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Tag: fediverse

ActivityPub plugin for WordPress Adds Your WordPress Site to the Fediverse

2024-03-292024-03-29 Danie
Screen headed ActivityPub with a welcome message and a form for the author profile to be completed with a username and profile URL.

This plugin effectively turns your WordPress blog into a one-person Mastodon (or another microblog) instance on the Fediverse. You carry on doing your blogs as normal, but anyone from right across the Fediverse can find […]

Blogblogging, fediverse, technology, wordpress

The Myth: Is the Fediverse Really That Complicated?

2024-02-202024-02-20 Danie
Woman wearing a grey T-shirt with a large question mark, and the words The Myth Is the Fediverse really that complicated". Only the bottom half of the women's face is visible, with brown shoulder length hair.

Let me start out by saying how I think this myth became the reality for many… Obviously, a few journalists declared the Fediverse to be complicated, and this got picked up quickly by those who […]

Blogfediverse, socialnetworks, technology

Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network

2024-01-092024-01-09 Danie
Mbin main page showing list of links with descriptions below them, much like the Reddit or Lemmy sites.

Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source […]

Blogdecentralised, fediverse, linkaggregator, opensource, technology

Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon

2023-11-142023-11-14 Danie
Social network web page with title top left showing Pebble and down the left side shows options for Home, Notifications, Profile, DMs, and Ideas. In the centre at the top is a text box to compose a post, and below that is a post from Sarah Oh with username @sarah which says "Stopped by the Suay Sew Shop in Frogtown LA yesterday (cut off) repair your clothes on the spot and organize community (cut off) textiles."

The company announced last month that it was shutting down its Twitter/X alternative citing the increasingly competitive landscape, X’s ability to retain users and its own failure to gain traction with a wider audience. But […]

Blogfediverse, mastodon, technology

Postmarks is a decentralised self-hosted Fediverse successor to the old del.ici.us bookmarking service

2023-09-082023-09-08 Danie
A website page that looks like a white postcard, with the top left showing a postal stamp mark and the word Postmarks. The centre shows a list of bookmark names, each with a date, link, an annotated description, some hashtags. Under each entry is an indication of what the comment count is, and a link to edit the bookmark.

The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it’s built for the open web and the Fediverse — the decentralized collection of social networks that includes the Twitter/X competitor Mastodon […]

Blogbookmarks, fediverse, Postmarks, technology

Bridgy Fed connects your web site to Mastodon and the Fediverse (and possibly Bluesky and Nostr later)

2023-07-182023-07-18 Danie
Diagram showing a website in the middle with lines radiating out to other Fediverse sites around it

Bridgy Fed turns your web site into its own Fediverse account, visible in Mastodon and beyond. You can post, reply, like, repost, and follow Fediverse accounts by posting on your site with microformats2 and sending […]

BlogBridgyFed, fediverse, opensource, socialnetworks, technology

Calckey is also a federated social network based on the ActivityPub protocol, but it is really good looking with some extra functions inc account migrations

2023-06-152023-06-15 Danie
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Like Mastodon is a social network on the Fediverse, as is Pixelfed and Misskey, Calckey is also such a social network in its own right. Like the others it is also interconnected by ActivityPub to […]

Blogactivitypub, Calckey, fediverse, socialnetworks, technology

Think how much richer Internet searches will be with results from Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, etc

2023-06-142023-06-14 Danie
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I have found search results to be very good with Reddit links in the past. I get that Reddit needs to pay for their hosting (just like everyone else) but with so many more Internet […]

Blogfediverse, interoperability, openstandards, search, technology

Pixelfed decentralised and federated social network for photos and videos (updated video)

2023-02-172023-02-17 Danie
Teal background with text title Pixelfed Photo Sharing and a picture of two hands holding a phone, that has a photo of a cup of coffee on the screen

Pixelfed is one of many social networks in the Fediverse, but it focuses specifically on photo and video sharing. This is an update to my previous video (which was more detailed about its workings and […]

Blogdecentralised, fediverse, opensource, pixelfed, technology

The many branches of the Fediverse and why Mastodon is only one of many other connected social networks

2022-11-062022-11-06 Danie
fediverse branches axbom 12

I also still see lots of confusion and questions from many new users flooding into Mastodon, and then wondering whether they must also have an account on Pixelfed, etc. The other issue is, that you […]

Blogfediverse, mastodon, socialnetworks, technology

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