OMG! Now you are doing it on purpose! #eurovision2026 #darksouls
@dandelionutilitarian@mastodon.social gonna be a hell of a fight too. Probably have to take out the 4 and then boss with stages for each minion.
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@ozoned@btfree.social oooh, which hostel? Let's make it an ActivityPub House 
@julian@activitypub.space DMed you the link. 😄
@ozoned@btfree.social ah you're going? Nice!
I better sort out my topic soon...
@julian@activitypub.space booked my plane ticket and my hostel reservation already. 😊 We'll see if @reiver@mastodon.social let's me in the door though. 😉
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🚨 Call for Speakers — FediCon 2026🚨
The Fediverse is gathering in person once again — and we’re inviting the community to take part!
FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web — and we are now accepting session proposals!
We're looking for:
• Talks
• Demos
• Lightning talks
• Panels
Got a project, idea, experiment, or story to share?
📩 Submit your proposal: hello@fedicon.ca
(or DM us on the Fediverse)
🗓️ Submission deadline: May 31, 2026
🎥 Watch last year's talks: https://spectra.video/c/fedicon_videos/videos
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More about FediCon 2026:
📅 When: August 6th–9th, 2026
📍 Where: UBC campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada
FediCon 2026 is coming up! Follow @fedicon@techhub.social for info.
I'll be there hosting a panel.
Also hoping to do a presentation on "The Fediverse Isn't..." a non technical presentation on how we should view the Fediverse and not stop at just remaking the old walled gardens.
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🚨 Call for Speakers — FediCon 2026🚨
The Fediverse is gathering in person once again — and we’re inviting the community to take part!
FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web — and we are now accepting session proposals!
We're looking for:
• Talks
• Demos
• Lightning talks
• Panels
Got a project, idea, experiment, or story to share?
📩 Submit your proposal: hello@fedicon.ca
(or DM us on the Fediverse)
🗓️ Submission deadline: May 31, 2026
🎥 Watch last year's talks: https://spectra.video/c/fedicon_videos/videos
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More about FediCon 2026:
📅 When: August 6th–9th, 2026
📍 Where: UBC campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Multiple handles for Activity Intents
Hi @benpate@mastodon.social I've got a question about Activity Intents!
I'm implementing it now (as you noticed) and have run into an interesting issue. The wording of 3b86 suggests that the intents are distinct between users. That is, the end user inputs their handle, the handle…
julian
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Direct link to my video about Kickstarter banning adult content - in case you don't want to use youtube:
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Kickstarter bans adult content.
Who saw this one coming?
Edit: the video was ad restricted by youtube, so I've removed the monetization, making this work also Unpaid because you can't even talk about sex openly anymore
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A redraw of an old pizza face.
@dandelionutilitarian@mastodon.social I LOVE this. That's so well done man. Great job.
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Solar opposites 🎨
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A redraw of an old pizza face.
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🔴 Now Live
🍄 Super Mario 3D World (Switch 2) - 💯%
#retrogaming #speedrun #OriginalHardware #Linux #FOSS #Fediverse #owncast #gaming #videogames
Testing the latest rc1 of @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe . looking good!
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @samir@m.fedica.com
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It will happen on 05/22/26 at 15:30 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
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There are a number of papers discussing the quality of toots here...
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Prosocial Design Network says a new social media metric could elevate positive, prosocial content!
Scores rating a post’s “quality,” as opposed to likes and shares, could help minimize the reach of toxic posts on social platforms:
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@ozoned Thinking this over. If I want to measure what I'm getting out of the Fediverse, one way to look at is, if I post something, does anyone care? And do I care about what other people are posting?
A good measure of this is how many people actually comment on my posts, and how many posts do I comment on.
You could quantify this as "median written responses per post". Note I'm saying written responses, not boosts. Boosts are not enough effort to count.
The reason I'm saying *median* is that some networks have accounts with huge fanbases, and those followers do respond. That's "engagement" useful for marketers to know about influencers. And we do have a few very-well-followed accounts here. Using median means these outliers won't skew the result that much.
I mean, if I post something, and two people say something back, I'm happy.
@14mission@sfba.social It's a difficult one though. "Boosts" are you actively sharing with your community. That's the primary method of organic growth here I'd imagine. Of course I don't even know that for sure. How do folks primarily find others? Hashtags? Boosts from someone they follow? IDK. 😊
But someone else pointed out that even a low quality comment might not be as helpful for a quantitative analysis. How many +1 posts are there? Are they the same value as our conversation here?
IDK! 😁 I just feel passionate that MAU is the completely wrong metric.
@ozoned One thing that's nice about the Fediverse that's not quantifiable, is that I've actually made some friends here that I've never met in the real world.
In all the years I actually was on FB and looked at the "feed", it was zero.
(There have been a couple--ok maybe just one--from FB groups, but in the feed? nobody).
In the days of email lists, I had friends through those. That was pretty much destroyed by social media, mainly FB (and this is why I will curse meta forever).
Anyway, like I said, this is important, but not directly quantifiable.
@14mission@sfba.social Absolutely. And folks should have the option to stay private. We'll NEVER know the true size of the Fediverse. There will be islands, there will be people that just consume and don't respond to anything. All of that is ok.
But people are looking at just MAU and saying we're shrinking. And if we are, so what. It's not a valid number. It's A number yes.
But that's like saying my car is better than yours because it has 120,000 miles on it and your car is brand new. 😁
