@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Happy Fediversary Stefan! 🥳 ✨ The Fediverse is a better place with you in it. Thank you for everything you do.
P.S.: I hope you will find a new server for your bots and the move will be smooth and painless
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online ok so I'm beet red and hiding my face in shame... I was putting on my FULL url instead of just the server name. Thanks for the heads-up, Stefan. I just added my Mastodon signature 🙈
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I just tried again with Mastodon, Sharkey, Pixelfed and Friendica (in that order) and I still got the same error message 😭
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Thanks Stefan! I tried multiple times with my Mastodon and Sharkey account (calckey.world) – they both produced the error message.
Let me try with Pixelfed now... and if that fails, Friendica 😅
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Stefan! I LOOOOVE your "fediverse invitation for artists" – I tried to add my signature but ran into a problem (error message / not supported) so feel free to manually add my name to it.
THANK YOU for all the fantastic work you're doing ✨
@tom@tomkahe.com oooh interesting Tom but I rarely see alt text in the Threads app. Not sure what’s going on
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩🚀
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"
<https://blog.elenarossini.com/beyond-technical-features-why-we-need-to-talk-about-the-values-of-the-fediverse-part-2/>
mentioning: @alttexthalloffame@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @ivory@tapbots.social @IceCubesApp@mastodon.online @Tusky@mastodon.social @Simx72@tkz.one @phanpy@hachyderm.io @jon@henshaw.social @mathi_gwithyas@ohai.social @rysiek@mstdn.social
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online thank you for sharing Stefan! 🙏
@tsargoth@draconity.me @lenarossini.com it’s awesome isn’t it?
I’m just sad about the big mess Wordpress is in right now 😩
@shollyethan@fosstodon.org aw I hadn’t even thought about that! 🤦🏻♀️ thank you for making a great point Ethan, I’ll edit my post to add your comment
My "spray and pray" approach to coding worked once again 😆
I LOVE seeing the author tag linking to my Mastodon profile under previews of my blog posts: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-great-day-for-writers-introducing-mastodon-author-tags/
Thank you @Mastodon@mastodon.social team! This is awesome.
(For the record, this is really easy to do on Wordpress - a little trickier for Ghost, thus the mention of my "spray and pray" approach)
Edit: as @shollyethan@fosstodon.org smartly suggested, Ghost has a “code injection” tab (so it’s easy there too!)
Please don't mind me - trying to see if the #Mastodon author attribution code worked for my Ghost blog (had to edit a HBS file and not sure if I did the right thing):
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-great-day-for-writers-introducing-mastodon-author-tags/
🙃
An update of sorts: I just added the code to my Wordpress sites - easy peasy!
I also attempted to do this with my #GhostIO blog. I edited a couple of .hbs files with "head" and "header" in their names. My spray and pray approach LOL. Well, it worked for my federated Wordpress blogs, hoping the same holds true here. All fingers and toes crossed 😅
HUGE thanks to @robb@social.lol for writing a clear, easy-to-follow #guide on how to enable #Fediverse author attribution on blogs/websites - so that it will show up under the link card: <https://rknight.me/blog/setting-up-mastodon-author-tags/>
#blog #journalism #mastodonupdate #webdev
@dansup@mastodon.social @jaz@toot.wales amazing idea (and implementation)!!! 👏
Good morning and good Monday Fedi friends!
I've been doing a bit of housekeeping on my #GhostIO #blog. You can now find all my essays for #TheFutureIsFederated (and subscribe to receive future articles) on this page:
<https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/the-future-is-federated/>
This week I'm planning to publish part 2 in my mini series about the values of the #Fediverse. Thank you for all your input and advice about #AltText so far.
Wishing you all a lovely week!
@laurenlopes@mastodon.social see I was totally serious - your comment made my day 😂
@laurenlopes@mastodon.social haha I love it! ❤️ I'll screenshot this and print it out / tape it to my monitor 😂 🤣
@laurenlopes@mastodon.social I'm not sure about that.
But the Fediverse is really all about building genuine connections (as opposed to growing followers / vanity metrics) so I wouldn't worry about that
@laurenlopes@mastodon.social P.S.: Lauren it may be a good idea to write an #introduction post (using that hashtag) and pin it at the top of your profile 🤗 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/
@laurenlopes@mastodon.social 😂 people here are the nicest!
Welcome again Lauren 😊
Dear Fedi friends,
Can you please join me in giving a warm welcome to @laurenlopes@mastodon.social?
Lauren and I interacted on Threads, where she stumbled upon some of my posts from #TheFutureIsFederated and became curious about the #Fediverse (please Lauren correct me if I'm wrong).
Well, earlier this week Lauren joined #Mastodon 🥳
It always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when I see someone climb over the walled gardens of Big Tech platforms to explore the Fediverse.
Welcome Lauren!!!
@pixelfed@mastodon.social @loops@pixelfed.social @nlnet@nlnet.nl congratulations @dansup@mastodon.social !!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
This is what the future of publishing looks like 🚀
It makes me feel so happy to log onto my #Wordpress site and see this new #ActivityPub menu item about the number of followers of my blog from the #Fediverse. And comments awaiting moderation, which are usually Fediverse replies to my federated blog post. It's just so cool!!! (Yes, I will probably keep gushing about this for another month or so, please bear with me) 🤗
Where it all began: <https://elenarossini.com/2024/07/hello-fediverse/>
#blog
Hello Fedi Friends!
Please do not think that my interest in the #Fediverse has waned because I haven’t published a new piece for #TheFutureIsFederated in 2 weeks.
I’ve been writing an EPIC post about the values of the Fediverse - a love letter to it, really - that has ballooned to 12 min reading time (and I only covered 2/3 of the points I wanted to make).
I’ll split the post in 2 parts… and may publish something this afternoon. Thank you for everything, I think you may enjoy this new piece ❤️
I'm preparing a new article for #TheFutureIsFederated about the values of the Fediverse & FOSS communities (vs. Big Tech platforms).
Something that I LOVE about the #Fediverse is the encouragement to use #AltText in pics... for accessibility / people with visual impairements / ppl using screenreaders.
I see you can add #Alttext to images posted on #Threads but where do you read those descriptions?
Or is nobody using it on Threads?
If you have an example, please LMK. Thanks! 🙏
#AskFedi
And #Peertube gets a shout out by @josh@josh.tel during the opening & welcome at #MatrixConf:
"The conference is being livestreamed on YouTube right now... on PeerTube someday". YESSSSSS!!! 🙌
#TheFutureIsFederated #fediverse
Oh what a wild ride these past 3 months have been.
As I deepen my explorations of the #Fediverse and #foss projects I feel like I've become a new person.
As outlined in this post from last week, in early June I "only" had a Mastodon account: <https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/>
Fast-forward to mid-September and I now have 9 Fediverse accounts, I'm exploring Matrix and its bridges, I'm watching videos from #Fosdem and I say things like "Misskey is my Everest" (because most of its servers are in Japanese)
And I just joined another #Fediverse project (#Matrix) so that I can write about it for a future issue of #thefutureisfederated
LOVING the #Element app - it looks really modern and elegant. And it's very intuitive and easy to use.
If you have any Matrix rooms to recommend, I'm all ears 🤗
Funny how this blog post of mine from 5 DAYS ago is already out-of-date, as I "only" had 9 Fediverse accounts then: <https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/>
Elena Rossini ⁂ @mastodon.social Italian filmmaker, photographer and activist based in Paris, France 🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary 📖 Neil Postman aficionada 💌 #TheFutureIsFederated ✏️ Wordpress blog: @ele