what was your first exposure to the fediverse?
I was checking what the definition of Fediverse is, and when I go after the one from the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Then it was when I implemented Pingback to my weblog so it looks like it was 2005.
Later around 2012, I was involved in the Tent protocol which was an alternative to OStatus and build a client for it. But because how bad their handled their community a year or so later I switched to:
Indieweb where I implemented a set of protocols and markup on my website to be interoperable with other websites which implement the same set of protocols and markup like microformats, micropub, webmention, etc. To this day I still am using my own website as the main publishing platform and automatically cross post every note and picture to Mastodon.
Otherwise I joined Mastodon with my own 1 person instance in 2019. And later PeerTube with my own instance for my family in 2020 and today I joined kbin.social just to test it before I decide if I should set up my own instance or not.
[edit:] I forgot that I set up my own Matrix server in 2020
I like Synologies hardware actually but I also would rather run some free software on it. Right now I'm struggling with the Synology Drive app on Linux, it just doesn't want to run in the background like advertised, and it also crashes on launch because of wayland.
I have one Synology DS220+ at my parents house which I use for offsite backup of the computers and phones mostly. But it also runs Synology Photos which does face recognition which I then use to once an hour to fetch 20 pictures of pictures with the family on to show on the TV in the living room. I have pictures there dating back to 2004 which makes it a very cool walk down the memory lane. And I can use the TV as a big interactive picture frame when nobody is watching anything but we're at home.
With a similar script I also post pictures like "Today n years ago" in two of my family chats which is even cooler because there my siblings and parents also can one picture from n years ago every day in the morning when they wake up.
Here is the script, the bad part is that it has to have access to the postgresql database on the NAS, so it's a bit tricky to set up but once it runs it's awesome! https://github.com/jeena/synology-pictures
How do we interact with PeerTube from /kbin?
This was kind of a interesting topic, so I copied it over and extended it with some more steps which I remembered on the way into my blog: https://jeena.net/first-exposure-fediverse