First off: Thanks to my email subscribers for their patience in putting up with three pointless posts.

Long ago I heard that you can connect blogs to the ‘Fediverse,’ which is a decentralized microblogging (think X or Twitter) service. What’s that?

So what is the fediverse?

It’s an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called ActivityPub, which allows you to port your content, data, and follower graph between networks.

What?

Ugh, I know. Let me try again.

The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.

Source: The Verge

I thought it would be cool, but there is an issue with it: I tried to follow my blog from one of the Fediverse accounts I have, but found no way to ‘approve’ me. I looked around and lost my patience in trying to find a solution. So, I deleted the plugin. Perhaps someday I’ll try again.

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