Technologist, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. He/him. tfr
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Last Notes npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst If I type "Tell me the history of the Roman empire" into an #AI chat bot like #ChatGPT and hit return, it HTTP POSTs that to one of their web servers, and then ... what? How many computers are involved in producing my response? What are their responsibilities? How is the response assembled from those parts? It's a bit like the old interview question: if I type "cnn.com into a browser, what exactly happens?" I can answer that one, but I'm unclear on the AI chat version. Anybody know? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Enshittified Instagram is now forcing you to spend at least one ad worth of time in shit. No stepping around it allowed! https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170682/instagram-unskippable-ads-test npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1mel…5c24 I understand the architectural differences :-) I also believe that using the same account with multiple servers, and changing identifiers and "home base" for when interacting with the fediverse are very solvable problems. With the caveat that it hasn't really been broadly implemented. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1mel…5c24 The video is a bit aspirational in that respect, but people are working on it. No reason it can't be made to work. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Nice video explanation of the fediverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSWPj0T9IQ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I was not expecting guilty on all counts. I was expecting that somebody took a million dollars to hang the jury. Good for us all. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst What would it take for #Mastodon to become that political organizing app instead of Twitter or Threads? Isn’t it a much more logical place? Anybody trying to make it so? Any reasons that speak against? https://restofworld.org/2024/instagram-threads-app-taiwan-protests/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1r47…wytr so how do we arrive at this state of affairs? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users. Anybody else see what he apparently sees? https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825 npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The fediverse needs something like this. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/x-pushes-more-users-to-communities/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst “I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I created an account on post.news a long time ago but never used it. Now, with the pending shutdown, I took another look. It's striking that it basically looks like Mastodon. Plus a few extra features like payments. Why did they not implement this as an add-on to, or fork of, Mastodon? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1wmr…g240 There will be notes published a few weeks after I believe. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst About to run a session on identity and the open social web / fediverse at #iiw. Lots of unsolved problems. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Maybe somebody even writes one that’s optimized for news instead of friends. It might even be profitable! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Wild idea: #ActivityPub over #tor. Single-user instances for sure. Like hosted from your home on your own #raspberrypi. What could one do with that? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The best #tech #support of any company I've ever interacted with comes from Prusa, the Czech #3D #printer maker. Consistently, they listen to what you have to say, and right away have a good answer. No how-are-you-doing-you-are-so-important-to-us bs that only aggravates everybody, but straight answers to each question, always backed up with links, sometimes with more background info than you had any reason to supposed might exist. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says: “We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..” How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results? https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst "Currently, Threads accounts do not see individual likes on their federated posts, instead getting a notification that says ‘4 fediverse users from 3 servers liked this post’. According to Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput, Threads cannot use profile info from fediverse accounts on Threads yet because they are not allowed to do so yet by their Legal department." h/t @npub1qu2…uj0d npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst All the old use cases are coming back with the re-surging decentralized social web. Just came across one that I last thought about ca 2009. 2008-2024: the lost years. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Personal opinion: this #FediForum is the best so far. Discussions have always been good, but this time they are even more intensely knowledgeable. At least in the sessions I've been in so far. A sign the #Fediverse is developing rapidly and the people in it really are figuring out more and more details. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I wonder what average lifetime of a Fediverse handle is. Compared to an e-mail address, and handles on other social media systems. I suspect it is much shorter. How much of this might be intentional vs inadvertent? Examples: firefish.social disappearing. Moderation policies on a server changing. People trying out the Fediverse and only settling on a place after some trial and error. What can we do to make this process as smooth as possible? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse? Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between. Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale. I want to run a #FediForum session on this next week, and brainstorm with you all. Join me? https://fediforum.org npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Did anybody actually think they would? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/no-big-north-sea-fossil-fuel-nation-plan-stop-drilling-global-heating npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst "For being a collection of open-source Social Media services, theoretically built on top of an open open-source protocol, we spend an incredible amount of time making sure we disable ways to communicate and allowing ourselves to be governed by not-so-open "rules"". Sometimes it certainly feels that way. h/t @npub16sk…nzw7 in https://thias.hellqui.st/objects/ff963121-e829-464f-95f6-b001248806ee npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1jve…nmhu Oh, interesting. Would love to hear about your mid-term plans for We Distribute Media. Or perhaps you recorded a podcast covering that already that I hadn't listened to? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1jve…nmhu Interesting idea! So it would be course for developers? Node operators? Both? That would definitely be something for FediDevs! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst So what shall we do about it? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst A tough but very important piece by @npub1jve…nmhu . Read this. We need to fix this. https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst OH on Threads: “DINO — decentralized in name only”. Interesting concept. Whether it will apply to #Threads or not we can’t tell yet imho but I wonder whether it would make sense to come up with a list of criteria a product/service would have to meet to be DINO or not be DINO. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1m6x…lmgt and it just happens to imply ad blockers are a necessary casualty for that? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Status: getting the backyard hydroponics system ready for this year’s plants. Dropping a few varieties that didn’t grow so well, but planting again peas, various peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, tomatillos, kohlrabi, beets, Swiss chard, a long list of spices, strawberries, lots of lettuce, and probably a bunch of other things that I forgot but will remember when I go through my seed packets. Homegrown system. Not hard. Fun, and veeerry delicious. Documentation at https://project-springtime.org npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst “… managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance” You don’t say. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/rto-doesnt-improve-company-value-but-does-make-employees-miserable-study/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst How can you be both anti-abortion and ok with in-vitro fertilization? Or have we just given up on any kind of even appearance of logic? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The Data Transfer Initiative is having an event in Washington DC in a few days. Registered. However, I will just be there virtually. https://dtinit.org/docs/feb29summit.html npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1sq3…dhc8 ... but right after the tower has started collapsing. Sometimes you can catch it but ... npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The nerve. “Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data” https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I wasn't at #fosdem. But I'm hearing that almost all presenters had dropped their twitter handles and replaced them with fediverse handles. If that group doesn't do it, we would have no hope! But still nice :-) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1vcv…9su0 this is my suspicion as well, on the other hand people tend to use them differently. Accident or essence? Who knows… npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Also, why aren't Wikis #Fediverse-enabled by default? I'd really like to follow certain articles on #Wikipedia, for example. If you must, it could be following something like @[email protected] but interpreting the actual URL to the article like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse as the actor's primary identifier would be so much better. Well, either would be better than not being able to follow at all... npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub12j8…f0tn Interesting, yes, you are right. There is also a stochastic effect to this: in a chat, I expect to see all messages. On social, I don't (although I hate that, but ...) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Getting info from Russian intelligence officials. What could possibly go wrong? Sometimes you can’t avoid thinking much of the world hasn’t progressed beyond kindergarten. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/politics/biden-former-fbi-informant-russian-intelligence/index.html npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1967…mndj So how does "world domination" look like for you? Because I think it's a bit tricky to define without falling into the same hole that Facebook et al are in. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1na3…ctvq One of the concerns people bring up when products such as #Threads wish to connect to the Fediverse, or somebody builds #blueskybridge or such is that it exposes vulnerable people in a way they don't want to be exposed. That's a very valid concern. It seems there could be shared allowlists that define very specific communities and keep them safe according to what feels safe just to them. Say, specific PTSD triggers. Is that kind of thing what you have in mind? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1kna…9qpm Yes they are! My backyard hydroponics system: https://project-springtime.org npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1d8a…tcc0 @npub1deq…0sus @npub1sy5…02fh That would be a community-wide global score, right? What I was proposing was an actor-specific score. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1deq…0sus @npub1sy5…02fh Have you considered calculating a score between 0 and 1, where 1 means "definitely allowed" and 0 "definitely not', and use a threshold for approve/deny? That score then can be calculated by taking several measures into account, including weighted distance in the social graph (you have that for distance=2, as yes/no, but could be more complex including multiple paths to candidate), whether you or your friends have had successful comment threads with them etc. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1ex7…dlg5 The way they said it, it sounded like they put quite some resources into mozilla.social. Perhaps those resources could have accomplished more if plenty of instances without such resources have much higher user bases? Conversely, lots of instances have much larger user bases but no funding. Given that, it seems rather cheap to run such an instance, so it can't be a big drain on their resources that it will have an actual impact on their financials. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Took my copy of Mirror Worlds off the shelf today and started re-reading it. If you don’t know about it, it’s one of the seminal techno visions out there, published in 1992 when nobody, including the computer science professor author, had heard of it. People usually think of it these days as predicting the web, but the vision is really much broader and very much worthwhile re-reading. Eg his view is really VR+social+agents kid of web, not just html pages sitting next to each other. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst What the heck? Why didn’t I hear about this from all over the press? “In just two years, the number of people facing, or at risk of, acute food insecurity increased from 135 million in 53 countries pre-pandemic, to 345 million in 79 countries in 2023.” From the Word Food Program. https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/global-food-crisis npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Just returned from a #VisionPro demo. Trying to figure out what I make of it. Other than what has been said by so many so often: I think it's better to think of the #Apple headset not as a product yet, but as an experiment. The kind of experiment you get if you spend a billion dollars (or whatever it cost them, maybe more) on world-class engineering. But an experiment nonetheless. An experiment whose outcome is unclear to me at this point. So my impression is a decisive maybe ;-) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst What would you say the #Bluesky people are trying to build? Why does it matter to them? What about the #Mastodon people? What are they trying to build, and why does it matter to them? And what about the broader #fediverse? What are we all trying to build, and why does it matter to us? Curious what everybody thinks. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst ….and power is back for us. Aren’t we lucky. Learnings: the new fridge wants to pull so much power when starting its compressor that the inverter shuts down. So the use case that we bought it and some batteries for doesn’t actually work! The previous fridge didn’t do that! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I'm an organizer, and need to hold things lightly, but there are sooo many things I really think we need to talk about at the next #FediForum. The biggest: Just what in the world are we building here in the #Fediverse? First: is the fediverse today more or less what we want it to be? I don't think many people would believe that, I certainly don't. But if it isn't complete, just what is it we are building beyond today? Can we put it in worlds? Pictures? A vision? I have one. What's yours? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I have yet to come across a single instance where #classical #music performers deviate (and often directly contradict!) the dynamics or phrasing written down by the composer and that deviation improved matters. Doesn’t matter who the performer is or the piece. (YT is great with sheet music video!) Somehow nobody would ever dare to deviate from the written notes, but phrasing and dynamics is disregarded all the time… consistently making it worse. Count me baffled. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub10kp…483q @npub1a3x…x4qp indeed interesting, but I’m just looking for an http 2 server, not a framework. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Quoting myself here: the pull quote that the Plutopia guys put on their website from our recent podcast on the #fediverse (Is it bad style to quote yourself? But then, I write here, so I'm quoting myself all the time anyway. And I am somewhat impressed that I was so articulate in such long sentences in a live conversation! </end of bad style>) https://plutopia.io/johannes-ernst-and-tom-brown-the-fediverse/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst "One of the big problems that the world has is that so many of our communication channels from mass media to social media are fundamentally manipulated by interests that we cannot see and we cannot understand, and we would probably disagree with if we knew what they were. And so one of the premises on the societal level that the Fediverse has is that we are building a communication network that at least can’t be manipulated by unaccountable third parties, which is a huge proposition ... " npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Interestingly, in the next two years WEF says "disinformation and misinformation" are the world's largest risks. The Fediverse is a great tool in the toolbox to help with that. Unlike so much media, and social media, it is fundamentally constructed to not be a manipulated channel. We really need to get those CEOs and billionaires and politicians that hang around in#Davos to understand that, and help finance building it out. After all, they just agreed it's a real problem! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1tcy…vmaf so when you write “we” ... who exactly do you have in mind who would use all those easy-to-use “indie website” tools and applications? Because many past hypotheses about that didn’t work out, the people thought to be ideal users turned out to be not very interested. (I say this as a long-term IndieWeb person who also started a company called Indie Computing in the past) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Who maintains the best / most complete / current list of libraries for fediverse-relevant protocols? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Why do I live in California if it has weather like this? I can be depressed elsewhere, too. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub198j…d3fm I am of the belief that all of them, and everybody else should be involved. I’m also in favor of discarding not-invented-here, and in favor of the “difficult personalities” that the fediverse is so full of to learn how to collaborate constructively and compromise for the common good. We’ll manage to get our act together, emphasis on “together”, or we have lost already imho. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1rh0…sjsf @npub1xzm…eykm @npub1ckm…gutz “larger base” by people, organizations, or money that can be spent to advance the cause? Xmpp always struck me as having far more orgs involved that had money instead of half the shoestrings that the fediverse has been living on. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Discussing Embrace-Extend-and-Extinguish, @npub1xzm…eykm on @npub1ckm…gutz's podcast uses #XMPP as a historical analogy of how things can go wrong. He points out that XMPP had some self-inflicted problems, eg that the standard did not support new, desirable features quickly enough, like stickers in chat. I hope we won't get the same problem in the #fediverse. #ActivityPub was created in 2018 and there is currently no W3C standards activity. Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst "Exit to Community Stories & Strategies" https://e2c.how/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I hope they kept the escape key, it’s needed more than ever it seems. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67881373 npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst So #InflectionAI raises over a billion dollars in venture capital, and this is the typesetting on the about page of their website. Yep, no spaces. https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/698/862/822/515/633/original/47c43a45cb5c7010.png npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1agu…j0sk @npub1agu…j0sk @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1esh…5fqz gotta come to FediForum, where things like that get started and have sessions :-) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Ouch. Not good, regardless of who actually did it if that can ever be ascertained. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/03/middleeast/iran-explosions-soleimani-ceremony-intl/index.html npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1agu…j0sk @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1esh…5fqz I should say I have a list of what I think are financially interesting possible fediverse businesses in my head, and I am pursuing one them pretty hard, but out of the public eye, because it's too early to talk about it and I don't want to create competitors before we're ready. The usual thing with startups ... (And before anybody gets any ideas, I'm also quite certain that it would be a net positive for the fediverse and not harm anything.) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1agu…j0sk @npub1grx…uxfe @npub1esh…5fqz … and to answer my own question, that’s probably because the hard work of educating the people with the money about why they should spend it on a new thing has not been done around healthy communications, while it has been done about, say, vaccinations. So no surprise there. Who is doing the educating? I don’t really see anybody, but we need to get that off the ground somehow. (Ideas welcome!) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Personally, while I don't believe there is a "root problem" -- they are impact each other -- in my view the most fundamental of all the related problems is information dissemination and curation, including fake news and informational manipulation. I cannot see how we can make any progress on anything if our information exchange channels are unreliable. And they are, today, and more so all the time: ... npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst 2024. Change is in the air. So welcome! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1rjz…4qvh Different use case. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1u0m…wez4 : "We need an at-scale generative consumer platform. It used to be the internet. And it could again be the internet." Oh yes :-) On https://flipboard.video/w/bbPZZTyat49yKFBPpKSwKq npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1ed9…r3f8 I would agree that today’s fediverse protocols and standards can do a lot more than what they are currently used for in the vast majority of places. But for the purpose of this conversation, I think the more interesting point of view is not protocol-centric but user-centric. What could a “social web” do for us that today it does not? (Nvm whether that can be done with existing protocols or needs extensions) And how exactly would the user experience look like? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1ed9…r3f8 If we look at what the fediverse can do today, it's basically: Follow, Post, Like and and Comment. Or something like that. Very similar to what centralized social media does. But if I wanted to be "social on the web" with you, for example, is that where it should end? I don't think so, and hope we can do more. Trivial example: What if we could also edit some text together to wordsmith a post together? Seems like a logical think to do beyond those basic verbs. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The https://fedidevs.org/ site has been migrated to a new Github organization: https://github.com/fediverse-devnet (Fediverse Developer Network), and is open for your pull requests. In case you have documentation about your #fediverse #application or other insights that you think could fit nicely into the documentation we are assembling there. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst codeconvert.ai This opens up possibilities, even if it were to take manual fixes. Wow!! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst “Nationally, COVID-19 remains the primary cause of new respiratory hospitalizations and deaths, resulting in about 1,000 fatalities a week.” A thousand a week. Are we insane? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-27/respiratory-viruses-covid-rsv-flu-california #covid npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Some people prefer to talk about the "social web" instead of the "fediverse". If you do, do you just prefer one term over another, or do you think "social web" could emcompass more functionality than what today's fediverse can do? Curious. #socialweb #fediverse npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst … in which our protagonist, after making the same Christmas cookie recipe for, idk, certainly over 20 years, suddenly discovers an assembly method for his Linzer Schnitten that might actually work. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1alm…t4v4 has the greatest last line: "It's going to be an unstoppable force. In a few years time, people will go: oh remember how we all used to use these proprietary social networks, you had to use their client, oh dear!" npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub130t…jg4h also got a shout-out in @npub1alm…t4v4 and @npub1ckm…gutz ‘s podcast. The #indieweb has been an early pioneer towards largely the same vision as the #fediverse, starting with individuals itching their own itch. npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1alm…t4v4 points out how the #press somehow stopped at describing the #fediverse as a #twitter replacement. But it is so much more, or at least it could be. Totally agree!! npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst #FediForum also got a mention on @npub1ckm…gutz 's podcast with @npub1alm…t4v4 : FediForum demo tracks, like with @npub1ykg…g4jv showing gath.io, apparently are quite useful to tell people about Fediverse projects they hadn't known about. I should mention that the next FediForum is in March! Registration just opened yesterday: https://fediforum.org/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Who would buy Twitter from the banks? https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-problems-twitter-x-tesla-gamble-luck-run-out-2023-12 npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Certainly the #Threads people are having some hiccups with their phase 1 #ActivityPub rollout today. I can't follow @[email protected] from here because, apparently, wait for it ... an SSL certificate error! Always very gratifying to see when the big guys have the same problems as us little guys :-) npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst And here is the proof: $ curl https://threads.net/.well-known/webfinger\?resource=acct:[email protected] {"subject":"acct:[email protected] ","links":[{"href":"https://www.threads.net/ap/users/mosseri/","rel":"self","type":"application/activity+json"}]} #ActivityPub #Threads #fediverse #webfinger npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The first tiny, but real #Fediverse interop step from #threads/#meta https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77 It will be gradual as I wrote in https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Executives everywhere must adopt #ai immediately. It has such great impact on your business! Just not the impact you were looking for. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/media/sports-illustrated-ai-articles-ceo/index.html npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Some notes on the Meta/Threads "Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue" meeting last week. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/ #meta #threads #fediverse npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst I got this little black book yesterday. What should I write in it? https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/546/686/545/121/935/original/686e31e5a30e48c9.jpeg npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst The third-largest state in Germany has an official #mastodon server. https://bawü.social/about (With an umlaut in its domain name!) Imho all #governments in all countries on all levels should communicate via the #fediverse, instead of via commercial services. Why should a profit-maximizing feed #algorithm, and an ad placement algorithm get between the citizen and their government in a democracy? npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Reply with a screen shot of your first code editor or IDE. (Copied from a thread on Threads...) https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/525/849/378/756/547/original/ea5f01101fce0bba.jpg npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst If you are Spotify, what do you need 9000 employees for? What do they all do? https://www.npr.org/2023/12/04/1216950219/spotify-layoffs-17-percent-tech npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst Have you watched the cool #fediverse software demos from #Fediforum? Online at https://fediforum.org/2023-09/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1ckm…gutz: Where can we go to find out more of what is happening? @npub1w7a…tpn3: lists https://fedidb.org/ https://activitypub.rocks/ https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/ npub1a32cg8ntvpcq0gqk00t73kzywptxjvm2aatysk6g7nfc750976xsm2ea5z Johannes Ernst @npub1w7a…tpn3 the most surprising thing that happened in social software in the last 12 months was the launch of #Threads and the promised support of #ActivityPub.