[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]
While that work can be fulfilling, it can also take a toll. Asking for donations, managing servers, and selling art or tickets can grind people down. Donations can be an unreliable channel for server funding […]
Hi, everybody!! I'm working on my phd thesis and i need access to this books and is not presente neither in anna's, libgen or Z-lib (the three are connected, but is better to be sure)
Can anybody lend me it, please?
"The affective agency of public space: Social inclusion and community cohesion" […]
One for the history books:
Along with folks like @cwebber and @dthompson I will be talking at a branch of the Toronto Library tomorrow. My presentation will be about #Mastodon: what it is and how you might use it.
If you've got a friend who's interested in Mastodon but doesn't know where to start, and they live in Toronto […]
I love #Linux because it makes my laptops last so long the stickers on them get all worn out
[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]
Since tech reporters were largely unfamiliar with GNU social, but were definitely familiar with Twitter, they also started calling Mastodon a Twitter alternative. This happened in a spate of articles that appeared in April […]
[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]
Like the term “protocol” implies, ActivityPub is a set of technical rules governing the relationship between federation instances. If a given piece of software agrees to the rules of the ActivityPub standard, it can […]
My latest FOSS Academic post is a doozy. It's "Reading the Digital Safety Act with My Mastodon Admin Hat On":
https://fossacademic.tech/2026/06/11/reading-digital-safety-act.html
I'm reading Canada's proposed Digital Safety Act. My conclusion is that the proposed regulations could be very […]
[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]
But it shared something with GNU social, the system it was trying to improve upon. Both Mastodon and GNU social relied on the OStatus protocol. While this meant that GNU social and Mastodon could connect with one another […]