Been writing a lot more recently and it's just good. One trick to try is stream-of-consciousness, not stopping or going back to edit. I found myself still using backspace and stopping so made this single pager to help turn it into an exercise.
Write Without Stopping:
https://codeberg.org/weex/write-without-stopping
If you maintain open source software and don't use C4, I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on this talk by the late Pieter Hintjens. The talk doesn't depend on video much so it works as a podcast. https://peertube.co.uk/w/2cw9QGY51ey6SiF3zPPtvW
A new version of Acropolis was just released for YunoHost. Version 2022.01.29~ynh1 adds email confirmation for new accounts and creates the initial admin account during installation making it the smoothest installation method of any diaspora* fork.
#Acropolis is Magic Stone's fork of #diaspora, one of the first federated apps ever made which is built around "aspects" or circles of people that you want to share with. Sign up at https://dogieda.org to try it.
⚠️ Please report issues at https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/acropolis
Announcing a new Fediverse Enhancement Proposal for your review:
"FEP-e232 is a proposal for representing text-based links to ActivityPub objects using tags"
Learn more and discuss at
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/issues/14 and https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-e232-object-links/2536.
Reached out to a bunch of people today which got me thinking about how best to keep in touch.
https://davidsterry.com/blog/2022/07/use-better-social-media-platforms/
It's not going to be easy but it's time, isn't it?
My how I've overlooked poetry as entertaining and essential. Discovered Ted Hughes and listened to him read many poems during yesterday's run. I'd expected them to work like prose which is mostly one-and-done but I see poems now more like music. Easier to appreciate after 5-10 impressions. Had fun copy-pasting the ones he read into a doc to make this process easier over time.
#farside does not get enough attention and publicity
https://farside.link/
https://github.com/benbusby/farside#readme
Replace the narratives of tech-could-do-ism with narratives of how to act today. How to fix today.
Because we all deserve a good world now. Not if we can pay for a new tech gadget in 5 years.
THIS. IS. BRILLIANT. 🤯 😍
#Github is in the heart of Software Development. Countless vendors see 'Github support' as essential. GH has cemented its position as dominant player.
#Fediverse can change all that. With @forgefed working on specs and #Gitea #ForgeFriends and #ForgeFlux projects coding federation support.
The entire ecosystem can be opened and democratized!
But are #ForgeFed "code forge" specs sliced right? Or should we crowdsource specs for the "Free Software Development Lifecycle"?
A sincere tip for longtime fediverse people who would like their friends to stick around here longer than a week:
If you're on Mastodon or Hometown, you can click the "bell" icon in the profile of someone you follow. This will make it so that every time they post, it will appear in your notifications like an "@". I am enabling this temporarily for friends so that I remember to interact with them. This is important for making this place feel more lively and helps people stick around!
Created an intro page and a few issues for the social network moderation backend. https://github.com/weex/wot-server/wiki
The idea is to leverage emergent social structure to shun bad actors without needing to explicitly ban anyone or create collateral shunning of folks who seem to have joined the wrong server.
My favorite book about writing is Writing Down The Bones. https://nataliegoldberg.com/books/writing-down-the-bones/
It motivated me to write a lot more and with less purpose. Very freeing.
Hey #Fediverse the results of the #poll are in and the majority guessed in the right direction.
August last year @weex did a count of the 'Social Media Apps' section of https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/ and counted 76 active developers.
What does this mean?
If you're interested in learning how writers write, check out The Paris Review Interviews series. For decades they've been talking with some of the best: https://store.theparisreview.org/products/the-paris-review-interviews-i
For someone like me who's can get a bit obsessed with process, these interviews read themselves.
Thank you @PaulaToThePeople for including me in your #followrecommendations. I just reached 100 followers which doesn't sound like a lot but feels like 10-50k bird site equivalent. One of my motivations for coming to the fedi was to have an impact and it's been heartwarming to see the response from so many real people from the work I care about.
This whole episode is confirming for me that the migration to the fediverse is inevitable and that every action taken in cweb is good for us.
What's particularly exciting about this is that nobody can know the result of thousands of communities molding the software to suit their needs.
Maintainer of community-driven forks of Mastodon (Ecko) and diaspora* (Acropolis)
Magic Stone's audacious mission:
_Social networking for humans_
The easiest way to install is through YunoHost (https://yunohost.org) but we also support source and docker-compose installs.
Learn more at https://magicstone.dev