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Who's the epic Python hacker who's going to fork the Jaiku codebase and put it on the Fediverse?
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 So, here is what I'm trying to do to #BuildTheSocialWeb. 1. Servicing the issue queue for ActivityPub and Activity Stream 2.0 on GitHub on a bi-weekly basis, moving to weekly. 2. Documenting patterns in the Activity Streams 2.0 primer, and hopefully doing the same for ActivityPub. 3. Sharing architectural essays on my blog. I've got two lines up: end-to-end encryption and account portability. 4. Building https://cosocial.ca/ . 5. Expressing myself here. Bringing people here. Some things I'd like to expand: 6. Documenting our experience at Cosocial making a coop, so others can replicate it. 7. Helping the AP/AS2 extension-writing process. 8. Getting the SWICG back to regular meetings. 9. Bringing https://identi.ca/ into the social web by implementing ActivityPub in pump.io. 10. Setting up a Mastodon server for my team at Open Earth Foundation. 11. Documenting the HCI research I did on making Mastodon a good way to connect with friends. The difference between here and other places is that you're a participant. All of us are building this network together, right now. Is it perfect? Not yet. Not by a long shot! But we can keep fixing it and making it what we want. Together, collectively, every day. This social web we're building isn't a product on a supermarket shelf. It's a society. It's a whole world. I'm here for the long run. I'm going to keep doing what I can. Thanks for doing what you're doing. I see you. Thanks.  @evan Unfortunately, that's what a lot of people who come here fail to understand first. They got too used to social media and social networking as kind of a given. As a product of something external, not as a product of you and your group of friends. > I'm here for the long run. I'm going to keep doing what I can. Thanks for doing what you're doing. I see you. Thanks. Rekindled that old fire, huh. Thanks for what you're doing. We see you too, although for a long time, we haven't. Anonymous poll
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Strong yes
410
58.5%
Qualified yes
198
28.2%
Qualified no
60
8.6%
Strong no
701 people voted. 33
4.7%
Voting ended 4 Apr 2023 at 20:11. 86% positive. That's great. I'm a strong yes. I know that social networking can be a great way to connect with people that matter to me. I want my friends and family to be here. I think if we want this to happen, we need to get serious about our referral features (how do you invite people you know to join the network) and onboarding (how do they get an account once they are invited). It's pretty hard right now. If we want richer networks, it has to get easier. Anonymous poll
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Strong yes
443
56.8%
Qualified yes
289
37.1%
Qualified no
34
4.4%
Strong no
780 people voted. 14
1.8%
Voting ended 3 Apr 2023 at 0:53.
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 There'll be a conflict between the PR department, faculty and students, all of which may have very different ideas of what's reasonable to post about. @evan I think this would be great for professors, lecturers, and researchers, but super unwise for students... @evan I think *student groups* at universities should run instances. Thinking of SIPB at MIT Are there other university-wide Mastodon servers besides https://mastodon.mit.edu/ ? I want to set one up for my graduate school at Georgia Tech. I tried out the new #Flipboard experience for #mastodon Here's are my quick thoughts: - The UI was wonderful! Great job bringing the content from Mastodon into the Flipboard experience. This protocol was made by trans people and this culture was built by trans people. If you love the #fediverse, thank your #trans friends, colleagues and allies today.
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People you know personally
136
20.2%
People you're a fan of
76
11.3%
Groups you're a member of
23
3.4%
Topics you're interested in
673 people voted. 438
65.1%
Voting ended 30 Mar 2023 at 22:31. I have a lot of feelings about this poll. I'm "people I know personally". A lot of my best friends and most steadfast allies are on this network and it means a lot to connect to them here. There are also a lot of people I know who aren't here. I hope to see them here soon. @fediforum Conversation on future of news was so amazing. Big points: - Outreach is needed @fediforum @debs and @jeffjarvis when you organise the journalist event, please invite me! I'm in Montreal but I'd come to NYC for that. In the somewhat-SWICG meeting at @fediforum . It's an exciting talk with a lot of implementers! @fediforum we just agreed to use Chatham House Rule for sharing information from #fediforum , so I'll be sharing information but not names or affiliations in these updates. Thanks @Identitywoman and @J12t for clarification!  @evan wish I could join you all but I need to give my brain a break after mozfest last week and then two more conferences next week....  @evan If you're interested in topics on the Fediverse, you should think about attending Fediforum tomorrow and Thursday. It's an unconference on fediverse topics.  Anonymous poll
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Strong yes
46
11.8%
Qualified yes
88
22.6%
Qualified no
105
26.9%
Strong no
390 people voted. 151
38.7%
Voting ended 28 Mar 2023 at 18:50. OK, bummer results here. I'm a qualified yes. This tradition is one that's been important to me since my earliest days on the Internet. I've always liked the gentle, goofy humour that comes from April Fool's Day jokes. And I'm impressed when people make cool hacks for their pranks. It feels a day where we act like we are all on the same side, and all in on the joke. That this big network isn't something to take too seriously. That there's a straight line connection to that earlier time. |
Jaiku was started a month before Twitter. The first federated microblogging message was sent between Twitter and Jaiku. Jaiku is where the hashtag was first used. The company was bought by Google, and the software was made Open Source and ported to Google App Engine. The code is still available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku