»The social web is a new piece of technology that allows creators and publishers across different platforms to follow, like, reply and interact with one another in real-time.

If you've been writing things on the internet for a while, you might describe it as the return of the blogosphere.«

I really like that Ghost calls it »Social Web«.
And I'm beginning to really like Ghost too, for that matter.

#Ghost #ActivityPub #SocialWeb

https://ghost.org/help/social-web/

»AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality« https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

I am creating a #ActivityPub minimalistic implementation of a badge system similar to Credly, built using #dotnet and leveraging the #Fediverse

I have issued a first badge, the idea is to decentralize the verification systems, and allow organizations to self-certify. It is incredible that organizations like Microsoft or Non-Profits pay thousands of dollars to companies like Pearson to just provide "verified" badges. Similar to mastodons installed in social-dot-something, thinkg of badges<dot> mozilla<dot>com , certifications<dot>myschooldistrict<dot>com. Or even a podcast emitting a badge for its guests, with the verification in the domain.

ActivityPub already offers a secure way to sign artifacts and interact between actors. The fediverse already have people with profiles, a social graph as @mike says, ready to use. Think of how LetsEncrypt disrupted that market of few actors selling certificates for websites.

I have a functional poc,
@fediverse is not a mastodon, pledora or blog, it is an actor in a badge system, but you can follow it in Mastodon. Its badges will show in #mastodon but they are not notes or articles. If you want to learn more, follow me, I will be sharing the progress here. Or follow the github project here: https://github.com/tryvocalcat/activitypub-badges

Who wants a badge of early adopter?

Ich finde die Idee/das Angebot von #Bridgy grundsätzlich nicht schlecht, aber es ist einfach nur eine (unfertige) Symptom- aber nicht Ursachen-Bekämpfung.

Weshalb #Bluesky nicht auf #ActivityPub gesetzt hat (wo sie viel mehr Leute erreicht hätten), ist mir ein Rätsel.

Hi @pfefferle ich habe hier eine interessante Entdeckung gemacht. Wenn ich den "Fediverse Reactions" Block in WordPress einfüge, scheint er sich an verschiedenen Stellen unterschiedlich zu verhalten. Im "Content" werden ALLE User die reagiert werden abgebildet. Im "Post loop" immer nur der LETZTE User. Ist euch das bekannt? Es sieht aus wie ein Bug…

Reflinks: https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/ (Kopf des Beitrags) und https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/goodbye-gamestop/ (unter dem Beitrag)

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

I’m still using Toot!, a client that hasn’t been updated in years. It’s still working fine, even thought lots of improvements have been made to mastodon. The underlying protocol hasn’t changed though and that’s why things still keep working. That’s why you want well thought out, well defined protocols that care about stability and interoperability. I love it. And that’s also why I love XMPP more than just whatever is hyped at the moment.

In the @newyorktimes:

"#ActivityPub has also led to a wave of start-up efforts such as #Mastodon, a microblogging service that now has more than 14 million accounts connected by a network of over 14,000 host computers, as well as start-ups like #Pixelfed and #PeerTube, distributed services that offer features similar to #Instagram and #YouTube."

A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of #SocialMedia

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html

So many people in Denmark now talk about building a Danish/European social media platform (I proposed it 12 years ago and was laughed at) They want to start from scratch, but I keep saying we can build it on the ActivityPub protocol (alternatively Bueskys but I don't trust that in the long run). Anybody here who has experience with that? And know of other countries having done that? Contacts to people who could help build it? #activitypub #socialmedia @mastodon

#Smithereen now allows you to transfer your followers between servers.

Shoutout to #FediMeteo @admin and @stefano for the #RSS and #ActivityPub #federated #weather service. Finally, a reliable weather tool across platforms.

A week or so ago I reached out and they added my community. Every time the new weather report post or RSS feed comes through, I appreciate it so much.

Thanks again! #WX #Fediverse

Vor über einem Jahr, im Januar 2024 wurde ein Artikel von mir auf der Webseite GNU/Linux.ch in der "Fediverse-Serie" zum Fediverse-Dienst (streams) veröffentlicht...

Will the last small site turn off the lights?

The UK Online Safety Act imposes the same duties and penalties on blogs, forums and fedi instances as huge platforms.

Many small, safely moderated sites will shut down or block UK users.

Crushing competition is the last thing we need for a safer Internet!

Act now before 17 March

#SaveOurSites

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

Most #ActivityPub implementations include Mention objects in the tag attribute when someone mentions another actor within the content of a Note or Article. Should actor objects like Person or Group also include Mention objects in their tag attribute when mentioning other actors within their bio (summary)? Are there any implementations that already work this way? (I've checked Mastodon and it seems they don't include these mentions.) What are your thoughts on this?