No.

ActivityPub is a protocol. It has no agency.

People can save the Internet. Perhaps with ActivityPub, perhaps with something else.

Because it’s sometimes a ludicrous demand?

Common pattern I see in Mastodon’s … more strident, shall we call them? … advocates:

Poster: I just took a picture of a <insert bird>. Note the red and yellow flash of plumage, in contrast to the more usual green and red. I caught this little darling hopping along the charcoal grey slate walkway I’ve got running through my garden, right next to the <insert flower> you can see at the right side of the frame.

<put picture here>

Strident Twit: WHY YOU NO PUT ALT TEXT!?

Or, worse:

Strident Twit Bot: WHY YOU NO PUT ALT TEXT FOR OUR BLIND USERS!?

So what, precisely (providing details), would you put into alt text that’s not already in the post? Would you just copy and paste the alt text? When I ask the strident twits this, I generally get vague homilies and blocks.

Oh God I hope not!

It’s never a good thing when “Web 3” is spoken anywhere near anything you value.

It’s also illegal to fire actual staffers in huge numbers that way. But the Musk Ox thinks he’s above petty things like “laws” and “decency” and “humanity” and “not sucking as a person”.

This. This right here. Someone with actual formal study and experience in UI and UX design needs to be brought into the loop on most of the fediverse projects. This way you get around things like Pixelfed not allowing batched uploads and other horrors of UX.

To apologetically paraphrase The Police:

There is no technical solution

to a troubled evolution

Thanks for the tip. Problem got solved though without the log. It was a weird one.

Also what would I be looking for?

If I were a browser console, where would I be hiding?

(I’m an embedded developer, not a web one.)

Phase 1:

Phase 2:

Phase 3:

And that’s where it sticks forever. Longest test run was over an hour.

Indeed whenever I try to upload anything (including the images used in this report that I eventually had to host at imgur) I get this popping up briefly:

That might be a useful data point.

I’ve been unable to make any posts of any kind today. Was there a server update that turned that off?

“Banned from Twitter” is usually code for “right-wing extremist” IME. I mean look at Gab or Parler and see what’s mostly in there.

I would really recommend finishing off the web page at least before advertising. I understand this is a volunteer-based movement, but it’s a volunteer-based movement that needs more volunteers. When I see things like this…

…I kind of look askance at the people organizing and documenting the movement.

The site is full of partially-complete entries like that (with this one looking like it was abandoned mid-edit and pushed to the CDS).

With WriteFreely (and presumably Plume) people can follow via ActivityPub and comment on platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, and other such locations. On top of that Mastodon, for example, can be used to spread the link bringing new eyes to the blog, as well as permitting comments to be spread around even outside the usual circles of the blog’s readers.

I really don’t see what hosting comments directly brings to the table.

I’m not sure I follow.

People can subscribe to my WriteFreely articles on Mastodon and can comment to their heart’s content. And since I too subscribe to them, I can see the comments. I just don’t see the need to host them myself on my blog.

You can federate just fine. I’ve followed and boosted WriteFreely articles on Mastodon.

I’m not sure how RSS helps in publishing a blog?

Why disable when you can use something that doesn’t have them in the first place? It would be like buying a car that periodically sends electric shocks to the hands on the steering wheel, but which you can disable. Why would I buy the car in the first place when I can get one that doesn’t periodically send shocks to my hands ever.

There are those who think not having comments is a selling point. ;)