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@atomicpoet we have at least one example of how it could be done in ex-#friendfeed community: currently not fedirated #freefeed, which is run by @dsumin and @thisalex among others is a registered NGO in Estonia. It is small enough community that its legal status probably wouldn't be that necessery to operate, but nevertheless it is protecting from such risks.
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@atomicpoet we have at least one example of how it could be done in ex-#friendfeed community: currently not fedirated #freefeed, which is run by @dsumin and @thisalex among others is a registered NGO in Estonia. It is small enough community that its legal status probably wouldn't be that necessery to operate, but nevertheless it is protecting from such risks.
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@atomicpoet we have at least one example of how it could be done in ex-#friendfeed community: currently not fedirated #freefeed, which is run by @dsumin and @thisalex among others is a registered NGO in Estonia. It is small enough community that its legal status probably wouldn't be that necessery to operate, but nevertheless it is protecting from such risks.
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@atomicpoet we have at least one example of how it could be done in ex-#friendfeed community: currently not fedirated #freefeed, which is run by @dsumin and @thisalex among others is a registered NGO in Estonia. It is small enough community that its legal status probably wouldn't be that necessery to operate, but nevertheless it is protecting from such risks.
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@atomicpoet we have at least one example of how it could be done in ex-#friendfeed community: currently not fedirated #freefeed, which is run by @dsumin and @thisalex among others is a registered NGO in Estonia. It is small enough community that its legal status probably wouldn't be that necessery to operate, but nevertheless it is protecting from such risks.
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I'm updating some legacy web-project and need to carefully tweak several dozens of #XSL-templates. I still remember how to do it. No, I didn't miss it. 🤯
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I've been spending last 2 days at Running Remote conference here in Lisboa. Some of it was fun, but, oh, I totally forgot why and how all of this works! It's been years. Literally.
I'll post some notes in the thread/comments
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My temporary workplace in a new apartment, until the proper table arrives. #lisbon #olivais #mydesk #desk #desksetup
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It was a very long day. Two video-meetings, several hours of bug-analysis and coding at work. A bit of management and qa work for #freefeed. Feel a bit tired, but it would be nice to start working on a presentation… Oh, I also wonder if this little project I saw in local feed would proceed :blobfoxthink:
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It was a very long day. Two video-meetings, several hours of bug-analysis and coding at work. A bit of management and qa work for #freefeed. Feel a bit tired, but it would be nice to start working on a presentation… Oh, I also wonder if this little project I saw in local feed would proceed :blobfoxthink:
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John #Carmack resigned from Meta and published his resignation letter https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPixEvPJQGzNa6t2x6HUL5TYqfmKGqSgfkBg6QaTyHF5frXQi7eLGxC7uPQv5U5jl&id=100006735798590&__cft__[0]=AZXsDdV3k6gSu83P0a2jJg4FQsWHW-usRsi2ayd7dymrA9C6yBA-uWSUgw7A8Mhza8gpZFkCvbip_sJRxDvUMP273PIS0FOSQQWGmL2Cbv3HVg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
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I've only had about 2 times to sit down with this Alex White #DS9 novel. Without giving away anything, it started out so nice and lovely and fun and then turned seriously dark. There are many, but not all, #TrekBooks writers who do that. I don't particularly care for that style. I mean, I'm not against plot development, but to mislead the reader is an entirely different thing. It is like an attack against the reader's expectations, which has its place, but not with most #StarTrek novels.
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Zine Month is coming up and I can already tell that it's gonna be this Alex Krokus comic every paycheck.
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Layouts I Love • Wizard, Dec 1999
#layoutsilove #WizardMagazine #AlexRoss #ComicArt
Nothing says "December 1999" like this Alex Ross cover for Wizard #100. This "Year-End Spectacular" featured a massive gatefold mural with Ross’s style, capturing a tension in the comic world as it stood on the brink.
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Layouts I Love • Wizard, Dec 1999
#layoutsilove #WizardMagazine #AlexRoss #ComicArt
Nothing says "December 1999" like this Alex Ross cover for Wizard #100. This "Year-End Spectacular" featured a massive gatefold mural with Ross’s style, capturing a tension in the comic world as it stood on the brink.
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🔥 NEW #CJSHOW! 🔥
Is Sunny Mehta already the fave to take over in Toronto? PLUS: Ron Francis steps down in Seattle, Connor McDavid's incredible hot streak + is this Alex Ovechkin's last year?
@reporterchris @[email protected]
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🔥 NEW #CJSHOW! 🔥
Is Sunny Mehta already the fave to take over in Toronto? PLUS: Ron Francis steps down in Seattle, Connor McDavid's incredible hot streak + is this Alex Ovechkin's last year?
@reporterchris @[email protected]
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The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.
The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.
Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."
Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."
The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."
She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.
Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html
#ChatGPT (#OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/
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The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.
The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.
Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."
Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."
The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."
She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.
Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html
#ChatGPT (#OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/
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The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.
The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.
Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."
Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."
The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."
She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.
Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html
#ChatGPT (#OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/
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The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.
The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.
Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."
Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."
The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."
She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.
Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html
#ChatGPT (#OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/
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The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.
The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.
Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."
Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."
The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."
She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.
Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html
#ChatGPT (#OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/
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Hello Fedi friends,
Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.
So far so good!
The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.
This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:
a screenshot showing how my website displays “my so-called-sudo life” blog posts in a masonry gridI just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!
It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.
Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.
It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !
If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!
Onwards and upwards!
Elena
P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social
#AlexKirk #EnableMastodonApps #fediverse #micro #myAdventuresInSelfHosting #mySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLife #plugins #selfHosting #WordPress
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Hello Fedi friends,
Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.
So far so good!
The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.
This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:
a screenshot showing how my website displays “my so-called-sudo life” blog posts in a masonry gridI just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!
It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.
Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.
It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !
If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!
Onwards and upwards!
Elena
P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social
#AlexKirk #EnableMastodonApps #fediverse #micro #myAdventuresInSelfHosting #mySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLife #plugins #selfHosting #WordPress
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Hello Fedi friends,
Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.
So far so good!
The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.
This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:
a screenshot showing how my website displays “my so-called-sudo life” blog posts in a masonry gridI just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!
It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.
Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.
It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !
If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!
Onwards and upwards!
Elena
P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social
#AlexKirk #EnableMastodonApps #fediverse #micro #myAdventuresInSelfHosting #mySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLife #plugins #selfHosting #WordPress
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Hello Fedi friends,
Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.
So far so good!
The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.
This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:
a screenshot showing how my website displays “my so-called-sudo life” blog posts in a masonry gridI just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!
It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.
Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.
It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !
If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!
Onwards and upwards!
Elena
P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social
#AlexKirk #EnableMastodonApps #fediverse #micro #myAdventuresInSelfHosting #mySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLife #plugins #selfHosting #WordPress
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Hello Fedi friends,
Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.
So far so good!
The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.
This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:
a screenshot showing how my website displays “my so-called-sudo life” blog posts in a masonry gridI just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!
It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.
Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.
It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !
If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!
Onwards and upwards!
Elena
P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social
#AlexKirk #EnableMastodonApps #fediverse #micro #myAdventuresInSelfHosting #mySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLife #plugins #selfHosting #WordPress
