By @edent · dns fediverse mastodon · 5 comments · 500 words · read ~305 times.
How should I design my personal DNS for all the cool new Federated Services and IndieWeb protocols? Way back in the early 2000s, I started this website - shkspr.mobi. A few years later, I added a blog. I could have used the main domain, or created a subdomain like blog.shkspr.mobi. In the end, I chose […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fediverse MastodonAPI · 1 comment · 500 words · read ~868 times.
Computer Science has two canonical "hard problems": cache invalidation naming things off-by-one errors Let's talk about how we name unique items in Federated services - for example, posts on a social media service. If you have only one service, it's pretty easy. Every time a new entry is created in a database, give it a […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fediverse mastodon ReDeCentralize · 22 comments · 1,000 words · read ~4,015 times.
Twitter's over, my dudes! And now everyone is on Mastodon! But Mastodon isn't a site, it is a federated network running an interoperable protocol! Yay for ActivityPub0! Anyway, that means there isn't one Mastodon website. There are many. There is only one Twitter. There is only one Facebook. There is only one Instagram. If you […]
Continue reading →By @edent · blogging ethics fediverse mastodon twitter WebMention WordPress · 23 comments · 700 words · read ~440 times.
This blog uses WebMention technology. If you write an article on your website and mention one of my blog posts, I get a notification. That notification can then be published as a comment. It usually looks something like this: This means readers of my post can see where it has been mentioned around the web. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fediverse mastodon WordPress · 6 comments · 450 words · read ~1,423 times.
Everyone0 is decamping from Twitter to Mastodon! The great thing about the Federated Internet (hereafter the "Fediverse") is that it is distributed. The bad thing is… it is distributed! What do I mean by that? Here's an example of the problems with decentralised systems. If I want to create a link on a website which […]
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