Notices by Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)

Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability and portability of the social graph.

Wow, this law has been signed and it somehow passed under my radar. IMHO It has a good change to substantially impact the open social web, in a very good way.

Thanks @tchambers for the tip!

https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0418.html

@anildash Now this is a good and hard-hitting question that I wish more of us were pondering hard.

MCP has a clear use case with large dollar signs behind it. The Fediverse does not mostly because nobody has attempted to systematically investigate where such dollar signs could be found.

P.S. What use case do you see for Fediverse + MCP?

Sometimes I regret organizing #FediForum, because an organizer, I can only run so many sessions before I hijack my own unconference.

If somebody else organized it, and me being simple an attendee, I'd be tempted to call a session for every time slot available, there are soo many things I'd love to discuss with all of you and many of those session topics don't seem to be brought up by others.

“Take a screenshot every few seconds” legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like “How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?”

From a Signal blog post.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

Does anybody know how the term "ActivityPub" was coined? Why that particular name?

(It's not an obvious one for a decentralized social media protocol.)

#ActivityPub

"My dream Fediverse platform".

Very nice piece by @sean . Stuff for thought.

https://deadsuperhero.com/my-dream-fediverse-platform/

No kings.

Call for counter-protests on Trump's birthday, the day he wants to have the military parade.

https://www.nokings.org/

"... “problematic content” is not the main problem,... The real problem is that platforms obscure the social context of what we see, leading us to mistakenly believe that “viral” content reflects a broad consensus, when in reality it often reflects the views of a narrow community."

Stuff for thought in this piece by @au et al

https://www.noemamag.com/building-a-prosocial-media-ecosystem/

The Fediverse has its share of consistency problems: comments and likes only show up in some places, but not others.

Signal is worse. I have 4 linked devices, and each of them has a different subset of the chats, and different messages in each chat, with no way of reconstituting the conversation in one place that I can see.

I'm not understand what the security problem might be in doing this, it's the same account. They just haven't gotten around to it?

[the merger of AI and social media] "transcends recommendation engines and begins to reshape the very architecture of knowledge."

Yes, indeed. We really really need to get our act together on the open social web.

Read this.

https://www.techpolicy.press/in-house-data-harvest-how-social-platforms-ai-ambitions-threaten-user-rights/

h/t @rreisman.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Cory Booker just broke Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the Senate of the United states at 24 hours and 19 minutes.

👏👏👏

Thanks @cwebber . This "time to recover" is exactly why I pulled the plug on this FediForum event at this time. And to create some opportunity for me and all to listen and reorganize.

Of course he would. As he will in the US when he feels he needs to.

https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/

Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers.

Interesting how they name and describe it:

"Social Web - y/n
Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network"

https://activitypub.ghost.org/content/images/size/w1600/2025/03/activitypub-beta-1.png

#Ghost #ActivityPub

Listened to a presentation what the #internetarchive is up to these days, such as archiving all the deleted US government pages on climate, inclusion, tolerance etc etc and making it available easily in context to people.

IMHO it’s just a matter of time until it will be in the cross hairs of the current US administration.

It deserves your support.

@evan I had a slide a million years ago (that Kaliya dug up recently, otherwise I would have forgotten) that contrasted 1) a big company/platform in the middle, with all its users around it connecting 1-N vs 2) me in the middle, with all the companies/platforms I interact with around it, connecting 1-N.

The original form of user centricity rather than company centricity.

A detailed comparison table of Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and X. (In German)

https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de

“Revoked the green card.” Wow.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8

Hey @bjoernsta, is this basically a public declaration (only) or will there be some kind of project work, fundraising, a permanent organization etc etc?

@bjoernsta Would love to help connect internationally. Lots of similar discussion in various places, as I'm sure you know.

P.S. impressive job signing up important supporters in Germany! Congratulations!!