Technical details are largely above my paygrade, but it's interesting that also today, Blacksky is running an appview of its own, per @mcc (linking out to Blacksky's Rudy Frasier)
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115917963359245981

Maybe there will be a way to stay bridged to Blacksky while remaining (ahem) defederated from Bluesky, from instances over here?

(mcc's 🧵 gives some back story here, and it [the thread not the story] begins in... September of last year)

#Blacksky #Fediverse #ATproto #federation #Bluesky

“I feel like we're rebooting to the last version of the Internet that I felt uncomplicated joy about.”

@Casey, @kevin and @pj on why they set up their Forkiverse fediverse server.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

#Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Forkiverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Internet #Technology #Tech

#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

“I feel like we're rebooting to the last version of the Internet that I felt uncomplicated joy about.”

@Casey, @kevin and @pj on why they set up their Forkiverse fediverse server.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

#Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Forkiverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Internet #Technology #Tech

“I feel like we're rebooting to the last version of the Internet that I felt uncomplicated joy about.”

@Casey, @kevin and @pj on why they set up their Forkiverse fediverse server.

https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

#Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Forkiverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Internet #Technology #Tech

Does anyone here have experience with federated Forgejo (v13.0.4)? I set it to enabled in the .ini file and restarted, but what will happen as a result? Can people who use other instances now star my repos, or do I need to configure something else?

#Federation #Forgejo #ActivityPub

#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

Does anyone here have experience with federated Forgejo (v13.0.4)? I set it to enabled in the .ini file and restarted, but what will happen as a result? Can people who use other instances now star my repos, or do I need to configure something else?

#Federation #Forgejo #ActivityPub

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

Federating knowledge: exploring ways to bridge wikis and notes

Join the workshop at #39C3!

NEW DATE: day 4, TODAY at 13:40 @ Free Knowledge Habitat Workshop Area.

Most people and organisations have their very own way of acquiring, organising, archiving, sharing, and collaborating on knowledge repositories. A broad spectrum of opinions and approaches resulted in a diverse and rich ecosystem of knowledge management solutions. Nevertheless, this also implies scattered and disconnected knowledge sources. What would it mean to build bridges among wikis and federate knowledge?

This workshop is going to be heavily centred on a twofold discussion, exploring the challenge of federated knowledge starting from two questions.

• What does it mean to federate knowledge repositories?
• Instead of pursuing a silver-bullet solution to embrace all use-cases, what would it mean to foster and enable interoperability for different software?

These questions stem from years of questioning and wondering how to integrate my personal note-taking and collective, participatory knowledge management at work, in organisations, institutions, and informal collectives. Recently, I began actively researching this topic as I started playing with the MediaWiki API to cross-synchronise my local Markdown notes and the XPUB wiki, the public learning wiki of the Experimental Publishing master. I am puzzled by taking advantage of the potential of a specific software (in this case, MediaWiki) while fearing of being locked-in.

Some further, more specific, insights and questions:

• Local-first approaches and software (e.g. Reflection)
• Interesting experiments based on existing protocols, such as Ibis
• What do we take of semi-open and obscure yet very cool initiatives like Anytype
• The power and the limits of plain-text: how to enable collaboration on simple Markdown files and build on top of it, as Obsidian does

Cc: @modal @p2panda @obsidian @wikimediaDE @dweb

#knowledge #FreeKnowledge #wiki #MediaWiki #API #Obsidian #Anytype #Ibis #IbisWiki #Reflection #CCC #Federation #federatedKnowledge #docs #PKM #knowledgeManagement #personalKnowledgeManagement #collectiveKnowledgeManagement #DWeb #decentralization #ActivityPub