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underlap, 4 months ago to fediverse

Account portability and the social web https://underlap.org/account-portability-in-the-social-web

I believe this is an important topic for the Fediverse. Please boost for visibility.

Thanks to @dottorblaster @jamesravey @hcj @mima @hirad @devnull for commenting on my earlier survey on this topic (https://fosstodon.org/@underlap/111617691764389915)

#ActivityPub #ATProtocol #AccountPortability #Fediverse

box464, 1 year ago to random

New to me, and as Reddit seems to be taking a similar path to Twitter in regards to an API, worth mentioning. Lemmy friendly, but not Lemmy. Will have to dig in a bit to see what it’s all about.

Thankful for the translation feature of Mastodon so I can follow interesting accounts regardless of language.

https://kbin.pub/en

From: @ernest
https://karab.in/m/karabinDevlog/p/175939

box464, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

How many people do you follow on your Mastodon compatible platform? Please boost, thank you.

Curious if there are any official general stats on this as well.

box464, 11 months ago to random

Finishing up my Calckey Plugins week with a fun one. MFM (Misskey Flavoured Markdown) is quite an expressive art form and a great entry to coding, math, and styling (but having fun and not realizing your'e learning something) 🤫

Here I've created a plugin generator, which writes the AiScript code based on a few pieces of information provided by a user in a form.

https://box464.com/posts/calckey-snippets/

#Calckey #CalckeyPlugins #AiScript

box464, 3 months ago to random

The founding developer of Firefish has officially stepped down from the project. Keys are being transferred to one of the dev leads.

It appears Firefish IS still breathing, albeit flopping around at the edge of the pond right now.

Many instances migrated to other Forkeys - Sharkey or IceShrimp. A newcomer, Catodon, is also emerging.

Glad to see Firefish given a chance to survive, and wish them the best!

https://git.joinfirefish.org/firefish/firefish/-/issues/10847

#Firefish #Forkeys #IceShrimp #Sharkey #Catodon

box464, 1 month ago to fediverse

GoToSocial has just announced the 0.15.0 release candidate and it's got some new features and updates:

• User Profile Custom Themes (choose your own!)
• Move Activities (follows move with you)
• Post Filters (Mastodon V1 support)
• Hide your Follows / Followers Counts
• Updated Swagger API Docs

#GoToSocial #Fediverse #FediAdmin

The official GtS Sunset (light) theme, with purple, red and orange highlights.

box464, 3 months ago to random

I've been using the @mszpro app off and on. But after the @wedistribute podcast episode, I took a deeper look.

It really shines for users on very small instances. Sora has a collection of unique client side discovery functions - trending posts from preferred instances and predictions you may find interesting based on your likes and reposts.

It's becoming a favorite for browsing my tiny GoToSocial instance, which can feel a bit..sparse...as I only follow a handful of people.

box464, 2 months ago to threads

An interesting tidbit about the Threads opt-in process. I tried turning the opt-in on and then quickly back off - when you turn it off, you can't turn it back on for 30 days.

#Threads

box464, 2 months ago to fediverse

Ran across this excellent series from @blog as they build an activitypub enabled static site. Includes deep discussions about the core components that make up activitypub.

Good stuff, especially their work to convert an RSS feed to an AP outbox.

https://maho.dev/tags/activitypub

#ActivityPub #FediDev

box464, 2 months ago to random

A thorough look at the legal considerations of running even a single user instance in the fediverse.

https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

box464, 19 days ago to fediverse

With big players like Flipboard, Wordpress, Ghost and Threads entering the fediverse, along with bridges to Bluesky and more….your choice of platform will be less about content (you’ll see it everywhere!) and more about the app experience and features you prefer. 🥳

#Fediverse #FediApps

box464, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Please settle this, fediverse! #HappyNewYear

For good luck, black eyed peas should be eaten on:

box464, 4 months ago to random

A nice collection of Lemmy apps to browse. Haven't heard of many of these - getting difficult to keep up with all the development going on.

https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

#FediApps #Threadiverse

box464, 4 months ago to random

Gazing at grim thoughts on the dentist’s wall, drooling painfully into a blue paper napkin.

box464, 1 month ago to random

A takeaway from the #FediForum is people need ways to make money here.

Very little funding reaches fediverse developers. Regardless, they push forward because they believe in this idea.

Not to mention users that want to make a living in this space.

I support fedi projects and the people making them, even when those investments make it more expensive to be here.

It's worthwhile. It's not enough.

Wish I had a solution. But I'm happy to offer support to those that do, and hope you will too.

box464, 1 month ago to random

IFTAS releases a practical guide for fediverse admins and platform creators (among others) subject to the EU’s Digital Services Act. Which would be…everyone.

Bookmark this one.

https://about.iftas.org/2024/04/09/dsa-guide-for-the-fediverse/

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

box464, 1 month ago to random

Post.news shutting down. I think the largest fault was that it was JUST news. I guess for pure news junkies that’s great, but it’s not enough - you need to be tied into larger social networks.

Agree with Tim, federation is key. Not sure how they would have managed the paid posts, but they could have tried.

@tchambers

From: @timothyjchambers
https://www.threads.net/@timothyjchambers/post/C58vld7xlNuJqjHYIYXyBkIaAGkkeEkK1XF5gM0

box464, 13 days ago to accessibility

I have been testing low visibility accessibility on websites I visit, just to see what the experience is like.

Voice over is very easy to enable on a Mac with a magic keyboard. Clicking your touch id button quickly 3 times turns voice over on, and 3 times again turns it back off. Excellent shortcut that makes it easy to include in your development process.

#accessibility

box464, 1 month ago to random

Is there an all in one "So you want to run a fediverse instance" type guidebook in relation to legal, moderation and long term sustainability tasks?

Things like templates for Privacy Policies, Server Rules and About sections, understanding moderation tasks and the importance of having multiple administrators, funding plans.

How to deal with government requests for data.

All the fun things.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

box464, 3 months ago to random

This is just a ridiculously good deal if you’re interested in setting up a blog, getting a stable, well run mastodon instance and be part of a nice supportive community - all included in the price. Lots of fun little extras too.

From: @prami
https://social.lol/@prami/111908096456198613

box464, 6 months ago to Halloween

My husband decorates the house for every holiday, but Halloween is one of my favorites - even tho we haven't had a trick or treater at our door for 10 years! It's all for us. You might catch a glimpse of an actual ghoul in one of the photos.

#Halloween

Various retro halloween decorations, including a pumpkin / snowman monstrosity.
A happy mummy statue holding a pumpkin, surrounded in orange string lights.
A mirror above a bar decorated with bats, crows and horrifying pumpkins. A ghoul appears in the mirror.

box464, 2 months ago to random

Wooooo! 🎉 Project Tapestry surpasses the second funding goal...just in the nick of time. Hello, shareable news feeds (think bluesky custom feeds)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

#ProjectTapestry

box464, 2 months ago to random

#FediForum is a wrap. It was chock full of fedi goodness. I expect to be still be talking about some of the content .6 FediForums from today.

box464, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

😬 I see the truly good intentions here, but...it feels similar to all the CW and ALT text replies - but coming from the official mastodon organization itself.

It was noted in the replies that Twitter and Facebook already have similar feature sets.

You can dismiss the warnings after you see it for the first time, which is good.

** Edited with new info

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

#Mastodon #MediaCoverage

box464, 2 months ago to random

I feel like there is a huge divide among developers on social media. Many are true innovators that create new things and have heated debates over each small component. It's exciting to read.

The rest of us quietly maintain those innovations 15 years later with duct tape and prayers to the search gods, keeping the current internet spinning.

Both groups are needed, but maintainers tend to get overlooked.

A toast to the roadside mechanics of the internet.