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   John O'Nolan (johnonolan@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 11:14:34 JST John O'Nolan

   I'm a lot more excited about ActivityPub than I am about AI atm. Both are cool, but very different energy.

   What's most interesting to me about ActivityPub (at least right now) is less the specific technology, and more the people who it's bringing together.

   ActivityPub, the idea, is a little campfire attracting a fascinating band of misfits to gather around it.

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     John O'Nolan (johnonolan@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 11:14:41 JST John O'Nolan

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     • Erlend Sogge Heggen

     @erlend Exactly. A lot of it feels like early web ~2005ish, and I love that

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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 11:14:43 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     @johnonolan Mainstream AI is as MEGACORP as it gets. The fediverse is the best kind of counter-cultural scene, where real friendships are made.

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     Justin ⏚ (justinh@twit.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 11:14:45 JST Justin ⏚

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     @johnonolan ActivityPub is a protocol that better facilitates a connection between people, generative AI is a technology that better facilitates removing other humans from the interaction.

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     TeflonTrout :bc: he/him (teflontrout@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 11:14:50 JST TeflonTrout :bc: he/him

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     @johnonolan We are all sitting here like the end of Outer Wilds, hoping everything works out OK somehow

     Fuck you, you're not crying I'm crying

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     Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 13:05:24 JST Erlend Sogge Heggen

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     @johnonolan please just bury me in a web-of-2005 time capsule 🥺

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     Peter (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:28:03 JST Peter

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     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:

     @johnonolan @jcrabapple … whereas AI is attracting a bunch of libertarian billionaires, sci-fi zealots, and crypto grifters 😂

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