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Should the Fediverse Be Measured Like a Regular Social Network?

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Should the Fediverse Be Measured Like a Regular Social Network? (Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.)

Measuring Mastodon based on daily active users doesn’t make sense because maximizing user counts is not the goal. Building a sustainable network is.

De berichten over de dip in gebruikers op Mastodon missen een belangrijk punt volgens Ernie Smith (en ik denk dat hij een goed punt heeft):

Mastodon, and fediverse technologies like it, are doing something significantly harder than just building yet another social network with central ownership and a single point of failure. We owe it to this work to not measure it like it’s just another social network, because it’s trying to do something harder—it’s trying to build a foundation for social media that doesn’t have to be commercial.

Door nieuwe communicatie te meten met oudere meetinstrumenten, mis je een relevante blik op de toekomst. Is het aantal dagelijkse gebruikers echt relevant? Of zijn andere metrics van dienst hier? En welke zijn dat dan?

Username en Activitypub

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Ik heb zojuist mijn gebruikersnaam aangepast om in te loggen op mijn WordPress site. Dat is op zich geen spectaculair nieuws, maar hopelijk is mijn blog nu logischer vindbaar in de Fediverse. Met de ActivityPub plugin moet het nu mogelijk zijn om dit blog te vinden op bv Mastodon en er op te reageren. Deze post is vooral bedoeld als test om te zien of dat nu wel goed werkt…

How do I POSSE to Mastodon now?

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This is what I’m running into to try to make new Indieweb technology as simple to explain as possible. Ryan Barrett did some amazing work and made it possible to connect your own Mastodon account to your site. So you can get likes and replies from Mastodon in the comments of your own site. But you can also publish something on your site and have it published on Mastodon as well. This could be a note, an article or whatever. So you Publish on your Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE). But now the question is, what steps do I take in WordPress and on Brid.gy (Ryan’s platform) to make this possible? I am not quite sure what to do where. Can I just include a link (https://brid.gy/publish/mastodon) to the webmention target at Brid.gy as explained in their manual? But how do I automate this? With the Syndication Links plugin? But what do I fill in where?

A step by step manual to publish would be very helpful. Maybe Neil Maher’s write up from a few months back on a similar matter could give some clues…

Update: It looks like the link to the webmention target on Brid.gy published this post (logfile). But it’s just the title and the link. How do I send a toot from my own site to Mastodon?