Post AUsFOZMfYOB5XF7VsO by shelenn@nerdica.net
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(DIR) Post #AUrEtMOPXSV7AV5qE4 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-20T22:52:18Z
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"... Mastodon, the ActivityPub–powered platform that has become a haven to Twitter Quitters all over the internet. But ask around the tech industry, and there’s a growing set of people who will tell you the future isn’t Mastodon but what it represents: a scaled ActivityPub-based social platform.So what is ActivityPub? It’s a technology through which social networks can be made interoperable, connecting everything to a single social graph and content-sharing system."https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
(DIR) Post #AUrFAGDfkAc8wg83zE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-20T22:55:20Z
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"I was there in the early days of the web, and this whole thing with ActivityPub is as big a deal as HTML was back then. This is the single biggest opportunity I’ve seen for the web since the dawn of the web."#MikeMcCue, CEO of #FlipBoardhttps://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
(DIR) Post #AUrNJwaOOXb8a9su9I by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-21T00:26:45Z
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To paraphrase from that Verge link;The biggest problem with email: the protocol doesn’t allow for any kind of universal system of identity. When you join email, you have to pick a server — which is a lot of work and requires a lot of conceptual understanding — and then find people to follow without any kind of cross-server directory. There’s no good tool for verification, either, so if you want to find NPR on the email network, all you can really do is guess which account is the real one.
(DIR) Post #AUrNgM6gBpkC6Wfnoe by sullybiker@sully.site
2023-04-21T00:30:47Z
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@strypey They're not interested in Masto itself because there's no revenue. A revenue driven Activity Pub platform is a lot more motivation for VC money.
(DIR) Post #AUrNxBrBYHg1EnSAbo by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-21T00:33:50Z
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So even if everything in the original quote was technically correct, the problems they identify are more to do with frustrated habits, rather than anything people find inherently difficult. As it happens Mastodon *does* have a two-way verification system for individual accounts on shared servers. But the best way for NPR to establish official Mastodon accounts - and for people to identify them - is to hang them off the npr.org domain, and promote them on npr.org.
(DIR) Post #AUrOZbxEyBrZBMbdke by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-21T00:40:47Z
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As for this..."But of all the things left for the Fediverse to figure out, content moderation will be the thorniest: it’s an expensive, complicated thing to get right, and without good content moderation, social platforms simply don’t work."#FacePalm. Unlike the platforms participating in the Christchurch Call - where it's an ongoing crisis - this is a solved problem in the 'verse. Accounts and whole servers can silence and block nuisance accounts or whole servers. #SocialMedia #moderation
(DIR) Post #AUsFOZMfYOB5XF7VsO by shelenn@nerdica.net
2023-04-20T22:55:32Z
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@strypey There are many projects in the Fediverse that support Activity Pub not just Mastodon
(DIR) Post #AUsFOa2V2rddcygv4q by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-21T10:32:39Z
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@shelenn> There are many projects in the Fediverse that support Activity Pub not just MastodonThat's a good one sentence summary of the quote, yes :)
(DIR) Post #AUsFeKsLBx1pEOS6Ns by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-21T10:35:30Z
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@sullybiker> They're not interested in Masto itself because there's no revenueNPR?