Notices by Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)

"Cancer Capital", ha! Great phrase by @anildash.

When people in the Fediverse complain about VCs and Venture Capital, I think they mostly complain about that Cancer Capital, not so much traditional VC. We didn't have that term before, and it's a very useful distinction. Now we need one for non-Cancer VC.

https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

@liaizon they way to do this is the same way it got removed: whoever cares about it needs to file an issue, make their case in the issue (it does not have to be elaborate) and we see what comments they get. If there are no objections, and it is a small change (which it would be) it gets done. If there are objections, we need to resolve those eg by discussion in the regularly scheduled meeting. That’s what the TF is for.

@evan @silverpill

Yes, the SocialCG Website TF could use all the help it can get, and we'd appreciate it! ActivityPub.rocks is at least not horribly out of date any more, but there are many things we ought to be doing if had the time to do it. (See Github issues.) For anybody wanting to help, please file Giithub issues, PRs are even more welcome! Meetings are on the SocialCG calendar on the W3C site and anybody wanting to help out is always welcome.

@evan @smallcircles @silverpill @rimu @elle

@caohuak @hongminhee @fedidevkr

Next "Series B" meeting is this: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/cca78019-8314-4ecf-8945-e13d832c03fc/20260917T230000/

I don't know your time zones, but does this work for you all?

@evan @darius @dmitri

Question for you all. As you probably know, at FediForum we operate https://connect.fediforum.org, which showcases products/services/projects on the open social web. We post about them from Mastodon and Bluesky accounts.

But: that's where all the people are that are already convinced of the open social web. We don't need to convince them! We need to convince the people who are not here yet! So should we start to also post on Facebook, Insta, X, etc etc? Or will you all yell at us if we do?

@evan “why are you carrying that heavy anvil around in the desert?” — “that’s because I’m afraid of the lions. When I see a lion, I will immediately drop it and that lets me run much faster!”

@HolosSocial Hear, hear!!

I've been advocating that it should be possible to use the same identity on all websites for -- checking notes -- 22 years now. All users get it. Developers are often strangely reluctant, like in the Fediverse today.

Would be nice if that became part of an ActivityPub 2.0. We could use more people speaking up about this in the W3C, consider joining the conversation there.

One can learn many things at #FediForum. For example, about Rebollita, a soup from Tuscany, which is apparently @ivan's favorite food.

Does that recipe sound about right? https://www.themediterraneandish.com/ribollita-recipe/

The EFF has a cool post about Bridgy Fed!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/bridge-somewhere-how-link-your-mastodon-bluesky-or-other-federated-accounts

#mastodon #blueksy #activitypub #atproto #eff

@evan @silverpill @julian @fedimtl @ozoned @reiver @johannab @paige @mayel FediForum organizer here. Certainly you are very welcome at FediForum, and I could imagine it could lead to some great sessions!

I am having a lot of fun in #FediForum sessions this time. That's because we now have a real community here, built over some years, people who now know each other, have good personal relationships so there is a lot of banter in the middle of all the high-bandwidth, high-competence discussion. It's a great combination.

Wow. I don't think the US tech industry has quite grasped how big this is.

https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/

Oops. Not the way you want your product launch to go.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-users-disgust-new-ai

@evan I put mine into the extra special safety pocket in my backpack after passport control at an airport and forgot that that pocket even existed! Literally took the entire house apart several times.

Writing my own position statement for the upcoming Open Social Web un-workshop.

A main reason I ever started #FediForum is that I wanted to attend an event like it! And sometimes you have to create things yourself if they don't exist yet.

Legally speaking, what is social.coop? Is it incorporated? Anybody know?

If not incorporated, does that mean all members are liable, and there is no limited liability shield?

I can't tell from their wiki and about info.

/cc @SocialCoop @ntnsndr @mattcropp

“Not only did the #AI model now produce insecure code, but it also recommended hiring a hit man to kill your spouse”

Perfectly well understood and benign technology, obviously.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1129782/ai-large-language-models-biology-alien-autopsy/

European events on the future of technology and the like always seem to have a bunch of professors on stage.

In the US, I cannot really recall seeing any professors at similar events -- maybe some people who are currently professors but their main career is really something else. Extremely rare in any case.

What can we conclude from this observation?

Wise words from Anil.

https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026/

@silverpill https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/pulls