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  #Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google #Android, including #GrapheneOS https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/issues/105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50390124 #ASN #ASNBank #Banking #BigTech #EU #Wero #Payment

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  I notice most people name their #Wordpress blog's #ActivityPub handle as @blog .. With tons of blogs with the same handle prefixes this makes your blog hard to mention, and people have to remember and type the full #fediverse handle before it shows up in the account dropdown dialog of the post editor. Just saying.

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  #CounterTheDoomscroll 🌈 What is the fediverse? Is it a medium to make people lose hope and feel depressed? Full of passionate people who want to improve the world, I am nonetheless presented every morning with 1,000's of huge problems-getting-worse in every area imaginable that these people project to each other. Problem-awareness is one thing. It is needed. But there's precious little uplifting stuff being shared, and ways on how to be part of the solution. Timelines that are only do...

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  @me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org @firstdogonthemoon@aus.social I gave a reply to a similar thread raising awareness to an anti creep glasses campaign, where great stickers can be had. It also turned into a very relevant discussion where the upside of the technology as an invaluable accessibility aid for the visually impaired must also be taken into account (thanks @elettrona@poliversity.it 🙏). I think the solution should be a combination of good regulation and enforcement by governments, and making...

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  @silverpill@mitra.social @0xllx0 @general Yes, indeed. I found this the other day, and have queued it up for inclusion at https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development I also found the ongoing work on the #ForgeFed implementation, which is mighty interesting. Great work. Also queued up, but for inclusion at https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

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  Major updates were made to the delightful fediverse curated lists.. 💎 delightful fediverse experience - 52 new projects added - 50 projects marked unmaintained - 15 projects updated New list categories: - Professional networks - Instant messaging - Search engines - Security and privacy https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience 💎 delightful fediverse development - 18 new projects added - 20 projects marked unmaintained - 5 projects updated - 7 projects removed - Impr...

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  @steve@social.technoetic.com You might be interested to check out my posts around the concept "Community has no boundary" I talked about 5 years ago, e.g. in this topic: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/standardizing-on-a-common-community-domain-as-ap-extension/1353 When I was still facilitator of #SocialHub I claimed that it wasn't a community in any really sense, with mostly people driving by on self-interested motives. It was just a discussion forum, where a poor commons...

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  @michael@westergaard.social For the #ActivityPub and #ForgeFed implementation the #Forgejo contrib organization on #Codeberg has a separate repository and a roadmap they keep up-to-date. See: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md

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  @nick@mammuthus.de @julian Yes, it is shortened. The last sentence shown in Mastodon Web UI is: > Question re: double knock for AP devs who have implemented... is there a specific reason 9421-signed is sent first, and then cavage-12? [...] I hadn't really noticed as it cut off right at the question mark :)

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  ⚠️ DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns The attached #video details the absolute #privacy horror of LG #television and #monitor products, that install #adware without consent, have #AI integration, and a horrible privacy policy.. > LG recently forced upon us an app install loaded with #McAfee adware through a #Windows update. We found that this has been happening to tons of users, made worse by LG's shady history with #TV's that instruct buyers to inform...

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  #ThoughtProvoker 🤔 #Fediverse is a *social* network, right? About being different from corporate anti-social media. Has ambitions to be more diverse, inclusive, cohesive. To provide inter-community social networking where people with similar interests find each other and interact. Like the #ActivityPub developer community, for instance. The group of people who make all this possible in the first place. Together they uphold the fediverse technology ecosystem and are collectively responsible for...

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  "Post has 9 boosts" Clicks to see who boosted.. "No one has boosted this post yet. When someone does, they will show up here." *sigh* #Mastodon #fediverse #microblogging

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  @ozoned @itchio@mastodon.social This might be a good idea to track on https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues Note that a couple of years ago a number of #fedijam #fedijam2022 were organized via #itch and there was a lot of interest to participate at the time. https://itch.io/jam/fedi-jam-3

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  The Secretary of Finance of the #Dutch #government has called the full migration of the ICT services of the Dutch Tax department to #Microsoft 365 to be halted, and to instead investigate how these services can be hosted on-premises or on sovereign #IT infrastructure that is managed by the department. Hurray for #DigitalSovereignty 🎉 https://www.adviescollegeicttoetsing.nl/documenten/2026/6/29/advies-microsoft-365

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  A new trend of #AI slop is completely deepfake #music bands. Like for instance "Shunned at a Funeral". All is fake. Fake band members talking on Youtube, fake Youtube live concert videos, fake website and bio, fake songs. All AI generated. In this video a real #musician reviews how fake it all is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKOtpdDzwyA So I found the fake #band on #Spotify and thoought this is a good one to report as Deceptive. So I did. The Spotify reporting functiona...

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  @reeeen Ja, sicher. Aber es soll ein besserer Standard werden, um diese Interoperabilität in Zukunft behalten zu können.. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116447125018947615

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  Why #Discourse is NOT going closed-source in an age of #AI #LLM .. https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/ #SX #SocialCoding #SOSS #FOSS

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  @dianea totally overlooking that it was about the llama, which I totally adore 😻 And oversplaining 😵 in my overexcitement on things that are more uplifting than bloody revolutions, sorry about that :D Update: Alpaca's even, admiring cats.. :blobaww: your post is lovely, thank you.

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  @silverpill @fedify All the great work you do on the FEP is a way to help mitigate it. And if one figures out wire reality and follows wire consensus, there's less pain. Follow the leaders who came before you. The trade-off is that your app on the wire looks a bit like a microblog. For those who are in that field there's no problem at all. And for those entering completely new fields, they can be 'first inventors' and also be unburdened. I was just referring to post-facto inte...

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  @silverpill There are a couple of #ActivityPub projects that focus on providing the good tools that abstract away the complexities of wire-level network comms, and help free the hands of a solution developer to focus more directly on what people need, instead of on plumbing and Babylonian speech confusion of how things fit together. I try to emphasize these projects, e.g. @fedify by listing them higher in the https://delightful.coding.social curated lists. But their challenge is to offer a ki...

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  #AntiPatterned™ Do NOT create out-of-bound custom and app-centric mechanisms that define new and expected behavior on protocol level. https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/33 #SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub #ProtocolDecay #Botiquette

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  #ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink: Uncomfortable questions.. - To what extent is #FOSS complicit to the rise of #BigTech? - To what extent is FOSS complicit to disruptive #AI craze we face today? - To what extent are vibe coding #LLM even possible without FOSS? "BUT.. BUT.. The License!" - To what extent does slapping on a license free us from responsibility, knowing that it hardly offers protection from abuse? - To what extent did FOSS too just introduce the tech and d...

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  The #ActivityPub protocol is often compared to email with its actor inboxes and outboxes. However email allows emailers to email without knowing anything about how SMTP works under the hood. Using friendly tools you can construct newsletters, order receipts, invoices, etc. and send them to addressees. Fire and forget, and if it was undeliverable you receive notice. The network mechanics are a black box. Here the #fediverse significantly differs. Solution developers (emailers) creating apps and...

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  The #EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos. https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar From @chatcontrol site creator, in a HN comment: > In an unprecedented move, the #EPP is attempting to force a repeat vote tomorrow, seeking to overturn the otherwise principled March 11 decision and instead favouring indiscriminate mass #surveillance. In an attempt to avoid this, the Greens earlier today tried to remove the repeat vote from the agenda tomorrow, but this was voted down....

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  I see the #fedi announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse. Is the #fediverse we have capable of avoiding #enshittification as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market? Is our #ActivityPub landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized. There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, an...

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  #ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink: The #FreeSoftware movement does not win, because it doesn't *play to win*, and will thus always draw the shortest stick. 🤷 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html

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  Legal vs. Legitimate, good article by @hongminhee > Whatever courts eventually decide about AI reimplementation, the question we need to answer first is not a legal one. It is a social one. Do those who take from the commons owe something back? I think they do. That judgment does not require a verdict "Can the commons expect something back from those who extract value?" is a key question of Social experience design. The answer forms one of 3 core principles: The Mindfu...

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  Complete this sentence: "I experience #fediverse as a .." #Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub

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  @silverpill@mitra.social @raphael@mastodon.communick.com @julian @mariusor@metalhead.club Btw, damn we should've caused this entire discussion thread to somehow flow to #SocialHub to have it in the archives. Instead of on "now you see me, now you don't" channel. Peekaboo. 🫣 https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116141469199837056 Here today, gone tomorrow, who made notes? The post-facto interoperability leaders did. Those who happened to be around at the right time to hear thi...

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  The fair story for #SelfHosting is to go beyond the jubilation of only its merits in so many of the "Just Self-host" advice and instruction blogs that are doing the rounds, and also include all the considerations to perhaps not self-host. As it brings a much larger burden than just that initial install. Such that people are even burning out and leave the #FOSS space, having underestimated what it takes.