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Seth of the Fediverse @phillycodehound.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

@reiver @rwg's book was mentioned in so so many sessions today

Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

@khleedril for me, it's the link generation. I generate a link, I share it, and then it doesn't work. I have to scramble to generate a new one as people wait.

Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Is it just me, or has #zoom become buggier and less reliable in the last few months for anyone else?

(Standard Fediverse request: please don't tell me about alternatives to Zoom. I run some. I know what they are. Thank you)

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Lily Cohen @lily.sharkey.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@[email protected] I will echo this same offer for up to two communities! I'll do the install, maintenance, upkeep, and keep the lights on. I have the automation to be able to run any of these:
- Mastodon
- Pixelfed
- GoToSocial
- Sharkey
- Akkoma
- Bonfire

And for that matter if anyone […]

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Because we need more #dogsofmastodon, here is Agnes.

A black and brown mutt dog lying on a grey tile floor. The dog's name is Agnes and she is the best dog ever.

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hey, if you live in the USA and you want to shop local AND get free shipping on my book, Bookshop.org is doing an 'anti-prime day' sale […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"On the Web, marketers leverage this kind of information to better target their ads. Perhaps alternative rock fans could receive ads for nonfiction books written by liberal authors, while country music fans could receive ad for books by conservative authors." Schwartz, Webonomics (1997)

#nowreading

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]

The biggest indicator of the success of ActivityPub is that it survived the stress-test of millions of new people signing up in the wake of Musk’s purchase of Twitter. As I discussed in the previous chapter, those new […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

[DEEE-TROIT]

BASK-ET-BALL

Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]

There is another reason to refer to Mastodon as noncentralized: Mastodon isn’t the only federated social media available. In his 2018 eruption, Rochko pointed to “the alternatives.” He wasn’t telling people to go back to […]

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0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae) @0x4d6165.wanderingwires.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

[Bluesky news, racism]

Please don't pretend that fedi is some bastion of progressiveness in opposition to bluesky. Yes the CEO is very bad and they're basically centralized, but fedi is super racist too. Don't let bluesky's fuck ups make you forget ours. If we want a social media that's […]

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Ecologia Digital @josemurilo.mato.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

"The annual conference of the Association of #internetresearchers is fast approaching! Scheduled for mid-October in #brazil, hundreds of Internet scholars (like me!) will convene to do what we do: share cat pictures.
This post is a guide for my fellow AoIRistas who want to discuss #aoir2025 and […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]

In 2015, there was a tremendous amount of anger over Facebook’s emotional contagion study. Facebook researchers partnered with academics at Cornell and the University of California—San Francisco to study how emotion-laden […]

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Aram Sinnreich @aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Maybe we should try being good to one another for a while and see how that works out

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

And smack-dab in the middle is one blaring about Trump and conservatism and how the woke left is destroying everything.

Like, how tf is that related? It's literally the opposite. The only explanation is YouTube kowtowing to Trumpism.

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I don't use YouTube much at all. I don't sign in, I do my best to delete cookies, I use VPNs when I do bring it up, and a whole host of adblockers and Javascript blockers.

For a reason I won't go into, I received a link to a mindfulness video from someone. I went to the link. Along the side […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@riverpunk I do my very, very best to avoid too much technical (and academic) jargon.

For example, one thing I did was use the metaphor of email to describe the fediverse, hoping that familiar example would help. I have a chapter on the development of ActivityPub, but it's very focused on the […]

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Aram Sinnreich @aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Most American Jews I know are horrified by Netanyahu's war crimes, sickened that it's been done in our name, appalled by Nazi-MAGA's fascist policies undertaken in the name of combating anti-Semitism, and terrified by the anti-Jewish backlash from our friends on the left.

We talk about it a lot […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]

Aral Balkan is one half of the Small Technology Foundation....

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com

#moveslowlyandbuildbridges #bot

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

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Furbland Channel does not use Bluesky. Find him on Mastodon! @groupnebula563.bsky.social · 5d

THE FEDIVERSE, FOR BLUESKY USERS (a thread):
(please reblog, for visibility)

First off, so happy you're making the jump! We're sure you'll love it here! To learn about #Mastodon and the #Fediverse, I suggest this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bgQ...

Mastodon in 180 Seconds 🐘

YouTube video by Smartyflix

www.youtube.com

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Hey! If you're new to the fediverse and curious about it, may I humbly suggest my new book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges?

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com/

It offers a history of Mastodon and discusses the highs and lows of content moderation and governance on the fediverse. This is a […]

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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.

#uspolitics

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

[uspol]

surely some comedian is writing jokes about the shutdown being an excellent way to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files right now

Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

This is probably a dumb question, but can't ICE Block be reimplemented as a website?

With Apple doing this, and Google's Android severly restricting side loading, it seems to me people ought to start bulding websites again.

#iceblock #apple #google

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