ether+nick

Too often, the maintainers who build, test, and operate open source software aren't part of standards development, even though these standards directly shape their work.

The result? A structural risk to our digital infrastructure, as standards can become more difficult to implement or misaligned with the public interest.

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RE: reseauculture.fr/@cercle/11648

For French-speaking people 🇫🇷

Voici la rediffusion de l'événement qui s'est tenu au ministère de la Culture à Paris le 15 avril dernier – et qui revient sur les résultats de l'expérience de l'instance Mastodon accueillant diverses institutions culturelles:

doc.reseauculture.fr/doc/prese

Mon intervention commence à 1 h 05 🙈

Un immense merci à @imacrea et @cercle de m'avoir invitée à prendre la parole à cette occasion. Ce fut un immense honneur 💙

@the_moep I think you're right that it's not enabled by default -- but I think that's a good thing. People should know what's happening with their content. Then they can take the steps they want -- leave it alone, silence the notifications, block the bot, do something else.

@the_moep it's ok that you don't understand it!

On the protocol level, the receiving server keeps a list of shares of every object. If we didn't send the Announce activity to the original author's server, it would not be able to keep that list.

What happens at the protocol level doesn't have to be the same as what happens at the user interface level. In fact, it would be pretty wild to have your UI controlled at a remote server!