This blog was once served with Wordpress and was a Mastodon/ActivityPub client (it still is!) thanks to Matthias Plefferlie’s AP plugin. I had a very tiny helping hand in filing a few Github issues for it, and talking to him about how it works so I could debug some stuff on my particular installation.

With all the popularity of ActivityPub raging, it seems Automattic, the codebearers for Wordpress have given the ultimate blessing to Matthias, in the form of “acquire-hire” magic": WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse

Congratulations Matthias! Even though this blog uses a different engine now, I owe a lot to that plugin for getting me started in thinking that my blog can also be a social media hub. And who knows. I still might wander back to Wordpress at some point I’m sure. There’s just too much that you can do in WP these days. 💫

Well yeah, sure… But you’re looking in the wrong spot. Basement level ramen joints and 3F level yakitori joints are the shizzz. (if they still exist… Been almost 2 years since I’ve been there.)

♻️ reposted from @brian@famichiki.jp

Another great organization that is running their own instance and taking control of their data are the great people at UNNerv providing disaster information to people in Japan: https://unnerv.jp/@UN_NERV

ｃｏｚｙ　ＡＦ

This is a reply from my comment section to @starrwulfe@vivaldi.net and I had to do too much to respond from here… But I’ll fix this later.

Try doing a search for #followfriday as well. We still do that over here! 😉 Welcome! 🙋🏾‍♂️

Probably because somebody has been trying to spoof your account. Do you have 2-factor turned on?

I think you’ve perfectly nailed my exact reaction to stumbling upon this community myself in the waning days of 2022. The community, constant support and feedback plus the ease of taking suggestions from said community and implementing ones that line up with the overall goal of microblogging while maintaining privacy and nixing the gimmicks and addictive behaviors inherent in other social media platforms… this is the place to be!

Thanks @jlelse! Going to pull down the changes and see if I can’t do a little light customization here.

I have some other ideas I’d like to ask about in terms of improving GoBlog if it’s ok… Can I make separate issues for them?

For real?

Hang on, I got a list! 📝

😮

…How’s that possible, and does @snarfed know?

Thought of the moment:

Should the “chef’s kiss” in emoji form be:

1. 😚 🤏🏾
2. 🧑‍🍳 💋

🤔 What do y’all think?

Welp, that’s what I get for horsing around and getting saddled with being the pun-police… 🐴 …I tend to let myself get roped into these threads too easily…

Onigiri is life, and salmon onigiri is Monopoly Man owning all the railroads and utilities level of living. Leo knows what’s up! 🍙 🧐

(お疲れ様でした、お帰りなさい)

YouTube has kind of become my learning resource lately so my time has gone up a fair bit recently.

• One of my goals for 2023 is to learn a new programming language (Go) and become more proficient in one I know a little about (Python). In addition to reading materials, YouTube coding sessions have really helped to visualize not just the language but tools and aesthetics surrounding them.
• I’m an armchair urbanist and watching videos made by creators like @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com and @nerd4cities@mstdn.social gives me life. In fact I don’t watch a lot of “mainstream” TV because I’m a documentary and factoid nerd and content like this is 80% of my playlists.
• YouTube is also the biggest repository of Lofi music on the internet and it’s the background sound of my existence at the moment, so you’re bound to hear it piped into whatever space I’m occupying while reading, sipping coffee, working and sometimes sleeping. YouTube is how it streams in most cases…

TLDR; I would be SOL if YouTube and Google started spazzing out like Twitter is right now… 🙄

Hey, I’m back with a question: How did you set up the redirect for kandr3s.co/@kandr3s to forward to kandr3s.co/activitypub/remote_follow/kandr3s?

currently: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Spending time off with wife & kids.

• ❗️ my oldest made some kind of strawberry turnover!

• wx: 🌥️ 67°F / 19°C

• gps: 🌎 Atlanta GA 🇺🇸