Notices by Boris Mann (boris@cosocial.ca), page 2

Very much appreciate learning about @cyberlyra’s work at #FediCon

Her presentation was excellent and I have so much catching up to do around https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech/

I see lots of points of collab across @coop @dwebyvr.org @z-space.ca and specifically community activation in #Vancouver

@quillmatiq shows some power tools, including Airport, the #ATProto account migrator

#FediCon

Second speaker is @quillmatiq and he sets the stage about how this is about closed vs open, but goes on to talk about how fragmented the open side is.

#FediCon

Questions to @quillmatiq about other apps and ecosystems and ends up mentioning Sprk (open video platform, longer than what Bsky supports), Roomy (Discord chat alternative), and Germ (e2ee messaging) on the #ATProto side

Now @j12t presenting on Millions to Billions and says the entire open social is 0.1% of the entire market share.

We’ve got to be friends with everyone but the “overlords”.

#FediCon

@purpleidea @j12t there are many “yes ands”

Higher quality software comes from? Funding, business models, serving users that pay for things.

Lots of good nuance from @j12t in his talk about not just “social media”

I have some of these themes in my talk this afternoon about all the not-microblogging apps on #ATProto

Getting started first day of @fedicon with @evan kicking things off

#FediCon

The @dwebyvr.org crew are doing a group order of meshtastic wireless devices.

We've selected the Wismesh Pocket v2 plus a small card sized sensor / buzzer. These connect up to 7 hops and we'll be installing 2 solar powered repeaters in Gastown & Mt Pleasant (as well as direct between any two devices)

Fill out the form in the blog post to make your order https://dwebyvr.org/meshtastic-group-order-in-vancouver/ -- deadline is this Friday June 6th

#Vancouver #meshtastic #dwebyvr

Great Q&A with [[Robin Berjon]] about open social protocols wearing his [[Free Our Feeds]] hat in Columbia Journalism Review.

Explains open social protocols as roads shared by all, and gently pushes journalists to inform themselves & get better at explaining it.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/interview-robin-berjon-free-our-feeds-at-protocol-musk-zuckerberg-pichai-open-source.php

@mpjgregoire @evan yeah and we’re not really about controversy ;)

@mpjgregoire @evan yep, but didn’t surface during this meeting.

I think generally because the members meet so rarely, the formality meant that we missed out on some social cohesion hang out time.

But the intent is to fix this with more regular hang outs.

Thank you to everyone who attended the #CoSocialCa AGM earlier today.

We’re an officially registered co-operative and this comes with certain processes to follow that sometimes feel a bit formal.

But what was really nice was to see everyone live, even if just on video!

More to come as we share some notes in the next few days.

I now have the power to make my own espresso tonics in the office. Dangerous!

Today is my birthday.

This picture is from 49 years ago. 1975, summer, Eagle Cliff Beach on Bowen Island. That’s me being held by my mom.

re:Mix is a kitchen blender which you use with your own glass jars. It’s made in #Berlin and “open source”, and the intent is for others to build & sell in their local region.

This is a model I’ve been waiting to appear! Who wants to build in #Vancouver / #BC? https://www.openfunk.co/pages/re-mix

There’s quite a few people saying truly horribly things about Ryan Barrett, developer of Bridgy, who builds bridges between many different protocols, including now between ActivityPub and ATProtocol, the latter being what Bluesky runs.

I don’t fight about protocols on this account, but you can read my explanation on how to think about “bridge instances” on my other account.

https://toolsforthought.social/@boris/111922137223915413

@virtuous_sloth anyone that follows you, their server potentially caches some of your posts on their server

Depending on the server cache settings, it will cache your posts local to their server.

Our own servers cache for 7 days? @mick there's a difference between media and posts I think?

That other server a Pleroma install, a different but compatible ActivityPub microblogging server

@coop

@virtuous_sloth

Here's an example link of me on another server https://cosocial.ca/deck/@boris@toolsforthought.social

If you're logged into CoSocial, that will load my profile and you can browse the whole thing.

If you're not logged in, it should redirect to the remote profile (try it in an incognito browser window)

I guess Pleroma doesn't do that, but it SHOULD, precisely because of the indexing thing.

@mick @coop

@evan this is a fairly tame weird beer by my standards ;)

There’s a brewery Superflux a few blocks from me that makes “heavy fruit” beers.

One of them was banana, peanut butter powder “stout”. The carbonation bubbles crawl through the liquid 😅