I'm trying to get more people to join the Fediverse, and for this reason, I tell people "I'm working on the social web."
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 04:21:57 JST Sal Rahman -
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 05:28:54 JST Sal Rahman @mikedev that's definitely the BlueSky folks talking about why the AT Protocol is advantageous.
Yes, they were mostly talking about Mastodon, but their blog post did seem to hide the fact that anything ActivityPub enriched with other protocols will most certainly empower nomadic identity.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 04:35:21 JST Sal Rahman The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.
A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.
It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.
That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #BlueSky #WebFinger
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 17:20:32 JST Sal Rahman There seems to be a high demand for linguists in the era of LLMs.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 23:39:42 JST Sal Rahman Energy cost is going negative in California in the spring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEzNzU4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MTQwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTM3NTg0MDAsImp0aSI6IjRlYTE1ZjM4LTk3ODQtNDVhYy05MjZlLWRjYjgxNGNhMmY5ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDQvMjIvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1zb2xhci1kdWNrLWN1cnZlLXJvb2Z0b3AvIn0.oWYOHLgrSaZNKLvmYZ45KaNCBacVFoD7USdTV2JwmNAIn conversation from techhub.social permalink Attachments
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 01:03:45 JST Sal Rahman My philosophy for building for the Fediverse: it's not the software but the protocols.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 15:04:39 JST Sal Rahman I told my brother that I learned to drive after having watched this one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 13:14:08 JST Sal Rahman Just learned of an open source Stripe alternative, called Lago.
Could be useful for what I'm working on.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 23:41:25 JST Sal Rahman I just read two articles that has me believe that social media is not a net negative, and is probably a net positive overall.
More validation that me working on software in the social media space shouldn't have me feeling morally bankrupt.
Definitely time for me to go all in on the Fediverse.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2024 06:28:11 JST Sal Rahman I wonder if federated replies are received by users on Threads.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 04:36:05 JST Sal Rahman DINO:
- claims to have engineers "working on integrating with ActivityPub"
- not contributing to other projects at all, nor supporting them financially
- implementing features that can't be federated
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 02:02:25 JST Sal Rahman Flipboard—not Mastodon nor Threads—could potentially carry the torch to keep ActivityPub thriving
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 12:36:36 JST Sal Rahman My new found ambition for the Fediverse project that I'm working on:
curating Flipboard magazines (or magazines in general).
Better yet: actually originating magazines that federate to Flipboard!
https://techhub.social/@mike@flipboard.social/111926756149144704
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 16:22:03 JST Sal Rahman Ideally, at the bare minimum, ActivityPub should have explicitly specified the "shape" of JSON (not JSON-LD) documents.
For example, the spec could have stipulated:
"An Actor document MUST contain the following fields, and MAY be extended via JSON-LD contexts"
And then also stipulate:
"Clients SHOULD expand incoming JSON-LD documents".
This way, applications could skip the expansions step for significantly large subset of the Fediverse.
This is important because not all environments (languages, runtime environemnts, etc.) have the luxury of expanding JSON-LD documents.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 22:20:39 JST Sal Rahman The Fediverse should be built from components; not whole "software"
Or at least, the whole point of "software" is to glue in the components together.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 22:03:39 JST Sal Rahman If the Fediverse gains mass adoption, I hope it ends up being used seamlessly; simply inconspicuous and unassuming.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 04:29:41 JST Sal Rahman What's the question, assuming you actually intended to have one in your original post? https://techhub.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/111744179738983358
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 12:10:55 JST Sal Rahman Let's think outside the box, and start building software that doesn't try to be an existing well-known service "but on the Fediverse."
Definitely not "Uber for the Fediverse", etc.
More like "let's build something, because we think our users want it.
"And oh look! There's this thing called ActivityPub that could help us a lot! Let's try to validate this idea!"
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 12:10:05 JST Sal Rahman I really hope Flipboard and Threads keeps pushing walled-garden environments (such as Android and iOS) to have deeper Fediverse integration, including just plain-vanilla ActivityPub.
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Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 12:09:17 JST Sal Rahman I'm giving up working on that "exciting thing" for the Fediverse that I was talking about, which was supposed to be the TikTok live or Meerkat for the Fediverse.
Moving onto something slightly less exciting.
Or it could be really, really exciting.
Who knows.
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