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Category: social media

  • The Absurdity of Social Media and the Fediverse

    The Absurdity of Social Media and the Fediverse

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s Ten Fourty Eight on a Monday and i have barely touched social media. I have barely touched social media for two reasons. People don’t see it as socialising anymore. They take a utilitarian approach to social media, which makes it absurd. The second reason is that we see how ignorant the…

  • The Apathetic Mastodon

    The Apathetic Mastodon

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOn at least three occasions toots that were written as a cry for empathy, or at least venting, were interacted with by apathetic people. For this simple reason I deleted two Fediverse accounts. I deleted my Mastodon.social account, and my FireFish.social accounts. I have a precise desire, when using social media. That…

  • Threads and the Fediverse

    Threads and the Fediverse

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesA few weeks ago I was completely opposed to Threads being connected and accepted by the Fediverse because I hated the idea of 100 million users flooding a social network with 10 million users. Now that threads has imploded I feel differently. Now that Threads is the same size as the Frediverse,…

  • Asking for Permission on Instagram

    Asking for Permission on Instagram

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you want to see how unhealthy social media is just look at this story about DMs on Instagram. Now if you want to DM someone that you don’t follow they can send just one text message. Imagine, you’re a user of Instagram. You’re following friends, family and colleagues. Now consider that…

  • The Post Social Media Age

    The Post Social Media Age

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSomeone asked Is decentralization the future of social media? and I’d take an extra leap. I believe that the Fediverse, made possible by ActivityPub, and the other one, made possible by the Authenticated Transfer Protocol both point to a different future Playing With WordPress, ClassicPress and Firefish As we play with the…

  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse part deux

    ClassicPress and the Fediverse part deux

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter my first post about playing with ClassicPress and the Fediverse it was suggested that I try the nightly build of ClassicPress so I did. The result can be seen here. Mastodon and Firefish I have tested integration with the fediverse via Mastodon.social but also firefish.social and mastodon.social is faster, but mastodon.social…

  • More Experimenting with ClassicPress

    More Experimenting with ClassicPress

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough I didn’t achieve what I set out to achieve I have been experimenting with ClassicPress and the Fediverse, but rather than do it from my main blog I have decided to experiment within a subdomain and so far I have achieved much. I see that activitypub and webfinger can be installed…

  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I experimented with migrating my blog from WordPress to ClassicPress to see whether ClassicPress plays nicely with the fediverse. It does but there is room for improvement. If you want instructions on how to migrate from wordpress you can find the instructions here. Summarised, you download the switch to ClassicPress plugin,…

  • X-Istential – Podcasts and Where We Find People

    X-Istential – Podcasts and Where We Find People

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday Twitter decided to re-brand as X. X.com redirects to Twitter.com. Within the next few days, weeks, months twitter will change its name and brand, and the URLs will be wrong. All twitter links, all embedded tweets, everything will become dead links. When we look for something on Twitter, we will be…

  • On Quitting Corporate Social Media

    On Quitting Corporate Social Media

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s interesting that we can stop using a website that is so integral to our lives for years. During the pandemic I quit facebook because I was flamed and trolled at a time when I needed friendship and support. Facebook has been known to make people depressed. During lockdown I decided to…