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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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Plugin That Allows You To Post From Mastodon To WordPress
Testing the latest update to the plugin that @alexstandiford@fosstodon.social pointed out. Last time I tried this. It worked but broke my blog post on certain sites. I noticed that the first sentence will be the title, so keep it short, hit enter, and the write more. Check the plugin out here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-mastodon-apps/ Looks like there’s
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Moved Fediverse Resources To Own Domain!
So I finally decided to move the Fediverse Resources page to it’s own domain name. This way I can invite collaborators and grow the list. Check it out here: https://gmedia.sh/fedi-resources-sgnet It’s still rudimentary, but it’s something.
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FediForum Day 3 Recap or The Day After
So I completely forgot to post about the last day of FediForum. What a great group of people, both organizers and attendees. I feel like I’ve made some decent connections and fediverse friends. The last day was great and full of geeky knowledge. I can’t wait until the next one! I’ll add more details as
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Day 2 Of The FediForum!
Today I actually made a three sessions at the second day of the 4th FediForum. Two were about journalism. The First was how newsrooms use or rather don’t quite use the Fediverse. Not yet at least. And how it’s all about metrics and tracking to make sure the effort is worth the squeeze. It was
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FediForum Day 1 Recap
FediForum is on it’s fourth iteration and is a 3 day unconference (like Barcamp) that is completely online. Today was chock full of great demos, Meta’s Threads released a new feature live during the demos at the start and the talks were fantastic. The unconference runs through Saturday and there is sure to be more
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Testing out my buddy Alex’s Quick Post widget posting thingy.
Testing out my buddy Alex’s Quick Post widget posting thingy.
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Thinking About The Open Web
Apparently India assassinated a prominent Sikh Canadian activist on Canadian soil. Of course Canada is pissed. When Canadians went to Facebook to post about it, Facebook took their posts down because it went against Indian law. This is why we need decentralized social media. The centralized players have way too much power. With an open
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The Idea Of My Blog Being Federated On The Fediverse
The idea of my blog being federated on the Fediverse and being able to have people follow the posts directly is really cool. I just wish I could figure out how to get the ActivityPub plug-in to work. Doh! 🥸
