Bookmarks tagged social

"Emissary is the standalone Fediverse server designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins — that gives everyone powerful new ways to join the social web."

"BookWyrm uses the ActivityPub protocol to send and receive user activity between other BookWyrm instances and other services that implement ActivityPub, like Mastodon. To handle book data, BookWyrm has a handful of extended Activity types which are not part of the standard, but are legible to other BookWyrm instances."

"The scientists had used ChatGPT 3.5 to build the bots for a very specific purpose: to study how to create a better social network — a less polarized, less caustic bath of assholery than our current platforms. They had created a model of a social network in a lab — a Twitter in a bottle, as it were — in the hopes of learning how to create a better Twitter in the real world. "Is there a way to promote interaction across the partisan divide without driving toxicity and incivility?" wondered Petter Törnberg, the computer scientist who led the experiment. "

"Those handy little previews you see when you paste a link into a Slack message are what we refer to as unfurling internally at Slack (and also in Slack’s API documentation). While it may sound like a made up bit of tech jargon, it’s an actual word that means “to spread out from a rolled or folded state” which is what Slack attempts whenever it encounters a link."

"Group chats and messaging apps killed it"

"An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web"