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#interoperability

Public Knowledge Project
1 day ago

Reminder! Want to catch tomorrow's #DOAJat20 event @DOAJ? It starts at 9 AM EST.

Join PKP Research Associate Saurabh Khanna alongside an impactful international group of speakers to discuss open access!

Not to be missed, you can register all the way up until the webinar starts:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fu42oi59S7GZ366rjyAUGg#/registration

Happy 20 years to DOAJ!

#OpenAccess #ScholComm #AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #ScholarlyPublishing #Interoperability #researchers #librarians #universitypress

Public Knowledge Project
1 day ago

✨ Upcoming webinar with @datacite, @crossref & @ORCID_Org

Better Together - The Great Varieties of PIDs and How to Use Them: Navigating the Persistent Identifier Landscape

September 29 @ 6:00 am – 7:00 am UTC+0

Learn more & register:

https://datacite.org/event/better-together-the-great-varieties-of-pids-and-how-to-use-them-navigating-the-persistent-identifier-landscape/

#ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #OpenInfrastructure #Interoperability #PIDs

Webinar named Better Together - The Great Varieties of PIDs and How to Use Them: Navigating the Persistent Identifier Landscape

Sep 29, 2023 06:00 AM (UTC) 

Co-organized by Data Cite, Crossref, and ORCID

with Lulu Jiang, Yoshiro Hirao, Fabienne Michaud, Xaioli Chen, Estelle Cheng, and Lena Stoll

SIB is leading a CHIST-ERA-funded European project harnessing the power of #KnowledgeGraphs to integrate public-private research #data for discoveries.

In collaboration with IOCBPrague and the University of Ghent, TRIPLE will enable scientists to discover and combine data across disciplines. It will first be used to identify organisms that can break down #pollutants more easily.

Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/2jcnyme6

#opendata #datascience #datasharing #interoperability

@jehb @ed

(2/2)

And finally:
- demand that no Public Administration is allowed to use services that do not follow the rules above.

The private sector should also consider the same rules as to avoid leaking internal and confidential strategic knowledge.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenSource #OpenStandards #NoVendorLockIn #PublicAdministration #Interoperability #i14y

Stefano Marinelli
4 days ago

After 25 years, I reconnected with a friend through a 1998 email, highlighting the lasting power of open standards. This personal journey underscores the risk of relying on fleeting proprietary tech
.
In our digital era, choosing lasting protocols is more vital than ever.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/posts/2023/25-years-later/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Matrix #EMail #OpenStandards #Interoperability #IT #Communication

Cory Doctorow
1 week ago

Congress needs to rid us of this scourge, to let us bring back all the benefits of #interoperability. I explain how this all came to be - and what we should do about it - in my new #VersoBooks title, *#TheInternetCon: How to Seize the Means of Computation.*

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

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Alex
1 week ago

Recent parody ad from #android making fun of #apple not adopting #RCS is an absolute joke.
This is not about security, its about control. Apple has their own #iMessage standard they refuse to drop in favour of RCS.
Both are wrong - both trillion $ megacorps have the means to fully support #interoperability between their ecosystems.
Stop throwing your users under the bus for marginal control, support each others standards for secure communication between devices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_B0riy__rw

Nicola Fabiano
1 week ago

Disponibile il video dell’incontro XMPP Italian Happy Hour di settembre https://tube.nicfab.eu/w/aXWJtym1gbpNJbidUXGPUy

#xmpp #chat #interoperability

Nicola Fabiano
2 weeks ago

‼️ XMPP community:
📢 Annuncio: Eventi mensili in italiano su XMPP! 🇮🇹
📆 Quando? Il 19 settembre alle 19:00 e poi a seguire mensilmente
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✍️ Iscriviti su Mobilizon - https://mobilizon.it/events/8bbd234f-9f8e-4367-98b2-b6734cc400cd
🌟 Unisciti a noi per partecipare alle discussioni, e incontrare altri appassionati di XMPP. 🚀
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XMPP Italian happy hour
@rresoli
@mario
@xmpp
#XMPP #standards #chat #jabber #federation #interoperability

Nicola Fabiano
2 weeks ago

‼️ XMPP community:
📢 Annuncio: Eventi mensili in italiano su XMPP! 🇮🇹
📆 Quando? Il 19 settembre alle 19:00 e poi a seguire mensilmente
🌐 Dove? Online, live su https://tube.nicfab.eu/c/xmpp/
✍️ Iscriviti su Mobilizon - https://mobilizon.it/events/8bbd234f-9f8e-4367-98b2-b6734cc400cd
🌟 Unisciti a noi per partecipare alle discussioni, e incontrare altri appassionati di XMPP. 🚀
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XMPP Italian happy hour
@rresoli
@mario
@xmpp
#XMPP #standards #chat #jabber #federation #interoperability

Cory Doctorow
2 weeks ago

#15yrsago #SaulBass’s iconic logos https://blog.signalnoise.com/inspiration-logos-by-saul-bass/

#15yrsago #Interoperability and the #DMCA: comprehensive look at problems, some good solutions https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1224742

#15yrsago How to Ditch Your Fairy: hilarious kids book about the problems with fairies https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/16/how-to-ditch-your-fairy-hilarious-kids-book-about-the-problems-with-fairies/

#10yrsago Video of top #NSA spook Gen’l Alexander’s Starship Enterprise clone/#InformationDominanceCenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNUbdARitk

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FediForum
2 weeks ago

Gerben from NLNet is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:

Funding for fediverse software (and FOSS generally); interoperability, coordination, standardisation

Join us on Wednesday and Thursday next week? https://fediforum.org

#fediforum #nlnet #FOSS #funding #fediverse #interoperability #coordination #standardization

petersuber
2 weeks ago

@natesjacobs @petersuber@firefish.social
See my reply to Nate's question on #Firefish.
https://firefish.social/notes/9jmpuixxpgek1igm

#OpenData #Privacy

Digression: I'm puzzled by the #interoperability of Firefish and #Mastodon. Both follow #ActivityPub and belong to the #Fediverse. But Nate's question appears on both Firefish and Mastodon, and my answer only appeared on Firefish (until I linked to it here on Mastodon, above). Can someone point me a piece explaining how F&M can work together?

Danie van der Merwe
2 weeks ago

WhatsApp will likely set the global standard for messaging interoperability: This is Why and possibly What

The world already has quite a few good open-source, E2EE and secure messaging protocols like XMPP, Signal, MTProto, Wickr, Wire, and more. But none have ended up dominating across messaging apps. Also, there is no defined W3C open standard for messaging, like ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/whatsapp-will-likely-set-the-global-standard-for-messaging-interoperability-this-is-why-and-possibly-what/

#interoperability #messaging #technology #whatsapp

Danie
2 weeks ago

WhatsApp will likely set the global standard for messaging interoperability: This is Why and possibly What

Blue Signal circle logo on the left, with green WhatsApp logo with telehone handset in middle, and on the right is the blue Telegram logo with a white paper aeroplane depicted in the logo The world already has quite a few good open-source, E2EE and secure messaging protocols like XMPP, Signal, MTProto, Wickr, Wire, and more. But none have ended up dominating across messaging apps. Also, there is no […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/whatsapp-will-likely-set-the-global-standard-for-messaging-interoperability-this-is-why-and-possibly-what/

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-59fec6fc-c55665b16df165c2

Blue Signal circle logo on the left, with green WhatsApp logo with telehone handset in middle, and on the right is the blue Telegram logo with a white paper aeroplane depicted in the logo
Public Knowledge Project
2 weeks ago

The @craftoa deliverables / planned deliverables include work on PKP's #OJS:

* D4.1 Plugins to enable JATS #XML Based #Interoperability between OJS and #Lodel

* D4.2 OJS Core Feature Enhancements

* D4.3 Deployment & upgrading toolkits / recommendations for OJS / Lodel

* D6.1 OJS Connector for #OpenAIRE Research Graph

* D6.2 OJS Plugin for #EOSC Interoperability Framework on Research Product Publishing

* D6.3 OJS Plugin for integrating #EOSC Catalogue feedback

https://www.craft-oa.eu/results/deliverables/

Bernie The Wordsmith
2 weeks ago

I honestly think we should reconsider referring to #Twitter and #Meta as "walled gardens" or "dictatorships". The corpos know this and THEY FEEL FINE ABOUT IT. Instead, I would propose to label those as inferior and/or obsolete technology, which may pack a stronger punch.

If I cannot communicate with friends or family in other networks using open protocols like in the #fediverse, this is not a matter of walls. What happens is that your social app is crap. #interoperability

bengo
2 weeks ago

"Stanford Interdisciplinary Working Group on Interoperability: Report and Preliminary Recommendations"

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4412862

#interoperability

CryptoNewsBot
2 weeks ago

Polygon co-founder - $1B bet on ZK-rollups paying off - Polygon has allocated an estimated $1 billion on zero-knowledge t... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/polygon-allocated-1-billion-dollars-zk-rollups #interoperability #aggregator #ethereum. #zk-proof #polygon

Public Knowledge Project
2 weeks ago

#PKPHan2023 Day 2 success at @tibhannover!

Six working groups will sprint through Day 3 to advance PKP #scholarlypublishing software in the areas of:

* Online-first / continuous publishing
* #Metadata
* Stamping journal/press identity metadata on article publications
* #XML #Interoperability/ @craftoa_project
* Docker
* Documentation

Stay tuned for updates!

#OJS #OMP #OPS #PKP25

Good food, great brainstorming, diverse participants, and PKP 25 year anniversary celebrations, all happening in one place on Day 2 of the PKP Hannover Sprint 2023!
Ellane W
2 weeks ago

I’ve just used the #Hookmark utility to make my flashcards 100% app independent! I have spaced repetition and audio in cards that work well in both #Obsidian and @ia Writer, but which need neither. With saved searches in the Finder, they work just as well there, too.

Sure, I could use Anki or Brainscape or any of the other flashcard solutions out there, but why would I? This is true #interoperability in action! I won’t be giving up #localFirst and portable data just for a pretty #UI.

HiramFromTheChi 💭
2 weeks ago

See? It's possible.

It's just that companies would rather lock you in by default.

#whatsapp #signal #interoperability

CryptoNewsBot
2 weeks ago

Ethereum Developer Consensys Unveils ‘Snaps’ Add-Ons for MetaMask Browser - According to a press release, Snaps are “new features and functionality, created by third... - https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/09/12/ethereum-developer-consensys-unveils-snaps-add-ons-for-metamask-browser/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #interoperability #technology #consensys #metamask #wallet #news

Bernie The Wordsmith
3 weeks ago

Hey @pluralistic, it seems #Meta is trying to "carrepair" itself away from #interoperability regulations, like that example you mention your book, by putting the third party chats in a separate window https://9to5google.com/2023/09/11/whatsapp-third-party-chat-apps-beta/

Erlend Sogge Heggen
3 weeks ago

/microblogmemes is a great #lemmy community, but there’s something really off about sharing a post from one #fediverse app to another via a screenshot.

Groups support in #Mastodon will start an exciting new chapter in this #interoperability story.

https://blog.erlend.sh/group-convergence

A screenshot of a mastodon post, shared on Lemmy.
Danie van der Merwe
3 weeks ago

Thank You EU: WhatsApp working on cross-platform interoperability with other messengers

The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other us ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/thank-you-eu-whatsapp-working-on-cross-platform-interoperability-with-other-messengers/

#EU #interoperability #privacy #technology #whatsapp

Danie van der Merwe
3 weeks ago
The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other using different apps. WhatsApp has a 6-month period to align the app with the new European regulations to provide its interoperability service in the European Union. At the moment, it remains unclear whether this feature will also eventually extend to countries beyond the European Union.

Interoperability will allow other people to contact users on WhatsApp even if they don’t have a WhatsApp account. For example, someone from the Signal app could send a message to a WhatsApp user, even without a WhatsApp account. Third-party chat support is under development and it will be available in a future update of the app.

I, like quite a few others, completely deleted their WhatsApp accounts after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the then new Terms of Service that WhatsApp forced down on its users, allowing metadata to be passed upstream to Meta. As we all saw already, Meta could not be trusted at all with any metadata (the data relating to the usage of the app, locations, friends, and lots more behaviour data). Even now, I only recreated a Facebook account after getting the Beeper app, which would allow me to do Facebook Messaging without installing the Facebook app on my phone at all.

So, yes, I do have a few friends still stuck on WhatsApp, and who do not seem to realise they can also install other messenger apps like Signal, Telegram, etc. An interoperability will allow me to stay on Telegram and Signal, whilst being able to message some friends on WhatsApp (is this not really what Beeper also sort of offers, except that WhatsApp still requires the WhatsApp app to be installed, which is not an option for me at all).

I therefore welcome what the EU is trying to achieve. Just like e-mail can work between different e-mail domains, so should messaging. I realise there may be challenges, or limitations, to E2EE, but maybe this is why we need a standard too for this interoperability. Maybe if Matrix is used as the connecting medium, the chat message can be still E2EE between the parties using that Matrix room. Beeper is using Matrix as their interconnectivity (completely transparently to the user), and any Beeper-to-Beeper messages are fully E2EE. What they've done with Signal is to establish to separate E2EE channels from each client to the personal Matrix room in the middle, so yes it does break the full E2EE, but it may be acceptable for this purpose, if done in this way.

Ideally some new (or existing) protocol standard could be agreed on, and if that is supported in-app by WhatsApp and any of the other messaging services, it will be possible to do full E2EE messaging between end clients.

Why does this matter? Well, it is about that tracking and metadata. So, if I trust Telegram or Signal more than WhatsApp, then my metadata stops by my client, and that data does not travel over to WhatsApp, just the message and the friend contact who is already on WhatsApp. Like Beeper, my app will insulate me from WhatsApp.

The other big benefit will be that you use the app that you are most comfortable with, and do not have to install 7 other apps to communicate with everyone everywhere else (if their apps participate in the interoperability).

Users that want to stay on WhatsApp, can stay there. But yes, from a consumer point of view, they could now more easily move away from WhatsApp. That means WhatsApp must complete a bit harder to make their service really worthwhile to use (I doubt they'll change their privacy stance!).

See WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.19.8: what's new? | WABetaInfo



Discover what's new in the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.19.8 update: WhatsApp is working on a chat interoperability feature!


#technology #WhatsApp #interoperability #EU
Danie
3 weeks ago

Thank You EU: WhatsApp working on cross-platform interoperability with other messengers

Smartphone screen showing time and icons along the very top, and just below that is a title saying "Third-party chats" with a back arrow to the left of it. The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/thank-you-eu-whatsapp-working-on-cross-platform-interoperability-with-other-messengers/

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-3c3ab8c1-3c5c31d57ff91836

Smartphone screen showing time and icons along the very top, and just below that is a title saying "Third-party chats" with a back arrow to the left of it.
Alek
3 weeks ago

Latest beta of WhatsApp shows that Meta is preparing the messaging app to offer cross-platform messaging.

In other words, #interoperability

Over the last year, the discussion of #DMA rules for inteoperability largely felt like doubtful whether this would really happen. And the conversation focused on potential challenges to make messaging that's both interoperable and secure.

It's good to see that - if all goes well - interoperable messaging will become a reality.

And even more importantly, that European regulation works and does shape markets.

I'm looking forward to January 2024 and cross-platform chats.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/10/23866912/whatsapp-cross-platform-messaging-eu-dma-meta

The #XMPP Newsletter for August '23 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

https://xmpp.org/2023/09/the-xmpp-newsletter-august-2023/

#jabber #xep #interoperability #federation #decentralization #chat

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Cory Doctorow
3 weeks ago

*Internet Con* is a "#BigTech disassembly manual." It explains how Big Tech got so big (lax anti-#monopoly enforcement, which led to #RegulatoryCapture, which let Big Tech abuse our privacy, #labor rights, and #consumer rights), and how we can use #interoperability so it's no longer #TooBigToFail, nor #TooBigToJail:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

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Pieter Colpaert
3 weeks ago

Interested in the real-life translation of the Guidelines on #BaseRegistries Interconnection?

The #SEMIC Support Centre provides new case examples for all 4 layers of #Interoperability: #Legal, #Organisational, #Technical and #Semantic!

More info:👉 https://europa.eu/!ydYtKb

M Dell
3 weeks ago

#Tweet RT @InteroperableEU: How to create societal value in times with ever increasing #data by using #semantics #interoperability and #AI?

You'll hear the best ideas at #SEMIC2023🎇, with speakers who are as visionary as our #Digital Services Director @… https://twitter.com/mndell/status/1699670108740735187

Jan Penfrat
3 weeks ago

@rysiek @darnell @whvholst

No, unfortunately the #DMA does *not* force gatekeeper social networks to interoperate even if smaller ones want it.

Despite #DigitalRights groups like @edri fighting for this, there was much political & #lobbying resistance, and now Article 7 DMA on mandatory #interoperability only applies to messaging services, not social networks.

So, @element and @threemaapp could ask Whatsapp and #Facebook #Messenger to interoperate, but the #Fediverse won't be affected.

Cory Doctorow
3 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* #BurningMan Is Always a Challenge, but Burners Like Me Know This Time Is Different https://pluralistic.net/nyt-burning-man

* #RightToRepair’s unlikely new adversary: #Scientologists https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/right-to-repairs-new-unlikely-adversary-scientologists/ (h/t Qaddi)

* #Interoperability Can Save the #OpenWeb: How to free users from #BigTech's walled gardens https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability

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CryptoNewsBot
3 weeks ago

Coinbase, Framework Venture Funds Invest $5M in Socket Protocol, in Bet on Blockchain Interoperability - The fundraise comes as interoperability protocols have attracted investors, despite the b... - https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/09/06/coinbase-framework-venture-funds-invest-5m-in-socket-protocol-in-bet-on-blockchain-interoperability/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #frameworkventures #cross-chainbridge #coinbaseventures #interoperability #coinbase-wallet

Abel Soares Siqueira
3 weeks ago

Julia and Python are often seen as competitors, but in this video, I want to show the integration between them. Using the PythonCall and the JuliaCall packages we can call Julia from Python and Python from Julia.

Check my new video: https://abelsiqueira.com/blog/2023-09-05-best-frenemies-julia-and-python/

What other kind of integration would you think is very important for Julia?
Do you think the Python integration is enough to convince people to use Julia more, coming from Python?

#Julia #Julialang #python #pythonlanguage #integration #interoperability #pythoncall #juliacall #pkg #conda

EDPS
1 month ago

Today, @EDPS_supervisor is opening #privacy and #dataprotection conference organised by @fnf with a keynote on "Fediverse for Public Administration: Why we try and why we fail?"

Fediverse #empowers its users to select the platform, its terms and policies, such as #transparent content display without behavioural tracking, #independence, #interoperability & #protection of rights.

EDPS Supervisor W. Wiewiorowski at Freedom not Fear 2023
EC_DIGIT
1 month ago

At #SEMIC2023 conference we'll discuss:

🤖 How will #AI affect #interoperability?
🤔 What ethical considerations do we need to take into account?

Join us in Madrid or online 👉 https://semic2023.eu

SEMIC conference 2023, Madrid 18 October, Interoperable Europe in the age of #AI. Registration is open
Helma 🤗
1 month ago

Educated guess ... EU laws work. Something with fair competition. 💪

"Microsoft has yet to explain why it's only allowing European users to open all links on their systems using the default web browser and hasn't implemented this change for all Windows users."

#Privacy #Interoperability
#Monopoly #EU

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-browser-change-europe-applauds-outrage-everywhere-else/

Ian Brown :fedi:
1 month ago

Threads #interoperability is nearly heeeeeeeere…. 🚀

Islamic Audiobooks Central
1 month ago

@itsfoss I love @skiff - great for migrating away from #BigTech although I wish #encryptedemail providers in general had #interoperability with other providers and clients since most of our contacts are using #Gmail and Microsoft email.

@danjac @w3c @fedidevs @Codeberg @dansup

I think people do care about #Fediverse #interoperability. Just not much about doing the boring chores of bringing everything and everyone together.

There's a lot of innovation funding provided by Horizon Europe via @EC_NGI and @EC_DIGIT that's been hugely valuable. But most of this money is focused on tech-oriented R&I 'funding the fragments', as it were.

Next to no support exists for volunteers glueing & knitting ecosystems / tech substrate together

Cory Doctorow
2 months ago

We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.

We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware

I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back.

I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to:

    reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind;
    jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking;
    move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want.

I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction.

I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats.

I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes.

I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.
Cory Doctorow
2 months ago

The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong technology.

The internet enshittified because we got the wrong rules.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #IncentivesMatter #Antitrust #Interoperability

The internet didn’t enshittify because the honorable UUCP Monks who served as the internet’s patrician guardians were replaced by venal tech bros out to make a quick buck. The moneygrubbers were always there (as were those selfless guardians).

The internet enshittified because we dismantled the anti-enshittification systems that kept the internet good: the antitrust laws that ensured that big, ossified companies couldn’t maintain their dominance by spending their way to glory.

We ended the cycle of renewal. Once, when a company grew so big thatit became a threat to our future, it collapsed under its own weight. Once, honorable hackers wielded interoperability, that elegant weapon from a more civilized age, to fell the giants who claimed dominion over our digital lives — only to be felled themselves, when they forgot their humble origins and took up the wicked practices of the giants they had helped to slay.

The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong people. The old, good internet had lots of companies founded by mediocre cowards who would have bought out their competitors or dirty-tricked them out of existence in a heartbeat.

The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong technology. The old, good internet had plenty of sticky traps and walled gardens.

The internet enshittified because we got the wrong rules.

The #XMPP Newsletter for June & July '23 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

https://xmpp.org/2023/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-june-july-2023/

#jabber #xep #interoperability #federation #decentralization #chat

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Open Future Foundation
2 months ago

"The case of Llama 2, a corporate model dubbed as 'open source' while not adhering to the open source standard, offers an excellent opportunity to 'red team' the emerging governance model for open source AI" - writes @tarkowski on #Llama2, #opensource, #AIEthics, and #interoperability 🔎 https://openfuture.eu/blog/the-mirage-of-open-source-ai-analyzing-metas-llama-2-release-strategy/

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Condalmo.
2 months ago

Received my review copy of the new book by Cory Doctorow today. Diving into it tonight. This seems like a good place to share about it.

#interoperability #internet #monopoly

@pluralistic

Cover of the book "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation" by Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
2 months ago

#Enshittification isn't inevitable: under different conditions and constraints, the old, good internet could have given way to a new, good internet. Enshittification is the result of specific policy choices: encouraging monopolies; enabling high-speed, digital shell games; and blocking #interoperability.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/03/there-is-no-cloud/#only-other-peoples-computers

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EC_DIGIT
2 months ago

Have you already registered for #SEMIC2023?

Join us at the @EU_Commission annual semantic #interoperability conference!

This year we'll focus on Interoperable Europe in the age of #AI. 🌐

📍 Madrid 🇪🇸
🗓️ 18 October

Register here 👉 https://t.co/Cju1sbFMq9

SEMIC 2023, Interoperable Europe in the age of #AI
Madrid, 18 October
Registration is open
Miguel Afonso Caetano
2 months ago

#USA #SocialMedia #Competition #Antitrust #Interoperability: "Are larger social media platforms gatekeeping user data to stifle competition?

Some U.S. senators believe this is the case and have proposed what they think is a viable solution — a bill that would essentially require social media platforms with over 100 million monthly users to make user data portable and interoperable with other platforms. The proposal would also allow users to designate a third-party service to manage their privacy and account settings.

This week, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., reintroduced the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act, with the support of Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

“Interoperability and portability are powerful tools to promote innovative new companies and limit anti-competitive behaviors,” the group said in a statement."

https://www.govtech.com/policy/proposal-would-force-data-interoperability-across-social-platforms

Cory Doctorow
2 months ago

*The Internet Con* isn't just an analysis of where enshittification comes from: it's a detailed, shovel-ready policy prescription for halting enshittification, throwing it into reverse and bringing back the old, good internet.

How do we do that? With #interoperability: the ability to plug new technology into those crapulent, decaying platform. Interop lets you choose which parts of the service you want and block the parts you don't.

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I'm so looking forward towards the EU's messaging #interoperability. Right now I'm using, on a daily basis: Signal, Telegram, Discord, Matrix, FB Messenger, iMessage, Mastodon direct messages and that's only what I remember. More on a more occasional basis. This is impossible.

Robert Fromont
2 months ago

"First they came and told us we couldn't speak our language, then they whacked us for speaking our language, now they've taken our language and want us to sell it back to us."

This fantastic kōrero between @keoni and @parismarx on @techwontsaveus is wide ranging and unmissable:

https://techwontsave.us/episode/177_big_tech_wont_revitalize_indigenous_languages_w_keoni_mahelona

#NLP #TeReo #ASR #LanguageRevitalization #LanguageTechnology #Interoperability and more!

Esteban Knöbl
2 months ago

I just finished "Protocols, Not Platforms" by @mmasnick. Great read. Interoperability is key to the future of social media, as it was (and still is) to the Internet and many other technologies.

#socialmedia #interoperability #standards #openweb

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

Cory Doctorow
2 months ago

I've written a book laying out a shovel-ready plan to give tech back to its users through #interoperability, explaining how to make new regulations (and reform old ones), what they should say, how to enforce them, and how to detect and stop cheating. It's called "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation" and it's coming from #VersoBooks this September:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

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Islamic Audiobooks Central
3 months ago

@feditips Hi. Would appreciate any insight on this question:
Is it possible for #mastodon users to somehow follow a #fediverse account that happens to be on a blocked instance?
Thanks.
#openweb #interoperability #softwarefreedom #foss #freedomofspeech

Bread and Circuses
3 months ago

I do not consent to my posts being sent to servers operated by the Meta company or any of its affiliates or subsidiary companies.

#DoNotConsent #Meta

I do not consent to Meta's Terms of Service, and I explicitly refuse them permission to read, transfer, or do anything with any data I put online.

#ActivityPub #Interoperability does not mean #consent.

I do not consent my posts being sent to servers operated by the Meta company or any of its affiliates and subsidiary companies.

#DoNotConsent #Meta

I do not consent to Meta's terms of services and refuse that they read, transfer or do anything with any data I put online.

#ActivityPub #Interoperability does not mean #consent.

Delta Chat
3 months ago

We were very happy when we heart that the XMPP-based https://cheogram.com/ experimentally adopted https://webxdc.org -- so that the same web apps run on Cheogram and Delta Chat. We started communicating with Cheogram's main dev through matterbridge in a group chat about upcoming webxdc improvements ... #interoperability ftw :)

A screenshot of the Android Cheogram messenger apps showing the "2048" and "checklist" apps running inside a cheogram conversation.
Angus McIntyre
3 months ago

Still trying to make up my mind about rumored federation with Facebook/Meta.

On the one hand, I have a faint naive hope that this could be the Trojan horse that ends walled gardens forever & makes #interoperability the rule.

On the other, #BigTech has history & deep experience at enshittifying everything it touches. The proverb about “He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon.” There may not be a spoon long enough to deal with #Facebook.

CORRECTION: I was misusing the #Fedipact tag.

Mikal with a k
3 months ago

I was first introduced to the concept of #Interoperability by @pluralistic before I joined the fediverse in November. Once I understood how the fedi and #ActivityPub worked, I was super stoked! Here was interoperability in action!

And then along came #Meta...

I would really like to hear @pluralistic take on this. Got a minute to chime in, Cory? (Or a link if you've already done so?) 🙏