starrwulfe

@starrwulfe.xyz@starrwulfe.xyz

🧔🏾Husband, Father, Son, Teacher, Journalist. Tokyoite, Atlantan, Afro-American. Globetrotter, Homebody. Storyteller, Story-Listener. Historian, Futurist. Striving to leave the world better than I found it. 🌟@starrwulfe and @starrwulfe are both me; follow both as I figure out how to run my own fediverse instance.🌟 #️⃣

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starrwulfe, to fediverse

So Post.news is shutting down huh?

Should’ve added some #fediverse to it.

Micro transactions for certain feature articles are ok but not the ehole shebang. And in 2024, I refuse to deal with anything that isn’t potentially using ActivityPub or can otherwise be federated and followed by my main accounts.

[Postpost.newsPost

It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things…](https://post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PYRFjya343RpiToiyEQr0x)

From: @lonseidman

[indieweb.socialLon Seidman / Lon.TV ☑️: "Post.News Is Shutting Down: https://post.news/@/n…" – Indieweb.Social

Post.News Is Shutting Down: https://post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PYRFjya343RpiToiyEQr0x](https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman/112300762377202936)

🗣️💬👍🚀♻️ ➡️- Bluesky

https://starrwulfe.xyz/t/2jJR
#fediverse #openSNS

starrwulfe,

@deadsuperhero Came to also say Pixelfed’s @dansup will try adding it to loops.video, the federated short video SNS he announced a few days ago.

I still have one Hubzilla instance, @starrwulfe that’s bounced all over the Zillosphere with the same identity. This is what sets ATProto apart from ActivityPub, and I’m glad to see it coming in some shape.

https://starrwulfe.xyz/b/2KHJ

starrwulfe, to fediverse

ActivityPub for WordPress was updated today adding Bidirectional Comment Federation.

Means I can type in the comments to replies and they should federate back over to the original thread. Before, WordPress really couldn’t act as a discussion federator; I made it easy on myself by just federating my comment URLs via webmention to wherever they needed to go manually (copy comment, paste into other website text box, submit.) Or at the very best, use my Mastodon or MicroBlog account to respond. Hopefully this makes replying back to others easier now; although I still don’t know about Webmention support or how it works in syndication…

I guess let’s find out? 🙈

https://starrwulfe.xyz/b/1Uaq

starrwulfe, to Japan

Keeping my eyes on Japan this first day of 2024 as the Sea of Japan coast reels in the aftermath of a M7.6 quake. After living there so long, I already know the preparedness and strict building codes there and personally dealt with the larger M9.0 East Japan Quake in 2011.

Perhaps because I do know how it feels, images like these get my PTSD going a bit.

Everyone I know is safe but anyone living in the area should heed all warnings given.

新潟県震度6やばい pic.twitter.com/fG85aRw8q9

— りーぬん🦙🍜 (@NiziULove0326) January 1, 2024

Mother nature is not to be trifled with!

https://i0.wp.com/starrwulfe.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Web-capture_1-1-2024_7443_www3.nhk_.or_.jp_.jpeg?ssl=1📡🔀- MastodonMastodon

https://starrwulfe.xyz/2024/01/ishikawa-quake-1/

starrwulfe, to fediverse

It has started:

screenshot of a posting on Threads where Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now.Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now. 🔗I have been saying for a very long while now that ActivityPub as a protocol and within it Mastodon as the flagship app need to separate themselves from the fringe in order to gain more traction and usage.

Understand that ActivityPub itself is a protocol not unlike IMAP and HTTP under the W3C. Just like email doesn’t rely on any one server to transport mail traffic across the Internet, By using ActivityPub social media can enjoy the same freedom and transparency. I shouldn’t have to join every single social media and existence to get a complete picture of what everyone is up to… we actually had this about 20 something years ago when the then biggest part of the fledgling social media universe decided to use XMPP as a standard to federate their instant messenger networks. What that meant was my ICQ handle was able to contact all my friends on AOL instant messenger and MSN without having to do anything strange. Ironically it was Facebook that broke this paradigm when they took Facebook messenger behind closed doors in order to add all the functionality that it has now.

shallow focus photography of man wearing red polo shirtOK, but you know Meta ain’t doin’ this outta the kindness of their hearts, right? 😒

It should not be forgotten that the reason why this is probably happening is because of the very strict policies that the European Union has imposed on how companies operate on the open Internet. It’s far easier for Mattar, the company that owns Facebook to create this new net work and design it from the start with open standards and then slowly bring everything over to it, rather than having to bolt on the same functionality to Facebook or Instagram as it stands now. While it may be seen as a self-serving move on their behalf, I personally welcome it because it means suddenly it might be one less thing to have to join and maintain in order to still be a part of the social media landscape.

Imagine a world where people on TikTok can communicate with people on YouTube and people on twitch. It might sound kind of strange at first but the same is already happening here in the with Mastodon , PeerTube, and WordPress.

(Obligatory “how it works” link here.)

This integration is happening methodically and with a lot of advice from all stakeholders it appears; Threads users are going to get a window into the fediverse soon; as I type this, some accounts are getting read-only access. Evan Prodromou, one of the founding architects of the very underpinnings of ActivityPub (@evan and @evanprodromou) has been able to talk to the team over at Meta in charge of this undertaking along with a host of others in the realm. Believe me when I say, these discussions got into the weeds and no stone was left untouched according to most of the attendees. This is the part that makes me feel Meta is acting in good faith.

woman wearing teal dress sitting on chair talking to manWill everyone be OK with federation though?

It’s very easy to say “I’m not going to federate with Threads” or “I don’t want to associate with those Mastodon loons” (posts I won’t link to here, but use the appropriate search technique and you will find them in short order). The point is being missed insofar as the networks being interoperable if nothing else for the sake of creating a new standard and influencing the wider internet to “de-silo” all this content is a good thing and needs to be encouraged, not shunned.

As of this writing, there are no official timelines on when any of this will go into effect for us, but I have my educated guesses that it will coincide with the opening of Threads.net to EU signups and the move to be a federated network should keep regulators over there from breaking out the ban hammer. That’s supposed to be in a few days so we’ll see.

Stay tuned!

📡🔀- Micro.blogMicro.blog

https://starrwulfe.xyz/2023/12/13/20/46/when-mastodon-met-threads-%f0%9f%90%98%e2%9e%95%f0%9f%a7%b5%f0%9f%9f%b0%e2%9d%93/

shallow focus photography of man wearing red polo shirt
woman wearing teal dress sitting on chair talking to man

starrwulfe, to fediverse

Doin’ too much”: 💥😖 Time for a micro/macro blog rethink?

At some point yesterday, my WordPress instance (thus the place where the thing you’re reading right now came from) ran out of memory.

🤔 I suspect it’s because I’m asking it to do too much:

And all on a tiny underpowered VPS instance.

Now if I could have things my way, I’d really prefer a clean install of GoBlog like I had before but with an easier way to post photos, follow people thru RSS/, and connect to different networks in the same manner. Something like a WordPress|Tumblr|Friendica mashup (basically smoosh Firefish and Hubzilla together…) I decided to go back to using WordPress instead becaus

  1. My skillset for Go vs PHP is smaller. Go as a language is easier though so it’s only a matter of time…
  2. Since the above is true, I’m not sure how to keep it locked down and optimized; I’ve been dealing with WordPress for like 20 years already so I understand this beast.
  3. I only have time for one impossible project at a time:

A line art picture of someone doing too many tasks. The boy has 6 arms flailing about juggling balls, papers and books. There are bystanders asking him to do these things.My WordPress instance trying to handle all I throw at it.

To remedy the memory issues, I could stary by using a minimal template¹ and throw some CSS at it to make it look like a TUI app in a terminal. Kinda like Jamie Tanna‘s site. Of course Andrés Cárdenas site is also something to aspire to as well as Tim Bachmann’s. (Speaking of, did he ever get that one commenting plugin project off the ground?)

Next, I’ll make sure the thing is optimized. This also means not only the instance but the underlying supporting software too. I’m pretty good at that part though since my day job also demands it. I’m running this thing on Caddy (told you I was gonna force some Golang into my life!) and a very lean MariaDB container. Don’t be surprised if I wind up making a Nix declaration for this set up and make it so I only need to back up one thing everyday to get back up and running instead of the three I need to do now.

I’ll continue to optimize things around here and make it work the way I want it. I’ll make sure to get a colophon page going really soon so I can let y’all know how I did it; I still think this is the best way to enjoy the best of all worlds in the and within the world of enabled blogospheres.

If anyone has experience with any of the above, reach out to me via this post or just in general at @starrwulfe, @starrwulfe or @starrwulfe

¹: Kinda started this just now with this new template file that I’m slowly adding custom CSS to…

📡🔀:- Mastodon

https://starrwulfe.xyz/b/Pmy

starrwulfe, to Atlanta

The whole reason the Beltline even exists is because it was meant to be a transit corridor. A multiuse trail was also part of the design, so both need to be constructed.

But also, since the land developers jumped into the fray and built their car-oriented buildings off the trail, OF COURSE they want to keep it this way.

I’m sick and tired of the false notion that transit BRINGS IN undesirable effects when the exact opposite has always been true.
Let’s look at their concerns and I’ll chime in with my opinions on why it’s simply not true.

  • There will be a heat island effect due to the constrained space from having up to 40 feet of ROW taken up with tracks.That will consume almost all greenspace between the pedestrian trail and the edge of the Beltline corridor. Most existing trees and meadows will be removed to make room for the Streetcar. Less room for public art. Less room for hanging out. And a lot less room for nature.

    • False. The streetcar can be designed with this in mind and have grassy tracks and simple stop infrastructure. Even Houston’s MetroRail tracks cross a fountain and have a small footprint. Clearly this group has never once visited an established streetcar/tram installation anywhere and seen what can be done with the ROW.

  • https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/amsterdam-trams-people-street-scene-environment-friendly-way-travel-36538916.jpgThe Eastside Trail already is overcrowded with bikes, runners, walkers, scooters, dogs and all manner of mobility devices. It can be dangerous. We need more room for people — perhaps a wider path, or even separate lanes for “heels and wheels.”

    • Yes, because the current trail setup was always intended to be TEMPORARY since the transit part needed to be installed at a later date. The final configuration with tram tracks installed will allow for all that. It’s done in several other countries and even San Francisco, Portland and San Diego all have sections of their LRT systems set up in similar ways. Obviously trams will be moving along at a slower pace while on the Beltway near trail users.

  • We question spending the largest portion of Atlanta’s transit investment over the next three decades on a light-rail track that circles destinations rather than takes people to them.The Beltline already serves thousands of people daily as a last-mile, human-powered corridor. There’s little evidence of demand for long trips via rail along that corridor.

    • The corridor is intended to be a light rail loop with branches that go out into places like Emory, East Atlanta, Westside Reservoir Park and Campbellton Road. Of course, some of these have been turned into BRT but the good thing about that is it can be converted at a later date to light rail. Just ask Seattle. As for demand for travel– it hasn’t been built yet, but just based on car usage alone, getting from one side of midtown to the other is a big want. Getting from the West End to East Atlanta is a big deal. There will be interfaces with MARTA subway on all sides of the Beltway and we really need a “crosstown” transfer solution that doesn’t involve going through 5 Points every time. Also, points along the loop can BECOME the destination, just ask Chicago, Tokyo, Berlin, and every other city with a looping railway around their CBD.

  • Will it harm Beltline businesses?

    • Are you serious? The businesses weren’t even there 10 years ago; the overarching reason the developers got interested in building along the corridor in the first place is because of the TOD aspect of it– the multi-use trail wasn’t even a thing yet. So yeah, adding the rails will be what was intended in the first place and ADD TO THE ACCESSIBLILTY of the path! (my 78-year-old mom will not bike nor walk a long distance along the trail, but she’d definitely take the streetcar along the route in a hop-on-hop-off fashion.)

  • Is this really Atlanta’s highest transit priority? Streetcar expansion will run through some of the city’s wealthiest and least diverse neighborhoods. In other parts of the city, residents rely heavily on transit as a necessity. They could benefit from better service.

    • ALL OF IT is the highest priority. The CBD (downtown/midtown) has suffered way too long from ineffective crosstown transit options. The LRT loop aspect of the beltline is supposed to change all that. Remember, these used to do the same thing for trains what needs to be done for people without cars– get them from once part of the CBD to the other and also facilitate a termination for inbound LRTs from other locations.
      • Also fact– MARTA heavy rail probably is too costly to build new lines off of at this point, but links to Cobb and Douglas counties could still be made via LRT and might seem even more palatable if they ran into and terminated on the Beltline. Building the infrastructure needed for this option is key.

  • Are we betting on a technology of the past? Rail on the Beltline was first proposed in 1999. That was before the invention of Facebook or the iPhone. It was well before ridesharing services, e-bikes, scooter rentals, autonomous vehicles and other innovations disrupted how we get around urban areas.

    • I can’t believe we’re conflating modern streetcars with social media evolution. YES, there is still a need for accessing the area physically first. I can’t pedal all the way to the Beltline from Gwinnett. But I can take MARTA rail to Inman Park from Indian Creek (now that we have a bus that serves that station from here). I don’t have a bike and even if I did, I’m not carrying it on the bus/train every time. If I want to visit my uncle in Ormewood/Grant Park I have to catch a bus or two. Once the trail opens on the south end, I guess I could walk, but it’s better if there was an option that was a little faster. Streetcar to the rescue!
      • And hey, who’s to say that there wouldn’t be a branch off this part that would serve the Flat Shoals corridor and head out to Lithonia– that has been proposed for decades.

  • The entire 22-mile loop is expected to be completed around 35 years from now at a cost of $2.5 billion. That’s probably optimistic. Where’s the money gonna come from?

    • We should just give up because there’s no funding for the whole thing right now? That’s unfortunate but also how literally everything in this country gets built. We’re still waiting for the rest of MARTA to get built from the original 1974 plan. Should we just have threw that one in the trash too? You already know once something is built and used, it rapidly becomes integral, and funding will come. A full Beltline streetcar loop will be something that is rare in this nation and will attract even more development and the money that comes with it. Ask Denver about their similar bet on interurban rail and even our original bet on MARTA –that we only got after Seattle passed on the federal funding. SOME OTHER CITY will get whatever we had coming to us and we’ll continue to live in a car-infested hellscape outside of The Beltline.

And that’s the point I want to make– This is all about the few people who call the first small 5 mile stage of the Beltline home, and not taking anything into account from the many more thousands of people who live around and outside the already completed trail. I know most of the Westside Beltline communities want as much transit that will fit into the ROW because their areas have been neglected far too long. (I also advocated that area along with the Southside Beltline be the first to get redeveloped but of course the area closest to the already activated Virginia Highlands/Poncey Highlands/Cabbagetown section got it first.)

fed.brid.gy https://betteratlantatransit.org/

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