grishka (@grishka@mastodon.social)
In case someone wants possibly the longest thread on the fediverse for testing purposes, here you go: https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/112322747861701800
With the way I store replies in #Smithereen, this will soon exceed my limit of 256 levels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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OpenMentions (@OpenMentions@indieweb.social)
OpenMentions.com was created to start a federated (distributed) directory of topics where by using #WebMention and #ActivityPub we can discover others talking about topics that interest us.
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amgine (@amgine@mstdn.ca)
Amazing shot. I love how, despite the jumble of non-native and native plants, and a non-native bird, that showy display is only a small step away from being camo - only from right in front are the bright feathers visible.
Quick side note: url shorteners are not required on most #ActivityPub micro-/blog networks or platforms, and are socially deprecated as they are predominantly #SurveillanceCapitalism: just use the link and it will be 'shortened' for you: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beryllium/53703058509/
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2024 (@2024@tnbd.xyz)
Heya, just sending out another test post as I’m trying to confirm that the Unix-based cron job I’ve configured for this website is working properly. If everything goes well, this should appear in the feed for my site’s account about 5 minutes after I publish it. Knocking on wood…
https://tnbd.xyz/2024/05/06/just-another-test-post/
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hongminhee (@hongminhee@todon.eu)
#Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has released version 0.8.0! Here are the highlights of this version:
• `fedify lookup`: a command to look up any ActivityStreams objects (including actors); see also https://todon.eu/@hongminhee/112341925069749583
• `fedify inbox`: a command to spin up an ephemeral ActivityPub server so that you can debug and test the activities you send; see also https://todon.eu/@hongminhee/112354353470490915
• followers collection synchronization mechanism
• improved overall performance
• fixed several bugs
https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/releases/tag/0.8.0
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objects (@objects@manganiello.social)
@Chocobozzz @thelinuxEXP @Techaltar @dansup @jwildeboer I would add that any implementation of a payment subsystem should probably be done at protocol level, so individual implementations of #ActivityPub don’t have to reinvent the wheel - doing #payments right is a hard problem, and it doesn’t make sense to fragment the efforts by solving the same problem multiple times on Mastodon/WriteFreely/PeerTube/Pixelfed etc.
The payments subsystem should be better integrated in the ActivityPub ecosystem compared to a “Donate here” link that redirects to a 3rd-party provider. This is probably the right chance of giving the HTTP 402 code the implementation it deserves.
I left the payments industry a few years ago so I’m not sure of what open solutions and protocols are in the market that could be already leveraged, but maybe something like OpenPayments could be a good starting point - there are many efforts on the open banking standards lately, with different degree of maturity, and IMHO a good implementation of payments over ActivityPub could be a great driver for adoption.
I’ve got the feeling that if we don’t do this right then Threads could scoop up this chance for an “embrace” to “extend” pivot.
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Goffi (@Goffi@mastodon.social)
The #ActivityPub gateway is a server component that can work with any #XMPP server or client, not only #Libervia .
About the status, it's working. I have 2 more things to do before the release:
- HTTP signature for GET requests (it's only done for POST requests right now), which will make it compatible with secure mode of other implementations.
- Use per-user encryption keys. For now it's one for the whole instance.
Both things are easy to do, I just need some time.
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moskitokoenig (@moskitokoenig@dizl.de)
@Aakerbeere »Von #ActivityPub Implementierung ist leider keine Rede!«
Huch, jetzt bin ich überrascht. Ähm, "überrascht" 🤡
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Aakerbeere (@Aakerbeere@mastodon.social)
💬 Von #ActivityPub Implementierung ist leider keine Rede!
ARD und ZDF wollen zentrale Komponenten ihrer beiden Streaming-Plattformen öffentlich bereitstellen
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/in-eigener-sache/zdf-ard-mediathek-streaming-100.html
#ÖRRbewegen #ARD #ZDF #StreamingOS #ÖRR
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acambronero (@acambronero@federate.blogpocket.com)
¿El #fediverso y #ActivityPub como evolución del #rss? En este post contestamos a esta interesante cuestión y nos planteamos si esta evolución promueve una web más interactiva, abierta y amigable con el usuario, fomentando la interconexión y la participación en lugar de entornos cerrados de redes sociales convencionales.
https://www.blogpocket.com/2024/05/06/el-fediverso-y-activitypub-como-evolucion-del-rs/
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objects (@objects@manganiello.social)
@jwildeboer I’m honestly ok with some of the ideas outlined in that interview.
Content monetization is a topic that has been floating around on #ActivityPub implementations long before Zuck’s helpers considered playing with it.
@dansup already toyed with the idea a year ago.
@Techaltar recently also brought up the topic in his series of Fediverse interviews.
And creators like @thelinuxEXP have mentioned multiple times that the lack of financial incentives to post their content on e.g. PeerTube vs. YouTube acts as a deterrent for many.
And the Fediverse community in general has already a strong sense of “reward-based” ethics - many already make LibrePay/Patreon donations to their instance admins and favourite content creators, so why not embed such ability in the protocol itself and bypass the middlemen?
Allowing micropayments in ActivityPub (per-post, one-off, recurrent etc.) would actually attract many creators who are currently stuck against their will on proprietary platforms, are at the mercy of YouTube’s mercurial monetization algorithms, don’t have much freedom in deciding how they want to get paid, and have to give back a non-negligible share of their revenue to the platform itself.
Imagine instead a world where micropayments are handled at protocol level itself, a piece of content or a profile that requires the user to make a payment would transparently respond with an HTTP 402, the money would move from the donor’s account to the contributor’s without any middlemen to shave off profits, no external algorithms are in charge of what can be monetized and how, and creators don’t even have to worry about posting the same content across multiple different platforms because ActivityPub would take care of the whole distribution problem. I can’t think of a better silver bullet to get content creators to do the jump.
The thing is that if we don’t implement this right on the protocol level because we oppose commercialization on ideological grounds, then Threads may implement it anyway on their version of ActivityPub (and then yes, it’d really be E-E-E), and content creators who do content creation as a job have one more reason to avoid the Fediverse.
I’ve got a bit more of a mixed feeling about ads instead. There’s sensitivity on the Fediverse about donations and micropayments, but almost everyone here hates the ad-based business model to the core. If the payments idea and implementation works right, then I don’t think we need to pollute our walls with such low-quality littering. I’m happy to leave that to Threads if they want to implement it, because I really don’t see much of added value in it and I don’t see why anybody out there would like that idea.
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objects (@objects@pleroma.makemake.site)
#farcaster accounts are represented on chain as a farcaster ids(FIDs), which is just an id that points to an address that can modify some metadata(farcaster username, alternative ENS usernames, etc...) on chain wrt that id.
to use farcaster you need a valid FID which needs to be acquired via an on chain transaction creating it and paying $5 for it.
so a traditional style mastodon/twitter/nostr bridge wouldnt work because youd need to create a new FID for every new account youd be trying to bridge from #activitypub to farcaster, that does not have a farcaster account already.
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