Feature Highlight for v4.12.0 — Activity Intents

A new feature silently dropped in v4.12.0. NodeBB now supports Activity Intents!

Huh? What's an Activity Intent?

It is a proposal by @[email protected] that aims to "extend the capabilities of an ActivityPub server beyond a user's outbox, and enable direct interactions with content on the wider social web."

In other words, it allows you to more seamlessly use your fediverse account on other sites without having to register a new account just to contribute.

In even simpler words, it means you can go to other forums and interact with content without needing to register a new account.

It directly tackles one of the fediverse "hard problems" I talked about last year — account fragmentation. You won't need additional accounts just to use other sites, your identity stays whole 

Let's learn more about how that works![...]

https://community.nodebb.org/post/107284

"You make it work on your terms, at your own pace. It’s more than what most do in their adult age. At least you're fucking doing it.

I’m telling you this as a guy who has never paid his bills off gigs and record sales alone.

I make fucking noise music and walls of ambient textures, dude, I don’t expect to receive a big advance from Atlantic or Sony to crank out my algorithmically generated pulsating meter nowness anytime soon."

https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/

#music #artist #life

Well I have finally gotten around to setting up a mirlo account today 🥳

I've been meaning to do this for ages and finally found the time. If bandcamp isn't your thing, you can now get both of my EPs (Facets and Descends) on mirlo!

Happy listening!

https://mirlo.space/paul-griffin/releases

#electronicMusic #myMusic #techno #idm #chill #ambientTechno

A reminder to #ActivityPub developers and advocates: applications for the NLNet Open Social Fund close on June 1st (#BrookeVibberDay) at noon CEST. You should apply; you are doing important work and we need you to keep doing it.

https://nlnet.nl/opensocial/

Although I don't think I'll have time to implement this in full (yet), faircamp 2.0 now has a platform integration setting¹ (scary term, I know :D) for opting-in to content embeds (i.e. sharing a faircamp link on platforms and getting an embedded audio player into people's timelines automagically). It's a start .. :)

I took a few days off to recharge and do the mid-term reporting for my project funding (done \o/), and am now getting my momentum back up: In the screenshot you can see the (now already fully functional) graphical launcher² for faircamp 2.0!

#faircamp

¹ https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/commit/b0f31a0db911cc88bec58afd1898d833d4f96a85
² https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/commit/5bd8fd7c85152265ce4158bc5b78a360c7de8580

RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116652198665234570

I just set up a reg donation to @iftas. The resources they make make me more comfortable running a instance. Makes me feel less alone in the process.

https://givebutter.com/iftas-power-of-one

#OpenSocial #Fediverse #Mastodon

Afternoon Twters.

#IFTAS do an amazing job of helping to keep the Fediverse a safe and trustworthy space for all, and every penny spent doing this relies on donations. You can read about them and their 'power of one' campaign below.

So, can you spare just £1 a month to join their mission to keep this vital work going? Thank you. 🙂

https://givebutter.com/iftas-power-of-one