I have just released Hometown v1.0.5+3.5.2!
No new features, just bringing things up to parity with the latest Mastodon v3.5.2. Lots of cool new features thanks to their team and contributors, though.
We will have some Hometown tweaks/fixes/features coming soon though!
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.5%2B3.5.2
I've released version 2.0.0 of my RSS to ActivityPub converter! This now provides functionality I'd hacked in to https://rss.friend.camp - it requires OAuth 2.0 authorization for someone to create a new AP account for an RSS feed.
I used to run this service "in the open" but was overwhelmed by spammers. Now the admin of a Mastodon (or Pleroma or any federated server that is an OAuth 2 provider) can provide this converter as a service solely to members of their instance.
https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub/releases/tag/v2.0.0
I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io
The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.
Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070
I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.
This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.
You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!
I've built these things and run them for tens of thousands of people and even at that small (felt very big at the time) size, they just fell apart so quickly. you need them to be community run and to limit the need for wide moderation.
My Free Game of the Week is The Looker, by Bradley Lovell - https://terrysfreegameoftheweek.com/the-looker/
help pixel pay for college
hello friends
I just got my final bill for my last year of college. $17,200. I only get about $2,000 in loans. That still leaves $15,200.
I currently live with my transphobic parents and cannot sustain living here after school. I've paid for all of my schooling through working up to five jobs at a time up to now, but with each year that passes by, the school has been rolling back my financial aid and it has been very difficult to keep up. I'm still living on a meal a day.
If you'd be willing to toss coin to a neurodivergent, queer, trans, east/southeast asian person, my handles are below.
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/pixouls
https://liberapay.com/Pixouls/
https://account.venmo.com/u/pixouls
Thanks to everyone who has supported me thus far.
I'm an #AppleII hacker best known for cracking thousands of disks: https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am?sort=-date
Passport cracks a lot of disks automatically: https://github.com/a2-4am/passport
I also preserve still-protected disks: https://archive.org/details/wozaday?&sort=-date
Anti-M boots a lot of protected disks: https://github.com/a2-4am/anti-m
Pitch Dark, an Infocom text adventure pack: https://github.com/a2-4am/pitch-dark
Total Replay, an arcade pack: https://github.com/a2-4am/4cade
Million Perfect Letters, a shifty word game:
https://github.com/a2-4am/million-perfect-letters
Paul Slocum, software developer who has been curating, conserving, and selling digital art since 2006 wrote an excellent and extensive survey of the effects and problems in the takeover of networked culture by creepto-capital.
He couldn't find a suitable publication for his critical perspective which speaks volumes about the state of media institutions which made a name and raise funding precisely promoting the opposite values to those of blockchain culture and now are totally integrated and participating in the cultural and economic distortion described by Paul.
Do read and share widely.
https://www.qotile.net/nft/
I could complain about a lot of other things in my garden but there is no question that my peas are loving this cold, wet, long spring.
These are Magnolia Blossom Sugar Snap Peas from Adaptive Seeds: https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/peas/sugar-snap-pea-magnolia-blossom-organic/
If you are interested moving to labyrinth.social (or just setting up an alt here) please send me a DM!
You can find out more info about the server here:
https://github.com/thomasmdickinson/lab-soc-about
For the moment I will not be inviting strangers, only a small number of people I’m already acquainted with.
We are looking for a researcher/adviser in my team at Amnesty International, please share and apply : https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/researcher-adviser-technology-and-human-rights---sabbatical-cover-3410/3438/description/
Once again I have defied the gods and written another newsletter. The biggest news in this one is that my poetry zine, Schatzi, is now available for purchase online at Bishop & Wilde!
https://www.shopbishopandwilde.com/used-books/schatzi-courtney-stanton
https://mailchi.mp/647896388a98/public-bathrooms-prayer-and-revolvers
Just in time for #WholesomeWednesday here's the latest addition to our #GoatGang.
She's a little bit wobbly on her hooves and as of now still unnamed.
Any suggestions #Fediverse?
I'll attach a handy poll in the follow-up Toot.
initial musing on robin sloan's spring '83 protocol idea: https://maya.land/responses/2022/06/12/robin-sloan-spring-83-initial-musing.html
I'm the administrator of this server. https://tinysubversions.com is where most of my stuff lives. I'm trying to fix the internet, and some people say I'm at least kind of succeeding. Based in Portland, Oregon, USA. he/him