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suuuper cool and fascinating. didn't realize mp4s were so non-deterministic. Also plays into perceptual hashing which @hypha.coop has got me interested in and will likely be really important going forward in identifying AI generated/modified video content.

S2PA and MUXL: Bringing Video to Content-Addressed Systems

Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL!

Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.

love this! web ring as virtual garden is great (collect & plant flowers! search for & steal spores!)

also, @standard.site spotted :) 👀

really excited about the perceptual hashing projects Hypha's currently working on. stay tuned for more!

Screenshot of a pastel-purple webpage showing a grid of 43 colorful flower tiles labeled “43 Gardeners” at the top. Each square tile contains a stylized flower in different shapes and colors, with a username beneath it. The layout forms a multi-row gallery, visually representing individual users as unique flowers in a shared digital garden.

very nice to see you tending your spores.garden

We built you a garden! Spores.garden is a personal site where you can curate your thoughts and explore other people’s gardens by following a trail of digital flowers. We’re still building and adding to it, so let us know what you like and what features you’d want to see!

The Other AI Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Trust is multi-layered. To trust a claim, you must be able to trust the chain that relayed it (cryptography helps, but isn't enough), AND the originating institution. When claims are AI-generated, who do we trust? Our new piece argues that trust in AI providers equals trust in incentives and values.

Who took this photo? When? Where? You can answer these questions with cryptography. Read our new post to learn how: https://hypha.coop/dripline/who-took-this-photo/

signal and atproto, the two genders

the claw is meant to symbolize that all agents carcinize into known attractor states: perpetrators or victims of crypto scams

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

What was their anti-coop argument?

(1/n) A question to ask when building or evaluating software: Is this a feature, a product, or a business?

Mistaking one for another leads to heartache for both you and your users (I speak from experience).

💯 Thanks a million to the Bluesky team for the integration and to the @stream.place and atproto communities for always being in our corner. Onward!

This isn’t true, we’re fully compatible with atproto moderation and have internal tools to flag unexpectedly popular streams. “Streamplace doesn’t have moderation” would be the worst possible meme to come out of today.

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the only proper canadian way to start your day is to shovel your way out of three feet of snow

Screenshot of part of the article. Highlight: You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’ by having better moderation policies or algorithmic choice. X is not a platform problem anymore, it is a power problem, and building a different platform does not solve the power problem. Rest of the text: Other countries will need to leave the platform to untangle themselves from this dependency, and reduce its legitimacy. But the functioning of the neo-royalty is such that other governments taking actions against X will be taken as an offensive action by the US regime, that will likely trigger extensive retaliation. No country seems to be willing to be the first one to move to take action and thus take the brunt of the counter-offense of the regime. We’re now at a strange stand-off, where it is extremely clear it is unacceptable what X is doing, and governments make a lot of noise about how upset they are, without daring to pull the trigger on taking action. Everyone is waiting on everyone else to take the first move. This leads to three possible outcomes: no government dares to take action, and they keep to calling things “completely unacceptable” while accepting the actual situation. Things stay as they currently are, and the world keeps sliding into a more dangerous and harmful place. One government takes action against X, and the US regime retaliates so hard that no other government will dare to do meaningful enforcement against the massive harms created by X. One government takes enforcement action against X, creating a permission structure for other governments to also take actions.

If you are Canadian media, public figure or politician, I need you to read this article by @laurenshof.online

"You cannot out-compete ‘where the ruling faction radicalizes and coordinates’"

connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...

the danger with AI slop and deep fakes in the feed isn’t simply that we’ll start to believe things that aren’t true. it’s that the truth needs to fight that much harder to come out. when everything *could* be fake, nothing *needs* to be true

Yes it would be the first Canadian city with a TLD!

Turns out the municipality did look into it and projections suggest it could be a revenue generator. It could happen.

This got me curious about a .toronto TLD. Seems like it was being seriously considered at one point but does anyone know what happened?

www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

Tughra of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520)

Screenshot of a digital signature

truly tragic loss of beauty

Would love to read this

Hypha ❤️ @stream.place ❤️ C2PA

Introduction Every stream on Streamplace is cryptographically bound with metadata that captures details about how the stream should be viewed, used, distributed, and monetized. This metadata also identifies the provenance of the stream, including who the creator is and any transformations it has undergone. Any Streamplace node operator can inspect the stream and verify that this metadata is intact and trustworthy. This means that even when Streamplace video is downloaded or redistributed, it can still be provably linked back to the original streamer, as long as metadata wasn’t stripped. This is a powerful property that allows for sourcing, fact-checking, remixing, and more, all with attribution built-in. The technical standard Streamplace has adopted for this is the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). The benefit of adhering to a standard is that it’s a well-vetted specification developed by many organizations in the digital media space, which means Streamplace doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. It also provides interoperability as more companies, devices, and software ecosystems adopt the same standard.

Also, a documentation drop: if you want a deep dive into how Streamplace's C2PA segment signing and metadata actually work, @makeworld.space has you covered! stream.place/docs/video-m...

"Decentralized public broadcast" is something we can definitely get behind, and we're proud to be working with Eli and the @iroh.computer team on this release.

New White Paper - Implementing Secure, Decentralized Storage to Protect Mobile Media Learn about the research, development, and deployment processes we implemented with Hypha Co-Operative to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

💡Huge project partner milestone!

@openarchive.bsky.social and @hypha.coop just shipped a privacy-first, decentralized storage backend for the Save mobile app.

Communities can now preserve and verify mobile media without relying on centralized platforms.

www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

OpenArchive Explore the research, development, and deployment processes that we and Hypha Co-Operative used to co-create the first secure, decentralized mobile media storage backend.

🚨Publication alert! Learn about the first decentralized, p2p mobile backend we built w/ @hypha.coop in our white paper.

Why?

🌍Distributed Storage.
🤝Community-Run: by us, for us.
🧱Redundancy, by design.
🫶🏼More autonomy & integrity.
🙏w/ the support of @ffdweb.org
www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

PDS accepts various CBOR records that the firehose rejects · Issue #4212 · bluesky-social/atproto Describe the bug Cross-posting this from hyphacoop/dasl-testing#15 here's a collection of 867 CBOR records from atproto repos that failed ingest into Streamplace when we were hydrating new versions...

Was chatting with @b5.bsky.social and @makeworld.space about validating their DASL libraries so I've gone through and created the CBOR NAUGHTY LIST of repositories that contain data that doesn't validate against the atproto spec

(This is only users that have interacted with Streamplace)

HTML in the Park HTML is behind every website we view. Every day, HTML is all around us. Come write some in the park together!

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Saturday, August 2, 2pm–5pm
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Organized by Garry
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