[[PeARS]] is “People's Agent for Reciprocated Search”, an open source search system written in Python. Federated server plus local version to run from your desktop. #searchhttps://pearsproject.org
John O’Nolan, founder of Ghost, makes a post asking for feedback on federating Ghost with ActivityPub. Please share what you write in the survey! #ActivityPub#Ghosthttps://tally.so/r/m67X4P
Manton from Micro.blog @manton intends to enable the service as an ATProtocol PDS:
> “The long-term plan for Micro.blog is to fully support AT’s PDS — Personal Data Servers. Any blog hosted on Micro.blog would plug into Bluesky seamlessly, with data portable to other AT Protocol hosting providers.”
20 years of Flickr. And I just happened to tell the story today of the tech meetup I organized in Vancouver 20 years ago. 6 people came, including Roland Tanglao, who got us all early access to Flickr.
It’s all open source code. The reality is that ActivityPub is opt out.
You can choose an allowlisted network, have instance or new types of servers with defaults that aren’t public (Hometown allows this), or keep it as is and educate people on their defaults.
Client settings for defaults is another layer for innovation.
This is similar to your feed reader (a foreign network protocol) subscribing to the RSS feed of your Mastodon account.
It’s open. The rules of the protocol are being followed. There is no opt-in for that RSS feed — other than turning on “request to follow” in your Mastodon account.
He wrote a great article back in January entitled “Moderate people, not code” that is good background
> “Whether ActivityPub or ATProto or webmention, the underlying technical protocol a community uses to interact online is a poor way to judge who they are and whether you might like them.”
@Matt_Noyes@ntnsndr@robin it’s a genuine request if there is interest, because we know some people who are interested and setting up a new co-op is more work.
And by Bluesky, we mean #ATProtocol - running open source PDS server where user data is delegated for hosting.
I’ll add my interest: because I don’t think there is one open social protocol that will win and would like to share the experience of PDS hosting with an international group.
If any new followers who are participating in the longest thread ever on slightly experimenting with software funding and ownership are interested, I help run a Canadian co-op that is member owned and hosts a Mastodon server, CoSocial https://blog.cosocial.ca
This server I host along with some other apps on a system I call the #CommonsComputer
It’s powered by #Cloudron, for which I pay a subscription in exchange for maintaining and updating both the server & all the apps that I deploy.
@vid you could build a research platform if you wanted to!
My vision is that ActivityPub will get adopted more, new apps and protocols and schemas will emerge with varying levels of interop, and this in turn leads to a thriving ecosystem of backend and front end apps, code, projects, and large and small businesses growing ecosystems around these things.
Are there specific things I want to build? I have ideas for small business, and a recipe protocol would be fun. Something with maps / places.
I can’t speak to Mastodon’s plans (although it is open source so people can help build it, fork it to be something different, or run custom instances).
You can run many different client front ends that change how you use Mastodon.
Web tinkerer. Building my #SecondBrain on the web for 20+ years, from blogging to wikis to TFTs and beyond.Believer in #OpenSource #DWeb Commons Networks#TiddlyWiki for my FoodWiki https://foodwiki.bmann.ca#Obsidian for editing my main site running #Jekyllhttps://bmannconsulting.comWaiting to start building the #Noosphere with #Subconscious