To The Fediverse
- How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFedjoin.piefed.social How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed
For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different […]
February 20, 2024 piefedadmin writes:
> For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different things. It’s easy to imagine how quickly this would overwhelm an instance once it gets even a little busy. > > One of the first web performance tools people reach for is to use a CDN, like Cloudflare. But how much difference will it make? In this video I show you my web server logs before and after and compare them.
Read How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?
- Lemmy Webhook - add webhook support to your Lemmy instancegithub.com GitHub - RikudouSage/LemmyWebhook: Add webhook support to your Lemmy instance
Add webhook support to your Lemmy instance. Contribute to RikudouSage/LemmyWebhook development by creating an account on GitHub.
cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/4527175
> > Note that unless you're a Lemmy instance admin, this doesn't have much use to you. > > Until this package came along, if you wanted a bot that responds to events, you had to manually traverse all comments/posts/whatever at a fixed interval. With this package you can actually react to events directly from the database. It's implemented in a very efficient way by connecting the package directly to the Lemmy database and using native Postgres features to get the events (LISTEN/NOTIFY if you want to get technical). > > The webhooks themselves are inserted into a separate SQLite database (API is coming) and allow for both simple and complex filtering of the incoming data. The system is already in use by two of my bots, @ChatGPT@lemmings.world and @DallE@lemmings.world who now both receive the information about being tagged in a comment in seconds (the actual reply takes a little longer, but that's because of the nature of the bot). > > Currently you can be notified about a post or a comment, other types are trivial to include as well. > > Let me know what you think!
- The Verge - The fediverse, explainedwww.theverge.com The fediverse, explained
It’s Mastodon, it’s Threads, it’s the future, and it’s extremely confusing
- Changing PieFed's appearance with themes - PieFedjoin.piefed.social Changing PieFed's appearance with themes - PieFed
As of today, PieFed includes a ‘theme engine’ which makes it easier for people with low or no Python skills to change how PieFed looks and behaves. Let’s start with the app/templates/themes directory in the PieFed codebase. In this directory there will be a sub-directory for each theme that is avail...
> As of today, PieFed includes a ‘theme engine’ which makes it easier for people with low or no Python skills to change how PieFed looks and behaves.
PieFed is a lemmy/kbin clone written in Python with Flask.
- Fediverse Report (@fediversereport@mastodon.social)mastodon.social Fediverse Report (@fediversereport@mastodon.social)
New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 53 This week's news: - a closer look at the upcoming project @bonfire@indieweb.social - Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation - @sublinks@utter.online is a new link aggregating platform that recently started development As well as a whole...
- Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmywedistribute.org Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy
The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.
Sean Tilley writes:
> A new Threadiverse platform has emerged, joining Lemmy, Kbin, and PieFed in a growing list of options for users seeking an alternative to Reddit. It’s also looking to possiblyh serve as an alternative to Lemmy itself.
- Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org/blogconda.org Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org
Conda is retiring its Twitter account. Please join us on Mastodon and LinkedIn
Conda (@conda@fosstodon.org) writes:
> Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values. Going forward, you can find us at 🐘 @conda@fosstodon.org (https://fosstodon.org/@conda) 🔗 Conda Community on LinkedIn
Read Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org/blog
Conda (Software)
Conda provides package, dependency, and environment management for any language.
Using conda provides a streamlined approach to package management, platform compatibility, environment isolation, and access to an extensive package ecosystem. It is particularly beneficial for data scientists, researchers, and developers working with diverse software requirements across different projects.
Conda Community
The "conda" community is made up of millions of users, packaging maintainers and tool developers. Conda is not a single organization but rather a concerted effort of many different organizations, all devoted to the mission of providing easy access to various types of free software regardless of the operating system or programming language.
We firmly believe that everyone belongs in open-source, and we want to start by thanking you for taking the time to read this page. What follows is a high level summary of all the projects and organizations which make up the conda community with links provided where you can learn more or get involved yourself. The many meanings of "conda"
Traditionally associated with the Anaconda distribution, nowadays the term "conda" refers to more than just a package manager or a software repository. Its many definitions also encompass community packaging efforts like conda-forge and bioconda, as well as new tools developed in the Mamba and conda-incubator organizations. All these efforts show that the conda ecosystem is no longer defined by a single actor and continues to grow and thrive.
Organizations on GitHub include:
- @conda, plus Anaconda, Inc. efforts like @AnacondaRecipes, @anaconda-distribution, @ContinuumIO
- @conda-forge, @regro
- @conda-incubator & @conda-tools
- @mamba-org
- @bioconda
Some tools you might be familiar with are conda or conda-build themselves but also community efforts like mamba, boa, setup-miniconda, conda-lock or conda-tree, among many more.
Read more about the conda community.
- Activitypub-Federation 0.5.0 releasedgithub.com Release 0.5.0 · LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust
This release consists mostly of bug fixes and minor improvements. Biggest change is the removal of the builtin federation queue as Lemmy implemented its own persistent queue. Now there is only a si...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10025807
> This library is responsible for federation in Lemmy, and can also be used by other Rust projects.
- Friendica (open source facebook alternative) releases version 2023.12 with the ability to curate feeds and moregithub.com Release Friendica 2023.12 released · friendica/friendica
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel" 2023.12. Finally wrapping up the changes since May - the highlights of this release are the...
- Flipboard Begins First of Three Phase Plan for ActivityPub Federationmedium.com Flipboard Begins to Federate
Today we are beginning to open Flipboard to the Fediverse, a rapidly emerging part of the Web which includes social services like Mastodon…
> Today we are beginning to open Flipboard to the Fediverse, a rapidly emerging part of the Web which includes social services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Firefish and PeerTube all built on a revolutionary open protocol called ActivityPub. > > When and how is this going to happen? The process of opening Flipboard to the Fediverse is called “federation” and it will happen in three distinct phases between now and April: > > Phase 1 (Today): We are federating 27 publishers and creators so that we can test and gather feedback Phase 2 (January): We will enable anyone in the Fediverse to follow and engage with any public curator on Flipboard Phase 3 (April): We will enable anyone on Flipboard to follow and engage with any public account in the Fediverse
- Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol - Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threadswww.threads.net Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck). 1.4K Replies. 18K Likes. Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more...
> Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.
- Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodonwedistribute.org Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon
A lot of people make up all kinds of wild assumptions Mastodon, how it works, and what it is. We're here to help clear up some of the biggest ones.
- Sociology of Social Media Platformsuniverseodon.com Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (@siderea@universeodon.com)
There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per ...
An explanation of two problems inherent to social media platforms from @siderea@universeodon.com
> scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.
> difference in perspective between the governance parties and the end users
- The President, Vice President, and the White House all signed up for Threads todaywww.theverge.com Joe Biden’s birthday gift to himself is a Threads account
The White House says, “the wait is Joe-ver.”
https://www.threads.net/@potus (2 Million followers)
https://www.threads.net/@vp (1.7 Million followers)
https://www.threads.net/@whitehouse (616 Thousand followers)
- People are reporting worse experiences on Mastodon compared to Twitter (Pre-Musk). Some discussion over what can be done about it.
Notifications are a pain point:
> giving people the ability to curate their notifications. Notifications are what’s driving them nuts. Not posts, not even the technology of Mastodon – it’s replies from assholes. > >They need notifications grouped, they really do. Hell, I want that enough that I mostly look at replies from my phone, where I have an ap that groups them. > >They need to be able to turn on something like Twitter’s old “quality replies” filter, which served as a junk filter, and a block against pointless below-ban-level negging. > >And they need to be able to do it at scale, because if you have 100,000 followers, you can’t reasonably do it one at a time. It’s simply not possible.
- Resource needed to evaluate inclusivity of websites
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/5730013
> Before sharing a link I would like to determine whether the website excludes people from access, and who is excluded. I can test for myself whether the Tor community is excluded, but what about: > > * VPNs > * i2p > * public libraries > * #cgNAT issued IP addresses > * various regions > * particular browsers (e.g. lynx, w3m) > > for example? I cannot check all those means of access. If a website is implementing some form of digital exclusion, I would like to ensure that I am not helping the exclusive website gain visitors. > > #askFedi #netneutrality
- Tactic needed to counter all communities living on lemmy.world and get more of the threadiverse into the free world
LemmyWorld is a terrible place for communities to exist. Rationale:
- Lemmy World is centralized by disproportionately high user count
- Lemmy World is centralized by #Cloudflare
- Lemmy World is exclusive because Cloudflare is exclusive
It’s antithetical to the #decentralized #fediverse for one node to be positioned so centrally and revolting that it all happens on the network of a privacy-offender (CF). If #Lemmy World were to go down, a huge number of communities would go with it.
So what’s the solution?
Individual action protocol:
- Never post an original thread to #LemmyWorld. Find a free world non-Cloudflare decentralized instance to start new threads. Create a new community if needed. (there are no search tools advanced enough to have a general Cloudflare filter, but #lemmyverse.net is useful because it supports manually filtering out select nodes like LW)
- Wait for some engagement, ideally responses.
- Cross-post to the relevant Lemmy World community (if user poaching is needed).
This gets some exposure to the content while also tipping off readers of the LW community of alternative venues. LW readers are lazy pragmatists so they will naturally reply in the LW thread rather than the original thread. Hence step 2. If an LW user wants to interact with another responder they must do so on the more free venue. Step 3 can be omitted in situations where the free-world community is populated well enough. If /everything/ gets cross-posted to LW then there is no incentive for people to leave LW.
Better ideas? Would this work as a collective movement?
- How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Movewww.wired.com How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move
The decentralized Instagram alternative is a great option if you want to back up your feed, focus on photo-sharing, or cut loose from Meta's empire entirely. And making the leap is surprisingly easy.
Seems fitting to share this now that Social.Photo is live. It’s our newest addition to the fediverse.
We launched a new Pixelfed instance. This is a newly growing community. Most Mastodon Apps work with it if you already have a favorite app like Ivory by Tapbots. They have a PixelFed official app that is about to launch.
Checkout Social.Photo today!
- More fediverse to explore! We now have a Pixelfed instance
We now have a Pixelfed instance. Check it out!
Social.Photo. Signup is open!
- Lemmy, the "replacement" for Reddit
Is Lemmy a replacement for Reddit or just something different?
Before Reddit was Digg. Before Facebook was MySpace. Before Mastodon there was Twitter. Before Lemmy there was Reddit. It's fair to say that each of these sites was or is going to be replaced. The time it takes for the migration is typically slow as the new system gains traction and features. I don't believe they are direct replacements. If there was a copy of the existing site there would be no need to leave. Lemmy is different. Lemmy replaces a need not a site.
When I was growing up the internet was created by the people. Corporate sites were rare and far between. They didn't dominate. People would visit Geocities, Newgrounds, IRC, etc. The biggest players were AOL for chat and Yahoo for sports, news, & search. No site was perfect and beautiful and people didn't care. It was wonderful. This all changed.
It feels almost instant; however, I believe it was slow. Sites like Facebook promised to be the people's network. Youtube took over as this amazing video hosting service. No more Flash! People thought the rough edges of the internet were over. They traded their personal information for free sites. They didn't know what they were giving up.
Over time these "small" sites became the Internet. 5 sites now are the internet to some people. It's time for the internet to return to the people like it was before. Rough & personal.
Lemmy replaces that need people have to connect on common topics and to gather news. It's the newspaper of the people.
Lemmy isn't a Reddit replacement... it is filling a need that Reddit has failed to fill. Reddit became like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Youtube. It wanted to be more than what people wanted it to be. It changed, so people are leaving. The fediverse is the future. It's time to take the internet back!
- Instagram joins the Fediverse
cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/253571
> Why isn't anyone talking about this? It looks like Meta wants to compete with Twitter with a new Instagram microblogging app which will probably be compatible with Mastodon > > Key Point of the article: > > *“Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.” * > > > > The Verge - This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor
- How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)ploum.net How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/49400
> cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/83649 > > > A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
- Lemmy Link Extension for Firefoxaddons.mozilla.org Lemmy Link – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Lemmy Link for Firefox. Extension to make it easy to interact with different Lemmy communities
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1372067
I've been waiting for this to be made by someone! Finally.
> Extension to make it easy to interact with different Lemmy communities
- Isn't Lemmy just a client for the fediverse?
Would it be fair to say that Lemmy is just a client of the fediverse? Technically, someone could create a new client that interfaces with Lemmy perfectly on ActivityPub.
Seems like we should be pushing fediverse not just Lemmy.
- How do you explain it?
I'm trying to come up with a simple way to explain how it works. How to describe data masters and such.
How do you explain it to people? I see many very long posts or huge infographics that are too overwhelming to catch someone's interest. I want to make it simple.
Elevator-pitch type stuff with pictures.