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From L'Italia, an Italian-language newspaper published in France, June 18th, 1911. "Amaro Felsina" is how Ramazzotti was branded at the time, Felsina being the Latin name for Bologna. That, along with Strega and Ferro China I can still get locally. Licore Scacciapensieri is a ginger liqueur, and I don't believe it can be found outside of Italy.
And the owner of the establishment appears to be no relation to the famous pair of kidnappers.
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A few weeks ago, we had our second experience of the wonderful community that is the Electromagnetic Field festival.
The EMF24 sign: solar panel, water installations, and recycled circuitboards.Electromagnetic Field [background here] is also known as EMF or #emfcamp – a festival initiated by Jonty Wareing and Russ Garrett over a decade ago. It is entirely, and wonderfully, volunteer-run and community-oriented.
We first went to EMF two years ago, and that time, took a car filled up with a lot of camping gear, and as many gadgets as I could cram in alongside. For some reason, the only place I wrote much about that trip was in my newsletter… which I have been neglecting a lot, much like this blog. On that trip, we camped near to the Guild of Makers, had no particular expectations, and just had a fantastic time exploring and learning. I built an RC2014 Micro in one of the workshops, and went to some great talks.
A Plan
This year, with our Forge & Craft studio becoming more established, we wanted to do something more. I submitted two talks, one of which was accepted; we applied to be a part of the Null Sector Night Market; and, with all of the maker stuff we wanted to take along, we decided to hire a camper van and set up an area for drop-in workshops around our craft (pen plotting, vinyl cutting, heat pressing, sublimation et al… I didn’t take a 3D printer as well, but did seriously consider it!).
We even made a sign. Previous tenants of our studio had left a giant empty frame in the storage area, which we repurposed with some plywood and paint (a future upgrade will probably include some LEDs, but I didn’t have the time before the event to make those happen this time around).
A large square wooden frame painted white, with a Forge & Craft logo and URL in dark blue.About ten days before we were due to set off, the owner of the camper we’d booked let us know that the boiler was leaking and that we’d have no hot water, but on balance, that was a compromise we were OK with… The van (named Louna, and hired through Quirky Campers) was lovely, beautifully kitted out, straightforward to drive, and it worked really well for us, even when we had some mud-related challenges getting parked up at the top north east corner of the EMF site, and getting back off that spot on the morning that we left (our wonderful neighbours were good enough to give us a quick push off to get us on our way).
The Experience
There are a number of other write-ups of how folks experienced EMF 2024, and pretty much all of them have different content and highlight different things, many of which are miscellany that I missed around the site. That is to say – EMF has a lot of diverse and interesting stuff to discover.
This time I felt like an experienced hand, even as someone that had only been along once before. It turned out that several of my friends were going to be there for the first time, and had already sought advice and made connection with me about travel, planned location etc. We ended up parked at the far top corner of the site, opposite Null Sector, but also close to the Guild of Makers village that we were again loosely affiliated with (also, we’re thrilled about the MBE awarded to our brilliant GoM friend Dr Lucy Rogers!). It turns out that having a surrounding sheet of steel to sleep inside was reasonably sound-insulating compared to a tent, so we did mostly manage to get some sleep, despite the proximity to the loud late-night music generation zone!
There are far Too Many Things to write about in detail, here is but a small flavour.
Talks
I went to a handful of talks; there were too many on my planned schedule across the 4 days, but realised I would never see everything, so I sniped at some key ones and resolved to catch up on recordings of others when possible.
- I finally saw Ellie Huxtable talk about shell history with Atuin (I missed this talk at FOSDEM although did get to meet Ellie there, and she was unable to join State of Open Con, so I’m glad to have seen this!). I’m now gradually installing and learning Atuin on each device and system I regularly use.
- Love love loved Shan Sun‘s talk about becoming a maker! So interesting, and a reminder that folks from all kinds of backgrounds can find joy in creating things. Shan’s lighthouses installation in Null Sector was also really cool.
- The talk about Tiny Toolkits was really good, and has caused me to add an array of small and handy tools to my “wanted” lists…!
- There was a fun talk about connecting Arduino boards to the web, which had some great demos inside it.
- Lucy gave an inspiring talk about looking Up, and the science above our heads. Looking forward to her book on this subject.
- After my experience (and illegal treatment) by the company that used to be Twitter UK as directed by the new owner, I found the discussion about Why Tech Needs Unions very interesting. A topic about which I now, in middle age, have a lot of Thoughts, which I may share at some point.
- Martin Hamilton‘s fabulous rewind to the 1990s session about the origins of web search and how AI and capitalism have largely ruined things, was great. After briefly flirting with some other options, I’m now mostly using SearXNG for my search needs where I can. Be More Goat! 🐐
For my own time on stage, it was exciting to be able to deliver a new version of a talk I’d previously given as a 45 minute closing keynote, in a more focused 20 minute slot. I talked about the history of computer art and pen plotters – computer-driven drawing machines – and how I’ve now built several of them. There was, however, an A/V bump in the road, so I definitely lost a bit of momentum and content along the way when I had to reboot halfway though 😬 video to follow, on this one. You can find the related links and notes here.
Thanks to my friend Jacqui for taking some nice photos of me on stage!Sights
As with the talks, so very many things I could mention here, and still more we didn’t even get to encounter. Let’s summarise a few.
- the on-site (wired) phone system was, once more, a delight – it made me a bit sad that I didn’t bring anything to plug into it, again.
- a man played a Theremin to drive the output of a Tesla coil.
- there was a series of murder mystery games involving the death of our beloved Clippy. I did not play these, but loved the idea and execution and heard that a lot of people did get really engaged in solving the crime!
- A physical version of Flappy Bird! Just brilliantly executed, I loved it.
This was in the main bar; the whole of the Arcade (a separate space) was also fantastic, although I did not have a lot of time to explore. I was excited to see some games there built using Downpour, which I recently talked about on our weekly podcast. - The most engaging and intriguing installation for me was Shadowplay (inside Null Sector), from Joseph Lindley, Roger Whitham, and Jesse Benjamin. An absolutely fascinating live demonstration of image diffusion [aka generative AI] effects applied to video capture. No particular reason, except that it was cool. I could have played in there for ages!
Hacks
On to the physical “making” I got involved with…
- in 2022 I missed a workshop I was interested in on Building a Tiny Satellite Ground Station; this time, I successfully made it in. I enjoyed the experience of building a small 1⁄4-wave ground plane antenna and hooking it up to TinyGS running on a LilyGo LoRA board.
- When I got home, I excitedly started to poke around in the TinyGS project, but it seems a bit tricky to get involved with – only parts of it are open source / source-available, and the community discussion is largely on Telegram. I’m finding myself more frustrated than I’d like – I definitely would love to contribute to documentation and so forth, but have not really found a way to do so. It is fun to set up, but (my impression is that it is) not so easy to take it further. Back burner, and I may give up on it if I can’t figure out how to help and get helped.
- The Tildagon badge is great! I really enjoyed following it from announcement, through pre-event discussion, to collecting mine at the event and continuing to figure out what is possible afterwards.
- Before EMF I tentatively created up a few 3D printed addon Hexpansions, and some folks were able to confirm that they should fit, so I made a set of simple spirit level pieces, which other attendees seemed to enjoy. I’ll be making more, and you can find the designs on Printables as well. I like the concept that a hexpansion can be anything from a piece of card, through to a fully-functional electronic peripheral which contributes software to the main badge, and that we can continue to iterate on this design in the future.
- I ported my previous 2022 badge Duck Facts app as an app on the Tildagon, for all your vital Duck Facts – @emfducks, you’re welcome, QUACK! 🦆
- Before EMF I tentatively created up a few 3D printed addon Hexpansions, and some folks were able to confirm that they should fit, so I made a set of simple spirit level pieces, which other attendees seemed to enjoy. I’ll be making more, and you can find the designs on Printables as well. I like the concept that a hexpansion can be anything from a piece of card, through to a fully-functional electronic peripheral which contributes software to the main badge, and that we can continue to iterate on this design in the future.
The Magic
On Friday, we had a spot in the Night Market. We loved the experience of being there, talking to people about pen plotters and our art (and also, encouraging folks to come to see us at the pop-up by our camper, or to my talk), and making some sales. This was our first time selling as Forge & Craft outside of our own open studios, and a very different audience.
The response was really wonderful, and it felt like a great place to be.
Our stand in the Night Market, selling plots, prints, and a few HexpansionsA very busy Night MarketThe only tiny piece of feedback I had was that the Night Market space itself was relatively small for the amount of footfall and traffic that came through – we could easily have used a full table, and having a bit more space for visitors may have made it feel a little less crammed in – nonetheless, Thank You so much to the organisers for having us, it was an absolutely great experience and we barely noticed the time rush by up until the 1am (!) close!
One more magical thing, was that this was an event at which Mastodon and the Fediverse came into their own!
- Ahead of the event, I put together a Fediwall to track associated hashtags and accounts across a range of popular and related Mastodon servers. As EMF approached, the chatter became more noticeable, and I began to follow a lot of interesting folks I had not previously been aware of.
(also, you can follow hashtags on Mastodon, which can help to build a network around your areas of interest, particularly if you are on a larger server). - My old friend James Smith proposed a Fediverse Friends meetup – which unfortunately overlapped with our Night Market time, but there were two of us to man our stall, so I was able to pop out and put some faces to Fediverse handles. I even brought Mastodon stickers and (for the fortunate few who got one) some magnets as well. Even if you were not at the meetup, hopefully you may have found a cheeky Mastodon logo sticker waiting to be collected somewhere else on the site 🦣 😉
- A key element was that every organising team at the event was on the Fediverse (specifically, GoToSocial, which is what their server uses, but easily followable on Mastodon, thank you ActivityPub), and attendees could use that to keep up with announcements and news. And, in the end, the wonderful @DrLucyRogers joined in the fun! I also managed to persuade the TinyGS project to set up their account.
- There were installations that connected to the Fediverse! Fabulous! This really felt like the early days of Web 2.0 platforms again, to some extent – it could easily have been 2010 all over again, with a dot matrix printer that sat in the main bar printing out Mastodon posts with the specific hashtag (thank you Matt Gray!), and a fax machine in the Null Sector bar that took in physically doodled images and posted them on Mastodon.
The Feeling
This.
I came back feeling energised and enriched, having reconnected with my communities. We had a great time.
Roll on 2026. Thank you to everyone involved.
Postscript: I did some babbling about EMF on the podcast a couple of weeks ago, as well, just at the start. Why not take a listen?
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https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/06/20/energized-mood-flux/
#art #camping #community #emf2024 #emfcamp #forgeAndCraft #making #penplotter #publicSpeaking #Technology #volunteering
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The owner of a grand piano damaged in the massive tsunami in March 2011 and later restored performed with one of her students in the lobby of Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture, filling the terminal with music. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/04/japan/sendai-airport-piano/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #music #airports #sendai #miyagi #311 #earthquakes #tohoku
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Can you help save Strawberry Hill in #Bedfordshire?
35 years ago the owner of the farmland here allowed #nature to take over—now grassland, scrub and young woodland hosts #wildlife including #Nightingales, Turtle Doves, Harvest Mice and #Badgers.
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire is raising funds to complete the purchase of this land and make it a #NatureReserve. If you can donate and/or raise awareness, please do!
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Can you help save Strawberry Hill in #Bedfordshire?
35 years ago the owner of the farmland here allowed #nature to take over—now grassland, scrub and young woodland hosts #wildlife including #Nightingales, Turtle Doves, Harvest Mice and #Badgers.
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire is raising funds to complete the purchase of this land and make it a #NatureReserve. If you can donate and/or raise awareness, please do!
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Can you help save Strawberry Hill in #Bedfordshire?
35 years ago the owner of the farmland here allowed #nature to take over—now grassland, scrub and young woodland hosts #wildlife including #Nightingales, Turtle Doves, Harvest Mice and #Badgers.
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire is raising funds to complete the purchase of this land and make it a #NatureReserve. If you can donate and/or raise awareness, please do!
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Can you help save Strawberry Hill in #Bedfordshire?
35 years ago the owner of the farmland here allowed #nature to take over—now grassland, scrub and young woodland hosts #wildlife including #Nightingales, Turtle Doves, Harvest Mice and #Badgers.
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire is raising funds to complete the purchase of this land and make it a #NatureReserve. If you can donate and/or raise awareness, please do!
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Can you help save Strawberry Hill in #Bedfordshire?
35 years ago the owner of the farmland here allowed #nature to take over—now grassland, scrub and young woodland hosts #wildlife including #Nightingales, Turtle Doves, Harvest Mice and #Badgers.
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire is raising funds to complete the purchase of this land and make it a #NatureReserve. If you can donate and/or raise awareness, please do!
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Yorkshire Dales grouse moor owner appointed to ‘key role’ at DEFRA – Raptor Persecution UK
The owner of a #Yorkshire #Dales #grouse moor has been appointed to a ‘key role’ at #DEFRA by the Secretary of State for #Environment, #Food and #RuralAffairs, #ThereseCoffey.
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So Saturday was #RepairCafe Coventry. About average for August with 23 items coming to the session including our first ever honey extractor. This owner and the owner of a coffee machine that needed a new micro switch were exceedingly happy when they left with working items and this is the sort of thing that makes it all worth while. #fixers #fixed
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Hello there, I was recently laid off from my 10-year job as a Software Engineer. I'm looking for another Software Engineer position.
At my former position, I worked as a backend developer who managed data and made reports using Perl. I am also familiar with Lisp because I used it as a web scraper turned Perl script. I also familiar with Java since I'm the owner of @morobot
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Hi folks. Yesterday I posted on my other Mastodon account about a pretty stupid gift card #scam that was sent to an email address I use as a political candidate for my run for #SchoolBoard (https://toot.bldrweb.org/deck/@andrewbrandt/111326617529695469)
Tonight, I received a more ominous, targeted #spearphishing email against that same campaign address.
It appears to be some form of Adobe e-signature message. The text content was weird and off.
The email has a file attachment that, if you double-click it, opens a browser window and displays a form that looks like a login dialog box. The login box is a #phishing attack, designed to steal credentials that you enter into it.
What was distinctive about this is the fact the attackers customized the login form so it has my campaign logo embedded within the form. It also pre-populated the username field with the email address that they sent the original email to. It was not generic; This was targeted.
The form will permit you to enter data into the password field three times, appearing to fail each time, and then redirects you back to your own website. It collects the IP address you were using at the time you submitted the form, and any of the passwords you submitted, and sends them to a #Telegram bot account.
I have captured the network traffic of the phishing attempt, in which I entered bogus data, and have identified the owner of the Telegram bot account and other identifiable information. I'll be reporting it to Telegram for shutdown as soon as possible.
I guarantee, if this is happening to me -- a relative nobody in my lowly, local school board race -- it is happening all over the country to political candidates of any stature.
There is less than one week until election day in the United States. Colorado voters already have their ballots and can turn them in by dropping them in a ballot collection box anytime between now and election day.
Just another reason why we need to #ElectMoreHackers
Also, once again: nice try, losers. Keep going. You're sure to hit pay dirt at some point. :ablobcateyeroll:
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Hi 👋 I'm Dan! Time for another #introduction
I'm a
👨 Dad
📈 #statistician at a #dataanalytics consultancy
🏃♂️ #ultrarunner
:rstats: #rstats fan
🔥 #survivor tragic
🤘 #metalheadMy time here is spent sharing #dataviz projects for #tidytuesday, Survivor, other #dataanalysis and :rstats: related stuff
I'm the owner of the survivoR #Rstats package. I don't talk about #survivor much but I do visualise it a lot! ⚠️
Lastly, you'll likely find me in the #mountains
❤️ #mastodon
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Multichoice, the owner of #SuperSport in #SouthAfrica, which is the single biggest broadcaster of #sport in the country -- if not the continent -- sublicenses some content to the state broadcaster, the SABC.
However, it includes a clause in that sublicensing agreement that prevents the SABC from showing the content when broadcast over #OpenView, which is the only other satellite TV provider in the country.
The #SABC can broadcast that content over its terrestrial or digital networks, and on its own streaming service, but not over Openview.
This first garnered widespread attention during last year's rugby world cup, when, after getting all excited about the fact non-SuperSport subscribers would be able to see the South African games, we realised that we couldn't watch them on Openview.
Openview took #Multichoice to court over that, and now it seems like they're starting to get some relief....
https://techcentral.co.za/bloody-nose-multichoice-sports-fight/242956/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica
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I think the owner of the apartment we're staying for our skiing trip may have some issues ... 😆 #Austria #Hintertux
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CW: Mastodon's previews for Article-type objects still link to the original instead of rendering the content itself, but now they also include the summary along with the title; CW: long (over 3,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, quote-post
Okay, while this is not optimal, I'd say it comes close enough to an improvement to be of importance.
Some of us know what it's like to send Article-type objects (and long-form content should always be these according to the ActivityPub spec) to Mastodon. Now, Mastodon's handling of long-form content has changed, believe it or not. Something that neither Friendica nor Hubzilla nor (streams) nor Forte could ever achieve happened under pressure from Flipboard (commercial player), Ghost (quickly growing Substack alternative that's trying to attract professional and commercial users), Automattic (the owner of WordPress) and NodeBB (fairly big bulletin-board forum player that added ActivityPub a while ago).
So much I should say in advance: No, Mastodon does not fully render Article-type objects in their full HTML-formatted glory from the title to dozens of embedded images. Mastodon's own Web interface isn't geared towards that, and neither is any Mastodon app, official or third-party.
Instead, Mastodon still handles Article-type objects by linking to the original like it used to. But it used to show only the title if there was one. If there was no title, all that Mastodon showed was a plain URL. If there was a summary, Mastodon did as Mastodon always does and has been done since 2017, regarded it as a content warning and hid the whole "post" with the title (if there was one) and the link behind it.
What Mastodon does now is finally acknowledge that some software out there actually uses the summary field as a summary field. The preview with the link to the original now also contains the summary, along with the title. If there is either, of course.
So if you're on something that can send or always sends Article-type objects (specialised blogging software, Friendica, (streams), Forte), it's well worth adding a summary to those posts that go out as Article-type objects.
(Speaking of Friendica: Dear Friendica users, please substitute any use of "summary" in this post with "abstract" if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
julian wrote the following post Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:31:48 +0200Re: Long-form articles
The long form content "movement" (of which I'm adjacent to but not fully involved) started up because two big implementors, Ghost and WordPress, were running into the same issues AP devs have been seeing this whole time, that Mastodon reduces articles to a title and link.
The difference is devs got together and pushed for changes, and got them done. Mastodon no longer treats articles the way they used to.
Now you can send in a summary that is used, and that gets you heaps closer to a better UX than what came before.
The long form text FEP aims to provide a way to send an alternative representation for the ubiquitous microblog software on the fediverse, in the form of a note, while still maintaining the use of other objects types (e.g. article)
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #LongFormContent #ArticleType #Summary -
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ Mimodactylus ✧
Mimodactylus is a genus of istiodactyliform pterosaur that lived in what is now Lebanon during the Late Cretaceous, 95 million years ago. The only known specimen was discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of Hjoula. The owner of the quarry allowed the specimen to be prepared by researchers, and it was donated to the MIM Muse...
#MIMMuseum #Lebanon #ArabianPeninsula #holotype #Beirut #Wikipedia
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We have model cottages in #Thatcham built for the workers of Colthrop Paper Mill. The owner of the mill came from #Scotland and thus the houses seem to have been named after places in Scotland. The names are:
Aulia, Balerno, Clynder, Dunolly, Errol, Forres, Glenelg, Holyrood, Iona, Jura, Kelsa, Lasswade
I know most, but the first one eludes me, can anyone point me to it, or is it a typo. Defiantly 5 letters starting and ending with an A.
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- Twitter and People Selling Crap
- It’s not the Owner, But The Spam
- A Feeling of Being Used
- The Apathy of Mastodon
- Networking for Projects
- A Reminder
- And Finally
Recently I spent time on Twitter and Facebook and I was reminded of that horrible feeling you get when you’re looking for posts and tweets by friends, to interact with, and see crappy adverts instead. Imagine if you walked into a pub or conference and instead of having personal conversations you were harassed by marketers rather than human beings looking for a human connection.
The reason I dumped FaceBook and then Instagram is that I got tired of not only feeling that I wa wasting my time, whilst making myself feel lonelier, but on top of that someone else was making a profit from me being lost in the time wasting corporate social media landscape.
Twitter and People Selling Crap
Most of the stuff that is being sold via Twitter ads is crap now. You look and it’s con men trying to sell cons, from cryptocurrency, to privacy, to other crap. It’s ironic that they would sell this crap in a place where anyone with any decency, would no longer use.
It’s not the Owner, But The Spam
Of course it bother me that Facebook and Twitter are owned anc controlled by immoral people, and I could look beyond that, if I could find pleasant conversations, rather than see ads. What gets to me about social media is that it’s about making money for people that don’t value us as human beings. That’s why I switched to blogging, rather than social media. With blogging I might devote an hour to per day, but rather than make money for people who see me as an addict, I give people a reason to surf to my website. I also get to explore ideas in the process.
A Feeling of Being Used
Several times I have looked through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter timelines but I quickly become demoralised by the ads, the reminders of what my life isn’t and more. It’s not that people are using Facebook and Instagram to converse, they’re using it to broadcast. No one is listening. Everyone is being made invisible by the algorithms, and ignored by those that do see posts. For so little engagement I can write blog posts.
The Apathy of Mastodon
Two days ago noise pollution was making my afternoon hell, and I said so on social media. Rather than empathy though, I found apathy. The beauty of social media is that empathy doesn’t cost anything, whereas apathy can ruin someone’s experience. If we come to social media it’s to find empathy, or at the very least vent, and be ignored.
Networking for Projects
I see people write about using Twitter to make money from the content they create. That’s the wrong attitude. You should be making contacts to work on projects with people, rather than making money from social media. Too many people are utilitarian about social media, which is why it becomes a waste of time for human beings. When everyone is trying to sell, then no one is conversing, and without conversation a blog post would have the same impact, without enriching the wrong people.
A Reminder
I was reminded, while writing this blog post that the reason I became tired with Twitter is that people use it, and the community, rather than participate within it. People are busy promoting themselves and their ideas, without engaging, without investing time in friendships and more. The same people are on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
And Finally
There is a difference between what I want social networks to be, and what others want social networks to be. I will never find social networks that achieve what I want because society labels as social people on the web as addicts, and corporate social media profit from wasting our time in the hope that we will see more ads. I don’t use Facebook for moral reasons. The issue is that it has a monopoly so I am isolated, for not using Facebook.
Today Twitter feels just like Instagram. I know that if I spend too much time on Twitter it will become toxic, so I know I need to moderate how I use it.
Althought the Fediverse is an interesting project I think that the community is still weak. I can go for hours without my timeline refreshing, and when I do engage I am either trolled or ignored.
Some toots did well, but mostly likes and re-shares rather than conversations. What I want to find are conversations.
#adverts #glossy-mags #social-media #wasted-time
https://blog.main-vision.com/social-media-glossy-magazines-via-facebook-and-twitter/
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When the owner calls, head coach Pete Carroll and offensive coordinator Chip Kelly pick up, especially when the minority owner of the Raiders is Tom Brady. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/17/more-sports/tom-brady-coaches-box/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #tombrady #lasvegasraiders
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Scott Gertner, a musician and the owner of several Houston nightclubs, has died, according to his family.
#ArtsCulture #ArtsCultureBusiness #Houston #Local #LocalArts #Music #News #HoustonLiveMusic #HoustonNightclubs #RhythmRoom #ScottGertner #ScottGertnerDeath #SkyBarHouston
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If you're *really* the owner of that bike, you wouldn't need to saw off the bike lock :DorisGoof:
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If your dream is to be the owner of some extensive orange fields and a bit of history in the Valencian Campo then this old Masia may tick a lot of boxes. The price is 595k but you'll need more than that to buy this as a reform/modernisation is required. However you would be buying a piece of history.
https://www.valencia-property.com/valencia-region/orange-groves-and-history-2006.php
#movetospain #movetovalencia #LivinginSpain #Valencia #realestate #property #valenciaproperty
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Does anyone know how to reach a human at #NextDNS? I'm a paying customer, but I'm unable to sign up for their support forums due to an error (yes, they require a *second* login). They also don't have a "security.txt" file that I can use.
They're blocking my domain to tell me they're not blocking my domain. Literally. I've reset all my #DNS caches and even slept for eight hours, to no avail.
I restored to emailing the owner of the company through the email address on his GitHub profile. It's that mis-managed over there. I think I want my money back.
(Note: I changed Firefox to use Cloudflare's DoH to post this.)
#securitytxt #bugreports #softwaredevelopment #itsalwaysdns #support
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CW: Hubzilla's anti-spam arsenal; CW: long (over 2,800 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #SelfModeration - I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
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You don't have to be a Harvard professor to do the math on this one... #JoanDonovan's pathbreaking work on #disinformation and #SocialMedia is a liability for a university that gets half a billion dollars from the owner of the greatest disinformation machine ever built. #commodon @commodon @communicationscholars @ICAHDQ @HigherEdLabor #academic @academicchatter
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Tips For Picking The Best Mastodon Server
Mastodon has gained a lot of traction over the past 2 – 3 months alone due to Elon Musk taking over Twitter and really stirring things up. I won’t get into any of that here as that’s not what this article is about. What I will tell you about is a few things for you to think about when it comes time for you to pick a Mastodon server for you to call your home.
Joining Mastodon isn’t just about picking a username, entering your email address and then simply joining the conversation. There are thousands and thousands of “instances”, or servers, that you could possibly join and today I’m going to give you a few things to think about prior to joining. This will hopefully help you join the best instance for you from the get-go so you don’t have to go through the transfer to another instance process.
What Are Mastodon Servers?
Mastodon servers, or more correctly called, instances, are individual communities that each have their own rules and often their own culture. A server can be owned by a single individual, a group of people or even an organization and those are the people who dictate the community’s guidelines.
One thing to note is, when you join an instance, you’re not limited to only interacting with people from that instance alone. You’re still able to interact with others around the Fediverse. However, the instance you do choose can possibly impact your overall experience in various ways.
How To Pick A Mastodon Server
At the time of this writing, Mastodon currently has 13,110 servers with about 9.3 million users and growing considerably each and every day. With this many servers to choose from, it might seem a bit overwhelming on what you should pick to join. That’s where this article will hopefully help you. As stated above, you can always transfer to another server if you feel the one you pick originally isn’t best suited for you or you find something that is better suited for you after you start using the platform.
Write A List Of Server Requirements
Before you dive in head first, I highly recommend you make a list of your wants and needs you’d like about a server you might join. Things to think about are as follows:
Moderation Policy Or Community Rules: What types of content are allowed and what types of content are not allowed. This can range from memes, NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content, hate speech and so on. You should always be able to find this information via the servers About Page.
Age Of The Server: If the server is brand new, that’s something to think about. It could possibly end up not surviving very long, forcing you to transfer to another server. It could go inactive as the owner(s) thought they had time to maintain it but realized they don’t. Older, more established servers are more likely to stay around and have a bigger, better and more stable community.
Other Servers You Might Want To Interact With: You can interact and follow users from other servers in most cases. However, some servers can block other servers around the Fediverse for various reasons such as their political stance, not agreeing with a servers moderation policies and so on. This is certainly something to keep in mind when thinking about joining specific servers.
How Quickly You Want To Start Using Mastodon: Some servers you have to request to join or even be invited to join them. This process can often take a couple of days. If you’re looking to join in on some conversations immediately, this might not be where you want to try and join as you might be forced to wait a couple of days before actually getting into Mastodon and seeing what it’s all about. One thing to note here, most servers that are invite only do so for a good reason and are often better communities or goal oriented communities so it might be that it’s worth the wait.
Consider The Types Of Posts You Want To See
Mastodon servers can be very general servers or they can be pretty niche, depending on the server itself. Depending on what posts or content you want to see plays a big part in the server you decide to choose.
For example, let’s say you are an artist who wants to be on an art centric server as you will be posting a lot of your own art, but also want to see mostly art from others. You’ll want to find yourself a specific server with that in mind and trust me, there are several to choose from. If that’s what you’re wanting, then you most likely don’t want one of the larger servers like mstdn.social or anything similar.
I know you’re likely asking, why does the server matter if I can interact and see other users from all over the fediverse? The reason is because your HOME server is the best place to find like-minded people who will also be sharing content from outside of your server of like-minded content.
Here’s a breakdown of the three feeds you will have the option of viewing once you start using Mastodon.
Home Feed: Shows content from the people you follow regardless if they are on your server or a different server.
Local Feed: Shows content only from the people on your server.
Federated Feed: Shows content from people followed by those on your server. Remember, your server might block other servers, so you won’t see content from those servers if your server has it blocked.
Utilize Mastodon’s Server List
Mastodon offers a partial list of servers that you can browse to get an idea of what server you’d like to join to get started. You can find that list here: Server List. Remember, this is not a complete list of all servers available.
You can filter this list by geographic region, language, registration process (invite needed or no invite needed) and host/ownership type (individual or organization). You can also sort by topic of interest such as: art, music, technology, LGBTQ+, sports, books and so much more.
One really good thing to note here is that all of the servers that are listed on this have all agreed to follow the Mastodon Server Covenant, which is basically the best practices of Mastodon. This is pretty important as it ensures you are going to find good servers that have good rules in place such as:
Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.Daily backups to prevent the loss of user data and even server data.At least one person, other than the admin themselves, with emergency access to the server infrastructure. This is extremely helpful if the admin is away and there's some kind of emergency that needs to be dealt with.The admin and those who run the instance have agreed to provide at least a three month notice to all users in case the server will be shutting down. This allows all users to find other instances to move to.
Take The Server Quiz To Find What Fits You Best
Believe it or not, there is even a server quiz you can take to find what server(s) might fit best as to what you are looking for and wanting from a Mastodon server. The good thing about this quiz is, you don’t need to provide any personal or private information.
The quiz will ask you simple things such as, what language(s) you speak, your preference as to how many users the server has to have and the rules that you care about most. This tool is very helpful to get you started in what servers to look at based on what you want from a server you are about to join.
What Servers Do Your Friends Use?
Your friends from other social platforms or even your real-life friends are possibly on Mastodon already and you can always ask them what server they call home so that you can take a look at it and see if it fits your needs and wants.
This also can include your Twitter friends, assuming you use or have used Twitter.
If there’s certain people or organizations you simply don’t want to miss information from, then finding these users can be very important to make your Mastodon experience that much better from the start.
There are numerous services out there that allow you to scan your Twitter follower/following lists and see if they are on Mastodon as well. It will search for keywords in their bio or even a link to their Mastodon profile.
Movetodon, Twitodon, Fedifinder and Debirdify are just a few resources to look at for finding users from Twitter that have Mastodon accounts. I’ve personally used all four of these with great results.
Join A Completely Random Server
If you’d like to simply dive in headfirst and not really do a bit of research and just get a feel for things firsthand, you can always just pick a random server, click it and join it. This allows you to check out the community and the types of posts you’ll see from others and then you can make the decision yourself if it’s the place for you or not.
Always remember, if it’s not, you can either create a new account on another server or transfer to another server. The choice is totally yours how you handle it from there. There is certainly no consequences if you feel you picked a server that isn’t quite right for you.
AllThingsTech.social Is Always Looking For New Users To Call Home
I actually happen to own and run my own Mastodon instance called AllThingsTech.social that is a public instance, though it requires staff approval of all accounts.
While the name is AllThingsTech, we don’t restrict posting to just tech related stuff in any way. That’s our main focus, but we want to provide a safe, fun, friendly place that anyone can call home and post the things they enjoy. Such as their daily routines, their cats, dogs, llama’s or whatever else. If you want to post about food, we encourage that just as we do your daily gym workout information.
We are currently doing the approval of users who sign up for the instance as this allows us to ensure that our instance remains safe for everyone involved. So, if you’re wanting to move to AllThingsTech.social from another instance, when you sing up we ask that you provide a link to your current/previous instance so we can check it out and see what types of things you like to post about so we can get a feel of what you are about.
Joining Multiple Servers
You are also free to join multiple servers if you’d like. There are lots of people who do this for various reasons. You can join an art server so that you get posts about art related stuff and where you can post your art. Then you can join a server that’s more focused on something like iOS. This allows you to post iOS related stuff but not mix in your art stuff you want to post or see.
There are many reasons you might want to have accounts on several different servers and there’s certainly nothing wrong with this as long as you feel you can keep up with having multiple accounts.
Final Thoughts
In the end, it’s all up to you how you decide which server to join. You can base it on one thing or multiple things listed above, or you can base it on your own thing completely and not follow any of what’s listed above. Again, there’s no right or wrong way to choose what server you join. Choose what works for you and if you feel you made a bad decision, then start over and do it again until you find a place to call home and what fits all of your needs.
Once you get your account setup and if you’re looking for some tips and tricks on how to get started using the platform, you can check out my Tips And Tricks For New Mastodon Users post that will give you some ideas of what to do to enhance your Mastodon experience from the start.
Once you do pick a server and you get to using Mastodon, feel free to drop me a follow if you’d like. I’ll be posting more Mastodon related articles here on this site and I will post them on Mastodon for others as well. You can follow me here: Cliff on Mastodon. If you found this article helpful in any way, feel free to tag me on Mastodon and let me know as I’d love to hear from you.
#AllThingsTech #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Technology #TipsTricks
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Built Britain: What is a manor house in England?
Knole House in Kent
Manor houses are an integral part of English history, and they have played a significant role in shaping the country's social and economic landscape. A manor house was a country house that belonged to the lord of the manor, who was the owner of the surr
https://anglotopia.net/british-history/stately-homes/built-britain-what-is-a-manor-house-in-england/
