My new hobby: cross-post subsets of my open-social content back to legacy corporate social silos with watermarks and links to the full content in order to tempt them into the #opensocial #fediverse
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This week, it was all about dialing in the details, like improved comment threads and search results.
Surfers, we’d love to hear your thoughts about how it's going for you. 
Don't hesitate to drop us a line at feedback@surf.social.
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Check out the video of this interview and all @mike's Dot Social conversations on our PeerTube channel here: https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos
Flipboard PeerTubeFlipboard Dot SocialHosted by Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue, Dot Social is a new podcast and video series spotlighting leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement. Mike and his guests will explo...
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I have long thought that an open-source Genealogical social-network (including a Genetic Genealogy components) would benefit the Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy communities.
It would be straightforward to create it as Fediverse / OpenSocial software — using the same ActivityPub, ActivityStreams, NodeInfo, WebFinger, etc technology that the rest of the Fediverse uses.
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23andMe is (also) a social-network.
A social-network that includes both living and deceased people.
Some of this is expressed in the form of a family-tree. But it goes beyond that, as living people can (and do) communicate with each other, too.
And, there is a recommendation system of who to connect, based on if you are potentially related to each other or not.
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I am sad at what is now happening to the 23andMe company — that it has filed for bankruptcy, and is being sold.
23andMe holds an important place in the history Genealogy — and in particular Genetic Genealogy.
Although 23andMe had many applications, Genetic Genealogy was by far the most popular usage of it.
I.e., using genetics to understand ones family history.
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"In 2007, the #hashtag was a simple, yet revolutionary idea that changed the way we organize and amplify content. Today, it is either endangered or more useful than ever, depending on whom you talk to. On the #opensocial web, #hashtags are an important unifying mechanism — not just for content but for people too.
What’s next for this small but mighty feature and for the web at large? Here to tell us is #ChrisMessina, the inventor of the hashtag."
https://pca.st/episode/3141fffd-4a49-4784-b512-dfd8be55f607
Pocket CastsTurning Moments Into Movements, with Hashtag Inventor Chris Messina - Dot SocialLearn about the Internet’s next wave on the open social web and what it will unlock for how we connect, communicate, and innovate online. Hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue.
Oooh @snarfed.org will be speaking about "All the protocols, compared" in 45 minutes at 4:45 PM CT.
ATProtocol Dev · ATmosphereConf 2025 TalksATmosphereConf 2025 speakers for scheduled talks and lightning talks.
I set up a web-site for GreatApe.
A URL I can use when I talk about GreatApe.
Until now, it was just the GitHub repos. Now, GreatApe has its own web-site.
For now, it is very basic. More needs to be added to it.
Yesterday at #FediverseHouse we announced
Bluesky integration, but that's not the only update Surf users will see in the latest beta.
You can now create unified home timelines incorporating Bluesky and Mastodon following feeds, Starter Packs, lists and custom feeds. And you can also use filters to exclude issues or topics you don’t want to see in your feed. Sign up for the waitlist here — and if you're currently beta testing Surf, please send your suggestions for improvements to feedback@surf.social, and bigs and issues to support@surf.social.
Surf Waitlist Sign UpSurf Waitlist Sign UpJoin the beta — it's a new browser for the social web.
On Monday afternoon at SXSW, @pluralistic will be in conversation with @mike about building sustainable open networks that (hopefully) ward off “enshittification.” (We'll be recording this one for a future episode of the Dot Social podcast — check out all the past episodes on our PeerTube channel, @dot_social.)
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/xbve5fa0
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Dot Social will be at SXSW, recording conversations for future episodes. If you’ll be in the area, stop by the #FediverseHouse. Here are the details:
About FlipboardSXSW '25 - About Flipboard
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@atomicpoet is a fediverse enthusiast who makes smart observations and has a 10,000-foot view of all the innovation happening across the open social web (not to mention a few ideas of his own). Listen to his conversation with @mike on the latest episode of Dot Social.
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A good file-extension for ActivityPub / ActivityStream files might be:
.activity
And maybe also:
.jsonactivity
Those could be used to trigger a web-server to respond with the Content-Type "application/activity+json".
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