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Post #779611

2026-03-24 22:27 UTC

New post: Can we have a more “social” media? https://profpatsch.de/essays/a-more-social-media On advertising, the Fediverse, and what a more human social web could look like. Special mentions: @smallcircles, @phnt, @happy-programming #fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia #writing #essay

Replies (6)

  • @Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz 2026-03-24 23:23

    ADVERTISERS ARE NOT OUR MASTERS SCALING IS NOT OUR DOGMA

    Open ##1472903

  • @midzer@chaos.social 2026-03-24 22:44

    @Profpatsch Nice read :) For me, current web is too *fast* also. Lacking "real" communication and dialogue, even on the fediverse. I am lurking in forums and real-time-chat channels on IRC/XMPP way more often now.

    Open ##1472908

  • @midzer@chaos.social 2026-03-24 22:51

    @Profpatsch Furthermore, it's called #ActivityPub, but if the only "activity" or "activism" (I feel) is to read, click/like/boost and therefore consume, I cannot realize a *social* aspect as well. Yes, from time to time there might be a communication exchange. After all, we're all sitting at home alone instead of gathering together to celebrate "the end of the world" or whatever...

    Open ##1472910

  • @liaizon@social.wake.st 2026-03-24 22:53

    @Profpatsch oh cool what did you build @happy-programming with?

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  • @phnt@fluffytail.org 2026-03-25 09:44

    @Profpatsch @smallcircles I think what you described, and implemented with @happy-programming, is something similar to how I would want the infamous "Groups" feature of GNU/Social to work on ActivityPub. An account (Actor of type "Group") that announces certain posts mentioning it with the ability to curate content by its administrators/owners. There have been some small developments on something like that (private groups), but the implementations of it aren't fully compatible with each other. A group could then Announce all posts mentioning it automatically (like gup.pe) did, could automatically Announce posts only from certain users/instances, or be completely manual approval. I've described a technical-ish way of achieving that here: https://fluffytail.org/notice/B3kqzWyRLBzINkG3IO

    Open ##1472938

  • @silverpill@mitra.social 2026-03-25 21:31

    @Profpatsch @smallcircles @phnt What hasn’t been considered is the ability of multiple people to speak with “one voice” yet. Imageboards? There was one that federated using ActivityPub: https://github.com/FChannel0/FChannel-Server

    Open ##1472941