#swf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #swf, aggregated by home.social.
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Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
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RE: https://fedinet.waltuh.cyou/notice/B45KDV2ZE0Xcj0p196
They got flash on the fedi!
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#fediverse #mastodon #pleroma #akkoma #gotosocial #friendica #pixelfed #loops #video #music #diy #media #flash #swf #creativity #programming #selfHosting #selfHosted #homeLab #hosting #socialMedia #art #expression #newgrounds #fedi #waltuhsLab #Yonle #waltuh #experimental #features #webDevelopment #retroComputing -
Fuck it! "Marisa Stole Precious Thing" Flash on Fedi #SWF #ShockwaveFlash
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Thought I'd make an animated banner from scratch because why not?
Artwork done in Flash, frames put together in Ezgif's GIF maker.
Also I saw a SWF file on this instance before... what happens if I...
#wormsteam17 #wormsteam17anthro #anthro #gif #animated #tailwag #digitalart #fanart #shockwaveflash #swf -
Wundervoll :blobcatlove:
Das war der erste Computer, den ich in den 80er bekam (natürlich noch nicht so chic mit Lichteffekten), und dazu eine Datasette. Also ein kleiner Kasettenrecorder, und die Programme wurden auf Kassette gezogen.
Man mag es heute kaum glauben, aber der Öffentlich-Rechtliche Rundfunk (hier: SWF) über trug sogar Programme für den C64 via UKW. Da fiepste EA dann eine Weile im Radio. Man nahm das Gefiepse mit dem normalen Casettentecorder auf und steckte dann die Kassette in die Datasette😁
#c64 #commodore64 #80s #swf #orr #ÖRRbewegen #ukw #retro #retrocomputing
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Wundervoll :blobcatlove:
Das war der erste Computer, den ich in den 80er bekam (natürlich noch nicht so chic mit Lichteffekten), und dazu eine Datasette. Also ein kleiner Kasettenrecorder, und die Programme wurden auf Kassette gezogen.
Man mag es heute kaum glauben, aber der Öffentlich-Rechtliche Rundfunk (hier: SWF) über trug sogar Programme für den C64 via UKW. Da fiepste EA dann eine Weile im Radio. Man nahm das Gefiepse mit dem normalen Casettentecorder auf und steckte dann die Kassette in die Datasette😁
#c64 #commodore64 #80s #swf #orr #ÖRRbewegen #ukw #retro #retrocomputing
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Time for Ruffle to add an editor now that Adobe is killing Flash...
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Working full time on the Social Web
In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.
As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.
In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.
For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.
But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.
It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.
Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.
I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.
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@ben it would look like the #SWF if that functioned at all...
Or like #socialhub if that was not so blocking #geekproblem
Or to put it another way, we have shit to compost... adding to the pile may or may not help.
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Aviation weather for New York Stewart International airport in Newburgh area (USA) is “KSWF 121545Z 07015G20KT 10SM OVC050 15/09 A3014” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kswf/en #newburgh #usa #newyorkstewartinternationalairport #kswf #swf #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl
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https://hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-base-a-fluffy-fediverse-conference/ You likely need a shovel to work on composting. Or if you want to continue with this then clearer naming the events for the minority they invite and host would help to make less mess, a few #NGO groups have started to do this like #FediForum and the #SWF now have less imperialistic language, which is at least is a little less blinded.
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https://hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-base-a-fluffy-fediverse-conference/ You likely need a shovel to work on composting. Or if you want to continue with this kind of mess making then clearer naming the events for the minority they invite and host would help to make less mess, a few #NGO groups have started to do this like #FediForum and the #SWF now have less imperialistic language, which is at least is a little less blinded.
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LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference
It's been going on for the last few years, let's look at a current example. Live at c-base is a #Fediverse event that highlights the need for composting the dogmatic #fluffy mess making to keep balance in our shared #openweb reboot. With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks positive - friendly conversations, smiles, the right hashtags - but underneath it reveals a deeper problem: there is zero balance at these events. This is the third event I’ve seen […]https://hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-base-a-fluffy-fediverse-conference/
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CW: The Social Web Foundation website is a Fediverse group?! CW: Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
The Social Web Foundation website is not only its own ActivityPub actor, but (streams) recognises and lists it as a group.
#What.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #SocialWebFoundation #SWF #Fediverse #Groups #FediverseGroups #Wat #WTF -
Mastodon, Meta and Threads
For people who focus on working with the #dotcons there are meany traps, and a lot of dead-ends. This is less of an issue for people fighting them, the problem here is "common sense" #blocking this second useful path, which is a much less lucrative and a thank less task. So we will continue to have more people on the first mess path. A post that grew from a toot seed, I wonder if Mastodon is to Meta what Firefox once was to Google a small but significant project that big corporations can […] -
Not partnering with trillion-dollar, people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy-destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearly, even that bar is just too fucking high for some.
#SocialWebFoundation #SWF #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #vivaldi #writeAs #iftas #ghost #mammoth #meta #automattic #medium #flipboard #fordFoundation #fastly #institutionalCorruption #BigTech
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Not partnering with trillion-dollar, people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy-destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearly, even that bar is just too fucking high for some.
#SocialWebFoundation #SWF #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #vivaldi #writeAs #iftas #ghost #mammoth #meta #automattic #medium #flipboard #fordFoundation #fastly #institutionalCorruption #BigTech
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Three thoughts I want to share about the idea of #encryption on #DirectMessages in #ActivityPub.
The concept of microblogging, what this was all built for, is inherently public. You make an account on these sites because you want to be able to say things in public. While direct messages and followers only messages are extremely useful, and definitely worth having, they are something of a deviation from the central purpose here, and I worry that there is a false sense of privacy there. This may be worsened by adding encryption, as people may think encryption guarantees security. Only strong encryption run by the users themselves could guarantee security.
Conversely, there are people who use these services for journalism, government dissent, private transactions, and other things that require some security. Encryption would further protect these people in ways they might not be able to.
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How did this go down? Terribly.
#Flash #gamedev died and indies moved to #Unity, who shipped their own web plugin instead of #SWF export. When #plugins died Unity shipped ACTUAL #HTML5 SUPPORT like #Adobe never bothered to.
Adobe walked back their #revshare plans. This could have just gone down as a weird footnote, but instead they doubled down and cancelled their #AS4 and #FPNext plans out of corporate spite.
The lack of new Flash features basically guaranteed that HTML5 would kill them.
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Gnash allows you to play flash media in an open and secure way. Gnash supports mainly #SWF v7, but includes some v8 and v9 features. Gnash also supports #FLV and provides a plugin for several browsers, enabling the viewing of flash video if such a need arises.
Website 🔗️: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
apt 📦️: gnash
