Wil Shipley, on Mastodon: Amazon has shut off the feed that allowed Delicious Library to look up items, unfortunately limiting the app to what users already have (or enter manually). I wasn’t contacted about this. I’ve pulled it from the Mac App Store and shut down the website so … | Continue reading
This post did not stand up well to history. Written in a previous era, aka six says ago. | Continue reading
New version of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. | Continue reading
Eugen Rochko: “Fediverse integration in Threads is still in a sorry state over a year since launch. They need to be able to follow us back. They need to see when we mention them. Those are such basic things.” | Continue reading
For people thinking fascism might not be so bad, have a look at this little girl, born in 1938. Her story ends at age 6, thanks to fascism. Think about a child you know and what risks you're taking on their behalf when you vote fascist. | Continue reading
I would switch to any podcatcher that let me edit my subscription list outside their app, because I use that list in different contexts, also because I’d like to share my list with others, also because there are lots of others, aka influencers who’d like to too. You’d own the mar … | Continue reading
My WordPress home in the Fediverse. If you have a Mastodon account you should be able to follow me. Also with other ActivityPub clients, but so far I've only tested with Mastodon. | Continue reading
This is an item in my Mastodon timeline that I posted in WordPress via ActivityPub. I did nothing but turn the feature on in a dialog box. Since WordPress itself is highly scriptable, it now can act as an easy gateway to the Fediverse. The only thing they aren't doing that the ot … | Continue reading
I wish the various networks that broadcast Mets games would standardize on the scorebox position and layout. It’s another example of bigco’s who aren’t customer focused. | Continue reading
A thread on Mastodon where I explain to Miguel de Icaza, a longtime developer friend, how Dropbox had the vision to turn the web into a fantastic file system for work and publishing. I made a product for it called Fargo. | Continue reading
The networks should put Trump on time delay and when he says you can legally murder babies in some states, that should be treated as if he said fck or sht. Put up a screen that explains why he was cut off, then go to commercial. | Continue reading
Sam Newman dug up a piece I wrote in 2008 about a decentralized twitter. | Continue reading
The Harris campaign is giving us a glimpse of what journalism would look like if they were doing their actual jobs re Trump. | Continue reading
"Wordpress has had that feature for years." I respond in a reply. | Continue reading
Robert Alexander wants to build an open network of OPML blogrolls. | Continue reading
Which newsrooms are doing a good job of in-house technical and product innovation? | Continue reading
Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web. | Continue reading
I've been trying to figure out what ActivityPub does that RSS doesn't. | Continue reading
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