“Federated social media’s contribution to digital autonomy runs wider than another place to post. Public money funded a supply of parts and put it where anyone could reach it. Researchers used it to start rebuilding scientific publishing, a magazine’s readers used it to turn an audience into a membership, and a town can use it to let a river tell everyone what the water is doing. None of those had a commercial version to copy, and all of them exist.”
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Linux Magazine talked to us about how and why we build Bonfire.
What we want next is "not a bigger Bonfire, but a network of cooperatives covering the whole supply chain of a community's digital space", who "do it together" rather than leave you to "do it yourself".
Because "federation, we don't see it as just a technical thing. We see it as a social, economic, and political tool as well."
Link: Supporting the Social Web: How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms
Also happy to spread the love for @coopcloud@social.coop, @coquest@social.coop, @SocialCoop@social.coop and more, check out the links at the end of the article! Thanks to @horncologne@fosstodon.org for a lovely conversation, and @linuxmagazine@fosstodon.org for publishing it, in a piece that also features the great @cwebber@social.coop and @tsyesika@mastodon.nu from @spritely@social.coop.
#fediverse #ActivityPub #opensource #freesoftware #OpenCooperativeEcosystem #OpenScienceNetwork
It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg!
Huge thanks to the amazing @_elena@mastodon.social and @Gina@fosstodon.org for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and conversations we need right now.
And thanks to @samvie@chaos.social to keep pushing the fediverse forwards ✊️
Coming to the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg today? @oscl@mastodon.opencloud.lu 🇱🇺
Come say hi! At 15:30 we'll talk about digital sovereignty, why it's more than a server, what is the ecosystem we're building towards and keep asking ourselves: where's Franca? 🔥
pretalx.com/open-source-conf... #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse #OpenSource #Bonfire
Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany.
Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web we want to support.
Their ongoing diary of leaving big tech is worth a read (in Dutch): apache.be/vaarwel-big-tech
quanto è importante e contemporaneo lo spettacolo sul vajont di Paolini...
youtube.com/watch?v=q7CarpRf...
@lebout2canap@mastodon.tedomum.net fixed, thanks! @gardian@social.manade.org
It would be pretty cool to have a fediverse version of ResearchGate. Someone should look into that. Someone with a lot more free time than me.
@benlockwood@ecoevo.social openscience.network goes beyond that 👋
Originally published on Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy blog, this article by @s0hw@hci.social and @andresmh@hci.social reflects on a semester of collaboration with Bonfire. Together, we explored how Governance Cards could help communities describe how they organise and govern their shared spaces.
Community rules will ship alongside federated groups in the upcoming Bonfire release 🎉
What comes to your mind when you think of an old woman? What about a sage, magician or witch? Carl Jung thought we humans had a sort of primordial and universal knowledge. Archetypes are tools for telling stories:
https://laurahilliger.com/models/a4-choosing-your-own-archetypes/
@epilepticrabbit@social.coop after reading Ursula K. Le Guin “Space Crone” essay, everytime i think of an old woman i see an earth' space ambassador 😊
TIL OpenAI spent $22M plagiarizing someone else's math paper and brute-forcing a proof and istg I cannot stop laughing right now
Like honestly, if they win a Millennium Prize, $22.5M expended for a $1M payout is just all of the AI ecosystem in one story
@mattmay@mstdn.social big companies spend $300-500M yearly on marketing, OpenAI is not different, they throw $22M, plagiarized mathematicians, and brute-forced the solution to install in people mind that chatGPT has surpassed the smartest human in Math, one of the foundational disciplines to understand the universe. It was a really good marketing move, work of the devil, as most marketing is...
Indeed. Over the years I've seen so many developers become discouraged to continue their #ActivityPub projects after becoming initially highly excited upon first reading the #W3C specs. They bump into a world of undocumented complexity, harsh wire realities, inconsistencies and tech debt. Only the true "stayers" grit their teeth and keep at it. Developers love to be able to focus on a solution, and not get mired into all kinds of low-level plumbing that is not related to that.
This makes tech that's social-culturally worse (ATProto w/ centralization, VC capital) still have better uptake potential.
I gave special mention to both @fedify and @Bonfire in my article. For #Fedify for how they focus on providing a framework and SDK that hands people software so that they can focus on "solution development" immediately. And #Bonfire because they constitute a framework, but also engage directly with clients and partners in solution development, closest to making the paradigm shift.
@smallcircles@social.coop you say "Over the years I've seen so many developers become discouraged to continue their #ActivityPub projects after becoming initially highly excited upon first reading the #W3C specs. They bump into a world of undocumented complexity, harsh wire realities, inconsistencies and tech debt"
IMO while this is true, because many developers approach building on the fediverse as hobbyists, out of personal curiousity and to meet their own needs first, despite there being libraries and frameworks to take care of those boring/complex parts that would enable them to focus on "solution development" like you say, almost nobody picks these up and instead "reinvent the wheel" so to speak in terms of implementing all the protocol parts...