"People aren’t demanding AI features in their phones just yet, says Sheng Win Chow, an analyst at Canalys, which tracks smartphone sales. But Google is betting they soon will" www.wsj.com/tech/persona... image we didn't just have two closed gardens #interoperability

Google Is Beating Apple on Sma...

@Framasoft @dansup - at the moment none of the peertube videos are shown in pixelfed.
I'm not sure, which side has to change something to make it happen.
If someone posts a real video ( not as a link), it's shown in pixelfed too. But the peertube videos aren't shown...

Looking for a consulting gig working on a cool open-source interoperability project? Consider responding to this RFP from the Lyrasis Organizational Home for Community Supported Techologies! https://lyrasis.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Lyrasis-Interoperability-Project-RFP-2025.pdf
#glam #oss #interoperability #fedihire

The #XMPP Newsletter for July 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/08/the-xmpp-newsletter-july-2025/

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging

@monocles uses #XMPP Providers data for alternative registration options.

In this image you can see both services side by side. Category A information from XMPP Providers is listed in the #providers selection drop-down menu in the #app.

#chat #messaging #jabber #standards
#interoperability #decentralization #operators

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

We have published a new blog post recently: https://providers.xmpp.net/blog/2025-07-20-rising-tide-lifts-all-boats/

Here we cover our #survey results to gather feedback from #XMPP #server #operators. We also provided more background on the project's purpose.

Thanks to all survey participants!

"Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in Smartphones. Among its most important reforms is a direct prohibition on Apple’s long-standing ban on third-party browser engines on iOS.

This ban has functioned as an effective ban on browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave & Vivaldi, by forcing them to use Apple’s WebKit engine, which they cannot modify or control. This results in no effective browser competition on iOS, and web apps being deprived of the APIs and performance they need to compete with native apps."

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-apple-must-lift-engine-ban-by-december/

Oh FFS.

"This decision undermines software freedom principles that have defined Android's open ecosystem since its inception. Privacy-focused users who specifically avoid Google services now face forced participation in Google's verification infrastructure."

EU Age Verification App sparks ban on non-Google licensed Android apps:

https://www.talkandroid.com/512861-eu-age-verification-app-google/

How on earth can @EUCommission possibly justify this in any way?

A wish for the non-enshittifying part of the internet: A service that gathers all metadata around my music listening. It would "scrobble" my listening history no matter where I listen to it - like last.fm. It would gather all my playlists, artists I follow, perhaps even concerts I've gone to (or are looking for, like songbird) etc. For the moment, I don't need to be able to listen to any music through that service. I just want the metadata and make it easy to migrate.

https://www.europesays.com/2291707/ HHS Data Plan Aims to ‘Make Health Technology Great Again’ #america #AndrewCrawford #CMS #DanLiljenquist #DevenMcGraw #DonaldTrump #framework #HHS #hipaa #interoperability #LeeKim #MakeHealthTechGreatAgain #OZ #RobHavasy #RobertF.Kennedy #science #technology #TEFCA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA

The AGNTCY project is here!

Backed by Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, Red Hat & 75+ other organizations, AGNTCY enables agent discovery, observability and interoperability across systems. 

Learn more about the project that provides the foundational infrastructure for the “Internet of Agents” https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-welcomes-the-agntcy-project-to-standardize-open-multi-agent-system-infrastructure-and-break-down-ai-agent-silos

The world needs a music app which lets the user plug in their streaming account(s), but also plays locally stored & self-hosted music.

I would be nice if it could hold mixed-source playlists but it doesn't have to - think of it as an old-timey stereo, where stuff goes in from any source that has an audio output & from there to your ears.

I'm prepared to pay good money for this.

https://www.europesays.com/2281424/ White House and Tech Firms Teaming on Health Data Sharing #Data #DataSharing #healthcare #interoperability #MehmetOz #News #PYMNTSNews #RobertF.KennedyJr. #What'sHot

"Most modern consumer #messaging platforms...support end-to-end #encryption, but users today are limited to communicating with contacts who use the same platform. This is why Google is strongly supportive of regulatory efforts that require #interoperability" https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-towards-secure-and.html

Interesting panel on Collaborative Frontiers in #Messaging #Platforms & Tools, although I'm surprised mandated #interoperability for #NIICS under the #DMA (and potentially #DMCCA) wasn't mentioned! https://730a06f6.flowpaper.com/GCCMMagazineJuneJulyissue792025soft/#page=21

More #Geosocial coming..

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#geosocial-networking

@bonfire request feedback on #UX designs for #Bonfire Geosocial.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/please-provide-feedback-on-bonfire-geosocial-ux-designs/5427

The designs may also be inspiring to other devs working on #Geo functionality for the #fediverse and there's opportunity to align approaches for max #interoperability.

People are highly encouraged to start related more general discussion topics on improving protocol support for geosocial-enabled #ActivityPub platforms in the federated forum categories.