Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)

Reminder why switching.social does NOT recommend using Brave:

-Brave is a for-profit ad sales and cryptocurrency promotion company, funded by venture capital firms. Its primary purpose is to make money, not protect privacy.

-Top of the list of Brave's VC owners is Founders Fund, which is Peter Thiel's company ( https://web.archive.org/web/20190831163230/https://basicattentiontoken.org/ )

-Peter Thiel is also the head of Palantir, which makes its money by spying on the general public ( https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/ )

#Brave #PeterThiel #Palantir

A number of people have asked how to make Wordpress blogs federate with the Fediverse (including Mastodon and Pixelfed).

You can do this by adding the ActivityPub for Wordpress plugin from here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

When the plugin is installed, it allows anyone on the Fediverse to follow your Wordpress blog.

It's still in beta, the plugin's developer is @pfefferle

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #WordPress #Mastodon #Pixelfed

p.s. Netherlands are also voting today! 🇳🇱 🇪🇺

Other dates:

Fri 24th May - Ireland, Czech Republic

Sat 25th May - Czech Republic, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia

Sun 26th May - Everyone else

EU election season begins today as the UK goes to the polls (most other EU members vote on Sunday).

Please, please use your vote 🙏

It takes you just a second but in the current climate it will have perhaps decades of deep consequences.

Elections matter. Please make your voice heard, however small you might think it is 👍

#EUElections

Meanwhile, on birdsite... 🐦

#Brave #PeterThiel #Palantir

Want to use a link shortener on #Mastodon?

Don't! :blobsurprised: All links in Mastodon posts count for 23 characters, no matter how long they really are.

(via @jond )

#MastoTips

#ActivityPubForWordPress are plugins for WordPress sites that add support for the ActivityPub standard.

This means people can follow the WordPress site from ActivityPub-powered services such as Mastodon etc.

There are a couple of such plugins right now:

"ActivityPub" by @pfefferle
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

"PteroType" by @jdormit https://wordpress.org/plugins/pterotype/
https://getpterotype.com/

#AlternativesAtoZ #ActivityPub #WordPress #Fediverse

With the imminent release of federation for @pixelfed , a reminder that there are many photo sites on the way for the #Fediverse:

@anfora

@peerpx

@snap_as

As they will federate together, it means many platforms can co-exist without worrying about splintering the userbase.

When a decentralised site grows, it makes the others stronger too, because they all benefit from the same network effect.

Centralised sites just weaken each other until one monopoly site dominates.

#DeleteInstagram

Welcome new people! :blobcheer: 👏 👋

Some useful #Mastodon features you might not know about:

Delete & Redraft - Click on the ... under your posts.

Tools to move instances - https://octodon.social/@schlink/100561221036847897

Block particular instances -
https://mastodon.social/@CM_noelle/100546476154517859

Image Descriptions - https://mastodon.social/@LiamErven/100549775260499384

RSS Feeds - https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/100368443255001645

Undocumented keyboard shortcuts - https://tootplanet.space/@YacYac/100551003949156532

Don't need link shorteners - https://mastodon.social/@jond/100549272934179851

...any others to share?

#Community #MastoTips