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it's around 16,ooo (and growing thanks to the twitter kerfuffle) - very trusted in a small niche

yep, I'd like to offer your service @mydomain

> Yes. When you use Solid, you only need to login to your Identity Provider.

Maybe I'm not understanding your direction here, but I'm specifically looking for an Identity Provider service to auth ActivityPub service users.

do you plan on a paid white label option?

I run three services (Mastodon, Pixelfed, WriteFreely) and would like to have my community use one set of credentials on all three (and any other service they would like to) - is this what I'm understanding is the intent here? I want to run more services but I simply cannot stomach yet more credentials.

Agreed. I've been pasting this anywhere I see the frustration

Think of it like your phone number, it's a service and you need a provider. Choose one by location https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/mastodon-near-me_828094 makes no difference, they all talk to each other and you can move servers at any time

And it's curated for servers that are open for registration so hopefully no dead ends

>no conspiracy theory has yet emerged arguing that the Empire never really fell at all, and that everywhere from Carlisle to Cairo is still secretly being run by an emperor hidden somewhere under Rome. Which is a pity, because that would be brilliant.

The Empire Never Ended:

https://1library.net/article/empire-ended-philosophy-science...

Not OP, and no idea on pricing, but https://www.spymesat.com/new-tasking.html appears to allow you task a satellite selfie on demand

>Twitter's motives to suspend an account for reporting court proceedings

It's clear Twitter suspended the account for TOS violations, and not the subject matter.

I have no dog in this fight, do not follow the case, but a quick search of Twitter yielded these not-suspended accounts that are "reporting court proceedings" as you say:

https://twitter.com/USvMaxwell https://twitter.com/Trial_Tracker https://twitter.com/CultStateDotCom https://twitter.com/MaxwellTrial

There are dozens at first glance.

There is even a trial tracker tracker...

https://twitter.com/CensorTracker

So, @hxkandbe's request that we use the suspended account's blog post about the suspension to add some context and clarity is in no way suppressing the discussion, but instead seeking to elevate and inform it.

I meant sort of aware, not sort of federated. But yeh, not really.

>I am not sure if they are aware of the Fediverse

According to the account owner's substack, they are on Gab. So, sort of.

>Hospitals set their prices above what most insurance companies will pay to make sure they get the maximum amount from the insurance company

Tis is generally not as simple. There are two prices that matter to this conversation: the hospital chargemaster and the usual and customary rate (UCR). The two are not functionally intertwined. The chargemaster exists in the hospital back office as a legal fiction and has little to no relationship to anything the insurance companies do although yes, sometimes chargemasters may be used as part of the rate negotiation with insurers. UCR is governed by what it says on the tin, it is what the market is paying in the specific geography.

The shenanigans kick in when the hospital tries to do something with the fictional difference between their chargemaster and the UCR, or, worse, tries to charge the fictional price to uninsured and under-insured individuals.

I keep a short explainer here: https://jaz.co.uk/2015/10/15/hospital-retail-pricing-for-dum...

Here's a map of services I built for those looking the connect locally: http://u.osmfr.org/m/550053/

Given that all the current HHS political appointees have handed in their resignation letters for use in less than two days, "current administration" will become inaccurate during the lifecycle of these comments - maybe that's the reason for clarification

I have a go-to piece on chargemasters here https://jaz.co.uk/2015/10/15/hospital-retail-pricing-for-dum...

(Worked on hospital pricing reports since 2001)

Cymro and proud :-) there's a few of us on here. Shameless plug for toot.wales - I run a bilingual Mastodon instance if you're interested. Iechyd da!

Blwyddyn newydd dda HN, 2020 required an awful lot of "well let's see what the hn comments say about -this-" in response to oh so many fear mongering headlines and half stories. Glad to be here, thanks to dang and the community for keeping it what it is.

Or maybe, 1 to argue light is free as in wave _and_ free as in particle.

Sure, but are they publishers, or hosters? Isn't that the whole CDA Section 230 debate? Either be an impartial host (other than legal requirements) or be a publisher with all the trappings that come with that.

I used to participate in a city-wide water pistol assassination tournament. Skipped the hard hat, got white coveralls from Home Depot, pinned my work id to it, carried a clipboard. Got in everywhere I needed to be, including a heliport and a private boat dock. I forget where I read it, but the phrase "just act like you're supposed to be there" has stuck with me a long time, and paid dividends.

IMO hospitals are your worst target. They have seven figure deployments, maybe eight, and they have an army of HIT techs. THey also have a vendor relationship you cannot break.

However... hospitals have partners, contractors, vendors, processors. In your shoes I would be looking at people who want to interop with hospitals.

Some ideas:

- State Medicaid agencies. Generally do not have the tech staff, but they do have money and contracts, and much of it is set-aside for small business.

- Anyone with an NQIIC contract. All tasked with reducing provider burden and imprving care transitions. FHIR to the rescue. https://www.g2xchange.com/statics/cms-awards-25b-network-of-...

- Case in point. I need a legacy data dictionary transposed to FHIR elements so that instead of manual record abstraction I can ship an HL7-ready spec for data abstraction.

- Case reporting. There are FHIR-aware case reporting frameworks, no-one knows how to use them. There's a global pandemic on at the moment, so lots of case reporting is needed. Public health agencies exist in just about every county and city in the US.

I agree it's important to define your customer, although when starting out it can be difficult to do so as it brings a sense of closing some doors that you might want open for a bit longer, but in general I'd say your comment:

>you're trying to sell something that customers don't buy - any integration, FHIR or HL7 or something, is only ever needed to get one product to talk to another

is not entirely correct. I for one buy small scale interop product, and the FHIR space is growing quickly, more and more companies will be looking for small and medium activity in the space as new regulation starts taking hold.

Hi there, I'm someone who builds and buys SMART on FHIR tech, albeit small potatoes in the space. A few thoughts from checking out your site to see if I should follow up with you, I hope these are helpful.

1. WHo are you? Your site says nothing about you. I'm going to give you the keys to the PHI kingdom, I need to know who's soliciting me. Are you two twenty-somethings with amazing skills and ideas, or 20 ex-Epic employees looking to fill a particular gap you found? Without this general information I wouldn't know what sort of project to think about including you in.

2. Where are you? I'm under contract with numerous health agencies that require data to be on US soil. I have no idea if you are in Romania or Virginia. (Side note, government is the biggest purchaser of health care and therefore your paths will cross at some point, even if it's simply being downstream of federal or state data.)

3. How compliant are you? Your one page tells me nothing about your understanding of HIPAA, nor how you ensure the security and privacy of the data you will be exposed to. It may seem as if anyone in the space _should_ know about this and the reader can assume compliance, but frankly it's not the case. Yell at me about your third-party audits, your ability to transact PHI, as well as any SOC/FISMA compliance you have.

4. What have you done before? There are a lot of corners in the niche, and I'd need to know what systems you've worked with, what you've built and who for, so I can get an understanding of whether or not you'd be a good fit.

As for leads, with most conferences going virtual your usual approach of HIMSS is buggered, but Healthcare Datapalooza just put out a call for presentations so they're likely looking for (virtual) sponsors already. I assume HIMSS and HCDP sell attendee data, have you looked in to that? And how about FHIR aggregators like 1up and Redox, they are likely plugged in to many of your potential customers.

I'd be happy to chat more, my profile has an E-mail address you can use. Good luck with your venture!

EDIT - forgot to mention, starting out a great way to get noticed is to participate on a HIT Challenge, not sure what's up for grabs lately but challenge.gov - easy way to find the right people to start netowrking with.

Thus is true for some SKUs, but not for nonprofit version. Must be Business, Enterprise or Essentials I believe.https://support.google.com/a/answer/7630496?hl=en

Ah, then yes, apologies -I did not mean to put words in your mouth. Technical feasibility is likely easier than imagined; most Mastodon services use the auto-generated list that appears on their "about" page - easily scraped if not available through the API - here's the list on the instance I moderate on for example:

https://toot.wales/about/more#unavailable-content

And right after that we can remove any FTP client that uses the FTP protocol to download content Google doesn't like. We should scan all apps that use a common, published protocol to make sure the protocol is not being used to consume objectionable content. /s

The app is not the service; the protocol is not the platform.

>but a ban on specific implementations that make it easy to join specific communities which encourage hatred and real-world violence.

As you state, one can access these specific communities in a number of ways, including Google Chrome. If the community is the issue, go after the community, not an ActivityPub app that can access content from these and other communities.

Should Google also ban RSS reader apps that don't actively block RSS feeds from sites Google doesn't like?

>The only reason Podcast Addict has been restored (multiple times) is that it's high-profile, and the owner raised enough stink to cause widespread (enough) outrage about this. Otherwise, whether through malice or incompetence, it would be gone forever.

This is my concern. These apps are not content hosts, they are akin to Web browsers or RSS readers, but they are small, one-person endeavours that don't have the clout to get Google to notice the difference between the content providers (the individual Mastodon servers) and the ActivityPub client app that these apps represent.

I know one of the devs is thinking to not push the issue as he's worried about his other apps on the same developer account.

The discussion has veered off into censorship issues, but this is a simple 230-ish problem, these apps are not the Mastodon servers that (presumably) some people have had issues with. They are agnostic client readers of the ActivityPub statuses.

There is no way, nor any legal requirement, for a browser like these apps to be held responsible for the million possible bits of content it could consume.

The app is not the service.

For the record, two submissions were combined, the title is not mine.

Original post combined with this one, so just for completeness' sake here's the original toot from the lead Mastodon dev @Gargron: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818