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After having moderated the #SocialHub #ActivityPub community for a couple of years, today I have decided to step down from that. I will continue to be a tireless #Fediverse advocate, just in slightly different ways than before. It has been my pleasure interacting on the forum, and maybe I'll be back as mod if people's interest and activity picks up again to make it more than what it currently is. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/stepping-down-as-moderator/2555  @humanetech Thank you for all your tireless contributions! The fediverse wouldn't be the same without you ❤️ The Tale of Spiral Island.. An analogy for the #Fediverse https://fediverse.codeberg.page/2021/04/fediverse-spiral-island-analogy/ The Fediverse Diversity Foundation website is just a draft created some time ago. But I intend to make it part of #SocialCoding Movement in the near future. (Site needs to be further improved then) @humanetech 👏 👏 👏 Amazing! I love this analogy, and the #fediverse is lucky we have people like you who consistently push forward in so many different ways! Look forward to hearing more about the Fediverse Diversity Foundation! Taking a strategic approach to software development projects. Have a vision, outline strategies, create a plan, act on it. Does it happen in FOSS world? Searching on strategy gives pages full of biz this, commercial that, capitalistic BS. Would FOSS benefit from being more strategic? There's this concept called #OpenStrategy and it could be adapted, populated with practices that are useful for teams, communities, and the commons. A #poll to see what you think.. Anonymous poll
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FOSS projects being more strategic is needed
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34.9%
FOSS projects go as they go, and that's fine
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44.2%
I am curious. What would be the benefits?
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Just show me the results
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Voting ended 3 Jul 2022 at 7:32.  @humanetech I think all FOSS projects should help lobbying efforts on political bodies (e.g. EU) to get some legislation out about software that's installed by default. That way we could propose any Linux distro to people that get a new computer, any web browser upon first login, etc. Just added a #Rust implementation for ActivityPub and ActivityStreams to #delightful #activitypub developer resources. https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-activitypub-development/src/branch/main/README.md "A set of Traits and Types that make up the ActivityStreams and ActivityPub specifications." Made by @asonix Dear #Fediverse, Help improve federation between #Lemmy and other projects. You do not have to be a fedi developer. Testing what works and what doesn't in different apps and reporting about it is enough. Read @nutomic post on #SocialHub forum about how you can help best. Boosts appreciated.  The #Feneas community forum is going to be shut down today. If you are a member then you can still save your own content. Go to your Profile page, on the Activity tab select "Download all" and save the zip to your harddrive. You'll find CSV-files with all your own stuff within. The #delightful activitypub curated list for developer resources has some updates. - A "Frameworks" section was added - CommonsPub has been updated, since it is now named @bonfire and added to frameworks - #Bonfire #ActivityPub library has been separately added. Thanks @mayel for your PR 🙏 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-activitypub-development Via @DavidBlue I found this great #OpenScience project: "Manubot is a workflow and set of tools for the next generation of scholarly publishing", based on #markdown and #git no less! It is queued for inclusion in delightful-open-science .. https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science/wiki/Candidates-watchlist Oh that's nice. I've been secretly waiting for some forum engine to start implementing ActivityPub so I could save some of my sanity when time comes to add discussion boards to Smithereen groups. Re: @dansup on another thread: > I think the reason most core devs don't engage in the socialhub forum is because we communicate more directly (dms, discord, etc) as conversations typically move fast I can well understand this, esp. since #SocialHub is not efficient in pushing #ActivityPub et al. But a "move fast and do not share things" approach means missing out on a win-win and hampers/slows #Fediverse evolution. An improved standards process + active project participation is much needed. A problem is that this process hardly exists and no one really reserves the time to make it work. There's a sort of chicken egg problem in improving the situation. With no efficient process devs don't find it worthwhile to participate, and no one is available to improve things. Maybe monetary incentives, salary, bounties for doing community work is needed to stimulate people to help do all the work - and there is a lot to be done - should be considered. A more formal organization..  @humanetech @dansup There are more precedents of #slowTech, the internet took from 1970 to 1990 to develop, with the unwritten rule of raw consensus and working code. They used RFCs to write evolving standards. But these were mostly academics who were allowed to spend some of their time on creating the internet. There are examples where fundraising helps (temporarily), e.g. Mobilizon. A more formal organization is asking for tragedy. Just now on HN: "FB censored me for mentioning open source social network #Mastodon " Anonymous poll
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Yes, it would be valuable
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85.5%
No, there's no need
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It's complicated, because ...
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I suggest something even better, namely ...
69 people voted. 1
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Voting ended 3 Sep 2021 at 14:23.
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@humanetech I'd like a thread to be *a single thread* instead of the multi-branch mess it is now.  @humanetech Tracking toots may overburben servers. It might be best to only send a digest after a relatively long period of inactivity, ie. allow people to communicate naturally without telling watchers about it and after triple the average amount of time between messages has passed traffic the server presents that conversation in a collasped form to viewer for expansion. 1/2 Ideas for federating #Lemmy to the #fediverse .. do you have some too? Join the brainstorm at: 1. Make Lemmy accept inReplyTo as a single link, not an array. That would already make it possible for me to participate in Lemmy threads from Smithereen. Smithereen is actually unique in that it shows Lemmy communities as groups. IMO it would make much more sense for Lemmy to avoid this whole kludge with Announce and set a standard for federated forums. I'm going to have discussion boards in groups at some point.  12
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