#Trump’s War On Knowledge Requires Re-inventing Academic #Publishing - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/25/trumps-war-on-knowledge-requires-re-inventing-academic-publishing/ by me, fwiw... #openaccess
Having said that, let's remember to always ask "who does that server really serve?"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
... and that the importance of liberating source code for web services is the ease of standing up an equivalent service, so we have somewhere to exit to. Which is why the Franklin Street Statement pointed proposes libre licensing for "network services";
https://freedomdefined.org/Franklin_Street_Statement_on_Freedom_and_Network_Services
Just out of curiosity @ben, did anyone ever take up that bounty and implement AP in Known?
https://werd.io/2021/building-activitypub-into-known
Would be cool to see Known publications start turning up in Ghost, along with Ghost and WP ones : )
Also, there was some talk of an AP plugin for Elgg. Did that ever eventuate?
If your buddy becomes an editor at a Nature journal, your chances of publishing a Nature paper more than double:
"For each additional original article published in the two years before the editor’s appointment, these authors had 161% more chances to publish another original article in this journal after the editor’s appointment"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322012
How do we convinced the people running Medium to implement ActivityPub, like WordPress.com, Tumblr and Ghost are doing? So we can follow and comment on Medium blogs within our chosen fediverse apps.