Tag: ActivityPub

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon

I agree with everything that Dave Winer says here, except the part about WordPress not knowing what they have – I think they actually do. Anyway, let the dawning of the day where we take back control of our writing begin!

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon

Like I said the other day, I doubt if Automattic knows what they have. I seriously doubt it. But in a few years, we’re going to look back on this as the moment when Twitter stopped controlling our writing, as they have since 2006.

I have a new mastodon account – sort of

The microblogging service that I use, micro.blog, has enabled Mastodon compatible usernames. What does this mean? Well I don’t know completely. As I’ve demonstrated before, I haven’t completely figured out ActivityPub, or IndieWeb, or Federated Fediverse – but I’m trying 😀

Anyway, my username for Micro.blog is @andyrush@micro.blog

Mastodon and ActivityPub – Developers – Micro.blog Help Center:

We’ve enabled a Mastodon-compatible username for your Micro.blog account. This means that you can follow anyone on Mastodon from within Micro.blog, and anyone on Mastodon can follow your blog.

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