Henrik Hemrin @hehemrin@librem.one

ActivityPub Starter Kits update:

I'm making exceptional progress and am wrapping up a few things before I prepare to launch this exciting new service!

ICYMI: I'm building an open source/self-hostable Starter Kit service that will allow fediverse users to safely build kits and share/use them with ease.

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse #onboarding

An excellent layperson's breakdown of how Bluesky works, beneath the hood ...

... specifically, what's decentralized about it (content storage, for now) and what, for now, isn't (the part that queries for updates in user's posts, and then assembles it into a feed)

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

via @pluralistic

I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral

the funeral appears to be Google's

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/tech/google-creators-event.html

If you are an editor of a magazine whose readers include people who are worried about keeping themselves and their loved ones safe in the upcoming Trump administration, I know a lot about this, I am here to give tech advice, and I care about reaching people who don't read EFF blog posts.

Big News

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has just launched its own dedicated Mastodon server, social.freedom.press: https://freedom.press/about/announcements/our-new-home-on-the-fediverse/

Now all FPF-related activity on Mastodon is now accessible from a single Fediverse server: @securedrop @dangerzone @foiafeed

Hopefully this move will be an example to other organizations. "The Fediverse is nonalgorithmic and community-driven, without the potential algorithmic distortions or content suppression imposed by centralized platforms."

Without notice or explanation, Apple reportedly pulls Russians' access to podcasts by independent journalists at The Insider, Echo of Moscow, and BBC Russian. Not a good look, fruit company. https://zona.media/news/2024/11/14/nopodcast

My mate @kevie is a nae bad lad, & recorded a show for Hacker Public Radio:
hpr4249 :: Audio Streams on the Command Line
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4249/index.html
He was very clear & concise on the subject.
Let's give the terminal some love!
#HPR #CommandLine #Terminal

Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter stops publishing on X.
“Since Elon Musk took over, the platform has increasingly merged with his own and Donald Trump's political ambitions, while the climate on X has become more harsh and extreme. Therefore, we will not publish anything there from our official accounts, says editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski.
#twittermigration #x #mastodon #bluesky
https://www.dn.se/kultur/svenska-medier-kluvna-till-att-fortsatta-anvanda-x-mer-hart-och-extremt/

"Mojeek is quite a breath of fresh air in the search engine arena. The thing I like the most is that you can set different search engines to query as well. Once you hit the search button, at the bottom of the results, you will see other search engines that you enabled in the settings. Clicking on it will bring you there, searching for the term you searched on Mojeek. Pretty neat, I would say."

“Land for peace” sounds nice, but the president of Russia isn’t fighting for land. Putin is fighting to destroy Ukraine as a nation. When the next U.S. president takes office he will therefore face the same choices : help Putin win, or help him lose.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share