I’m just gleefully watching birdsite go down in flames and wondering, how do we prep the fedi ground for when this happens on fb? Pixelfed is a totally obvious alt to insta, peertube clear victor over yt, and no one wants to replace tic-toc. But I’m intrigued that fb alt options are diverse and generally none well adopted.

Also, for the coders and academics on here, I’m wondering when we start to galvanise protest of proprietary and non-federated repositories. The tech is *out there* e.g. gitea instance federation being worked out and CKAN server federation concept developed more than a half decade ago. But we keep allowing our orgs to pay license fees for walled gardens rather than embrace commons… strange….

For those who are curious about this, see more on CKAN federation here: https://ckan.org/features/federate/ and git activitypub federation here: https://discourse.gitea.io/t/forgefed-federation-in-gitea/1157 #librarians take note!

Worth noting for those who are curious about running your own self hosted git repo which can federate with friends, a gitea fork called forgejo (which runs codeberg) is getting pretty close: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

I wonder what folks out there are doing for code repo? I’ve noticed a lot of migration away from now-Microsoft owned GitHub to places like codeberg. Looks like self-hosted platforms getting closer to federation and social sharing in a decentralized way… Am currently on gitea, but looking around and wondering. What are you on?!

I’m wondering if colleagues in education have been watching the #OpenBadges space? I’ve long been interested in certifying students as the develop transferrable skills in our classes (e.g. visual communication, web design, survey design, etc.) using badges they could deploy alongside their diploma. There’s so much EdTech distractions around monetising the concept and it seemed to stall some years ago. Just wondering if there’s a good option that I haven’t noticed.

One example here: https://openbadges.org. But not sure if this has been used in (non-monetised ways in) Higher Ed?

The whole field seems ripe for federated open access disruption. Reminiscent of DNS and SSL cert provision, trying to enclose digital commons by glueing revenue generation to FOSS technologies. Universities have expertise and infrastructure to selfhost and develop cert auth, creative talent for visual design. It seems absurd to pay edtech startups to develop and even more ironic to squeeze tuition paying students to “certify’ their learning rather than approach as value-add.