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.
#fracking #uk #marshlane #Sheffield
bad news. "Fracking given the go ahead in Marsh Lane." from to
Misson Springs Protection Camp group on fb
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!
https://medium.com/@johnmark/why-open-source-failed-6cae5d6a9f6 Food for #geeky thought.
#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.
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.
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.
You can see why Google took the '"don't be evil" out of it's mission statement. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
http://scripting.com/2016/06/18/1324.html Twitter, when they put limits on the use of the API, decided to be an apartment building. A great one for sure. And it makes a lot of money. But there are severe limits on the creativity that comes out of the building. They might have made even more money if they chose to be the Central Park of the web.
@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
I've been using the #CryptPad collaborative online #editor with end-to-end encryption (and getting a lot of friends to use it) so much that I'm considering setting up an instance on a server.
@cryptpad is now fundraising for some awesome milestones:
- Spreadsheets and Office-like docs by integrating http://onlyoffice.com
- Commenting
- Shared Drives
- #Federation for pads with cross-instance commenting and messaging!
- Offline editing
- Suggested edits