Notices by Chris J. Karr (chris@omgwars.com)

@dansup Do you sleep?

(Keep up the good work!)

Baking this requirement into law is something that should ONLY be done with the utmost care and clarity.

For example, does "federate" mean that large servers must actually connect to a significant portion of the external market of users or just be open to it? How does the legal requirement overlap with local moderation choices? Are there exceptions for instances where the rest of the market chooses to NOT federate with them (e.g. Truth Social)?

"By law" sounds nice, but "Buyer beware" too!

@atomicpoet Yet another reason why self-hosting is bliss. I'll be sitting on the sidelines (my own instance federating with Meta until they give me a reason not to), watching all of this unfold and play out.

It's going to be interesting to see where the cards land. Will Meta be a good corporate citizen in order to maintain federation? Will defederated instances face user pressure to connect? Or will we have different island chains of federation out in the social sea?

Interesting days ahead.

@atomicpoet That's some Highlander-esque zero-sum thinking from Random Guy! Too much Platform Thinking, and not enough looking-ahead Protocol Thinking.

What gets me excited about all of this are not the Mastodons, *keys, Pixelfeds, etc., but instead the idea of augmenting existing sites with ActivityPub - such as my own @freshcomics - so that when I put new releases up, that release data shows up on the feeds of folks subscribed to the hash tag for a series or a favorite creator.

#ActivityPub

@atomicpoet I'm old enough to remember when Push Computing was supposed to be the Next Big Thing, and it collapsed under its own weight due to corporate interests building their own proprietary stacks that never achieved the the critical mass to survive.

Two decades later, ActivityPub looks like the protocol to FINALLY realize that potential, so thinking in such narrow terms of this just being social networking really misses the larger point. I see it as changing things the same way RSS did.

Pixelfed Brain Trust: I'm trying to import my Instagram history into my own self-hosted server, but the importer is asking for a media.json file that no longer exists in Instagram's latest data download format. Furthermore, there is also NO photos directory either.

Is Pixelfed lagging Instagram on this front or has someone addressed this? Note that I installed the server last night, so I should be up to date with the latest codebase.

#Pixelfed #Instagram #DataMigration