Notices by Kevin + Drupal + Beard (kreynen@fosstodon.org)

@ntnsndr I've asked the same question to several early adopters of this approach. How does someone know @lookslikenew exists when the Mastodon icon in the footer of https://lookslikenew.net/ links to @medlab and the "syndication" icon links to https://lookslikenew.net/feed/podcast/.

@ntnsndr Did you consider enabling https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ ? The number of fediverse posts already coming from WP instances is impressive... and a logical evolution of RSS syndication for blogs. I love the idea that CMS instances are declaring a canonical thread to discuss a URL. I would love to see https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub be an option to enable as part of https://websupport.colorado.edu/article/357-newsletter-bundle for CU sites, but it would require "unstacking" the sites

Would you like to see higher adoption of Mastodon in higher education?

Here’s an opportunity “tip the scale” & show #CUBoulder that Mastodon can be an effective part of their social strategy while ALSO supporting an organization doing amazing work in the fediverse. If you use this link to donate to the College of Media, Communication & Information, the source of the donation will show up as coming from Mastodon.

The UI suggests $25, but you can donate as little as $1

https://buffsallin.cu.edu/o/university-of-colorado-boulder-55/i/fy24-cu-boulder-giving-day/s/cmci-deans-fund?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=organic_social

@ntnsndr I don't, but https://www.colorado.edu/digital-accessibility/ might know... or be able to test that for you.

@ntnsndr I don't pretend to completely understand https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/three-flashes-or-below-threshold.html. I've just avoided flashing of any kind since <blink> was deprecated. If you have access to a Windows machine, you can test to see if that gif exceeds the threshold with https://trace.umd.edu/peat/.

@ntnsndr just like Dreamweaver and FrontPage made knowing HTML unnecessary? LLM prompting is just another time saving tool that will produce better results when used by someone who understands the fundamentals of programming and the complexity of designing software. It only looks like a radical change if you aren't watching the incremental progress.