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Those are some fun memories 🙂 I like that secondary use of an ‘on this day’ widget – as part of the weeding and watering of one’s blog. I have a ‘random post’ page that I occasionally use and aim to use more – partly to surface old memories, but also it works as a small microtask for myself – did I tag and categorise the post? Does it have the right post kind? And maybe more interestingly, how have my thoughts changed over time – is it time to write a new post on the topic?
Replied to https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/06/7471/ by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)
I use Mastodon Autopost (https://github.com/simonfrey/mastodon_wordpress_autopost) for this.  (I think originally came across it via Chris Aldrich).  You can choose per post whether you want to post to your instance.  I also added a couple of very hacky functions (https://github.com/ngm/semloop/blob/master/includes/syndication-targets.php) to add it as a Micropub syndication target.
Replied to Blogging {:} a Life by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

My friend Peter has been blogging for exactly 20 years yesterday. His blog is a real commonplace book, and way more than my blog, an eclectic mixture of personal things, professional interests, and the rhythm of life of his hometown. When you keep that up for long enough, decades even, it stops bein…

This is really nice. I’m still trying to pin down what it is that I actually want from the nebulous world of ‘social media’, and I think that this very human part of it, with lifelong friendships around the world, must be a big part of it.
Replied to Taking e-mail back, one user account at a time by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

Today I changed the way we use e-mail addresses for identification on-line.

Thanks for this writeup, Ton.  I have been using a gmail account as the firewall between the world and my real email account, but this looks like it could be even better.  I’m not particularly happy with some of my mail going through Gmail, even if it’s just for the more disposable accounts.
Replied to https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/05/7053/ by Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)

Can Granary.io also turn Twitter #topic streams into a feed? I seem to only see examples of personal twitter timeline—>feed. I never look at my timeline really, mostly have #topic columns alerts in my Tweetdeck columns e.g

You can, yes. Your link will be something like:

https://granary.io/twitter/@me/thetopic/@app/?format=html&access_token_key=thetoken&access_token_secret=thesecret

I used to follow individual accounts from Twitter using granary (https://doubleloop.net/2019/03/12/following-twitter-peeps-in-an-indiereader-with-granary-io-and-microsub/), however I realised from discussion with Ryan (https://snarfed.org, who makes granary.io) that doing that puts unnecessary load on granary and your microsub server. However, doing it via twitter ‘lists’ is OK.

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“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!