new from me: FR#156 - Share Where?
on @Mastodon 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership
new from me: FR#156 - Share Where?
on @Mastodon 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership
#Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0
I also made a video including details & instructions.
Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness.
PT: https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K
YT: https://youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA
Text (instructions only):
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data

#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/
Just found out that the new May / June issue of @ACM Queue is about WebAssembly.
https://queue.acm.org/issuedetail.cfm?issue=3747201
Interesting articles! Mostly focused on the core language + the web. Would be nice to also see an article about the more "systems" sandboxing aspect of WASM (e.g., Microsoft's hyperlight-wasm).
I'm beginning to understand why there are so few blogging platforms that work with #activitypub. I thought I'd make my own as a weekend project and while it shows up fine in https://browser.pub/, getting #mastodon to correctly display posts and followers is driving me absolutely crazy.
Why does Mastodon need its own weird special stuff? Why can't it just load the followers and outbox collections like the standard expects? WHY?

Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.
Oh, hey, there is an ARC giveaway of The Shattering Peace (my upcoming novel in the Old Man's War universe) happening on Goodreads, through July 7. If you want to get in on the action, go here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/410824-the-shattering-peace