With the news that Meetup.com has been swallowed up by Bending Spoons (with a track record of strip mining good tools to their doom), a #fediverse alternative to explore is Mobilizon @mobilizonhttps://joinmobilizon.org/en/
@andypiper@django@mobilizon I think @linos (?) are working on extending/developing the wordpress activitypub plugin to be able to add events which are comptible with mobilizon etc
OK, I've got a question for #ActivityPub developers. I'm working on an extended example for the O'Reilly Media book I'm writing, focusing on the federation protocol. I'm going to cover using HTTP Signature, handling and sending the important set of Activity types defined in the AP spec (Follow, Create, Add, ...).
Great to see the ActivtyPub Plugin continue on a fast development timeline:
The WordPress ActivityPub plugin has been updated to version 2.0. The major feature of the release is better comment federation. Comments are now properly threaded, which makes it much easier to follow and understand threads where people are replying to each other. Comments are now also bidirectionally federated. Creator @pfefferleexplains:
“When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!”
Browsing #hashtags is quickly becoming useless. Even important ones for #MastoAdmin like #Fediverse and #Mastodon are filled with toots of random #photos and #art. Some even promoting their #porn or #gamedev#gaming project. Even random #journal or #blog posts FILLED with random irrelevant hashtags. It's quite infuriating...if you know what I mean.🤦♂️😬
"ActivityPub and ATProto break #siloing in different ways. #ActivityPub is built around URLs and can "socialise" more or less anything on the Web, which is great, but they don't touch the underlying substrate—either you run your own server or you…are at the mercy of an admin. #ATProto, on its side, provides a good initial foundation for an extensible #PDS designed around user agency and credible exit.
…you can be guaranteed to be able to take your content elsewhere." https://berjon.com/ap-at/
Thanks to that Mike Masnick @mmasnick link I just shared on the #fediverse (sorry Bluesky people it won't propagate over the #friendica bridge but this will) I learned that Hamish McKenzie, Substack co-founder, was integral to lining people up to sign the "anti-Substackers-Against-Nazis" letter. As Mike stated so well, "McKenzie literally organized the 'we support Substack supporting Nazis' letter signing campaign. Which, again, he’s totally allowed to do, but it calls into question his claimed neutrality in all of this. He’s not setting up a 'neutral' site to host speech. He’s created a site that hosts some speech and doesn’t host other speech. It promotes some speech, and doesn’t promote other speech. Those are all choices, and they have nothing to do with supporting free speech." Substack Realizes Maybe It Doesn’t Want To Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All (But Only Literal Nazis)
One of my favorite parts of this interview with @tchambers is when he wraps up with his 2024 predictions for the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub including the things he's looking for as this crucial election year plays out. He gives a sweeping and insightful summary of the most important efforts now underway which will bear fruit this year.
How did we go from way too many semi popular english Misskey forks to literally only having one soon (Sharkey)
Firefish kinda had its moment but currently doesn't seem that much will happen
Foundkey while still maintained is not really meant for more than one user instances
Iceshrimp is currently doing an full C# or well rather they are doing their own thing not using the MisskeyAPI and also rewriting the frontend, which means when thats done they aren't really part of the Misskey Family of forks anymore
Catodon, from the start is not trying to be anything like misskey and more like a user friendly mastodon-key mix, but they are also interested in using Iceshrimp as a kinda upstream meaning they would also not be part of the Misskey Family of Forks
how did we go from #Sharkey being hated on for being another #misskey fork, to it being the only major true english misskey fork left, if #firefish doesn't comeback to life and if iceshrimp continues its rewrite
Kind of a rant, sorry. I see this happening in multiple projects lately.
Good gracious people. If someone wants to contribute time and code to the #fediverse let them do it! It’s not in your preferred programming language? MOVE ON. I promise you’ll find your flavor elsewhere.
Don’t disparage their choice. Let them be. Even support them with a like or a boost and then go find another open source repo you feel comfortable with.
We are in the process of developing a mobile application in 2024 🎉 :peertube:
Before starting the technical development, we felt it was important to understand the expectations of people who are watching #PeerTube videos.
We're looking for a few people to take part in a short 30 minutes video conference during the week of 15-19 January to find out more about your needs and opinions regarding the adaptation of PeerTube as a mobile application.
@tchambers, author of the Twitter Migration report and admin of indieweb.social, is an internet steward everyone should know. In this podcast with @mike, Tim expounds on social media’s thorniest issues and explains how the Fediverse offers a better social home than anything we've had before.
Musk capriciously bans left leaning and centrist people for no reason, like literally none. They don't even have emails telling them which posts or why. It's his platform to do what he wants with, why I'm on the fediverse not there. Just everyone in MSM stop buying his "I'm doing this for free speech principles" whenever he platforms the most odious right wing people, literal Nazis, and serial disinformation people like Alex Jones. This isn't the first time the mask is off, but still people give him far too much deference on these matters. Enough is enough. Also, get off the platform while you can and preferrably not by jumping to a platform owned by the same set of billionaires that own/created Twitter/Facebook/etc. (e.g. Mastodon, Friendica, PixelFed, the fediverse, not Bluesky, Threads, Post, etc). #ElonMusk#MuskIsADick#BillionairesShouldNotExist#fediverse X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation
Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network
Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alter ...continues
