#post-twitter — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #post-twitter, aggregated by home.social.
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When I click the “Publish” button at the top right of this page, this post won’t only appear at the Web address this blog has occupied since April of 2011. People who have chosen to follow this blog on Mastodon will get the full text on that network–and if they reply, their feedback there will show up as a comment here.
At least, that’s how I think things will work. I’ve only had a couple of days to grasp WordPress.com’s announcement Wednesday of its new integration of the ActivityPub open standard behind Mastodon and other federated-social-media platforms. Since I’ve already had nine other people take up my invitation to follow this blog on the “fediverse,” notwithstanding its ungainly “@[email protected]” handle–and since I wrote about this venture Thursday for PCMag–I hope I’ve got that right.
Seeing this sort of open-ended experimentation happen is a good thing about life in the fediverse. I like participating in a project that’s still in a creation stage.
But the last two weeks also reminded me of the potential costs of setting up shop on a social platform in flux: The Mastodon instance I’ve mostly-happily occupied since last November, journa.host, merged into another journalism-centric instance, newsie.social, with no advance notice visible from its admins. I learned about this from an easily-missed announcement in the Mastodon Web app, after which a post from the journa.host admin team pledged that “Journa.host will continue to operate as an independent server and there will be no changes for our current members.”
And then two apparently migration-induced server glitches left me unable to use my account for an hour or two, after which I had to resolve an images-not-loading issue in one browser.
None of those things amount to an instance-firing offense (for a contrary perspective, see this thread from freelance journalist Zecharias Zelalem), but the experience did lead me to think about what changing instances might be like if things came to that. And the answer would be: not great! Mastodon’s data-transfer support is closer to “settings portability” than “account portability.” To wit, while moving my account to a new instance would let me keep my follower and following lists, my handle would change and my older posts would not show up at my new fediverse abode.
The AT Protocol underneath Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter alternative at which I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time, does allow full account portability–although that support remains somewhat evanescent until a good set of competing “Personal Data Servers” come online. So my Twitter-bailout scenario remains unclear, even if I’m increasingly sure that the answer won’t be Meta’s Threads.
https://robpegoraro.com/2023/10/13/one-step-forward-one-step-sideways-in-the-fediverse/
#ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #Bluesky #journaHost #Mastodon #newsieSocial #postTwitter #Threads #TwitterExodus #wordpress
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Viranomaismastodonin etu olisi, että kansalaisille sivulta
suomi dot fi/public/local
näkisi ajankohtaiset viranomaistiedotteet ilman mitään tunnuksia. Muitakin näkymiä voisi olla.
(domain on ehkä syytä olla muu kuin suomi dot fi ikävien bugien varalta)
#viranomaistiedotus #viranomaiset #postTwitter #exä -
The bird site reminds me of the phrase "For the birds" https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/for-the-birds.html
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@socketwench @huxley @chadloder TIL Mastodon makes it easy to "Save Video As". I have started my Mastodon downloads folder. Could also just be the https://pinafore.social/statuses/109445834183558633 web client I'm using. I really dig there being a sea of web and mobile clients to use here.
@chadloder you gonna put that listing up on your LinkedIn by any chance? There are a ton of Ex FB/Ex Twitter etc. types filling my LinkedIn activity feed these days. I think #LinkedIn is picking up some of the #PostTwitter traffic.
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#Twitter #AsItHappens News by people in the middle of the news. #EyeWitnessNews
Need to still be able to easily access that. Need to know where people going to send it #PostTwitter & still collate it/centralize it somewhere safe & free from manipulation.
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3 Steps to transition to #PostTwitter
🐘grab your handle on mastodon (or similar)
🌉bridge your accounts to cross-post with a public utility tool (loving https://moa.party)
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If you're looking for a keyword to get your blog noticed, try "millennials" or GenZers. These generations are being closely watched by corporations, politicians, auto, homes, tech and just about anyone tracking which way the wind is shifting post pandemic.
#millenial #GenZers #PostFB #PostTwitter #PostAmazon #postpandemic