Honestly, this might work better as a service that also lets you host the pages you make. Something like the recently discontinued https://hatch.one.

Alas, I am not too keen on running such a service myself, and, more importantly, moderating it. And I would most definitely want to keep it free, at least for most users. Still, definitely interested in hearing thoughts on this topic!

@stefan thats so cool! I made a quick little tutorial on how to make your own gallery on neocities, idk if that can help? https://jakechirak.com/howto/makeyourownwebsite/howtohome

If the simple page incorporates active scripts to display content, definitely not!

When you say free is that free as in beer or free as in freedom? Does that free require phone verification, therefore legal ID (like github/MS gitlab and other proprietary servers?) No Thank you!

There are plenty of #FOSS tools converting text, rtf, md into html, plain #html that is no js crap

The offensive against people and foss comes wrapped with aesthetic "modern" gadgetry as popular necessity

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🥥 Eye included the cost 4 my internet provider in my calculations, Stefan. 🥥

@stefan I call it $12/mo because that's what the unlimited VPS that I dedicated to the instance costs, but I'm able to ignore a few costs like DNS, email service, storage, etc. because they're already baked into other things I run and have little or no incremental costs.

@stefan @mtechman I believe in chipping in for services I use often that would otherwise be free. I hope that other folks who can afford to chip in do so.

@stefan Happy Birthday!

@stefan cheers, Stefan! You are such a positive force on the fediverse! Happy birthday!

@stefan Happy Birthday dude!! 🥳

@stefan
I told this to my family almost two years ago. I'm trying to move them into (selfhosted) Matrix, but it's very hard.

Thankfully, we have lots of great inside jokes, so that should work just as well.

@stefan We were there twenty years ago, its just the level of sophistication has increased to where most people will fall for it, not just vulnerable older adults

@stefan Unfortunately, I had to block/purge the domain becase sidekiq was giving errors every day, no ill intent and I do know you host your bots there. I do hope those users find a better home to host them.

That being said, why don't you host YOUR bots on your server? Is it the costs? Traffic too high? Just curious and trying to understand here.

EDIT: ah, I see the issues here, hardware lacks to run those.

@stefan This explanation is likely why the mastodon art masterworks instance was shut down earlier this year. It filled my feed with works from all the masters I subscribed to and gave me breath of fresh air. Since then, other instances with live artists have come on-line to fill that void.

Thanks for the hosting and contributing to the community.

@stefan oh that's depressing, I follow so many awesome bots from there. Here's hoping they all find a new home before December

I'm going to assume that folks who chose "selling user data" were joking, but do check on your server admins, just in case.

Ah, for context:

"Decentralized social app Bluesky announced on Thursday that it has raised a $15 million Series A round, following its $8 million seed raise last year."

$23 million in debt. Wow.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/bluesky-raises-15m-series-a-plans-to-launch-subscriptions/

@stefan I find the wording a little strange honestly, but as an artist I completely support the sentiment. We need more creative folks in here!

One stronger argument for me is that followers on fedi works very similarly to a newsletter, as if you want to switch to another instance or a completely different Fediverse service you are not loosing your social graph. So effort put into finding your people will not go to waste.

But that would be even more real once post portability will be standard

The signature verification system is still very much work in progress, but the source code is available at https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-signatures.

If anyone would be interested in trying this out on their site, feel free to reach out!

#fediverse #mastodon #fedidev #mastodev #opensource

Meh.

My late mom worked as a teacher. What a noble profession!

And I myself really enjoy sharing what I've learned. It's a great way to learn something new, or reinforce existing knowledge.

@stefan That’s brilliant! Just used it to perfect effect. Cheers 🙌

@stefan sure!

The plugin is under active development and will need to be installed manually, here's how: https://www.godaddy.com/help/install-a-wordpress-plugin-from-a-zip-file-40849

Some screenshots of the button added on a placeholder article: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button-wordpress/blob/main/assets/screenshot-1.png and the settings page: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button-wordpress/blob/main/assets/screenshot-2.png

@stefan sure! Will run some tests tomorrow!

I was deciding between this being a blog vs a directory. I had a similar dilemma with some of the articles I posted on https://botwiki.org. I like having everything on my own site, but what if I own both sites?

Sure, I can post the same article and use a canonical URL. But then I have to update both sites when making a change.

I don't know. I'd be happy to hear from others who've dealt with this.

Featuring work from @stefan@gardenstate.social , @tchambers, me, of course, and others.

Do you know about an interesting fediverse study? Have you made one? Do you want to make one, and need help?

Let me know!

#fediverse #FediverseExplorations #study #data #dataviz

@stefan @FediverseExplorations this is very cool!

@stefan Waiting for the WordPress plugin version 🤔

@stefan not just the fediverse but I really want a :mastodon: share button across the websites and popular platforms like we have for Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc

(it's a shame YouTube dot com still doesn't have it)

The adoption will come after the intrigue and familiarising it via a share icon will be of great service.

I also updated my article https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-fediverse-apps-for-everyone/

Shout out to @andre who reminded me!

@stefan does the android recognise a QR Code when receiving an image?

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online that federate

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Fe ... Iron
Diverse ... strength in allies

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@stefan I wasn't aware of that! Fun fact for anyone that's interested: Punch cards were actually called such because, due to limited computing power of the time, programmers that wrote incorrect or buggy code would be beaten up by all the other developers in their department.
True story.

@stefan I only used punch tape once, on a PDP8. It was painful.

@stefan I *love* this