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Evan Prodromou

Can federation save Tiktok?

#EvanPoll #poll

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Strong yes
4
2.5%
Qualified yes
14
8.9%
Qualified no
57
36.3%
Strong no
82
52.2%
157 people voted.
Voting ended 17 December at 13:05.
Pete Orrall

@evan Not a TikTok user by any means but given the controversy why federate it when there is Loops?

@dansup #Loops

Evan Prodromou

If your university had a Mastodon server for students, faculty, staff and alums, would you use it?

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Strong yes
148
38.7%
Qualified yes
150
39.3%
Qualified no
46
12%
Strong no
38
9.9%
382 people voted.
Voting ended 12 December at 21:17.
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Simon

@evan a server only for students would probably result in the most unbearably smug and patronising atmosphere imaginable xD And I say this as a student myself.

SkullGamer205 :AwAtix:

@evan@cosocial.ca It's cool, but i prefer to join in that server, where I want to been.

But this idea is so cool!

Тр3тий Сергеевич

@evan I voted qualified yes, but IMO it wouldn't be much useful without scoped file sharing.

Evan Prodromou

How often do you talk to people who aren't on the Fediverse about the Fediverse?

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Always
2
1.4%
Often
28
20.3%
Rarely
88
63.8%
Never
20
14.5%
138 people voted.
Voting ended 29 November at 4:05.
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Stephen Michael Kellat

@evan Rarely. Usually it is in my digital literacy class during the “social networking” unit where I namecheck you, mention your book, talk about ActivityPub, and reference Mastodon and Bluesky while explaining differences between them. I’ve gotten to do that with six or seven groups of students now.

Evan Prodromou

PLEASE SHARE!

The Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025 will be the first time that the conference has a track dedicated entirely to ActivityPub servers, Fediverse clients, libraries, apps, toolkits, services, etc.

If you work on Fediverse software that is Free and Open Source, please consider submitting a proposal: pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025

The deadline is December 1, 2024, so not much time remains. But proposals are very easy and quick!

More info:

socialwebfoundation.org/2024/1

PLEASE SHARE!

The Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025 will be the first time that the conference has a track dedicated entirely to ActivityPub servers, Fediverse clients, libraries, apps, toolkits, services, etc.

If you work on Fediverse software that is Free and Open Source, please consider submitting a proposal: pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025

Evan Prodromou

Should there be a governance organization for the Fediverse?

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Strong yes
31
9%
Qualified yes
119
34.6%
Qualified no
92
26.7%
Strong no
102
29.7%
344 people voted.
Voting ended 21 November at 14:31.
Evan Prodromou

Thanks to everyone who responded here.

I am a qualified no.

I think there are parts of the Fediverse that can benefit from coordination, like how the SocialCG coordinates work on ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0, how IFTAS coordinates trust and safety work, and how Fedipact coordinates blocking Threads.

Evan Prodromou

What next?

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We plan.
99
60.7%
We fight.
85
52.1%
We think.
92
56.4%
We feel.
96
58.9%
163 people voted.
Voting ended 7 November at 16:08.
the medium kahuna

@evan First, we feel our feelings. Then, we make a plan and fight back.

Evan Prodromou

WOOOOOO We're doing a Social Web devroom at FOSDEM 2025!!! Sweet.

Andy Piper

@evan this is excellent news! Standing by to support.

Evan Prodromou

How long is a shower?

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5 minutes or less
254
29.9%
About 10 minutes
366
43.1%
About 15 minutes
147
17.3%
20 minutes or more
82
9.7%
849 people voted.
Voting ended 22 October at 17:30.
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Veronika Cheplygina

@evan I guess it depends if you only count the time under the shower itself, or also the undressing, drying etc?

Григорий Клюшников

Huh, that's unexpected. I thought everyone enjoys long showers.

Evan Prodromou

We had a great book launch party last night for "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web"

UPDATE: The book is going out to various e-book channels this week. I will definitely share Buy links when I have them.

Printed versions of the book
Is it cake? The book cover in fondant
Me, cutting the book cake
Me, with the choicest slice
Evan Prodromou

"Every ActivityPub server should accept, save, and forward objects and activities with any type in the Activity Vocabulary."

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Strongly agree
53
33.1%
Somewhat agree
54
33.8%
Somewhat disagree
35
21.9%
Strongly disagree
18
11.2%
160 people voted.
Voting ended 22 September at 19:05.
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skryking

@evan what about content that is blatantly illegal?

Paul Schoe

If that is the case, how can instances differentiate?

I became a member of a particular instance BECAUSE they do not accept, save, and forward everything.

The policies of my instance form the guardrail that protects my mailbox.

@evan
#Safety #Personalisation #Differentiate #Instance #Fediverse

Григорий Клюшников

It's very impractical imo. I treat ActivityPub more like an API, so it only makes sense to process activities that make a semantic sense for your particular implementation. I don't even store the original JSON I receive.

It would make sense for a "dumb" server that implements C2S ActivityPub and doesn't have much of its own UI/UX, though.

Evan Prodromou

I just sent the final proofs of the #ActivityPub book to the editors at O'Reilly.

I'm done; with this part, at least.

I am not sure what I'm going to do with all that surplus time. I should probably start a huge new project!

Evan Prodromou

FediDB shows almost 2M new accounts on the Fediverse since July.

fedidb.org/

Evan Prodromou

So, who is in the Free/Open Source software community in Brazil, advising the government on how to move to the Fediverse? And how can I help you?

Evan Prodromou

I'll be speaking at Berlin Fediday on Sep 14. Exciting stuff!

berlinfedi.day/

Evan Prodromou

How many email addresses do you have?

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1 or fewer
26
1.6%
2 to 5
955
59.9%
6 to 15
362
22.7%
16 or more
251
15.7%
1,594 people voted.
Voting ended 31 August at 2:40.
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Nick T
@evan I answered 6 to 15, old addresses, old habits. Technically my answer is practically infinite as I have a catchall domain name that'll accept email sent to any address at that domain which I use when signing up for things that aren't important, or are likely to sell my email address, or both.
Wesley de Groot 🥷:clippy:

@evan I used to have like 25+ 🤣 I now have 2 email addresses, but I need one more because of spam filtering is too tight at iCloud sometimes.

marty

@evan since i do e-mail aliasing, and have been for the past 4 years, it means one email per account created since then. that's dozens, if not 3 digits by now.

Evan Prodromou

When will there be a permanent moon base?

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2030 or sooner
17
2.8%
2031 to 2050
220
36.1%
2051 to 2100
179
29.4%
2101 or later
193
31.7%
609 people voted.
Voting ended 4 August at 2:08.
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Obot 50549535

@evan
I think "2101 or later" would include "never."

Григорий Клюшников

Isn't Artemis going to eventually result in there being one? SpaceX with their huge reusable rockets will sure help too.

Elena Rossini

@evan semi-related: for people who daydream about spending significant amounts of time on other planets or in orbit, there is a brilliant episode of The Daily demystifying what the experience would be like: "The Bodily Indignities of Space Life" nytimes.com/2023/12/10/podcast…

Listening to it makes me appreciate life on earth so much more! I think of it every time I take a nice long shower or when I enjoy a delicious meal followed by a walk outside

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Dave Neary

@evan @ChrisPirillo Love the interview! I was not aware of most of the ActivityPub driven social networks you talked about!

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

@evan @ChrisPirillo Great video. Shouldn't it be posted on PeerTube instead of or in addition to YouTube, though?

Marci McCue

At 30:45 there's a great overview of the benefits for creators in adopting the fediverse, by simply federating their Threads account or joining Mastodon, either way you'll finally have a direct, owned relationship with your audience. Thanks Evan and Chris for this discussion! @evan @ChrisPirillo

Evan Prodromou

Should your social network platform tell you who has viewed your profile?

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Strong yes
48
7.7%
Qualified yes
93
14.9%
Qualified no
171
27.4%
Strong no
311
49.9%
623 people voted.
Voting ended 11 June at 23:33.
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Trike Homard

@evan I'm a strong no. I don't need or want to know who has viewed my profile (or viewed my posts, seen a DM I've sent, etc), but if the data is available curiosity will get the better of me and I'm going to look at it anyway. I'd rather not be able to see this data so I can't be tempted to look.

teachpaperless

@evan I actually think it depends on the network. On most social media, like Mastodon, blue sky and Threads, I'd say no. On LinkedIn I think it makes some sense to see it.

royal

@evan Turn the question around. "Should other users of a social network platform be told that you've viewed their profiles?"

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