#gravatar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gravatar, aggregated by home.social.
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Lol just noticed that most of the links on my #Gravatar are dead and that because I created the account before they were owned by wordpress that I can't even login anymore.
They claim the account doesn't exist anymore. But the page is still up. Will contact them about that. Let's see if they'll restore my account or delete the page...
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Breaking news: 🎉 Automattic's latest "innovation" 🤡 makes #Gravatar the social media equivalent of a clogged toilet 🚽. Users are fleeing faster than WordPress's credibility after the Gutenberg disaster. 🚀
https://unattributed.cc/re-bye-bye-gravatar #BreakingNews #Automattic #SocialMedia #WordPressFail #HackerNews #ngated -
@tenkoman @howking @fitpub We're already working on this. The plan is to add server-side image caching together with a feature flag to enable or disable #Gravatar support.
When your browser loads an image directly from Gravatar, the only information they receive is your IP address. That's not particularly sensitive, but it's still not ideal. Once server-side image fetching and caching are in place, third-party services like Gravatar won't receive requests from users' browsers anymore.
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Just found out there's a simple API for Libravatar.
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Ooooooh! A Libre version of #Gravatar https://libravatar.org/
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Is Libravatar in use/active/and so on? 🤔 Thinking we need more non-us cloud alternatives (or at least that's what I was looking for)...
Are there other alternatives to Gravatar?
#avatar #gravatar #libravatar #devops #programming #webdev #web
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Guten Morgen, es ist 2. #DiDay. Diesmal bin ich von #gravatar zu #libravatar gewechselt. #DUTgemacht und viel Spaß beim Lesen!
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@mrzarquon Dang me. Wanted to add "no #gravatar please" in my toot 😬
While it works (mostly, I have some bug issues with the service). I dislike the idea of this being "centrally owned".
But you're right that it is *a* solution to my itch, thanks.
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Twitter/X: come verificare la tua identità senza pagare con Mastodon
Da quando Elon Musk ha trasformato la storica spunta blu di Twitter in un servizio a pagamento da 3 a 38 euro al mese, molti si sono chiesti: esiste davvero un'alternativa gratuita e credibile per verificare la propria identità online? La risposta è sì, e si chiama Mastodon. Ma non è solo una questione di prezzo: è un modo completamente diverso alla verifica dell'identità digitale, più trasparente, decentralizzato e anche più sicuro. In questo articolo ti racconto come funziona la […]https://emanuelegori.uno/twitter-x-come-verificare-la-tua-identita-senza-pagare-con-mastodon/
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#TIL that you can use #Libravatar instead of Gravatar with a community-hosted GitLab service;
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Die Entwicklung von #Gravatar hat sich in letzter Zeit in eine etwas ungewöhnliche Richtung bewegt. Auf der Seite, auf der meine Avatare gespeichert sind, konnte ich zunächst keinen direkten Link zu meinem #Avatar finden – wirklich erstaunlich! Kürzlich bin ich auf ein hilfreiches Tool gestoßen: Nach Eingabe der E-Mail-Adresse wird automatisch der entsprechende Avatar-Link generiert. Übrigens zeigt der Avatar hinter diesem Link den Entwickler selbst
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Gravatar Enhanced Plugin installiert, aktiviert und konfiguriert
Es hat sich herausgestellt, dass die Funktion des #ActivityPub-Plugin, Avatare als Thumbnails anzuzeigen, die Funktionsfähigkeit von Gravatar einschränkt. Ein Workaround besteht darin, dass Plugin „Gravatar Enhanced“ zu installieren. #GravatarEnhanced bietet die Möglichkeit, für Diskutanten ohne Avatar automatisch einen Pseudo-Avatar zu erstellen. Datenschutzrelevant ist jedoch vor allem die Funktion, eine Variante eines Avatar Proxy zu aktivieren. In der Variante „Gravatar URLs spiegeln […]
https://blog.worms.social/gravatar-enhanced-plugin-installiert-aktiviert-und-konfiguriert/
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#WormsSocial, next steps: Zeitstrahl, Grobplanung. Zudem ein Befund: Das #ActivityPub Plugin funktioniert zwar auch ohne #Gravatar, es kann allerdings keine Thumbnails der Fediverse-Handle für Fediverse-Reaktionen laden, wenn Gravatar mittels PHP add_filter('get_avatar,' '__return_false'); get_avatar_url('get_avatar_url', '__return_false'); unterbunden wird.
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#WormsSocial Ich habe die #Gravatar-Funktionalität in #Wordpress deaktiviert, indem ich mit Hilfe des Wordpress-Plugin "Code Snippets" den Code
add_filter('get_avatar', '__return_false');
add_filter('get_avatar_url', '__return_false');überall ausführen lasse.
Bin ich zu streng? Sollte ich Gravatar zulassen und in der Datenschutzerklärung bzw. mit einem Banner auf die Verwendung von Gravatar hinweisen? -
Wie Fediverse-Reactions und Avatare in WordPress zusammenhängen
Einen Punkt habe ich in meinem vorigen Beitrag über Folgefragen nach dem Verbinden eines WordPress-Blogs mit dem Fediverse noch nicht behandelt: Die Abhängigkeit der Anzeige der Fediverse-Reactions von den generellen Avatar-Einstellungen in WordPress. Das ist auch ein bisschen komplexer und damit einen eigenen Beitrag wert:
Gravatar und Datenschutz
WordPress holt sich standardmäßig die Avatare zu normalen Kommentaren von gravatar.com. Hat dort jemand keinen Avatar eingerichtet, […]
https://www.annetteschwindt.digital/fediverse-reactions-avatare-wordpress/
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Oh, the #Gravatar / #Automattic team wrote about federated social networks, but they did not mention #ActivityPub for #WordPress.
https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/06/13/decentralized-social-media/
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FAIR package manager
The Linux Foundation has announced the FAIR package manager for WordPress. This will be an independent and neutral plugin and theme package manager.
One of the features of FAIR is the ability to deactivate Gravatar avatars, which means a slightly reduced privacy leak (depending on how much you trust Gravatar).
As a result, I’m carefully considering making the switch for all sites with Author Buzz UK. Thoughts and opinions gladly received.
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Using Libravatar/Gravatar for your profile in Planet GNOME
Now that the new planet.gnome.org website is live, we have added Libravatar and Gravatar support. Instead of having the Planet website host user images itself, we are giving members the choice to use profile images/avatars from these services.
If you are interested in updating your profile picture, check out the instructions at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/planet.gnome.org#adding-an-avatar and file an issue. Extra points if you do a merge-request! 🙂
The old hackergotchis are an important part of our community’s history, so I set up a static website to host the old files. Feel free to file an issue if you want yours taken down from there.
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Yesterday, I released an update to Meh, my Mastodon enabled commenting system. It now optionally allows for generating avatar images locally without any requests to gravatar.
https://github.com/splitbrain/meh/blob/main/doc/gravatar.md
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#arstechnica:
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DOGE software engineer’s computer infected by info-stealing malware
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"The presence of credentials in leaked "stealer logs" indicates his device was infected."
"A steady stream of published credentials"8.5.2025
#Adobe #CISA #cybersecurity #Cybersicherheit #Datenschutz #Datensicherheit #DOGE #Gmail #Gravatar #infosec #infostealer #IT #malware #USA
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I don't like Gravatar. Changing a profile picture in one place shouldn't cause it to show up in other places.
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Huh. Apparently setting up a photo on gravatar has created and logged me in to a wordpress.com account. That is rather unexpected. I only found out after getting "User $generatedUsername Cannot Access the Dashboard Requested" instead of the login page to the admin dashboard of a site I'm helping out with...
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Způsob jakým #Gravatar využívá #Mastodon mi příjde býti následováníhodným.
https://gravatar.com/profile/verified-accounts/mastodon/mastodongeneric
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It would seem like identity and domain verification are a hot topic again:
Cybersquatting is not a new issue, of course, but Bluesky’s decision to tie verification to domains as social proof shows the limitations of the strategy. After all, if Conor Sen doesn’t want to register his namesake domain, it just takes one questionable party to do it instead, put up a fake email signup form, and register an account. Domains simply don’t offer enough in the way of social proof for the average person.
This reminds me of Keybase.io. It’s a service that had potential as a centralized identity verification service. I enjoyed its simplicity and its support for developer tools. Unfortunately, they were acquired by Zoom and it seems the service was since mothballed. Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Gravatar as an alternative. I know I’m biased, but I think it has become a really good identity verification service nowadays.
Or maybe, we should just forget those external services to manage our content, and have everything on our own personal site like this one 🙂