Notices by Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca)

Are there any Canadian computer assemblers?

I’m looking for something like System76 or Framework (both US) or StarLabs (UK).

#canada #elbowsuptech

@roland @dansup Fossy have cheap rooms at Gage https://2026.fossy.ca/travel/ -> https://reserve.suitesatubc.com/vancouver/availability.asp?hotelCode=%2A&startDate=08%2F06%2F2026&endDate=08%2F09%2F2026&adults=1&children=&rooms=1&requesttype=invBlockCode&code=G260802B%20

It’s $89/night

@evan please remove me from replies, William Maggos is a troll who spreads misinfo & is generally unkind who I have long blocked (yes I understand you’re pushing back against his misinfo)

(These thread canoes with a general tendency to not trim reply mentions in many clients is not great)

@evan @sheislaurence that’s a sort of bookmark on my own site and is pretty protocol focused.

@sheislaurence I help support a number of ATProto community resources.

Community blog https://atprotocol.dev and forum https://discourse.atprotocol.community, and I have some collected bookmarks of good articles https://semble.so/profile/bmann.ca/collections/3m5u77miiyf2h

Fun fact: that Semble site is also ATProto powered and you use your same account to store bookmarks

@evan @quillmatiq @dansup well I regret getting tagged into this, I responded up thread.

Dan is yelling at ATProto rather than yelling at Bluesky which of course ends up hitting the very people that care.

No, Gander is not a “rug pull”.

The crowd equity funding is closing, I think with ~2400 or so Canadian investors including myself, all on the same terms.

Some people didn’t sign paperwork when they got the chance at an earlier offering.

Join us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in late March if you’d like to meet the Gander team in person https://news.atmosphereconf.org

@scottjenson once again going to ask that you say #ATProto and not Bluesky.

We’re trying. Like many distributed open source systems, this is bottoms up community work. Pointing at Bluesky-the-company erases our work.

It’s not Bluesky’s job, it’s the ecosystems job.

@dmian @scottjenson there’s a just kicking off UX research project (that Scott just became aware of) that is doing work on the best messaging for this.

Bluesky is one product but also a microblog data type (like ActivityPub Notes type that Mastodon and others implement).

You can choose your account host completely separate even from your app with ATProto, so it’s different.

The @bonfire framework, a kind of federated social app construction kit, is running a crowd fund campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community

I’ve supported it and will look at running an install for some community, maybe @dwebvancouver

@evan just happened to see a bunch of videos about new restaurants & got some reccos from folks before I left. I’ve had a lot of the classics ;)

Last night was Au Pied de Cochon https://www.aupieddecochon.ca/us/

Maybe Khyber Pass, several people insisted on Portuguese chicken

Any recommendations welcome

I'm getting excited to see a bunch of people in person and eat good food in Montreal!

(Will be there for #IETF124 and some ATProto Community stuff)

@evan yes I’ll be in Montreal. At the IETF hackathon tomorrow and community activities for a couple of days https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/atproto-community-sessions-in-montreal-for-ietf124/164

@blaine @evan @snarfed.org yep, totally doable, and I started looking at the Bridgy code to detect lexicon types and do a transform.

The issue previous to Ghost coming on scene is that there has been little movement in display.

Snarfed has a Sept issue about “bare” Article type with Ghost using summary https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2091

@evan @darius @snarfed.org there are several apps with long form lexicons.

They do not bridge as article, there’s an issue for it.

(you asked this previously, nothing changed since then)

I have two Ghost sites I operate for which I turned on Fediverse posting.

I have hopes that they might support the Article long form AP type, but until it’s supported by Mastodon it won’t be visible to most. Getting @darius’s Hometown stuff merged would be great.

Would love to see these two pieces of software work together.

From @fediversereport https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-141/

I just enabled the AP compatibility of the #DWebYVR Ghost site, which can be followed at @dwebvancouver

You can also subscribe by email on the website https://dwebyvr.org

BTW, I referenced joy here and had not yet watched @cwebber's FediForum talk which also uses this word joy.

Yes! More joy!

https://social.coop/@cwebber/114688242964109365

The bottom line is joy: making apps should be fun, they should bring joy to users – including the confidence that the data is in their own account – and we should have a large variety of apps, from small, silly to big, serious.

And beyond microblogging is where all the good stuff is.

I published my slides from @fedicon on my site, as well as capturing answers to questions from @evan and @johannab and linking to apps mentioned and other resources.

https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyond-microblogging-atproto/

#Fedicon

From discussion during the end of day panel @cyberlyra pointed out that organizational design is the underlying, un-acknowledged piece that we all have to work on and learn about.

I enthusiastically agree! My label for the design we are learning is Networked Orgs https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/networkedorgs/

Links in there to more writing including Simon Wardley’s work.

The #WardleyMaps basis is bespoke to utility tech & the orgdesign each stage needs