Software developer + ellipse tool’s number one fan. He/him. Hosted in Azure with microblog.pub.
@[email protected] @[email protected] - https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks is a place where people discuss various ActivityPub implementations and potential improvements - primarily from a technological perspective (how the software is written), not as much from a cultural perspective (how users use the software), so it doesn’t directly answer your question, but it might still be helpful in some cases
@[email protected] DeviantArt - I like separation between art, literature, and regular status updates, and the ability to group posts in your inbox into folders by who posted them. Or, more realistically, any of the various furry sites that work on a similar model and have less potential for cultural conflict.
@[email protected] one advantage to a system like this, is that you don’t need it to catch on in a bunch of different communities for it to work. It can catch on even in one place, and it will already be useful for the people there.
@[email protected] Very nice! I might switch my single-user server to something like this someday - it’d be nice to have something I know how to make changes to. Also looks like the database and cache dependencies all run through ASP.NET Core stuff so they could be replaced (although I know from experience that just because you’re using Cosmos DB thru EF Core doesn’t mean you can write your schema the same way!)
@[email protected] microblog.pub has RSS feeds. you do need to self-host it though. That’s what I’m running on this account if you want to see an example
@[email protected] I’ve implemented the “log in with Microsoft”, “log in with Google”, etc buttons in ASP.NET Core + Identity before - most of them just use OAuth2, which works pretty much the same way no matter what provider you’re using.
OpenID Connect is an authorization layer built on top of OAuth2, so it could give you information about the user beyond just “they logged in and here’s an access token”. Maybe an OpenID Connect provider would be helpful in this use case - it seems to be designed to solve a problem much like this.
@[email protected] I think part of it is the “branding” of Mastodon - if everyone someone follows uses a Mastodon server, they might just think of “Mastodon” as the social network they want to join, and never really consider that other people on the network might be using something like Firefish or Pixelfed or microblog.pub. After all, most Mastodon servers’ web UIs look pretty much the same and the default Mastodon name and graphics are often pretty prominent.
I don’t think this is usually an issue, but there are some Mastodon instances out there whose names are `mastodon.[something] and I think that can mislead people into thinking that’s the one they “should” join just because it seems “official”.
@[email protected] @[email protected] neat, I never realized that micro.blog could federate itself in addition to crossposting to mastodon.
@[email protected] I’ve got a few ways to find fics with all-OC casts, which usually fit the bill (Trek BBS forum; fanfiction.net’s StarTrek: Other section; looking at AO3’s Star Trek tag and then excluding each individual show). Problem is, I’m usually more interested in hearing people talk about their stories / ideas / etc than actually reading them, and I don’t know where that sort of thing happens, if at all.
@[email protected] Although I wish some of Pike’s dialogue had been fleshed out a bit to make him feel like less of a generic foil for M’Benga (especially in their scene near the end), I do really like that they had the lead character of the show be the one who doesn’t get it, and in a way that’s in keeping with his characterization (it ties in particularly well with last season’s alternate-timeline Romulan episode, I think).
Also posted to reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/1dqotgy/could_any_of_the_main_characters_of_prodigy_have/
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