Notices by Sebastian Lasse (sl007@digitalcourage.social)

@smallcircles

This is probably just the handle.
webfinger is not part of ActivityPub.
Probably both webfingers resolve to the "index" ActivityPub Actor.

btw: see also https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114183958373099385

@rysiek @index

@smallcircles @rysiek

@index
just btw:
The ActivityPub Actor does not show an avatar yet in the fedi.
If you click "Profile" in the right ghost nav, you can set e.g. your logo as profile picture.

@rysiek @index

EVERYBODY :fediverse: PARTY !

from the bottom of my heart, this gives me hope. In our (pinned) talk from before US election I had a last warning about Elmo. My conclusion was if media organisations do not use ActivityPub to create new solutions, "they are guilty too" where my voice became broken, sad and desperate.*

Thank you so much 💖 404 / @josephcox
I am always willing to help with the protocol anytime voluntarly!

[*maybe said Open Protocols but Talk was about AP]

@josephcox

Did you try federated podcast software like https://docs.castopod.org ?

@_elena @eloquence
Much more important are the people who demanded it desperately :) And long before they knew what fedi is, people around @janboehm basically set up their instances.
While Jan might be famous for being multiple times "Playboy Man of the year", he is also a good comedian :)

PS
We did a Talk at Public Spaces in 2024 https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/112597533470606692

@3sat @ZDF

It seems #fosdem removed the #Dorsey Talk from the Schedule and Dorsey itself does not exist anymore:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/speaker/jack_dorsey/

@rysiek @Sascha

well, meanwhile they removed the complete speakers record :)

@Sascha
Der Protest wird wohl zu groß.

Zu bluesky sagt er nix mehr. In seinem letzten Interview dazu bezeichnete er es als "einen Fehler", nachdem dort Rechtsradikale moderiert wurden.

@rysiek
It looks like fosdem cancelled the Dorsey thing or do you think, they just removed it from schedule?
No updated statement ATM

Frequent reminder https://neveragain.tech/

Hey @hongminhee

currently blasting random thoughts about #ActivityPub to fedi which are important at least to me at the first workday of the shiny Year of the Fediverse.

About
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/51fbaabb-7f67-4021-8fdf-06109242df69/null?_=1735825467776

Do you think this makes sense?
Perfectly yes !!!
It is exactly the way we use it in redaktor and I can invite you in github that you can see which relations we use.

Would it be appropriate to put Link objects in the attachment?

Well, it would be "appropriate" if they
"identify a resource attached or related to an object that potentially requires special handling." or are "at least semantically similar to attachments in email." -
it feels bad and the reason that [poor, non-conformant but] big solutions are not supporting "multiple values" feels essentially wrong. I am deeply sorry :)

🧵 1/x

@hongminhee

Justification:
It is against the Linked Data Principles.
If any value in the spec. is not marked "functional" assume, there _are_ multiple values.
It is the opposite of "Be liberal in what you expect and strict in what you send".
It means "freezing" the fediverse.
:)

Let me explain it with two screenshots of the redaktor UI.
Data here is rather fake to show the use of multiple _different_ relations.
But any item like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1055 would have lots of relations.

In a Profile, the URLs are shown close to the summary ("above the fold") while the "attachment" would just be the links in a box which the user has to click (similar to the "attachments" in eMail) ...
Not shown here but would be possible.

2/3

@hongminhee

But I need to stress the Conformance Section https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#conformance
We are only "conformant" if we support "the entirety" of the protocol parts.
Cause only "the entirety" makes perfectly sense.
And it is up to us to start it. Right Now.
Not freezing cause of poor implementations.

Welll, this was my 2025 wish :)

3/3

recently I stumbled upon https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/616#issuecomment-2498990563 and (apart from this concrete issue) it make me think about how _new_ users to the protocol understand the use of multiple languages

The problem why the #ActivityPub #Specification has a deep learning curve:

In order to understand the use of multiple languages, you need to read at least 4 specifications.
Any user of the software can say: I speak language X in quality Y.
It might not be obvious to new users that it is the according
- HTTP "accept-language" header
like e.g. "de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3"

The default language is defined in the
- JSON-LD spec. as described in above issue

The primer to read about how to use it is in the
- AS Core specs.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#naturalLanguageValues

while the properties are described in the
- Vocabulary specs.
e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-name

While this is understandable and fine for me, it might be confusing to new or non-tech-implementors …
#i18n #language #specs #html #jsonld #as

/ @evan

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

20 years of trauma …

We met Chitravadivel Rajeswari in the General Hospital of Batticaloa.

The Tidal waves in Sri Lanka were up to 12 metres high and Chitravadivel survived them by climbing up a tree and clutching it for hours.
After the waves flooded the area she had just one goal: Helping in the hospital where she works as an assisting nurse.
Normally she would go by bike but now there was no bike, there was just water.

After 3 days we visited her again, she was totally exhausted. 💖 Chitravadivel did not spent a second to think about herself or her own property.
It was a very strange feeling but the only feeling I had at this minute was that anyone now needs a bit of time to care for themselves.
We tried to find her home which was a nice house. It was made out of stones and built by the best intentions of what a community can build.

This was the moment when we found the house.

🧵 to be continued

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

I do not want to share the „heavy“ pictures again but some signs and moments of hope.

We looked at how the schools dealed with the catastrophy and saw the power of communities.
The survivors collected all of the wet learning materials and used the upper floor to dry these materials to reuse them.

While there was lots of room for children to speak about the experienced, the lessons continued in the free space to give habit back.

Volunteers of UNICEF spoke with the children but – much more important:

They brought material for kids to express creativity and let the bad feelings go to paper.
To beat the devil out of the brush …
It felt as if that helped.
🧵

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

Akurala Gunananda Himi was the only monk in the Akurala temple at the coast.
Together with community people he seeked shelter inside the temple during the tidal waves.
It saved lives.
Outside the temple, only mud and debris remains.
🧵

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

Meanwhile we have seen about half of the coast of Sri Lanka.
Half of that giant ring of destruction.

Then we meet Rajasingham Kandeepan.
His family is considered to be missed.
He sits in the debris with family photos.

The tea shop at the beach is completely destroyed.

🧵

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

The volunteers of charities like british saraid.org (Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters) stay after their S.A.R operations to rebuild schools or public buildings.

Later on this day, we drove back to Batticaloa …

🧵

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

On the way back, we pass some areas where we can only walk by the help of the army cause the locations of mines from the civil war period can only be predicted now.
We look into the eyes of very hungry wild dogs while the elephants stood reportedly on higher ground in a group close together.
Especially at the East Coast, large areas like around this collapsed Hindu temple were completely destroyed.

The only lesson I learned:
Whenever solid structures are destroyed – be it by a disaster, by fascists, by Elmo (or any) –
we need to rebuild.
Continuously rebuild.

The next day in Batticaloa we wanted to visit Chitravadivel again …

🧵

#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka

We looked at the community to ask for Chitravadivel and I was thankful for my agency, stern and some editorial colleagues in that moment…

Chitravadivel was not at the left foundations of her house and it took us a while until we saw her nearby.

It was just moments after she had found her bike.

The bike to go to the hospital.
To help and then to rebuild.
Again.

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