Alex L @alexl@mstdn.io

I wrote an article for the Mozilla Hacks blog that's a brief technical introduction to ActivityPub. I also provide an intro to my simple #ActivityPub Node.js server.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/decentralizing-social-interactions-with-activitypub/

"Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why Elon Musk is more important than Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg"

Okay, I'll give you that, but only because you're setting the bar very low.

Man, there are way too many ignorant people talking shit about Wayland around the net

@ckeen @grainloom (if you don't, this is what I'm talking about: https://kver.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/presenting-dwd-a-candidate-for-kde-window-decorations/)

@ckeen @grainloom well, the idea *is* to make it portable. The shell and the terminal emulator would negotiate over some standard escape sequence-based protocol, and that protocol would not be bash- or GTK- specific, it'd work for any toolkit and shell combination. A bit like DWDs if you remember those.

I've made a mock-up to illustrate my ideas about the next-gen terminal experience!

Featuring:
• the pathbar
• username, hostname and git branch displayed in the UI, shrinking the shell prompt back to just a $
• commands as cards
• syntax highlighting, including graying out the output a bit to differentiate it from commands themselves
• autocompletion (displayed in a native widget)
• built-in error handling options
• the time each command took (on the right)

Given all the progress @jdormit has made with #Pterotype, I'm confident that #WeDistribute will be ready for an official launch "very soon".

There's a bunch of CSS/template stuff that I have to clean up; I want to make my site mobile-friendly and all that. But federation works today, and once Mastodon properly adopts some kind of support for the Article activity, it'll look good on this end.

@Julianoe Sure! The idea is that your blog posts and comments will be published in the ActivityPub format (the same format that Mastodon, PeerTube, and a bunch of other apps use). This means that people on Mastodon or the other apps will be able to follow your blog and see the posts right in their timelines.

It's finally here! Version 0.1 of #WriteFreely, the federated, open source version of @write_as 🎉

Get the release for your platform here: https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Then head over to our guide to get set up: https://writefreely.org/start

Thread:

Me and @dimitrisk had been working on stress testing #PlasmaMobile , Some of issues we found are listed on https://notes.kde.org/public/plamo-testing and if needed they are moved to Plasma Mobile phabricator board at http://phabricator.kde.org/tag/plasma%3A_mobile/

Toot, toot ... and we're off! Hi Mastodon community. We're so excited there's this open source and decentralised social network to be a part of. It aligns nicely with our values. We believe in having open source alternatives to all the big names out there 😉

#matomo #piwik #freesoftware #opensource #analytics #privacy

‘WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

At the end of the day, I sold my company,” Acton says. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day.”

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook/2407

The Wordpress plugin for Mastodon Comments work. I adapted the original work of @bjoern

I will be able to release it tomorrow I guess.

- Connect an account
- Choose a selector (default WP id for comments).

Example: https://mastalab.app/2018/09/02/how-to-login/

#Wordpress #Mastodon #comments

I use now #Mastodon to enable comments and to show likes and reshares on my otherwise static webpage. I wrote a small JavaScript and PHP script for it which you can find here: https://gitlab.com/BeS/hugo-sustain-ng/tree/master/static/mastodon.comments Feel free to reuse it. 🙂 #comments #blog

IG Import is ready! Now to finish federated following 👌 #pixelfed

I have been notified by an Admin here that they are getting 60 reports a day about my account. As far as I can tell, I'm not breaking any rules, and I've done my best to be a good person here. But this admin is going to suspend my account.

It's the Admin's instance, so I fully support their choice to eliminate a source of frustration, but something to consider: a person who is doing nothing wrong can be run off one instance by a mob from another instance. That seems ... not cool. 1/x

@dansup Funfact: this feature was actually introduced by the open source and federated social platform Diaspora, not google.