{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":5,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/countablenewt","displayName":"Sam Clemente","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/347815-original-tmp20260702034851.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/347815-96-20260702101235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/347815-48-20260702150105.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/347815-24-20260708103814.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"347815"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/347815-96-20260702101235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Professional Maker of Sand ThoughtsFounder | Social Web Builder &amp; Creator#ActuallyAutistic | He\/They","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@countablenewt","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"countablenewt","displayName":"Sam Clemente","note":"Professional Maker of Sand ThoughtsFounder | Social Web Builder &amp; Creator#ActuallyAutistic | He\/They"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@evan<\/a> My \"Yes, but\" was in cases of things like tax preparation software<\/p><p>There shouldn't be competition there, it should just be a free piece of software from the government<\/p><p>Not Rocket and Block constantly trying to fight the battle of \"how expensive can we make it to file your taxes\"<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-26:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/countablenewt\/statuses\/115805265998189108","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/countablenewt\/statuses\/115805265998189108","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@evan<\/a> My \"Yes, but\" was in cases of things like tax preparation software<\/p><p>There shouldn't be competition there, it should just be a free piece of software from the government<\/p><p>Not Rocket and Block constantly trying to fight the battle of \"how expensive can we make it to file your taxes\"<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@countablenewt\/115805265998189108","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805259820497202","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805259820497202"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b58554d4d4c400","notice_info":{"local_id":"11812938","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T22:44:36+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@countablenewt\/115805265998189108"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@countablenewt\" class=\"u-url mention\">@countablenewt<\/a> sure. We don't get to choose our traffic light software at every intersection. Sometimes you have to live with what's preinstalled.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-26:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805272385866030","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805272385866030","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@countablenewt\" class=\"u-url mention\">@countablenewt<\/a> sure. We don't get to choose our traffic light software at every intersection. Sometimes you have to live with what's preinstalled.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805272385866030","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/countablenewt\/statuses\/115805265998189108","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@countablenewt\/115805265998189108"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/countablenewt"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b58554d4d4c400","notice_info":{"local_id":"11812939","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T22:44:35+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805272385866030"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. 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Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>However, I can see the point of some low-level, infrastructural software to have a small number of implementations, even one.<\/p><p>Especially if the software is free and open source and the project has high multipolar participation.<\/p><p>It might be better for the community to put bug fixing and security effort into a single project rather than spreading it across multiple projects.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-26:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805257518084554","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805257518084554","objectType":"note","content":"<p>However, I can see the point of some low-level, infrastructural software to have a small number of implementations, even one.<\/p><p>Especially if the software is free and open source and the project has high multipolar participation.<\/p><p>It might be better for the community to put bug fixing and security effort into a single project rather than spreading it across multiple projects.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805257518084554","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805255624083308","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805255624083308"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b58554d4d4c400","notice_info":{"local_id":"11812922","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T22:40:40+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805257518084554"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. 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It's important, but I can imagine cases where I could live with a lack of choice.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805259820497202","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805257518084554","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805257518084554"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b58554d4d4c400","notice_info":{"local_id":"11812923","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T22:40:39+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805259820497202"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of &quot;ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web&quot; from O&#39;Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>Interesting results! I think choice is really important.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-08-26:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805255624083308","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/115805255624083308","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Interesting results! I think choice is really important.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805255624083308","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-29:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b58554d4d4c400","notice_info":{"local_id":"11812916","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-29T22:40:04+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/115805255624083308"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6003141","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}