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If you have your own domain, you can use it as a handle for your Bluesky account instead of the default <username>.bsky.social. Prior to today, my two posts on Bluesky were to whinge that (1) you still have to initially create an account on bsky.app and get assigned a handle on the default domain before you can change it and (2) if you change the handle to your own domain, your original handle becomes available for someone else to claim, which isn’t great for maintaining a persistent online identity....

I still have friends and family whose online social experience is only on Facebook and its cousins. I periodically post reminders there to say that I’m not active on Facebook and my Hello page here always has my current contact details. In the spirit of PESOS (Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate on Own Site), here’s a copy of my most recent reminder post. Periodic reminder that I’m not really here on this hellsite and you can contact/connect with me through any of the methods listed on https://www....

Another mass migration from a certain micro-blogging hellsite to better alternatives is underway, and some of us on Mastodon and its cousins are trying to make Mastodon and the Fediverse more friendly and welcoming to newcomers. I have started a small guide to the Fediverse – at this stage, really just a guide to better guides that others have created, and a list of some of the friendly Mastodon servers that a newcomer might want to join....

📜 Signed the open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation urging it not to dox editors who have annoyed an Indian news publisher.1 🗄️ Bought an additional hard drive to add to my DIY NAS and ArchiveBox setup at home. 💸 Asked the Internet Archive to double my monthly donation. 💸 Activated a paid subscription for Sourcehut git hosting (I’ve been freeloading for months but they haven’t been nagging me as they’re still in alpha)....

There’s a de facto convention for rendering footnotes in HTML that enables feed readers to give them special treatment, e.g. NetNewsWire and Feedbin display them inline if you select the numbered footnote popup. Simon Willison, referencing Chris Coyier, both with screenshots: I found this code in the NetNewsWire source (it’s MIT licensed) which runs against elements matching this CSS selector: sup > a[href*='#fn'], sup > div > a[href*='#fn'] So any link with an href attribute containing #fn that is a child of a <sup> (superscript) element....