Just read into Keybase documentation. Mastodon software supports Keybase, per-instance. However, due to what I’m guessing is massive proliferation, Keybase isn’t adding more instances at the current time.

I’ve waffled on Twitter. Disabled, re-enabled, and again just diabled cross-posting. Before the edict on barring Mastodon links in profiles, I had used Debirdify to learn that about 106 of the accounts I follow had federated accounts elsewhere. That’s less than 10 percent of the total number of accounts I follow there. The news escaping the Twitter bubble about the owner and his policies and his actions don’t really give me hope.

The interesting thing right this minute is dipping into the full federated Mastodon feed to see things I would otherwise have no idea how to find. The no-algorithm thing is cool in that sense.

I do think that things like boosting and likes will lead to much of the same “interaction-seeking” behavior from Twitter that can be leveraged in manipulative ways. I already see accounts whose output is primarily boosted toots, or broadcasting memes. My fear is that it’s just a matter of time until accounts are stolen and instances get weaponized as long as there is a financial or political incentive.

I worry about a commercial platform hosting speech and owning access to it, when the owner talks both about free speech and lawful speech. My sense is that culturally we will be now also facing battles over what is lawful speech, and protecting a specific point of view as lawful and anything other as not.

Nevertheless, I do see more and more accounts coming over into non-Twitter spaces. I find that interesting and exciting. I think there is value in having more than one path to information. And I fully support an individual’s right to own their words and their art.

I’m about half way through @manton’s Indie Microblogging book. I see the wisdom of using the web itself and protocols we already have as the social network. Weird, right? Using the interconnected network we already use, itself, as the social network?

In the end, I’m seeing aggregation sites (networks) as a single point of failure, and I’m seeing diaspora as the best hope for preservation and posterity.

It takes more work to run my own ship, but I like that I can head to the ports of my own choosing with hosting, email, DNS, RSS, blogging, and Mastodon instance. Further, I’m happy to pay the people in those ports that are helping me and providing value.

It’s probably just me, but only today I noticed that when you hover over a profile image in the Micro.blog timeline, the profile information for that account appears. #TIL

Watching from a distance as my intended destination for a Christmas get-away appears to be experiencing every possible ill effect from snow and wind and wave.

One under-appreciated or less-mentioned phenomenon of bitterly cold weather is that the world sounds different, not just the wind. Though the wind itself is hinting it its own power.

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media Having been through some lift-and-shifts, I feel this to my core. I agree with so many of the points, but most particularly that the community and the love can’t be bought.

Watching Lego Masters, eating Halloween candy while keeping an eye on a snowstorm that is evolving, possibly into a blizzard.

My immediate behavior in the face of obligation-free paid time off is to sleep until I can’t sleep any more. If/when this is interrupted, I go back to bed as soon as possible for as long as possible.

Book-ended my day with urgent calls, almost exactly 12 hours apart.

“Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!” —George Jetson

I could easily have changed an elevated-access password Friday, when I received a three-day warning. I but chose to wait until today, when I needed it to perform a specific thing, to do the account recovery process instead.

#ADHD #makesCompleteSense

When the Jeopardy clues elicit responses such as “Bootylicious” and “Shuttlecock.” I heartily approve.

That feeling when you find someone interesting to follow online, and then within 24 hours they indicate they will be taking a break.

I’m probably using social media wrong, but I deeply enjoy following people who challenge me and teach me.

Here’s the thing: We are all influencers. We all shape the world around us with our words and actions. This has always been true.

If we aren’t uplifting the people in our lives, what are we doing?

I am thinking more about our advertiser-based media landscape, and I’m grateful that the federated social media sites and services remove the perverse incentives of likes or follower counts.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I have a T-Shirt problem.

This is a test for @vincent. May your development be fruitful!

That feeling when you order your sandwich without onion, and the first thing that falls out of the wrapper when you go to eat it is onion.

Found The Maven Game’s recent newsletter The Opposite George to be very meaningful. I am a lapsed musician/poet/writer with no practice, no advancement, and a heart full of terror for more than a decade. This method gives me hope of rekindling my fire.

Picked up some Gen 2 AirPods Pro. I have to say, compared to Gen 1, the low end is more pronounced and powerful, but not boomy or emphasized. Well done, Apple! Best bass I have yet experienced in an in-ear bud.

My daughter has existed without her Minecraft machine for 8 days. Set it up for her in our temporary digs this afternoon and she has disappeared in the intervening hours.

COVID test says it’s not that. But my daughter has had flu-like symptoms this past week and it looks like it might be my turn

Twitter did not let me add my ActivityPub-compatible name to my display name on my Twitter profile though it looks like others have done so. It’s in a pinned tweet and in my profile, should anyone be interested enough to look at my profile page.

I was pleased to learn that in the Discover section on Micro.blog, you may not always need the full @name@fully.qualified.domain string to locate ActivityPub accounts. In some cases the username alone was enough. Many times, name@fully.qualified.domain was enough.

Yesterday I found about 8 Twitter accounts that I follow mentioned or listed a Mastodon address. Did a quick Twitter search for “mastodon” on followed accounts. Today I learned of Debirdify, which helped me to find about 100 more accounts I could follow directly from Micro.blog.