Tag: Mastodon

Turning my blog into a Fediverse server

Seth Anderson0 comment

Ganesha on Montrose

I’m adding this as a weekend project for myself.

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse writes:

If you have a WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server, which means people will be able to follow the blog and comment on it from Mastodon etc.

This is now possible for all kinds of WordPress blogs, including free blogs on wordpress.com, paid blogs on wordpress.com and blogs hosted elsewhere that are powered by WordPress software. The method you use to activate Fediverse compatibility depends on the type of blog you have, but they all work using the same technology.

(click here to continue reading WordPress: Turning your blog into a Fediverse server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse.)

So far, I’ve installed the ActivityPub plugin1 and attempted configuration. I’m not quite sure it is alive yet, but I have to stop for a few hours anyway to attend to other tasks. I’ll check back in and figure out what the final steps will be…

Footnotes:
  1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ [↩]

Using Mastodon Instead Of Twitter

Seth Anderson0 comment

Defunct Tweets

For a week now, I’ve been exploring the open source social media network #Mastodon1. Elon Musk is destroying the usefulness of , firing staff, whining, and seemingly proceeding without a thought-out plan. I haven’t deleted my Twitter accounts, yet, but I’ve started deleting DMs, downloaded my Twitter archive, deleted the official Twitter client from my iOS devices2, unfollowing accounts, blocking accounts more quickly, yada yada. 

I’ve had a Twitter account since 2007, and have been a heavy user of it ever since, for good or bad, I’m not sure. I learned a lot, but also wasted some moments that could have been more productively spent.  

 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Anyway, Mastodon seems like a viable replacement, at least so far. It isn’t the same as Twitter, and there are some things that I wish worked differently, but all in all, worth continuing to use. I’ve had more actual conversations at Mastodon than I have had recently at Twitter, perhaps because there are less people using Mastodon. Or because it is set up differently than Twitter.

Mastodon stats from yesterday:

6,444,017 accounts 


+5,384 in the last hour


+96,257 in the last day


+593,606 in the last week

If you want to follow me over there, use this link.

https://toot.community/@swanksalot

Also, if you can’t decide on which Instance3 to join, you can join the one I joined with this link.

https://toot.community/invite/f6xkp5zF

I gave a few dollars via Patreon to the site host, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to. The site host posted this yesterday:

Some #DevOps statistics for #tootcommunity: There are 70 devices hitting the server, each second. That’s 1.5 million requests for the last 6 hours, in which we sent out 67GB of data.

I’m also testing out posting from WordPress to Mastodon with a new plugin. We’ll see if it works once I publish this post!

Footnotes:
  1. after learning it wasn’t spelled Mastadon [↩]
  2. keeping Twitterrific for the moment [↩]
  3. Mastodon server [↩]