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 · HowTo mastodon Social Media · 4 comments · 450 words · read ~937 times.
I do not care for the game of Rugby. After many wet and cold days on the school sports field, I had any latent enthusiasm for it beaten out of me. There is nothing you or anyone else can say which will convince me to take an interest in it. You may feel the same […]
Continue reading →By @edent · mastodon MastodonAPI metadata NaBloPoMo ogp · 16 comments · 750 words · read ~373 times.
Mastodon - the distributed social network - has two interesting challenges when it comes to how users share links. I'd like to discuss those issues and suggest a possible way forward. When you click on a link on my website which takes you to another website, your browser sends a Referer0. This says to the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api mastodon MastodonAPI NaBloPoMo python tutorial · 1 comment · 1,600 words · read ~1,102 times.
The social network service "Mastodon" allows people to publish posts. People can reply to those posts. Other people can reply to those replies - and so on. What does that look like in the API? Here's a quick guide to the concepts you need to know - and some code to help you visualise conversations. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · a11y accessibility mastodon MastodonAPI NaBloPoMo twitter · 2 comments · 500 words
Because I don't trust Alan, the Hyperprat who now runs Twitter, I decided to download my Twitter archive before setting my account to dormant. About a decade ago, I wrote about how the Twitter archive works and where it is deficient. Things have got better, but there are still annoying limitations. For example, Hannah Kolbeck […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HowTo mastodon NaBloPoMo Open Source python tutorial · 7 comments · 1,100 words · read ~1,347 times.
Two years ago to the day, I built Twistory - a service for seeing what you posted on Twitter on this day in previous years. If you've ever used Facebook, you'll know how it is supposed to work. You see posts which show that exactly 5 years ago you were starting a new job, 6 […]
Continue reading →By @edent · mastodon NaBloPoMo php WordPress · 3 comments · 300 words · read ~753 times.
WordPress's Jetpack plugin allows you to easily syndicate your blog to Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Email, and a few other services. But there's no native way to publish directly to your Mastodon feed. This is a guide to how I got my blog to publish every new post to Mastodon with a nicely formatted preview. This […]
Continue reading →By @edent · fediverse mastodon WordPress · 6 comments · 450 words · read ~1,424 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 […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api bot mastodon · 21 comments · 650 words · read ~8,015 times.
Twitter is dead! Long live Mastodon! I've written lots of 'bots for Twitter - and been part of their developer outreach programme. Lots of us have politely requested improvements to the bot experience on Twitter, but to no avail. So, today I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily write your first Mastodon-bot. […]
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