This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
so far it has been removing files not linked to any posts and boy howdy there is a lot of them.
honestly where did these files even come from?
Whoops, my single user instance with 150 gb of storage got filled up again. 🙃
Found this blog post for pruning data and it's helped.
Hey folks! We've published our first round of #web #tutorials using #Agregore and #IPFS
Learn how to build your own development environment from scratch, or how to make a theme editor to customize the look and feel of Agregore and any compatible web apps.
https://agregore.mauve.moe/blog/2023/07/demos-and-tutorials-first-round
Hey folks! I've done a writeup on the #moderation tools we'll be adding to the #DistributedPress #ActivityPub integration.
This is based on talking to folks on here and reading through discussions people have been having around this topic. We'll be using these tools for blogs we post at #HyphaCoop and will be improving them as we go.
https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/issues/77#issuecomment-1654754580
@Rainer potentially our inbox server could be as lightweight as you can get, and then you can use literally any static site hosting thing if you don't want our p2p hosting 😁
@Rainer we're going to have a thing in #DistributedPress in the next couple months for folks doing static site publishing and blogs. We have a jekyll plugin to generate AP data from your blog posts, and a thin "inbox server" that just shows you replies and follow requests and has blocklists/allowlists/manual approval.
K, I think Gaia is calling upon me to make some #Homestuck themed #Matrix and or #Fediverse clients with custom user styling. 😈
Hey folks! I've done a writeup on the #moderation tools we'll be adding to the #DistributedPress #ActivityPub integration.
This is based on talking to folks on here and reading through discussions people have been having around this topic. We'll be using these tools for blogs we post at #HyphaCoop and will be improving them as we go.
https://github.com/hyphacoop/distributed-press-organizing/issues/77#issuecomment-1654754580
@RecursiveElegance @sadiedoreen Yeah it might be good to fork off of the tor browser since they're already doing a lot of work in this area
@sadiedoreen Yeah also folks should make sure to have WebRTC and a bunch of other JS features disabled on their browser to avoid sites stealing your IP through other means.
Video formats should also be avoided since there's been ways to leak your IP from those circumstances as well.
Generally this doesn't matter as much for browsing regular websites. Mostly important if you're doing stuff that governments would want to track.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.