[bookofjoe]

I agree, that would be a good compromise and I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's NOT the procedure. More is required:

>Participating

>You log in with a Fediverse account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, and others). If you don't have one, mastodon.social is free and takes two minutes.

For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

Too bad.

A single email WOULD be great, as you point out.

[krapp]

>For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

You can literally sign up for a Mastodon account on mastodon.social or most other instances through the web like any other website. It's no more difficult than a Reddit account.

[bookofjoe]

2 things:

1) Neither I nor most non-techies have a clue what an "instance" is.

2) Reddit banned me years ago for no reason I could think of.

[krapp]

1) literally millions of people, many of whom are non-techies, have figured it out, just like they figured out what "subreddits" were and what "tweets" were and the specific quirks of numerous other platforms.

2) yes the people who own servers get to decide what happens on them. That isn't a feature (or bug) of the fediverse its just the way networks work. But if you don't want to join an instance you can get one hosted on a service like masto.host (the one I use) for very little.

[viermalbe]

Sign-in is only needed to interact with the site, like voting or hiding entries. If you want to suggest your own blog, just send a mail to [e-mail] as described in the FAQ.

[zer00eyz]

> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.

[wredcoll]

He says in a comment on hackernews.

[zer00eyz]

Not even remotely close to the same...

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre

[bookofjoe]

viermalbe: Done! Thank you.

[bookofjoe]

Here is the response from Bubbles:

From: Benjamin Behnke <[e-mail]> Date: June 17, 2026 at 12:32:25 PM EDT To: [e-mail] Subject: Re: I am submitting my blog for your consideration: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for reaching out. Your post frequency is too high to be listed on Bubbles. You are publishing 3 articles per day. To quote from the criteria listed in the FAQ: Moderate pace. Not more than one or two posts per day on average. Bubbles is for writers, not content machines. I hope you'll understand. Let me know if you plan to slow down :)

Cheers, Ben

[moebrowne]

Do you write a bunch of posts and the schedule them? You put out 3 posts every single day at exactly 0800, 1200 and 1600.

[bookofjoe]

Yes. Just so. From 2004 to 2014 I published 8 (eight) posts daily, every day, one minute after the hour. They appeared at 8:01/9:01/10:01/11:01 am; 12:01/1:01/2:01/3:01 pm.

[ykonstant]

Oh my.