the open internet was also difficult at first. once people realized it wasn't going anywhere, efforts were made to make more people feel comfortable there. the same will happen with the #SocialWeb. BS is delaying the inevitable.
the open internet was also difficult at first. once people realized it wasn't going anywhere, efforts were made to make more people feel comfortable there. the same will happen with the #SocialWeb. BS is delaying the inevitable.
The Tech Wave section of the Surf Shop features the best technology-related custom feeds made by our beta testers.
Cruise down to the bottom of your Home screen and tap into the Surf Shop. Scroll down a bit to find the following feeds (also linked here):
@Sarahp's "Tech News"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jrz4vgrn624tmk0f2t2qt0fw @seantilley's "Linux Evolution"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfnfkb6bpw2j6dqym8rrfmc9 @mmasnick's "Tech Policy"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jpk2b2xmmbf1qdwbrnssnkcj @tchambers's "Guardians of the Fediverse"
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01j837ez9hfg5pk7aaejw3t8ck
My remark precedes 8 years of "commons janitoring", doing #community work and tech evangelism for decentralized open #SocialWeb, and humane technology advancement in general. And using that experience as input for applied research of grassroots social dynamics and the future of social networking. The #fediverse is the ideal 'field lab' for that :)
It doesn't come out of the blue if you've followed my communication. There's a hopeful and positive path open to us.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/how-to-ease-onboarding-of-participants-in-soss-initiatives/622
"I think we can help journalists. We can provide a platform for them to get back to their news values. But they have to be willing to try."
@saskia reflects on her time at #IJF25 in her latest edition of FORbetter.
Check it out https://forbetter.ghost.io/anti-big-tech-journalism/
After attending the International Journalism Festival for the first time this year, I hope next year can focus more on the solutions to the problems journalists identified.
Check out my thoughts on my blog: https://forbetter.ghost.io/anti-big-tech-journalism/
Community Feeds are changing!
We’re rolling out updates to our 62 Community Feeds.
Community Feeds bring together topical knowledge across the open social web. They won’t be going anywhere, don’t worry, but they’ll be getting a fresh lick of paint before we launch Channel.org - including changing their name from Feeds to Channels.
Keep an eye out for updates on Channel.org. It’s coming very soon
On a decentralized social network, your government has to go after every independent local server that wants to post the stuff they don't want you to see. And you can always use a foreign server accessing that content on foreign servers that they can't touch. The government has to shut down every way you have to access those servers outside the country. #SocialWeb
On #bluesky, they just have to ask/threaten the company running the relay for the entire service to block access in your country.
Community Feeds reach 25,000 followers!
Our knowledge-based Community Feeds have just reached 25,000 followers across the open social web.
Like many, we believe that communities are the future of social media. We're so glad to see our topical feeds helping people find posts on the topics they're interested here on the Fediverse.
We're working on ways to help you build communities of your choice next. Keep an eye out
@liaizon @hongminhee @pbzweihander
I'll also tag @darnell@darnell.day @darnell@darnell.moe @darnell@darnell.ooo @darnell@one.darnell.one @darnelltv since they celebrated #FediverseDay last year, 2024.
In any case, my proposal is May 18th since it was on this day in 2008 when Evan, the father of the Fediverse, sent the first message.
https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns/src/branch/main/fediverse-history.markdown
I have been thinking that — having a regular DEMO DAY for Fediverse developers might be desirable.
Maybe something once a month, where Fediverse developers get together (online), and —
• show what they have been working on,
• talk about Fediverse development issues,
• etc
Not a conference. Just something quick.
(It could be under existing "banner" that already exists. Doesn't necessarily have to be something new.)
If you were going to talk about the Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo) with regular people —
What would be a catchy hook to catch their attention?
(Reply with your thoughts.)
1/
Decentralized Social-Media, such as the Fediverse, not only takes advantage of network-effects, but also has a solution to the cold-start problem.
This is similar to what historically happened with the IBM PC and the PC Clones.
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I feel like I'm going crazy listening to panel after panel at #IJF25 talk about needing an EU alternative to Big Tech.
There is one! Yet, they don't want to be on it or fund it
We're heading to Perugia for the #InternationalJournalismFestival
We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza
If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi!
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If you're talking about the "open social web", "stakeholders", "community leaders", "social graph", "sustainable growth" and "commercial and open source implementations" then you're most certainly not talking about the Fediverse that I know.
Gathering the people involved till now in this #fediMarket question to create some impulse and general discussion about this topic.
This is not a proposal but some thoughts and unfinished considerations, looking for some input or to become at least some output itself.
As @thomas pointed out there is #flohmarkt, as it looks like coded by @grindhold@23.social .
It has apparently the goal to be all the contrary to a centralized system but aims to be more like a local give away, sales and advertisement platform. Actualy it's not an auction like platform, witch is quite an interesting take. Still looking thru the ccc-Media video presentation trying to get a grip on it. As of now I didn't get the local restriction. Not sure if the restriction is mend to be by IP of the users, the IP of the platform of users or just some kind of instance restriction.
The #GNUtaler discussion in this topic points to the general issue not only about payment but also about the system of trust that can be or could be implemented.
It is and was quite interesting to see how the #ebay concept didn't catch up in Latin America because there was way to much fraud and the only thing that could catch up was some kind of sales platform like #mercadolibre that actually turned out to become some kind of national advertisement platform for professional sellers.
What did tho work in an astonishing way, and let's please leave aside for a moment some issues bitcoin does involve, is the concept #localbitcoins came up with, actually as well as the famous #Silkroad example. Sites that managed to create some kind of trustless exchange. The particularity of localbitcoins tho was that they invented a reference system where people actually even meet each other and backed up their existence by some how proving each others identity. Ultimately the reference and reputation system of localbitcoins, reputation out of completed transactions and comments about them, as well as in person verification, created a functional working environment, something that till today is looking for a match out there.
All these a real critical issues. And perhaps not only for trade but to a certain extent for our #socialWeb, our #fediVerse itself. On one hand we have commercial transactions that can involve fraud and on the other personal information that also can be exposed to fraud and worth. In our decentralized setup this is even somehow more complicated as fraudsters can restart at any given moment from anywhere else, while at the same time reputation on mid and long term should and can matter.
So, what we do have is on one hand the "real me" function implemented for example by mastodon, and on the other we do have the signing capabilities of blockchains themselves. In particular of #electrum wallets, a decentralized wallet system that was created and is implemented not only by bitcoin but a lot more blockchains that want to show off with a real simple decentralized #FOSS wallet system.
To get this straight, this is not about any coin or acquisition of any coin at all, but the simple technical availability of installing a simple long standing proven decentralized FOSS software that has the capability to sign or prove the correctness of any kind of text string. Nobody needs to have a single cent of a coin, or connect to anywhere, to create a wallet and with it a wallet address that than can sign a text. In other words, any wallet address is an ID that can't be impersonated without the respective password.
So, it doesn't matter where for example the ID "bc1qp8xla8me0ykkh5wzrvkjgtdnuma0galep9cedu" as a profile name shows up, or which profile claims to represent the ID "bc1qp8xla8me0ykkh5wzrvkjgtdnuma0galep9cedu", unless it is able to show off with a text, for example:
"I do have access to the signing keys for this ID" signed correctly with that wallet address, that profile could be considered an impostor.
To create show cases for this idea, for this concept, there is on one hand the friendica fediVerse site:
inversion.tupambae.com/
The profile "blockchain" for example uses the just mentioned specific ID:
inversion.tupambae.com/profile…
as some kind of "none human readable address".
Than there is the site:
1dhfsbbdpv4wshuyc6197nymcfeqqk…
The subdomain name itself is a first generation bitcoin address that has been used on the web and even if the capital letter detail is not in use, references are found for example by google.
That site hosts a project profile that again uses a bitcoin #SEGWIT address as an ID:
1dhfsbbdpv4wshuyc6197nymcfeqqk…
Actually the bc1 segwit system is not case senitive, in other words no capital letters in those ID's.
That profile itself is a reference to a mastodon profile that uses it to claim it's "real me" identity as "btc SEGWIT verified":
mastodon.uy/@tierranietos
Again there is not only no need for to involve bitcoins or cents of bitcoins (satoshis) in this. Even bitcoin itself doesn't have to be used, as there are lot's of electrum wallets out there. They do tho only verify texts signed with the same coin wallet. There is for example a #namecoin electrum wallet, a first generation coin invented to create a decentralized URL system, as well as there is for example a #faircoin electrum wallet. Considering all the altcoins created out there, faircoin at least is/was an interesting option that apparently failed to a certain extent due to the intent or claim by some in the community to be tradable on exchanges.
Again, this is not about any coin at all but about the fact that we do have simple unique ID's at hand we can verify and we can use to create reputation and or invent some system of trust and reference on desktop and mobile.
Than there is the consideration of guaranties and identities in the middle that allow escrow as implemented by localbitcoins.
This escrow issue would involve somehow coins/tokens, at least as some kind of guaranty until the transaction is finished. Be it as a general input to prove the seriousness of an involvement, an offer or even a publication. In terms of bitcoin itself, the second level segwit technology allows the creation of circles of trust without even publishing transactions to the main bitcoin #blockchain.
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Social media and society go hand in hand. Right now, both are in turmoil.
That's why we believe that the focus should be on building community. Groups of people who can come together under the shared banner of an interest, a location, or a belief.
Thanks to the power of the open social web, these communities can not only span across the world, but across platforms.
We're giving you the ability to build community here. Stay tuned
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