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Un nuovo fondo di sicurezza viene attivato per aiutare a proteggere il fediverso
La @The Nivenly Foundation (Nivenly Foundation), ha annunciato il lancio di un nuovo fondo di sicurezza che pagherà coloro che rivelano in modo responsabile le vulnerabilità di sicurezza che interessano le app e i servizi fediverse.
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A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse | TechCrunch
A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Over the past year, we've been thinking about how we can improve the security of the Fediverse to provide a safer, more trustworthy experience for people of the Fediverse.Today we're launching a time-and-funds limited Fediverse Security Fund, where we will pay researchers and contributors for the responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities in open-source Fediverse software.
We're starting small as an experiment to gauge interest, figure out our processes, and eventually decide if/how to expand this program and make it more permanent. If you're a security researcher or upstream contributor, join us in making the Fediverse a safer place.
You can read more about this program on our blog: nivenly.org/blog/2025/04/01/ni…
Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund
Security bounty fund to sponsor contributors who responsibly disclose security vulnerabilities in popular open source Fediverse software.nivenly.org
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It was National Indigenous Languages Day yesterday.
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March 31 is National indigenous Languages Day. It is a day to celebrate and honour the more than 70 distinct Indigenous languages are currently spoken by First Nations people, Métis and Inuit in Canada.www.canada.ca
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I studied the indigenous language of the region our house is in, Abenaki, at the Ndakinna Education Centre. Learning the indigenous language of our region lets settlers like me help keep the language alive; it also subsidizes classes for indigenous speakers.
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May 2025 Beginner Guide to Abenaki Language Course (Online)
Ndakinna Education Center Abenaki Language Remote Learning Classes: Beginner Guide to Abenaki Classes are designed specifically for those with little to no experience in the language. We will introduce the […]\nNdakinna Education Center
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I solved the Tuesday 4/1/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 16:57!
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It will fall to 25% whenever I'm financially able to delete LinkedIn
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Mastodon | i social media rafforzano il giornalismo indipendente: apritivo e presentazione al Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia
Unitevi ai Mastodon per un aperitivo al Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo!
Siete curiosi di sapere come Mastodon sta plasmando il panorama mediatico per i giornalisti indipendenti? Organizzeremo un aperitivo insieme con una breve presentazione sulle ultime tendenze e sviluppi in Mastodon. Dopo la nostra presentazione, partecipate a una discussione e a una sessione di networking con il team di Mastodon, dove potrete condividere le vostre idee ed esperienze.
Saranno offerti drink e spuntini leggeri gratuiti.
Questo evento è aperto a tutti, ma è richiesta la registrazione, poiché lo spazio è limitato. Si prega di confermare la propria presenza tramite questo link.
Luogo: Umbrò , Via Sant'Ercolano 4, Perugia.
Informazioni di contatto: philip@joinmastodon.org
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Mastodon | social media empowering independent journalism (Perugia International Journalism Festival)Inizia: Venerdì Aprile 11, 2025 @ 6:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)Finisce: Venerdì Aprile 11, 2025 @ 8:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)Join Mastodon for an aperitivo at the International Journalism Festival!
Are you curious about how Mastodon is shaping the media landscape for independent journalists? We will host an aperitivo together with a short presentation covering the latest trends and developments in Mastodon. After our presentation, join a discussion and networking session with the Mastodon team, where you can share your ideas and experiences.
Complimentary drinks and light bites will be provided.
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Join Mastodon for an aperitivo at the International Journalism Festival!
Are you curious about how Mastodon is shaping the media landscape for independent journalists? We will host an aperitivo together with a short presentation covering the latest trends and developments in Mastodon. After our presentation, join a discussion and networking session with the Mastodon team, where you can share your ideas and experiences.
Complimentary drinks and light bites will be provided.
This event is open to all, but registration is required, as space is limited. Please RSVP via this link.
Venue: Umbrò, Via Sant'Ercolano 4, Perugia.
Contact info: philip@joinmastodon.org
Organised by Mastodon.
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"4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."
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Truth Social was born out of Mastodon
And so were a lot of extremist instances which are still active and popular.
The nature of the Fediverse and by extension most FOSS is that they are open and unrestrictive with their software access/usage.
On the other hand, it did also give rise to a lot of political groups from varying parts of the political spectrum.
I think so social media platforms shouldn't lean towards one side of the spectrum. A diverse set of views and opinions should be welcome. But it almost never is the case. Each platform is known for having one kind of bias or the other.
Take Bluesky, it's filled with Left-leaning people who left Twitter because of Musk/Trump. There's a homogeneity to the politics of the opinions shared over there. Some would call it an "Echo Chamber."
Truth Social- Only MAGA idiots.
X- a bit of both.
Fediverse- Depends on the instance. 😀 One can interact with all kinds of people here, and I think that's a good thing as far as exposure & bias is concerned.
@frankie
Most people don't know this.
Somehow I'd like those extremist instances, to be really federated, just to clearly show that they are using our software, and to show number of server defederating from them.
Would like to see also some decent-right communities
I may be wrong but I think that basically "normal" people (I want to exclude those that are really motivated to be fascists or that kind of stuff) move to the far-right because of a lack of critical thinking. They fall in the trap of "easy solutions for difficult problems".
The place where you build that kind of immune system is the school.
I can see this path:
Bad school -> lack of critical thinking -> populism is OK.
Rebuild a good school system and you'll have better citizens, better citizens can tell a lye from a truth.
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yeah - it's architecturally freedom-shaped in a way that forces people to deal with what is harmful, who is part of what community, and what is unacceptable. Centralised platforms are shaped like unfreedom and have difficulty with nuanced pluralism, tending to ignore issues (see Meta in Myanmar) or simply decide on a single stance which is enforced (the many things you can't say on TikTok or get demon(it)ised for on YouTube. For better or worse we hash things out here.
IMHO, anyway. It's not the prevailing leftism, but the structural pluralism.
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no technology is neutral, but no technology is capable of solving social problems on its own.
Furthermore, the advance of the shit-right among the population is not a spontaneous problem, but is determined by enormous investments that the timocracy has allocated and continues to allocate to orient public opinion, ensure the loyalty of publishers, finance politicians and manipulate elections.
The closed and manipulative algorithms of the platforms modify democratic balances, while open ecosystems consolidate democracy, stimulate diversity and incentivize participation.
The Fediverse can therefore be a solution to the extent that it constitutes an alternative to manipulative technologies.
As for the advance of the right In fact, the problem is not the populist right in and of itself, but rather the fact that the populist right constitutes an extraordinary vector for bringing the predatory aristocracy of large technological companies to power.
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certainly yes; and
"The Fediverse can therefore be a solution to the extent that it constitutes an alternative to manipulative technologies"
...is my answer (in addition to the "yes, but" of the survey)
What comes before is the permise
What comes after is just a corollary
(if I said something weird, it might have been me, but I'll basically blame the Italian-English machine translator 😅)
This may be a Masto-specific problem but it sort of feels like everyone is raising alarms non-stop without coming up with solutions. People screaming "Trump is doing this" or "ICE is doing that" but barely a word is devoted to calls for action. It's just non-stop doomerism almost designed to make the reader feel helpless and despondent.
I think if the fediverse is going to play some sort of role in pushing back on these things, we need to start, well, pushing back.
@dulcedemon How so? unless we unite, all we get is more fighting. That eventually leads to terrible things.
What the fediverse could do is lead humanity to a social platform without the outrage cycle. But people need to be here for that to make a difference.
It's a haven for those of us who are already here, but without a way to draw the masses (something which not everyone wants), @gangrif is right.
It provides a welcome respite from places like Bluesky, but it's far from an antidote to corporate run, billionaire owned social media. It's hard to convince the average person to use Mastodon, especially when big names/accounts that dominate those other places trash it all the time, perpetuating the notion that it's hard to use and characterizing its users in a negative way.
Yes, but... we are still lacking tools to manage discussion and clamp down un-wanted interactions / trolls / toxic behaviours _at scale_ (<- that's the key point).
The latest Pixelfed bug is interesting, in that a bug in _another service you don't use_ may potentially expose your toots against your wishes.
I can only think of more encryption as the solution to this last point, but I think that's not trivial.
voted “Yes, but”.
Here are some nice buts mastodon.social/@urlyman/11424…
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If you’d like a way to feel that a better path for us is not only possible but within reach, I strongly recommend you spend as much of 100 minutes as you can with this conversation. It’s with Audrey Tang.Mastodon
Yes, but it's more like part of the solution.
Far-Right populism doesn't only abuse algorithmic tendencies but also psychological functions of people.
We would need also to strengthen digital and especially media literacy. Populists (especially those on the far-right) play with fear and psychological terror to manipulate people.
Media literacy has worsened at least in the western world – if not globally.I also would guess that this is why bipartisanship seems so unthinkable for many.
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Lavori in ambito scientifico o in un ambiente in cui, in ogni caso, potresti leggere PDF con margini ampi impostati in Computer Modern? Vuoi rilassarti durante le ore di lavoro? Ecco il client Mastodon perfetto e di sola lettura per te: Mastodon-LaTeXclient trasforma la tua cronologia in un documento, così puoi tenerla aperta in modo molto discreto su uno schermo di lato!
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The most upsetting part of this response, to me, is that it seems like Rumeysa Ozturk had her visa revoked and was arrested not because of anything she personally did, but because of the movement she associated with.
That's dark. It sounds like the Administration is going to dish out collective punishment to the most vulnerable participants in the anti-war movement for the actions of some other people at the protests.
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yes. This a demoralizing tactic that authoritarians have used for years. It exists to make you worried about the whims and moods of a person rather than have rules and laws that we can all rely on. Keeping people nervous and afraid
Is the tactic
On purpose. The less it makes sense the more it works.
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This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement ❤️
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@liaizon aw thank you! It means a lot coming from you.
Well, after my PeerTube miniseries I will write about what it's like to self-host with the help of #YunoHost. It's very very easy to do (including updating / maintaining things). I'm self-hosting Friendica, GoToSocial and Pixelfed thanks to YunoHost.
My self-hosted Ghost blog is on another VPS and a whole different story - pure command line prompts for that one. Trickier but very satisfying 🤗
Basically, Hitch manages all the encrypted TLS traffic (the security layer that is being used by HTTPS), then you don't need to manage encryption on the apache/nginx side.
Being able to handle all your private keys in a single place is very comfortable.
It might be possible your hosting service is already managing encryption for you, that being the reason you don't actually have to bother about that.
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Terminating TLS in Varnish with Hitch
How to install and configure the Hitch TLS proxy to terminate TLS in Varnish.Varnish Developer Portal
you are on a fast track to total sysadmin expert here!
I've dealt a bit with Varnish but it was some time ago. it did work very well!
@isadora @thecoffemaker I already initiated a mass migration to Signal in Jan 2020 for family and friends (to keep in touch with me - cause I was OUT).
But they all still use WhatsApp (in addition to Signal) 😕
completely abandon WhatsApp is an almost impossible mission 🙁 Local businesses, govern services, banks and a lot of people and institutions end up forcing us to keep a WhatsApp account... but the fact they have an alternative is fantastic!
I'm also a "forced" WhatsApp user, but my family and close friends are using XMPP to keep up with me and these 16 people have all my heart to accept talk to me by my own messenger that I lovely call isaCloud Messenger 😁
(Hows the haircut? I did mine the other day and made a mess of it.)
@elliek thanks!
Re: the haircut is a bit messy but it’s hard to notice because I have long wavy hair (it could be a style the unevenness) 😅
Have a great weekend Elena!
I love how you went from "hey this is a neat social media site" to running linux servers and stuff!
Are you mostly driven by the value of the Fediverse or do you just have plenty of energy fully dive into anything you get interested in?
The rebellion will be federated — Elena Rossini
This is how I plan to rebel against the tech barons and kleptocrats for the next 4 years: through activism, education and FLOSSElena Rossini
hi! That is great! I don’t think I’d have leveled up so fast by myself
If you ever find yourself in need of performance optimization, I put up some tips over here, and some of them might be useful:
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GitHub - GuillaumeRossolini/il: Collection of tips to improve web page loading times
Collection of tips to improve web page loading times - GuillaumeRossolini/ilGitHub
Going from dipping a cautious toe on the Mastodon beach to plunging head first into the Marinara Trench of Linux and Fediverse self-hosting.
And evangelising about it in such a great accessible way.
You have a lot of stuff to be proud of.
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In the current aggressive imperialism of the US, some Americans online insist that they don't approve of war and shouldn't be lumped in with the Americans who are banging the drums for war.
It's not the job of Canadians, Kalaallit (Greenlanders), Panamanians or Gazans to make you feel better and absolve you personally of complicity in potential invasions. We have other things to do.
It's *your* job to make sure the wars don't happen. Stopping wars is hard; you need to start now.
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@davep "Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos."
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fellow #Amercans
It is our job right now to wake our fellow citizens up. There are many possible ways to do this. Pick a few and do them today.
Put copies of "On Tyranny" in your local Little Free Library.
Use chalk to write things in public spaces. You can make a plastic stencil and use spray chalk if you want to get your #Banksy on.
Print out memes and flyers. Put them everywhere. Light poles, signs and community boards.
Use wheatpaste for more permanency.
I'll post an Elon Musk WANTED poster today with the hashtag #ResInt
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I agree with some of the arguments people make against this stance, but I want to note how this connects with the "not my president" approach some take.
Even if you didn't vote for him, don't like him, and wouldn't cross the street to piss on him if he were on fire, that doesn't mean you get to evade responsibility. If you (I) wear an American flag or otherwise use the privilege of being American, then you (I) own a bit of the responsibility.
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agree.
Btw I just tooted this Guardian opinion piece about someone involved in "disengaging" people from falling down conspiracy rabbit holes and purity spirals into the realms of evil ideology.
I gather we should see much more of that kind of concerted efforts. Because what I see in most calls to activism boils down to choosing sides and take position in the activist army ready for war. While it may come to it, dear god, let's avoid bloody civil war.
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What I see all too often is that people for whom there is the slightest suspicion they do not conform to the set norms and values in a particular in-group, they are immediately ostracised by cancel culture, blocked out. This inability to accept that there are shades of grey, and making an effort to pull back stray souls into the light, is a sure way of seeing them slide further away, eventually into fascism.🤔 "trying to disengage others" is what more people should try.
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As a hate-filled kid, I turned to far-right ideology. Now I help others avoid that path
In Sydney’s suburbs, I fell in with other traumatised loners – and we found scapegoats for our rage. A trip into the city changed everything, says Matthew Quinn of Exit AustraliaGeorgia Wilkins (The Guardian)
Countries don't matter.
We are human beings on Earth; no association beyond that matters but to those who seek to divide and control.
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while all that may be true, I would suggest that such statements are only helpful as a release of frustration and anger. They do little to gain allies in any cause and instead sow division in the very ranks you’re trying to enlist.
I would posit that similar (equally justified) sentiments of anger and frustration aimed at men for not doing enough during the MeToo era resulted in riper conditions for the likes of Jordan Peterson to gain a following, which in turn contributed to the fascist pickle we find ourselves in down here.
I could be justified in saying it was the responsibility of all Canadians to stop your madman Jordan from spewing all his hatred south of the border. Note how that statement makes you feel. Does that kind of passive aggression motivate you to do something about him? No. It sows the very division that makes achieving our mutual goals further out of reach.
I see you. I hear you. I feel you. And we will do what we can, but that may not be enough. Iraq remains fresh in my memory after all.
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who is asking for absolution, though? We’re quite busy trying to stop fellow residents from being abducted and disappeared for having an opinion on a war that is close to an even split when it comes to US public opinion. While simultaneously every institution from education to mail delivery and even weather forecasting is under attack.
Close to 1/3 of people here support those abductions and similar abuses against immigrants. When it comes to aggression against Canada only 6% are in favor. That’s unheard of in US public opinion. There are probably more people who believe the earth is flat than people who want to invade Canada.
This whole regime is an embarrassment and needs to be stopped. Aggression towards Greenland and Canada are just a small portion of the ills we’re facing. Insisting it become our top priority and kvetching if anyone points out how unpopular or unlikely to gain traction those things are doesn’t really serve any purpose.
@Evan Prodromou I can understand the logic of your post, but studies have been conducted about how much influence the people really have on government. In the United States, people still have influence over the state and local governments, in most jurisdictions, but they have little to no influence over the federal government. The policies are mostly decided by lobbyists and special interests and corporations and the wealthy, and even if the public opposes a law or policy, they are unlikely to stop it or get it changed.
I do agree that we need to "start now" as you say, but I think you overestimate the influence the public has at this point.
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I voted "Yes, but…" fully aware that's a privilege thing (and one of those privileges is not being in the US, either as a citizen or on a visa).
we should be able to talk about anything mostly without getting blocked unless you tag people with stuff they probably don't want to see or clearly don't want to interact with you anymore. the emotional stuff is usually what we most need to discuss and share content with alternative views/info. #SocialWeb
these are sadly not the norms of the fedi today.
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Evidence suggests that many are safe to say even the most abhorrent of things on the internet, so much so that any topic might reasonably be considered safe to at least begin a discussion.
Deeper examination of that evidence would likely yield relative levels of safety based on arbitrary but obvious genetic markers, ideology, geographic location, origin, other cultural indicators or lack thereof.
But, what I know is, none of us are actually safe at all.
I responded accordingly, knowing that what's true for me isn't necessary for other 😐
Or war crimes... depending on the exact circumstances, mass deportation can go either way.
Not for nothing, any US service member that was involved in that sort of thing would be exposed to the jurisdiction of the ICC, since it would be action in the territory of a state party to the Rome Statute.
The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
ATmosphere Report – #109The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
Conference
This weekend was the first ATProto conference, the ATmosphereConf, in Seattle. Over two days there were a large number of speakers and sessions, with over 150 people in attendance, and a significant number watching the live streams as well. I could not make it to the US, so for a full overview of the event, I recommend this extensive article by TechCrunch’ Sarah Perez, who was present at the event. The entire event was livestreamed, and all talks can be viewed via this YouTube playlist.Some assortment of thoughts I had while watching the livestream and VODs over the last few days:
- Bluesky CEO Jay Graber gave a short speech, about her background as a digital rights activist, and how she is now “holding the door open, so people can see another world is possible”. Graber is clearly aware of her position, where she is seen as a figurehead of the network, while also wanting to build a decentralised network where there is place for competing platforms. Being a figurehead of a network, without becoming the de facto leader of the network, while also holding the leadership position of by far the largest organisation in the network, is a challenging position to balance.
- Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee talked about where Bluesky came from and where it is going. One of the things he talked about is the consideration of why Bluesky decided on their own protocol and not ActivityPub. His answer focuses on practical considerations, especially how ActivityPub handles identity and account migration. Watching the ATProto Ethos talk by Bluesky protocol engineer Daniel Holmgren it struck me that the question could also be framed as a matter of lineage. Holmgren talks about how ATProto takes inspiration from the Web, Peer to Peer systems as well as Distributed Systems. Placing it in such a context makes it clear that ATProto has quite a different background and other ways of thinking than ActivityPub has.
- Ændra Rhinisland talked about how community projects can become load-bearing for the network, without adequate support structures for the people who run such projects. She also runs the popular news feeds using Graze. Graze has been adding support for advertisements, and Ændra is one of the first to take advantage. In her talk she walked through how at current usage rates, the feeds could generate over $20k per month in ad revenue. She plans to use this revenue to support the queer communities building on ATProto, and showed early plans for a self-sustaining fund powered by Graze’s feed revenue, to support initiatives such as Northsky.
- The talk by Ms Boba is a great indication of how much under-explored design space there is on Bluesky and ATProto. Her talk focuses on labelers and fandom communities, and has some great examples of how they can be used outside of moderation.
- Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser gave an excellent talk, describing Bluesky as a skeuomorphism, meaning that it imitates the design of the product it’s replacing. This phase is a part of the adoption cycle for new technologies, but Fraser does not to stop at imitation but instead explore the new ways that communities can be build online. Fraser is specifically interested in building platforms that can serve mid-sized communities, ranging from hundreds of thousands to a few million people. The Blacksky community is an example of this, and Fraser hopes that Blacksky can inspire other communities to do the same. His framing of content moderation as community care and not a cost of business also resonated with me.
- Erin Kissane’s talk goes into detail about vernacular institutions, local and grassroots organisations and practices that are often illegible to outsiders but deeply embedded in local communities. This allows them to be close to the needs of their community members, but makes them hard to see and understand from the outside. This outside illegibility is a double-edged sword: IFTAS served a crucial role for trust and safety in the fediverse ecosystem, but had to shut down to a lack of funding as a result of being illegible to financiers.
Some more articles on the events:
- The under-the-radar tech revolution that could change how the internet works – Marcelo Calbucci/GeekWire
- Things That Caught My Attention – Dan Hon
- What’s next for ATProto, the protocol powering Bluesky and other apps – Sarah Perez/TechCrunch
On relays
Bluesky PBC has been working on a new version of the relay that makes it easier and cheaper to host, under the Sync 1.1 proposal. This new version is now starting to roll out, showing a significant drop in resource usage. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold shared some statistics here. Independent ATProto developer @futur.blue set up his own relay as a speedrun. He shows that a full network relay can be run on a 50USD Raspberry Pi, with an easy-to-follow tutorial here.That full network ATProto relays are cheap to run has been known for a while within the ATProto developer community, but that knowledge has not spread much yet. One reason for this is that independent developers have set up relays primarily for their own use, sharing access with a few friends, but no other publicly accessible full-network relays exist yet1.
Upcoming short-form video platform Spark is building their own complete infrastructure. Spark’s relay will publicly accessible, and hosted in Brazil. Having ATProto infrastructure outside of US jurisdiction is a conversation that has come up regularly, and often followed by the assumption that the alternative is to have infrastructure like a relay hosted in Europe. Spark is bringing in a slightly unexpected twist here, by having the first publicly accessible relay that is not owned by Bluesky PBC being hosted in Brazil instead.
Having other relays that are not owned by Bluesky PBC has been the subject of a lot of conversation, and the Free Our Feeds campaign was founded on the idea that a significant financial investment is needed to do so. Furthermore, it assumes that such a relay is not only expensive, but that it requires an extensive governance infrastructure to manage it. The current developments regarding relays call both of these assumptions into serious question: relays are cheap, not expensive. Furthermore it seems that there is enough incentive that organisations that are serious about building their own ATProto platforms are willing to run their own relays.
In Other News
Bluesky PBC has published a proposal on how they want to handle OAuth Scopes. OAuth Scopes is one of the main projects on the roadmap for the first half of this year. Currently, logging into an ATProto app via OAuth requires you to give that app permission to access all the data for your account. OAuth Scopes allows an app to only ask for the permissions that are necessary, and not the entire account. There are two problems that need to solve: the technical part of making it work, as well as the handling the UX to communicate clearly to people what data an app wants to access. The challenging part of the UX is how to handle the translation from the technical description of the data that is requested (stylised like ‘app.bsky.feed.getFeed’, for example), into a way that is understandable for the everyday user. The second challenge is that apps require permission not for one, but for many types of this lexicon data. A third-party Bluesky client that is restricted to only Bluesky data will still have to request a dozen of these Lexicons. A long list of technical lexicon names makes it impossible for regular people to have an informed opinion on what data is and is not being accessed. Bluesky PBC’s proposal is to group different lexicons into bundles, and create new lexicons that reference these bundles. Scoped OAuth can then request access to a bundle of lexicons, with a description that is legible for regular people.Git repository platform Tangled is working on news ideas how a GitHub alternative might do things differently, and one of their first proposals is defining two types of pull requests. For another look at Tangled, this blog post experiment with what the platform allows.
One of the talks at the ATmosphereConf was by independent developer Rashid Aziz, who is the co-founder of basic.tech. Basic is a protocol for user-owned data, and seems to be fairly comparable to the PDS part of ATProto, with the major difference that Basic allows for private data on their version of a PDS. Aziz used the combination of these two protocols to create private bookmarks for Bluesky.
The new Record Collector labeler automatically displays if someone has been using other apps in the ATmosphere outside of Bluesky.
Rocksky is a new music scrobbler service on ATProto, that is currently in closed beta testing. It allows people to connect their Spotify account and automatically ‘scrobble’ (track) the music they are listening to.
The Links
Some tech-focused links for ATProto:
- ATCryptography is a package with cryptographic utilities for the ATProto, written in Swift.
- A blog post by independent ATProto developer Mary about ‘AT Protocol, OAuth, and well, decentralization’. Mary also published a repository car file explorer this week.
- A Python API library for Bluesky.
- Independent ATProto developer Kuba Suder writes about database optimalisation and speeding up the process of firehose processing.
- ‘this website is hosted on bluesky (for real this time)’ is a blog post about hosting your website data on an ATProto PDS, with a ‘thin AppView layer’ for easier to parse URLs.
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- Cerulea.blue is a publicly accessible relay, using a custom implementation, but it is limited to non-Bluesky PDSes. ↩︎
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So, here's my defense plan for Canada. Basic philosophy: it is unsafe to wait for an attack.
1. Get public confirmation from NATO that Article 5 applies even if the aggressor is also a NATO member.
2. Send an ultimatum to Washington demanding a public acknowledgement of Canadian sovereignty by the President and confirmation of non-aggression.
3. In the absence of that acknowledgement, sever diplomatic ties, close the borders, and embargo trade. Blow bridges, tear up roads and rail lines.
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as a German, it very much reads like third reich. I talked to couple of random others, yes the speed of USA degredation scares us. It is faster than in our nightmares/known timelines.
Including stories like:
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Try to learn from the past. Central Europe had its fair share of wars and is now in its longest peace period.
So help folks to get out early if they want. We most likely realize always too late when the right time has been.
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5. Declare a security corridor of 300km on the other side of the border, in US territory. Any military activity in that area is a sign of imminent aggression and will prompt a defensive strike.
6. If anything occurs, surge forward and take territory. Keep any war on US soil, not in Canada.
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We can't afford giving an aggressor the benefit of the doubt; too much of our population is within an hour's drive of the border.
If we wait until the US military moves into position to invade, we will have already lost.
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Military planning is to identify goals and accomplish them in ways most surprising to the enemy.
Ideally, with no one hurt.
I like the first part of your plan the most: address this through the already extant treaties of international law - WHICH ARE ALSO US LAW. (See US Constitution, Article III, section 2)
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Forever.
Although most of Canada's export goes to the USA, and about 50% of *that* is oil, the USA gets the same kind of bad crude from Venezuela.
And if they really had to, they could upgrade their refineries to use the light sweet crude produced in abundance in TX and is nearlly all exported.
It would also improve the USA's pollution situation dramatically.
But M Koch will be getting richer slower, and that will not be acceptable.
Very true!
The USA maintains a substantial reserve most of the time. And again, they have another source for the hideously bad bitumous oil the refineries are mostly set up to use.
My gut feeling is they have enough for 3-6 months, excluding rationing or conservation policies. Given that 20% or so of the refineries are working with light cruide, there is a domestic supply chain for the change-over, and could likely be at 40% within 6 months to a year.
Total ass gas, but a guess.
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Yes, but Canada is very likely to be a quagmire of costs if they do. And become unreliable.
If they are willing to consider that, they would also be willing to consider invading Venezuela. But, since they are being very palsy with M Putin, likely their cheapest option would be to switch policy on Venezuela, backing him to annex the Essequibo region of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana in exchange for controlling their oil industry.
Starmer will roll over; he already has.
And America's national sport is entitled rage.
Look, I'm on your side here. You're making the same mistake about Americans that the Japanese made at Pearl Harbor and al-Qaeda made on 9/11.
I'm not saying don't seize territory, I'm saying don't do it with the assumption it will worsen morale. It won't. It will harden resolve, not weaken it.
@siderea @skyfaller Absolutely possible and a fair point!
I suggested occupying low-population areas to put a lot of red on the map and attract military effort to those spots, so the war happens on US soil instead of Canadian soil.
That is probably not a great strategy from the American side, but I think popular opinion would insist on it.
It also gives something to negotiate over: you return southern Ontario, we return the Alaska panhandle or whatever.
oh, definitely try to have the fighting on US soil. As to low population areas, Canada is going to need to strike at relevant US military bases, wherever they are.
You are speaking in anger and fear, which is understandable, but time has come, alas, for cold-eyed military pragmatism.
@siderea @skyfaller oh, I'm not angry! This is just a thought experiment, not a serious plan.
Like I said, I'm just a software developer, not a military planner. I was just wondering, if a war is coming, what would be the best ways to survive as a sovereign nation?
I think, as the much smaller nation, we'd need to use other advantages: territory, initiative, allies. Being passive probably wouldn't work, I think.
I don't know it matters. Once a war effort starts, the Trump administration isn't going to let it end.
Please understand, the reason he wants war is as much to organize US society around it as it is to gain any of Canada's resources. "We have always been at war with Eurasia."
He doesn't want war to get something. He wants war for war's sake.
If you are looking for areas to occupy check out Port Roberts, Washington:
Do you really think the American military would follow an order to attack Canada?
But then I can’t imagine viewing it from your point of view.
I mean, I totally agree. But about 1/4 of the US thinks annexation is a good idea, and another 1/4 are unsure.
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Trump, famously, refuses to back down from even the stupidest of ideas. And the government is completely captive to his whim.
I don't think Canadians can count on internal US political resistance to prevent a war.
Most Canadians — and Americans — against Canada becoming 51st state: Poll
Making Canada the 51st state is unpopular south of the border, just as it is in Canada, according to a new poll.Bryan Passifiume (Toronto Sun)
One more, more thing: China.
One temptation would be to get military support and other aid from China. It's a huge economy, would benefit from our economic resources, and has massive military resources.
I think this might backfire badly. It would go from a war of choice for the Americans to a war of survival. They would probably fight more desperately than if it was just Canadians and their European allies.
Someone had to say it.
“You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia,’...”
Meh, there are a whole lot of other things.
- Tactical bombers are a big problem; they have a range of 1500-2200km and you just can't get out of their range and stay out of the Arctic Circle.
- The Great Lakes present a lot of opportunities for fuckery. It's about 8000 km of US shoreline.
- There is probably also a lot of opportunity for counterattack on the coasts.
- What happens to the 60K US service members in the 100-200 US bases in Europe? Good question!
@Milnoc I guess it depends on where NATO falls on preemptive attacks as self-defense. I don't know about it. If they say no, we'd have to decide which was more important: NATO support or the initiative.
I love the way you think.
Ukraine has shown the way what happens when you wait for a #tyrant to have their first move.
I mean, I dig your enthusiasm and forward thinking, but...
Many American states in the north near the border wouldn't probably be too bothered by becoming Canada. You're unlikely to encounter resistance in say Maine or Minnesota.
But your problem comes in considering this as a land war action. The US wouldn't move infantry in until after Shock and Awe...that's been their strategy for the last 3 engagements.
Also, Donald has fired all of the actual War College generals. There is nobody in charge of the US military who understands tactics. These are small, stupid men. And you know what happens if you back small stupid men into a corner? They do crazy shit.
Do you have faith that Donald's army wouldn't launch tactical bomb busters, white phosphorus and chemical weapons into Toronto just like they did in the Middle East?
Palestine was a test run to see what "democracies" could get away with when it comes to mass destruction. It's a lot.
Oh, absolutely. Americans do not know how it feels to be occupied; haven't had it happen since 1812.
I can't guarantee we wouldn't bite back like a rabid dog, but I can guarantee it would fuck with our identity fiercely to have a foreign sovereignty holding our soil.
@mark The more time and resources that were spent dicking around trying to recover the Alaska Panhandle or northern Maine would be time and resources not spent on Canadian territory.
I think the best move would be to hold a lot of rural area or wilderness, not any cities or even big towns (expensive and hard to hold). Make a big red stain on the map on the nightly news, with minimal effort.
You also have those of us in the U.S. that grew up in the border states. We love Canadians, many of us have been across the border many times.
Bring a military truck filled with maple syrup and well help you stage a whole invasion for the cameras, go make some waffles, pancakes n bacon together, and I hope you brought your skates because we may not want a war with ya but we're happy to face ya on the rink!
as a Vermonter, this is disconcerting.
Perhaps an amendment: "Cause maximum pain to US citizens who are not part of the resistance."
I agree with you on that. I just recognize that a good amount of my friends and community will likely agree with you if there is aggression from the US to Canada, and would likely be interested in doing physical acts of warfare against a fascist state.
The goal of taking US land would, I assume, be to cause regime change in the US to stop future aggression.
I don't understand this North American (I've seen the same sentiment from friends in the USA) bias for ignoring ROE.
Civilians, despite what other countries may have suggested by their actions, are not valid targets for military action.
To see this kind of sentiment is rather worrying, frankly.
@preinheimer I think if you give up 2/3 of the population to bombardment or an occupying force, it's game over.
But, yes, you can't keep most of the economy going this way. I'll change the post.
@preinheimer Those both sound like the same outcome to me. In the case where we nearly-all need to give up all of our homes, schools, hospitals, jobs, and other infrastructure, we'd just be occupying ourselves—we'd be so demoralized, malnourished, and disease-ridden, that we'd be easy to conquer.
I think I'd rather lose in the first wave than suffer all of that and lose anyway because we're trying to huddle into tents and hope the wheat delivery isn't droned again.
preemptively abandoning territory esp your most valuable real estate is just plain nuts + we have long range missiles so it's surrendering in advance for naught
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I'm sorry to say it, but there's no way to reconcile these objectives. In principle, you could evacuate the population ~250 km from the border, but there's no housing or anything there, so they'd have to live in tents, which is contraindicated by the existence of something called "winter". Constructing housing for that many people doesn't go quickly, even if you haven't abandoned all your industrial facilities (see below) ; and likewise, the heating fuel pipelines are mostly close to the US border, as are all the nuclear power plants.
Crucially, nearly all the industrial facilities bar some mines are located close to the US border, as are almost all the port facilities. So, even if you can divert all imports and exports to different markets (which is very difficult because of the close cross-border integration of many industries, such as cars), there's no good way to move all that stuff without the ports which empty to the Atlantic via the Gulf of St Lawrence.
Barring several independent and very large strokes of luck, your proposed solution would be more destructive than an all-out war.
Now, considering how stupid the people in Washington pushing this bizarre anti-Canada agenda are, threatening it might be believed. I have no way to predict that.
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@lakelady Unfortunately that's not how war works.
It would definitely be easier for everyone in the US if it was only an invasion of Canadian soil, I agree. I just don't think it's a good strategy for Canada.
within 300km of the border? You can evacuate all these people without blowing up Canada’s entire economy.
This guy never started any war, or am I mistaken? Did i miss the Abraham accords, the normalization of relations in the ME? The cease fire in Gaza, the ongoing dealings for a ceasefire in Ukraine?
A barking dog never bites. He makes high demands to obtain better than average results. Classical business bargaining. In my opinion, one of the least concerning and most consequential presidents the US ever had, w.r.t. war and American foreign policy violence.
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Just like Hamas, I like that.
Worth a try.
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I'm sorry, I agree we need to have a strong plan, but pre-emptively invading the United States is, frankly, insane.
Nothing will more quickly galvanize Americans to believe Trump's lies about how we are soooo bad. Our vestigial armed forces are in no position to make such an effort. Salients are a nightmare to defend, even if forces are equal.
We would be carpet bombed to oblivion.
Abandoning cities just gives them free real estate. Lower home prices 🇺🇸!
And nobody is going to help us.
I think you might need to read through it again. In this case, the US has expressed its intention to attack and is moving troops into position within reach of the border.
Letting those troops get into position and cross our border before taking any action would be insane. Especially with 2/3 of the population only an hour from the border.
And don't worry about real estate! It will be much less valuable when it's been pounded into rubble by American bombers and missiles.
At present, if there's a full scale invasion, no such thing is possible. This is the most powerful military in all human history we are talking about.
To be clear, yes, a troublesome insurgency that adds to the domestic American polycrisis such that continuing is impossible is likely our only hope. But we should not be unrealistic. Vietnam went on for ages.
And moving millions of people hundreds of kilometres is simply not feasible and would pretty much immediately end our economy.
@AlexanderVI so, because resistance would be hard, accept an occupation and lose any advantages whatsoever, and hope guerrilla actions nudge towards collapse of the empire?
Hand in the guns and fight with sticks?
That's just defeatism.
no, I am not saying that.
I'm specifically saying the invasion piece is not a good idea, in my opinion. Many other aspects of your plan are sound goals, and I sincerely hope we can avoid the worst. I agree we need to maximize friction.
I'm taking a Scouting approach: Be Prepared. We need civil defence organization and emergency preparedness efforts so we can support each other. We should be massively expanding something like the Reserves, maybe even a Swiss approach.
I'm preparing.
@AlexanderVI understood!
I think our only win condition is surviving long enough that the invader loses their will to continue the war and comes to the negotiating table.
I think holding US territory would be bad for US civilian morale. It would concentrate American firepower on troops in Minnesota, Idaho and Northern Maine rather than on the GTA.
It would also give us something to take to the table. Exchanging territorial gains and returning to pre-war borders would be a good outcome for us.
I appreciate this perspective, and it's worth gaming all avenues out, especially novel ones, given this wildly novel context.
I should have better highlighted our concurrence on the need to prepare infrastructure for destruction - Army Engineers should already be planning for how to blow bridges and interrupt transportation routes. The Navy should look for potential chokepoints in the St Lawrence that could be made unnavigable. We should be vigourously pursuing European missile systems.
if you sincerely believe the Canadian Forces can go toe to toe against the US military, I completely understand your reasoning.
From the numbers, and from what I have seen of the US military up close, we are going to have very different opinions on that.
I am glad we are at least having frank discussions about this. I hope DND is as well.
For clarity, my family came to Canada as refugees when New York was evacuated in 1783. I have personally lived in the States. I will not do so again
@AlexanderVI one hope would be that moving troops and weapons to North America for a war would destabilize other regions, requiring redeployment of those troops back to Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, or whatever.
But the US has about 1M active service members in the US right now. They wouldn't have to move anyone.
I suppose, ironically, we would basically be partially re-running the strategic situation in the 13 Colonies in 1776, though the larger power is, geographically speaking, now less advantageously positioned, from our point of view.
Sadly, this time I don't think #France is going to bankrupt its treasury to help out the little guy. Macron doesn't want to end up on a guillotine.
I understand your strategic logic, I just don't think it's realistic. In military matters, the defender has a natural advantage. We have time to prepare the terrain. So maybe we need to get landmine production fired up.
Sallying out of the fort is an extremely dangerous manoeuvre, and is usually done in desperation.
But with that said I know your first few steps require guarantees from our allies. Were such in place and credible, we would be in a better place. I am not confident.
@smiteri yeah, we are not really set up for an invasion! Having 2/3 of your population on the enemy's border is not a recipe for success.
Have you thought about this? How would you defend Canadian sovereignty from a US invasion?
As far as I can tell, it’s not doable. They can hit everything we have from the air.
If they send a very small task force to seize a power plant or something, we can shoot them. Anything more than that quickly requires recourse to science fiction.
Your steps 1 and 2 are about it.
@smiteri yes, long-range bombers can hit anywhere in Canada. Short-range ones can hit pretty deep.
Moving our people away from the border lowers that risk, though. And maintaining a security corridor inside US territory to make it harder to keep up a bombing campaign may help too.
But our cards are not great. Our best advantages: very long borders, huge territory, European and maybe Asian allies, big dependence by the invader on our energy supply.
And morale.
@smiteri yes, both extremely hard to achieve! I think evacuation is a huge effort here. During the Blitz, the UK moved almost 4M civilians out of high-target areas.
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What percentage of Canadian civilians in the invasion zone -- about 25M people -- could move North or overseas is a big question. Obviously, we'd need military there, and workers in defense industries.
I don't want to be overly provocative, but I've suddenly become much less opposed to the idea of Canada leaving the NPT...
Article X allows a state to leave the treaty if "extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this Treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country", giving three months' (ninety days') notice.
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About half of us will welcome our new Canadian Overlords as liberators.
I fully expect both the Other NATO partners and Canada are well aware of the risk and are planning contingencies, that's what Defence Departments do, and they have access to Intel not found online. They're not likely to hold a press conference on it 😅
Alternatively, go after the billionaires funding Trump's attacks on NATO.
Sanction Charles Koch.
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An accelerated switch to renewable energy, an oil embargo on #KochNetwork, and a contract cancelation on its allies #AtlasNetwork and #RockbridgeNetwork will defund a fascist movement.
Saudi Arabia, Russia, and fossil fuel interests are the alliance behind Trump's threats.
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The US's interest in rare earth elements and Russia's focus on developing the Arctic economy and shipping provide a potential framework for the two countries to coexist on the planet.Yannis Bassias (Modern Diplomacy)
I would like to think that if we tried to invade Canada, the northern states would rebel against the federal government and/or most of our troops would refuse to obey those orders.
I am, unfortunately, not as sure of this outcome as I would’ve been just a few years ago.
I'd love to see American opposition stop this preposterous, fratricidal war before it gets even near starting.
American citizens seem to be taking the atrocities threatened by their government lying down, and politicians are more interested in minor domestic issues than in stopping a continent-wide war or other military excursions.
I would refuse to take up arms against Canada or any ally.
I would, however, take up arms against my own fascist government.
I suspect many Americans feel the same.
We are not fighting each other, we're fighting fascists.
You might want to delete "tear up ... rail lines" because Elon Musk it seems doesn't like our train systems (at a minimum, one of them) anyway. Why spend the effort if these bozos may do it for you?
When I first saw a picture of Musk's child-sized submarine, my first thought was "Dolt Cart", a "brilliant" device used on the first ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley and apparently never used again because, when on a nearly vertical wall with overhangs, flakes, etc., it would tip over so often that it was more trouble than it was worth.
The cart was named after its inventor, whose nickname was "The Dolt".
K-2 Black Panther tank (South Korea)
K-9 Thunder self-propelled howister (South Korea)
Destroyers without usa fire control system
Gripen fighter Sweden
French submarines
5.56 ammo produced outside of usa
7.62 ammo for machine guns outside usa
- all with tech transfer and factories in Canada
The _only_ way to deal with bullies is to let them feel, in the first millisecond, that if they mess with you they'll have a fight on their hands.
They back off. The Rancid Kumquat has followed that script many times. And yet, because he sits on top of the richest, most nukeified country in the world, people keep acting like appeasement will solve something. It _never_ does with bullies.
@Tabby_Schaf well, I guess if there were a war going on on the Canadian border, you'd have to go to Mexico instead, and then fly from there.
It feels extreme to ask Canadians not to defend themselves from an invasion, so there's a convenient exit path for American emigrants? Am I misunderstanding the question?
Now since long all is closed, no escape.
about a quarter of Americans think annexation is a good idea.Toronto Sun: https://torontosun.com/news/national/most-canadians-and-americans-against-canada-becoming-51st-state-poll (Bryan Passifiume)
Making Canada the 51st state is unpopular south of the border, just as it is in Canada, according to a new poll.
But only "Five per cent of Americans favour bringing Canada into the union militarily, according to Tuesday's Angus Reid poll."
@tejan absolutely. There's even a bill in Congress to prevent allocating funds for these dumb wars:
2. Each priority target is assigned 2 independent teams of sniper + spotter.
3. When the numbers stations transmit the "go" code, all teams act at once to take out the entire Forbes 400.
3a. Successful teams move to secondary targets, such as healthcare insurance executives or nutso pillow hawkers.
4. No one is left to profit from shooty wars or trade wars with Canada.
Even American foreign policy agrees with this.
What did Bush Jr. use to call it? Preemptive action? You have to fight us over there so you don't have to fight us over here.
This is the funniest thing I have ever read since I left the army, and my last three years were spent around training staff officers.
Go give your kids a hug, get some ice cream, maybe learn how to grow some potatoes.
@thecueball thank you for the hobby advice! I will see what I can do. I have a big garden, but I mostly grow native plants. I just got some of these, though, which I'm looking to plant this spring:
@thecueball I am definitely a complete amateur with defense plans!
The only thing I know is that the US military is about 30 times bigger than ours, and the US economy is about 13 times bigger than ours. If we want to survive an invasion, we'll need to use whatever advantages we can get -- territory, initiative, allies.
If you were a nation-state supporter, what would you do to try to maintain Canadian sovereignty in the face of an American aggressor? Rough sketch.
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Geography and force discrepancy mean that regular forms of military resistance are bound to fail.
We should instead take advantage of these facts:
1- We have a huge border
2- 80% of Canadians look and talk like Americans.
3- The American people are extremely divided, even more so when it comes to invading us.
4- The US Army couldn’t handle insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You missed an important detail, I’m talking about partisan tactics on US soil. But mainly it’s leveraging divisions within American society. Remember that millions took to the streets to protest the Iraq war…a far-away conflict against “brown people” of a different religion who had “attacked” the US.
If steps 1 and 2 clarify their intentions, it would probably be easier for us and our allies to provoque a US civil war than for Trump to unify his fractured country againt Canada.
@ErictheCerise In this case, the US is massing troops and equipment on the border with clear indication for an invasion.
As for allies, I agree that it's a major question. Canada would probably need to clear with NATO that preemptive strikes count as self-defence.
my guess is that US won't attack Canada directly but might first attack Groenland(Danemark, a NATO member) for which Canada would need to respond accordingly with article 5.
Word is that Trump has already asked its military planners to make propositions...
Stupid plan, don't you think, I mean, frankly, it is stupid that this is indeed neccicery ! The plan that you outline is a good plan, don't get me wrong, but it is stupid.
For you saying "is #nato #article5 also applicable betwéén NATO-members" there is some history: #France has a mutual defence argreement with #Greece because of the tread #turiye poses to Greece
This is happening right now!
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26 March 2025 | Browser experience of ActivityPub social networking | Calendar
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.W3C
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I don't understand what your question is. What announcement are you talking about?
This was a session at the W3C Breakouts Day 2025. We had an hour-long discussion about how ActivityPub-enabled profiles and content show up in browsers. I did a presentation, which is here:
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I wonder how it might have been different 5 years ago? I imagine the pandemic changed a lot of that, which may not have recovered fully.
RIGHT?!
Orlando Amateur Radio club (that’s easy… club is in the name)
ARRL? It’s a “league” but kind of a club.
What about professional associations? Are those clubs?
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@dmealo Wiktionary gives this definition:
"An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation"
So you can either use that or the alternate definition:
"The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich."
I should have been in the 2-5 option.
That's a really broad definition of "club". I chose "2-5" on your poll, but with the inclusion of political parties it's 5+
Turns out all the "clubs" I belong to are organizations trying to effect some public good. I belong to no social clubs, no sports clubs (#WRCycle is an advocacy group).
I'm a member of two political parties, but with limited real involvement, so I didn't count them. There are phases in your life when you have more or less time for activities outside of home and work, and I'm at a low ebb now.
I think I'm in about 5.
I think clubs, associations, and civic groups are good for society and good for us personally. I think people should be part of more clubs.
This was Robert Putnam's prescription 30 years ago, it hasn't gotten old.
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@iakobsdesamos well, in a running club, you go running.
In a model trains club, you show off your model trains.
In an environmental association, you go for hikes, have protests, and write letters.
In a sailing club, you sail boats.
An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse's interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.
Fediverse Report – #109An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse’s interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.
User Intents
The Bluesky Company (Bluesky PBC) recently announced a proposal to add User Intents to the AT Protocol (ATProto). The proposal allows people to set account-wide preferences how their data should be handled outside the network. It gives people the ability to opt in or opt out their account from a few different things, such as bridging to other protocols or not wanting any of their data being used in generative AI datasets. The proposal is similar to how robots.txt works, meaning that it is a machine-readable format which good actors are supposed to abide by, but is not legally enforceable.I cover both the fediverse and Bluesky (including ATProto) under Fediverse Report because these networks are deeply interconnected and influence each other. Decisions on one network, like Bluesky’s User Intents proposal, can influence how the fediverse develops and builds their own features. My goal is to help readers understand the fediverse more deeply. By observing how Bluesky’s approaches default user preferences, the fediverse can build their own systems that use its strength of having many diverse and connected communities.
The proposal by Bluesky PBC is as follows:
- People are able to set their preferences for four different categories:
- generative AI
- protocol bridging
- bulk datasets
- public archiving and preservation
- These preferences are account wide. They are valid not only for Bluesky, but for every app build on ATProto.
- The default value is ‘undefined’, not opt-in or opt-out.
- Projects which are intending to use the public data should decide for themselves whether data reuse when the intents are classified as “undefined” is acceptable or not.
- the current proposal is set to lead the way for more granular user preferences, allowing people to specify on an app-level or post-level what their preference is.
Also, some concepts of ATProto that are relevant, which makes the protocol different from ActivityPub:
- On ATProto, a user has only 1 account, and can use that account to log into any service. This is in contrast with ActivityPub, where you need a new account for every service.
- Data on ATProto is public by default, and designed to be accessible. Everyone has full and free access to the data of the entire network.
One thing about user preference settings in social apps is that they are a bit of red herring. The majority of people never change the default settings. Giving people choice is a good thing, but it is impossible force people to choose: the majority of people will just not choose anything. This makes it so that the default value for any preference is hugely important, as it is the de-facto value that the majority of people will experience.
Bluesky PBC tries to avoid this issue by introducing a default “undefined” value. The advantage of using a default value of “undefined” is that Bluesky PBC will not overstep their boundaries and determine the preference of everyone on the network, including people who are not using Bluesky but are using other platforms on the network. The downside is that Bluesky PBC effectively makes no decision at all for the majority of people. Bluesky PBC leaves it to the organisations who use the data to determine how data can be handled if the preference is set to “undefined”. These organisations are likely to value their own interests more than the interest of people whose data they intent to process.
Bluesky PBC has three options here, that all have a downside:
- If Bluesky PBC sets default values for how ATProto account data can be handled it reinforces its centralising role in the network.
- If Bluesky PBC does not set a default value, no decision is made for the majority of people, and it is left to organisations whose goals do not align with those of the people whose data they process.
- If Bluesky PBC sets User Intent not on an ATProto-account wide level, but only on an per-app basis, choices quickly become overwhelming if users must set preferences for every app.
So far I’ve only been talking about Bluesky and ATProto. But the fediverse has a long history of debates, conversations and drama on how to deal with data processing that happens outside of the network. Some high-profile cases include the blowup around Bridgy Fed considering making the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky opt-out, or the backlash against Searchtodon, which saved user’s timeline locally for searching.
These debates are around data scraping, consent, things being opt-in or opt-out. But one of the struggles that the fediverse has had is to build structural solutions. A significant portion of the fediverse does not consent to have their data handled outside of the network. A persistent problem is that this preference is not expressed in a machine-readable way. This leads to an endless cycle of new developers coming in that are not familiar with the culture who then cross lines of consent and it all blows up in drama again.
Moreover, the fediverse and ActivityPub have a significant advantage on how to deal with the dilemma of setting default values over ATProto. The fediverse is a network that is build up of many different communities connecting with each other. A variety of communities allows for diverse preferences, which can also be expressed in setting default values. And it is a shame that the fediverse is not capitalising on this advantage.
There are communities from whom discoverability is important. Just as there are communities for whom not being easily publicly discoverable is important. These preference can differ within an individual as well: people treat personal photos shared with friends differently from blog articles.
The fediverse can sidestep the question of default account values because people have many accounts on the fediverse, for different use cases. This gives the option to set a different default value for different services. A Pixelfed platform for close friends should set stricter default data-handling preferences. A Mastodon server for blogging platform Medium that has the goal of giving more visibility and reach to its writers could consider setting default values to be more open.
The power of the fediverse is in that there does not have to be a single default at all. Instead, communities and servers should be able to set default values for themselves. This can help shape the tone of the community, and makes it clear what the identity of a community is about. What’s even more powerful is that this only concerns the default value, giving people the ability to set their preferences as they desire. The state of the open social web is such that there are now two protocols in competition with each other. That gives the ability for the fediverse to take ideas from other networks, and improve on them in a way that plays up to the unique strengths that the fediverse has.
The News
Reminder: next week will be FediForum, on April 1-2, and you can register here.FediverseSharing: A Novel Dataset on Cross-Platform Interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users is a new academic paper (currently under review and up on arXiv) that explores the interaction between Threads users and Mastodon users. It takes a dataset of 20k Threads users that have fediverse sharing enabled and compares it to 20k Mastodon users that have interacted with these Threads users. The main goal of the research is to build up this dataset and share it with the community for further research. How sharing a dataset of aggregated user interactions relates to the above essay on user preferences for being included in bulk datasets is left as an exercise to the reader.
PeerTube has done a major redesign for their v7 of the software that came out a few months ago. The organisation now shared the design and development reports that shaped the update.
IFTAS recently had to shut down most of their larger projects due to a lack of funding. One of their projects, FediCheck is now available as open source for someone else to continue with. FediCheck is a deny list management tool that allows server admins to subscribe to external deny lists.
The Lemmy developers will hold an AMA on Wednesday March 26th.
Last week, Ghost made their ActivityPub integration available in public beta for Ghost Pro subscribers. Their weekly update says that now over 250 sites already use the integration. WeDistribute has a hands on with the new features that Ghost offers.
Note: Last week I wrote about the new fediverse platform Forte, and said that the repository did not include an install guide. This is incorrect, the guide can be found here.
The Links
- Website League and the Rise of Island Networks – Sean Tilley/WeDistribute.
- The fediverse has a long tradition of building silly clients for Mastodon. This article has an overview of some of them.
- Two new video tutorials by FediHost, for setting up a GoToSocial instance and configuring a PeerTube instance.
- An update on how search works in music sharing platform Bandwagon.
- A development update for Letterbook, an upcoming fediverse microblogging platform.
- This weeks’ fediverse software updates.
- Fediverse Events hackaton project.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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This is not a poll about messaging protocols.
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the last time I regretted a text I sent was over a decade ago when I texted my buddy about a girl I liked but sent it to the girl I liked.
Lesson learned permanently (at least for a decade).
Sometimes, I do go back to add or clarify a post/message. Or just fix grammar.
You would not believe the number of posts I have written, then hit ”Cancel” 😄
Cinque passi per iniziare a utilizzare al meglio Friendica (e un'idea per una passeggiata diversa nel Fediverso)
Questo post è rivolto soprattutto agli utenti Friendica e in particolare a quelli di Poliverso, ma consigliamo di leggerlo a tutti gli abitanti del Fediverso.
Se non ti interessa, ignoralo, altrimenti guardalo come a un modo insolito di guardare le cose.
Se invece ti piace così tanto il nostro progetto da volerci aiutare finanziandolo, puoi farlo attraverso Liberapay o Ko-Fi
Ma veniamo ai cinque passi per iniziare a utilizzare al meglio Friendica:
1) Primo passo
Leggi la sezione dedicata ai nuovi iscritti (ma è utile anche a quelli meno nuovi)
2) Secondo passo
Accedi alla pagina di modifica del tuo profilo
Dalla sezione "PERSONALE" puoi aggiungere una descrizione breve
Dalla sezione "VARIE" puoi aggiungere link alle tue pagine e ai tuoi profili social
Dalla sezione "Campi profilo personalizzati" puoi inserire quello che ti pare...
3) Terzo passo
Accedi alla pagina di gestione dell'Account
Da qui ricorda di impostare il fuso orario della tua località perché ti sarà utile per la gestione del calendario eventi (sì, Friendica può gestire anche gli eventi Mobilizon e Gancio!)
4) Quarto passo
Visita la directory dei profili pubblici di Poliverso e segui i profili che ti interessano. Esiste una pagina anche per i gruppi Friendica.
Se vuoi, puoi anche scaricare la lista completa di tutti gli account gestiti dallo staff di Poliverso e subito dopo, importala dalla sezione "Importa contatti" della pagina apposita.
Puoi trovare una lista di utenti interessanti di tutto il fediverso italiano a questa pagina
5) Quinto passo
Se hai un account Bluesky, dalla sezione Social Networks puoi collegare il tuoi account Bluesky per utilizzarlo attraverso il tuo Friendica.
E ADESSO...
...è il momento di una passeggiata di allenamento nel Fediverso!
Di seguito troverai alcuni link utili:
A) Termini di servizio (può sembrare banale, ma non tutti li leggono)
B) Guida generale a Friendica
C) directory dei profili pubblici dell'istanza
D) Note generali su Friendica
E) Come evitare problemi di visibilità del proprio profilo
F) Fediquette, la fediquette del fediverso
G) Risorse informative sul fediverso italiano
H) Una guida a mastodon che può essere utile anche per chi è entrato a far parte del mondo di Friendica
I) Note sui "gruppi" Friendica (= gruppi facebook)
L) Interoperabilità tra friendica e le piattaforme meno complete
M) Friendica e Lemmy, una coppia fantastica
N) Un articolo sulla socialità del Fediverso
O) Alcune considerazioni sulla moderazione scritte dallo staff di mastodon.uno più grande istanza italiana
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Fediverso: nasce Feddit.it, l’alternativa italiana a Reddit - informapirata
Cos’è Feddit.it? Un’alternativa a Reddit? Una nuova istanza del fediverso italiano? Una specie di forum? O, grazie alle potenzialità del progetto Lemmy…informapirata
Friendica è un progetto nato per dare agli utenti di Facebook un ambiente social rispettoso del principio “privacy by default”.
Ma l’utente che non lo sa, rischia di trovarsi solo e non sapere perché…informapirata.it/2021/09/03/mi…
Mi sono iscritto a Friendica, ma non c’è nessuno! No, non è così… - informapirata
Friendica è un progetto nato per dare agli utenti di Facebook un ambiente social rispettoso del principio “privacy by default”. Ma l’utente che non lo sa…informapirata
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Questa magari la "pinniamo", eh
Risposta alla domanda "perché nessuna istanza elimina gli utenti inattivi?"
Diverse risposte, su piani diversi:1) come ha detto qui @Il Fediverso fa schifo? gli amministratori preferiscono far vedere di avere centinaia di utenti, quando invece ne hanno solo qualche decina o millemila utenti quando invece ne hanno solo qualche centinaio
2) come ha detto qui @Lorenzo avere un numero di utenti complessivi più alto ti pone più in alto nelle tabella internazionali e quindi tra i primi a essere scelto dagli utenti (una bella coccolina per l'ego degli amministratori)
3) come ha detto qui @Piero Bosio è anche una rottura di palle eliminare gli utenti inattivi, soprattutto in mancanza di apposite funzioni messe a disposizione dagli svilupatori
4) come ha detto qui @Luca Sironi quasi nessuno ha preventivamente impostato regole di cancellazione e pertanto questo rende meno facile programmare un'eliminazione degli utenti inattivi (noi l'abbiamo fatto praticamente solo dopo tre avvisi)
5) come ho ricordato qui ultimo (e più importante) motivo è il fatto che per primi gli sviluppatori non vogliono creare tool di cancellazione massiva degli utenti inattivi e, a differenza degli amministratori, non lo fanno solo per avere coccole per l'ego, ma anche per dimostrare a donatori e investitori di essere un investimento interessante ("ehi, guarda quanti utenti abbiamo!"). Finché le cose staranno così, è impossibile che gli amministratori si mettano a cancellare utenti a caso
@Eleonora @LorenzoDiverse risposte, su piani diversi:
1) come ha detto qui @Il Fediverso fa schifo? gli amministratori preferiscono far vedere di avere centinaia di utenti, quando invece ne hanno solo qualche decina o millemila utenti quando invece ne hanno solo qualche centinaio
2) come ha detto qui @Lorenzo avere un numero di utenti complessivi più alto ti pone più in alto nelle tabella internazionali e quindi tra i primi a essere scelto dagli utenti (una bella coccolina per l'ego degli amministratori)
3) come ha detto qui @Piero Bosio è anche una rottura di palle eliminare gli utenti inattivi, soprattutto in mancanza di apposite funzioni messe a disposizione dagli svilupatori
4) come ha detto qui @Luca Sironi quasi nessuno ha preventivamente impostato regole di cancellazione e pertanto questo rende meno facile programmare un'eliminazione degli utenti inattivi (noi l'abbiamo fatto praticamente solo dopo tre avvisi)
5) come ho ricordato qui ultimo (e più importante) motivo è il fatto che per primi gli sviluppatori non vogliono creare tool di cancellazione massiva degli utenti inattivi e, a differenza degli amministratori, non lo fanno solo per avere coccole per l'ego, ma anche per dimostrare a donatori e investitori di essere un investimento interessante ("ehi, guarda quanti utenti abbiamo!"). Finché le cose staranno così, è impossibile che gli amministratori si mettano a cancellare utenti a caso
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Poliverso è un progetto indipendente per mettere a disposizione modi alternativi di usare il Fediverso. Ecco i motivi per cui è importante sostenerlo. Anche se sei un utente di altre istanze
Il progetto Poliverso, da cui nasce lo stesso progetto feddit.it, è stato creato per mettere a disposizione degli utenti italiani un'intera istanza basata su Friendica, che non è solo la più completa alternativa a Facebook, ma è anche il software più potente per l'esplorazione del Fediverso!
Con poliverso.org puoi interagire con tutti i profili delle Fediverso, ma puoi anche collegare il tuo account Bluesky; a differenza di Mastodon puoi scrivere post lunghi con il testo formattato e le immagini in linea, ma puoi anche creare eventi o interagire con gli eventi di Mobilizon, seguire il feed RSS di altri siti web o addirittura di canali telegram e puoi impostarne anche la pubblicazione automatica dal tuo profilo.
Con Friendica è possibile anche creare utenti di servizio gestiti da uno staff di più utenti ognuno con un proprio account.
Infine è possibile creare gruppi del Fediverso, come i gruppi Facebook, ossia degli account che quando vengono menzionati ricondividono automaticamente il post pubblicato, cosicché venga visto da tutti gli utenti (utenti di tutto il fediverso!) che seguono quel gruppo.
Ma il progetto Poliverso non si ferma qui: insieme al blog lealternative.net abbiamo aperto feddit.it, la prima istanza italiana basata su Lemmy, un'alternativa a reddit perfettamente federata con il resto del Fediverso.
Su feddit.it puoi scegliere una delle tante comunità tematiche presenti e aprire un nuovo thread, come su un subreddit, e segnalare o commentare i link di articoli di giornale o di post interessanti, visualizzandoli in un interfaccia che ricorda quella di un forum.
Feddit.it non è soltanto uno spazio a disposizione dei suoi utenti, ma tutti coloro che dispongono di un account Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Misskey o Pixelfed [b]possono aprire un nuovo thread (anche dal tuo blog WordPress!) creando un nuovo post e menzionando la comunità di proprio interesse![/b]
E questo è esattamente quello che abbiamo fatto con questo post che è stato creato da Friendica, menzionando l'account Lemmy @Che succede nel Fediverso? e che può essere visualizzato nella relativa comunità.
Il terzo progetto di Poliverso è costituito da poliversity.it, la prima istanza Mastodon in Italia dedicata al mondo dell'università e della ricerca ma anche a quello del giornalismo. Se sei un ricercatore, uno studente, un giornalista o se semplicemente sei interessato a questi temi, poi iscriverti e partecipare alle discussioni.
Poliverso vuole essere un servizio non solo per i suoi utenti ma per tutto il Fediverso italiano, grazie agli account di informazione di Poliverso (come il nostro bollettino sul Fediverso, la rassegna sulla Cybersecurity, quella sulla Privacy e quella sulle notizie dei Pirati internazionali), i gruppi Friendica e le comunità Lemmy.
Per questo motivo, saremmo molto lieti di ricevere un contributo anche da parte di utenti italiani di altre istanze, italiane e straniere. Se vuoi contribuire al progetto Poliverso, puoi fare una donazione su questi due canali di raccolta:
1) Ko-fi
2) Liberapay
Se invece vuoi contribuire in maniera specifica al solo progetto feddit.it, puoi offrire un contributo economico di sostegno al manutenzione dei server a questa pagina Liberapay
Grazie di cuore ❤
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Sei un utente Mastodon e vorresti usare i gruppi/forum Friendica e le comunità Lemmy? Allora questa guida fa per te!informapirata.it/2023/03/27/ti…
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@Man
> La più grande pecca di friendica è la mancanza di un app decente
Sì, vero, ma funziona così discretamente bene da browser mobile che la mancanza di un'app non è tutta questa grande tragedia
> e l'interfaccia web anni 2000
Diciamo 2010... dài! 😁
E comunque qui hai totalmente ragione: l'interfaccia è davvero retrò, ma qui su Poliverso stiamo valutando la possibilità di creare un accesso alternativo attraverso Soapbox o Semaphore (grazie a un'idea di @Chiara [Ainur] [Айнұр] ❤️). Questi strati applicativi sono molto interessanti e forniscono addirittura un'interfaccia molto più bella e moderna rispetto a quella dello stesso Mastodon, ma dobbiamo prima capire bene come farci girare le funzionalità più avanzate di Friendica, perché sono quelle funzionalità che rendono questo software così unico e vantaggioso rispetto agli altri software del fediverso
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@Nerd02 hai compreso perfettamente il problema: è vero, Friendica implementa l'api di Mastodon, ma per far funzionare alcune funzionalità devono essere tarati gli strati applicativi che oggi vanno bene per mastodon o per pleroma. Questo è il problema che, discutendo con @Fabio è emerso come Maggiore criticità.
Non sono un talebano di Friendica, ma bisogna fare una analisi funzionale per capire quali sono le cose alle quali poter rinunciare e quali no. Sì siamo costretti a eliminare alcune peculiarità distintive del sistema per far somigliare tutto a mastodon o misskey, Allora tanto varrebbe utilizzare mastodon o misskey 😅
Friendica è un software eccezionale nel quale c'è tutto o quasi, ma è chiaramente stato realizzato da sviluppatori eccezionali che tuttavia mancavano di una cultura adeguata nella gestione di prodotto.
Friendica sembra essere stato sviluppato Per esaudire tutti ma proprio tutti i desideri di tutti i potenziali utenti...
In pratica, si è voluto realizzare un gigantesco e potentissimo Mecha modulare come Voltron
Purtuttavia il risultato estetico ed ergonomico è stato più simile a uno di quei mostri Goffi e dimenticabili che venivano spediti a ogni puntata per sconfiggere il robottone protagonista...😁 😄 🤣
Ahahaha splendida analogia.
Non metto in dubbio i vantaggi di Friendica. Anzi, volendomi avvicinare al mondo del microblogging (dal quale ahimé sono tagliato fuori, usando Lemmy) stavo giusto pensando di aprirmi un'istanza con Friendica, piuttosto che Mastodon. Però personalmente trovo l'UI davvero DAVVERO brutta, è ciò che finora mi ha allontanato dal provarlo.
Se si riuscisse ad avere un backend come l'attuale Friendica e un'UI bella moderna come Soapbox o Misskey sarebbe davvero il meglio dei due mondi.
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@Antonino Campaniolo 👣 :birra: sì, Infatti mi sembra chiaro che attualmente non ci siano energie nella community di Friendica per realizzare una nuova interfaccia...
Purtroppo noi siamo ancora nella fase 1, ossia quella per individuare uno strato applicativo versatile e affidabile. Sull'affidabilità, ovviamente, soapbox è avvantaggiato, considerando la sua maturità e la qualità del prodotto.
Il problema è che dobbiamo valutare anche la versatilità e per farlo ci serve tempo.
Una volta Superata la fase 1 bisogna passare alla fase 2 che è la valutazione della fattibilità di un'operazione del genere sulla base degli strumenti che abbiamo a disposizione.
Poi c'è la fase 3 che non consiste ancora nel mettere le mani sul codice, perché non abbiamo la forza per farlo, ma piuttosto di iniziare una campagna di coinvolgimento di persone disposte a contribuire allo sviluppo di una versione beta... in questa fase sarà importante coinvolgere sia la comunità di Friendica sia quella di Soapbox.
Solo dopo si può iniziare a fare qualcosa... 😭
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Forum o Social Network? Questo è il dilemma. Eppure una soluzione c'è già! Il post di @Informa Pirata
@Che succede nel Fediverso?
Da pochi giorni è infatti nato qualcosa che potrebbe creare un punto di contatto rivoluzionario tra questi due strumenti di confronto sociale tra gli utenti del web...
Il (lunghissimo) post di @informapirata :privacypride: cerca di fare il punto sulla situazione.
cc @Le Alternative @eticadigitale@bida.mastodon.im
@Devol :fediverso: @Poliverso Forum di supporto @Scuola - Gruppo Forum
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Inoltre manca #Discourse che oltre a rappresentare i forum della nuova generazione ha appena annunciato di aggiungere il supporto ad #activitypub che porterà il primo vero forum nel fediverso
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Sarà sicuramente interessante capire in quale modo implementerà ActivityPub se davvero lo farà, Ma così come per Tumblr ho delle perplessità sulla integrazione reale con il Fediverso da parte di strumenti nati per essere privati e centralizzati
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discord si è evoluto, per mantenere gli appassionati attivi dopo le live ha aggiunto veri e propri forum di discussione con messaggi di testo, media e file in chat private:
knowtechie.com/discord-adds-fo…
New Discord feature is literally just forums
Discord is bringing back old-school forums with its new Forum Channels for more organized discussions in a server.Alex Gatewood (KnowTechie)
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Ma la direzione è la stessa: sistemi non-web che vengono a prendersi gli spazi del web.
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post molto bello. Avevo già capito da solo come pubblicare sui subreddit di feddit ma ho comunque trovato tante informazioni utili
Guarda che hai scritto male il nome utente di @eticadigitale
@informapirata@poliverso.org @forum @informapirata@mastodon.uno @lealternative @devol @scuola @fediverso
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in reply to Tim Bray • • •@timbray Thanks. You're touching on a lot of the ideas I'm interested in discussing! I usually try not to clarify my questions, but here we go: I am very much focused on the idea presented by the ultranationalists in the Israeli cabinet of "voluntary transfer".
cnn.com/2025/03/24/middleeast/…
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