Mastodon

via Will Bishop: 🚀 Stomp is now available 🚀

via Automadon: Automadon is live in the App Store!

via Johannes Ernst: I don’t think too many people in the Fediverse know of the groundbreaking, but quite accessible research Elinor Ostrom did on the Commons, which eventually won her the Nobel Price. Commons = a resource shared by a group and that together manages that resource for the good of all. … Can we do better?

via Mac Power Users podcast: 703: The Portable HomePod Mini Lifestyle: If you are a Mastodon user, you have probably come across the issue where you find a link … but it opens on an instance or a server that maybe you weren’t expecting. If you’re like me and run [an instance] just for yourself, then sometimes those URLs can be a bit messy. Homecoming for Mastodon is a Safari extension that basically just adds a button … it will open a page from another instance in your own.

via Boris Mann: Kissane’s latest covers some “informal, conversational feedback” of people who had tried Mastodon but it hadn’t worked for them. This is really useful, primary research.

Notes from a Mastodon migration https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration/n

via David Revoy: I may have found an alternative solution to my blog's commenting system! 😺

via Lisa Melton: So, I finally published that blog post about the algorithm driving my toot boosting AI here:

via Daniel Supernault: You gotta watch this and see how easy Sign-in with Mastodon really is!

via Boris Mann:

A really great read on the nuanced issues around federating with large instances that the Woof Group server wrote up.

via Charles Roper: I’ve been messing about with the Lemmy 🔁 Mastodon interop today and it has BLOWN MY MIND. 🤯

via i am root: I enjoyed following the #Phish hashtag during a show tonight. Pro-tip for those with single-user instances, or for any Mastodon admins so inclined – you can use the FediBuzz Relay to bring all posts using a specific hashtag from across the Fediverse into your federated feed:

via Fedi.Tips: If you (or your employer) own an official website, you can verify your account on Mastodon as official. You insert some specific HTML code into your own site, which makes your Mastodon profile’s site link turn green.

via Nelson Minar 🧚‍♂️: Found a somewhat usable workaround for searching my own Mastodon posts; download an archive and then use the Meow viewer to search them. There's a bunch of archive viewers, Meow is nice for running in your browser.

Tantek Çelik: Mastodon ActivityPub follow form update

Interesting discussion about incorporating Mastodon replies as comments in Zola. Won’t be directly incorporated into Zola, but some interesting links to follow in the discussion.

via Waldo Jaquith: A few weeks ago I wrote about how viral Mastodon posts get hundreds of replies, but most people can see only a small fraction of those replies, and bad UX results. Here’s a solution for folks running smaller Mastodon servers.

Interesting and perhaps controversial idea: Lead with the CTA and social media posts.

via narF 🎲: I’m glad to see the different #ActivityPub apps organizing together to build improvements.

Via Charles Johnson: I’ve been building a much better way to embed Mastodon posts in a blog or wiki or whatever, simply by pasting in a post’s URL.

It uses a revamped version of the Mastodon embed.js script, that can be used to correctly size dynamically embedded posts. It’s just one piece of the puzzle, but that code is here if you’d like to give it a try:

StreetPass is a cool new browser extension that uses Mastodon’s verification system in a clever way. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site. StreetPass lets you know when you’ve found one of these links, and adds them to your list. As you browse the web, StreetPass will build a list of Mastodon users that belong to the websites you visit.

Via Derek Prior: You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.

Tantek Çelik: 11 years ago today, Ryan Barrett launched Bridgy to copy #socialmedia replies as comments on original blog posts. This meant those of us building #IndieWeb sites could use a service for that functionality, instead of having to write code ourselves, for each proprietary API.

You can now comment on blog posts on Coding with Jesse! I turned off comments years ago, because I was getting tons of spam. But recently, with my return to social media, I decided to integrate Mastodon to give people a way to comment on and interact with my articles.