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Web Monetization, Programming
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I was looking around for a specification for Web Monetization Payment-Pointers. The closest thing I could find is this:
https://github.com/interledger/paymentpointers.org
https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/main/0026-payment-pointers/0026-payment-pointers.md
Web Monetization, Programming
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One thing that seems missing is — what is supposed to be returned from the HTTPS-URL that a Web Monetization Payment-Pointer resolves to?
What are the fields in the JSON?
...
I assume it is JSON because of an example HTTP request here (that does NOT show the response):
https://paymentpointers.org/flow/#example
.
Web Monetization, Programming
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The Payment-Pointer:
$reiver.link
Would resolve to the HTTP-URL:
https://reiver.link/.well-known/pay
And, that (HTTPS-URL) would return some type of JSON document.
Web Monetization, Programming
3/
I was looking around for a specification for Web Monetization Payment-Pointers. The closest thing I could find is this:
https://github.com/interledger/paymentpointers.org
https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/main/0026-payment-pointers/0026-payment-pointers.md
Web Monetization, Programming
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I have been looking at Web Monetization.
Partly because I am curious. And, partly because I may implement them for CrowdBucks.
One part of Web Monetization are "Payment-Pointers".
They aren't URLs. But sort of URL-like, in that they point somewhere.
For example, my web-site is:
Then I could let people people pay me with this Payment-Pointer:
$reiver.link
Web Monetization, Programming
2/
The Payment-Pointer:
$reiver.link
Would resolve to the HTTP-URL:
https://reiver.link/.well-known/pay
And, that (HTTPS-URL) would return some type of JSON document.
Web Monetization, Programming
1/
I have been looking at Web Monetization.
Partly because I am curious. And, partly because I may implement them for CrowdBucks.
One part of Web Monetization are "Payment-Pointers".
They aren't URLs. But sort of URL-like, in that they point somewhere.
For example, my web-site is:
Then I could let people people pay me with this Payment-Pointer:
$reiver.link
I uploaded the third FediCon 2025 video:
From Millions To Billions: A Plausible Narrative For How To Grow The Open Social Web (FediCon 2025)
by Johannes Ernst 
@j12tJohannes Ernst
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I arrived late at the (pre-FediCon) dinner because I went and picked-up a cake for 
@deadsuperheroSean Tilley surprise birthday party.
(FediCon was happening in my old neighborhood — I used to live 2 blocks away from Robson Square. I knew where to get a cake from.)
Luckily, @deadsuperheroSean Tilley hadn't arrived yet, and was later than I was (so he didn't see the cake, and the surprise wasn't spoiled).
...
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After I hid the cake, I sat at one of the tables that were reserved for us at the restaurant.
I sat across the table from 
@dansup
Except I didn't recognize that it @dansup 🙂
The thing is — @dansup was wearing a hat. And, I'm used to his classic Fediverse photos without a hat. (With the window's peak hair style.)
I eventually realized it was @dansup 🙂
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The public start of FediCon 2025 was on Friday August 1st. But, some of us got together the day before — on Thursday July 31st.
It was 
@evanEvan Prodromou 's idea — to have a speaker's dinner the night before.
That night also ended up being a surprise birthday party for @deadsuperheroSean Tilley 🙂 (It was his birthday anniversary.)
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I arrived late at the (pre-FediCon) dinner because I went and picked-up a cake for @deadsuperheroSean Tilley surprise birthday party.
(FediCon was happening in my old neighborhood — I used to live 2 blocks away from Robson Square. I knew where to get a cake from.)
Luckily, @deadsuperheroSean Tilley hadn't arrived yet, and was later than I was (so he didn't see the cake, and the surprise wasn't spoiled).
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The public start of FediCon 2025 was on Friday August 1st. But, some of us got together the day before — on Thursday July 31st.
It was @evanEvan Prodromou 's idea — to have a speaker's dinner the night before.
That night also ended up being a surprise birthday party for @deadsuperheroSean Tilley 🙂 (It was his birthday anniversary.)
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»Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release« https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/substack-rival-ghost-connects-to-the-open-social-web-with-its-latest-public-release/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release | TechCrunch
While the ActivityPub integration is a main selling point for Ghost 6, this major release includes a number of other changes and new additions.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Sarah Perez 💙@Sarahp@mastodon.social
BTW, I want to say that @deadsuperheroSean Tilley has been helping with the FediCon 2025 videos, too.
(It isn't just me working on them.)
He has been dealing with adding caption text. As well as, creating the poster "thumbnail" images.
Which helps a lot.
I am working on editing @j12tJohannes Ernst 's FediCon 2025 talk right now.
Once it is edited, I will upload it to the FediCon PeerTube account:
🎉 The Fediverse is growing — but it still runs on love, time, and unpaid labor.
We built CrowdBucks to help make sustainable funding possible — for admins, devs, and creators. 💸
🛠 Self-hostable. 🔓 Open-Source. 🌐 Made for the Fediverse.
Fediverse Report 128 - This week's #fediverse news:
- Ghost has officially launched their fediverse integration for all users with Ghost 6.0
- 
@fedicon happened this week!
- A follow-up to last week's overview of fediverse clients, with some more interesting clients to pay attention to
Read at: https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-128/
I might have started coding this.
A group-chat UI on top of a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivityPub Actor type "Group").
https://github.com/reiver/chatfed
I made it as a PWA.
(It is definitely NOT done. It is barely the beginning. Basically, what you see in the screen-shot. Lots more work to do.)
Honestly blown away by 
@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
funding #FediCon out of pocket, even covering expensive recording of the event for everyone.
Some may overlook that he spent more than most fediverse servers do yearly.
He prioritized accessibility, pricing tickets at $15 or free (when they should have been $100+ to cover costs).
So grateful for leaders like him and @evanEvan Prodromou that provide so much for our fediverse ecosystem.
❤️
@dansup @reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) @evanEvan Prodromou wow, kudos. All by the generosity of the community. So does this mean the event will be available to view off line, I guess so. I've learnt a lot about the #fediverse from #fediverseevents by watching after the event and in particular when I could not be there in person.
Still waiting for the browser UI of the "loops" service. Seems like the focus is still on Pixelfed, which is totally fine.
Is anyone aware of any plans when the UI which was shown earlier this year will be in place?
What if we had a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" (i.e., ActivtyPub Actor type "Group") that looked more like a group-chat.
I mocked up a desktop style UI for it.
(A mobile UI would be more condensed.)
...
For FediCon I used Signal for group-chat. But I would have preferred to keep the conversation on the Fediverse. And, if a UI like this existed, I would have been able to do so.
🆕 blog! “The Limits of Organic Growth for Startups and Social Networks”
Many years ago, when I was younger and more foolish, I worked for an advertising startup. Things seemed to be going pretty well! The office was expanding, the sales team was screaming into phones, the budget for servers was rising. Growth had been healthy, but now looked to be pl…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/08/the-limits-of-organic-growth-for-startups/
⸻
#capitalism #fediverse #mastodon #startups
With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.
Congratulations to 
@johnonolanJohn O'Nolan and all the team at Ghost!
@Mastodon @johnonolanJohn O'Nolan
Sounds really good and kind of gamechanging to open the #Fediverse for more people. :-)
Unter dem Vorwand von #Alterkontrollen zum #Jugendschutz scheint die autoritäre #EU nun ernst zu machen und möchte, dass sich Menschen zukünftig per Smartphone-App ausweisen, wenn sie das #Internet vollumfänglich nutzen möchten.
Darin sieht man dann nicht nur die Versuche der EU, die Anonymität im Internet gänzlich und zu Gunsten von #Überwachungsstaat und #Überwachungskapitalismis zu beerdigen, sondern wohl auch immer mehr Menschen zum Besitz von Smartphones zu zwingen. Dies wiederum entspringt wohl der Tendenz zur Zwangsdigitalisierung möglichst aller Lebensbereiche und Informationen, die in der Konsequenz dann nur noch per #Smartphone - und damit staatlich überwacht und kontrolliert - offen stehen sollen.
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-konzept-so-sollen-die-alterskontrollen-im-netz-ablaufen
Dass es den europäischen Regierungen und der EU bei den von ihnen vorangebrachten Alterskontrollen (= Identitätsdatenkontrollen) im Internet nicht um den Jugendschutz sondern um die Kontrolle von Informationszugängen und Kommunikationsräumen geht, zeigt sich gerade wieder beim Vorhaben Frankreichs, auch das dezentrale Fediverse/Mastodon als "Pornographieplattform" einzustufen um es entsprechenden Kontrollen unterwerfen zu können.
Mit dem Argument, dass diese oder jene Kanäle, Plattformen, Programme oder Angebote dafür genutzt werden könnten, neben anderem auch nicht jugendfreie Inhalte zu teilen, wird so ein Vorwand geschaffen, der die umfassende Kontrolle von alledem rechtfertigen soll.
#Bluesky #Mastodon #SocialMedia #EU #Alterskontrollen #Frankreich #Fediverse #Datenschutz #Daten #Privacy
Frankreich will Alterskontrollen auf X, Bluesky, Reddit, Mastodon & Co.
Nachdem ein länderübergreifender Ruf nach einem Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder in der EU auf verhaltene Resonanz gestoßen ist, kündigt Paris eigene Schritte an.
www.heise.de · heise online
Link author: 
Martin Holland@mho@social.heise.de
The videos for FediCon 2025 are going to uploaded to the following PeerTube account:
https://spectra.video/@fedicon
(At the time that I posted this, I am in the middle of uploading them. Some are already there. More are coming.)
I want a way to have a user-experience over a Fediverse "Group" that looks more like a Signal or Telegram group chat.
I know it is doable. Someone just needs to implement it.
(Maybe I will if no one else does it by the time I "finish" my current Fediverse projects.)
Is one big flaw in how we generally think about #SocialWeb and #Fediverse development in how we embrace this vibrant feeling and energy that existed at the time the early web was emerging? At that time time the expectation was that the #Web would liberate us.
A decade later we have #BigTech, the Corporate Web and #SurveillanceCapitalism, while #Technofeudalism and #Dystopia are knocking on the door.
Nowadays when we excitedly publish our innovations as we did then, is that still responsible?
A quiet afternoon, then a sudden, beautiful interruption. An unexpected message from a stunning person, a silent force in the fediverse. They've done more for this place and for me than so many of the more vocal accounts - more than I have, even.
This is the very essence of what I adore about this community. It's a place for genuine connection, where real people build real relationships.
To the one who sent that message: Thank you. It arrived exactly when I needed it most.
I uploaded the second FediCon 2025 video:
The Last Network Effect (FediCon 2025)
by Anuj Ahooja 
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja
I am working on editing @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja 's FediCon 2025 talk right now.
Once it is edited, I will upload it to the FediCon PeerTube account:
I’m so glad 
@benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 is talking about the practicalities of bringing the #fediverse to billions of people, including the billions of dollars that it requires. This is the kind of conversation we need at this point in the fediverse, so we can create something that works for lots of people AND that doesn’t go evil.
Especially if you're an #indieWeb supporter, you should consider this feature *essential*, as it's what gives you the ability e.g. to make your #RSS feeds nicely formatted even on browsers that have removed built-in support for them (i.e. basically anything except for #VivaldiBrowser).
Of course, it can be used for more than that. I wrote about this (in Italian) on my website a couple of years ago
(Fun fact: had #ActivityPub been designed around an #XML representation of linked data instead of #JSON, most of the #Fediverse could be presented on the web via #XSLT, without requiring #JavaScript, directly from the source objects.)
Thanks to 
@mapacheMaho Pacheco 🦝🍻 , FediCon has badges.
During (and a week or so before) FediCon I got extremely swamped with FediCon work that had to get done before the day of the conference — so, I haven't had a chance to reward people with badges, yet.
Once I've uploaded the FediCon videos (to 
@fedicon ) I am going to start rewarding people FediCon 2025 badges.
With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.
Congratulations to @johnonolanJohn O'Nolan and all the team at Ghost!
I am working on editing @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja 's FediCon 2025 talk right now.
Once it is edited, I will upload it to the FediCon PeerTube account:
Congratulations to 
@johnJohn O'Nolan and the rest of the 
@indexBuilding ActivityPub Ghost team for launching their 6.0 version!
"The social web turns your Ghost publication into a networked social profile that people can find, follow, like, reply, repost and interact with from anywhere —bringing network effects directly to decentralized publishing. Popular posts can be shared, re-posted, and discussed by millions of social web users."
🚨 Keynote Announcement 🚨
We are very excited to announce our second keynote for Sunday at the 20th FrOSCon:
Decentralising Freedom: Open Source for Sovereignty
- presented by Andy Piper
👉 https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/c29db652-2b23-49ac-9b0f-2ac56da79f58
Portrait image CC BY-NC 2.0 by Andy Piper
@andypiper #mastodon #froscon20 #froscon2025 #fediverse #opensource #freesoftware
After 
@atomicpoetChris Trottier did his panel at FediCon — multiple people told me that @atomicpoetChris Trottier needs his own podcast, because of how funny he was 🙂
I agree.
But, AllYourBases (i.e., the name @atomicpoetChris Trottier 's panel) was a (short-lived) video podcast (with me) that we posted on the Fediverse.
I have been trying to get @atomicpoetChris Trottier to revive the AllYourBases podcast.
(Maybe me posting this will encourage that to happen 🙂)
I was talking the A/V tech person who recorded FediCon.
He told me he would run all the videos he recorded of FediCon through Handbrake, to reduce their size, before giving them to me.
I.e., Handbrake the open-source video transcoding tool.
Which I thought was interesting. That (at least one instance of) open-souce software is part of his A/V tool-set.
fedizine - eine anarchistische Einführung in föderierte soziale Medien
Seit einiger Zeit ist die anarchistische Einführung in föderierte soziale Medien via @fedizine@kolektiva.social / Fedizine nicht mehr downloadbar. Bis das wieder funktioniert, stellen wir die deutschsprachigen Versionen zur Verfügung. Worum geht es dabei?
"Viele Anarchist:innen nutzen, wohl oder übel, soziale Medien wie #Twitter, #Instagram und #Facebook. Das ist Mist. Es existiert allerdings ein alternatives, open-source Netzwerk sozialer Medien, das an anarchistischen Werten ausgerichtet ist – das #Fediverse. Anstatt eines Aufmerksamkeit und Daten einsaugenden kapitalistischen Strudels, ist das Fediverse ein tatsächliches soziales Netzwerk, welches aus einer Vielzahl dezentraler, autonomer, föderierter Server (sog. Instanzen) besteht. Im Fediverse kontrollieren wir die Infrastruktur und moderieren selbst unsere Räume. Anstatt durch süchtig-machende Algorithmen geleitet zu werden, können wir uns hier auf Basis unserer (eigenen) Neigungen, Wünsche und Bedürfnisse versammeln und Dinge miteinander teilen. Viele Anarchist:innen, die versuchen den Fallen der großen kommerziellen Social Media Plattformen aus dem Weg zu gehen, sind bereits hier und teilen ihre Projekte, Kunst und Ideen. Komm rum!"
(Aus der Einführung)
- Fedizine-de PDF zum Drucken in Farbe
- Fedizine-de PDF zum Drucken in Schwarzweiß
- Fedizine-de PDF for reading zum Lesen
Aus den Tiefen des Internets gerettet mit der WayBackMachine von archive.org - Ursprünglich gepostet auf https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine-de
I uploaded the first FediCon 2025 video:
Connecting the Social Web (FediCon 2025)
by Evan S. Prodromou @evanEvan Prodromou
In case anyone is wondering if there is any engagement on here— this is the list of every book recommended after I asked if you’d share one book you enjoyed this year. You can scroll underneath the original post to see these, but I think seeing them all together shows the true awesomeness of the people on here.
Thanks for being pretty darn great ❤️
#books #read #fediverse #booktoot 
@bookstodonbookstodon group
Merry loves company.
Meaningful loves company.
Majestic loves company.
Marvelous loves company.
Mirth loves company.
Melodious loves company.
Magnanimous loves company.
Choose better company.
#fediverse
These are the people I want to spend the rest of my life working with.
crib.social is back from some system maintenance.
I've learned more about #postgres vacuuming too.
OTOH, it would be better if fediverse admins didn't have to do any maintenance on their database at all. Having to do so makes it much harder to self-host, and this in turn both reduces the size of the #fediverse and makes the UX worse.
I am working on uploading the FediCon videos.
It takes a while to upload each video. (Plus some have to be edited.)
If you want to pre-follow the FediCon PeerTube account, it is here:
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At #FediCon, had a great chat with 
@jazJaz (IFTAS), who’s the executive director at 
@iftas.
I admire all the work that he does, which makes the Fediverse so much safer.
But he also had a profound point: when you’re attacked on the #Fediverse by bad actors, it sometimes feels like the entirety of the Fediverse is against you—it’s hard to appreciate that most people would rather be friends.
@jazJaz (IFTAS), who’s the executive director at @iftas.I admire all the work that he does, which makes the Fediverse so much safer.
But he also had a profound point: when you’re attacked on the #Fediverse by bad actors, it sometimes feels like the entirety of the Fediverse is against you—it’s hard to appreciate that most people would rather be friends.
I have something else to be thankful for today. At this moment in time I am busy restoring functionality on systems so that I will be able to resume important remote tasks, which shall enable me to restore the level that I am used to, when it comes down to actual value of goods
This work is highly specialized and needs a set of computing systems, communication systems which use GSM messaging systems and other means of signalling, in order to properly Act, monitor react and deploy the remote systems, of which a set of those are managed deployed monitored and configured through Proxmox.
@gyptazy has made incredibly wonderful contributions to the community of Open Source and I'm specifically highlighting his work in for example the great Proxmox load balancer.
Through the Work Of Him and other hundreds to thousands nameless Open Source coders, programmers en hackers am I able to do this work.
I am fortunate enough to have virtually met him here on the FediVerse through a beautiful forward that 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli has made, who also makes great contributions in Open Source
Without the work of these incredible people none of this would have been possible. I would be sitting watching this beautiful scenery that I would have made myself with props
There would not be any Open Source Operating Systems, plural, driving the displays.
Being Grateful is important. Giving Thanks sends a beautifully Modulated Pulse of Energy, through the Universe to everyone.
I am thankful to you all
#OpenSource #programming #GNU #GPL #license #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Proxmox #thankful #thanks #FediVerse #Love #UniversalLove
I thought there were many highlight of FediCon 2025.
One of them was when @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 did this 🙂
(Thank you to 
@julian for capturing this!)
