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reiver, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to fediverse

Oh look at that — BookWyrm gets mentioned in the Washington Post.

What is BookWyrm‽ —

BookWyrm is similar to Mastodon, in that it is an open-source'ish (with restrictions) social-networking platform for the Fediverse, BUT —

Rather than being about micro-blogging, BookWyrm is about books, tracking what you are reading, and sharing it with others.

Think GoodReads for the Fediverse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/22/book-tracking-apps-review-goodreads-alternative/

@bookwyrm

#BookWyrm #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb

reiver, 9 months ago to fediverse

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Following someone on the Fediverse is broken — the user-experience (UX) is not good.

Especially if the person you want to follow is on a server different from yours.

Sure it technically works, BUT in practice it is broken —

I have done user testing with people who have used other social-media, but who have never used the Fediverse

Virtually all of them fail at following someone on a remote server

THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO COLLECTIVELY FIX.

I'll explain —

🧵

#Fediverse #FediverseUX

reiver, 4 months ago to random

The Web and the Internet are largely ephemeral — documents, images, and videos disappear all the time.

If you find something on the Web or the Internet and you value it — download it and save it.

#archive #archivism #archivists

reiver, 10 months ago to fediverse

#SpaceHost is now giving money to the #Lemmy developers on a monthly basis.

If someone hosts a #Lemmy instance with #SpaceHost — #SpaceHost will give a portion of the net revenue to the Lemmy developers on an ongoing basis.

As more people host Lemmy servers with #SpaceHost , the amount we will be able to give to the Lemmy developers will increase.

( #SpaceHost will do the same for every other open-source Fediverse software we host, too.)

https://spacehost.one/

#SpaceHostBTS

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reiver, 8 months ago to fediverse

Be the content you want to see on the Fediverse.

#Fediverse #SpreadFediverse

reiver, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to 8bit

Guess what — Mastodon & @bbcmicrobot are in the news.

BBCMicroBot is a fun bot that started off on Twitter in February 2020 — although it is on Mastodon now.

People send it BASIC code — and it runs it and posts the result!

Many use it to create "pixel-art"

BBCMicroBot migrated over to the Fediverse in Nov 2022, as part of the Twitter-migration.

Read more here:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/bbc_micro_bot/

#BBCBasic #BBCMicro #Fediverse #Mastodon #PixelArt #RetroComputing #TwitterMigration #VintageComputing

reiver, 1 year ago to random

Attractiveness bias in the legal system

https://www.thelawproject.com.au/insights/attractiveness-bias-in-the-legal-system

"When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. […] I was so wrong."

reiver, 1 month ago to random

#SpaceHost #SpaceHostBTS

reiver, 9 months ago to fediverse

"Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger"

⸺ Erlend Sogge Heggen ( @erlend )

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

#fediverse #kbin #lemmy #mastodon #reddit #threadiverse #twitter

reiver, 10 months ago to random

Coming Very Soon to #SpaceHost

#Firefish servers.

#SpaceHostBTS

reiver, 10 months ago to fediverse

Coming Tomorrow (i.e., Tuesday) to #SpaceHost

#SpaceHost is OPENING EARLY for its public beta phase, and ready to host your #Lemmy servers.

We are going to start inviting people on the waiting-list.

Each day we will invite a group of people from the waiting-list.

If you are already on the waiting-list, check for an e-mail from hello@spacehost.one

If you want to get on the waiting-list, sign-up here:
https://spacehost.one/

#SpaceHostBTS
#threadiverse
#redditMigration #redditBlackOut

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reiver, 10 months ago to php

I think younger software developers don't appreciate how big of a deal #PHP was back in the day — and how important it was for the early mainstream Web.

The early mainstream Web — late 1990s and 2000s — was largely built on PHP — well —

PHP + MySQL + Apache + Linux

What eventually got called "L.A.M.P.".

("L.A.M.P." = Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP.)

A lot of the explosion of creativity & culture & invention that happened during the early mainstream Web owes thanks to PHP.

#programming

reiver, 1 year ago to science

😯 A couple bees opening a bottle of Fanta 😯

https://imgur.io/AXNLJDl

#bees #biology #evolution #evolutionaryPsychology #evoPsych

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reiver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to fediverse

I have a new Kbin server.

I am going to document my experience as a new Kbin user and sysop.

Note that I already have experience as a Lemmy user & sysop. Some of that experience may be applicable here, too — but we will see.

🧵

#fediverse #kbin #threadiverse

reiver, 11 months ago to retrocomputing

#retroComputing #vintageComputing

reiver, 11 months ago to fediverse

Coming Very Soon to #SpaceHost

#Lemmy & #kbin #threadiverse servers.

#redditMigration #redditBlackOut

#SpaceHostBTS

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reiver, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to fediverse

Which of these alternate Mastodon front-ends are you aware of?

#Fediverse #BirdUI #Elk #ElkZone #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #Phanpy

reiver, 11 months ago to threads

From @anildash on #Threads .

@anildash

#project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #instagram

* Search is (likely intentionally) not intended to enable finding old content or seeing who has shared a particular link, two things particularly needed by journalists and researchers, so it’s not just bad for sharing news, it’s bad for enabling discovery of potential news * Overall this recreates a
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reiver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to fediverse

What topics about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech are you most curious about?

What questions about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech do you hav?

(The Fediverse includes all the Fediverse software.)

Reply with your topics and questions.

#AllYourBases #Fediverse

reiver, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

One of my favorite bots accounts is:

@africanwildlife

(Created by @stefan )

I love it.

You get to see random videos of animals in Africa doing their thing in the wild. Plus some nature videos.

...

Want to see a gorilla relaxing, here you go:
https://botsin.space/@africanwildlife/111094471997432980

Want to see a waterfall, watch this:
https://botsin.space/@africanwildlife/111095180109479746

How about a mother lion playing with her cubs, there you go:
https://botsin.space/@africanwildlife/111092112726045996

Lots more like that.

reiver, 6 months ago to accessibility

A font designed to be easier to read.

Including those people who having trouble seeing.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Pro
https://github.com/jacobxperez/atkinson-hyperlegible-pro

#accessibility #a11y #font #fonts

reiver, 5 months ago to archive

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There are people who worry about information, history, and culture being lost.

They want to preserve it — preserve it for themselves and future generations.

They try to save it — save files, save books, save articles, save photos, ... save anything they feel is important.

These people are called archivists.

#archive #archivism #archivists

reiver, 1 year ago to fediverse

#Lemmy #Reddit #Fediverse

https://mackaycartoons.net/

reiver, 1 year ago to scifi

by Tim White

#SciFi

reiver, 2 months ago to fediverse

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Let's talk about #Akkoma

Akomma is Fediverse software — like Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and many others.

#Akkoma is a fork #Pleroma

But —

What is an "akkoma"‽
Where did that name come from‽

Why is the tag-line for Akkoma:
"magically expressive social media"‽

And what is the meaning behind the Akkoma logo‽