Emelia

Reply to @drewharwell.com

Counterpoint: this is the intended effect: to disenfranchise sex workers and remove their economic power because they also tend to be community organisers and activists, and want to see better for their communities.

I wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks: writings.thisismissem.social/how-standard...

How Standards Are Made

Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percent...

If I noticed a tool of mine was acting like this, I'd replace that tool.

github.com/jqwik-team/j...

Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) · Issue #708 · jqwik-team/jqwik

Hello jqwik team, While running our test suite under mvn test in 1.10.0, we observed a string appearing between Surefire's test summary and the [INFO] Results: header that gave us pause: [INFO] Tes...

So I've been trying to understand the legal structure that W Social has to better understand the separation between W Identity and W Social, and it's quickly looking like it's all for show.

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol.

Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here:

github.com/swicg/genera...

#activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

So a not too well known thing about me: I'm the co-author of the Client ID Metadata Documents internet draft that Bluesky / AT Proto uses for OAuth.

This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation.

If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social

Support Emelia Smith (@thisismissem)

Fund her work on the Fediverse, improving trust & safety and other open-source contributions

Okay, that was a masterclass in social platform comms and showing what other platforms _should_ be doing with transparency and outreach to the community.

Bluesky @bsky.app

We are live! Join us for a Q&A with @pfrazee.com and @rose.bsky.team on twitch now www.twitch.tv/blueskysocial

BlueskySocial - Twitch

Bluesky is a new OPEN SOURCE social network! https://bsky.app

Fun story for everyone with the AT Protocol trademark: the Mastodon trademark for many many years was owned just by Eugen personally, not by the Mastodon gGmbH, which is part of the reason they had to recently pay Eugen €1 million euros.

Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide.

It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

#europe #lgbtq #germany

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

So something interesting that happened this week: Mastodon announced that they'd received €614,000 from Sovereign Tech Agency (german), and with part of that funding they're going to be implementing support for the FediMod FIRES protocol which I spent last year building whilst barely surviving.

Reply to @thisismissem.social

Whilst I've found Claude to generally be good at catching prompt injections, it's still concerning that the author of a testing library thought that:

a) a prompt injection was okay
b) concealing that prompt injection from human operators was okay
c) making that prompt injection destructive was okay

Seeing the @ec.europa.eu bend over backwards to support a for-profit closed source ID-gated social network is really quite something.

Obviously they've either learned nothing from dealing with Meta & X/Twitter over the past decade, or they want to replicate them but have control over it.

Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net

They removed it quickly 😳 Hurry up, let’s have a common logo for all the microblogging apps in the Atmosphere!

Said something interesting to a friend today when they asked about different open social web protocols. It might be a little bit controversial, but:

I think that ActivityPub is decentralized in principle, whereas AT Protocol is decentralized in practice. 🧵

I'd somewhat disagree on this, which may surprise you. You should only host a PDS when you feel like you can govern and provide it responsibly.

Poorly run PDSes that loose people's data hurt us much more than directing people to create an account on a well known PDS provider.

Bluesky gained that for me without any mind games and without forcing itself on me at every chance through all the other apps that company has.

The Verge @theverge.com

Threads wants to be the app you can’t wait to open in the morning

Threads wants to be the app you can’t wait to open in the morning

A conversation with the head of Threads Conor Hayes on creators, ads, and the fediverse.

It's seriously amazing how fast the AT Protocol developer experience is, like from idea to early results is wowzers.

Like, I've spent all of maybe two days working on @questionable.fyi, and I've already account profiles working with arbitrary data on the network.

My next thing to do is OAuth... 😅

It's pretty funny how everyone has seemingly forgotten why W Social went closed source: initially they were open source, and various people from the community looked through their fork of the bluesky codebases, and went "lol wat no".

To be honest, I think this is more the ruling class in America manifesting that bluesky fails, rather than bluesky actually failing because they know they can't control it just by buying it out.

Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social

"But, two years since its launch, the site has around just 10% of X’s estimated global users." This is presented as a failure. At 2yo, having 10% of the users of its biggest rival, which is 20yo, is a failure. No tech is allowed to just be a success, it has to be a blockbuster or it doesn't count.

Bluesky was launched as a Twitter rival — but it's far less popular. Now it's eyeing Reddit for inspiration

"I think the public square is not the direction we want to go in...we're very inspired by companies like Reddit," Bluesky's Rose Wang told CNBC.

It's pretty funny about how developers using ActivityPub are constantly banging on about AT Protocol, whilst folks developing with AT Protocol are just out here building their applications and doing cool shit.

Reply to @thisismissem.social

This is now the third time Mastodon have omitted crediting me when citing my work, which honestly kinda sucks, and is actually why I'm so much more focused on AT Protocol these days.

So @jimray.bsky.team let slip today that the reference implementation PDS is finally getting email based 2FA, for parity with the entryway.

I've been working on implementing this over the past 2 weeks, as my chronic illness has been a bit difficult, but it is indeed coming!

Reply to @kattenbarge.bsky.social

This is literally "AI company says something vague and weird about software — you should bet on it! 🤑🤑🤑"

So here's a short write up explaining what happened today and what I'm going through, at a high level. It does include some history too, but I tried to keep it brief.

On Financial Insecurity

Lesbians 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 J. Kenji López-Alt

“It's always a good time for scissoring”