What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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On Mastodon, if you've clicked a "Follow" button and it turns into "Pending" or "Cancel Follow" or "Request Sent", it means the follow hasn't actually happened yet.

Usually it's because the account has follow requests switched on, so you just wait for them to approve your request.

However, sometimes it's due to other reasons, and you may have to do something special to get the follow to work. Lots of info and full instructions at:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-does-it-say-foll

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Federated Geolocations?

The Social Web Foundation (@swfSocial Web Foundation) recently launched places.pub, a service that ties OpenStreetMap location data into ActivityPub vocabulary. Maybe this could be used as a building block for a federated FourSquare, or event locations?

places.pub

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This comment on Zuck's vision is spot on.

> This is the man whose platforms disassemble social life with algorithmic precision to simply offer synthetic companionship as a cure for the loneliness his empire helped engineer.

> Loneliness makes people vulnerable and while this synthetic intimacy may seem benign, its true function is ideological. AI is not politically neutral. These systems [..] become the perfect delivery mechanism for propaganda.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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