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The main goal of this version was to make IndieConnector independent from external services. Therefore, I wanted to start by detaching IndieConnector from webmention.io in the first step.

I quickly fell down the rabbit hole into Webmentions, as one might expect. Unlike what I initially thought, receiving Webmentions is not just about listening for a request and processing it.

A few months ago, I published an article on crossposting from Mastodon to Bluesky in the Hub. Since then, it's been the most frequently visited article.

Crossposting is about posting something on Mastodon and having that post automatically published on Bluesky as well. Because Bluesky has another character limit than Mastodon, the tool will split up long posts and create threads on Bluesky. The tool was built as a NodeJs script.

For many people, implementing this is too complicated or they don't have the possibility of running a NodeJs scripts or Docker images. Very few hosters offer these possibilities.

I've been thinking about this topic for some time now and, aside from other features that would be great, I've had my eye on the central goal of making it even easier to use. This includes signing up via Mastodon, entering Bluesky credentials without a .env file, etc.

In recent days, I've noticed a surge in posts on my timeline complaining about bots and crawlers, wondering how to block them. A good opportunity to bring attention to the latest update of the Darkvisitors plugin.

I published this small plugin a few months ago. It delivers a robots.txt that can be used for various purposes:

A few days ago, we got the news that Slack is now providing all data to OpenAI: chats, files, everything... It's creepy, and while I'm still writing plugins to block AI bots, the ground is being pulled out from under us almost everywhere.

Will we even be able to resist in the future, ensuring that everything we enter and store digitally doesn't become a training dataset?