I think the general idea is that you can mobilize relevant fandoms on fedi, by posting in relevant communities or microblogs with relevant hashtags. So it’s an opportunity for online communities to embark on some sort of common project.

I’ve been wondering about wayland notifications. I still have no choice but to use WhatsApp and Outlook, and depending on notifications from those two is really the only thing keeping me stuck on (degoogled) Android.

My work has a super limiting Outlook set-up, I haven’t even managed to get it working with Thunderbird. The web app is seemingly intentionally shit, so the android app is really all I’ve got.

If only one person in Finland watched linear television at the time, and that person watched Eurovision, the figure would be 100%. Basically it makes little to no sense in a world where people don’t watch TV obsessively any more.

Even when people just don’t care any more in Norway it’s arguably indirectly related to Israel, since some artists (notably Ylvis) stepped out of the competition. The whole thing this year felt like a concert at a Trump rally, where only spineless and morally deprived artists are willing to play.

The biggest share of viewers watching Eurovision was recorded in Finland (93%), Sweden (86%), Norway (83%) and Denmark (79%)

Share of viewers seems like a potentially problematic statistic to base comparisons on. Is it share of everyone watching linear TV? Do people still watch linear TV in parts of Europe outside of big live events? Percentage change in absolute viewership from last year would have been a better indicator.

Anyway, I usually either go to or host Eurovision parties. This year the whole thing went by unnoticed. It seems nobody watched it, and nobody talked about it.

I love how the Stones are drawing on the punk scene here, while juxtaposing it with how they, unlike the punks, have very much been welcomed into the mainstream at this point. So respectable.

Funny - are there any other known instances in the history of software where you have to pay extra to remove actual features?

Also, don’t use Brave.

Or, to be more blunt; shut the fuck up with this anti-semitic bullshit.

If a person is active lobbying for Israel, or working as on behalf of that or any other terror state, that’s legitimate points of criticism. Pointing towards someone being Jewish as some ground of suspicion in its own right is dangerous bullshit of historical proportions. There’s no reason we should tolerate this shit.

ImageMagick is amazing for command line image manipulation, but the use case is of course different. It’s great if you need to do the exact same operation to a bunch of pictures, such as rotating or rescaling.

Working on integrating ActivityPub is not entirely unique—Bandwagon already has ActivityPub support.

Mirlo also sounds like a great project though. I’m cheering for both. :)

Super cool. I’m sad I missed them while Neil was alive, I really hope I manage to catch them on the next tour.

Edit: oh tick tickets are out for sale!!

Or Hacker, which is a surprisingly legit name.

Weird article just promoting a bunch of tweets. Arguing against Stephen Miller on Twitter is like joining the SS for the opportunity to debate nazis.

Yeah, it seems interesting but the website only goes so far. From the issues about integrating reviews on the git pages of CoMaps and Organic Maps it seems the developer is very invested in implementing review functionality as well.

At least there are many things moving!

I guess you’d need an app for it, and since offline maps are rarely in demand it’s not really prioritized by anyone. If you use a Mac or Linux you could try Comaps and it might serve your purpose, but on Windows I have no idea. Sorry! :)

That’s really cool! I’m a bit tribalistic about my preference for ActivityPub, but I just signed up for an ATProto account (PDS?) for the first time to test this. It seems promising—I’ll keep my fingers crossed for some sort of ActivityPub integration down the line. :)

(I just now noticed the latest post in the discussion on cartes.app and protocols also makes reference to xkcd 927 - I guess everyone looking into this are mildly terrified by it)

That’s interesting - do you know if there is more information about it anywhere? And if it is based on activitypub? Neither the web site nor web searches seems to get me anywhere.

Thank you for this! I was unaware of cartes.app. Their reasoning for not using Mangrove or lib.reviews seems to be similar to my concern that requiring separate user accounts for posting reviews online is not realistic if one needs to get the project off the ground. The problem I can see with it is that it appears to be truly centralized—if this service became successful, could it be reliably kept from enshittifying? As far as I can understand (though my French is broken) it decentralizes user IDs, but keeps the review data base completely centralized. The UI looks nice and intuitive though, and I must admit I always get confused about the inner workings of ATProto.

The other services I can find of course struggle with the same problem of centralization. There appears to be yet another emerging service called socialmaps which pitches sign-on with OSM, but this appears to be based on a centralized infrastructure as well. Of course if reviews are published with an open license it makes it easier to benefit from it across projects, but this still seems like a messy landscape.

As a matter of principle, reviews are part of the social web, and I think it is reasonable to expect them to be powered by ActivityPub which is the established standard for the social web. It also seems to me the ActivityPub infrastructure already in place is pretty much sufficient for handling such reviews, so I believe it would be wiser to build on ActivityPub rather than introducing something new. Then again, I am aware that what I am proposing here is effectively xkcd 927.

Thanks! I probably should have checked codeberg before starting a thread here.

Towards an open, federated review platform based on OSM

As I migrate away from big tech and towards independent solutions and in particular services powered by OpenStreetMaps and ActivityPub, I often find that the biggest missing piece remaining is that of a social element allowing for user reviews and feedback to locations on the map—in the intersection between the two services.

I have been playing with the idea of how this could be implemented, and decided would share my thoughts on a technically minimal and entirely federated standard for OSM reviews. The idea is to have a very basic ActivityPub integration that can work with even simple (microblog style) messages, allowing users to contribute reviews without having to sign up for additional services or necessarily install custom software.

Read more on PieFed: https://piefed.social/c/osm@feddit.uk/p/2091360/towards-an-open-federated-review-platform-based-on-osm