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The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.apple.news
The beauty of an open system is that anyone can build on top of it and try to make it a better place. In the fediverse, software engineer Ryan Barrett is one such developer.
Ryan’s been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal websites and blogs to centralized social networks, and Bridgy Fed, which connects them to the fediverse. He’s also a co-founder of Google AppEngine, which informed Google Cloud’s infrastructure, and has held engineering leadership roles at Google, Color and NCX.
Most recently, Ryan’s work to connect Bluesky, which uses the AT protocol, to Mastodon and other platforms using the ActivityPub protocol ignited a firestorm. Ryan wanted to advance the fediverse’s promise of interoperability but he inadvertently stirred up culture clashes between platforms and fervent discussions around consent, maintaining safety, fears of commercialism, and what being an open standard really means.
Highlights of this conversation include:
1:28 Ryan’s approach to bridging disparate social networks
6:30 Why he built Bridgy Fed; 2-way RSS “a breakthrough idea”
8:11 Reactions when he announced bridge to Bluesky
10:07 Ryan’s takeaways and debrief from the outcry
17:30 Managing expectations: instances, defaults, attack vectors
22:03 Reactions on Bluesky
23:30 Culture differences within the fediverse
25:29 What’s next with Bridgy Fed
30:05 Discoverable opt-in and exploration of different approaches
33:10 Thinking at a macro level: protecting ourselves while enabling global growth
43:17 What is motivating Ryan personally
45:43 How Flipboard is thinking about federation
58:52 Good things that came out of the backlash
🔎 You can follow Ryan at snarfed.org. He’s also on Mastodon at @snarfed.org@snarfed.org and on Bluesky at @snarfed.org
✚ You can connect with Mike McCue on Mastodon at @mike@flipboard.social, or via his Flipboard federated account, where you can see what he’s curating on Flipboard in the Fediverse, at @mike@flipboard.com
💡 To learn more about what Flipboard's doing in the Fediverse, sign up here: about.flipboard.com/a-new-wave
💰 Mastodon is a non-profit that runs on donations from the community. You can help Mastodon succeed by supporting the organization via Patreon: patreon.com/mastodon
It’s very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; worried about having enough time/money to simply have a few days off to spend with wife/husband/kids/parents/family/friends… Or just sitting in a cafe and sipping a coffee or tea and enjoying a book or something. Now just endless war and death for what? Someone in a palace far away with some random agenda decided whatever and now their entire vicinity is rubble. People just getting massacred because its Tuesday.
I tried to refrain from saying something about this, but my mind won’t rest.
My ancestry commands my fingers to talk about how my mama grabbed my shoulders as we watched the latest horrors coming from both Gaza and Ukraine last week. “Those people were already living in an open prison. Now they have nothing. It’s nothing but kids playing in fucking rubble, and they kill the children. It reminds me that bullshit I grew up in,” my mother ranted. She’s 78 and feisty AF. Anything… The tiniest little shred of a scrap that makes her remember segregation, Jim Crow and the humiliations she, my family and Black folks in general went through in her childhood and before sets her all the way off. And all the imagery coming in from that part of the world is looking like a 2024 “Let’s make Apartheid great again: Genocidal Tendencies” double feature for her.
“See, I remember they didn’t mind you spending up all your money in their big fancy department store downtown, but don’t let you have to go to the bathroom. Even a 6-year-old little black girl still has to pee in the alley behind the store, but oh they take that greenback quick. These people aren’t allowed to go to a hospital on the other side of the wall, but I bet their taxes are paying something for that. I bet their taxes probably funded that wall, those police and bullets that kill them too!” My mama was on a roll, and it might not seem as if her raging actually has a connection to the suffering going on here and now in 2024…
But suffering knows suffering, and that’s the point. Looking at videos of dead kids that were playing foosball in the street a minute ago, looking at sacks of dead bodies being unearthed from mass graves. Seeing 5-year-old boys with soulless eyes dazed because literally their entire household was killed except them… If I had the same memories my mom (and dad) had, I’d be channeling them too. The movie is the same, the characters are just a bit different. It’s even worse for me since I don’t have those memories first-hand, but I have parents, had grandparents, and have felt those aches in the collective memory with every song, prayer and hand-laying in those times we Black folks commune together. I do know what it’s like to see a friend who spent literally the last 6 hours of their life in school with me, ate lunch with me, played basketball with me, and died from a stray bullet 3 blocks from our school because someone just had to shoot at somebody they didn’t like and hit everyone and everything including my friend but totally missed their intended target. Repeat this a few times with some other neighborhood friends, 3 cousins, and so on… So, tangentially I guess I also know a bit of what a war feels like, and the unfair pain and suffering caused by someone else who I’ll never get a reason from let alone an apology. And if I feel this pain, then surely the people causing it must have a hatred so deep that their own sadness is consumes it and makes it do these horrible things.
If we do nothing to stem the outpouring of hatefulness, it won’t stop until it’s consumed all of humanity.
🗣️💬👍🚀♻️ ➡️
starrwulfe.xyz/b/2nWc
#commentary #gaza #ukraine #war
It's very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; I tried to refrain from saying something about this, but my mind won't rest. (a commentary) https://starrwulfe.Threads
It's very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; I tried to refrain from saying something about this, but my mind won't rest. (a commentary) starrwulfe.xyz/b/2nWcInconsolable Tangential War Victims
It's very hard to ignore the amount of suffering going on by people who just a few years ago were living an idyllic life just like me; I tried to refrain from saying something about this, but my mind won't rest. (a commentary) https://starrwulfe.STARRWULFE »federated«
As a recovering full time journalist (with frequent and sudden relapses) this @axios piece cannot be overstated nor ignored.
Remember folks:
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
— George Carlin
rollingstone.com/politics/poli…
A New York appeals court has blocked the collection of Donald Trump's fraud judgment, ruling that he has 10 days to post a $175 million bond.Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
Proof positive the fediverse is a good thing.
I’ve been there all along with @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz
@starrwulfe@abc.Starrwulfe.xyz
@starrwulfe@social.vivaldi.net
Oh and @jlgatewood@mastodon.cloud too.
And now you can catch me from here at
@starrwulfe@threads.net
⭐️🐺
What am I talking about?
Start here:
starrwulfe.xyz/231680
I have been saying for a very long while now that ActivityPub as a protocol and within it Mastodon as the flagship app need to separate themselves from the fringe in order to gain more traction and usage.STARRWULFE »federated«
Overnight crash
Dropping a note here to make sure my site is back up — Things got crash happy overnight with the database eating all the RAM for some reason. Bad garbage collection or a missed chronjob maybe.
The joys of wordpress adminning. So as soon as I’m done with the day job (where I actually do DevOps/PMing believe it or not) I’ll be doing a post-mortem on this thing too.
😣 I just want my $#：＋ to work seamlessly!
I arrived on Mastodon one year ago today. Here's what I wrote to celebrate that anniversary:
lisamelton.net/2023/11/03/one-…
I knew about Mastodon in a vague way a year ago. But it wasn’t until Space Karen laid off half the staff at Twitter on November 3, 2022—when we all realized that the blue bird was indee…Lisa Melton
@waynedixon @WTL Wow! A for-real old timer then! Congratulations on your longevity, sir. 🎉
And completely agree about the Moron.
:
- Arrives on Mastodon
- Starts boosting like crazy
- Becomes the unofficial booster-in-chief
- Actually elaborates in a blog post
- Is not going to leave. EVER.
😂
@ParadeGrotesque What a great summary! 😂
Thank you so much for following. 💖
Thanks for boosting me a couple of times! 😉
And happy fediversary... 🎂
@waynedixon Truth be told, neither do I. Guess I'll have to live forever. 🤣
We arrived around the same time and you've been so fantastic at filling my feed with awesome! You're never leaving and I'm never un-following!
Thank you!!
I joined mastodon 1 year ago today too!!!! At 8:51am!
We're toot twins!! 😛
But, to be fair, you're the favourite ❤️
@osma I understand completely why you don't follow my firehose of boosts. It's all good. 🫂💜
And, yes, share it wherever you want! Thank you. 💖
I joined a not long before you and have roamed from one instance (which is no longer), to another amazing instance, to hosting my own.
So nice to see those that I've connected with on Twitter here, as well as discovering new faces, voices and communities.
I completely forgot about my Mastodon/Fediverse anniversary day until I say your post. I'm glad it reminded me of making the migration and the fun continues since.
Happy anniversary day and always love seeing your posts and re-posts 💙
Happy Fediversary!
Thanks for putting such interesting posts into my timeline, and big thanks for boosting my silliness to get it out there. I wasn't sure if our wee household instance was going to work, but you helped me make connections.
Happy honking Humph salutes you 😃
Whoa, I just checked and apparently I joined .social in April 2022; moved to my current, smaller, Canadian-er instance on Nov. 21.
Happy fediversary!
I think I started my account when it became clear that Twitter was, in fact, going to be bought by a wingnut, but kept using Twitter till the end of December.
So much better over here though.
I have a bit more than 4k followers on Twitter, I joined in December 2007, my archive download is big because of around 250k tweets, if I remember correctly, I literally lived on Twitter. I even co-founded a series of evening talks named after a pun on the name Twitter. My timeline was free of nazis and terfs.
And yet I abandoned my account there (it still exists) around a ago very suddenly and without looking back.
It didn't feel 'home' anymore. And my experiences on Mastodon are very similar to yours. Although I already was openly trans (I'm some openly everything, darn ADHD 🤭), I learned a lot about how to explore and view my identity from this incredible, loving and caring community of trans people.
And you are correct: I'm also never going to leave Mastodon again. 
@didole I understand completely why you muted my firehose of boosts. No worries about that. 🫂
And thank you so much for the kind words! 💖
and look at you now 
Well, may you be here for many more years.
Two things:
1) I joined shortly before you did? That's mind blowing. Of course, until Space Karen really took over this was just one more backup account.
2) Wait, there's a trans community here???? 😉
@Tweetfiction ROTFL!! So, I take it you haven't realized all these hot women we've been talking to here are trans? 🤣
You're another November '22 alum? Damn. There sure a lot of us.
Late October, I think. I can't remember exactly. I'll have to download my archive again. 🤔
And wait...they are? Do you think maybe I'm...? 😬
🤣 🤣 🤣
It still cracks me up that I welcome YOU to the sisterhood here, but you had secretly been months ahead of me.
this is not hyperbole, your contributions here have made this place amazing for me.
I quit Twitter, Facebook, instagram and Reddit (that one hurt the most) full stop. Found mastodon and figured why not, and now I check it with the frequency I used to do with Reddit, but I’m much happier. I know for a fact I would have bounced off if you weren’t the boosting fiend you are.
:: big internet hug :: THANK YOU
@victor Yeah, there was a surge of new users here when Space Karen walked into Twitter HQ with that sink. Asshat! But it wasn't until the layoffs that I said, "Fuck it!" Partly because I knew some of the people being laid off.
"Did I mention I’m never leaving Mastodon?"
Love seeing this sentiment around here.
stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…
If your fediverse instance were to shut down today, where would you go?#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #poll
@writermonki I forgot to mention the celebrities here! 🤦♀️ I think that's because I don't think of them that way. They're just... cool people. 🤷♀️
And some of them even post cat pics so... yeah, we do have all the cats. 😂
↩️ @lisamelton@mastodon.social
I’ve also been here about 5 years now but it’s not been as exciting and innovative as the last year since #birdsite turned into a tire fire.
Glad you’re enjoying your time here!
I arrived on Mastodon one year ago today. Here's what I wrote to celebrate that anniversary:lisamelton.net/2023/11/03/one-…
One year of Mastodon
I knew about Mastodon in a vague way a year ago. But it wasn’t until Space Karen laid off half the staff at Twitter on November 3, 2022—when we all realized that the blue bird was indee…Lisa Melton
@jonathangross Don't you worry! You're not complaining. 🫂
And thank you for reading. 😊🥰💖
Congratulations and thank you. I have all this because of you.
Your boostteriffic lifestyle gave me this wonderful community. I can’t repay that, so that means I am forever in your debt.
Great read and glad you’re here!
It has been a great ride for my time here and I am also sticking around!
👍🏾
I was a couple of days behind you. I too migrated from the network formerly known as Twitter in the first week of November 2022.
Excellent piece Lisa. 💯💜
Happy anniversary 🎉🥳🎊🥂🍾
I first landed in Mastodon in April 2022 when the “writing was on the wall” re Twitter 😢
Then in November 2022, I found my spiritual home in toot.wales 🏴
Now I’m a moderator on toot.wales and an active member of IFTAS (about.iftas.org/) working to make a better, safer social space for all.
I’m never leaving Mastodon which has given me a renewed purpose in my “twilight” years.
Thank you for being you, @lisamelton and making the 🌍 a better place ❤️
@nellie_m Awwww, you are very welcome and thank you so much! 😊🥰💖
Yes, I feel compelled to reply because if someone took the time for me then I should take the time for them. I'm so glad you noticed and appreciated that.
And thanks for the cake! 🍰
Happy Fediversary! In my feed, there’s regular Mastodon and then there’s #Meltondon and both have about the same number of posts. 😂
Thanks for introducing me to the ant lady! Loving that account.
@box464 Thank you so much and you're very welcome! I'm glad I can fill out your feed like that. 😊🥰💖
And, yes, we all love @futurebird and her ants. 😘
As a white rich leftist nerd, I need to correct...just kidding. I'm not rich 😉
Seriously: Wonderful text, thank you.
Let's test replies from my site, starrwulfe.xyz.
It works as an ActivityPub client and should funnel likes, reactions, and replies here.
🤞🤞
For @Howard@mastodon.lifebystills.co.uk who needed more #tokyotrainnerd stuff in his feeds.
Here’s a #TokyoMetro #HibiyaLine new-type I rode from work one day a few years ago.
#地下鉄 #東京メトロ #日比谷線 #電車オタク #てっちゃん
cc: @Kantoman @starrwulfe.xyz@fed.brid.gy @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz
it’s definitely was one of my more difficult #japanlife itches to scratch! 😀 🚊
I got plenty of pix to stick here from the back feeds if anyone is interested ✌🏾
Vergecast: Musings on POSSE, SNS and Indieweb vs ActivityPub
My whole presence in the #fediverse is predicated on POSSE (and PESO) principles along with federated posting and SNS. I’m a semi-active part of the Indieweb community where this grassroots methodology sprang forth. It’s one of “build your own website and have others comment on it — that’s the network right there” simplicity.
Just like email is still the most universal messaging app, websites are still the least silo’d SNS app. It seems as if my cause to get back to basics has been taken up by a lot more than I thought lately, so much so, that today a very popular podcast topic was all about this very thing and features just about everyone I’ve personally tapped at some point for guidance in my own #indieweb journey.
In summary, the article and accompanying podcast talk about:
traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP702950…
The Vergecast
The poster’s guide to the new internet
theverge.com/2023/10/23/239285…
🔀📡
#ActivityPub #fediverse #Indieweb #mastodon #microBlog #openSNS #podcast #Threads #twitterMigration
Instead of posting individually to X, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, and everywhere else, a few internet believers see a better way to post everywhere — and make it yours.David Pierce (The Verge)
🎥▶️ Now watching:
Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett
Good to hear the whole reasoning behind trying to build bridges between Fediverse and Bluesky and dealing with “social media culture clashes” as told by Ryan Barnett. I’ve gotten to talk to him a lot over the past few years of my #indieweb but never really got to hear Ryan speak conversationally about some of the nuances he has to work through not only systematically but empathetically and humanly too.
flipboard.video/videos/embed/0…
Building Bridges to the Fediverse, with Ryan Barrett from Flipboard Dot Social1 hour 1 minute 33 seconds
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#fediverse #nowwatching #peertube #podcast
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