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PeerTube admins,
You can now very easily customise your PeerTube website to have your own logos, banners, icons, headers, default theme (including dark/light defaults), colours, menu styles, extra themes, CSS tweaks etc.
All this is now in the GUI, no need for coding!
Log into your site with your admin account, then go to:
Settings > Logo (for logos, icons, banners)
Settings > Plugins/Themes > Search Themes (for extra themes)
Settings > Customisation (for everything else)
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Saw this verge article: https://www.theverge.com/news/852630/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-scratchpad-blog-ai-slop-comments
Read the original post: https://snscratchpad.com/posts/looking-ahead-2026/
"AI slop" is how we have been describing BSF work, outcomes, and processes powered by AI. The overzealous claims from all sorts of bad products and "thought leaders', leading many to use it in incompetent or very destructive ways.
These comments can be an indicator for how good the tool is, which can be valuable feedback in the echo chamber of tech.
They're not interested in that feedback, so much as stock market numbers on this huge bubble they've made. Scared of criticism because this monster has not been built rationally, but at a break neck pace by people that do not care what they destroy to get their fame and fortune.
So I'd recommend Satya Nadella trying to make it less awful for society, stop giving chimps handguns and complaining that we say something about it.
Webmentions are an often forgotten #W3C recommendation (since 2017) that should probably be leveraged more often in the world of federated/decentralized Web services.
Comments, reactions and other forms of engagement, rather than content itself, are what keep people often confined to traditional centralized fenced gardens.
Sure, I may write to my own self-hosted blog, with minimal JS, rendering plain Markdown content shared from my Obsidian vault, Gitlab repo or whatever, and I may serve my nice RSS/Atom feed so my readers are kept in the loop.
But how do people engage with that content?
We got a few options:
Reinventing the wheel of comments management on my platform? Requiring users to register in order to post a comment? Managing state consistently on the db and handling issues like spam and moderation? Or inject 3rd-party frameworks like Disqus in my code, or 3rd-party login buttons? Ugh…
Posting to natively federated platforms, like WriteFreely or Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin? Sure, but that comes with its own issues:
Post a link to your article on social media platforms. Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, HackerNews, Lobsters…you name it. Copy-paste that link everywhere like it’s 1999, the comments section of your post on each of those platform will become “your” comments section (which may suddenly disappear if moderators decide to remove your link), users from different platforms can’t see nor interact with each others’ comments, and you overall get the worst of the two worlds (centralized platforms that still require content to be manually submitted to each of them, without any chance of mutual interaction, and without you being the owner of your own comments section, which defeats the POSSE principle many times over)
Webmentions come to the rescue.
And there are only a couple of requirements to implement them properly:
Receiver side
Your site needs to implement an e.g. POST /webmention endpoint. Those who want to comment, mention or react to your content will call that endpoint with a payload that includes at least source (the URL that mentions your page) and target (the target on your site that got mentioned)
You need to publish a <link rel="webmention"> in your page and/or a Link: <https://...>; rel="webmention" response header, so that any client knows that you support Webmentions, and which URL it should call.
When a request is received on your endpoint you can do whatever you want with it. Store it on a database and render it on your own page, forward it to some other platform, just display some “engagement counters”…the sky is the limit, and with microformats things can be extremely versatile - reactions can contain text, emoji reactions, any kind of media, events, locations, reviews, resumes, recipes etc.
Sender side
When you send some content that references other URLs your platform should:
Scan all the URLs
Check if some of them support Webmentions
Send a Webmention to the advertised URL
That’s it.
I am currently working on implementing Webmentions support on madblog.
If things work fine I’d also love to submit a PR to WriteFreely.
And if anyone knows if something like this has already been proposed on Mastodon please let me know. It’d be amazing to have native Webmentions support whenever my Mastodon post includes a link, so the site on the other side can directly render Mastodon comments and reactions in their comments sections too.
Yes, 2026 will be the year of #Linux.
But more because of #Microsoft’s stubborn attempts at enshittification than for our merits.
Lokjo is a european substitute for googlemaps.
No cookies, no data, no nothing.
When you search locations by category (clothing shop, coffee bar, museum etc) it shows all locations at once. Except for corporations and chains, they get a grey dot.
Support us if you can by a donation here:
https://www.lokjo.com/donate
Or just give it a boost. Thanks. 😊
Decentralisation drives up the cost of abuse. Solutions based on open standards, with verified interoperability as a fundamental, non-negotiable requirement are my preferred approach. The cooperative system and its democratic control are the preferred vehicle in my opinion. Not foundations. I will commit myself this year to work on that. Feel free to join!
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Fighting for privacy rights is fighting against fascism. In case there were any doubts that mass surveillance is a fascist's tool.
Privacy isn't some secondary luxury, it's fundamental to democracy and civil liberties.
Grow Your Own Services ❄️
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Lokjo - a European online map
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