I've disabled #WordPress comments on my blog in an experiment to see if we can be social web native, so to that effect I've enabled direct interaction buttons on each blog post, you can now boost, like, quote, direct from the article.

Not sure if this is a good idea or not, but let's see how it goes.

Thanks to @pfefferle for this ever-improving ActivityPub plug-in for WordPress (and side note on the many hours it took to style the buttons... ;o)

The American people didn’t reject Trump's billionaire-backed regime in the midterms just to return to business as usual.

It's Thursday, my frens.

@gamingonlinux It followed me as well, blocked and reported

Surprise! New podkast episode. 🎧️

Electre Selecteh one - B side

Yeah, I know I said a few days ago “see you in the next moon” but the real surprise is that this B-side features three guests: @socool palmdrive / @ujochi and IR / @boumboumtechno . We had a great conversation, and we hope you enjoy it.

There is music by our guests, including an unreleased track by IR and Socool's collaboration with @paul_griffin . And more music by @LUUIII @forestrysoundexpert @sonicwalker @CCirco @eliskunk @robert_bantin @herr_irrtum @katiakrow @P0lysormi and @tommy86

#ElectronicMusic #fedimusicians #Podcast

@newsmast @saskia

"FORbetter is an idea of a better social internet."

See the irony?

@bazkie @ozzelot @ahihi @futzle @sknob

I am just debating whether or not to make it play random snippets from "C'est quoi" when you click the buttons...

@fesshole I met my wife on Plenty Of Fish. We knew each other years before that (mid-90s), but things had Happened in the meantime. But both of us were in the right place at the right time to meet up again.

Own it, there's no shame. x

Raise his taxes

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/y-combinators-garry-tan-uses-ai-agents-so-much-he-spends-up-to-200k-a-year-on-tokens/

#USPol

Microsoft rolls out a Xbox PC app with an overhauled design to Xbox Insiders that it says launches up to 60% faster than before (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/1027353/microsoft-new-xbox-pc-app-redesign
http://www.techmeme.com/261105/p43#a261105p43

@EUCommission Immagino che in questo futuro non ci siano l'open source. Maledetti!

@eliskunk he is a cutie!

This post is written on https://normals.me and delivered to !fediverse@lemmy.world over #ActivityPub, so if you are reading it the basic plumbing works. Now let me explain what is this.

Normals is a forum with communities, threads, and questions with an accepted answer. It is a single instance, not software you can host, and the core is closed for anti-abuse reasons. The federation module will be published separately with implementation notes (FEP-67ff).

What federates today Every community is a Group actor following the Lemmy model (FEP-1b12). Follow @selfhosted@normals.me or any other community from Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin or Mastodon.

Posts and comments go both ways. Replies from your instance appear in the thread on Normals, replies from Normals go back to the origin.

Remote content is labelled with its origin, links back to it, and is never copied. Media loads from the source.

Signed fetches, so it works with instances that require authorized fetch. NodeInfo 2.1 is up.

Policies, in case they matter to you, it has no ads, and no paid reach, and of course no AI training on posts. AI crawlers blocked by default, public mod log with reasons, and no automated removals. Numbers at https://normals.me/transparency so please take a look.

If something from your instance shows up wrong here, or something from here shows up wrong on yours, reply with the URL and I'll fix it. Andy Piper mentioned NodeBB uses the same group model, if anyone runs a NodeBB instance I'd like to test against it, if possible.

I hope we all have fun. Cheers!

@marty was there any connection between the 2024 elections and the Fediverse?

My wife and I met on Craigslist over 18 years ago. Back then it was scandalous to meet someone online, let alone Craigslist personal ads. We have always told our family that we met in a bar while we were out with friends. Years later we still keep the lie going.