So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.
How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
Wish me luck. More updates soon.
Hi! You may most likely know me as co-editor of ActivityPub, the decentralized social network message which is more-than-likely how you're actually receiving this message! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Other things you may want to know:
- I'm a user freedom activist (free software, free culture)
- I post a lot of leftie politics stuff
- Expect lots of tech posts around lisp, decentralized network stuff, obscure-ish programming history
Some musings about properties of different transport systems https://dustycloud.org/tmp/vattp-routing-musings.org.txt
Updated the mega thread where I've been documenting learning about and implementing CapTP with some of the necessary toe-dipping into VatTP (or MachineTP) which seems necessary with 3-machine handoffs. Still excavating information from the past... https://groups.google.com/g/cap-talk/c/xWv2-J62g-I/m/Evq-tw5MBAAJ
So, because a lot of @spritelyproject's architectural design stems from the work on Electric Communities Habitat, I've done a lot of spelunking about its history...
But "why did it die?" I've been saying ".com crash" but... this post claims more: https://web.archive.org/web/20110723083144/http://thecan.org/in/communities.html
I'm pretty spent today coding-wise anyway. Gonna print these docs out, make some tea, relax, and go over them with a pen... the only good way to read documentation as dense as this...
Given what an enormous amount of time I've spent reading erights.org, how did I not read all the VatTP pages before I started this work...? :\ http://erights.org/elib/distrib/vattp/index.html
Also, unearthed an old review of the protocol from Hal Finney https://web.archive.org/web/20160418225821/http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/1999-November/003008.html
@cwebber @fossandcrafts @mlemweb @craigmaloney
aww ! That was really nice to listen your interview of @vickysteeves ; and a big thanks for the end note! You can't imagine how it helps to hear that during my long days of production 👍
@cwebber yup, by June we'll all be running EXWM exclusively
(I mean all of those steps always have some level of overlap, it's more what the level of focus is)
My work has been a cycle of co-building technical foundations, getting people excited, then community development (as people build stuff better than I would have on top), repeat?
I've been in steps 2+3 for ActivityPub for ~3 years; starting to move from 1->2 for @spritelyproject...
oh well I post what I like to post, and posting about progress keeps me excited about the work... even if it's deep in the weeds...
but making *tangible demos* is what gets most others excited (well, me too!)... so, really looking forward to what I'll be able to show off soon
This year's public domain day was a doozy, with a flood of works from the 1925 entering the public domain, including vast swathes of the Harlem Rernaissance and F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Gilded Age/coming-of-age novel The Great Gatsby.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#public-domain-day
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User freedom activist, ActivityPub co-editor, Spritely project lead, parenthesis enthusiast, occasional artist. https://dustycloud.org/
https://www.patreon.com/cwebber
Avatar by David Revoy (based on a tiny sketch by me)