Posts by j12t@j12t.social
(DIR) Post #AvGXScGxxJLHhshqS0 by j12t@j12t.social
2025-06-18T20:22:19Z
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@wjmaggos @ricmac @tchambers @benpate There are a variety of possible answers to how to do that. Before we pick, we need to understand the tradeoffs. And before understanding the tradeoffs, we need to have enough consensus that there is a problem that needs to be solved. Which is the step I'm trying to help with right now :-)
(DIR) Post #AvKb9Tch4DszpMq0ci by j12t@j12t.social
2025-06-20T19:11:37Z
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Fascinated by @laurenshof's renaming of the "Fediverse Report" to "Connected Places". He could have called it "Global Townsquare" but he didn't. I very much agree. This is all about connecting distinct places on the web, not mashing them all up into one.https://connectedplaces.online
(DIR) Post #AvKeMwfSgtM5XEFLPM by j12t@j12t.social
2025-06-20T19:58:44Z
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Hi @laurenshof I would love to hear your thinking about this./cc @wjmaggos
(DIR) Post #AvLHOLcpHVP9RPfoR6 by j12t@j12t.social
2025-06-19T17:10:01Z
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@benpate @jupiter_rowland @mikedev @deadsuperhero @tchambers @rockmanjoe @tom @strypey @evan I'm the chair of the newly formed task force in the W3C that can now maintain activitypub.rocks, which is referenced from the ActivityPub standards docs. Your ideas -- and help -- for what it should say very much appreciated. Suggesting to start with https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/issues
(DIR) Post #AvRVY1FN6WfioZn5bE by j12t@j12t.social
2025-06-23T18:00:39Z
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One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the #Fediverse is: Just what exactly is an instance for?Yep, it's a separate installation of server software. But what exactly does instance 1 give me compared to instance 2?Answer A: it makes no difference except on policy: who runs it, what are their TOS, moderation policy etc. The Local feed has no significance.Answer B: Beyond that, it defines a community. The local feed is essential.Which should it be?
(DIR) Post #AvjiTOvjuELIpkN24u by j12t@j12t.social
2025-07-02T22:10:37Z
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If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- roughly the number of users on Meta platforms today compared to, say, Mastodon -- how would we go about it?P.S. Obviously while keeping the good things we have here, and making them even better, rather than backsliding / enshittifying / ...
(DIR) Post #AwexWwbAE4qZNkXCTI by j12t@j12t.social
2025-07-29T18:08:32Z
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Done with the slides for my talk "From Millions to Billions -- a plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web", to be (first?) given at #FediCon this Friday in Vancouver, BC, Canada.I expect this to be permanent work in progress, as this community / network / market / whatever it all is evolves, and I'm sure that some people will tell me it is not plausible or could be more plausible. Which would be the best outcome ... I love learning from my "audience" because it gets better that way.
(DIR) Post #Awq3UyYGjHrbKCBTWa by j12t@j12t.social
2025-08-04T21:15:01Z
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The choice between a traditional social media platform or the open social web seems to boil down to "do I want to control people to only do things my way" or "do I want to thrive by enabling people to make their own choices".
(DIR) Post #AxJ0m1lTN6qdvydZgW by j12t@j12t.social
2025-08-18T20:40:00Z
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Got the newest #Fediverse book in the mail. Looking forward to reading it!!https://www.moveslowlybuildbridges.com
(DIR) Post #AxLidGdBVwsnjaJVHU by j12t@j12t.social
2025-08-20T04:00:39Z
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"these problems may be rooted in the very architecture of social media platforms: networks that grow through emotionally reactive sharing. If so, improving online discourse will require more than technical tweaks – it will demand rethinking the fundamental dynamics of interaction and visibility that define these environments."Fellow social media innovators: Should we accept the challenge from this paper? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385
(DIR) Post #AxQj61KKStrYSR0K24 by j12t@j12t.social
2025-08-22T14:01:13Z
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The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- vs the world we want.Does this look about right?
(DIR) Post #AxmjfAy6ssbPyQUdtY by j12t@j12t.social
2025-09-02T04:47:56Z
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“Christian Nationalists, in my opinion, are whitewashed tombs who would crucify Jesus if he walked on this earth today. They would call him woke, Marxist, and demonic because he loved the outcasts, called religious leaders to account for the damage they were doing, and hung out with the people society pushed out.”Good piece on American “Christian” nationalism.https://timwhitakerspeaks.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-101
(DIR) Post #AxwLPVzKVjzrDEf8LI by j12t@j12t.social
2025-09-06T14:52:42Z
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@thisismissem I would add that both protocols support use cases that the other protocol has a hard time addressing. ActivityPub, for example, is much better at point to point communication where no third party overhears what is happening. ATproto, for example, can be used to build “global trending” or a global index much more easily.I would not be surprised if at the end of they, the open social web would simultaneously end up using both, in a complementary fashion.
(DIR) Post #AxwOl6z0SaSdtSV7HU by j12t@j12t.social
2025-09-06T20:22:30Z
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@mat “AP is best suited to talking to friends, while AT is best suited to talking to strangers”. That is great framing, I’m going to steal this! (with credit!) @thisismissem
(DIR) Post #AyTo60XkeK5tIyLP6G by j12t@j12t.social
2025-09-22T23:06:23Z
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I'm looking for a guide on how to specify images in HTML pages so that Mastodon and Bluesky posts linking to those pages have nicely formatted images in them.Twitter has <meta name="twitter:image" etc ... what's the equivalent for Mastodon and Bluesky? And Threads? And what are the best image sizes?
(DIR) Post #AyeR6RrZipsHF62oZE by j12t@j12t.social
2025-09-27T22:30:35Z
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Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever seen.From: @pluralistichttps://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407
(DIR) Post #B0PHyLpX9vwVymUeKu by j12t@j12t.social
2025-11-19T14:47:19Z
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@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being posters, now we are at 30%, but compare this with 1% on some commercial platforms. Conversations are happening again.
(DIR) Post #B1Pg6YhBDC7tf1biPw by j12t@j12t.social
2025-12-19T17:18:17Z
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Threads’ Fediverse integration now is “in maintenance mode”.https://www.theverge.com/column/847806/head-of-threads-interview#fediforumfriday #threads
(DIR) Post #B1gbmTOEOoNBkiz7lg by j12t@j12t.social
2025-12-27T17:56:14Z
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@silverpill this seems it could / should be linked from https://activitypub.rocks? If so, could you file an issue / PR?
(DIR) Post #B1hsTBojOztS83jMp6 by j12t@j12t.social
2025-12-28T00:10:46Z
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@silverpill https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/pulls