Scott M. Stolz

I'm back from hiatus and it looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.

It is not about creating a world without problems, because there will always be problems. It is about developing a set of skills which allow us to navigate and solve the problems as they arise. We can make the world a better place, but we must understand that it is an ongoing journey, not a […]

@Scott M. Stolz


> Speaking of which, if OWA does not send profile information, such as display name and avatar, maybe it should. Because we can't assume that other platforms will use the same protocols for communication.


Maybe we can provide a way of including the display name and avatar of […]

Speaking of which, if OWA does not send profile information, such as display name and avatar, maybe it should. Because we can't assume that other platforms will use the same protocols for communication. Will an ActivityPub only platform be able to get the display name and avatar and profile of a […]

There is some confusion over a specific paragraph in the OpenWebAuth spec. Some are interpreting it to mean that OWA does not authenticate a specific user, but simply says someone on the home instance logged in, but we don't know which one, therefore it is impossible to tell which user is […]

Playing favorites just creates winners, losers, and resentment. Instead, we need to move everyone to a healthier and happier existence and coexistence.

This is a very insightful article on Toxicity and Masculinity. It talks about how we handle the fact that many men are struggling in a world where so many other groups, such as woman and minorities, are also struggling.

#^https://nonzerosum.games/masculinity.html

@James


> BUT CAN WE FOCUS ON […]

Had a really great Day 3 of @FediForum. I was able to attend some great sessions, including identity in the fediverse and data & account portability. I was able to talk about Hubzilla, Streams, Forte, and Mitra which have implemented various technologies, such as nomadic identity (which includes […]

Sometimes we have to deal with bad behavior and harassment in our online communities or in real life. It can be a challenge to do that when they provoke you and are trying to upset you on purpose.

For me, what I have found is that taking a breath, calming down, and taking the high road is […]

I attended FediForum earlier today and it was really nice to meet our fellow creators of the fediverse. Some great discussions and great demos.

@FediForum  #fediforum2025 #fediforum

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Andrea Junker :verified: wrote the following post Fri, 30 May 2025 14:35:18 -0500

Been saying this for awhile, but will repeat it for emphasis: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

Scott M. Stolz wrote the following post Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:19:03 -0500

@Evan Prodromou asked:


> How much time per week are you willing to devote to political participation?


This is a hard question to answer for me because I look at this from a political science perspective, which is what I […]

The Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just released the Direct File software as open source on GitHub. As a United States government project, it is public domain in the United States.

#^https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

According to the Department of the […]

@Tim Chambers I am specifically concerned about this section:



> (1)The division may identify open protocols that the division has determined, after an
> assessment, meet the requirements of Section 13-75-202.


We have to make sure our voice is heard, so that protocols like ActivityPub, Zot6 […]

@silverpill I saw your name on the git log as well, so I thought you worked on it too. I can change it to just FenTiger. :)

By the way, if you think we are missing any FEPs or other milestones, let me know. I noticed that there were other FEPs related to Conversation Containers and Hubzilla […]

Writing a timeline and history of a 15 year old software project took a bit more work that I thought it would. Thank goodness that git remembers everything, and people documented what happened along the way.

#^https://hubzilla.org/page/info/timeline

Johannes Ernst wrote the following post Thu, 22 May 2025 16:23:26 -0500

Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability and portability of the social graph.

Wow, this law has been signed and it somehow passed under my radar. IMHO It has a good change to substantially impact the […]

This is one of the many reasons why I think decentralized social media, nomadic identity, and federated single sign on are the answer.

One of the causes of enshitification is that the platforms are between two competing interests, and are themselves a third competing interest. Typically […]

Scott M. Stolz wrote the following post Fri, 16 May 2025 11:53:08 -0500

I remember when Google Ads limited websites to three ads per page. That was tolerable for most users, and did not distract from the content. But then they made a huge change, and their default mode (which they wanted you to […]

Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ wrote the following post Tue, 13 May 2025 14:52:39 -0500

Happy 15th birthday to the oldest still-living community software effort in the fediverse forest. It has been battered around over the years but the tree still stands and is currently thriving.

And Happy Birthday (69 - […]

The greedy want to consolidate power and transfer wealth to themselves at the expense of others. The desperate take things from others because they feel they have no other choice or are somehow justified in stealing. Greed and desperation just lead to suffering, and eventual violence.

But there […]

The greedy take wealth from others in a variety of ways, ranging from overcharging customers to underpaying employees to unfair contracts, often using unfair trade practices, creating monopolies, killing competition, and more. And this is before we get to those people who are willing to commit […]

There are two primary ways to acquire wealth:

1. Provide value to others, and they compensate you for the value you provide.
2. Take wealth from others, directly or indirectly.

The first makes the world a better place, since value is created and exchanged, and people benefit from that exchange […]

Stereotypes and assumptions: we actually know why this happens. It has to do with how we learn.

Our mind groups similar things together so that we don't have to relearn new things over and over. It is how we can recognize what an automobile is, despite the fact that they all look different. So […]

If you want something to be more efficient, give it to a lazy person, because only a lazy person will take 10 hours to figure out how to make a 2 hour job into a 1 hour job.

Necessity is the mother of all invention. Laziness is its father.

Before you decide to support some proposed law against big tech, or big social media, read it first. In many cases it is written in such a way where it also applies to the fediverse and even small private forums. Some of these proposed laws are so intrusive and so expensive to comply with, they […]

The paradox of human behavior:

1. People are all unique and have their own beliefs, values, and preferences that frequently differ from the group they belong to.

2. People disregard #1 and tend to treat other people based on stereotypes and assumptions related to the group they belong to.

In any grouping of people of a significant size, there will always be people you like and people you don't, for a variety of reasons. In other words, people within groups, cultures, nations, regions, organizations, fediverse servers, etc. are not all the same. Yet people seem to latch onto […]

I added a hashtag to the original post so that it is clear. :slightly_smiling_face: