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EDENspiritDeCom & Social Dapps<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> <a href="https://zora.co/coin/base:0x60037fa9724b840d8915280842a28c907ca2d09d?referrer=0x04ad7d23a656deff2279d30248acdbec72bfa546" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zora.co/coin/base:0x60037fa9724b840d8915280842a28c907ca2d09d?referrer=0x04ad7d23a656deff2279d30248acdbec72bfa546</a>

tallshipThat's right folks! Stripey Sums it up below.<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> is often misconstrued as that network in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> space powered by <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> exclusively - NOPE!In fact, even mastobruhs would be wise to note that Eugen's original creation was an <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/ostatus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OStatus</a> networked product until quite recently in Fediverse evolution years.Still, there's a lot of otherwise respected tech personalities that continue to insist and spread disinformation to the contrary. Shame on them - someone, everyone, needs to edjumacate those individuals spreading FUD and confusion to the next generation of n00bs arriving in this free and thriving world of privacy respecting, horizontally scaling, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> based social communication systems.Apparently, what I've quoted below was part of a larger, longer conversation, yet I'm confident that just what <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/stripey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stripey</a> points out below in correcting someone else's erroneous assumptions more than correctly describes Fediverse and puts an end to any misunderstanding for all sentient <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fedizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedizens</a> 🤘🤠🤘<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@strypey</a>⛵.RE: <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/113015290565128857" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/users/strypey/statuses/113015290565128857</a>

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://fediverse.one/profile/fediverseobserver" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fediverseobserver</a><a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/snac2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snac2</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/peertube" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeerTube</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/misskey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misskey</a>, #Akkoma; it's especially refreshing to see a <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/snac" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snac</a> instance in the list.And only a single mastopub box in the list, lolz.People are starting to learn that there's no such thing as a mastodon network, and further that there's waaaay mo better <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> platforms to meet whatever their needs and desires are in <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> - many of those Fediverse severs in fact bridging the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/protocol_divide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protocol_divide</a> by supporting not just <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> in the Fediverse, but also <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/ostatus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OStatus</a> (yes, still), <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/at_protocol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AT_Protocol</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/nomad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nomad</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/zot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zot</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/nostr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nostr</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/diaspora" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diaspora</a>, and other emerging Fediverse protocols under current development!w00t 🤘🤠🤘<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> 🔏⛵.RE: <a href="https://fediverse.one/objects/fdc30534-1166-c797-1d9c-12e934354315" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fediverse.one/objects/fdc30534-1166-c797-1d9c-12e934354315</a>

tallshipFirst, <a href="https://soapbox.pub/blog/follow-bluesky/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mostr</a>, the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> bridge between <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activityfed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityFed</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/nostr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nostr</a>.Next, <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bridgy Fed</a>, the Fedivese bridge between ActivityPub and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a>.<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/w00t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#w00t</a> :)So Ryan, thank you for this most valuable tool to bring people around the globe together in <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> - creating (and curating, as you have) ***Bridgy_Fed is one of the very best things that the Fediverse has to offer people on both sides of the protocol divide, and I really don't think that there are enough Thank you's to go around for all of the selfless effort you've put into this service.So as meek and perhaps insignificant as it may sound, THANK YOU!<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/bridge" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bridge</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/interprotocol%5Fcommunication" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interprotocol_communication</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/thank%5Fyou" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thank_You</a>⛵.RE: <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-05-20_53092" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-05-20_53092</a><a class="u-url mention" href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@snarfed.org</a>

tallship<blockquote>I wouldn't rule out such measures against instances whose users behave in too non-Mastodon ways</blockquote> Then perhaps we should endeavor to behave in non-masto ways, when authoring/posting from non-masto Fediverse worlds? Meaning: * Making use of the Edit capability, posting, grabbing the URL of the post and the editing the post to prepend a header saying something to the effect of: "Posted from my <Friendica | Hubzilla |streams> account at <URL>. If your platform has mangled any of the inline images or other media so badly that it's hard to make sense of the article, then feel free to visit the original published article or create your own account at #^<a class="" href="https://dir.friendica.social/servers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dir.friendica.social/servers</a> * Ensure that posts you author are guaranteed to be mangled to some visibly noticeable degree of discomfort by masto platforms - the sample quoted block above can offer the encouragement for others to create accounts in the wider Fediverse on platforms that place the curation and care of content above that of cloning Twitter blips and bleeps of half baked communicative constructs. * Do so without apologies for their platforms butchering something that they hopefully found worthwhile to read or informative. * Ignore any backlash trolling/complaints by people who are annoyed by their ugly timelines/streams, offering nothing but silence as a response (don't feed the trolls) * Make sure that any of such posts are actually articles worthy of being published and shared amongst #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=Fedizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fedizens</a> globally, not authored simply to annoy (that should be a byproduct of good journalism, Tutorials, HowTo's, Discussions, Etc.). It's not like there isn't some intrinsic worth to masto, but it should play nicely with the dozens of other platforms that currently comprise the #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fediverse</a>, as well as those currently emerging onto the scene. * Make it welcoming, not adversarial, but make it disparaging of the lesser-abled masto platforms. Interestingly, there's actually a few masto forks doesn't butcher most of the so-called rich content that flows through it's streams. Just spitballing :) #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tallship</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=FOSS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FOSS</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=DeSoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DeSoc</a> ⛵ .

tallshipI'm often inspired to share my thoughts, expound upon something I've read that sparks that inspiration, or pose a bit of socratric reasoning in discourse. Sometimes we actually edjumacate ourselves by asking the tough questions rhetorically. Sometimes it's even more effective if we share those quests with others. It can be a phrase, a paragraph, or a sentence that ignites that quest for understanding within me, and whether I'm simply working it through it myself for my own sake or a genuine desire to share some kind of enlightenment or wisdom with others, I usually feel better doing it in the public eye at the end of the day when all is said and done.There's a bit of a stir in the Fediverse. Darnell offers us some valuable considerations and specifics in the link to his blog post below.For me, I think the most interesting part when you read between the lines is, ...> This latest move could be a way for Meta to use Threads to thwart any potential ActivityPub powered rivals in the Fediverse (like Pixelfed, Friendica & WordPress).Note that nowhere is masto even listed there - it's insignificant. The <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> powered rivals in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> cited are what have been considered for many years the direct corollaries to <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/instaspam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstaSPAM</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/faceplant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Faceplant</a>, respectively, which of course are the exceedingly capable platforms <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/pixelfed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pixelfed</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/friendica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friendica</a>.In all of that, considering that <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> is the big game changer here of most recent repute, enjoying a 42% market share of all websites worldwide certainly blows away anything Meta has to offer, but even though it is past the 4th of May, Faceplant and InstaSPAM still do comprise the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/phantom%5Fmenace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phantom_menace</a> flavor of this week.- <a href="https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pixelfed</a> has a very nice interface for browsing images. Unlike InstaSPAM however, there isn't this overwhelming nausea attending user accounts with duck-ass selfie-kisses blown into bacteria laden bathroom mirrors, or the overwhelming shitposting of memes scraped from other non-verbal teenage neanderthals. So yes, there's less traffic, typically, but actual photos of things that are actually important and relevant to the people posting them, and more so, liked and boosted by people who appreciate such sentimentalism or professional art. On the downside, is Pixelfed's relatively lackluster editor that fails to provide the poster with paragraph breaks in the WebUI with any reliability, it's mastocrap-like paltry 500 character limit per post, and a complete lack of formatting capabilities (i.e., Markdown or BBCode, Etc.). Having said that, the 500 character limit is easily remedied in a single entry of a config file, which is a blessing to many who have resorted to using the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/a11y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#A11Y</a> alt-text fields to provide the descriptions and narratives for images uploaded, but the other sophomoric qualities of the editor leave massively huge run on paragraphs for the reader to endure - like this one, for example :pOther awesome projects either spawned directly from, or inspired by the success of Pixelfed are the <a href="https://fedidb.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FediDB</a> research database, which although pretty, leaves much to be desired with respect to completeness; <a href="https://github.com/thesupapp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sup</a>, a client/server federated chat app model; <a href="https://loops.video/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Loops</a>, a closed beta service that aims to position itself as a replacement for, and similar to YouTube shorts; and <a href="https://pubkit.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PubKit</a>, a tool service in closed beta at this time that attempts to service the same or similar tests that the production <a href="https://funfedi.dev/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://funfedi.dev/</a> resource does.- <a href="https://pixelfed.org/how-to-join" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friendica</a> was once a platform that closely mimicked the look and feel of Faceplant. And then it wasn't, as the Faceplant monoverse continued to evolve in look and feel, and Friendica lagged in what I typically refer to as "Prettiness". Those days are long past, Friendica looks better and better with each and every successive release, and there's an obvious effort on improving the UX for users, making it much more intuitive, and the UI, tending to the "Prettiness" that I do indeed place so much emphasis on.Once the original darling of the Fediverse, Friendica is once again at the top of the heap with a few others. This does not include the increasingly marginalized masto brand, as more and more adoptees continue to turn their backs to that has-been flagship.After increasingly pervasive betrayals of both the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> philosophies and advocates for the past couple of years, eventually revealing it's own EEE aspirations by actively conflating it's masto brand and registered trademarks with that of Fediverse. Even worse, overtly engaging in an onboarding scheme that actively funnels new <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fedizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedizens</a> to one masto machine in particular, in grand, deprecated silo fashion, the masto corporation has populated one of the largest monolithic vertical gardens in the Fediverse itself. The sad part is that, being just another twitter clone, it still has no sense of community and offers nearly a million users a single point of failure. Ouch!This masto mega-silo problem becomes even less relevant when you visit the Friendica page above, and gloss over the phenomenal feature set and attention given to interoperability with a shopping list of other platforms, protocols, and clients, including:RSS/Atom, StatusNet, GNU social, Diaspora, SMTP/IMAP, Bluesky, Tumblr, GNU Social, pump.io, <a href="http://libertree.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Libertree</a>, Blogger, WordPress, Twidere, AndStatus, Bitlbee, Choqok, Frentcl, Gwibber, Hotot, IdentiCurse, Pidgin/Purple, Mustard, Pino, TTYtter.Now, you might note that Twitter/X has walled off its deprecated monolithic garden, but that doesn't mean that the client and other toolsets that work with those APIs don't still work just fine with Friendica. And we're not even stating the obvious here - ActivityPub clients like Husky, <a href="https://fedilab.app/projects/fedilab/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fedilab</a>, and <a href="https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sengi</a> work just fine with Friendica, including <a href="https://git.friendi.ca/lubuwest/friendiqa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Friendiqa</a> and <a href="https://gitlab.com/mysocialportal/relatica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Relatica</a> - two fine examples among the numerous choices you have for <a href="https://git.friendi.ca/friendica/friendica/wiki/Clients" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">native Friendica apps for Android and desktop</a>.<a href="https://ecency.com/social-networking/@tallship/relatica-the-new-desktop-and" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">For more of an in-depth read on Relatica, here's an article I published a while back</a>The second most interesting thing that Darnell mentions, I think, has to do with the verbiage in which he characterizes Existing and traditional Fediverse powered platforms. Rivals. He calls them, "...ActivityPub powered rivals". Hmmmm....I do believe that's the first time I've actually heard it put quite like that. But it's true. to be certain, it wasn't, not by a longshot, just a little while ago, but now? Well, it's nothing that we've done here in the Fediverse, except for continue to just ignore what's going on with the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/subjugated%5Fchattel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subjugated_chattel</a> that have all but succumbed to the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/sunnyvale%5Fsyndrome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sunnyvale_Syndrome</a>, and get on with the good work of building and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/dogfooding" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dogfooding</a> FOSS. But, ...It's got a lot to do with what you might call interlopers, carpetbaggers, snakeoil salesmen, infestation, or maybe just plain old encroachment of aged and abusive <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/dreadnoughts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dreadnoughts</a> into the Fediverse that stubbornly adhere to their deprecated, monolithic silo model of privacy farming technologies.Hitherto all of these ActivityPub refits and forays into a Privacy mindful and respecting network of social communications systems, people kept using terms like Alternatives, for ActivityPub powered platforms such as the three main platforms mentioned in Darnell's blog article.Now, they're being elevated to the rank of Rivals? But we, we, didn't do anything!Neither did the GPL'd Linux Kernel - it just continued to do what FOSS does. It doesn't care what thinks it may be in competition with, or what considers it a threat, or rival or yes, REPLACEMENT for things like Faceplant and InstaSPAM.Yes, FOSS just lumbers and chugs right along, relatively oblivious to whatever the proprietary, closed source contemporaries think of it - with respect to Linux, It actually entered the jurisdiction of a market dominated by Microsoft, IBM, and a couple of others, was lampooned and ridiculed, until it was considered a <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cancer, by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer</a>, but this wasn't Microsoft or others encroaching into a space where only Linux and the BSDs resided...This time it is different, because it's the other way around, but the end result will be the same. In the meantime, the perceived hostile invader, at the moment, is Zuckerberg's Meta. This isn't an EEE in the works, it's a desperate attempt to reach and hold onto the the coping that lines the deep end of a swimming pool which InstaSPAM and Faceplant must learn to swim in, and yet cannot - in the meantime, until it is able to tread those waters, it is feebly dog-paddling toward the edge where a handhold can be made while it is fitted with water-wings.Even though both Tom (everyone's friend) and Eugen are happily traveling around the world snapping photographs and flirting with photography as a hobby, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/mark%5Fzuckerberg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mark_Zuckerberg</a> really doesn't wanna be <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/myspaced" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Myspaced</a>.If you don't move, you atrophy.But Friendica, WordPress, and Pixelfed? Well, they're just FOSS, and they're just doing what FOSS does - exist, improve, and evolve. independently and irrespective of commercial threats by would be competitors.Existing Fediverse platforms continue to onboard new Fedizens hourly, that's not slowing down, and it isn't going to either. Some of these n00bs are straddling the fence until they get their sea legs, existing in both worlds, while others are just cutting ties with the deprecated monolithic silos and jumping into the pool head first.This phenomena of adoption and the logarithmic increase in onboarding and the deployment of new Fediverse instances is only going to pick up pace as the masses of users on platforms like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/threads" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Threads</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> continue to become aware of the Fediverse, and the freedoms they can enjoy in social communication through leveraging WordPress, Pixelfed, and Friendica (and it goes without saying, all the rest of the wonderful platforms too).With a community facade that pretended to hold the reigns of masto having been dropped, leaving a new 501(c)(3) masto corporation in the US steered by the likes of Twitter founders themselves, the steam is running out on that brand, and although Meta, via Threads, is certainly welcome to participate in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fep" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FEP</a> process (they actually are), there's really no foothold with which they can insert a toe and dictate very much at all that the community itself isn't inclined to adopt already, independently and without concern of capture by well funded special interest groups - like the new US masto corp.But in closing, let's get back to why all of this doesn't even really matter where existing traditional Fediverse platforms are concerned - or the millions of users actively engaged on those thousands of hubs and instances:Because it's FOSS, it evolves organically, and just doesn't care about that kind of stuff, lolz.<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a>⛵.RE: <a href="https://one.darnell.one/users/darnell/statuses/112405069391666443" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://one.darnell.one/users/darnell/statuses/112405069391666443</a><a class="u-url mention" href="https://one.darnell.one/@darnell" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@darnell</a>

tallshipThis is an example of a marketplace listing in <a href="https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flohmarkt</a>.What "I" did here...- Went to the "All" tab over at <a href="https://flensmarkt.de/#all" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flen's Market</a> - Much like PeerTube, there's a Home, Local, and All tab, the latter of which includes items from other instances that you've manually federated with within the radius you've specified from your location. - Next, there's a choice to make if you're interested in an item. You can register for a local account (I don't see any reason to do that unless you want to post a listing on that particular server), or you can remotely add yourself (like I did). Since the remote features don't quite seamlessly work with Mitra, I tried this from a masto server - no joy. I tried it from another masto server (a masto fork) - no problem this time, even on an older version of masto. That was humorous to me, as I've a bit of disdain for mastopub servers and found it amusing that even some of the instances running the very latest version of masto won't work, while older one's based on forks do; but I've got a twisted sense of humor. - So next, you can engage with the seller directly from your local instance on most Fediverse platforms (support is added for various additional Fediverse platforms all the time). In this case, (visible because I chose the "All" tab), the particular item was from yet another <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fohmarkt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fohmarkt</a> server elsewhere - this is a very nice feature, like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> #eBay!!! - From there, once you boost the item in the listing, others can see it in their streams, boost it further, make arrangements directly with the seller, etc. Kinda Kewl.This is different from how most other attempts to deliver a marketplace into the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>. Usually, what I've seen is someone trying to integrate the functionality local to a platform, which networks (via ActivityPub federation) only with other like platforms. That's not a Fediverse solution - that's a platform solution and leaves everyone else on the fediverse not running that particular platform disenfranchised.For example, using the Epicyon server platform as an example, it is first to be understood that this particular server platform is designed for very small numbers of user accounts per each instance. You also have to manually contact the admin of remote Epicyon servers yourself (or be contacted by them), then mutually agree to federate each other's marketplaces separately and distinct from any wider federation configurations your server has. Considering the inconveniences with locating other Epicyon instances that may or may not have enabled and made use of their marketplaces and establishing a mutual publishing agreement, coupled with the likelihood that each of your instances between 1 and 10 users, posting an item in the marketplace has a pretty high probability of being more effort than its worth - especially since it dosn't federate with any other Fediverse platforms.Others follow a similar design, but also generally operate like normal <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> federation using a blacklist method, as well as being able to accommodate potentially hundreds, or even thousands of users per each instance (yeah, I know, semi-monolithic); so even if those marketplaces didn't already automatically federate across the Fediverse with all instances of other like server platforms, it's still a huge improvement over the previously discussed smolweb platform's model.But they're still not Fediverse wide...This is where Flohmarkt really starts to shine - it's fully Federating (Still a WIP wrt some platforms - see the wiki for particulars) across the entire <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> portion of the Fediverse.You can check for the latest particulars on <a href="https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/Service-compatibility-chart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Flohmarkt's current Federation status</a> if you're interested in your particular Fediverse platform and level of interoperation with Flohmarkt instances.I do have some criticisms of the particular functionality in federating that the developers have chosen to incorporate, however. Basically, The server admin still needs to manually federate item listings between the local instance and other remote Flohmarkt servers. It doesn't need to be this way however, but one must concede that after going over the documentation and seeing that the concern's of the dev team are over unchecked spam, phishing, poor quality ads, etc., I find it to be a very reasonable concern, although I'm still not comfortable with how the Dev team has hard-coded this conditional into the server's capability, when a slightly different approach might afford self-hosters much greater flexibility and incintive for adoption; namely:- Make the current model the default - Enable other configurations for federating between other Flohmarkt servers (and eventually, other platform marketplaces) via either simple configuration files, runtime arguments, or via a GUI in an admin control panel, including that of an uninhibited fully blacklist model of sharing listings between Flohmarkt servers.I generally tend to think that hard-wired, opinionated configuration choices are a less than ideal (usually bad idea) than acknowledging issues surrounding such decisions and then choosing a default while affording server admins (or users themselves) of being able to manage the options for themselves. This is one of those cases where I feel it could make a huge difference in the viabilty and adoption potential for this, "Strictly Federating Marketplace" Fediverse platform.The other (very minor) criticism I have for Flohmarkt is the pin & string radius solution as it is currently implemented:- It's determined by the server admin, instance wide - It's determined by the server location, or some other arbitrarily decided localeThe radius is a great idea, but I think the following would go a long way towards improving the utility of this feature set:- The server admin decides whether to enable user-level radius configs or server level, as is the case at this time. - Local users determine, and have control over whether an established is applied to either their entire user profile's repertoire of items listed, or on a per item basis. - If he user chooses a per item radius, each listing could have a different radius established. - The local users have location radius specifications that can be based on different criteria, such as pinning a location on a map of their choice, by country (the free IP2Location databases can accommodate this behavior). - The user's particular radius settings for each listing must be preserved and observed by all federating remote Flohmarkt server instances (but not by individual remote user shares/boosts, which should remain unrestricted).This Radius feature is extremely powerful and I think that every effort of the development team to exploit the potential of this feature set should be a major consideration. Eventually, Flohmarkt servers will federate with other server platform types, exchanging listings between say, Flohmarkt servers and Friendica servers, etc.. but the awesome power unleashed through following and boosting capabilities that are already fully available to remote users to share with others holds the potential at this very time to make Flohmarkt item listings ubiquitous across the entire Fediverse, ... And that is really kewl :)Well, I'd rather tease your interest and see you go checkout more for yourself rather than feed you everything you wanna know about a really kewl <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/social%5Fcommerce" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#social_commerce</a> communications tool - you really should experience how kewl it is for yourself.I couldn't locate a <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/matrix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Matrix</a> support room for Flohmarkt like most contemporary software products maintain in the FOSS world, but the more traditional irc chan <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/flohmarkt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flohmarkt</a> at <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/liberachat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiberaChat</a> is readily available, and of course, there's the issue tracker at the Codeberg repo I previously linked to above.What are your thoughts and impressions on this novel approach to embedding the marketplace commerce structure into potentially everyone's social streams in the form of both a dedicated platform and as passive feeds via the intervention of other <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fedizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedizens</a> who share and boost individual items and listings in Flohmarkt?I hope that helps! Enjoy!<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/marketplace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marketplace</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/ebay" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eBay</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/i%5Fcan%5Fhaz%5Fcheezburgerz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#I_can_haz_Cheezburgerz</a>? 🍔 <a class="u-url mention" href="https://23.social/@grindhold" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@grindhold</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://chrichri.ween.de/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@me</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://a.gup.pe/u/flohmarkt_support" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@flohmarkt_support</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/flohmarkt%5Fsupport" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flohmarkt_support</a>⛵.RE: <a href="https://fedi.markets/users/Yonggan/items/f7f7f8d1-6279-4249-890a-bdd97340d218" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedi.markets/users/Yonggan/items/f7f7f8d1-6279-4249-890a-bdd97340d218</a><a class="u-url mention" href="https://fedi.markets/~Yonggan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Yonggan</a>

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://flipboard.social/@coffeegeek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@coffeegeek</a>Hi Mark,I've got a follow up here for you :)A few items, but for the tl;dr please scroll down towards the end. The first few appear to be precisely what you asked for, the third is my rather enthusiastic recommendation.I believe this first one is the plugin I mentioned, and was found to be quite lacking, further, frustrating to most - This showcases the glaring problem associated with conflating mastodon with that of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> - most things break, early and often, over and over again.- A simple share button that breaks about a fourth of share attempts:Here's Terrence Eden's article on the <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/better-sharing-of-wordpress-posts-to-mastodon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Share on Mastodon plugin</a>. I thought a link to this article best, as it leaves you lots of breadcrumbs to pick up along the way to the plugins page at WordPress. Including Jan's blog article. I believe this was the one with the least utility, that caused the most problems with people, which is quite a bit more than frustrating for a lot of people, angering many. masto isn't even the big man on campus anymore - those days have passed, and are in the past; it's just one of many increasingly popular platforms that people use in the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse.I believe Jan is incorrect on the number of images that masto can accommodate - yes it used to be four, but lately, when authoring articles in the Fediverse with platforms that accommodate inline media in the posts, I've noticed that masto actually will include 5 images, the rest it summarily discards, making for an even more confusing event for those on masto (NGI Zero funding has just been secured BTW, to at least bring masto into the 21st century with Quote Posts - like pretty much everyone else has had for a long time, some for a decade now).Perhaps in time this will improve, or you can get into it with the aid of some of the others below, or just move past all that and install the plugin at the end of it all which performs famously ;)- Conflating mastopub with the Fediverse is a Bad thing:I've heard a few good testimonies of how well the <a href="https://nomagic.uk/small_projects/share_buttons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fediverse share button</a> performs. Note that no where in the description or documentation is the word mastodon used; no one is mislead to believe that there is such a thing as a mastodon network - because there isn't.- People should be offered the opportunity to share interesting content into (and throughout) the Fediverse, not some small slice of the available platform choices existing there:This next option was heavily inspired by the old AddToAny plugin back when a kazillion different silos were popular and extant. I remember using that plugin to support sharing across upwards of 30 or so various social networking, bookmarking, link aggregation, and other types of obscure sites in far flung places of the world. I've also heard some good things about this solution too - please take note of all the certified platforms that it supports, and yes, mastopub is one of those ;)If you do choose this method, do please join us in the Fediverse-City Matrix room to offer a review / evaluation as to how well <a href="https://github.com/Uden-AI/fediverse-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fediverse Share</a> works for you. Several project leads there are always interested in viable solutions that are inclusive and accommodate the wider community at large without any marginalization through misleading brand recognition.I do like the <a href="https://fediverse-share.uden.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">colorful buttons too in the demo here</a>. I also like the non-traditional "Lorem ipsum" example prose too. I find it refreshing :)- Either through simple naivety or conscious exclusionary arrogance, here's some other masto branded share options, at least one, IIRC, was much less than satisfactory, but I typically don't traffic mastodon branded things anymore when the insinuation is that the product represents the Fediverse. You may find, however, that one of these is just what you need, and that with a little bit of tweaking will fit nicely into your website's business processes. A little branding can go a long way, but sometimes a solution depends on, for example, a "share API endpoint", not strictly compliant with the W3C's published specifications, that serves to marginalize all other platforms by excluding them (that's commonly regarded as EEE). I'll just post the links w/o commentary: - <a href="https://github.com/autinerd/simple-mastodon-share-button" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mastodon share button</a> - <a href="https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/adding-a-share-on-mastodon-button-to-a-website.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Share on mastodon button</a> - <a href="https://mastodonshare.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MastodonShare</a> - <a href="https://toot.kytta.dev/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Toot Proxy</a> - <a href="https://aly-ve.github.io/Mastodon-share-button/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yet another mastodon share button</a> *<a href="https://dev.to/codepo8/adding-a-share-to-mastodon-link-to-any-web-site-485m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Share to mastodon</a>There's another utility by Nikita Karamov (creator of the Toot Proxy above) that doesn't embrace the predatory branding of a diluted trademark:- <a href="https://s2f.kytta.dev/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Share₂Fedi</a> - Share₂Fedi isn't a button, exactly, but the functionality is there and it is inclusive of the larger diaspora of the ActivityPub powered portions of the Fediverse, avoiding any sort of marginalization as a result of marketing through leveraging overt, and predatory branding campaigns.Alright, I know you're interested in getting to the good part. Yes, I'm guilty of that same sort of mindset that makes you scroll down to the bottom of the ToS before you can click on the submit button. But before we get to the tl;dr:, we have one more which in spirit at the very least, is promising, I encourage you to read it:- Honorable mention goes to <a href="https://palant.info/2023/10/19/implementing-a-share-on-mastodon-button-for-a-blog/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shareOnFediverse</a>, which works even with GNU Social, Diaspora, PixelFed, Hubzilla, Lemmy, Friendica, Kbin, Misskey, Pleroma, Etc.# tl;dr:That bit of markdown above (the H1) may not show up on your platform, depending. Regardless, you've arrived. Here's the solution that I personally recommend, a very fine solution that not only allows one to share their content into the Fediverse by providing links back to their website, but providing the gateway for people in the Fediverse, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fedizens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedizens</a>, if you will, to engage the authors of news and blog and lifestyle and cookbook style tutorial and HowTo sites, directly, with two way commenting and sharing of dialog in true open and participatory fashion:First, (and it has indeed come a long way since the post of this article), a page on how exceedingly simple it is to install and configure this, the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin:- <a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/making-the-social-web-a-better-place-activitypub-for-wordpress-joins-the-automattic-family/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Making the Social Web a Better Place: ActivityPub for WordPress Joins the Automattic Family</a>Bear in mind that the plugin was in beta at the time, so never mind the sourpusses in the comments who wanted it, and yet couldn't have it because they weren't self-hosting <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a>. I must reiterate that development has come a long way, the plugin is in general production release and available for any WordPress site, managed, self-hosted, or otherwise, and it's got a powerful feature set.Posting links back to clear-net websites on the open Internet is fine, it's not like clicking a share to Faceplant or InstaSPAM button when you share an article that you like into the Fediverse, After all, it's every blogger's mission to drive traffic to their own site (not Faceplant or InstaSPAM), but then your visitors are limited to offering comment replies in the manner of a form submission on the site that really only allows you to subscribe your email for subsequent comment notifications for the article or thread that your commenters spawned.What the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> plugin enables for those who engage with you, is to provide an instant audience of several million MAU (monthly active users) throughout the Fediverse who will be able to directly participate and engage in the conversation from their own native Fediverse platforms, receiving replies as well.I've called this, A Game Changer, before. A few times, actually. @matthias@pfefferle.org <a class="u-url mention" href="https://notiz.blog/author/matthias-pfefferle/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pfefferle</a> and his small team of developers created and curated this plugin that enables this hitherto (mostly) inaccessible feature set for the masses. Literally anyone in the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse can now comment and reply to the comments of others on WordPress sites, which is pretty much like 40% of the entire word wide web nowadays, and you can check this out for yourself right now by visiting his blog at <a href="https://notiz.blog/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://notiz.blog/</a> in the comment section of any one of his articles.There were some issues, which could be attributed to the predatory marketing practices by Mastodon gGmbH, whereby a lot of what is actually ActivityPub or Fediverse centric was being referred to, and worse, attributed to mastodon in one sense or another, further diluting their trademark which places it in jeopardy of losing its registration (the first item in mastodon's general guidelines states, "Only use the Mastodon marks to accurately identify those goods or services that are built using the Mastodon software." - but the defense of trademarks themselves is another matter entirely, although the discussion has come up many times with the responsible parties, often, in very heated, public, forums.Anyway, Mattias and his team have become incrementally more mindful of placing emphasis upon <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>, the brand, instead of masto, the brand, and that's a good thing because it goes a long way toward correcting the existing confusion that exists due to the abuse certain marketing personalities have, and continue to pursue. Indeed, the plugin itself is named ActivityPub, which is appropriate - and it certainly is not an exclusive tool for mastopub.<a href="https://wordpress.com/plugins/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You can download the latest and greatest version of the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin HERE</a>, which was released just 3 days ago, and I know because I was on the periphery of an issue that was resolved, making this an even more relevant and quickly becoming (IMO) essential tool for <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoC</a> and Fediverse aware bloggers, journalists, chefs, and anyone else that knows they can benefit from deploying their own WordPress site for business or personal use in communicating with the world beyond the walls of the deprecated, proprietary, privacy mining monolithic silos.In wrapping things up here, it goes without saying that one of the very most powerful aspects of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/wordpress%5Factivitypub%5Fplugin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress_ActivityPub_Plugin</a> isn't actually that people can respond to your published articles from the comfort of myriad clients such as <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fedilab" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediLab</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/husky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Husky</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/phanpy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Phanpy</a>, or the native web or desktop interface for their Fediverse instance, but the reality that they can simply follow you, on your blog, and receive your blog or news or HowTo articles in their streams whenever you publish a new item. From there, they can boost (more exposure for your published works), reply (of course), and even offer a bit of narrative introducing your work with a <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/quote%5Fpost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quote_Post</a>. It's like a butterfly affect, or concentric circles emanating from one little plop of a pebble into a pond.Oh, one more thing, there's nothing preventing you from including one of the pretty little Fediverse Share buttons either, in conjunction with the ActivityPub plugin. After all, some folks like to comment and let you know their thoughts, while others prefer to simply share it with others who will also tell two friends or themselves offer comments to your articles - it's a win win for everyone on both sides of the line that divides the Fediverse from those so-called Big Tech institutions comprising the walled gardens of subjugation by the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/sunnyvale%5Fsyndrome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sunnyvale_Syndrome</a>.I hope you've found this helpful, I didn't want to send you on an errand of discovery without making sure that there's been some decent coverage of several different alternatives currently available for you.All the best!<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/automattic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pfefferle</a>⛵.

tallshipAn excellent expose on one of the most prolific and creative minds in the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>, and as the following article by <a href="https://deadsuperhero.com/author/sean/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sean</a> eludes to, far far beyond.<a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/</a><a href="https://macgirvin.com/channel/mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mike</a> 's contributions to <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DeSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> go back much further than just the <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> portions of the Fediverse, well over a decade in fact, as the creator of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Mistpark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mistpark</a>, now <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friendica</a>, and also <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Zot6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zot6</a> and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Nomad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nomad</a>, which promises to be a show changer for identity in the world of Social communications.<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/tallship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> ⛵

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://chaos.social/@onepict" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@onepict</a>> On any online space, you should consider who you give power to. Who has the control over who you choose to associate with?I concur 100% with this assertion.> All that the instances who sign the fedipact are doing is signalling to some of us that somewhere is safe for folk who don't want to engage with Facebook at all.I don't think that's all, and actually, What those instances may (inadvertently) be signalling is that they will take it upon themselves to remove the Freedom of Association from the user themselves, without prior expectation or consultation.I don't know where "Freedom of Speech" entered the conversation, but the notion of "Freedom of Association" has indeed been taken from those who have chosen to excercise those privileges belonging to the users themselves. Waking up and realizing that you can no longer communicate and share recipes with grandma, without evern having been consulted, is an affront to the Freedom of Association - it's inclusive of an even larger issue surrounding the reasons that *smolweb and single-user and self-hosted platforms are protective of such principles Freedom of Association.Further, it serves to create an environment (especially when so many platforms now support migration ingress) where one's Fediverse accounts are considered ever more transient, as the realization that having an account on a silo based Fediverse instance is the antipathy of <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> philosophies.It also erodes the trust between the average user and administrators that you thought you could entrust with respecting your freedom of association with.> This is a Freedom of Association issue, ...it is indeed, and a betrayal of trust for anyone who realizes that it is the overreach by someone else to decide that you should not have the Freedom of Association that likely brought most folks to the Fediverse in the first place.I did a little non-scientific, anecdotal survey by contacting people I know on many of the instances that arbitrarily decided to remove those freedoms from their users overnight, and discovered that many have already migrated to other instances, or are contemplating it - the interesting thing? Many of my acquaintances had already decided to, or even configured their accounts to block #Threads; but to have someone else tell them what they're allowed, or not allowed to do, is a violation of someone's freedom to choose for themselves by despot personalities who dismiss the relevance of a right to choose for oneself.It's a simple matter, to block instances, at the domain level, from one's own user account, and on most Fediverse platforms, there's actually an announcement utility (usually only used to beg for donations) whereby administrative staff can inform their user base of their own ability to control how they themselves choose to exercise their own preferences with respect to <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/freedom%5Fof%5Fassociation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Freedom_of_Association</a>.Ironically, when perusing the stats, it's the very largest (deprecated, monolithic silo oriented) Fediverse instances (in terms of the # of user accounts and MAU) that have chosen NOT to trample upon the individual user's Freedom to Associate with whom they themselves decide.<code>NOTE to Fediverse instance admins: Please take under consideration the trust that has been placed in you with respect to the freedoms all individuals are entitled to determine for themselves - reach out to your user base, deploy surveys, collect votes, whatever, but please don't just decide for someone else what you decide is good for people who are NOT YOU.</code>Subjugation and assimilation into the Borg Collective goes both ways folks.<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/aybabtu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AYBABTU</a> (All Your Base Are Belong To Us)<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/despotism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#despotism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/dystopian" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/authoritarianism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a>⛵.

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gabek</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://hachyderm.io/@gcrkrause" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gcrkrause</a><a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/roflmaopmp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ROFLMAOPMP</a>!I love perusing the various stats, and this particular one left me with that pain in your side from serious gufaw gufaw's, ... Sulu outranks Eugen - now THAT, is fricken' funny! And he's also organically ranked above <code>@gargron</code> too, lolz.Now, the sad part about this, and one would need to have been a Fedizen going back for a few years, is that as a techno early adopter, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/wesley%5Fcrusher" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wesley_Crusher</a> was summarily and relentlessly flogged and ridiculed until he was driven from the Fediverse by selfish, jealous little children here in the Fedi about 5 years ago.I mean, sure, Wesley Crusher was a total goombah on <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tng" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TNG</a>, while <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/george%5Ftakei" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#George_Takei</a> is a superhero from <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToS</a>, yet in real life, <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/will%5Fwheaton" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Will_Wheaton</a> was among the first generation of (albeit, minor) celebrities to embrace <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> and the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>, and our local stable of miscreants (every social network has them) hounded, maliciously trolled, and harassed him until the only conclusion that could be arrived at was that the Fediverse is a hostile environment not worthy of belonging to.That really angered me, but at least everybody loves <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/sulu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sulu</a> :)<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/star%5Ftrek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Star_Trek</a>⛵.

tallship<a class="u-url mention" href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@snarfed.org</a>Ryan,How refreshing!Another bridging mechanism to extend the reach and interoperability with other Fediverse protocols in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> space is most welcome, and from the limited analysis I've been able to perform so far this is a novel approach to what some point in the future will find other Fediverse platforms incorporating in their network stacks.So far, we've got seamless nostr interoperability to add to the other fine protocols such as Diaspora, ZOT, Nomad, OStatus, ActivityPub, and others in the mix. You might also wish to take a look at the repo for Minds to see how they've made seamless integration between the ActivityPub and nostr portions of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> as well, and oh, pay no mind to the infantile and disparaging remarks that some small minded folks in this thread have exhibited - they are free to *defederate themselves from the Fediverse at any time.We've been following withe some enthusiasm your project in the Fediverse-City community and it would be a pleasure to have you participate there. Your insight into the open and public aspects of Fediverse traffic in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> world is a testament to the innovation and evolution that is possible in obviating the proprietary, privacy disrespecting, deprecated monolothic silo networks that have sowed so much acrimony and subjugation over the very people whom they seek to quantify as their business products.You're performing a great service here, feel free to block any miscreants in this thread who don't understand the definition of public.Also, might I suggest that instead of offering a `#nobridge keyword index, you think about offering a solution as a FEP here?: <a href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/</a>There are a lot of Fediverse platform developers I'm sure that you'll find welcoming, encouraging, and willing to offer assistance in formulating solutions to silence the adolescent juvenile mindsets that have been berating you in this thread for your selfless commitment to the well being of us all.In the future, the Fediverse that we perceive and interact within will become its own heterogeneous superset of networking protocols to facilitate effortless communications between individual parties regardless of which portions of the Fediverse and their associated protocols implemented. Just like <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/ostatus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OStatus</a> has been largely supplanted by ActivityPub, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/zot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZOT</a> has been superseded by <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/nomad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nomad</a>, the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse will also eventually be deprecated and replaced by other stacks that will emerge from the ether of creativity. In the meantime, we'll be bridging between the various protocol stacks, and Bridgy-fed is one of those tools that serves to make that a reality :)Thank you again, for your selfless contribution to <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> and the Fediverse. it's a fantastic achievement that will serve to benefit many in both the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/atp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATP</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> portions of the Fediverse!<a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/bridgy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bridgy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/innovation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#innovation</a>⛵️.

tallshipThank you for the optimistic PoV on the entrance of others to the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> of the Fediverse. It is an optimism that I share - especially with Matthias' announcement just an hour ago that his team behind the development of the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/wordpress" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> ActivityPub plugin has just released version 2.0.0 - considering the enormous footprint of WordPress installations across the entire Internet belonging to both common, everyday individuals and companies alike, of every shape and size, this is HUGE news.It instantly, overnight, positions common folks and businesses to leap into the freedoms afforded them by the existing, privacy respecting, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> based Fediverse that hitherto was... well, a bit of a leap for them psychologically. But now they have a familiar platform with which to begin a journey through the minefields of the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos; its proprietors programming their masses of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/subjugated_chattel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subjugated_chattel</a> into livestock holding pens, where they are weighed, measured, packaged, placed into inventory, and sold.That does raise the issue of an error in your assertions however. You mentioned, <code>"instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky"</code>.The truth however, the reality, is that each are merely a single instance - One big monolithic silo, as described above, with the same incentives of monetization through privacy mining techniques that have made them the dreadnoughts that they are; at least in the case of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/meta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> (Threads).Bluesky is of that vertically scaling market as well, but much smaller than the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/faceplant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Faceplant</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/instaspam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InstaSPAM</a> engines operated by Meta, and now their new spearhead into the DeSoc space occupied by ActivityPub and other decentralized or federated protocol based, horizontally scaling instances.<a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bluesky</a> hasn't actually shown their hand yet to the general public, but already, they've disenfranchised (fired) much of their talent; some, actually principal architects of their monolith who were frustrated and disillusioned with the direction Jay has been taking the company - moving further and further away from the disowned public community they spawned, organized, and abandoned following the initial trials and tests of the open source preview version of what became <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/atp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ATP</a> protocol (ATX). Even Jack has moved on and embraced yet another horizontally scaling protocol in the DeSoc space, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nostr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nostr</a>, and it's already bridged and interoperating flawlessly with the ActivityPub powered portion of the Fediverse, which in turn interoperates with instances running other protocols such as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nomad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nomad</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ostatus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OStatus</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/streams" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Streams</a>, <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/diaspora" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diaspora</a>, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/zot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZOT</a>... all of them part of the Fediverse.Many of the extant <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> powered instances in the Fediverse merely need to install these capabilities with a couple of clicks to enable this interoperability, while others bridge the divide through infrastructure developed and deployed over the past year or so. What will be Meta's use case here for their business product? That's the main question I think folks need to address - not punish the good people on the so-called evil side of the divide, the hitherto subjugated chattel that populate Marks so-called Metaverse or whatever he thinks he can compel people to adopt and endure. The point is, childish, domain level blocking by juvenile minds operating ActivityPub powered <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> server instances only serves to paint themselves (and the users who have to date trusted those admins with being told what they can and cannot see and do) into a corner where they effectively cancel themselves, and find that their users have migrated to other spaces... maybe WordPress, where they truly control their own destiny in the DeSoc space and can now fully participate and engage with others - but on their own terms, not someone else's.And that, I believe, is what the whole thing has always been about, going back as far as <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/angelfire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AngelFire</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/geocities" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoCities</a> :) I do agree with you that we should indeed embrace these common, everyday individuals who, through their programmed ignorance, are mostly clueless as to exactly what the Fediverse is, and more importantly, has always promised for them. This is an opportunity, like Steve Austin, (the Six Million Dollar Man): "We can rebuild them, we have the technology, we can make them better, stronger, faster..."One more thing I should correct you on, the Fediverse is an internetwork of networks, on the Internet - there are no fediverses, Fediverse is itself a plurality, but your intent wasn't lost on me.Great article, I enjoyed the read and most of all, your optimistically tempered intent. Thanks for sharing and I hope to see much more from you in the future! <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a>⛵ .

tallshipI'm seeing an awful lot of Threads sourced nuggets espousing the virtues of, along with optimism surrounding, the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> lately.This seems a bit sus to me, like a concerted outreach effort on the part of Meta/Faceplant and a few other largish, commercial actors to popularize their ulterior motives of domination by... Ahem, normalizing the concepts of <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> and more specifically, the ActivityPub powered spaces in the Fediverse.I actually dunno who MDBHD or John Oliver are, but I'm certain that they're no Oprah, although it would be nice if she would weigh in on the critical mass achieved to date in the adoption of Fediverse technologies that are <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> based, and <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> respecting.To date, *Privacy has been of primary consideration and motivation in the development community surrounding the <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> powered platforms in the Fediverse, but the questionable players entering from the horizontally scaling decentralized social networking industry have, as of late, been overwhelmingly of the deprecated, privacy disrespecting, monolithic silo persuasion. These monolithic-ally inclined companies hailing from vertically thinking companies are an expected, yet suspect group of *privacy mining experts, sophomorically <code>(sic)</code> wading into the deep end of a demographic consisting mostly of privacy minded* individuals and notable developers of the FOSS based portions of the software world.<code><tangent></code> These industrial surveillance engines are already back on their heels as they venture into what many warn as an <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/eee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EEE</a> incursion - but truth be told, already too late to the game to subjugate, assimilate us: <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/diaspora" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diaspora</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/zot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZOT</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nostr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nostr</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/nomad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nomad</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/matrix" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Matrix</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TOR</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/yggdrasil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yggdrasil</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/i2p" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#I2P</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ipfs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IPFS</a> / <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ipns" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IPNS</a> and others, including blockchain based so-called <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/web3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Web3</a> solutions with baked in privacy considerations at the protocol layer are being *Bridged to interoperate with each other and ActivityPub in the Fediverse at rates which the purveyors of industrial surveillance machinery must invariably only describe as "alarming rates" - that's good news for the average schmoes of the world like you and I. <code></tangent></code>So why are we, just in the past few weeks, seeing so much attention given to the Fediverse by these <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/juggernauts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#juggernauts</a>, perhaps <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/dreadnoughts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dreadnoughts</a>, that for so long have exhibited such great restraint and avoidance of the mere utterance of Fediverse, ActivityPub, or even alluding to the notions of Decentralization? There's certainly a particular spin in their delivery, leveraging third parties that obfuscate their participation in the dissemination of their, Great News.Speaking of Dreadnoughts, just how was it that the great Bismarck was taken out? Remember? The outgunned and outmatched Royal Navy took out her port rudder! ⛵ 💥 It was the end of an era. A rudder post. The Bismarck was doomed to circle her watery grave.But I digress...Make no mistake, obscuring the lines between the privacy respecting FOSS based camps that have historically steered the direction of DeSoc has taken, and the deprecated, proprietary silo companies which have based their entire existence upon advertising and industrial surveillance models that I refer to as The Sunnyvale Syndrome family of data mining engines, is now seeping through the cracks of a clear delineation between these two prinicples - that of uncompromising privacy and open source development and that of proprietary, closed source subjugation methodologies leveraging **YOU as the product in inventory*.Feel free to boost and share your comments at length here. A million people other than myself are here in the Fediverse and are really interested in just what kind of impact the introduction of these traditionally privacy raiding Industrialists will have upon their... scratch that, our future online safety.tl;dr: Your very private, personal medical history and data (and that of your minor children, in violation of FERPA regulations) is being wholesaled and auctioned off by the so-called "Big-Tech" entrants and hopefuls that are at this very time knocking on the front door of the ActivityPub portions of Fediverse... Tread lightly, and consider how your every move going forward affects the unwitting consent to farm and sell your most confidential personal information.it is up to you - it is your choice to affirm or deny - whether industrial surveillance is your birthright to embrace or your nemesis to destroy... You, We, have that power to decide.<a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/sunnyvale_syndrome" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sunnyvale_Syndrome</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/meta" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/hipaa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HIPAA</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/phi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PHI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://neenster.org/tag/ferpa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FERPA</a> h/t to: <a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.wake.st/@liaizon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@liaizon</a>⛵ . RT: <a href="https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/111714899199909225" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/111714899199909225</a>

tallshipSome lighthearted optimism in the <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>:<a href="https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub</a><a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/tallship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/privacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://public.mitra.social/collections/tags/desoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a>:sailboat:.

tallship<a href="https://mastodon.social/@danie10" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@danie10</a> Let's not forget (shameless plug coming) your excellent <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/PeerTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeerTube</a> 'walk-through tutorials' for <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> and other <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> technologies that folks should be aware of.I know I send folks links to those on a regular basis and they really help people understand how the Fediverse, and to a more general degree, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/DeSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> and <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Smolweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smolweb</a> empowers them via your explanations and guided tours.Your commitment is truly an asset to the community at large 👍<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/tallship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> ⛵.

Nandan Joshi<a href="https://me.dm/tags/DeSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DeSoc</a> was a hot topic today at <a href="https://me.dm/tags/WebX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WebX</a> Tokyo. The title looks appropriate. 🤭

nandan<a href="https://veganism.social/@utopify_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@utopify_org</a> there are quite a few protocol doing <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> built upon Web3 architecture. I mentioned that Lens would be good candidate. Perhaps also Farcaster.BTW, today at WebX in Tokyo, it was the topic for one panel talk.

tallship## Tapir updates... Moving right along!Tapir is coming along nicely, with continued active development and commits in just the past few days.I never get this right, <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallWeb</a>, <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=SmolWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmolWeb</a>, or... Let's just say it's one of the latest in single user, exceedingly simple to deploy <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> servers that you can carry around in your bookbag on your laptop, or conveniently on your desktop workstations.It's written in Deno, so, think Typescript/JavaScript/Node in a safe by default implementation.I'm personally looking forward to Adam hopefully showcasing his work and just how simple it is to get up and running during the upcoming <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=ActivityConf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityConf</a> expected to occur at the end of October.He's got great aspirations for it and here's a bit of what the roadmap has at this time:* broad fediverse compatibility* install directly from a URL with one Deno command run with limited permissions (just --allow-net and a single folder)* sqlite and postgres backends* multiple personas (users) with one login and one home timeline (the main account can leverage OAuth)* personas can have different timeline styles (make it look like Pixelfed)* build your own federated timeline from multiple servers* post scheduling* sophisticated filter rules and a customizable home timeline algorithm* follow RSS feeds, Nitter feeds, maybe Nostr feeds* personal full-text search* a plugin systemMuch like what most Fediverse platforms enjoy, like <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Friendica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Friendica</a>, <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Mitra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mitra</a>, and Takahē, Tapir accounts can be connected to by following, @-mentioning, replying to, and boosting posts or Quote Posting them. There's also a link for feeds.You too can follow along with the project by following now or asking questions of the developer at <a href="https://tapir.social/ap/actor/tapir" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tapir</a> - even in this early stage of development, <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Tapir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tapir</a> supports most all of the features you've come to take for granted from a solid platform from which to engage in social communications with others in the Fediverse and beyond in much the same way as you already do from your <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Pleroma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pleroma</a>, <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Soapbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soapbox</a>, and <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Calckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Calckey</a> accounts - without the hassles or uncertainty of having to depend upon someone else's infrastructure and all the baggage that comes with that. I'm not aware of a Matrix room or IRC support channel at this moment, but all in good time.Later I'll do a deeper drill down and publish an article, perhaps even be afforded the opportunity for an interview, and I'll be covering others in depth too, namely, <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=MicroblogPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicroblogPub</a> and <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Bovine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bovine</a> - two other very fine and capable SmallWeb, er... SmolWeb, ummm... forget it, **single-user Fediverse servers**. 🤙I regularly showcase existing and emerging <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=DeSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSoc</a> development in <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Fediverse-city" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fediverse-city</a>:matrix.org and circle back around every so often with updates concerning these free and privacy respecting decentralized technologies, everyone is welcome and the best insight into these software projects trends to emanate from others who offer their input and experiences. Maybe we'll see you there too...And remember, you can haz <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Cheezburgerz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cheezburgerz</a>! 🍔<a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=tallship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tallship</a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Takahe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Takahe</a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/users/arnelson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@arnelson</a>⛵.

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