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Stefan Bohacek

The botsin.space Mastodon server has been a huge part of the fediverse, and while it's sad it's being retired, I trust that the creative botmaking community will continue to thrive.

"So, given two choices -- asking for more donations so I can pay for more hardware to keep the instance running, or retiring it and encouraging people to support more community-oriented instances, I'll choose the second option every time."

muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2

#BotsInSpace #bots #CreativeBots

The botsin.space Mastodon server has been a huge part of the fediverse, and while it's sad it's being retired, I trust that the creative botmaking community will continue to thrive.

"So, given two choices -- asking for more donations so I can pay for more hardware to keep the instance running, or retiring it and encouraging people to support more community-oriented instances, I'll choose the second option every time."

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Shadow, First of His Name

@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.

Michael Vilain

@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.

Tom Casavant

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

Stefan Bohacek

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

Stefan Bohacek

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.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/blue

Stefan Bohacek

I wrote an open letter to artists and other creatives who are thinking about giving the fediverse a chance:

"There’s a better way!"

stefanbohacek.com/blog/a-fediv

Feel free to share, and be sure to add your signature!

#fediverse #mastodon #creatives #artists #musicians #twitter #x

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NIGHTEͶ

@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

Stefan Bohacek

The signature verification system is still very much work in progress, but the source code is available at github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv.

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

#fediverse #mastodon #fedidev #mastodev #opensource

Stefan Bohacek

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 Bohacek

This pinned posts organizer for Mastodon is one of the tools I've made that I don't use very often, but when I do, it really comes in handy.

Hope others will find it useful as well!

pinned-posts-organizer.stefanb

#mastodon #MastodonTools #PinnedPosts

Sam (Ethical Revolution) 🌱✌️

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

Stefan Bohacek

I was deciding between this being a blog vs a directory. I had a similar dilemma with some of the articles I posted on 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.

Stefan Bohacek

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 Bohacek

I'm prototyping a fediverse sharing button. Anyone interested in giving it a try?

Feature highlights:

- shows a logo of supported fediverse software
- lets you share selected text
- remembers the last fediverse domain used

Demo: fediverse-share-button.stefanb
Download: github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv

#fediverse #FediverseSharingButton

I'm prototyping a fediverse sharing button. Anyone interested in giving it a try?

Feature highlights:

- shows a logo of supported fediverse software
- lets you share selected text
- remembers the last fediverse domain used

Demo: fediverse-share-button.stefanb
Download: github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv

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DJM (freelance for hire)

@stefan Waiting for the WordPress plugin version 🤔

Chirayu :verified: :flipboard:

@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.

Ji Fu
@stefan the same bookmarklet code you use for Diaspora should work for Friendica too. https://wiki.friendi.ca/ressources?s[]=share
Stefan Bohacek

The official Mastodon Android app now has QR codes for sharing profiles.

Full changelog: github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a

#mastodon #update

brunoamaral

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

Stefan Bohacek

Alright, what is the #fediverse?

"Social networks that..."

Anonymous poll

Poll

Natively support ActivityPub
76
0%
Support other common protocols
11
0%
May use a third party bridge
7
0%
Not sure
18
0%
0 people voted.
Voting ended 18 February at 15:32.
Stefan Bohacek

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-m

#til #computers #development #language #history

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Dragoniff

@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.

Doug 🌈🇨🇦 :verified:

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

Stefan Bohacek

Anyone interested in helping me test a tool I'm working on?

Right now it can tell you how many of your images are missing alt text. Some ideas I am playing with:

- check for image descriptions that are too long or too short (Whatever that means! And what about non-English text?)
- check if you CapitalizeYourHashtags properly

Link: data.stefanbohacek.dev/project

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescription #WorkInProgress

Anyone interested in helping me test a tool I'm working on?

Right now it can tell you how many of your images are missing alt text. Some ideas I am playing with:

- check for image descriptions that are too long or too short (Whatever that means! And what about non-English text?)
- check if you CapitalizeYourHashtags properly

DJM (freelance for hire)

@stefan testing... loading posts, can take a while (5060)

Jeff Sikes

@stefan Looks good. 91% for me. Noticed a couple of things. Some of the images without alt text were from private messages with individuals I knew would not need alt text. Exclude private messages?

The other was videos... some of the third party apps don’t allow captions for videos. Will open an issue with them because it is supported by the api!

Brendan Jones

@stefan I will note that capitalising your hashtags properly is kneecapped by this github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

Stefan Bohacek

If your fediverse instance were to shut down today, where would you go?

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #poll

Anonymous poll

Poll

Move to another instance
94
0%
Run my own server
14
0%
Go back to commercial social media
0
0%
Give up on social media
6
0%
I run my own instance
16
0%
0 people voted.
Voting ended 5 Nov 2023 at 14:24.
Krafty 😺❤️

@stefan It's happened to me numerous times. I would probably just find another instance.

DELETED

@stefan real talk if :babaTootsite: went down though, it really wouldn't be the same platform anymore. I'd at least have a good cry about that before setting up a social inbox or something on my website.

mercurial idiot

@stefan I have another instance in mind already! Sometimes wonder if fosstodon.org fits my interests fully, but I'm a sentimental freak who can't leave my posts behind.

Stefan Bohacek

"I’ve now been using [Mastodon] for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be."

404media.co/mastodon-is-the-go

via @404mediaco

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

Stefan Bohacek

Do you want to add a "log in with your fediverse account" functionality to your site? I am working on a self-hosted node.js server that lets you do just that.

Care to give it a try?

github.com/stefanbohacek/auth-

You can see it working on:

- data.stefanbohacek.dev/project
- curator-and-the-machine.glitch

#fediverse #OpenWeb #nodejs #opensource #WebDev #WebDevelopment #selfhosted

Stefan Bohacek

This project is still work in progress and currently supports:

- Mastodon
- Friendica
- Pleroma/Akkoma
- Misskey/Calckey

Thomas Bnt

@stefan Cool project, there is a official Login Oauth2 Mastodon button?

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