Notices by Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)

@renchap Does FedCM help?

What I have in mind does not need protocol changes as far as I can tell. It needs OpenID-style SSO (Mastodon as the IdP, Lemmy as the RP in my example) into a local Lemmy account that can continue to have its own local identifier, but in the UX my Mastodon identifier is shown.

(I don't have a detailed proposal yet, but it sounds like it's possible, and right now I'm just floating a requirements to see whether anybody else agrees ...)

@evan @tchambers @benpate

@evan Bringing my own domain to somebody else who runs a multi-tenant server would be very nice indeed. I can bring my own domain to most e-mail providers and they will run e-mail for me at my domain, we should have the same here.

I want to do one better, though, which is mostly orthogonal to this: I want to go to lemmy.world and log in with @j12t and post, on that lemmy server, while being identified by that Mastodon-hosted identifier. Otherwise nobody knows it's me!

@tchambers @benpate

@wjmaggos @ricmac @tchambers @benpate There are a variety of possible answers to how to do that. Before we pick, we need to understand the tradeoffs. And before understanding the tradeoffs, we need to have enough consensus that there is a problem that needs to be solved. Which is the step I'm trying to help with right now :-)

Here's his post about the UX sins: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond.

Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies.

This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @tchambers 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1.

Fortunately @benpate is starting to assemble people to solve this.

Pondering the #nokings protests today. They were vibrant. Loud. Joyful. A bit chaotic. But respectful. Diverse and tolerant. Some unexpected deep insights on the posters. Lots of smiles.

A military parade is something very different. Uniforms. Straight lines. People giving up their individuality for uniformity. Proud display of overwhelming force, commanded top-down.

What version of America do we prefer to show the world? I go with the queer party every single time.

You can’t make this up.

Any fiction writer would be run out of town for infantile plot development.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-impeachment

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.