Replied to Joanna Rutkowska on Twitter (Twitter)

“So, if Facebook is “Windows”, what would be the “Linux” of social platforms? Ie. decentralized/federated/privacy respecting platform? Here the goal being to keep in touch with select friends – privately sharing photos, stories, comments, etc; _not_ a public broadcasting platform.”

Hubzilla ticks a few of these boxes (https://zotlabs.org/help/en-gb/about/about#What_is_Hubzilla_)

I don’t think it has iOS support though sadly!

Admin question: how do single-user instances affect the dynamics and daily activity of community management? Do they make the life of managing an instance with many users harder, easier, makes no difference?

#Fediverse

In part 1, I discussed why you might want to bridge your Indieweb site to the Fediverse.

In this follow up post, I’ll describe one way of doing it that I’ve been tinkering with recently.

The tl;dr: using WordPress Indieweb plugins and Bridgy Fed; it works pretty smoothly; still a few quirks at present; it’s awesome and lots of fun to mess around with.

Continue reading “Bridging the Indieweb and the Fediverse with Bridgy Fed, part 2”