Darius Kazemi
Since I'm seeing a new wave of people saying they plan to leave Twitter, you may like my browser tool that takes the zip file of your Twitter export and returns a zip file of a web site that lets people browse and search your tweets. You can just upload the files wherever you normally host html and it'll work just fine.
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/
Example archive: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/
Darius Kazemi
Doing a little victory dance because today #Hometown's "exclusive lists" feature was merged into Mastodon. Which means once it is part of a release, that is one less thing for me to maintain. Everything is going according to plan :AngelDevil:
Link to github PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22048
Link to human-facing exclusive lists explainer: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists
Darius Kazemi
Please read about Alaa Abd El-Fattah, the activist, blogger, and open source software dev. He is currently on full hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. #freealaa
Darius Kazemi
If you are on Twitter and want to find people who have opened accounts over here, someone made a little tool that scrapes Fediverse handles (and email addresses, since a lot of people drop the leading @) from the Twitter bios and display names of people you follow over there
Darius Kazemi
Checked our server queues and the 28th saw us handle double the federated events as we did on the 27th. We are officially in another influx spike.
On track to double yet again today. It'll die down, it always does, but the Fediverse always comes out of these influxes a little more lively at baseline, and a little stronger (imo)
Darius Kazemi
My favorite Mastodon 3.5.0+ feature is that if you have full text search on your server, you can search for
"from:username@anyserver.whatever foobar"
And it will filter search results for just posts made by username@anyserver.whatever. This is a further refinement to the existing search, so the limitation of "posts that either were made by you or you have favorited, bookmarked, or are replies to you" still applies. It's SO MUCH EASIER to search through my old posts now.
Darius Kazemi
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
Darius Kazemi
Anyone interested in following Mastodon release notes in their ActivityPub feed can follow this account here (this might exist elsewhere too, but I couldn't find one):
Darius Kazemi
I took snippets of the DEC BASIC-8 manual for the TSS/8 operating system and inserted them into a poetry generator. This is the poem. (The randomizer runs the same every time (no seeds though I could fake it) so this is in a sense *the* output.)
Darius Kazemi
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
Darius Kazemi
Hey it's a new release of Hometown, my Mastodon fork! This one adds two custom themes by Emma Winston.
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.1%2B2.9.3
Darius Kazemi
I'm pleased to announce the v1.0.0 release of Hometown, my Mastodon fork! It's up to date with Mastodon v2.9.3, and unique features include:
- Local only posting
- Full support for rendering incoming `Article` posts from federated blogs like Write.As
- "Exclusive" lists that let you follow someone without clogging up your home timeline
For more info, including rationale for each new feature, check out our wiki:
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki
And the release itself is here:
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v1.0.0%2B2.9.3
Darius Kazemi
Fun way to find random documents. Go to Google search, and search for
filetype:pdf the
Feel free to replace the word "the" with any other innocuous word. You'll get a bunch of random PDFs.
Another fun constraint:
filetype:pdf site:org the
This will return PDFs by ".org" domains (mostly nonprofits) so you get a bunch of random reports.
Also try
filetype:pdf "internal use only"
Darius Kazemi
I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.
This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.
I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.
Darius Kazemi
GOSH I love reading full articles from @write_as in the new single-column view.
The attached screenshot is after clicking through a "read article" link, one of the features of my new Mastodon fork, Hometown. I hope to have documentation and release notes ready to go by the end of the week!
Darius Kazemi
Oh, and I'm releasing my own fork of Mastodon based on my experiences running Friend Camp for a year. It's called Hometown, and you can read more about it here:
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
It's not fully documented yet but it will be. Experienced Mastodon admins should be able to switch over with a minor database migration and minimal fuss.
Darius Kazemi
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!
Darius Kazemi
Shout out to one of my all time favorite internet things: this collection of images of novelty baby clothing on zazzle but with the default model switched to an adult.
Darius Kazemi
Oh wow. So that really famous centralized vs decentralized vs distributed diagram that I quote above? Well, in one of the companion papers, Baran provides this iteration on it, which in my opinion is far superior and I'm going to start using in my presentations.
Full paper: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3097.html
Darius Kazemi
Here's a link to that paper, btw https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3763.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
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