#Fediverseサーバープロフ帳 でプロフィールカードを作成しました！
https://purofu.y-zu.org/view/server?id=114
#サーバープロフ帳 #サーバープロフィール帳 #サーバー紹介

#Fediverse #image

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

Dear Friends of diversity,

#intro

lobster is my unreal name and I talk to myself, my computers, the birds and animals that come to the garden. I like seeing people's photographs, hearing their opinions and successes, where available.

I like to get up early and when silence is the prevailing norm. All my pets have died, been eaten or are imaginary.

I practice a unique internal martial art, with many unique features.

I recently died... and... wait, sorry, that was a dream. Have been using mastodon and the #fediverse for almost 0.25 of a day and find it excellent, compared to other disservices.

A big thank you to the software writers, kind people throughout, admins of servers. People looking out for us noobs, wer-critters, alchemists and general purpose weirdos...

Bonus track:
https://youtu.be/arOJvfO8BnU

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

February has a lot of artworks published! This one is from the beginning of January, one of the first commissions I've finished in 2025 (also I'm proud to say that my delivery time is shorter and updates are far more consistent).

The characters are Iyana and Emmeric from "The Celestial Whispers" duology by Jeannin Counts.

#art #MastoArt #fediart #fediverse #books

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

My FOSDEM 2025 social web lightning talk is out!

🎉 Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025 | https://ayos.blog/elk-fosdem-2025

#SocialWebFosdem #fosdem #FOSDEM2025 #fediverse #mastodon

Dear Friends of diversity,

#intro

lobster is my unreal name and I talk to myself, my computers, the birds and animals that come to the garden. I like seeing people's photographs, hearing their opinions and successes, where available.

I like to get up early and when silence is the prevailing norm. All my pets have died, been eaten or are imaginary.

I practice a unique internal martial art, with many unique features.

I recently died... and... wait, sorry, that was a dream. Have been using mastodon and the #fediverse for almost 0.25 of a day and find it excellent, compared to other disservices.

A big thank you to the software writers, kind people throughout, admins of servers. People looking out for us noobs, wer-critters, alchemists and general purpose weirdos...

Bonus track:
https://youtu.be/arOJvfO8BnU

On #Mastodon there are now
379 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
116 instances.

225 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@klagget (SWE)
@KnowableMag (ENG)
@gpspmagazin (GER)
@RNFde (GER)
@EsquerdaNet (POR)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ixsccIFQ4uD2HFlf92Ag7VS3rNOGwa97wFsSb3JxCwo/edit#gid=876665327

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

February has a lot of artworks published! This one is from the beginning of January, one of the first commissions I've finished in 2025 (also I'm proud to say that my delivery time is shorter and updates are far more consistent).

The characters are Iyana and Emmeric from "The Celestial Whispers" duology by Jeannin Counts.

#art #MastoArt #fediart #fediverse #books

A topical or community Fediverse Relays — ex: a Paleogenetics relay server, or an animal photography relay server, or a company focused relay server, etc —

Would be similar to the old PlanetPlanet river-of-news feed-reader blogs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171029175722/http://www.planetplanet.org/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114044648006460577

#DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #FediRelay #Fediverse #FediverseRelay #PlanetPlanet #Relay

#Fediverseプロフ帳 でプロフィールカードを作成しました！
https://purofu.y-zu.org/view/card?id=282
#プロフ帳 #プロフィール帳

#Fediverse #image

FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.

Prior to this change, #FediDB counted 12,923,233 accounts. Now it counts 10,868,233 accounts.

Now let me be blunt: respecting robots.txt is a good thing. But now when we look at #Fediverse accounts, it must clearly be seen with the acknowledgement that these only count services that haven’t opted out of tracking.

So when people compare user counts of #Bluesky vs. the Fediverse, remember that Bluesky has the luxury of a more complete count because they host all accounts there. In contrast, the Fediverse is actually decentralized, and a good many services simply do not want to be tracked – and are therefore not counted.

https://fedidb.org/

@fediversenews

A topical or community Fediverse Relays could be very useful (in addition to generic ones).

Ex: a Paleogenetics relay server, or an animal photography relay server, or a company focused relay server, etc

Especially for single-user, community, team, organization, themed, etc server instances

It would also help save storage space on server instances, by the relay being selective in what it shares.

#DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #FediRelay #Fediverse #FediverseRelay #Relay

Fediverse Report – #104

Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.

The News

Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’

For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“

In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”

Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.

Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.

Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.

I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.

Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.

Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.

Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.

Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.

ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.

A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.

The Links

• An experiment with social media handles – Doctor Popular
• Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
• A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
• Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
• ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
• Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-104/

Three weeks ago we were getting ready to go to #FOSDEM. We didn’t realise just how good the experience would be.

Now we’re energised, excited, and getting started on a whole range of ideas that came out of the event. More on that soon 👀

For now, enjoy this little snapshot of Brussels and our @fosdem experience.

Huge thank you to @_elena for getting a photo of the team 📸

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

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#Fediverse ロゴ（暫定）ステッカーや、 #pixelfed ロゴステッカーの配布、 #にゃんぷっぷー #blobcat ステッカーの配布 その他協力サーバーのアピールを行います！
有志ホームページ： https://fediverse.pcgf.io
カンファレンスホームページ： https://event.ospn.jp/osc2025-spring/

FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.

Prior to this change, #FediDB counted 12,923,233 accounts. Now it counts 10,868,233 accounts.

Now let me be blunt: respecting robots.txt is a good thing. But now when we look at #Fediverse accounts, it must clearly be seen with the acknowledgement that these only count services that haven’t opted out of tracking.

So when people compare user counts of #Bluesky vs. the Fediverse, remember that Bluesky has the luxury of a more complete count because they host all accounts there. In contrast, the Fediverse is actually decentralized, and a good many services simply do not want to be tracked – and are therefore not counted.

https://fedidb.org/

@fediversenews

FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.

Prior to this change, #FediDB counted 12,923,233 accounts. Now it counts 10,868,233 accounts.

Now let me be blunt: respecting robots.txt is a good thing. But now when we look at #Fediverse accounts, it must clearly be seen with the acknowledgement that these only count services that haven’t opted out of tracking.

So when people compare user counts of #Bluesky vs. the Fediverse, remember that Bluesky has the luxury of a more complete count because they host all accounts there. In contrast, the Fediverse is actually decentralized, and a good many services simply do not want to be tracked – and are therefore not counted.

https://fedidb.org/

@fediversenews

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-02-21

Servers

- NodeBB v4.0.5
- Hollo v0.5.2
- Ibis v0.2.2
- Honk v1.4.2
- Mobilizon v5.1.2
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-02-21
- Hackers' Pub: ActivityPub-enabled social network for hackers
- FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager

Clients

- TootRain v2.1.0
- Tinmop v0.9.9.14142135623730
- Dhaaga v0.16.2
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta40
- Alexandrite v0.8.20

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.1.0
- Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.0.0

Protocol

- FEP-f228: Backfilling conversations
- FEP-f06f: Object observers

Articles

- Talk about the thing itself
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
- How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server
- The state of conversational contexts (February 2025)
- Fediverse Report – #104

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019505e9-69b3-ca9f-3b11-869a95dc3430

I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #BlueSky. 🤦‍♂️

"On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) and is robust by design."

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

When rogue players multiply, single points of failure are worse than just a gamble.

#openscience is best on the #fediverse

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-02-21

Servers

- NodeBB v4.0.5
- Hollo v0.5.2
- Ibis v0.2.2
- Honk v1.4.2
- Mobilizon v5.1.2
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-02-21
- Hackers' Pub: ActivityPub-enabled social network for hackers
- FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager

Clients

- TootRain v2.1.0
- Tinmop v0.9.9.14142135623730
- Dhaaga v0.16.2
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta40
- Alexandrite v0.8.20

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.1.0
- Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.0.0

Protocol

- FEP-f228: Backfilling conversations
- FEP-f06f: Object observers

Articles

- Talk about the thing itself
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
- How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server
- The state of conversational contexts (February 2025)
- Fediverse Report – #104

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019505e9-69b3-ca9f-3b11-869a95dc3430

Week in Fediverse 2025-02-21

Servers

- NodeBB v4.0.5
- Hollo v0.5.2
- Ibis v0.2.2
- Honk v1.4.2
- Mobilizon v5.1.2
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-02-21
- Hackers' Pub: ActivityPub-enabled social network for hackers
- FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager

Clients

- TootRain v2.1.0
- Tinmop v0.9.9.14142135623730
- Dhaaga v0.16.2
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta40
- Alexandrite v0.8.20

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.1.0
- Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.0.0

Protocol

- FEP-f228: Backfilling conversations
- FEP-f06f: Object observers

Articles

- Talk about the thing itself
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
- How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server
- The state of conversational contexts (February 2025)
- Fediverse Report – #104

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019505e9-69b3-ca9f-3b11-869a95dc3430

I wanted to see the current status of group actor support in #Mastodon.

This feature has been requested all the way back in 2016. It’s a feature request that is so old, it’s the 139th ticket. After it was made, @gargron stated shortly after:

I made a decision not to implement groups. They offer little benefit over a cost of added complexity, and the bangtag syntax personally irks me too.

A year later, he re-opened the feature request and said:

Reopening, but not high priority.

No further update since then. Nearly a decade after this feature had been requested, group support has not been added and it’s still not a high priority.

Now the intent of this post isn’t to wag my finger at Mastodon and say, “How dare they!” It’s clear that Mastodon is in a transitional state right now, and their focus is on other things – like quote posts and search.

But it is to say that the development of this feature is so completely out of Mastodon’s control that it now represents an opportunity loss for the platform. Because the truth is – whether or not Mastodon supports group actors – many Mastodon users are using it anyway even though this causes quite a few UI/UX problems along the way. Namely, the common Mastodon user cannot differentiate between a single user account and a group actor.

So now we have two groups of Mastodon users: those who want to make use of services like #Lemmy, #Piefed, #NodeBB, and those who are completely unaware of those services and ask, “Why the hell is Mastodon acting like this when I try to interact with that account?”

More to the point, group actors should be embraced because not only is this a valuable feature, but they’re also critical for community safety. No one can moderate a hashtag, but they can certainly moderate a Lemmy community.

Like I said, though, development of Mastodon is ongoing – whether Mastodon participates or not. And that specific element of the #Fediverse continues to grow, despite the fact that the most used Fediverse service (sans Threads) regards it as “low priority”. As long as Reddit and Facebook Groups users seek out an open, federated alternative, there will be demand for group actors.

Why am I saying all this? Because this is my plea for better interoperability. It is certainly within Mastodon’s right to be picky about what features they implement. However, the Fediverse would be plainly better if Mastodon finally supported this important ActivityPub standard.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/139

@fediversenews

On #Mastodon there are now
379 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
116 instances.

225 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@klagget (SWE)
@KnowableMag (ENG)
@gpspmagazin (GER)
@RNFde (GER)
@EsquerdaNet (POR)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ixsccIFQ4uD2HFlf92Ag7VS3rNOGwa97wFsSb3JxCwo/edit#gid=876665327

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

ONE DAY! 4000 signatures!

“to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X to more secure, community-regulated platforms that prioritise public safety, accurate information, and accessibility. We encourage the government to explore publicly accountable alternatives, including decentralised networks, to ensure reliable and responsible communication with Canadians.”

Our petition last year took a month to get 1000!

Time for #Fediverse in Canada!!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

In correlation to the previous poll:

How vulnerable do you believe large USA-based Mastodon/Fediverse servers are to the same kind of corporate/white house manipulation or direct involvement/takeover?

#Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #Bluesky #Control #USA #USPoli #Mastodon #Fascism

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

Poll question to the full #Fediverse!

How long before Bluesky 'comes under the influence' of Musk or one of the other White House-aligned corporate social media fascists?

#OpenSocialWeb #Bluesky #Control #USA #USPoli #Mastodon #Fascism

House of Commons Petition to have the Government of Canada stop using X.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

#Canada #fediverse

ONE DAY! 4000 signatures!

“to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X to more secure, community-regulated platforms that prioritise public safety, accurate information, and accessibility. We encourage the government to explore publicly accountable alternatives, including decentralised networks, to ensure reliable and responsible communication with Canadians.”

Our petition last year took a month to get 1000!

Time for #Fediverse in Canada!!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

Three weeks ago we were getting ready to go to #FOSDEM. We didn’t realise just how good the experience would be.

Now we’re energised, excited, and getting started on a whole range of ideas that came out of the event. More on that soon 👀

For now, enjoy this little snapshot of Brussels and our @fosdem experience.

Huge thank you to @_elena for getting a photo of the team 📸

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech

I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #BlueSky. 🤦‍♂️

"On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) and is robust by design."

https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/science-must-step-away-from-nationally-managed-infrastructure/

When rogue players multiply, single points of failure are worse than just a gamble.

#openscience is best on the #fediverse

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

Three weeks ago we were getting ready to go to #FOSDEM. We didn’t realise just how good the experience would be.

Now we’re energised, excited, and getting started on a whole range of ideas that came out of the event. More on that soon 👀

For now, enjoy this little snapshot of Brussels and our @fosdem experience.

Huge thank you to @_elena for getting a photo of the team 📸

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

Flying to Taipei 🇹🇼 this evening for #RightsCon next week, where I’ll be on a panel “How we build a new social web” at 9am on Tuesday. I’ll also be speaking at the #RubyJam meetup on Tuesday evening, about Ruby and the #Fediverse. My first visit to Taiwan - any tips?

The fourth edition of the "Scrolls" newsletter is live!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-02-21

Enjoy all the usual weekly #IndieWeb, #Fediverse & #Cybersecurity goodness!

Also a reminder that you can subscribe directly to the newsletter via #RSS using this link https://shellsharks.com/feeds/scroll-feed.xml.

Shoutout once more to everyone who has unknowingly contributed something awesome to this week's issue. Here's the credits wall!

@ttntm @darius @artlung @feedle @danirabbit @robb @lunathemoongirl @jcrabapple @donthatedontkill @jcrabapple @atomicpoet @weekinfediverse @liaizon @sheep @jerry @jlsksr @NiwlCraft @phrack @ttscoff @artlung @dreamindani @countablenewt @paulsanders @Em0nM4stodon @_elena @jimfuller @tychotithonus @annie @PagedOut @mihobu @jdp23 @philipp @sophie @ben @balint @fediversereport @jedda @hyde @mbjones @pspaul @vae @axxuy @slash @andypiper @micahflee @me​@derekmartin.org

Flying to Taipei 🇹🇼 this evening for #RightsCon next week, where I’ll be on a panel “How we build a new social web” at 9am on Tuesday. I’ll also be speaking at the #RubyJam meetup on Tuesday evening, about Ruby and the #Fediverse. My first visit to Taiwan - any tips?

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

We're still $76k away from our stretch goal to establish a non-profit.

We're already working on it, and can't wait to build a sustainable, long term home for our ecosystem of projects!

That being said, if you could help us reach $200k, we can hire more team members.

Please spread the word, we need ethical and safe alternative platforms more than ever!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #kickstarter #fediverse

Fediverse Report – #104

Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.

The News

Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’

For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“

In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”

Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.

Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.

Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.

I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.

Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.

Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.

Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.

Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.

ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.

A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.

The Links

• An experiment with social media handles – Doctor Popular
• Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
• A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
• Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
• ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
• Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-104/

"Photographers especially are enjoying the Pixelfed, calling it a "breath of fresh air". If you manage to tag your posts right and add strong captions, you will end up with quality engagement, something that can be much harder to find on Instagram, in between all the sponsors and bots." #pixelfed #fediverse #instagram

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-instagram-alternatives-if-you-are-sick-of-meta

À cause de @sknob j'ai lu le billet de @_elena sur Yunohost et GoToSocial et comment ça a l'air cool et relativement simple d'avoir sa propre instance sur le #Fediverse !

Maintenant j'ai envie de tester et d'avoir une instance GoToSocial sur mon domaine lokipropagand.art mais ça m'obligerait à changer des trucs sur mes sites ! (à moins qu'on puisse installer GtS + WordPress au même endroit mais j'en doute et j'ai déjà trop de sous domaine)

Pas merci hein

Vielleicht habt ihr ja die neulich hier gestarteten Initiativen #SaveSocial und #SoSollWeb mitbekommen. Da entsteht nun wohl gerade eine Diskussion ums #Fediverse. Denn der neueste Beitrag ist ein Rant, der uns Eskapismus vorwirft (etwas runterscrollen, der Header ist recht groß):
https://ichsagmal.com/der-naive-traum-vom-fediverse-warum-wir-uns-der-realitaet-stellen-muessen/

. @an says he wants https://spacehey.com to join the Fediverse.

@spacehey is a social-network that will likely remind you a lot of MySpace.

#Fediverse #MySpace #OpenSocialMediaIRL #SpaceHey

Can we really trust #BlueSky with decentralization? Unlike the #FediVerse, nodes are controlled by the wealthy. Please see the attached diagram

Can we really trust #BlueSky with decentralization? Unlike the #FediVerse, nodes are controlled by the wealthy. Please see the attached diagram

Great to see a #Fediverse News group on #PieFed. Let me know if you have any issues, @atomicpoet

https://piefed.social/c/fediversenews

It was mentioned by @swart that there is a petition to get the Canadian gov't off of X.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

He then suggested, maybe we can get them onto the Fediverse?

#Fediverse #OpenSocialMediaIRL

cosocial.social pays extra for managed services, so they can save their volunteers time.

#CoSocial #Fediverse #OpenSocialMediaIRL

~90% of reports on mstdn.ca is for spam.

~10% of report is people getting into flame-wars, and then reporting each other.

#Fediverse #OpenSocialMediaIRL #MastoAdmin #Moderation #MstdnCa

»How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server« https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/your-fediverse-server/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Arrived for the cosocial.ca + mstdn.ca Fediverse meet-up — Open Social Media IRL.

At first, I was the only person here — I got here early.

But, one other person ( @swart ) just arrived.

#CoSocialCa #Fediverse #MstdnCa #OpenSocialMediaIRL

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

»How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server« https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/your-fediverse-server/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

Explore the Fediverse Newswire by @deadsuperhero.

Created with @surf, this custom feed features posts from @quillmatiq, @_elena, @swf and many more in the community. Plus, news about advancements in the social web.

If you’re not on Surf (yet) and want to check it out, join the waitlist on the link below and use my referral code to get into the beta faster: Surf+JeJord.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfm3esr4e3a0wdt3tg9310at

#fediverse
#socialweb
#surffeeds
#tech

Explore the Fediverse Newswire by @deadsuperhero.

Created with @surf, this custom feed features posts from @quillmatiq, @_elena, @swf and many more in the community. Plus, news about advancements in the social web.

If you’re not on Surf (yet) and want to check it out, join the waitlist on the link below and use my referral code to get into the beta faster: Surf+JeJord.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfm3esr4e3a0wdt3tg9310at

#fediverse
#socialweb
#surffeeds
#tech

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

Who’s in WVFRM podcast co-host @davidimel’s FilmFeed? If you’re in our #DawnPatrolBeta, you can see which film photography artists, YouTube channels, and podcasters made the cut:

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jehge3c6f25c4czggc3xy0s8

👀 Show us what you’re making on Surf! Use #SurfFeeds when sharing.

👉 If you’re not on (or off) the waitlist yet, put SURFSHARES as the referral code for speedier access. https://waitlist.surf.social/

#fediverse #customfeeds #filmphotography #podcasts

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

Who’s in WVFRM podcast co-host @davidimel’s FilmFeed? If you’re in our #DawnPatrolBeta, you can see which film photography artists, YouTube channels, and podcasters made the cut:

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jehge3c6f25c4czggc3xy0s8

👀 Show us what you’re making on Surf! Use #SurfFeeds when sharing.

👉 If you’re not on (or off) the waitlist yet, put SURFSHARES as the referral code for speedier access. https://waitlist.surf.social/

#fediverse #customfeeds #filmphotography #podcasts

House of Commons Petition to have the Government of Canada stop using X.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

#Canada #fediverse

Sorry, last one, I promise.

Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.

Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code

If you need to convince someone to choose Mastodon over Bluesky ✨

Share this excellent article by @philjreese with them: https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky

Explore the Fediverse Newswire by @deadsuperhero.

Created with @surf, this custom feed features posts from @quillmatiq, @_elena, @swf and many more in the community. Plus, news about advancements in the social web.

If you’re not on Surf (yet) and want to check it out, join the waitlist on the link below and use my referral code to get into the beta faster: Surf+JeJord.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfm3esr4e3a0wdt3tg9310at

#fediverse
#socialweb
#surffeeds
#tech

Explore the Fediverse Newswire by @deadsuperhero.

Created with @surf, this custom feed features posts from @quillmatiq, @_elena, @swf and many more in the community. Plus, news about advancements in the social web.

If you’re not on Surf (yet) and want to check it out, join the waitlist on the link below and use my referral code to get into the beta faster: Surf+JeJord.

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jfm3esr4e3a0wdt3tg9310at

#fediverse
#socialweb
#surffeeds
#tech

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

We believe in community.

The social 'town square' done right - a place where we don't shout at each other from across the cobblestones but a place where we coexist and find our people in the cafes and social spaces around the square 🏙️

We're working on something that can replicate this feeling, across multiple platforms. No more FOMO. A lot more community.

Make sure you're following us to stay up to date 👀

#OnlineCommunity #Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Community

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance

We believe in community.

The social 'town square' done right - a place where we don't shout at each other from across the cobblestones but a place where we coexist and find our people in the cafes and social spaces around the square 🏙️

We're working on something that can replicate this feeling, across multiple platforms. No more FOMO. A lot more community.

Make sure you're following us to stay up to date 👀

#OnlineCommunity #Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Community

明日・明後日はオープンソースカンファレンス ​​ 2025 Tokyo/Springが駒澤大学駒沢キャンパスにて開催されます！
#FediLUG は両日ブース出展いたします！ #blobcat ステッカーや #fediverse ロゴステッカー #FediLUG ロゴステッカーなどを用意してお待ちしています！

明日・明後日はオープンソースカンファレンス ​​ 2025 Tokyo/Springが駒澤大学駒沢キャンパスにて開催されます！
#FediLUG は両日ブース出展いたします！ #blobcat ステッカーや #fediverse ロゴステッカー #FediLUG ロゴステッカーなどを用意してお待ちしています！

明日・明後日はオープンソースカンファレンス ​​ 2025 Tokyo/Springが駒澤大学駒沢キャンパスにて開催されます！
#FediLUG は両日ブース出展いたします！ #blobcat ステッカーや #fediverse ロゴステッカー #FediLUG ロゴステッカーなどを用意してお待ちしています！

@feb @EmpeRohr Kann sein, das Friendica total super ist, ich habe damit nur bisher keine Erfahrungen gemacht. Das #Fediverse ist ja so umfangreich :-)

‼️‼️‼️ #PleaseBoost ‼️‼️‼️

BEWILLIGTE #DemoGegenRechts
im Wohnort von #Weidel

➡️ Sa. 22. Februar 2025 AD
➡️ um 14 Uhr Ortszeit
➡️ am Dorfplatz, in Einsiedeln SZ 🇨🇭

(💕BITTE: Bleibt entschlossen, aber gewaltfrei! Danke! 💕) #Antifa #Fediverse

Grias enk, servus, hello, bonjour.

Wir sein Schwarz Mander, #neuhier, und spielen "Alte Tiroler Brutalität", jetzt auch im #Fediverse.

Man kannt jetzt drüber streiten, was des für a Genre isch, aber die Mischung aus #Metal, #Doom, #Rock und #Punk schon eher passend.
Gsungen wird im Tiroler Dialekt, gspielt mit Bass und Schlagzeug, gejodelt a manchmal.
Falls mal anhorchen wollts, unser erstes Live Konzert kann man gratis und ohne Anmeldung da streamen

https://cba.media/694330

Freien uns sakrisch auf Rückmeldung und a feine Zeit.

Schwarz Mander

PS: Weil wir nach außen lustig sein, ist es unsere Musik nicht.

#band #FediBands #music #Tyrol

#introduction Hi, I'm Goji! I'm brand new to the #fediverse !
I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in #cogsci
Lately I've been spending my free time less on writing (I do short stories, and I'd like to self-publish a full novel) and more on reading.
I play some video games, but being a linux-boi has pared that back quite a bit.
My other hobbies are mountain biking, music, and succumbing to depression under a blanket.

You can expect me to talk about: #PoliticalReform, #AI, #foss, #books, university, #veganism, my perfect cats, and other interesting things I am learning about.

I will try to balance my emo, millennial nature with wit and well-written posts about things that matter. If I sound like a whiny bitch, stick around for a bit and see if it changes?

@elena BlueSky is not linked to the #fediverse the only way to link those two is to use a bridge service like you used to. If you don't use a bridge you don't need to do anything else, there is no communication or data exchange between the two. As for threads, GotoSocial is incompatible with it (actually the reverse is true, threads doesn't implement Activity Pub correctly) so federation between those two ain't happening. @dumpsterqueer

Does anyone know any good gotosocial instances? i cant seem to find a list.

#fedi #fediverse #gotosocial #mastodon #foss #linux

I've been meaning to check out @botkit for awhile now. Just built a quick bot in like 15 minutes and most of that time was spent trying to figure out how deno deploy works. Anyways, check out @gulfof, if you tag it in a message it will generate a 'Gulf of' map for you using https://gulfof.mapquest.com/

I've been meaning to check out @botkit for awhile now. Just built a quick bot in like 15 minutes and most of that time was spent trying to figure out how deno deploy works. Anyways, check out @gulfof, if you tag it in a message it will generate a 'Gulf of' map for you using https://gulfof.mapquest.com/

@[email protected] schwierige Entscheidung
Ich sag mal so, wäre ich nicht bei @Carlos als Gast untergekommen, hätte ich jetzt wohl eine eigene Instanz.

Ich habe mir da wirklich 14 Tage nur auf einer Instanz angetan, beim testen, damit ich ein richtiges Arbeitsgefühl für komme.

Na ja, aus den 14 Tagen testen sind erst ein Monat geworden, dann 2 und dann habe ich überlegt, ob ich nicht @Carlos fragen kann, das ich bleiben darf. Ein zurück gab es für mich dann nicht mehr.

Friendica wäre für mich auch eien Option, aber da bräuchte ich ein anderes Thema/Maske, so mag ich es eher nicht

#mastodon #friendica #misskey #iceshrimp #sharkey #Fediverse

I am sure there is a reason why those who preach hate speech seem to prefer the software platform, Pleroma, as opposed to Mastodon or Misskey, or the many forks of either. 🤔

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #Pleroma

I’m curious. This place has a very vocal anti-capitalist community, anytime moneys come up people shout about donations. When it comes to consent and Trust & Safety I’ve seen many people attack devs. Yet, when #Mastodon was asking for donations to fund a position it was largely crickets. #IFTAS has done great work and set out to be a great benefit to the #fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb yet they’re struggling to keep the lights on. How can that be? So many of you are always talking about donations so why are projects underfunded and servers shutting down due to lack of funding? Where are you passionate and vocal lot? https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ https://about.iftas.org/

I’m curious. This place has a very vocal anti-capitalist community, anytime moneys come up people shout about donations. When it comes to consent and Trust & Safety I’ve seen many people attack devs. Yet, when #Mastodon was asking for donations to fund a position it was largely crickets. #IFTAS has done great work and set out to be a great benefit to the #fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb yet they’re struggling to keep the lights on. How can that be? So many of you are always talking about donations so why are projects underfunded and servers shutting down due to lack of funding? Where are you passionate and vocal lot? https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ https://about.iftas.org/

I’m curious. This place has a very vocal anti-capitalist community, anytime moneys come up people shout about donations. When it comes to consent and Trust & Safety I’ve seen many people attack devs. Yet, when #Mastodon was asking for donations to fund a position it was largely crickets. #IFTAS has done great work and set out to be a great benefit to the #fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb yet they’re struggling to keep the lights on. How can that be? So many of you are always talking about donations so why are projects underfunded and servers shutting down due to lack of funding? Where are you passionate and vocal lot? https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ https://about.iftas.org/

I’m curious. This place has a very vocal anti-capitalist community, anytime moneys come up people shout about donations. When it comes to consent and Trust & Safety I’ve seen many people attack devs. Yet, when #Mastodon was asking for donations to fund a position it was largely crickets. #IFTAS has done great work and set out to be a great benefit to the #fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb yet they’re struggling to keep the lights on. How can that be? So many of you are always talking about donations so why are projects underfunded and servers shutting down due to lack of funding? Where are you passionate and vocal lot? https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ https://about.iftas.org/

I’m curious. This place has a very vocal anti-capitalist community, anytime moneys come up people shout about donations. When it comes to consent and Trust & Safety I’ve seen many people attack devs. Yet, when #Mastodon was asking for donations to fund a position it was largely crickets. #IFTAS has done great work and set out to be a great benefit to the #fediverse and #OpenSocialWeb yet they’re struggling to keep the lights on. How can that be? So many of you are always talking about donations so why are projects underfunded and servers shutting down due to lack of funding? Where are you passionate and vocal lot? https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ https://about.iftas.org/

IceShrimp.NET has a new beta release, and the front end UI is starting to catch up to the back end. Including everyone's favorite, MFM! (Well, maybe not everybody, but between instances with support, it sure is fun in moderation)

#IceShrimpNet #Forkeys #IceShrimp #Fediverse #ActivityPub

IceShrimp.NET has a new beta release, and the front end UI is starting to catch up to the back end. Including everyone's favorite, MFM! (Well, maybe not everybody, but between instances with support, it sure is fun in moderation)

#IceShrimpNet #Forkeys #IceShrimp #Fediverse #ActivityPub

IceShrimp.NET has a new beta release, and the front end UI is starting to catch up to the back end. Including everyone's favorite, MFM! (Well, maybe not everybody, but between instances with support, it sure is fun in moderation)

#IceShrimpNet #Forkeys #IceShrimp #Fediverse #ActivityPub

明日・明後日はオープンソースカンファレンス ​​ 2025 Tokyo/Springが駒澤大学駒沢キャンパスにて開催されます！
#FediLUG は両日ブース出展いたします！ #blobcat ステッカーや #fediverse ロゴステッカー #FediLUG ロゴステッカーなどを用意してお待ちしています！

Seems like I'm going to be doomed to manually typing out hashtags with CamelCase for each posts even though I mostly always use the same hashtags.🤦‍♂️

Why is it so hard to implement a working hashtag saver that saves WITH CamelCase?!?

It's wild!

PS. Yes I know Ivory does it for featured hashtags but you can only have a limited number of those

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #iOS #Android #Mastodon

Seems like I'm going to be doomed to manually typing out hashtags with CamelCase for each posts even though I mostly always use the same hashtags.🤦‍♂️

Why is it so hard to implement a working hashtag saver that saves WITH CamelCase?!?

It's wild!

PS. Yes I know Ivory does it for featured hashtags but you can only have a limited number of those

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #iOS #Android #Mastodon

明日・明後日はオープンソースカンファレンス ​​ 2025 Tokyo/Springが駒澤大学駒沢キャンパスにて開催されます！
#FediLUG は両日ブース出展いたします！ #blobcat ステッカーや #fediverse ロゴステッカー #FediLUG ロゴステッカーなどを用意してお待ちしています！

Seems like I'm going to be doomed to manually typing out hashtags with CamelCase for each posts even though I mostly always use the same hashtags.🤦‍♂️

Why is it so hard to implement a working hashtag saver that saves WITH CamelCase?!?

It's wild!

PS. Yes I know Ivory does it for featured hashtags but you can only have a limited number of those

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #iOS #Android #Mastodon

"Photographers especially are enjoying the Pixelfed, calling it a "breath of fresh air". If you manage to tag your posts right and add strong captions, you will end up with quality engagement, something that can be much harder to find on Instagram, in between all the sponsors and bots." #pixelfed #fediverse #instagram

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-instagram-alternatives-if-you-are-sick-of-meta

"Photographers especially are enjoying the Pixelfed, calling it a "breath of fresh air". If you manage to tag your posts right and add strong captions, you will end up with quality engagement, something that can be much harder to find on Instagram, in between all the sponsors and bots." #pixelfed #fediverse #instagram

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-instagram-alternatives-if-you-are-sick-of-meta

"Photographers especially are enjoying the Pixelfed, calling it a "breath of fresh air". If you manage to tag your posts right and add strong captions, you will end up with quality engagement, something that can be much harder to find on Instagram, in between all the sponsors and bots." #pixelfed #fediverse #instagram

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-instagram-alternatives-if-you-are-sick-of-meta

"Photographers especially are enjoying the Pixelfed, calling it a "breath of fresh air". If you manage to tag your posts right and add strong captions, you will end up with quality engagement, something that can be much harder to find on Instagram, in between all the sponsors and bots." #pixelfed #fediverse #instagram

https://lifehacker.com/tech/the-best-instagram-alternatives-if-you-are-sick-of-meta

I've been meaning to check out @botkit for awhile now. Just built a quick bot in like 15 minutes and most of that time was spent trying to figure out how deno deploy works. Anyways, check out @gulfof, if you tag it in a message it will generate a 'Gulf of' map for you using https://gulfof.mapquest.com/

‼️‼️‼️ #PleaseBoost ‼️‼️‼️

BEWILLIGTE #DemoGegenRechts
im Wohnort von #Weidel

➡️ Sa. 22. Februar 2025 AD
➡️ um 14 Uhr Ortszeit
➡️ am Dorfplatz, in Einsiedeln SZ 🇨🇭

(💕BITTE: Bleibt entschlossen, aber gewaltfrei! Danke! 💕) #Antifa #Fediverse

No one actually "owns" an Internet-domain-name

I.e., no one actually "owns" their .COM, .LINK, .NET, .SOCIAL, .XYZ, etc Internet domain name

The people behind Mastodon don't actually "own" mastodon.social

Forget to pay the yearly fee, and its gone.

And, it could be seized at any time. There are MANY examples of that

The Fediverse is decentralized but — it relies on a centralized system — it relies on the centralized Internet-domain-name system

#DeSo #Fediverse #Internet #InternetDomainName

🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 26F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Boston's John F. Kennedy presidential library shuttered unexpectedly yesterday after the sudden dismissal of federal employees. It has since reopened.

The Trump administration is moving to halt NYC's congestion pricing tolling.

Pope Francis is in the hospital with pneumonia but is still making video calls to check in with a parish in Gaza.

🦋 TO THE PEOPLE ON BLUESKY

We can't see, or reply to your comments, if you are not bridged to the Fediverse.

Simply follow ap.brid.gy on bluesky so we can see your posts.

#Fediverse #BlueSky #BlueSkyBridge #BridgyFed #Fedi

🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 26F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Boston's John F. Kennedy presidential library shuttered unexpectedly yesterday after the sudden dismissal of federal employees. It has since reopened.

The Trump administration is moving to halt NYC's congestion pricing tolling.

Pope Francis is in the hospital with pneumonia but is still making video calls to check in with a parish in Gaza.

🦋 TO THE PEOPLE ON BLUESKY

We can't see, or reply to your comments, if you are not bridged to the Fediverse.

Simply follow ap.brid.gy on bluesky so we can see your posts.

#Fediverse #BlueSky #BlueSkyBridge #BridgyFed #Fedi

Anyone a good recommendation for a Mastodon client for Android? I am using Trunks now but it keeps scrolling all the way down. I need to manually scroll up all the time which is really annoying.

#Mastodon #Android #Fediverse

"The Fediverse is quiet" is what many new users say at first - before they follow enough people and hashtags. @julian has some great ideas to solve this problem. I'm not a computer scientist or programmer and could still understand most of this really interesting presentation - recommended if you're dreaming about more organized knowledge production in the Fediverse. https://spectra.video/w/xwCSYfZh1mJY64zJ9GngbE #forum #NodeBB #ActivityPub #Fediverse

@BeAware @pink

i think that the #threadiverse part of #fediverse has some good potential

you can search for a specific topic community and even follow directly from your favourite microblogging platform

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

#introduction Hi, I'm Goji! I'm brand new to the #fediverse !
I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in #cogsci
Lately I've been spending my free time less on writing (I do short stories, and I'd like to self-publish a full novel) and more on reading.
I play some video games, but being a linux-boi has pared that back quite a bit.
My other hobbies are mountain biking, music, and succumbing to depression under a blanket.

You can expect me to talk about: #PoliticalReform, #AI, #foss, #books, university, #veganism, my perfect cats, and other interesting things I am learning about.

I will try to balance my emo, millennial nature with wit and well-written posts about things that matter. If I sound like a whiny bitch, stick around for a bit and see if it changes?

Let's be honest, there is no #search feature in #fediverse (#mastodon)...

The absence of a full-text search feature in Mastodon and the broader Fediverse is a multifaceted issue with both intentional design choices and practical challenges.

New users may struggle to find relevant content or communities, hindering engagement and adoption. This contrasts sharply with centralized platforms like Twitter, where search drives content virality.

So Users have to manually tag posts (#) for discoverability, which can feel burdensome but fosters organized, topic-focused discussions.

My thoughts...

Opt-In Search???

Instances could allow users to index their content for cross-server discovery, respecting decentralization while improving usability...


Decentralized indexing protocol???

Fediverse Reportが、Mastodonで実装予定の引用機能とその影響について論じてる。

Mastodon CEOのEugen氏は、引用機能が嘲笑や嫌がらせなどの有害行為につながると考えてきた。

一方で、Twitterの引用ツイートに関する30以上の研究を分析した報告では、引用機能が有害行為を増やすか減らすかについては"矛盾する証拠があり、どんな影響があるとしても、それは大きなものではない"と結論付けられてるとのこと。

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedibird [参照]

Fediverse Report – #104

Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.

The News

Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’

For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“

In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”

Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.

Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.

Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.

I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.

Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.

Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.

Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.

Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.

ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.

A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.

The Links

• An experiment with social media handles – Doctor Popular
• Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
• A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
• Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
• ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
• Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-104/

@fediforum

Pretty weird that this is publicized as being about the #Fediverse but there's not anyone from any #ActivityPub distribution mentioned

Docktorow, Masnick from the techy rag Techdirt, Evan #MaxiFedi Prodromou from WC3, Cottle from Threads, and Paul Frazee from Bluesky

Anyone missing you can think of?

I sure can

#SXSW

cc @pluralistic @molly0xfff @mmasnick @evan @pcottle @pfrazee.com

As a direct consequence, the majority of #GlobalSouth users who drift into the #Fediverse get disillusioned, and return/move on to #Facebook or #Twitter or #Threads.

The #GlobalNorth users on the Fediverse never even become aware of this loss; though many of them perceive the monotony of voices/topics, and silently move out; leaving behind a tiny, malnourished social medium.

That’s it, that’s the mechanism.

Forget #GlobalNorth users, even #GlobalSouth users cannot find fellow users from their regions, or find posts about the global south, even if both exist.

This happens with most global south users, and with an overwhelming majority of the posts on global south topics.

That’s how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the global south.

(continues)

An overwhelming majority of #GlobalNorth users have no interest in #GlobalSouth topics. They neither follow users focussed on global south issues, nor boost or like posts on global south topics.

That’s their prerogative, of course; but that is also the root cause underlying the above dynamic. There is no obvious resolution to it, at least not within the narrow confines of the #Fediverse.

(continues)

🧵 on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth.

I have argued a few times that for all practical purposes, the global south does not exist for Mastodon, and for the rest of the Fediverse. But many people I interact with do not quite understand how this works in practice.

This series of posts is an effort to illustrate that mechanism.

(continues)

Who is on friendica?

I'm trying to move from FB to there but still not a lot of people in the community I think...

this is my profile link: https://friendica.world/profile/fosca/profile

#fediverse #friendica #facebook

Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.

If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:

https://box464.com/posts/snac-activitypub-on-ubuntu/

#tutorial #selfhosted #fediverse #activitypub #snac #snac2

Good #tzaf, #fediverse.

Fediverse Reportが、Mastodonで実装予定の引用機能とその影響について論じてる。

Mastodon CEOのEugen氏は、引用機能が嘲笑や嫌がらせなどの有害行為につながると考えてきた。

一方で、Twitterの引用ツイートに関する30以上の研究を分析した報告では、引用機能が有害行為を増やすか減らすかについては"矛盾する証拠があり、どんな影響があるとしても、それは大きなものではない"と結論付けられてるとのこと。

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedibird [参照]

#FediDB respecting robots.txt has really changed how stats are tabulated.

Prior to this change, there were 997 #Pleroma servers that were counted. Now the count has been reduced to 582.

With #WordPress, the difference is more stark. Prior to the change, there was over 9,000 WordPress servers counted. Now the count is at 3,578 servers.

To be sure, I’m not complaining – privacy is important. But it is to say that #ActivityPub user counts should have a big asterisk: many servers have opted out of being crawled. This means they are not being counted.

FediDB says there are 12,923,059 accounts across the #Fediverse. But this is actually drastically higher.

#FediDB respecting robots.txt has really changed how stats are tabulated.

Prior to this change, there were 997 #Pleroma servers that were counted. Now the count has been reduced to 582.

With #WordPress, the difference is more stark. Prior to the change, there was over 9,000 WordPress servers counted. Now the count is at 3,578 servers.

To be sure, I’m not complaining – privacy is important. But it is to say that #ActivityPub user counts should have a big asterisk: many servers have opted out of being crawled. This means they are not being counted.

FediDB says there are 12,923,059 accounts across the #Fediverse. But this is actually drastically higher.

Our friends at Flipboard are organizing a "Fediverse House" at SXSW in Austin, TX, March 9 and 10.

They are putting together a great program with people such as @pluralistic, @molly0xfff, @mmasnick,
@evan, @pcottle and @pfrazee.com !

If you are at SXSW, check it out!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

#fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb

Well, my post on Threads about Fediverse has almost 10k views now!

Not much interactions but it's a start.

Hopefully they don't go following that fake "Fediverse" account that doesn't even know how federation works.😬

#Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Threads #SocialMedia

Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.

If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:

https://box464.com/posts/snac-activitypub-on-ubuntu/

#tutorial #selfhosted #fediverse #activitypub #snac #snac2

Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.

If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:

https://box464.com/posts/snac-activitypub-on-ubuntu/

#tutorial #selfhosted #fediverse #activitypub #snac #snac2

Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.

If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:

https://box464.com/posts/snac-activitypub-on-ubuntu/

#tutorial #selfhosted #fediverse #activitypub #snac #snac2

#Fediverse #FediLUG ステッカーの実物が到着しました〜！！
明後日、明々後日配布予定です！ぜひ #osc25tk にお越しください〜！！

#Fediverse #FediLUG ステッカーの実物が到着しました〜！！
明後日、明々後日配布予定です！ぜひ #osc25tk にお越しください〜！！

#Fediverse #FediLUG ステッカーの実物が到着しました〜！！
明後日、明々後日配布予定です！ぜひ #osc25tk にお越しください〜！！

My FOSDEM 2025 social web lightning talk is out!

🎉 Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025 | https://ayos.blog/elk-fosdem-2025

#SocialWebFosdem #fosdem #FOSDEM2025 #fediverse #mastodon

People who use Misskey or some fork thereof: Why, and how does it compare to other Fediverse software?

#askfedi #fediverse #misskey

Our friends at Flipboard are organizing a "Fediverse House" at SXSW in Austin, TX, March 9 and 10.

They are putting together a great program with people such as @pluralistic, @molly0xfff, @mmasnick,
@evan, @pcottle and @pfrazee.com !

If you are at SXSW, check it out!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

#fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb

Our friends at Flipboard are organizing a "Fediverse House" at SXSW in Austin, TX, March 9 and 10.

They are putting together a great program with people such as @pluralistic, @molly0xfff, @mmasnick,
@evan, @pcottle and @pfrazee.com !

If you are at SXSW, check it out!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

#fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb

Our friends at Flipboard are organizing a "Fediverse House" at SXSW in Austin, TX, March 9 and 10.

They are putting together a great program with people such as @pluralistic, @molly0xfff, @mmasnick,
@evan, @pcottle and @pfrazee.com !

If you are at SXSW, check it out!

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

#fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb

Big Tech threatening countries that want to regulate them in this way is just not OK.

We have as a company engaged with regulators over the years and I have the utmost respect for their integrity and courage.

#Meta #Facebook #Mastodon #fediverse #Politics #Vivaldi

https://gizmodo.com/meta-says-itll-tattle-to-trump-if-eu-keeps-being-mean-2000564638?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

9/

And just for the record —

Just like everyone else I contacted about their 'discoverable' flag being defaulted to 'false' —

He wasn't aware of the 'discoverable' flag existing (just like everyone else I contacted).

He didn't want to be hidden (just like everyone else I contacted).

He changed it to 'true' (just like everyone else I contacted).

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

You are going to see more post that argue this is the world we live in and that this is the way things are. There is going to be a strong, but steady push against people thinking we can change things and that this is the new normal, and that you should just come to accept it.

The idea is the belittle and dismiss people who stand against Trump and his worldview.

You are going to see this on every social media platform.

#Propaganda #Project2025 #Facism #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Reddit #Twitter #X #Fediverse #ActivityPub

You are going to see more post that argue this is the world we live in and that this is the way things are. There is going to be a strong, but steady push against people thinking we can change things and that this is the new normal, and that you should just come to accept it.

The idea is the belittle and dismiss people who stand against Trump and his worldview.

You are going to see this on every social media platform.

#Propaganda #Project2025 #Facism #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Reddit #Twitter #X #Fediverse #ActivityPub

My FOSDEM 2025 social web lightning talk is out!

🎉 Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025 | https://ayos.blog/elk-fosdem-2025

#SocialWebFosdem #fosdem #FOSDEM2025 #fediverse #mastodon

Fediverse Report – #104

Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.

The News

Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’

For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“

In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”

Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.

Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.

Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.

I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.

Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.

Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.

Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.

Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.

ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.

A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.

The Links

• An experiment with social media handles – Doctor Popular
• Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
• A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
• Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
• ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
• Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-104/

8/

As it is now, I think the 'discoverable' flag is broken.

And, I think the whole user-experience (UX) around the 'discoverable' flag is poor.

And, I think Fediverse software treating a 'false' value for 'discoverable' as "not discoverable" (rather than "not discoverable" or "no choice made") has hugely negative consequences for the user-experience (UX) of the Fediverse

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

7/

So now I have to DM Ben to tell him that his 'discoverable' flag is set to false

He (just like everyone else I contacted) will likely not even be aware that the 'discoverable' flag exists

And (just like everyone else I contacted) wished it wasn't set to false

And then (just like everyone else I contacted) struggle to find where he can set it to true

And then set it

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

6/

As it is now, the 'discoverable' flag seems broken to me.

Because 'false' doesn't actually mean 'false'.

'false' (in practice) means both "not discoverable" and "no choice made". And this is a very unfortunate situation —

Because the idea of a 'discoverable' flag is a good idea — but this problem with the meaning of 'false' and the UX consequences a big deal.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

5/

JSON and has a 'null'. That could have been used for the 'discoverable' flag.

We could have had so that:

'discoverable' set to 'true' meant that the user explicitly chose to be discoverable.

'discoverable' set to 'false' meant that the user explicitly chose to not be discoverable.

And 'discoverable' set to 'null' meant that the user has not explicitly made a choice.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

4/

With other conceptions, this lack of choice — this lack of setting a value — isn't as muddled.

With optional-types (which are also called "option-types" and "maybe-types") when something isn't assigned a value it is represented as 'nothing' / 'none'.

In relation-databases, this is represented as 'null'.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

3/

As it is right now, the 'discoverable' flag does not communicate whether the user actually made a 'true' or 'false' choice.

If it is 'true' we know they made a choice.

But if it is 'false' it either means the user chose 'false' or the user didn't make a choice. BUT WE CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

2/

There are a HUGE number of people who (unknown to them) have their 'discoverable' flags set to 'false' who —

№2:

Do NOT know that they have a 'discoverable' flag —

And do NOT know that their 'discoverable' flag was automagically set to 'false' —

And do not understand the consequence of having their 'discoverable' flag set to false.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

1/

A problem with the 'discoverable' flag (in Mastodon and any other Fediverse software that added it) is —

There are a HUGE number of people who (unknown to them) have their 'discoverable' flags set to 'false' who —

№1:

Did NOT set their 'discoverable' to 'false' themselves.

Mastodon assigned it for them without ever asking them before hand and getting consent.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

Would you prefer that YOU ARE HIDDEN on the Fediverse?

That nobody (new) ever follows you?

That nobody (new) ever sees your posts?

I KNOW THIS QUESTION SEEMS WEIRD, BUT — THERE IS A SMALL GROUP THAT IS CURRENTLY ARGUING MOST PEOPLE ON THE FEDIVERSE WANT TO BE HIDDEN IN THIS WAY

They don't represent me. And I don't think they should (even implicitly) speak for me

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HIDDEN LIKE THIS — PLEASE VOTE "NO"

Please boost for reach.

#Discoverable #Fediverse #Mastodon #NoIndex

The Web front-end feature for GreatApe that @muhammadzaidali has been working lately — the ability to record calls / rooms —

Currently this is a local recording.

You start recording. And it records a video file on your own computer.

(Later we intend to make it so a user could record on the server, too.)

#DeSo #Fediverse #GoldGorilla #GreatApe #LogJam

An update for GreatApe — a conversations platform for the Fediverse, social-web, and DeSo.

I have been working on cleaning up the code for the part of GreatApe called "Logjam". LogJam is part of the GreatApe back-end.

. @muhammadzaidali has been working on the Web front-end code for GreateApe. He has been working on the ability to record calls / rooms.

. @benyamin0 has been working on another part of the GreatApe back-end called "GoldGorilla".

#DeSo #Fediverse #GoldGorilla #GreatApe #LogJam

Fediverse Report – #104

Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.

The News

Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’

For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“

In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”

Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.

Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.

Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.

I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.

Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.

Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.

Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.

Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.

ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.

A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.

The Links

• An experiment with social media handles – Doctor Popular
• Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
• A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
• Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
• ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
• Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-104/

Fediverse Report – #104

Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.

The News

Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’

For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“

In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”

Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.

Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.

Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.

I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.

Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.

Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’

The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.

Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.

Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.

ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.

A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.

The Links

• An experiment with social media handles – Doctor Popular
• Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
• A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
• Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
• ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
• Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.
• WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-104/

Eine #Umfrage zur #Sozialstruktur im #Fediverse und auf #Mastodon:

Duschst Du vor der Arbeit oder nach der Arbeit?

🏷️ #Sozialforschung #Klassismus #SozialeSpaltung #BlueCollar #WhiteCollar #Handwerk #Handarbeit #Universität #Soziokultur #Sozialpolitik #Arbeitsmarkt #Zusammenhalt #NeuHier #Neoliberalismus #Dienstleistungsgesellschaft #Sorgearbeit #Kulturpolitik #Duschen #Hygiene #Arbeit #Oberschicht #Mittelschicht #Unterschicht

Hi, I see that it's customary to make an #introduction post here. I go by jqubed, as in j cubed. I'm not exactly new to the fediverse but this is my start with a federated microblogging service. I've been active on #lemmy for a little over a year and would occasionally see blog posts by @[email protected] about the #fediverse and it was her post about Sharkey that pushed me to sign-up on a #sharkey instance. I'm a husband and stepdad, I like playing games (electronic and physical) and watching sports but don't have us much time for either as I'd like, and I'm hoping to start doing some #selfhosting this year. Last year, at age 40, I found out that I have #adhd and am still trying to find a medication that helps (the first did but I built a tolerance to it) so that probably makes that time question more challenging.

Big Tech threatening countries that want to regulate them in this way is just not OK.

We have as a company engaged with regulators over the years and I have the utmost respect for their integrity and courage.

#Meta #Facebook #Mastodon #fediverse #Politics #Vivaldi

https://gizmodo.com/meta-says-itll-tattle-to-trump-if-eu-keeps-being-mean-2000564638?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

🌞 Hello #fediverse -- this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 24F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

A Delta Airlines jet flipped on a Toronto runway. All 80 passengers survived.

#Massachusetts car mega-dealership Herb Chambers will sell to a Georgia company for $1.3 billion.

#NYC Mayor Eric Adams will face a federal judge on Wednesday; the judge will decide on whether or not to dismiss corruption charges against him.

🌞 Hello #fediverse -- this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 24F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

A Delta Airlines jet flipped on a Toronto runway. All 80 passengers survived.

#Massachusetts car mega-dealership Herb Chambers will sell to a Georgia company for $1.3 billion.

#NYC Mayor Eric Adams will face a federal judge on Wednesday; the judge will decide on whether or not to dismiss corruption charges against him.

Hi, I see that it's customary to make an #introduction post here. I go by jqubed, as in j cubed. I'm not exactly new to the fediverse but this is my start with a federated microblogging service. I've been active on #lemmy for a little over a year and would occasionally see blog posts by @[email protected] about the #fediverse and it was her post about Sharkey that pushed me to sign-up on a #sharkey instance. I'm a husband and stepdad, I like playing games (electronic and physical) and watching sports but don't have us much time for either as I'd like, and I'm hoping to start doing some #selfhosting this year. Last year, at age 40, I found out that I have #adhd and am still trying to find a medication that helps (the first did but I built a tolerance to it) so that probably makes that time question more challenging.

The Web front-end feature for GreatApe that @muhammadzaidali has been working lately — the ability to record calls / rooms —

Currently this is a local recording.

You start recording. And it records a video file on your own computer.

(Later we intend to make it so a user could record on the server, too.)

#DeSo #Fediverse #GoldGorilla #GreatApe #LogJam

An update for GreatApe — a conversations platform for the Fediverse, social-web, and DeSo.

I have been working on cleaning up the code for the part of GreatApe called "Logjam". LogJam is part of the GreatApe back-end.

. @muhammadzaidali has been working on the Web front-end code for GreateApe. He has been working on the ability to record calls / rooms.

. @benyamin0 has been working on another part of the GreatApe back-end called "GoldGorilla".

#DeSo #Fediverse #GoldGorilla #GreatApe #LogJam

A new release of TootSDK - 14.1.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/14.1.0

What's changed:

- Add missing MediaAttachment properties @dale_price

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

Big Tech threatening countries that want to regulate them in this way is just not OK.

We have as a company engaged with regulators over the years and I have the utmost respect for their integrity and courage.

#Meta #Facebook #Mastodon #fediverse #Politics #Vivaldi

https://gizmodo.com/meta-says-itll-tattle-to-trump-if-eu-keeps-being-mean-2000564638?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

8/

As it is now, I think the 'discoverable' flag is broken.

And, I think the whole user-experience (UX) around the 'discoverable' flag is poor.

And, I think Fediverse software treating a 'false' value for 'discoverable' as "not discoverable" (rather than "not discoverable" or "no choice made") has hugely negative consequences for the user-experience (UX) of the Fediverse

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

7/

So now I have to DM Ben to tell him that his 'discoverable' flag is set to false

He (just like everyone else I contacted) will likely not even be aware that the 'discoverable' flag exists

And (just like everyone else I contacted) wished it wasn't set to false

And then (just like everyone else I contacted) struggle to find where he can set it to true

And then set it

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

6/

As it is now, the 'discoverable' flag seems broken to me.

Because 'false' doesn't actually mean 'false'.

'false' (in practice) means both "not discoverable" and "no choice made". And this is a very unfortunate situation —

Because the idea of a 'discoverable' flag is a good idea — but this problem with the meaning of 'false' and the UX consequences a big deal.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

5/

JSON and has a 'null'. That could have been used for the 'discoverable' flag.

We could have had so that:

'discoverable' set to 'true' meant that the user explicitly chose to be discoverable.

'discoverable' set to 'false' meant that the user explicitly chose to not be discoverable.

And 'discoverable' set to 'null' meant that the user has not explicitly made a choice.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

4/

With other conceptions, this lack of choice — this lack of setting a value — isn't as muddled.

With optional-types (which are also called "option-types" and "maybe-types") when something isn't assigned a value it is represented as 'nothing' / 'none'.

In relation-databases, this is represented as 'null'.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

3/

As it is right now, the 'discoverable' flag does not communicate whether the user actually made a 'true' or 'false' choice.

If it is 'true' we know they made a choice.

But if it is 'false' it either means the user chose 'false' or the user didn't make a choice. BUT WE CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

2/

There are a HUGE number of people who (unknown to them) have their 'discoverable' flags set to 'false' who —

№2:

Do NOT know that they have a 'discoverable' flag —

And do NOT know that their 'discoverable' flag was automagically set to 'false' —

And do not understand the consequence of having their 'discoverable' flag set to false.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

1/

A problem with the 'discoverable' flag (in Mastodon and any other Fediverse software that added it) is —

There are a HUGE number of people who (unknown to them) have their 'discoverable' flags set to 'false' who —

№1:

Did NOT set their 'discoverable' to 'false' themselves.

Mastodon assigned it for them without ever asking them before hand and getting consent.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #Discoverable #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseUX #JSONLD #Mastodon #SocialWeb

【OSC出展のお知らせ】
『分散型SNSユーザー有志』として、2月21、22日に駒澤大学で開催されるオープンソースカンファレンスに出展します！
#Fediverse ロゴ（暫定）ステッカーや、 #pixelfed ロゴステッカーの配布、 #にゃんぷっぷー #blobcat ステッカーの配布 その他協力サーバーのアピールを行います！
有志ホームページ： https://fediverse.pcgf.io
カンファレンスホームページ： https://event.ospn.jp/osc2025-spring/

As of today, the public swiss technical university @epfl in Lausanne has its own Mastodon server – accessible to all members of the institution, including students (!), and directly linked to their institutional login system.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epfl-community-gets-a-mastodon-server/

A very warm welcome, EPFL, in the Fediverse, thank you for your efforts, and congratulations!

#openscicomm #scicomm #fediverse #edufedi

We also try our best, to make our toots also in english, but our beautiful dialect doesn't work so well with that. Think the text maybe in an hard accent with a very hard and throaty "K". For some #introduction :

We are "Schwarz Mander" and play "Alte Tiroler Brutalität". Roughly you can say, we play a mixture of #metal, #doom, #rock and #punk. Our lyrics are in tyrolian accent, the #music are played by bass and drums, and yodeling also can happen.
If you want to take a listen, our first concert is online to stream for free here:

https://cba.media/694330

We are glad to be here in the #fediverse and hope for a good time here.

Schwarz Mander

Grias enk, servus, hello, bonjour.

Wir sein Schwarz Mander, #neuhier, und spielen "Alte Tiroler Brutalität", jetzt auch im #Fediverse.

Man kannt jetzt drüber streiten, was des für a Genre isch, aber die Mischung aus #Metal, #Doom, #Rock und #Punk schon eher passend.
Gsungen wird im Tiroler Dialekt, gspielt mit Bass und Schlagzeug, gejodelt a manchmal.
Falls mal anhorchen wollts, unser erstes Live Konzert kann man gratis und ohne Anmeldung da streamen

https://cba.media/694330

Freien uns sakrisch auf Rückmeldung und a feine Zeit.

Schwarz Mander

PS: Weil wir nach außen lustig sein, ist es unsere Musik nicht.

#band #FediBands #music #Tyrol

A new release of TootSDK - 14.1.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/14.1.0

What's changed:

- Add missing MediaAttachment properties @dale_price

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

Some official accounts from news media have become available through #ThreadsNet. I find:

* @[email protected] (but prefer @[email protected] )
* @motherjonesmag
* @washingtoncitypaper
* @postopinions
* @[email protected] (also @[email protected] )
* @theagendatvo
* @newrepublic
* @slate
* @cnet
* @nymag
* @cultmtl
* @dailymail
* @axios
* @wgnnews

Please reply if you find something similar, and I'll update my list.

(Boosts welcome)

2024-09-16: Edited to split off government accounts.

#Threads #Fediverse

Bluesky introduces refined reply controls. This is a tough UI design as there are quite a few ways to combine restrictions. Easy to make it too complex and then no one uses it. This level of control is making its way into the fediverse as well.

Bonfire and GoToSocial both offer similar levels of reply controls.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lifogmqmy225

#Bluesky #Fediverse #Moderation

Found this site that lists fediverse emoji by instance, along with a collection of emoji packs you can install.

I knew some instances had a lot of emojis, but some have over 10,000?! Just as interesting, at the very bottom of this long list, are instances that have only 1 emoji. Why just one, and why that one? Inquiring minds want to know.

https://emotes.cc/toplist

#Fediverse #Emojis

Found this site that lists fediverse emoji by instance, along with a collection of emoji packs you can install.

I knew some instances had a lot of emojis, but some have over 10,000?! Just as interesting, at the very bottom of this long list, are instances that have only 1 emoji. Why just one, and why that one? Inquiring minds want to know.

https://emotes.cc/toplist

#Fediverse #Emojis

Anybody know if they plan on bringing back the Digital Ocean One-Click droplet for Mastodon? 🤔

As I understand it, it's controlled by the Mastodon team. It disappeared in the past month or two and I'm curious if it's gonna get re-added at some point.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #DigitalOcean

Found this site that lists fediverse emoji by instance, along with a collection of emoji packs you can install.

I knew some instances had a lot of emojis, but some have over 10,000?! Just as interesting, at the very bottom of this long list, are instances that have only 1 emoji. Why just one, and why that one? Inquiring minds want to know.

https://emotes.cc/toplist

#Fediverse #Emojis

I’ve made a cheat sheet for #bridging between the #Fediverse and #Bluesky using #BridgyFed.

As of today, the public swiss technical university @epfl in Lausanne has its own Mastodon server – accessible to all members of the institution, including students (!), and directly linked to their institutional login system.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epfl-community-gets-a-mastodon-server/

A very warm welcome, EPFL, in the Fediverse, thank you for your efforts, and congratulations!

#openscicomm #scicomm #fediverse #edufedi

The results of the poll — can a block-list be misused?

If you filter-out the "don't care" and "huh?" votes, then —

It is about —

• 5% to 6% NO, block-lists cannot be misused, versus

• 94% to 95%, YES, block-lists can be misused.

#DeSe #FediAdmin #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #SocialWeb

What do you think of the contents so far of my Book.

From just this brief look what do you think is missing, what do you think needs more than a page or so that is already has?

#Book #Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #BookWriting #WritingABook #Fedi #FediBook

As of today, the public swiss technical university @epfl in Lausanne has its own Mastodon server – accessible to all members of the institution, including students (!), and directly linked to their institutional login system.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epfl-community-gets-a-mastodon-server/

A very warm welcome, EPFL, in the Fediverse, thank you for your efforts, and congratulations!

#openscicomm #scicomm #fediverse #edufedi

As of today, the public swiss technical university @epfl in Lausanne has its own Mastodon server – accessible to all members of the institution, including students (!), and directly linked to their institutional login system.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epfl-community-gets-a-mastodon-server/

A very warm welcome, EPFL, in the Fediverse, thank you for your efforts, and congratulations!

#openscicomm #scicomm #fediverse #edufedi

As of today, the public swiss technical university @epfl in Lausanne has its own Mastodon server – accessible to all members of the institution, including students (!), and directly linked to their institutional login system.

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epfl-community-gets-a-mastodon-server/

A very warm welcome, EPFL, in the Fediverse, thank you for your efforts, and congratulations!

#openscicomm #scicomm #fediverse #edufedi

As #mastodon / #fediverse grows, how do we make sure that we're not spreading dis-/mis-information #onHere?

Comments on Mastodon don't federate as easily along the post itself. I find myself opening the original post in a browser more and more to see all the comments collected and if anyone is challenging the veracity of some news.

Is anyone doing any work in that sense? And I don't mean moderation. I'd be thinking of what other social networks call "fact checking".

#AskFedi

What do you think of the contents so far of my Book.

From just this brief look what do you think is missing, what do you think needs more than a page or so that is already has?

#Book #Fediverse #FediverseBook #Writing #BookWriting #WritingABook #Fedi #FediBook

CHECK OUT MY NEWEST POST: The Social Network That Can’t Sell Out: Understanding #Mastodon vs. #Bluesky

Mastodon’s #decentralized network vs Bluesky’s venture-backed. Can we break free from the profit-driven cycle that has degraded every major social platform? #oc #fediverse #commercial #NonProfit

https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.

Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?

Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻

#MastoAdmin

Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.

Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?

Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻

#MastoAdmin

Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.

Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?

Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻

#MastoAdmin

1/

I can tell you from experience of hosting many people's Fediverse server instances for a number of years now that —

Many Fediverse software (at least currently) do a poor job of cleaning-up their various caches

Caching other people's profiles, images, posts, etc

And, this often ends up filling up the storage drive

And as a result, this is a very common thing that causes down-time for people. Probably the most common

#DeSo #FediAdmin #FediCache #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #SpaceHostBTS

Adding meaningful alt-text is not only important for everyone using a screenreader and an essential #inclusion and #accessibility requirement. Alt-text is also searchable and used by filters. People who prefer to filter certain people and topics for mental health and other reasons can't filter memes or images without it. Please use alt-text and cw generously 🙏

Added bonus: with added alt-text you can find images in your own posts with "from:me" and people are more likely to boost your posts.

#screenreader #fediverse #Mastodon

Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.

Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?

Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻

#MastoAdmin

goldschmiedin aus bremen hat mir einen kleinen fediverse anhänger geschmiedet (https://www.jacquepodsigun.de/schmuckshop). sie nimmt gerne weitere aufträge an/

#asterism #fediverse #handwerk #schmuck #bremen

goldschmiedin aus bremen hat mir einen kleinen fediverse anhänger geschmiedet (https://www.jacquepodsigun.de/schmuckshop). sie nimmt gerne weitere aufträge an/

#asterism #fediverse #handwerk #schmuck #bremen

does a preview object have to have it's own unique ID: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-preview ???

/cc @evan @trwnh @johnonolan

#followerpower #activitypub #fediverse

Need a list of welcoming #fediverse #servers that are not based on US soil. If anyone has that. Thinking it might be important moving forward.

Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.

Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?

Thanks in advance. 🙏🏻

#MastoAdmin

With the enshittification of Apple Maps, I think there is another opportunity in the Fediverse to build something great.

Is anyone working on something like this based on OSM and the Fediverse? Recently, Foursquare released their location data, which could be a great kick-off.

I would love to contribute.
#applemaps #osm #googlemaps #fediverse #foursquare