Find people on Fedi from the IndieWeb
A clever browser extension that uses rel="me" links to find people's Mastodon/Fediverse accounts from their personal […]
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Follow any web feed from Mastodon
Just mention @birb in a post to Mastodon with a link, and RSS Parrot will search the site for any kind of feed, convert that feed to an RSS output, and then launch a Mastodon account that […]
A Bookmark Feed
Mastodon makes saving interesting links for later very easy, but getting these into a feed reader or note-taking service seemed impossible until I came across a neat little hosted solution.
A Twitter Escape Hatch
Want to read Tweets from people you follow, without using Twitter? Readwise has a tool for that.
The Fediverse is already dead
A wonderfully well-written look at the state of the "Fediverse", and whether or not that term has any value left in it. There's a lot of interesting history and some slightly spicy takes in here, but […]
Herding My Thoughts
After a month on the Fediverse, what parts have I grown to love, which parts would I like to see changed, and what has surprised me the most.
Bye-Bye, Fowl Place
After over a decade on the platform, the time has come to step away from Twitter, likely for good. What a shame.
Home invasion
Like many other folk, I've been dipping my toes back into the Fediverse and checking out Mastodon. It isn't my first rodeo in this particular ring, but somehow it does feel a little different this […]
Making RSS more visible with slash feeds
A simple idea: collate all your feeds (RSS, ATOM, MF2, whatever) into one place. Marcus suggests a pattern of using the /feeds page (his is here). There have been some valid discussions on the […]
A federated Instagram
The fediverse is an interesting concept that's long had competitors for a number of mainstream social sites, the most infamous of which is probably Mastodon. I hadn't realised that there was an […]