Taking Your Posts With You: Upon the closing of Oliphant.Social — The Oliphant
This was the final post I made on Oliphant.Social: https://oliphant.social/@oliphant/114300833257184077 And this is the first: https...| The Oliphant
This was the final post I made on Oliphant.Social: https://oliphant.social/@oliphant/114300833257184077 And this is the first: https...| The Oliphant
There are few phrases that will crop up more frequently than "But you posted it in public, tho" online, particularly when someone brings ...| The Oliphant
(The following are not my words, but from a Canadian who prefers to remain anonymous.) One thing I've learned over the past few weeks, a...| The Oliphant
Years ago, I had a job: to build a centralized SaaS (software-as-a-service) app that would replace the one-off copy-and-paste sites we us...| The Oliphant
Mastodon gives you this funny export option, including this funny little phrase about how it's in ActivityPub format, and "readable by an...| The Oliphant
There will be a quiz on this later. China: "I want to sell marbles." USA: "I put a tariff on your marbles." China: "I'm selling the ma...| The Oliphant
If you want to join an island network, you will either need to join an island server, or else create your own. Island fedi accounts are d...| The Oliphant
In Setting up your own island I explained how you can take an existing Ubuntu server and install a Dockerized version of GTS. Some peopl...| The Oliphant
You can think of this document as a toolkit for organizing, joining and running an opt-in federated network as an alternative to the fedi...| The Oliphant
What if we were all just a bunch of allowlist-only servers talking to each other, in the process creating an entirely new network? A pr...| The Oliphant
It's hard to see past one obvious truth: The fascist movement has achieved one of their most critical goals already: The Supreme Court....| The Oliphant
Spoiler: It's Not Going Anywhere. This is a subtoot in the form of a blog post. Today a popular poster said this: My hope is we can f...| The Oliphant
Certain things are baked into Mastodon, and you can't change them. RSS feeds are one of those things. Hometown is the only fork of Mast...| The Oliphant
Let's continue from part one with this section of the prompt: From what little I've seen you write about it these days, I'd guess that...| The Oliphant
I asked around for some suggestions on my next blog topic, and received this one: I'd be interested in hearing the story of how/why yo...| The Oliphant
