Indieterminacy
@indieterminacy@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@smallcircles Im still enraptured by the metaphysical insights from the Thomist Principle, Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur.

lonergan.org/2009/10/16/applyi

Peoples mental models are wildly different, it takes an awful lot of skill and insight to align perspectives and definitions.

Our curiosity towards governance is appreciating autonomy gains from things such as Fediverse but recognising tradeoffs.

Its infinitely harder than narrow protocol design.

@thisismissem @torgo
small circle 🕊 in calmness
@smallcircles@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@indieterminacy @thisismissem @torgo

> appreciating autonomy gains from things such as but recognising tradeoffs.

👆 This! Especially the "recognising" part is important in our grassroots environment. It implies having a good overview of all that is going on and being cocreated.

De facto with protocol flexibility, under-specified areas, and its ad-hoc chaotic on-the-wire protocol-decay inducing evolution we get the opposite of narrow protocol design. A Big Ball of Mud.
witchescauldron
@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 12 hours ago
#Indymedia’s legacy offers critical insights into building resilient, people-centric, and trust-based media networks that can withstand internal and external challenges. We need historical paths to reboot the #openweb with the #fediversehttps://hamishcampbell.com/we-need-these-historical-paths-to-reboot-the-openweb-with-the-fediverse/
Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

From: blenderdumbass . org

This article is published on a website which is powered by BDServer. And I'm trying to make this website support ActivityPub, so you could for example, subscribe to me from your Mastodon account. Yet it is easier said than done.

If you have any experience with ActivityPub, web-development or Python, please consider helping me. We have BDServ...

Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/please_help_me_with_activity_pub

#activitypub #fediverse #mastodon #bdserver #python #programming #webdev #federation #API
FediCon
@fedicon@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Come see @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca give his talk at FediCon

"SocialBC : Starting a Journey in Non-Profit Social Spaces"

(SocialBC.ca is an independent Mastodon server.)

@chris@socialbc.ca

...

🎟️ https://lu.ma/p4bbb941

🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver, Canada
🗓️ August 1–2

ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca

#FediCon#FediCon2025#Fediverse

activity timestamp yesterday

I've been following ATProto's development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: github.com/bluesky-social/atpr

"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.

In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."

It's a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn't be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky's main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.

I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.
Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Peertubers!!! ( and other #libre related people ) Important stuff!!! This is how #fediverse is working if you know the protocols involved.

#PeerTube#YouTube #reach#Sharing#FiresideFreddy#Firesidefedi #freesoftware #opensource

In short: The videos are not being shows on the peertube instance to other people on the instance unless you interact with it. So people like and comment and share the videos you watch on PeerTube. There is nothing wrong with shameless advertising of libre stuff. In fact we should do more of it.
In short: The videos are not being shows on the peertube instance to other people on the instance unless you interact with it. So people like and comment and share the videos you watch on PeerTube. There is nothing wrong with shameless advertising of libre stuff. In fact we should do more of it.
Ben Pate 🤘🏻
@benpate@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

After months of work, I'm excited to share these updates to #Emissary that let you sell #Music on the #Fediverse with #Bandwagon.

* Use YOUR OWN Stripe account
* Sell music as digital downloads
* Sell exclusive memberships to band updates
* 0% fees from me

This is free for everyone now, and will become a part of Bandwagon Premier when it launches later this year. More details are in the blog post:

https://bandwagon.fm/2025-july

Let's go make some noise.