@cwebber ActivityPub is the protocol invented by Twitter's "Blue Sky" foundation. It works by appending posts to "the blockchain"— the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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Christine Lemmer-Webber
https://octodon.social/@cwebber
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Nov 29
@erincandescent And also completely in alignment, unshockingly, with Erin that "I thought we were going to work on exactly these kinds of problems in the Social Web Working Group but instead we focused on dodging bullets as two camps sniped at each other"
And actually a correction: there were *three camps* in the group: the linked data, activitypub, and indieweb people, and two of three of those (activitypub and linked data) hit convergence but I think the indieweb and linked data sniping is just too embedded for ridiculous personal grudge reasons, cough tantek vs timbl cough). Gosh. That was unnecessary hell. Don't do another SocialWG, anyone who wants to re-charter. Do an ActivityPubWG and focus on solving the problems we have, stay focused.
The Indieweb vs Linked Data sniping things is one of the worst, most absurd fights in the entire standards space. Waste of time, energy, and years of peoples' lives. Certainly took a few off mine.
I remember it slightly differently, I don't know that I would call it "convergence". There's no ActivityPub support in Solid or Inrupt for example. More like the Linked Data crowd really wanted to get LD into ActivityPub, which they eventually got for some reason.
There was also quite a lot of pushback from early ActivityPub implementers against the LD part of the spec. I still maintain the LD part has no value to ActivityPub and it would be better as plain JSON. I'm also 99% sure most implementations ignore the LD part too. -
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Lee Zavitz
https://twitter.com/ZavitzLee
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Nov 29
When mine got hacked couple years ago I wanted to change it. But I was worried about messing up Adsense and other things so I left it. All I did was change the email that brands contact me from instead.
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I'm calling @MerriamWebster out. "Gaslighting" was the 2016 word of the year, and trying to declare it the 2022 word of the year is, well, gaslighting. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/gaslighting-word-year-mirriam-webster-gaslit-1234637682/
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Dave - Post. Color. Gear.
https://twitter.com/PostColorGear
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Nov 29
Has anyone successfully moved their YouTube account to another email? I know that you can have other accounts "manage" your account, but I really just want to get rid of the initial email account altogether.
I've always read this isn't possible. Still true?
I don't think google has their identity strategy coherent enough for even them to do it if you were able to call them on the phone and ask them to change your email 😅 -
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Josh Shephard
https://twitter.com/TheJoshShephard
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Nov 29
I appreciate it! Also I can understand. Just thought to ask just in case.
Also I'm still getting used to GitHub, so I often don't know what to look for. So I'll give it another look!
I definitely wanna try developing more if possible!
Thanks for everything!
Just click the "Download Zip" and save it somewhere, then you can poke around the youtube.css file all you want! -
Josh Shephard
https://twitter.com/TheJoshShephard
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Nov 29
@aaronpk with regards to the YouTube Chat Overlay plugin. Is there any possible way to get greater customization?
I was hoping to potentially mod the animation, style and graphics at a future date potentially.
Like being able to use After Effects with some HTML, CSS, and JS
I'm not planning on adding a UI to customize things that much, but the whole thing is open source and you can dig into the CSS yourself! There's instructions here for how to load your copy of it outside the Chrome store.
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@Michele @kathygriffin @jeffjarvis
I disagree. An algorithm is not intrinsically bad. As long as we understand that it represents the interests of whoever paid to have it constructed. I think an algorithm with human values that simply wanted to enrich experience is perfectly possible.
I haven't seen one, probably because nobody has ever had a financial incentive to construct it.
Mastodon would be a good place to try to make one.
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