I have been building scripts to automate some tasks including managing my interface with this Activity{ub server.

OCTADE

I have been building scripts to automate some tasks including managing my interface with this ActivityPub server. I want to push a single button or enter one command to publish notes and files via several protocols and have each reference link to all. The protocols include:

1. ActivityPub (Mastodon, this server)
2. Preprints / TechRXIV / Zenodo / Figshare, etc.
3. NNTP / Usenet
4. Static Web Site
5. Blog
6. BlueSky
7. Archive.org
8. PHP Blog / Wordpress / Blogger
9. P2P network(s)
10 ... ??? Still working out the elsewhere(s) and how and whyfor.

The Internet is so full of disparate platforms and protocols that I am almost tempted to just manage a static website like in the good old days of web 1.0 or even web 1/2 and forget about everything else except that and the Internet Archive and Usenet.

I miss the old days where one could put up a static site and push a link and description into a chat room or forum and watch the site get hammered for fifteen minutes. Twenty years ago I ran a rant site that got hundreds of visits per day and I was quite happy with that.

Nowadays there is so much going on that even 1000 real human page views in a month is sometimes too much to expect. Why would anyone want to look at my silly essays or PDF files when every day is Caturday or Saturdog with infinite memes and endless rage outlets? Why read about my strange musings and puzzles when there are endless memes about the empire and the endless bogeymen out to eat us all?

Yet I cast my runes out upon the rivers of ether anyway; just in case someone seeks to get high on a supply of digits.

#Automation #Publishing #Scripting #Notes #Musing #Microblog #OCTADE

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