I was away during the weekend when the news that Elon finally bought Twitter. Since then, there has been a steady flow of people finally checking out Mastodon.
As Evan says, this is happening. The fediverse is growing much faster than any centralized social network, and you’re going to want to be involved.I’ve been trying to explain what the fediverse actually is in a few different contexts. One thing that’s revealed to me is that …
Version 1.1.6 of the IndieAuth Client library for PHP is released! This update adds support for IndieAuth Server Metadata and additional endpoint discovery methods as part of the 2022-02-12 version of the IndieAuth specification. It is backwards compatible with sites that do not …
I was invited by the wonderful organizers of the “Gamez & ruleZ” conference to speak. I’m grateful to have been given an opportunity to discuss a topic that I’m passionate about: silly software (like desktop pets or other unusual programs that are hard to classify).
It's no secret that I don't like using Facebook, Instagram or Twitter as my primary platform for sharing photos and status updates. I don't trust these platforms with my data, and I don't like that they track my friends and family each time I post something.
I've added a little subscribe button to my #indieweb site. Anyone using mastodon, or any ActivityPub based site can see my posts. It'll act just like I'm a mastodon user :)
Commissioners Ashley Dittus and John Quigley are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2nd Annual Ulster Votes I Voted Sticker Contest is Hudson Rowan.
Context collapse is the favorite tool of the alt-right, but it has so many other implications. It’s important to avoid it, and to recognize where context collapse is leading to incorrect beliefs or actions.
the vampire part: look, I’m effortposting! There is a time-sensitive link in there – scoped to the next day, so I guess click through? Or don’t. You’re gonna be okay either way.
Hidde de Vries (@hdv) works in Sanity.io's developer relations team from Rotterdam (NL), is a conference speaker and workshop teacher. Previously he was at the W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and various other organisations and businesses.
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I'm so happy about what Interop 2022 is doing for web compatibility in general. It made me think: what if we had something similar, but accessibility-specific, focused on compatibility between our code, assistive technologies and browsers? Excitingly, ARIA-AT pretty much has that …
I’m having trouble shaking today from my bones, so consider this post an attempted exorcism.As I sit down to write, this was a day when a man broke into the Speaker of the House’s home in San Francisco, armed with a hammer, with the apparent intent of attacking her. When she …
