I write Connected Places, a news site to help you understand the new social web.
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Last Notes npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Good article! Really like this section (translation in alttext), as it is one of those subtle signals that actually provide a good indication of what makes this place different: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…uptt thank you for starting this thread scott, its both good and painful npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof :) npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…7j4l is one of the coolest activitypub projects, and shows that the network has an incredible amount of growth potential still by exploring new primitives npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof JGAO is such a crazy good channel about current chinese culture npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof lmao, Meta is considering a change to charge for sharing links on Facebook. Under the change, page and professional mode profiles can only share 2 links per month, and you can share more links if you pay for Meta Verified npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof slop npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof turns out that federating forums by ingesting microblogs with hashtags is an absolutely disastrous idea npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof mastodon should adopt the 'quiet posters' and 'highline' custom feeds tbh npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof that the main way people use groups for microblogging is suddenly defunct because one person forgot to renew their domain might be a good indication that decentralisation and network resilience includes more than counting the number of servers npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…t9gy @nprofile…y5sz @nprofile…qpn9 @nprofile…06qg @nprofile…xnsx @nprofile…q406 @nprofile…en7x npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…qz4x hey cory, question for clarification: when you say that your sysadmin is going to be running Bluesky servers, what part(s?) of the atproto infrastructure are you talking about? I have a sense that this impacts whether or not you can avoid bsky's ToS npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…t9gy honestly the whole presentation was super weird, first year grad students have better stage presence than the gazillion randos openai called on stage npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…t9gy openai made agi for chart crimes npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof I love openai man, can’t make this shit up npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof GPT 5 everybody! Screenshots from the livestream npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof watching all these #daggerheart announcements with partnerships shows what crazy business opportunities dnd is ignoring here in the #ttrpg scene npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i dont even recall people on fedi talking about this as if this would ever even happen lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…3wy7 npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof why are people who dont even have a fediverse account talking about interoperability on the fediverse? literally the only thing they do is whitewash meta. fuck this npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof listening in on #igf2025 on the session Privacy Preserving Interoperability and the Fediverse and its absolutely maddening. the speakers are literally hallucinating worse than an LLM on what the interoperability for threads actually looks like npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof these are the top posts I see on Threads' new fediverse feeds npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/114/635/691/711/197/498/original/284abc88abc8a9fd.png npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof this leads to the fascinating conclusion that increasing decentralisation of a network can decrease the resilience of the network! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof I think this post by mcc is actually a great example of why the atproto dev community is now starting to move in the direction that 'decentralisation' is not a helpful term anymore. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…zwgs when you say that "in theory nobody else can run the code", which code part are you referring to exactly? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof You can catch me live on stream on the @nprofile…uuja in a few hours! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof federation challenge: how does this work? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…zwgs @nprofile…fykc npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…zwgs @nprofile…fykc npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…6gnj npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Considering this post is going viral here and boosted by Mastodon's ceo: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…3wy7 thanks for all your work over the years Tim! Excited for this next step with Newsmast! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…74c4 @nprofile…zwgs npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof anyone have any idea what happened here? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…psd8 @nprofile…7nr8 npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…3wy7 thanks for the official statement! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…3wy7 Hey Tim, can we get an official statement on what indieweb.social's policy is regarding federating with Threads moving forward? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof my meta-take on current fedi-meta (meta^2?) is that by far the biggest challenge for the fediverse is governance, not software npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof this rant/essay about the current state of technology is so good! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…2skd @nprofile…g8jv @nprofile…6zhx npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…q54u npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof This is why I included a section on Mastodon in my article on how Bluesky is not distributed in a social sense. Its much easier to deal with on Bluesky because of the explicit nature of the centralisation points. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @nprofile…zqxh is the goal to expand the target audience towards people from other protocols as well? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub12ty…vnqc nothing happens when i press 'login', no error messages or anything npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof One thing I'll say about the SWF is that it shows that you really cannot/should not run these foundations/nonprofits with the people higher up not actively using the fediverse. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof feel free to connect! #fediforumattendee npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1cx7…8tc2 damn blinky is so dominant, rip consus npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof 'federation happens in the client' npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof This is still holding up well I see lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1mdk…aptk enjoy your vacation! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1cwk…qe8n the jank is an integral part of being a forkey tho npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof that this is one of the most popular posts on mastodon currently is a clear indication of how widely pervasive the reply-guy problem is here, and that its not just a few obnoxious person that contribute to the problem npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i think over time 'fediverse' will come to include bluesky: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof fucking brutal lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof best fedi server design ive seen in a while npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i just dont understand why fedi does not seem to be talking about brazil potentially banning twitter in the next 12 hours npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof official french press release with charges against #telegram ceo Durav npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof public group chats on #nostr npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Linux is such an unserious ass OS npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Piefed is considering getting good interop/federation working with mobilizon. Posting events into link-aggregator communities would be cool! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof "Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently." npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Social web observations: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof yo @npub1psa…xhme i dont think deletes for pages (not posts) federate properly on ap-wp plugin lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof oh god i just saw this on farcaster. jesus everything about this is bad, the incorrect attributions, the screenshot-ceptionlayers, lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four." npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Last Week in Fediverse - ep 78 npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1cmg…rzd2 https://agorasocial.app/#/ does this, fork of phanpy which includes this foryou feed. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i simply cannot believe how good @npub1dwn…ghzn is, and how literally everyone in the english speaking side of fedi has missed it that there is a complete review platform that is native to the fediverse npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof fediversereport now has the fediverse creator tag enabled! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Random observation: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof I think a significant part of real-time news events that is currently still being discussed via microblogging platforms will probably move towards predication market platforms npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i did it, i found the peak of mastodon reply guy culture. and its complaining that "you should be able to opt out of being able to seeing all the replies to a post, because mastodon's current functionality where half the replies to posts are not visible due to badly implemented federation is good, actually" npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof beautiful npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof On the discourse surrounding Bluesky's starter packs: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof but that a 1500 word post from a 500 followers account can get just as much engagement than the link to the post by a 7k follower account is super fascinating to me, and I think few people are aware of this effect yet, and the implications of it npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof In my latest newsletter I wrote that I think that #activitypub is better suited for longform content. As a practical illustration of this: my wordpress account is followed by some 500 people, and the blogs itself get just as much engagement as the microblog posts where I announce the blog post to 7k followers. I dont even boost my full-length wordpress blog posts from my main 7k followers account because I want to see this effect in action npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1g8e…qdqf Interesting! Can you expand on how you draw some cultural groups within the fediverse? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1qe5…8ugl hell yeah rainbolt is awesome npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof different cultures can coexist on a federated platform, but for that you need to make sure there are minimal connections between the cultures. This can be done either with a significant number of server blocks (see altright fedi) or speaking a different language (see misskey.io) npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Interoperability and federation makes it that culture transcends software borders. Im surprised by the amount of people who say that using other fedi software will fix cultural issues people have with Mastodon; if you think that Mastodon has a Reply Guy problem, it is unclear how using Akkoma instead of Mastodon will decrease the amount of Reply Guys in your mentions. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof If you compare comments on the post about The Conversation AU stopping using Mastodon, versus the engagement on the large majority of their regular posts (2 or less likes), than it seems to me that a lot of people are mainly interested in having news outlets here as a validation of 'their' network npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1jc6…7v67 npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof right on schedule, the weekly @npub1l5t…qq33 promotion thread lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof I think the much more interesting question about #Maven is why they went for activitypub and not atproto, and how the dynamics of the social web change when new devs do go with atproto instead npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof I think the possibility that the choice for next generation social platform is determined by nonwestern and nonchinese communities is highly undervalued npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof some fascinating MAU statistics for Koo, the Indian twitter alternative npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Gg lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof think this is the first threads => bsky bridged post npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof very curious if Cara ends up with a battle between AP and AT advocates both trying to convince the devs to implement their protocol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1k08…6xvn npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1k08…6xvn uhh, whats feblunos? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof which server did this lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Uhhhh, so Sam Altman says here in this clip that OpenAI already had GPT4 internally in Nov22, when chatgpt (3.5) got released. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof think that someone will announce an onlyfans clone on farcaster within the next 3 months npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1vx0…ku9p confirms that Threads not amplifying political news happens at the account level, not at the post level. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof beautiful npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof why do crypto projects tend to go with the colour purple? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Farcaster founder Dan Romero says someone build a PoC partial Farcaster - #ActivityPub bridge. Does anyone have any more information on this? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof my favourite one so far
