Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

I do not know who needs to hear this, but PSA: if you have a WordPress blog, you can install this extension to add ActivityPub support to your blog. It makes it possible to have people follow your blog via ActivityPub services such as Mastodon, receive new posts and interact with it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

#wordpress #activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #feditips

Ever wondered why some stories get very little coverage in the UK?

RT @kgosztola@twitter.com

The D-Notice: a very British form of media censorship https://thedissenter.org/very-british-form-of-press-censorship/

By @KitKlarenberg@twitter.com for The Dissenter, and written to help us all understand why the UK is allowing Assange's extradition

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1518959905587314689

#WordUp #MoneylessSociety

For new people wondering why Mastodon is on thousands of servers instead of one:

-It helps protect us all against Elon Musk scenarios. It's very difficult for anyone to buy a network made of thousands of independently owned servers. (It's the same reason why no one owns the world's email network, because there are so many independent providers out there.)

-If your server misbehaves (or sells out to a malevolent billionaire), you can move your account to a different server, or even to a brand new server. Decentralisation means you're never trapped on a site you hate.

-Mastodon is an open platform where anyone can start their own server, and they don't need tech knowledge if they use a service like https://masto.host or https://federation.spacebear.ee

...and there are lots more good reasons too, to do with servers using alternative Fediverse software etc, but I'll save that for a future post 😁

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Fediverse

I made a list of cool things people do with their blogs: https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-with-their-blogs/
Hopefully it'll inspire some.
More suggestions welcome!

A quick note: if you ask me what #JWST stands for I'll tell you it's the Just Wonderful Space Telescope

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

🎉 Welcome to newcomers! 🎉

A few personal tips:

👌 the Fediverse is NOT twitt*r! enjoy a more relaxed, courteous, benevolent way of interacting! you are part of it!

🤚 introduce yourself! also fill bio and post a couple "toots" before following people to have more chance they'll follow back..

👍 favourite and follow generously! This is how to create link around. No algorithm-god is spying on you, telling you who to follow, what to read! \o/

⚠️ many people care about CW... learn about that

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elon can have twitter but he can never have my website