vagabond @Hamishcampbell@campaign.openworlds.info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RrphEZxmUo The famous mashup of early environmental nonviolent direct action produced by Richard Hering and George Marshall in 1993. The video collates actions from the beginnings of UK environmental NVDA 1991-93, along with other actions from around the world. Its extensive and humorous use of montage techniques made it inspirational to many actual campaigners as well as future ones. The video even appears in a novel.

no flamable panels on concrete tower blocks in serbia as far as i can see

book on greenham banners and art work to be published soon

#fracking #uk #marshlane #Sheffield

bad news. "Fracking given the go ahead in Marsh Lane." from to
Misson Springs Protection Camp group on fb

well, i'm new here...

This wired article ( https://www.wired.com/story/join-mastodon-twitter-alternative/ ) about Mastodon is mostly good. It covers the basic features and talks about a shift from Twitter to Mastodon.

It confuses one key issue though, and that’s the “culture” of Mastodon.

What we’re seeing now across the Fediverse are the first adopters. The fringe. The queer. The hackers. The staunch individualists. The communal care takers.

As Mastodon becomes more mainstream, the “culture” will shift.

If you’re here for the culture, be wary... 1/2

Hello new #Mastodon folks! 🐘

Have you heard of the #Fediverse? 🗺️

It's a set of community projects that use the #ActivityPub standard to talk to each other.

Mastodon is the most well developed, but there are many works in progress too:

Instagram -> PixelFed 📷
@pixelfed
https://pixelfed.social

YouTube -> PeerTube 🎞️
https://joinpeertube.org/

SoundCloud -> Funkwhale 🎧
@funkwhale https://join.funkwhale.audio/

MeetUp -> GetTogether 🍻
@GetTogetherComm
https://gettogether.community

...and many others.

I've been thinking about an #ActivityPub implementation for #Wordpress. My idea supports:

- publishing blog posts and comments to ActivityPub-compliant servers, letting users follow/reply to/share/like these via other compliant services
- @-mentioning other ActivtyPub actors (e.g. Mastodon users) in posts and comments
- commenting on posts from Mastodon or other ActivityPub services

I've written up some technical notes at https://gist.github.com/jdormit/1049324b95e5096be20ee9ad1d749104. I'd appreciate feedback, so please comment there!

#Facebook shares plummet on tiny shortfall in predicted growth https://boingboing.net/2018/07/26/short-facebook.html What a pity! ;)))

@icaria36 As for why WordPress - it runs half the internet! Making a one-click install plugin that puts a WP server onto ActivityPub has the potential to dramatically increase mindshare and usage of Mastodon, PeerTube, and other ActivityPub apps.

Mastodon is more decentralized than the *entire* #ethereum platform and ecosystem. It is also being developed by competent devs and has a huge network effect. It also didn’t need to rob millions of people through thousands of scammy junk ICOs.

When social media is working properly, stupid ideas get very small audiences and are almost instantly forgotten, which is what I saw here. Meanwhile on Facebook and Twitter everyone was falling all over themselves to share the article and send it traffic, so that they could talk about how stupid it was. The left is particularly bad at this - we're a scorn-powered free advertising machine for the right's dumber ideas, and we made that article Forbes' most-talked-about story of the year.

Arrived in Belgrade #boatingeurope

@steckerhalter
Npm put the concept of component based development at its core.

This is a valid thing but people don't consider the implications. In Component-driven development you have to trust your component vendors. I know this is something some people hate, but welcome to how the world works.

The problem in the node ecosystem is that trust is cheap to get and there are often no big vendors for tons of components