Notices by Jon Henshaw (jon@henshaw.social), page 3

Meanwhile, things are going great on Twitter. @gruber has a good write up about it.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/thorleifsson_musk_twitter

My cat loves this game

#Caturday

David Eastman examines Mastodon's federated approach in a "decentralized Twitter" series he's been doing for The New Stack.

#Mastodon #Federated #Twitter #Decentralized

https://thenewstack.io/build-your-own-decentralized-twitter-part-3-hello-mastodon/

@TracyRussellBlack I think you can just not follow any Tumblr accounts and you’re good. And I doubt people who do follow Tumblr accounts will boost ads. So it’s probably not a big issue if they do.

I realize people are concerned about corporations becoming interested in federated social and how they might ruin a good thing, but I think Tumblr adding ActivityPub support is probably a good thing. However, I am not thrilled about the prospect of platforms like Tumblr inserting ads into feeds, which I see as highly probable.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/

@freakazoid I think servers blocking other servers (aka defederation) will continue to be the method to handle something like this. The entire point of this is to have choice, regardless of ideology and preference. I want the choice and option to follow Tumblr accounts, and if they start publishing ads in people’s feeds, then I can unfollow them. And if Tumblr as a whole becomes offensive or annoying, or finds an exploit that puts ads into my feed, I’ll block them.

I'm revising this post:
https://henshaw.social/@jon/109350358999552255

Instead of normalizing Mastodon, we should be normalizing the Fediverse. It doesn't matter where you link in your byline as long as it's part of the fediverse.

I'm switching the icon to :fediverse: on my articles.

Download Fediverse Logo
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#Journalists #Blog #Writer #Author #Publisher #News #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon