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 connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky.  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 and @john). I’m already posting to my Bluesky account when I update either WordPress site and following people from the Fediverse from @jeckman 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 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/

Analog Privilege

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Via Maroussia Lévesque: The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It) The idea of “analog privilege” describes how people at the apex of the social order secure manual overrides from ill-fitting, mass-produced AI products and services. Instead of dealing with one-size-fits-all AI systems, they mobilize their economic or social capital to get special personalized … Read more