Posts by smallcircles@social.coop
 (DIR) Post #B4Pny1gBb5xAtTu8Rc by smallcircles@social.coop
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       @drq @18de431c98f0d1fa458afd0048a14686155971ec338dd2ae8617981ce124fbb2 Thank you for doing that work! FWIW here's a list of delightful creative tools around video animation, maintained by @ADHDefy https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-creative-tools/#animation
       
 (DIR) Post #B4d0Tp0400gnLCbnbE by smallcircles@social.coop
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       The #ActivityPub protocol is often compared to email with its actor inboxes and outboxes.However email allows emailers to email without knowing anything about how SMTP works under the hood. Using friendly tools you can construct newsletters, order receipts, invoices, etc. and send them to addressees. Fire and forget, and if it was undeliverable you receive notice. The network mechanics are a black box.Here the #fediverse significantly differs. Solution developers (emailers) creating apps and services must not only become protocol experts (handle SMTP) but deal with ugly wire reality (self-hosting email), then do whack-a-mole maintenance against moving release targets to fix app-by-app breakages and protocol decay. That is like if I send an email, it may break yours.The ActivityPub API initiative + task force offer GREAT opportunity to improve things. A greenfield #ATProto-like start to realign with the original promise and power of AS/AP based social web.https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/66#issuecomment-4124959526
       
 (DIR) Post #B4e2f7wMJXeMKpM2EK by smallcircles@social.coop
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       @silverpill @delta might like to have a word with you. 😅I did not try to make the literal comparison between a person who emails or creates email-related software with #fediverse AP solution development.What I did want to point out was how blurred the lines are in the #ActivityPub fediverse between stuff that is the protocol, and stuff that is solution development i.e. app-specific / domain-specific.The anti-patterns I listed are encountered by any newcomer dev who takes an interest in creating fedi apps & services, and is faced with much more than they bargained for when reading the AS/AP specs.It forms a barrier to entry, decrease in attractiveness to create fedi apps, and devs leaving the space for greener pastures (e.g. to #ATProto or various still-less-mature-than-fedi #P2P protocols)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4e2f8EnD0OZFzykxk by smallcircles@social.coop
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       @silverpill There are a couple of #ActivityPub projects that focus on providing the good tools that abstract away the complexities of wire-level network comms, and help free the hands of a solution developer to focus more directly on what people need, instead of on plumbing and Babylonian speech confusion of how things fit together. I try to emphasize these projects, e.g. @fedify by listing them higher in the https://delightful.coding.social curated lists.But their challenge is to offer a kind of reverse to browser quirks mode. Web browsers can handle about any malformed HTML a person throws at it, and still manage to turn that into machine processable form, and make the most of it.As a fedi toolkit builder you almost need to do the opposite. Focus on offering comprehensive and intuitive API's and functionality to solution developers, and translate it into wire chaos that constitutes the fediverse-protocol-of-the-day.
       
 (DIR) Post #B66xIzb3psy7hWN79E by smallcircles@social.coop
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       #ThoughtProvoker 🤔In daily life, if you talk to someone, you have the right to remember what was said, right?And if you don't possess photographic memory, you have the right to take notes, keep record, maintain a diary, yes?And no one has the right to order you to forget your memories, or under normal circumstances to destroy your notes?So if you have a single-person #fediverse instance, it is okay then to ignore #ActivityPub Delete requests to erase your memory of online public conversations you had with others?#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #PersonalSocialNetworking
       
 (DIR) Post #B6tAtCD7WDqrbNatwe by smallcircles@social.coop
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       @EUCommission wonderful!I fully support this message 😃 🚴cc @notjustbikes