#LoSo

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-09

Ever wanted to meet your favorite Fediverse humans?

Now you can!

πŸŽ‰ FediCon β€” August 1 & 2, Vancouver πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Fediverse. Social Web. In person.

🎟️ Join the early bird list:

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-08

Sharing screen-shots on social-media from other social-networks is a form of social-media federation.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-06

An interesting quote from @geerlingguy .

The TL;DR is that β€” for him to use PeerTube or any other Fediverse alternative to YouTube β€” he would need to be able to make a living from it.

He is not the only one who has expressed this sentiment.

This is something I have been thinking about and talking a lot about for a while now.

(I know I am not the only one.)

RE: jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sel

"""
Alternatives

I've been slowly uploading my back catalog to my channel on Floatplane, though not all my content is there yet.

Some in the fediverse ask why I'm not on Peertube. Here's the problem (and it's not insurmountable): right now, there's no easy path towards sustainable content production when the audience for the content is 100x smaller, and the number of patrons/sponsors remains proportionally the same.

I was never able to sustain my open source work based on patronage, and content production is the sameβ€”just more expensive to maintain to any standard (each video takes between 10-300 hours to produce, and I have a family to feed, and US health insurance companies to fund).

YouTube was, and still is, a creative anomaly. I'm hugely thankful to my Patreon, GitHub, and Floatplane supportersβ€”and I hope to have direct funding fully able to support my work someday. But until that time, YouTube's AdSense revenue and vast reach is a kind of 'golden handcuff.'

The handcuff has been a bit tarnished of late, however, with Google recently adding AI summaries to videosβ€”which seems to indicate maybe Gemini is slurping up my content and using it in their AI models?

Maybe the handcuffs are fools-gold, and I just don't see it yet.
"""
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-06

β€œHey, is there a conference for the Fediverse in Canada?”

Yep. It’s called FediCon.
August 1 & 2, 2025 β€” Vancouver, BC πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Sign up to hear when tickets drop:

🎟️ fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-05

🌐 Fediverse folks are gathering IRL.

🚨 It’s called FediCon.
πŸ“ Vancouver (Canada)
πŸ—“οΈ August 1st & 2nd.

Want a heads-up when tickets drop?
Join the early bird access list 🎟️

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-05

Another "native" quote-post on mastodon.social where the quoted-post isn't showing up.

RE: mastodon.social/@pfrazee.com@b

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-05

OMF!G, I just saw a "native" quote-post on mastodon.social !!!

...

I am seeing them from Bluesky accounts bridged to the Fediverse.

I just did a test myself.

RE: fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-05

Planning a trip this summer?

Why not the Fediverse conference in beautiful Vancouver (Canada)?

🌐 FediCon
πŸ—“οΈ August 1–2
🎟️ Tickets not out yet β€” but you can get on the early bird list:

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-05

This is interesting.

This may say something about certain people's interests in general.

And thus that there may be an audience for these in general.

mastodon.social/@fediforum/114

"""
We asked people signing up for #FediForum why they are coming.

The biggest reason, by far: to connect with other, like-minded people.

Second: learning about the Open Social Web.

Followed by demoing software, telling others about their projects, and running sessions.
"""
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-04

πŸŽ‰ What if the Fediverse met... in real life?

🎀 FediCon β€” August 1st & 2nd in Vancouver πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Talks. Demos. Panels. Real humans.

Get on the early bird list.

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-04

πŸŽ‰ FediCon is coming β€” August 1st & 2nd in Vancouver πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

A 2-day Fediverse & Social Web conference full of talks, ideas, and community.

Tickets aren't available yet, but you can join the early bird list here:

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-04

🌐 FediCon is happening August 1st & 2nd in Vancouver πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

It is the first ever Fediverse & Social Web conference in Canada.

Want in? Join the early bird list:

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-06-04

🌐 The Fediverse is meeting IRL!

FediCon β€” August 1 & 2 in Vancouver πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

Want in? Join the early bird list:

fedicon.ca

See you there?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-30

This is how I am thinking about pointing to the GreatApe WebSocket API in the activity file.

The GreatApe WebSocket API β€” ActivitySocket ? β€” is sending ActivityPub activities over a WebSocket, along with some other stuff (such a queries, and commands).

Right now, I am using the "endpoints" field with the sub-field "inoutbox" to point to the WebSockets API end-point.

RE: mastodon.social/@reiver/114590

    {
      "type": "Conference",
      "actor": "acct:reiver@mastodon.social",
      "endpoints": {
        "inoutbox": "wss://greatape.social/@reiver@mastodon.social/conf"
      },
      "id": "https://greatape.social/@reiver@mastodon.social/conf",
      "name": "@reiver@mastodon.social β€” GreatApe"
    }
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-29

2/

One thing that is interesting about the GreatApe WebSocket API is that β€”

Because the WebSocket can be both read from and written to β€” the WebSocket is in a sense both an ActivityPub outbox and an ActivityPub inbox at the same time.

RE: mastodon.social/@reiver/114585

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-29

1/

GreatApe is a conferencing platform for the Fediverse and the Social Web β€” where an audience can listen & watch live, and can be invited to join the speakers on the stage.

GreatApe makes use of a WebSocket for communications.

I am working on turning the WebSocket API that @muhammadzaidali and @benyamin0 created into something more ActivityPub / ActivityStreams like.

Interestingly β€”

RE: mastodon.social/@reiver/114585

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-28
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-28

6/

GreatApe update β„–5:

We are looking at adding OpenWebAuth support for logging into GreatApe.

So that people can log into GreatApe using any Fediverse software that supports OpenWebAuth β€” such as Hubzilla.

. @scott suggested we do this (and him and I are currently discussing it).

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-28

5/

GreatApe update β„–4:

I am working on making the WebSocket API (that @muhammadzaidali and @benyamin0 already created) look more ActivityPub / ActivityStreams like.

For example, sending ActivityPub / ActivityStreams events over the WebSocket.

Although, the WebSocket protocol needs to support a QUERY & QUERY-RESPONSE pattern, too. But, so far, the QUERY-RESPONSE has been a AP / AS `Announce` of some type of AP / AS 'Object'.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:reiver
2025-05-28

4/

GreatApe update β„–3:

. @benyamin0 is working on fixing a UX bug β€” where everyone who was on the 'stage' gets kicked off of the stage if the host temporarily gets disconnected.

He is going to make it so β€” even if the host gets disconnected for 60 seconds, the GreatApe conference will continue.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst