Mike Macgirvin 🖥️

https://fediversity.site/channel/mikedev

Creating a kinder, gentler fediverse and open social web. It starts by giving you full control of your inbox and your audience.

Communications technologist. Internet, web, and fediverse pioneer. I build free communications tools in my spare time for free people based on common sense and what works, not on what sells. Systems integration, software development, and robot repair. Former music store owner. Plays a mean guitar, upside down and backwards.

I came from the San Francisco bay area of the 1960s. Make of that what you will. I cut my teeth professionally in the bat-shit crazy world of Silicon Valley through the early 2000s, and have seen greed up close and personal -- and once played the tech startup game with gusto. I'm well and truly over it.

Currently living mostly off-grid on a modest farm in rural Australia.

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2024-08-02T02:10:01Z

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2024-07-07 21:00:35

@[Streams](https://fediversity.site/channel/streams )
Announcing version 24.7.8 from the streams repository. "The best fediverse server you never heard of."
In this release:
nomadic identity over ActivityPub
nomadic content over all supported protocols
json-ld webpage metadata ("fediverse:creator" can rot in hell - we use and promote open standards here).
...and much more
https://codeberg.org/streams/streams

2024-06-27 11:28:11

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Evan had a Farmville clone for ActivityPub's predecessor pump.io. We've dabbled in some other server-side apps, like putting chess games into your stream - but the killer is letting strangers execute javascript in your stream. We ran some experimental stuff in sandboxed iframes, but finally decided it was a bad look for the free web and said yeah,nah.

2024-06-20 22:18:45

Please boost if your immediate circle contains fediverse developers outside of Mastodon.
I'm trying to determine the scope of support for the Mastodon's platform "Move Account" activity across the fediverse. We intend to use this in the relatively near future to convert all of the streams repository's ActivityPub facing accounts to nomadic digital identities - without losing all of our ActivityPub friends in the process.
I'm certain we'll find a number of fediverse projects that don't support this activity and will require manual re-friending. If you have knowledge of any platforms which don't - please reply with the platform name so that this procedure is well documented and we don't have a lot of surprises and missing friends. Thanks.

2024-06-15 20:48:09

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As I mentioned elsewhere, there is a case for providing json-ld metadata - which is already in use and has been blessed by Google (not that I care) and dumping both OpenGraph and X/Cards in favour of open standards over proprietary and non-extensible solutions. The Alphabet currently only blesses @context values using schema.org, but this is where the fediverse can assert a standard context that works for us and just start using it. And it's already defined!.

2024-06-03 23:48:20

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Might be worth a footnote - a couple of projects (Friendica and Hubzilla) are still using LD-Signatures for verification and Mastodon may or may not still validate these. It did so at one point. That's how we did things before 8b32.

2024-05-23 10:48:32

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You can pop over to /dev/finger on your favourite streams site and enter the following:
☮️❤️🎼@fediversity.site

2024-05-22 21:58:54

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... and ... done.

2024-05-22 21:10:00

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I experimented with punycode usernames in streams (and its predecessor zap) several years back and we've got a feature toggle to turn it on. I keep forgetting it's there, so I should probably go back and double check everything still works (it should) and remove the feature toggle.

2024-05-17 04:16:19

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Most everybody uses followers, following and outbox in some form. We also use them for Access Lists (aka circles/aspects) and photo albums and search results. I'll probably use them for event calendars soon. And of course as mentioned we use them for conversations so that everybody sees the same view of the discussion. It's a very under-utilised organisational mechanism and that seems odd. They're quite useful.
Everybody has lists of all kinds of things on their server, but turning them into collections means you can share them.

2024-05-17 03:54:09

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Yeah I've had a number of times where I wanted to query a collection - but hopefully something a bit more lightweight than a full blown query language.
And in the Nomad protocol, we've got delivery notifications. It's critical to finding out what happened to something in a decentralised communication system. It's 2024. Vanishing into space without any trace is not an option.

2024-05-17 00:21:00

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> "But how embedded images should be treated by implementations that use media cache? Are they expected to rewrite src attributes in images?"
That's what we do today. Would be interested in alternative approaches. We don't even try and cache audio/video.

2024-04-30 08:16:59

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I usually just tune into random internet radio stations with pretty random playlists of indie music. I call it the "infinite stream". You can listen to a different song every waking moment for the rest of your life and never hear the same song twice - if you want. I do find Uturn radio's dubstep channel is pretty good for coding to, without thinking too much about what's playing. I'm also kind of keen on Koori radio (aboriginal and south pacific islanders). That's usually just CDs that artists mail into the stations from all over Oceania.
I don't really listen to much of anything commercial any more. I stopped supporting the big 4 record labels about 20-25 years ago. More often than not if I want to listen to something I pick my guitar and play.

2024-04-30 07:58:48

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Missed it the first time around. I'm not so much into stations as tunes; and my musical tastes are well off the beaten path -- but it's a cool idea.

2024-04-24 22:17:28

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I thought flipboard was federated now. They're already part of the fediverse. Why would they need a Mastodon account?
Mastodon is a provider. Flipboard is a provider. Threads is a provider. Friendica is a provider. Pixelfed is a provider. They all work together and can all communicate with each other without everybody requiring accounts on every provider. That's what makes the fediverse work. For instance I'm on 'Y'. I don't have an account on any of those other things, yet here I am.

2024-04-14 07:14:52

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Use whichever account or accounts you find yourself most comfortable with. Eventually Mastodon and/or Flipboard will let you link them together and present a single persona to the world. Or keep them separate and show a different side of yourself at each - the choice is yours.
I'm using software that lets you link separate accounts on different software together, but there has been zero interest in it, so it's probably not what most people actually want (despite them saying this is what they want). So consider that a data point.
Just be you and use whatever tool or tools bring out the best in you. And the people who want to follow you or a particular side of you will find you there.