Notices by Alan Levine (cogdog@cosocial.ca)

@_elena heard @pluralistic describe Bluesky as “federatable but not federated” pairing with his description of it as the big party in a warehouse with no fire exits.

And why do I never hear people ask BS will pay for itself? It’s gotta start extracting something from its partiers.

@stefan Actually there's even more to this story- the "vague but exciting" comment was not supposed to be shared

https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2020/12/the-untold-story-of-the-birth-of-world-wide-web-putting-the-record-straight.html

Noticed a neat feature (I hope) with the WordPress AcivityPub plugin- looks like it takes care of accessibility aware camel casing of tags to Mastodon hashtags.

Amirite, or imagining, @pfefferle ??

The best crafted Alt-text can provide accessibility to visual impaired folks but can at the same time provide explanation for us with eyes. Heck I learned the word "grimoire"

This from @pluralistic

Now if only Mastodon would provide the alt-text to me so I could copy/paste it without going through OCR, I could share it easily as example.

Please provide visible #Alt -text for all

@pfefferle@mastodon.social @pfefferle@notiz.blog Not to intrude on this conversation between you two happy people, but this looks like a reply, yet in two devices checked, I never see the original post.

Small things that cause fedi-confusion

@evan Also and not exactly what you seek but three is an open course on open education, Learning in A Digital World https://course.oeru.org/lida103/ that uses Mastodon in the course as its social channel https://course.oeru.org/lida103/learning-pathways/orientation/oeru-social-network/

@evan There is a pilot running by an org named SURF in the Netherlands that is providing an instance for all university educators/researchers in the country.

https://www.surf.nl/en/about-the-mastodon-pilot

I can ask some colleagues if there are any ties with courses.

The life of posts “Social posts die with the passage of time, whereas blog posts gain life from it!” https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/blog-vs-social-posts/

@aral That’s amazing. I had to click. It was blank! No more. So it neatly persists?

@evan heal well, the fediverse is rooting for you.

@evan @270016 @samsethi The index is awesome. Now wondering why I needed to fiddle with adding ActivityPub to my WordPress podcast site when this is doing it for me,.

Also impressed as PodcastIndex included one I have not done a new episode since 2020.

Wonder if there is some potential connectivity with On Demand Smart Links https://odesli.co/

@pfefferle Is it possible to redo/kick ActivityPub for a podcast post I published, but forgot to assign the correct author?

@pfefferle @oeglobal @voices

My parent theme does not have an audio post format, but would be easy to add in my child theme.

Does not look like an audio block in source, but there is metadata in an "itemscope" div (swimming outside my tech level here) .

Have a new episode to post today will see how it federates out. Thanks

@pfefferle @oeglobal @voices I'm honored to hear from the cook behind the plugin!

We use Blubrry PowerPress, my first test was just a post, not an episode, but getting ready to publish one ASAP. I was curious to see if an audio link is rendered in the post.

Hmmm, must admit that adding the ActivityPub to a WordPress site is officially slick. First effort with our @oeglobal podcast site https://voices.podcast.oeglobal.org

First changed all old posts ti a new user named "voices", enabled plugin, and boom! Off the races. Follow @voices

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