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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Tomorrow I will talk about ActivityPub and ATproto at OmniOpenCon 2026 Bucharest: omniopencon.org/2026

Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

"Schoolbox" is just a term I made up to describe poetry that reflects a basic poetic literacy, a toolbox of poetic means and mindsets towards poetry that's assimilated in school...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

The iceberg of poetry at any(?) given moment seen in retrospective... I guess.

An iceberg of poetry, with the lines "Major Canon", "Popular But Not So Canonical", "Minor Canon", "Trend Colleagues", "Trailblazers" over the water, and "Once Popular", "Tailblazers", "Dictionary Presence", "Child Prodigies", "Known Outsiders", "Folk Poetry", "Schoolbox", "Unknown Outsiders", "Lost Poetry" and "Uncollected Folklore".

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Next month in Bucharest, at OmniOpenCon 2026, I'm going to have a talk, "The Nuts and Bolts of Decentralized Social Media", on my experiences with #ActivityPub and #ATproto.

Sessionize page with a confirmation that my talk at the Omni Open Con Bucharest 2026 event is taking place, and a description of my talk on decentralized social media.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

@fashfreenw.bsky.social Friendly advice: you should be using a different PDS that is, ideally, not within the jurisdiction of US or some close ally, or even a whole different ATproto stack, at which point... better just use the fediverse. Disroot are another alternative to A/I

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The corruption is so staggering it's almost hard to explain in words" Yet @gilduran.com, author of The Nerd Reich, does a fantastic job summing it up on Democracy Now! Well worth your time for a concise run-down of the paperweight ideals guiding today's techbros and the US president.

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"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Apparently, once I move this account to a new DID identifier, I'll lose my followers, though not everything else, which is crazy. Hubzilla in the fediverse already had this figured out and Bluesky with all their VC money couldn't?

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

"Small Politics of Literature", new text available on my #Gemini capsule: gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/texts/5-SmallPolitics.gmi (need to use a Gemini compatible browser, like Buran or Lagrange)

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

My self-hosted database of #poetry books - princeps-poesis.xyz - is in a phase where I'm still working on importing the Romanian poetry dataset, now up to 1969. English when? Can't give an ETA, maybe next year.

A page on Princeps Poesis (https://princeps-poesis.xyz) listing poetry books in Romanian from the year 1969 that were added to the database.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke."

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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

A youth protest movement, born from an insult by India's Chief Justice and ignited by exam corruption, erupts into a massive, defiant march on Parliament in July 2026

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Surprised to discover an interview in Romanian with @afilreis.bsky.social! Though I should've figured other Romanians also found out about #ModPo! matcaliterara.ro/al-filreis-poezia-…

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Considering the impending tech dystopia, it might soon be the case that we'll have to move the fediverse to the dark webs.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

I heard ATproto can be more resource hungry than ActivityPub once you scale. There are now minimal ActivityPub implementations that work with even less than 1GB. Northsky claim to be onboarding 250 users per week, so they clearly have limited resources...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Not sure why it took them so long to process the queue, but it's a pity not having enough resources. I'm working on implementing my own ATproto PDS and everything, but I got to say, ActivityPub is a better idea when in lack of resources, it's easier to set up a light Mastodon-like server.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Sometime last year, I signed up for @transrights.northsky.social. Time passed with no sign of life, I signed up instead for Eurosky and got the account transfer within few months. Now I received email that it's my turn for Northsky, but my handle seems deactivated! No, I transferred.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Someone on W Social made an account called TikTok (lol). It got flagged as spam by... bsky.social mods. Seems like W forgot to self-host the moderation service part of the ATProto stack (Ozone), so they're still tied to the US.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

I've just started using Leaflet. Buttondown isn't even free, let alone self-hostable.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

you can spend the next decade lamenting that you’re no longer in your twenties or you can get a weird hobby and become friends with people you admire and set the stage for an interesting and fulfilling rest of your life

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

To read Prynne should be transformational for poets. But it shouldn’t co-opt them into the School of Prynne. Rather Prynne embodies a poet’s vocational duties. Poets should read widely, care deeply about words & meaning & experiment playfully. But of one obligation he particularly reminds us 101/104

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Congrats on switching away from Wordpress! How is Ghost treating you?

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Does the #Bluesky app #TOKIMEKI only have light mode? before, I was using #RedDwarf, which had a great dark mode with customizable hue, but lacked some functionality.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Both #Gopher and #Gemini offer virtually the same minimalistic distraction-free experience, and I preferred starting there because on the WWW there are so many static site generators to choose from as well as other things to take into account when self-hosting.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

#Gemini the protocol dates back from 2019 (before Google's AI) and it's much like #Gopher, but with TLS encryption, and uses Markdown instead of mostly plain text.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

#Gopher is an early web protocol that was at its peak of popularity in 1991-1993, right before WWW; its websites are called "gopherholes" and are mostly text-only documents. I am running one of only ~400 servers still active in 2026.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

The same texts from my #Gemini page can also be read on my #Gopher page, as shown here in Emacs elpher (which allows one to browse both Gemini and Gopher): gopher://gopher.princeps-poesis.xyz/

Screenshot of an Emacs floating window, showing the webpage gopher://gopher.princepspoesis.xyz - both Emacs and the wallpaper behind are in the Solarizared Dark color scheme, with dark blue-green and pale hues of white.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

I write regularly on the #smolweb, in particular #Gemini and #Gopher. Download a browser like Buran or Lagrange and read my texts at gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/ (more about what this is further down the thread)

Screenshot of Buran browser, displaying the webpage gemini://princepspoesis.gemcities.com/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

What about using GrapheneOS for the ability to sandbox any app?

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

<- It's inevitable though that an overcrowded literary field fully exposed to late capitalist economic conditions won't work like that anymore... (Sorry for spamming in here, I'm forced to use an alternate Bsky front-end which lacks edit/delete post feature)

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

<- In fact, one was perceived as a "vanity" writer (AKA bad rep) if they were to pay for their editing and their "critical" reception (critics were also expected not to be open about it). Proust is one of the few to get away with it. ->

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

<- in fact, one would take a reputation hit and be mocked as a "vanity" writer if one were to accept paying for the editing and for the "critical" reception (critics taking money was also not a widely accepted thing, not in the open). ->

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Traditionally, in the literary field, authors did a bit of networking, and upfront costs were not necessarily involved (which doesn't mean there were no sexual or alcoholic favors) ->

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Working right now on self-hosting most of the ATproto/Bluesky stack, my PDS is now online but I'll transition this account to it as soon as all the pieces fall into place. (writing now from Red Dwarf, Klearsky stopped working for me,)

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 09/07/2026

pretty excited to share that you can tune in to @mprnews.org Morning Edition tomorrow (Friday) to hear me talk to @gretchenbrown.bsky.social about mail art 💌 it will also be replayed on saturday, and posted online!

a photo of allison displaying some rubber stamped envelopes while wearing a shirt with a minnesota usps postage stamp on it, depicting a loon and and ladyslipper

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Anisota @anisota.net · 29/06/2026

While mothing under the full moon last night, @dame.is made a simple video showing the new Anisota. One take, no edits, just ambient nature sounds. And in honor of today's Strawberry Moon, Anisota membership is 30% off for 24 hours! It's the best way to support our indie project: anisota.net/join

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VIDEO: Anisota — A peaceful social media client that helps you be offline more & online better

YouTube video by atpotato

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

I also got hit with age verification challenge, so I switched to klearsky, great to see anisota also still works

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

If bsky.social mods take action on your account, you will still be able to use it via Red Dwarf

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Back when I accused Dósa of being "anti-woke", I decried how he fell into that trap as a person who may be cis and male and able-bodied, yet still is ethnic minority in a country that's not always tolerant to his minority. Wouldn't have wished on him to be forced to relocate to Orbán's Hungary.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Aside the absurdity of such a thought fiction, I'd only enter a institution so I can make institutional critique from the inside and make things more inclusive and enable sharing more resources with marginalized voices which need it.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Hell will more likely freeze over before me, an autistic, queer, anarcho-leftist poet who likes Esperanto, would ever enter such a rigid and aggressively elitist institution like the Academy, where also these days one probably has to lick the secret serv ice cream...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Probably that's all there is to it, and insisting on there being hierarchies smells like yet another reactionary stance, but nevertheless it's an absurd shot, considering most MATCA readers may not have even heard of me, being a low-key figure. Comparing me to Tucă is still very strange...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

If Dósa were in my place, I don't think his votes would have been very different, so it puzzles me why would he bother a sweat about it, other than staying resentful after I had accused him a few years ago of having gone "anti-woke".

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm obviously not in the Romanian Academy, nor in the Writers' Union. Last year, I was invited by Nina Vasile to be jury in a poetry contest hosted at the National Museum of Romanian Literature, alongside young poets like Ramona Boldizsar. Maybe that's the "problem"?

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

The Romanian Academy was led for a while by Ioan-Aurel Pop, a right-wing figure I've had the misfortune to edit while collaborating with Cultura magazine. On top of writing asinine nationalist propaganda, I also discovered he plagiarized, though that was swept under the rug by Cultura...

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

Marius Tucă is a TV man and a best-selling author of sentimental poems which imitate Adrian Păunescu down to the color scheme of the book cover. Saying an author like Tucă would ever win a "legitimate" (oh well, that's another story...) poetry award is like just saying down is now up.

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

A poet of my generation whom I've not interacted with in a few years, out of the blue, drops an ironic reference to me in the middle of a literary enquête: in a world without hierarchies, "Tucă would win awards for poetry, and we would see Yigru Zeltil leading the Romanian Academy"... Context>>

Screenshot of https://matcaliterara.ro/cum-citim-poezia-astazi/

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Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

You're probably right, then again I hardly ever log onto Facebook anymore, I'm just too busy these days with my job and personal life and, last but not least, with learning IT stuff, doing self-hosting - I run a few fediverse instances and now I might self-host my own PDS in stead of Eurosky...

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