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  @darius excellent! This kind of data would be super helpful to developers. I thought about standardizing on schema.org ontologies, but measuring actual usage is much better. And kudos for seeking feedback before development. Overall, I like your privacy priorities. If anyone doesn't trust you to scrub the post data, you could allow them to scrub it on their end, or with a proxy they trust in the middle. I wonder how well someone could be fingerprinted from the data after it is scrubbed.  Ben Moskovitz of Consumer Reports argues that 1) customer service is going to be utterly transformed by #AI over the next few years and 2) this opens up a here-and-now opportunity to rethink and redo the relationship between consumers and companies. Intriguing. I wonder how this line of reasoning relates to the fediverse. I think it could. Interesting definition of "social web" by @self.agency: "the social web describes the ecosystem in which social interaction became the primary focus of web design and development, shifting emphasis from the display of content to its creation and sharing." At #VRM day in Mountain View, CA, today. The room is packed! Lots of people here probably because #consumerreports is talking about #personalAI. I'm looking for a good definition of the term: "The social web". Any pointers? The more the merrier ... @j12t Dave Winer has this to say about "our social web" 'I started using the term "social web" on my blog a few months ago. I liked it because it was broad, and it inherited all the qualities of the web, most important that no one owned it, so that it could be a space for independent developers that worked for the benefit of users. ' @j12t Social web: online social communities where people connect with each other primarily for the purpose of social interaction. I think it encompasses every place that humans congregate online for the social interaction: social media platforms, forums, email discussion lists, comment sections of popular blogs, and so forth. If you’re using the web to connect with others to participate in social activities, you’re using the social web. One of the weirdest things about English is this: https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/animal-group-names How do terms like this get established? As usual, I totally fail at peeling the peppers. I think the broil mode in my oven is not hot enough, and so the skins don’t come off as easily as they should, while the flesh of the pepper disintegrates too much. Maybe I should look into the camping box next time and see what an open flame can do… but we ate them anyway! Here's another consequence of the #climate disaster: "From 2001 to 2020, the average peak daily growth rate for [the most destructive and deadly wild] fires more than doubled in the Western US" @j12t this is a terrible article. It makes claims about the history of the US based on less that 20 years of records. It provides zero proof that the recent wild fires are a result of climate change because there is none. This isn't science, its a series of assumptions, built on assumptions and colored with presumptions. It is clearly target to the credulous and those ignorant of real science. Made it through @evan’s #activitypub book. Lots of good and useful stuff for implementors there. Particularly intriguing: his chapter on “Far Horizons”: ideas on what else could be built with ActivityPub that goes beyond today’s typical social media functionality. Need an idea for a new project or startup? There are several interesting ones in there. Has the concept of an "object framework" completely disappeared from computer science consciousness? I'm searching for a good definition to point to, and I basically don't find any, not even bad ones, that aren't in now obscure literature from the 1990s. "Replies from other servers may be missing." I know why, but I really don't like this "feature".  @j12t Oh my, do I have some timely good news for you. 😄 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615 #Bluesky will get "a subscription model for premium features like higher-quality video uploads and profile customizations (think colors and avatar frames)" according to their COO. There's also a new blog post listing some of the difficulties and time sinks when attempting to automate interop #testing between #Fediverse applications. https://feditest.org/blog/2024-10-24-feditest-journey-surprises/ FediTest v0.4, the test framework and test suite for the #Fediverse, was released yesterday. Lots of new stuff, check it out! So #Bluesky raised another $15 million from a bunch of venture firms. Congratulations to @jay.bsky.team and team. Talking anybody into giving you millions of dollars is not an easy thing to do, and I'm sure that in spite of all the user growth, it was not easy for Bluesky either. The announcement is here. It contains some rather interesting tidbits from who the investors are and aren't to future plans and non-plans. Worth reading. Software releases are always fun. I once saw a golden master file with the filename something-final-final-final-final-final.tgz -- and there may have been more finals than that. It always feels like that. |
