Evan Prodromou<p><strong>Seeking interop testing for geosocial ActivityPub client</strong></p>
<p>Hey, all! I’m seeking some help testing an application I whipped up for the Geosocial task force of the W3C Social Web Community Group. It’s called <a href="https://checkin.swf.pub/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://checkin.swf.pub/</a> , and it’s a barebones checkin service, similar to Swarm, but implemented as a pure Web client. You can watch the application in action.</p>
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<p>It logs into your account on an ActivityPub server using OAuth 2.0. It […]</p>
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Just replied to #SocialHub discussion to @evanprodromou #FEP on #fediverse support for long-form text.
There's a broader discussion that the #ActivityPub dev community isn't really addressing.
Nowhere in the #W3C specs is defined that #Microblogging is the foundation of #SocialNetworking. And certainly not #Mastodon's app-specific interpretation of this domain.
The entire AS extension mechanism is overlooked, and that leads to a massive 
Golden Hammer anti-pattern.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-b2b8-long-form-text/5300/18?u=aschrijver
SocialHub · FEP-b2b8: Long-form TextHello! This is a discussion thread for the proposed FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text. Please use this thread to discuss the proposed FEP and any potential problems or improvements that can be addressed. Summary Multi-paragraph text is an important content type on the Social Web. This FEP defines best practices for representing and using properties of a long-form text object in Activity Streams 2.0. cc @eprodrom
#Bluesky is most definitely alive and kicking
CEO Jay Graber says the days of winner-take-all #socialnetworking are over. Thank heavens she’s right.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91342316/bluesky-jay-graber-web-summit-vancouver
Fast Company · Bluesky is most definitely alive and kickingCEO Jay Graber says the days of winner-take-all social networking are over. Thank heavens she’s right.
What to do if you can’t get into your Facebook or Instagram account – Source: www.theguardian.com https://ciso2ciso.com/what-to-do-if-you-cant-get-into-your-facebook-or-instagram-account-source-www-theguardian-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #Dataandcomputersecurity #CyberSecurityNews #Socialnetworking #Consumeraffairs #TheGuardianUK #Digitalmedia #SocialMedia #0CISO2CISO #Cybercrime #Technology #Instagram #Facebook #Internet #hacking #Money #Meta
CISO2CISO.COM & CYBER SECURITY GROUP · What to do if you can’t get into your Facebook or Instagram account – Source: www.theguardian.comSource: www.theguardian.com - Author: Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor Your Facebook or Instagram account can be your link to friends, a profile for y
What to do if you can’t get into your Facebook or Instagram account https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/may/21/what-to-do-get-into-facebook-instagram-hacked-security #Dataandcomputersecurity #Socialnetworking #Consumeraffairs #Digitalmedia #Socialmedia #Technology #Cybercrime #Instagram #Facebook #Internet #Hacking #Money #Meta
The Guardian · What to do if you can’t get into your Facebook or Instagram account
"The terms social network and social media are used interchangeably now, but they shouldn’t be. A social network is an idle, inactive system—a Rolodex of contacts, a notebook of sales targets, a yearbook of possible soul mates. But social media is active—hyperactive, really—spewing material across those networks instead of leaving them alone until needed."
#IanBogost, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/
The Atlantic · The Age of Social Media Is Ending
https://www.europesays.com/uk/114151/ Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet #BigInterview #bluesky #Internet #longreads #rogues #Social #SocialMedia #SocialNetworking #Technology #Twitter #UK #UnitedKingdom
Found this last night on #Reddit. Yup.
Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/meta-instagram-muslim-news-page #SouthandcentralAsia #Socialnetworking #Technology #Instagram #Worldnews #Pakistan #Facebook #India #Meta
The Guardian · Meta blocks major Muslim Instagram page in India amid rising conflict
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Exactly! The conceptual design offers us "Actors exchange Activities". So granular that it can model about anything.
Yet we somehow ended up modeling only existing #SocialMedia esp. #Microblogging. That is weird.
My definition of #SocialNetworking:
- Any direct or indirect human interaction between people.
So *both* offline and online. And where that happens seamlessly is where I envision this as a #Peopleverse (sociosphere). Runs on the fediverse installed base (technosphere).
Continued thread
Twitterlike is a Bad Shape
"Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape. "
osteophage.neocities.org · Twitterlike is a Bad ShapeTwitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape.
My dream on the future of online #SocialNetworking? Simple. One that supports #people and #humanity much better than it does now, so it actually serves mankind.
I want us to get past the madness of mindless #DigitalTransformation, vicious spyware metaverses, and hungry #AI. That's all hypercapitalism. Dehumanising us, eroding the #social fabric, so it can prolong itself and serve the elite owner classes.
#Peopleverse starts offline, where we're humans of flesh and blood, living our daily life.