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Move to the Fediverse

I think, now it’s time to move to the Fediverse. Most of us know that all the proprietary, closed-profit applications are f***ed up.

They are feeding us content that we mostly don’t want, and their only purpose they have is, generating money for them. And for this purpose, they are using our data, that we are giving them voluntarily.

They are bombarding us with advertisements and locking us into their systems. This is the same for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,…

Twitter crashing

And thanks to Elon Musk – a guy that I admire as a businessman, but hate for his racist opinions – who bought Twitter some time ago, triggered a lot of people – including me – to move to the Fediverse.

I think, Musk is very good at managing technical industry companies but will fail IMHO managing a social internet company.

The Fediverse is per definition focussing on non-profit and is interoperable between different applications.

Multiple changes happened recently which is why I think now it’s the right time to move.

WordPress supports the ActivityPub protocol

Now there is a new plugin for any self-hosted WordPress installation available supporting the ActivityPub protocol. As soon as you configure the plugin anybody in the Fediverse can follow either a specific author of your WordPress blog or the complete blog.

Move to the Fediverse

Pixelfed can import from Instagram

You can now import your posts from Instagram into Pixelfed, preserving all the content you have produced in the past.

A quite new and long-awaited feature searching just for text in the toots is now available.

You wanna follow me?

To follow this blog here (and this author) please use @gerhardy2408 or the complete blog with @blog.gerhard-vogt.de

My Mastodon user is @gerhardy2408

My Pixelfed user is @gerhardy2408

More to read

https://gnulinux.ch/fediverse-serie-activitypub-bei-wordpress-einen-blog-in-ein-soziales-netzwerk-bringen

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Facebook under pressure

Currently Facebook is under pressure.

But I’m not sure if bigger changes of Facebook will happen.

Facebook under pressure
Facebook and Co

Mark Zuckerberg is super smart, in a negative way. He’s not committing to anything that is hurting himself and Facebook, respectively.

And that is in big contrast how the boss of twitter, Jack Dorsey, is acting. With him I see the commitment to change something, that he will no longer accept hate speech and racism on his plattform.

https://www.engadget.com/what-does-facebook-ad-boycott-accomplish-231311517.html

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NSA sauer: Türkei schaltet Spionagedienst „Twitter“ ab

Lustig! Ja, so kann es sein, so verärgert man seine Freunde…

http://www.heise.de/tp/news/NSA-sauer-Tuerkei-schaltet-Spionagedienst-Twitter-ab-2151707.html/from/atom10