I've found an excellent podcast series about how online companies use your data. The second episode of the new season is all about how social media giants gather data to keep you engaged, enraged and staying in their apps looking at ads.
It's presented in a pleasantly approachable way. The fediverse is mentioned (Flipboard), along with a new platform I haven't heard of, Small Town and the idea of the Pluriverse.
One of the exercises they do in the episode is pull down their data from Instagram (thanks GDPR!). I did the same thing last year and documented my findings - a real eye opener, and one of the reasons I'm now committed to the fediverse.
@box464@fediversereport I wonder if federation was unsupported by the business model, where a mechanism to easily pay creators wouldn’t work on federated posts. I think the lack of a native mobile app also harmed its prospects. Definitely kudos to the Post team though.
I login to a LOT of different Mastodon apps. Because of that, I had over 600 "authorized applications" on my account! 🤯
In certain apps, the SSO process creates a new "authorized app" every time you login instead of re-using the same one.
Anyway, I built a web browser dev tool script that iterates through them all and revokes access. I'm not sure if I should release it but it sure was useful for me.
Sounds like this issue will be going away in a future release! 🎉
@box464 Interesting problem. I build such an app, and it was a deliberate decision: creating a new authorized app each time allows to keep the session local. Else one would have to sync to a central server, which is a security liability.
Created a Docusaurus site tonight and it looks pretty good, with minimal effort. The scaffoloding for a starter project got in the way a bit. I may try MkDocs tomorrow (er, later this morning)
If you have recommendations, would love to hear it. This is a new area for me.
@box464 I started using docusaurus for a personal wiki. It’s been decent, I need to spend some more time working on it to get to what I want it ti be in the end.
“The theme.. is clearly about the various ways people are building bridges and are starting to think about connecting their products and platforms together to form a larger social web. The way things are developing the underlying protocol starts become less of a defining feature of the fediverse, and the possibility of connecting your network/product/website to the fediverse starts to matter more and more.”
@CodenameTim I hung out with the straight husbands by the grill which was shaded. Sweaty and hot, but not burned! I also learned how to grill corn with the shuck attached as a handle to turn it.
@box464 As another overly pale human, coming away from a pool party not looking like a lobster is a win. Doing it without smelling like sunscreen is a feat.
Completely different way of looking at the fediverse. We were using #dogs and #cats long before Mastodon existed.
Since I have restricted (connections only) search permissions enabled and Mastodon doesn't support OpenWebAuth you'll need to do a signed ActivityPub fetch to find any results at that endpoint; but I assure you it works.
I've been playing it loosey goosey with backups on my #HomeLab lately. Durnik, my original Portainer workhorse, gets all the love and has very specific backup routines per application hosted.
My new ProxMox powerhouse, Belgarath, is going the lazy admin route - I just backup the the entire server as an image daily. Thinking it's time to revisit and setup similar per VM / app backups.
@kiraso Haven't yet! I'm using ProxMox to backup the server daily but not PBS. I saw it as needing to take over an entire hardware device so that's why I haven't moved on it. Need to do some consolidation of my portainer instances and then I'll have a free device to configure as a backup solution.
@eleventy needs your support. This is a project I've had a lot of fun with on a personal level, and also started using it for a small documentation project at work now, very successfully.
Installed the docker of IceShrimp.NET, which isn't even in beta yet. I have a few installs under my belt now (Mastodon, Bonfire, GoToSocial, etc.) so I know the basic drill, but this was still a pretty easy install.
In the branch I used, there's no front end yet. Phanpy, Elk and Enafore handled at least the basic posting requests so the API is solid.
So cool to see dotnet code in the fediverse! Follow me @box464 :)
@cbielstein It's following along the lines of IceShrimp and Firefish with emoji reacts and MFM. The idea is that admins with these platforms would be able to easily migrate.
A few things are being abandoned (Clips), and others are being added. (Not exactly sure what Magazines are)
Have you ever watched a movie that had a moment that made no sense and it just went on like it didn't happen?
"It Follows", a horror film from a few years back had this - a random scene where some teenagers are hanging out watching TV when one pulls out a plastic seashell, flips it open, and it's some kind of e-reader / telephone with circular screens?
Embarrassing. I absolutely believed Phanpy did not have quote posting capabilities. I have even been jumping over to a different app on the rare occasion I use that feature, copying the post url, etc. over so I could find it. 🤦♂️
How could I miss it? The only thing I can think of is that at one time it didn't have them (I have been a Phanpy fan for a very long time), so I just blinded myself to them not being there out of habit.
I even run my own personal phanpy client instance. :psyduck: