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Why I made Alt Text Hall of Fame
Visit Alt Text Hall of Fame Get involved Imagine yourself sitting on a bench outside of a tall office building. You see a crowd of people enter and exit the building. Every now and then you see a...
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Progressive tutorials
This blog post will be periodically updated, be sure to occasionally check back! Something I’ve been doing over the years without really thinking about it too much is introducing progressive ideas...
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How many fediverse servers know about my server?
Get the script I’ve been active in the fediverse for a bit over a year now, and it’s been a lot of fun. And part of this experience has been creating various experiments, like charting the network of...
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Making a map of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
I’ve been really enjoying working with Wikidata lately, using it to make a map of government agencies with presence in the fediverse, a catalogue of prominent fediverse accounts, and a few fun bots....
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The ways we keep the fediverse sustainable
Fediverse is in many ways an experiment. On one level, there are the technical challenges of running a social network that’s spread across thousands of servers. Then there’s the challenge of a variety...
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Data on sending a post into the fediverse
So I was wondering the other day about how long it typically takes for a post from my self-hosted fediverse server to reach all of my followers. First, some technical details about the server itself....
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Poll: The web can be such a small world sometimes
This was a fun poll I originally run back in March last year, and I never got to post the results on my blog. So I figured I’ll run it again. I’m actually a bit surprised by how common this experience...
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Impact of fediverse clients on the use of alt text
Huge thanks to everyone who left insightful replies in this thread where I posted about the initial results of my study, which I will cite throughout this article. It is interesting to see how...
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Fediverse sharing button
This is an idea I’ve been thinking about for some time, and can be considered a spiritual successor to one of my most popular projects, Simple Sharing Buttons Generator. I’m prototyping a fediverse...
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Fediverse activity report #1
According to data collected by FediDB, the activity in the fediverse has been slowing down. I don’t particularly care, I am still having a great time, but I thought it would be interesting to see how...
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Most popular fediverse posts: June 6, 2024 Edition
I’ve said on a few occasions that I am a big fan of the fediverse. This is not to say that I think that the fediverse is perfect. There are certainly flaws in how the various platforms work, often due...
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How to be a good fediverse citizen
Yesterday, the fediverse celebrated a victory against a head technology executive working on an “AI-powered social network” who decided to “ingested about 1,120,000 posts from Mastodon”. Heads-up: The...
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Which top sites block AI crawlers?
Between the environmental impact of AI, its threat to jobs and art, and overall it just not being all that good, many are not only skeptical of the tech industry’s latest fad, some actively search for...
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Fediverse domain blocks
Domain blocks are an important tool that keeps the fediverse safe. (And a source of a few controversies.) Consider this scenario: You run a fediverse community. You define rules that everyone respects...
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Lisa Melton: The fediverse’s own algorithm
Lisa Melton is well known for her work on Apple’s Safari web browser and the WebKit browser engine that powers it, Adobe Illustrator, and Netscape Navigator, among other things. She’s also been an...
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Fediverse Explorations
Originally I came up with the name Fediverse Explorations back in May to help me organize the more data-oriented articles I’ve written on the topic of fediverse. I’ve recently created a new page for...
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Mastodon domain block exporter script
Fediverse administrators and moderators have a few tools available that help them manage their servers’ domain blocks: publicly shared domain block lists, including Oliphant.Social Shared Blocklist...
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Ignore all previous instructions
The phrase “ignore all previous instructions”, and its variations, is becoming a bit of a meme. @cstross — Alistair Davidson (@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot) 2024-04-08T12:54:52.899ZI may have made a thing —...
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Zwift Achievements Showcase
I started using the indoor-cycling workout app Zwift right at the start December last year. I’ve been a huge fan ever since! If you’re not familiar with Zwift, think of it as a more accessible...
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People-powered (analogue) technology
Heads-up: This article may be updated in the future based on feedback and suggestions. The hype in the technology sector has been in overdrive for the past few years. First, we had cryptocurrencies....
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