洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

What a whirlwind 72 hours in #Brussels for #FOSDEM! Everyone I met has been working so so hard to build technology explicitly trying to break out of a broken system of corporate hegemony. There were so many different fields present here but I primarily focused on the #fediverse track.

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115984304052464741

My trip started off with getting to spend most of the first day hanging out with @hongminhee and @2chanhaeng, and discussing how our various cultures differed and aligned. How our social upbringings brought us to where we are. And how the politics of inclusively and multiculturalism are at the center of many of the technologies we care about. Then randomly seeing this fediverse/peertube news on live French tv while eating shawarma at an Iranian shop really jumpstarted the experiance.

‘인공지능들의 소셜미디어’ 몰트북이 큰 인기를 끌면서 국내에서도 유사한 서비스가 등장했습니다. 비서처럼 인간의 일을 대신 수행하는 인공지능 에이전트 기반 변화가 가속화하는 가운데, 보안에 주의를 기울여야 한다는 목소리도 나옵니다.

‘인간은 끼지 마’ AI 전용 SNS 한국어판 등장…무...

TSKaigi 2026の発表プロポーザル募集に応募完了！

@yamanoku さん、情報教えてくださってありがとうございます！おかげで見逃さずに済みました。

Personally, up until about 15 years ago, I had this idealized view of Lisp and Smalltalk, but I think that all disappeared after I encountered Haskell.

@randahl yesterday at FOSDEM there was a member of the European Parliament who was asked why so many politicians are still on X and her answer made total sense (sadly):

Politicians stay on X because journalists are still there, so they feel that if they leave they will become irrelevant / not be written about.

And journalists stay on X because politicians are there.

It’s a vicious cycle

@hongminhee そういえばTSKaigi 2026のプロポーザル募集が始まったようです！ https://tskaigi.hatenablog.com/entry/2026/02/01/125127

私は今年は参加者として行くつもりです。都合よければ是非プロポーザルを出してみてください！

@yamanoku ありがとうございます‼️🙏🏼

If you attended the 2026 Social Web Developers Room or watched online, how would you rate it?

#EvanPoll #poll #FOSDEM2026 #SocialWebFOSDEM

@reiver Or it might be in Taiwan? Not sure though!

Shot in the dark, but does anyone have any recommendations for good #Korean #LanguageLearning resources?

@bart Oh, I'm also at K level 1!

#Fedidev people at #FOSDEM 2026, where are you today?

@rio @Yohei_Zuho 昨日Social Web dev roomで発表がありました。

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VKHGXT-building_a_sustainable_italian_fediverse_overcoming_technical_adoption_and_moder/

@evan @reiver Ah, it was Cuckoo.

@reiver @evan It was an in-person event. They gave us a link that provided real-time translations of what the speaker was saying, so we each pulled it up on our phones to read the translated subtitles.

@pfefferle Here's the `ap` cli for the ActivityPub API. It's one of the example apps from my book.

https://github.com/evanp/ap

There are only a few hours left to submit a proposal to the NLNet Open Social Fund. It's an easy proposal process!

#FOSDEM2026 #SocialWebFosdem #ActivityPub #SocialWeb

https://nlnet.nl/opensocial/

@bookstardust Haha, yeah, but we also pronounce words roughly sometimes!

By the way, it should be called FediKaigi if it's held in Japan, shouldn't it?

@esurio1673 本当によかったですね。来年はぜひ…‼️

@liaizon We are late, probably can't attend! 🥲

It wasn't just me…!? 😂

https://masto.ai/@jimp/113929711296870655

Welcome to Febarray

#February #Comic #falseknees

@andypiper oh I wish I was able to come and talk about the history of VKontakte and how that led to me starting Smithereen. Russia is one of the few countries where Meta genuinely failed to take over the majority of social media usage, and VK took a lot longer to become terminally enshittified.

That and I'd also talk about how I'm extending ActivityPub too much. And that I have some ideas about decentralized global search.

Maybe next year...

@reiver @evan Yeah, that's actually the issue I'm very considering… and I think we probably should speak multiple languages and offer some real-time AI translators (which unexpectedly worked well at @fossforall last year)?

And, there are also many other issues which are very East Asian!

@hongminhee@hollo.social What should be the official language?
Not all developers are proficient in English. How will we support those who struggle with presentations or question sessions in languages other than their native tongue?

Since many developers—particularly Japanese speakers—prefer not to use their real names or appear in public, should we allow remote participation, voice-only contributions, or presentations using avatars like VRChat or VTubers?
There's also a risk of faceless participants appearing in photos or videos during developer interactions, potentially leading to privacy issues.

@yas Yeah, these are all very East Asian problems and indeed real issues! At @fossforall last year in Korea, we'd spoken Korean or English and some real-time AI translators (which unexpectedly worked well) were offered too.

Presentations using virtual avatars sound really interesting. Definitely should be allowed for much broader speakers (especially who're common in Misskey)!

@reiver Yeah, indeed I'm slowly getting at speaking English now!

I had thought about this, but I am not sure how to handle paid RSVP. Monetization matters. We can consider attaching external link, but, I think it is not complete solution

These are ideal and fit into my mental model.

https://event-us.kr/ (korean), https://connpass.com/ (japanese)

But I don't know how to complete implement paid RSVP for fediverse. That's bottleneck

RE: https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/019c1602-7ed5-7294-8332-ac2bb1abff90