AJ Sadauskas

Australian urban planning, public transport, politics, retrocomputing, and tech nerd. Recovering journo. Cat parent. Part-time miserable grump.

Cities for people, not cars! Tech for people, not investors!

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  • AJ SadauskastoFediverse@lemmy.mlFederated Blogging Platforms
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    @sabreW4K3 Plume doesn’t appear to be active, unfortunately 🥺

    There’s a notice on the official Join Plume website saying the former developers don’t have the time to maintain it anymore. Most of the former public instances now throw up errors of various kinds.

    WriteFreely ( @writefreely ) is alive and well. I was seriously toying with the idea of setting up a blog through its main instance, which is called Write.as Professional. The sticking point for me was that the official on-platform monetisation tool (Coil) appears to be dead, and doesn’t support members-only posts (like Ghost).

    Ghost, when federation goes live, looks like it will be the best option for my blog.

    WordPress plus @pfefferle 's plugins is another great option, depending on what you want to use it for. (There’s no shortage of WP plugins!)

    As for Lemmy, I could see a blogging-focussed front end being created for it, in the same way FediBB put a traditional message board front end on it, but one doesn’t appear to exist at present.







  • @zerakith To be clear here, I am talking primarily here about corporate or organisational level here.

    By net versus gross, I mean the difference between continuing to pollute, but “offsetting” that pollution, versus getting their gross pollution as close to zero as possible.

    There’s many orgs and businesses out there claiming to have a plan to reach, or have reached, net zero (or net negative).

    And in many cases, what they’re talking about is basically their direct emissions (scope one) and offsite energy (scope two). Not their supply chain (scope three).

    And what they really mean is that they’ll continue to pollute, and just buy the cheapest carbon offsets available. In many cases, those cheapest available offsets are of dubious value.

    That all sounds great in a press release.

    But what’s a lot better is to continually measure and reduce gross emissions across scope one, two, and three, getting them as low as possible.

    At a global system-wide level, I would argue we would be in a far better position if we had more businesses, organisations, and governments looking to achieve gross zero than net zero.



  • @thegiddystitcher @helenslunch I think hashtag feeds being overrun with vertical videos is an excellent point. (One I hope @dansup considers!)

    But beyond that, I think vertical videos through Loops on the Fedi are likely to be far less obtrusive than they have been on other platforms.

    What’s so annoying about them on Instagram and YouTube is that the algorithm automatically drops vertical videos into my feed.

    And there’s *lots* of them in my feed, often on topics I’m not interested in.

    They’re not there because I’m interested, but because they serve the commercial interests of the social media app’s owners.

    Hashtags aside, on the Fedi, they’ll only appear in your feed if you follow a Loops account you’re interested in, or someone you follow finds one interesting enough to share.

    And if people on your Mastodon server all find them really annoying, there’s always the option to just block the Loops servers and be done with it.




  • @nutomic That last question was me trying to get my head around how this works.

    Will each page have a username, in the same way each Lemmy group has a username, which can be followed from Mastodon?

    If you follow that username from Mastodon, will you see a series of posts? If so, will they contain page edits or something else?

    What happens if you tag that account in a post from Mastodon? Or reply to one of those posts?