"The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack" https://www.techpolicy.press/the-path-to-a-sovereign-tech-stack-is-via-a-commodified-tech-stack/ #Interoperability
Do you know about the OJS / OPS Dataverse plugin?
It enables the integration of #OpenJournalSystems and #OpenPreprintSystems with a #Dataverse repository, allowing authors to submit #ResearchData associated with their manuscripts during the submission process to the #journal or #preprint server.
Article, community call recording, and news: https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/article-about-the-dataverse-ojs-ops-3-integration-plugin/97697
The plugin itself: https://github.com/lepidus/dataversePlugin/
Dario
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I had the great pleasure and honour to be interviewed by @techlore about the challenges faced by #freesoftware ( #opensource) projects are facing requesting #interoperability from gatekeepers like #Apple and #Google under the #DMA
I had the great pleasure and honour to be interviewed by @techlore about the challenges faced by #freesoftware ( #opensource) projects are facing requesting #interoperability from gatekeepers like #Apple and #Google under the #DMA
dansup
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The beauty of #ActivityPub
Yes, Loops federates, and admins can enable any remote instance video posts to appear in local follower feeds AND you can even include them in the For You page ✨
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Chewie
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#XSF Announcement
Join the 28th #XMPP #Summit taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium from 29th January.
https://xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-28/
And visit the #FOSDEM 2026 were you can find the #Realtime Lounge, too!
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
🫧 socialcoding..
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Not sure where to start with Mastodon? Here's some new year coverage from @TechCrunch that provides a great overview. 🫶🏻
Want to learn even more? There's a fantastic community ready to help you level up your Fediverse skills. 🎉
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115853452708420916
"Threads, however, supports ActivityPub. Users on Threads can choose to share their posts with other Activity Pub servers, including Mastodon." – Well, only if the instance and/or end user decides so.
Surprised the article doesn't mention the absence of algorithm and advertising in the Fediverse. Imho it's a good selling point.
#threads #activitypub #interoperability #algorithm #advertising
#XSF Announcement
Join the 28th #XMPP #Summit taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium from 29th January.
https://xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-28/
And visit the #FOSDEM 2026 were you can find the #Realtime Lounge, too!
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
The beauty of #ActivityPub
Yes, Loops federates, and admins can enable any remote instance video posts to appear in local follower feeds AND you can even include them in the For You page ✨
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Not sure where to start with Mastodon? Here's some new year coverage from @TechCrunch that provides a great overview. 🫶🏻
Want to learn even more? There's a fantastic community ready to help you level up your Fediverse skills. 🎉
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115853452708420916
"Threads, however, supports ActivityPub. Users on Threads can choose to share their posts with other Activity Pub servers, including Mastodon." – Well, only if the instance and/or end user decides so.
Surprised the article doesn't mention the absence of algorithm and advertising in the Fediverse. Imho it's a good selling point.
#threads #activitypub #interoperability #algorithm #advertising
Cory Doctorow
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WAYNE'S 2025 BOOKS: BOOK 8
The Internet Con
by Cory Doctorow
( @pluralistic)
I will never not boost the work of Cory Doctorow, even if most of the time I'm not big-brained enough to follow every thread that he lays down.
This book talks about interoperability, and how it's something that most people don't realise that they need more of in their life, and how it's been criminalised in the name of keeping citizens in the thrall of Big Tech. What's interoperability? If you've ever wondered why messages don't work properly across the iPhone/Android divide, or why you can't easily leave Facebook for another social media platform, or why you're not allowed to repair your own tractor, then you know something about why interoperability is important but restricted by tech gatekeepers. It's easy to make a device that can perform any sort of computation, but they're always locked down – for whatever reason, usually profit – and this hobbling of the devices and platforms you own and engage with is an ongoing restriction on your personal data and belongings.
Doctorow shows the problem through a great series of examples – search engines, operating systems, VCRs, copyright infringement notices, deliberately-borked internet treaties, and so on – in his typical very-readable fashion. The first third of the book is a hit list of things you didn't realise made the world just a little bit more shitty... or enshittified.
The book pivots to discussing interoperability and federation, before throwing some problems up into the air that he opines can be solved with that one simple trick that the technofeudalists hate: better regulation.
I'll never not read a Cory Doctorow book, but I wish now and then that some of the solutions for which he advocates were implemented, rather than each new year bringing another set to examples for him to inevitably use in the opening chapters of his next book.
#books #bookreview #bookreview2025 #enshittification #doctorow #interoperability #federation
WAYNE'S 2025 BOOKS: BOOK 8
The Internet Con
by Cory Doctorow
( @pluralistic)
I will never not boost the work of Cory Doctorow, even if most of the time I'm not big-brained enough to follow every thread that he lays down.
This book talks about interoperability, and how it's something that most people don't realise that they need more of in their life, and how it's been criminalised in the name of keeping citizens in the thrall of Big Tech. What's interoperability? If you've ever wondered why messages don't work properly across the iPhone/Android divide, or why you can't easily leave Facebook for another social media platform, or why you're not allowed to repair your own tractor, then you know something about why interoperability is important but restricted by tech gatekeepers. It's easy to make a device that can perform any sort of computation, but they're always locked down – for whatever reason, usually profit – and this hobbling of the devices and platforms you own and engage with is an ongoing restriction on your personal data and belongings.
Doctorow shows the problem through a great series of examples – search engines, operating systems, VCRs, copyright infringement notices, deliberately-borked internet treaties, and so on – in his typical very-readable fashion. The first third of the book is a hit list of things you didn't realise made the world just a little bit more shitty... or enshittified.
The book pivots to discussing interoperability and federation, before throwing some problems up into the air that he opines can be solved with that one simple trick that the technofeudalists hate: better regulation.
I'll never not read a Cory Doctorow book, but I wish now and then that some of the solutions for which he advocates were implemented, rather than each new year bringing another set to examples for him to inevitably use in the opening chapters of his next book.
#books #bookreview #bookreview2025 #enshittification #doctorow #interoperability #federation
Chip Butty
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The Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.
Because it does nothing to tackle the underlying dominance of Big Tech – the very foundations of online harms.
We fight for interoperability where competition and user choice drives change.
Join the movement with ORG ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #fediverse #interoperability #membership #ukpolitics #ukpol
The Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.
Because it does nothing to tackle the underlying dominance of Big Tech – the very foundations of online harms.
We fight for interoperability where competition and user choice drives change.
Join the movement with ORG ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #fediverse #interoperability #membership #ukpolitics #ukpol
Agendas are filling up for all creatures at #39c3, but if you wanna know more about the #DigitalMarketsAct, #Interoperability and #FreeSoftware, we organised a Q&A session exactly for this!
🗓️ Day 3 (29.12)
📍 Bits&Bäume Living Room (Hall H)
⏰ 14:00 - 14:50
Stop by if you want to learn more about what we (@fsfe) are doing to fight for interoperability and to hold Big Tech accountable to the #DMA rules.
Looking forward to seeing you there 👾🛸
Chewie
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"The permissionless #innovation enabled by #FOSS allowed smaller and non-profit business models to flourish, letting organizations develop and provide high-quality technological products and services to market sectors often ignored by commercial companies. Enforcing the #DMA could consolidate #interoperability as a foundational policy for #Europe’s digital #infrastructure."
https://www.techpolicy.press/making-the-digital-markets-act-developer-friendly/
Chewie
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Interview with @pluralistic at The Daily Show! 
With special mention for Mastodon! This was excellent! I highly recommend watching it!👇✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
#Enshittification #Facebook #Mastodon #Fediverse #Interoperability