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@arachnomyrmex@eldritch.cafe okay but now leave audio logs of your thoughts and feelings lying around
TIL the standard Federation Starfleet Combadge includes a custom isolinear ASIC running a firewalled, subspace-gapped, virtualized phpBB instance "just in case".
@MariaLivGallery@mastodon.social well in the meantime, @danhon@dan.mastohon.com is live...
who's got two thumbs and just bought the domain mastohon.com for their personal mastodon instance?
yeah that's right this guy, I'm gonna have dan.mastohon.com and you can't stop me
Oh noooooo
New job posting: Inter-Ship Communications User Researcher (Onboarding), Medium-Range Sensors Division, Tranquility Base. #Starfleet
Transporter Targeting Junior Integration Engineer (Identity and Access Management), Starfleet Advanced Technologies, Legacy Product Support Systems Group, Deep Space 5. #JoinStarfleet
#starfleet #joinstarfleet #starfleetjobs #starfleetengineeringgetsitdone #startrek #startrekshitposts
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@z_everson@mastodon.social
@z_everson@mastodon.social link rel=me is a useful although slightly separate thing. I'd argue that having an account tied to a well-known, trusted domain name is in addition to/alongside link verification.
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@peter@area51.social
@peter@area51.social Yep, I cover that in the follow-up episode!
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e18-mastodon-or-what-happens-when-your/
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@as@social.undisruptable.technology
@as@social.undisruptable.technology Heh, the UI/UX and onboarding for Mastodon clients is still a bit raw :)
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@as@social.undisruptable.technology
@as@social.undisruptable.technology pretty much most apps/clients support multiple accounts, just not especially well - it's modal.
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@Danhon@mastodon.cloud
2/ Further thoughts on Mastodon, following my proposal for news organizations (and others) to stand up official institutional Mastodon instances:
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Existing official government instances (and thus accounts)
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Choosing instances is like choosing a town, affinity groups and also social norms/moderation choices
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Discovery and the What Instance Should I Be On problem?
Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e18-mastodon-or-what-happens-when-your/
1/ Reposting because people seem to be asking about it:
My proposal for news media and other organizations to stand up their own Mastodon instances, allowing de facto verified accounts (e.g. apetri@follow.washingtonpost.com) due to trusting the parent domain:
"A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More"
#mastodon #news #newstech #media #verification #institutions #authentication
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@ralf@r2.do
@ralf@r2.do It might have been me. I wrote up the proposal here: https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon/
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@george@a2mi.social
@george@a2mi.social @georgehotelling oh duh, it's just Wordpress posting a feed itself. Got it.
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@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe yes! Though I'd argue you inherit more trust from an existing societally well-known org domain than bootstrapping from a new TLD.
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@george@a2mi.social
@george@a2mi.social publishing over ActivityPub still requires an account -- on a Mastodon server -- to publish to though, right?
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@Danhon@mastodon.cloud
Wrote this up in today's newsletter: https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/
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@AngelosArnis@mastodon.social
@AngelosArnis@mastodon.social It was an example! AFAICT nobody has done this yet.
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@toon@toon.social
@toon@toon.social I think that works for accounts / how the Mastodon server itself does autodiscovery, but not necessarily from a server to discover the Mastodon server domain itself. Unless I'm reading the docs wrong. I don't see a /.well-known/ redirect for activitypub.
Shorter: I think webfinger is just for users?
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@migurski@mastodon.social
@migurski@mastodon.social I HAVE GOOD IDEAS, YES, CAN FINISH WORK FOR THE DAY NOW.
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@twofirstnames@mstdn.social
@twofirstnames@mstdn.social Doh, of course there is! That makes a ton of sense :)
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@Danhon@mastodon.cloud
Hey @jkohlmann@mastodon.social and friends, you're already on this, right? :)
First news organization to stand up its federated Mastodon server with a trustable domain (e.g. http://follow.washingtonpost.com) and accounts for its staff for people to follow gets a prize.
Also, proposal for a standardized domain for news orgs, e.g. follow.bbcnews.com, follow.nytimes.com, and/or autodiscovery of a mastodon server for a parent domain e.g. a socialnetworks.txt