When attending the inaugural Fediverse House at SXSW 2025 (hosted by Flipboard and Surf), you’re going to be based at the Speakeasy Austin (412 Congress Ave). Being just three blocks from the Austin Convention Center puts you in a prime location, but you’ll still need places to eat, drink, and unwind between sessions about decentralized social media.| Jeff Sikes
Recently, I wanted to migrate my Pixelfed content over to a GoToSocial instance. Enter Slurp, a new CLI tool that’s making this process much easier. Here’s my experience, including some recent updates that streamline the process.| Jeff Sikes
Sometimes the best way to explain complex technical concepts is through everyday experiences. Today, let’s break down the fediverse using something we’ve all encountered on the road.| Jeff Sikes
Installing SNAC Fediverse Server on Ubuntu| Jeff Sikes
Installing Hollo with Docker: A Complete Guide| Jeff Sikes
A First-Timer’s Guide to Navigating Dreamforce 2024| Jeff Sikes
Eleventy Experiment: Salesforce User Directory This is a simple experiment to see if I can use Eleventy to generate a small user directory from a Salesforce SOQL query. Spoiler - it works! npm I’m using the JSForce library to connect to Salesforce and run a SOQL query to get a list of users. I’m then using Eleventy to generate a static site with the user data.| Jeff Sikes
My objective here is to document the process of updating my Mastodon instance from 4.2.9 to 4.2.10, an urgent security release. I’ll then reference this when future upgrades are necessary.| Jeff Sikes
Let’s take a look a fediverse relays, and in particular, FediBuzz. We’ll go over the basics of how relays work, and then dive into a fresh install on Ubuntu.| Jeff Sikes
Bonfire has some excellent ideas when it comes to access control and extensibility, two things lacking in current fediverse platforms. Initially, I was interested to see how I could utilize this to supervise social media use of relatives with dementia.| Jeff Sikes
A call was sent out today by Terence Eden @edent@mastodon.social to try out a tiny AP server. I gave it a shot.| Jeff Sikes
