![]() ![]() I do plan to continue posting the countdown on Twitter as well, though it might appear in more abbreviated form there due to the smaller character limits for posts, and might appear later than it does in the Fediverse. You can also find a large directory of sites to consider, as well as various apps for using them if you don’t want to just use their websites, at. ![]() Newcomers, or those who would like refreshers, might also find the documentation on fedi.tips useful. (I might do that myself after I finish the countdown from my current site.) If you’d like to learn more, Ruth Kitchin Tillman, who co-administers one of those sites, has a useful introductory guide, written especially with library folks in mind. If you later want to move to another Fediverse site that you like better, you can take your follows with you and leave a forwarding address. You can join whatever Fediverse site you like, or join multiple ones. Or follow my personal account, though that will also show you posts I make on other topics, and might not show posts others make using the hashtag. On any federated site you can read and respond to my posts by following or searching the #PublicDomainDa圜ountdown hashtag (linked here via the mastodon.social website, which can be slow at times). That’s a large array of sites, collectively known as the “ Fediverse” (for the way that sites federate with each other to do that message exchange), or as “Mastodon” (which, strictly speaking, refers to the open source software used by many, but not all, of those sites). They’ll be readable not just on that site, but on any other site that exchanges messages with it using the ActivityPub protocol. I’ve dusted off an account I created a while back on mastodon.social, and will be posting my countdown first there. So this year, I’m trying out a new primary venue that’s not subject to any one person or organization. When it comes down to it, I’m not all that optimistic about any large-scale discussion forum that’s controlled by the whims of one rich guy. Recent events, though, make me less confident in the future of that site as a useful and enjoyable social media platform. In recent years, the primary venue for my countdown has been Twitter. ![]() I’ll be featuring 60 works, or sets of works, one per day in the days to come. In the US, we’ll be getting works that were copyrighted in 1927, and whose copyrights were consistently maintained since then. I’m starting my countdown today to Public Domain Day, when a year’s worth of copyrights in many countries expires on January 1. ![]()
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