Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed?
More than a few Meta employees showed up at FediForum earlier this week, doubling down on their commitment to open protocols and “being a good neighbor on the Fediverse”. While there were some demos and fruitful conversations, one public concern flew under the radar.
An eagle-eyed Threads user noticed that their status giving Pixelfed a positive mention was seemingly hidden from the tree of a public conversation. From there, coverage picked up across the network, and even made it back to Daniel Supernault, Pixelfed’s creator.
“Meta is free to do whatever they want on their platforms,” the developer mentioned, “and I hope this is a bug.”
For now, no one’s quite sure. Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available. We have yet to see a statement from the Threads team on the situation.
Bug or not, a vocal part of the network is apprehensive about Meta’s true intentions with the platform, ranging from pessimism on how much effort Threads is really putting in to the Fediverse, to accusations of hostile behavior. Dropping the ball like this can hurt user confidence, especially when building community goodwill is so crucial.
Prior History
Pixelfed has something of an established history with being at odds with Meta. Some of that points to Pixelfed’s form factor, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Instagram.
Left: my Pixelfed, Right: my Instagram
In the past, the project was warned by a Meta employee about using the same filter names and styles for images, citing a potential violation of Meta’s intellectual property. Pixelfed complied, and changed their image filters and styles in hopes of sidestepping the issue. It never came up again.
Pixelfed filters
Additionally, there have been situations in the past where both Twitter and Facebook have censored posts linking to open source Fediverse alternatives. Even if Threads is an effort to right wrongs of the past, these situations don’t reflect well on Threads or its parent company.
When is a bug just a bug?
For all we know right now, this is very likely an unfortunate bug. However, it’s important for the Threads team to nip this in the bud, if they really want to establish good vibes about their efforts.
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta’s ActivityPub Platform
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On the other hand, it’s important to acknowledge that there’s a segment of the network that won’t be satisfied with an explanation, no matter how much evidence is presented. Some people will block Meta no matter what, and that’s their choice.
Regardless, we’ll keep you posted if we learn anything more.
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Ecco Friendica 2024.03: è disponibile la nuova versione stabile “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03.
Siamo molto felici di annunciare la disponibilità della nuova versione stabile di Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. Oltre a numerosi miglioramenti e nuove funzionalità, questa versione contiene diverse correzioni per i problemi di sicurezza segnalati da snajafov, arcanicanis e r1pu5u – Grazie per le segnalazioni! Consigliamo vivamente a tutti gli amministratori di Friendica di aggiornare le proprie installazioni a questa versione stabile.
I punti salienti di Friendica 2024.03 sono
Sono state ottimizzate le prestazioni in alcune aree.
- È stato aggiunto un componente aggiuntivo OCR basato su Tesseract per creare facoltativamente descrizioni di immagini mancanti dal testo contenuto in un'immagine.
- La funzionalità Canali, l'algoritmo definito dall'utente per ordinare il flusso di rete introdotto con Friendica 2023.12, è stata migliorata e ampliata.
- La gestione di video e immagini è stata migliorata ed è stato aggiunto il supporto per WebP
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Friendica 2024.03 released
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by snajafov, arcanicanis and r1pu5u – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.03 are
- We could optimize the performance in some areas.
- An OCR addon based on Tesseract was added to optionally create missing image descriptions from the text containd in an image.
- The Channels feature–our user defined algorithm to sort the network stream that was introduced with Friendica 2023.12–has been improved and expanded.
- The handling of videos and images has been improved and support for WebP has been added.
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.
How to Update
Updating from old Friendica versions
If you are updating from an older version than the 2022.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.
Pre-Update Procedures
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable
branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.03 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable
one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
We experience some problem with the build process for the addon archive of the stable branch and will add instruction how to upgrade your installation using the archive files as soon as possible.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
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Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!
In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse.www.ebu.ch
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Our Live Coverage of FediForum March 2024!
FediForum is a wonderful unconference intended for builders, designers, and thinkers to come together and have discussions about the Fediverse.
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Don’t Forget: FediForum is Coming Soon!
FediForum is the Fediverse’s recurring unconference where developers, community members, designers, and thinkers come together to share their ideas!
We’re trying something new this year: we’re live-blogging the event from on the page. It’s largely an experiment, but it’s an effort to provide deeper insight into the various events happening throughout the day. Keep an eye on the updates below!
When does it start?
FediForum starts at 8am Pacific Daylight Time, on Tuesday, March 19th, and again at the same time on Wednesday, March 20th.
What is the schedule?
A tentative schedule can be found on the site here. We’re going to do our best to cover the presentations, discussions, and demos as they come up.
Where can the readers hang out?
Regardless of whether you’re attending the conference, or just checking out updates from this page, you’re welcome to come hang out in our Matrix Space, under our Off-Topic Island channel.
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The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub
ActivityPub is at an interesting place. Since its intial adoption by Mastodon in 2017, the standard has become all but ubiquitous across the Fediverse. In less than seven years, it has become the most-used protocol across the entire network.
According to FediDB, the ActivityPub side of the Fediverse is now used by nearly 10 million people, across more than 27,000 servers. FediDB also tracks 48 different platforms leveraging ActivityPub in some way. With Threads actively doing work their own implementation, these stats are likely to skyrocket, in more ways than one.
This kind of growth is a really positive sign for the network, as it suggests that widespread adoption of the Fediverse might actually be feasible. In order to get there, though, a number of developers have looked at ActivityPub and wondered: what could we do to make this better?
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What does ActivityPub need?
While the Fediverse has seen an explosion of features involving chat, multimedia, live streaming, groups, events, and more, some people would say that the network suffers from a few glaring omissions.
In light of some of the developments taken on by Nostr and Bluesky, ActivityPub can feel downright limited in terms of what platforms in the Fediverse can do today:
- Bluesky makes server migration dead simple for users, leading to a process that feels seamless and non-intrusive.
- Bluesky offers a stackable moderation system that allows people to subscribe to labeling services and help each other curate and filter the network.
- Nostr benefits from a relay system that eschews the need for dedicated instances entirely, instead relying on keys for identity.
- While a little more on the cryptocurrency side of things, Nostr incorporates direct payments into the network, allowing creators to compensate each other.
This isn’t a proclamation that ActivityPub is inherently bad, so much as these other projects can offer advantages that most existing implementations lack.
There are a lot of big ideas on how to improve the situation, and it boils down to two problem areas:
- The ActivityPub protocol specification
- The ecosystem built around ActivityPub.
ActivityPub’s Protocol
The ActivityPub protocol is the heart and soul of most Fediverse platforms these days. As a specification, it stipulates methods and behaviors for implementations to follow. Unfortunately, critics have pointed to the fact that the spec can feel too flexible in defining some behaviors, but too loose in defining others.
“The spec is incomplete,” writes Ilja, a regular contributor to Akkoma, “if someone makes a followers-only post and someone replies, then the ‘Mastodon way’ is to address the reply to the followers of the account who replies. The proper way to handle this, is by addressing the followers collection of the OP, and let OP forward the Activity to its followers. But we don’t do that because we don’t know how to do forwarding.”
Another headache that exists for implementors right now comes from most ActivityPub platforms needing to rely on undefined behavior. The following pieces are heavily relied on, but don’t exist in the spec:
- Webfinger – Webfinger is a common tool and data format for looking up resources at an address. If you’ve ever copied and pasted a URL into search to pull in a remote post, Webfinger is what powers it!
- Privacy Scopes – in standard ActivityPub, servers make use of
to
andcc
fields to determine which people a post gets sent to. These fields can address individual Actors, or a Collection of Actors. However, there isn’t really a specification on how scopes ought to work: Quiet Public, Followers-Only, Private Mention and Local-Only are all examples of privacy scopes that not only define a grouping of people, but also behavior for posts themselves. - Account Migration – Mastodon kind of set the standard for moving accounts from one server to another: your old profile Authenticates your new one, and a relationship is established. After the primary account is set, the old account gets marked with a
Tombstone
object that redirects to the new profile. - Moderation Tooling – federated reports, instance blocks, management of blocklists and permission levels, individual user moderation, etc. This is a rapidly evolving space that depends heavily on collaboration.
However, they’re absolutely required for a working platform to exist in the Fediverse. This leads to implementors to do a lot of extra work to figure out how things work today, and how to correctly use them.
ActivityPub’s Ecosystem
The ecosystem built around ActivityPub suffers from problems, too. Despite aspirations to provide a common protocol between very different kinds of platforms, the Fediverse still predominantly looks and works like Mastodon.
There are three reasons for this:
- Lack of a Test Suite – ActivityPub was first adopted by Mastodon, which acted as rocket fuel for mass adoption of the standard. However, the lack of an independent testing suite for implementors left builders to instead test against Mastodon, making it a de facto standard.
- Bespoke Client APIs – In addition to a server-to-server federation protocol, ActivityPub offers a secondary spec for client-server relationship. Mastodon ended up pushing it’s own API that was arguably easier to use, but just about every platform in the space could have instead been a client, instead of building their own stacks, APIs, and federation extensions.
- Duplication of Effort – A very weird phenomenon in this space is that implementors don’t just build something once. As of this writing, there are approximately six different Group Actor implementations, all of which are built slightly differently, made by different people, and meant to solve different problems.
None of these things are necessarily earth-shattering problems per se, but we’ve ended up with an ecosystem where a lot of effort gets duplicated, people are implementing entire platforms from scratch, and everyone is also using Mastodon as a compatibility benchmark.
Ongoing Efforts
The important thing to remember is that this is far from a hopeless situation. As of this writing, there are some incredibly smart people trying to figure out how to fill in the gaps.
“The most important thing about ActivityPub is that it’s extensible,” says ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou, “that’s a strength; it means we can really quickly get new distributed social applications running on the network.”
These groups all intersect in a variety of ways, and each one of them is attempting to attack specific problem areas. They’re constantly comparing notes, holding deep discussions, and investigating what enhancements the whole Fediverse might benefit from.
FediDevs
The Fediverse Developer Network is a newer effort that aims to make development more approachable to implementors and newcomers alike. Their goal? Get people in a room together.
“How do we build this stuff to be compatible with other people’s projects, while also lifting the lowest common denominator for everybody?” says FediDevs founder Johannes Ernst, ” It probably starts with making it easier for developers to find each other and compare notes.”
According to Johannes, FediDevs incorporates three big ideas:
- Developers in the Fediverse ought to have an easy way to find where everyone else is at, and catch up on what’s happening.
- New developers need a resource library of best practices, emerging concepts, and documentation to prepare for connecting their apps to a global federated network.
- There needs to be a place to publish guides and tools that make everyone’s lives easier.
FediDevs has already beared fruit through a project called FediTest, a test suite intended to provide different “test profiles” so that builders can see how their own work might interact with other platforms.
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Even though FediTest is still very young, the promise of such an effort is clear: people could stop relying on a specific platform for compatibility testing, and instead use a more flexible, agnostic solution that accounts how lots of different projects do things.
Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
The Fediverse Enhancement Proposals project is a comprehensive effort to distill some of the network’s best ideas into standardized documents that explain how they should work. The effort is an initiative of the SocialHub developer community, and serves as a testbed for their ideas.
FEP is very much in the spirit of XMPP Extension Protocols or Nostr Implementation Possibilities, suggesting ways that existing systems could be extended. Check out some of these ideas:
- FEP-1b12: Group federation – Specifies how a federated group or forum could work. Originally, this was proposed by Nutomic from the Lemmy project, and now Lemmy, Kbin, and Friendica all support this as a standard.
- FEP-5624: Per-object reply control policies – Some centralized platforms have a way to disable comments or replies on a status. What would it take to make this work in a federated model?
- FEP-5feb: Search indexing consent for actors – People on Mastodon can opt-in to being discovered by the Search function. How might we extend this to other Fediverse platforms?
- FEP-c390: Identity Proofs – How might a Fediverse Identity prove its authenticity, while also verifying associated links and accounts?
- FEP-ef61: Portable Objects – How might we separate user data from an instance, so that the user can move it if they need to migrate somewhere else?
- FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol – Derived from the Hubzilla Project’s technology. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your Fediverse identity across the network? No matter what server URL you land on, permissions can be unlocked for you to perform basic interactions and see private content.
The repository contains a treasure trove of ideas, ranging from immediately obvious needs to larger, more abstract concepts about how the network could work one day. Many of these submissions are still in a DRAFT
status for the moment, but a few of the FINAL
entries are actively being used. The project is already helping the network develop further.
Social Web Incubator Community Group (SocialCG)
The SocialCG is an implementor’s group that focuses on best practices for those building on ActivityPub. A big focus for the group involves running case studies for different conventions are approached within the Fediverse. Here are a few ongoing studies:
- HTTP Signatures – An examination of how systems like Mastodon use cryptographic signatures as identity proofs on actors and their activities.
- ActivityPub-Webfinger – Studying the how and why so many ActivityPub systems rely on Webfinger to fetch remote data.
- Testing – A monumental collaboration between dozens of people, this is an ongoing study of existing ActivityPub Testing Suite tools, and insights on how exactly a standard test suite could be built.
- Data Portability – researching existing cases for moving data, activities, objects, and Actors across the network.
Towards ActivityPub 2.0
So, what does all of this add up to? Is it possible to bring all of this work into an updated version of the ActivityPub Protocol standard?
“I think there will be a working group chartered at the W3C to make backwards-compatible changes,” Evan Prodromou explains, “especially clarifying difficult text, and possibly recommending profiles for other standards…”
Despite the importance of the W3C and standardization, though, Evan also believes that there’s value to the fast-paced development of emerging projects with new ideas.
“…the innovation is always going to be at the edge, with new extensions.”
I, for one, agree with him. There’s some amazing developments happening in the space, and the future is looking bright.
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Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub
Even if you’ve been a part of the Fediverse for a long time, you’d be excused if you had never heard of Nomadic Identity. Within the confines of Mastodon, it’s a relatively unknown concept. But, for some of us, it’s something of a pipe dream: decentralized identity management with remote access control. On paper, that doesn’t sound too exciting, but it’s a huge concept. Even more exciting: the guy who designed it is bringing it to ActivityPub.
What the Heck is Nomadic Identity?
Nomadic Identity is a concept pioneered by Mike Macgirvin, a longtime builder in the Fediverse. If you’ve ever used Friendica, Hubzilla, or Streams, you’ve used software written by this guy.
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Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin on building your own apps and protocols
An interview with the brilliant mind behind the Zot protocol, MagicAuth, and Nomadic Identity.
One of the big problems in federated social systems involves permissions, identity, and data. We can sum this up in three parts:
- Permission Management – If I visit a friend’s site to interact with something, there typically isn’t a way for me to do anything while I’m over there. I have to go back to my server.
- Identity Management – Okay, I have a way to validate that I’m really me. What do I have as a fallback if that fails?
- Data Portability – What happens to my stuff if my server goes down? Can I move to another servers and get my statuses, messages, and interactions back? Could I even just do it temporarily, to keep my followers, while my server gets sorted out?
From the end user’s side of the house, everything boils down to how their identities are coupled to their instances. ActivityPub-based systems like Mastodon do a pretty decent job with letting people migrate from one server to another, letting users pull in remote statuses from a URL, and letting users decide who is allowed to see or reply to their posts. It’s a far better situation than what came before ActivityPub.
At the end of the day, though, what is currently provided in the ActivityPub side of the network is somewhat limited, compared to what the Zot protocol brings to the table with Nomadic Identity. Let’s dive into the three different components: OpenWebAuth, Channel Relays, and Data Migration.
OpenWebAuth
OpenWebAuth used to be called “Magic Auth”, because of how seamless the experience is. Instead of only being able to manage things from your social dashboard, you can jump from one part of the Fediverse to another, and your permissions will be granted automatically. It all happens in the browser.
The way this works is relatively simple: your browser accesses a token inside of a cookie. That token references your Digital Identity in the Fediverse, verifies it, and a handshake is performed. Afterwards, anything you were given permission to access unlocks and becomes visible on the page.
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A really old video of Hubzilla doing it. I’m navigating from my site to Andrew’s.
OpenWebAuth solves one of the most frustrating UX problems the Fediverse currently has: dealing with remote content that you discovered somewhere else.
Channel Relays
Channel Relays are the second major piece of the puzzle here. Using a common ID, you can associate separate accounts across the network with one another. Each relay is verified through an Authorization process, and then each relay is tethered to one another like so:
Using your credentials, you can log into any one of these three relays, and post to your followers. If the server my work account is on suddenly goes down, I can still log in to my family account or blog, and keep interacting like nothing happened. I’m still in contact with my followers, and if I want, my relay accounts can replicate statuses posted from elsewhere.
A few clear benefits emerge from this:
- Network Resilience
- Censorship Resistance
- Ease of Migration
In fact, this mechanism is so good, it feeds directly into the next use-case: Data Migration.
Data Migration
So, we already have two pieces: multiple identities can be connected together across a network, logging into one can allow you to post from another, and a person can decide, at any time, which account will serve as their primary.
Because all of these things are set up, the act of moving your stuff becomes relatively trivial. All of your accounts are aware of each other. If you switch to a new primary, you can trigger an update to all of your existing conversation threads and comments to switch the author, and replicate the data on your end. Thanks to the way that Nomadic Identity is set up, those verified parts of your identity can perform those kinds of actions, whereas no other account can.
Why is This Important?
As we continue to think about how to further develop the Fediverse and give people more robust tools capable of doing more things, we have to consider the plumbing that holds it all together. Identity Management is one of those pieces of plumbing that’s surprisingly shaky, and requires serious consideration.
Digital Identities aren’t something unique to the fediverse and it’s not something Mastodon could stop if they wanted to. Nomadic identity is coming to the internet. The only question is who is going to own your identity. VISA/Mastercard, your government, Google, Microsoft, or you.
Mike Macgirvin
As Threads, Tumblr, and other big social networks come into the space, developers need to think about the stakes. The user migration flow is decent for moving from one server to another, but it’s relatively brittle, and currently only updates a reference from one account to another. The network lacks meaningful ways for people to pull their posts, messages, and media from the place they left.
The biggest takeaway here is that these are mature, time-tested mechanisms that could add extra layers of user agency and control to the Fediverse.
What’s Next?
Mike is already doing the work of figuring out how to retrofit these concepts onto ActivityPub. It’s likely that we’ll see additional Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to accommodate certain needs. For implementers, there are a few existing FEPs in the DRAFT
stage that come recommended:
- FEP-ef61: Portable Objects
- FEP-521a: Representing actor’s public keys
- FEP-8b32: Object Integrity Proofs
- FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol
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Dopo l'istanza #Peertube arriva #Funkwhale
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La XMPP-IT community presenta la nuova istanza Funkwhale!
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Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App
It was bound to happen sooner or later. At least the person behind the reigns already makes great apps. That’s right: Daniel Supernault, creator of Pixelfed, is building a new social video app called Loops.
Introducing Loops, a fediverse TikTok platform.
Explore and share short videos on the fediverse using your Pixelfed or Mastodon account.
Available Soon.
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Follow @loops for early access to the beta and updates.
#loops #pixelfed #pixelfedLoops
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Not much is known about the app yet beyond what Dansup has said online. According to him, videos are only a maximum of 30 seconds in length, and that the Loops experience will be a separate app/platform from Pixelfed itself. Apparently, Loops is intended to recapture some of the experience of the beloved but short-lived Vine app. In Dansup’s own words, Loops is a revival of an older Pixelfed project, a dedicated UI for looping video.
The developer also stated an intention to assist and mentor the developer behind the similar Goldfish platform, which is intentionally designed to be more like Tiktok rather than Vine. Evidently, both apps are intended to be compatible with one another, as well as other video platforms in the Fediverse, such as PeerTube or Vidzy.
Honestly, I’m stoked about Loops, and can’t wait to beta test it. Maybe we could test it right alongside Dan’s other app, Sup?
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Bonfire Launches Open Science Network for Academics and Researchers
The Bonfire project made a splash earlier this month by announcing the launch of the Open Science Network, an initiative to build a federated and open academic commons. Their blog post opens with a stirring call-to-action:
The scientific method must be liberated. In an era marked by misinformation, mass surveillance and political propaganda, corporate monopolies and platforms hinder scientific innovation and knowledge sharing.Scientists, researchers, academics and their affiliated organisations must have control over the tools and medium they use to publish, review, share, study and discuss their work.
Bonfire Project
The platform itself is another one of Bonfire’s Flavors, with features specific to collaboration, publication, and public discussion. The Open Science flavor is currently a prototype, but it’s carefully being built with feedback from members of scientific research cooperatives.
The ultimate goal is to build something that suits the day-to-day needs of that specific community, while building novel features to make their lives earlier.
Features of Open Science
The Open Science Network site describes a handful of features that sets their effort apart from Bonfire Classic or even Mastodon. I could talk about the features and show off some slick screenshots, but I want to also talk about how these things can work together for a heightened user experience.
ORCID Integration
I think this is the first indication that the Bonfire devs really know their audience. ORCID is a single sign-on offering used by researchers and academics alike, and Open Science instantly allows people to use it.
ORCID is interesting, because it’s not just a login system, but an identity system that ties into a person’s published works. What this means is that it’s possible for Open Science to pull in published papers and research, sort them by publication, and share them to others in a digital space.
From there, it’s possible to discover other published works from people you follow, or pieces of research shared by people on the timeline. The Bonfire Project indicates that this could be a way for researchers to easily establish their professional work, while also having easy access to other sources of study.
Open Science also allows people to avoid a cluttered timeline filled with engagement bait, instead offering tools for people to subscribe to publications, research groups, and topics relevant to them. With this model, the whole space can open up for teams conducting research, to talk shop and share ideas.
Collaborative Peer Review
Another big aspect of research is the ability to exchange notes and ideas between peers in a community.
One area where this really shines in Open Science involves how research can be shared between peers. Researchers can either upload or import their work, which can be read through a built-in PDF reader. People can easily parse through the contents, and the document itself becomes a conversation thread for feedback and suggestions.
The Future Looks Bright
The release of Open Science by the Bonfire project is significant for several reasons. First and foremost, it is the first effort of its kind to attempt leveraging ActivityPub for academic use. It’s also a clear showcase of Bonfire’s modular architecture, composing a series of modules into a coherent distribution.
Most of all, it’s a validation of one of the project’s key pilot programs, where a system is built for a specific group of people, and tailored to their feedback. The idea that researchers and academics could directly benefit from this system, while also pushing Fediverse technology forward, is frankly awesome.
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L'interview de Benjamin Bellamy, fondateur de Castopod
Pour sa première interview, belginux à eu l'honneur d'avoir pu poser quelques questions à Benjamin Bellamy, fondateur de Castopod!zarev (belginux - self-hosting, Docker & Linux)
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Don’t Forget: FediForum is Coming Soon!
The Fediverse’s favorite unconference, FediForum, is happening on March 18th and 19th. It’s a wonderful opportunity for community members, developers, designers, and builders to come together to share what they’ve been working on, and how to deal with various challenges in the space. Attendees are encouraged to break out into discussions, share their insights, and consider other perspectives.
Themes for FediForum March 2024
Judging from the list of proposed subjects, it’s easy to spot a few recurring themes:
- Trust & Safety – Tooling, Moderator Resources, Moderation and Governance, Regulatory Challenges
- Demos – NodeBB, Distributed.Press, PieFed, ActivityPods, Sora
- Standards – Interoperability, Protocol Extensions, Different flavors of ActivityPub like RDFpub
- Identity – DIDs, Ownership, Identity Re-use across services, identity attestation/verification
Live Coverage
We want to try to do something different for this FediForum: treat it like an Apple WWDC event. We’re going to attempt live coverage of the talks, demos, and events during the two-day unconference. The goal is to provide an insight into major developments happening across the Fediverse, with an emphasis on ideas and initiatives to help make the network better.
We’re currently experimenting with some tools to make it possible, but we think that there will be a lot of big presentations that need to be covered. Keep an eye on our site next week during the conference!
Tickets are Still Available!
You can still hop over to the FediForum site and order tickets to attend. The following pricing tiers are below:
- General Ticket – $40
- Almost Free Ticket – $199
- Contributor Ticket – $100
- Platform Employee Ticket – $250
If you have the funds to spare, we highly encourage going with the $100 Contributor Ticket. This helps offset the cost of $1.99 Almost Free Tickets for attendees that might not be able to attend otherwise.
We can’t wait to see what everyone has to share next week! Join us if you’re able, and check in on We Distribute next week for live coverage of event discussions.
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blogz.zaclys.com/nilocram/edua… #letture #Galeano #LatinoAmerica #storia #colonialismo @macfranc @alephoto85 @scuola
Eduardo Galeano, La historia que pudo ser
Cristóbal Colón no consiguió descubrir América, porque no tenía visa y ni siquiera tenía pasaporte. A Pedro Alvares Cabral le prohibieron desembarcar en Brasil, porque podía co...Strafanici
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Cosa ne pensate del fediverso?
Cosa ne pensate del fatto che grazie al fediverso e ad activitypub stiamo connettendo tante piattaforme diverse come Wordpress in modo da creare un web aperto, libero e rispettoso di standard aperti e condivisi?
#fediverso #SocialNetwork #activitypub
- Estremamente positivo (64%, 151 votes)
- Positivo (35%, 83 votes)
- Negatico (0%, 0 votes)
- Estremamente negativo (0%, 1 vote)
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Positivo 👍
Rimangono delle perplessità, IMHO, sui meccanismi della federazione (soprattutto sulla gestione dei conflitti tra persone e la democrazia nella gestione dei processi) e soprattutto sulla reale possibilità di migrare un account personale da un server all'altro, che è ancora da migliorare IMHO
(per esempio su Mastodon non si possono migrare bene i messaggi e la history, tantomeno gli allegati caricati)
Ad alta voce | E1 | Il sergente nella neve di Mario Rigoni Stern | Rai Radio 3 | RaiPlay Sound
1. Il sergente nella neve di Mario Rigoni Stern - Ad alta voce - Andrea Pennacchi legge Il sergente nella neve di Mario Rigoni SternRaiPlaySound
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Andrea Pennacchi presenta brevemente la lettura di Il sergente nella neve di Mario Rigoni Stern: dgxy.link/altavoce
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[Letture della domenica]
José Saramago, Responsabilità:
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@scuola @alephoto85
@macfranc @goofy
@the_cheis
José Saramago, Responsabilità
Le miserie del mondo sono lì e ci sono solo due modi di affrontarle: o pensare che non ne abbiamo colpa e perciò stringersi nelle spalle e dire che non è in nostro pote...Strafanici
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GoToSocial: il Fediverso a misura di individuo. Il post di @ sulla propria esperienza in self hosting
Una delle caratteristiche che rendono il Fediverso attrattivo per molte persone che considerano la privacy importante e che mal sopportano di perdere il controllo sui propri dati, testi, immagini e video, è la possibilità di partecipare alla vita sociale online utilizzando i propri mezzi, cioè un proprio server e un proprio client.
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Mi è stato chiesto di raccontare la mia esperienza con #GoToSocial, un server #activitypub che vanta un footprint piccolissima e un ridotto utilizzo di risorse (gira anche su Raspberry PI), una installazione facile e veloce e una buona compatibilità con le API di #Mastodon.
Ecco qui il mio post:
77nn.it/2024/03/09/GoToSocial-…
GoToSocial: il Fediverso a misura di individuo
Sono ormai più di 6 mesi che utilizzo GoToSocial per il mio personale server77nn.it
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First project phase recap
Note: This article is targeting a rather technical audience.
Our first project phase was called Architecture decisions & plugin skeleton: The most major decision is whether the plugin should work stand-alone, or as a child plugin of the existing ActivityPub-Plugin followed by a technical design draft: most API endpoints and the structure of the code should be sketched.
It consisted of two parts:
1. Research and decision whether to start of with a “child” or standalone plugin. Proposing solutions how to manage ActivityPub actors and ActivityPub transformation of custom post types. Proposing needed extensions of the upstream ActivityPubplugin.
As explained in previous posts, we decided that it would be best to work as closely as possible with the upstream ActivityPub plugin. We wrote two design proposals on how to implement flexible and dynamic actor and transformer management within the upstream plugin.
Actor management has proven to be extremely complex. With version 1.0 of the ActivityPub plugin, a blog-wide actor became available and we found out through direct exchange with the maintainer that there is already an application actor that would covers use cases like server-to-server following. Such fine-grained settings for ActivityPub profiles seem to be a feature that is mostly relevant for professional users in an advanced interface. That even the current complexity can be overwhelming for the average became clear to us. In addition, it seems reasonable to us not to develop such features before we know whether and how exactly they are needed. Furthermore, we believe it makes sense to implement other related features, such as moving accounts, first.
Transformer management: as a way to handle custom WordPress to ActivitPub transformers, e.g. that an custom post type that handles events does not end up as a Note
, we proposed an addon-like structure where third party plugins could register their transformer(s) and in the ActivitPub settings the user would have a final control over which one is used. This approach would also mean a more complex admin UI, which was likely the main reason Matthias Pfefferle decided to go for a simpler, but maybe more error-prone solution: the upstream plugin provides a hook (filter) where other plugins could directly replace the transformer. In the future, a collision of multiple plugins trying to override a transformer might become more likely, but until this time comes, the risk is minimal. So far this approach seems like a good pragmatic solution for us.
2. Plugin skeleton for the ActivityPub event extensions and extending/creating the needed ActivityPub classes and ActivityStream representations for the events.
A pull request implementing more flexible ActivityPub object handling and a skeleton for and Event object which provides common extensions currently used mainly by Mobilizon has been merged upstream and is already released in the latest versions.
We created a repository for our ActivityPub event extensions plugin. This work is still pre-alpha, it is just kind of a public playground at the moment. Please don’t try to use it yourself until we tag first alpha or beta releases. We started adding transformers for popular event plugins. After many unsuccessful attempts to find out why our Transformers were no longer compatible with Mobilizon, we decided that a test site for developers was necessary, which we are currently trying to implement as a side project.
In addition, we have recognized the need to display various help messages and hints in the admin area in order to be able to better handle typical stumbling issues on the WordPress ActivityPub setup, which have also happened to us (more than once).
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Vendo macchina da cucire Singer 8280 usata
Chiedo 100 euro trattabili, consegna in zona Varese / Como (se proprio
proprio necessario si può organizzare per zona Milano).
Mi pare che sia stata comprata nei primi anni 2000, il modello era in
vendita e presente sul sito singer fino all'anno scorso.
Ovviamente è ancora presente il manuale originale, completo di istruzioni di
manutenzione base.
Non la uso da qualche anno, ma era perfettamente funzionante e ad una prova
veloce mi pare che lo sia ancora.
Ulteriori dettagli nei commenti
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@Poliverso - notizie dal fediverso noto però ora che su feddit.it/post/6176862 si vede solo una delle foto che ci sono nel post originale (social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c…): è normale o è un glitch della federazione?
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' hai ragione. Purtroppo lemmy non permette di visualizzare più di una immagine nel post di apertura.
Grazie mille per la segnalazione. Devo modificare la descrizione del canale... 😬
@Poliverso - notizie dal fediverso ah, uops.
Grazie per l'aggiornamento delle istruzioni!
Prova di inserimento di due immagini in un commento, per vedere se invece lì appaiono 😀
(stavo per chiedere, ma così ho già la risposta 😀 )
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Ero un po' impensierita, perché a marzo inoltrato non mi si era ancora palesata "la cosa da imparare a fare quest'anno"¹, ma ieri @valhalla e @mercatino credo mi abbiano risolto il problema 🥰
¹ anziché fare i "buoni propositi" d'inizio anno, che tanto poi restavano propositi, da qualche tempo ho iniziato a provare a imparare una cosa nuova ogni anno.
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Nasce il gruppo per comprare, vendere e fare scambi nel #Fediverso Il Mercatino del Fediverso 💵♻️
Ecco finalmente il gruppo social per vendere, comprare e scambiare nel fediverso
Come si usa:
1) inserisci nel titolo cosa vuoi fare (vendo/scambio/cerco), il tipo di oggetto, la condizione (nuovo/usato), la località, la disponibilità alla spedizione,
2) descrivi brevemente l'oggetto
3) spiega le modalità di vendita o scambio e quelle di consegna
4) Inserisci il link all'eventuale pagina per l'acquisto
5) allega una o due foto
È vietato pubblicare annunci di materiale illegale
Lo staff di feddit.it non è responsabile degli annunci in bacheca
NB: Se vuoi pubblicare un annuncio da Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Misskey, Pixelfed, puoi menzionare l’account @mercatino@feddit.it
e RICORDATI che il primo paragrafo sarà il titolo e non dovrà superare i 200 CARATTERI!
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Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.Crawford, Kate
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✨ Pixelfed: rilasciata la nuova versione 0.11.13! Il progetto di miglioramento continuo di Pixelfed procede a un ritmo eccezionale
Lo staff di sviluppo di @dansup 🚀 ci ha davvero sorpreso per le energie e le risorse impiegate ma soprattutto per i risultati eccellenti apportati a #Pixelfed: quella che era poco più che la brutta copia di Instagram, è ormai la piattaforma del Fediverso più curata ed ergonomica dopo Mastodon!
Ecco i miglioramenti principali avvenuti con l'ultima release:
- Migrazione degli account
- Onboarding curato
- Supporto ufficiale a Docker
- Segnalazioni remote + miglioramenti della federazione
- Compatibilità migliorata con l'API di Mastodon
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✨ New Version Release (0.11.13)
Some highlights:
- Account Migrations
- Curated Onboarding
- Official Docker Support
- Remote Reports + Federation improvements
- Improved MastoAPI compat (👋 @ivory & @Tusky )
github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/r…
#pixelfed #accountMigrations #curatedOnboarding
Releases · pixelfed/pixelfed
Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Qualche giorno fa è uscito sul Post un articolo che parla di fediverso in modo nuovo e stimolante.
Il tono forse è troppo ottimistico (ormai è chiaro che le lenti rosa e le canne fanno miracoli) ma l'idea di un fediverso che è esperimento sociale di se stesso (E SOTTOLINEO "DI SE STESSO") mi è piaciuta molto.
ilpost.it/2024/02/27/macchia-a…
PS: condivido al 100% che il plugin di @pfefferle sia un evento storico molto più importante rispetto alla sopravvalutata creazione di Threads
Nell’acquario del fediverso
«Non è solo una delle famose bolle dei social, ma un sistema di acquari interconnessi, ognuno con popolazioni, temperature, salinità e pH diversi, e rappresenta un modello di socializzazione e di governo globale in cui gli amministratori hanno strutt…Il Post
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Nasce una nuova istanza #Peertube
@fediverso@feddit.it
La XMPP-IT community ha presentato la sua nuova istanza PeerTube
Qui i dettagli: xmpp-it.net/2024/03/03/mario/i…
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Khrys’presso du lundi 4 mars 2024
Comme chaque lundi, un coup d’œil dans le rétroviseur pour découvrir les informations que vous avez peut-être ratées la semaine dernière. Tous les liens listés ci-dessous sont a priori accessibles...Framablog
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Ital-IA 2024 - Workshop AI per la Pubblica Amministrazione. Il 29 e 30 maggio il convegno organizzato dal Laboratorio Nazionale "Artificial Intelligence ed Intelligent Systems" del CINI
Lo scopo del workshop è illustrare e discutere sull'annoso problema di come si possa migliorare il rapporto tra le PA e la ricerca scientifica in un campo così dinamico e in forte espansione come quello dell'IA.
Notizia segnalata da @GiorgiaLodi
ital-ia2024.it/workshop/ai-per…
Ital-IA: Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificialeital-ia2024.it
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#Letture #scuola #libri
@scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@poliverso.org @maupao @mauriziocarnago @macfranc @Puntopanto
Lettera alla scuola - Christian Raimo - Feltrinelli Editore
Lettera alla scuola, libro di Christian Raimo La III M dell’Istituto Amaldi di Roma leggi la descrizione e le recensioni e scopri dove acquistare il librowww.feltrinellieditore.it
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Stiamo lavorando su Mobilizon e Pixelfed, i servizi non sono al momento disponibili, ci scusiamo per i problemi ma stiamo cercando di sistemare alcuni vecchi problemi che contiamo di risolvere in questo weekend.
Vi ricordiamo che potete monitorare lo stato dei nostri servizi del fediverso da qui:
uptime.devol.it/status/fediver…
qua c'è la lista completa dei 30 servizi disponibili:
#fediverso #pixelfed #mobilizon #serviziliberi #devol
Stato dei server del fediverso
L'attuale stato di servizio dei servizi liberi forniti dagli attivisti del gruppo devol: https://servizi.devol.it/uptime.devol.it
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Quasi 35 anni fa, il Cern e Tim Berners-Lee resero il web un bene comune; grazie a questo non ne guadagnarono nulla.
Oggi Apple vuole sabotare il web per pura avidità.
Lettera aperta a Tim Cook: sabotare le applicazioni web è indifendibile
Apple vieterà le applicazioni web in 7 giorni nell'UE.
😢 Molte aziende saranno gravemente danneggiate e alcune dovranno chiudere.
🌎 Questo danneggerà anche tutto il web
👉 Firma ora: letter.open-web-advocacy.org/
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@Ryoma123 c'è scritto nella lettera di appello:
" Entire categories of apps will no longer be viable on the web as a result. More troubling, we understand iOS will not include APIs for competing browsers to implement these features either"
Luca Alloatti
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Grazie per questa bellissima presentazione. Vorrei che la vedessero tutti gli insegnati d'Italia!
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in reply to Luca Alloatti • • •@luca ti ringrazio per il tuo riscontro positivo.
Io continuo a sperare che sempre più scuole possano avviare progetti basati sulla Fediverso e sul FOSS, ma dovrebbe iniziare la pubblica amministrazione centrale a intraprendere qualche iniziativa di questo tipo...
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Luca Alloatti
in reply to macfranc • • •condivido pienamente, ma ci sono molti aspetti da considerare (la strategia da usare, la preparazione degli insegnanti, il supporto "dal basso",...).
Hai per caso voglia di fare una chiacchierata?
Mi trovi qui alle 15:00
bbb.f-si.org/rooms/wtx-e9k-rlr…
(se qualcun altro volesse unirsi -ben volentieri)
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FOSS a scuola
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> ci sono molti aspetti da considerare (la strategia da usare, la preparazione degli insegnanti, il supporto "dal basso",...).
Vero. È importante lavorare sulla formazione (e l'autoformazione) degli insegnanti oltre che preparare dei "menù pronti" da poter modificare a seconda del contesto
> Hai per caso voglia di fare una chiacchierata?
Volentieri, ma non questa settimana. Se vuoi, possiamo sentirci da lunedì in poi
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