#ATprotocol

[mattdobbins]

Federated Blog Migration

This concludes my blog migration and enabling bsky and other comments as well as federating my posts. I've already seen far more traffic than I had! Sorry for the flood of posts, y’all! #bsky #blog #activitypub #ATprotocol 🙃

[mitchipedia]

Mike Masnick: The ATProtocol is a technological poison pill that sabotages enshittification. Even the potential of competition serves to protect against BlueSky following Twitter's trajectory.

[digitalfridge]

Brian Merchant with a reminder on why you should be rooting for indieweb or ATProtocol or ActivityPub projects to succeed

The Tech Oligarchy Has Been Here for Years:

The technological infrastructure the public relies upon for modern life, crucial platforms for communicating, finding information, and building community; our shared digital commons; has already been operated by what is essentially an oligarchy for the last decade or so.

[scasuallypursuits]

#8: Blog Notifier and stuff.

Finally finished my little app and some colors now for the commission.

It's like 90% done. That means that there is now only 90% left to do. The blog notifier just needs to be run now indefinitely. For now I'm going to do it locally, ie. my computer, but I eventually will plan to do host on a raspberry pi.

It's currently called by the windows task scheduler, weekly at 11:00 pm Saturday. Just an hour after my usual timed post here. I couldn't get it to work on twitter cuz twitter a bitch with their current api plans, thanks elon. So I relegated to blueskye instead and learned their Atprotocol. After some tinkering, I got it to work. Site cards and everything. Only took like an hour but the thumbnail wasn't there so I solved that problem.

It took 6 hours. Holy shit it took 6 hours. Adding just the thumbnail to the sit card tool 6 fucking hours. My god, first I need to figure on what field to add the image, then realized that I'm adding the wrong type to I did that. Then I realized that urls arent pictures so I converted them to images to with the python library PIL. Still didn't work. Then I realized that it needs to be in a binary format. I thought okay, everything should be over now yeah? like it's in binary format, like the documentation said. The image was too fucking big.

Compressed it then finally it worked. It took like 6 steps just to add the the thumbnail. wow. Like the code itself is small but figuring out each step took like an hour and a half. Even went to a discord for help.

Thinking I should add that it write the results on a .txt file so I could read what's happening.

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Other thing that I did this week is the commissions again.

This is the the current set up right now. I sent my colors to my client for a check. I feel weird if I only do flat colors when verifying something. So I add shadows to it as well in mine so there is a more information they can use to see if they like it. Like all the rendering passes I will do will be based on the main light and shadow shapes after all. As well as the local colors.

If you see at the top, that the more updated one I'm doing. Adding a simple BG pattern should make the piece come together better, Being a light desaturated blue make the darkers saturated color pop more, ie. the character. I'm quite proud of it. I wish I can finish this commission faster but my work is taking my time, and well my other hobbies as well. I'm practically done now with my blog app so I now have more time for this. I have asked my client if they're fine with me taking a month with the commission and they said it's okay, so there's that.

[rtiodev]

It's impressive how many people there are talking about Tumblr on Bluesky

Also makes obvious the lack of features on the platform, Bluesky is pretty raw at this moment and to be honest I do prefer Activity Pub.

[ittimes]

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter competitor ‘Bluesky’ now available on the App Store

According to 9TO5 Mac, Jack Dorsey left Twitter in May 2022 and has been working on Bluesky, a new decentralized social network. The app was officially made available in the iOS App Store, but it still requires an invitation (Join Waitlist) to use it.

Bluesky is based on the AT protocol, which is similar to ActivityPub, the decentralized protocol that powers Mastodon. It is unclear when it will be made available to everyone, but the release of its app on the App Store suggests that this may happen very soon.

[gleehen]

tumblr、Mastodonが使ってるActivityPubを採用したんだねぇ

まあ自分としたらば、BlueskyのAT Protocolも併採したらいいなと…

twitterから逃げ出した創業者が新たに作ろうとしてる分散型SNSのBlueskyだけに、期待してるんだよね…

[borismann]

Bluesky #ATProtocol uses domain names as user handles. Parker Higgins did a great write up that mostly focuses on the possibilities of what using domains can enable.

“Verification by HTML reflects a web-first mindset, verification by DNS reflects a net-first mindset.”

[nova-ayashi]

Why Bluesky Will Probably Never Be It

This is going to be a sort of long one (or maybe it won’t?), because I have a lot of thoughts as a tech and social media enthusiast, and some of those thoughts have to do with how I feel about the direction that social media is moving in. How I feel about Mastodon, and Nostr, side-by-side, and what the biggest problems with Bluesky are. So, let’s jump right the heck in … Nostr, the…