From a thread on Bluesky: If we’re being honest the “use your own domain to verify your account” thing is some mastodon shit— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) Nov 22, 2024 at 4:50 To which I have replied:
Author: jaxroam
Past the Peak: Climate Control
From peak emission to peak population to peak car, we are about to enter a series of turning points. What does this mean? Global peaks 2012: Peak birth2017: Peak ICE car sales2020: Peak child2024: Peak emissions, oil and coal2038: Peak ICE vehicle fleet2040: Peak […]
The Edge of Europe
Europe is a somewhat contorted triangle at the Western extreme of Eurasia. Like most other regions, Europe is habitually presented with north pointing up. Which is fine, that is a standard and standards help us take in geographical data without having to reorient ourselves. […]
Mastodon/Vivaldi as a POSSE publishing platform
This earlier dialog Toot-sized summary:Mastodon: coolIntegration with Vivaldi users: cooler But you can go further (given time, desire and business case): two-way bridge between Mastodon and all your other content Even further: POSSE-style publishing platform on vivaldi.net Even further: Social networking repository supported by […]
A Game of Discrimination
The trigger It began with a question in a tweet: That is “How can people be blind to a systemic behaviour they participate in?” The question has a specific context (US white evangelicals), but I liked the question on its own, context-free. If something […]
Retelling the future, chapter 1: The end of the PC
Introduction Coming back to Vivaldi.net has led to me reconnecting to this Vivaldi blog, originally on My.Opera,com beginning 18 years ago. Two months after Facebook, a website that has turned out rather more successful so far. Like every web publication of age, it has […]
Slow and Federated Media
I have long been a fan of slow news. This is a fairly consistent rule: The lower the update frequency, the higher the information quality. You get to know what is about to happen, why, and who is involved. The higher the frequency, the […]
Breaking the garden walls
Europe has a social media #infosec issue. Most social media are American, some Chinese, a few Russian. No European. They were taken over by Facebook on its rise. Primary issue is their near monopoly power, but this event highlights that ownership is a risk as well. […]
Changes of address
Addressing is the foundation of everything done on internet, be it email, web or Mastodon. What happens when nobody lives there anymore? — You got new mail address Back when I worked for Opera, I had a proposal for an extension for mail client […]
Building beasts and bridges, a Vivaldi way
This entry builds on this Medium article: On Beasts and Bridges While that article covers the background and philosophy of social media integration, this post and follow-ups, here or on Mastodon is intended to be more practical. I do not know what Vivaldi plans […]
