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Fediverse

    I am not sure if people are fully aware of the impact of Flipboard’s initiative to federate its content. The Fediverse was completely unknown to many of these publications. Thanks to Flipboard, we have access to all of them.

    Flipboard Federates 11,000 Magazines by 400 Creators and Enthusiasts

    Today Flipboard is taking two big steps toward opening its platform to the fediverse, making 400 creators and 11,000 of their curated Magazines visible to people in the fediverse and integrating fediverse notifications into the Flipboard app.



    If, like me, you’re wondering why Threads is adopting the ActivityPub protocol and joining the Fediverse, I suggest watching or listening to the latest DotSocial episode. @mike@flipboard.social asked them some pretty interesting questions.



    Are you seeing this? 👀 Yesterday, I started the migration process to move my followers from Mastodon to the Fediverse account that I’ll be using from now on, which is: @vladcampos@vladcampos.com

    If everything went as expected, you are now following me here.



    Heads up. I’m doing some experiments here and for the next few days (possibly weeks), I’ll be reading and replying to #Fediverse posts alternating between my two handles: @vladcampos@mastodon.social and @vladcampos@vladcampos.com



    As an increasing number of businesses and organizations adopt the ActivityPub protocol, it will gain momentum and eventually reach a point where there is no going back. Welcome to the Fediverse, Ghost: activitypub.ghost.org



    VCP 4 - Building a central hub to help you share your thoughts and ideas (with: Manton Reece)

    Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.blog, talks about the journey that led him to build a platform that enables users to apply the IndieWeb principle of first posting on their own blog, and then strategically cross-posting or sharing links on social media. Obviously, topics such as ActivityPub, the AT protocol, and the Fediverse in general were also discussed. I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed producing this episode.

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    Early today, I had a wonderful conversation with @manton@manton.org about Microblog, IndieWeb, and ActivityPub. It will be released in a couple of days as episode 4 of my podcast, as well as a video on my YouTube channel.



    Back to the Source

    Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee

    To give you a sense of how long ago I read the book Weaving the Web, I still had a Walkman lying around, and since I accidentally picked it up in cassette format, that’s how I “read” it. Yes, you got that right: cassette tape.

    Regardless, I remember hearing Tim Berners-Lee explain that his original concept for the Web was a more interactive knowledge-building and linking process. I don’t recall his exact words, but this was the idea. At least, this is what my memory tells me. Which reminds me of another great book, Memory Illusion by Dr. Julia Shaw. But I digress.

    That stuck with me for a long time because, for many years, all we had were websites with static pages. No interaction at all. It was more like a one-way knowledge flow, but it was a start. Then came the blogs and the comments, but it still didn’t feel like what he meant in his book. When social media started gaining popularity, I thought to myself, Maybe this is it. Well, I was wrong. We ended up with a lot of “islands” and too much misinformation.

    I don’t think a Web based on the ActivityPub protocol is precisely what he meant, but connecting all these online “islands” feels to me more like his vision. Another step, if you will.

    Anyway, it’s been too long since I read this book, and I’ll use the last week of 2023 to revisit it. It’s a great book! Dr. Shaw’s book is also excellent, but it’s more recent, and I have already read it twice.

    That’s it for this one. I hope you have a lovely day!



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