Fediverse

Yesterday I posted that I’d resolved my new microblog POSSE¹ posts from generating link previews on Mastodon and Bluesky. Today, I want to briefly run through how I managed that.

Unlike social media microblogging, there’s not a great story for continuing the conversation of a blog post that’s part of the IndieWeb. Replying to a blog post most often takes the form of a reply to a POSSE¹ syndication like a Mastodon post or promotion link on Hacker News.

Good question. I want to talk about why it’s a problem, but first a brief aside about why we’re feeling the spam so strongly. Email has Bayesian spam filters so the hundreds of spam messages you get each day don’t show up in your inbox. Fediverse services such as Mastodon¹ do not have this sort...

/now answers “what are you up to recently?” and you should have one.

How I use my domain in my Mastodon username, settings I recommend for single-user servers, and migrating to a new instance.