Social Web Bookmarks

“Fediblock is a constant point of contention on the fediverse. And the tag has taken a life of its own.”

(2019) "If you're looking for social media options where the user has more control, you'll find a range of options to explore in the Fediverse, including t..."

"And before I get into why Mastodon (as is) will fail, I want dissect all of the things Mastodon does right, and why it’s such an important stepping stone in the decentralized computing movement in general."

"Behind the complicated history of two supernetworks, and their potential future."

"This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format."
A draft AS2 specification prior to the W3C Social WG. This one uses JSON, whereas the final AS2 specification uses JSON-LD.

Original Activity Streams (and related) submission by opensocial.org to the W3C SocialWG. This is interesting from an historical perspective.

Links to historical versions of the AS2 JSON-LD context document.

Debate about AP shared inbox and how it should be defined and implemented.

Discussion about shared inbox, replies, json-ld, etc.

[Video] "Four years later, while the fediverse plays host to a thriving community and unique culture, it remains a nonentity by the standards of social media giants. Why is this? How has ActivityPub created a constructive and enjoyable social media experience while also failing to bring that experience to a large audience? And what can this tell us about the possibilities and limitations of anarchistic spaces as a whole?"