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Bluesky Has And Outage And People Wonder Why.
Bluesky had a massive outage the other day, and people are wondering how could a “decentralized” social network go down like that? You know how? It’s not decentralized yet. Most of the users are still on the main server and that’s what went down. You don’t see stuff like this happening on Mastodon or the…
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Bluesky Is Not Decentralized And That’s An Issue And Will Continue To Be One
The above user allegedly had their account suspended on Bluesky at the request of the Turkish government, according to this Reddit post in the Bluesky Subreddit. This is concerning because there was a mass exodus from Twitter/X recently when that network started suspending accounts a the request of the Turkish government. Bluesky is not decentralized.…
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In My Opinion Bluesky Will Never Federate And That’s Concerning
What are we doing here folks? We all flocked to Bluesky because it resembled what we used love — Twitter from the 2010s, but with the hope that it would in the end be different. The Bluesky team has promised to federate/decentralize for a while now, with nothing coming of it. Only empty promises (so…
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A Cool Plugin For WP That Strips The Meta Data From Your Uploaded Photos
Hudson Atwell is a fellow Post Status (a WordPress community) member. He just published a nifty and light weight plugin that strips the meta data from uploaded photos in the background. It doesn’t do it retroactively only new photos after the plugin is installed. This is a handy little plugin and it’s free! Check it…
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Lock Your Credit Reports
I meant to write this suggestion out when I was told by my wife that we should do this. Lock your credit reports so that people can’t f- with it. This is more important now than ever with DOGE and the Muskrats rummaging through the federal government. I still can’t believe that Musk has been…
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Boycott American Companies, Just Know That I Am A Good American!
I can’t let DJT and Musk define who I am. I am a true American. I don’t stand for what the current POTUS is doing and how a non-American is destroying our country. It’s shameful, horrible, reprehensible. I see the outpouring of support around the world for Ukraine and our “leader” cozying up to the…
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Review Of The AllCast Podcasting System
Recently I was sent the ALLCAST – Video Conference, Webinar and Podcast System from American Recording Technologies. Plain and simple — this system is sick. When the CEO of American Recording Technologies, Alan Adelstein, reached out to see if I wanted to try it out, I was excited to try it out, even though I…
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Matt Mullenweg Has Lost His Way And Is Taking It Out On The Community. The Latest…
Roger Montti over at Search Engine Journal reported that the latest in the WordPress Drama had dropped. Matt Mullenweg, the “leader” of the WordPress project has barred longtime supporter of the project Joost De Valk from speaking at WordCamp Asia, because Matt feels Joost stabbed him in the back. Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, posted…
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Sharing Between Protocols
So, I’ve wanted to figure out the best way to utilize both the AT-Protocol and the ActivityPub protocol and how they can talk to each other. There’s an app/service called Brid.gy on both ActivityPub (Mastodon/Fediverse) and on the AT-Protocol. What it does is nothing less than awesome. It creates accounts both ways so people on…
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Blog Questions Challenge
I was challenged by my good buddy Simon Cox to participate in the Blog Question Challenge. I accepted. Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? The Blog Question Challenge encourages bloggers to reflect on their experiences and share their insights. Good question. I’ve been blogging since the early days. But not really on…
