Is there a Linux distro that only includes software made without AI assistance?
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Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.
Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.
Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Evan Prodromou
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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A collective memoir of Creative Commons. What a great effort!
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@evan@cosocial.ca Hey Evan... seeing such a nice CLI for your 'ap' project in its README..md, I decided to try playing with it but the setup tries to open a file called Pipfile which does not exist: `
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@evan@cosocial.ca I'm not a developer but I am used to seeing a requirements.txt, creating a venv, and installing dependencies. Also seen that for standalone Python apps using pipx or uv, but don't kn
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Evan Prodromou
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca yeah, I switched to a new system called Poetry, which fixes some of these. Want to add a bug report, and I will try to get to it this week? I have some other work to do on the code anyway.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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If you are working on Fediverse software, I highly recommend applying for the NLNet Open Social fund. They have 480K euros to apply to ActivityPub software. The deadline is March 31st.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Or it is iron + diverse!
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Evan Prodromou
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca an interesting alternative!
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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Can we create and use social networking algorithms on the Fediverse that serve our own personal goals, such as more and deeper personal relationships, career advancement, and more participative citizenship?
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Evan Prodromou
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Mar 04, 2026
The only two places success comes before work are a) the dictionary and b) time-travel research.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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A big round of congratulations and thanks to @teamtoot@toot.wales and @newsmast@backend.newsmast.org for the launch of the new Tŵt Wales app. Focusing on community is how we build the Fediverse.
https://croeso.toot.wales/en/a-present-for-wales-ein-cyfraniad-i-gymru/
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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I'm looking forward to the #Fediforum "Growing the Open Social Web" workshop on Monday.
I'm extremely dubious about a lot of the submissions. There are a lot of untested hypotheses in this list:
https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/summary/
I hope that people's expectations are geared towards experimentation, data collection, and iteration, rather than confirming some of these assumptions.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Feb 25, 2026
So, one thing I said at #FediMTL yesterday is that Fediverse software should ship with the IFTAS DNI list as the default, minimum blocklist. Ideally, the list should periodically auto-update.
If you *want* to see gore, racist harassment, or transphobia, you can consciously remove those sites from your blocklist. If you want to subscribe to a different blocklist, you should get to do that, too.
Fediverse admins shouldn't have to learn how to find the DNI list and install it the hard way.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org so, now it's time for *me* to put *you* on the spot.
As is probably clear from the last 12 hours of active conversation on the thread you started, you've got an audience and a network that really brings people together.
I wonder, how comfortable you are using that convening power more often? As in, when are we having the WeDistribute conference? 😉
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@steve@social.technoetic.com @smallcircles@social.coop
That said, I think it would be great to have reverse chronological ordered collections of objects created by the actor.
It would be nice to use `streams` like `endpoints`, as an object, and define properties like `notes`, `images`, `places` and so on off of it.
Unfortunately the loose definition and lack of examples for `streams` makes it hard to use. It's probably better just to define them as top-level properties of the actor.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @scottjenson@social.coop phanpy does a great job
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @scottjenson@social.coop actually, it doesn't separate the composition of private mentions from other types of posts. It's an option on the drop down. If you forget to change the option, your PM goes out with the default visibility -- often public!
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The Fediverse is part of how we get through all this. It's worth fighting for.
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In previous years, I published two "fediverse tech roadmap" posts: - Fediverse tech roadmap 2024 - Fediverse tech roadmap 2025 However, I didn't publish such post this year because not much has happen
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@silverpill@mitra.social I'm sorry you feel that way. I agree that I suppose there hasn't been a lot of true R&D lately, though a lot of that could be we're just shipping with little fanfare.
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@julian @silverpill Are you guys even on the same Fediverse as I am?
- Dozens of FEPs under development
- 10+ task forces in the CG
- New work like quote posts from Mastodon
- Ghost.org went live in 2025
- E2EE from Emissary and Bonfire this year
- New Working Group to revise ActivityPub
There is a tonne going on. We just had a FOSDEM Social Web Devroom with 20+ presenters. FediMTL.ca is next week. Fediforum is the week after that.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca you still have a couple of hours to make a pancake!
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@evan@cosocial.ca We did have pancakes, and have done so in the past, but I hadn't thought of it as Mardi Gras even though I know it is Shrove Tuesday. I was thinking more about the parade side of it.
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@evan@cosocial.ca
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca so, eating pancakes doesn't feel like celebrating to you?
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@evan@cosocial.ca No, but it would be interesting to try.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca you still have a couple of hours to make a pancake!
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@evan@cosocial.ca clear when they are really relying on the reader to have developer-level understanding of all the moving parts that are hinted at by plain English words that do not mean the loaded i
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@evan@cosocial.ca And yes, I know that any communication would be tortuous if you had to assume nothing of your reader. I suppose that is why I do appreciate it when you qualify your surveys with, for
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@evan@cosocial.ca To be more explicit, I think I understood your explanatory reply to your original survey but wanted clarification that the repeated word "it" was referring to the user's browser, or
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@evan@cosocial.ca
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca It's usually correct. A lot of Fediverse servers use CORS or authenticated fetch to prevent loading the data directly into the browser. I feel like you're getting very particular about how it's implemented, which is fine. If that's important to you, express why and how it affects your answer in a reply.
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@evan@cosocial.ca To be clear, is 'it' in the above always the local browser as opposed to the server a.example (proxy-requesting on the unauthenticated user's behalf).
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@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca the browser is loading a page on a.example that calls the API at b.example (either server-side or client-side, but much easier server-side) and formats the JSON response as HTML.
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@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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Open Source developers only: how much time per month do you budget to maintain a one-developer project?
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@evan@cosocial.ca
He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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One of the things as a software developer I have a hard time reconciling is how much people think that an app lives entirely on their phone. Like, LinkedIn is an app, and all of the infrastructure is inside it, and maybe all of the people live in there too? And if you delete the app from your phone, all the infrastructure and people and technology fall screaming into the void?
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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@steve@social.technoetic.com This is really interesting.
I see a few cases. One is an ActivityPub API façade for an existing CMS, like Drupal or WordPress. The underlying system only stores Articles, so it tries to fit any input into that format. It might also take a Create/Image and return an Article with an embedded image, say.
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@trwnh@mastodon.social I don't think the thread is addressable, and I don't think `context` is a good property to use here, but otherwise I agree. Alice should maintain a collection of content objects in the thread.
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I have deeply mixed feelings about # ActivityPub 's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building # Fedify . Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of
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@hongminhee I agree that new developers should use a JSON-LD processor. It saves a lot of heartache.
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@hongminhee do you use the activitystrea.ms module from npm? It takes a lot of the pain out.
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If Alice makes a followers-only post, and Bob replies to it, to whom should Bob's reply be visible?
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He/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca. Research Director, Social Web Foundation. Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media. Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai. Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social. Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus. Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech. Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montréalais.
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If you attended the 2026 Social Web Developers Room or watched online, how would you rate it?
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There is a BOF session today on Fediverse events. I think it would make a lot of sense to have a Task Force of the Social Web Community Group focused on the Event schema in #ActivityPub.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/N98KEF-shaping_the_future_of_events_and_calendars_in_the_fediverse/
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@evan@cosocial.ca How do things like cultural appropriation jive with this? I know you've posted in the past about the appropriateness of cooking recipes from another culture, which I found strange be
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca I don't have an easy answer for that!
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@evan@cosocial.ca Where is my magic 8-ball? To early to tell. Ask again later. Not likely.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca really? The wartime situation was really, really bad. It's hard for me to imagine something else being worse.
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@evan@cosocial.ca You ok?
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@evan@cosocial.ca What do you mean by that?
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@Gargron@mastodon.social since November there has been after-the-fact analysis that wonders how the Harris team could have won by throwing one group or another under the bus and thus picking up some slice of Trump voters. Not only is it grossly immoral, but it probably wouldn't have worked. Trump voters weren't looking for half-hearted Democratic attacks when they had the real thing on the other side.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @avilewis@mstdn.ca Excellent question. I would want current MPs and future candidates to have named accounts and the riding associations to have named official RA accounts.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @avilewis@mstdn.ca just like with email!
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@evan@cosocial.ca Mumble mumble CAP theorem mumble mumble eventual consistency.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca it's a quirk in ActivityPub. When a user account is deleted, their server sends a user deletion notification to their contacts. But to confirm the authenticity, the receivi
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@evan@cosocial.ca Sounds like a gap in the protocol interpretation. Oh well. Maybe it will eventually be fixed.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca Yeah, it's a perfect storm of protocol problems!
1. We don't define what to do when an account is deleted, so this is kind of ad hoc to begin with.
2. We don't define (many) error codes and what to do when they happen.
3. We don't define how the encryption keys work.
4. We don't define a way to use a different encryption key.
It's all worth putting on the list of things to do for the next version of AP.
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@evan@cosocial.ca I do not really understand what this means (and have worked in IT for almost 30 years) but find it very interesting.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Mumble mumble CAP theorem mumble mumble eventual consistency.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca it's a quirk in ActivityPub. When a user account is deleted, their server sends a user deletion notification to their contacts. But to confirm the authenticity, the receiving server has to fetch the sender's cryptographic key... which has also been deleted! It's possible to make some guesses here, but it's a pain and most receiving servers will just return an error. Unfortunately, the sending server will just keep sending the deletion notification.
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/#handling-deletes-of-actors
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@evan@cosocial.ca Having heard of ActivityPub relay servers, it seems to me that relay server owners and regular instance owners can pick and choose what to broadcast (including filtering algorithmica
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca Meh. Relays are a Mastodon-only feature -- they're not part of the ActivityPub standard. I think the topology of an opt-in pool of servers that all share their public activities is fine, though.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @Chigaze@mstdn.ca Is there not something between avowing and disavowing? Or, in other words, does removing an existing day qualify as disavowing? Or is it something like just-not-avo
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @Chigaze@mstdn.ca that seems like a missed opportunity to me.
Reading the Act, it doesn't seem like a day for particular celebration, even.
https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/AnnualStatutes/2002_2/page-1.html
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@hub@cosocial.ca Yeah. I knew the edits were recorded/visible, I just found it interesting to see one played back "live". Up until now, I've only seen it update slowly like replies etc come in. I'd be
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@hub@cosocial.ca Maybe @evan@cosocial.ca or @cheeaun@mastodon.social can comment on what I observed? I love learning about these things.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Waiting for any 'No' explanations.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca well, I guess it could come down to relative importance. Choice of software is not important compared to having water, air, food, shelter.
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Here are my 2026 social web predictions:
1. ActivityPub API spreads.
2. E2EE flourishes.
3. First draft of ActivityPub 1.1.
4. More investment by governments.
5. One more big company joins the Fediverse.
6. LOLA grows.
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@evan@cosocial.ca TIL Mastodon multi-selection polls do not allow choosing none of the entries.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca yeah, it's a bug in ActivityPub, not Mastodon.
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