Notices by Chris Messina (chrismessina@mastodon.xyz), page 2

Happy to be the 2500th backer of @Iconfactory's #ProjectTapestry!

Learn more: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry?ref=project_mastodon

https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/111930949420985066

more modest approach would have enabled us to participate in the space with considerably greater agility. The actions we’re taking today will make this strategic correction, working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem and more rapidly bring smaller experiments to people that choose to live on the mozilla.social instance."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/?guccounter=1 (2/2)

RIP mozilla.social?

"Scaling back investment mozilla.social: With mozilla.social, we made a big bet in 2023 to build a safer, better social media experience, based on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Our initial approach was based on a belief that Mozilla needed to quickly reach large scale in order to effectively shape the future of social media. It was a noble idea but one we struggled to execute. While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea, in retrospect a (1/2)

It appears that social web/fediverse compatible web mentions are being worked on over on Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/C1JAcRLL0lc/

/cc @mike@mike@flipboard.social

Perhaps the best part of this interview (so far!) is that @Gargron says he prefers the phrase "social web" over fediverse. LET'S DO IT!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Oc1sz7K9L3NjeDvLotkuH?si=eE8pdpUvR06qY2JA9U1SPg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A0X00HNuKr8PuhZdpjkPwUT&t=712

#DiSo #ActivityPub

From: @Gargron
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111616761510320943

Very interesting listen considering that what @dansup is suggesting for the social web, Meta is doing between Threads, Instagram, and Facebook.

@photomatt 's suggestion to provide "adjustments" when sharing (intentionally) to other social contexts is worth considering given the reaction many are having to their Threads content appear on Facebook.

From: @davidpierce
https://mastodon.social/@davidpierce/111279080485702562

16 years after the DiSo Project¹ kicked off² to turn WordPress blogs into identity hubs of a vast, open, and decentralized social web, ActivityPub (the successor to ActivityStrea.ms) has now landed in core³.

This is huge for the fediverse! 🥳

Congrats @pfefferle!

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

¹ https://diso-project.org/
² https://factoryjoe.com/2007/12/06/oauth-10-openid-20-and-up-next-diso/
³ https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub

Friends of the #Fediverse — I'm looking for nominations of Makers on Mastodon! Share your best follows with me and I may be able to get them some extra visibility!

https://chrismessina.me/makers-on-mastodon

(Please reshare)

Hashtags arrive on Bluesky... via API anyway. Interesting implementation.

"there are two kinds of tags supported, twitter-style (inline) and tumblr style (outside the text)"

"the inline tags are via richtext facets. the outside tags are via a tags array. there's no need to duplicate between them or sync them; they serve different UI purposes"

"they are both used for indexing/discovery"

https://staging.bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3kacudpuuka27

That sound you hear is the fediverse expanding!

"ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has been released allowing WordPress blogs to be followed by others on apps like Mastodon and others in the fediverse and then receive replies back as comments on their own sites."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/wordpress-blogs-can-now-be-followed-in-the-fediverse-including-mastodon/

Download here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

/by @Sarahp s/o @pfefferle.wordpress.com @pfefferle #ActivityPub #DiSo

The first hashtag on Threads is #paidpromotion

https://www.threads.net/@chris/post/CxEXXz-PL8j/

@feld By "using it right now", do you mean you're able to stay in the same thread w/ me w/o mentioning my username? If so, that makes sense — since Twitter had the concept of "in-reply-to" threading that allowed posts to... be in reply to another thread, and it wasn't necessary to mention the OP.

@feld @Gargron Perhaps! Worth an exploration — including how such a feature could be abused or lead to broken conversation context!

@Gargron I think the person I'm citing is myself?

Will clarify re beta 1.

Do you have a set of tests I can look at to better understand the behavior you've designed? I was relying on the screenshots in the Github issue.

Also, I was unaware of this: "as tags authored in non-Mastodon software that are not included in the body of the post would become visible for the first time"; are you saying that ActivityPub already supports non-inline tags on posts?

Is it time for hashtags to evolve?

Well, they're about to on Mastodon due to an upcoming change in v4.2.0, advanced by @Gargron himself.

I have some thoughts.

https://medium.com/chris-messina/the-problem-with-the-problems-with-hashtags-35d4ba29b04d?sk=89627c83abff03705edb64fe59570415

#TheProblemWithHashtags

The @music 𝕏 handle was just seized through eminent domain by X Corp. from Jeremy Vaught after he had accrued 11.4M followers over 16 years.

So much for 𝕏 being the "best place on Earth for great content creators". 🙄

#DeadTwitter

Kickstarter has announced its AI policy and is leaning into self-disclosure.

**• Projects utilizing AI tools for generating images, text, or any other output **must disclose relevant details on their project page

**• Projects *developing* AI technology, tools, or software** must disclose information about any databases and data the creator intends to use

https://updates.kickstarter.com/introducing-our-new-ai-policy/

#GenerativeAI

I'm not sure how this will be feasible any time soon:

*We’ll also ask whether the creator has consent from owners of the works that are used to produce the AI-generated portion of their project.*

Reddit has a #NewAppIcon, which apparently is part of a plot to extort users into paying for Reddit Premium.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/18/23799266/reddit-app-icons-ugly

#NewReddit

Apparently no women are necessary to "understand the true nature of the universe" because they don't have dicks to measure.

RT https://mastodon.xyz/@chrismessina/110702257711998450