@dmian@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop there’s a just kicking off UX research project (that Scott just became aware of) that is doing work on the best messaging for this.
Bluesky is one product but also a microblog data type (like ActivityPub Notes type that Mastodon and others implement).
You can choose your account host completely separate even from your app with ATProto, so it’s different.
@boris@cosocial.ca @dmian@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop this is something that was designed into ActivityPub and has largely been ignored. We're doing a lot of work on it at the W3C SocialCG group.
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/
OK, I'm keeping a permanent top-five list of best Fediverse-themed songs. I'll update as more songs are made!
1. Fedilike
2. John Mastodon
3. Moi aussi je peux décentraliser des trucs si je veux
I do not consent to instruction via Socratic method.
Why: temp rise under 1.5C
What: zero emissions by 2050; capture CO2
How to get to zero: vote and donate to climate+ pols, electric or no car, trains not planes, clean electricity or home solar, low or no meat, buy climate+
How to capture: plant 500 billion trees
@cwebber@social.coop and @tsyesika@mastodon.social are the Penn and Teller of the Fediverse #FOSCON2026 #SocialWebFOSCON
How to grow the Herd #fosdem2026
Wow! Mastodon will be changing the default signups flow to feature more servers!!!
#FOSDEM2026
Ugh, need an extension cord in the social web dev room. Anyone here can help? #FOSDEM2026
When you travel, how many meals per day do you usually eat out?
#EvanPoll #poll
The passport control agent told me I should grow my moustache back.
I just got a "Free Palestine!" from the coffee bar clerk who saw my flag pin. That felt pretty good. Is the Palestine flag still illegal in Germany?
On a crowded shuttle in Frankfurt Airport.
The passport control agent told me I should grow my moustache back.
On a crowded shuttle in Frankfurt Airport.
About 2 million Canadians trace their ancestry back to Italy; that's about 5% of the population.
Italy's history in the 1800s is one of throwing off foreign occupation and uniting into one nation - the Risorgimento - that culminated in the 1860s. The irony is that a population boom and economic downturn directly related to the unifying wars led to a generation that could not find room in the nation their parents and grandparents had made for them. A flow of emigration to the Americas, including Canada, ensued.
I don't know how this other kind of framework works in practice. One part of it, I think, is recognizing that if everyone in Canada is "us", our history goes much farther back than Frobisher and Cartier. Our books trace the stream of history across the ocean back to England and France, but it includes what happened here for indigenous people going back to time immemorial, even when no English and French people were in sight. And it streams back to Kashmir and Guangdong and Jamaica and Italy.
About 2 million Canadians trace their ancestry back to Italy; that's about 5% of the population.
Boris Mann
Evan Prodromou