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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 05:06:10 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?

   Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 05:13:04 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @cwebber activitypub is how people do kissing when they are very far away from each other

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 05:29:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @cwebber it's a protocol for trolling commenters across different social networks.

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     Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber (mlemweb@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 06:58:57 JST Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber

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     @cwebber

     Well, we ran a couple of conferences in 2019 and 2020 on ActivityPub, you can still watch the videos: https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos

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     Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even. (gorfram@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:11:50 JST Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.

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     • wlo

     @cwebber @wizard Never underestimate The Power Of Positive Mansplaining

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     wlo (wizard@xyzzy.link)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:11:51 JST wlo

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     @cwebber how do you keep getting away with this
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     Rob Zazueta (robz@toot.robzazueta.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:20:50 JST Rob Zazueta

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika @cwebber "When two servers love each other very, very much, they may decide to do something we call 'federation'..."

     Followed by excessively graphic pictures of message exchange.

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:22:37 JST Rocketman

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     @cwebber I really don’t understand why everyone is always going on about this activity pub.

     Myself, I much prefer my passivity sofa.

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     Mx. Eddie R (silvermoon82@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:24:13 JST Mx. Eddie R

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     @cwebber
     When a girl wants to tease a nerd, sometimes she'll help write a w3c standard...

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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:24:30 JST Scott Williams 🐧

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     @cwebber A logistical marvel of engineering designed for the sole purpose of distributing cat pictures at scale using everyday things you have lying around the house, like a NetBSD toaster. Moderation here means being careful not to overheat the toaster you are using to serve the cat pictures.

     #fediverse

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 07:48:26 JST alcinnz

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     • wlo
     • Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.

     @Gorfram @cwebber @wizard Part of it I think is people being in on the joke.

     Though not everyone is!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:21:12 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     There's a big difference between explaining something unprompted, assuming they don't know, and explaining something because someone asked. The humor here is comes from many people are excited to explain and don't check my profile. I don't think negatively for someone giving a sincere reply to a request, many are nice!

     Meanwhile, here it's meant to be more performance art, especially to reflect what it's like when I *don't* ask and get told. Thanks for participating!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:21:19 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     This is a running gag on the fediverse, originally created at a time where I got tired of people explaining activitypub to me, which happens, especially at conferences, more than one might think.

     However, the post doesn't give that context, and I'm asking people to explain AP to me. A lot of people give it an earnest try! I actually really appreciate that, and if you're one of those people, that's great. (cotd ...)

     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦, Rocketman and GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:21:24 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Feel free to boost this pretty widely, would love to learn about what ActivityPub is and why I should care

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     harce (harce@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:43:12 JST harce

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     @cwebber so when two servers really like each other... And one can be A and the other one P... And then they can Fedi.

     I would know, I Fedi all the time!

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:55:08 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Mark Shane Hayden

     @msh oh man!..

     @cwebber

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     Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 09:55:10 JST Mark Shane Hayden

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     @cwebber

     Fediiiii!!!

     You have some 'splainin' to do!

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     Evan Minto (vamptvo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:00:28 JST Evan Minto

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     @cwebber We call it a "fediverse" because everyone on here is a fed, hope this helps

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:32:52 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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     @cwebber it started out as mocking mansplainers and it has transformed into something beautiful and majestic

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:39:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @cwebber so many great people but certain ones I look up to in particular

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 11:39:18 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Evan Prodromou

     thank you @evan do you know anyone who worked on it

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     🇫🇷 minirop 🇬🇧 (minirop@shelter.moe)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 12:52:40 JST 🇫🇷 minirop 🇬🇧

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     @cwebber when two people fall in love, they pub/sub to each other and send love message in JSON.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 15:38:29 JST aeva

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     @cwebber An activity pub is a pub with fun activities like board games and craft projects. There's an activity pub instance near me that has an adult coloring book night. It sounds wholesome, but they can get quite rowdy!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 16:19:03 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • FifiSch

     @FifiSch we will wait for AOL with open arms

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     FifiSch (fifisch@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 16:19:04 JST FifiSch

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     @cwebber Hello, Christine.

     "Fediverse" is just a nerdy word that only nerdy people understand just like "Gopher" or "Usenet" used to be back in the day. "ActivityPub" is another nerdy word only nerds understand like "TCP/IP" or "IMAP"

     We are still waiting for our "AOL" or "Google" to come and make this thing simple, useful and enjoyable for the usual non-nerdy mortals.

     And we really, really want the usual mortals to come.

     But when/if they do, we will hate them, chastise them for not knowing enough about federation and maybe even call this day an "Eternal September part II"

     ...a reference they won't understand, but we will know it's a devastating insult...

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     Old Enough to Know it's Based ON (guyjantic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 17:45:23 JST Old Enough to Know it's Based ON

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     @cwebber Or you could be like my students: getting a joke painfully explained to you because I'm annoyed that no one laughed at it.

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     phii (local floofgirl cutie) (phseiff@toot.phseiff.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:27:14 JST phii (local floofgirl cutie)

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     @cwebber it's a website founded by a guy called gargron ramsey based on a protocal he developed with a professional ui design company

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:28:34 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @cwebber I think that’s one of the things they use in primary schools now. You know one of these modern teaching methodologies.

     ;-)

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:29:44 JST Rocketman

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     • Michael Bishop ☕
     • Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.
     • Alyx :neocat_flag_ace:

     @MichaelBishop @cwebber @Gorfram @alyx Yes, John Mastodon is the name on the 2009 ActivityPub whitepaper. But noone has ever been able to say for certain who that person really is.

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     Michael Bishop ☕ (michaelbishop@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:29:45 JST Michael Bishop ☕

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     • Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.
     • Alyx :neocat_flag_ace:

     @cwebber @Gorfram @alyx

     The secretive founder of Mastodon.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:29:47 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.
     • Alyx :neocat_flag_ace:

     @Gorfram @alyx john mastodon who's that

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     Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even. (gorfram@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:29:48 JST Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.

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     • Alyx :neocat_flag_ace:

     @alyx @cwebber Isn’t that the purchase that made John Mastodon the richest man in the universe?

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     Alyx :neocat_flag_ace: (alyx@alyx.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:29:49 JST Alyx :neocat_flag_ace:

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     @cwebber Actually, it's called the Mastodon Network™

     The US based company Mastodon Inc. recently bought ActivityPub.

     /hj

     (Some tone indicators might be helpful here)

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     zeitverschreib (zeitverschreib@freundica.de)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 23:49:17 JST zeitverschreib

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     • Rocketman
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     @slothrop

     John Mastodon's secret identitiy is Chuck Norris.

     @MichaelBishop @Gorfram @alyx @cwebber

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 00:09:48 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • · SтeғOғғιcιel · :ve:

     @StefOfficiel @cwebber https://evanp.me/activitypub-book

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     · SтeғOғғιcιel · :ve: (stefofficiel@mastoot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 00:09:49 JST · SтeғOғғιcιel · :ve:

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     @cwebber Salut et bienvenue, ActivityPub est un protocole utilisé pour interconnecter les outils du Fédiverse, cependant il est très mal documenté et manque cruellement de démonstration. Un jour peut-être il y aura une vraie documentation qui expliquera ce qui est réellement attendu, de quelle manière et surtout quels éléments obligatoires il faut pour que ça fonctionne sans avoir besoin de faire de la retro-ingéniérie dessus !

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 02:35:46 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Robert Kingett

     @WeirdWriter @cwebber Yeah, get in there before Chuck Tingle hears about ActivityPub

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     Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 02:35:47 JST Robert Kingett

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika @cwebber Do you mind if I use this in one of my romance novels? :)

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     John Breen (jab01701mid@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 05:05:32 JST John Breen

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     • Alyx :neocat_flag_ace:

     @slothrop @MichaelBishop @cwebber @Gorfram @alyx I am John Mastodon

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     DrYak (dryak@mstdn.science)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 05:05:32 JST DrYak

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     @jab01701mid @slothrop @MichaelBishop @cwebber @Gorfram @alyx
     No! I am John Mastodon!