Fediverse
- Mastodon rolls out built-in bylines for journalists in the fediversewww.theverge.com Mastodon rolls out built-in bylines for journalists in the fediverse
That includes The Verge.
I think this is a good incentive for Journalists to be more active on the fediverse.
- New Feature to Highlight journalism on Mastodonblog.joinmastodon.org Highlighting journalism on Mastodon
Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.
- Reddit just isn't how it used to be.
I left reddit on june 12th last year in protest of spez's decision to change the reddit api from being free as in free beer to an unbelievably expensive cost. That same day, I joined lemmy on a now abandoned account.
At first, I had a hard time adapting to lemmy's significantly smaller community, but I got used to it and learned to embrace it. However, recently I started missing reddit a lot more, and after some consideration, made an account on the (demonic) website.
But I don't think it felt the same way as before, sure, there was more posts, but they lacked a heart and soul, they were all so generic, as if it lost it's spark.
Has anyone else that's been on there noticed anything similar??
- Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better
Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better
Version 19.4 introduced automatic hashtag-ing (see https://lemmy.ml/post/16585416)
Posts get federated with a hashtag matching the community name.
The important bit is that comments to posts \don't\ get the tags.
Which means you can follow the corresponding tag on mastodon and get a feed only of posts.
EG: #asklemmy
If you're starting a community, giving it a unique enough name could help prevent overlap too.
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- A thought on "moderation bubbles"
A thought on "moderation bubbles"
A plurality of contentiously incompatible but independent moderation "spaces" ... is the only way in which the internet is good at digesting substantial and contentious topics.
\* conversations on the internet generally suck. \* On any contentious front, strong moderation can run the risk of "echo chambers". \* For those willing to survey multiple "bubbles", an interconnected plurality provides a de facto dialectics.
Thus federation for the win!
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- I'm Building Habitat
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13769067
> I posted a few months ago asking if there would be any desire for such a social platform, on which I had a lot of wonderful feedback from you guys. So I thought I'd write this post to let anyone that's interested know that it is being built, and you're welcome to lend a hand!
As this is a cross post, I should also point out that I got some great feedback from this community too!
- shields.io badge for Mbin (and maybe kbin)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13760290
> You can now create shields.io subscriber badges for Mbin! > > Example: > !Mbin > > You've been able to do this on Lemmy for ages. It should also work on kbin as long as it has been updated enough to include the API. >
- Hollo: Federated single-user microblogging softwaregithub.com GitHub - dahlia/hollo: Federated single-user microblogging software
Federated single-user microblogging software. Contribute to dahlia/hollo development by creating an account on GitHub.
- Hatsu v0.2: Improved RSS compatibility, receive likes & reposts, new comment componentgithub.com Release v0.2.1 · importantimport/hatsu
What's Changed refactor(tracing)!: rename HATSU_LOG_LEVEL to HATSU_LOG by @kwaa in #42 feat: new generate_204 api by @kwaa in #44 refactor: use flake instead of devbox by @kwaa in #45 refactor(fla...
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21064022
> Hello, Hatsu is a self-hosted Fediverse bridge for static websites. > > I recently released version 0.2 with the following features: > > Improved RSS compatibility > > RSS compatibility was terrible at 0.1.x due to some bugs - should now work with most valid Atom / RSS feeds. > > Receive likes & reposts > > Hatsu now receives likes and retweets for local posts and outputs them via a mastodon-compatible API. > > New comment component > > KKna is a new comment component (also written by me) that has Hatsu preset that automatically infer URL. > > You can check the integration instructions in the documentation: > > https://hatsu.cli.rs/users/backfeed-based-on-kkna.html > > (It's still unstable) > > Nix Package > > Are you using NixOS / Nix? I am, so I packaged it into NUR and Nixpkgs. > > There is no documentation on this at the moment, I will update it later.
- Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed
TLDR: The main reason was Lemmy hogging server resources.
Last year, during the Reddit 2023 API controversy I finally deleted my account and moved on to Lemmy. Here’s a look at my experiences and why I eventually decided to switch to PieFed.
- Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Postswedistribute.org Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
A social network founded by a former OpenAI employee was caught importing public posts from Mastodon...and ran AI analysis to add tags to them.
Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.
- fediverse platform for a schools community network
I am looking to host a fediverse platform for a community of non-tech people. These people use mostly ig and some still fb. These people are from a network of schools which are ideologically aligned with libre software and decentralisation. It will include adults and also teenagers, who mostly use IG. This is part of a plan of a massive migration to ethical platforms. I am trying to choose the fittest fediverse solution to these, also considering that I am not sure how much my home server will be capable of sustaining, so the platform should ideally be as lightweight as possible. I am considering mastodon, pixelfed, misskey and sharkey, and some people have suggested akkoma.
What would you recommend? Thanks!!
- An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by pixelfed has just successfully tested federation.mastodon.social dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by @pixelfed has just successfully tested federation! https://loops.video If you applied to join, expect an invite within the next week! ✨ (We will be open sourcing the mobile app and backend later this summer) #loops #pixelfed #...
- IFTAS Launches Moderator Resource Portalwedistribute.org IFTAS Launches Moderator Resource Portal
The dedicated Trust and Safety organization launched their community platform for moderation support last week. Here's what it does.
IFTAS, the Trust and Safety organization for the #Fediverse, launched a new community portal full of guides, resources, discussion groups, and tools for community moderators and instance admins. We take a look at what it does.
- Reminiscing about the "Reddit migration"
Seeing more "cake days" pop up lately, it seems we're approaching (or in) the 1 yr anniversary of the Reddit migration.
It's kinda sweet actually that we all get this reminder of it with the pickup in "cakedays".
It reminds of my seeing the wave happen. I was on lemmy before the migration (not a flex, I joined mastodon in the twitter migration and explored the other fediverse platforms around looking for a reddit/forum alternative) ... and followed a bunch of communities over on my mastodon account. Early last year many of these communities were fairly quiet (or at least quieter than now) and so I didn't really see any of them in my mastodon feed. I'd actually forgotten that I'd followed them. I'd heard word about the API stuff over on Reddit, but I knew something was happening when I started seeing more and more posts in my masto feed that confused me ... it wasn't clear where they were coming from. Double checking I'd see that they came from lemmy communities I'd forgotten about ... and I realised I was seeing lemmy literally come alive!
All these cakedays are kinda the same thing ... a sort of internet equivalent of a weather event or season.
- Federated Blogging Platforms
Just trying to check and make sure I never missed any. Is it just writefreely and plume right now?
- [opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know itfortune.com By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it
'The 26 words that created the internet' as we know it could soon be erased, warns the Consumer Technology Association.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713203
> “Backed by two powerful house leaders, the proposed “Legislative Proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act” would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “
- dansup: "Pixelfed Discovery is about to get supercharged! …" - Mastodonmastodon.social dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
Pixelfed Discovery is about to get supercharged! Install a new server, and it will fetch trending posts and accounts, populate hashtags and synchronize followers/following lists and counts using our new service! Already have a server? Opt-in to many discovery feeds, profile and hashtag suggestions...
> Pixelfed Discovery is about to get supercharged! > > Install a new server, and it will fetch trending posts and accounts, populate hashtags and synchronize followers/following lists and counts using our new service! > > Already have a server? Opt-in to many discovery feeds, profile and hashtag suggestions and comment/avatar backfilling with fine grained config settings. > > We’re also improving hashtag federation and public/guest access, enabling non-users to browse trending posts and hashtags! > > 🧭 🚀 ✨
- dansup: "Still working hard to ship Groups this weekend! …" - Mastodonmastodon.social dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Still working hard to ship Groups this weekend! Can't wait 😎 #pixelfed #groups #activityPub #fediverse #lemmy
Looks like PixelFed Groups are coming along nicely.
- What is Farcaster, and why did it raise 150M USD?fediversereport.com What is Farcaster, and why did it raise 150M USD?
Farcaster, a crypto-based decentralised social networking protocol hit the news this week, by raising an eye watering 150 million USD, with a valuation of 1 billion USD, all the while sporting around 80K daily active users. For context, Bluesky has around 300k daily active users. The news raises a f...
I take a deep dive into crypto-based social network Farcaster, aka Torment-Nexus-on-the-blockchain.
I think that crypto/web3 is mostly really dumb and bad, but I also do think that what happens on other decentralised social networks is relevant to understand the fediverse. The different protocols influence each other and I dont think they should be understood in isolation. That is why I wanted to have a better understanding of what Farcaster is, and why a16z wanted to spend so much money on it.
- Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Ideamull.net Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Idea
If you're thinking about setting up your own single-user Mastodon instance, I urge you not to do it. The user experience is so broken that it's baffling that anyone would find it acceptable.
- Iceshrimp: A #csharp fediverse platform
Iceshrimp: A #csharp fediverse platform
Was just told (by @Subversivo ) about this: https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp.net
\#Iceshrimp are rewriting the whole thing (a JS/Node #misskey / #firefish fork) in C# with Blazor for the frontend.
Cool to see. Should handle the performance issues that have plagued the \*key forks and maybe provide a new general branch of fediverse platform.
What lang/stack isn't represented on the fediverse now? C++, Kotlin?
- Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?
Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?
Looks like ICQ is finally shutting down, just as interest in retro internet tools is growing.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june
- Just 2 more tables, come on. | ghost
> https://social.coop/@shauna/112503558995533544 > If you want to follow along with Ghost's attempts to implement ActivityPub they are surprisingly hilarious
- Pixelfed Groups, targeting Lemmy support and the Groups FEP for nowmastodon.social dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Pixelfed Groups are coming along, and I'm hoping to ship v1 this weekend! We're targeting Lemmy support and the Groups FEP for now, I cant wait to ship this 😎 #pixelfed #groups
- FediVision 2024 is Live! Listen and Vote!wedistribute.org FediVision 2024 is Live! Listen and Vote!
It's time to listen and vote in this year's edition of the Fediverse's favorite annual music contest, FediVision!
FediVision is an annual music competition in the spirit of Eurovision. This year probably had the biggest turnout ever: 72 entries from a variety of artists and musicians, and you can listen to all of them!
- What's your usage habits on pixelfed
In orders which do you use the most between tag searching, local feed, global feed and following feeds?
Do you use the web version, official mobile app or pixeldroid?
If you use pixeldroid do you use the trending posts,trending hashtags,popular account and discover features?
- UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
And this seems a good example: bridged #mastodon posts onto #BlueSky which has a lower character limit than Mastodon.
So, just like #lemmy posts on mastodon, you don't get the full content of the post (which ends with an abrupt ellipsis here) and have to take a link to the original platform.
However powerful the underlying protocols, this isn't far from screenshots.
- A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Memberswedistribute.org A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members
With Mastodon founding a US-based 501c3, the question has come up: who are the board members? What do they do? And why were they chosen?
We dug into Mastodon's new US-based non-profit entity, and checked out who their board members are, and what they've accomplished in the past.
- Last week in fediverse - Ep 69fediversereport.com Last Week in Fediverse – ep 69
Happy 16th birthday of the fediverse! 16 years ago, on May 18th 2008, the first post was published on identi.ca. The News The European Commission has announced their new Mastodon account, and that they will stay on the fediverse. Over the last 2 years, the European Data Protection Supervisor had run...
- Fediverse turns 16 tomorrowcosocial.ca Evan Prodromou (@evan@cosocial.ca)
Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse. https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1 It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that. http...
- Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize Itwww.techdirt.com Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It
There was a bit of news in the world of decentralized social media over the past few weeks. It kicked off with the announcement that Jack Dorsey had left the board of Bluesky. This was followed by …
- You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts!wedistribute.org You Can Now Bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts
Bridgy Fed's integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse is now in public beta, and you can try it for yourself!
Bridgy Fed's Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa.
There's still some quirks, and every bridged account has to opt in to it, but it's a promising moment for people that want to communicate across networks.
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 68fediversereport.com Last Week in Fediverse – ep 68
An update on fediverse and Bluesky bridges, Ghost shares info on their new ActivityPub reader app, and more.
- The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?
The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?
Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the #fediverse .
That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.
Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?
- Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitterwww.businessinsider.com Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter
The real new Twitter, Jack Dorsey argues, should be something called Nostr.