Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)

@hrefna I don't disagree at all since I frequently point to XMPP as an example of this, but wouldn't it be fair to say by this analysis that's what Threads is doing right now (except, I guess, they barely federate)

don't you see that all these cool people in tech are jumping off the bridge, aren't you curious to jump off too? you aren't? what's wrong with you https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/they-all-use-it

This was something which @aaronpk pushed for, and ultimately I think was right. The general idea is that your user can live off-site and have the same inbox/outbox as your posts but *aggregate* the posts from your webpage. "id" is the uri of the json-ld object that is distributed for activitypub purposes, "url" is the uri that existed on the source blogpost.

Of course, I'm not sure if any implementations of AP actually are implemented to support this; they could tho

@evan Well that's the part that gets hosted out to the "AP provider" https://social.coop/@cwebber/113517165291965271

But yeah the static site itself wouldn't handle the inbox/outbox or federation. Really, a way to look at it is that we left space in the spec to permit aggregation this way

Or at least, I remember that being discussed IRL at one of the meetings and was the reason I decided I was good with both id and url being supported as separate AS2 properties

Did you know you can use ActivityPub with static site generators? Well anyway, we made space to help ensure it's possible during the standards process! This is one reason there are two fields in ActivityStreams, both `id` and `url`, and ActivityPub supports both

So you can have a static site and have an AP account which aggregates said posts, allowing users to use simple static sites but offload the pubsub work

I've seen a few "activitypub for static sites" implementations but haven't looked at if they did it the way we had talked about during the SocialWG tho

(We never expanded on it super far, would love to see an implementation)

@dthompson "Can I make Warioware on WASM with Hoot" - the greatest thread in the history of Spritely's forum, locked by a moderator after 12239 pages of heated debate,

@dthompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns3LfPd6sKI

If you've never read Worse is Better or the history behind it, it's worth reading https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

tl;dr: Yeah you think your tech is better designed and it may be but the Zerg Rush strategy works for tech (but with long-running consequences)

Hello middle aged fediverse

- Super Mario Kart is 32 years old
- Super Mario 64 is 28 years old
- Wind Waker is 22 years old

Interpol law enforcement starter pack 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/interpol.int/post/3lb5r3dppjk24

@platypus <hr></hr> isn't allowed and <hr /> is considered "incorrect" these days leading lisp enthusiasts and "people who like balance in the world" to struggle in general

An article in the most broadly respected Polish newspaper about this moment and decentralization, including interviewing myself and @ben and @blaine, and includes some comments on how decentralized Bluesky is or isn't https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

Tell Congress Not To Weaponize The Treasury Department Against Nonprofits https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits

"Christine don't you do it, don't push a change with a <hr/>, you know it's just <hr> on its own now"

*stares you dead in the eye and pushes commit*

The bill that will allow the Treasury Department to kill lots of orgs' nonprofit status has broad support amongst democrats because it is being pushed by pro-Israel groups wanting to mark many groups as supporting terrorism for criticizing Israel https://bsky.app/profile/fightforthefuture.org/post/3layxhuiup223

@slothrop Many of them genuinely are!

@Gorfram @alyx john mastodon who's that

@eblu then why not email

Whoa cool @binette drew me in this lovely little banner, and also @evan and... is that @tsyesika or @erincandescent ?

Regardless, super fun! :)

(PS: I don't drink so I must assume I'm holding a mocktail there... but I do *love* a mocktail!)