Social coding commons

Welcome social coder,

Social coding commons is a movement without membership, dedicated to exploring Social experience design (SX), a generic solution development method to tackle wicked problems at any scale.

While #SX is uniquely personal, open for anyone to explore, Social coding commons first targets the intersection of #SustainableFOSS, the #ProsocialWeb, and the #Commons.

Where 💃🕺 peopleverse rises,
Does a commons 💕 unite.

CC BY-NC-SA. Arnold Schrijver,
Humane tech community.

Evolve: https://coding.social
Garden: https://discuss.coding.social
Care: https://community.humanetech.com

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2026-10-26 17:36:16 UTC

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More in-depth. Most fascinating is that ActivityPub and the fediverse are "Made by people, for people" from the ground up.
You might say "But what does that have to do with the technical side?", a fair question. As I see it, it is a huge opportunity to "do tech differently", take a social-first approach where people's needs are central and ultimately accounted for in supportive humane and harmonious technology.
While that seems obvious, it is actually a huge challenge, and we have tons to learn. Our whole hypercapitalist society is tech-first, "tech means progress", and it has pushed us to the brink. Even fediverse did not escape that, being based on FOSS movement and culture, it is dev-led and app-centric.
Add that the AP protocol is incomplete, has huge holes. It is more a protocol framework. Who takes care of healthy evolution and natural growth? Answer is: We all should.
With https://coding.social I focus on this challenge. The blog has more info.

2026-10-25 19:42:12 UTC

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The potential to "reimagine social" 😜

2026-10-20 07:01:01 UTC

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> What would you suggest???
You start by framing the questions as app features. Why not start more vague and fuzzy, relating to the reasons one would be participating on the social network at all..
* The things that interest me the most
* The people I'd like to meet
* The things that motivate me
* That what brings me joy
* The experience other people have on this
* That what relates to how I want to live
That kind of thing, and then drill down from there :)

2026-10-14 12:39:57 UTC

Has "Mastodon" become a category name, rather than a product / brand name? In a similar way "Jeep" became a category word for "all-terrain vehicle".
So often I see people use #Mastodon, where they refer more broadly to #fediverse. And I think "How about all the other fine #microblogging apps other than Mastodon?"
Look how many others there are: https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#microblogging
What do you think: Has "Mastodon" become a category name?
#poll #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

2026-10-07 13:12:53 UTC

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I too think internationalized handles are a good idea. Sarcasm aside, it is not about fairness. That is not the point I raised. People will just never type a handle they are unable to type. Thus the fediverse while becoming more inclusive in one regard, on the other it will fragment. The issue comes up more often in other technology areas. See the response by @npub1sst…4hjt

2026-10-07 07:49:12 UTC

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PS. On the proliferation of SWICG task forces, just musing out loud..
The #ActivityPub Webfinger TF implies a flavor of the #Webfinger open standard. Webfinger is only a small 'moving part' within the AP protocol intrinsics.
A task force focusing more broadly on the cross-cutting concern of "Internationalization and Localization" of the entire protocol suite, might've been a better way to slice related activities.

2026-10-07 07:26:28 UTC

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Nice work! There's an interesting inclusion and diversity angle to this. On one hand it allows anyone to create handles in their own native language, and on the other hand it disallows most people from mentioning these handles. I'd not be able to reproduce a Japanese or Arabic handle easily, without keeping a cheat sheet somewhere, from where I copy/paste those handles. Who will do that in practice? I don't know the extent to which Latin is a common denominator between these languages and regions. Mass adoption might make the fediverse more inclusive, while driving fedizens apart in their own language bubbles. Perhaps there should be an ability to have an inclusive handle, and a Latin fallback for those not able to type the inclusive handle.
Update: Created an issue.. https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-webfinger/issues/33

2026-10-05 06:22:46 UTC

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
Think small to achieve large things.
#SmallIsHuge

2026-10-01 22:25:33 UTC

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Don't worry. I am not *telling* you, I am *musing* on the phrasing of the poll.

2026-10-01 22:14:03 UTC

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Yes, perhaps might've been better to make the distinction, and ask for multi-person servers specifically.
The term "server" itself is imho an unfortunate case of a lower-level abstraction (that of the installed base) creeping into a high-level one (that of the unified social network stratum). It is a passed station, but a multi-account server/instance might simply be called a Hub.
"How do you join the fediverse, Self-hosted or via a Hub?"
"My actors are all on Hubs."
(Actor is also kind of a technical name, but Person doesn't match, and Identity is awkward. Account is possible, still technical. Fedizen might be used, but rings a bit weird.)

2026-09-30 09:13:57 UTC

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Mid October will be the general release of the Naza documentary. More info on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAZA_(film)
Google Maps has updated the images on Gaza, showing the complete destruction of the city of Rafah. It was discussed on Hacker News yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49879645
@npub1xw9…75ln

2026-09-26 06:33:31 UTC

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
In #IT we excel at inventing names of trends and hypes that don't cover the load..
#ResponsibleAI, #EthicalAI and a bunch of other flavors. Responsible for what? In which ethical way?
Terms similar to #DigitalTransformation. Well-meant perhaps, but in practice just another fad. Why? Transformation to what? For whom exactly? Well, in reality it boils down to cost-savings and profit maximisation. Business as usual.
Same with #AI. And add to that "world domination" where it comes to its techbro-fascist owners and their #EpsteinClass.
Technological innovation just ain't the same as societal progress, never was. Yet we treat it as if they are equivalent. Why not put things in simpler terms:
🌈 #BeneficialAI
The kind that supports people's daily needs, and is respective of the intrinsic values of #Humanity and #Freedom that we hold dear.
Simply put: AI that serves #Humankind.

2026-09-22 11:26:31 UTC

⁉️ #AskFedi
I want to look up specific people I followed with this #Mastodon account over the years. Since my following list has over 1,200 entries, it is undoable to open the fedi profile of each person one by one.
Is there a tool that allows me to load all these profiles into a single file or webpage, so I can quickscroll or do a search on keywords in the profile Bio texts?

2026-09-20 08:03:36 UTC

#Poll ✏️
I sent a #ThoughtProvoker contrasting Opt-in vs. Opt-out for services that developers launch on our #fediverse.
Thought was that on a #Prosocial web people are fully in control of the services they want to use by opting in, thus providing #consent.
Opt-out is where in many cases de-facto a developer becomes the decider how your content and data is used. To fedizens its often unclear what services interact with their online presence, and in what way. Plus they have to discover the opt-out mechanisms themselves.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117285470634849684
My post got an angry reaction from a #fedi developer, who misinterpreted what I said. The devs I know act with the best intentions! Yet some are exasperated with "We can't have nice things with only opt-in".
Recently a discovery service was launched with opt-out based on Indexable flag and Bio tags.
❓ What should be the default for fediverse apps and services ❓
And while you're at it, vote on my other related poll:
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117291127690930513

2026-09-17 08:37:36 UTC

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
Opt-out happens where random fedi app developers are your landlords who decide what services you get, and who were still benevolent enough to give you a choice (if you happen to find out about these services).
Opt-in fits a public online space where you have your own home and self-sovereignty to decide the services you want to consume in your social household. It is where you have control of your own life.
https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web
#SX #ProsocialWeb #ActivityPub #fediverse #consent #sovereignty #DigitAlautonomy

2026-09-14 06:59:17 UTC

#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 doom & gloom serve to wear people out, feel extra deflated as the weight of the world is pushed on their shoulders, and they feel powerless to make a real difference.
This while every minute 2 cents contributed to a solution counts! Share more uplifting things, and how other people can participate. It is important, we already know the world burns.
Fediverse might be a place of cocreation and cross-pollination, where our dreams are slowly realized.
https://coding.social/blog/fediverse-of-dreams

2026-09-07 10:34:10 UTC

Developers who are frustrated or even angry about people telling them to turn their opt-out mechanism to opt-in: your frustration is unwarranted.
First consider how your app is impacting and perhaps invading people's existing social space, that the fediverse spans up for us fedizens. This is our home you are impacting. Your "fun features" perhaps aren't fun for all of us. And for some devs the advice is to self-reflect on how an "I can and will program it anyway" is incredibly selfish and rude, and enshittifying for fedi as a whole.

2026-09-05 17:01:45 UTC

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The ActivityPoll #FEP has a very unfortunate name, clashing and overloading with the existing concept of a #Poll on the fediverse. The mechanism it documents is generally called #Polling.
https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/b06c/
#ActivityPub

2026-09-05 07:12:20 UTC

An article was submitted to HN how #Authorization terminology is a mess and proposed a way to fix it.
Top-level comment started a discussion on the difference between SHOULD and OUGHT TO. The latter expresses a moral imperative.
SHOULD is defined in #RFC2119 which is referenced in all #ActivityPub specs and #FEPs.
Now, there is an April Fool's RFC6919 which defines OUGHT TO. While this RFC is created just for fun, to express all kinds of wriggle room to a spec, which is often the reality in a codebase, the OUGHT TO indicator is not all that bad for actual use in #fediverse specs.
The fediverse is more than cold, hard technology space. It is a place where particular values and principles are held dear, moral imperatives to build better alternatives to social media.
An ought combines with a should like this:
"Privacy OUGHT TO be protected first and foremost, therefore an opt-in mechanism SHOULD be provided"
https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522367
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6919.html#page-4

2026-09-03 08:28:36 UTC

#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.
Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.
A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.
In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.
https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

2026-09-02 14:24:25 UTC

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The way I always understood this CLA is that it protects you from a patent infringement claim from some random company holding a software patent, and bringing you in big legal trouble.
Dunno if I misunderstood.@npub1764…nuj0?

2026-09-02 08:40:55 UTC

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> Their primary mission becomes to keep track of what's happening in the community.
I agree on that, partially. It goes both ways, to the benefit of everyone. The folks at the SWICG are also just volunteering their time as participants in the same developer ecosystem. A bit of giving and a bit of taking is needed.
That said, we have a bottom-up standardization process, not a top-down hyper-formal one that is more appropriate for creating corporate industry standards. And the SWICG tends to the latter, which is imho a flaw and mistake similar to how Solid project operates, and fails to reach their community.
Fediverse evolution is community-driven first and foremost.

2026-09-02 08:21:20 UTC

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Oh, it is great that that is turned into a #FEP. Thank you!
Other than that - even though I have thoughts on the current standardization process and the role of the SWICG (see quote) - I don't think your critique of SWICG is fair in this case. The SeekItem is still just an unofficial draft by Evan, as 'random' as anything that happens in the developer ecosystem, and the SWICG is explicitly seeking feedback from the AP developer community to improve these specs so they gain broader buy-in and adoption. In that regard it is no different than proposing a FEP, I guess?
But I understand your point about energy and all that. Am running on low-bat myself in that regard :(
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117185510811483948
#note176a…ctpw

2026-09-02 07:26:08 UTC

@npub1xze…wwdj
I just read your docs on handling C2S collections, and just thought to drop you the link to the SeekItem draft that @npub1764…nuj0 has created. Dunno if its relevant to you, so just FYI:
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/seekitem
https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/fedbox/tree/master/doc/c2s.md

2026-09-01 08:22:17 UTC

@npub19yg…wysk
I am writing a blog post around the opportunities that C2S and the ActivityPub API offer to the fediverse, and I was wondering which FEP's you consider to be essential to adopt for any implementer moving in this direction. And perhaps which ones are good should-haves and nice-to-haves.
I gather that FEP-fc48: Generic ActivityPub server is likely part of this list. [@Steve_Bate](https://mastodon.social/@Steve_Bate ) in his article on C2S also lists a number of related FEP's.
Is it an idea to have an overarching profile, that keeps track of these requirements, or is there already something along these lines?

2026-08-30 21:42:20 UTC

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Unfortunately I spent my time. Can't afford to spend more, sadly.

2026-08-30 16:56:30 UTC

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Having looked in more detail at the #SWICG document. That's not the 3-stage process I advocated for at the time, and I agree with you: It will not work. Such top-down formal ceremony just does not fit a grassroots ecosystem.
Generally speaking I don't think #W3C as a standardization body is up to the task of being a good host for the ActivityPub specification. It is a) not organized for our environment, and b) only takes care of the technical aspects. Our social media landscape has a huge social component, and this is wholly underrepresented in our app-centric fediverse, where people are merely "users" and #FOSS culture is the only driving force.
Today I think SWICG should focus on the 'Protocol implementer' stakeholder: How can they offer compliant #ActivityPub protocol implementations.
Then #FEP can focus on the 'Solution developer', relieved from the plumbing: What interoperable designs do they use to serve the needs of participants on the social network.

2026-08-25 15:27:02 UTC

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As for authority. I think at this point there truly are no authoritative bodies driving the fediverse.
In the 3-stage bottom-up standardization process I discussed at the time at SocialHub, the level of authority was highest at the W3C, lowest at individual FOSS projects, with the FEP process inbetween as a place where good practices and protocol mechanisms bubble up from the ecosystem as good candidates for further standardization.
This process in reality doesn't exist. The connections aren't there. The SWICG operates alone, the FEP does too, and so do all the various independent developers when they invent new things.
In that setup I'd say the SWICG has the same level of authority as the FEP Process does, or any other focal point for collab between fedi devs (e.g. code forges, podcasts). Just another party at the grassroots level figuring out best practices.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/3-stage-standards-process-guaranteeing-an-open-and-decentralized-ecosystem/3602/40?u=aschrijver

2026-08-25 15:16:24 UTC

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I agree that ap-next is not a fork, and might have stayed on that website. That said I don't think there's deeper politics to this removal, just that the links on the site are rather arbitrary and in need of good curation. E.g. fedify is nice to mention, but also just but one such project where there are multiple.
The entire online presence of SWICG/SocialCG including the AP.rocks website are a mess that almost seems designed to discourage ecosystem participants.
It saddens me as 3 years ago, when AP.rocks was still considered to be part of SocialHub, I had a whole initiative prepared to once and for all create a great developer portal at this domain name.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/activitypub-rocks-portal-from-standards-movement-to-grassroots-fedi/3577
In particular that top-level aggregator site would need to serve as an entry point to drill down into the entire grassroots ecosystem, help people find their way around..
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/ideating-organization-structure-for-the-grassroots-fediverse-wiki/3037
The SWICG took over that initiative without consultation, and then let it languish.

2026-08-14 17:16:25 UTC

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> If you add the "indexable" flag in your ActivityPub actor profile, which content search engines can index your content and show it in search results?
So, I opt in for DuckDuckGo only.
For instance. Just as an example, because I don't think it works that way.

2026-08-14 14:19:19 UTC

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those are good questions. Relating to more things that are unclear both in the poll as well as in how the feature works.
I always read this feature as "do you mind that we do stuff with your public content, or do you rather have we don't".

2026-08-14 13:33:53 UTC

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think 1. all
want 3. opt-in

2026-08-14 13:21:30 UTC

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in my case how I think it works is not how I want it to work, so I can't fill in this poll.

2026-08-14 13:19:32 UTC

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that depends entirely on how they want it to work differs from how they think it works 😜

2026-08-14 12:46:39 UTC

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Are you asking in your poll how people *want* it to work, or how they *think* it works?
If I look through the docs, and given how little is documented about indexable flag, I think / my interpretation is you basically give consent to "all" if the flag is true.
Another interesting observation is that other fedi devs use(d) their own interpretation of what indexable means to model consent for features they were creating in their apps.
House of cards feature stacking.

2026-08-03 09:42:16 UTC

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I think in practice things will go towards hybrid decentralization. A healthy mix of p2p and federated apps and services. Whatever is most appropriate for a certain use case, group of people, or region in the world.
Update: cross-post with silverpill, same gist :)

2026-07-26 05:15:08 UTC

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Great talk. "We must believe that Humanity is generally good".
This is the premise of Social experience design (SX), in a quite holistic approach.
Scrolling my timeline this morning, like most mornings, I found the black pill, the doom and gloom we project to each other to tell about the state of apocalypse.
Our real bad actors are a tiny minority, but they win and keep winning, because we let them. The majority of us are common everyday people, sharing very similar basic needs. Have aspirations to lead a meaningful life. We want to be involved with positive, uplifting things, follow passions, unleash our creativity.
Software should serve that. Coding is social. We have to learn how to cocreate and create works that leave positive societal imprint. Joyful creation!
Fediverse is full of activists. Awareness-raising. But that's just the tip of the spear. We need pathways to solutions. The shaft gives impetus. We need only follow dreams.
https://coding.social/blog/fediverse-of-dreams

2026-07-24 14:25:53 UTC

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It depends on context. A generic category word, similar to web and internet, when referring to the technology side. An online social networking environment for people when referring to the socio-cultural side.

2026-07-24 08:16:39 UTC

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Delighted to mention that #SiliconBeest has been added to delightful fediverse experience curated list..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116973510439074056
#note1dem…srk8

2026-07-24 06:22:01 UTC

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
- Improved table of contents
- Listed SWICG / SocialCG task forces
- More improvements pending
New list categories:
- SWICG Task forces
- Data portability
- Developer hubs
- Data formats
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development
💎 delightful fediverse clients
- 16 new projects added
- 33 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 3 projects removed
- Separate section for unmaintained
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-clients
#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

2026-07-09 21:47:14 UTC

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

2026-07-09 09:08:10 UTC

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thanks! Gotta be patient then. Have lotsa fun at the event!!

2026-07-09 08:46:56 UTC

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No livestreams I think?

2026-07-04 14:34:34 UTC

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What the Epstein class, the fascists, oligarchs and power brokers, and their sycophants do, is similar to very effective Russian propaganda tactics. Create as many variations of the truth as possible, insert alternative facts and narratives, conspiracy theories, sow chaos everywhere. Wearing people out, have them wade through info overloads of doom & gloom, encounter red meat for internal fights, divide and conquer them. And use the Big Tech platforms and LLM disruption as superweapons. We are overwhelmed, can't deal with it. And that is exactly the point.
It only works if we let them. The real evil actors that are driving all this is but a tiny group. We must realize that.
Most people are like you and me, with similar basic needs, we crave simple happy and prosperous life, together with others. A vast majority able to do uplifting, positive things, especially together, united we're a superpower able to move mountains. Make the world a better place.
https://coding.social/blog/fediverse-of-dreams

2026-07-04 05:35:43 UTC

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So we weave smoothly and seamless in and out of different social contexts, meeting different audiences and engaging in communities, without even being aware of it.
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Now the online world.. that's different. I get offered a spout where I can shout all my social needs undirectional. There's nearly only one mode of communication, and there are no real community boundaries. My messages reach people all of the time who don't want to hear them, and whom I didn't want to include really.
But that's online. We think we figured it all out. That we just have an extra communication line. But actually we have highly flawed primitive communication tools.
Our social bandwidth of effective and efficient social communication, the ability to convey what we want to convey to others, represents a 9600 baud modem.
We are in the stone ages of online social networking still.

2026-07-04 05:31:03 UTC

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Social experience design or #SX has the notion of Personal social networking, where picturing familiar offline settings can help design our online world..
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#personal-social-networking
At personal level ones #SocialExperience starts when opening your eyes in the morning and social signals start to be processed by our senses.
If I am a market salesperson in my town, when I rise in the morning then I first have breakfast with my family, and we DM privately at the breakfast table.
Then I walk outside and shitpost about the weather with my neighbors who are also going out the door to their work.
And in the street I nod to familiar faces, giving Likes and Emoji and the occasional reply to their toot to me.
Then, at the market square in my own stall, I step onto my soapbox and loudly boost my message to the crowds: "Potatoes for sale. Very cheap, good quality".
At the end of the day I DM meet with the market planner professionally to reserve my spot for next week, RSVP my Event.

2026-07-04 05:17:35 UTC

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As we discussed before I use different definitions, which I think fit better in how they shape our thinking around designing use cases in support of our social #communication online.
So, once more, I consider..
Social Networking is any direct or indirect human interaction between people.
That includes offline, where we social network for ages. And recently online since the rise of the #internet. We want #offline and #online to extend seamlessly into each other in support of our daily needs.
The crux is, we are still very primitive in learning how to do online social communication well enough. Lots to learn. We underestimate #social online.
#SocialMedia is a subset of #SocialNetworking against this definition. Moreover its an app-centric notion, same as #Microblogging is. And it shows: #fediverse duplicated existing centralized platforms' app functionality.
We want to focus on our modes of communication across different social contexts, and ability to express ourselves.

2026-06-29 12:14:12 UTC

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fly-by-wire 😅
🚗 🌉 🌊

2026-06-25 13:05:09 UTC

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For Social experience design (SX) I use a particular definition of social networking: Any direct and indirect human interaction between people. Period.
So that includes offline, where we do it for 1,000's of years, and online where we are recently figuring it out since the invention of the internet and the web :)
Compare that to microblogging: Sticky notes on a public fridge :D

2026-06-25 10:17:47 UTC

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Still, the question "What is the fediverse" is an unanswered one, that leads not only to confusion, but has direct effect on the evolution of this fedi social networking environment.
Take the europa.eu website, or the Dutch gov, who proudly announce they 'joined the fediverse'. And they make this clear by adding a Mastodon icon to their socials, where Mastodon is a particular brand, a product that is fediverse enabled. And it has a very restrictive domain, the social use cases that this product covers, namely microblogging.
My own use of fediverse is as a simple utility word, same as internet and web. And that is separate from the particular enabling technologies i.e. ActivityPub most prominently.
But positioning "fediverse" to the broader public is hard, esp. when its app-centric. The other day I mentioned perhaps it should be advertised as ActivityPub or even ActivityStreams, where you tap into a Microblog stream, or a Video stream, etc.

2026-06-25 09:33:45 UTC

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Fediverse is in the eye of the beholder, while ActivityPub is an open W3C standard social network communication protocol. They are not the same, see the diagram in my recent blog post on grassroots fediverse evolution.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

2026-06-21 10:50:43 UTC

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I agree with you. I also don't see a way where the *current* fediverse is able to fend off a corporate takeover should its popularity and adoption continue to increase. Something I've been saying for years, and to people saying "yes, we made it". Posted another toot on this yesterday.. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116782035957411872
Earlier I wrote a lengthy blog post about fediverse challenges and solutions.. https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
It's unpopular subject matter, but there are lots of factors that determine attractiveness for adoption of a particular technology, and the IT sector is much much larger than than the particular open source community one is exposed to on the fediverse. And I think this leads to biases where for people ActivityPub is the obvious value-aligned choics, but the vast majority of devs, even while they love open source, don't share or understand these values in the same way. There's a lot that makes ATProto an attractive choice to them, and where fediverse is lacking.
#note1nk0…3vqh

2026-06-20 10:47:32 UTC

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I agree on the gist, but with a twist. The control is in sustainable and healthy evolution of the protocol, which in turn will stimulate organic growth.
I am also a dreamer, and in my dream ActivityPub remains commons based, of the people by the people. I'd love to see Pixelfed and Loops and many other fedi services to gain adoption by millions and billions, because you and those others share value alignment. We dream collectively of making the world a better place.
Unfortunately #ActivityPub isn't commons based at the moment. At this point in time every increase in popularity of the fediverse is an attractor of commercial interests. Large #FOSS platforms prove that there is a market. And very large platforms become a threat to established #BigTech players, who are then forced to act.
Contrary to perhaps you and others, I don't think that corporate capture and takeover can be avoided once Big Tech giants decide to go all-in and throw billions bucks, 1,000's employees at it.

2026-06-16 12:53:24 UTC

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I am afraid "sovereignty" has become a business-world hype cycle word, like "digital transformation" was not long ago, but has lost its shine now. Vapid marketing words that indicate where the money is, and that *must* be used to win a pitch, esp. with gov institutions. The more the better.

2026-06-09 14:31:53 UTC

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your work is absolutely delightful, and it is really uplifting to encounter such labors of love on the internet. 💞

2026-06-06 10:47:25 UTC

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Perhaps the project sits in this category in the delightful list I curate..
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#events-planning

2026-06-04 13:31:36 UTC

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Another upvote for your team's efforts then. It is delightful to see how EU presence is expanding on the fediverse since EUVoice and EUVideo and 3-day workshop ActivityPub for Administrations by SocialHub.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/ec-ngi0-liaison-webinars-and-workshop-april-2021

2026-05-29 07:55:51 UTC

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I don't think it is enough to call for just open source at this point. Big Tech is built on open source and LLMs wouldn't be what they are today without open source.
We need FOSS that (in-the-large, emergent) responsibly contributes to societal progress, and the starting point for that is that proper healthy environments exist to give the extra amount of attention and detail to focus on the entire supply chain and software lifecycle. It is not enough to just do the coding, create the tech, and dump it into society. Externalities must be better addressed.
For all that to be possible the conditions must be created where people can sustainably work on FOSS, eek out a living in it if they want to. Right now FOSS is inherently unsustainable except for the privileged who can spare the time and money to work on it, and a happy few who have a job in it.
Call should not just be "use FOSS" but "adopt FOSS and help sustain responsible FOSS ecosystems".
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116316524763055082
#note1nml…vaks

2026-05-25 16:03:26 UTC

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"Yep!" said this GenX person while wistfully thinking back to that wonderful time before smartphones. 👴😆

2026-05-21 22:49:56 UTC

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A remarkable underrepresentation of the Hindi, Spanish, and Arabic languages. Esp. Spanish I had expected to be bigger. For Chinese it might be that the 'everything-apps' that are like must-haves reduce the incentive to use alternative media. But that is just my guess.

2026-05-09 14:34:45 UTC

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curious if your poll was inspired by mine, where I took a single-person instance as the example of my #ThoughtProvoker toot..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116542809803489003
Like in the responses to your poll it triggered a whole bunch of interesting discussion. Unfortunately all happens on a communication medium where all insights are lost tomorrow (except for those who keep records and archives, I guess :)
I think really this is an "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" kind of thing, which is inherent to how we evolve the app-centric fediverse. We try to hammer all forms of communication into a Microblog design.
The app platform becomes a straightjacket way of doing things as intended by its developer owners, plus a bag of features to allow variations to that for instance owners, so they can deal with a certain set of edge cases.
I'd choose the option "it depends". It is solution-specific. But there needs to be crystal clear mutual expectations and proper management thereof.
#note16wd…f4wq

2026-05-09 04:49:11 UTC

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔
In daily life, if you talk to someone, you have the right to remember what was said, right?
And if you don't possess photographic memory, you have the right to take notes, keep record, maintain a diary, yes?
And no one has the right to order you to forget your memories, or under normal circumstances to destroy your notes?
So if you have a single-person #fediverse instance, it is okay then to ignore #ActivityPub Delete requests to erase your memory of online public conversations you had with others?
#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #PersonalSocialNetworking

2026-05-09 04:33:03 UTC

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There are also a bunch of mastodon-specific resources on the 3 fedi-related delightful curated lists..
https://delightful.coding.social

2026-04-23 16:40:16 UTC

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Yea. We all know they went in! 🌞

2026-04-13 06:40:12 UTC

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2x protocol decay in a row? 🤔
Is there any formalized approach on choosing actor type, or did you express your personal app-centric preference? Is there anything not app-centric to having a max. amount of app-centric 'profile fields'? Genuine questions. Am I holding it wrong when I say 'app-centric'?

2026-04-13 01:51:42 UTC

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cc @npub1764…nuj0 relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter.
This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice.
Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that.
More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly.
#NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

2026-04-13 01:34:39 UTC

#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
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/394/787/981/873/652/original/d6eebee7a4278675.png

2026-04-10 07:10:32 UTC

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#ThoughtProvoker 🤔
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

2026-04-10 02:17:05 UTC

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As precursor to my blog post announcement later today, here's my #SocialHub response to the topic on how to treat the #LinkedData based #ActivityPub open standard where messages can be expressed both as plain #JSON as well as in #JSONLD, leading to the most costly misconception that has dragged the #fediverse sideways from its original promise and power..
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/practices-around-json-formatting-of-json-ld-messages/8628/24

2026-04-08 11:17:04 UTC

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔
#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub #ReimagineSocial #fediverse #peopleverse
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/368/795/074/653/513/original/2386a22b908713a3.png

2026-03-30 05:41:55 UTC

#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 damn the externalities?
- To what extent is FOSS complicit to the current state of the world?
- To what extent is it enough to consider FOSS to be "imbibed by good morals and values" if we can't defend those?
#poll #ethics

2026-03-26 08:08:08 UTC

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Interesting. I have never seen this text formatting before. I don't know any Korean 😅 so can't tell if this is intentional or not. Is this a means to write both in Hangugeo and in Chosŏnŏ in a compact manner?
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/294/439/979/899/490/original/f2c5d666e6fed7a1.png
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/116/294/440/394/276/138/original/c4c12b92ee481d8a.png

2026-03-26 01:22:28 UTC

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It's eye-watering stupid how politicians in @npub1m96…ag4y and #EU parliament - in a time when there's big opportunity to forge more unity in our Union, and (re)gain people's #Trust - continue to pursue deep #dystopia against the #People's will over and over and over again. It is embarassing and shameful, and should be criminal.
Here's some excerpts from the HN comments thread:
> It seems abundantly clear that the options on any vote in any legislature for a proposed bill are always “yes” and “ask me later”.
> Is it still a democracy if you just keep redoing the vote until you get the outcome you want?
> It's really surprising to me that this issue keeps coming up time and time again, until I realised that it's non-voted in parties actually trying to pass this stuff!
> It's all about the lobbying. It's honestly crazy that essentially bribery is legal. A few thousand here and there for campaign donations. It's amazing how cheap politicians are.
Don't betray our trust!

2026-03-26 01:00:02 UTC

The #EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/?foo=bar
From @npub14rv…y6tq 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.
> As such, tomorrow, the Parliament will once again vote on Chat Control. And unlike March 11, multiple groups are split on the vote, including S&D and Renew. The EPP remains unified in its support for #ChatControl. If you are a #European citizen, I urge you to contact your #MEPs by e-mail and, if you have time, by calling. We really are in the final stretch here and every action counts. I have just updated the website to reflect the votes today, allowing a more targeted approach.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522709

2026-03-07 11:09:18 UTC

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my thanks are mutual for including the article link, nice Scroll edition!

2026-03-01 14:35:23 UTC

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

2026-02-19 12:48:29 UTC

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Nice. Do you know which project this refers to?

2026-02-19 12:00:23 UTC

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Hey, this is great. It is so nice to see the uptick of interest in the #C2S part of #ActivityPub. Very uplifting and gives me hope for the future of #fediverse.
I really liked your #FOSDEM presentation, and thank you for mentioning my humble list. They are just notes atm, but I will try to keep them up-to-date. I just made a bunch of updates..
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130
Would love to hear more on what are the particular plans and goals for your project in the near future?

2026-01-23 11:22:34 UTC

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It is simply a 404 not found of the image, looks like, checking in Mastodon web UI.

2026-01-07 21:46:41 UTC

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And @npub1aer…7756 the creator of the diagram. 💕

2025-12-21 06:47:20 UTC

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Think what's possible. To act better. And feel delight of all we achieve.
Think @npub1urx…v0z4 @npub1764…nuj0 @npub18gg…5tdq @npub1vl7…f6g0 @npub1q3u…r5gz and so many others who made fedi possible. 💙
Act like @npub1n8y…l96n @npub1dk0…k0wd @npub17jl…c3ef and @npub1m96…ag4y who lend us their support. Raw material, bricks to build with. Specifically do as @npub1p89…f466 does: Connecting the bricks. 💚
Feel the vibrant imaginative power of all the Artists and Crafts fedizens. We are all creatives here. My specific warm feelings go out to inspirator @npub16ys…sjae 🧡
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/115/756/210/126/754/499/original/76e65ad6ebfe06d1.png

2025-12-21 06:45:36 UTC

Nearing 2026, I reflect on all those 💕 lovely passionate people I've met since I joined this delightful commons. FOSS, fediverse, social impact movements. Rich cultures thrive.
It proves to me Rutger Bregman's words ring true: "Most people are pretty decent". Same credo I've styled my life around.
Fear not dear commons.
🧶 Weave!
✨ We will ignite!
🌞 Bring sunshine where it poors!
🌈 Based on hope, we find solutions.
You brought me here today,
Where futures are bright,
We row mystic fedi flows.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/115/756/049/049/943/201/original/cd22a0f1f90278c6.png

2025-12-14 17:19:09 UTC

#ThoughProvoker :blobhyperthink:
The (emergent) strategy of the #FOSS movement as a whole is "Make FOSS, change the world". And it worked. 9 trillion of value to the corporate business world and big tech. You can do a lot with that money, and indeed change the world.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html
#SX #SOSS #Socialcoding

2025-11-29 18:38:10 UTC

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note that clicking the article link opens the raw json response for this toot.

2025-10-16 11:42:10 UTC

The fediverse is a new type of social network that is built by people themself, by adding their own servers and applications, so that the network organically grows. Millions of people from across the globe are thus able to find each other on the basis of shared passions and interests, and navigate a rich tapestry of inclusive communities to discuss and collaborate, and to express their freedom and creativity.
#ActivityPub #fediverse

2025-10-09 21:19:45 UTC

I added @npub130x…jzyj #CPub project to the #ActivityPub C2S tracking list at..
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130
CPub was created as part of the https://openengiadina.net research, where also #ERIS content addressing spec originated.
See:
https://codeberg.org/openEngiadina/cpub
https://codeberg.org/eris
Current and past @npub1dk0…k0wd grants provided by the #EU via @npub1n8y…l96n has made this inspiring work possible.

2025-10-05 16:33:54 UTC

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Interesting. Looks great! Though taking a quick peek at the html output I wonder about a11y for screenreaders etc.

2025-10-03 08:37:28 UTC

Check out the new @npub1lzd…urpr Social release candidate. What a wonderful well-designed experience, and superb release notes!
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
🎉 Congratulations to the #Bonfire team @npub1h4u…nkgz and @npub18zh…4x0k for making it this far, through all that tireless hard work. And also to @npub1n8y…l96n and @npub17jl…c3ef for supporting this important project. Future of social networking in the making.
To #ActivityPub developers, have a look at those great #fediverse #Interoperability docs:
https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/federation-interoperability.html

2025-09-13 20:21:51 UTC

Hurray! 🥳
The last days of #SocialMedia have come. Sped up by an unexpected but uplifting side-effect of the #AI madness perhaps?
🌱 Here comes #PersonalSocialNetworking. According to James O’Sullivan..
> The successor to mass social media is, as already noted, emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens.
The archipelago fedi! 😃
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/share-what-you-want-socialhub-to-be/5539/36?u=aschrijver
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialWeb #SX

2025-09-07 18:08:29 UTC

How happy is the marriage between #ActivityPub and #ActivityStreams? 🤔
https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/522
#poll #fediverse #socialweb

2025-09-02 21:33:33 UTC

The paradox of decentralization is that the more a technology ecosystem decentralizes, the more need there is for cohesive coordination to assure that the foundational technologies can support that decentralization, without the ecosystem falling apart.

2025-08-29 18:05:17 UTC

"We divide ourselves to be conquered."

2025-08-29 15:25:56 UTC

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Also a good moment to drop link to this codeberg issue tracking C2S impls. Your additions most welcome :)
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130

2025-08-26 10:07:46 UTC

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Nice! I've lined this #AGPL licensed project up to be included in the delightful fediverse experience curated list at..
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience
I found the codebase on github at..
https://github.com/yangnaru/oeee-cafe
#ActivityPub #fediverse #SocialWeb

2025-08-14 07:22:19 UTC

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
> To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44896433
#FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Funding

2025-08-12 06:33:34 UTC

📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE
Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.
What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.
The #ActivityPub @npub1nwy…v47n project funded by #NGI0 via @npub1n8y…l96n is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!
Yet they need HELP.

2025-08-12 00:57:13 UTC

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Be a #codehiker at #codeberg.

2025-08-04 15:21:40 UTC

".. and that pissing contest ended their world."
#Aliens

2025-07-24 17:02:57 UTC

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#Google themself don't care a thing about the garbage and #misinformation on their platform. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114899129489765020
Witnessing the social dynamics on the cesspit that #Youtube is, is fascinating. Near nothing is genuine, everyone is hustling their channels.
Cool reaction vid? Wait until you see them react the 2nd time on that vid as if it was their 1st. Nice vid of people dancing on techno party, setting the crowd in motion? Staged. And your recommender will serve you more.

2025-07-20 21:35:32 UTC

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Is there any prior experience, I wonder, of open social networks where free culture thrives, and the socio-cultural impact that introduction of monetization schemes has on such environments?
I'm quite worried about how such introduction for fedi may create monetary incentives that attract people for all the wrong reasons, and in ways that harm the current culture of fedi, which sets it apart from mainstream corporate social media.