"If all you are after is an audience, please stay on commercial #SocialMedia. Good luck; I hope you find it. If you are looking for a #community, this place is great. I will never make it big, but making it little has been pretty awesome."
@lardmotel is Tom Ellard who was a member of the Australia experimental electronic music group SEVERED HEADS. Tom has done many things over the years and is an amazingly creative person in #electronicmusic, #video#synthesis and #art
He likes the idea of the #fediverse follow and engage with Tom
I didn't know how much I missed them since I went from #Mastodon to #GoToSocial and previous versions of GoToSocial didn't have filters implemented yet.
Now that they have been added filters to GoToSocial v0.16.0, it's so nice to be able to filter out things from my feed. Thank you GoToSocial team for all your hard work.
I love talking about decentralized social media platforms and their nuances.
I also love that I can host these social media platforms in my own little corner of the web.
I've dabbled in AP for a year now with my own Mastodon instance. I've been dabbling in Nostr for a few months and am considering starting a Ditto instance/relay.
However, one that I haven't dabbled much in, is BlueSky.
I have an account there as well as having this account bridged through BridgyFed, but I still fail to see the point in trying to host my own BlueSky servers.
For me, the big benefit of hosting a Mastodon/ActivityPub/Ditto/Nostr server is that those systems have their own customizable web frontends that are hosted directly on the domain. But with BlueSky PDS as far as I know, if you go to the domain where one is hosted, it just says something like "This is a ATProto PDS" and can only be interacted with through BlueSky's website.
To me, this isn't "decentralized" because I still have to go to their website to access my account and there's no reason for anyone to go to my domain.
That's why I haven't dabbled in BlueSky so far. Are there plans to change this? Or am I completely wrong and you CAN host your own BlueSky/ATproto frontend on your domain?🤔
Many WordPress web-sites now use the ActivityPub plugin, which federates the web-site with the rest of the Fediverse.
I've quite come to like the idea of such an integration — if only people would comment some more :-)
What has bothered me a bit, is that plenty of Fediverse posts coming from WordPress blogs contain the entire post, which is sometimes very long. Get a few of those in a search result on your phone, and you'll be scrolling a lot for very little gain.
The problem is that when configuring the ActivityPub plugin, the only options are either the entire content, or just the excerpt. If you actually use the excerpt field as intended, that's either everything or at most 150 characters.
We need something in between. Fortunately, there's a way.
Dominion Media Television keeps knocking it out of the park. It's a shame I haven't convinced the author to come over here to the #Fediverse yet, but I will, one day.