As previous month, I continued to share news about the Fediverse on Mastodon, it felt like that there was more good news this month. I highly enjoyed the FLOSS Weekly podcast episode with Andy Piper about Mastodon and I answered a survey for a bachelor’s thesis about users’ perception of Mastodon.

Creating PeerTube accounts

I finally found an instance that felt serious and allowed live streaming, and now I have a PeerTube account at Everything Video. The channels I have started and plan to publish videos on there is Wiki Editing for myself and one for Wikipediapodden.

I also found the niche instance Urbanists.video so now I have also started an account dedicated for biking in Amsterdam (but not published any videos yet).

Deactivating Twitter accounts

This month I got around to closing down some Twitter accounts I have been managing. Some I tried to archive properly using the instructions from the Internet Archive, but it looks from the logs that X makes it nearly impossible, as all new tweets failed to be retrieved. Some I just did a quick archive of the profile page before deactivating, some even failed archiving the profile page as Twitter makes a (hostile) redirect to another tweet instead. Here are the ones that I have already deactivated:

• Wikipedia Goes ESC, @WikipediaESC: Internet Archive
• Vegologisk, @Vegologisk: Failed archiving.
• Notabla Dödsfall, @nyligenavlidna: Internet Archive
• Nya Wikipediasidor, @NyWikipediasida: Internet Archive
• Riksdagen redigerar, @RiksdagWikiEdit: Internet Archive, archive downloaded
• Svenskspråkiga Wikipedia, @SveWikipedia: Internet Archive, archive downloaded

For Open By Default, @openbydefault I haven’t deactivated yet. I am both in need of starting a Mastodon account somewhere, and get around to publish the old tweets: Internet Archive, archive downloaded

For the Govdirectory project, we wanted to make sure no one else could claim the name, so we pinned a tweet pointing to our Mastodon account.

For Wikimedians for Sustainable Development, we opted to deactivate the account @wikisusdev: Internet Archive.

For Wikipediapodden, we opted to deactivate the account @wikipediapodden: Internet Archive.

Upcoming

In November month, I will publish some of the archives using this conversion tool.

Tips on Mastodon instances that would fit for the deactivated bots (now that Botsinspace is closing) would be appreciated.

This is the first half of my ninth report of my New Year’s resolutions.