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   frostdust (frostdust@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 13:34:27 JST frostdust

   in reply to

   @fsf To be honest, getting rid of DRM would be the good enough for most people . This would already be tough as it is.

   In any case, DRM is basically anti-features that are hard to remove.

   For these reasons, yes I hope you succeed. I do wish there was more focus on framing proprietary as being DRMed then non-free as a whole.

   RYF is nearly impossible I think, but Respects My Privacy is possible.

   It would be nice to have fully libre hardware though. I just think that would be near impossible.

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   Laurens Hof (laurenshof@fediversereport.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 12:39:40 JST Laurens Hof

   Last Week in Fediverse and Bluesky – ep 77

   This edition of Last Week is a combination of the weekly fediverse newsletter, as well as the monthly Bluesky update. The next two weeks there will not be a newsletter, as I’ll be busy touching grass rocks in the Alps. I’ll be back again in August. Feel free to tag me in posts/news items that you think I should know about, as I will not be reading any feeds for these two weeks.

   The News

   The Dutch Government’s Mastodon pilot celebrates their one-year anniversary this week, and as part of the 1-year mark they’ve posted some reflections and a major announcement. They announced that the plan is to start offering Mastodon to all governments organisations at all layers of the government (national, provincial and local) as a shared service of the government, stating that this project will contribute to a reduction in dependency on commercial social media platforms and strengthens the government’s digital autonomy. In a reflection on the first year of the pilot, organisations that participated particularly mention the community as a positive aspect, although one of the main points of improvement is a current lack of reach, as well as integration of Mastodon in current tools that organisation uses.

   Fediverse platform Streams has added nomadic identity to their platform, based on ActivityPub. Nomadic Identity makes your identity independent from a server. For the protocol-people: Streams is using FEP-ef61. For the non-protocol-people, this means that the implementation that Streams is using has been discussed in the community for a while, and gives space for other platforms to implement the same feature as well.

   OpenVibe is a social media client for multiple networks, that combines ActivityPub, Nostr and Bluesky into a single app and a single feed. This week, OpenVibe added support for Bluesky for their multi-protocol app. TechCrunch has more details on the app. I’ve mentioned previously a few times the idea that ‘federation happens in the client’, and OpenVibe is the clearest example yet. What protocol and platform people use matters less for federation than what client people use, since clients can combine multiple protocols into a single feed.

   BTS ARMY, the fanbase for the massively popular boy band BTS, is starting to join Bluesky. While it is only a small portion of the fandom, it immediately has a noticeable effect on the culture of Bluesky, as they started showing up in the Discover feed. FORBetter, a new blog about a better social internet by Newsmast’s Saskia, has been covering the migration of ARMY, and answering their questions about what the fediverse is.

   In the June update for Bluesky I wrote about how near-term use-case of labelers will likely be more for specific services than broad content moderation decisions. Two recent new labelers illustrate this further, by using labelers to allow people to self-apply information about themselves that they want to showcase via a label: One labeler allows you to set a country flag on your profile, and the other labeler allows you to set your own preferred pronouns on your profile.

   While Ghost is adding ActivityPub, Npub.pro has taken the concept of Ghost and applied it to Nostr. Npub.pro is a personal website based on your Nostr content, that uses Ghost themes. It takes your current Nostr posts (you can use either your shortform microblogs, longform articles, or both), and displays them as a website. Because it is based on Nostr, you do not need an extra CMS, any client that you use to publish Nostr content works. I think this is an interesting evolution in the thinking of the space of decentralised social networks, and what it means to view content separately from the platform that it is published on.

   Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold decided to run an extra Relay for atproto, to help alleviate concerns that doing so would be prohibitively expensive. In the current setup he runs an extra Relay of the entire network for 150 USD/month, and has written up notes on the setup. The more expansive part is running an AppView, and Newbold estimates that running your own AppView will ‘a bit more expensive, but not much more’.

   The Links

   • Mastodon is hiring a part-time Finance/Ops Associate.
   • Mastodon’s monthly update, Trunk & Tidbits, for their engineering and development work of the last month.
   • Buffer, a popular social media scheduling tool, now has posting to Bluesky in beta.
   • The PeerTube Livechat plugin got some major updates, including live polling during streams.
   • The Open Science Initiative is currently in development, and updates will now be shared from their own Bonfire instance.
   • Some statistics on the usage of the bridge between ActivityPub and Bluesky, courtesy of Kuba Suder.
   • Two articles about Threads: the Threads Creator Paradox, and Mike Masnick questions how open Threads’ fediverse intergration actually is.
   • WeDistribute takes a closer look at the ActivityPods example app to help developers.
   • The newsletter ‘The Future is Federated’ writes about the power of owning your data.
   • Newmast writes about how the UK government’s new digital policy could affect the fediverse.
   • An Admin’s Guide to Fixing PeerTube.
   • fedv.link is a way to share fediverse links that open on your preferred server.
   • The latest update for the Bluesky app will now add suggested follows in the Discover feed.
   • The software updates in the fediverse for the last week.

   That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!

   #bluesky #fediverse

   https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-and-bluesky-ep-77/

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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 10:02:40 JST Lauren Weinstein

   So I was watching one of Trump's lawyers outside the courtroom in NYC today, where they said something like "in 33 years of practicing law that's the best testimony a client has ever given". And I'm thinking to myself this isn't a stupid person saying this, but it sure reminds me of something ... something ... and ...

   I realized what it is.

   In the original "The Twilight Zone" episode "It's a Good Life" (1963), Billy Mumy plays a little boy who is described by Serling as a monster, who can kill anybody, create horrors of all kinds, simply with his mind.

   And the adults all live in abject fear of being turned into something horrible and being killed and being "buried in the cornfield."

   "It's good that you killed that, Anthony!"

   "That's a really fine two-headed gopher you made there Anthony!"

   They all said wonderful things about him, for fear of his retribution if they didn't.

   One of the most famous of all Twilight Zone episodes. And there it was, in front of a NYC courtroom today. No closing narration by Rod Serling required.

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   ErC (erc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 05:03:13 JST ErC

   The corporatization of #Monero continues. Sad times for people who believe a community of people should not be guided (or held hostage?) by for-profit corporations.

   The absurd thing is the admission that a non-profit would be doable, but slightly more inconvenient, so for profit it is.

   In the past the Monero community managed to fight back attempts to transform collectives into corporations, like the attempted takeover of the community workgroup some years ago

   At the time people fought back and the attempt failed, but the community is not even close to be the principle-driven group that it was once, so i expect this depressing trend to continue and strengthen.

   We were supposed to change the world, but people decided the best way to do it is by building things the same way we always did.

   We wanted to get rid of banks, we created and supported crypto-banks (CEXes)

   We wanted to create money outside of the interests of states or corporations, we created corporations to manage the communities that should make this revolution.

   #Crypto has failed and Monero is on the wrong path, but hopefully this failure is laying the base for others, more ethically and politically minded, to take the original principles and put them in practice without falling in the same comfortable schemes that we were supposed to make obsolete.

   https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/415

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   Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 00:20:33 JST Vagina Museum

   in reply to

   Days of the week are, in general, a useful social construct. if you're practicing religious observances such as Shabbat, you need to be able to name which day of the week it is.

   In the industrial world, Thursdays are also useful, as much of business and commerce uses a five day week.