@johannab@cosocial.ca what are we supposed to update them to? Is this a thing? Idk how to social network!
Learned a lot of great things at #FOSSY
First and foremost, us #fediverse folks NEED to have a Fediverse primer for a session. Fossy is more focused on general FOSS and a LOT of folks there didn't know what the Fediverse was or how to use it. Hoping to start work on a "The Fediverse Is..." presentation that I can hopefully give next year.
The amazing @benpate@mastodon.social suggested us having a Fedi related booth. We can help folks onboard with QR codes, answer questions, have starter packs, etc.
And thank you to @karen@floss.social for excellent advice on presenting and speaking.
It was an incredible time and I recommend everyone go next year and donate to sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Not certain if I can go next year yet, but I'll remain hopeful.
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Finally home and updated my #bonfire ehich appears to be happy again, so I can see messages and things.
I had such an amazing time at #FOSSY and I'm excited for the future of #fediverse .
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Loius Rossman is doing a "Own Your Sh*t" tour and he's coming to Raleigh and Steve from Gamers Nexus will be there. I already got a free ticket. It'd be awesome to have an open social web group to push for "Own Your Socials" as well.
allevents.in/raleigh/own-you...
#Raleigh #fulu #openSocialWeb #Fediverse #Fedi #rossman #ownYourSocials #ownYourSh*t
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@conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org
I can't find any of the folks in the Fediverse, so if anyone finds them, please @ them. If we can't find them we should reach out and ask for them to join.
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Also if folks are attempting to reach me here or on my firesidefedi@btfree.social , I'm not able to really check due to some server issue and lack of data connectivity. Feel free to reach me on embark, matrix or signal are best.
I'm doing some videos of the Vancouver trip in tubefree.org. I'm so my best to get pictures and video of everyone as well. If folks are interested.
Also Tracy, the head of FOSSY, said the presentations will be recorded and some will be live streamed. I'll get the link when I can, again if anyone is interested.
SUPER excited to announce that not only do I get to do a panel at #Fedicon2026 during #FOSSY2026 , but I now get to do my presentation on "The Fediverse Isn't..." !
I'm seriously SO excited. I hope people push back on my presentation, make points, ask questions. I want everyone walking away looking at the #Fediverse different and that includes me!
For those interested it'll be 2PM on Friday in the Fedicon room.
I hope to see you folks there and talk about the future of the open social web!
TITLE: The Fediverse Isn't...
ABSTRACT: There is a word we use loosely, sometimes carelessly. We point to servers, apps, instances, logos—and say this is it. But what if all of that is merely the furniture, not the house? What if we're measuring by the wrong units entirely?
What if the real thing—the actual Fediverse—cannot be found in any repository, cannot be forked from GitHub, cannot be described in a protocol specification?
It's not Mastodon. Not Pixelfed. Not Lemmy. Not your instance's uptime statistics or the purity of your ActivityPub implementation. These are vessels. Vessels can break, can fork, can fade into obscurity. Yet something persists through them all.
And here's the uncomfortable part: the walled gardens haven't left yet. They never did. The infrastructure exists for them to step across, to shed their walls, to breathe freely alongside everyone else. Whether they choose to is not a question of compatibility. It's a question of courage.
We have been building monuments when we should have been tending fires. Protocols don't gather. Servers don't trust each other. Tools don't make friends. People do. Communities do.
This talk will walk through what we've mistaken the Fediverse for—and more importantly, what remains hidden beneath our assumptions. We'll discuss why platform-building is a dead end, why community-building is the only path forward, and why choosing between ActivityPub and ATProto might be the very wrong battle to fight.
You came expecting answers. You'll leave with better questions. That's the point. #fedi #protocol #activitypub #ATProto #openSocial #twitter #bsky #facebook #openWeb #web #community #conference
I don't have a clue why I'd ever walk up to someone and introduce myself and say I have a daughter (which I don't), but if it's ever required! I'm READY!
Io sono Ozoned. Io ho una figlia.
Lots of #gaming #fun tonight on #owncast !
Four way #Repo game stream!
3 more link(s)
Ever wanted to run your own #MMO #Guild via a #game #simulator ?
Then have your guild be in a tournament against other guilds?
bretticus82.itch.io/dungeons...
DUNGEONS & DYNASTIES
Football Manager meets D&D.
Heroes die. Dynasties rise. The realm remembers both.
Lead an adventuring guild through a living realm where every fixture is a dungeon, every hero can die in it, and every season is written down.
Climb a six-tier league of 72 rival guilds. Build something that outlasts the heroes who founded it. Then read your dynasty back as a story written by the simulation, not by a script.
The question isn't whether legends will be made.
It's whether your guild survives long enough to make them.
Just found out about @hister@chaos.social . seems like a brilliant idea if you set up a search and point all of your browsers to a central server with your custom index to easily find what you've already seen. This would be helpful for my family life.
But I also see that any community could use something like this and have their own search within their community and not that terrible Google search. Index only your pages and make the search accessible to your community and people can build help custom search indexes that target their needs.
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Y'all, I have the best children in the world.
Asks me to put insight timer on his tablet so he can listen to relaxing music before bed. He only uses it for reading ATM.
Wife installs and it crashes. They ask me to look. I don't know how to fix it and told him I could try imaging the tablet to another OS, but I don't know if that'd fix it.
He says it's up to me, because he understands the work it takes to do.
Felt touched he even considered my feelings. And then I said maybe that shows how responsible at 9, maybe we could do a phone.
And then he blew me away again and said he doesn't want one. My wife said he actually understands the responsibility of having one and he's not ready for that.
My wife and I actually teared up. He's NINE! I'm so used to adults with the emotional maturity of a five year old.
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@ozoned @gamingonlinux I'm not invested in gaming on Linux so I don't know all the details, but does Proton works without Steam? Can GOG just use Proton to do it for their games?
@rejzor@mastodon.social @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Yup. Proton is built on top of WINE. GloriousEggroll actually has his own version of Proton that lots of folks use. And he, and others, are working on building a unifying layer akin to proton that anyone can use. github.com/Open-Wine-Compone...
So imagine you speak English, someone else speaks French. You need an interpreter. That's what Wine/Proton does.
Are there any fediverse developers working on the ability to see a website and then have a link I can click to share that article directly?
I just saw an article from @gamingonlinux@mastodon.world , gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/go... , and then had to go find the post to boost it.
Ideally there'd just be a button on the website I can click and it points me to the article on my Bonfire.
I wanna say someone was working on something like this. Just can't remember who. 😁
Maybe Maho Pacheco?
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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social They've been saying it for over ten years. If they actually do it, I'm more likely to purchase through them, but it'd also depend on games actually functioning properly. It's also a lot easier for them to do this now though as they're riding on the back of all of the hard work that Valve and the open source community have done.
But at least it's a step in the right direction.
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Still recovering from surgery. Did without the serious meds today to mostly a success. I am still in quite a large amount of pain, but happy I could get through the day without the meds. But it's been exhausting day physically and emotionally.
I was asking #Proton #Lumo lots of questions to search for hope and honestly it delivered wonderfully.
Lumo brought me #hope
You've been carrying a lot of heavy stuff today. Let me share some genuinely hopeful things happening right now in 2026.
A Single Blood Test That Detects 50 Cancers Before Symptoms AppearA UK clinical trial is expected to report results this year on a blood test that can detect around 50 types of cancer before any symptoms show. If it works, this could fundamentally change how we fight cancer—catching it early enough to treat it effectively for millions of people. Your children could grow up in a world where cancer screening is as routine as a cholesterol check.
Personalized Gene-Editing for Children with Rare DiseasesResearchers in Philadelphia are seeking FDA approval to run clinical trials using CRISPR gene-editing therapies customized for individual children with rare metabolic disorders—conditions that were previously untreatable. The first child treated this way, named Muldoon, showed promising results. We're watching medicine transition from managing disease to rewriting it.
HPV Vaccination Is Working at Massive ScaleA study of over half a million boys and men confirmed that HPV vaccination dramatically reduces cancer rates. This isn't theoretical anymore—it's measured, population-level proof that preventive vaccines prevent cancer. A generation of children will grow up with measurably lower cancer risk because of this.
Solar Cell Efficiency Hit 26.61%
Perovskite solar cells reached a certified efficiency of 26.61% through a new cesium-doping strategy. Every fraction of a percent matters because it makes solar cheaper and more competitive against fossil fuels. The "worst-case" climate scenario (4-5°C warming) is now considered less plausible in part because clean energy adoption has outpaced predictions.
Scientists Found a Potential Treatment for a Fatal Mitochondrial Disease
Researchers used stem cells from patients with Leigh syndrome—a fatal mitochondrial disease that primarily affects children—to screen 5,600 existing drugs and identified Viagra as a potential treatment. Sometimes the cure is already on the shelf, waiting to be found.
Species Are Recovering
Conservation projects are showing real results. Species that were declining are stabilizing and recovering in multiple regions. Nature is resilient when we give it space.
But Here's What I Find Most Hopeful
None of these breakthroughs happened by accident. Every one came from people who looked at a hard problem and decided to work on it anyway—scientists spending years on experiments that might fail, doctors fighting through bureaucratic hurdles for clinical trials, engineers iterating on solar cell chemistry one percentage point at a time.The same stubborn human instinct that causes problems also solves them. Sometimes the same species.You're doing your version of that. Building the Fediverse, questioning systems, worrying about your kids' future, having conversations like this one. It's not glamorous work and it doesn't always feel effective, but community infrastructure is how humans have always survived hard times.The news isn't all bad. It just feels that way because the algorithm pushes the worst of it to the top. But underneath the noise, people are quietly building a better world—lab by lab, community by community, conversation by conversation.Your children will inherit problems, yes. But they'll also inherit tools and knowledge that didn't exist for any prior generation. And they'll have a parent who taught them to pay attention and give a damn.That counts for more than you think.
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@ozoned Hey, I’m glad you found this - and sorry I left you off the original list of tags. It wasn’t intentional.
Many of th ActivityPub specs are intentionally vague. There’s power in that, too, but it’s a design decision that has made interop… frustrating.
A lot of the recent additions, and all of the proposals I’m writing, are taking this other approach of spelling things out in very clear terms. Hopefully it helps implementors 🤓
@benpate@mastodon.social lol dude, I'm not bothered at all by it. 😁 I figured those folks actively contributed to the spec. I take no offense at all. I'm just happy I get to be a fly in the room man. 😊
Tagging those who contributed to the `Endorse` activity design. Here's an update
https://github.com/EmissarySocial/fep-endorsements
There's more work to do, but it's enough that your input is super valuable. Another round and I'll post to codeberg.
Feel free to share with anyone with informed opinions, and no worries if you're busy/sick/uninterested/whatever - absolutely no obligation to join in 🤓
@scottjenson @DePemig @thisismissem @johannab
@oli @laurenshof @wjmaggos @smallcircles @GavinChait @evan
@iftas @tchambers
@benpate@mastodon.social reading these FEPs and seeing definition of terms always reminds me of reading laws and how things have to be clearly defined. Because communication is so inefficient, especially in text, interpretation is so easy to get incorrect compared to original intent. But it makes new appreciate all the work even more. I absolutely love this idea and greatly appreciate all the work you and others do. Thank you.
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