Interesting dilemma, Thinking about moving to #ds106 https://social.ds106.us. It seems moving mastodon servers is not that difficult. I think you lose old posts but since I’ve POSSED some from my blog it is not a problem. Alternatively the ActivityPub WordPress plugin turns your blog into a member of the fediverse. The is attractive, but I am not sure how much understanding & work is needed. Or I could stay on mastodon.social
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Oh what fun. I was caught up. Great ambiguous ending.
I do use Twitter for school work, just not comfortably I prefer to post to the class blog & syndicate to twitter. The latest twitter crisis reinforces this.
I’ve never really liked the idea of Twitter or any other service being the official or main channel of schools (or government services). Schools should not be promoting an advertising service. My ideal would some sort of #IndieWeb set up, with micro.blog style aggregation & syndication. Federation might be a close second.
Hi @johnjohnston@mastodon.social, I see you are syndicating posts to Mastodon. Attempting to do the same but have encountered a couple of snags. Wondered if you would mind sharing how you got it working? I went with IFTTT and webhooks.
An interesting question. I use the IndieWeb suite of plugins on my site. It posts webmentions. These can be sent to mastodon via plug-ins and https://brid.gy which also feeds comments back to my own site via webmentions.
I quite often just POSSE manually as it makes me a little more thoughtful.
Bridgy can also syndicate to twitter, pinboard & GitHub.
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I keep thinking I’ve seen the last dragonfly of the year, perhaps this ruddy darter (I think) is it?
Bookmarked https://maggieappleton.com/programming-portals.
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
Had me at HyperCard
The remarkable thing about HyperCard is it gave users an enourmous range of control and flexibility. It came with a high-level, built-in programming language called Hypertalk that let users any edit any element on a card.
And made me click:
Fermat is a new spatial interface for brainstorming with generative AI systems. Similar to some of the apps I pointed out Spatial Web Browsing, it gives people an infinite canvas to lay out their ideas and then riff on them
Great read with lots to think about. I wonder do we consider this space:
HyperCard was a hit in its day. Users talked about how empowering it was to create beautiful things quickly and easily, without needing to know how to programme.
In education enough?
A couple of links for the future of Glow Blogs & one that is useful now (go Gutenburg).
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I ve just added https://mastodon.social/@johnjohnston to my rel=me links on the sidebar on my blog & on my twitter profile. I joined mastodon in 2016 but have never been very active. A bit more so over the last summer.
Bookmarked https://getblogging.org.
Remember that your blog is yours! Your posts can contain exactly what you want them to: a sentence of text or a novel-length essay; photos and videos; audio; links and bookmarks. What you want to share is entirely up to you.
Ben Werdmuller.