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@evan<\/a> Not exactly what I was thinking. In Minecraft (let's say), you want to keep growing, not just in absolute terms, but sufficiently that your strength relative to others remains stable, or else your nation will be destroyed by aggressors.<\/p>

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@evan<\/a> Not exactly what I was thinking. In Minecraft (let's say), you want to keep growing, not just in absolute terms, but sufficiently that your strength relative to others remains stable, or else your nation will be destroyed by aggressors.<\/p>

1\/2<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554121","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523492567643137","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116523492567643137"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12554121","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T19:21:40+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554121"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@mpjgregoire<\/a> I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think it's a case where stasis tends to go into a downward spiral.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523492567643137","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523492567643137","objectType":"note","content":"

@mpjgregoire<\/a> I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think it's a case where stasis tends to go into a downward spiral.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116523492567643137","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523489727504207","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554094"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12554098","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T18:57:27+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116523492567643137"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@mpjgregoire<\/a> I think the question you're asking is why Wikipedia can't just hit some point in time, park the content there, and call it a day, without attracting new editors?<\/p>

Editors are needed all the time for two reasons. One is that the world keeps happening, and we need to include that new knowledge. Second is that Wikipedia is incomplete, and we want to make it better.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523479272262881","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523479272262881","objectType":"note","content":"

@mpjgregoire<\/a> I think the question you're asking is why Wikipedia can't just hit some point in time, park the content there, and call it a day, without attracting new editors?<\/p>

Editors are needed all the time for two reasons. One is that the world keeps happening, and we need to include that new knowledge. Second is that Wikipedia is incomplete, and we want to make it better.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116523479272262881","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire\/statuses\/116523453609690083","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554090"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12554093","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T18:56:04+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116523479272262881"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@mpjgregoire<\/a> <\/p>

So, could the project get along without *new* editors? Probably for a while. But editors move on and stop editing -- there's a pretty high churn on Wikipedia. It would be harder and harder for the editors to keep up.<\/p>

It's also a loose-knit group with a lot of conflict that is resolved on-wiki. As people leave, it's harder to do that resolution.<\/p>

Gradually, the content would suffer -- which would mean even fewer new editors.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523489727504207","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523489727504207","objectType":"note","content":"

@mpjgregoire<\/a> <\/p>

So, could the project get along without *new* editors? Probably for a while. But editors move on and stop editing -- there's a pretty high churn on Wikipedia. It would be harder and harder for the editors to keep up.<\/p>

It's also a loose-knit group with a lot of conflict that is resolved on-wiki. As people leave, it's harder to do that resolution.<\/p>

Gradually, the content would suffer -- which would mean even fewer new editors.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554094","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116523479272262881","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116523479272262881"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12554094","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T18:56:03+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554094"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire","displayName":"M. Gr\u00e9goire","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-original-tmp20251218145018.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":37,"height":37},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-96-20251219033825.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-48-20251218173625.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-24-20251219033825.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"149887"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-96-20251219033825.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"ing\u00e9nieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montr\u00e9al#F\u00e9diQC #Montr\u00e9al #CanPol #cdnpoli #polqc #conservateur #conservative #fedi22","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@mpjgregoire","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mpjgregoire","displayName":"M. Gr\u00e9goire","note":"ing\u00e9nieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montr\u00e9al#F\u00e9diQC #Montr\u00e9al #CanPol #cdnpoli #polqc #conservateur #conservative #fedi22"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> I was wondering why Wikipedia can't be a \"little barley field and a little wood lot and a little university and you just chill and eat mushroom barley soup and write poetry by your wood fire\". One of the links you posted ( https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Schiste\/what-now<\/a> ) gives some answers.<\/p>

But on reflection, I'm not so sure. I see how the lack of articles in Bengali is a problem; but in 2026, if someone wants to read about Pytheas in Bengali, she can easily use machine translation to do so.<\/p>

1\/2<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire\/statuses\/116523438620198701","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire\/statuses\/116523438620198701","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> I was wondering why Wikipedia can't be a \"little barley field and a little wood lot and a little university and you just chill and eat mushroom barley soup and write poetry by your wood fire\". One of the links you posted ( https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Schiste\/what-now<\/a> ) gives some answers.<\/p>

But on reflection, I'm not so sure. I see how the lack of articles in Bengali is a problem; but in 2026, if someone wants to read about Pytheas in Bengali, she can easily use machine translation to do so.<\/p>

1\/2<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@mpjgregoire\/116523438620198701","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520719517797836","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520719517797836"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12554089","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T18:54:54+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@mpjgregoire\/116523438620198701"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire","displayName":"M. Gr\u00e9goire","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-original-tmp20251218145018.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":37,"height":37},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-96-20251219033825.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-48-20251218173625.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-24-20251219033825.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"149887"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/149887-96-20251219033825.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"ing\u00e9nieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montr\u00e9al#F\u00e9diQC #Montr\u00e9al #CanPol #cdnpoli #polqc #conservateur #conservative #fedi22","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@mpjgregoire","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"mpjgregoire","displayName":"M. Gr\u00e9goire","note":"ing\u00e9nieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montr\u00e9al#F\u00e9diQC #Montr\u00e9al #CanPol #cdnpoli #polqc #conservateur #conservative #fedi22"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> It's true that she (and other people benefitting from Wikipedia) would be less likely to write an article about that interesting monument in Chittagong than she once was: editing is less at-hand for people who find Wikipedia information via a search engine or an LLM, and mobile devices are ill-suited to writing long, serious texts. The trend seems to be that Wikipedia will have fewer editors and fewer new articles, but like the barley farm, that could remain sustainable.<\/p>

2\/2<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire\/statuses\/116523453609690083","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire\/statuses\/116523453609690083","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> It's true that she (and other people benefitting from Wikipedia) would be less likely to write an article about that interesting monument in Chittagong than she once was: editing is less at-hand for people who find Wikipedia information via a search engine or an LLM, and mobile devices are ill-suited to writing long, serious texts. The trend seems to be that Wikipedia will have fewer editors and fewer new articles, but like the barley farm, that could remain sustainable.<\/p>

2\/2<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554090","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/mpjgregoire\/statuses\/116523438620198701","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@mpjgregoire\/116523438620198701"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12554090","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T18:54:53+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12554090"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/users\/atomicpoet","displayName":"Chris Trottier","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/15609-original-tmp20241214060211.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":960,"height":960},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/15609-96-20241214064231.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/15609-48-20241214064232.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/15609-24-20241214064232.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"15609"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/15609-96-20241214064231.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my own self-hosted single-user Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I\u2019m a proud husband and father.","url":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/users\/atomicpoet","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"atomicpoet","displayName":"Chris Trottier","note":"Putting the sauce in awesome! This is my own self-hosted single-user Akkoma + Mangane server. I primarily talk about the Fediverse, movies, books, photography, video games, music, working out, and general geekiness. I\u2019m a proud husband and father."}},"content":"@evan<\/a> For what its worth, I used to think CBC was a hopeless organization in the face of Netflix and YouTube. But it turns out that it's now one of the few news sources I trust, and they've done more for Canadian sports than Rogers.

Sometimes it takes a catalyst for people to realize why an institution is important.","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/objects\/5b8bdfd4-0122-43b8-94d2-13584734ebac","object":{"id":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/objects\/5b8bdfd4-0122-43b8-94d2-13584734ebac","objectType":"note","content":"@evan<\/a> For what its worth, I used to think CBC was a hopeless organization in the face of Netflix and YouTube. But it turns out that it's now one of the few news sources I trust, and they've done more for Canadian sports than Rogers.

Sometimes it takes a catalyst for people to realize why an institution is important.","url":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/objects\/5b8bdfd4-0122-43b8-94d2-13584734ebac","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520643176050969","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520643176050969"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552364","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T08:55:03+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/objects\/5b8bdfd4-0122-43b8-94d2-13584734ebac"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@atomicpoet<\/a> yeah, good point!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116521126487376918","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116521126487376918","objectType":"note","content":"

@atomicpoet<\/a> yeah, good point!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116521126487376918","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/objects\/5b8bdfd4-0122-43b8-94d2-13584734ebac","url":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/objects\/5b8bdfd4-0122-43b8-94d2-13584734ebac"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/atomicpoet.org\/users\/atomicpoet"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552365","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T08:55:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116521126487376918"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/users\/samwilson","displayName":"Sam Wilson","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/146198-original-tmp20230707005131.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/146198-96-20230707005131.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/146198-48-20230707005131.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/146198-24-20230707005131.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"146198"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/146198-96-20230707005131.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"A Wikimedian from Fremantle, Western #Australia. I work for the #Wikimedia Foundation, and in my spare time am interested in local history and #genealogy, and write software that does stuff in those areas. I edit #OpenStreetMap and sometimes get away from the computer and into my #woodworking workshop.Photos: Profile portrait is https:\/\/w.wiki\/5yYs and profile banner is https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/29K8KLh","url":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/@samwilson","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"samwilson","displayName":"Sam Wilson","note":"A Wikimedian from Fremantle, Western #Australia. I work for the #Wikimedia Foundation, and in my spare time am interested in local history and #genealogy, and write software that does stuff in those areas. I edit #OpenStreetMap and sometimes get away from the computer and into my #woodworking workshop.Photos: Profile portrait is https:\/\/w.wiki\/5yYs and profile banner is https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/29K8KLh"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> We'll still be migrating off jQuery UI at that point, so at least we'll be occupied as the walls fall.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/users\/samwilson\/statuses\/116520604197259980","object":{"id":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/users\/samwilson\/statuses\/116520604197259980","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> We'll still be migrating off jQuery UI at that point, so at least we'll be occupied as the walls fall.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/@samwilson\/116520604197259980","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520577066845845","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520577066845845"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552336","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T08:38:45+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/@samwilson\/116520604197259980"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@samwilson<\/a> something to look forward to!<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116521062539643053","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116521062539643053","objectType":"note","content":"

@samwilson<\/a> something to look forward to!<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12552337","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/users\/samwilson\/statuses\/116520604197259980","url":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/@samwilson\/116520604197259980"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/wikis.world\/users\/samwilson"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552337","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T08:38:44+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12552337"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/bolha.us\/users\/gutocarvalho","displayName":"\/mastodon\/gutocarvalho","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/19891-original-tmp20260706152224.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/19891-96-20260706152245.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/19891-48-20260706152245.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/19891-24-20260706152245.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"19891"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/19891-96-20260706152245.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":":terminal: SysAdmin &&(Cloud | Platform | GitOps) Engineer :idle:DevOps Enthusiast> DevOps is a Culture :linux: :apple_old_logo: :bash: :docker: :kubernetes: :git_logo: :gitlab_logo: :cloud: :lgbt_heart:#Brazilian :awesome: Father of Bia & ArturGuardian of && \\Pacoca (Male Golden Retriever) && \\Tweet (Female Tricolor Cat)Lived in Brasilia from 2009 to 2025Living in Dourados\/MS\/Brazil todayMade in Campo Grande\/MS\/BrazilRaised in the South #Pantanal WetlandVersion 44.11Initital build 1981.05.12.0002#Neurodiversity #ADHD #MDD :neurodiversity:#TDA #TDR#Okinawa#KarateDo #ShitoRyuKai #BlackBelt \ud83e\udd4b#Umbanda #Axe #Orixas #Ioruba#DevOps #GitOps #CloudNative#Agile #SRE #IaC #Infrastructure #OpenSource #OpenKnowledge#Kubernetes #Rancher #Puppet#SelfHosted#Firestarter #Innovation#ProScience#NoBridge #NoBot #fedi22Surfing on the \ud83c\udf0e since 1995.\/me is the founder of Bolha.io :bolha: Collective.The answer is 42#EleN\u00e3o #PauloFreireSim\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af Toots in \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 a","url":"https:\/\/bolha.us\/@gutocarvalho","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"gutocarvalho","displayName":"\/mastodon\/gutocarvalho","note":":terminal: SysAdmin &&(Cloud | Platform | GitOps) Engineer :idle:DevOps Enthusiast> DevOps is a Culture :linux: :apple_old_logo: :bash: :docker: :kubernetes: :git_logo: :gitlab_logo: :cloud: :lgbt_heart:#Brazilian :awesome: Father of Bia & ArturGuardian of && \\Pacoca (Male Golden Retriever) && \\Tweet (Female Tricolor Cat)Lived in Brasilia from 2009 to 2025Living in Dourados\/MS\/Brazil todayMade in Campo Grande\/MS\/BrazilRaised in the South #Pantanal WetlandVersion 44.11Initital build 1981.05.12.0002#Neurodiversity #ADHD #MDD :neurodiversity:#TDA #TDR#Okinawa#KarateDo #ShitoRyuKai #BlackBelt \ud83e\udd4b#Umbanda #Axe #Orixas #Ioruba#DevOps #GitOps #CloudNative#Agile #SRE #IaC #Infrastructure #OpenSource #OpenKnowledge#Kubernetes #Rancher #Puppet#SelfHosted#Firestarter #Innovation#ProScience#NoBridge #NoBot #fedi22Surfing on the \ud83c\udf0e since 1995.\/me is the founder of Bolha.io :bolha: Collective.The answer is 42#EleN\u00e3o #PauloFreireSim\u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af Toots in \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 a"}},"content":"RT @gutocarvalho My friend @luis_in_brief has written a couple of good articles about Wikipedia's collapsing web traffic:https:\/\/lu.is\/2026\/04\/wikipedia-decline-by-topic\/https:\/\/lu.is\/2026\/04\/wikipedia-career-cliff\/I especially found this article about how Wikipedia's "flat" traffic growth over the last decade masks a precipitous decline in relative Web traffic:https:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Schiste\/what-nowMy former colleague Marshall Miller at WMF wrote about a vertiginous 8% quarterly drop in Wikipedia page views at the end of 2025:https:\/\/diff.wikimedia.org\/2025\/10\/17\/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia\/","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/bolha.us\/users\/gutocarvalho\/statuses\/116521001272593368\/activity","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520494342182251","objectType":"note","content":"

Wikipedia is in a similar bind -- although from the comments, I think it's only obvious to Wikimedia insiders right now. Wikipedia has fallen from a peak of about 5th-biggest web site to about 12th today. Still huge, but trending in the wrong direction.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520494342182251","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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552316","source":"ActivityPub","repeat_of":"12552030"}},"published":"2026-05-05T08:23:04+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"title":"gutocarvalho repeated a notice by evan","verb":"share","url":"https:\/\/bolha.us\/users\/gutocarvalho\/statuses\/116521001272593368\/activity"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/me.dm\/users\/funcrunch","displayName":"Pax Ahimsa Gethen","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/99551-original-tmp20230218055401.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/99551-96-20230415024106.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/99551-48-20230415024106.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/99551-24-20230415024106.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"99551"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/99551-96-20230415024106.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"#Queer, #Black, #trans (#agender \/ #nonbinary \/ #transmasculine), #vegan, #atheist, #pacifist. Longtime #Wikipedia editor, #blogger, #photographer, and #SanFrancisco resident. Pronouns: they\/them\/their.Profile photo: Me (medium-brown skin, brown eyes, beard stubble) wearing tinted glasses, faded black AIDS Walk cap, and purple hoodie, standing next to a pole with white, pink, and blue stripes.#wikipedian #wikimedian","url":"https:\/\/me.dm\/@funcrunch","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"funcrunch","displayName":"Pax Ahimsa Gethen","note":"#Queer, #Black, #trans (#agender \/ #nonbinary \/ #transmasculine), #vegan, #atheist, #pacifist. Longtime #Wikipedia editor, #blogger, #photographer, and #SanFrancisco resident. Pronouns: they\/them\/their.Profile photo: Me (medium-brown skin, brown eyes, beard stubble) wearing tinted glasses, faded black AIDS Walk cap, and purple hoodie, standing next to a pole with white, pink, and blue stripes.#wikipedian #wikimedian"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> <\/p>

Sounds like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, or any number of other \"cozy\" games that don't focus on combat. (Which doesn't really help your analogy, admittedly)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/me.dm\/users\/funcrunch\/statuses\/116520717514614670","object":{"id":"https:\/\/me.dm\/users\/funcrunch\/statuses\/116520717514614670","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> <\/p>

Sounds like Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, or any number of other \"cozy\" games that don't focus on combat. (Which doesn't really help your analogy, admittedly)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/me.dm\/@funcrunch\/116520717514614670","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520413739805441","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520413739805441"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552278","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T07:57:42+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/me.dm\/@funcrunch\/116520717514614670"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@funcrunch<\/a> both of those are economic games that depend on growth. They're fine examples. You can get boxed in on both games.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520901053464204","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520901053464204","objectType":"note","content":"

@funcrunch<\/a> both of those are economic games that depend on growth. They're fine examples. You can get boxed in on both games.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520901053464204","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/me.dm\/users\/funcrunch\/statuses\/116520717514614670","url":"https:\/\/me.dm\/@funcrunch\/116520717514614670"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/me.dm\/users\/funcrunch"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552279","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T07:57:41+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520901053464204"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

I should also say that the Wikimedia editor community is a big drag on developing new interfaces for editing, since the editors are also the fact checkers. Getting a flood of new edits from ChatGPT users or Alexa users or Google search users is a WP editor's worst nightmare.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520810504815883","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520810504815883","objectType":"note","content":"

I should also say that the Wikimedia editor community is a big drag on developing new interfaces for editing, since the editors are also the fact checkers. Getting a flood of new edits from ChatGPT users or Alexa users or Google search users is a WP editor's worst nightmare.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520810504815883","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520543201817360","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520543201817360"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552240","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T07:35:45+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520810504815883"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

I say all this with deep love and respect. I have lived and will die a believer in wikis. I believe in open source and the open web. I love my friends and colleagues at both organisations and I hope they keep their jobs and thrive. I want them to succeed.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520719517797836","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520719517797836","objectType":"note","content":"

I say all this with deep love and respect. I have lived and will die a believer in wikis. I believe in open source and the open web. I love my friends and colleagues at both organisations and I hope they keep their jobs and thrive. I want them to succeed.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520719517797836","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520643176050969","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520643176050969"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552168","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T07:12:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520719517797836"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aeva","displayName":"aeva","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/20435-original-tmp20251104165625.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/20435-96-20251104171638.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/20435-48-20251104171638.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/20435-24-20251104225031.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"20435"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/20435-96-20251104171638.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5, Gears Tactics, and other games. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.I like to post about my numerous personal projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, odd thoughts, my home made synthesizer visual programming language, sculptures, digital painting, and lowfi 3D.Fervently anti-ai. Chronic pain enthusiast. \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0fCurses are blessings with caveats.","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aeva","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aeva","displayName":"aeva","note":"I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5, Gears Tactics, and other games. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not.I like to post about my numerous personal projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, odd thoughts, my home made synthesizer visual programming language, sculptures, digital painting, and lowfi 3D.Fervently anti-ai. Chronic pain enthusiast. \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0fCurses are blessings with caveats."}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> the thing that bums me out about firefox is it shouldn't matter if mozilla lives or dies. it's open source! but it got built up so big and the stakes are so high it might not be enough just to have a community of people who give a shit to try to maintain it. i think they crossed the point of no return on accident a long time ago and google has just been keeping them on life support as an anti-anti-trust talisman since then<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aeva\/statuses\/116520652998103693","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aeva\/statuses\/116520652998103693","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> the thing that bums me out about firefox is it shouldn't matter if mozilla lives or dies. it's open source! but it got built up so big and the stakes are so high it might not be enough just to have a community of people who give a shit to try to maintain it. i think they crossed the point of no return on accident a long time ago and google has just been keeping them on life support as an anti-anti-trust talisman since then<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aeva\/116520652998103693","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520611235938071","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520611235938071"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552141","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T07:00:36+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aeva\/116520652998103693"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@aeva<\/a> I think you have an adorably romantic mental model of how big Open Source works.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520676336414750","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520676336414750","objectType":"note","content":"

@aeva<\/a> I think you have an adorably romantic mental model of how big Open Source works.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520676336414750","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aeva\/statuses\/116520652998103693","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/@aeva\/116520652998103693"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.gamedev.place\/users\/aeva"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552142","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T07:00:34+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520676336414750"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/openrisk","displayName":"Open Risk","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181789-original-tmp20231005120850.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":340,"height":340},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181789-96-20231005120851.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181789-48-20231005120851.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181789-24-20231005120851.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"181789"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181789-96-20231005120851.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"The open future of risk management","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@openrisk","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"openrisk","displayName":"Open Risk","note":"The open future of risk management"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> agree on both. People vote with their hearts, but what's happening is the techno-orcs have sucked the oxygen out of all the heroic old-time projects. Not an insider but I wouldn't be surprised if Wikipedia is dropping because it too is no longer needed as fig leaf. They took some risky bets (I know of abstract Wikipedia, wikibase) but they didn't flourish. Actually I can't think of any growing open project today that touches *mass* audiences. Signal with their 70 mln users comes closest.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/openrisk\/statuses\/116520605364348488","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/openrisk\/statuses\/116520605364348488","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> agree on both. People vote with their hearts, but what's happening is the techno-orcs have sucked the oxygen out of all the heroic old-time projects. Not an insider but I wouldn't be surprised if Wikipedia is dropping because it too is no longer needed as fig leaf. They took some risky bets (I know of abstract Wikipedia, wikibase) but they didn't flourish. Actually I can't think of any growing open project today that touches *mass* audiences. Signal with their 70 mln users comes closest.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@openrisk\/116520605364348488","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520494342182251","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520494342182251"}},"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,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552136","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T06:58:25+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@openrisk\/116520605364348488"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

@openrisk<\/a> Signal is a good example. They've mostly managed to pivot from the big one-time donation from the WhatsApp founder and licensing deals with Big Tech for the Signal protocol trademark to user donations, which now make up the majority of their income. Not enough to cover costs, but a good place to be. I think one question is when they diversify what they offer.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520663658454139","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520663658454139","objectType":"note","content":"

@openrisk<\/a> Signal is a good example. They've mostly managed to pivot from the big one-time donation from the WhatsApp founder and licensing deals with Big Tech for the Signal protocol trademark to user donations, which now make up the majority of their income. Not enough to cover costs, but a good place to be. I think one question is when they diversify what they offer.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520663658454139","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/openrisk\/statuses\/116520605364348488","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@openrisk\/116520605364348488"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/openrisk"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552137","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T06:58:24+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520663658454139"},{"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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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 "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'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":"

Anyway, I'm going to choose to stay hopeful. I think most of the options for these two big organizations are revolutionary and not evolutionary. But I believe they still exist. I'm going to say Neither, but ask me again next year.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-11:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520643176050969","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520643176050969","objectType":"note","content":"

Anyway, I'm going to choose to stay hopeful. I think most of the options for these two big organizations are revolutionary and not evolutionary. But I believe they still exist. I'm going to say Neither, but ask me again next year.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520643176050969","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116520634505333993","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520634505333993"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-05-05:objectType=thread:nonce=39223502481eeffe","notice_info":{"local_id":"12552131","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-05-05T06:52:55+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116520643176050969"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6374415","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}