Notices by Pelle Wessman (voxpelli@mastodon.social), page 3

@maffeis Or just refrain from buying from Amazon all together 😌

@maffeis @ia Would be neat for eg @manton if someone were to create a Micropub / Microsub to Mastodon API bridge and likewise for client creators of someone were to create a Mastodon API to Micropub / Microsub bridge.

@maffeis I like how the #IndieWeb is approaching this with #MicroPub and #MicroSub:

* https://indieweb.org/Micropub
* https://indieweb.org/Microsub

Clients can chose to implement one or both of those.

A typical social media app would implement both.

An app that’s meant only for authoring posts picks just MicroPub and an app that’s simply meant for consumption picks just MicroSub.

I find the #Fediverse / #Mastodon focus on #ActivityPub as the one and only API to be a bit lackluster in that regard.

@maffeis #ActivityPub is for federation whereas #micropub and #microsub are for interacting with your instance, so they are not really exclusive though.

Micropub is already supported by tools like micro.blog, @ia Writer and such.

Not sure if anyone has implemented it on top of an ActivityPub backend though.

#Webmention, #WebSub and #Microformats would be the more direct #IndieWeb “competitor” to ActivityPub, but eg @snarfed.org and @pfefferle are both showing that the two can be bridged

@djlink @Migueldeicaza Up next: Start making commonplace to share same laptop and phone hardware between work and private and to build software solutions to avoid impacting work-life balance.

If we can remove the need for a huge chunk of duplicate phone/computer hardware that would be a win for nature and more

@dansup List of what for what? Is that GDPR compliant? 🤔

@dansup @pixelfed Is this using the non-standard #MastodonAPI or a standard like #IndieAuth or #OpenIDConnect? https://www.w3.org/TR/indieauth/

Today’s #FollowFriday:

- @decius for his work on https://news.feedseer.com/, an excellent personal aggregation of one’s feed
- @pfefferle for his great and persistent work on #Fediverse / #DiSo / #IndieWeb plug-ins for #WordPress over the last decade(?) which recently landed him a job at Automattic

@pfefferle @richardazia @will 100% Node, 0% React 😜

@pfefferle @richardazia @will I’m slowly working myself back to the DiSo scene 😎

@richardazia That @pfefferle guy has been doing it for way longer than Mastodon, probably twice as long, he is pretty awesome at it 😜 (Is @will still also working on some of the WP-stuff?)

@darth @killyourfm Liquid in open container on laptop 🥶🥶🥶

@pfefferle Very nice! And well deserved ?

@pfefferle Congrats! Will it be WordPress, Tumblr, Fediverse or something else that you will be focusing at? ?

This is for sure the biggest challenge that eg @opencollective, @stackaid and others faces:

How to get people to accept money and (especially for #OpenCollective) how to then get them to make use of that money in a constructive way that makes it become a catalyst for an already successful project.

@tidelift kind of has their story clear here. They sign up maintainers for support to keep their packages safe and they sell those agreements packaged up with indemnification insurance to companies.

One of the big takeaways from when we built Flattr almost a decade ago is:

It can be harder to get people to accept money than to get people to give money.

If one believe money to be important in creating eg a sustainable open source movement, then one needs to work at least as hard on getting people to accept and use money as on getting people to spend that money.

This is especially important to create a positive self-reinforcing loop where all actors can see the benefits in practice.

A late #FollowFriday:

This week, let’s share services that helps you give back to the OSS community at large:

- @stackaid - like Flattr it works with a fixed monthly fee of your choice which it then splits between all first and second level dependencies of your projects
- @opencollective - a site through which you can donate to projects, but more importantly, a structure that can host the money of OSS projects
- @tidelift - like @stackaid but adds legal protection and is geared at enterprises

@clacke @stackaid I really like it! And while it may look like it’s JS only it actually isn’t, they launched more support recently: https://www.stackaid.us/blog/now-supporting-go-python-rust-and-more

Here’s me on that platform: https://www.stackaid.us/github/voxpelli

I guess it’s pretty much GitHub only for now, but that’s okay with me ?

@clacke You donate through Stripe, this enables a site like StackAid to not have to deal with much of the money as it never leaves Stripe, they handle the forwarding from giver to receiver

@clacke They divide it across the dependencies of all the projects you register in it and if I remember correctly it adds your new GitHub projects automatically.

You can remove projects and filter out receivers.

Then it looks at the subdependencies and forwards part of the money to them.

And lastly it pays out to registered projects through Stripe or they try to find the projects on GitHub Sponsors or OpenCollective and forward the money there.

If they can’t, that money gets redistributed.