#fediblogs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fediblogs, aggregated by home.social.
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Ugh, so today's just not my day. I spent hours looking for the blog of @onepict thinking I was looking for a different blog, because I was remembering old posts I wanted to read again, so I spent hours trying to find those old posts, unaware that the thoughtful posts I loved so much were actually all on https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ #FediBlog #FediBlogs
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In case you missed the Buffer postings about this, this is a short story where my Trans friend came out to me. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-home-of-a-new-name/ #FediBlog #TransRights #TransLove #Trans #FediBlogs #NoPaywall
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The Home of a New Name https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-home-of-a-new-name/ #FediBlog #FediBlogs
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Reminder for anyone new to FrankenPHP: it does NOT use your system PHP and extensions, so missing extension logs can be misleading.
Here is how to install the correct PHP-ZTS 8.5 + extensions and make Octane behave.
#programming #Laravel #frankenphp #developer #linux #php #troubleshooting #fediblogs
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If FrankenPHP crashes and gives you nothing, try:
php artisan octane:start --log-level=debugIt exposes the real errors.
Full guide with PHP 8.5 + ZTS extensions: https://coz.jp/iC1sKO
#programming #Laravel #frankenphp #developer #linux #php #troubleshooting #fediblogs
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What I liked about Fediverso – that set of decentralized platforms that communicate with the ActivityPub protocol and whose main banner is Mastodon – was its foundations. The natives of that island – a bit paradisiacal, in that November 2022 – were striving to preserve, at all costs, their culture. For most of us migrants, the atmosphere reminded us of that which existed on the Internet at the beginning of the 21st century and which inspired the blogging revolution; and we try to learn and follow their rules.
But I am not just referring to the operating rules of the specific platforms. Mastodon, for example, is very far from Twitter’s operations and José Luis Orihuela described it perfectly in Negative decalogue: 10 things not to do at Mastodon. And let’s not say in his bookMastodon Brief Manual.
I am referring, rather, to something transcendental and that has to do with the difference between the small web and the big web; and that I already tried -in passing- in In the dark forest, in the cozy network or in Canada: where do I want to be? The Fediverso is that place that Erlend Sogge Heggen has defined as “The home of the modern Internet counterculture. It’s where people come to talk about the big mess of hypercapitalism, surveillance states, monopolization, unionization, mutualism, and open source. It’s where we’re going to talk about how to get out of this monumental mess we’re in; No shortcuts or workarounds allowed this time.”
Therefore, I also believe in the return of blogs. They had never gone away but if we see the small web as the alternative to the network of user farms, and what this entails, blogs take on an essential meaning. Regarding what user farms mean on the big web, Aral Balkan is forceful: “Mass surveillance and industrial farming of humans on a global scale is the business model of farmers from the likes of Facebook and Google. It is the main engine of the socioeconomic system that we call surveillance capitalism”.
And this is how we arrived -again- at WordPress, the tool that allows us to have a blog -or our digital home- and federate it in the Fediverso, without the need to register for any service -and therefore, away from the evil big web-. WordPress and the Gutenberg project (now starting its third phase) encourage the construction of optimized websites, by anyone, even without technical knowledge of web development and without the need to code (neither HTML, CSS, etc.), and including design customization.
For me, that is a new revolution, the democratization of web development, similar to what we experience with blogs.
All of this comes as Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is working on an Instagram-based Twitter competitor codenamed “Project92” or P92; and from some leaks we know that could integrate with ActivityPub (the open protocol promoted by Fediverso). Translated, it means that Fediverso could soon have a federated platform with a large number of users and it is feared that Meta will execute the famous three E’s strategy: Adopt, extend and extinguish. Faced with this possibility (and it would not be the first time it has happened on the Internet), supporters of blocking Meta on Fediverso and those others who would prefer a position of “trust, but verify” have emerged. In order to catch up on this controversy and understand the problem, I recommend reading the following article: Should Fediverso welcome its new surveillance capitalism overlords? Opinions differ!
Regarding the alternative of blocking, party administrators/moderators are organizing here: fedipact.online. Another interesting article in favor of the blockade: How to kill a decentralized network (like Fediverso): “The Fediverso can only win by standing firm, talking about freedom, morals, ethics, values. Starting open, non-commercial and non-spy discussions. Recognizing that the goal is not to win. Don’t hug. The goal is to continue being a tool. A tool dedicated to offering a place of freedom for connected human beings. Something that no commercial entity will ever offer.”
However, Tim Chambers believes that “Defederation does virtually nothing to prevent any large tech entity from scraping the entire Fediverso public social graph today.” Chambers’ arguments here: Project92 and Fediverso: a smarter battle plan to protect the open social web.
All of this leads me to think how good it could be for Fediverso that a WordPress blog can be federated, but I have doubts in the case of a platform developed by Meta. We should assume that the real purpose is first to adopt, then to extend, and finally to extinguish. Although, on the other hand and as Tim Chambers says, we have experience and the tools to trust and defend ourselves.
We will see.
The images in this post have been generated on Bing.
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Part of today's @TimeMachiner:
“The Humane Pin looks like is a very expensive product, spewing confidently-wrong-AI bullshit-filled-responses that will likely sell in tiny quantities.
It looks weird, is questionable with how it will work with all clothing, gives wrong answers, costs $700, has a $24 monthly subscription, and produced by an unproven company. You'll have to forgive me for sitting this one out.”
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Links in the rain #7 – ¿Nos quitará el trabajo la IA?; GPTs; Copilot Pro; OpenAI vs desinformación; Apple, Siri e IA; y mucho más…
¿Estás dispuesto a adentrarte en una apasionante travesía de aprendizaje? Te presentamos una selección de enlaces que abarcan todo lo relacionado con la Inteligencia Artificial. Explora cómo esta disciplina se implementa en distintas áre
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Tu blog como extensión de ti mismo y de tus intereses; o por qué nuestra newsletter es ahora solo RSS
Con una estrategia de publicación primero en tu blog, el RSS, el fediverso y una newsletter con las últimas publicaciones tienes todos los mecanismos para establecer una identidad digital coherente, libre, independiente y descentralizada.
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Ian Bailey, the man accused of murdering a French woman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, died today. Here he is in 2019, when he was selling his book, “The West Cork Way”, at a market in Skibereen.
Apertureƒ/4CameraILCE-7M3Focal length35mmISO160Shutter speed1/500shttps://inphotos.org/2024/01/21/ian-bailey-and-the-west-cork-way/
#BlackAndWhite #Cork #Fediblogs #IanBailey #Ireland #Photo #Photography #Skibereen #SonyA7III #StreetPhotography
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I wonder what was going through this woman’s mind as she looked at the wigs on display in this shop in Valencia, Spain.
Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7M3Focal length24mmISO12800Shutter speed1/160shttps://inphotos.org/2024/01/20/hairs-the-wig-shop/
#Fediblogs #Photo #Photography #Spain #StreetPhotography #Valencia #wigs
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GPT-4: Qué es, cómo funciona y cómo puedes crear tu propio chat
En el artículo se introduce a ChatGPT Plus, una aplicación basada en inteligencia artificial que utiliza el modelo de lenguaje generativo GPT-4, lanzado en marzo de 2023. Se explica cómo funciona, se revisa el funcionamiento de los chatbots personalizados y se explora su interfaz.
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Federación bidireccional de comentarios en WordPress con ActivityPub 2.0
La versión 2.0.0 del plugin ActivityPub para WordPress ya está disponible, y su característica principal es la federación de comentarios bidireccional/encadenada.
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On May 17, a meeting was held with the co-founders of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, and the founder of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, in which they discussed open source, AI and the future of the web.
Regarding the importance of open source, Mullenweg said: “I consider all proprietary software to be an evolutionary dead end..” And regarding the emerging generative technology and its relationship with open source, he noted the following: “Open source and AI are the two megatrends of the next twenty years, and the reason they are complementary is that GPT4 hasn’t read Shopify’s code. It reads the Drupal code and the WordPress code, and the 55,000 plugins and everything else, so you can write it. If you ask him to write a website, he will write it on an open source thing. He’s not going to write it on those proprietary things. From an evolutionary standpoint, if we move far enough into the future, we will one day see even our proprietary competitors—the Wix, Squarespaces, and Shopifies of the world—actually running on open source software. That’s part of our vision with Gutenberg and also why we made it an even more permissive license than the GPL. “We dual-license it under the MPL, so it could even be integrated into commercial applications, because I really think it’s so important that I want it to be even in commercial applications.”
On the other hand, everything indicates that Automattic has an artificial intelligence plugin in the works. Author Seth Godin recently talked about such a tool on the Tim Ferris Podcast: “It’s the best use case I’ve seen for ChatGPT, or whatever they’re using, implemented in a way where it’s not just a talking flame. It’s actually: Oh yeah! I need this!”
Taking into account that Godin has a utility, based on AI, with which you can ask anything, perhaps Automattic’s “secret” plugin can go in that direction. Seth Godin’s bot uses all the content published by him and in addition to the answer, it offers you some links for more information. Below you can see part of the answer he gave me to the question “How do I get more visits?”
It is noteworthy that, as Matt Medeiros points out, Seth uses WordPress and Mullenweg is a friend of Seth, having attended State of the Word 2022. Medeiros concludes: “Automattic needs to make a serious play in the AI landscape, much faster than it took them to get into the page building race. Will it be more than just images and text generation? A writing assistant? The aforementioned search function?”
But about building a writing help block on WordPress.com we already knew from Sarah Gooding at WP Tavern: WordPress.com is testing AI-generated images and content.
Now everything fits, and more with the announcement of Jamie Marsland’s interview with Matt Mulleweg, which talks about the Jetpack AI project launched with Seth Godin. In a trailer for the interview, Marsland asks Mullenweg: “What is the most exciting AI application you have personally used so far.” To which the co-founder of WordPress responds, after a long pause: “The JetPack AI stuff is a lot of fun. And we have something there that we released with Seth Godin.” Then he cites the bot from Godin’s website and after commenting that it has published more than three million words, he points out that the bot was trained with all that information. It is easy to deduce that said bot, which can be seen on Seth Godin’s blog, could be the same one – or a prototype – of the Jetpack AI project and that Medeiros envisioned in his article.
This article was published, in Spanish, on June 14, 2023 on Blogpocket.
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Where in Cork are these Christmas lights?
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Great to see the ActivtyPub Plugin continue on a fast development timeline:
The WordPress ActivityPub plugin has been updated to version 2.0. The major feature of the release is better comment federation. Comments are now properly threaded, which makes it much easier to follow and understand threads where people are replying to each other. Comments are now also bidirectionally federated. Creator @pfefferle explains:
“When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!”
https://fediversereport.com/wordpress-activitypub-plugin-updates-to-v2-0/
https://fediblogs.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/activtypub-plugin-2-0-launches/
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As blogs from #wordpress, #ghostcms #microdotblog and others federate in, I'm trying to get everyone to use the tag #Fediblogs to make those posts discoverable and searchable.
As podcasts from @Castopod MicrodotBlog, and @funkwhale, #PodcastIndex others federate... I'm trying to push for the use of the tag #Fedicasts to become a common way to search and find federated podcast episodes.
Who's with me?
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The pain I’ve felt in the last few days because of a tiny little stone inside in my body is worse than anything I’ve ever experienced. Absolutely excruciating and uncomfortable. It’s weird drinking lots of water only for my mouth to be dry moments later.
I’m feeling ok right now, at this moment, but I doubt that it’s over yet. I’ve been to the doctor and following his advice. Yet again, feeling so lucky to be married to a wonderful woman who takes such good care of sick ol’ me.
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A New Hello to the Open Social Web!
My latest newsletter has all the usual bits – plus my entry into the world of federated WordPress.com, coolness, warts, and all.
https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/a-new-hello-to-the-open-social-web/
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A new year, and another new start! I’m happy to say this newsletter is now linked into the Open Social Web, thanks to a WordPress development. Meanwhile, Substack’s latest was the last straw for me as it was for many: I deleted all of it in protest…original versions of this newsletter, subscriptions, the app. (I had re-posted the newsletter here last year.)
Anil Dash just predicted that thanks to the mis-steps of the companies that have been dominating the internet, we’re about to discover – or for many older ones, re-discover – “the joys of an internet that’s as intimate and connected as a friendly neighborhood.”
“For an entire generation,” he said, “the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies.” Now they’re being unleashed, thanks to the intervention of regulators and a public willing to try new things.
I usually try new things somewhat begrudgingly. It’s easier not to. The essence of established routines is that you don’t have to think about them. Getting in early with new internet stuff means grappling with clunkiness, too.
So it is with this business of hooking into the Open Social Web from here at WordPress. It’s very cool, offering a new way to follow posts, and making it that much easier to draw your interests together conveniently. I’m already following a couple of blogs this way.
I only had to click a single button for this newsletter to make this new connection. After that, though, there’s still some awkwardness. I’ll explain the gory details below, but separate that section with lines so you can scroll past it if you’re not interested.
After that, there’s a list of links, as usual, to my recent writing, plus other things that caught my eye in the last few weeks. For those hoping to see another Covid vaccine update, that’s coming soon at Absolutely Maybe. If you follow RSS feeds, here’s the one for Absolutely Maybe, so you can catch up with it quickly. Or you can follow me on Mastodon. You can see the other places I’ll post it here.
Wishing you all the best for 2024,
Hilda
The photo is my own – a selfie with my doggo, Barry, who’s an Aussie kelpie (CC BY-NC-ND license).
This newsletter and the Open Social Web
You can now follow this newsletter directly from accounts in Mastodon and other parts of the internet that have, like WordPress, enabled this Open Social Web connection (aka “federated”).
And if you reply to one of my posts from inside your account, it will be both a reply at your account – and a comment coming through here. Ditto with a like – you’ll be liking it in both places with one click.
As soon as this post goes live, I’ll reply to it from Mastodon to demonstrate the feature. For now at least, I won’t hold comments here for moderation, so if you try it, you can see it quickly.
The basics are easy. However, I found some things confusing at first. It all depends on what your social media account, and any app you use for it, does with the WordPress.com situation. I hope the following explanation helps if you hit something odd.
The thing to keep in mind is that although it might look like it’s a Mastodon account, it isn’t. There’s a connection between it and WordPress.com, but they are still different beasts. You can follow Living With Evidence and interact with it as though it were a Mastodon account, but you might come up against differences.
On Mastodon, you find Living With Evidence by plonking the core of this newsletter’s URL into the search box with @ in front of it –
If it shows a link here, it mightn’t work: Welcome to the little nuisances that are arising because this system is new! Ignore the link, and just copy the address and whack it into the search box.
One of the search results should look like a Mastodon account called Living With Evidence, with this newsletter’s cartoon avatar. You can follow and unfollow directly from that search result, or click on the account. Then you also have the option of clicking the bell so you get notified of every post – but don’t expect it to work like a Mastodon account in any other way.
You won’t see posts from before I linked this newsletter into the Open Social Web: This one will be the first.
A post will be displayed to you by the rules of your account and app you use – it might be the full post with a link back to here way at the bottom, or truncated with a link. You should be able to like it, repost it, and reply to it.
Other things come a cropper though, and it did my head in for a while. That was because Mastodon treats it as though it is another Mastodon account – and that’s just not applicable to a WordPress.com follow.
For example, it tells me to go to browse more on the account’s origin server, with a link. It’s a trap! Don’t click that link! As the server isn’t another Mastodon server, clicking on it just brings you here to my newsletter’s homepage. Very confusing. And the information Mastodon claims will be there – a standard Mastodon profile – isn’t there.
Over time, people will figure out how to iron out things like this if a lot of WordPress sites use this facility – and I hope they will.
If you have a WordPress newsletter or blog, and want to enable this, how to do it depends on your setup.
Mine’s just a simple WordPress.com site, and I’m the administrator of it. So all I had to do was to go to Settings, then Discussion, and click a single button: “Enter the fediverse.”
Others will need a plugin, discussed here.
As far as I can see, I can’t do it for Absolutely Maybe, though, even though it’s based on WordPress, because I’m not the administrator. 😢 I shall check into this.
A big thank you to everyone who made this possible – and to anyone who follows along from there.
- My annual roundup of peer review research is out at Absolutely Maybe: 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2023
- And because the biggest news in research on peer review was a very important trial – and I disagree somewhat with the authors’ conclusions about what it shows – I wrote a post digging into my reservations: Unpacking the Biggest Trial Yet of Naming Authors in Peer Review
- Another December post at Absolutely Maybe…In which I guess it would be fair to say shots were fired: The Weird Disconnect in a Debate About Whether Public Health is “Becoming” Illiberal
- In an inspiring and thought-provoking post, T.O. Molefe draws on the African tradition of ubu-ntu to consider what it means to live well with each other, fellow living beings, and our planet. He has developed a co-operative model based the ubu-ntu values of harmony and relationality. (On Mastodon.)
- My thread at Mastodon on the amazing Toshiko Yuasa (1909-1980) – the first woman to become a physicist in Japan, with a most adventurous life! With lots of gorgeous photos.
- Another women in science thread of mine at Mastodon: This is about a gorgeous 1796 milestone in women’s science communication, promoting botany to young women via fiction and botanical illustration. It was part of botany’s feminization history. I point to a post I wrote in 2017 about botany’s feminization and then de-feminization, and why learning from episodes of de-feminization in scientific fields is so important. It’s not the only episode like that, and it could happen again.
- Finally, an interesting post by epidemiologist Adam Kucharski on the challenges of running studies during infectious disease outbreaks. That’s from one of the Substacks I no longer subscribe to. Sigh. At least he’s on Mastodon.
#FediBlogs #OpenSocialWeb #DogsOfMastodon
https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/a-new-hello-to-the-open-social-web/
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Tip.: if you want to follow a blog in Mastodon but aren't sure what its fediverse address is, try just pasting its web address into search. Also seems to work for individual blog posts. (Note: only if the blog actually has enabled fediverse access.)
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Just created this blog, to track new #Fediblogs - and to kick the tires on the new WordPress #ActivityPub plugin.
https://fediblogs.wordpress.com/2023/10/17/just-added-this-site-to-the-fediverse/
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@elizabethtai.com I’m suggesting tagging all such blog announcements as #FediBlogs so folks can find them…
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@evanprodromou @[email protected]
Add @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com to your list. And think we should start using the tag #FediBlogs as we post about them!
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@mastodonmigration @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com Can I suggest tagging all such posts on new activitypub blogs with the hashtag #Fediblogs ?
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Si un dels #blogs afegits a la base de dades de #fediblogs no respon quan es consulta si té noves entrades, el codi dona un error.
He obert el problema en el repositori:https://gitlab.com/spla/fediblogs/-/issues/1
Ja he trobat la sol·lució al problema però sempre és millor documentar els errors.
