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  • Are we now coding / writing for other agents?

    I just wanted to tick off another article that I had marked for “read later”. In Claude Code is blowing me away, Nick Hodges writes about his surprise how well Claude Code wrote a website plus payment connection for him.

    The story itself is impressive, no doubt. But a key sentence (to me) comes later when he writes:

    The lesson here is that much of what we are doing now is not coding for humans—we are now coding for other agents.

    Nick Hodges

    … and, well, I pretty much agree. Whenever I see any LLM-chat sytem like perplexity or chatgpt in my access logs, I see what he means as well. And – I don’t complain about it. This might be confusing, but the fediverse changed my mind.

    Wait … the Fediverse?

    Yes, the Fediverse!

    I was (and am) happy and proud when people find their way to my website and — hopefully — find something that they find useful! And when i enabled the WordPress-fediverse plugin on my website, I was happy to open the content up to the fediverse.

    And when I don’t just publish a teaser, the whole post can be read completely in the respective fediverse client – well the same holds for RSS, but with the fediverse, it became really apparent to me. And in both scenarios (RSS or Fedi), I don’t get the reader via Browser to my website. They might just stay in their RSS reader or Fedi-client.

    And now? Agents come along as another “client”?

    Should I care? Well yes! Maybe I should keep in mind to make the website agent-friendly (just text only, no CSS, ….)? As long as my content generates value to a visitor, I might just feel fine. No mater which client is used.

    Of course, this attitude doesn’t hold for anyone who needs to make money from the website visit (like showing ads) or aims for a branding effect! But in my case … I could post my How-Tos also on StackOverflow and don’t get branding effects or credit for it …

    Maybe it’s naive. Maybe not. Maybe it’s just the future. I don’t know. But for this website, I don’t want to care too much.

  • Find me on Nolto!

    AAhh – Nolto has gone

    Nolto was never meant to grow.

    [… ]

    It was one person building something interesting to see what would happen.

    At this point I have decided to shut it down.

    Ahh too bad.

    But I respect the decision of this guy! He made quite a thing but also admits that he’s just a one man show and doesn’t have the experience to operate such a thing. I might have done the same in his situation.

    Since I am moving more and more away from BigTech (see here…), I was wondering if we need a Fediverse alternative for LinkedIn. I don’t even want to go into the details but LinkedIn shows the same bad symptoms as all other big “social” media plattforms.

    Xing, Fediverse, …?

    Yes, in Germany we have Xing, but Xing is mainly in Germany and they stripped a lot of community features that made it a bit unattractive.

    Another Fediverse-account? Yes, would be an alternative. But LinkedIn just specialized on career-features. Like showing your past stations in your career and your profession in the profile. That’s just super useful.

    Nolto The Professional Network That Respects Your Freedom

    Then, just recently I read about “nolto.social“. Which aims at … well .. exactly that! Being an alternative to LinkedIn.

    The Nolto startpage is pretty clear: Own your data. No algorithms, no ads, no lock-in. Okay, shut up and take my money. Oh, It’s free!

    Import data from LinkedIn

    I just signed up yesterday and exported all my LinkedIn data (which … isn’t a lot, since I deleted almost all content). Now my profile is filled! The career details, education and skills are all maintained. Great!

    Connect!

    Now let’s try who’ll join. Find me there! (or not, as it shut down)
    https://nolto.social/join/PYEM6Z

    Don’t worry, this blog has existed for long and will remain where it is. But I’ll give Nolto a chance as well.

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  • Recommended Read: About the Fediverse

    Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs.

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  • Bookwyrm — One Month In

    A month ago, I wrote that I would like to try Bookwyrm (#Bookwyrm: a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books. More on https://joinbookwyrm.com). Now, one month and three books later, it might be a good time to write about my first impressions.

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  • The Future is Federated – but not necessarily (fully) Self Hosted

    It’s not a secret that I am quite a fan of the and getting more independent of a few Big Tech Companies and getting control back.

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  • Trying Bookwyrm

    Besides programming and all kinds of IT stuff, I really like reading books. Regarding my Calibre library, I am reading between 10 and 20+ books a year. The spectrum covers a couple of IT books but mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy books.

    Bookwyrm?

    And since I joined Mastodon and thus the Fediverse, I came across Bookwyrm a couple of times. Bookwyrm describes itself as “[…] a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.“

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  • Seems like I’m really off LinkedIn

    I’ve written a couple of times in the past about my goal to leave . The last time was a month ago, when I wrote, ‘I found my replacement for LinkedIn!‘. Since then, I’ve only logged in to add new contacts, to check if it’s someone’s birthday, or to read messages.

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  • Loops soon SelfHosting!

    I just saw this post from @dansup announcing self-hosting to be available for Loops “very soon”.

    If you haven’t heard about Loops before: Loops is a short-form video platform designed for the decentralized Fediverse, where users share videos like TikTok.

    Compared to TikTok, Loops offers a few notable advantages: it’s decentralized, so no single company controls the entire platform or its content. Users and communities can (soon) host their own servers and set their own moderation policies. Federation within the Fediverse is not YET there but I’m very sure it will come soon as well..

    I also have an account on Loops since quite early (search “hikingdude”), but I do not (yet) post a lot of videos there. – I’m really considering the self-hosting. Maybe as soon as it’s available – or I wait until YunoHost has it in its app garden.

    Post by @dansup@mastodon.social
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  • Comment Sections do not need to suck (maybe)

    Recently I read the blog post Why Comment Sections suck – re:I want to comment on your blog post | Kami’s Corner. The article discusses the various problems of comment sections in blogs.

    And actually, I wondered if a Fediverse-integration couldn’t address some of those issues:

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  • A New Era of Social Media – Video by Elena Rossini

    If you are not following Elena Rossini, you might have missed her really great video about the Fediverse. I find it a very nice and clean way – not focusing on technology but on us, the users. She doesn’t lecture or explain too much – she just shares what she’s found: a space that feels more human. No ads, no algorithmic pressure, just room to breathe and exchange. No ads, no algorithmic pressure, just us.

    This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.

    Elena Rossini at: Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

    Go check it out at Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media!

    And of course, follow @_elena@mastodon.social on Mastodon as well :)

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