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Engagement Farming: A Disease of the Modern Internet
Sitting here on a day off from work, not really gaming, not really doing much anything besides sipping a soda, and thinking about cooking up some noodles. There’s got to be something worthwhile to write about, at least, right? Not according to a large amount of people who use Twitter, Threads, and other forms of…
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Anti-Social Media: Corporations Just Don’t Get it
I keep trying to like Threads. I know, I know, this is a massively unpopular thing to do on the fediverse, but I tend not to do what other people want me to do until I’ve come to concrete decisions and ideas on my own, through my own experience. There’s a lot of the internet,…
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Initiate the Protocol: Nova Online Now Federating!
Over the past couple of months, or, since the beginning of the year, I’ve been tinkering around with moving, completely, toward ActivityPub. From taking my Twitter activity and killing it in its entirety so that I can run my instance at mkultra, to replacing Instagram with my Pixelfed, to replacing Youtube with my Peertube, and…
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#Threadipact
As some, or many, may know, a lot, or maybe even just a few instances across the activitypub fediverse have pacted to block federation with the corporate giant Meta, or to be more specific, Threads. Threads is a new take on the Twitter experience, meant to be a kinder, less hostile place to post. All-in-all,…
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The “FediPact” & How to Make Your Own Choices
Ever since Meta launched Threads, there have been talks around Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse about what will happen when Threads eventually makes a full ActivityPub connection. The main worry is that data collection will increase across the fediverse, and smaller instances will be snuffed out by extreme user demands (having to do…