Wordpress and activity pub
If you are using Wordpress and would like to federate to Mastodon for example then this article on the wordpress website may be useful.
Thank you to Feditips for posting this to Mastodon.
You can follow the Activity Pub Plugin Author here
#wordpress,#mastodon,#federation,#activitypub
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PinePhone : Manjaro Lomiri OS
I found this on Mastodon, a review of the Manjaro Lomiri OS by LINux on MOBile
Video can be found here on lbry but can also be viewed on the Mastodon feed.
#mastodon,#video,#PinePhone,#Manjaro,#Lomiri,#OS,#phone, #hardware,#linux,#free,#software,#opensource,#open,#source
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:-
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]
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.
Toot is a Linux command line interface for the Mastodon social media network.
This can be installed at the command line with
apt install toot
Once installed you can run with toot
Running this without any command line arguments gives a long list of options.
You will firstly need to login, either with the browser option toot login or with the command line toot login_cli
In order to make a post type:-
toot post
There is also documentation via the man page.
man toot
A useful tool, especially if you don't have access to graphical web browser.
#mastodon, #toot, #commandline, #interface, #linux
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
Mastodon
Over the past few months, the social network Mastodon, has seen a big increase in the number of new users joining.
Mostly people from networks Twitter, unhappy, mostly with censorship. In late 2019 there was a big migration from users in India.
Unlike with current mainstream (or should we just say old fashioned) social media. Mastodon is decentralised, so what does this mean?
In essence, there is no central control, just a development model. Mastodon is a network made up on independently owned server instances. These can all communicate with each other, thanks to a protocol called Activity Pub.
Mastodon, forms part of what is called the Fediverse. This numerous other social media instances such as Friendica ( which I am on), that also communicate with each other. The clever part is that the different social networks can communicate with each other.
With the Fediverse, privacy is important, you won't find:
The fediverse, is what the community make it. Users post content, others, who find it interesting will comment, and contribute to the conversation.
During the UK general election campaign, the mainstream news media was taken over by election news. Social media played a big part in campaigning as politicians tried to convince the electorate they were the people to vote for.
Politics has not caught up yet. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing.
You can find topics of interest by searching for tags, which accompany posts.
If you think it is time to #DeleteFacebook or #DeleteTwitter then feel free to come over to a better way of doing things. There are alternatives to other services too, such as Google, Youtube, Instagram. All these alternatives federated so content can be shared on the Fediverse too.
References
#mastodon, #social, #network, #migration, #exodus, #decentralised, #privacy,
You can find me on Friendica at [email protected]