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  1. Bookmarked Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon’s Toxicity by Sean Tilley.

    Here’s the thing: if you were to take the ActivityPub specification from the W3C, and implement it as specified, you’d end up with something that wouldn’t correctly talk to any service in use today. Mastodon, and platforms designed to talk to it, have a dozen or so behaviors that are not actually in the spec at all: Webfinger, SharedInbox, Privacy Scopes, and Opt-Out for Search are just a few of them.

    Many of these things are almost completely undocumented, and can only be developed by lengthy conversations with people who already built those things. Even Mastodon’s own specs say very little. The majority of people dismissed Content Nation as simply being a malicious attempt to slurp up their public and private content for profit. Even when Sascha tried to defend himself, he was ridiculed and mocked.

    Mar 8, 2024 04:31 PM

  2. Bookmarked RsS iS dEaD LOL.

    I love the layout of the user profiles—here’s mine.

    Surprising there are publications and news outlets that don’t use RSS anymore. Also weird that a couple WordPress blogs with the ActivityPub plugin don’t show up with the RSS icon.

    Mar 2, 2024 09:42 PM

  5. Likes Moderate people, not code by Ryan Barrett.

    When you choose who to federate with or block or mute, don’t look at protocols, or networks, or software. Look at users, and communities, and their behavior. At the end of the day, those are probably what you really care about anyway.

    Plenty to think about (and plenty of links to click through) in Ryan’s recent post. Mulling over his thoughts on norms and desire for threat modeling as I continue to form my own thoughts on blogs, replies, and federation.

    Jan 23, 2024 07:46 PM

  7. Likes SUCCESSFUL Adventures in setting up ActivityPub + Webfinger on a Flywheel-hosted WordPress site by Piper Haywood.

    It’s not often I reference a personal blog post in a support ticket, but I’m so glad Piper and Matthias figured this one out! This is frankly a bit technically over my head—one reason why my site’s on Flywheel in the first place.

    WordPress.com owns the ActivityPub plugin of course, and figured out how to enable this for any of their users who want it. Putting this post out there in the hopes more WP-dedicated hosting companies can support nerds like me that wanna put their websites out there on the “Fediverse”.

    Oct 28, 2023 08:30 PM