Notices by Sam Sethi :pc2red: ⁂ (samsethi@podcastindex.social), page 4

@ericpp @BeAware Yes its pass through. So I logged into Flipboard with my PodcastIndex.social account not a Flipboard account

@mike loving the Flipboard < > Mastodon integration. The future is here and it's decentralised.

@mike @evan @chris @adam @dave @james So I successfully connected my Flipboard account to Mastodon. Soon I will have Threads & Ghost federated. I already have PeerTube, Castopod and Mastodon (plus Mastoclones - Ivory, Mammoth, Elk and Phanopy). Next I hope to add TrueFans to the Fedi-party.

This is a test from my federated Flipboard account to Mastodon. Will this also appear in Ivory, Elk and Phanpy?? https://activitypub.ghost.org/

Going live on Podcasting 2.0 with @adam and @dave #excited #gopodcasting

Join Us: https://truefans.fm/podcasting-20

@wjmaggos @BeAware @tchambers @evan @steven @davidpierce @dave @chrismessina We are building the inbox for TrueFans users. e.g I might follow a link via the 'socialInteract' tag to a AP Note (outbox) of a FediClient.

This note may receive multiple messages/activity verbs from other Podcasting apps. e.g a user on Fountain leaves a boost. Fountain then post the boost to the same socialInteract link. TrueFans listens to this AP Note and pulls in the new boost message to the users inbox.

@wjmaggos @BeAware @tchambers @evan @steven @davidpierce @dave @chrismessina Below is my Activitystream (outbox) in TrueFans. It shows a number of verbs for (the actor) Sam Sethi. 'Play', 'Suggest', 'Follow', 'Boostagram'. There are 20+ activity verbs in TrueFans. The next step is for us to publish these activities to my FediClient via the ActivityPub protocol. (TrueFans users can choose what verbs are public/private and what is published). Then any follower will see this as a signal.

ActivityPub is a messaging backbone with an inbox/outbox metaphor.

The AP bridge is a great demo of a FediClient/Mastodon (inbox) linking to an Activity verb called 'Follow' published from the Podcast Index (outbox) via the ActivityPub protocol.

However that is not what TrueFans is trying to achieve. TrueFans will become a full FediClient with an in/out box for ActivityStream messages.

/cc @wjmaggos @BeAware @tchambers @evan @steven @davidpierce @dave @chrismessina

According to FediDB, the ActivityPub side of the Fediverse is now used by nearly 10 million people, across more than 27,000 servers. FediDB also tracks 48 different platforms leveraging ActivityPub in some way. With Threads actively doing work their own implementation, these stats are likely to skyrocket, in more ways than one.

@HitokiriEric @tchambers One proposal for interoperability uses ActivityStreams and ActivityPub.

TrueFans.FM (my app) collects user's activity into an ActivityStream. The next step is to publish this activity data to the user's ActivtyPub client with their permission.

We currently have 30 verbs in TrueFans. Users can choose to hide all activity or publish whatever verbs they choose.

How this leads to app interoperability is still under discussion.

@HitokiriEric @tchambers Hi Eric this 'holy grail' is a collective goal for podcasting 2.0 developers to provide interoperability between our apps. I accept this is not a user goal.

I was going to subscribe to Evan Prodromou's new premium account but realised this is not Value 4 Value. This is the old web model of pay me every month even if I offer no value. Me paying Evan would be a leap of faith to believe he will deliver me $5 or more value. Now Evan may well do that but in a Value 4 Value model I would pay Evan what I wanted to based on me valuing his content and then only paying for what I consume. This is one reason why ActivityPub needs to support SATs.

This week's Podnews Weekly Review is now published. Sorry for the delay.

We interview @evan on the future of ActivityStreams and ActivityPub; And we interview Gretchen Smith from Ad Results Media.

@james also helpfully wades into the "preloading audio" argument that's consumed podcastindex.social over the last week.

Our special guest on this week's Podnews Weekly Review is the wonderful @evan the co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and ActivityStreams 2.0 #W3C

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based on the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

These are both W3C open web standards.

For the last few months, Evan has been writing a book about ActivityPub for O'Reilly.

The first two chapters are now available. You can read it here!
https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/ /cc @dave @adam

Good article to read in The Verge on the future of social media and the use of ActivityPub to make it happen.

Love This Quote:
"a rare chance to unbundle the internet, to pull apart an existing system and rebuild it, piece by piece, in vastly better ways. If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers . "

Link: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

@adam @dave this is how it looks for Podcasting 2.0 - we will look to add XMPP support over Christmas and ActivityPub.

This week we launch our new leaderboards, badges and producer pages