"Tapping into the #Fediverse presents a unique opportunity for discovery. The current offering most platforms have today are relatively sparse, but #Flipboard will be able to yield results across Threads, Mastodon, Podcast Index, and other ActivityPub-based platforms. In trying to make discovery more robust, Flipboard is bringing visibility of popular accounts to help solve that problem, making it easier for people to find their favorite creators." https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flipboard-fediverse-following/
"Our main concern is the potential impact that AI tools could have on the human motivation to continue creating & sharing knowledge. When people visit Wikipedia directly, they are more likely to become volunteer contributors themselves. If there is a disconnect between where knowledge is generated (e.g #Wikipedia) and where it is consumed (e.g. ChatGPT or Google AI Overview), we run the risk of losing a generation of volunteers and all the knowledge they help contribute."
Sherwood News
AI is mining the sum of human knowledge from Wikipedia. What does that mean for its future?
We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia’s connection with the volunteers who create it....
"Even if things are slowly improving, the situation has been messy, leaving developers unsure of how they’ll move forward with their games. “The layoff of the whole Humble team has been the strangest thing I have seen in my 20 years of experience working,” says Fassihi. “The fact that nothing was shared with us beforehand, and we had to read this in the news, makes it even worse.”" #indiegame
The Verge
Humble Games layoffs leave indie studios in a state of uncertainty
Many developer worries are focused around console ports.
"#Email gave us private messaging technology that isn’t owned by a single company. #ActivityPub is doing the same for social technology. It’s a protocol that allows people across different platforms to follow, like and reply to one another. No algorithms. No lock-in. No bullshit. The #openweb is coming back, and with it returns diversity. You can both publish independently and grow faster than ever before with followers from all over the world & the web."
Building ActivityPub
Building ActivityPub
Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the world’s largest publishing network