The Future Is Federated
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And will be federated for the amazing work of the amazing people in the fediverse.
One of my fav photos from #fosdem2026
Sweater by @_elena, photo by @sturmsucht

@nicholas @evan @stefan that's simple, but I don't agree. I think an open conversation protocol in this age (just describing #ActivityPub that way) should give conversants a means to set intention to grow the conversation, tools to do so (include my followers), and a way to reverse that intention (this tangent is getting specific…) and tools to do so such as limiting to the intersection of groups.
I am essentially describing boolean operations with groups.
Hey @evan
Have you ever considered adding a replyTo field on #ActivityPub?
It would be an easy way to make all my accounts integrated.
I just posted a video on @loops and I wish I was notified on Mastodon about comments there.
FEP drafting: Am I using “side effects” here the same way as other ActivityPub developers? I've seen the term used a bunch in casual conversation, but my personal understanding of it is kinda fuzzy.

there is currently a #Piefed Hackathon going on if anyone is interested in partaking. There are groups working on spanish, german, french and japanese translations, and a bunch of other things.
https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/fediverse/p/221411/hackathon-this-week-7-8-febuary #fediverse #fedidev #activitypub
Thank you !!! (!)
JS Intl is probably the most underestimated thing in the web :)
Try to ask devs. where in the browser you find the name in all the languages of all ISO stuff like countries, regions, languages currency.
Try to ask where all the timezones of the world are or how you give people internationalized lists, number expressions or relative time …
This is all https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl and in #ActivityPub we just need to federate e.g. id: "DE" for Germany.
It is crazy nice for https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Datensparsamkeit.html as well - our preview of the countries tsv incl. all stats like Pressfreedom Index is around 50kb …
Die AI, die.
@hongminhee I'm reading this thread as a relative noob, but what I see again and again: almost no one "properly" implents #ActivityPub largely because #JSONLD is hard but also because the spec itself is unclear. Most people who get stuff done have to go off-spec to actually ship.
This seems a fundamental weakness of the #fediverse - and that disregarding the limitations coming from base architecture. Seems to pose a mid/long-term existential threat.
What can we do to help improve things?
So... you missed our 'A Fantastic FediVariety Circus' show at #fosdem…?! Here are the slides with transcripts! (video in process…)
shorter.me/VYHIu
Enjoy!
#jugglingthefediverse #sneakpeek #fosdem26 #socialweb #socialtrack #socialwebtrack #fediforum #fediverse #mastodon #noaw #fediverse #opensocialweb #publicspaces #activitypub #research #activism #ccc #fedi

@jannem Just as always you can follow, comment, share, like any #Loops #video jut like anything else in the #Fediverse on #ActivityPub. ✅
Fun! Wired up my GoToSocial bio to my Eleventy site at build time. Update my ActivityPub bio → site rebuilds → geff.re stays in sync automatically.
_data/bio.js) fetches bio from API.Static sites don't have to be static data. 😬
#ActivityPub #GoToSocial #Eleventy #IndieWeb
Funding Proposal: Open Media Network (#OMN) – Building Portable, Human-Centred Digital Commons
https://nlnet.nl/fediversity Project Title Open Media Network (OMN): Portable Digital Commons for a Federated Europe Summary The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a real grassroots initiative to build sustainable, human-centred digital infrastructure aligned with the principles of the #openweb and the #4opens. To providing easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and freedom at their core - OMN focuses on creating living social ecosystems alongside technical […]Not the visibility of Alices's post, but of his (Bob's) reply.
And of course, if you have access to content, you can copy it... via #ActivityPub or e-mail or...
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