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 @dansup OMG Dan! The heck just happened here, since when do we have that pop-out feature??!?!?! Is that you or the Masto Web UI even?  So Push Notifications right? Well this breaks down when you have multiple accounts logged in on the app, in that case the notification body needs to be prepended with the username in brackets, but you also need to carefully track when the user logs out or logs in and use that state for the message payload from the app to the backend and backend to the apns proxy. Also track servers and update 😅 So this is why multiple accounts in the app are being delayed, there are some serious side effects! BlueSky was created by Jack, and he could have picked ActivityPub, but he didn't. You know why most fedi developers have such a distaste for BlueSky? Oh right, it's because Jack saw a need for monetization that couldn't work without a centralized infra. Then he abandoned BS. As much as you may think the SWF wants to bring ads to your fedi feed, I'm pretty sure you'll see ads on BlueSky first. But the real ones will keep building, where it matters.
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@dansup I was really hoping that Jack would use ActivityPub at the time, and disappointed when he didn’t. It felt like such a big missed opportunity. @dansup but activitypub/mastodon is not fully functional at least yet, for example https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25699  @dansup No need for the SWF to bring ads to fedi, ads are already here in Misskey software, which supports admin-configured ads. You can see these ads on misskey.io, the flagship deployment of this software. https://misskey-hub.net/en/docs/for-users/features/ads/ Pick on something else if you wanna try unfairly maligning BlueSky to make the fedi ecosystem look good. At the core of ActivityPub is a powerful protocol. Not governed by for-profit entities like Twitter or BlueSky. Anyone can step in by creating compatible software. Developers shape healthy, sustainable communities. And the ultimate choice rests with the people. @swf contributes to this foundation but doesn't control it. The true power isn't the protocol itself—it's the community it empowers. The federated social web thrives because of your involvement, don't forget that ❤️ I've had my issues with Meta concerning Pixelfed. I get the skepticism, but they're working with devs from all sorts of fedi projects. I'm surprised how they handled requests from smaller fedi projects, just like Mastodon's, always looking for a solution. This might surprise some, but if you've used Mastodon in a browser, it's built with React, an open-source library from Meta. Hopefully, this sheds light on the complex Meta/open-source relationship and why their recent actions are positive. ActivityPub is a protocol. You can't police who can or cannot participate Instead, we need to build services and tools to ensure we can provide moderation and safety tools accordingly You might hate Meta, but you have to admit their presence here will likely lead to improvements in privacy and safety across implementations either directly or indirectly The fediverse is for everyone, but at the same time, you don't have to expect the status quo We can do better, so keep that feedback coming!
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 @dansup ActivityPub is - like SMTP - a protocol, I agree. But as we can see with SMTP, Tech Giants like to shape or enhance these protocols to their liking, and not for the best of the (common) users but their best. So I would stay vigilant and would like to make sure that all add-ons or enhancements have to be public and useful for _all_ participants, not only the centalized giant ones. @dansup I mean... They literally facilitated horrifying genocide in Myanmar because it gave them a dominant position in a developing market 😅 their money and resources are valuable to to the fediverse, but I have more trust that tomorrow the sun will be green than I do that meta will put people over profits. If they see a way to exploit this space, they will, and to be perfectly blunt they may have already found one, and are just working their way there. w.r.t the Social Web Foundation, I'm glad we have some formal organization to help steward the protocol See, it's easy to get caught up on Meta's participation while forgetting the impact just a few people made on the social network landscape Meta approached the fediverse in the proper way They didn't acquire Mastodon Instead they worked with fedi projects big and small regarding interop Meta isn't the enemy, fragmentation and lack of safety tools are We can, and are, building the future ❤️
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@dansup Meta is going to kill ActivityPub the same way Google killed eMail and HTML/CSS/JS though? As in: Zero way to innovate without them also supporting it as everyone will be on their service anyways. The only way to combat that is to block their services from the beginning so they can't grow and people don't get used to being able to communicate with the Fediverse over there. https://fedipact.online/ #FediPact #BanBigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism  It is very sad to see a person like you, that I respect, willingly help to open the #Fediverse gates for the #Meta invaders. Very sad. Push Notification Progress ✨ Now in the process of deploying and rolling this out to pixelfed.social It may take a few days before this is generally available for all Android and iOS beta testers, and other servers. (3rd party app support + UnifiedPush support is on our todo list) Working on the last bit of code for Pixelfed Push Notifications, expect a huge update in the next few hours 😎 So excited about the Social Web Foundation (@swf)! @evanprodromou and team will make the #fediverse more interoperable, foster more developer collaboration, inspire more innovation and help more people see the benefit of the social web. Honored to be part of this.  Loops aims to be the #fediverse TikTok We're building it for everyone, even those who may not care about federation! The whole platform and discovery algorithm will be open source But more importantly, I'm eager to implement better safety and moderation tools to empower users and admins to create more safe, healthy and sustainable communities. We can do this better, without influencers 😎
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  Civil war movie, except the revolutionaries are always wearing headsets and talking via satellite to a GPT commander.
 We're incredibly proud to stand alongside the Social Web Foundation as a launch partner. This is a huge step towards a more open, decentralized internet, and we're thrilled to be a part of it.  @dansup Love Royal Otis. "Heading for the Door" is my fave. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XP4AT-FjEl0&si=toQhRMEKvcWJ6G7a  @dansup Good old Bayes, I remember reading the spamassassin docs decades ago and thinking it was like magic. Do you have any idea how well this scales? For anyone reading the toot and not the blog post, and being immediately put off by "AI", this is not AI: it is a proven mix between maths and technology and bears almost no resemblance to the damage that today's AI is doing. |
