Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)

If you're looking for a platform without billionaire investors and owners, well, this is the only one.

@uid0 @lianna @mattl it would be neat to have gnu.social be for GNUSocial.

If you want to decide in advance who can follow you on Mastodon, you should flip the "decide in advance who can follow me" switch on Mastodon.

We built consent to be followed into ActivityPub by default. Mastodon automatically consents on your behalf. If you don't want that, you should change the setting.

@murph It doesn't mess anything up! I'm just asking.

For me, a trip of 250km is going to be juuuuuuuust a little bit outside my urban region. It's a good weekend or 3-day weekend trip. We have a country house about 135km away, so that's my benchmark. Ottawa is about 200km away, but about the same feel. There's a train station nearby, but it's hard to get from the station to our home, so we only take the train if someone else is already at the house.

@murph so, you'd say 1760km is about 250km?

I'm somewhat important. I try to only wear matched socks, but if I'm working from home and I don't have the right matched pair easily available I will wear mismatched socks.

@ricmac @timbray so, you say that Mastodon is the biggest app built on ActivityPub. I assume you're measuring by number of users and not lines of code or screen size.

Is this still true? Threads is closing in on 300M MAUs. Some percentage of them have Fediverse sharing enabled. If it's even 5%, that's much larger than existing Mastodon user base. And Flipboard has 150M registered users and I think they're all on the Fediverse.

@ricmac @timbray that sounds a little No True Scotsman to me (no offense).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman?wprov=sfla1

WOOOOOO We're doing a Social Web devroom at FOSDEM 2025!!! Sweet.

@julian @darius I started a new FEP to define a vocabulary specifically for threads.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/406

@dmitri @helge @silverpill really?! You "highly agree" with off-boarding people from ActivityPub?!

@dmitri @helge @silverpill Ah, that makes much more sense! Thanks for the clarification.

@erincandescent @julian @trwnh @silverpill a thread is a tree with a root. Every non-root node in the tree has an `inReplyTo` that points to one of the other nodes.

It's represented by a `Collection` in the `context` property of each object. (I don't like this, but it's common so we should just use it).

It's in reverse-chronological order.

If you started at the root node and walked the tree using the `replies` collection, you should visit exactly the same nodes as in the `context` collection.

So, who is in the Free/Open Source software community in Brazil, advising the government on how to move to the Fediverse? And how can I help you?

@silverpill @julian cool, thanks for the link. I'll add it to the issues list.

https://manifold.markets/browse?q=activitypub

ActivityPub prediction markets

@silverpill @jonny @steve srsly tho, advanced portability?

@silverpill @jonny @steve

```
evanp@Evans-MacBook-Pro mastodon % grep "^a" /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1
astroglia
evanp@Evans-MacBook-Pro mastodon % grep "^p" /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1
parbuckle
```

Astroglia Parbuckle.

@silverpill @jonny @steve youre implying that this is the standard activitypub way to retrieve objects, which it is not. please change the name.