Threads, la nueva red social de Meta, será compatible con el Fediverso. ¿Es esto una buena noticia? La historia parece indicar que no, ya que es probable que la multinacional esté desplegando una estrategia llamada "Adopta, Extiende, Extingue"..

Las grandes compañías tech, las que están incluídas en las siglas
GAFAM, esto es, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon y Microsoft, son
conocidas por sus supuestas (o a veces no tan supuestas) prácticas
monopolísticas. Solo a modo de ejemplo, una rápida búsqueda en
internet nos proporciona casos como:
- El departamento de justicia contra google.
- La FTC contra Facebook.
- Y otros casos similares de los estados de Tejas, Colorado y Utah contra google.

No obstante, Meta (ose podría enfrentar hoy en día a un
competidor que no puede ser comprado: el Fediverso. En el vídeo
anterior os introduje un poco a este mundo del fediverso. El fediverso es
un grupo descentralizado de servidores que usan el protocolo
ActivityPub para comunicarse entre ellos. ActivityPub es un protocolo
de red abierto para crear redes sociales descentralizadas.
Básicamente, este protocolo proporciona una API cliente-servidor para
crear, actualizar y eliminar contenidos, así como una API federada de
servidor a servidor para enviar notificaciones y contenidos. El
resultado es que con este protocolo se han creado redes sociales
federadas y descentralizadas, como Mastodon (que sería como un
Twitter), PeerTube (que sería como un Youtube), Lemmy (que sería como
un Reddit), y otras. De los enormes beneficios que aportan estas redes
descentralizadas, federadas, y FOSS, ya hablé en mi vídeo anterior. La
idea de este vídeo es ver los mecanismos que tienen las grandes
tecnológicas para acabar
con esta competencia, que no pueden comprar como ha hecho en otras
ocasiones, ya que no es propiedad de
nadie, sino el resultado de la comunicación espontánea entre muchos
servidores.

🕒 Marcas temporales:
00:00 Introducción
00:26 El Fediverso como amenaza
02:48 "Adopta, Extiende, Extingue"
04:32 Google vs XMPP
12:27 El origen de la estrategia
14:44 Meta vs Fediverso
15:50 La prueba
16:16 Conclusión: ¿qué podemos hacer?

🔵 Algunos enlaces relevantes:
🔗 Artículo en que me he basado: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-ki…
🔗 Casos judiciales GAFAM: economicliberties.us/tech-laws…
🔗 Threads: xataka.com/basics/threads-inst…
🔗 Fediverso: fediverse.party/

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I was thinking about presentation slides today, and an idea came to me—

Why not make an ActivityPub Note per slide for a presentation?

The word count on slides is fairly low so probably fits the Note format. This is essentially what Cory Doctorow does in his excellent long threads, which then gave me some doubts based on the feedback that those got a while back.

Slides are not Document or Article. Note (and Page) does fit fairly well though the next slide as a reply might get lost in other replies.

The orderedItems property in an OrderedCollection would fit, but adds an additional complexity to the author (and implementation) of having an overarching collection. I think in my ideal world a Slide (or SequencedObject) would have optional next, prev, first, and last properties in addition to all the inherited Object properties, but without all the cruft of a partOf or current or whatever.

Also I just described an item in a set, which brought a flood of memories of poorly implementing linked lists in the discrete mathematics course I took long ago.

I wouldn't necessarily know the last property when drafting content until everything is finished, but could be added in an Update. That would generate a bunch of noise though.

The closest I can find is PAE-06 Stories, but that is kind of meh.

Anyway, it was an interesting thought experiment.

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.74 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes a lot of web UI translations by lovely people and a bit of minor tweaks and fixes:

Added Spanish (default, Argentina and Uruguay) translation (contributed by gnemmi).

Added Czech translation (contributed by pmjv).

Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (contributed by daltux).

Added Finnish translation (contributed by inz).

Added French translation (contributed by Popolon).

Added Russian translation (contributed by sn4il).

Added Chinese translation (contributed by mistivia).

Added German translation (contributed by zen and Menel).

Added Greek translation (contributed by uhuru).

Added Italian translation (contributed by anzu).

Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/custom_emojis (contributed by violette).

Improved Undo+Follow logic (contributed by rozenglass).

Reverted (temporarily) the Markdown code that converted text between underscores to italics, because it was causing more problems that what it was worth.

Fixed bug in bookmark CSV import.

Don't indent Twitter-like "threads" (i.e. chains of short posts from the same author that are self-replies).

comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: liberapay.com/grunfink/

#snacAnnounces

I am creating a #ActivityPub minimalistic implementation of a badge system similar to Credly, built using #dotnet and leveraging the #Fediverse

I have issued a first badge, the idea is to decentralize the verification systems, and allow organizations to self-certify. It is incredible that organizations like Microsoft or Non-Profits pay thousands of dollars to companies like Pearson to just provide "verified" badges. Similar to mastodons installed in social-dot-something, thinkg of badges<dot> mozilla<dot>com , certifications<dot>myschooldistrict<dot>com. Or even a podcast emitting a badge for its guests, with the verification in the domain.

ActivityPub already offers a secure way to sign artifacts and interact between actors. The fediverse already have people with profiles, a social graph as @mike says, ready to use. Think of how LetsEncrypt disrupted that market of few actors selling certificates for websites.

I have a functional poc,
@fediverse is not a mastodon, pledora or blog, it is an actor in a badge system, but you can follow it in Mastodon. Its badges will show in #mastodon but they are not notes or articles. If you want to learn more, follow me, I will be sharing the progress here. Or follow the github project here: github.com/tryvocalcat/activit…

Who wants a badge of early adopter?

moving a friendica VPS server onto ubuntu 22.04 LTS

@Friendica Support @Friendica Admins
Based on the tutorial "creating a friendica server - ubuntu" by @Hank G ☑️.
IntroductionHi, I'm working on my first #friendica #VPS installation, here you'll find my [ initial post about general thoughts](squeet.me/display/962c3e10-196…) like what distro to use, size and costs. As of now I'm doing well in the process and want to start this post to document differences and questions while installing the server. This server is going to host an already existing friendica node I have to move from another hosting provider. That means that for example the DB doesn't have to be created from scratch but moved and other smaller details. I will try to address the different steps of installation in answers to this post and appreciate help, ideas and observations.
Server specs and friendica version used:
VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk
Friendica [STABLE] | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
Installation environmentThe only reasonable way to work with a VPSserver on the web is using the console. If you are not familiar with that don't worry, it is easy and the only thing you have to do is being able to copy/paste the commands displayed. On the console you wont be able to copy/paste with the keyboard ctrl-C/ctrl-V technique, you'll have to use the mouse "right click, chose option" technique. This tutorial was created on a #debian #linux desktop environment. There shouldn't be differences if you want to do this from a #windows machine. The method used for communication between your local computer and the VPS server is called #SSH: *Wikipedia - Secure Shell: "Cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers."*
Basic definitions for to work with the console:

user@localPC:~$ ----------------> your computer
rootname@VPShosting:~# ---> your VPS server
www-data@VPShosting:~$ --> the user name of the friendica installation on the apache VPS server

#fediVerse #tutorial #fediHelp #activityPub
@TupambAdmin [stable] @Tutorial

@helpers@forum.friendi.ca

Server specs and friendica version used:
VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk
Friendica [STABLE] | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518

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2023-10-17 13:04:10

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moving a friendica VPS server onto ubuntu 22.04 LTS

@Friendica Support @Friendica Admins
Based on the tutorial "creating a friendica server - ubuntu" by @Hank G ☑️.
IntroductionHi, I'm working on my first #friendica #VPS installation, here you'll find my [ initial post about general thoughts](squeet.me/display/962c3e10-196…) like what distro to use, size and costs. As of now I'm doing well in the process and want to start this post to document differences and questions while installing the server. This server is going to host an already existing friendica node I have to move from another hosting provider. That means that for example the DB doesn't have to be created from scratch but moved and other smaller details. I will try to address the different steps of installation in answers to this post and appreciate help, ideas and observations.
Server specs and friendica version used:
VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk
Friendica [STABLE] | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
Installation environmentThe only reasonable way to work with a VPSserver on the web is using the console. If you are not familiar with that don't worry, it is easy and the only thing you have to do is being able to copy/paste the commands displayed. On the console you wont be able to copy/paste with the keyboard ctrl-C/ctrl-V technique, you'll have to use the mouse "right click, chose option" technique. This tutorial was created on a #debian #linux desktop environment. There shouldn't be differences if you want to do this from a #windows machine. The method used for communication between your local computer and the VPS server is called #SSH: *Wikipedia - Secure Shell: "Cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers."*
Basic definitions for to work with the console:

user@localPC:~$ ----------------> your computer
rootname@VPShosting:~# ---> your VPS server
www-data@VPShosting:~$ --> the user name of the friendica installation on the apache VPS server

#fediVerse #tutorial #fediHelp #activityPub
@TupambAdmin [stable] @Tutorial