Notices by Erlend Sogge Heggen (erlend@writing.exchange), page 2

From @bnewbold:

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3kwzl7tye6u2y

A relay of the entire Bluesky network can be run for $153/month. That’s mighty impressive!

Many #ActivityPub hosters are paying this amount for member counts in the low thousands.

From @by_caballero:

> the idea is to detach the Actor object (which could be operated by a microserver that consumes almost zero resources, and basically just operates a big redirect table like a link-shortener) from the Service Provider, to be a little more like
> email (in the use case where you point a domain that you own and configure at protonmail or mailgun or some other provider)
> or SMS service (in that regulation enables you to keep your number when you switch phone co’s).

(…) on a personal website), which in turn enables service providers to offer their users a “BYO (Bring Your Own) domain name” feature.

That’s really all I ever needed from the notion of a ‘single-user instance’. All I want to manage on my own is my identity, not a full AP server.

In this paradigm, someone’s tiny personal website could also be their Actor-ID Provider, and nothing more. That ID could in turn be used to as a (reasonably nomadic) account on any FEP-7952 compatible instance.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-7952-roadmap-for-actor-and-object-portability/4332?u=erlend_sh

I think this is the most important (WIP) Fediverse Enhancement Proposal of this year for the #ActivityPub protocol:

FEP-7952: Roadmap for Actor and Object Portability — by @by_caballero and @dmitri

It ties a lot of elementary building blocks for #nomadicidentity neatly together, most succinctly summed up by one particularly magic feature:

Bring-your-own Actor ID! 🪪💫

Actor profiles can now be hosted separately from the instance (including as a static JSON object (…)

@tchambers there’s much more evidence to the contrary:

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/evidence-that-llms-are-reaching-a

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/facing-facts

@Techmeme @tchambers @anildash @nilaypatel this seems like an opportune time to renew pressure on Threads to support a two-way integration with the fediverse (the parts of it that want to federate with Threads anyway) that isn’t attention-extractive.

@johnonolan please just bury me in a web-of-2005 time capsule 🥺

@johnonolan Mainstream AI is as MEGACORP as it gets. The fediverse is the best kind of counter-cultural scene, where real friendships are made.

oy, dear #UX fedizens:

We're in the process of adding a basic tagging system to our app. This feels like one of those things we have some pretty established conventions for already in order to make tag-entries exceedingly user friendly on both desktop, mobile et.al., soo

got any good resources for 'Best Practice of Tagging UX'?

#design #webdev

Excellent new article by @maggie

https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

This vision aligns perfectly with moddable applications.

Modding as a practice of programming has always been radically more accessible to hobbyists, I.e. the equivalent of “barefoot developers”. Moddable software loads the hobbyist programmer up with tons of reusable primitives (lego blocks) that are functional from day1.

Mods are also low-risk applications, because they are effectively run in a sandboxed environment.

#localfirst

“And so here's what we're going to talk about:

Local-first Beyond Local Data
Home Cooked vs Industrial Software
My Pitch for Barefoot Developers
Why Language Model Legos Need Glue
How We Can Bake Local-first Into Everything.”

“My friend Kasey Klimes wrote a fantastic piece called “When to Design for Emergence” on the design dynamics of large-scale software after working on Google Maps.

He points out that our current approach is designed to only solve the most common needs of the most number of users.

Anything beyond that is what we call the long tail of user needs. These are things only a few people need, but there's a nearly infinite amount of them.”

“small-scale, specific software [is] the land of opportunity”

“[Barefoot developers] are people who are technically savvy and interested in solving problems for themselves and people around them, but don't want to become fully-fledged programmers.

(…)

At the moment, they rely on low and no-code tools. And they do wildly complex things within them, pushing these apps to their limits.

They are the kinds of people who would be thrilled to have more agency and power over computers.

(…)

But they never make it over what I call the command line wall.”

“If I'm at all right about there being a sudden explosion of local, home-cooked software, how does this affect the strategy of the local-first movement?

How would you try and make sure local-first is baked into this future by default?

Because this default tool set for barefoot developers should really have a database that’s a local-first database, right?

(…)

Whatever defaults are baked into these agents and their available tools are going to make a lot of decisions for them.”

https://blog.commune.sh/weird-happenings/

After two months of development, a LOT has happened in the Weird project.

Weird is a web application built to increase the agency of internet users. We are building three interconnected pillars as our foundation:

* Independent social sign-in rooted in the OIDC standard as keymaster
* A personal web space creator
* An actually-social network of shared purpose

In two weeks we're starting our pilot with the Norwegian Buddhist Foundation!

#RustLang #iroh #oidc #identity

Any #ruby dev out there willing to do a simple plugin for #discourse?

A handful of indie devs are pitching in with working examples of FedCM, an important new identity standard with direct implications for the #fediverse: https://wrily.foad.me.uk/sign-in-with-big-tech-only-or-sign-in-with-whom-i-prefer

The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.

cc @Discourse

https://blog.erlend.sh/evergreen-content-gardens

Social bookmarking is a novel use case for #ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.

Things like #Bookwyrm are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs.., they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.

Thanks to @raffomania and @eb for the indirect prompts leading to this article mixing their ideas with my own.

https://blog.erlend.sh/weird-netizens

To free ourselves from feudal identity fiefdoms, we must simultaneously de-centralize and re-centralize identity.

Decentralize ownership.
Recentralize agency.

By de-centralizing the ownership of identity away from platform monopolies and back to individuals, we can re-centralize the agency of personhood.

The central authority of ones digital identity must be the individual. That's how we regain our digital sovereignty.

#NomadicIdentity #IndieWeb

https://blog.commune.sh/federated-webrings/

In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.

Let's envision what a truly federated chat like #Matrix could do to improve the cross-connectivity of chat channels. Most of these features are already possible, they just haven't been implemented yet in a community-oriented client experience.

#CommuneApp #fediverse #community

@tchambers it requires #NomadicIdentity for the account portability, and some form of #POSSE so that you always have a personal copy of your data in case the server you’ve deferred to goes abrubtly defunct without notice.

POSSE doesn’t need to entail a completely separate app/feed that you self-manage though, it could be as simple as your fedi client keeping a local copy of your content, and maybe backing it up on a cloud drive.

For nomadic identity, @arcanicanis is apparently close to a PoC.