fediverse

V.H. Belvadi’s theme for the January 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, On the importance of friction, is an invitation for me to gather various threads that I have found in my reading in the last few weeks, and indeed to practise that friction in writing this post.1 As I slowed down over the New Year and spent more time on slow and deep reading, I saw that other bloggers were also developing more intentional reading practices. Jeremy Friesen customised his Mastodon and Emacs setup, ...

Introductions for complete newcomers Fedi.Tips – Comprehensive introductory guides to Mastodon and the wider Fediverse How the ‘Fediverse’ Works (and Why It Might Be the Future of Social Media) – Lifehacker introductory article (October 2024) Photo and video Note ...

I still have friends and family whose online social experience is only on Facebook and its cousins. I periodically post reminders there to say that I’m not active on Facebook and my Hello page here always has my current contact details. In the spirit of PESOS (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate on Own Site), here’s a copy of my most recent reminder post. Periodic reminder that I’m not really here on this hellsite and you can contact/connect with me through any of the methods listed on https://www.claudinec.net/hello/ ...

Another mass migration from a certain micro-blogging hellsite to better alternatives is underway, and some of us on Mastodon and its cousins are trying to make Mastodon and the Fediverse more friendly and welcoming to newcomers. I have started a small guide to the Fediverse – at this stage, really just a guide to better guides that others have created, and a list of some of the friendly Mastodon servers that a newcomer might want to join. ...

Follow/subscribe (no need to like) RSS feeds for: Here Everything Blog posts Hugo automatically generates RSS/Atom feeds for this site and every section and tag within it.1 Thanks, Hugo! You can add index.xml to the end of any URL ending with a slash on this site to get the corresponding feed address. Elsewhere Mastodon2 What’s a feed? A web feed3 is a stream, river, or firehose4 of content on a whole website, website section, or social profile, (usually) ordered chronologically, which you can follow alongside other feeds in the feed reader of your choice. So, instead of starting your lunch break by opening a web browser and clicking your bookmarks for your twenty favourite websites (not that there’s anything wrong with that), you can open your feed reader to see what those twenty (or 200, or 2,000) sites have posted or updated since your last visit. ...