🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:

Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts - https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-social-media-content-ruling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feeds&ref=feedle.world

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🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:

Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds - https://theconversation.com/using-tiktok-could-be-making-you-more-politically-polarized-new-study-finds-258791?ref=feedle.world

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New US Visa Rule Requires Applicants To Set Social Media Accounts to ‘Public’ - https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/new-us-visa-rule-requires-social-media-accounts-to-be-public/?ref=feedle.world

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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?

werd.io/2021/building-activity

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?

"In our testing, we followed a variety of different actors from across the Fediverse, including our ActivityPub-enabled WordPress site. Happily, our articles showed up in the Inbox without a hitch, and clicking on one opened up a clean reader view. This all happens without navigating away from your position in the Inbox or the Timeline."

@news, March 2025

https://wedistribute.org/2025/03/ghost-activitypub-beta/

The return of the blogosphere! This time with no dependence on Goggle.

#blogging #blogosphere#Ghost#WordPress