rip twitter

Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@christine.website>

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+---
+title: "The birdsong persists"
+date: 2022-11-13
+series: twitter
+tags:
+ - prose
+---
+
+<xeblog-hero ai="Waifu Diffusion v1.3 (float16)" file="birds-free" prompt="blue birds, trees, flock, teyvat, sunrise, flying, thick outlines"></xeblog-hero>
+
+In the days before, there were many roosts for the itinerant birds of the ether.
+Flocks of birds flittered about between roosts, but never really settled on one
+in particular for very long. This continued for generations, the birds just
+understood the roosts being temporary as an immutable fact of their existence.
+
+Then a bird decided to build a new roost. A roost that could house _everyone_.
+With a bright and proud announcement, that bird proclaimed thus:
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">just setting up my twttr</p>&mdash; jack (@jack) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2006</a></blockquote>
+
+Birds flocked to the new roost and everyone started to sing and tweet to
+eachother. This filled that small initial roost quickly. Birds were joining
+faster than the roost could be built, but they stuffed themselves in anyways.
+Eventually the icon of failure had been purged and the birdsong was able to
+thrive on that roost.
+
+The roost became a massive hub in that network of itinerant roosts. As the roost
+grew, the other roosts it replaced started to feel depopulated and withered.
+Others lost interest and joined in the main roost.
+
+The roost continued to grow at the expense of all the others. It kept growing
+and consuming more and more flocks. Those flocks started to lose their identity
+of their previous roosts and started to see themselves as _belonging_ in the big
+roost.
+
+With so much birdsong, you would think that the roost would be invincible. It
+was not. It was in dire straits. The constant building and maintenance had a
+cost that was only realized when things were almost falling apart. Somehow they
+had managed to avoid the cracks showing on the outside, but things were
+incredibly dire.
+
+They made a deal with the devil during a point of contention between the flocks.
+The roost thrived, but at a huge cost. The previously united flock had been
+divided into groups that wanted to destroy eachother. The roost continued, but
+the flocks started to grow bitter.
+
+Then came the idealist. The idealist proposed to buy the roost from its former
+owners and reshape it into his vision. The idealist saw the vision and agreed
+before seeing the cracks in the roost's core. But it was too late. The idealist
+was now the owner of the roost. To an even worse result than the deal with the
+devil.
+
+With the caretakers of the roost fleeing to the winds, the cracks became more
+and more visible. First they were notable, then they were unignorable, then they
+were threatening to the flocks. The whole roost was unstable and the birdsong
+started to change its tune until it was almost entirely against the idealist and
+his flawed visions.
+
+More flocks fled the roost in fear that it will collapse out from under them.
+Their happy birdsong left with them, leaving the anger against the idealist to
+dominate the roost so much that it became a poison.
+
+The flocks did not flee to another single roost though. They had learned that
+lesson. On the side a flock had been building tools to let flocks create their
+own roosts. But, at the same time they also made those roosts able to
+communicate with eachother. This means that the flocks could flee the main
+roost, but still be able to hear eachother's birdsong. There were thousands of
+roosts instead of one big one.
+
+As wave after wave of flocks fled the roost, each of the other roosts found
+themselves with more and more friends. The birds sang in harmony forever on.
+Still welcoming those fleeing the failing roost to this day.
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+---
+title: "Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse!"
+date: 2022-11-12
+series: twitter
+tags:
+ - fediverse
+ - rant
+---
+
+<xeblog-hero ai="Waifu Diffusion v1.3 (float16)" file="bird-fleeing" prompt="light blue bird, sunset, crying, landscape, anime style, space needle, clouds, sun, genshin impact, teyvat, breath of the wild, hyrule"></xeblog-hero>
+
+I have been watching in horror as Elon Musk seems to be doing his best to
+destroy Twitter as fast as he can. This has been really hard to watch, but at
+the same time I can't help but watch the trainwreck unfold. The biggest thing
+that this all has been making me think about is the fact that Twitter has been
+one of my main ways that I use the Internet for so long. My phone tells me that
+I've had the Twitter app open for an absolutely depressing amount of time. I
+would be willing to argue that I have been _addicted_ to Twitter. Twitter was
+consuming a large part of my life.
+
+I've been aware of how bad it was getting. This has been made slightly worse by
+the fact that a large part of my job involves stalking Twitter, but in general
+it was starting to be a problem. At some level, I am relieved that Elon Musk is
+destroying Twitter. At another, I am horrified that one of the main ways that I
+communicate on the Internet is being destroyed.
+
+This feels like it's [freenode](https://withinstudios.itch.io/closed-projects)
+all over again. Same story, different threat actor. The main difference is that
+there is no one [libera.chat](https://libera.chat/) to take over and save us
+this time. Twitter is too big for one community to absorb _that many_ people. It
+can feel like there is going to be a massive diaspora of former communities into
+god knows where. It feels like you will become an anonymous voice in an infinite
+crowd, never to be heard from again.
+
+However, I think there is a way that we all can get off of Twitter and _still
+retain some of the communities we will lose_. I think that we all need to take
+the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) more seriously. The
+main gimmick of the Fediverse is that there's no longer one platform, one
+provider, one service. Instead there are a constellation of independent
+platforms that communicate with eachother. If you create an account on
+[vt.social](https://vt.social), you can follow me on
+[pony.social](https://pony.social). You can also follow people on other websites
+that participate in the Fediverse. There's even a whole YouTube clone called
+[PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) that can federate out to other websites.
+Follow a PeerTube user from your Mastodon server and then you can reply to the
+video and _those replies show up as comments on that video_. No more siloes, no
+more having to create an account everywhere to do basic interaction. You just
+follow and reply to people on other platforms like they were on the same website
+as you are.
+
+One of the biggest complaints I've heard about the Fediverse is that they get
+analysis paralysis from having to _choose_ a server to start out with. This is
+most common with people that aren't used to the fact that this is how the old
+internet started out. There weren't big siloes. You had to choose where to hang
+out. However, just pick something at random. [You can move your account
+later](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration) if you want to. It
+is not hard to do. Trust me.
+
+<xeblog-toot url="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Ricardus/109322650979345324"></xeblog-toot>
+
+For a while I was running a crossposter between [my Fediverse
+profile](https://pony.social/@cadey) and Twitter. I have turned that off. The
+only things that I am going to use Twitter for in the future are the automated
+posts for this blog and whatever else I need to do for work. It has been really
+hard to build up the courage to torch an almost 6-thousand person following on
+Twitter, but I feel that this will be better for everyone involved.
+
+<xeblog-conv name="Cadey" mood="enby">Being able to have 2048 characters per
+post is also helping me recover from the koan-like shitposting style that
+Twitter forced me to adopt. 280 characters is _just not enough space_ for
+nuance. 2048 characters allows me to use _sentences_ and _paragraphs_. It is
+such a lovely feeling. Even the Mastodon default of 500 characters leaves so
+much more room for nuance.</xeblog-conv>
+
+## Follow suggestions
+
+On the Fediverse there is a tradition we lovingly call
+[#FollowFriday](https://pony.social/tags/followfriday). Every friday people will
+make a message with the hashtag `#FollowFriday` and list out a bunch of people
+that they think are worth following. Some people will name why they should be
+followed and I did miss my `#FollowFriday` this week because I was on a train
+with absolutely terrible WiFi so I'm going to list out people I think are worth
+following here:
+
+[@xe@vt.social](https://vt.social/@xe) is my Lojbanist vtubing alt. I'm working
+on being more comfortable with being _wrong_ in front of people as a part of
+getting better at public speaking and healing from my past. If you choose to
+follow this account, please keep in mind that I am _committed to the bit_ and I
+will be posting _entirely_ in [Lojban](https://lojban.pw/welcome/).
+
+<xeblog-toot url="https://vt.social/@xe/109308323411835557"></xeblog-toot>
+
+[@cwebber@octodon.social](https://octodon.social/@cwebber) is one of the
+co-authors of the ActivityPub specification. She has done incredible work in
+making the Fediverse shine and I suggest following to see what she has cooked up
+next.
+
+[@ghuntley@ghuntley.com](https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/@ghuntley) is one of the
+most amusing people I know. Don't be fooled by the fact that his profile picture
+is a Bored Ape NFT. He's actually quite vocally anti-NFT and cryptocurrency in
+general. He has that Bored Ape because he randomly got a _pirated ape_ shoved
+into his Ethereum wallet and now uses it out of pure irony.
+
+<xeblog-toot url="https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/@ghuntley/109329174967503675"></xeblog-toot>
+
+[@LunaFoxgirlVT@vt.social](https://vt.social/@LunaFoxgirlVT) is the creator of
+[Inochi2D](https://inochi2d.com/), an open-source vtubing application for
+Windows, macOS, and Linux. Luna is a passionate game developer and someone that
+I personally sponsor on GitHub. I don't even use Inochi2D _yet_, but I support her
+mission of making vtubing free and easy to use for the masses. Give her a
+follow!
+
+[@Lyude@queer.party](https://queer.party/@Lyude) is someone I have been friends
+with for almost a decade. Lyude is the person I go to when I have issues with X
+and Wayland. Lyude is also a fearless rustacean and someone that I would love to
+work with some day. If only we worked on things that were remotely related to
+eachother.
+
+[@Gankra@toot.cat](https://toot.cat/@Gankra) is one of the most powerful
+rustaceans I know. Gankra fearlessly helps make Rust easier to use and is
+adept at posting. Here's an example of a Gankra post:
+
+<xeblog-toot url="https://toot.cat/@Gankra/109320427252456972"></xeblog-toot>
+
+[@cult@pony.social](https://pony.social/@cult) is the person that runs the
+Mastodon server that I post on. He's worth following because he has a true
+understanding of irony and humor that you can only really get from a sarcastic
+German.
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+  "type": "Note",
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+  "published": "2022-11-12T05:26:59Z",
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+  "attributedTo": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley",
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+  "type": "Note",
+  "inReplyTo": null,
+  "published": "2022-11-10T16:22:19Z",
+  "url": "https://toot.cat/@Gankra/109320427252456972",
+  "attributedTo": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra",
+  "to": [
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+  "cc": [
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+  "sensitive": false,
+  "conversation": "tag:toot.cat,2022-11-10:objectId=35170513:objectType=Conversation",
+  "summary": null,
+  "content": "<p>tired: documenting that a function has weird behaviour</p><p>wired: documenting that a function shouldn&#39;t be used because it won&#39;t do what you want</p><p>inspired: making most of the documentation for a function a detailed treatise on how to use *other* APIs to do the thing you really want</p>",
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+      "partOf": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/statuses/109320427252456972/replies",
+      "items": []
+    }
+  },
+  "source": null
+}
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diff --git a/data/users/5ec5fb05e2d4420aa4f3b1fd6539bbd5570e6d0305aafc736244ba6a4393bb9f.json b/data/users/5ec5fb05e2d4420aa4f3b1fd6539bbd5570e6d0305aafc736244ba6a4393bb9f.json
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index 0000000..a0cd2dd
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  "id": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus",
+  "type": "Person",
+  "following": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/following",
+  "followers": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/followers",
+  "inbox": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/inbox",
+  "outbox": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/outbox",
+  "featured": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/collections/featured",
+  "featuredTags": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/collections/tags",
+  "preferredUsername": "Ricardus",
+  "name": "Ricardus",
+  "summary": "<p>Recording Engineer and former Technical Director (A1 Tech). Currently running an Antique Mall for a friend. I enjoy: building recording equipment, music, science fiction, Cons, wellness, absurdist humour, and other stuff.</p><p>Sometimes I play guitar.</p><p>Frustrated writer.</p><p>Geek.</p><p>Does not code.</p><p>If you enjoy anything I do on Masto please consider a donation.</p><p>Donations can be made to:</p><p>Paypal:  &#39;ricardus @ sdf . org&#39;</p><p>Venmo: Ricardus-W</p><p><a href=\"https://liberapay.com/Ricardus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">liberapay.com/Ricardus/</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p>",
+  "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Ricardus",
+  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": false,
+  "discoverable": true,
+  "published": "2017-04-26T00:00:00Z",
+  "devices": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/Ricardus/collections/devices",
+  "icon": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
+    "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/000/000/850/original/e794501e9dc0b32d.jpg"
+  },
+  "image": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
+    "url": "https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/headers/000/000/850/original/3dcda4182cf11abb.jpg"
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/data/users/7f26aa6a1980f5fd14167609249e4508485de17a9b61c0f66faf8150bb6e9cd2.json b/data/users/7f26aa6a1980f5fd14167609249e4508485de17a9b61c0f66faf8150bb6e9cd2.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ccd2879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/users/7f26aa6a1980f5fd14167609249e4508485de17a9b61c0f66faf8150bb6e9cd2.json
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  "id": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley",
+  "type": "Person",
+  "following": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/following",
+  "followers": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/followers",
+  "inbox": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/inbox",
+  "outbox": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/outbox",
+  "featured": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/collections/featured",
+  "featuredTags": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/collections/tags",
+  "preferredUsername": "ghuntley",
+  "name": "Geoffrey Huntley :vim: :nixos:",
+  "summary": "<p>🙌 I’m Geoff, I “stole” all of your NFTs via <a href=\"https://thenftbay.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">thenftbay.org</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>. Software Engineer at Coder and ex Gitpod. </p><p>Opinions are my own. 
I live a minimalist lifestyle and work remotely from a van doing <a href=\"https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/tags/vanlife\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>vanlife</span></a>. The internet is already decentralised (<a href=\"https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/tags/indieweb\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>)</p><p>
p.s Just in case it it isn&#39;t clear enough <a href=\"https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/tags/blockchain\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>blockchain</span></a> / <a href=\"https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/tags/nft\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>nft</span></a>&#39;s are dumb and so is my avatar. 👇👇🏿👇
</p><p>1. <a href=\"https://concerned.tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">concerned.tech</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a> 
<br />2. <a href=\"https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/extortion-why-web3-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-software-developers-20220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">smh.com.au/business/companies/</span><span class=\"invisible\">extortion-why-web3-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-software-developers-20220</span></a></p>",
+  "url": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/@ghuntley",
+  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": false,
+  "discoverable": true,
+  "published": "2022-11-11T00:00:00Z",
+  "devices": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/users/ghuntley/collections/devices",
+  "icon": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/png",
+    "url": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/system/accounts/avatars/109/325/034/786/571/675/original/c5843b458911682c.png"
+  },
+  "image": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
+    "url": "https://fediverse.ghuntley.com/system/accounts/headers/109/325/034/786/571/675/original/332eac79a4bfd21b.jpeg"
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/data/users/85e2523d36626f373f76f404f497885c79bb7a9f9ee13334ebaf4ca7e41b122f.json b/data/users/85e2523d36626f373f76f404f497885c79bb7a9f9ee13334ebaf4ca7e41b122f.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f005e63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/users/85e2523d36626f373f76f404f497885c79bb7a9f9ee13334ebaf4ca7e41b122f.json
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{
+  "id": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra",
+  "type": "Person",
+  "following": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/following",
+  "followers": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/followers",
+  "inbox": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/inbox",
+  "outbox": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/outbox",
+  "featured": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/collections/featured",
+  "featuredTags": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/collections/tags",
+  "preferredUsername": "Gankra",
+  "name": "Gankra",
+  "summary": "<p>It&#39;s me, the gay cat who maintains your docs</p>",
+  "url": "https://toot.cat/@Gankra",
+  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": false,
+  "discoverable": true,
+  "published": "2022-11-04T00:00:00Z",
+  "devices": "https://toot.cat/users/Gankra/collections/devices",
+  "icon": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/png",
+    "url": "https://pool.jortage.com/tootcat/accounts/avatars/109/287/068/466/286/465/original/99d44c73ee0b2e69.png"
+  },
+  "image": null
+}
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diff --git a/data/users/de4007588856073a68b85f6e5aadd105d376cf12194b1248ffe0a27d91eb4a28.json b/data/users/de4007588856073a68b85f6e5aadd105d376cf12194b1248ffe0a27d91eb4a28.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20dd157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/users/de4007588856073a68b85f6e5aadd105d376cf12194b1248ffe0a27d91eb4a28.json
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{
+  "id": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe",
+  "type": "Person",
+  "following": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe/following",
+  "followers": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe/followers",
+  "inbox": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe/inbox",
+  "outbox": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe/outbox",
+  "featured": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe/collections/featured",
+  "featuredTags": null,
+  "preferredUsername": "xe",
+  "name": "Xe",
+  "summary": "Hey,<br/><br/>I&#39;m the admin of this place. My main account is <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url mention\" data-user=\"APH5MA5JhypBfazQ0W\" href=\"https://pony.social/@cadey\" rel=\"ugc\">@<span>cadey@pony.social</span></a></span>. Consider this an alt in the Twitter sense.",
+  "url": "https://akko.within.website/users/xe",
+  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": false,
+  "discoverable": false,
+  "published": null,
+  "devices": null,
+  "icon": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": null,
+    "url": "https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/xeserv-akko/74777ece434cea213de37d78c46df8623572331aa27183d4bc225182c7be2e17.png"
+  },
+  "image": null
+}
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diff --git a/data/users/e5886a0174dcc2d1d2288c6112cce09fb894ba4e14eb113e8bcabc5d0e8fd7ef.json b/data/users/e5886a0174dcc2d1d2288c6112cce09fb894ba4e14eb113e8bcabc5d0e8fd7ef.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..277de03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/users/e5886a0174dcc2d1d2288c6112cce09fb894ba4e14eb113e8bcabc5d0e8fd7ef.json
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{
+  "id": "https://vt.social/users/xe",
+  "type": "Person",
+  "following": "https://vt.social/users/xe/following",
+  "followers": "https://vt.social/users/xe/followers",
+  "inbox": "https://vt.social/users/xe/inbox",
+  "outbox": "https://vt.social/users/xe/outbox",
+  "featured": "https://vt.social/users/xe/collections/featured",
+  "featuredTags": "https://vt.social/users/xe/collections/tags",
+  "preferredUsername": "xe",
+  "name": "la .zi. :verified_purple:​",
+  "summary": "<p>coi!</p><p>ni&#39;o mi&#39;e la .zi. .i mi cu vtubar .i mi nelci la&#39;oi zo NixOS je lonu samyzilkei loi kelproga je lonu ciska .i mi cu samseltcanytivni fo la&#39;oi Twitch (<a href=\"https://twitch.tv/princessxen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">twitch.tv/princessxen</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>)</p><p>.i ko gleki je kurji .ua.</p>",
+  "url": "https://vt.social/@xe",
+  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": false,
+  "discoverable": true,
+  "published": "2022-11-08T00:00:00Z",
+  "devices": "https://vt.social/users/xe/collections/devices",
+  "icon": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/png",
+    "url": "https://vt.social/media/accounts/avatars/109/306/006/417/606/734/original/b81ee6243764b836.png"
+  },
+  "image": {
+    "type": "Image",
+    "mediaType": "image/png",
+    "url": "https://vt.social/media/accounts/headers/109/306/006/417/606/734/original/99ca3d0bbf69c436.png"
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/xesite_templates/src/lib.rs b/lib/xesite_templates/src/lib.rs
index e744531..5e6fee2 100644
--- a/lib/xesite_templates/src/lib.rs
+++ b/lib/xesite_templates/src/lib.rs
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ pub fn toot_embed(u: User, t: Toot) -> Markup {
             br;
         }
 
-        a href=(t.url) { "Link" }
+        a href=(t.url.unwrap_or(t.id)) { "Link" }
     };
     html! {
         .media {
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ pub fn toot_embed(u: User, t: Toot) -> Markup {
             .media-body {
                 .media-heading {
                     (u.name)
+                    @if u.id == "https://pony.social/users/cadey" {
+                        img src="https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/blog/verified.png" style="height=1.5ch;width=1.5ch";
+                    }
                     " "
                     a href=(u.url) {"@" (u.preferred_username)}
                     br;
diff --git a/lib/xesite_types/src/mastodon.rs b/lib/xesite_types/src/mastodon.rs
index 942bbc7..80445bd 100644
--- a/lib/xesite_types/src/mastodon.rs
+++ b/lib/xesite_types/src/mastodon.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pub struct User {
     pub featured: String,
 
     #[serde(rename = "featuredTags")]
-    pub featured_tags: String,
+    pub featured_tags: Option<String>,
 
     #[serde(rename = "preferredUsername")]
     pub preferred_username: String,
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ pub struct User {
     pub discoverable: bool,
 
     #[serde(rename = "published")]
-    pub published: String,
+    pub published: Option<String>,
 
     #[serde(rename = "dev