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@thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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Corruptress of Protocols, Tech Princess 👸🏻 Working on Trust & Safety, open-source software, and open social web as an Independent Contractor You've probably […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@thisismissem, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Here's what the new designs look like: (Someone help me out with alt text because I don't think I can accurately describe these screenshots in a way that'd make sense)
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 02/09/2026
We've been working hard on FedCM to make it work better for the decentralised web! These new designs should enable us to support the Atmosphere (AT Protocol) and Fediverse (ActivityPub) better, including parity with centralised identity providers.
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
After leading the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce – the group trying to improve trust & safety of the protocol – for two years, I've decided to step down as lead, and also exit the Social Web Community Group entirely. (I remain in the Social Web Working Group as an Invited Expert, but I'm […]
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Doctor M. Popular @docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Youtube now requires all creators to disclose if generative AI was used in their videos. So why doesn't Youtube give viewers the option to weed out genAI videos from our feeds?!
A screenshot from youtube's upload page. It asks the uploader "Was AI used to generate or edit your content in any of the following ways: Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn't say or do. Alters footage of a real event or place. Generates a realistic-looking scene that didn't actually occur."
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ROOST @roost.tools · 18/08/2026
Much like the work that goes into the protocols and software behind the web, most people don’t know about trust and safety—including the harms that exist and the tools to combat them. We attended FOSSY to chat with, learn from, and help educate fellow open source developers. #FOSSY #FediCon
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T&S Across the Fediverse: ROOST at FOSSY 2026
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
As you've probably noticed, I'm not posting from this account much any more, and have more or less moved entirely over to Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.social You can follow the bridged account at @thisismissem.social
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce Meeting now! meet.jit.si/ap-trust-and-safety-tf Help us decide the next years' worth of work
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
@nlnet FYI, this project which was recently announced for funding has a security warning from browsers for their website and it actually doesn't provide any further information on the project: nlnet.nl/project/Freeform
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NLnet; Freeform
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
@julian could you add the "website" field to this repository to point to your editors drafts on GH Pages? github.com/swicg/forums
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GitHub - swicg/forums: ActivityPub based Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force
ActivityPub based Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force - swicg/forums
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
@gotosocial @dumpsterqueer could you comment on the licensing for the write up of Interaction Controls in GoToSocial? We're considering the possibility of authoring a standards-track document based on it and a few other FEPs: github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-… […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
It does somewhat bother me that we consistently see people posting on the fediverse about trust and safety topics, but that doesn't translate to action, i.e., working with the ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce to get things to become standards-track. If the Fediverse cares about trust and […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
The ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce meeting is happening now. If you want to have a say in the next 12 months for the task force, please join: meet.jit.si/ap-trust-and-safety-tf You can also find the other events in the SWICG calendar here […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
This is starting in about 20 minutes: activitypub.space/post/2195
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ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce Meeting 2026-08-05
## Agenda: 1. Introductions, if necessary 2. Outstanding PRs * #116 - Content Labeling * #142 - Reorganisation * #122 - as:sensitve spec 3. Funding update - NLNet Grant 4. Planning for the next 12 Months: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/discussions/144 We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. [...]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
The big announcement here is that we've been approved for an @nlnet grant to cover the next 12 months of work on the task force. As such, I'm needing to write up an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) plan for NLNet to ensure we can secure the funding for each work item. If you'd like to provide […]
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 31/07/2026
There was actually meant to be an update in the middle of May, however, due to health reasons, I had to carry that forward to the July update, which is also running behind schedule due to health reasons.
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 31/07/2026
I've been working on the latest update for the FedCM grant. It is taking quite a while to write up everything that has happened since March. I am currently on about day two or three into writing and editing the update, but hopefully I'll have it out soon.
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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
[Tod, Gewalt] Meine Gedanken sind bei den Angehörigen und allen queeren Menschen. Ein Fahrzeug wurde gestern in den CSD Berlin gelenkt. Eine Person wurde getötet, drei schweben in Lebensgefahr, dreizehn weitere wurden verletzt.
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 26/07/2026
CRIME | GERMANY

Berlin: 1 dead after vehicle drives into CSD Pride event

Karl Sexton | Louis Olofse with AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters Published 4 hours ago | last updated 34 minutes ago

Police said at least 16 people were injured, some seriously, after a white van struck several people in central Berlin during Pride celebrations, known locally as Christopher Street Day (CSD). A manhunt is underway.
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
🐬 TIL: A dolphin named Kelly figured out how to run a scam on her trainers. At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, dolphins got a fish for every piece of trash they turned in. Kelly noticed the payout was the same no matter the size, so she hid trash under a rock and tore […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
Have spent a bunch of time sorting out some grant funding for the ActivityPub Trust & Safety task force this month, particularly yesterday with meetings and other stuff to ensure we can continue to move our work forwards.
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce meeting happening now: meet.jit.si/ap-trust-and-safety-tf
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23/06/2026
These changes also land native OAuth Authorization Server Metadata discovery in doorkeeper, upstreaming some code we added to Mastodon. There's also a change to properly enforce PKCE on all authorization code requests allowing for OAuth 2.1 compatibility
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23/06/2026
* note: client_secret_basic probably shouldn't be used because it's not actually HTTP Basic Auth, because it wraps the username and password in x-www-form-urlencoded encoding which is a right PITA to try and decode.
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23/06/2026
These changes enable metadata discovery and extensibility of the Client Authentication methods, allowing the doorkeeper developer ecosystem to add new methods easily, outside of the natively supported methods: - none - client_secret_basic* - client_secret_post
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23/06/2026
Some big changes to Doorkeeper (ruby gem for OAuth servers) that I started on are finally getting merged after someone stepped up to finish them off, as I no longer had the time to work on the project. Looking forward to seeing work I started in 2024 finally shipping. Sometimes you're in it long
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luna @imlunahey.com · 22/06/2026
being trans has a lower regret rate than being UK prime minister and yet somehow i'm the one people are "worried about"
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
Recently @evan made a US$600 donation to my GitHub Sponsors, and I'd like to greatly thank Evan for his support: As it's Pride Month and I'm currently doing pretty well for myself financially, I've decided to donate his donation to several charities and groups that support trans rights and […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
ActivityPub, AT Protocol and more!, last night's stream is now on YouTube as well: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZgNMiw3lTY We review Dan Abramov's article and go over some slides for alternative architectures of activitypub, and why some things Dan says are correct, citing the protocol […]
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 21/06/2026
Wowzers! Berlin thunder storm! ⚡️ Good morning!
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Black Cat Gets Scared
Alt: Black Cat Gets Scared
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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
The fact that we even give coding challenges that attempt to write actual code to potential employees is ridiculous and abusive. The particular way we do it is _more_ ridiculous and abusive. To the degree we can justify them—which I don't think we can, though we could justify some other […]
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 21/06/2026
Finished the edit, down to 4 and a bit hours, and it's rendering now. So tomorrow I'll handle uploading to YouTube and Spectra
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Just wrapped up the ActivityPub, AT Protocol and more stream, the recording is up on twitch at the moment, and will be on youtube soon, and maybe spectra.video soon. Thanks everyone who joined live! Was a almost 5 hour long stream. www.twitch.tv/videos/2801433122
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/11678420… Still live, just taking a quick break because my flat got waaay too hot and it was triggering my MCAS, and my air conditioner is right beside my desk and has a noisy compressor
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
Okay! A little delayed, but ready to do the stream. Come join me for ActivityPub, AT Protocol and more! Streamplace: stream.place/thisismissem.social Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisismissem #activitypub #livestream
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AT Protocol, ActivityPub and more!
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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
At one point I had a job where I had been trying, for years, to line up a particular kind of position in the org. I didn't like doing feature work and wanted to get out of it and focus more on infrastructure modernization and security. There was a _lot_ of institutional pressure against making […]
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 20/06/2026
For tomorrow Streamplace: stream.place/thisismissem... Maybe twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisismissem (if I figure out multi-streaming, @zeu.dev halp)
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@thisismissem.social's livestream on Streamplace
Office Hours Stream! Ask me questions!
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 20/06/2026
Probably doing the stream in EST afternoon, so like 3pm onwards I guess. Exact time TBD
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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 20/06/2026
Would people like me to do a stream tomorrow or Sunday to read through this article and show you the difference between ActivityPub and AT Protocol with regards to this:
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/11676684… Update: had a call with NLNet today, now I understand why it got held up, and it wasn't just a lot of grant applications. There's movement happening though! This is good.
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The Nexus of Privacy @thenexusofprivacy.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026
On Bluesky, @thisismissem does some digging and discovers that W Social and W Identity are basically the same people. So much for the line that "W Social doesn't know who you are because W Identity handles all the identity verification" […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
We're now actively seeing attrition on people contributing to the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce because we've failed to secure funding to pay people to do the required work, which is to the detriment of the entire fediverse. It is not pretty or headline catching work, but it is necessary […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
There's an ActivityPub Trust & Safety meeting in 30 minutes or so, making up for the meeting we missed at the start of the month.
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
hey #german fedi, does anyone know if ausweis app is being updated for apple silicon / arm64?
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Emelia @thisismissem.activitypub.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
**NOTE: This is a catch up meeting at a different time than normal, the meetings may move to 5pm CEST in the future depending on attendance from US people.** ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors […]
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ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce Meeting 2026-06-17 at 6pm CEST / Noon EDT / 9am PDT
**NOTE: This is a catch up meeting at a different time than normal, the meetings may move to 5pm CEST in the future depending on attendance from US people.** ## Administrivia: 1. IP Protection Note Reminder: * Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any Taskforce Work Items must be members of the Social Web CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join * To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/ 2. Reminder of Code of Conduct 3. Scribe volunteer(s)? If we can't find a scribe, I'll need to record the meeting and use AI/ML to prepare the meeting notes, or the meeting cannot proceed. ## Agenda: 1. Introductions, if necessary 2. Pull Request #122 - Content Warning Processing Model 3. Pull Request #116 - Content Labelling 4. Issue #24 - Addressing for Moderators (#132 was opened but we need to discuss) 5. Time permitting: PR #121 & #129 (these will probably be bumped to July's meeting) We support contributions to the Agenda, please comment if there is something that we need to address during the meeting. You can find information on how to join the meeting in the SWICG calendar ## Background on the mid-month meeting This meeting was originally 2026-06-03 @ 4pm CEST, however, Emelia was unavailable due to her chronic illness. The new meeting to catch up is scheduled for 2026-06-17 @ 6pm CEST / Noon EDT / 9am PDT.
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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
@aredridel we used livegrep at my old employer and it was incredible github.com/livegrep/livegrep i was never clear on how much it cost to run though
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GitHub - livegrep/livegrep: Interactively grep source code. Source for http://livegrep.com/
Interactively grep source code. Source for http://livegrep.com/ - livegrep/livegrep
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
Apparently I was on to something 9 months ago when I penned the Statement on Discourse About ActivityPub and AT Protocol open letter, nice to see it pop up again in the materials for european.social
Photo of a flyer with the names of key European.social signatories above a section that prominently displays my open letter to both communities calling for collaboration instead of division.
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026
It's become well known that securing an @nlnet grant takes 4-6 months if you're lucky; I've been waiting on a reply to two NLNet grants for 7 months now after they encouraged me to apply for them back in November. Right now two well needed projects feel functionally dead because of how slowly […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
Wow, you can hear “Bass instead of wars – for peace, cultural freedom and the preservation of freedoms” from a mile away, that bass is LOUD Surprised this wasn't on @Demo_Ticker_Berlin #b0529
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