Notices by Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social), page 2

@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

Seems to me these guys have no concept whatsoever of what science is.

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

Great piece on how we think about growth of Mastodon, Bluesky etc. and why it's (mostly) not working. By @laurenshof

https://connectedplaces.online/growth-narratives-on-the-new-social-networks/

If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- roughly the number of users on Meta platforms today compared to, say, Mastodon -- how would we go about it?

P.S. Obviously while keeping the good things we have here, and making them even better, rather than backsliding / enshittifying / ...

One of the (several) things that stuck with me from @cwebber's keynote at FediForum was that a lot of the code, including open-source code, that's been built in recent decades was built and defaults to gigantic cloud-based centralized systems.

Not for people-based systems that evolve around the people that use them, and allow them to interact with each other as they see fit, as we like to do in the Fediverse, for example.

@tchambers @tommi One of the nice things about my second alternative is that it neatly explains why, say, a Lemmy instance is so different from a Mastodon instance -- it's because the community that's there has different needs, so they have different electronic tools at their disposal.

One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the #Fediverse is: Just what exactly is an instance for?

Yep, it's a separate installation of server software. But what exactly does instance 1 give me compared to instance 2?

Answer A: it makes no difference except on policy: who runs it, what are their TOS, moderation policy etc. The Local feed has no significance.

Answer B: Beyond that, it defines a community. The local feed is essential.

Which should it be?

@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