Identifiers and ActivityPub: Some Thoughts
This essay sketches out the design space of extending ActivityPub into namespaces and identifier types beyond HTTPS URLs.
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A Decent Identity Part 2: Praxis
This essay outlines a set of short- and medium-term goals for how activitypub and atproto could optimize their identity systems for user agency and good gove...
A Decent Identity Part 1: Theory
This essay outlines a set of capabilities and goals comprising decent social computing and then establishes a framework for assessing how well an ecosystem’s...
Standards and Monoculture: The Curious Case of Multiformats
This article dissects how Multiformats fared at IETF so far and reformulates what a Multiformats working group at IETF should be good for, before defining a ...
ActivityPub and Newsrooms: Thinking Past Platforms
The technical and architectural tradeoffs along the spectrum from ‘self-hosted’ social to mega platforms, and the orthogonal question of AP as an open data l...
Show me your papers, Mr. DAO
An ‘identity’ made up of non-repudiable, public claims is the first, necessary, insufficient step towards legal recognizability.
Of Grammatology: IPFS as Language Family
Like languages, technologies can drift into mutual incomprehensibility after enough drift and specialization: dialects becoming languages, translators become...
Life Cycle of a Blockchain Standard
A persistent source of confusion and misalignment in the Blockchain space stems from a conflation between specification documents and standards. The tendency...
Spinning Up the SocialWeb Coöp
learningProof is proud to announce it is spinning out a worker-owned co-operative for Social-Web Community Work with the support of Germany’s Sovereign Techn...
New Year, New Internets
Bumblefudge here, clearing his throat and mind before hitting reset on various expectations for myself and the world.
the next big thing is you
tldr; An optimistic introduction to what could come after the total sovereignty of the VC-funded cycle of disruptions and consolidations, specifically, decen...
Self-Sovereignty and Autonomy
Like languages, technologies can drift into mutual incomprehensibility after enough drift and specialization: dialects becoming languages, translators become...