Notices by Jeff Sikes (box464@mastodon.social), page 2

This is surprising. I heard the Tim Berners-Lee had created a fediverse account, guess we know why now!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/world_wide_web_foundation_closes/

Bandwagon.fm, a federated music platform, being streamed from Owncast, a federated live streaming platform, being shown to you on Mastodon, a federated social media platform.

https://live.theindiebeat.fm/

#Fediforum

#Fediforum has a Saturday schedule, and it's starting in less than two hours. You can still register to attend, with some (almost) free tickets available at $1.99 if the regular rate is too high - a bargain for attending a single day of the event.

My favorite part is the demos - you get to see the people behind the sites and apps you use (or will be using), demoing their latest fediverse related projects!

https://fediforum.org/

#FediForum #Fediverse #FediDev

I’m new to pins but having fun with them. Here’s my set for the #Dreamforce conference next week.

I want something that communicates my mask preferences but haven’t figured that one out yet.

Catching up on the #Fediforum event today through @hello live blog.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/fediforum-september-2024/

@thomasfuchs Whaaat?!

@subclub is a new way to add a paid subscriber link to your fediverse profile, allowing you to create subscriber only content! You get a really nice "Subscribe" button on the Mammoth and Ice Cubes app.

If you are a fediverse app developer and interested in adding this to your app, reach out to subclub directly and they can get your started!

Here's a walk through of how to get it setup.

https://video.everythingbagel.me/w/rXvUZeaU1b2rnaXGVKzsPe

#FediDev #MastodonApp #MastoDev #Fediverse #Mastodon

Tumblr will be rebuilt with a Wordpress backend, possibly opening the door (finally!) to the fediverse.

https://automattic.com/2024/08/27/shipping-tumblr-and-wordpress/

#Fediverse #Tumblr #Wordpress #FediNews

My husband is on a business trip, and he got to visit the actual house the movie “A Christmas Story” was filmed in. FYI both the main and the neighbors house are available as AirBnB stays.

Be sure to drink your ovaltine, kids!

Fediverse discovery with Flipboard and other user created tools

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-discover-interesting-people-fediverse-flipboard-inc-fysvc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

#Fediverse

@mastometrics is a unique way to look at statistics about your own account - for free. It's even connected directly from your profile in the @IceCubesApp app.

But all that data and storage costs money! Please consider contributing to keep this service going - and if the goal is reached, open sourced to make it self-hostable.

https://ko-fi.com/robertvh

#FediFund #OpenSource #Mastodon #MastoDev #FediDev

Reply controls are coming to GoToSocial, and will work with Pixelfed and Peertube's similar offerings. Lots of other goodies around the corner with this platform as well.

https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@gotosocial/statuses/01J3ZM6N4VQ1NS60RHGAVVWMFC

#GoToSocial #Pixelfed #PeerTube

My spouse, a very non techie person, is finally exhausted with Twitter and has asked me to setup their account on Mastodon. They are extremely political, a serial booster that could give Lisa Melton a run for her money, and an avid longhorn football fan.

Starting by requesting their Twitter archive. Then let’s see how many of their followings I can find on Mastodon / Bluesky / Threads.

Just read an email newsletter from @newsmast about their upcoming Patchwork platform. It’s a plugin system to extend existing fediverse platforms.

One of their upcoming plugins will be local only posts. It’s a nice feature I used on Firefish, allowing nonfederated community discussions. Looking forward to it!

https://newsmast.social/@newsmast/112807985173916786

#Fediverse #FediNews #ActivityPub #FediDev

@aral :blobcat:

@aral I’m going to be perfectly honest I have considered installing Kitten just to see that shell on my laptop 🐱

The Internet Archive has several technical job openings right now, including a Website Software Engineer and DevOps Engineer.

https://archive.org/about/jobs.php

#FediHire #JobSeekers

The domain firefish.social was up for auction today and it sold for at least $12, I didn't see the final bid because I got busy at work and forgot about it.

I hope it went to someone with good intentions.

#Firefish #Forkeys

TIL when you upload a video file to Mastodon, it generates a preview thumbnail. The thumbnail isn't passed through to other servers in the ActivityPub payload (similar to preview cards).

Each receiving platform handles this situation differently. Some regenerate a thumbnail (processing again). Some ignore it and don't show one. Others create blank thumbnails to appease the Mastodon API.

A blurhash is passed, tho, and could be used as a placeholder.

#FediDev #Mastodon

Ghost will be using the open source Fedify server framework to manage the activitypub bits and pieces of their service.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-4/?ref=build-log-newsletter

#FediDev #ActivityPub #Fedify #Ghost