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In terms of where #ActivityPub is going and how that affects the #Fediverse and the #SocialWeb at large .. (social.coop)
 

In terms of where #ActivityPub is going and how that affects the #Fediverse and the #SocialWeb at large ..

I feel that all depends how those able to define and shape what AS/AP entails are able to listen to all the needs expressed by those interested in decentralized social networking.

That is way more than merely "users".

This listening ear, and the openness to adapt AS/AP to what it hears, will I think determine what forks and branches appear on the roadmap of the Social Web paradigm.

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When it comes to definitions.. (social.coop)
 

When it comes to definitions..

I agree with https://activitypub.rocks that there is a "federated social web" and #ActivityPub is part of it.

Yet AS/AP are technical protocols, open standards. To me its obvious that Social Web is more than that. I define it as:

#SocialWeb is where people do social networking online, using the technologies available to them.

Then there's #Fediverse. I think this term will become as common as "web" and "internet" with no one pondering its on-the-wire protocols.

Just made a sarcastic remark on #LoTR to make a point for #Fediverse .. in c/fediverse@fedia.io
[–] smallcircles@social.coop 1 points 1 month ago

@unexpectedteapot@social.linux.pizza oh, that is interesting. I gotta say that it is so long ago since I read the book that I had forgotten this outcome, and Hollywoods corporate laundering of Tolkien's written history was how I misremembered things to be.

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Just made a sarcastic remark on #LoTR to make a point for #Fediverse .. (social.coop)
 

Just made a sarcastic remark on #LoTR to make a point for #Fediverse ..

> LoTR already showed us that having “One Ring to rule them all” only leads to a mind-numbingly linear plot to slog on towards Mount Doom, feeling miserable all the time, until the moment that that decision can be undone and fate is once more on our side. /s

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/socialwebfoundation-what-do-people-think/4564/15

But I loved Tolkiens book. He introduced us to a new genre. Liked the movies for their big productions.

Yet this linear trek was miserable.

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People seem surprised that corporate #enshittification is setting in on the #Fediverse. Yet the signs have been on the wall for a long time. For "winning" protocols in terms of adoption, corporate (social.coop)
 

People seem surprised that corporate #enshittification is setting in on the #Fediverse. Yet the signs have been on the wall for a long time. For "winning" protocols in terms of adoption, corporate takeover is a certainty.

Up to now the #Commons hasn't found a way to avoid that. Our #FOSS is inherently unsustainable. It is able to innovate, and then subsequently hand over the fruits of that innovation to corporate harvesters. Working in public, under #HyperCapitalism and for hypercapitalism.

#Fediverse: in c/fediverse@fedia.io
[–] smallcircles@social.coop 1 points 2 months ago

@csarven@w3c.social ActivityPub is far from perfect to model these interactions, and in that modeling we likely create all kinds of utterly poor abstractions of the real world :)

But it is the creative process that matters. We have these imperfect social networking protocols for communication, and then all direct and indirect interactions between people are use cases of social networking that may be supported by these protocols. If not today, then maybe tomorrow as they evolve.

#Fediverse: in c/fediverse@fedia.io
[–] smallcircles@social.coop 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@csarven@w3c.social yes, you're right. It's more the perspective that I lightheartedly teased a bit with.

Imho we are focused so much on what others have labeled "social media" and we create our decentralized version of what existed before. If all we have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. We had microblogging and now we add blogs and forums. Not bad, not at all.

Yet social networking is what we did offline for 1,000's of years. And now we have online channels to further enrich our human interactions.

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#Fediverse: (social.coop)
 

#Fediverse:

✅ #Microblogging-galore. Twitter-like-but-decentralized, ideal for 💩-posting short msgs back and forth. Been there, done that.

❎ #ActivityPub. Communication protocol for defining activities and objects and model rich human interactions in online social networks. To be explored.

You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things... in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
[–] smallcircles@social.coop 3 points 5 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

See also this great curated list of #FOSS creative tools collected by @ADHDefy

https://delightful.club/delightful-creative-tools

If you have more such fine projects, then create an issue or PR. The link to the repository is at the top of the delightful page.

Proof of concept for Lemmy plugin system in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] smallcircles@social.coop 9 points 6 months ago

@nutomic this is great! I mentioned Lemmy on the Extism discussion I started, asking for use-in-the-wild..

https://github.com/extism/extism/discussions/684#discussioncomment-9305440