Notices by Dave Winer ☕️ (davew@mastodon.social)

@timbray

Another consideration, Bluesky can be bought. The hotter they get, the more likeky they get an Elonesque owner.

@Gargron

two big advantages of fediverse.

1. it can't be bought by Elon Musk or someone like Elon Musk, can't suffer the fate of twitter.

2. doesn't have the limits of other platforms. this is something we're building on in conjunction with @pfefferle and his colleagues at Automattic.

The second one is enabling textcasting -- which will make mastodon specifically more useful to writers. The other platforms, not so much.

I predict that people will come to appreciate features that Mastodon has that the other twitter-like social web apps don't.

Voting is not you expressing yourself, it's not free speech, it's you and I governing. This is our moment of greatest power.

Friends, I never forgot this New Yorker cover. Now seems like a good time to review it.

@Gargron — your point of view is very important here.

@pfefferle -- time flies when you're having fun! 😉

@pfefferle -- yes it's wonderful. let's make it really sing with mastodon. i'll be working on demos.

@pfefferle

re threads, can't you run a server in the US or is that a matter of getting approval from the company?

@pfefferle

what is a summary is in this context. are there docs on how (for example) RSS terminology maps on to ActivityPub terminology?

we have title, link and description as the three major components of a post.

in general in RSS, by convention, the description can have HTML and the others, not.

is what Mastodon does considered enough to get compatibility with other Fediverse platforms?

are you testing with Threads, for example? are they following what Mastodon supports?

@pfefferle

these are the features i want.

https://textcasting.org/

@pfefferle

wow!!!!!

look at how all that stuff came through.

looks like everything but the title.

@pfefferle -- so i posted something after following my wordpress account, but i may have pushed it too hard, nothing showed up in my timeline here.

here's the www view of the post.

https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/my-first-fediversed-post/

btw there's no rush to any of this. it's an asynchronous connection. 🙂

and thanks for putting this together.

@pfefferle -- cool.

daveverse.wordpress.com@daveverse.wordpress.com

that's the address. going to try a first post and see what happens.

@pfefferle

I am trying to enable federation on one of my sites, but every site I try it has a badge that says it's disabled. A screen shot..

@pfefferle — I can imagine! 😵💫

@pfefferle -- just checking in -- maybe our wires got crossed. would love to try accessing the fediverse via wordpress. let me know if there's anything i need to do.

@pfefferle — could you send me an email — davewiner@gmail.com, I don’t seem to have your address.

@pfefferle -- what i ought to do is hook my writing tool up the wordpress and use it as a gateway to ActivityPub. what a service that would be. you already have a great debugged API and it's running at scale. this is exciting. ;-)

@pfefferle --

i just realized that with wordpress on the activitypub bus, you now have to deal with all the limits that imposes. or do you? users of wordpress expect to be able to use links and style, and put titles on their posts, and character limits are unknown.

as a writer and developer of communication tools this limit has been stifling. it's a barrier that would be wonderful to erase.

let me know if you want to help with this.