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by riffic 3y ago
delegated to the root zone in 2015: https://icannwiki.org/.bbc
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by riffic 3y ago
ActivityPub is a W3C recommendation. No competing distributed social protocol to my knowledge has gone through a standardization body and I would also say here this signals the death of web3.
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by riffic 3y ago
I'd love to see these orgs put AP in their CMS. they could do things like @politics@bbc.uk, @sports, @finance, @entertainment, @breakingnews, etc, all on their own namespace they control.
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by riffic 3y ago
The BBC (or other orgs) can also implement ActivityPub directly into their existing content management systems. Mastodon is great but you don't need to use it to participate in the federated ecosystem edit: it's also news to me th
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by riffic 3y ago
A thing's future longevity can sometimes be predicted by how long it's already been around.
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by riffic 3y ago
courtesy note, but the apostrophe in it's will usually expand to "it is".
607.
by riffic 3y ago
considering the Lindy effect, ipv4 is likely going to be around in some form forever. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by riffic 3y ago
that's a scientology tactic too
609.
by riffic 3y ago
an aside your content is top notch in quality and I always point to your site(s) when I want to share how this stuff works with an easy explainer. You make it seem easy :)
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by riffic 3y ago
masnick must have pissed someone off recently lol
611.
by riffic 3y ago
not really how it works but your imagination is healthy.
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by riffic 3y ago
no one's going to an unresolvable namespace buddy.
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by riffic 3y ago
Henry
614.
by riffic 3y ago
The misuse (off-label use perhaps, to use a term from medicine) of ccTLDs in the tech industry is a widespread practice and I doubt anyone's going to change anytime soon.
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by riffic 3y ago
yo if people like looked at an actuarial table they'd have a better idea what that means
616.
by riffic 3y ago
that's literally your circulatory system
617.
by riffic 3y ago
if the web people wrote a spec involving the web I'd say there's a fair chance it's web related.
618.
by riffic 3y ago
> history thanks that sums my point up in a single cherry picked word.
619.
by riffic 3y ago
au contraire. cops can do literally whatever they want and they routinely use parallel construction to get a conviction within the letter of the law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction believing anythi
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by riffic 3y ago
ActivityPub is inherently web because it's a recommendation by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium): https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
621.
by riffic 3y ago
On Mastodon itself people like to use the #MastoAdmin hashtag. Good point about Lemmy. I remember reading the Discourse software was considering federation/ActivityPub support but haven't seen any traction there.
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by riffic 3y ago
wt.social isn't a Wikimedia Foundation site: > WT.social is owned and operated by WikiTribune Ltd (“we”, “us”) https://wt.social/terms-and-conditions
623.
by riffic 3y ago
transparency aside it's amazing how fast they were able to roll this. Heads up but if anyone's got questions about the Mastodon software, community, wider ecosystem et cetera you're more than welcome to hop into the unofficia
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by riffic 3y ago
you don't even need to use the Mastodon software to be a participant in the wider Mastodon ecosystem. A WordPress site with a plugin can be part of the Fediverse.
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by riffic 3y ago
cool, it's an opportunity for you to discover something of interest then.
626.
by riffic 3y ago
this triviality is not something I concern myself with.
627.
by riffic 3y ago
drive a manual - it's an inherent anti theft device
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by riffic 3y ago
or they could write/buy software that interacts with the underlying ActivityPub protocol and not even use Mastodon itself. For example, there's a wordpress ActivityPub plugin that will interoperate with many existing sites on the
629.
by riffic 3y ago
> ActivityPub is only 5 years old quibble, but the Fediverse is 15 years old ( https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-14-years-in-2022/ )
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by riffic 3y ago
Yes, you have to go where the people are but also remember that the audience is capable of using multiple channels and the audience has made shifts to novel media many times before (printed news > radio > broadcast television > cab

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