🌿 You don’t need likes to feel seen.
You don’t need trends to feel real.
You don’t need Big Tech to feel connected.
On the fediverse,
📢 your voice echoes without surveillance.
💡 your thoughts breathe without filters.
🤝 your presence matters — without metrics.
No gatekeepers. No greed. No games.
Just people helping people.
Just truth over traffic.
Just freedom over followers.
This is not the future.
This is the correction.
#Mastodon #OwnYourVoice #TechForHumans #UnfilteredConnection
Sunday Paper – Brid.gy, ActivityPub and AT on Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Pretty cool being quoted somewhere else, especially when it’s one of my off-the-cuff gems like this:
“…there’s a 95% chance it was started by someone who was all to ready to be triggered by anything and everything so they could start some shit on the internet at that moment.”
— On the subject of Connecting Federated Social Media Networks – STARRWULFE »federated«
Source: Sunday Paper – Brid.gy, ActivityPub and AT on Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Sunday Paper – Brid.gy, ActivityPub and AT by Khürt Williams (islandinthenet.com)I recently discovered J.L. Gatewood writing but his last blog posts about the GitHub kerfuffle over connecting two social media platforms has been spot on with my thinking about the subject.
The pre-able to On The Subject Of Connecting Federate Social Media Networks sets up the rest of his post:
The…
The past few days on the Fediverse have served to remind me a few things: The internet is as smart and as ignorant (and everything in between) as the macrocosm known as "human civilization" reflects upon it. Sometimes the victims will become the victimizers in any given situation, us
If 2010-2020 was the Great Social Media Consolidation, looks like 2022 and beyond are gonna be the Great Innanet Decentralization, and I’m 1oo% present for it. Thanks to our friends #indieweb and #fediverse, you already know how easy it is to plug into some great communities on the interwebs while keeping your content under your control and being able to keep a record of the dialog around it at your own site.
If you’re reading this on my website, then just look down where on a traditional blog there’d be a “leave a comment” doohickey there for you to fill out a form and say how you feel about what you read. But here you can just comment on any of the syndicated sites where this same content exists and it’ll find its way back here via “a series of tubes” I’ve arranged. And with some hacky tomfoolery, my comments here will flow back to wherever they need to go in most places. To me, this is what real social media is supposed to be like– Your media on in a space you control and interact with the right circle of people you want to see it. And if you want, you can network your site with others, forming a mesh network of sites. That’s the premise (and promise) of decentralized social networking I’ve stressed again and again here.
Today one of my “transit content” friends I’ve followed for years is finding out first had why this is a good idea, thanks to the whole Substack debacle. Reece Martin (@RM_Transit) who runs RMTransit on YouTube experienced this firsthand by having to make the hard decision to move his popular Substack newsblog to WordPress, but to me that means he just upgraded. By switching he’s able to:
I’m happy he decided to go this route and I hope others out there do the same. If your message and voice are your livelihood, there’s no excuse for not using all the products available to make sure it stays that way.
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