Alexey Navalny was one thing Vladimir Putin can never be: heroic. | Continue reading
One user's perspective on the switch from Movable Type to Wordpress in 2004. I wasn’t paying attention, that was the year of podcasting. | Continue reading
I would like to use a wonderful gateway from RSS to Mastodon. | Continue reading
Earlier today I used Google to try to find a doc I wrote a few years ago. I am the author. I have the original. Well a bunch of people copied my file and posted it on their sites, with their template and their ads (I don't have ads), and for whatever reason Google ranks their doc … | Continue reading
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit(mastodon.social) | Continue reading
@Bricin @timbray@hachyderm.io RSS owes it all to its parent, XML. 😀RSS 2.0’s 20 year anniversary was last Sep 18.http://reallysimple.org/twentyYearsAgo.opml | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageTwo things can be true. ChatGPT is deeply problematic in various ways. And results like this -- in narrow domains -- are profoundly useful.I always have to look this stuff up. It feels like conventional search has regressed but, even at its best, it was never thi … | Continue reading
@dave@social.masto.land Welllll I think that about does it for the twitter api.I poured countless days into trying to build a fire with their api as kindling, even if this announcement ends up being another of their stupid moves they retract the next day, it’s clear this is not … | Continue reading
@atomicpoet this thread has gotten very interesting.the important takeaway imho is that no matter what destiny is, now that we've met, we should help each other keep creating new open platforms.working together. software doesn't interop unless people interop first. we should not … | Continue reading
@atomicpoet @abathur@hachyderm.io Please don’t resurrect that hurtful idea. RSS is a good thing. Look at how well mastodon respects it. It represents something precious, developers working together, just a little, and only for a brief period. What would be better if we recognized … | Continue reading
@atomicpoet @abathur@hachyderm.io For perspective, linguist George Lakoff explains…https://www.salon.com/2017/01/15/dont-think-of-a-rampaging-elephant-linguist-george-lakoff-explains-how-the-democrats-helped-elect-trump/When you say something is not something, your mind forgets t … | Continue reading
Yeah, I'm excited about the growth of the Fediverse ecosystem and I'm indeed optimistic about where this is going.However, I hope we also have the good sense to critique the current ecosystem as it exists now.Decentralization of social media becomes less feasible if app developer … | Continue reading
@davew Feedland seems like a brilliant idea. Wish I’d come across it sooner as I spent the holiday break setting up FreshRSS and getting a couple hundred feeds and newsletters over to it. The social element of Feedland is the best though, in trying to explain how great RSS can be … | Continue reading
Cool opportunity to cover Mastodon and the Fediverse: Inspired by @davew, we are offering a scholarship to our Newmark J-School creators entrepreneurial program to someone who has a great proposal for covering and serving Mastodon and the federated social universe. The best propo … | Continue reading
@davew I'm appreciating feedland.org -- I decided to follow everyone who follows me here. I can add the feeds of a few dozen people I want to pay closer attention to under my Mastodon or News categories. Mastodon for the raw feed, Feedland for the curated feed. Once I went throug … | Continue reading
@mitchw @BarbNerdy@chaos.social yes, substack is blogging, and it's totally valid for one blogging system to lead writers toward one kind of writing.what's wrong with substack, and why it will ultimately need to change or be replaced, is that they require writers to use their edi … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageHere's my manifesto of who feeds are for. | Continue reading
@davew - I've been to your new site and have many questions :) I'm in the middle of building RSSCloud and WebSub into an open source blogging/textcasting tool. I'll gladly bundle "Textcasting" too, if you can show me how. Have you published anything like a spec yet? | Continue reading
# RSS in the Fediverse, part 2feedToMasto is a Node app that periodically checks a list of feeds, posting new items to Mastodon. Good example code to get started with the Mastodon API. Also illustrates how easy feeds (RSS, Atom, RDF) can be incorporated into any Node app with the … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageAn example of a reader that could do a better job with a Mastodon feed.See how they repeat the text? Why? It seems it would be easy to do a perfect job there. Maybe now's the time to spruce up how we deal with title-less feed items? There are going to be a lot mo … | Continue reading
This is the feed of my Mastodon posts which you can of course subscribe to in any feed reader. Interop! Interop! Yesss. | Continue reading
7 Posts, 171 Following, 194 Followers · Dad, writer, citizen, chef, cyclist, skeptical optimist, cereal dilettante | Open government advocate: e-PluribusUnum.org | alex@governing.digital | Text 4108499808 or email me for Signal(mastodon.social) | Continue reading
Attached: 1 image Given my brutal teaching schedule this term- 2 new classes, 10hrs per week plus a commute- I'm only occasionally starting to get a sense of Milan outside the walk to and from the train. Here's the garden from MUBA, "il Museo dei Bambini a Milano" which is right … | Continue reading
I want to talk about the new, horrible and completely unchecked spam problems Twitter has now but also I kind of don't want to talk about Twitter, especially not here | Continue reading
Is #Strategy for #FOSS?Taking a strategic approach to software development projects. Have a vision, outline strategies, create a plan, act on it. Does it happen in FOSS world?Searching on strategy gives pages full of biz this, commercial that, capitalistic BS.Would FOSS benefit f … | Continue reading
Great news #Fediverse it is Official. The #EU #EuropeanCommission just launched two servers 🚀Welcome to #EUVoice mastodon and #EUVideo peertube 🎉So say hi to @EC_Commission@social.network.europa.eu 👋Love #FOSS with @EC_OSPO@social.network.europa.eu Ὁ … | Continue reading
Server run by the main developers of the project It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct! | Continue reading
Hey, so this is super cool. Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.https:// … | Continue reading
You don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the toilet, or wear clothes. Privacy isn't about having something to hide, it's not about keeping secrets. It's about being able to choose what you reveal about yourself, and w … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 image#Mastodon's first annual report! Read about our financials, accomplishments, and plans. Available under:https://www.patreon.com/posts/mastodon-annual-61911077 | Continue reading
I am in favour of the term "Web4" to describe small, local, personal, private, efficient, cryptography-based decentralisation that is not linked to cryptocurrency, far right money-laundering, slow non-parallel non-deleteable global public ledgers, proof-of-e-waste, proof-of-pluto … | Continue reading
(To everyone saying "this is just an enterprise policy": Look at the conversations in the bugs. Somebody said, to the Chromium team, schools are using Google Forms for testing, and the kids can see the right answers in the forms, so to address that, we want to prevent students fr … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageIf you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy | Continue reading
I am happy to reveal that a non-profit legal entity for Mastodon, Mastodon gGmbH, is in the process of being entered into the German company register.For context, I have been operating as a sole proprietor so far.It's been in the works for 8 months but I didn't want to announce a … | Continue reading
I was notified that @tateisu@mastodon.juggler.jp's Mastodon app "Subway Tooter" has received a warning from the Google Play Store citing user-generated content that "incites discrimination".A Mastodon app does not host or promote any content. The user types the address to connect … | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageHere's a photo displaying all the government-funded inventions that Apple compiled into its devices, which subsequently everyone clapped at saying "look what the free market did!": | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageYesterday, I finally pushed my current source code implementing the Exposure Notification API to the @microg@fosstodon.org git repository.This will allow using apps that use the Google/Apple framework for COVID-19 contact tracing on Android devices without the Go … | Continue reading
According to the-federation.info the #fediverse has crossed 3 million registered users (and this is excluding Gab) | Continue reading
Attached: 1 imageIterated Function Systems with #OCamlA message is hidden in this screen shot. Use it here: https://stegano-web.herokuapp.com#fractal #programming #steganography #stegano | Continue reading
Since some people are talking about the “death of the URL” … again … it felt like the right time to re-post something I wrote 2 years ag on the topic https://medium.com/@torgo/in-defense-of-the-url-adbec59c7cf4 including a link to research that seems to indicate people DO know wh … | Continue reading
I recently had someone contact me asking if my PGP key was safe to use because there appears to be a user id called "Dontuseee" on it -- it's actually a malicious user id that someone else added, not signed by key.It prompted me to re-read this bug report that would be trivial to … | Continue reading