box464 (@box464@mastodon.social)
I'm playing around with Offer activities in Fedify. The AP Vocab provides this, easy peasy.
✅ Alice OFFERS Book to Bob
✅ Bob ACCEPTS Alice's OFFER
Or:
✅ Bob OFFERS Rotten Tomato to Alice
❌ Alice REJECTS Bob's OFFER
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But I'm not clear if this is right:
❓Alice ANNOUNCES OFFER of Labubu to Followers?
❓Bob OFFERS $10 for Labubu to Alice?
❓ Alice ACCEPTS Bob's OFFER of $10 for Labubu?
✅ Alice OFFERS Labubu to Bob
✅ Bob ACCEPTS Labubu
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momo (@momo@floss.social)
Yay, Spritely Institute presents what the future of distributed social networks might look like:
- https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HVJRNV-how_to_level_up_the_fediverse/
Decentralized social networks of consent.
For more information read https://spritely.institute
#spritely #activitypub #socialMedia #ocapn #distributed #consent
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display (@display@connexia.hibiol.eu)
Growing the Open Social Web: An Online FediForum Un-Workshop
Um evento online onde as pessoas vão discutir sobre como fazer a web aberta crescer: como trazer mais pessoas para cá? O que funciona e não funciona? O que precisa ter para atender audiências diferentes? Parcerias?
A quem se destina este "anti-workshop":
- Pessoas que utilizam a Open Social Web e têm experiência (positiva e negativa!) em tentar convencer os seus amigos ou familiares a aderirem;
- Pessoas que tentaram utilizar a Open Social Web sem sucesso e estão dispostas a partilhar as razões pelas quais não funcionou para elas;
- Pessoas que realizaram pesquisas com clientes/utilizadores reais/potenciais da Open Social Web e estão dispostas a partilhar os seus resultados;
- Defensores que estão trabalhando para atrair organizações com valores alinhados para a Open Social Web (por exemplo, organizações de serviço público, governos, bibliotecas, escolas, mídia etc.);
- Pessoas que estão defendendo a adoção da Open Social Web dentro de suas organizações;
- Criadores da Open Social Web que gostariam que seus softwares/projetos/produtos/serviços fossem usados por mais pessoas;
- Especialistas em design thinking, atendimento ao cliente, apresentação de propostas, captação de recursos e muito mais.
- Este não-workshop não é para pessoas que não compartilham o objetivo de fazer a Web Social Aberta crescer significativamente. Respeitamos a opinião delas, mas isso está fora do escopo deste evento.
Acho que pode sair ideias interessantes dessa discussão, mas que não vão agradar muita gente que é contra o crescimento da rede.
fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-…
#opensocialweb #activitypub #fediverse
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xz (@xz@ebadf.port0.org)
Really enjoying running #snac on a low end server so far. Thanks a lot @grunfink@comam.es for this great piece of software!
I would even host it at home, but it seems like huge parts of the Fediverse are IPv4-only, and #ActivityPub behind Dual-Stack Lite doesn't sound like fun.
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everton137 (@everton137@social.vivaldi.net)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@seboslaw/116053607853749962
If public funding is being considered for a for-profit model, a robust and transparent technical assessment should be conducted first, including an evaluation of whether the AT Protocol is truly more scalable than ActivityPub.
I disagree that the two are technically complementary. Currently, BlueSky operates as a largely centralized platform, allowing it to avoid many of the governance and moderation challenges inherent to decentralized networks.
Its growth, with ~40 million users, shows that strong product design, marketing, and familiar timelines attract nontechnical audiences. This is a lesson in usability and investment, not necessarily a protocol advantage.
If they complement each other, it is politically and socially, not architecturally. One has capital and media visibility. The other has a live, interoperable ecosystem in which public institutions are already participating.
Public funding decisions should be made accordingly.
#ATProtocol #ActivityPub #BlueSky #Mastodon #EU #DigitalSovereingty
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archives (@archives@neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network)
Stepping Back From Social Media To Read a Book
I’m taking a break. After spending like two years in the worst parts of the Internet modeling the memetic spread of conspiracy-driven behavioral patterns and developing social media software as a side hustle, I think I’m going to take a step back and… I don’t know… maybe read a book? lol.
I’m a Computational Biologist who pretty much studies the memetics of conspiracy theories and how they act as another vector/epidemiological layer. I’ve also been working on various contracts for social media development stuff. Working on the shit I’ve been working on for years forces you to see the worst parts of people that they split off. It makes you hate everyone — and I mean everyone.
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wjmaggos (@wjmaggos@liberal.city)
I want a future where the article itself (and songs and podcast episodes and videos etc) can be boosted and go viral and news outlets are fully independent. From my understanding of the different protocols and concerns over what always happens with VC funded companies, I think we should be going with #ActivityPub and not #ATproto. maybe I'm wrong.
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smallcircles (@smallcircles@social.coop)
As an aside: I just learned about Holos-Discover, an AP search engine was taken offline by @HolosSocial after discussions relating to consent. The key finding was in https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116051469228002847
> This highlighted a real conversation the Fediverse needs about default settings.
Yeah. I would reformulate to say that this is about protocol capabilities vs. these weird things we call "apps".
Can't check the Holos-Discover info, as it was taken down, but it seems to me that relying on an "Indexable" setting is an app-specific thing. Hence it can't be part of a generic consent mechanism.
When it comes to "defaults", the fediverse as a whole has a problem in that Microblogging is seen as something foundational to #ActivityPub, a given upon which all else is built. Protocol capabilities. But this is, should not be, the case.
Microblogging constitutes a domain, a set of user stories with well-define particular behavior. Or as app domains (Mastodon) + FEP practices.
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maxheadroom (@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social)
If you're journaling with WordPress, you might want to consider this plugin: https://repos.mxhdr.net/maxheadroom/fedi-journal-plugin
It lets you sent messages from the Fediverse to your WordPress Author profile and appends those to a weekly draft post. At the end of the week you can then choose to edit and publish.
Wrote this for my own #weeklyreview #WordPress #activitypub /cc @falko
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smallcircles (@smallcircles@social.coop)
Guess this is a general area where due to the lack of clear protocol layering there's much confusion in overall terminology usage.
The whole idea of an "app" is not part of #ActivityPub itself. It is a leaked abstraction on what devs think they offer ("I build an app for my users").
There is no "generic" microblogging app, unless there exists an agreement for the specification of said app. PixelFed is a spec, PeerTube is another spec in different domain. A generic microblogging app would live where? As FEP? Collection of FEP's? W3C Note giving a 'specification profile'?
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smallcircles (@smallcircles@social.coop)
I agree with this. The #ActivityPub spec says:
> The server MUST then add this new Activity to the outbox collection. Depending on the type of Activity, servers may then be required to carry out further side effects. (However, there is no guarantee that time the Activity may appear in the outbox. The Activity might appear after a delay or disappear at any period). These are described per individual Activity below.
My expectation as a client is that I find the Activity I just sent in the outbox on the server with the same (Note) payload. If there's translation into Article, then this is a side-effect that comes after that.
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aufkurztrip (@aufkurztrip@nrw.social)
Hmmm so wirklich hübsch kommt die Podcast Episode nicht hier ins Fediverse mit dem #ActivityPub #Plugin.
Beide Audio-Streams aber dafür kein Beitragsbild. Das komplette Transcript erscheint hier.
Kann ich den Output irgendwie steuern? Bestimmt wäre da was über die #Podlove Templates möglich?
Hat das schon jemand ‚schön‘ gemacht?
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