{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":11,"items":[{"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><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@evan<\/a> Lemme preface this by saying that I don't ask out of disagreement, but out of interest in historical context: how much do you think we know about the US-based \"Big Tech\" companies that no longer exist, like Yahoo, and whether or not agreeing to cooperate with federal law-enforcers orgs affected their survival rate?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116415215813522051","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116415215813522051","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@evan<\/a> Lemme preface this by saying that I don't ask out of disagreement, but out of interest in historical context: how much do you think we know about the US-based \"Big Tech\" companies that no longer exist, like Yahoo, and whether or not agreeing to cooperate with federal law-enforcers orgs affected their survival rate?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116415215813522051","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414931565424621","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414931565424621"}},"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,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12460749","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T20:15:25+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116415215813522051"},{"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> well, *I* know almost nothing. But it's a really interesting theory!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116415481222780060","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116415481222780060","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\" class=\"u-url mention\">@n8<\/a> well, *I* know almost nothing. But it's a really interesting theory!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12460750","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/n8\/statuses\/116415215813522051","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@n8\/116415215813522051"}},"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,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12460750","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T20:15:24+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12460750"},{"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. 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Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"<p>So, answer is yes.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116415098177298652","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116415098177298652","objectType":"note","content":"<p>So, answer is yes.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116415098177298652","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414980866279325","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414980866279325"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12460341","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T18:22:54+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116415098177298652"},{"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. 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Interference by foreign governments or other entities in domestic elections using social networks is a real danger.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414961807616699","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414947250829111","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414947250829111"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459767","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T15:03:07+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414961807616699"},{"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. 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People have more in common across borders than what separates them.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414971900199575","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414961807616699","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414961807616699"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459768","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T15:03:06+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414971900199575"},{"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. 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Good fences make good neighbors. From trains and planes and trucking to phones and postal mail and internet, having domestic companies manage circulation locally, with well-defined interfaces at the border, seems like a healthy and robust pattern to replicate.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414980866279325","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414971900199575","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414971900199575"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459769","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T15:03:05+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414980866279325"},{"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>I feel like this idea has cloaked the dominance of technology by big American tech companies. Value at the level of the stack where governments participate and encourage local business -- mobile and terrestrial Internet companies, for example -- has withered in favour of big cloud services and device operating systems.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414922671140258","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414922671140258","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I feel like this idea has cloaked the dominance of technology by big American tech companies. Value at the level of the stack where governments participate and encourage local business -- mobile and terrestrial Internet companies, for example -- has withered in favour of big cloud services and device operating systems.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414922671140258","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414912105104163","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414912105104163"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459741","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T14:52:20+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414922671140258"},{"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>Since the Snowden revelations, more than a decade ago, it's been clear that those big American tech companies have colluded with the US federal government against their own American and overseas users. The reelection of Donald Trump in 2024 has put this even more in the spotlight.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414931565424621","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414931565424621","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Since the Snowden revelations, more than a decade ago, it's been clear that those big American tech companies have colluded with the US federal government against their own American and overseas users. The reelection of Donald Trump in 2024 has put this even more in the spotlight.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414931565424621","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414922671140258","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414922671140258"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459742","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T14:52:19+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414931565424621"},{"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>Even services hosted domestically, run by local affiliates, are not immune to US government interference. The prosecutor of the ICC lost access to his Outlook email at the order of the Trump administration.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414947250829111","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414947250829111","objectType":"note","content":"<p>Even services hosted domestically, run by local affiliates, are not immune to US government interference. The prosecutor of the ICC lost access to his Outlook email at the order of the Trump administration.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414947250829111","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414931565424621","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414931565424621"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459743","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T14:52:18+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414947250829111"},{"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>\"Digital sovereignty\", \"data sovereignty\", \"technology sovereignty\" are all related terms:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_sovereignty\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_sovereignty<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414899180025933","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414899180025933","objectType":"note","content":"<p>\"Digital sovereignty\", \"data sovereignty\", \"technology sovereignty\" are all related terms:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_sovereignty\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technological_sovereignty<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414899180025933","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,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459698","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T14:44:28+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414899180025933"},{"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>I am from a generation that thought of the Internet as a place out of space, unrelated to any particular legal jurisdiction. This JPB piece is a classic.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/cyberspace-independence#main-content\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.eff.org\/cyberspace-independence#main-content<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-04:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414912105104163","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414912105104163","objectType":"note","content":"<p>I am from a generation that thought of the Internet as a place out of space, unrelated to any particular legal jurisdiction. This JPB piece is a classic.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/cyberspace-independence#main-content\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.eff.org\/cyberspace-independence#main-content<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414912105104163","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116414899180025933","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414899180025933"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-04-16:objectType=thread:nonce=efa742bbb040e8d0","notice_info":{"local_id":"12459699","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-04-16T14:44:27+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116414912105104163"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6326282","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}