Thom Baker<p>It's always always sunny when I head to Solar & Storage Live! Some great conversations - brace yourself for an emoji bullet list...</p><p>💥 The impact of tariffs<br />✋ Cancelled Tesla Powerwall installations<br />🐧 More discussion about penguins than anticipated<br />☀️ Much talk about China's solar offering</p>
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Thom Baker<p>It's always always sunny when I head to Solar & Storage Live! Some great conversations - brace yourself for an emoji bullet list...</p><p>💥 The impact of tariffs<br />✋ Cancelled Tesla Powerwall installations<br />🐧 More discussion about penguins than anticipated<br />☀️ Much talk about China's solar offering</p>
Thom Baker<p>Hello hello!</p><p>Looking to connect with wonderful people interested in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GreenTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreenTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Construction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Futurist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Futurist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RegenerativeBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RegenerativeBusiness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicTransport</span></a></p><p>So follow, suggest and have a good ol' chat about making this world a better place</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ff" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ff</span></a></p>
Thom Baker<p>Okay this is pretty ace - able to use <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@openvibe" class="u-url mention">@<span>openvibe</span></a></span> to post and tage both on fediverse and Bluesky.</p><p>All I need is a wordpress plugin and I shall be extremely happy</p>
Thom Baker<p>You’re now wondering what does “on the fediverse” mean. That’s understandable. Simply put – it means content published here is now plugged into the next version of the social web. Let’s go through it in a bit more detail.</p><p><strong>Web 2.0</strong></p><p>We’re so used to Web 2.0 now that it’s become part of everyday life. What is it? It’s the web of social media and ecommerce. These things are so ingrained in our daily lives that we hardly thing of them as things! Before the advent of web 2.0 the internet was a collection of largely static sites.</p><p>Then came along ecommerce, online shops, accounts, MySpace, Facebook, Friends Reunited. It was an internet of social and monetary transactions. But </p><p><strong>Metaverse and the Fediverse</strong></p><p>When Mark Zuckerberg declared the Metaverse – in a bold move to claim ground in the next phase of the internet – there was much speculation over the technology and abilities – add to that Elon Musk’s abysmal attempt at Twitter (X), and the resulting migration to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky and you couldn’t turn your device of choice on without metaverse this, federated that, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and a billion opinion pieces. So – what’s going on?</p><p>One of the biggest things to to emerge from it all is the next phase will be “portability” from one sphere to another. So, a profile on Threads is also accessible on Mastodon (more on this in a bit!). Or an item in Roblox is available across its games, or even into different games. That’s what NFTs are – digital assets that can be ported over to different places and are unique.</p><p>A platform that has existed for some time that meets a lot of the criteria for this new web is <a href="https://www.habbo.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Habbo</a> – from <a href="https://www.sulake.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sulake</a>. In is users create spaces that they customise with furniture and items that they buy with the platforms digital money. They can port their avatar to users different rooms – taking anything they have on them and trading items. They’re the real pioneers with this idea with virtual spaces.</p><p>Aside from that the big player currently are Federated Networks – the Fediverse. Mastodon, Bluesky (which uses a slightly different protocol) – even Threads will eventually operate as a federated network. What this means is a profile, and posts, can be accessed and “federated” to the different platforms. So an account on Mastodon, will be viewable on Threads and vice versa. What this does it effectively eliminate usrs having multiple digital iterations of themselves. A single account can be seen across whatever platform. The user data and content is portable between them.</p><p>So – portability is key but what the Fediverse, and things like blockchains and cryptocurrencies utilise is the security and the resilience of decentralisation. By using a network, they are harder to attack, break, fall over. </p><p><strong>What does this mean for this content?</strong></p><p>This site now acts as a node in the fediverse network. My profile – <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://thombaker.com/author/thom-baker/" target="_blank">@<span>Thom-Baker</span></a> can be searched for and followed on any platform using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ActivityPub decentralised social networking protocol</a> such as:</p><ul><li><a href="https://mastodon.social/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mastodon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.threads.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Threads</a> (currently beta testing!)</li><li><a href="https://flipboard.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Flipboard</a></li><li><a href="https://friendi.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Friendica</a></li><li><a href="https://joinpeertube.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">PeerTube</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">WordPress</a></li></ul><p>Posts, articles, videos – whatever content I produce here is accessible across all these different platforms. Pretty cool, right? And it means My content can have a wider reach than just sitting on one platform, and avoid the work of publishing across different networks.</p><p>What do you think? Are you already in the Fediverse?</p><p><a href="https://thombaker.com/thom-baker-branding-is-on-the-fediverse/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://thombaker.com/thom-baker-branding-is-on-the-fediverse/</a></p>
Jan Rosenow<p>The electrification of whisky is already here. </p><p>More efficient, no more fossil fuels and using renewable energy. What's not to like? </p><p>5 case studies from around the world.</p>
Thom Baker<p>So where are folk into <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>typography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/branding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>branding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>technology</span></a>?</p>
Thom Baker<p>So, I'm dipping back into this to see how it is. Thinking of doing a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a> just like the good old days of the bird app!</p>
Thom Baker<p>Struggling to find/add folk here. Will devote more time in future but I seem to time out a lot!</p>
Thom Baker<p>Hello world.</p><p>Seems like the obligatory first post on a new network.</p>
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