Notices by Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)

@tchambers @andypiper happy to do that assume we have enough connections into the ask an fediverse communities that would actually come.

Regardless how well one is trying to do things in advance, the last day(s) before #FediForum are always busy!!

(now back to work!)

@reiver A lot of it has been focusing on the kinds of things standards org do — chartering working groups producing reports, getting consensus on prioritization for standards work going forward etc. But there are also community updates and things like that.

@evan

@evan in another thread: https://j12t.social/@j12t/115301420839280655

Bluesky makes a patent non-aggression pledge.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-01-2025-patent-pledge

Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever seen.

From: @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407

@thisismissem I would add that both protocols support use cases that the other protocol has a hard time addressing. ActivityPub, for example, is much better at point to point communication where no third party overhears what is happening. ATproto, for example, can be used to build “global trending” or a global index much more easily.
I would not be surprised if at the end of they, the open social web would simultaneously end up using both, in a complementary fashion.

Learned a new word: Enshittocene.

@pluralistic what have you done.

https://cybercultural.com/enshittocene/

I'm fascinated to (re-?)discover that the core #ActivityPub deliverable was the C2S API, not the S3S federation protocol.

Was the underlying assumption that servers were boring, one/few implementations could handle all cases, and innovation was going to be centered around clients?

@caio @daltux @cadusilva @fediforum

Mastodon has said many times they have no interest in supporting the C2S API. Of course you can always try to convince them.

P.S. Sorry, Eu não falo português (and this came from Google Translate)

Julian from NodeBB set up a new NodeBB instance for #ActivityPub technical discussions at https://activitypub.space in case you hadn't seen it.

It's a Forum, but also federated, you can interact with it from elsewhere.

I just followed @general from my Mastodon account, for example

Thanks @cwebber for your great post announcing that you passing on the maintenance of https://activitypub.rocks to the SocialCG community.

https://activitypub.rocks/news/handing-off-activitypubrocks-to-the-activitypub-community.html

Everybody: the issue tracker for the site is now here: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/issues

Contributions welcome!

Many people here know this already.

But if you aren’t entirely certain how to protect yourself against surveillance in this &!!^=)$(# age, read this article.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/

Bounce, first previewed at #FediForum, launched to the public today.

Migrating your social media account from Bluesky to the Fediverse, while keeping your followers! Some people say it's the magic long prophetized for the open social web and considered impossible by non-believers! 🙂 But here it is!

Congratulations @snarfed.bsky.social and @quillmatiq from @anewsocial !

Press coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/bounce-launches-a-service-for-moving-accounts-between-bluesky-and-mastodon/

The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- vs the world we want.

Does this look about right?

How big is the open social web, the #fediverse, #bluesky etc compared to the big commercial platforms? It's a bit sobering.

From my recent talk "From millions to billions -- a plausible narrative for how to grow the open social web."

This article almost sounds like a realistic assessment of where “AI” is and where it is going.

Are we close to top of the Gartner hype cycle?

https://www.ft.com/content/d01290c9-cc92-4c1f-bd70-ac332cd40f94

@benpate says: money and power are not the problem. The centralization of that money and power are the problem. #fedicon

Hey @rabble, in your podcast with Kara Swisher you mentioned that in the early days of what became Bluesky, there was an active discussion whether Bluesky should be a joint venture between Twitter and Reddit. A fascinating tidbit I hadn’t heard of! Can you say more about this? What were the arguments in favor and against? Why did it ultimately not go in that direction?

Don't look up. And don't let others look up either.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality