Social Web Bookmarks

Discussion of Mastodon user experience and users that tried it and later moved to BlueSky.

“The Social Web Foundation is a new non-profit for the W3C standard, ActivityPub. But it doesn't include Bluesky, which W3C's founder uses.”

Discussion of how to use alternative URL schemes (like magnet and ipfs) could be used to store ActivityPub content so it is not tied to a specific domain. (Needs community support to implement it.)

“ Bluesky [is] the most interesting experiment in social media. It has recently both opened up federation, but even more interestingly it has abstracted out the moderation layer (along with open sourcing tooling for people to use). This means that anyone can provide moderation services, and users can pick who they want to moderate their experience.”

Discussion of benefits of decentralization and the difference between Mastodon and Bluesky.

Overview of the important components of a Mastodon installation.

Pleroma (LitePub) relay implementation.

Discussion about data portability in the social web (ActivityPub and beyond).

Federated single-user microblogging software with a Mastodon API.

"A service-type ActivityPub actor that will re-broadcast anything sent to it to anyone who subscribes to it."