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American Ephemera Archive online

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Reblog via John Overholt

The American Antiquarian Society has made scans of 40,000 pieces of American ephemera, previously only available through a subscription database, accessible for free through its catalog. pastispresent.org/2025/good-so

The interface leaves something to be desired – you can’t just flip through galleries, you have to find an item and request the scanned image – but there’s great stuff in here

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 counting”

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/

Federated content publishing in WordPress

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Reblog via mike

Publishing a first attempt at a federated post from @herebox.org@herebox.org to facilitate FediForum session titled “WordPress as Content Authoring Tool for Fediverse” FediForum conference running on open space technology .

This session is intended to support additional discussion specific to adding social location data into Fediverse content, with potential to use WordPress as an example authoring tool.

Federation of this post made possible by WordPress activitypub plugin authored by @pfefferle@mastodon.social . I hope to be working on extending these tools at WordCamp USA contributor day next Tuesday in Portland, Oregon.

https://herebox.org/2024/09/fediforum-2024-day-1-live-on-wordpress/