The next FediForum is coming up in a couple weeks. I just registered. "Join us for two half-days of discussions, demos, presentations, teaching, learning and plotting next steps in moving the open social web, the Fediverse and social media based on open protocols forward! FediForum

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FediForum starts in 2 weeks from right now! Join us for two half-days of discussions, demos, presentations, teaching, learning and plotting next s...

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FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

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FediForum (@fediforum@mastodon.social)

FediForum starts in 2 weeks from right now! Join us for two half-days of discussions, demos, presentations, teaching, learning and plotting next s...

Starting to get tempted by the iPhone Air, but still committed to keeping my old phone for a while. I listened to two shows this week that were really good: MKBHD’s review and today’s Dithering.

Dithering

Dithering

A fun, smart podcast from Ben Thompson and John Gruber. Two episodes per week, 15 minutes per episode. Not a minute less, not a minute more.

I’m cracking up at this essay in The New Yorker: "A two-bedroom house with a front yard and a back yard? Psh. What do you need all that space for? Yoga? I’m from New York. I once paid two thousand dollars a month to live in the freight elevator of the former Filene’s Basement, in Union Square."

The New Yorker

No, I’m from New York

“Welcome to Los Angeles”? In New York, we give newcomers incorrect directions to Times Square and criticize the way they spread their cream che...

Om Malik really likes the iPhone Air: "I don’t tend to get smitten by something so quickly, but the “Air” is really up there. It’s so thin you think a strong gust of air could really blow it away from your hands. (These puns keep coming on their own. I swear I’m not trying.)"

Go Out & Get Some Air  – On my Om

As a consumer, I never ask to reverse a credit card charge because I know how difficult it is for small businesses. If someone forgets they signed up for Micro.blog, misses the emails, a chargeback costs us $15. It makes it feel pointless for us to offer inexpensive $1 subscriptions. Frustrating.

NVIDIA investing $100 billion in OpenAI with plans to build 10 gigawatts of data center capacity. Sam Altman: "Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we’re building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale." So much money, so many plates spinning in the air. I’m increasingly thinking that we’ll have OpenAI and Google for the mainstream, Anthropic carving out an enterprise niche, Meta doing the ads thing, open source models… and the rest of the industry is going to fade away.

NVIDIA Newsroom

OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of NVIDIA Systems

OpenAI and NVIDIA today announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for Ope...

Not sure why, but I shot a quick video going up the glass elevator at the hospital. Maybe because our photos and videos fill in details of visits when we don’t write everything down.

Manton Reece - Not sure why, but I shot a quick video g...

Still waiting on bug fixes in our Android app to be approved. Apple’s review times seem consistently faster than Google now. I don’t want any review for bug fixes, of course, but gotta hand it to Apple for improving this so much.

Mastodon quote posts in Micro.blog

Manton Reece - Mastodon quote posts in Micro.blog

Paul Frazee has another post about the relationship between a PDS and the app layer of AT Protocol. With diagrams! Good description of how moderation and migration can work.

Update on Protocol Moderation - Paul's Leaflets

Where account takedowns happen is important

This is really neat for fediverse devs: ActivityPub.Academy. Essentially a modified version of Mastodon that can show a log of activities being sent, to troubleshoot interoperability problems.

ActivityPub.Academy

Introducing [ActivityPub.Academy](https://activitypub.academy/), a learning resource for ActivityPub. It is a fully functioning Mastodon instance t...

WNBA playoffs! Watching Aces vs. Fever. Only a quarter left and Aces might be falling too far behind. 🏀

I’ve drafted some posts about current events, especially working through my thoughts on free speech and social platforms, but I think my blog needs to veer away from the political for a while. Also, watched Josh Shapiro on Meet the Press this morning and thought his answers were really good. 🇺🇸

Looking at Bluesky, for a moment my brain stopped working and I read the time “40m” as “40 months”. I’ve never liked relative dates, so in Micro.blog for recent posts we show the time alone. There is a sort of stay engaged urgency to “5 minutes ago”. But it’s okay if nothing important just happened.

We’ll ship the initial support in Micro.blog for displaying Mastodon quote posts on Monday. I’m essentially converting the quotes to Quotebacks, because Quotebacks are already used within Micro.blog for the “embed” link. Still would like to do more with these in the future.

Quotebacks - Quote the web

My tip for fediverse devs trying to implement FEP-044f: first memorize who Alice and Bob are and what they’re posting. 🙂 Makes it easier to follow everything else. I’m done coding the basics, so now get to see how it interacts with real servers.

Cookie monster!

Now that Mastodon 4.5 is live on mastodon.social, I can resume work on receiving quote posts from the fediverse, i.e. FEP-044f. This spec is very complicated. Feeling some urgency to finish the implementation before I forget how it all works.

Cookie monster!

Busy day yesterday juggling lots of different things. This morning I get to try to catch up. Coffee at Medici in the Domain. ☕️

Bluesky is spinning out the PLC directory: "After considering several jurisdictions, legal structures, and potential parent organizations, the new entity will form as a Swiss Association. In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home." I like this. They’ve always acknowledged that PLC wasn’t intended to be permanent. Now there’s progress that’s better without waiting for it to be perfect.

Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization | Bluesky

The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard)....

Smart move by Mastodon to get into the hosting business: "This could be a fully operated server under the organisation’s own domain run by our team (with moderation included, on request); or, we can work with an organisation’s in-house operations team, via a support contract." I’ve noticed whenever I catch Mastodon’s financial reports that individual donations have dropped. It’s hard to make donations work unless you have frequent NPR-style fundraising. Hosting will be mostly for larger institutions, not trying to compete with all the many smaller indie servers.

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