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But, what about the non- fall-back situation where software could properly support this (when an Actor specifies a list of Service actors associated with it)‽

I think some might say, put the associated Service actors in "attachment". And, semantically I think that would work with ActivityPub, but — I have a very strong dislike with putting everything in "attachment" (and "tag"). It makes parsing difficult.

So —

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #AudioCall #Call #FediDev #Fediverse #VideoCall

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Looking for an alternative to "attachment" (for properly supporting an Actor specifying a list of Service actors associated with it) —

I think using "alsoKnownAs" and "sameAs" would be a poor choice. And, the semantics are wrong.

For example: a Service actor might represent my mobile phone (or software on it). My phone is not me. It is something I have.

So —

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #AudioCall #Call #FediDev #Fediverse #VideoCall

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AFAIK, there isn't a way for an ActivityPub Actor (such as a Person actor) to specify a list of Service actors associated with it.

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For example, imagine that there is a Service actor that represents a way to make a video call to me.

And, for example, I have my Mastodon Person actor.

And, I want to let people know about it (and other Service actors associated with me).

How do I do that using AP, etc?

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#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #AudioCall #Call #FediDev #Fediverse #VideoCall

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Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let’s share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :
- A new peertube channel
- An interesting mastodon account to follow
- Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
- An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
- A playlist from funkwhale
- A text that moved you

Let’s dig together ! 😁

I’ve been slowly preparing to open a 2nd community dedicated to WebGames (games you can play in browser), but realised the other day that there already was such a thing:

!webgames@lemmy.zip
https://lemmy.zip/c/webgames

So now I’m thinking about joining forces there so as to avoid unnecessary redundancy. I have many dozens of quality browser games I’ve compiled over the years, and would like to do bite-sized profiles on them. Probably on that /c, but we’ll see.

For a rough list of my top ten, I’ve previously made a list HERE.

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

I consider the article’s criticisms of SMTP, HTTP, XMPP, etc. (and IRC which was not mentioned but falls in the same category) to be positive and desirable traits and I think it’s a shame that the article characterizes them negatively. HTTP’s job is not to prevent corporate takeover of the web and I don’t think it should be. That’s our job, as people. The protocol’s job is to remain neutral so that when corporate takeover of the web happens, HTTP is still there, open to everybody, providing an offramp to escape it, because it’s neutral. It doesn’t belong to the corporations. It belongs to everybody. They can try to take it over if they wish, embrace and extend, but they can’t extinguish a fire that’s smoldering underground no matter how hard they try. It will always be there, ready to flare up at a moment’s notice. The original is always still there ready for us to revert to using it at any time.

And many of us already have. Fuck Google, fuck Cloudflare, fuck AWS, they’ll never take the web from us.

Is it? I’m on a Lemmy instance and I use Voyager as my daily drive, so I’m pretty behind on Piefed. But that does sound like a good idea.

https://piefed.social/f/telly

I made it into a feed. Users can make feeds on piefed and combine communities together.

Could it be better to ban 4chan posts on piefed.social (as a rule), and instead have a filter that scans images for a custom selection of words, and auto reports them if there’s a match?

He’s saying that they do run all the time, and then when the election is over, they disappear and do nothing until the next election. This is likely more in reference to National races or big federal seats.

Is “the darkness” what we’re calling “wherever Putin tells her to hide”?

I hope we don’t see that in Canada. We definitely looked that way last election but the yellow party had a pretty weak showing and the red party took a lot of votes to prevent the blue party from winning. Hopefully things reset a bit next election.

cross-posted from: https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/c0dfea13-7f2a-402c-b47c-50ccd151554b

AltStore co-founders Riley Testut and Shane Gill are the perfect example of necessity being the mother of invention. When Apple denied the launch of their retro video game app, Delta, in 2016, they realized that indie app developers needed another solution — one that could bring apps to communities without Apple dictating the rules and taking a cut.

Founded in 2019, AltStore is that solution. The creators of the first decentralized app store share their journey, including what an open app store means for developers and how they’re investing in the fediverse.

The conversation includes:

1:11 Genesis of AltStore
3:00 Getting Delta in Apple’s App Store
5:34 The Fortnite factor
8:10 The value of an alternative app store
12:04 The difference between putting an app in AltStore v App Store 14:41 Indie market for apps
18:03 Ecosystem safety
21:30 Is my butt increasing the total number of apps out there?
22:45 Vibe coding and paths for app distribution
24:42 Fediverse and eureka moment
32:26 People-powered discovery — a broader movement 34:29 Building communities around apps
36:44 Patreon integration, supporting developers directly 38:38 Curating apps and source collections
40:07 Solutions for in-app payments
43:27 Pieces of the next generation ecosystem
45:56 Decentralizing app innovation
46:32 Relationship with Apple now
51:23 What’s on the horizon for AltStore
54:21 How to experience AltStore

Referenced:

Explore AltStore: https://explore.alt.store/
Riley + Shane’s Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/cw/rileyshane

🔎 You can find Riley and Shane at https://altstore.io/.

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Disclosure: Dot Social host Mike McCue serves on the board of AltStore.

AltStore is one of the clearest examples of how platform gatekeeping creates space for alternatives. Apple says no, so now there’s a way around it.

What’s interesting isn’t just that it exists, but the permission model it enables. Developers retain control. No App Store review board. No 30% tax. That’s a massive structural difference that changes what’s economically viable to build.

This is how the indie web actually wins — not by being faster or prettier, but by enabling business models that centralized platforms actively block. When the default path is hostile enough, enough people carve new ones.

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lol - for the people who up voted this: Did you actually read the 50 pages of this article?

I gotta admit, that I dozed off after the first 5 minutes, skipped through bits of the middle, looked at the end for something meaningful, something to act on - but left disappointed.