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Peter Bronez

@bentomn if you’re diving into the #ActivityPub rabbit hole, I recommend you start with this guide from @darius 👉tinysubversions.com/notes/read

If you want to contribute to #Mastodon you may be frustrated with the project governance. There are a couple forward-leaning forks, such as github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko by @weex

I’m collecting some relevant projects at github.com/stars/pbronez/lists

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David Sterry

Hmm, I think I'll code...

  • open issue
  • open markdown doc to make notes
  • Open Ecko and proceed to read links and articles until two hours later I look over and see my still empty notes
  • open new markdown doc titled how_to_start_coding.md and enter first line:

do not visit the fediverse during any of the below

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David Sterry

FEP-f1d5: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software is a draft Fediverse Enhancement Proposal (FEP) that was just resubmitted.

FEP-f1d5 is intended to standardize upon a way to provide server-level metadata to the public.

Find the draft proposal here codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src

Feedback is appreciated at codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/iss

cc: @silverpill

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David Sterry

"there are two layers to digital communication—a public layer and a private layer. The public layer serves movements as a means of informing and coordinating on a large scale; the private, of connecting and planning on a personal scale. As it becomes more difficult to utilize the public layer of corporate social media platforms, people will shift their focus to the private layer..."

Sometimes I wonder why we reply publicly by default when a DM might make more sense. Anyway, it's good to think about how to connect besides posting on the internet.

crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/cana

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David Sterry

h/t @cjd
Repost with alt-text of noagendasocial.com/@memes_1336

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The Oatmeal

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

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VI

Hey, so you know how there's this thing where certain groups have highly specific ways of knowing and being in-and-with-the-world which might benefit everyone if shared?

Disabled people have that. Other marginalised groups too. When we ask you to *LISTEN* to us, it's not solely to complain about our struggles, suffering or oppression. It's also because if you listen to us, our experience may help *you*. And when we help each other, it increases the chances we all prosper #disability

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Mark Mayo

Want to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but need 3-4 hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. #fedihire #ruby #rails #job

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David Sterry

If you're interested in protocols and interoperability that make the fediverse more than Mastodon and ActivityPub, SocialHub is where a lot of discussion and coordination have taken place over the years.

The future of SocialHub is however in question.

Up for vote and discussion is whether it should be locked and archived, run as is, or transitioned to a sustainable state of governance.

If this interests you, go now and make your voice heard.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

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pixelfed

Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed!

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

#fediverse

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Mike Huntington

Thoughts on the black community's slow move to Mastodon 

So I've been here before, with the move from MySpace to Facebook, from FaceBook to Twitter and now Twitter to Mastodon.

And as a person of color there has been one constant in all of this. People of color are always the last to come to these platforms. There's this fear of change or that if that come first or alone.. they will be alienated.

I hate that people of color feel that way, but I also understand it.

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David Sterry

The Collective Code Construction Contract was written a few years ago, before main became the default branch in most free software projects. We have a wiki page for Magic Stone that is a quick amendment but what I don't know is why I didn't submit this as an issue upstream.

Today I did then made a pull request and true to form, it was merged lightning quick.

github.com/zeromq/rfc/issues/1

There's some fun follow-on work to fix deploys over there but it's overall neat to see a protocol working long-term.

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silverpill

@bobwyman @blaine @digibrarian

>Services should require you to BYOI (Bring Your Own Identity.) Identity is something you should bring to a service, not take from it.

This protocol extension proposal describes how to do that in Fediverse: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-c390.md

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Una (32kbps)

the codeberg folks are forking gitea since they're going corporate: forgejo.org/

just got announced, no stable releases yet

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David Sterry

Apparently artists are fighting back against generative AI by posting protest images where they'll be scooped up as source material.

(Reposting this since wandering.shop/@Nezchan/109515 didn't have any alt-text)

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EDRi

Big Tech have taken us hostage by refusing to make their products interoperable with more privacy friendly platforms. Donate to EDRi to help us challenge dominant monopolies who justify tracking us & selling our data to the highest bidder.

💛 Donate NOW: edri.org/take-action/donate-no

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David Sterry

A different way to think about social media:

Since the arrival of some very large accounts on the fediverse, I noticed the familiar feeling of being a small fish in a big pond.

There's an idea popularized by Malcom Gladwell in the book _David and Goliath_ that "The Big Pond takes really bright students and demoralizes them." My nerdier way to say it is, we're more productive when we feel our effort is valuable in comparison to our social context.

To counter the small fish feeling, I created several lists that would be the right-sized "ponds" for me separated into distinct interest areas like software development, protocol development, project members, or just cool people.

Each list has a couple of big accounts and many smaller ones as measured by monthly reach. The metric could be anything, like basic follower count or how active they are in replies but I made a spreadsheet to calculate reach so went with that.

Anecdotally after a week I can say the results are positive. I spend less time lost in the Home timeline and more in these "ponds." The volume is lower so I can keep up with the toots but the biggest thing is I'm more energized to visit, reply and post.

What do you think? Have you tried anything like this here or on other social networks? How do YOU curate this thing?

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Patrick Schnider

Another one of my papers appeared in the newly founded journal „Computing in Geometry and Topology“

cgt-journal.org/index.php/cgt/

In this work, I analyze the complexity if sharing a pizza, a variant of the Ham Sandwich theorem where several cuts are allowed.

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Chartodon

@ColinTheMathmo

Your chart is ready, and can be found here:

solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/10950

Things may have changed since I started compiling that, and some things may have been inaccessible.

In particular, the very nature of the fediverse means some toots may never have made it to my instance, in which case I can't see them, and can't include them.

The chart will eventually be deleted, so if you'd like to keep it, make sure you download a copy.

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David Sterry

Have you fallen in love with the and ? Can you do development in or ? Do you want to get more involved in free open source software?

Magic Stone is looking for volunteers to solve problems in their fork of Mastodon. While the software includes some community-requested improvements it needs help continuing to develop toward the needs of everyone involved.

If you would like to apply your energies to solve big or small problems and help keep the diverse in fediverse software, you’re welcome to check out the open issues. github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko

DM me with any question, no matter how small!

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Creating magic through evolution of the Fediverse. Running Ecko, a community-driven fork of Mastodon managed using the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) by the Magic Stone Community. C4 is a protocol for asynchronous, non-blocking, distributed, problem-focused software development.

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