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"A set of utilities to help bring content and users from legacy social media networks into the fediverse"

"Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others." The description don't mention ActivityPub, but the nodeinfo lists it as a supported protocol. (AKA microdotblog)

"A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. For people hosting instances, however, it can also mean some legal risk."

Intro: "Let’s address the mammoth in the room: the fediverse, the network of mastodon servers, is very inefficient. In this post I’ll show why it is inefficient and why that isn’t a problem."

[Video] "Four years later, while the fediverse plays host to a thriving community and unique culture, it remains a nonentity by the standards of social media giants. Why is this? How has ActivityPub created a constructive and enjoyable social media experience while also failing to bring that experience to a large audience? And what can this tell us about the possibilities and limitations of anarchistic spaces as a whole?"

From the creator of Cucumber/Gherkin: "The biggest problem with Cucumber is that most people trying it out don't understand what it is. Cucumber is not a tool for testing software. It is a tool for testing people's understanding of how software (yet to be written) should behave."

[Video] Mastodon is a "federated" social network that works like Twitter. It puts the control of data into the user's hands, not in a single corporation.

[Video] The plugin implements the ActivityPub protocol for your blog, to federate articles/notes and receive reactions from the fediverse.

The goal of these documents is to provide an implementation path for adding
Fediverse capabilities to Gitlab.

If you want to analyze Mastodon posts, getting them into Apache Kafka® is a sensible first step. Read on to find out how to do this with Typescript and NodeJS.