Oops I forgot the link https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-12-beta-introduces-the-next-generation-of-secure-collaboration/

Wow, apparently NextCloud beta is out with some ActivityPub support in it. I knew they were planning to do it but I didn't know it was happening already :O

@Elizafox BTW it's my personal belief that putting content filtering more in the hands of communities and especially individual users isn't anti freedom of speech. I think it's dual to it: freedom to choose what you listen to.

(And I note it's much better for *people* to control these filters, as opposed to some larger centralized silo. This gives me hope we can build a better federated social web.)

@Elizafox we already have a Block activity in ActivityPub for starters, though I think there is more work to be done on filtering.

I am pro-filtering / moderation / anti-abuse tooling, especially in letting individuals have filters that actually fit their needs. I wrote this: https://dustycloud.org/blog/possible-distributed-anti-abuse/

I hope / wonder if that alleviates some of your concerns. This topic matters to me.

@cyrinsong @polymerwitch @maloki Basically if there's dialogue or interop work to be had on how to build a better federated social web, the goal is for that to happen here. Full disclosure, I'm co-chair :)

@maloki @polymerwitch @cyrinsong Sure. So this is a W3C group about the next stages of getting work done on the federated social web. The group is both for technical work but also community stuff, ranging from standards extensions to anti-abuse tooling. It's extending the work of the Social Working Group, which is wrapping up. Does that help?

Hey everyone! So the first call of the Social Web Incubator Community Group is at 4PM GMT this Friday, May 5th. I hope you can make it!

https://www.w3.org/community/swicg/2017/05/01/social-web-incubator-community-group-kick-off-call/

This will be a somewhat loose call, going over topics of the group and the state of things.

Call details posted on the blogpost. Quick link to find call time in your timezone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=6,0,5037649&h=6&date=2017-5-5&sln=11-12

I find it absurd, still, that "Social Justice Warrior" is a pejorative term. Social justice is good, and fighting for it is good. If anything, I self-identify as one. When I hear someone use the term "SJW" I think of this shirt design: https://kotaku.com/social-justice-warrior-t-shirt-design-by-olly-moss-1627689031

Set your expectations accordingly, I guess.

Rough straw poll of sorts:

So the W3C Social Web Community Group is open to everyone (I'm co-chair), and I invite people to join, *particularly* federation implementors: https://www.w3.org/community/swicg/

We're thinking of holding a meeting over Mumble or etc to kick that off. Would people be interested in a loose initial meeting over Mumble sometime within a week or so?

@nicolasmaia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia it's a microkernel + capabilities and vaguely POSIX'y

Which is pretty much the HURD's design. Not saying Google's knocking off the Hurd, just saying the Hurd was probably the right design (delayed-zeitgeist) but didn't get the resources it needed.

Updated my json-ld library to use sjson 0.2. Submitted a patch to Guile fixing a vm trap bug. Got guile-sjson into Guix. Productive evening!

I just pushed guile-sjson to Guix, and last night did a 0.2 release.

If "quasiquotable, functional, s-expression based json tooling in lisp/scheme" sounds up your alley, you might like it.

https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/guile-sjson

turns out you can get a lot done with this one simple trick: turn of the intarwebs for a while

made 3x progress on the activitypub test suite today than I have any other day this week

Okay, finished going through the ActivityPub specification again. I have some things to write up (taking time between doing this even to your own spec can result in noticing things you never did before). Tomorrow we're talking about possibly resetting the CR clock so I needed to do this before too late.

But before I turn into actual issues I'm going to take a break and.. you guessed it... play dungeon crawl stone soup again

@maiyannah OH! I *LOVE* XMPP! cwebber AT dustycloud DOT org. Add me!

Evan Prodromou kindly offered to help with ActivityPub's test suite. Now I gotta clean up this pile of Scheme enuf so someone else can read it :)

@maiyannah @deadsuperhero For one thing, we might finally get a common protocol so that Diaspora, GNU Social, Pump.IO, MediaGoblin, Mastodon, etc all work together. I'm also working on a test suite so there should be less "errors" between implementations.

That was the main goal of the working group (and why we spent so long getting community feedback).

It's not really clear to me, is there a place where I can add someone's webfinger address explicitly to remote-subscribe in Mastodon?