{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":6,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.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","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\/@n8\" class=\"u-url mention\">@n8<\/a> That's very nice to say! Thank you.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-02:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116358798046872413","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116358798046872413","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\" class=\"u-url mention\">@n8<\/a> That's very nice to say! Thank you.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116358798046872413","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116357056743253967","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116357056743253967"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-06:objectType=thread:nonce=e3ad276e2cefb448","notice_info":{"local_id":"12410128","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-06T16:54:27+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116358798046872413"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260418043002.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260418043032.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260418043032.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","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":"RT @evan That having been said, the underlying goal of things like ActivityPub are still genuinely interesting and incredibly worthwhile, specifically because they are a lot more powerful than Mastodon itself is. If AP was just the Mastodon source code, that would be <a href=\"http:\/\/meh.So\/\" title=\"http:\/\/meh.So\/\" rel=\"nofollow external noreferrer\" class=\"attachment\" id=\"attachment-5967346\">meh.So<\/a>, more power to the smart people like Evan who see a lot more ambitious things out there \u2014 and do the work to bring them within reach.But Mastodon itself is a group of people, and it is what it is. It's not some other group.","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-02:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116358797018378129\/activity","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116356963368036394","objectType":"note","content":"<p>For context: to me, the value of participating in Mastodon as a social network is that there are a lot of people here who discuss (intelligently and with a sense of humor) subjects that I'm interested in , like FOSS and type design.<\/p><p>But that's also true of many other online services, like web-based discussion forums, which are also very bubble-ish. I use those, too.<\/p><p>But the notion that Mastodon itself was not going to operate in that same manner, frankly, fully evaporated super quickly.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116356963368036394","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,2026-04-06:objectType=thread:nonce=e3ad276e2cefb448","notice_info":{"local_id":"12410127","source":"ActivityPub","repeat_of":"12410125"}},"published":"2026-04-06T16:53:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"title":"evan repeated a notice by n8","verb":"share","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116358797018378129\/activity"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8","displayName":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0n8 \u00a0 Doesn't follow you \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-original-tmp20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-96-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-48-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-24-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"26657"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-96-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I care 100X more about *how* you argue and how you treat the people you disagree with than I care about what you think.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"n8","displayName":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0n8 \u00a0 Doesn't follow you \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","note":"I care 100X more about *how* you argue and how you treat the people you disagree with than I care about what you think."}},"content":"<p>Personally, I might use the term \"bubble\" rather than \"echo chamber,\" because so much of Mastodon's design focuses on giving server administrators tools to block things they don't want to see, and \"bubble\" emphasizes the barrier-forming aspect.<\/p><p>\"Echo chamber\" IMO put more emphasis on the \"other people will tell me I'm correct and we'll all convince ourselves there are no significant divergent viewpoints\" and I don't really think that's true. It's certainly not dominant.<\/p><p>Hashtag nuance.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-02:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116356926989335356","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116356926989335356","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Personally, I might use the term \"bubble\" rather than \"echo chamber,\" because so much of Mastodon's design focuses on giving server administrators tools to block things they don't want to see, and \"bubble\" emphasizes the barrier-forming aspect.<\/p><p>\"Echo chamber\" IMO put more emphasis on the \"other people will tell me I'm correct and we'll all convince ourselves there are no significant divergent viewpoints\" and I don't really think that's true. It's certainly not dominant.<\/p><p>Hashtag nuance.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116356926989335356","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116356911542003128","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116356911542003128"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-06:objectType=thread:nonce=e3ad276e2cefb448","notice_info":{"local_id":"12410124","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-06T16:53:18+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116356926989335356"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8","displayName":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0n8 \u00a0 Doesn't follow you \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-original-tmp20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-96-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-48-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-24-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"26657"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-96-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I care 100X more about *how* you argue and how you treat the people you disagree with than I care about what you think.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"n8","displayName":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0n8 \u00a0 Doesn't follow you \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","note":"I care 100X more about *how* you argue and how you treat the people you disagree with than I care about what you think."}},"content":"<p class=\"quote-inline\">RE: <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@scottjenson\/116352522288234148\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/social.coop\/@scottjenson\/116352522288234148<\/a><\/p><p>Huh; I didn't realize it was possible to *not know* that Mastodon is and has always been an echo chamber.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-02:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116356911542003128","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116356911542003128","objectType":"note","content":"<p class=\"quote-inline\">RE: <a href=\"https:\/\/social.coop\/@scottjenson\/116352522288234148\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/social.coop\/@scottjenson\/116352522288234148<\/a><\/p><p>Huh; I didn't realize it was possible to *not know* that Mastodon is and has always been an echo chamber.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116356911542003128","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,2026-04-06:objectType=thread:nonce=e3ad276e2cefb448","notice_info":{"local_id":"12410123","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-06T16:53:18+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116356911542003128"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8","displayName":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0n8 \u00a0 Doesn't follow you \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-original-tmp20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":120,"height":120},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-96-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-48-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-24-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"26657"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/26657-96-20221114170737.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I care 100X more about *how* you argue and how you treat the people you disagree with than I care about what you think.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"n8","displayName":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0n8 \u00a0 Doesn't follow you \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6","note":"I care 100X more about *how* you argue and how you treat the people you disagree with than I care about what you think."}},"content":"<p>That having been said, the underlying goal of things like ActivityPub are still genuinely interesting and incredibly worthwhile, specifically because they are a lot more powerful than Mastodon itself is. If AP was just the Mastodon source code, that would be meh.<\/p><p>So, more power to the smart people like Evan who see a lot more ambitious things out there \u2014 and do the work to bring them within reach.<\/p><p>But Mastodon itself is a group of people, and it is what it is. It's not some other group.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-02:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116357056743253967","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116357056743253967","objectType":"note","content":"<p>That having been said, the underlying goal of things like ActivityPub are still genuinely interesting and incredibly worthwhile, specifically because they are a lot more powerful than Mastodon itself is. If AP was just the Mastodon source code, that would be meh.<\/p><p>So, more power to the smart people like Evan who see a lot more ambitious things out there \u2014 and do the work to bring them within reach.<\/p><p>But Mastodon itself is a group of people, and it is what it is. 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