Social Media Articles

Alternate Sharing Buttons (Now with Less Tracking!) Sharing buttons that don't talk to Facebook, Twitter, or even a third party until you actually click on a button! I'm testing SharingButtons.io on one site, and Share42 on another.
Finding Fediverse Feeds How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.
Lessons from a Spam Attack: Moderation, Alerts, and Beware Auto-Sharing After cleaning up a spam flood, I learned to be a lot more careful with auto-sharing, more thorough with moderation, and turn some notifications back on.
Share to the Fediverse with ShareOpenly A share button that connects to Mastodon, BlueSky, Micro.blog, Threads and more. Here's how I've hooked it up to Eleventy.
What’s in Your Social Media Archive? I checked out what you get when you export your content from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and Mastodon, with an eye for both private archives and migrating to your own site.
WordPress + ActivityPub in a Subdirectory This rewrite rule lets other Fediverse sites find your blog through the ActivityPub plugin, without breaking Let's Encrypt renewals.
Wrapping Your Head Around Mastodon I've been on Mastodon for several years now, and it's completely replaced Twitter for me.It *is* a shift in perspective on how social media works, so here are a few tips to help wrap your head around it.