Category: Internet

  • How to find and join new Matrix chat rooms

    How to find and join new Matrix chat rooms

    Update: As of August 2023, the server Gossip Land has been deleted. This means any links to gossip.land referenced below will no longer work. Check out this new and more up-to-date list of servers: https://servers.joinmatrix.org/ I run a Matrix chat server for my friends, family, and friends-of-friends. I called it Gossip Land and whilst there…

  • toot.wales — a social network for Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    toot.wales — a social network for Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    If you’re looking for an alternative to Twitter, you don’t need to look further than Mastodon. But, if you live or come from Wales, then you might want to join your fellow country-folk on a social network for Wales. toot.wales (or Tŵt Cymru) is a bilingual online community, inviting Welsh folk to sign up and…

  • oslo.town

    oslo.town

    Previously, on this blog, I have mentioned Mastodon – the free and open source social network that is akin to Twitter. The more keen-eyed reader might have also noticed that my username on Mastodon was @lychee@mstdn.io If you have never heard of Mastodon before and wonder how it’s different from Twitter or Facebook, then you…

  • Zcash – it’s like Bitcoin, but private

    Zcash – it’s like Bitcoin, but private

    When I was younger I remember an old friend of my dad’s came to the house. It was back when you accessed the internet via a dial-up connection and spending time on the internet meant that you couldn’t make phone calls. The man in question was holding a pink pig. Not a real one. A…

  • @coxy on Twitter

    @coxy on Twitter

    A quick run-down of the steps I took to make Twitter a more wholesome experience.

  • Why I switched to Firefox

    Why I switched to Firefox

    My obsession with the internet began long before I left the UK for colder climates. Upon starting my first job in 2001, I ran a gaming website and was geeking out to colleagues about Opera browser. So, when my inbox lit up with a job offer from the Norwegian-based company, I packed my bags and…

  • Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

    Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

    I try to use Google products rarely and this includes when searching the web. Over the years, I have jumped between a few alternatives; DuckDuckGo, Bing, and now Ecosia. The real jump away from Google was when DuckDuckGo became a viable alternative that vowed to not track your activities around the web in order to…