Yes, digital sovereignty for all things in Canada is a good idea. That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this. Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way. contains quote post or other […]

Great to see @chadkoh.com running with @protocolsforpublishers.com. Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are more policy & civil society […]

Woo hoo! You all get to start adding stuff to @cosmik.network’s Semble: a social bookmarking tool. I’ve been using it for weeks, have it as a PWA on my phone, and it’s been great to just get the basics of saving links somewhere. contains quote post or other embedded content] [ […]

In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media”. With interoperable standards and options for hosting, this could be a mix of shared infrastructure (& moderation) as well as individual orgs like @gandersocial.bsky.social and #cosocialca […]

The @bonfire framework, a kind of federated social app construction kit, is running a crowd fund campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community I’ve supported it and will look at running an install for some community, maybe @dwebvancouver

LOL moment from #ietf124 pre-BOF was @awarm.space describing @leaflet.pub as "macro blogging" I just get like this picture of like carb loading, and like @schlage.town as my super intense coach. "GET OUT THERE AND MACROBLOG, PEOPLE!!!" https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4vjkvumpk2q

Give us feedback on what you want to see in Vancouver in March! Please share this far and wide: this is not just a tech conference, it's building the communities and shared spaces that we want together. #wecanjustdothings contains quote post or other embedded content] [ […]

In Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating. It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media. Very excited to see this! contains quote post or other embedded content] [https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4qkffn7s22e

Using @ngerakines.me atwork atwork.place to create "endorsements" that other folks were at #ietf124 Experimenting with different types of "attestation" proofs. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4o2qat4cs27

A ceramic mug by Hell Wench https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4houjzte62j

@lisarue great meeting you at #ietf124 I shared Cyd with you https://cyd.social/ and yes, would love to talk about Instagram, Meta, etc exports / imports into ATProto

I'm getting excited to see a bunch of people in person and eat good food in Montreal! contains quote post or other embedded content] [https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4dvqcmrt226

I have two Ghost sites I operate for which I turned on Fediverse posting. I have hopes that they might support the Article long form AP type, but until it’s supported by Mastodon it won’t be visible to most. Getting @darius’s Hometown stuff merged would be great. Would love to see these two […]

Congrats to @roost.tools on launch! contains quote post or other embedded content] [https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4dof3zepc2x

Great name @essentialrandom.bsky.social - astrolabe: for writing to your own site and posting to everywhere. contains quote post or other embedded content] [https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m47ohlc7us2m

Seeing @anirudh.fi's Tangled post with footnotes... @leaflet.pub footnotes / "asides" (as sub pages????) could be v nice! I used to run Simply Jekyll which had really nice side notes, marginalia and other interesting interactive pieces for full desktop views […]

The DWeb HQ team @dweb is working on DWeb Camp 2026. Give them feedback on where in the world you think would be a fit. https://social.coop/@dweb/115424781985654403 (yes, @dwebyvr.org is working on #dwebcampcascadia 2026, too) #dweb #dwebyvr

The @inkandswitch.com team is hosting an event in London again. Meet at the ARIA offices and hear about building new tools for science. Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will […]

ok, I lasted like a week before manually add ll="ls -lah --color" to my .zprofile. Yes, I know, dotfiles. Anyone have a dotfiles approach that I'll actually use? MacOS primary, don't really care about syncing it elsewhere, I use homebrew. I'd be open to some new shell thingie. #dotfiles

And great timing! Reading group post is up and got posted to the @dwebvancouver account https://dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-reading-group-first-meeting/

I just enabled the AP compatibility of the #DWebYVR Ghost site, which can be followed at @dwebvancouver#dwebyvr You can also subscribe by email on the website https://dwebyvr.org

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances. You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It […]

@rude1.blacksky.app does this bridge to Rudy? Feels like handle change issue.

A specification licensed under CC-BY with multiple open source implementations AND going through the process of joining the IETF isn’t “proprietary”.

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

We're looking for a journalist with development chops (or a developer with journalism chops) to join our news apps team and build new web-based interactive stories, databases, and experiences. It's a remote role; candidates must be eligible to work in the US […]

The latest issue of Web Technology News is out: https://webtechnology.news/wtn-5-how-cloudflare-is-both-ai-police-and-ai-booster/ As usual, there are 3 sections: - web platform - open social web - Web + AI Fedi folks mentioned: @marypcbuk, @slightlyoff, @jensimmons, @tomayac, @boris, @conno_r […]

ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web! https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsznpxhik2f

Weekend Adventures Aug 30th https://blog.bmann.ca/3lxo4rd5g2c25

Final Bowen Glimpses https://blog.bmann.ca/3lxluncf6pk24

I’m publishing to https://blog.bmann.ca for personal posts and https://blog.bmannconsulting.com for tech posts. Links to both are posted to this account via @FedicaHQ I’m using Leaflet for this https://leaflet.pub https://cosocial.ca/@boris/115142849141697404

Leaflet posting https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsy2asc5224

Final Bowen Glimpses https://boris.leaflet.pub/3lxluncf6pk24

We're ramping up our funding efforts at @anewsocial to ensure we can run Bridgy Fed and Bounce for the long run. As a non-profit, we want to be as community-funded as possible, so we're focusing on ways to make that easier. A quick thread about where we're at in terms of funds: (1/3)🧵 […]

Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsrmot7ec2c

We call it Wednesday https://boris.leaflet.pub/3lxgtgeqqes23

On Bowen for the week https://boris.leaflet.pub/3lxeezuuh7226

Bowen Commute Day https://boris.leaflet.pub/3lxj3brek3k2s

Checked in at Betaworks Studios. Prepping for Protocols for Publishers this evening — with Ted

Thanks @deadsuperhero for hosting a PeerTube instance for all the Fedicon videos @fedicon My video is up here https://spectra.video/w/1FRNBf5MZ23NGFh5knt1fh And the slides and extended notes are on my site https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyond-microblogging-atproto/

Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps (FediCon 2025) by Boris Mann @boris https://spectra.video/w/1FRNBf5MZ23NGFh5knt1fh #fedicon #fedicon2025 #bluesky #atprotocol #ATProto

Ink & Switch are now taggable on the fediverse @inkandswitch.com There's also a social in London, coming up Aug 16th. Come join us! https://lu.ma/lxfxu463

Big thanks to @feathers.dev who has been doing some excellent work in DWeb technology advancement. Thank you for your sponsorship of #dwebcampcascadia! Only a few more days until we set up camp 🏕️ 😆

I published my slides from @fedicon on my site, as well as capturing answers to questions from @evan and @johannab and linking to apps mentioned and other resources. https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyond-microblogging-atproto/ #fedicon

@julian diving into the hard problems of building for the Fediverse at #fedicon, starting with hilariously talking about how those hard problems look like to average users 😅