Hey @jamesmarshall, do you have a link to the app you are building? For the #Fediforum notes, in case people are interested.
Hey @jamesmarshall, do you have a link to the app you are building? For the #Fediforum notes, in case people are interested. Noticing that several #Fediforum attendees have the same Fediverse handle as e-mail address. I don't, but I really want to. That seems much more sensible than having different handles. It also opens up reallllllyyyy interesting use cases, such as: send message via ActivityPub if possible, fall back to e-mail. Also noticing that although #Fediforum was about the #Fediverse, and all the people there understand @foo@bar.com handles, so many session notes written by a variety of people have foo@bar.com instead of @foo@bar.com. So if the early adopters/experts have difficulty with this syntax, do we have any hope that the general public will be able to differentiate fediverse handles and #email addresses, and use them consistently? I think they simply have to become the same over time. One of the bad things about fediverse handles is that if you put them on a web page, they are not immediately clickable. And even the convention @foo@bar.com -> https://bar.com/@foo is a Mastodon-only convention I believe; really needs a Webfinger lookup to resolve to something a browser can open. What if browsers started handling the acct: scheme by doing the Webfinger lookup? Considering #mozilla is going all in on #fediverse, this might start there, or it might only work on their instance. @J12t my mastodon app made that handle tapable, except for the initial @, and tapping it tried to send an email. This sort of thing makes me think decent handling of handles is far beyond the horizon Even if a browser (or any app that has occasion to interpret handles) could resolve accounts correctly, linking to the web page on their fediverse host inherits the problem of preventing you from interacting with it through your own account. "We should create a code of conduct for monetizing content. Is there a need for collecting “best practices”?" -- from notes in a session at #FediForum -- in the process of putting them online. ... and the answer is apparently: Firefox shot itself into its certificate cache file. rm -rf ~/.firefox ~/.cache/firefox fixes it. "Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'" @kristinHenry @jaz that’s what I guessed. Interpersonal emotionally-charged conflict is a faster discharger of human batteries than any other I know. And not even many of the people who want the fediverse to be a “nice” place are self conscious and empathic enough to avoid helping to discharge others’ batteries. Well, I am looking forward to learn what the fediverse “stable state” will be some time down the road on this issue. In the meantime, my respect to all moderators! "33% of [Mastodon] mods/admins have experienced burnout". From a survey conducted by @jaz per #Fediforum session notes (which will go on-line shortly. As I'm reviewing, I came across this nugget, and it is shocking!!). Have the notes gone up? Missed the session. Mainly curious as to how the survey question was contextualized. For example was "experiencing burnout" primarily attributed to moderating or the general, ever present burnout from the last few years, including dealing with things like major layoffs across the tech sector ... annnd here is the first lawsuit against the new California Privacy Protection Agency. https://services.saccourt.ca.gov/PublicCaseAccess/Civil/SearchByCaseNumber case number 2023-80004106 Support: "Help me out with the issue please." Me: "I'm here so you help me with the issue, not the other way around." I don't even know what to say here ... Which subjects lends themselves to unconferences and which don't? When we conceived of #FediForum (an unconference for the #Fediverse) it wasn't obvious that it was going to work. But it did! We got some marvelous feedback from last week's attendees. Somebody suggested that there should be an #unconference for responsible #AI. Which also sounds intriguing. But ... I wonder whether successful unconferences work when there is a clear "commons". But not when there isn't, like currently in AI. @J12t maybe talk to https://campaign.openworlds.info/@edsaperia@mastodon.social as he is doing the same subjects but as real life, might be overlap, you guys are on the same paths. @J12t My next release should be soon, and much more relevant to the fediverse. “The very idea that many of humanity's smartest are calling for [a #AI] 'research-pause' - and actually believing (without a single historical example) that it could work - is strong evidence that human intelligence, even at the very top, might need some external augmentation!” David Brin’s take, as always, is excellent. https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-only-way-out-of-ai-dilemma.html "The architecture of the Fediverse -- network, apps and people". Sunday afternoon blogging. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230402-architecture-fediverse-network-apps-people/ Would love your thoughts. @J12t Lunch, yesterday. Top of monument peak above Fremont in California, viewing Silicon Valley. Also, keep your water off the road when it’s raining. This rut probably came from record California rainfalls this season and is about 4 ft deep. Silicon Valley, whatever else you may think of it, can be extraordinarily beautiful in the spring when everything is green and blooming. @J12t The place is beautiful, though I think lots of us have known that for a while now. |
@J12t thanks for asking! No, sorry, I haven't released it yet (need to do some things first), but anyone who is interested can contact me here or at james@jmarshall.com . You're welcome to put my addresses in the FediForum notes.
Happy to discuss the app, answer any questions, let people test it, collaborate, etc. Hit me up!