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Fedibook groups just got a major rewrite.

Groups now work as a ActivityPub group actors — meaning members from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms can join and participate, not just Fedibook users.

Invite a @mastodon.social friend to your group, they accept the follow request, and group posts start appearing in their home timeline. They can post back via DM. It just works.

On Fedibook, groups looks just like that face-thing.

Jump over to my blog to read more
https://sindum.dk/fedibook-groups/

#Fedibook #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Announcing Mitra Mini v0.1.0

Mitra Mini is an ActivityPub client that implements nomadic identity. It has become stable enough that I decided to cut the first release.

The basic features have been implemented: posts, reposts, likes. For more information, check the project's readme:

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/minimitra

It all started nearly four years ago with a vague idea that linking cryptographic keys to #ActivityPub actors could unlock decentralized identity in Fediverse. Eventually, the solution was discovered, and implemented by several projects, but these implementations were servers, not clients. Now there is finally a client, and the design has been proven to work well.

#NomadicIdentity

Congrats!

Thank you @rimu !

@julian You'll definitely want a FederationPolicies model, beyond just a "block these domains" list.

For instance, coming in the future to FIRES is a way to distribute Hashtags that may contain harmful content, such that you could choose to filter those out.

Or, maybe you want to filter those in (I see you NodeBB and how you get content federated in!)

@julian @liaizon Oh, actually, that's a much better fix than just hiding from a particular domain.

@julian @liaizon Julian, would that work for NodeBB too? I know I get notifications when activitypub.space shares my toots.

@julian @liaizon I'm pretty sure channel.org has service actors, and it does automated boosts.

@julian OK. I use a separate key ID and actor ID for HTTP Signature, so that can throw off some implementations.

@julian I commented on the ticket! Looks like we can both make some changes to make this more robust. I'm going to push and test today.

@julian we've definitely talked about how to implement!

Also the new deltas API is going to be a game changer for sync.

cc @oli

I am outputting ActivityPub/ActivityStreams content for the listing of what is in a directory.

Think of it as the AP/AS version of output from the `ls` command

AP/AS has a whole bunch of stuff that can be used to represents files. Even sub-types of files

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#object-types

And, while AP/AS has 'Collection' (and 'CollectionPage') —

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-collection

AP/AS doesn't have a 'Directory' type (as a sub-type of 'Collection')

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #FediDevs #Federation

@maddyunderstars

Yes, I am creating a high performance read-only HTTP server for static files — that has built-in support for ActivityPub/ActivityStreams.

It also supports (the read operations of) WebDAV. So, it can be used as a shared read-only drive in operating-systems (OSes) that support WebDAV.

@reiver

This might be a misunderstanding.
Any property in ActivityPub can have multiple properties [except the few marked as 'functional'].
It does not need a special subtype.
If we have type ['CollectionPage', 'Collection', 'wd:Q201456'], it is a directory in a directory (?)
We have these nested structures in fedigeo anywhere, for example the UNESCO World Heritage or IATA Collection etc. We use wikidata (the data of wikipedia) so that anyone can use the label and infos for "directory" in any language …

Oh nice. I am also in the process of making something similar, with more extensibility and interoperability in mind.

Btw I can’t access your demo website https://bots.ambience.sk/, is it just me?

I think big tech has proven that it cannot be trusted. Their priorities are simply not in alignment with our own.

agreed

Legislation seems to be the only lever that can hope to rein them in (market forces are no longer strong enough).

I don’t agree. The Internet, at least when not regulated to death, allows new websites to rise and old ones to fall, this has happened many times and can happen again in the future.

At the same time, smaller networks do not have the resources to comply with government regulations to a T

agreed

and so they should be given a longer leash

Not easy to implement in terms of legislation.

Governments also do not have the resources to chase down

and you want to rely on governments not having resources to do things that laws say they could do?

I think big tech has proven that it cannot be trusted.

I’d go a step further and say that if big tech must control the internet it would be better to not have an internet at all (and that’s coming from someone who remembers life without it well and currently uses it a lot). But given the current situation I would hand back any true productivity gains, casual enjoyment, etc to take away the global narrative control that a tiny handful of companies have.

@julian

the author was me -- and i have lots of experience with software design and i know that we can both have what we want. i think any intelligent well-meaning person can figure that out for themselves, and i hate arguing, so have a nice day. ;-)

@julian

Shot form blog/vlog apps do not exist because people demanded them, they exist because of the ability to make them addictive. When Twitter first came out most people in fact didn't get the point, and it was commonly said that "you have to try it to get it". More than anything they have proved addictability more than preference.

The fact that every single one of those microcontent platforms is, or has been, augmented by add-on tools like "thread unrollers" and cross posting with other platforms like YouTube are an indication that there is at least a desire to have a *choice* between bleeding out a quick post and saying something more thought out.

The Fedi exists because of Mastodon's blogging implementation but *persists* despite it, because the ActivityPub protocol underlying it is not restricted to the platform's limitations and provides a lower friction way to interact with different platforms like Pixelfed, Peertube, Lemmy and its derivatives, WordPress blogs and so on.

@davew

@msh @julian @davew

I guess I am old but I have a hard time believing that format works without somebody else deciding what you see next. which I get that people are currently fine with but which I'd hope we eventually see the danger of.