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Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are one and the same. This choice is what makes Mastodon different from existing social networks, but it also presents a unique onboarding challenge.

In the early 80s, my mom worked a couple shifts a month at a little small-town food co-op that smelled like nutritional mummy. She brought home

As New York City battles with growing numbers of car thefts, officials are turning to Apple’s AirTag item tracker and...

Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?

Mona is a brand new, highly customizable Mastodon client from Junyu Kuang, the developer of Spring, which is one of the few remaining third-party Twitter clients that still works and pioneered many of the features found in Mona. Mona, which is available on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is a power-user app through and through.

Winter 2023

A while back I saw a video posted by the educational tech YouTube channel ColdFusion, called "The Anti-Smartphone Revolution". The video ...

A major social media platform with no moderation team is a major social media platform with hilarious DMCA problems.

They are really going out of their way to say that they intend to kill QuickTime, and are being quite threatening and rude about it.

After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

Sit in the chair. Open the turbolift. Admire the LCARS.

On the day Sarah Oh got laid off from Twitter last November, her friend Gabor Cselle called with his condolences. Then he made her an offer: Would she help him build a better Twitter? Cselle wasn’t trying to reinvent the social media wheel. He just wanted to return to a simpler time on the ...

Part 2: Local Data Storage — Implementing a database backend in Rust for a Tauri...

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...

I’ve been thinking about app scalability a lot lately – most recently in the context of TestFlight, which I find is incredibly frustrating to use, at best, and, on the Mac, often unusable. This isn’t a new problem for me, but I haven’t mentioned it much in the past because I’ve suspected that my experience

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

Right now, it’s really fun to hang out on Bluesky.

Forza Motorsport gets some impressive accessibility features.

What the default settings on the Apple Watch tell us about the move.

Interview with IMCDb.org’s longtime owner and operator to learn what makes this community-supported, car-focused database so unique in 2023

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

How to ask for help properly on IRC so that you get responses faster. Also relevant to forums and mailing lists