Welcome

Welcome to these pages. Since winter 2023/24 they are part of my journey away from the commercial 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:

  • Gemini’s list of “all Tango Podcasts”

    Here is the result of a DeepResearch task with the free version of Gemini about “all existing podcasts for tango”. A Comprehensive List of Podcasts Exploring Argentine Tango Argentine tango, a dance and musical genre steeped in history and cultural significance, has garnered a global following. For enthusiasts and those curious to learn more, podcasts…

  • Filip’s questions – Part 1

    Filip from Brnosaires reached out with some questions. Here’s my long answer: Great questions! I will answer 1, 2 and 3 below. Why ActivityPub over Nostr and Matrix? When I was researching options, the protocol was never in focus. It was the core use cases for tango: Events, Connections, Groups, Sharing, Photos. Additionally, we only…

  • Expectation Management

    What we will need to understand is: a non-Facebook place will not be like Facebook. It may look like it, or similar, but it won’t be that. This means. We will lose some things, and need to change some behavior and customs.

  • Getting started with Friendica

    So, you have taken the first step into a friendica server? And you log in, and then what? Here are the first three steps you should take: Step 1: New Members Section After the first log-in, it will ask you for a profile picture. You can do that now, or later. If you skip, you…

  • 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…