I have seen the greatest minds of my generation copied, co-opted, ripped off, written over, memified, stolen, and misapplied whenever they put their best efforts into the work they post on the internet. I have no illusions that my own work has become grist for the mill. I’ve seen it. Most of my readers are …
Category Archives: Phaysis
Mastodon Test, Formatted
So, I changed the ActivityPub plugin format type back to “Note”, have enabled Media federation, and am testing the conveyance of formatting to Mastodon. This block of text is in bold. This block is in italics, but not because it’s Italian. In Spanish, that’s called “letras bastardillas“, but that says nothing about its parentage. Don’t …
ActivityPub test, WordPress Post Format
This is a wacky test of setting WP’s ActivityPub to publish in WordPress Post format. Does it include rich text and images? Who knows?
Mastodon Test, Pix
Testing after setting ActivityPub WP plugin to syndicate media as well. Does Mastodon see it? The world may never know!
Federation
So this weekend has seen some shakeup. I joined Mastodon and started learning about how it works and how that it relies on an open standard called ActivityPub, which allows separate sites to share activity such as posts, comments, etc. This is the nervous system between Mastodon sites, enabling them to federate (just like how …