Adam @adam@librem.one

Oh my god, I had such a laugh!

Thank you so much for this @kathygriffin

Back in 2010 #twitter launched their “t.co” link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when they’re done?

In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you can’t get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?

Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.

Today was a wild day on #Twitter

@nibus

I'm done mourning Twitter.

Now I want to help build the actual future of social media.

And there is no future of social media without the Fediverse.

For years I had such a hard time explaining to *anyone* why this ActivityPub spec we were working so hard on mattered

When you think about it Elon paid 44 billion just to advertise the importance of the fediverse, gotta give that guy some credit, real generous of him

Today I had another play with the #MastodonAPI:

My @Raspberry_Pi Zero W is connected to a #Pimoroni Inky Developer E Ink display.

A #Python script then grabs the latest media posts either from my own, or from the public timeline.

The image is then displayed inside the TV, while its ALT description is scaled in size to be shown inside the speech bubble.

The buttons allow to navigate between posts and media attachments.

#RaspberryPi #MicroPython #making #MyMakes

If you’re wondering how much it costs to host a mastodon server:

$6 per month for ~5 users
$18 per month for ~100 users
$89 per month for ~2000 users

https://masto.host/pricing/

It’s cheaper to host your own personal server, which essentially guarantees verification, than it is to get “verified” on the bird site

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

Important tusk news of a different variety: the oldest sentence in alphabetical writing has been discovered on a 3700 y.o. ivory comb, an invocation against lice! From the New York Times. #archaeology #writing #histodons #history

"Is Web3 bullshit?"
My talk on the Crypto stage at Web Summit 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsllEF7w_g

#WebSummit #WebSummit2022

RT @JackMLawrence
It took me less than 25 minutes to set up a fake anonymous Apple ID using a VPN and disposable email, attach a masked debit card to it (with the address being Twitter's HQ), and get a verified account for a prominent figure. Just think what a nation-state or bad actor could do...

Now @Raspberry_Pi has its own @Mastodon instance, and because we’re committed to supporting platforms that support us, we’re putting our money where our mouth is. We have become a platinum sponsor of #Mastodon. In case you don't know Mastodon is a non-profit corporation based in Germany supported by both its sponsors and patreons. #TwitterMigration https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

ITS CALLED MASTODON AND ITS LIKE IF TWITTER WAS A BUNCH OF MINECRAFT SERVERS BUT THEYRE ALL CONNECTED WITH PORTALS BETWEEN THEM

Whoa whoa whoa...

Whoa.

You mean to tell me that #Mastodon has *zero* algorithms deciding what I should read, and that the vast majority of instances banish Nazis into their own shadowrealm instead of tolerating them in the name of EnGaGeMenT?

Hah! Next you'll tell me there are no advertisers wielding influence over feature design so they get more marketing eyeballs!

Wait, what??!

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with an eternal september is a good guy with an eternal september

The biggest mistake web devs ever made was focusing on corporate-owned APIs instead of on new and innovative open protocols.

I don't care how all-encompassing Big Social become -- or whether Google or Apple can keep their market valuations ongoing.

Those "critical" APIs can be yoinked at any moment.

However, SMTP and HTTP have now been used for decades. So why not build on the next generation of open protocols?