@ricmac I mean, it's already there. I have a Facebook to talk to a handful of people, and the feed is full of AI slop, no matter how many times I tell Facebook I don't want it.

@ricmac They already are.

@ricmac "cripes does anybody remember Google People?"
https://qntm.org/perso

@ricmac @rabble Pixelfed and Mastodon are not isolated from each other. I have Pixelfed users in my home feed on Mastodon. That's a very weird definition of isolated. Mastodon has search too. Phanpy has a catch-up algorithm. I don't find the arguments in the post compelling.

@ricmac I noticed the Newsmast aggregators already, they shared some of my toots. I didn't pay much attention, as I thought they were “just bots”. Thanks for the clarification. Patchwork sounds interesting, too.

@ricmac

Hey Richard, thanks for checking out Newsmast! 🧡

We'd be happy to talk more about what we're doing if you're interested.

Thanks @ricmac for coming to #FediForum and the very nice piece!

Will add a link to it from our website shortly.

@ricmac @lene @jay Nicely done!

@ricmac @lene @jay awesome! Thanks for the write-up!

@ricmac @lene @jay Well done on the #eleventy, but did you have to trigger my "I was so drunk I shagged someone whose name I didn't remember, so I had to take her to Starbucks where she had to tell the Barista her name" PTSD from that event?

You can see the hangover in Messina and Beale. Five hundred bucks for that "unconference" was pretty fucked up, though, so I drank to forget.

@ricmac I was fond of it at first but found quality of recommendations diminished and new features (sharing links, comments on articles) were not valuable to me. Plus the in-app browser experience without ad blocker was dismal.

@ricmac @tchambers I had a very similar thought when I learned the news: would have #Artifact survived if they built it on the open social web from day 1?

We'll never know, but I think it’s an interesting question.

@ricmac I didn't ended up using artifact a lot. That said. I bless the rains on the person of Artifact that created the "report click bait" button. May he live long and healthy years and find nothing but joy along the way.

@ricmac Well put… 👍

@ricmac And I would add: Meta/Threads adds momentum to the Fediverse, and that is good. Even if they turn evil with Threads, and everybody blocks them again a year or two in the future, some of the momentum will remain and that helps the rest of the fediverse.

Also liked this bit: “the company is using a forked version of Elk as its alternative web client for its Mastodon server, which is what gives it its slick look and feel”

@ricmac the problem with "supporting publishers" is when it turns into "support engagement growth to support the advertising model"

@ricmac Thank God a somewhat moneyed organization with a communications department has decided to do the legwork on this

@ricmac it depends. Will they be able, though interactions with threads accounts, to get personal datas from regular mastodon users?

@ricmac i don’t like Meta and I’m not gonna use #threads app myself. Yet I don’t see why not follow people from there. So yes if I like the content I definitely would.

@ricmac Not likely, but it’s not absolutely impossible.

@ricmac @evan
I think the most important part of this interview is Evan's concern that the Mastodon-specific protocol "limits the creativity for developers wanting to build in the fediverse."

We would be better served by a generic ActivityStreams protocol that could be used independently of specific server or client implementations.

"Do it like Mastodon does" is not a good definition for an open protocol.

@ricmac thanks so much! This is a really strong article and pretty accurately reflects my thoughts and experience.

One quibble: I'm not sure I'd claim the title of "*The* creator of ActivityPub". @erincandescent @tsyesika @cwebber were all co-authors, and did way more of the hard work of standardisation.