Welcome

Welcome to these pages. Since winter 2023/24 they are part of my journey away from the monopolistic social media empires, and my renewed interest in blogging and owning the place where my words are crafted and shown.

Here is a list of the most recent posts:

  • Tangoverse: connecting Pages/Groups with RSS feeds

    One of the key ideas of a federated and connected Tangoverse is that we can re-use existing web sites and content, and bring that into the social networking apps. The common ways to do that are 1) RSS feeds, 2) ActivityPub extensions and 3) custom code. This post is just about including RSS feeds. RSS…

  • Tangoverse, update 2025-02-09

    I am currently digging deeper into fediverse applications for the tangoverse as described before. It was a great occasion to reset my virtual server and configure it using yunohost, which allows for much more easy management and operations, I hope, than my old setup. Currently in the test bed are the social network apps Friendica,…

  • How might a tangoverse ecosystem look like?

    One of the big advantages of Fediverse is that many different services can interact with each other. That doesn’t mean that you can log in and use every server with the same identity, but you can follow and comment on most things you might see in a Fediverse stream in some way. Also, every service…

  • 2025 – is the “Alternative to Facebook” finally in sight?

    It’s 2025 already, and the world is expected to change dramatically (?) this year. I am expecting more of Facebook due to the current situation in the USA (trend towards less regulation, and more extreme populism and online sharing of hate-speech and fake news, plus AI-generated content, …). Twitter — now X — has…

  • AI, my private army of interns

    In the last few months, I have been working with different AI tools, from ChatGPT, to Claude, Copilot and Perplexity. Each has their own advantages, but they also have enough disadvantages — and they are all subscription-based, and you don’t really want to subscribe to them all at the same time. Of course, there’s also…

  • WordPress Events can now be shared across ActivityPub

    Wonderful news! Finally, the “Event Bridge for ActivityPub” has been released as a WordPress plugin. It allows for enabling the event post type created by many of the Events plugins for WordPress to be accessed via the ActivityPub feed of a page. I have just installed it on RNT – Rhein-Neckar-Tango, which hosts the event…

  • Exploring the Shift to One Tanda in Tango Dancing: A Comprehensive Look

    The following is a summary of a thread on facebook with >100 comments. It aims it create a summary of the various perspectives and was created using AI. Introduction Tango, a dance rich in tradition and passion, is undergoing a significant transformation. The trend of dancing a single tanda (a sequence of dances) with a…

  • Using STORM

    The previous entry “The experience of flow in dance” was written by AI. How? It uses an algorithm that helps the AI bootstrap the writing process by asking itself questions, and then using these questions for web research, outlining, and writing. Quite fascinating. Application Link: storm · Streamlit (stanford.edu) Here is a screenshot of the…

  • The experience of flow in dance

    Please note: the article below was fully written by AI, without human interaction. It is written using an application called STORM based on current research by a group of smart scientists at Stanford (paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14207) Download: Flow, a psychological state coined by Hungarian-American psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, represents a condition of deep absorption and engagement in…

  • Tango Snobbery?

    A lot has been written about “arrogance” or “snobbery” in tango, especially felt by newcomers into tango scenes or travellers. “Why don’t they dance with me”? Read this: My primary hypothesis goes back to the notion of *trust* in tango, which is an absolute must when you intimately engage with a stranger in each others’…