I am @humanetech at Mastodon, #FOSS and #Fediverse advocate, mod at SocialHub, and facilitator of Humane Tech Community.

I help fight tech harms and “Promote Solutions that Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and Society”.

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Bit weird. An anonymous Google Doc, a screenshot of a toot saying “this is legit” and no other references. Could at least provide the URL to that toot.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/746044 > With Fediverse going mainstream and corporate interests aplenty, it is very important to promote SocialHub and the FEP process, so that there's higher chance of keeping the fedi open and accessible to anyone. Anyone can help in this regard. > > https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep > > https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/588553 > [Eternal September](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) is when influx from some other (often shittier and collapsing) platform overwhelms the unique culture that existed before, and in time fully replaces it. Destroying what existed before. > > 🧠 💭 **Figure out strategies & actions in comments below .. participate!** > > For example, I introduced 2 hashtags for awareness: > > - **#AvoidEternalSeptember** Raise attention to the culture clash. > - **#DonateToFediInstances** Help admins and moderators withstand the influx and give them your support. > > We want to be gentle, welcoming to newcomers. Show them around. But also keep having the nice chattering and culture we had before, and maybe give those some extra boosts to exemplify and spread the vibes. > > Here's [a poll](https://social.coop/@smallcircles/109306786291084911) to make newcomers aware that taking Twitter culture with you on the Fediverse is just weird. > > ### Fedizens... Be strategical in how you toot to help avoid that from happening
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https://fediverse.space/ shows graphs, I think, though currently the page blanks out on me in Firefox. So dunno if they offer the functionality you referred to.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/364580 > The EU via their Horizons Europe program, the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) (where e.g. NLnet are associated) (NGI Initiative) are the biggest funders of the [free software projects](https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/) that comprise the fedi. Without their support fedi wouldn't be what it is now. > > The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) recently [launched a pilot](https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2022/edps-launches-pilot-phase-two-social-media_en) to have both a Peertube and Mastodon instance on the Fediverse, hashtagged #EUVideo and #EUVoice respectively. On these servers official European Commission related institutions as well as individuals working at the EC can have their accounts. > > This recognition of the Fediverse and the interest that exists in entering our decentralized social networking environment is an important development. With success of the pilot there will undoubtedly be a follow-up and more initiatives to come. First results until now is that the parties that 'test the waters' are very happy on the kinds of interactions and quality of discussions they encounter on the Fediverse. > > That is no wonder, of course. Fediverse offers **social networking** that is more personal and friendly, than corporate social media which is about 'broadcasting' and influencing. > > Current pilot can be a ramp up to something much bigger: > > #### Fediverse: United in Diversity > > A social networking technology where _everyone_ can find their place and participate, that is not controlled by Big Tech and commercial corporate interests. For the European Commission there is the opportunity to passionately put their support behind fostering **"The European Take On Social Networking"**. Fediverse aligns to the NGI Initiative who envision an [Internet for Humans](https://www.ngi.eu/about/). > > ##### How you can help > > To progress towards this vision it is important for the EU/EC pilot to be a success. As fedizen you can help with this. Here are a couple of ways to offer your support: > > → **Follow, boost, favourite the [EUVoice accounts](https://social.network.europa.eu/explore) on Mastodon and [EUVideo](https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/overview) Peertube videos.** > > - These early adopter accounts are _still learning_ how the Fediverse works, what the culture is and e.g. how we value accessibility and image captions. You can help them discover. > - Many accounts are still Twitter bridges and broadcast only. Some others respond and interact with fedizens, notably [@EC_OSPO](https://social.network.europa.eu/@EC_OSPO), [@EDPS](https://social.network.europa.eu/@EDPS) and [@EC_NGI](https://social.network.europa.eu/@EC_NGI). The operators of the Twitter bridges don't know what the value of Fediverse is to them, and if they should spend time with us. All reactions by us are monitored, so we can help them here. > - There are people giving highly toxic reactions to almost any EC-related toot. There are many things to be critical about. Politics is about the discussion of these issues, and good arguments help more than toxicity. Here we have opportunity to show we are different than the cesspit that Twitter is. > - Do not expect too much, too soon. There is a complex organization structure at the EC, and given the politically sensitive nature all communications are weighed carefully and undergo multiple levels of approval. Plans move slowly, but they are in motion. > > → **Let's give the fedi accounts more followers than they have on Twitter, if possible.** > > - For instance the [Director General of Informatics at DG DIGIT](https://social.network.europa.eu/users/EC_DIGIT_director_general), Veronica Gaffey, has 191 fedi followers in short time, while [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/gaffey_veronica) she has 279 followers. > > → **If you are on Twitter, then help encourage EC institutions to also have an account on EUVoice.** > > - A notable example is the [European Parliament](https://twitter.com/euparl_en). Respond to their tweets and name-drop the fedi as THE place to be. > > → **We are gathering a group of volunteers on [SocialHub](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks) that can [help train EC representatives](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/looking-for-volunteers-organize-a-fediverse-training-for-eu-representatives/2437) in how to use the Fediverse effectively and understand its culture.** > > - The activities we do here, starting later this year, stand to benefit any administration or institution interested to join the Fediverse, not just EU representatives. > > --- > > This post is also [cross-posted](https://discuss.coding.social/t/help-make-the-european-commission-euvoice-and-euvideo-pilot-a-success/101) to the [Social Coding Movement](https://coding.social) that is dedicated among others to establish a Peopleverse on top of the fedi. Social Coding is not yet officially launched.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/353642 > ### [A logo for Free Software](https://free-software-logo.codeberg.page/) > > [![Free software logo, Represents the copyleft symbol, moving like a Pacman on a horizontal line](https://free-software-logo.codeberg.page/logo.svg)](https://free-software-logo.codeberg.page/) > > Designed by [@mray@https://social.tchncs.de](https://social.tchncs.de/@mray) with CC0 license. > > Logo package is [available on Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/free-software-logo/pages).
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/346923 > Forge Federation Needs Your Help 🤗 > > 🚀 Join the [forge federation](https://matrix.to/#/#general-forgefed:matrix.batsense.net) matrix chatroom, or the (less active) [gitea federation](https://matrix.to/#/#gitea-federation-chat:matrix.org) room.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/346923 > Forge Federation Needs Your Help 🤗 > > 🚀 Join the [forge federation](https://matrix.to/#/#general-forgefed:matrix.batsense.net) matrix chatroom, or the (less active) [gitea federation](https://matrix.to/#/#gitea-federation-chat:matrix.org) room.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/328269 > Fedijam 6: Cut Budget Edition \ > Friday 20:00 UTC -> Sunday 24:00 \ > Your game goes here: \ > https://itch.io/jam/fedijam-6 \ > Talking goes here: \ > https://matrix.to/#/#fedijam:m.wfr.moe \ > Post crazy theme suggestions in comments or reply here: \ > https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/108507645911003343 > > Also [the organiser is looking for assistance with some parts of the jam](https://mastodon.technology/@houkimenator/108475414550010065)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/327846 > !["This is fine" meme. First frame: "lol, as if we need more social tech". Second frame: "This is fine. They are not fedi".](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3bdfe388-b637-48da-b5d4-78b3e33a0a8d.jpeg)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/279006 > Note: Responses on cross-posted threads may be missed. The best way to indicate your interest is to reply to the SocialHub forum topic, or alternatively on the [Fediverse announcement here](https://mastodon.social/@humanetech/108344611621798508).
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Hurray 🥳 On this 14th birthday test yourself on your knowledge about the fedi's history and our present state, and share the results with your fellow fedizens.
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Nice introduction by [Per Axbom](https://social.axbom.com/@axbom) who also just rejoined the Fediverse.
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Indeed. I am following that, but not boosting very often too, for the same reason of not being a real presence.



It would be very nice if they had a cross-poster from Fediverse to Twitter, instead of vice versa. It would be a one-time investment in setting it up and learning how to use it, and then no further time investment related to what they are already doing right now.


Quoting [lostinlight](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone) who maintains Distributopedia: > 🙃 Invitation 🙃 > >If you create any art / promo materials about #Fediverse under CC licenses, please, add them to this collection: > >https://codeberg.org/lostinlight/distributopia/src/branch/main/sticker-bay >https://codeberg.org/lostinlight/distributopia/src/branch/main/sticker-bay/promo-1 > >Also, please, use them!
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Hey, thank you 😊 didn’t realize time is flying that fast when having fun, ha ha.


In part this depends on personal preference and objective you have. If you want to be really organized then separate accounts is way to achieve that. But for me that is too much of a burden really. Gives a lot of real and mental/sensory overhead. For some things - with lack of federated identity - it is inevitable to have multiple account. Like I find myself talking to my other self between Lemmy and Mastodon :D

One thing to consider is if your followers like the combination of stuff you are interested in. If a large number of your posts are in Italian, then that may be a reason for English-speaking fedizens to not follow you anymore. Scholarly stuff and book stuff seem to go better together. NSFW not so much, for obvious reasons…


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/208058 > Elementary my dear Watson, namely ...
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/172999 > Interesting developments to bring Podcasting domain to the Fediverse. Check it out and add your related resources and/or experiences with the projects.
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Yes, I bought the book when I heard about the relationship. The sci-fi Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Didn’t got to read it yet, though.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/165163 > With [Feneas shutting down](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/important-feneas-federated-networks-association-will-shut-down/2135) the [Fediverse Party](https://fediverse.party) website by [@lightone](https://mastodon.xyz/@lightone) needed a new home, and so too did the 3 ActivityPub watchlists that existed in the repository wiki. I am happy to announce that all of them have been migrated to [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org). With the new and fantastic [Codeberg Pages](https://codeberg.page/) the fediverse.party website is still at the same location. > > The watchlists however have been migrated to the [delightful project](https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful), so update your bookmarks: > > https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps > > https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients > > https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-activitypub-development
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These types of instances should be filtered out by default, otherwise the site only serves to give fediverse a bad reputation. With such instances in the top you cannot pass the link to the site to someone and say “Here, discover the fediverse with its many nice instances, but be careful when doing so and keep your children away while browsing them, just in case”.


A mi me gusto este idioma :+1: Muy bien!


Fediverse might be Web4 in situations where it makes sense to highlight technological evolutionary iterations of the web. And if you consider Web3 to be the (failed) Semantic Web - where the 3.0 was first introduced - then it makes sense too. The Fediverse is then the Social (Semantic) Web, as it based on Linked Data open standards (ActivityStreams / ActivityPub). But in doing so you also needlessly set yourself up for techno-ideological ‘warfare’ to claim that turf. It can be useful. It can be logical. But I wonder if it is worth the fight.

Web0, introduced by Aral Balkan in reaction to Web3’s ‘blockchain-override’, is also putting emphasis on a technical characteristic. But along a different dimension than evolutionary versioning, namely “web made simple again” and hence for everyone (note: simple != easy).

Peopleverse is yet another dimension: the human aspect. It is a ‘unique selling point’ and almost unclaimed space in the corporate onslaught that the normal web has become. And certainly wrt what the Metaverse aims to be… some cyberpunk corporate-controlled world. No, thank you :)

The most important thing we have on the Fediverse, imho, is our culture. And that culture is determined by everyone’s interaction. I tooted about this this morning in reaction to something I wrote on Fediverse Town:

Be careful what you preach. Those promoting the #Fediverse to the world beyond should be well aware that that the current culture spun up by all fedizens together, are what makes fedi such a worthwhile place to be.

And that this culture is the primary ‘weapon’ in fending off unwanted forces. How we build and integrate our apps is important too, but only in a supportive manner.

Protecting and fostering our culture collaboratively is key to Fediverse’s health and future.

There will be challenges to the Fediverse to overcome in the future, and I feel that for the most part that ‘versioning the web’ will play at best only a minor role in solving them :)


Thank you. No, not really. Atm the community is not as active as it used to be. But I am very active on the fediverse :)


Who campaigns with me along these lines, and helps set ourselves apart from metaverses and other such shallow zuckercrap?
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Sad news indeed. I posted an announcement to SocialHub and involved with migrations of ForgeFed discussions (to SocialHub and Forgefriends) and Fediverse Party website plus the ActivityPub Watchlists (to Codeberg).


Besides two long-running discussions about standardizing how Groups work, there’s a more recent topic at Social Hub to be able to define Unbound Groups. These are Groups that are not tied to an instance, but are independent of them. With it the same Group can exist on multiple instances. The mechanism we are thinking about is a bit of a workaround to the limitation that Groups are bound to an instance via their Object ID (which is an URL).

Other than that, for a long time I am promoting a concept which I call “Community has no Boundary” (just linking to one comment, but I wrote many). It is about setting the concept of “Community” free of instances once and for all, by defining an Fediverse/ActivityPub extension for it. The “instance” means a server boundary, and that is a technical concept. With the extension we no longer have to talk about instances, but refer to communities instead. Each instance hosts one or more communities, just like Lemmy does.

But it goes a bit further than that. If you look in real life to the groups and communities you are part of, then there are many different types of relationships you have with them. You may be a ‘member of’ a sports club, but also ‘sponsor’ it, and ‘volunteer’ behind the bar in the canteen. That’s three relationships. In fedi apps we see Groups still be limited to ‘member of’ relationship and the additional privilege to be either a moderator or an admin. But it does not go further than that. With Relationship in place for Groups it becomes possible to better express the rich social fabric that exists IRL and build functionality on top of that, which takes that into account.


Work in Progress

I added a notification to the website, that it is still WIP 😁 <br> Social Coding hasn’t yet been formally announced, and is not ready for launch.


Your observation is correct. The project is pre ‘official’ announcement and still in preparation, but site is up publicly and that’s why it ended up here prematurely. @csdummi and I started the initiative, after discussing on United Software Development: A new paradigm? in !fediversefutures. You might say the idea was born on Lemmy :)

We have a discussion repo on Codeberg, but found a place on the forgefriends community. The website will be changed to position what Social Coding is and does more clearly and to enable the “Social Coding Movement” as our initiative will be called, to be crowdsourced, incremental and extensible. See: Positioning Social Coding and Forgefriends. We have a Social Coding chatroom on Matrix.



The question is whether the project should be forked into multiple separate projects at all. An alternative would be to have a generic “Directory Platform” and have modules to make it a Book Review platform, a Movie Database, or whatever-you-wanna-collect platform with another module. The modules would mostly be templates and data structures + user interface widgets to present them nicely.