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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:00:45 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • The Spritely Institute

   With TWO HOURS TO GO left on Spritely's supporter drive I am gonna give a LIVE THREAD about why you should support @spritely and why I am SO PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOING HERE! https://spritely.institute/donate/

   Let's gooooooo!!!! 🧵

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:03:50 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Okay! So you know how you love decentralized social media? I mean presumably you do otherwise why would you ever read anything I write

     Well the first two engineers on Spritely are also the two editors at the top of the ActivityPub spec (myself and Jessica Tallon) and this is no coincidence!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:05:52 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     ActivityPub is great! It's the most popular decentralized social networking web based protocol in the world!

     (Sorry, no, ATProto still isn't decentralized yet so we still have that claim to fame)

     Tens of thousands of servers! Many, many federating implementations! Millions of users!

     Are we done?!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:08:04 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     No! There's a lot more work to do! The present day federated social web is not enough! Today's ActivityPub is not enough! ATProto is not enough!

     None of this stuff is enough!

     Spritely started from one question: What *can't* the present-day fediverse do? What's next?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:11:36 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Some *obvious* things the fediverse needs to do:

     - Content and accounts surviving when nodes go down (ATProto tries to address this, but I don't think quite does so right)!
     - Self-hosting is a pain! More peer-to-peer!
     - More secure! More private!
     - Healthier communities!
     - Less spam and abuse!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:12:34 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     But really, the BIGGEST thing missing to me about the present-day fediverse: it's *incredibly* short sighted in its ambitions.

     Why have we carved out "social media" as this particular kind of facebook/youtube/web 2.0 company defined thing?

     Why shouldn't ALL software be social?!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:15:02 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     All software should be able to be social, peer-to-peer, secure over the network. This becomes clearer when you see that it's hard to convince people to use Libreoffice once Google Docs exists.

     Secure collaboration is important.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:16:17 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     It shouldn't be that writing secure, peer-to-peer applications is an exceptional thing.

     Secure, peer-to-peer tech should be the DEFAULT THING you get when you write software, not the domain of experts.

     Too ambitious? No! This requires some rethinking about how we write software!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:18:50 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     If you remember when Django and Rails hit the scene, they were *revolutionary*. Not only did they make writing Web 2.0 applications *easy*, they made it so that you *learned how to think* like a Web 2.0 developer.

     Spritely's work is akin to that, but for secure, collaborative, decentralized tech!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:21:19 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     We're getting there. It's taken years, but we've got three big things that are putting the pieces in place:
     - Goblins, our p2p programming environment! https://spritely.institute/goblins/
     - OCapN, our p2p programming protocol! https://ocapn.org/
     - Hoot, bringing Spritely to browsers! https://spritely.institute/hoot/

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:23:21 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     There's a lot more I could say, there's a lot more I have said in other places. I believe Spritely is the future. I know it's a lot to take in. ActivityPub was a lot to take in, once upon a time.

     If you want to dive in, it's all there. All out there to read. We've got tons of information these days. Yes, I know it's a lot to absorb.

     If you don't want to dive in, it's a leap of faith. Let me help you make it.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:26:58 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     The future becomes the present when it hits peoples' hands. They start to assume of course, it was an inevitability.

     Once Mastodon became a success, the popular response to ActivityPub switched from "I don't believe that could work" to "ActivityPub is obvious, anyone could have done it".
     
     HN reply-guys always gonna armchair philosophize, act like they know everything once it's in front of their faces.

     Well let me tell YOU what I think.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:28:37 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     ActivityPub has been a big success. The fediverse as it exists has been a big success. I'm proud of that work.

     But personally, I think retrospectively, it'll be a footnote in history compared to what we're doing now.

     Yes, I really do believe the jump is that large.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:30:59 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     The world is becoming far, far more dangerous of a place to be.

     If human rights are going to survive, we're going to need better ways to not only communicate, but to collaborate. To do. To act.

     We need stronger foundations than we have today. Stronger by a *long shot*.

     Chris Wiegman repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:32:25 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     I worry about the future of activism if it needs to happen on ATProto, on the fediverse, as they exist today.

     *Especially* on ATProto, a system whose primary design point is "publicly index all content"; hardly safe for the current political environment. But the fediverse isn't much better.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:34:37 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     But this also misses the point.

     "Social", as perceived in "social networks", misses a lot of what "social" means to me. A lot of what I thought and assumed "social" meant when we were standardizing ActivityPub, anyway.

     A society doesn't just send postcards to each other. It *does things* together.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:36:07 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     All this research, all the work the Spritely Institute, it may seem like it's been low level, a bunch of computer science nerdery, the kinda stuff you'd expect out of a bunch of SICP-hugging catgirls.

     Well, okay, it is. But it's not ONLY that.

     And it's that way for a purpose.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:39:01 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     This next year, you're going to start to see the first pieces that start to hit users' hands.

     Very technical users for the most part mind you, but more users' hands.

     We're breaking out of "core foundations" mode. 2025 is the year you'll start to see people turn heads about Spritely, I think.

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:40:03 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Here is where I pivot to the ask.

     I am asking YOU to support the Spritely Institute.

     If you want to read up, do it! The information on what we're doing is laid out for everyone to see. There are papers on our homepage. Find out for yourself.

     But I am asking YOU to support us.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:40:57 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @cwebber At least one thing I'm quite glad ActivityPub works pretty well for is mass mirroring of (micro)-blog posts.
     
     But yeah it's *awful* if what you need is some kind of privacy, better use other protocols for this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:41:05 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     We are a nonprofit research institute building open source tech and open protocols for the commons that CHANGE THE GAME on how the internet works.

     An internet for you, for your friends and community, controlled by you and friends, without large corporate gatekeepers.

     But we need your help.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:42:58 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     "Spritely, brought to you by the people who brought you the fediverse!" We've done the research. Not to be smug but we ARE the experts.

     We are telling you, decentralized social networks as they exist today are not enough.

     And we are building the future.

     Please help us! https://spritely.institute/donate/

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:45:38 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     And if that's not enough... if that's not enough! If the moral ask ALONE was not enough!

     We show off our tech by making video games and if you donate at the silver, gold, or diamond levels YOU GET YOUR NAME IN OUR OPEN SOURCE VIDEO GAMES how cool is that? https://spritely.institute/donate/

     Nathan Schneider repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:49:36 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     In short:
     - Horray the fediverse/ActivityPub is great
     - Except literally the two people at the top of that spec are saying it's NOT ENOUGH and we have more to do
     - Except THEY'RE BUILDING IT and so is the rest of their awesome team!!
     - We need your help!
     - Pls donate!
     - 💜
     https://spritely.institute/donate/

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 07:52:36 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • The Spritely Institute

     Thank you! As I write this we have ONE HOUR LEFT of our campaign and we have raised OVER $85k!!!! https://spritely.institute/donate/

     THANK YOU EVERYONE! And if you haven't supported @spritely yet please do so! And thank you to those who have!

     💜💜💜💜💜

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:07:53 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @cwebber @spritely I would like to point out that you've now raise more than Free Our Feeds, despite all their big name support.

     Huge accomplishment.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:26:56 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely $87.3k 👀

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:32:48 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely $87.7k omg it's nearly .5k in 5 minutes O_O

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:33:11 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely 30 minutes left to go aaaaaaaaa

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:34:49 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely If we pass $90k before the top of the hour I will make a celebratory animation

     If we pass $100k before the top of the hour I will make TWO celebratory animations!!!!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:49:41 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely Oh man we are at 12 minutes to go and $88.5k!!! I might have to make that animation! https://spritely.institute/

     Only 1.5k left to go if you want me to make a lil' celebratory animation about succeeding at our Spritely campaign fundraiser goals!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:50:47 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely TEN MINUTES REMAINING

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:54:05 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely SEVEN MINUTES REMAIN
     $88.7k!!!

     SO CLOSE

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:56:01 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely FIVE MINUTES REMAINING

     $88.8k!!! https://spritely.institute/donate/

     Can we cross the $90k line? I WILL MAKE AN ANIMATION

     CAN WE DO IT

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:57:15 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely FOUR MINUTES TO GO AND WE JUST CROSSED $90k!!!!!

     Daniel Supernault repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 08:59:15 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely ONE MINUTES REMAIN https://spritely.institute/donate/

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 09:03:30 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @spritely THAT'S IT WE DID IT! https://spritely.institute/donate/

     THANK YOU EVERYONE!

     Nearly $90.5k! Holy smokes!

     I'll start working on that celebration animation tomorrow! :)

     (You can still donate if you want but officially the campaign is OVER! HORRAY!)

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     maryjane :fediverso: (maryjane@social.coletivos.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 21:45:21 JST maryjane :fediverso:

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     @cwebber well now that you mention libreoffice:

     https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6504-distributed-real-time-collaboration-for-writer-a-first-prototype/

     I am not sure if the video is out yet :)

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 23:18:51 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @piratenpanda @spritely Oh hey! :) The goblins are still alive in spritely, just in new forms ;)

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     Benjamin (piratenpanda@norden.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 23:18:52 JST Benjamin

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     @cwebber @spritely sorry, late to the party. Still remembering good old mediagoblin days :)