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ICE has been grabbing American-born citizens and demanding to know where they were born ...

.... just because they happen to be from a latino background

They took one American man's driver's license and refused to give it back

There are almost too many stories of ICE's wild overreach, but this one struck me -- gift link: nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/hisp…

As people in the comments are pointing out, until he gets his license replaced, ICE could grab him again and he'd have no proof of American identity

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🔴 Stop au #génocide à #Gaza, l’Europe doit agir !
france24.com/fr/info-en-contin…

Gaza: départ d'une marche citoyenne Paris-Bruxelles pour dire "l'Europe doit agir!"

Une dizaine de marcheurs issus de la société civile, dont la comédienne française Corinne Masiero, se sont élancés dimanche depuis Paris derrière la banderole "Gaza: stop génocide, l'Europe doit agir!" pour rallier Bruxelles et exiger des autorités e…
France 24 (FRANCE 24)

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Then call me a fucking #AntiSemite then because... Free Palestine!$[x2 Free Palestine!]$[x3 Free Palestine!]$[x4 Free Palestine!]#FreePalestine

cm0002

2025-06-16 17:23:57

lemmy - Link to source

The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”


The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”

If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support Colorado terrorist attack.

Update (from comments): A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot:
https://
xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/19
30972170479370686

#USpol #FreePalestine #Genocide #Israel #Antisemitism #Fascism
#Palestine @palestine@a.gup.pe



Free Free Palestine!

Free Free Palestine! A space for activists and Palestinians to connect and amplify their efforts for the liberation of Palestine. Promote Palestinian solidarity events, or document and share here.
Mastodon hosted on freefree.ps

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Hands down my favorite show on television/ YouTube. There's something that's just so calming and relaxing watching these master crafstpeople work their magic. #TheRepairShop

youtu.be/6mqR6eI3Mug


Season 8 Episode 39 | The Repair Shop (Full Episode)

➤ Subscribe ➤ http://bit.ly/RepairShopYTToday, a chance for woodwork expert Will Kirk to showcase his impressive carving skills, when Wilma from Bristol arri...
YouTube

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This is truly horrible. But we have a responsibility to not look away and to acknowledge the effects of the community's choices, unfortunately.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidLong

thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-…


Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children

Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health
Julia Doubleday (The Gauntlet)

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Krieg gegen Palästinenser: Schutzlos ausgeliefert https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/502094.krieg-gegen-palästinenser-schutzlos-ausgeliefert.html

Krieg gegen Palästinenser: Schutzlos ausgeliefert

Erneut werden in Gaza Dutzende Hungernde bei dem Versuch getötet, an Essen zu gelangen. Während die Aufmerksamkeit auf der neuen Front Iran liegt, geht Israels Krieg gegen die Palästinenser unvermindert weiter.
David Siegmund-Schultze (junge Welt)

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Hilfe für Gaza: »Am Leben zu bleiben ist unbezahlbar« https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/502098.hilfe-für-gaza-am-leben-zu-bleiben-ist-unbezahlbar.html

Hilfe für Gaza: »Am Leben zu bleiben ist unbezahlbar«

Der Berliner Verein »Wir packen’s an« organisiert Trinkwasserverteilung im zerstörten und belagerten Gazastreifen. Ein Gespräch mit Mimi Khammas.
Yaro Allisat (junge Welt)

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20250616 tyson artix /home/digit % yay xlibre-server-git
1 aur/xlibre-server-git 21.1.13.r3009.942b0e96c-1 (+13 11.98)
XLibre X server
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
:: There are 2 providers available for systemd>=209:
:: Repository AUR
1) systemd-git 2) systemd-selinux

Enter a number (default=1):
==> quit!!!
-> invalid number: quit!!!

Enter a number (default=1):
==> ^C⏎
20250616 tyson artix /home/digit %


nope.


hard nope.

not with those deps.

#xlibre #systemd #systemdont

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For those who want to re-watch the 250th Army Parade in DC & those who didn't get to watch.

WATCH LIVE: Trump's military parade honoring Army's 250th birthday rolls through Washington, D.C.

youtube.com/watch?v=3-Unp5XoyX…


WATCH LIVE: Trump's military parade honoring Army's 250th birthday rolls through Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump’s military parade to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday on Saturday will bring thousands of soldiers and dozens of massive military v...
YouTube

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Gente en régimen de #autónomos en #España, ¿habéis recibido esa comunicación de la Seguridad Social informando sobre si tenéis que modificar o no vuestros códigos CNAE? Yo no he recibido nada de nada. He entrado en mi perfil de la Seguridad Social para echar un vistazo y acabo de descubrir que solo estoy dada de alta en una actividad, aunque yo realicé el alta en su momento en tres actividades distintas.

#autónomES

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People that complained about the prices of the Switch 2 but never said anything about the prices (and quality) of other companies deserve what they get. It wasn't a Nintendo problem nor it was something that we couldn't see until now. I'm not defending Nintendo, but if people just criticizes the price because it's Nintendo, sorry but you're retarded.

Other arguments that I saw were that Nintendo couldn't put those prices because those games weren't as good in quality as Sony games.

:anubis_sigh:

I wanted to talk about this since I saw the release, and I finally got the time to spit it out.

This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Christi Junior

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Supah!

I think that people that say that are the faggots that believe that "video games are art" and shit like that.

>dude have you seen the new god of war it looks so good i mean the graphics are so cool and the history is so deep nothing compared to those baby games that you play

Being totally honest I would prefer to pay $80 to play the new Mario Kart rather than to play any of the modern AAA games. Do they look better in graphics? Yes. Do they a have cool and deep story? Maybe. But, are any of those games fun to play? Absolutely no.

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The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”
The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”

If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support Colorado terrorist attack.

Update (from comments): A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot:
https://
xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/19
30972170479370686

#USpol #FreePalestine #Genocide #Israel #Antisemitism #Fascism
#Palestine @palestine@a.gup.pe

Free Free Palestine!

Free Free Palestine! A space for activists and Palestinians to connect and amplify their efforts for the liberation of Palestine. Promote Palestinian solidarity events, or document and share here.
Mastodon hosted on freefree.ps

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Patreon, a creator monetization platform that offers membership programs and digital goods, announced on Monday that it is changing its pricing structure.

Currently, Patreon takes an 8% cut or a 12% cut from creators, depending on their selected tier — though the 8% plan is far more popular.

The new pricing plan instead offers one universal tier, which keeps 10% of creator earnings.

Existing Patreon creators need not worry — this price increase will only affect creators who publish a new Patreon page on August 4, 2025.

“Since we last updated our prices six years ago, Patreon has expanded beyond just payments to include media hosting, community, and discovery,” the company wrote in a blog post.

Price increases are never particularly popular announcements to make, but Patreon has a point — it has added a slew of new features over the last several years. These include native video hosting, livestreaming, free memberships, digital goods sales, and gift subscriptions.

Still, if you’ve ever considered setting up a Patreon account…you may want to get on that in the next few weeks and lock in that 8% rate.

techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/patr…

#Patreon #Buymeacoffee #Tech #News #Creator


Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators | TechCrunch

Patreon is bumping its take fee from creators from 8% to 10%, but only for new signups.
Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)

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Outstanding Cuban Performance in Spanish Club Track and Field Tournament radiohc.cu/en/noticias/deporte…

Outstanding Cuban Performance in Spanish Club Track and Field Tournament

The participation of Liadagmis Povea and Aslín Quiala marked today the best of Cuba in the final of the Spanish Club Athletics Championship, among women, held in Soria.
Javier Pérez Jimenez (Radio Habana Cuba)

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Israeli police detained protesters against the war in Haifa: 'To Stop the War' is something that is not legal to put on a shirt.’”

#Haaretz is reporting that a police officer was recorded telling the protesters in Haifa that the shirts they were wearing, with the slogan “To Stop the War,” were illegal. “These shirts are illegal. You are are now leaving the area,” she said, “'To Stop the War' is something that is not legal to put on a shirt.”

The demonstration where the officer was recorded took place in the Hadar neighborhood, calling for an end to the war between #Israel and #Iran, as well as the war in the #Gaza Strip. Only a few protesters participated.

xcancel.com/haaretznewsvid/sta…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide

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Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier

Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Caring Minds United

Scientists have spent four years diving deep into the world of remote work and stumbled upon a powerful truth: working from home genuinely makes us
Egna Perez (Caring Minds United)

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A Chinese new Bretton Woods? - Yanis Varoufakis diem25.org/a-chinese-new-brett…

Tags: #dandelíon #geopolitics #imperialism #EU

via dandelion* client (Source)


GitHub - gsantner/dandelion: a unofficial diaspora* client for Android

a unofficial diaspora* client for Android. Contribute to gsantner/dandelion development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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Jacobins : pourquoi tant de haine ? lvsl.fr/jacobins-pourquoi-tant…

Cette association entre jacobinisme et « centralisation féroce » naît avec la légende noire forgée après le renversement de Robespierre et de ses partisans. De la même manière que les thermidoriens3 inventèrent l’existence d’un « système de terreur », ils créèrent de toutes pièces le mythe d’une centralisation à outrance de l’administration, qui aurait été réalisée par Robespierre pour régner en despote. Les travaux de Jean-Clément Martin ont déjà fait un sort à cette idée. Ils ont notamment démontré la grande difficulté pour la Convention de contrôler – non seulement le territoire français dont des pans entiers étaient insurgés contre elle, voire occupés par des troupes étrangères – mais aussi ses propres troupes et agents, munis de consignes floues qui les rendaient relativement autonomes sur le terrain.

Tags: #dandelíon #politique #histoire #révolution #jacobinisme #Robespierre

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Jacobins : pourquoi tant de haine ?

« Cet air de liberté au-delà des frontières, aux peuples étrangers qui donnaient le vertige et dont vous usurpez aujourd’hui le prestige, elle répond toujours du nom de Robespierre : ma France ».
Simon Férelloc (Le Vent Se Lève)

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Chinese retail Sales rose 6.4%, Manufacturing output rose 5.8% in May year-on-year.

Bloomberg saltily admits: 'Overall, economists said the world’s second largest economy had weathered the threat of hikes in tariffs relatively well'.

bnnbloomberg.ca/business/econo…

#china #economy


China gets boost in retail sales as export goods stay home, while tariffs hit factory output

China’s economy managed a mixed economic performance in May, as retail sales jumped while factory output slowed in the face of higher U.S. tariffs.
The Associated Press (BNN Bloomberg)

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ESA teams up with Leonardo against satnav jamming


Press Release N° 36-2025

Uninterrupted access to satellite navigation is essential in our modern world, but it is threatened daily by external interference, such as jamming and spoofing. New technologies and concepts can help increase the resilience of our satellite navigation solutions. ESA and Leonardo are embarking on a joint project to explore smart antennas powered by Machine Learning to block unwanted signals

#navigaton #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
GitLab

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First artificial solar eclipse in space


image

Video: 00:01:40

Proba-3 artificially created what is normally a rare natural phenomenon: a total solar eclipse.

In a world first, ESA’s Proba-3 satellites flew in perfect formation, blocking the Sun’s bright disc to reveal its fiery corona. This enigmatic outer layer burns millions of degrees hotter than the Sun’s surface and drives the solar storms that can disrupt life on Earth.

With its first artificial eclipse, Proba-3 has captured detailed images of this mysterious region, offering scientists new insights into our star’s behaviour.

Read the full story here.

Access the related broadcast qality footage.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
GitLab

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Hundreds of Iranian 'shaheds' head toward Israel, awaiting ballistic missile launch en.reseauinternational.net/des…

Hundreds of Iranian 'shaheds' head toward Israel, awaiting ballistic missile launch - Réseau International

Reporter: In anticipation of an Israeli strike against Iran, the United States has deployed F-15 fighter jets to Jordan to destroy Tehran's missiles, which will likely be launched in response to the IDF's actions.
Réseau International

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#music #alternative pop rock
Matching Mole - O’Caroline - 1972 ( Robert Wyatt / David Sinclair )
youtu.be/tdVkqLrsr4M

O'Caroline

Provided to YouTube by Sony Music MediaO'Caroline · Matching MoleMatching Mole℗ 1972 Sony Music Entertainment UK LimitedReleased on: 1972-09-17Composer, Lyri...
YouTube

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Trump administration pauses immigration enforcement at farms, hotels and restaurants: report en.people.cn/n3/2025/0616/c900…

Trump administration pauses immigration enforcement at farms, hotels and restaurants: report - People's Daily Online

NEW YORK, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has directed immigration
en.people.cn

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🌍 ■ Médicos Sin Fronteras urge a la UE a actuar por el patrón de genocidio y de limpieza étnica que detecta en Gaza ■ "La hipocresía de los Gobiernos de Europa alimenta el sufrimiento" en la franja palestina, afirma la ONG en una durísima comparecencia en Bruselas. Reclama una "presión real" sobre Israel para acabar con la ofensiva.
huffingtonpost.es/global/medic…

#global

El secretario general de MSF, Christopher Lockyear (centro), el coordinador de emergencias de MSF, Omar Ebeid (derecha), y la doctora Virginia Moneti, hoy en Bruselas. (OLIVIER HOSLET / EPA / EFE)
Funeral de los palestinos muertos en un incendio provocado por ataques israelíes cerca de un centro de distribución en Rafah, en el Hospital Nasser en Khan Younis, el 16 de junio de 2025. (Hatem Khaled / Reuters)

Médicos Sin Fronteras urge a la UE a actuar por el patrón de genocidio y de limpieza étnica que detecta en Gaza

La ONG Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) instó este lunes a la Unión Europea (UE) a ejercer una "presión real" a nivel político, económico y diplomático para detener los "patrones de genocidio" y de "limpieza étnica" que han observado en Gaza por parte de …
Redacción HuffPost (El HuffPost)

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I’m all-in on the Fediverse as the best way to own my own data and network. It’s based on an open standard (ActivityPub), loosely-coupled and open source services, and everyday people (and, it isn’t subject to the whims of lying, narcissistic billionaires). You can think of it as the next iteration of the open web, with social features baked in.

I’ve got a number of accounts that correspond with content that the different networks are good at – posts on Mastodon, photos on Pixelfed, reading habits on Bookwyrm. If I post something on one that I think my followers on a different network may like, I can boost it directly for them to see; or, folks can follow me on whatever platform they choose. My WordPress blog has federation switched on, too, so you can if you like follow @andypiper, and read my blog posts directly in your Fediverse platform of choice. (of course, RSS remains another excellent way to follow my blog).

By the way, if you’re curious what the buzz about the Fediverse is all about, I recommend Elena Rossini’s newsletter The Future is Federated – in the edition that was published today, she did a great job of explaining some of the interoperability between federated networks, from the perspective of, you know, just actually, using them, rather than from a deep technical angle. Worth following!


One of the other services I’ve been using is PeerTube, a federated alternative to YouTube. Up until now I’ve been on Diode Zone. However, that instance recently started to run into some storage issues, and also switched off the live broadcast feature that I’d occasionally used to stream some 3D printing and pen plotter content (this is straightforward to configure in OBS, by the way). I really appreciated my time on Diode Zone, but I’ve chosen to move across to MakerTube, a relatively newer instance dedicated to “makers, musicians, artists and DIY content creators”.

One of the core elements of the Fediverse is data ownership, and some form of portability. When I first joined Mastodon I started out at mastodon.social/@andypiper – if you visit that profile page now, you’ll find my posts starting in November 2016 and ending in November 2022, when I moved over to my current home, macaw.social – there’s a large message that points you at my current location if you look at my original profile. When I switched instances, my whole follower network went with me, seamlessly – unlike, for example, Twitter, where I lost everything when I deleted all my accounts; or Facebook, which heavily relies on its lock-in – read Cory Doctorow‘s excellent book The Internet Con to understand what’s happening there.

The current state of portability is absolutely not perfect – in the case of Mastodon, there’s a process which enables to you to migrate from one server to another, and that automatically resubscribes you to your network, and your followers to your new account, but it’s currently not technically possible to take the past posts with you (there is a W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group taskforce that is working on a more complete set of specifications for data portability that may help to improve this in the future).

Here is how I moved from Diode Zone to MakerTube:

  • Requested an account on MakerTube. They want to know who is part of the community, their content intentions, etc. I explained that I’m a maker and I also may plan to use the streaming feature.
  • Requested an export of data from Diode Zone.
    • this was technically a little bit frustrating, as it got stuck the first time (likely because I had requested it when there were earlier storage issues), but the instance owner was really kind and helped to clear the stuck process.
    • it was also a bit annoying because of the size of my export including the videos, which was a lot of gigabytes; so I ended up having to run a script that kept running wget with a resume flag to get the data in chunks.


  • Setup the basics of my new account on MakerTube.
  • Imported the export from the other instance.
  • Modified a few places that were pointing to Diode Zone, such as my links page, and also updated a few embeds that were loading videos from my previous account, such as some of the Fedidevs.org meeting recordings.


There were a couple of slightly rough edges, but nothing very significant:

  • Unlike Mastodon, PeerTube does not run a process to tell your followers that you have moved, and to resubscribe them to your new account. In my case I didn’t have a huge number of followers, but I will be posting a video there to say that I moved, and I also updated my profile information to point to the new instance. It did re-follow the accounts I had followed, but didn’t do the other side of the process.
  • The new instance imported my playlists, which was great – but some of them were playlists of my own videos, which I tend to create for curation and organisation, and of course, they still pointed at the videos on the previous instance. This was fairly straightforward to fix, just removed and re-added the videos on the new instance.

So there you are. You can follow my entire MakerTube account, my main channel, or the Fedidevs channel, if you like. I also have it set up to import future content that I may choose to post to YouTube, so that it has a free and open backup that Google can’t delete if I ever lose my account there.

I’m still frustrated that WordPress doesn’t seem to have a good integration for PeerTube content yet – I can paste a YouTube link here and get an embedded video, that’s less easy for PeerTube – but, I’m hopeful that will improve in the future.

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#100DaysToOffload #activitypub #coryDoctorow #data #diodeZone #fedidevs #fediverse #makertube #migration #portability #streaming #video #YouTube

An orange octopus juggling video screens

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: Mastodon ↔️ Pixelfed)

The secret ingredient of the Fediverse is the ActivityPub protocol and how it allows networks to talk to each other. See the magic in action!
Elena Rossini

Andy Piper

2023-07-31 12:04:45

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In November last year, I abandoned my Twitter account – I set it to private, did not visit, did not interact, ignored any direct messages, etc. It was simply too painful to watch friends and coworkers suddenly and systematically being fired, the company culture destroyed, and the developer communities that I supported for 9 years, finally cut off without support or API access. It has been a heartbreaking time.

Today, I took the last step in going back through my password manager vault and deleting all of my X/Twitter accounts. I’ve watched the shambolic rebranding over the past week, and frankly, I wish it had all happened far sooner – rather than seeing my beloved bird being dragged down, and the brand and memory ruined, piece by piece.

There are a few accounts that I share access to with others (for podcasts, sites or communities) that remain, but over the past hour or so I deleted 15 accounts, four of which had associated Twitter Developer Accounts.

Why so many?

  • Of course, I had my main account, @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url], which was first created after hanging out with my friend Roo Reynolds in his office at IBM Hursley, and hearing about Twitter, just starting to gather buzz from events like SxSW. Created February 21, 2007. The title of the blog entry I wrote that day seems accidentally prophetic (although, in truth, I do not regret it at all).
    • my jobs at VMware / Cloud Foundry in 2012, and at Twitter from 2014, were both direct results of being on Twitter, sharing my knowledge, interacting with different communities, and doing my work on the platform.
    • I’ve made countless friends through being on Twitter, and I’m grateful for that. It truly changed my life to be there.


  • Back at the start, those heady times of 2007-2009, it was not unusual to have a few accounts for fun, so certainly there were a few of those that just went away.
  • There was the time when I was copying friends like Andy Stanford-Clark and Tom Coates, and putting sensors around my house online (there’s brief mention of it in this 2009 post).
  • There were test accounts I created for projects as far back as my time doing Service Oriented Architecture things at IBM.
  • There were a couple of accounts I’d created during education sessions, literally to show others how to get started on Twitter, growing the user base.
  • There were a couple of accounts from my demo apps and projects on the @TwitterDev team, such as the IoT sensors I demonstrated on stage at the first Twitter Flight conference in 2014.
  • There were the super-sekrit accounts I had for testing features, such as the original internal test for ten thousand character Tweets (yes, this nearly happened, a long time back), the customisable Tweet Tiles we would have launched at the developer conference that was cancelled at the end of last year, and so on.

Finally, it’s time to say goodbye to my main @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url] account. Twitter is not Twitter any more, it is X – and I never signed up for X.

In the near future, I’ll upload a searchable archive of my Twitter content, likely using Darius’ Twitter Archive tool. For now, it’s all done. I’m very happy elsewhere (personal sites and links here and here), and I will not be sad that X is out of my life.

… apart from the laptops that they still have not collected!

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Links to interesting things Andy Piper is doing
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You’ve almost certainly seen those t-shirts and posters with the “ampersand” style of lists of names – these originated back in 2001 via Experimental Jetset’s design of the names of the members of The Beatles.

I had this idea that I’d love a shirt like that, with the names of the Fediverse platforms I use most often (referring back to my post about moving PeerTube instances, you’ll know I use quite a few). So, I designed one; Heidi typeset and kerned the design and vinyl cut it for me, using the Cricut Maker and heat press in the studio; and, eventually, I’d had enough expressions of interest that we went ahead and put a printed version up on our studio shop.

Get a t-shirt celebrating some popular #fediverse platforms, available to purchase from @forgeandcraft #fedigiftshop #maker shop.forgeandcraft.co.uk/produ…

— Andy Piper (@andypiper) 2024-06-30T10:57:52.405Z


I’m really happy with the way this came out. I’ve also designed a few other shirts (albeit, not Fediverse-related), so those may hit the shop in the future.

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#100DaysToOffload #apparel #fediverse #forgeAndCraft #tshirt

John & Paul & Ringo & George / &&& T-shirt

Experimental Jetset’s archetypical band shirts have become a referential meme, inspiring countless adaptations for text-based abstraction.
fontsinuse.com

Andy Piper

2024-07-25 14:51:54

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I’m all-in on the Fediverse as the best way to own my own data and network. It’s based on an open standard (ActivityPub), loosely-coupled and open source services, and everyday people (and, it isn’t subject to the whims of lying, narcissistic billionaires). You can think of it as the next iteration of the open web, with social features baked in.

I’ve got a number of accounts that correspond with content that the different networks are good at – posts on Mastodon, photos on Pixelfed, reading habits on Bookwyrm. If I post something on one that I think my followers on a different network may like, I can boost it directly for them to see; or, folks can follow me on whatever platform they choose. My WordPress blog has federation switched on, too, so you can if you like follow @andypiper, and read my blog posts directly in your Fediverse platform of choice. (of course, RSS remains another excellent way to follow my blog).

By the way, if you’re curious what the buzz about the Fediverse is all about, I recommend Elena Rossini’s newsletter The Future is Federated – in the edition that was published today, she did a great job of explaining some of the interoperability between federated networks, from the perspective of, you know, just actually, using them, rather than from a deep technical angle. Worth following!


One of the other services I’ve been using is PeerTube, a federated alternative to YouTube. Up until now I’ve been on Diode Zone. However, that instance recently started to run into some storage issues, and also switched off the live broadcast feature that I’d occasionally used to stream some 3D printing and pen plotter content (this is straightforward to configure in OBS, by the way). I really appreciated my time on Diode Zone, but I’ve chosen to move across to MakerTube, a relatively newer instance dedicated to “makers, musicians, artists and DIY content creators”.

One of the core elements of the Fediverse is data ownership, and some form of portability. When I first joined Mastodon I started out at mastodon.social/@andypiper – if you visit that profile page now, you’ll find my posts starting in November 2016 and ending in November 2022, when I moved over to my current home, macaw.social – there’s a large message that points you at my current location if you look at my original profile. When I switched instances, my whole follower network went with me, seamlessly – unlike, for example, Twitter, where I lost everything when I deleted all my accounts; or Facebook, which heavily relies on its lock-in – read Cory Doctorow‘s excellent book The Internet Con to understand what’s happening there.

The current state of portability is absolutely not perfect – in the case of Mastodon, there’s a process which enables to you to migrate from one server to another, and that automatically resubscribes you to your network, and your followers to your new account, but it’s currently not technically possible to take the past posts with you (there is a W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group taskforce that is working on a more complete set of specifications for data portability that may help to improve this in the future).

Here is how I moved from Diode Zone to MakerTube:

  • Requested an account on MakerTube. They want to know who is part of the community, their content intentions, etc. I explained that I’m a maker and I also may plan to use the streaming feature.
  • Requested an export of data from Diode Zone.
    • this was technically a little bit frustrating, as it got stuck the first time (likely because I had requested it when there were earlier storage issues), but the instance owner was really kind and helped to clear the stuck process.
    • it was also a bit annoying because of the size of my export including the videos, which was a lot of gigabytes; so I ended up having to run a script that kept running wget with a resume flag to get the data in chunks.


  • Setup the basics of my new account on MakerTube.
  • Imported the export from the other instance.
  • Modified a few places that were pointing to Diode Zone, such as my links page, and also updated a few embeds that were loading videos from my previous account, such as some of the Fedidevs.org meeting recordings.


There were a couple of slightly rough edges, but nothing very significant:

  • Unlike Mastodon, PeerTube does not run a process to tell your followers that you have moved, and to resubscribe them to your new account. In my case I didn’t have a huge number of followers, but I will be posting a video there to say that I moved, and I also updated my profile information to point to the new instance. It did re-follow the accounts I had followed, but didn’t do the other side of the process.
  • The new instance imported my playlists, which was great – but some of them were playlists of my own videos, which I tend to create for curation and organisation, and of course, they still pointed at the videos on the previous instance. This was fairly straightforward to fix, just removed and re-added the videos on the new instance.

So there you are. You can follow my entire MakerTube account, my main channel, or the Fedidevs channel, if you like. I also have it set up to import future content that I may choose to post to YouTube, so that it has a free and open backup that Google can’t delete if I ever lose my account there.

I’m still frustrated that WordPress doesn’t seem to have a good integration for PeerTube content yet – I can paste a YouTube link here and get an embedded video, that’s less easy for PeerTube – but, I’m hopeful that will improve in the future.

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I’m at Homecamp at Imperial College in London today – learning about home automation and energy monitoring. There’s an amazing group of people here. Follow the Twitter stream or watch it on uStream.

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As I previously mentioned, on Saturday I went along to HomeCamp 08 in London, organised by Chris Dalby and Dale Lane, and sponsored by Current Cost and Redmonk.

Low power gadgets

I was pretty actively commenting from the event and taking part in the live uStream channel… others have written up some of their experiences and thoughts, so I don’t propose to say much here. My main contribution was to make a (shaky!) video of Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk towards the start of the morning – a half hour overview of his home automation projects. I’ve posted it on Viddler, and if you are interested you are very welcome to comment on it, embed it in your own sites, or add annotations on the video timeline.

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The nice part about Viddler over, say, YouTube is that it let me post the whole thing as a single video rather than having to chop it up into 10 minute chunks. I’ll try to post some notes on how I went about producing the video at some stage soon.

Some very general comments on the day:

  • Well-organised, well-run, great venue, nice to have wireless access – thanks to everyone involved in the logistics!
  • A brilliant, exciting array of skills, talents and interests. It was kind of funny to realise just how many of the folks I knew of as we were doing introductions at the start, and great to find that it wasn’t only a bunch of IBM hackers – this movement is really building momentum.
  • A lot of fun… I only wish my hacking skills were greater – but I’m looking forward to contributing and generating ideas in this community.

That’s it from me. Really looking forward to HomeCamp 09!

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IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, has been speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York today. He’s been discussing how the planet is getting smarter:

These collective realizations have reminded us that we are all now connected – economically, technically and socially. But we’re also learning that being connected is not sufficient. Yes, the world continues to get “flatter.” And yes, it continues to get smaller and more interconnected. But something is happening that holds even greater potential. In a word, our planet is becoming smarter.


In the speech, Sam talks about how the world has become instrumented, more interconnected, and devices more intelligent. And he talks about how the current world crises – ecological, financial, and others – represent an opportunity for change. The next step for the globally integrated economy is a globally integrated and intelligent economy and society.

Some of the problems and solutions that are being mentioned are interesting.

67 per cent of all electrical energy is lost due to inefficient power generation and grid management… utilities in the U.S., Denmark, Australia and Italy are now building digital grids to monitor the energy system in real time.

Congested roadways in the U.S. cost $78 billion annually in wasted hours and gas… Stockholm’s new smart toll system has resulted in 22 percent less traffic, a 12 to 40 percent drop in emissions and 40,000 additional daily users of the public transport system


This is exciting for me on many levels. Let me step up through them.

As regular readers will know, I’ve become increasingly interested in pervasive computing and home automation. The little “Current Cost craze” that has swept through my group of friends at work could be seen as a mark of the individual interest in applying technology in a smarter way. I’m excited that this has widened out to a group of folks who are supporting Chris Dalby’s Home Camp idea in London later this month.

Secondly, beyond this individual approach, it ties in to some of what I heard at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin… people talking about the opportunity for technology to change the way things work, from Tim O’Reilly’s keynote on the way forward for Internet technology and innovative thinking, to Tom Raftery’s brilliant GreenMonk pitch on Electricity 2.0.

STOP Studying the world. START Transforming it.

Finally, and most broadly, it’s a hopeful vision which resonates when lately, things do sometimes appear bleak.

Technology can help society. Let’s go and make it happen.

New York Times article on Sam Palmisano’s speech

YouTube Smarter Planet videos

Update: a couple more links, if you want to get involved…

Smarter Planet on FriendFeed

Smarter Planet on Tumblr

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Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: Opening Keynote

First on stage were hosts Brady Forrest [http://radar.oreilly.com/brady/] of O’Reilly Media [http://oreilly.com/] and Jennifer Pahlka [http://blog.pahlka.com/] of TechWeb [http://www.techweb.com/home].
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2008-04-27 19:50:15

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Current Cost meterThe buzz
There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.

Rich, James, Nick and Ian have all written about their Current Cost meters already, amid much twittering and the support of @andysc.

The product
The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature.Current Cost meter The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.

Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.

Update: Roo points out that Eco Gadget Shop have them for sale to consumers, minus data cable.

The impact

One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).

Current Cost graph

It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.

The ideas

I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!

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Current Cost meterThe buzz
There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.

Rich, James, Nick and Ian have all written about their Current Cost meters already, amid much twittering and the support of @andysc.

The product
The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature.Current Cost meter The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.

Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.

Update: Roo points out that Eco Gadget Shop have them for sale to consumers, minus data cable.

The impact

One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).

Current Cost graph

It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.

The ideas

I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!

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For a while now I’ve wanted to be able to check my CurrentCost meter‘s graphs on my iPhone.

Up until now I’ve been hooked up to the “Hursley mothership” and been publishing my data to a central dashboard. Unfortunately, although that draws some pretty graphs, it runs in Java and therefore isn’t supported in Mobile Safari on the phone.

This is still a work in progress, but with a combination of Ubuntu running on a Viglen MPC-L, rrdtool for gathering and graphing the stats, and the iWebKit framework for creating the user interface, I now have a simple iPhone-optimised web application which lets me view the graphs. All that’s happening here is that the data from the serial port is being dropped into rrdtool and graphs generated; and then Apache / PHP is serving up an optimised dashboard for looking at the graphs.

I just mentioned about three different topics I really should blog about in more detail (MPC-L, rrdtool, and iWebKit) but that will all have to wait.

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Current Cost meterThe buzz
There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to see exactly what their energy usage is and, hopefully, modify behaviour to save electricity accordingly. The idea, simply, is that it provides real-time information about energy consumption.

Rich, James, Nick and Ian have all written about their Current Cost meters already, amid much twittering and the support of @andysc.

The product
The device itself comes in two parts. The unit that goes inside the house is a wireless LCD display which shows the current usage in watts, the current estimated cost per day assuming that usage is maintained, a bar chart with yesterday’s usage, overall KWH in the past day and month, and the time and temperature.Current Cost meter The other half of the device is a somewhat larger and heavier transmitter (shown at the top of the picture, the top of the two black boxes inside our cupboard) which sits next to the electricity meter, with a clip that gently attaches around the cable (you can see that hanging off the cable at the bottom of the picture). The product is completely non-invasive and it’s incredibly easy for anyone to install: there’s no rewiring, just a clip. I was extremely impressed. It “just worked”.

Update: I should point out, given some comments, that we’re using an early batch of the meters and I’m not certain when they will be generally available.

Update: Roo points out that Eco Gadget Shop have them for sale to consumers, minus data cable.

The impact

One of the other features of the device is that it can be plugged in to a computer, and the data can then be captured and analysed over time. We are using some homebrew software to do this, pulling the data from the serial port (most of the meters use 9600 baud, it turns out that mine is set to 2400 for some reason).

Current Cost graph

It’s kind of scary to see some of the spikes in the graph, and just watching this has certainly made me adjust my behaviour in terms of switching things off and unplugging chargers and so on when they are not in use. We’ve all got our meters hooked up via a Microbroker, and this has been my first opportunity to really play around with MQTT technology… I’ve obviously been aware of it for a very long time, but it’s nice to have something tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating stuff.

The ideas

I have a bunch of thoughts about this. I have it hooked up to an old Linux box, but I’ve also successfully attached it to my Macbook Pro and a Windows Thinkpad. Currently the software is sending the MQTT data to a Microbroker and a Java app is drawing the graph shown above, but it would be fairly straightforward, for example, to squirrel the data locally and do some interesting analytics using Project Zero (aka WebSphere sMash) and some AJAX-y Google Chart goodness. I can also capture ambient temperature over time. It’s all just a matter of finding the hacking opportunity!

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One of the first Hursley-related things I wrote about here and on the eightbar blog back in 2006 was how much I enjoy helping with our annual schools event for National Science and Engineering Week in the UK – Blue Fusion (the event website has gone AWOL at the moment but here’s a link to the press release).

This year was no exception, and referring back to my old blog entries it turns out that this is now the fifth year that I’ve been a volunteer. Unfortunately I only had room in my schedule to spend one day helping this time around, so I chose to host a school for the day rather than spending all day on a single activity (that way, I got to see all of the different things we had on offer).

So, yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting six intelligent and polite students from Malvern St James School and their teachers – they had travelled a fair distance to come to the event, but despite the early start I think they did really well.

I won’t go into too much detail and spoil the fun for people who might read this but have not yet taken part in this week’s event, but I think we had some great activities on offer. I twittered our way through a few of them. My own personal favourite was a remote surgery activity. You can’t see much in this image (it was a dark room) but the students basically had a “body” inside a box with some remote cameras to guide their hands around and had to identify organs and foreign objects.

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There was also some interesting application of visual technology / tangible interfaces – a genetics exercise using LEGO bricks and a camera which identified gene strands, and an energy planning exercise which used Reactivision-style markers to identify where power stations had been placed on a map (sort of similar to what we built in SLorpedo at Hackday a couple of years ago). We also had some logic puzzles to solve, built a, err… “typhoon-proof” (ahem) tower, simulated a computer processor, and commanded a colony of ants in a battle for survival against the other school teams.

Things I learned

  1. Facebook (not Bebo) is now where it’s at.
  2. If a tornado is coming, get out of the way or into a safe room.
  3. Girls are much better than boys at listening to multiple streams of conversation (actually I think I worked this out a long time ago!).

A now, some notes just for my team…

Here are links to a few of the other things we talked about during the day:

And most importantly, here’s the evidence that we started off in first place 🙂 and I think you were an awesome team throughout. Well done, it was brilliant spending the day with you.

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For a while now I’ve wanted to be able to check my CurrentCost meter‘s graphs on my iPhone.

Up until now I’ve been hooked up to the “Hursley mothership” and been publishing my data to a central dashboard. Unfortunately, although that draws some pretty graphs, it runs in Java and therefore isn’t supported in Mobile Safari on the phone.

This is still a work in progress, but with a combination of Ubuntu running on a Viglen MPC-L, rrdtool for gathering and graphing the stats, and the iWebKit framework for creating the user interface, I now have a simple iPhone-optimised web application which lets me view the graphs. All that’s happening here is that the data from the serial port is being dropped into rrdtool and graphs generated; and then Apache / PHP is serving up an optimised dashboard for looking at the graphs.

I just mentioned about three different topics I really should blog about in more detail (MPC-L, rrdtool, and iWebKit) but that will all have to wait.

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Voting in the threadiverse

Hi,

i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.

Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...

Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...

There is also also website that compare software or video as tournesol.app/

  • Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
  • Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
  • What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
  • What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

Tournesol

Compare online content and contribute to the development of responsible content recommendations.
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Meltdown doesn't like this.

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Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?


Making them private is absolute idiotic. People participating in a discussion forum are willing to engage in a public conversation, if you are not willing to respond in public, then don't respond at all. And if you think that the original comment is in bad faith or harmful to the community, report it and move on.

Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?


"Votes" are not real votes. It's just a terrible misnomer for "Liking" and "Disliking". I think we should get rid of votes altogether and use the real vocabulary.

I'd also would like a system where users could define their own scoring algorithm, and I would like to assign different weights depending on the person and the topic/community. I for one think that downvotes (dislikes) should only be counted if you are a member of the community and if you have made a positive contribution to the discussion.

What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?


I'd like to be able to follow people just to see what they are liking/commenting on. Also, given that this is a discussion forum, I wonder whether we could build a wiki-like system where people could annotate parts of a comment/post and challenge/elaborate/investigate specific parts of an statement. This could be used either for a "Change My View" style of discussion or even full-on adversarial collaboration projects.

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Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?


Public. Lots of downvotes is information that could indicate that the commenter is lying, or just saying something unpopular. But either way, it's information. Before youtube started hiding downvotes, it was easy to tell that a video was full of it based on downvotes. Now clickbait dominates the platform.

Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?


No. I agree that the slashdot method with more than just upvote/downvote is better. In a perfect world I imagine we could have every emoji be a reaction option, and then you could sort by putting an emoji in a bar at the top. In reality I imagine this would be a challenge from a backend perspective, but maybe like the top 5 or 10 emoji reactions could be an option for selection.

What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?


I'll do the opposite and say - please do not remove downvotes like Twitter/Bluesky/mastodon etc. Downvotes are super important. People need to be able to boo, the only place people aren't allowed to boo are in church or at cult rallies. And that's why those platforms are especially bad for misinformation, hyperbole, and overall depravity.

What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?


Remove all as a forced/default option on the main page. Back in the day before reddit had r/all, communities were much more diverse and niche, and this helped separate communities flourish in their own way. When r/all was added, the content started to resemble twitter, if not just becoming screenshots of twitter, on just about every sub. This actually improves discoverability because it would force users to branch out and look at subs instead of just looking at what's on all.

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I’m in San Francisco today for the launch of a new company – Pivotal.

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Pivotal is bringing together a number of key technology assets – our Open Source cloud platform (Cloud Foundry), agile development frameworks like Spring, Groovy and Grails, a messaging fabric (RabbitMQ), and big, fast data assets like PivotalHD.

I’ll be live tweeting from the event, where Paul Maritz our CEO will be introducing the company and vision. You can also follow the @gopivotal Twitter ID, and check out the new website.

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My boss and mentor, James Watters, just blogged about the launch of what we’ve been working on since before Pivotal was formed earlier this year – Pivotal One, powered by Pivotal CF (based on Cloud Foundry).

As I wrote back in April…

Pivotal is bringing together a number of key technology assets – our Open Source cloud platform (Cloud Foundry), agile development frameworks like Spring, Groovy and Grails, a messaging fabric (RabbitMQ), and big, fast data assets like Pivotal HD.


What we’re announcing today delivers on that promise and our vision – the consumer-grade enterprise, enabling organisations to create new applications with unprecedented speed. The cloud – infrastructure clouds, IaaS like Amazon EC2, VMware vSphere, OpenStack, CloudStack, etc – can be thought of as the new hardware. It’s like buying a beige server box back in the 90s – the IaaS layer gives you a bunch of CPU, network, and storage resources, and for your application to use them, you need a layer in between – an operating system, if you like. We’ve spoken of our ambition for Cloud Foundry as “the Linux of the Cloud”, and it already runs on all of those infrastructures I’ve listed above – in the future, hopefully more.

Why is that important? Why should developers care about this Platform (PaaS) layer? A development team shouldn’t have to go through an 18 month delivery cycle to deliver an app! We’re putting an end to the whole cycle of calling up the infrastructure team, having new servers commissioned, operating systems installed, databases configured etc etc just to get an application deployed and running. When you first push an application to Cloud Foundry, and can then bind data services and scale out with simple individual commands, it really is a liberating experience compared to what traditionally has been required to get your application running. We’re making it quicker and easier to get going – a friction-free, turnkey experience. You should just be able to write your code and make something amazing.

We’re also delivering choice – of runtimes and languages, data services, and also importantly, a choice of “virtual hardware”. When Comic Relief ran in the UK this year, in order to avoid any risk of hardware failure (we all know there’s a risk that Amazon might go down), the applications were deployed on Cloud Foundry running on both Amazon EC2 with geographical redundancy, and on VMware vSphere – no lock-in to any cloud provider, and the developers didn’t have to learn all of the differences of operating different infrastructures, they just pushed their code. We’re happy to know that it was a very successful year for the Comic Relief charity, and that Cloud Foundry helped.

Pivotal One also includes some amazing data technologies – Pivotal HD (a simple to manage Hadoop distribution) and Pivotal AX (analytics for the enterprise). We recognise that as well as building applications, you need to store and analyse the data, so rather than just shipping a Cloud Foundry product, we roll up both the elastic scalable runtime, cutting-edge technologies like Spring.io, and and our big data offerings. That’s different from many of the others in the same market. We’ve been running our own hosted cloud, now available at run.pivotal.io, on AWS for over a year now, so we’ve learned a lot about running systems at scale and Pivotal One can do just that.

Above all, I wanted to say just how excited I am to be part of this amazing team. It is an honour to work with some incredibly talented engineers and leaders. I’m also personally excited that our commercial and our open source ecosystems continue to grow, including large organisations like IBM, SAP, Piston … it’s a long list. We took out an ad in the Wall Street Journal to thank them. I also want to thank our community of individual contributors (the Colins, Matts, Davids, Dr Nics, Yudais… etc etc!) many of whom, coincidentally for me, are in the UK – check out the very cool Github community where some of their projects are shared.

I’m convinced that this Platform is the way forward. It’s going to be an even more exciting year ahead.

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I’m in San Francisco today for the launch of a new company – Pivotal.

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Pivotal is bringing together a number of key technology assets – our Open Source cloud platform (Cloud Foundry), agile development frameworks like Spring, Groovy and Grails, a messaging fabric (RabbitMQ), and big, fast data assets like PivotalHD.

I’ll be live tweeting from the event, where Paul Maritz our CEO will be introducing the company and vision. You can also follow the @gopivotal Twitter ID, and check out the new website.

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In late 2011, I was contacted by a very charming, smart and persuasive French gentleman who spoke of clouds, platform-as-a-service, and polyglot programming. It took him and his team a couple of months to get me thinking seriously about a career change, after 10 great years at IBM. I’d spent that period with “Big Blue” coding in Java and C, and primarily focused on enterprise application servers, message queueing, and integration – and yet the lure of how easy vmc push[1] made it for me to deploy and scale an app was astounding! Should I make the transition to a crazy new world? Over Christmas that year, I decided it would be a good thing to get in on this hot new technology and join VMware as Developer Advocate on the Cloud Foundry team. I joined the team early in 2012.

The Cloud Foundry adventure has been amazing. The day after I joined the team, the project celebrated its first anniversary, and we announced the BOSH continuous deployment tool; I spent much of that first year with the team on a whirlwind of events and speaking engagements, growing the community. The Developer Relations team that Patrick Chanezon and Adam Fitzgerald put together was super talented, and it was brilliant to be part of that group. Peter, Chris, Josh, Monica, Raja, Rajdeep, Alvaro, Eric, Frank, Tamao, Danny, Chloe, D, Giorgio, friends in that extended team… it was an honour.

A year after I joined, VMware spun out Cloud Foundry, SpringSource and other technologies into a new company, Pivotal – headed up by Paul Maritz. I’ve been privileged to work under him, Rob Mee at Pivotal Labs, and most closely, my good friend James Watters on the Cloud Foundry team. I’ve seen the opening of our new London offices on Old Street, welcomed our partners and customers into that unique collaborative and pairing environment, and observed an explosion of activity and innovation in this space. We launched an amazing product. James Bayer heads up a remarkable group of technologists working full-time on Cloud Foundry, and it has been a pleasure to get to know him and his team. Most recently, I’ve loved every minute working with Cornelia, Ferdy, Matt, Sabha and Scott (aka the Platform Engineering team), another talented group of individuals from whom I’ve learned much.

Over the course of the last two years I’ve seen the Platform-as-a-Service space grow, establish itself, and develop – most recently resulting in my recent talk at bcs Oxfordshire:

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Last week, we announced the forthcoming Cloud Foundry Foundation – and one could argue that as a community and Open Source kinda guy, this was the direction I’ve helped to move things in the past two years, although I can claim no credit at all for the Foundation announcement itself. I’ve certainly enjoyed hosting occasional London Cloud Foundry Community meetups and drinks events (note, next London PaaS User Group event has 2 CF talks!), and I’ve made some great friends locally and internationally through the ongoing growth of the project. I’m proud of the Platform event we put on last year, I think the upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit will be just as exciting, and I’m happy to have been a part of establishing and growing the CF community here in Europe.

Cloud Foundry is THE de facto Open Source PaaS standard, the ecosystem is strong and innovative, and that has been achieved in a transparent and collaborative way, respectful to the community, in a good-natured way in the face of competition. Rest assured that I’ll continue to watch the project and use PaaSes which implement it (I upgraded to a paid Pivotal Web Services account just this past week, I tried BlueMix, and I’m an ongoing fan of the Anynines team).

There are many missing shout-outs here… you folks know who you are, and should also know that I’ve deeply enjoyed learning from you and working with you. Thank you, Pivotal team! I do not intend to be a stranger to the Bay Area! In my opinion, Pivotal is positioned brilliantly in offering an end-to-end mobile, agile development, cloud platform and big data story for the enterprise. I look forward to continuing the conversations around that in the next couple of weeks.

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What happens after “the next couple of weeks”? Well, this is as good time as any (!) to close that chapter, difficult though it is to leave behind a team I’ve loved working with, on a product and project that is undoubtedly going to continue to be fantastically successful this year and beyond. So, it is time to announce my next steps, which may or may not be clear from the title of this post… 🙂
Joining Twitter!
I joined Twitter as a user on Feb 21 2007. On the same day, seven years later, I accepted a job offer to go and work with the Twitter team as a Developer Advocate, based in London.

If you’ve been a long-term follower of mine either here on this blog, or on Twitter, or elsewhere, you’ll know that Twitter is one of my favourite tools online. It has been transformational in my life and career, and it changed many of my interactions. True story: between leaving IBM and joining VMware I presented at Digital Bristol about social technologies, and I was asked, which one I would miss the most if it went away tomorrow; the answer was simple: Twitter. As an Open Source guy, too, I’ve always been impressed with Twitter’s contributions to the broader community.

I couldn’t be more #excited to get started with the Twitter Developer Relations team in April!

Follow me on Twitter – @andypiper – to learn more about my next adventure…

[1] vmc is dead, long live cf!

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My boss and mentor, James Watters, just blogged about the launch of what we’ve been working on since before Pivotal was formed earlier this year – Pivotal One, powered by Pivotal CF (based on Cloud Foundry).

As I wrote back in April…

Pivotal is bringing together a number of key technology assets – our Open Source cloud platform (Cloud Foundry), agile development frameworks like Spring, Groovy and Grails, a messaging fabric (RabbitMQ), and big, fast data assets like Pivotal HD.


What we’re announcing today delivers on that promise and our vision – the consumer-grade enterprise, enabling organisations to create new applications with unprecedented speed. The cloud – infrastructure clouds, IaaS like Amazon EC2, VMware vSphere, OpenStack, CloudStack, etc – can be thought of as the new hardware. It’s like buying a beige server box back in the 90s – the IaaS layer gives you a bunch of CPU, network, and storage resources, and for your application to use them, you need a layer in between – an operating system, if you like. We’ve spoken of our ambition for Cloud Foundry as “the Linux of the Cloud”, and it already runs on all of those infrastructures I’ve listed above – in the future, hopefully more.

Why is that important? Why should developers care about this Platform (PaaS) layer? A development team shouldn’t have to go through an 18 month delivery cycle to deliver an app! We’re putting an end to the whole cycle of calling up the infrastructure team, having new servers commissioned, operating systems installed, databases configured etc etc just to get an application deployed and running. When you first push an application to Cloud Foundry, and can then bind data services and scale out with simple individual commands, it really is a liberating experience compared to what traditionally has been required to get your application running. We’re making it quicker and easier to get going – a friction-free, turnkey experience. You should just be able to write your code and make something amazing.

We’re also delivering choice – of runtimes and languages, data services, and also importantly, a choice of “virtual hardware”. When Comic Relief ran in the UK this year, in order to avoid any risk of hardware failure (we all know there’s a risk that Amazon might go down), the applications were deployed on Cloud Foundry running on both Amazon EC2 with geographical redundancy, and on VMware vSphere – no lock-in to any cloud provider, and the developers didn’t have to learn all of the differences of operating different infrastructures, they just pushed their code. We’re happy to know that it was a very successful year for the Comic Relief charity, and that Cloud Foundry helped.

Pivotal One also includes some amazing data technologies – Pivotal HD (a simple to manage Hadoop distribution) and Pivotal AX (analytics for the enterprise). We recognise that as well as building applications, you need to store and analyse the data, so rather than just shipping a Cloud Foundry product, we roll up both the elastic scalable runtime, cutting-edge technologies like Spring.io, and and our big data offerings. That’s different from many of the others in the same market. We’ve been running our own hosted cloud, now available at run.pivotal.io, on AWS for over a year now, so we’ve learned a lot about running systems at scale and Pivotal One can do just that.

Above all, I wanted to say just how excited I am to be part of this amazing team. It is an honour to work with some incredibly talented engineers and leaders. I’m also personally excited that our commercial and our open source ecosystems continue to grow, including large organisations like IBM, SAP, Piston … it’s a long list. We took out an ad in the Wall Street Journal to thank them. I also want to thank our community of individual contributors (the Colins, Matts, Davids, Dr Nics, Yudais… etc etc!) many of whom, coincidentally for me, are in the UK – check out the very cool Github community where some of their projects are shared.

I’m convinced that this Platform is the way forward. It’s going to be an even more exciting year ahead.

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I’m very excited to announce that, from April 10th, I will be joining the Developer Relations team for Cloud Foundry at VMware.

This is a thrilling opportunity for me for a number of reasons.

  • from a technology perspective: Cloud Foundry is very, very, very cool. In my opinion, it really comes from a different set of thought processes than the other Platform-as-a-Service offerings out there, which make it unique and compelling.
    • the operating system stuff gets out of the way (why should it matter?), but multiple language runtimes and backend resources are available for easy scaling. Seriously, the first time I walked through the command-line tutorial and scaled a Ruby app to 6 load balanced instances with a single command, I was instantly impressed.
    • it is Open Source. The code is on Github. You can run your own cloud if you like. You can add support for your own languages and frameworks, much as AppFog have done for PHP, Tier 3 and Uhuru have done with .NET in Iron Foundry, and so on. This provides a huge amount of flexibility. Oh, and of course mobile and cloud go hand-in-hand, so last week’s announcement of FeedHenry providing tools to develop HTML5 apps to deploy on Cloud Foundry was really significant, too.
    • you can take your cloud with you using Micro Cloud Foundry – so the development and deployment model remains the same whether you are online or offline. I love this idea.


  • for me, personally: it’s a natural evolution of much of the work I’ve been doing over the past few years – focusing on developer communities and promoting technology adoption, as much as top-down solution selling. As my good friend James Governor is fond of saying and as his colleague Steve O’Grady wrote, developers are the new kingmakers – and with trends like mobile, cloud, and devops, nurturing those communities is more important than ever. You don’t impose technology on a community – you explain it and earn your place and reputation.
  • I’m looking forward to more speaking, more writing, more mentoring, and more online community building. These are things I’ve grown to enjoy (and in the case of the latter, appear to do naturally).
  • I’ve followed Patrick Chanezon, the Senior Director of the team, since he was setting up the developer advocacy programme back at Google – I have a lot of respect for what he’s achieved and the way he operates, so I’m delighted to have the chance to work closely with him. I’m excited to join everyone in the team, of course – I have spoken with most of the group already and I’m really looking forward to learning from their diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.

Between now and April 10th, I have a few things planned including a vacation (!), heading to EclipseCon to talk about MQTT and M2M topics, and some other speaking engagements. After I start the new role, I expect I’ll join in on the Cloud Foundry Open Tour and start to meet folks. I’ll also be on the team for the GOTO conference in Aarhus in October – exciting times ahead!

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In November last year, I abandoned my Twitter account – I set it to private, did not visit, did not interact, ignored any direct messages, etc. It was simply too painful to watch friends and coworkers suddenly and systematically being fired, the company culture destroyed, and the developer communities that I supported for 9 years, finally cut off without support or API access. It has been a heartbreaking time.

Today, I took the last step in going back through my password manager vault and deleting all of my X/Twitter accounts. I’ve watched the shambolic rebranding over the past week, and frankly, I wish it had all happened far sooner – rather than seeing my beloved bird being dragged down, and the brand and memory ruined, piece by piece.

There are a few accounts that I share access to with others (for podcasts, sites or communities) that remain, but over the past hour or so I deleted 15 accounts, four of which had associated Twitter Developer Accounts.

Why so many?

  • Of course, I had my main account, @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url], which was first created after hanging out with my friend Roo Reynolds in his office at IBM Hursley, and hearing about Twitter, just starting to gather buzz from events like SxSW. Created February 21, 2007. The title of the blog entry I wrote that day seems accidentally prophetic (although, in truth, I do not regret it at all).
    • my jobs at VMware / Cloud Foundry in 2012, and at Twitter from 2014, were both direct results of being on Twitter, sharing my knowledge, interacting with different communities, and doing my work on the platform.
    • I’ve made countless friends through being on Twitter, and I’m grateful for that. It truly changed my life to be there.


  • Back at the start, those heady times of 2007-2009, it was not unusual to have a few accounts for fun, so certainly there were a few of those that just went away.
  • There was the time when I was copying friends like Andy Stanford-Clark and Tom Coates, and putting sensors around my house online (there’s brief mention of it in this 2009 post).
  • There were test accounts I created for projects as far back as my time doing Service Oriented Architecture things at IBM.
  • There were a couple of accounts I’d created during education sessions, literally to show others how to get started on Twitter, growing the user base.
  • There were a couple of accounts from my demo apps and projects on the @TwitterDev team, such as the IoT sensors I demonstrated on stage at the first Twitter Flight conference in 2014.
  • There were the super-sekrit accounts I had for testing features, such as the original internal test for ten thousand character Tweets (yes, this nearly happened, a long time back), the customisable Tweet Tiles we would have launched at the developer conference that was cancelled at the end of last year, and so on.

Finally, it’s time to say goodbye to my main @[url=https://andypiper.co.uk/author/andypiper/]andypiper[/url] account. Twitter is not Twitter any more, it is X – and I never signed up for X.

In the near future, I’ll upload a searchable archive of my Twitter content, likely using Darius’ Twitter Archive tool. For now, it’s all done. I’m very happy elsewhere (personal sites and links here and here), and I will not be sad that X is out of my life.

… apart from the laptops that they still have not collected!

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 How Government Agencies Can Embrace the Fediverse for Public Communications In recent years, there has been a significant shift in how government agencies communicate with the public. Social media has become an indispensable tool for agencies to dissemin

How Government Agencies Can Embrace the Fediverse for Public Communications

In recent years, there has been a significant shift in how government agencies communicate with the public. Social media has become an indispensable tool for agencies to disseminate emergency information, public health alerts, engage with citizens, and provide services. Among the various platforms available, the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon, have emerged as potential alternatives to mainstream social media networks.

According to Pew Research Center, half of all American adults regularly get their news from social media, with Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X being the most used sources. The Reuters Institute finds that 30% of respondents say social media is their main source of news, while use of direct access to news sources has declined from 32% in 2018 to 22% in 2023.

Algorithmic news selection and recommendation engines further complicates the deliverability of important messaging: 48% of respondents worry about missing out on important information due to over-personalised news feeds. Not to mention, placing important safety messages in a social media news feed co-mingles it with a broad range of untrusted news and opinion, competing with disinformation and misinformation across each of the network platforms.

How is the Fediverse Different?


Traditional social media has grown into distinct services that require users to be on the very same service using the very same provider to exchange messages such that, for example, Facebook users cannot communicate with X (formerly Twitter) users directly.

An emergency alert would need to be posted to Facebook and X separately by an agency seeking to reach both audiences. This is because most traditional social media services do not use an accepted technology standard, instead creating “walled gardens” that do not allow the sharing of information outside their walls.

Contrast this with email where users can send to and receive from anyone using an email service. Gmail users can send and receive messages to Outlook users, because email is an accepted technology standard and freely interconnects.

On the left, a Social Media network diagram illustrates an individual with access to numerous information sources, each one independent and siloed. On the right, the email illustration depicts the free flow of information across all email providers.

The Fediverse offers this open model like email, but in social media networks. It is a collection of interconnected services that publish social media feeds operated by companies, nonprofits, governments, media organisations and communities, just like traditional social media. But, unlike traditional social media, it uses open technology standards. When a message is posted by one of these providers it is broadcast to the entire network of connected services, and delivered by each service to the relevant audience.

Similar to email, agency alerts are delivered by the agency itself, federating out to the broader network and directly into the inboxes of people who have requested to follow the specific feed. Thanks to the use of technology standards, this removes the walls between networks.

People familiar with the RSS publishing format may find it helpful to think of Fediverse as “Really Simple Social Syndication”. Similar to RSS an agency can publish subscribable feeds, but with the added bonus of social interaction with citizens and stakeholders.

In effect, this combines the deliverability and reach of email with the personalisation and device-alerting capabilities of social media apps.

Mastodon stands out as one of the most popular platforms in the Fediverse, functioning similarly to X but with a focus on privacy and individual controls. Other platforms include WordPress (Web sites and blogging), Pixelfed (photo sharing), and PeerTube (an alternative to Youtube).

All these platforms use the standard Web technology “ActivityPub”, a publishing standard that allows all of these services and content creators to interconnect and interoperate, delivering messages and images and videos to each other.

This then forms the “Fediverse”, a federated universe of standards-based messaging. Just as an agency Web site can be viewed on any browser from any location by any constituent, agency messages published on the Fediverse can be found and followed by any user on any connected platform.

Benefits of Using Mastodon


Mastodon and other Fediverse platforms allow agencies to operate their own servers, giving them complete control over their content and moderation policies. This autonomy can be crucial for maintaining the integrity and appropriateness of government communications.

Deliverability is not subject to third-party rate limits or external content moderation. Examples of the National Weather Service and New York City’s Transit Agency encountering problems with X highlight the precarious nature of relying on a for-profit media corporation to deliver vital public messaging.

The European Commission, the city of Amsterdam, and the nations of Germany, France, The Netherlands and Switzerland each operate their own ActivityPub service, most using Mastodon. US Members of Congress have created Fediverse accounts, as well as large numbers of academic communities and institutions. Even media companies like the BBC and Medium operate their own federated services.

Mainstream social media platforms are often criticised for algorithms that can amplify sensational and unsavory content. The Fediverse’s general lack of such algorithms reduces the risk of misinformation and platform manipulation, providing a more straightforward and reliable channel for government alerts and services. The predominant model is a chronological feed of content, searchable by keyword and hashtag.

By not relying solely on mainstream social media platforms, agencies can avoid the potential pitfalls of corporate policies and biases, ensuring a more neutral and independent stance in their communications.

Lastly, the Fediverse is known for its inclusive community standards and customisable accessibility features. This inclusivity can help agencies reach and engage with a more diverse audience.

Disadvantages


One of the significant drawbacks of using Mastodon and the Fediverse is the relatively smaller user base (15 million members) compared to established platforms. This limited reach can hinder the effectiveness of communication efforts today. However, it is important to note that 2024 will likely see the onboarding of Meta’s Threads platform (160 million users) and Tumblr (210 million users). As more and more networks begin to interoperate with the Fediverse, more and more audiences will be able to find and follow an individual agency social media feed, across all those platforms.

The decentralised and varied nature of the Fediverse can be complex for users unfamiliar with its workings. Government agencies might face challenges in training staff and educating the public about using these platforms effectively. Running a Mastodon service requires technical expertise and resources. Government agencies would need to allocate funds and personnel for server maintenance, moderation, and support, which could be more demanding than using a mainstream platform. This can be countered by creating an account on an existing Fediverse service, or following the German and French models, where a central agency operates the service and onboards individual agencies and bureaus independently.

The Fediverse’s decentralised structure can lead to fragmentation, where users are spread across different communities with varying levels of interaction between them. This fragmentation can make it challenging to disseminate information broadly and uniformly. A staggered approach might mean creating an account on an existing, well-connected service, then bringing the social graph – the followers – to an agency-created service at a later date.

Pathways to Adoption


Similar to how agencies create accounts on commercial platforms today, agencies could create an account on an existing service provider, choosing from a general service like mastodon.social, a topic-focused provider such as sciences.social, or a regional service like masto.nyc. All these servers are interconnected, agencies do not need to create accounts on multiple providers. The agency profile would then be something like “@agencyname@mastodon.social” (the Fediverse uses two @ signs).

A quick way to set up a more prominent presence in the Fediverse is to make use of a managed service from a reputable provider like Masto Host or Toot.io and choose a domain name like agencyname.social. This service would be restricted to agency staff, meaning all messages coming from that service would be agency specific. In this example, the profile could be “@alerts@agency.social”.

The last and perhaps most challenging method is to operate a service directly, similar to the governments and agencies listed above. While use of a .gov domain can be a non-trivial request to approve, publishing from an official account on a government domain adds trustworthiness and verification of the message’s source. An address along the lines of social.agency.gov would need to be requisitioned from the relevant agency OCIO or in some cases, the Chief Data Officer. In this example, the ActivityPub profile would be “@alerts@social.agency.gov”.

Each of these options offer the same overall benefit. Just as podcasts are freely available on any and all podcast feed, as we transition to interoperable networks we’ll soon be hearing the call to “follow us wherever you get your social”.

No matter which pathway is chosen, your feed is freely findable and followable from any of the interconnected platforms.

Publishing Workflow


Numerous social media management platforms like Buffer and Fedica support cross-posting to Mastodon. This could be used to mirror content already being posted to agency accounts on X or similar feeds. Chances are the social media team can easily add a Mastodon channel to their existing workflow.

Onboarding and integration advice is freely available from IFTAS, a nonprofit trust and safety organisation focused on supporting a safe and civil Fediverse. Traditional public affairs services are available from agencies like Dewey Square Group and other PR and social media consultants.

In summary, the use of the Fediverse and Mastodon by government agencies offers a new paradigm in public sector communication, marked by increased security, autonomy, and inclusivity. However, it also brings challenges in terms of reach and complexity. As the digital landscape evolves, it is crucial for government agencies to stay informed and agile, adapting their communication strategies to serve the public effectively and responsibly. The decision to use platforms like Mastodon should be a considered one, aligned with the broader goals of transparency, engagement, and public service.

If you’d like to learn more about how operating an ActivityPub service could benefit your public messaging, contact IFTAS for a free consultation.

Talking Points


Agency staff that wish to advocate for using the Open Social Web to take better control of social media messaging can use the following high level talking points to begin the conversation.

  1. ActivityPub is the accepted global Web standard for open social networking. It is published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the non-profit body that oversees Web standards.
  2. The Fediverse is the real world collection of platforms, apps, and services that implement ActivityPub. They constitute a “federated universe” of interconnected social networks and can freely communicate with one another.
  3. The Fediverse is considered to be the “next big thing” in social media. See The Verge, the EFF, Fortune, Mark Zuckerberg, and Matt Mullenweg. Usage has roughly tripled over the past year, and as larger platforms begin adopting we can expect a tenfold increase in adoption in 2024.
    So why should a public agency care?
  4. Autonomy. Government agencies should not be reliant on advertising-driven media companies to broadcast vital public messaging. You wouldn’t let any of these companies restrict access to your public Web site. Why let them restrict who can or who should see your public messages?
  5. Alignment. Support a person-centric, privacy-focused social network environment grounded in diversity and inclusivity. In many ways it is being built to counter the harms of for-profit social media.

Mark Zuckerberg is replacing the metaverse with his ‘Twitter killer’ Threads and a new dream: The ‘fediverse.’ Here’s what that is

It’s a decentralized version of social media.
Paolo Confino (Fortune)
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