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Tag Archives: Fediverse

The fediverse refers broadly to a set of social media applications built atop decentralized protocols. The most common protocol is ActivityPub.

January 9, 2025
9
Jan 2025

AI AI Meta – A Dialogue of Sorts

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Justina of our Justin & Justina dialogue duo once defended Instagram because it makes her feel miserable and inadequate. Justin turns to her for her take on Instagram’s new AI characters.
May 23, 2023
23
May 2023

Substack Notes’ Twitter clone war

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Substack’s view that its Notes platform is not a Twitter clone misses the forest through the trees.
October 25, 2022
25
Oct 2022

IndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom

Nicholas A. Ferrell

An argument in favor of the coexistence of RSS and ATOM feeds with microformats and other modes of connecting independent blogs and websites.
July 12, 2022
12
Jul 2022

Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media

Nicholas A. Ferrell

On the strengths and limitations of current Fediverse networks and the future of decentralized social media.
May 10, 2022
10
May 2022

Reviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter

Nicholas A. Ferrell

I take a look at the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter, a tool for syndicating posts.
June 23, 2021
23
Jun 2021

Pixelfed Embed in WordPress – Follow nafnlj at The New Leaf Journal

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜Follow N.A. Ferrell’s Pixelfed photos without leaving The New Leaf Journal〜
January 18, 2021
18
Jan 2021

Follow The New Leaf Journal Pixelfed Atom Feed

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜Follow extra New Leaf Journal content with an RSS reader〜
November 13, 2020
13
Nov 2020

An Early Review of Pixelfed – Instagram Alternative

Nicholas A. Ferrell

〜Reviewing an interesting niche social media alternative to Instagram〜