Hi!!! I’m a strategist/entrepreneur/software engineer/activist, focusing on the intersection of justice, equity, and software engineering. I’ve been on the fediverse for a long time and am currently checking out /KBin. @jdp23 is my main account on
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Attempting to parse Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or Atproto
As Bluesky begins to open up more and more, it’s felt more pertinent to try to wrap my head around it. To help in this, I decided to write out my rough understanding of it from its documentation, in the hopes that it may help others and myself with any corrections from misunderstandings....
If we're going to have an effective strategy against FB/Meta, we should clear up some misconceptions around defederation
((I’m not an expert, I’ve been reading up on things as much as I can. If there’s an error, I’ll happily correct it!))...
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration (www.theverge.com)
A poll: are followers-only posts on Mastodon public? (infosec.exchange)
On Mastodon, Followers-only posts are only visible to your followers – and to admins of any instances your followers on. But if you haven’t turned on “approve followes”, anybody who’s logged in to an instance you haven’t blocked can follow you and get access to your followers-only posts....
Parents of trans kids urge Senate to oppose online safety bill that could harm LGBTQ+ youth. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Parents of trans kids urge Senate to oppose online safety bill that could harm LGBTQ+ youth.::More than 100 parents signed an open letter asking lawmakers to support alternatives to the Kids Online Safety Act.
Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content - Please contact your legislators! (US) (www.techdirt.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1170157...
Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content - Please contact your legislators! (US) (www.techdirt.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1170157...
Bad Internet Bills: Letter from over 90 Human Rights and LGBTQ Groups Opposing KOSA (US-focused) (cdt.org)
The “Kids Online Safety Act” (KOSA) is one of the Bad Internet Bills EFF is asking for help trying to stop. KOSA sounds like a good bill. Who doesn’t want kids to be safe online? But KOSA wouldn’t actually make kids safer – and the way it’s written would be especially harmful to LGBTQIA2S+ people....
You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills (Edit: US-specific) (www.eff.org)
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
Summary of Reddit CEO u/spez' responses (old.reddit.com)
They’re getting voted into oblivion on the AMA, but u/ChariotWheel is helpfully cut-and-pasting and formatting them here.