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Working on my new home (davidaugust.ghost.io/ on day 2 of my 124 day trial) for my articles and #blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.

My new home will allow me to have the whole thing served from a domain I own and control, including the feed.

Making a #proxy for the #feed, to preserve #subscribers if I were to change #tech or companies, seem a little superfluous. Am I missing compelling reasons to use #feedburner in 2025?

David AugustDavid AugustStories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

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new release of #Fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, counts the number of times each hashtag appears in your timeline even if people don't use a "#" character to give you a better sense of what people are talking about in the Fediverse.

there's a little bit of art vs. science here because some strings are disqualified from this kind of counting (e.g. a word like "the" should not be counted even if some maniac decided to make it a hashtag) so let me know if you see any weirdly high counts.

* Link: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

I have to smile to myself at people who make things to put in their gardens to feed certain animals but not others. My mum, for example, went through a phase of bird feeders but would get wildly angry if a squirrel showed up. Did squizzle not deserve to eat too?

See, that's not how it works. In nature food is food for everyone.

#FediAlgo will now let you filter your feed by the server your timeline toots are originating from. You can also choose whether to color highlight hashtags you've participated in or favourited and some other fun stuff.

* Try it w/your browser: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist
* Release notes: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f

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#FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, now has a "TOTAL CHAOS" preset for when you're really feeling like mixing up your timeline in addition to a way to weight toots based on the author's follower count, highlighting of hashtags based on how much you use or interact with them, and a bunch of other fund stuff.

* Try It: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

I'm not communicating enough about the artfeed.org project, and as a result there aren't many registrations. So I've done away with the invitation system and opened up the site to everyone.

Artfeed is a simple way to follow the work of photographers and artists via their #rss feeds, with an interface dedicated to images.

You can also add your own #feed to the site and create your profile, like mine here: artfeed.org/@atlza
A great way to share your images and likes!

artfeed.orgArtFeed - RSS feed Reader for photographers & artists - ArtFeed

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The new version of #Fedialgo is much, much faster at loading and reordering the timeline. Also has fancy gradients to show you which hashtags in your feed are the ones trending the most and which ones you post about the most. Also a bunch of other tweaks and improvements.

* Try the demo: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Video of it in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist
* Release notes: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f

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You can now send replies to Toots as well as expand threads directly within the #FediAlgo demo app, no need to click through to the regular Mastodon web interface.

* Link: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist

I have posted about this before, but wanted to re-iterate how much in love I am with FediAlgo:

I’m currently on paternity leave so have around half an hour per day for social. That is of course far from enough to keep up with a chronological timeline like mine, and previously with Mastodon the FOMO was real.

Now I go to FediAlgo and I feel I got an overview over what’s interesting in that day. It’s also immensely customisable, but the defaults do a decent job for me.

If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend you try it out. You can try it out on my personal playground at fedialgo.thms.uk or on the maintainer’s official website at michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe

Thanks @cryptadamist for the work you put into this!

fedialgo.thms.ukFediAlgo Demo for Mastodon

#Pocket is dying so it's appropriate to talk about the minimal #ReadLater service I wrote for myself: LinkFodder.

You can save links via an API, or a form, or a Telegram bot, and you get an HTML page (shown below) and an Atom #feed. That’s it.

Supports multiple users, written in #Haskell, deployable as a single binary (or a Docker image) behind the reverse-proxy server of your choice in your #SelfHosting setup.

It doesn't even need a database to run; it simply rewrites the HTML and Atom files when you save a new link.

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#FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.

* Link: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fe
* Code: github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f
* Video of FediAlgo in action: universeodon.com/@cryptadamist