Run your own social media
A really good article on how to run your own social instance, from Terrance @[email protected]
Some really good tips here https://runyourown.social/
fediverse
Guide to the fediverse
With the Fediverse expanding it is really nice to have some great resources to explain how both the Fedivese ad in this case Mastodon work. This explanation is from torresjrjr
There is also a video on Peertube below.
More resources will be posted shortly, in the mean time you can sign up here
After which this website useful to help you find people with similar interests.
Mastodon
I joined Mastodon social network last year. I am now reposting this guide to signing up and getting started.
Firstly you need to go to join mastodon where you will be presented with the following:-
Clicking on Get Started actually takes further down the page to:-
Where you can select from one of the many instances available, your choice may be influenced by:-
- Geographical location
- Interests
- Number of users on a particular instance
Or some other reason.
I decided to go for quto.org as this is a STEM related instance. So clicking on the signup link.
Filled in the credentials. After which I am asked to confirm. You will be asked to agree to some terms and conditions too.
Once confirmed you are taken to a set of 3 intro pages:
Then you are presented with
Where you can now set up your profile etc.
— Finding people to follow.
Enter their fediverse id in to the search box.
Usually this takes the form of
@username@instancename
You can follow me on the above qoto.org server by clicking this link.
In order for you to see items from my blog in your feed you need to take the following step in your profile settings.
Which is pretty easy to do, clearly this gives you a lot of control over what is then fed in to your feed.
Conclusion
Very easy sign up process, which is great, it looks like this instance also supports inline $\LaTeX$ which is cool too. I have now subscribed to this blog from mastodon.
Not quite ready to #deletetwitter yet, I have some contacts. Compared to the sign-up process on more old fashioned social media this is a breeze.
tags
#social,#network,#fediverse,#mastodon,#freedom,#privacy,#federation,#deletefacebook,#deletetwitter
You can find me on Friendica at [email protected]
How to follow this blog
You can follow this blog by checking back daily or if you are on a ActivityPub enabled fediverse instance, for example, Mastodon, you can follow
** RSS Feed :** RSS Feed ** Fediverse :** @[email protected]
Write_As instances
If you would like an easy to use, hassle free blogging platform that respects your freedoms then Write_as may be useful for your needs.
Write_as is software that has lots of features to help you set up a small, lightweight blog, supports multiple blogs from one user account. It also supports ActivityPub to facilitate federation.
You can either self host or join an one of many existing instances:-
More info
Instances
WriteAs uses Markdown to add styles to the pages, e.g to make text bold, underlined or add pictures. You can also embed HTML code blocks. This is how this page displays the video below.
There is a video below, hosted on Peertube, to explain more.
Follow write.as on Mastodon to keep up to date or ask questions.
You can also follow me on Mastodon by following @[email protected].
#writefreely,#federated,#write_as,#blogging,#writing,#privacy,#control,#fediverse,#mastodon,#peertube.
SnapAs : Adding photos to WriteFreely Blogs
As this blog is powered using WriteFreely, I have just found another service that is designed to complement adding pictures to blogs, making this process very simple.
SnapAs allows you to drag and drop a photo and provide the markdown code so that you just copy / paste in this to your blog.
There used to be a tutorial, but this is no longer available, there may be others on peertube.
The video is hosted on Peertube which is a federated and decentralised video sharing platform. There is a video here to explain more about this.
Hope this post is useful.
#fediverse,#writefreely,#SnapAs,#WriteAs,#blogging,#photos,#integration,#freedom,#decentralised.
I can be contacted on Mastodon here.
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Mastodon – Settings.
After using Mastodon for a while, I found that the federated feed moved so quickly, that it was difficult to select and block post if needed.
Investigating further and asking on irc (#mastodon) on Freenode I found a solution to this.
Firstly to slow down the feed go to the settings menu (the 3 horizontal bars) and under settings, select preferences
From here, you can tick slow mode as illustrated above. By default on the instance I am using sensitive content is hidden. If this is not the case on your instance or you want to change this setting, then further down is the option for this:
Hopefully this brief post is helpful to people out there. If you need further help there is further technical and user support available.
Paul Sutton zleap on IRC and @[email protected] on Mastodon.
#mastrodon, #settings, #safety, #filters, #fediverse
Following Friendica tags
How to follow tags on Friendica
On Friendica, posts are accompanied by tags at the bottom of the text. These help to give an idea on what topic or topics are being discussed by including keywords.
If you are interested in a particular topic, then you can follow the tags you are interested in.
Here is how:
Click on a tag and you get the following displayed, you can see the tag you clicked on has been inserted in to the box.
Click follow and the tag will be added to the list on the left hand side. You will now see posts that contain those tags.
following #newhere, will help you find new users, so you can respond to them and make them feel welcome.
#friendica, #tags, #follow, #howto, #help, #support, #fediverse
You can find me on Friendica at [email protected]