A Blog for Family and Friends
I think I have correctly activated the ActivityPub connectivity for this blog. Which means that www.obryan-net.com is now a part of the Fediverse.
My postings should now be distributed and show up in followers feeds.
I’ve followed it from my Mastodon account. Let’s see if it works.
For a a couple of years now, I’ve been recording my weekend motorcycle rides. I would typically post these on Facebook for my family and friends to see. This has worked out very well. Facebook seems to handle the videos relatively well and doesn’t appear to complain about the size or the storage. They do a bit to downgrade the resolution, I believe. But that is OK.
Continue reading “I’ve decided to change how I post videos online.”There has been a lot of news, activity, and arguments about the role of Social Media lately.
One of the big things to come out of these arguments, especially when it concerns censorship, control of access, and ownership of data is that current social media applications and systems are primarily owned by single entities and they control all of those things. Sure, they should be clearly stating how they may censor, how they may suppress or promote, and what they will do with your personal data. There is nothing to say this won’t change. In fact, the Terms of Service usually expressly allow the entity owning the platform to change these things whenever they wish.
Continue reading “Why I moved to Mastodon and began exploring the FediVerse”