• #pull [[activitypub]] [[fediverse]]
  • [[agora protocol]] will likely converge to a pragmatic extension to [[activitypub]].

small scale social media

Alternatives to Centralization

• ActivityPub: federated in that it’s controlled by various servers.
• https://github.com/HackMIT/playground
• Scuttlebutt: run by an individual.
• Gather: 2d office spaces with cute pixelated avatars!
• TuneMeet - Chat with people who are listening to the same song right now
• Walrus TV
• GitHub - rogeriochaves/feedless
• Federation in social networks {LWN.net}
• Decentralizing Social Media – Mischa Spiegelmock
• https://dat.foundation/ distributed community for the next generation web

Cute experiments

Change @eigenbom’s twitter avatar

social networking on the internet

source: how to make friends on the internet

• 90% of meeting people is reaching out. you must actively initiate conversations
• hang out in places where these other people are hanging out and do so frequently
• any platform with private messages allows you to make friends
• contact someone anytime you like something.

using twitter

• respond to tweets on regular basis
• network with people they know and respond to their tweets as well
• ask local mutuals if they want to hang out
• having video calls could be almost as good as meeting in person?
• be someone people want to follow.
  • 1x per day
  • super low signal ot noise ratio
  • do not focus on retweeting
• create opportunities for discovery
  • talk to people. read their mentions. consistently bring value with replies
  • this happens even with people with large followings

writing

• "networking for introverts"; "a serindipity vehicle"
• start blogging now and keep blogging. it’s the best way to interact with others

meeting people

networking for nerds

• create a mental model of yourself to become easy for anyone to meet
• if you have this projection, if you know how to market yourself, you know how to best network with others
• fuzzy projections are okay but they’re harder to pinpoint.
• form this projection (about three pieces of information you’d like someone else to hold about you) - and market towards it.
• tell stories – strong stories. narrow down your own story and use it in conversations with others. tell it on social media. repeat it at length.
• know your ask: the most impactful thing they can do to help you. this can be a local or a global goal; how can you best help other people? this makes it easiest for them to help you, gives them an action to reach back to you about, and keeps them from having to ask lots of clarifying questions. reduce the friction between you and them in terms of getting things done as soon as possible.
• pre meeting motions: scheduling, give as much information as possible, and be specific and accurate. refer back to the article all the time. do background information all of the time.

concrete examples

• write: invite people to write you.
• reach out when you see someone you think it woul be interesting to meet
• ask people for intros and suggestions for people you should meet. do you know anyone i should meet and can you introduce me to them? do this asap. if you know a mutual, ask them for an introduction!
• browse reddit, twitter, etc. frequently with the intention of polling for these values.
• a big step is attending those research meetings i can be a part of
• traveling anywhere in the us is cheap. do not be afraid to travel to network by any means.

It is your responsibility to follow up

https://guzey.com/follow-up/

• follow up at max three times. follow up on a regular schedule. don’t assume they will respond and keep the email around to remind others.

Ideas not mattering is silly

• ideas may be cheap but there is never a guarantee of this. defeat your ideas. if they are not defeated, pursue them.
• good ideas are so obvious in retrospect, and they are only obvious in the moment if they do not have holes
• zero sum concepts are not worth it. ideas not mattering is just a marketing technique to assemble corporations

Table of Contents

• [[related]] [[self]]
• [[Look for interesting random social things to do]]
• [[maybe meet with some uni researchers? I’m happy to share my data, and they would analyse it]] [[qs]] [[social]]
• [[Wakeboard]] [[social]] [[exercise]]
• [[ice skating alexandra palace]] [[social]] [[exercise]]
• [2019-08-19] How to make friends over the internet - Alexey Guzey [[social]]
• [2020-01-09] hackers.town - hackers.town
• [2020-01-13] fediverse.space / fediverse.space · GitLab
• [2019-12-07] Max Ionov on Twitter: "Just sent a message ’Hey! Are you in the mood to talk about anthropic principle in cosmology?’ and realised that I have never received a message like this from anyone in my contact list. SAD!" / Twitter
• [[Being able to play guitar is pretty cool.. maybe I should try it at some point]] [[social]] [[music]]
• [2019-12-21] cybre.space [[mastodon]]
• [[Shooting range]] [[social]] [[prepping]]
• [2019-01-29] (99+) London Hackspace - Google Groups [[social]] [[biohacking]]
• [2020-05-28] Research on open source team communication tools - Meta
• [2020-06-08] I want to live in nature with friends :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy [[jonbo]] [[thirdspace]]
• [2019-12-18] Trunk for the Fediverse [[mastodon]] [[social]]
• [2020-05-14] Third place - Wikipedia
• [2020-05-12] Why (and How) You Should Join Twitter Right Now - Alexey Guzey [[social]] [[twitter]]
• [2020-12-19] Peter van Hardenberg (@pvh): "At Ink & Switch, we have regular workshops where we invite folk to share their work privately with other builders. If you’re working on something that helps people exercise their creativity, think more clearly, or take ownership over their tools, I’d love to invite you, too." | nitter
• [2020-12-12] Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data | Hacker News [[social]] [[hpi]] [[datasette]]
• [2020-10-26] Member Handbook | Future of Coding
• [2019-09-10] What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon [[social]] [[mastodon]]
• [2020-01-16] tilde.town https://tilde.town
• [2019-12-27] A Brief Guide to Getting Started in the Fediverse | The Wonder Dome https://www.wonderdome.net/guide.html
• [2020-01-09] fediverse.space https://www.fediverse.space/
• [2020-01-22] (2) Menander on Twitter: "broke: relying on opaque Twitter algorithm to find new people to follow bespoke: directly perusing follower graph of interesting people to find new people to follow" / Twitter https://twitter.com/MenanderSoter/status/1219776869018587136 pull [[dataviz]]
  • [2020-12-14] used this https://github.com/jdevoo/nucoll + gephi
• [2019-09-10] flowolf (@flowolf@mastodon.host) - Mastodon.host https://mastodon.host/@flowolf [[social]]
• [2021-01-20] Discord servers search | DISBOARD [[discord]]
• [2021-03-15] orbit-love/orbit-model: A framework for building high gravity communities 🪐 [[social]]
• [2021-03-20] Mapping Social Networks With Gephi | Duo Security [[social]]
• [2021-03-10] Hi from cachew · Issue #1 · calpaterson/pyappcache [[social]] [[cachew]]

related [[self]]

Look for interesting random social things to do

maybe meet with some uni researchers? I’m happy to share my data, and they would analyse it [[qs]] [[social]]

Wakeboard [[social]] [[exercise]]

ice skating alexandra palace [[social]] [[exercise]]

https://www.alexandrapalace.com/ice-rink/ice-skating-london/

[2019-08-19] How to make friends over the internet - Alexey Guzey [[social]]

https://guzey.com/how-to-make-friends-over-the-internet/

[2020-01-09] hackers.town - hackers.town

https://hackers.town/about

[2020-01-13] fediverse.space / fediverse.space · GitLab

https://gitlab.com/fediverse.space/fediverse.space

[2019-12-07] Max Ionov on Twitter: "Just sent a message ’Hey! Are you in the mood to talk about anthropic principle in cosmology?’ and realised that I have never received a message like this from anyone in my contact list. SAD!" / Twitter

<https://twitter.com/mr_freedom/status/1185989089360658432 pull>

Just sent a message ’Hey! Are you in the mood to talk about anthropic principle in cosmology?’ and realised that I have never received a message like this from anyone in my contact list. SAD!

Being able to play guitar is pretty cool.. maybe I should try it at some point [[social]] [[music]]

[2019-12-21] cybre.space [[mastodon]]

https://instances.social/cybre.space

Cybrespace strives to be a tightly-knit community of cyber-enthusiasts. Artists, musicians, and writers; Programmers, engineers and other technical people; we emphasize creativity (but don't require it). Anyone can join, but be warned we will enforce the mastodon.social code of conduct to ensure the best possible experience for as many people in the community as possible. 

Shooting range [[social]] [[prepping]]

[2019-01-29] (99+) London Hackspace - Google Groups [[social]] [[biohacking]]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/london-hack-space

[2020-05-28] Research on open source team communication tools - Meta

[2020-06-08] I want to live in nature with friends :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy [[jonbo]] [[thirdspace]]

[2019-12-18] Trunk for the Fediverse [[mastodon]] [[social]]

https://communitywiki.org/trunk Third place - Wikipedia

In community building, the third place is the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place"). Examples of third places would be environments such as churches, cafes, clubs, public libraries, bookstores or parks.

[2020-05-12] Why (and How) You Should Join Twitter Right Now - Alexey Guzey [[social]] [[twitter]]

[2020-12-19] Peter van Hardenberg (@pvh): "At Ink & Switch, we have regular workshops where we invite folk to share their work privately with other builders. If you’re working on something that helps people exercise their creativity, think more clearly, or take ownership over their tools, I’d love to invite you, too." | nitter

At Ink & Switch, we have regular workshops where we invite folk to share their work privately with other builders. If you're working on something that helps people exercise their creativity, think more clearly, or take ownership over their tools, I'd love to invite you, too.

[2020-12-12] Datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data | Hacker News [[social]] [[hpi]] [[datasette]]

I've been trying out something new this week: I'm running "Datasette Office Hours" where people can book a 20 minute Zoom call on a Friday to to talk to me about the project.
Today was the first day for calls, and it was fantastic. I spoke to five different people and got to see some wonderful applications of the tool - from analyzing hardware test results to exploring cemetery interment records.
If you're running an open source project and want to talk to people using your software this approach seems to work really well. I'm using Calendly for it: https://calendly.com/swillison/datasette-office-hours

[2020-10-26] Member Handbook | Future of Coding

#share-your-work
This is the channel for discussion about your own work, with a particular emphasis on work that pushes us toward the future of computing. If you want feedback, collaborators, high-fives, or just a place to drop your latest output, this is the place. This channel is especially sensitive to tone, so please keep things positive and constructive. Critique is great, criticism is not.

[2019-09-10] What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon [[social]] [[mastodon]]

https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b

Who should I follow on Mastodon?

[2020-01-16] tilde.town https://tilde.town

tilde.town is non-commercial, donation supported, and committed to rejecting false technological progress in favor of empathy and sustainable computing.

[2019-12-27] A Brief Guide to Getting Started in the Fediverse | The Wonder Dome https://www.wonderdome.net/guide.html

PeerTube - A relatively new application which aims to give a YouTube-like experience while using peer-to-peer sharing to cut down on video hosting costs.

[2020-01-09] fediverse.space https://www.fediverse.space/

[2020-01-22] (2) Menander on Twitter: "broke: relying on opaque Twitter algorithm to find new people to follow bespoke: directly perusing follower graph of interesting people to find new people to follow" / Twitter <https://twitter.com/MenanderSoter/status/1219776869018587136

pull> [[dataviz]]

broke: relying on opaque Twitter algorithm to find new people to follow
bespoke: directly perusing follower graph of interesting people to find new people to follow

[2020-12-14] used this https://github.com/jdevoo/nucoll + gephi

[2019-09-10] flowolf (@flowolf@mastodon.host) - Mastodon.host https://mastodon.host/@flowolf [[social]]

All right, I'm still not sure what this place is exactly, but here's an #introduction.
"To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

[2021-01-20] Discord servers search | DISBOARD [[discord]]

[2021-03-15] orbit-love/orbit-model: A framework for building high gravity communities 🪐 [[social]]

model for dev relations?

[2021-03-20] Mapping Social Networks With Gephi | Duo Security [[social]]

[2021-03-10] Hi from cachew · Issue #1 · calpaterson/pyappcache [[social]] [[cachew]]

Hi, yes looks like we do have similar goals! Thanks for letting me know, please give me a few days to read and digest what you've written :)
And as I found you're in London from your website (I recognise you from lobsters!) let's get a pint next time it's legal