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My Fedi-Follow widget is ready for a full 1.0.0 release!
The widget provides an interface for Fediverse users to easily follow or share a url from their home instance. It’s the first stage in my plan to make it easier to integrate Fediverse sharing and following into other platforms, like WordPress or other site engines.
Continue reading “Full 1.0.0 release: Fedi-follow Widget”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 published another prerelease of #MastoBot to #npm; this prerelease expands coverage of the MastoBotAPI class and significantly improves method documentation coverage.
Continue reading “MastoBot 0.1.0-2”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.