Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Interesting news. An excellent way for Microsoft to fend off accusations of anti-competition would be to embrace open standards like Matrix for interoperability, showing they're not trying to vendor-lock their users. Slack could also benefit from this ;)

Mobilizon is a free open federated events system for the Fediverse, designed to get people off Facebook Events. You can follow the project here:

@mobilizon

It's currently in beta testing, and is made by @Framasoft (the makers of PeerTube and many other free open projects).

Mobilizon's official site is at https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

#Mobilizon #Fediverse #Events #FacebookEvents #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre

Jaron Lanier interviewed on a UK news show about how the datafarming that corporate social media make their money from, harms people and damages societies (21mins):
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q

#JaronLanier #interview

@Alamantus @okpierre @shine

Do you know about the Guide for New Implementers at #SocialHub?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/guide-for-new-activitypub-implementers/479

It is a wiki post that can be edited / improved by anyone based implementation experience. Once it is more fleshed out it will be hosted in a better way.

🍀 Newly added #ActivityPub tools 🍀

• Little Library: A digital give-a-book, take-a-book library for ebooks - github.com/Alamantus/little-li…
• Mastodon.py: Python wrapper for Mastodon API; feature complete and easy to get started with - github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
• atoot: Library providing an easy way to create Mastodon API applications - github.com/popura-network/atoo…

For all projects visit:
- fediverse.party/en/tools
- git.feneas.org/feneas/fedivers…

-l

The latest social media craze ... ;)
https://www.theonion.com/teens-flock-to-new-app-where-they-just-enter-own-person-1844339166

#SocialMedia

Open source technology is critical to internet freedom because it allows anyone to inspect the code, understand it, and discover any bugs or backdoors. For the community that OTF supports, the open source approach builds trust.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz4d/the-trump-administration-is-attacking-critical-internet-privacy-tools

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail

hi fediverse!

back in January, 100000 years ago, I got a chance to talk with @darius about running friend.camp; why hometown, his fork of mastodon, is currently needed to create safer spaces; human-scaled social media; and trust networks and technology, for an interview in @logic.

we just recently released that conversation for free online. check it out!

https://logicmag.io/security/party-at-my-house-darius-kazemi-on-human-scaled-social-media/

Instead of uploading all our information to silos like Facebook or Twitter, we should be able to host our own basic (meta)data like avatar, status updates or social connections in a standardized format.

You would then be able to grant services like Facebook or Twitter access to that data via a token, and you could control which service gets access to what kind of data.

Yes, I'm still dreaming of a semantic web.

I'm on the Lawfare Podcast today talking about the bot panic on mainstream social media and also the benefits (and drawbacks) of decentralized social media:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-darius-kazemi-great-bot-panic

This was a really funny/fun conversation with the hosts, it should be a pretty entertaining listen.

Here’s the video of my talk “Beyond surveillance capitalism: alternatives, stopgaps, Small Web, and Site.js.” from Creative Mornings Istanbul on Friday.

Edited to fix the audio sync issue, add captions, chapters, and links to all the mentioned tools, etc.

Enjoy + please share! :)

https://small-tech.org/videos/creative-mornings-istanbul/

A bit of federated media history. The "fediverse" was coined to describe the OStatus network (anything compatible with GNU social), as distinct from "the federation" (anything compatible with Diaspora). Once the ActivityPub spec was finalized, and everyone announced plans to implement it (except Diaspora), "fediverse" started to be used to describe any app implementing OStatus, Diaspora, ActivityPub, or Zot. That's the definition we currently use for @fediverseparty party

Announcing ActivityPub Conf 2020!

Following a successful inaugural conference in 2019, we have expanded APConf 2020 to a four day event that will occur entirely on line via Big Blue Button!

The CFP is open through July 8 at: https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#cfp

We invite proposals for birds of a feather topics and 30- 60 minute talks related to ActivityPub. Register online (https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#register) or feel free to email us with questions (activitypubconf@riseup.net )

#apconf2020 #activitypubconf

John Oliver shares a powerful example of what is wrong with the attitude towards #privacy and security in Silicon Valley. Don't give #GAFAM your data. It isn't safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZjmlJPJgug

John Oliver succinctly explains why facial recognition software is so insidious, and why combined with widespread surveillance is so dangerous, even if you "have nothing to hide"

https://youtu.be/jZjmlJPJgug

@techit