 According to the #Bluesky CEO quoted in the Verge, this is how they are better than the #Fediverse: "We’ve designed a protocol that has three big things we think are missing from the Mastodon ecosystem: account portability, global discoverability, [and] composable, customizable curation and moderation.” What can we do about this here? https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network "Musk thought he could save Twitter, but it turns out he may have saved the idea of an open social internet instead. When Musk spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter and then systematically destroyed everything people loved about the platform, users went looking for something better." I'm really liking this piece! Except that I cannot find the author, David Pierce, in the Fediverse! https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
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@J12t I'm amazed how good this article actually is. They got perspectives from people as interesting as @manton, @arcalinea, @cwebber all in one article. And David Pierce actually understands what he's talking about. Strong statement from @mike at Flipboard for the Verge: "ActivityPub is as big a deal as HTML was back then. This is the single biggest opportunity I’ve seen for the web since the dawn of the web." https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network "... there’s a growing set of people who will tell you the future isn’t #Mastodon but what it represents: a scaled #ActivityPub-based social platform." Indeed, nicely stated by The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network @J12t there's an interesting idea, that is not unique to this article, that I've heard elsewhere: your social activity graph follows you around from app to app when using activity pub. It's like the email protocol. Your contacts an email follow you around regardless of which provider you use. They never constrained inside of a walled garden. #activitypub #fedeverse @J12t Great article. There is a lot to be said about giving "control back to users, making sure that the social web is bigger than any single company." I'm increasingly getting the feeling that one of these days I need to reactivate LID -- Light-Weight Digital Identity -- my entry into #identity and #iiw created more or less by accident in 2004. Then folded into the larger #OpenID movement. Some of its more interesting features were adopted by other identity protocols over time, but some others are still unique and would be very useful now that the decentralized, user-owned, social web is waking back up. Swedish #public #radio is leaving Twitter. Is there an organization / company that helps news organizations set up shop in the #fediverse? If there isn’t, there should be one, no? https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/04/swedish-public-radio-is-4th-news-organization-to-leave-twitter/ And then there are #bears in #bavaria. What is the world coming to? https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/landkreis-rosenheim-baer-toetet-zwei-schafe-in-oberbayern-a-82af4ec0-d8cc-4986-9129-2dd75774851a Rather interesting interview on the #Fediverse, #ActivityPub and related subjects with @mike from 5 years ago. You may agree or disagree with some of the points he makes, but very much recommended reading. https://scribe.rip/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19 Ran a session on user-centric identity and the #fediverse at #iiw today. Lots of problems that could be solved more nicely than they are in the fediverse today. But lots of work, some technical, most community building. At the #iiw opening circle, this is the 36th unconference on identity. Been a long time since the first back in Berkeley. The community is as strong as ever. Sci-fi plot: first contact on a planet where the intelligent species used up all fossil fuels, thereby melting all the ice, which flooded all the continents, and only a few mongrel species remain living happily on a floating continent formed from the great pacific garbage patch. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/world/plastic-pollution-ocean-ecosystems-intl-climate/index.html Apparently there is (another) block chain for user-controlled #identity problems. Should I spend the time to find out more?  @J12t A spectrum for how communities interact: 1) caring 2) collaborative 3) cordial 4) competitive 5) combative. This is an interesting categorization. … and I wonder what happens to communities that use online tools that inject “adversarial” advertising. Can you continue to be a caring community if every 5th post is an ad you hate? |
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@J12t BlueSky is 100% better than the Fediverse in those regards. However, at least for account portability, Mastodon, since it's the largest Fedi implementation right now could try something like Hubzilla's "Nomadic Identity".
Thoughts?