Notices by @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (reiver@mastodon.social)

An homage to @evan 's past moustache 🙂

CC: @mapache @dansup @matt @vagrantc @benpate @ozoned

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026 #FireSideFedi

Alternative Live Stream URL for FediCon day 2:

https://stream.logal.dev/

(The other Live Stream URL seems to be having audio problems.)

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Thank you to @logaldeveloper

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026

Live Stream URL for FediCon morning:

https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ab020a7c-7e24-4438-a5fc-b49c01762870

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026

@sturmsucht

https://ubc.ca.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ab020a7c-7e24-4438-a5fc-b49c01762870

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#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026

@evan @julian@community.nodebb.org @julian@activitypub.space @ozoned @django @dima.skavish @atomicpoet

All of you are up today for FediCon day 1.

Message me if you have trouble finding the room (MCLD 2018).

I am in the room now.

(The schedule is posted here: https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/ )

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026

Day 1 of FediCon.

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026

@silverpill @blaine

obj-URI?

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116706508006936995

Google is apparently testing a new reCAPTCHA method that prompts you to turn on your device's camera to prove you are human by scanning your hands.

I assume this will eventually be mandatory, just like the current reCAPTCHA.

https://reclaimthenet.org/googles-new-recaptcha-wants-your-camera-access-and-21-points-of-your-hand

#DontBeEvil #Google #Privacy #Spying #Surveillance

RE: https://techhub.social/@fedicon/116688319685513603

See you there?

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🌐 FediCon
📍 UBC campus, Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 6th to 9th

🎟️ Get your FOSSY ticket, which gets you into FediCon:
https://2026.fossy.ca/attend/tickets/

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSY2026

Apparently there is another social-networking protocol (that is not ActivityPub) that uses ActivityStreams, named:

Distributed Social Networking Protocol (DSNP)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Social_Networking_Protocol

https://dsnp.org/

https://web.archive.org/web/20130910101658/http://www.complang.org/pipermail/dsnp-interest/

#ActivityStreams #DistributedSocialNetworkingProtocol #DSNP

@evan

I am a long-time fan of content-addressing. And, I think it is important.

But, I think (in addition to that) we also need to think about social-technologies.

For example, how can we incentivize Fediverse users to save an re-share files, such as video files.

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There were platforms from the DC++ and BitTorrent eras that I think did a good job of encouraging this (through the social-technologies they created).

P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are techniques for creating a CDN that can support a community while keeping costs down.

You can trace the history of these techniques back to at least the 1990s.

Broadly speaking, these techniques were use with:

BitTorrent, Private BitTorrent Trackers, and Direct Connect.

I think the Fediverse can and should learn from these techniques, and put them to use.

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#FediDev #CDN #ContentDeliveryNetwork #ContentDistributionNetwork

P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

2/

There are definitely affordable commercial choices for CDNs for smaller sites and home-labers.

But, if you are trying to build a community (with many, many users) — a CDN can become expensive. Even very expensive.

(Electronic Arts (EA) has a whole team that takes up half a floor whose job iis to negotiate pricing from the Akamai CDN company.)

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#FediDev #CDN #ContentDeliveryNetwork #ContentDistributionNetwork

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116681762071911900

P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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A CDN is a service that stores copies of your website's files in many locations around the world so visitors can download them from a nearby server instead of one far away. This makes your website load faster and stay available even when lots of people are using it at the same time.

CDNs are not only important for Fediverse servers but they are important for the Web in general

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#FediDev #CDN #ContentDeliveryNetwork #ContentDistributionNetwork

@steve

This may be relevant:

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/basicprofile

#ActivityPubAPI

Stable Outbox Collection Pages

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Let's say a collection has 23 items, and each page 10 items in length.

That means you will have 2 pages with 10 items and 1 page with 3 items.

Should that page with 3 items be the 3 newest items or the 3 oldest items.

The choice affects caching and static site ease quite a bit.

Here is the answer...

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev

Stable Outbox Collection Pages

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ActivityPub uses collections for a number of things:

• followers
• following
• inbox
• outbox

And, rather than dump everything in the collection into a single document, ActivityPub paginates using collection pages.

That's great.

But, how you divide up a collection into pages matters and affects things. Such as: caching.

I'll explain.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev

Stable Outbox Collection Pages

5/

To me,, having the newest page of the collection be varying length one feel like a better strategy.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev

Stable Outbox Collection Pages

4/

BUT, if instead — if the page with 3 items contains the 3 newest items, then —

Only the newest page would have to be recached. I.e., only 1 page churns not all.

All the other collection pages stay as is, and any cached copies of them as still valid.

Etc.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev