Here's what the new designs look like: (Someone help me out with alt text because I don't think I can accurately describe these screenshots in a way that'd make sense)

We've been working hard on FedCM to make it work better for the decentralised web! These new designs should enable us to support the Atmosphere (AT Protocol) and Fediverse (ActivityPub) better, including parity with centralised identity providers.

Sam Goto@sgo.to · last mo.

@thisismissem.social @divy.zone and I recently went through an exploration of how the browser can help you login to websites with atproto accounts. We recently presented to the FedID CG and here is a sneak peek in case you couldn't join! This is early but we'd love your input before we go too far!

After leading the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce – the group trying to improve trust & safety of the protocol – for two years, I've decided to step down as lead, and also exit the Social Web Community Group entirely. (I remain in the Social Web Working Group as an Invited Expert, but I'm […]

Youtube now requires all creators to disclose if generative AI was used in their videos. So why doesn't Youtube give viewers the option to weed out genAI videos from our feeds?!

Much like the work that goes into the protocols and software behind the web, most people don’t know about trust and safety—including the harms that exist and the tools to combat them. We attended FOSSY to chat with, learn from, and help educate fellow open source developers. #FOSSY #FediCon

As you've probably noticed, I'm not posting from this account much any more, and have more or less moved entirely over to Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.social You can follow the bridged account at @thisismissem.social

ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce Meeting now! https://meet.jit.si/ap-trust-and-safety-tf Help us decide the next years' worth of work

@nlnet FYI, this project which was recently announced for funding has a security warning from browsers for their website and it actually doesn't provide any further information on the project: https://nlnet.nl/project/Freeform/

@julian could you add the "website" field to this repository to point to your editors drafts on GH Pages? https://github.com/swicg/forums

GitHub - swicg/forums: ActivityPub based Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force

ActivityPub based Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force - swicg/forums

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@gotosocial @dumpsterqueer could you comment on the licensing for the write up of Interaction Controls in GoToSocial? We're considering the possibility of authoring a standards-track document based on it and a few other FEPs: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/discussions/152 […]

It does somewhat bother me that we consistently see people posting on the fediverse about trust and safety topics, but that doesn't translate to action, i.e., working with the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce to get things to become standards-track. If the Fediverse cares about trust and […]

The ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce meeting is happening now. If you want to have a say in the next 12 months for the task force, please join: https://meet.jit.si/ap-trust-and-safety-tf You can also find the other events in the SWICG calendar here […]

This is starting in about 20 minutes: https://activitypub.space/post/2195

The big announcement here is that we've been approved for an @nlnet grant to cover the next 12 months of work on the task force. As such, I'm needing to write up an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) plan for NLNet to ensure we can secure the funding for each work item. If you'd like to provide […]

There was actually meant to be an update in the middle of May, however, due to health reasons, I had to carry that forward to the July update, which is also running behind schedule due to health reasons.

I've been working on the latest update for the FedCM grant. It is taking quite a while to write up everything that has happened since March. I am currently on about day two or three into writing and editing the update, but hopefully I'll have it out soon.

[Tod, Gewalt] Meine Gedanken sind bei den Angehörigen und allen queeren Menschen. Ein Fahrzeug wurde gestern in den CSD Berlin gelenkt. Eine Person wurde getötet, drei schweben in Lebensgefahr, dreizehn weitere wurden verletzt.

🐬 TIL: A dolphin named Kelly figured out how to run a scam on her trainers. At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, dolphins got a fish for every piece of trash they turned in. Kelly noticed the payout was the same no matter the size, so she hid trash under a rock and tore […]

Have spent a bunch of time sorting out some grant funding for the ActivityPub Trust & Safety task force this month, particularly yesterday with meetings and other stuff to ensure we can continue to move our work forwards.

ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce meeting happening now: https://meet.jit.si/ap-trust-and-safety-tf

These changes also land native OAuth Authorization Server Metadata discovery in doorkeeper, upstreaming some code we added to Mastodon. There's also a change to properly enforce PKCE on all authorization code requests allowing for OAuth 2.1 compatibility

* note: client_secret_basic probably shouldn't be used because it's not actually HTTP Basic Auth, because it wraps the username and password in x-www-form-urlencoded encoding which is a right PITA to try and decode.

These changes enable metadata discovery and extensibility of the Client Authentication methods, allowing the doorkeeper developer ecosystem to add new methods easily, outside of the natively supported methods: - none - client_secret_basic* - client_secret_post

Some big changes to Doorkeeper (ruby gem for OAuth servers) that I started on are finally getting merged after someone stepped up to finish them off, as I no longer had the time to work on the project. Looking forward to seeing work I started in 2024 finally shipping. Sometimes you're in it long

being trans has a lower regret rate than being UK prime minister and yet somehow i'm the one people are "worried about"

Recently @evan made a US$600 donation to my GitHub Sponsors, and I'd like to greatly thank Evan for his support: As it's Pride Month and I'm currently doing pretty well for myself financially, I've decided to donate his donation to several charities and groups that support trans rights and […]

ActivityPub, AT Protocol and more!, last night's stream is now on YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZgNMiw3lTY We review Dan Abramov's article and go over some slides for alternative architectures of activitypub, and why some things Dan says are correct, citing the protocol […]