Fideslang is “a proposed model for a human-readable taxonomy of privacy-related data types”, seen via Ted Han on bsky.
Daily Journal 📓
Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.
Great Q&A with Robin Berjon about open social protocols wearing his Free Our Feeds hat in Columbia Journalism Review.
Explains open social protocols as roads shared by all, and gently pushes journalists to inform themselves & get better at explaining it.
Happy birthday Drupal! There’s a new Drupal CMS 1.0 release, which is a “distro” of configuration & plugins.
Out of Your Element is a “modern Matrix-to-Discord appservice bridge”. Seems simple and robust — just a NodeJS server. Discovered via Muni Town.
I’m a Weird Nerd -> weird.bmann.ca. The Muni Town team shipped paid subscriptions powered by Polar. Read their blog for background on where this personal page builder is going (including atproto integration).
User & Agents is a new community stewarded by Ankesh Bharti1. Here’s one line from the home page: “Our goal is to empower individuals with software that enables them to create their own agency”. Go read the whole thing and come join!
Footnotes
Playing around with the Obsidian Web Clipper. It has variable template types and basically just triggers new pages in your app.
Have to figure out an “archive” mode where I want to save the entire page, without republishing it.
I bought Path of Exile today, it’s at home downloading onto my Steam Deck, which is currently listed as unsupported.
MacOS also not supported for Early Access.
So of course I’m looking at Bazzite for the MiniPC PL63.
Very inspired learning about UKAI, who are hosting some workshops at Z-Space:
“Our mission is ‘culture for what’s coming’”
“…we seek and test out approaches to culture that make sense of the world we are creating and handing down to future generations.
We call this work cultural research and development, and just like R&D in other fields, we are trying to make things better. In our case, we are trying to build resilience to massive volatility and change.”
Doing some research on Public Mobile.
Low cost cellphone plans in Canada. They’re a TELUS subsidiary.
Anyone have personal experience?
Martin Fowler’s 2024 thoughts on the state of social media:
If I find someone doing what I’m doing - posting on Twitter and on other sites - I prefer to follow them on a different site. As far as I’m concerned, Twitter is in decline, and although I’m not leaving it for the moment, I prefer to follow activity in other places.
Gordon Brander, Places to intervene in a system:
“If systems are fictions, maybe we can learn to hold them loosely, to trade between them, or even to let go and allow reality to speak back?”
Ibis has just been announced as a federated Wikipedia alternative. It’s based on ActivityPub and written by one of the Lemmy developers. “built on a stack of PostgreSQL and Rust, …with a frontend written in Rust Webassembly”
I’ve been using Grist, an open source and self hostable Airtable replacement, and excitedly telling people about it. They’re hosting a summit in Paris in early December, where I also found out about the French government’s La Suite, a government collaboration platform.
The future is interfaces: @piratesoftware.live shared a short video of doing demos at a public conference with keyboard + mouse and with a game controller. The punchline of what kids gravitated towards is a good one.
Subvert is launching today: you can become a co-op founding member for $100USD by buying the zine “Plan for the Artist-Owned Internet”, or for free as a founding musician or label. I’ve joined, love to see more projects like this.
Had an inspiring call with the ZKorum team this morning. They’re trying on some new taglines, including “building citizen networks rather than social networks”