I asked a question in Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko's upcoming AMA today on Reddit.

"Are you concerned that the workload of Mastodon instance admins since the mass exodus from Twitter will be more than some can handle, leading to shutdowns that leave a lot of users frustrated? Being decentralized is great but it depends on tireless and sometimes thankless work from the volunteers running the instances."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/zqfr4h/comment/j0zig1f/

His username is NotJohnMastodon. 😃 #indieweb

@darnell @Kichae @trevorflowers yeah exactly lolll. like he tweeted about #indieweb months ago for Tumblr and internally I ran with it. started talking with folks, had some calls, came up with a plan... and then nothing. never got engineers or funding.

there seems to be more momentum for AP, so we'll see. but Matrix?? lollllll

also I have a Matrix server. every time I try to find good public rooms in it's mostly porn or crypto scams lol

Network effect

Mastodon is not a platform. Mastodon is just a tiny part of a concept many have been dreaming about and working on for years. Social media started on the wrong foot. The idea for the read/write web has always been different. Our digital identities weren’t supposed to end up in something like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram.

Decentralisation, Federation, The Indie Web: There were many groups silently working on solving the broken architecture of our digital social networks and communication channels – long, long before the ā€œweb 3ā€ dudes tried to reframe it as their genius new idea.

I’ve been a part of this for many years until I gave up hope. How would you compete against the VC money, the technical and economical benefits of centralised platforms? It was a fight between David and Gloiath. But now Mastodon could be the stone.

#mastodon #fedivers #portable #social #networks #portability #decentralisation #federation #indieweb #platforms

Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Mastodon has gotten two things right that no other social media giant has even seriously attempted:

  1. If you follow someone on Mastodon, you’ll see everything they post; and
  2. If you leave a Mastodon server, you can take both your followers and the people you follow with you.

The most common criticism of Mastodon is that you must rely on individual moderators who may be underresourced, incompetent on malicious. This is indeed a serious problem, but it isn’t the same serious problem that Twitter has. When Twitter is incompetent, malicious, or underresourced, your departure comes at a dear price.

On Mastodon, your choice is: tolerate bad moderation, or click two links and move somewhere else.

On Twitter, your choice is: tolerate moderation, or lose contact with all the people you care about and all the people who care about you.

#mastodon #twitter #fediverse #portable #social #networks #portability

Hello @Gargron I am just curious whether you believe this issue will be reconsidered - https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12915. The workaround doesn't work for me and it would be nice to have this feature work in #bridgy for #wordpress and #mastodon.#indieweb

I was just musing to myself about #IndieKit once again.

Turns out @paulrobertlloyd is announcing the #opensource #indieweb #nodej server on the way to a v1.0: https://paulrobertlloyd.com/articles/2022/12/indiekit/

Congrats, Paul!

@bobwyman What about #indieweb? Or, just, the web?

I feel the social web is today what the web has always been. Open, federated, decentralized.

6 years ago I gave a talk about the #IndieWeb at work. Here are the slides: https://jeena.net/media/2016/IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf

#POSSE
If you're having trouble crossposting from your (silos) accounts
#IndieWeb

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Kære social.data.coop folk (og internettet generelt): Jeg self-hoster (selv-hoster?) et lille udpluk af værktøjer til personligt brug (shaarli, dokuwiki, TT RSS). Hvad mangler jeg i min værktøjskasse, som du ikke selv kan leve uden?

#selvhoster #selfhosting #indieweb #foss #software #DanskerTrut #DkMastodon

@lonseidman wow, my worlds colliding! I've been following your YouTube for years now!

I'd love to chat more about this. I've been putting a bunch of #IndieWeb principles to work on my YouTube channel as well!

#IndieWeb people, I am trying to setup https://fed.brid.gy on my site but I keep getting a 400 when it tries to parse my h-card.

Bridgy says it cannot find it the h-card, but the html is there. Has anyone seen this before?

On my YouTube channel tonight I’ll be discussing some ways I’ve implemented #indieweb practices into my work. I’ll also look at some things I’d like to do in the future.

Would love to get some feedback from the experts ! Video goes live at 6:45 pm and will also be linked here when it goes live.

Mastodon breaks with my adherence to POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) so I've been doing weekly digests to be sure I have a record of things I can be confident in lasting. Embedding makes it easier for posts I shared, and I can add in my own stuff properly included in the blog entry. Here's what I made this week:

https://apollolemmon.com/2022/12/18/social-digest-2022-12-11-2022-12-17/

It's definitely a bit unwieldy. Has anyone else come up with a good way to maintain POSSE?

#POSSE #IndieWeb

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Wanna set this up yourself? If you have a static site, it's pretty easy!

Just download your current Mastodon account's webfinger response, e.g. for my account here this is: https://botsin.space/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:ryanfb@botsin.space

Now, just make this file available at yourdomain.example/.well-known/webfinger, and all Mastodon searches for accounts on your domain will respond with your current profile!

(I also edited the "subject" field in mine to use e.g. "acct:ryan@ryanfb.xyz" which is maybe not necessary)

#indieweb

Been into webrings lately. @sadness has a really cool 'Surf the Web' page: https://sadgrl.online/cyberspace/surf-the-web.html that helped me get started. Many thanks, sadness! #webdev #web #indieweb #website #webring

šŸ‘€ Hi hello, yes - I know what I'll be doing after work: https://getindiekit.com/

#indieweb