Jonathan Rollans

I can’t be certain if this is my main or my alt account, but you’re here and I’m here, so, hello!

I’m a #musician and a lover of #technology (most of my “hobby time” is spent working on various bits of #OpenSource server software with a recent heavy lean towards #ActivityPub).

This account resides on an instance of #snac2 (an ActivityPub server software) running on #arm64.

Also, I’m a lifelong, massive, #StarTrek fan. I love it all, I don’t hate on any Trek, it’s all good. Especially the bad.

#fedi22

:six-colors: :raspberry-pi:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@jrollans
Loops: https://loops.video/@jrollans
Vernissage: https://vernissage.photos/@jrollans

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NIP-05 Address

jrollans_at_jrollans.com@momostr.pink

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2026-08-31T06:59:20Z

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2026-01-12 01:21:50 UTC

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And what exactly is it? Just looks like another Mastodon instance to me.

2025-02-10 05:47:00 UTC

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It’s pretty strange, generally the fediverse feels pretty accepting and open to new ideas, but when it comes to federation beyond ActivityPub (a by-design federated protocol, ha!), not so much.

2025-02-10 05:38:17 UTC

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To be blunt, he was essentially bullied into abandoning the opt-out bridge concept. 🤷🏻‍♂️

2025-02-10 05:35:16 UTC

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Bridgy Fed was originally supposed to be opt-out, but so many people on ActivityPub based networks went bonkers with the notion that it somehow infringed on their privacy. I mean, I understand some of the argument relating to the possible increase of malicious actors, but that will happen regardless of any bridges if there is ever any significant active user growth. I was super excited about the bridge until that happened. It really killed any meaningful potential it may have had.
I just can’t grasp the notion of maintaining privacy on a completely open network protocol.

2025-01-31 09:17:55 UTC

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Wow, yeah, I had no idea! It seems like a pretty obvious necessity to have a way to stop federation and send out the message that the account is no longer active or an AP entity. Honestly to me it feels just as important as having a way to start federating in the first place.

2025-01-27 08:52:38 UTC

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I imagine so, there’s got to be a clean way to do it though, just got to find it. Thanks for the boost, I got some useful info!

2025-01-27 08:49:46 UTC

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Yeah, that makes sense to me I think. I don’t think the instance I’m looking at taking down to swap out for something else has federated with a ton of other instances, so hopefully it wouldn’t take much time at all.

2025-01-27 08:47:49 UTC

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Awesome, thanks for the info! That’s probably pretty helpful because what I’m thinking of doing is a Hubzilla to Gancio (federated calendar) switch. I’m thinking Gancio probably won’t know what to do with at least a bit of the traffic that’ll be coming at it.

2025-01-27 08:44:46 UTC

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That’s pretty much what I figured, most likely I’ll do a new subdomain in one case, but I’ve got another domain I’m probably going to experiment with and see what happens. Thanks for the input!

2025-01-26 23:15:32 UTC

Hey, #ActivityPub folks that know more than me about the protocol, I have a question:
What kind of issues or concerns might I have if I shut down one kind of AP server software and then set up a different AP server on the domain previously occupied by the now decommissioned first AP server?
(I don’t think the soon-to-be-shutdown server has a self-destruct.)
#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #Admin #SelfHosting

2025-01-26 22:58:49 UTC

This year I turn 45 years old, but I move about my house like a T-Rex more now than I ever did as a kid.

2025-01-26 19:07:14 UTC

I probably haven’t heard the song “Caribbean Queen” in at least a decade and just this morning I’ve heard it four times. This is unimportant, but odd.

2025-01-24 23:24:35 UTC

I’ve been getting more and more iMessage spam, but hey, we made it a decade before it started to become common!

2025-01-22 00:22:39 UTC

Sometimes I think having #ADHD just means I spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to get my brain to stop producing gibberish.

2025-01-20 04:26:33 UTC

It is -9° F (22.78° C) and it’s actually not that bad outside, but there is absolutely no wind. Yet…

2025-01-19 19:28:52 UTC

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Thanks for the service, it’s appreciated!

2025-01-18 09:32:29 UTC

I really miss the “old internet”. Meaning, the internet of two(!) decades ago. I wouldn’t want to revert to it, but imagine if we could have the simplicity of the Internet of Yesteryear mixed with the technology of today (and the bandwidth). I just find it so off-putting that my net connection is now 500 times faster than it was in 2003 and yet nothing loads any faster, hell, if you don’t block all the trackers and ads it loads slower!
Just feeling nostalgic I suppose.

2024-10-11 18:47:10 UTC

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We really do. ☹️

2024-10-11 18:29:32 UTC

My medication that I take for migraines would cost $11,579.64 a year if it weren’t for the state funded health insurance that I have. That’s just bonkers…

2024-09-25 00:02:15 UTC

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I know I’ve seen a site that basically lists statistics for all the different ActivityPub servers, just can’t remember where it was. Maybe it would be possible to get a rough calculation based on info there?

2024-09-24 23:52:59 UTC

I would be curious to see the amount of monthly active users federating via #ActivityPub that are _not_ using #Mastodon as their server instance. Basically I want to know the number of folks that actively use the #fediverse sans Mastodon statistics.
Anyone got an idea?