Jan-Lukas Else

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Published on 2023-01-18 in 🔗 Links

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I posted about GoToSocial, but another Mastodon-alternative and Fediverse software, Takahē, seems to make fast progress and has some unique features like support for multiple domains or multiple identities per user. I haven’t tried running it yet, but it looks promising!

https://jointakahe.org/

Tags: Fediverse

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Jan-Lukas Else What should I do with my new domain? I recently complained about domain registrars. But I also recently registered a new domain: j7s.me. A numeronym of my first name. And the .me TLD to show that I am a person. (And it is a short domain that was available.) Why? I currently often use jlelse or jle as my username. However, four out of six letters in jlelse are my surname. But what happens if my surname ever changes, for example if I get married? Then this username will reflect my birth name, but perhaps not my current name. My fi…
- Henrique Dias I Bought a Numeronym Domain Name Some weeks ago, I read a post from Jan-Luka’s where he talked about what to do with his new domain. The most interesting part for me was not what to do with the domain, or the domain itself, but what the domain is: a numeronym. After further reading what a numeronym is on Wikipedia, I decided to do the same. A numeronym is just a word that is composed by numbers and, optionally, letters. In most cases, it is also an abbreviation. One specific type of numeronym is a numerical contraction. One …
- Jan-Lukas Else My next Fediverse migration? I currently use GoToSocial (with my numeronym domain) next to my blog, but it always confuses me where to post what. That’s why I want to move to my blog as my sole Fediverse identity. But before that, I wanted to implement another Fediverse feature in GoBlog: support for the new fediverse:creator meta tag. The last time I really did something in the ActivityPub area of GoBlog, I set up a Mastodon instance on a DigitalOcean VPS. This time, I installed a test instance of Mastodon on my (underu…