Notices by just small circles 🕊 (smallcircles@social.coop)

Hurray! 🥳

The last days of #SocialMedia have come. Sped up by an unexpected but uplifting side-effect of the #AI madness perhaps?

🌱 Here comes #PersonalSocialNetworking. According to James O’Sullivan..

> The successor to mass social media is, as already noted, emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens.

The archipelago fedi! 😃

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/share-what-you-want-socialhub-to-be/5539/36?u=aschrijver

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialWeb #SX

Apparently overheated technosphere discussions on theme 'AP vs AT protocol wars' that I have luckily entirely missed.

Let's focus on the social, in the sociosphere. What is the social web we want?

https://coding.social

MAGA supporters who fail to see the ongoing assault on US democracy, the ongoing coup, are either ignorant, willfully blind, or active collaborators to the rise of a fascist regime. The GOP is far gone down this path of extremism already, while leadership of the Democrats by their passivity, silence, and complete lack of strategy and plans to give opposition, makes them complicit too. And then there's the Media. It is abhorrent how they fail to do their democratic duties in informing the public.

@bmacDonald94

OMG! Think gov will quickly saw a big hole in that wall to 'safeguard this one for in the museum'. 🥲

We live in a #technosphere and are being force-fed #DigitalTransformation. See how it destroys the fabric of our #society.

#DelightfulCommons curated lists are inspired by #awesome lists on #Github and I realized they still represent a sterile lab with glaring TL lights and metal glinting everywhere.

In a quest to bring more of the missing #social connecting layers to bridge the gap between tech vs. #people and #humanity, I decided to give things a friendlier makeover.

https://delightful.coding.social

@bmacDonald94 and what a powerful image this is. I absolutely adore this work! 😍

@silverpill @mariusor

Here are some related links:

https://tree.linkeddatafragments.org/linked-data-event-streams/

https://semiceu.github.io/DCAT-AP/releases/3.0.0/
https://semiceu.github.io/LDES-DCAT-AP-feeds/

https://www.eventnotifications.net/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00665

@evan @silverpill @mariusor

Yea, those are things that can be said in hindsight. Maybe there was also the implicit expectation that the standardization process would continue in similar fashion as with other W3C recommendations. Not accounting for the organic growth in the grassroots developer ecosystem with its very particular social dynamics and how that would severely complicate things over time by accidental complexity popping up all over the place.

@evan @silverpill @mariusor

I mean AS/AP are quite unique in this regard, in the way things came together from the bottom upwards when it comes to formal open standards formation. Unique evolutionary process needed too.

@evan @silverpill @mariusor

Sounds like a very good direction, and perhaps a ❤️ → 💕 direction there.

Every vote is a very opinionated one anyway, I guess, and depends on the expectations one has wrt to the protocol stack and the future of fediverse and social networking, and how it fulfills current (app) needs.

@evan

Marriage happiness levels as in..

- Making up, falling in love again
- From love to passion
- From passion to deep mutual affection
- Trending towards unhappiness

@silverpill @mariusor

I don't think you can say that. AS has more uses than with AP. I know of at least:

- Linked Data Event Streams
- DCAT-AP and DCAT-AP Feeds
- Linked Data Event Notifications

And as for #ActivityStreams relation to #ActivityPub I'd say - and it is the argument I make in the GH issue - that we have a vocabulary without good grammar and language rules. The AS social primitives are loose words, and you can construct any gibberish with them and try to make it popular slang.

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

> To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896433

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Funding

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE

Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.

What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.

The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!

Yet they need HELP.

@silverpill @thisismissem @feps

Your last sentence is rendered in Mastodon web UI as:

> That would explain why shortcodes separated by "しゅいろ" are not rendered.

@aral @judell @jonudell

Not sure I understand. Are you against a plugin model, since that allows anyone, including bad actors to build plugins?

@aral @judell @jonudell

Yes, of course. I referred mainly to the model itself, rather than the way they give shape to it.

@aral @judell @jonudell

Btw, the event-based approach is also what attracted me to Datastar. One of the devs who works in gaming (hence focus on performance and intermediate UI) is using a bootstrap for both hobby and work that is event-sourced and has NATS and SQLite on the back-end by default.

More generally it is interesting to consider event-driven architecture e.g. for the collaborative social web i.e. fediverse.

I'm looking for simple tech to experiment with that a bit :)

@aral @judell @jonudell

Correction. *Worked* in gaming. Is now working for NATS, hence that tech choice.

(Aside: NATS recently wanted to dodge out of Linux Foundation and apply different licensing, but ultimately and under much public pressure, cancelled that trajectory again.)

@aral @judell @jonudell

I wonder what your thoughts are regarding the sustainability model of #Datastar they came up with.

- They founded a non-profit for custodianship.

- Their Datastar library is fully self-contained, considered feature-complete. Simple, concise code, available to anyone.

- This library contains a plugin mechanism. Any added feature is an extension.

- Anyone can build/offer plugins. Datastar has free + paid ones.

That is not an open core model exactly, isn't it? Musing 🤔