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@julian @evan @njvack @dgfitch @skinnylatte @tankgrrl @Viss @ai6yr @mayintoronto

Wow that is just brilliant. I love how the SFO *airport museum* staff just went off and figured out how to track items (and planes visiting the airport!) and everything in a low-cost scalable way that totally plugs into the Fediverse. Neat! :fediverse:

@sfomuseum

@mastodonmigration @hamishcampbell @_elena I won't argue with this. Having two incompatible stacks hurts the entire ecosystem. When developers and decisionmakers see that, it makes them want to sit back and wait to see what comes out on top.

I think our best mitigation for that right now is reassurance that investing time, energy and money into ActivityPub will not be a waste.

@evan @hamishcampbell @_elena

💯 Slow and steady wins the race. It is just frustrating that people are so easily distracted by bright shiny objects.

@solarbranka that's surprising; I don't think that should be possible. I'll test it more thoroughly and let you know.

@hamishcampbell @_elena the good part is that this is what we should do in the best case scenario, too. So, all worthwhile.

@hamishcampbell @_elena one other thing: bridging is really important for us all right now. It's how we can tell developers to implement ActivityPub and still get access to the BlueSky audience. I hope everyone works to support BridgyFed.

@hamishcampbell @_elena

So, I think there are two important things people in the Fediverse movement can do to help with these possible outcomes.

@hamishcampbell @_elena

The first is to keep building on ActivityPub. I love our protocol and our ecosystem, and I think it's a wonderful network. But it's also a necessary hedge against clawback or collapse.

@mike @_elena

Sears showed up on day and said they were renegotiating the deal and were only going to pay 75% of the price per mower. The company had no choice, but to accept even though they were now losing money on each unit sold. Then suddenly Sears began offering their own mower, and stopped buying any at all and the company, full of debt, was ruined.

Same as it ever was...

@info

Very well said. Couldn't agree more. A wolf in sheep's clothing. A patina of 'open systems' over a solid $100M corporate core.

@evan
#FediBuzz was always followable by users because there is just no technical difference.
@julian @mlanger

@julian @mlanger

This all brings in a firehose, which can be a lot of data to handle, especially if you're only interested in a few topics.

Fedibuzz has solved this really nicely, by having one relay per hashtag. So an admin can add a few hashtag relays for topics of interest to their users.

@evan
I would like to drink from your firehose
@julian @mlanger

@julian We apparently agree that expecting us to follow bot accounts to see hashtags is absurd. But that's how it looks to me.

Are you saying that this is under the hood stuff and we are not expected to follow bot accounts? That somehow these accounts will transparently deliver the hashtags we follow? If so, it's a huge mistake to notify users that an instantly created bot account has boosted a post.

And again, I think the bigger problem is hashtag abuse. I hope someone is working on that.

@julian @mlanger I don't actually think it's an ugly hack.

In ActivityPub world, things that you follow remotely are actors. They can be people, groups, organizations, bots, even other things like documents or places.

For following a hashtag remotely, I think it should look like any other actor on the network.