Signal's "Safety Number" is an important feature that generates a pop-up which allows you to "mark as verified" a man-in-the-middle attacker. This way the attacker is verified and we can all feel better about the whole messy business.
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Fantastic Surf feed by @tchambers to follow the #NoKings protests. Unites people posting from across the social web including Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, Ghost, Wordpress and more.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01k7fma1sa0f66jewn6tv6thfc
Since this is with Spotify, looks like none of this will embrace the actual Podcast open RSS feed format.
More important than ever to defend "true" podcasts, and the open web format that undergirds it - and to strengthen apps and services that support that. #Podcasting2 #Podcast
#Podcasts are one of the most critical open web media formats we have - and needs to be defended and kept open from closed silos like YiuTube or Spotify. And integrating it further into the open social web. One of the most important battles for the open web going forward. #podcasting2 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/most-powerful-people-podcasting-2025/
This is so important and organizing on the open social web may be the most vital, free, and billionaire-proof places left to do digital organizing. Folllow @renewedresistance for more ways to help ahead of #nokings protest! ✊
https://channel.org/@renewedresistance/115361577846291040
All of this from @linc is great but point 5 especially resonated with me:
"The open Web is critical to the future of humanity and is best supported through standards-based interoperability, strong data privacy, and platform transferability.
We need Web-based software first and foremost, and we need to lean into open standards & privacy...."
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wow this person is fearless 👏 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36405
I am a fan of starter packs on BlueSky, Threads and Mastodon's iterations on it are all for the better in my book.
My one note: i'm pretty sure from my read of it that this offering and this #FEP will be fediverse-wide and not Mastodon-only. Which makes it even cooler, if so. #fediforum
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115333718702902290
So hype about this partnership with @altstore!
@rileytestut and @shanegillio truly walk the walk, and we've been fans for a long time, so we were more than excited to build this bridge with them.
With Bridgy Fed, the AltStore is coming to the ATmosphere 🚀
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115333247692356677
We're so excited to be partnering with @altstore on their open social web integration, bridging accounts from the Fediverse to the ATmosphere with custom domains so iOS developers can automatically promote their apps across both ecosystems 🌐
Read more about our partnership here: https://blog.anew.social/altstore-a-new-social/
This is a really important moment at pushing big tech to enable "credible exit" to more open social platforms. A great paper here on what that might mean. #fediforum
Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳
Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore.
We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check out a beta version TODAY at https://explore.alt.store and start following accounts like @utm!
FediForum begins later today!
We're so excited to see all the cool things happening in the Fediverse and the wider Social Web.
If you're going to be showing off what you're working on, we wish you the best of luck. If not, we hope you have fun 🕺
@julian @pfefferle @elena not sure! It could make more sense for notes - I think - I’m guessing not many people edit really old notes in the way they do for articles, so it’s more likely to be a recent edit/update(?) I’m just guessing though
Been pondering the change in the #activitypub #wordpress plugin to depreciate Template Tags and (presumably eventually) only federate WP posts as Article objects.
@elena@aseachange.com could it be that you're editing an article that had never been federated before (aka predates the AP plugin)?
In that case the published update might be the first time a Mastodon instance sees it, and it might promote it to the top of the feed even if it's many years old?
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@pfefferle @heathenstorm @julian @matt we’ve seen some other/different strangeness - like update activities trigger posts returning to the top of the feed in mastodon as if they’re new. So when someone edits a bunch of posts from 5 years ago, it sometimes floods the feeds of followers
Been pondering the change in the #activitypub #wordpress plugin to depreciate Template Tags and (presumably eventually) only federate WP posts as Article objects.
@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz @pfefferle@mastodon.social @elena@aseachange.com only for Articles?!
I haven't seen this myself but I don't edit my topics much after they're out there.
@pfefferle @julian In my tests the edits were made in the first paragraph, so both summary and preview fields updated as well. (The latter being Note type.)
@heathenstorm have you experienced similar issues with Articles @julian @johnonolan @matt ???
@pfefferle @julian There doesn’t seem to be any problem with the ActivityPub Wordpress plugin. Update activities on Article objects are correctly federated; and Friendica picks up the changes without issue.
(As an aside, I had to install the nodeinfo WP plugin so follow requests worked from Friendica, but that could just be my homelab configuration.)
It’s just Mastodon that doesn’t do anything with Article Updates. So for now I keep using Template Tags and a Note object.
@heathenstorm @julian maybe mastodon is checking the diff of the summary and if the changes does not effect the summary, it will not be updated!?
@julian @heathenstorm can you tell me a bit more about the update issues you have?
edits of posts should be federated as updates, otherwise it is a bug or interference with other plugins!?
General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability
I'm away from my desk for the next few days and so I'll likely be posting more open ended discussion questions. Recently I've been thinking more about the decline of forums of yesteryear and how hosting a forum has always been rather niche. That got me thinking about how one of…
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