Steve "so many ☕️" @sivy@toot.cafe
Nerd, husband, DIYer-around-town, ye olde blogger / US-MST
Also, apologies for being a say-lots-do-little armchair proponent of federated blogging. I've been in the blog space since 1996, and I've seen every permutation, from hand-rolled personal versions to the rise of the blog CMSes, to the huge platforms, to social media, to static site generators.
I still believe. Federated blogging has so much potential to bring long-form writing out of the silos, it hurts that it's not here yet.
RT "You know what #Mastodon does that Twitter hasn't done in... pretty much forever? Makes me care about the social web again. Open technologies and platforms create relationships, not customers."
"I grieve for the distributed community of longer-form writing and linking we've lost, and @mastodon - damn you - has made me care again."
Prince Rupert's Drop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs
"It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results" - DuckDuckGo's CEO explains how it’s become profitable without gathering user data
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-revenue-generation-model-for-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg
hippo birdy to me 🎂 🍰
Still alive, but on vacay - been taking a social media vacation too. Toot-a-loo!
RT @NaomiRomeroArt@twitter.com
doodle!
Free idea: ActivityPub game social network server in the manner of Steam or apple’s Game Center
@gargron a bit unrelated to this specific blog post, but I'm missing some indicator of who wrote the blog and a date of publication?
I know the month is in the URL, but I'd still like the date in the body of the page somewhere.
is the logo in @pixelfed supposed to be black right now? it was in color for a day (lovely!) and now has been black and white for days.
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
Plume is looking great all the sudden!
https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/Helloworld/excited-to-see-plume-making-so-much-progress
@sivy Also, one aspect that people seem to miss out on: you could have a blog that is capable of subscribing to your other favorite blogs.
If they both implement ActivityPub correctly, comments will carry back and forth, and people from other social apps could comment as well.
And this could all be accomplished without the need for us to all be on one blogging platform controlled by a giant corporation.
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I'm self-medicating with Lemon Curd
No, *you're* headbanging in your chair to cult of personality
I'm leaving on PTO tomorrow for two weeks and getting SRSBZNS stressed about not being available for $dayjob. Even though all my co-workers are emphatically telling me to LEAVE WORK AT WORK etc, likewise the wife ofc.
It's messing with me; I don't feel like a workaholic, but...
It looks like video.blender.org is a #PeerTube instance! It's really cool to see Blender supporting this after their bad experience with YouTube.
Has anyone running been able to subscribe to them, either using PeerTube itself or Mastodon/Pleroma? I can send the follow request from Mastodon, but can't seem to get it to work on the PeerTube side.
Which is a shame, because I would be more than happy to watch Blender's videos.
Happy to see Blender looking at adopting PeerTube, the federated, peer to peer, ActivityPub-using video platform (especially because YouTube weirdly started blocking Blender's stuff in some countries) https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1009077941676986368
BTW, PeerTube is currently running a crowdfunding campaign. They could use your help! https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
"Got any plans for the summer?"
"Switching to cold brew and staying inside."