CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@julian @astro I need to eventually come back to this to add more ongoing synchronization of people I follow on prayer AP services as well as hashtags

Feeding a Lonely Pixelfed Instance

Feeding a Lonely Pixelfed Instance

I stood up a Pixelfed instance with 364 posts and 4 follows. My global timeline was a ghost town. Pixelfed doesn't support relays. Here's how I solved it with a shell script, some API calls, and a lesson in how ActivityPub actually works. The problem Pixelfed federates over ActivityPub like

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#pixelfed #fediverse #activitypub #selfhosted #mastodon #docker #scripting

Building a Dracula Theme for PeerTube Because Nobody Else Did

Building a Dracula Theme for PeerTube Because Nobody Else Did

I just wanted dark purple. I got a crash course in PeerTube's CSS variable system instead. The itch I run a PeerTube instance at peertube.mauve.haus. It's part of the fediverse video stack I've been building out as I move away from YouTube and other centralized platforms. The instance

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#selfhosted #peertube #dracula #theming #fediverse #css #docker #opensource

My Discord Nitro has finally expired. With all the #Age_verification crap going on, I'm no longer supporting them going forwards.

The fallout from losing Nitro is that I FORGOT HOW UGLY THE DEFAULT LOOK IS! I'd been using my own color scheme for so long that I had no idea how wretched Discord looks by default.

Oh well, That's just more motivation to continue moving away from Discord as much as possible.

#FuckDiscord #SelfHost #OwnMyData