Julian Fietkau

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Groooße Ankündigung und Einladung! Gemeinsam mit #SaveSocial-Mitinitiator bjoernsta@eimsbuettel.social haben wir die #2MR-Konferenz (sprich: zwoMR) auf die Beine gestellt! #Thread👇

#2MR: Die demokratiestärkende #SocialMedia-Konferenz
👉 https://2mr.social […]

[Original post on berlin.social]

@silverpill @julian@activitypub.space I believe @hollo does it as well.

@general

Cropped author list: Jane Doe (ORCID), Example University (ROR), Scotland Jim Anotherperson, Example University, Scotland John Doe, (ORCID), Elsewhere Example College, England Lisa von Expert, Example Universität (ROR), Germany

FYI: The new article template supports not just ORCID, but also ROR markers! Your ECSCW papers can reference ROR IDs for contributing institutions and funding organizations.

Funders increasingly ask to be human- and machine-readable in papers and their metadata, @ResearchOrgs helps you with that.

Seems as good a day as any to thank @hongminhee and team for the exemplary work on @fedify. Following Fedify's big 2.0 release, my two largest interoperability pain points in @encyclia can be fixed. 🙂

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @gotosocial will […]

How about that, my current employer @unibwm just launched a @peertube test server. 😮

They said it's for testing and not to expect permanence (for now), but they didn't say anything about secrecy, so... here's a video I made to present @encyclia last year […]

RE: https://hci.social/@amyjko/116171749536480692

This keynote by @amyjko reminds us educators (in computer science and beyond) of our mission while also offering perspectives to guide and expand it.

To my dismay I have to postpone watching it in full until I can set aside an hour (plus likely […]

RE: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/2026/03/02/825/

Ever considered being part of an academic conference as a student volunteer? I'm coordinating the SV call for #ECSCW2026 and we're looking for people.

I'd say “please apply if you're interested,” but knowing who follows me, “please forward this […]

Help needed! We are working on creating a general citation import filter. So we need ODT/DOCX files containing citations that were created with EndNote, Mendeley, Citavi, Paperpile... and any other citation manager you like to use. The converter will also be available for other open source […]

@julian@activitypub.space You could also extend the leeway for Note conversion while keeping the summary length, that feels like a potentially useful option.

By that I mean letting posts with a length of n>500 (700? 1000?) through as a Note, but still cutting the summary at 500 if it's even […]

@reiver @stefan You need the interaction policy as well as the ability to respond to quote requests with publicly dereferenceable quote authorizations.

If you don't care about the ability to revoke quotes, you can use a stateless blanket permission pattern that I've described here for PieFed […]

@fedify That is one juicy changelog! 🤩

Makes me want to jump into upgrading @encyclia, especially after we postponed the Fresh 2.x integration. But it sounds like that's going to be a bit of an adventure, so I'll wait until I can set an afternoon aside for it.

**Fedify 2.0.0 is here!**

This is the biggest release in Fedify's history. Here are the highlights:

* **Modular architecture** — The monolithic `@fedify/fedify` package has been broken up into focused, independent packages: `@fedify/vocab`, `@fedify/vocab-runtime`, `@fedify/vocab-tools` […]

@fedify That is one juicy changelog! 🤩

Makes me want to jump into upgrading @encyclia, especially after we postponed the Fresh 2.x integration. But it sounds like that's going to be a bit of an adventure, so I'll wait until I can set an afternoon aside for it.

@Lambo Immer gerne! 😄

@Lambo Ich glaube in früheren Versionen des ActivityPub-Plugins konnte man das frei einstellen. Wenn ich jetzt in die Plugin Settings schaue, vermute ich die Einstellung "Use Template Tags instead of letting the plugin choose the best possible format for you" unter "Advanced" dahinter. Bei […]

@Lambo Mit anderen Worten: ob du ihnen zustimmst ist davon losgelöst, aber die Anzeige der Kurzversion ist Mastodons Entscheidung.

Ich glaube grundsätzlich ist Mastodon für Verbesserungen der Anzeige von solchen Artikeln offen, sie sagen aber recht konsequent dass sie lange Artikel im […]

@Lambo Das ist von den beteiligten Plattformen so beabsichtigt. Mehrere ActivityPub-Plattformen, die für längere Artikel verwendet werden (neben Wordpress u.a. Ghost und WriteFreely), haben einen Standard entwickelt, der u.a. das Einbetten einer Kurz-Vorschau erlaubt […]

We're looking for two Backend Ruby on Rails Web Developers to work with us remotely as part of the core team.

Ideally you are:

1. Very experienced with Ruby on Rails
2. Proficient in PostgreSQL, and familiar with Redis and Elasticsearch
3. Experienced in developing maintainable and scalable […]

RE: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2026/2026/02/20/789/

This conference paper template overhaul for @ecscw2026 was a huge (by my standards) #LaTeX project.

Love and respect to Saturnino Luz, the author of the 2006 template, which remained untouched up to 2025. A revamp was overdue. The new template […]

The submission deadline for full conference papers is approaching fast now. 😲 Submit yours via EasyChair by March 6 (AoE), or take a look at the other submission categories. The deadline for posters is two weeks later!

#ECSCW2026 #HCI #CSCW

Learned about the "Wuselfaktor" yesterday when talking about Settlers II for @dosgameclub

It's a German concept that describes how interesting and nice is a game is to look at without the player doing anything in particular.

It's especially relevant for simulation type games, where your screen […]

The "side effects" of an activity are everything caused by the activity other than it being visible in its actor's outbox and getting posted to its audience's inboxes. For example, a like or reply being represented in the affected object's `likes` or `replies` collection is a side effect, as is likes or replies being shown on a web page corresponding to the object.

FEP drafting: Am I using “side effects” here the same way as other ActivityPub developers? I've seen the term used a bunch in casual conversation, but my personal understanding of it is kinda fuzzy.

#ActivityPub #FediDev #FEP

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't […]

@andypiper @reiver I've been fantasizing about a snippet library for validating and canonicalizing a fediverse (AP+WebFinger) handle. Drop in a handle/profile link/AP ID, receive full handle + web link if the input is resolvable.

Target audience would be sites that don't have full fediverse […]

🆕 blog! “Are there any open APIs left?”

One of the dreams of Web 2.0 was that website would speak unto website. An "Application Programming Interface" (API) would give programmatic access to structured data, allowing services to seamlessly integrate content from each other. Users would be able […]

@reiver From personal experience, at the very least anything based on @fedify can represent multiple keys for an actor.

FEP-521a has a list of implementations: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/521a/fep-521a.md#implementations

On changing keys, I used to think this was […]

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP

Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any […]

I try not to make “indistinct complaining about the state of technology” a habit, but it is perturbing how I've had a year-old monitor stop working over Christmas and the two (!) subsequent factory-new replacements each arrived with obvious manufacturing defects.

I don't even need super […]

Cover des White Papers "Reinvent Social Platforms". Text: Journalismus into the Fediverse! Media Lab Bayern. SWR X Lab. Bild: Hand, die ein Smartphone hält, auf dem analoge und digitale Blumen zu sehen sind, die aus dem Screen wachsen.

🔊 Es hat ein bisschen gedauert, aber jetzt ist das Ding da:

Unser #WhitePaper zum Projekt #ReinventSocialPlatforms. 🙌

Unsere Erkenntnisse aus 6+ Monaten Recherche, Analyse und Prototypengebastel.

Themenfeld: #Fediverse, #SocialMedia, #Journalismus, #Medien […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm co-organizing #ECSCW2026, an academic conference on how people use technology to work together. (Because I don't have enough to do yet, ha.)

One of the things I'm handling is social media, so if you do #CSCW, #HCI or related research, feel free to follow and/or share! 🙂 […]