I’ve been procrastinating too much, so I set myself out to #journal my daily tasks by setting a “To-Do” and a spot to journal about what I have accomplished for the day and anything I wish to add to the next days planning. I’m going to also try and do this on a weekly/monthly and yearly basis.

From my reading about social media platforms growing exponentially, there comes a point where growing a #moderation team is essential. This problem is less common with the #Fediverse with self-hosted small instances. But what about the larger instances? Have any #devs thought about implementing features such as is available in #Discourse. A #trust based moderation system as a community grows? Is that even a feasible thing to do?

Something else I have come to love about the #IndieWeb and the whole #Fediverse as a whole, as a new adopter of the movement, is that I have noticed when I make posts with hashtags about a product - I actually generally get direct feedback from the creator themselves and open to discussion.

I’m currently reading @manton@manton.org’s #book on #IndieMicroblogging. Let you know how I go, and what I think about it!

You can read it for free here: book.micro.blog

Recently, I have had a fascination with wanting to try out hiking in the darkness of the night.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about night hiking and what the benefits might be, including being able to stay cooler in the summer heat, experiencing the fascinating sounds of the nocturnal wildlife, and seeing the night sky up above.

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Interesting article from an employee as to the effects of being a federal employee in the United States currently.

A lot more than what we are able to read on mainstream media.

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I am playing around with #Obsidian to see if I can use it in my workflow for blog writing on my website. I tried #Tangent really quickly but it just stays on a loading screen when creating a workspace?

Some more beautiful #postcards have arrived in the mail today from #PostCrossing!

Done!

I have managed to get replies showing up on my website when I syndicate blog posts to places like #Mastodon, #Pixelfed and so forth. I also managed to get #syndication links showing under a post, linking to where else that same post can be found when cross-posted!

Check out the example on my website: samuellison.com/2025/02/2…

Trying to figure out how to get replies to show up on my website automatically when #syndicated with other platforms. See if I can get the Syndicated To: links to also show today. @shellsharks@shellsharks.social got me motivated with his website.

I promise, I will look into #PESOS later!

So I have gone through all my accounts and managed to remove myself from #CentralizedSocialMedia. I have added placeholders on my profiles linking to my website at samuellison.com and am no longer posting to #Facebook, #Instagram, #X, #YouTube or #LinkedIn.

Give those a few months and I will close them off completely.

So I have disabled #Vanadium on my #ChromeOS and replaced it with just the #Tor browser for mobile phone browsing, with #Kagi search. While #Mullvad works better on Desktop for “speed” when it comes to needing fast download speeds. I don’t tend to need to use fast internet from my mobile phone and find myself just doing #procrastibrowsing of news sites.

So I’ve moved my #OpenSimulator region over to #NeverWorld.

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#Metaverse

I feel #Liberated! I have finally managed to delete as many apps as possible from my phone (fully #degoogled too). I now use Airplane mode with wifi calling exclusively at home, and only turn on my 4G/5G mobile connection at locations when and if I need it (no tracking from providers).

Essentially feels like I have de-phoned myself but still have one in my pocket for emergency calls should I need it. Should the family need me urgently? They know my work landline. We survived pre 90’s.

Moving away from #TapandGo and starting to use #Cash wherever possible as a movement towards regaining more #privacy.

Today I wrote an article about the #Metaverse and my first week back working on coding my own survival game project within #OpenSimulator.

Come check out my article on my corner of the interwebs on my #Indieweb website.

Let me know what you think!

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Here are some more beautiful postcards I’ve received from #Postcrossing members around the world.

I got myself a folder with postcard sleeves to keep the collection growing :)

So, I am officially on the #Federated #Metaverse of #OpenSimulator and #SelfHosting my own region server with a land size of 1024mx1024m, or, 1km2.

Can’t wait to get coding in the OSSL language and learn the ropes, and build my own virtual world!

I joined #OSGrid: www.osgrid.org/.

Expect me to provide you with updates, screenshots of my progress and all. My avatar on there is Temujin Calidius should you wish to find me in the metaverse!

Watching #wargames

Well, the good news is I got my region going on the #OpenSim #Metaverse. I went with #OSGrid as I was able to easily add my own region to it. It is a 4x4 (1024x1014) region (16 sims) - I should be able to build quite a bit on this.

I will post more when I have more!