Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam

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Via RoseArt / Kodak Premium, Colorful Waterfront Buildings, Amsterdam – 1000 piece puzzle. I tend to alternate between the Pomegranate style art puzzles, with more muted colors and often more challenging patters, with these Kodak Premium style very colorful and detailed puzzles. There’s more fine detail you can use to place pieces, but still some … Read more

BlueSky, Fediverse, Bridges:

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Reblog via Doctor Popular

OMG, @bsky.brid.gy works!

I saw a Bluesky post in my Mastodon feed, so I replied from Mastodon, and that reply showed up on Mastodon AND Bluesky!!!

The post is boring, so I’m not going to link it, but I will encourage my Mastodon friends to enable cross platform sharing by opting in here brid.gy/mastodon/start

Thanks @snarfed.org for building this tool. I have a few friends on Bsky that I miss following, hopefully I can get them to opt-in.

Ok, so Ryan Barret (@snarfed), who built Bridgy, has also created Bridgy Fed, a bi-directional bridge between the Fediverse (Mastodon accounts and other instances following the ActivityPub protocol) and BlueSky (sites running BlueSky’s AT Protocol).

Bridgy Fed connectsĀ web sites, theĀ fediverse, andĀ Bluesky.Ā  You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible

This means you can have things you post to a BlueSky account made visible to the Fediverse and things you post to the Fediverse available to BlueSky users. Importantly, not just viewable but reply-to-able.

So what’s a person to do?

I’ve got a Bluesky account already (@jeckman.bsky.social) and multiple instances of WordPress sites supporting ActivityPub (@jeckman@johneckman.com and @john). I’m already posting to my Bluesky account when I update either WordPress site and following people from the Fediverse from @jeckman@johneckman.com using the Friends plugin.

If you’re on Bluesky but not active in the fediverse, you can bridge that Bluesky account to the Fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy on BlueSky.

If you’re active on the Fediverse (on a Mastodon instance for example), you can bridge that to Bluesky by following @bsky.brid.gy from your Fediverse account.

Social Web Federation launch:

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Reblog via World Wide Web Consortium

We are happy to share that today the Social Web Foundation launched with a mission to help the fediverse to grow healthy, multi-polar, and financially viable.
We are looking forward to continuing to support the work that @evan @tomcoates @mallory are planning in the new non-profit foundation for expanding and improving ActivityPub and the fediverse. We are delighted that to the Foundation will be becoming a W3C Member.

socialwebfoundation.org/missio

Follow WordPress blogs on Flipboard

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Reblog via Matthias Pfefferle

in case you haven’t heard, it’s possible to follow blogs on via ActivityPub. so all interactions on flipboard flow back to the blog! happy federated commenting, liking and sharing!

wordpress.org/plugins/activity

I wasn’t familiar with Flipboard – see https://flipboard.social/explore – if you’re a user there you can follow this blog or goatless in Flipboard directly

Quis calculis numerat?

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Reblog via Eaton

It’s darkly hilarious that the cutting edge of productized LLMs consists of “counting the number of letters in a word by simulating all recorded human communication and recursively search for discussions about countingā€

Quis calculis numerat?

Fediverse Discovery Providers:

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Reblog via Mastodon Engineering We are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details: https://fediscovery.org/