{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/112561145021819011",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Taking some personal days to re-evaluate stuff and think about the future of Operation: Puppet. </p><p>The more time that passes, the more I want to invest my time in the <a href=\"https://mastodon.content.town/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> and the <a href=\"https://mastodon.content.town/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>. I have a tiny following here but the corpo web is such a dystopian steel wall that at least here there\u2019s a path forward for regular folks. </p><p>Anyway, lots of fun <a href=\"https://mastodon.content.town/tags/puppet\">#<span>puppet</span></a> shenanigans to come. Check my bio for my links and/or go to <a href=\"https://www.operationpuppet.com\"><span>https://www.</span><span>operationpuppet.com</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "Taking some personal days to re-evaluate stuff and think about the future of Operation: Puppet. \n\nThe more time that passes, the more I want to invest my time in the #fediverse and the #indieweb. I have a tiny following here but the corpo web is such a dystopian steel wall that at least here there\u2019s a path forward for regular folks. \n\nAnyway, lots of fun #puppet shenanigans to come. Check my bio for my links and/or go to https://www.operationpuppet.com"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-05T00:19:28+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41295722",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/112560063487399208",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Tiny Awards</p><p><a href=\"https://tinyawards.net/\"><span>https://</span><span>tinyawards.net/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Tiny Awards\n\nhttps://tinyawards.net/\n\n#SmallWeb #Indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-04T19:44:25+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41294019",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@capjamesg/112559798236685800",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Thoughts on the importance of plurality of community in building an ecosystem around a vision.</p><p><a href=\"https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/04/plurality-of-community/\"><span>https://</span><span>jamesg.blog/2024/06/04/plurali</span><span>ty-of-community/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/community\">#<span>community</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/communitybuilding\">#<span>communitybuilding</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Thoughts on the importance of plurality of community in building an ecosystem around a vision.\n\nhttps://jamesg.blog/2024/06/04/plurality-of-community/\n\n#community #communitybuilding #web #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-04T18:36:58+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41293534",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112559338608264663",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Browsing the last year's entries, there's a ton of great stuff here!</p><p><a href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KIBPs2qE0QDFdIeTC1mqwISY6SMXYsinl5QQRzCWrj0/edit#gid=0\"><span>https://</span><span>docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d</span><span>/1KIBPs2qE0QDFdIeTC1mqwISY6SMXYsinl5QQRzCWrj0/edit#gid=0</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TinyAwards\">#<span>TinyAwards</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet\">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb\">#<span>TheWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/websites\">#<span>websites</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Browsing the last year's entries, there's a ton of great stuff here!\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KIBPs2qE0QDFdIeTC1mqwISY6SMXYsinl5QQRzCWrj0/edit#gid=0\n\n#TinyAwards #IndieWeb #internet #TheWeb #websites"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-04T16:40:04+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41292574",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112559236116381865",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Read free stuff or  pay what you want <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/posts/6575/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/posts/6575/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/NoPaywall\">#<span>NoPaywall</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Read free stuff or  pay what you want https://robertkingett.com/posts/6575/ #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #NoPaywall"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-04T16:14:00+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41292575",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

About

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    "type": "entry",
    "name": "About",
    "content": {
        "text": "Taking a cross country flight\n\n\nGreetings, I am Marcus Povey, a seasoned senior full-stack software engineer based in Europe. I have served a diverse clientele, including software houses, financial and governmental institutions, news agencies, and companies of various sizes.\n\n\n\nThroughout my career, I have been instrumental in the development of several mission-critical software systems, including life-saving medical software, secure messaging platforms, high-performance video platforms, and Open Source projects that are widely used globally.\n\n\n\nIn my current role, I lead a talented team of software engineers in developing cutting-edge scientific software across Europe, primarily in the field of structural biology. I work closely with some of the world\u2019s most renowned scientific institutions to deliver innovative solutions that facilitate scientific research. I have also been actively involved in several EU Open Data Access projects aimed at improving the accessibility and reuse of scientific data, including contributing to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. My expertise has been recognized in the industry, and I have been a speaker at numerous scientific conferences, influencing EU data sharing policy.\n\n\n\nAdditionally, I have served as the technical lead for the Elgg project, a widely adopted Open Source social networking platform used by universities, governments, and companies worldwide to streamline internal and external communication. I am also a contributor to the development of the Known platform, a modern social publishing solution incorporating Indieweb technologies.\n\n\n\nFor a more comprehensive understanding of my professional experience, please take a look at my resume or my LinkedIn.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn my personal life, I am an avid traveler and enjoy a nomadic lifestyle that allows me to explore new destinations for both work and leisure. I am always eager to experience different cultures and live in new environments.\n\n\n\nI also collect hobbies like precious shinies. Currently, I pursue a diverse range of interests, including martial arts (such as Judo, Krav Maga, Capoeira, and Jujitsu), rock music, powerlifting, archery, blacksmithing, climbing, motorcycle riding, and piloting light aircraft.\n\n\n\nLet\u2019s go!",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/wp-content/68FFE06B-77C0-4F93-BF28-9D312D196BAB-300x300-1.jpg\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/wp-content/68FFE06B-77C0-4F93-BF28-9D312D196BAB-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></a>Taking a cross country flight\n\n\n<p>Greetings, I am <a href=\"https://mapkyca.info\">Marcus Povey</a>, a seasoned senior full-stack software engineer based in Europe. I have served a diverse clientele, including software houses, financial and governmental institutions, news agencies, and companies of various sizes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout my career, I have been instrumental in the development of several mission-critical software systems, including life-saving medical software, secure messaging platforms, high-performance video platforms, and Open Source projects that are widely used globally.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my current role, I lead a talented team of software engineers in developing cutting-edge scientific software across Europe, primarily in the field of structural biology. I work closely with some of the world\u2019s most renowned scientific institutions to deliver innovative solutions that facilitate scientific research. I have also been actively involved in several EU Open Data Access projects aimed at improving the accessibility and reuse of scientific data, including contributing to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. My expertise has been recognized in the industry, and I have been a speaker at numerous scientific conferences, influencing EU data sharing policy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, I have served as the technical lead for the <a href=\"https://elgg.org\">Elgg</a> project, a widely adopted Open Source social networking platform used by universities, governments, and companies worldwide to streamline internal and external communication. I am also a contributor to the development of the <a href=\"https://withknown.com\">Known</a> platform, a modern social publishing solution incorporating <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">Indieweb</a> technologies.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a more comprehensive understanding of my professional experience, please take a look at my <a href=\"https://mapkyca.info\">resume</a> or my <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/mapkyca/\">LinkedIn</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In my personal life, I am an avid traveler and enjoy a nomadic lifestyle that allows me to explore new destinations for both work and leisure. I am always eager to experience different cultures and live in new environments.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also collect hobbies like precious shinies. Currently, I pursue a diverse range of interests, including martial arts (such as Judo, Krav Maga, Capoeira, and Jujitsu), rock music, powerlifting, archery, blacksmithing, climbing, motorcycle riding, and piloting light aircraft.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s go!</strong></p>"
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    "post-type": "article",
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/112558461158083605",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>WWI and the Modern Bra \u00b7 cool as heck</p><p><a href=\"https://cool-as-heck.blog/notes/2024-06-04-wwi_and_the_modern_bra/\"><span>https://</span><span>cool-as-heck.blog/notes/2024-0</span><span>6-04-wwi_and_the_modern_bra/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/TIL\">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>",
        "text": "WWI and the Modern Bra \u00b7 cool as heck\n\nhttps://cool-as-heck.blog/notes/2024-06-04-wwi_and_the_modern_bra/\n\n#indieweb #blogging #TIL"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-04T12:56:56+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41290374",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://digitalcourage.social/@mro/112554690042942999",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://bonn.social/@Sascha\">@<span>Sascha</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://berlin.social/@republica\">@<span>republica</span></a></span> genau, <a href=\"https://digitalcourage.social/tags/POSSE\">#<span>POSSE</span></a>! <a href=\"https://digitalcourage.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://berlin.social/@republica\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://bonn.social/@Sascha\"></a>",
        "text": "@Sascha @republica genau, #POSSE! #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T20:57:53+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41285222",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://dmv.community/@stevendbrady/112554499571742388",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>My wife and I went to Brookside Gardens in <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/Wheaton\">#<span>Wheaton</span></a>, <a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/Maryland\">#<span>Maryland</span></a> on Saturday. Here are some pics.</p><p><a href=\"https://stevenbrady.com/photos-of-brookside-garden/\"><span>https://</span><span>stevenbrady.com/photos-of-broo</span><span>kside-garden/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://dmv.community/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "My wife and I went to Brookside Gardens in #Wheaton, #Maryland on Saturday. Here are some pics.\n\nhttps://stevenbrady.com/photos-of-brookside-garden/\n\n#IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T20:09:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41284858",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://urbanists.social/@markstos/112554454625048368",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Long ago there was a niche browser for Linux called Konqueror. The code base for the rendering engine was clean, light, and crucially, <a href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/opensource\">#<span>opensource</span></a>  When Apple creating their own browser, Safari, they use this engine. In turn, Google based Chrome on the evolution of this work. Chrome now dominates web rendering. Too much.</p><p>So I'm excited to see what the upstart <a href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/LadyBird\">#<span>LadyBird</span></a> browser as it turns a new leaf today with more focused leadership. </p><p><a href=\"https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos\"><span>https://</span><span>awesomekling.substack.com/p/fo</span><span>rking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://urbanists.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Long ago there was a niche browser for Linux called Konqueror. The code base for the rendering engine was clean, light, and crucially, #opensource  When Apple creating their own browser, Safari, they use this engine. In turn, Google based Chrome on the evolution of this work. Chrome now dominates web rendering. Too much.\n\nSo I'm excited to see what the upstart #LadyBird browser as it turns a new leaf today with more focused leadership. \n\nhttps://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos\n\n#indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T19:58:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41284859",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://ioc.exchange/@ApisNecros/112553986401401609",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>New blog post: Inside Me Are Two Wolves</p><p>In today's post, I talk about my recently worsening mental health, what I'm doing to work on getting better, and more importantly, a duality I've been reckoning with in the process.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.vzqk50.com/blog/inside-me-are-two-wolves/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>vzqk50.com/blog/inside-me-are-</span><span>two-wolves/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/MentalHealth\">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/PrideMonth\">#<span>PrideMonth</span></a> <a href=\"https://ioc.exchange/tags/Queer\">#<span>Queer</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New blog post: Inside Me Are Two Wolves\n\nIn today's post, I talk about my recently worsening mental health, what I'm doing to work on getting better, and more importantly, a duality I've been reckoning with in the process.\n\nhttps://www.vzqk50.com/blog/inside-me-are-two-wolves/\n\n#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #MentalHealth #PrideMonth #Queer"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T17:58:56+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41283857",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112553954795239511",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Nominate your favorite <a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> sites for this year's <a href=\"https://tinyawards.net\"><span>https://</span><span>tinyawards.net</span><span></span></a>!</p><p>via <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://xoxo.zone/@waxy\">@<span>waxy</span></a></span> </p><p><a href=\"https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TinyAwards\">#<span>TinyAwards</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://xoxo.zone/@waxy\"></a>",
        "text": "Nominate your favorite #IndieWeb sites for this year's https://tinyawards.net!\n\nvia @waxy \n\n#TinyAwards"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T17:50:54+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41283749",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@starbreaker/112553807091690178",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Limited Fediverse Integration</p><p><a href=\"https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/limited-fediverse-integration/index.html\"><span>https://</span><span>starbreaker.org/blog/tech/limi</span><span>ted-fediverse-integration/index.html</span></a></p><p>(testing <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/ShareOpenly\">#<span>ShareOpenly</span></a> myself)</p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/BlogPost\">#<span>BlogPost</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Limited Fediverse Integration\n\nhttps://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/limited-fediverse-integration/index.html\n\n(testing #ShareOpenly myself)\n\n#Blog #BlogPost #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T17:13:20+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41283495",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.mkj.earth/@mkj/112553711571531906",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@admiralwonderboat\">@<span>admiralwonderboat</span></a></span> Your comic is screaming out for POSSE. \ud83d\ude42</p><p><a href=\"https://social.mkj.earth/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@admiralwonderboat\"></a>",
        "text": "@admiralwonderboat Your comic is screaming out for POSSE. \ud83d\ude42\n\n#IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-06-03T16:49:03+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41283496",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

Protecting artists on the fediverse

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-06-03T14:34:11+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2024/protecting-artists-on-the-fediverse",
    "name": "Protecting artists on the fediverse",
    "content": {
        "text": "Over the weekend, I started to notice a bunch of artists moving to\u00a0Cara, a social network for artists founded by Jingna Zhang, herself an accomplished photographer.\n\nThe fediverse is a decentralized cooperative of social networks that can interact with each other: a user on one network can follow, reply, like, and re-share content from a user on another network. The whole thing depends on an open standard called ActivityPub, shared community norms, and a cooperative culture.\n\nOf course, my first reaction was that Cara should be compatible with the fediverse so that its content could be more easily discoverable by users on social networks like Threads, Flipboard, and Mastodon. Cara is explicitly set up to be a network for human artists, with no AI-generated content, which will be increasingly valuable as the web becomes flooded with machine-made art. The fediverse would allow them to publish on sites like Cara that are set up to support their needs, while finding a broad audience across the entire web.\n\nFrom its About page:\nWith the widespread use of generative AI, we decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily.\n[\u2026] We do not agree with generative AI tools in their current unethical form, and we won\u2019t host AI-generated portfolios unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation.\nI\u2019d love to follow artists on Cara from my Mastodon or Threads accounts. But how does Cara\u2019s AI stance square with the fediverse? How might artists on Cara find a broad audience for their work across the web without risking that art being used as training data without permission?\n\nThe first thing a site can do to prevent its content from being used as training data is to add exclusion rules to its robots.txt file. These theoretically prevent crawlers owned by model vendors like OpenAI from directly accessing art from the site. There is nothing that legally binds crawlers from obeying robots.txt; it\u2019s less enforceable than a handshake agreement. Still, most claim that they voluntarily do.\n\nBut even if robots.txt was an ironclad agreement, content published to the fediverse doesn\u2019t solely live on its originating server. If Cara was connected to the fediverse, images posted there could still be found on its servers, but they would also be syndicated to the home servers of anyone who followed its users. If a user on Threads followed a Cara user, the Cara user\u2019s images would be copied to Threads; if a user on a Mastodon instance followed that user, the images would be copied to that Mastodon instance. The images are copied across the web as soon as they are published; even if Cara protects its servers from being accessed by AI crawlers, these other downstream fediverse servers are not guaranteed to be protected.\n\nBy connecting to the fediverse, one might argue that servers implicitly license their content to be reused across different services. This is markedly different from RSS, where this is explicitly not the case: there is legal precedent that says my RSS feed cannot be used to republish my content elsewhere without my permission (although you can, of course, access its content in a private feed reader; that\u2019s the point). But on the fediverse, the ability to reshare across platforms is core functionality.\n\nThe following things are all true:Content published to the fediverse may be both re-copied to and served from other peoples\u2019 servers\nThose servers may have different policies regarding content use\nIn the absence of a robots.txt directive, AI crawlers will scrape a website\u2019s data, even if they don\u2019t have the legal right to\nSome servers may themselves be owned by AI vendors and may use federated content to train generative models even without the use of a scraper\nAs a result, there is no way an author can protect it from being used in an AI training set. The owners of a fediverse site wouldn\u2019t have the right to make a deal with an AI vendor to sell the content it hosted because they wouldn\u2019t have the copyright to all of that content in the first place. But because AI crawlers greedily scrape content without asking for permission, unless the site explicitly opts out with robots.txt, it doesn\u2019t matter.\n\nThis leads me to a few conclusions:It is a moral obligation for every fediverse site to prevent crawling of federated content by robustly setting robots.txt directives at a minimum\nDiscussions about adding content licensing support to the fediverse are even more important than they appear\nSomeone needs to legally prevent AI vendors from using all available data as training fodder\nA fediverse (and a web!) where Cara can safely join while adhering to its principles is a more functional, safer network. To build it we\u2019ll need to support explicit licensing on the fediverse, create a stronger standard for user protections across fediverse sites, and seek more robust legal protections against AI crawler activity. While these are ambitious goals, I believe they\u2019re achievable \u2014 and necessary to support the artists and content creators who make the web their home.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/665dd437da6a67804007c6f2/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /></p><p>Over the weekend, I started to notice a bunch of artists moving to\u00a0<a href=\"https://cara.app/explore\">Cara</a>, a social network for artists founded by <a href=\"https://www.zhangjingna.com/\">Jingna Zhang</a>, herself <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Jingna\">an accomplished photographer</a>.</p><p>The fediverse is a decentralized cooperative of social networks that can interact with each other: a user on one network can follow, reply, like, and re-share content from a user on another network. The whole thing depends on an open standard called ActivityPub, shared community norms, and a cooperative culture.</p><p>Of course, my first reaction was that Cara should be compatible with the fediverse so that its content could be more easily discoverable by users on social networks like Threads, Flipboard, and Mastodon. Cara is explicitly set up to be a network for <em>human</em> artists, with no AI-generated content, which will be increasingly valuable as the web becomes flooded with machine-made art. The fediverse would allow them to publish on sites like Cara that are set up to support their needs, while finding a broad audience across the entire web.</p><p>From <a href=\"https://cara.app/about\">its About page</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>With the widespread use of generative AI, we decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily.</p>\n<p>[\u2026] We do not agree with generative AI tools in their current unethical form, and we won\u2019t host AI-generated portfolios unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation.</p>\n</blockquote><p>I\u2019d love to follow artists on Cara from my Mastodon or Threads accounts. But how does Cara\u2019s AI stance square with the fediverse? How might artists on Cara find a broad audience for their work across the web without risking that art being used as training data without permission?</p><p>The first thing a site can do to prevent its content from being used as training data is to <a href=\"https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/\">add exclusion rules to its robots.txt file</a>. These theoretically prevent crawlers owned by model vendors like OpenAI from directly accessing art from the site. There is <a href=\"https://www.robotstxt.org/faq/legal.html\">nothing that legally binds crawlers from obeying robots.txt</a>; it\u2019s less enforceable than a handshake agreement. Still, most claim that they voluntarily do.</p><p>But even if robots.txt was an ironclad agreement, content published to the fediverse doesn\u2019t solely live on its originating server. If Cara was connected to the fediverse, images posted there could still be found on its servers, but they would also be syndicated to the home servers of anyone who followed its users. If a user on Threads followed a Cara user, the Cara user\u2019s images would be copied to Threads; if a user on a Mastodon instance followed that user, the images would be copied to that Mastodon instance. The images are copied across the web as soon as they are published; even if Cara protects <em>its</em> servers from being accessed by AI crawlers, these other downstream fediverse servers are not guaranteed to be protected.</p><p>By connecting to the fediverse, one might argue that servers implicitly license their content to be reused across different services. This is markedly different from RSS, <a href=\"https://advertisinglaw.fkks.com/post/102gstp/implied-copyright-licenses-in-the-digital-world-blogs-rss-feeds-and-aggregator\">where this is explicitly not the case</a>: there is legal precedent that says my RSS feed <em>cannot</em> be used to republish my content elsewhere without my permission (although you can, of course, access its content in a private feed reader; that\u2019s the point). But on the fediverse, the ability to reshare across platforms is core functionality.</p><p>The following things are all true:</p><ul><li>Content published to the fediverse may be both re-copied to and served from other peoples\u2019 servers</li>\n<li>Those servers may have different policies regarding content use</li>\n<li>In the absence of a robots.txt directive, AI crawlers will scrape a website\u2019s data, even if they don\u2019t have the legal right to</li>\n<li>Some servers may themselves be owned by AI vendors and may use federated content to train generative models even without the use of a scraper</li>\n</ul><p>As a result, there is no way an author can protect it from being used in an AI training set. The owners of a fediverse site wouldn\u2019t have the right to make a <em>deal</em> with an AI vendor to sell the content it hosted because they wouldn\u2019t have the copyright to all of that content in the first place. But because AI crawlers greedily scrape content without asking for permission, unless the site explicitly opts out with robots.txt, it doesn\u2019t matter.</p><p>This leads me to a few conclusions:</p><ul><li>It is a moral obligation for every fediverse site to prevent crawling of federated content by robustly setting robots.txt directives at a minimum</li>\n<li>Discussions about adding <a href=\"https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-c118-content-licensing-support/2903/1\">content licensing support to the fediverse</a> are even more important than they appear</li>\n<li>Someone needs to legally prevent AI vendors from using all available data as training fodder</li>\n</ul><p>A fediverse (and a web!) where Cara can safely join while adhering to its principles is a more functional, safer network. To build it we\u2019ll need to support explicit licensing on the fediverse, create a stronger standard for user protections across fediverse sites, and seek more robust legal protections against AI crawler activity. While these are ambitious goals, I believe they\u2019re achievable \u2014 and necessary to support the artists and content creators who make the web their home.</p>"
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    "url": "https://religious.social/@kraft/112552360769520472",
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        "html": "<p>I'm playing with posting on my site and using Jetpack to x-post to Mastodon. With Social's social note CPT and choosing the \"share as social post\" seems to be a good fit. The code is could be used as a wp.me/[code] short link to the original, but not as a link that would expand on many clients. </p><p>All in all, happy with this. What do y'all think? </p><p><a href=\"https://religious.social/tags/wordpress\">#<span>wordpress</span></a> <a href=\"https://religious.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I'm playing with posting on my site and using Jetpack to x-post to Mastodon. With Social's social note CPT and choosing the \"share as social post\" seems to be a good fit. The code is could be used as a wp.me/[code] short link to the original, but not as a link that would expand on many clients. \n\nAll in all, happy with this. What do y'all think? \n\n#wordpress #indieweb"
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    "published": "2024-06-03T11:05:31+00:00",
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    "url": "https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112551686393545125",
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        "html": "<p>If you liked Read free stuff or  pay what you want my feed URL is <a href=\"https://robertkingett.com/feed/\"><span>https://</span><span>robertkingett.com/feed/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tweesecake.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "If you liked Read free stuff or  pay what you want my feed URL is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb"
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    "url": "https://pkm.social/@RDK/112548918178196695",
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        "html": "<p>Week 10. In this weeknote, I mentioned about starting reading Eloquent JavaScript, my post about RSS structure and link post  about WWDC Apple Music playlist. Also, some tiny modifications on the blog and included a few interesting links.</p><p><a href=\"https://justtext.net/weeknotes/10/\"><span>https://</span><span>justtext.net/weeknotes/10/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/a11y\">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/accessibility\">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/weekNotes\">#<span>weekNotes</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/screenReader\">#<span>screenReader</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/coding\">#<span>coding</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Week 10. In this weeknote, I mentioned about starting reading Eloquent JavaScript, my post about RSS structure and link post  about WWDC Apple Music playlist. Also, some tiny modifications on the blog and included a few interesting links.\n\nhttps://justtext.net/weeknotes/10/\n\n#a11y #accessibility #blogging #weekNotes #screenReader #indieWeb #coding"
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    "url": "https://mastodon.online/@jlsksr/112548546949832997",
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        "html": "<p>I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't or unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/CPH\">#<span>CPH</span></a> Vol. 16: Computers Are Bad <a href=\"https://computer.rip/\"><span>https://</span><span>computer.rip/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/smolweb\">#<span>smolweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/PersonalSites\">#<span>PersonalSites</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/homepage\">#<span>homepage</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/newsletter\">#<span>newsletter</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't or unless I fall behind this schedule. \ud83d\ude09 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 16: Computers Are Bad https://computer.rip/\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage #newsletter"
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    "url": "https://social.coop/@harris/112548535429892958",
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        "html": "<p>Here's a small collection of quick designs I've made since I wrote my previous 3D printing blog post \"Solving Niche Problems Quickly With 3D Printing.\"</p><p><a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/making\">#<span>making</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/3dPrinting\">#<span>3dPrinting</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://chromamine.com/2024/06/a-selection-of-3d-printing-designs-spring-2024/\"><span>https://</span><span>chromamine.com/2024/06/a-selec</span><span>tion-of-3d-printing-designs-spring-2024/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Here's a small collection of quick designs I've made since I wrote my previous 3D printing blog post \"Solving Niche Problems Quickly With 3D Printing.\"\n\n#making #3dPrinting #IndieWeb\n\nhttps://chromamine.com/2024/06/a-selection-of-3d-printing-designs-spring-2024/"
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