release the source soon.
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