Skip to main content

Johan Bové

Seems like the Mastodon POSSE from my Known site is borked. Argh. Something to fix again this week.

Johan Bové

Anyone else enjoying a pinned hash-tag follow on for the city/area they live in?

Johan Bové

Since there is no algorithm on Mastodon to show you potentially interesting toots and posts from people on the other side of the Globe, it is the duty of early risers to go through their feeds first thing in the morning, and boost.

Johan Bové

Realizing I am getting more and more news and updates through than ever before. It's working!

Johan Bové

Changed the "post deletion" on my Mastodon profile to a month. No need to keep a copy of my ramblings on this Mastodon server for longer than that since I keep the original post on my own site anyway.

Johan Bové

To do: fix Known CMS to actually post the full content on longer status updates to Mastodon, so I don't look like I am spamming links back to my own website so much.

Johan Bové

One of the aspects I love about the servers or instances is that every server's content and all the author's public posts can be visited, read and seen online in any web browser without "register to see more nags" - it's open Web as it should be!

Johan Bové

Noticing that the "local" feed of the instance I am on is getting as random as the federated one, telling me that it might be time to find a smaller community which I can relate to more. Wondering if Mastodon has plans for a circles-like grouping of people to follow to create more concentrated feeds?

Johan Bové

Contemplating "Automated post deletion" on . What are the pros and cons of using this?

Johan Bové

At the moment the Mastodon instance at indieweb.social is struggling to keep up with the network surge. I still have my own site here however where I am writing this post on. Chugging along the stream - Don't forget that using your own site for posting to Mastodon and the Fediverse is totally fine and actually promoted. It's called

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Johan Bové

So this is a post to see if it will show up on Mastodon.

https://fed.brid.gy/

Johan Bové

Sites like Instagram and Reddit, which are hiding content after teasing access to the content a bit, are really only doing it for the monetization of your content and your profile data. Post on Mastodon or on your own website and you decide yourself who gets to see your contributions.

Johan Bové

Seems like many famous web developers are ditching Twitter for Mastodon! check out Zach's boosts: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat

Johan Bové

Tried installing Mastodon on the Yunohost server on a Raspberry Pi 3. Turns out it does not have enough RAM. Installation aborted itself, left a nice clear log message and then uninstalled everything nicely. That is what is really awesome about Yunohost.

Johan Bové

In the process of moving my OpenPGP based keys and claims - which started on Keybase.io - to Keyoxide.org. It is unclear what will happen to Keybase any given moment since Zoom bought it, so I wanted to be prepared. Even-though Keyoxide has less features, the base principle of confirming ones online identities with public key pairs remains. And it seems that most special Keybase features can be replaced with other services, like Mastodon and such.

Johan Bové

hmm, somehow I can't reply on posts on Mastodon from my Known site. Will have to dig up ye old error logs.

Johan Bové

Reminds me I need to send some moneys to Tim for keeping my Mastodon instance up over at https://indieweb.social.

Johan Bové

Syndicating the posts from my site now also to the on my new profile thanks to the Known plugin: https://github.com/danito/KnownMastodon

Johan Bové

Can I run a small and private Mastodon instance on a QNAP NAS server? Let's find out.