New post: Can we have a more “social” media?

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New post: Can we have a more “social” media?

profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-so

On advertising, the Fediverse, and what a more human social web could look like.

Special mentions: @smallcircles, @phnt, @happy-programming

#fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia

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ADVERTISERS ARE NOT OUR MASTERS
SCALING IS NOT OUR DOGMA

@Profpatsch oh cool what did you build @happy-programming with?

@liaizon Right now it’s two golang files that do a half-assed job at implementing activitypub

@Profpatsch ah very cool its custom! have you published the code? I would add it to a list of implementations I help manage at delightful.club

@liaizon yeah, it’s published, but currently I’d not feel comfortable being listed anywhere, the code is really rough and I haven’t really made sure it’s free of security issues

@Profpatsch honestly seeing it running live and followable I would say you are better off then half the things listed on these lists

@liaizon Haha, that might be true. I did link it in the post, right now it lives at codeberg.org/Profpatsch/Profpa and codeberg.org/Profpatsch/Profpa

@liaizon fwiw I made & deployed some security improvements, the current security mechanisms are documented in codeberg.org/Profpatsch/Profpa

maybe @silverpill wants to take a look at whether this all sounds sensible?

@Profpatsch @smallcircles @phnt

What hasn’t been considered is the ability of multiple people to speak with “one voice” yet.

Imageboards?

There was one that federated using ActivityPub: https://github.com/FChannel0/FChannel-Server

@silverpill @smallcircles @phnt uh, I want to stay away from image boards as far as possible, they are the opposite of healthy communities. I have no clue how my post made you think “probably image boards” lol, did I not use the word “human” enough

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