Former Diaspora core team member, I work on various fediverse projects, and also spend my time making music and indie adventure games!
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Former Diaspora core team member, I work on various fediverse projects, and also spend my time making music and indie adventure games!
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
FediVision 2024 is Live! Listen and Vote! (wedistribute.org)
FediVision is an annual music competition in the spirit of Eurovision. This year probably had the biggest turnout ever: 72 entries from a variety of artists and musicians, and you can listen to all of them!
A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members (wedistribute.org)
We dug into Mastodon’s new US-based non-profit entity, and checked out who their board members are, and what they’ve accomplished in the past.
You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts! (wedistribute.org)
Bridgy Fed’s Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
How to Stream to PeerTube or Owncast with OBS Studio (wedistribute.org)
The Fediverse has, not one, but two different streaming platforms readily available to people. They both work a bit differently…but, both of them work great with OBS Studio. We dive in to how to set each up.
Interview with Matthias Pfefferle, Author of the WordPress-ActivityPub plugin (wedistribute.org)
We sat down with Matthias Pfefferle to talk about his journey in developing an ActivityPub integration for WordPress, along with the challenges of implementing a protocol for a platform that everybody customizes in a wide variety of ways....
Fediverse Article Interop Working Group
cross-posted from: mediaformat.org/…/article-working-group/...
Corporate Open Source is Dead (m.youtube.com)
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
I'm giving up — on open source - Blog (nutjs.dev)
Sustainable open source will stay a dream
ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods (wedistribute.org)
ActivityPods is a wild project that’s bringing the architecture and data capabilities of Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Protocol to the Fediverse. We dig in to what it is, how it works, and what’s currently possible with the framework.
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be (wedistribute.org)
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the Fediverse, is built on IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)
PubKit is a spinoff project from Pixelfed, and is used by the project’s lead developer to actually develop Pixelfed. It has some pretty great ideas about mocking up entities and data, testing data streams, and working with different server implementations to see where pieces might differ.
Moshidon, fork of Mastodon app with advanced features (lucasggamerm.github.io)
Especially nice in combination with Akkoma instances as it supports:...
Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging (wedistribute.org)
We sat down and interviewed Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.Blog. Micro.Blog is an IndieWeb platform with microblogging capabilities that marries a social experience with a more traditional personal website / blogging concept. It federates via ActivityPub, and has been a part of the Fediverse since 2018.
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.