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Una interessante spaccato storico sulle modalità di pubblicazione adottate, partendo da Hubzilla e Pterotype a #Ghost e #Wordpress con i suoi fantastici Plugin
ho sperimentato l'integrazione del mio progetto di pubblicazione di notizie con il Fediverse per quasi cinque anni. Ci sono stati diversi esperimenti, errori e momenti di insegnamento che mi hanno portato dove sono oggi. Voglio parlare di alcune delle cose che ho provato e del perché queste cose sono state importanti per me.
I wrote up an article on my personal (Ghost-powered!) blog about some of the work I’ve been doing to integrate our news publication at We Distribute into the #Fediverse.
This is the culmination of years and years of experiments, and we’re almost to a point where most of our ideas have been realized.
By the way, we take this opportunity to let @Sean Tilley and @Alex Kirk know that we tried the "Enable Mastodon Apps" plugin with #RaccoonforFriendica, which is an app developed for Friendica by @Dieguito 🦝 but is also compatible with Mastodon, but also allows you to write in simplified HTML with a very functional toolbar.
Well, it was wonderful to write formatted texts and with links from Raccoon for Friendica, even if I haven't managed to get the mentions to work yet.
Unfortunately, even if Raccoon allows you to publish posts with inline images, it can only do so with Friendica, while with the simple Mastodon API this is not possible.
I wrote up an article on my personal (Ghost-powered!) blog about some of the work I’ve been doing to integrate our news publication at We Distribute into the #Fediverse.
This is the culmination of years and years of experiments, and we’re almost to a point where most of our ideas have been realized.
This week is a bit of a shorter Report, it’s a relatively quieter news week and some other work is taking up most of my attention this week. Still, there is a PeerTube roadmap for 2025, some more updates on how FediForum is moving forward and more.
The News
Framasoft has published their PeerTube roadmap for 2025. Last year, PeerTube’s big focus was on the consumer, with the launch of the PeerTube apps. This year, PeerTube’s improvement is on instance administrators. The organisation will work on building a set-wizard, making it easier for new instance admins to get started and configure the platform. Framasoft will also work on further customisation for instances, allowing admins to further tune how the instance looks for the end-users. There is also a lot of work being done on video channels, with the new features being the ability to transfer ownership of a channel, as well as having channels that are owned by multiple accounts. Framasoft also mentions they are working on shared lists of blocked accounts and instances, where admins can share information with other admins on which instances to block. And now that PeerTube is available on Android and iOS, other new platforms that PeerTube will come to is tablets and Android TVs.
The planned FediForum for early April was cancelled at the last minute. A group of attendees held the Townhall event that was held in its place to discuss how to move forward, and listen to people’s perspectives. The notes of the FediForum Townhall have now been published. Last week, the FediForum account posted: “Planned next steps: another townhall likely next week, and a rescheduled & adapted FediForum in May.” The organisers posted a survey for attendees on how to move forward as well. Jon Pincus has an extensive article, “On FediForum (and not just FediForum)” that places the entire situation of why FediForum was cancelled, in its larger context.
PieFed now allows people to limit who can DM them. By default only people on the same instance can receive DMs from each other. The Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin network has seen a rise on spam DMs which send gore images, and this is a helpful way of dealing with this harassment.
IFTAS wrote about how they are continuing their mission. The organisation recently had to wind down most of their high-profile projects due to a lack of funding. This is not the end of the entire organisation however, as IFTAS will continue with their Moderator Needs Assessment, the CARIAD domain observatory, which provides insight in the most commonly blocked domains and more, as well as the IFTAS Connect community for fediverse moderators.
A master’s thesis on the fediverse, which looks at the user activity and governance structures, with the main finding: “The findings reveal that instance size and active engagement—such as frequent posting and interacting with others—are the strongest predictors of user activity, while technical infrastructure plays a more supportive role rather than a determining one. Governance structures, such as moderation practices and community guidelines, show a weaker but positive correlation with user activity.”
Sean Tilley from WeDistribute writes how his work on ‘Integrating a News Publication Into the Fediverse’. Tilley has over a decade of experimentation on building journalistic outlets on fediverse platforms, and in this article he reflects on all the different case studies he has done over the years, and where WeDistribute is headed next.
Building a blog website on Lemmy. This personal website uses Lemmy as a backend for a personal blogging site, where the site is effectively a Lemmy client that looks like a blogging site.
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Sei affascinato dal fediverso, il social web decentralizzato basato su protocolli come ActivityPub . Forse sogni di creare la prossima grande app federata
È qui che entra in gioco Fedify . Si tratta di un framework TypeScript progettato per gestire gli aspetti più complessi dello sviluppo di ActivityPub, consentendoti di concentrarti su ciò che rende speciale la tua app, senza dover reinventare la ruota della federazione
La fuga dalle piattaforme commerciali di molti giornalisti, testate, ricercatori e produttori di contenuti, viene spesso sminuita come un velleitario lavaggio della coscienza di chi vuole rifugiarsi in una bolla comunicativa.
PS: dispiace che non sia stata citata la nostra istanza poliversity.it dedicata al giornalismo e all'università e unica istanza Mastodon italiana che consenta di pubblicare testi lunghi e formattati, ndr
Sull’Aventino digitale, rinchiusi in una bolla impermeabile e autoreferenziale, ci sono Musk, Zuckerberg e una base di utenti costruita a immagine dei loro interessi politici e aziendali, non chi abbandona le loro piattaforme cercando alternative nelle reti federate e decentralizzate, assieme a milioni di altri soggetti che nella loro ricerca di libertà digitale si riscoprono nuovamente persone dopo anni di sudditanza trascorsi come “utenti”. Su @valigiablu
La fuga dalle piattaforme commerciali di molti giornalisti, testate, ricercatori e produttori di contenuti, non è un rifugiarsi sull'Aventino, è una forma di assunzione di responsabilità sociale davanti alla storia.
Vi siete segnatə vero che domenica 13 alle 14:30 alla Città dell'Utopia in via Valeriano 3f a #Roma c'è la quarta assemblea di istanza di Puntarella?
Come scrivevamo ieri, uno dei punti all'odg pensiamo possa essere la proposta di blocco delle istanze che fanno mirroring da X. Altre questioni che ci eravamo segnate sono: emendare la policy sulla moderazione di istanze/utenti spam; eventuali altri servizi da installare sul nostro server.
Chiediamo però a voi puntarelle di quali ulteriori temi pensate sia utile discutere: usate questo thread oppure, a patto di toottare in modalità pubblica, l'hashtag #PuntAssemblea
Quarta Assemblea di Puntarella.party - A/Social indipendente de Roma
Inizia:Domenica Aprile 13, 2025 @ 2:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Domenica Aprile 13, 2025 @ 6:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
La quarta assemblea di istanza di #Puntarella sarà esattamente un anno dopo la terza: domenica 13 aprile, dalle 14:30 a La Città dell'Utopia, in via Valeriano 3f a #Roma. Come sempre, sarà un'occasione per confrontarci sulla nostra community, sulle regole che ci diamo, sull'infrastruttura tecnica, sulla vita, il fediverso e tutto quanto.
A new security fund for the fediverse, and the Lemmy developers held an AMA.
The News
The Nivenly Foundation, the organisation that administers the Hachyderm.io instance, is opening a new security fund to sponsor contributors who disclose security vulnerabilities. All software has security vulnerabilities, and the fediverse is no exception. The recent Pixelfed vulnerability, which affected non-Pixelfed servers, is a clear example of how fediverse software can make software vulnerabilities more complex due to the interaction between different software platforms.
The Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund will sponsor $250 USD for vulnerabilities that are rated as high risk (7-9 CVSS score) and $500 USD for vulnerabilities with a critical score (9+ CVSS). The program will run until the end of September 2025. Nivenly members “hold a member vote to determine if we want to continue the program, and to establish a longer-term committee to steward and maintain the program.”
Last week, I wrote how Pixelfed’s vulnerability actually showed three different problems: The main problem is Pixelfed’s software vulnerability itself, but there were also two other problems: other software like Mastodon do not make it clear which risk comes with their private posts feature. And once a leak like this one happens, very few fediverse software admins communicated to their users that they might have been affected.
A security fund contributes to combating software vulnerabilities, but it can also help with communication to the rest of the fediverse once a vulnerability is found. It incentives that standard industry practices regarding software vulnerability get followed, and make communication clearer to a wider audience. For example, if Pixelfed’s recent vulnerability had gotten a CVSS classification, it might have been easier to make the severity of the vulnerability explicit to other fediverse software admins. In turn, this might have made it more likely that server admins would communicate the situation with their users.
In last week’s email essay I also wrote about how the fediverse is missing governance infrastructure that connects the various independent nodes and communities. One way to view the fediverse is as a response to centralised Big Tech platforms. These platforms have centralised governance, and are under the control of few people. The fediverse’s response to this is to build a social network that consists of tens of thousands of independent communities, all with their own governance structure. The fediverse has been successful in decentralising the single entity that oversees a social network into many pieces that all oversee a small portion of the network. But it has struggled to build a governance structure that ties all these individual pieces together again.
The Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund is a good example of this problem: software security impacts all the thousands of independent fediverse communities, but there is no overarching structure to collaborate and improve the security. It took one server taking the initiative into their own hands and provide a service for the entire network, at their own cost. Ideally, communities would collaborate on such a security fund instead. Nivenly’s announcement does leave space for such a future direction of the fund, saying that they are open to “establish a longer-term committee to steward and maintain the program”.
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The Lemmy developers, Dessalines and nutomic, held an Ask Me Anything recently, and here are some of the answers that stood out to me:
Lemmy is working towards their 1.0 release. This is currently expected to be in the fall, although nutomic also says that “these things always take longer than expected”. He also expects some instances like lemmy.ml already to upgrade some months before.
One of the main features for Lemmy 1.0 is private communities, where only approved accounts can browse and posts to the community. This type of closed group functionality is in high demand, and both Mastodon and Pixelfed have tried to implement it. Mastodon got a grant for it, but the proof-of-concept code has been sitting there since 2022. Pixelfed has announced and teased a group feature multiple times over the year and showed screenshots of it, but it also is not publicly available yet.
Lemmy posts are interoperable with Mastodon, but the interoperability is not great: a Lemmy post appears on Mastodon as the title plus the URL. There has been many conversations about how Mastodon handles content from other platforms, with no changes so far. In this AMA, nutomic is explicit in saying that it is up to Mastodon to change this. While Mastodon seems open to the idea, and has been in conversations with developers from platforms like Ghost and NodeBB on how to show their content better on Mastodon, there has been little indication that Mastodon is taking steps towards making Lemmy content also better visible on Mastodon.
On the subject of how Lemmy can grow, Dessalines describes it as an organic progress, saying: “niche communities on reddit will keep getting fed up with the changes, and migrate to lemmy.” Nutomic describes a similar dynamic for fedi and Bluesky more broadly, saying that he expects that over the long term the fediverse might grow in a similar manner: “when the Bluesky admins make decisions that the community doesnt like, and then there may be another migration wave to the Fediverse”. Both replies indicate Lemmy’s vision of how the project can grow in the long run: stay consistently working on your product, and because platforms like Lemmy are not beholden to investors, they can have a longer lifespan, and outlive platforms who are beholden to shareholder expectations.
Grouping of communities (similar to PieFed’s topics or Reddit’s multireddits) “will be implemented soon“.
Ahoy! is a one-day conference for the European Social Web, and will be held on April 24th 2025 in Hamburg, Germany. The conference is mainly focused on Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and has some super fascinating speakers of people who are in the forefront of building new communities on the open social web. If you’re around I can definitely recommend it. I’ll be doing some interviews with people there, so if you are considering joining, let me know and we can say hi!
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La cantante partenopea ha appena prodotto il suo nuovo album, Furèsta, uscito il giorno di primavera. Tra le tracce, una più bella dell'altra, spicca il brano Figlia d' 'a Tempesta, un potente inno alla dignità femminile
In Parque Ibirapuera in São Paulo. It's a beautiful urban park; rightfully considered one of the city's main attractions. Glad I made it off Avenida Paulista to here.
One thing that's wild about climate change policy is that the US considers a carbon tax an absolute non-starter despite the critical need to reduce GHGs and then puts a 25% tariff on cars for practically no good reason.
I recall reading several months ago what seemed to be wishful thinking speculation (hmm, maybe _slightly_ better than that, based on quick search source may have been the then soon to be nominated treasury secretary reuters.com/world/us/bessent-c…) that a CBAM (likely only kind of tariff I'd be in favor of) could be part of the mix.
Instead we get massive stupidity, which happens to include tariffs on cars: even a crazy clock is occasionally correct-ish.
Unfortunately I need to cancel the #SocialCG #ActivityPub issue triage today. I had a travel mixup and won't have a quiet, private place to hold the meeting. Sorry for the late notice, and please plan on attending next week.
For full transparency, the "travel mixup" is that I went to the wrong location of the hotel chain I had a reservation for, and I had to get in a car and go across town to the location where I could actually get online and do a call. 😐 #MistakesWereMade
forwards AC in the summer, reverse AC in the winter. 1 high efficiency heat pump system. Loving it after 2y, costs are way down vs the old system, and the govt provided grants and interest-free financing.
yes but…. If homes were built to a higher efficient spec (effectively #passivehouse) they’d barely need even a heat pump. There’s good value in both insulation and heat pump retrofit and stronger building code.
Reaching an age where my tolerable temperature range is narrowing.
Sad thing is, a/c is going to become necessary for health. But its use is among the decaying, not balancing, feedback loops in our climate situation.
Shade, open windows, cool breezes are all preferable, but increasingly not viable, certainly not in urban heat islands in the most southern, most populous parts of the country.
No, but A/C is sadly increasingly necessary for survival as we hit deadly combinations of heat & humidity.
The problem is that people without A/C will still die, as will wildlife. And power outages from stressed grids will mean people who rely on A/C for survival will die. Also A/C units use greenhouse gases for refrigerant, and use energy that increases emissions.
We need to focus on stopping climate change and design buildings & outdoor spaces to be survivable without air conditioning.
Most of the time the places where I experience it they're turned up way too high. And the energy footprint is high.
but... I'm planning on moving up to a trailer in our off-grid camp in the Los Padres, where it regularly gets to temps where cooling will be a necessity. I'll try a swamp cooler first, which may be sufficient in the dry socal air. But I've sized my solar and battery storage to be able to handle an efficient mini-split AC if that doesn't cut it.
I'll be able to operate at more reasonable temps where it doesn't shock the body going in or out of my space, and being 100% off-grid solar the energy/carbon footprint is no longer a concern.
Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.
I think you might want to reformulate that? Yes, many Palestinians have left Gaza for the same reasons my Norwegian ancestors left for the new world. Others leave in terror of Israeli butchery. What does “voluntary” mean? Are you asking in the specific context of the 2024/5 slaughter? Are you talking about individual movements or ethnic cleansing?
@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".
The trouble is that the poll risks creating the impression that the Smotrich/Trump lethal racist ethnic-cleansing proposal are a thing that reasonable people can argue about the benefits/costs of. I decline to join such a discussion.
@timbray I probably should be more careful with it. Personally, I can't understand why people in two countries seem to think this is a perfectly fine plan, and people in other countries refuse to get involved. I probably gave the plan too much of the benefit of the doubt.
This was interesting. As I mentioned in the comments, the Israeli government has a new department dedicated to "voluntary" departure of Palestinians to other countries in the world. I don't think starving people, under bombardment, have any kind of realistic consent, especially when lacking a right of return. So, I'd say no.
And also, no country in the world is offering to facilitate ethnic cleansing by being the expulsion target. And also, it's a fucking racist fucking genocidal outrage.
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.
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.
I'm doing my first indoor germination this Northern spring. A dozen different sets of #NativePlants seeds, from Jerusalem artichokes to smooth aster to monarda fistulosa to pearly everlasting. They're going to live inside the house for about 6 weeks, and then harden off and move into the garden. It's exciting work! #gardening
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.
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.
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 […]\n
Indigenous languages of North America can be very different in structure and vocabulary from European languages like English and French. I found the experience extremely challenging, and really mind-expanding. If your local indigenous community has language classes available to non-native people, I really recommend it.
It's also important to note that many indigenous communities consider their language a cultural treasure, and are not open to outsiders learning. Definitely use native-created materials and native-led courses if you are going to try to learn, to make sure you're using the treasure with respect and consent.
A vulnerability in Pixelfed caused private posts from other platforms to leak, a post-mortem on the CSAM scanner from IFTAS, and Fediforum has been cancelled.
If you have one persona, it is 0% different from itself. The question asks about two personae, though. Feel free to answer however you'd like, or skip this poll.
ok. I don't think it has to mean being insincere or not genuine. But we share different facets with different people. I trust you know yourself, though. Thanks for discussing!
I definitely use different social media platforms for different things and as a result I think the personae that I have on them is different. The me on Instagram is probably slightly smilier than I am in real life. The one on Bluesky is a little bit more library focused. The one on Mastodon probably nerdier, and the one on Facebook definitely does a lot more shopping. I still chose the lowest option but I assume the number is more like 10 to 15% and not zero.
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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.
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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.
We watched "A Complete Unknown" last night. It was a great movie about what making music means to a culture and to oneself. Timothée Chalamet does a great job as Bob Dylan. The music is awesome and moving. Ed Norton is a sweet, deep Pete Seeger. The emotional stakes are high, and the Night That Dylan Went Electric feels like a personal and movement watershed. Don't miss it.
"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."
Yes, but it's also potentially part of the problem. We can wall them off from the good-Fediverse, but the nature of the thing is that the dark mirror fediverse continues to exist and to connect the worst people.
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.
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.
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.
yes, but becoming insular is what we have to watch out for. Silly Fedi-vs-Bluesky spats, for example, will get us nowhere. People use what's convenient and what the people around them use.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks, everyone. My answer is "Yes, but". The "but" being that we have to continue to make it more of a part of the lives of more of the people on the planet.
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