🤔 Ah, behold the 'MCP Specification,' a sprawling labyrinth of buzzwords and acronyms promising to revolutionize the world with yet another "open protocol" nobody asked for. 🚀 Did someone say "standardized way"? Because obviously, the tech world hasn't seen enough of those. 🙄 Expect all the excitement of a tax code, but with SDKs!
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18 #MCPSpecification #openprotocol #techbuzzwords #SDKs #standardization #HackerNews #ngated
#OpenProtocol
Not an endorsement. Just something I encountered:
DEMU - an open protocol for royalty payouts and other financial services for the music industry. When app developers build a music streaming platform on top of the protocol, anyone who has a right to royalties from a song will receive an automatic payout to their personal wallet anytime that song is played. This is done through embedding and tracking the song’s metadata.
https://www.demu.pro/#protocol
#royalties #OpenProtocol #demu
Not an endorsement. Just something I encountered:
DEMU - an open protocol for royalty payouts and other financial services for the music industry. When app developers build a music streaming platform on top of the protocol, anyone who has a right to royalties from a song will receive an automatic payout to their personal wallet anytime that song is played. This is done through embedding and tracking the song’s metadata.
https://www.demu.pro/#protocol
#royalties #OpenProtocol #demu
"I don't think it is an accident that #podcast is producing this flowering of all kinds of different stuff, and that it is fundamentally an #openprotocol — not actually platform dependent or captured.
Really Simple Syndication (#RSS) which was developed 15 years ago, is an open protocol for syndicating stuff, it was sort of backend for blogs. A lot of that has fallen away from the internet, but it is still the protocol podcast work on."
https://pca.st/riyssmiz?t=55m45s
I've created an account on the matrix.org instant messaging server!
Here are a few features:
- Linux (desktop) and UbuntuTouch (phone) operating system support
- End-to-end encryption
- No phone number or email required
- Decentralized servers and clients
- Open protocols
- Open source implementations of servers and clients (maybe also foss?)
My username is: neptune22:matrix.org
#foss #opensource #openprotocol #matrix #matrixorg #endtoend #encryption #security #privacy #instantmessaging #introduction #linux #ubuntu #ubuntutouch
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Given the distribution of people on both Fediverse and BlueSky, it looks like for the next few months I'll do my technical posts here and non-technical ones on @michel-slm.name
Bridgy Fed is really neat!
All decentralised social networks in single timeline: #OpenVibe, for open social media.
Currently supported are: #Mastodon, #Bluesky, #Nostr, and #Threads
Truly useful and simply amazing app!
#OpenSource #OpenAccess #socialnetwork #socialmedia #ActivityPub #OpenProtocol #AggregatorApplication
"tech #platforms & proprietary software environments are not ecosystems. Call them built environments, i.e. designed, rules-based systems that explicitly structure interests to secure specific intended outcomes. It does no good to transmit the suggestion that a #walledgarden is the same as a #livingforest. That an app market-place is the same as an #openprotocol. We shut down an essential way to imagine alternatives. So, every time we read #ecosystem, we say #plantation!"
https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/
Dear #fedifriends...
Anytime that you click on your browser reader mode you are implicitly admitting, and confirming, that #smolweb and #Gemini is the right way to read internet pages...
Exploring the #Fediverse with @evanprodromou Dive into the realm of #ActivityPub and its impact on social networks. What's next for decentralized platforms? Join @dsearls & @jp_bennett on #FlossWeekly. Listen now: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/759 #OpenProtocol #Mastodon
Exploring the #Fediverse with @evanprodromou Dive into the realm of #ActivityPub and its impact on social networks. What's next for decentralized platforms? Join @dsearls & @jp_bennett on #FlossWeekly. Listen now: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/759 #OpenProtocol #Mastodon
I cleaned up this thread about decentralized contact book in a blog post here:
https://blogue.narf.ca/2023/09/federated-contact-book/
I'm very open to receiving feedback. What is preventing this from existing? This is a old problem; why don't we have a solution yet?
#decentralizedContacts #contactBook #p2p #localFirstApps #FederatedProfile #DecentralizedIdentity #FederatedIdentity #FederatedContactApp #ContactApps #OpenProtocol #privacy #email
And because it would be an open protocol, you could decide who you trust with your personal data. Sure, you could use #Facebook or #Google, but there would be plenty of independent hosts, just like there are thousands of email providers and phone companies!
Or you could #SelfHost it on your own personal website/server if you have one. I can imagine extensions for Wordpress, Squarespace, Linktrees or wherever people host their website these days.
I just learned about #Nostr today. It seems promising and worth trying out.
What Is Nostr? #SocialMedia #OpenProtocol #CensorshipResistant #SocialNetwork
https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/what-is-nostr/
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
@cwebber@octodon.social
And still, what has #email become but a despairing medium requiring layers of centralized and personally applied #filters, #rules and #algorithms to crudely finesse out 0.1% of “oh I want that” from the continual barrage of the #SpamPhishFraud firehose?
And we open only a fraction of what gets through—an error-prone daily routine.
Yet it’s #OpenProtocol, free, ubiquitous, and easy to use; it will outlive us all.
What lessons should we learn from it?
🦣 Devs Are Excited by ActivityPub, Open Protocol for Mastodon
by Richard MacManus @ricmac at @thenewstack
#Mastodon #ActivityPub #OpenProtocol
https://thenewstack.io/devs-are-excited-by-activitypub-open-protocol-for-mastodon/
@tamitha Fascinatingly, the founder of #twitter works on a twitter founded #OpenSource #NotForProfit dedicated to designing an #OpenProtocol for #SocialMedia which sounds astoundingly like #ActivityPub with the intent that twitter moves to it one day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
Some theories abounding that Jack and Elon are working together to tank twitter to advance BlueSky somehow???
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst