Notices by Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto (dave@social.masto.land), page 3

@evan

Thanks for your comment, I'm responding from a different account because the editor is better here. ;-)

I’d just like to see RSS stand alongside ActivityPub, so we can build systems according to the capabilities of each.

I think Mastodon by having native support for RSS 2.0 did the right thing. Very important.

We have RSS 2.0 support in Bluesky thanks to John Spurlock’s work. I worked with him on it and it represents how far I’d go now considering it’s 2023 and we’re in the process of building the open social network we could have built years ago and didn’t because social media lived inside corporate silos.

An example…

https://rss.firesky.tv/?filter=from:scripting.com

I’ve asked Bluesky to build this into the platform, and I’d like Mastodon to add the new features to their implementation.

This could be done in a few weeks and we’d have significant interop now. A basis for a lot of new building, in early 2024, on our timetable, rather than Facebook's. I don't like how much attention they're getting, how the open community is looking to them to ratify the open system. This feels wrong.

I would totally expect work to continue around ActivityPub. These are different things, on a different track.

Independent developers would be empowered to create new open systems in a way we’ve never been able to before.

PS: This was written quickly on my iPad in front of the tv on a Saturday night so please forgive any typos and repetition, and I probably left one or two things out too. 😀

Mastodon by having native support for RSS 2.0 did the right thing. Very important.

https://social.masto.land/@dave/111593060141975473

@mike

i bet we could figure out a way to go from a comment in that feed to writing a reply to it without too much work. is that all that ActivityPub is doing for you? (straight question, I've never been able the figure out exactly what it does).

I also took the other people off cc.

@mike @J12t @tchambers @cultdev @mmasnick

I asked ChatGPT for a list of 20 popular feed readers.

https://chat.openai.com/share/b1aad88a-ed0b-4990-ba72-89643b00caeb

@mike @J12t @tchambers @cultdev @mmasnick

Mike, here's your feed.

https://rss.firesky.tv/?filter=from:mmccue.bsky.social

@J12t @tchambers @cultdev @mike @mmasnick

i like this approach, but i have a better one imho.

let's start with feeds and build as much of a mastodon as we can, without inventing anything new and see what we come up with.

that way we know at every step we're standing on a solid foundation of interop.

at the same time invest in the feed support of every contender, no matter what "verse" its part of.
john spurlock has done an exemplary implementation of RSS 2.0 feeds for Bluesky. That format should be copied everywhere. he did it in about a week in july and it's great. we're building all kinds of stuff on it. wish it were in mastodon, and wish bluesky would bake it in.

forget about clubs, what we want is interop, maximally as widely as possible to force the silos to get on board. they won't unless they have to.

Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible.

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. #thankyou

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/30/1078670/large-language-models-arent-people-lets-stop-testing-them-like-they-were/

Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/

Dianne Feinstein’s Saga Is a Very Public Example of a National Crisis.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/sen-dianne-feinsteins-saga-is-a-very-public-example-of-a-national-crisis/

Yellen: No Federal Bailout For Collapsed Silicon Valley Bank.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-yellen-treasury-silicon-valley-bank-bailout_n_640de991e4b08e08735a733a

"I recently purchased a Mazda Miata. This car is interesting because instead of running on electricity, it is powered by a combustible liquid called gasoline."

https://geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gasoline-car-review/

This is a test. This came out of the archive of my blog. None of this happened today or yesterday. Still diggin!

Welcome to December. Here's the OPML archive for November.

http://scripting.com/2022/12/01.html#a124230