202308120000, August 12, 2023

  • Julia Evans Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server #Mastodon

    • I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because it’s a distributed system, so here are a few technical things I’ve learned about it over the last 10 months. I’ll mostly talk about what using a single-person server has been like for me, as well as a couple of notes about the API, DMs and ActivityPub.

  • Marginalia, an independent search engine, via Jacky Alciné on Mastodon
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  • Open Source
    • The other angle really is that code costs nothing to copy, so I am in favour of highly permissive licenses. But that fencing a community and potentially signing something to that effect may be the right kind of signalling.