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You can now follow my articles on Flipboard, Mastodon and Bluesky

Jatan Mehta

Oct 3, 2024

I’m now auto-sharing articles and blog posts from my space blog and Journal J on some non-questionable open social networks that also federate (interoperate):

Mastodon

Flipboard

Bluesky

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PS: Since both my blogs are hosted on Ghost (via MagicPages), I’m quite excited about the ongoing developmental work to federate Ghost blogs. This means eventually my articles will automatically get shared on the Fediverse fully natively, and which you’ll be able to follow from any social media app that supports federation. Until then, the above three options are good enough.

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Social media, where a teaser post about your article gets a better response than your actual article

Newsletter for friends #04: Things and thoughts from October

Follow my blogs on social media that doesn’t suck!

On the gap between voter turnouts in the US and Indian elections