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It would be mind-bogglingly difficult to build an ethical ad platform that would be accepted by the Fedi community.
But.
(original thread starts at https://tech.lgbt/@silvermoon82/109325175432086325)
I imagine there’s some huge panic going on in the ad industry right now; birbsite was, until last month, one of the major outlets for advertising, but a) advertisers don’t want to appear beside Nazi shit, and b) the eyeballs are moving to the “Lawless hellscape of no use to anybody for advertising”.
Continue reading “Advertising on the Fediverse”I've made a widget to make it easier for visitors to follow federated blogs and such on Mastodon. It presents a dialog to ask for their instance URL and confirm the account they are invited to follow, then sends them to a page on their instance to make it happen.
It's available for anyone to use; just link your visitor to https://eroosenmaallen.gitlab.io/fedi-follow/?follow=https://roosenmaallen.com/author/admin.
Continue reading “Initial release: “Follow on Mastodon” widget”I've started work on my #Mastodon client library, #MastoBot.
Initial work has progressed well; I have wrappers for HTML methods and reasonable coverage of helpers for Mastodon API endpoints.
Continue reading “MastoBot”This is a huge step towards an open, interoperable social web; Google and Facebook are probably the two largest collectors and holders of data (social and otherwise) on the web, and they have been among the most reticient about sharing their data.
Yesterday, it was announced that representatives from Google, Facebook and Plaxo have joined the Dataportability.org workgroup.
This is a huge step towards an open, interoperable social web; Google and Facebook are probably the two largest collectors and holders of data (social and otherwise) on the web, and they have been among the most reticient about sharing their data.
I've been updating the social networking features on [tag]Rosebleed[/tag]. Most of the changes are not immediately visible, but they're nifty:
I've rolled out [tag]microformat[/tag] markup all over the site – user profiles are now [tag]hcard[/tag]-enabled and the friendslist is marked up with [tag]hCard+XFN[/tag].
I also implemented [tag]FOAF[/tag] profiles with autodiscovery, much like that provided by LiveJournal (for a cool FOAF tool, check out the FOAF Explorer).
Still in the works on the SN side is implementing [tag]OpenID[/tag] for logins and order tracking, and hCard, hCard+XFN and FOAF profile-pulling.