Notices by smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop), page 2

@evan

Something like opting for a Public Block that becomes an entry in the timeline might do the trick..

> ⛔ Evan Prodromou blocked PersonXYZ for [reason]

@jrashf @FenTiger

Also have a look at #Flohmarkt by @grindhold

https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt

@aral that is weird, it is followers-only. I'll DM you.

@aral

My thought on the matter: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/111595072968548006

@nixCraft

Some really good memes passing my timeline from your end. I would boost them if they had image alt-texts for #a11y reasons, and I'm sure more other people would too. They are easily added by clicking 'Edit' after uploading the image. Keep those memes coming 🤗

Ugh.. finally forced to use #Discord in order to discuss some buggy behavior in a #FOSS project.

It is a freaking Christmas tree 🎄 #UX and somewhere something notifies me in the many ways this is possible. I will spend this day trying to find where exactly.

#FOSSuseFOSSplease 🙏

🤩 Aren't you just delighted by all those proprietary software apps for the #Fediverse?

😮 Don't be. Each time you choose proprietary you help turn the fedi slowly in the direction of the usual corporate hellscape that the rest of the Web already is.

😨 And then we end up in an online space where for years we can complain to each other how we squandered an opportunity and how #capitalism won once more.

🎯 Use #FOSS apps instead, created by the public for the public.

🌻 Keep the Fediverse open.

Let it be noted that I hate all those websites that show me a popup dialog with "Hey, you might login with Google" 😡

First, I'm not interested to log in. And second I don't use #Google. Stop bugging me.

Those dialogs are a freaking #ad for a shady #adtech company. Take yourself seriously.

@silverpill @z428

While this is true, there's more history. At the time #ActivityPub became recommendation the people involved knew that important improvements were required in future iterations. This just never happened. Specs never evolved and projects created their own solutions.

For many years, what's now #Streams and #Nomad protocol, created by @mike has had nomadic identity. Why this hasn't picked up by other projects? Idk, getting such adoption is likely just as hard as evolving specs.

Yes, you can ditch #GoogleMaps now..

https://organicmaps.app

#OrganicMaps is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a #privacy-respecting app that doesn't suck you dry of your personal information. Based on #OpenStreetMap this app is gonna blow #Google #Maps out of the water (hopefully ;)

@pixelfed great that you made this opt-in by default.

I don't know yet if Mastodon's search is opt-in as well. Hope so. It should be the natural default on these things. Thank you, Pixelfed!

#Fukushima nuclear plant will start to ditch 1 million tons of tritium-polluted water out into the sea.

> The decision comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved the discharge, saying that the radiological impact on people and the environment would be “negligible”.

Yea, right #IAEA. This is just as trustworthy as #Shell concluding that the burning of #FossilFuels has negligible effects on the earth's atmosphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/22/fukushima-wastewater-from-ruined-nuclear-plant-to-be-released-from-thursday-japan-says

@atomicpoet @isotopp

Yep :D

The #openEngiadina project switched from #ActivityPub to #XMPP / #RDF.

https://openengiadina.net/en/

From there it implements #ActivityStreams and intends to bridge back to the AP-based #Fediverse again.

And in this space we find #Libervia ..

https://libervia.org

Both projects are doing great research funded by @NGIZero

@Blort @hrefna

Yes, the solution is obvious. It is also unfortunately theoretical. In practice no matter how often you say we should collectively evolve the specs, the dynamics in grassroots ecosystem is that everyone moves individualistically and by doing so implicitly chooses to be weak. Everything fragmented, no cohesion, little synergy.

The advantage that companies have is that they can pay people to be dilligent and dedicate to the boring chores, stick to a task and complete it.

@Blort @hrefna

Btw, an interesting aspect to #Meta's entry that I haven't yet seen mentioned..

It's not just Meta to worry about. When they launch and the press release proudly mentions their 'open standards' approach, then this will be trigger for an unprecedented influx of businesses adding #ActivityPub support and joining the #Fediverse.

Meta will basically indicate to the market: this technology ecosystem is "good to go", economically viable and we're in it. #Metaverse-like hype ensues.

@khinsen @jakintosh

Another way to add (technical) friction is to not design for scale.

And then I mean in the sense like most commercial projects are designed for the cloud and "scale to billions of transactions, millions of concurrent users".

The https://small-tech.org principles by Aral Balkan and Laura Kalbag are interesting to consider here, and @aral is building tools that adhere to them by design.

@rafaelcaricio @grb090423

Great, thank you. And also that you decided to document a FEDERATION.md for the #ActivityPub heuristics used.

I updated the guide for new AP implementers to refer to that doc: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers/479#federationmd-25

@rafaelcaricio @grb090423

Great initiative. A #Fediverse app that deals with #Movies similar to #IMDB has been discussed many times. I think there will be a lot of interest for this.

If you have source code available give me a heads-up or consider PR'ing to delightful-fediverse-apps at the https://delightful.club and add it to the list.

Hey #Fediverse 👋

Good news.. yet two more Fediverse Enhancement Proposals were created by ye'all dilligent fedizens:

FEP-612d: Identifying ActivityPub Objects through #DNS

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-612d.md

FEP-0ea0: Payment Links

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-0ea0.md

Note: Anyone can create #ActivityPub #FEP's. They are discussed on #SocialHub. See: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/standards/fep/54

May the fediverse soar 🖖

@aral

#RobberBarons #Hypercapitalism