Tag: personal expression platform
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Dispatches from the edge
Microblogging never really found its way. Not like real protocols like email and such. Monopolizing status updates all in one place never made sense but it hung together chaordically for a long while between twtr and the nazi bar it became. Much like the yellow-pages style centralization that facebook rode to meta, this ultimately provided…
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Sometimes late when things are real
When there’s a lot going on a lot of time can pass before I feel ready to say something about it and by the time I am ready usually something else is going on and other things have happened in the meantime. It’s almost enough to make me want timestamped logs like this site to…
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Ready fedi?
As I get more into this fediverse thing I want to start trying to wean my photos off of Instagram / Bookface and my videos off of YouTube / same. Just as Mastodon is an open federated microblogging service akin to Twitter, Pixelfed and Peertube and federated photo and video services. Just so, I have…
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Migration
After reactivating the Mastodon account I provisioned in 2019 over at mstdn.social, I started noticing that that instance, well managed and moderated as it is, is a larger one, getting bigger all the time, and it was starting to throw errors. They say to build the fediverse out and not up, so I started exploring…