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My #FediTest talk was accepted at #SeaGL. Looks like I'll be in Seattle early November!
Anybody interested in a #Fediverse get-together on the sidelines of this #Linux conference?
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I really don't like the default "play sound" notifications settings on new #Mastodon accounts. "Play sound" notifications on computers should be limited to "The house is on fire" or equivalent emergencies. #Vivaldi is supporting the #OpenWebFoundation. So I figure I better check out what they are doing these days with their browser, Mastodon server, and open web presence! The session notes from all #FediForum September 2024 sessions are now available. They represent an incredible body of knowledge about the latest thinking by many of the people who move today's Fediverse forward. Plus links to the speed demos of all the cool Fediverse software we saw. Happy reading, and happy watching! Hi @molly0xfff, how are you doing these contextual profile links on your site behind people's names? We are trying to do something similar with clickable Fediverse handles for FediForum notes e.g. https://fediforum.org/2024-09/session/6-e/ but it's a bit of work, and yours are nicer anyway! Any tips you can share? P.S. Good chatting with you at XoXoFest. h/t @manton The new "Social Web Foundation" is launching today, led by @evan, @ohmallory and @tomcoates "The Social Web Foundation works to grow this new ecosystem in an open, healthy, and sustainable way—working with technologists and the public to build a new global town square that works for everyone." Happy to be an advisor.  Do we know what’s in our cars? Phones? Pagers? Can this kind of ban ever be effective? https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/tech/us-car-software-ban-china-russia/index.html I guess #Bluesky must be in heavy fundraising mode by now if my math is in the right ballpark about how much they raised and their burn rate. Will they be successful? At what valuation? An interesting question! I figure their valuation could be anywhere between $0 and a few billions or so. Why $0? No business model, and no obvious one on the horizon. Intense competition with the new product of the biggest incumbent that's already at 20x their size. Why a few billions? ... (cont'd) Why might #Bluesky be worth a few billions? Decentralized social has the potential to "amazon" (here's a word you haven't heard in a while...) the trillion-dollar market cap social media platform market like Amazon "amazoned" Borders 25 years ago. In this thinking, it's completely early days and lack of biz model and current market shares don't matter. Supporting evidence: Farcaster recently raised $150m at $1b valuation with far fewer users. (cont'd) All 5000 employees of the University of Innsbruck in Austria now can use the Fediverse, integrated with their enterprise login system. https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/ From #FediForum notes.
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 @j12t That's a good example for #university #universities #science #academic #Fediverse #Mastodon ⬆️ @ScienceDesk @academicchatter @academics Believe we need Trust & Safety on the Fediverse? And more of it? Join me in the first 50 here. https://about.iftas.org/first-50/ IFTAS is doing great work and worth our support. # Trust #Safety #fediverse #iftas We really, really need "remote likes" in the Fediverse. Today's use case: We post the #FediForum recordings on PeerTube. The preview gets rendered very nicely in Mastodon, and people are tempted to click on it. The video plays, and I like it. So I'm looking for a Like button -- but I have to sign up for a new account first?? /cc @benpate made that point at FediForum, too, in his demo! The demo videos from #FediForum September 2024 are now on-line. Fourteen demos of cool #Fediverse software, as shown off by the developers themselves! Innovation is alive and kicking in the Fediverse! Given this is the Fediverse, get them from PeerTube here: https://spectra.video/w/p/q1BXeNF5PWFipFy5f44v9h (They are on YouTube, too, but we will post the link to there later.) Silicon Valley is sometimes pretty rough. But in comparison to Russia’ Wildberries e-commerce company … “Wildberries co-founder and ex-husband of Wildberries co-founder & CEO Tatyana Bakalchuk, along with 20 to 30 armed accomplices, conducted simultaneous armed assaults against two Wildberries offices in Moscow City.” "ProPublica, the nation’s leading nonprofit investigative newsroom, is in search of a full-stack senior product engineer to lead work on our publishing systems and core website." If this sounds like you, I'd love to work with you. https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4403685006 #getfedihired #journalism #engineering #jobs  If you're an exceptional engineer who cares about both the open web and non-profit journalism in the public interest, this is the opportunity for you. Please do apply - and let me know if you have any questions. That link again: https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4403685006 @ben how much of a WordPress focused job is this? I have a decent amount of pre-block editor experience building themes and plugins, but it’s been a little while. When people say "the open web"... ... what does this mean to you, exactly? I'd love a broad range of answers including "I have no idea" if that's what's true for you.
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@j12t meaning you don't need an account and a docile browser to access the data contained therein. You could do worse than working for Ben. Or ProPublica. This is the first straightforward spammer / data collector that I've seen in the Fediverse. Am I late to the party? "The Fediverse is no longer individual apps ... it's an integrated system ... how do we make an integrated system work that works like any other social network but still functions in a distributed way". @benpate in his #FediForum demo. Could not agree more. Not simple, on a technical, product, and particularly organizational level. How do we do this? |
