Playing around with GotoSocial on a VPS. Love the idea of a simple, self hosted, low resource entryway into the ActivityPub Fediverse.

https://gotosocial.org/

#fediverse #selfhosted

I don't want to take anything away from Jay Graber. She is an effective leader that has steered her company to massive growth,

But I feel like she needs to work on her elevator pitch for what it means for a system to be "decentralized". Note: no one says the word "federated" in this interview.

Of course, it would be nice if #bluesky was *actually* decentralized. Maybe that is why she struggles with the question?

https://youtu.be/Xa-EvA95Eqw?si=lscEM-YWb6XCFa_6

#fediverse #federation

"Decentralised social media is more than just a technical shift; it's a step toward restoring autonomy and trust in our digital lives, empowering individuals and communities to connect without compromising their values or privacy."

A study by the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford finds that decentralised social media leads to citizen empowerment.

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/decentralised-social-media-increases-citizen-empowerment

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Decentralised #Decentralized #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #X #Empowerment

Hi @_elena, I came across your interesting account yesterday! I'm really impressed by your #fediverse ideas and "powers". I read your post yesterday about system federation, and it got me wondering: is it possible to use a #mastodon account to join other social networks? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Leftists and anarchists of the #Fediverse, If you had to recommend only one #book to push a centrist right down the pipeline, which one would it be?

(Not a centrist myself, but was curious)

Edit to clarify: a book that would serve to attract a centrist to our side 😉

We take the current #eXit towards #Bluesky as an occasion to once again highlight our focus on the #Fediverse:

https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/bluesky-university-of-innsbruck-relies-on-mastodon/

The posts here are mirrored on Bluesky via https://fed.brid.gy

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩‍🚀

“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/

I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle

Niin, oispa tällainen palvelu päätetty perustaa 🤭

#Mastodon #MastodonFi #Some #SomeFi #SosiaalinenMedia #FediverseFi #Fediverse #MementoMoriSocialFi

I just tried out #loops ... And it's working surprisingly well and stable for me.

I thinking about making #gamedev mini vlogs and tutorials for this format. I hope federation starts soon so that the whole #fediverse can access the content there.

What are your thoughts about this?

Aujourd'hui, ça fait donc 2 ans que je me suis installée sur le #fediverse ! 🎉

J'y ai rencontré des gens formidables, dont certains sont devenus des amis IRL.
Même si les réseaux sont avant tout un outil de travail pour moi, je viens ici avec joie pour discuter de tout et de rien.
Merci à Piaille.fr de m'avoir accueillie et à vous tous.tes pour nos discussions ❤️

C'est reparti pour une nouvelle année !

#fediversaire #Mastodon

I found this nice install guide for #snac written by @eltheanine and wanted to share.

https://the.teabag.ninja/snac-installation.html

#fediverse #selfhosted

#Mastodon sees a boost from the ‘#X exodus,’ too, founder says

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/mastodon-sees-a-boost-from-the-x-exodus-too-founder-says/

#Twitter #privacy #FOSS #decentralization #fediverse

A poll: how do you feel about the general idea of starter packs (or some equivalent) on fedi? (1/7)

Bluesky's "starter packs" make it easy to follow a bunch of accounts all at once. Anybody can create one or more starter packs, and they're used for a lot of different things; the Blacksky starter pack, for example, is great for newcomers from Black Twitter, and Newsmast's FediSky starter pack is helpful for finding folks you might know from the fedivere.

But Bluesky's implementation has some major problems: people can be added to starter packs without their consent, aren't even notified when it happens, and it's not obvious how to opt out. And any mechanism like this potentially creates "rich get richer" dyanamics and risks magnifying existing biases -- guys tend to mostly add guys to starter packs, white people tend to mostly add white people to starter packs, etc. Still, despite the problems, they're very helpful for onboarding.

I've had discussions with multiple people working on ideas for fediverse starter packs or the equivalents, and similar questions keep cropping up. So I figured I'd do a series of polls to get feedback on what people think.

To start with, the basic question, how do you feel about the general idea of starter packs (or some equivalent) on fedi?

the Mastodon iOS app cuts off long text in the polls, so I'm including it here as well

• No, Bad idea for fedi, don't do it

• Maybe, depending on how it's implemented

• Yes, this is important functionality - get something out now, we can fix it later!

• Not sure

EDIT: untagged newsmast. Sorry about that!

#fediverse #bluesky #starterPacks

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 93

This week's news
- With Bluesky the main topic of conversations, people are experimenting with Starter Packs on the fediverse as well
- @subclub can now turn any RSS feed into a paywalled #activitypub newsfeed
- Pixelfed will not pursue an #atproto integration following negative feedback from the community

Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-93/

What is Channel.org?

Channel.org is our new membership service designed to help organisations join New Social - open networks of interconnected platforms where orgs can own their space.

We know that this space aligns with many for-good orgs morally, now we need to show them that the people here can support their mission just as well as on any Big Tech platform.

If you want to know more, please check out the website or get in touch!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

https://loops.video has 10K+ users 🥳 🚀

#loops #fediverse #tikTok

そういう #Fediverse のよいところ、 にいない人にはなかなか理解されづらいところもあるけど、他の場所から人が増えることよりも、いまここにいる僕たちで、ここをよりいいかんじのやさしい・たのしい場所にしましょう！みたいな気持ちも強いので、スパム報告とかは見つけ次第やっていく

ちょっと追記、
この観点でいうと、自分から見ると #BlueSky は結局「#BlueSky へおいでよ」にしか見えないんだよな…

その点、 #Mastodon は 「 においでよ」とは言ってない。
あ、いや、言ってるかもしれないけど、それだけじゃない。
別に じゃなくてもいい、#Misskey でも #Pixelfed でも #Threads が #ActivityPub に完全対応すれば #Threads だっていい。

「#X から #BlueSky に大移動！これからは #BlueSky の時代！」とか「いまこそ #Threads でインフルエンサーになっておくべき！」みたいな「どこの #SocialMedia にいくべき」みたいな語り口をみると、たとえるなら「いつまでメールのプロバイダーはどこがいい、みたいな話するつもりなのか。全部メールなんだからメールでいいじゃん。」みたいな気持ちになる…

この「メール」という上位の言葉にあたるのが #Fediverse なのであって、いまは便宜上それに対応しているサービスとしてないサービスがあるから #Fediverse って呼んでるだけで、つまりは汎用的な相互に連携できる #SocialMedia のことだし、しかもその仕様は ちゃんと #W3C で #ActivityPub という形で標準化もされてるわけで、さらに実際にそれで連携したいろんなサービスやソフトウェアが存在している（#BlueSky の #ATProtocol とはちがって）んだから、これからはそういう「標準化されたソーシャルメディア」の時代にしようぜ！という気持ちのほうが強い。

全然追記がちょっとじゃなかった…

やっぱり「#X から引っ越す」ということになると #BlueSky が選ばれやすいんだろうなー

分散型といいつつ実際には 1 つのサーバーに集中してるし、そうなってることで #X から引っ越してくるユーザーにとっては分散型がどうとかプロトコルがどうとかそういう #Twitter 時代にはなかった概念を覚える必要もなく使えるし、なおかつ UI も #Twitter にかなり寄せてある。

リアルな引っ越しでも、言葉とか習慣が違う慣れない土地より、土地勘のある場所のほうが気楽だろうし。
#BlueSky にいまひとが増えてるというのもまた「人が多いところにだったら行ってもいい」みたいな、誰もが持ってる「群にはついていきたい」という気持ちが背中を押すところもあるんだろうな…

そう考えると、自分は #Fediverse という夢をみているのかもしれない。その夢を重ねてこの場所を見ているから素敵な場所に見えているのかもしれない。
でも #Fediverse は夢としてはなかなか悪くない夢だし、実際のところ現実に今存在する というこの場所は、なかなか良い場所なんだよ、少なくとも自分にとっては。

たとえ人が集まらなくたっていい、なぜなら #ActivityPub でほかのサーバーとも繋がれるんだから！というのは、なんというか、すごく肩の荷が降りる世界観なんだよな…
もう、どの #SocialMedia に登録してる・してないということを気にしなくていいんだ… みたいな気持ちになるんだよ。

それこそ、#X にいこうが #BlueSky にいこうが #Threads にいこうが、それぞれにいるアカウントはどこからでもフォローできるんだ、という世界観。
分散型がどうとかプロトコルがどうとか、本当は自分もそういう話をしたいわけじゃなくて（そもそも自分もそんなに詳しくないし）、そういう #SocialMedia 同士の壁が無くなる世界観の話がしたいんだよな、きっと。

#Threads はやっぱりはやく #Fediverse に完全対応してもらいたいなー（計画ではいつころなんだっけ…？

Choose Your Fighter: Microblogging Edition

#Threads
❌ Algorithm-first, making it more difficult to be discovered
❌ AI-powered moderation with little transparency or accountability

#Bluesky
❌ Owned by VCs and crypto bros with no clear revenue plan
❌ One investor away from becoming Twitter 2.0

#Mastodon
✅ Community-owned and billionaire-proof
✅ No ads, no tracking, no algorithms

#SocialMedia can actually be yours again. Choose freedom and #privacy. Choose the #Fediverse 🌍✨

#xodus #bsky #deso

みんな、そのうち #BlueSky に飽きたら #Fediverse においでよ、という気持ちでここにいる

#Bridgy, the bridge to #Bluesky, has reached 60k users and become one of the largest instances in the #Fediverse. It's definitely not easy to run now, and new users seem to be on hold.
I suppose the safest way to interact with Fediverse users is to be in the Fediverse.

If the top 10% posting on #Threads and #Bluesky federate/bridge, you can basically get all the content on #Mastodon & #Fediverse.

Maybe with a certain follower number you could get bridged auomatically, @snarfed.org? Could be a middle ground between all opt-in vs. all opt-out?

We need citizen-powered social media to break the incentives to ignore poor moderation which ignores our concerns, and to be able to tackle hate-based networks.

Continuing to depend on monopoly capitalism to bring this change simply cannot work.

#fediverse

There are challenges to the federated model.

This includes an increase in bubbles that can foster hate, where platforms are self-selecting and exclusionary of marginalised communities who are underrepresented in the tech world.

But hate-based networks thrive best when they can infiltrate and attack wider society that they seek to undermine.

Hate-based networks are hard to protect against, but depend on poorly-moderated, big tech platforms to spread their bile.

#fediverse

The fediverse is threatened by onerous legislation, such as the Online Safety Act that’s forged in the idea of monopoly owned social media platforms.

Competition to engage consumer choice needs to be strengthened instead.

#fediverse

Open Source technologies let everyone participate and bring social media to their own communities.

Governments, real communities and organisations can control their own publication and data.

#fediverse

Open standards for social media gives the potential to promote better standards of moderation.

Third parties are able to repurpose, filter and represent content in ways that users want according to community principles of engagement.

Open standards mean third-party developers can experiment to build new tools, apps, platforms and feeds that can connect to an interoperable network.

Consumer choice is given meaning, where the platform sets the floor and users raise the ceiling.

#fediverse

Where we have digital land barons, they can algorithmically dictate the terms of debate.

Interoperability means we can choose differently without losing access, forcing providers to think differently with the interests of its users in mind.

#fediverse

A decentralised model of social media gives us, the consumer-citizen, the right to leave.

This portability of our account fights against the network effects of users congealing around one provider that can begin to act with impunity.

#fediverse

Without competition, there’s no consumer choice and therefore voice.

The disincentive to leaving a platform is losing your investment in networks.

Interoperability lets you migrate your account between platforms without losing followers.

#fediverse

With water companies, there's capitalism in theory through privatisation, but no choice over provider.

The sewage crisis is a fitting parallel to social media. Owners have a captive consumer base, so there’s little incentive to improve the service.

#fediverse

We value the ability to switch providers in services like utilities.

Much has been done to ease the barriers in the name of consumer protection and to drive up quality through competition.

But monopolies pervert this model.

#fediverse

Federated social media offers competition and choice.

As with email or mobile phones, your account should be able to work across any provider regardless of the network.

This is interoperability and it’s key to improving standards.

#fediverse

In the current walled garden model of social media, users are locked-in to a particular platform.

People can't move accounts without losing networks they've developed.

Under tech oligarchs, users have no influence over how content is prioritised or the platform's algorithms.

#fediverse

Is it time to leave that toxic X? Or are we flogging a dead bird?

Musk's abuse of personal power and Twitter's increasing unpleasantness has pushed many to fly the nest.

But what next? We need federated social media where users can move freely between platforms.

Read our latest blog by @jim 🧵

#Musk #Twitter #X #socialmedia #Bluesky #fediverse

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-twitter-xodus-time-to-stay-or-time-to-go/

We’ve been talking with @eff to highlight the Fediverse's need for legal support - and EFF has offered to review requests for assistance for service providers. We really appreciate them stepping up in this area, and all the work they do.

#Fediverse

#TIL, through @thisismissem (thank you for your dev contributions to Mastodon, to our moderation and trust & safety tooling!! 🙏
Edit: if you’d like to support her work,
link at bottom) about this dashboard:

https://fedidb.org/

“Fediverse Network Statistics”

PS
@pixelfed is the 5th most-used Fediverse software, rock on @dansup thank you as well!

Support Em:
https://support.thisismissem.social/

#fediverse #Mastodon #pixelfed

@mekkaokereke @stooovie @Remittancegirl

While #Mastodon is the giant of the #Fediverse , I am curious if any of the other projects have made better strides with onboarding, moderation, UX and so forth.

How is #Friendica on these issues? Or #Misskey ? Ideally we should have a number of _different_ #ActivityPub -based systems which all compete to make their user experiences better. I mean, isn't tying ourselves too closely to any single platform how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place?

It's time #Mastodon supported multiple domain names per instance, allowing the users to use their own domain name for identity.

The issue has been open for 7+ years now: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

I'm still against quote posts on the Fediverse.

I have never seen a quote post that would not have been better as a reply, where original author can be included in the discussion.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Quote #Quotes

Es läuft ja derzeit eine Umstiegswelle von #Xitter zu #BlueSky. (Warumauchimmer, wenn es doch das #Fediverse gibt).

Ihr könnt mit den Accounts interagieren, wenn diese bei BlueSky @ap.brid.gy folgen. Siehe https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started
Falls diese das nicht tun, sprecht sie doch an.

Am Tag, an dem der #BGH sein Grundsatzurteil zum Schadenersatz, nach dem millionenfachen Datendiebstahl bei Facebook spricht, erklaere ich, warum ich #Threads & #Facebook verlasse 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/warum-ich-facebook-threads-verlasse/

Ein diplomatischer Rant und eine Ode an freie Protokolle und das #fediverse die so wichtig fuer die Zukunft des Webs sind. Inkl. "Fedi-Box"-Vision 😎

Freue mich ueber eure Boosts, Reposts und das Feedback von euch....

Vielen Dank fuer den Support meiner Arbeit 🙏

I’m curious about a couple of things and answers to this question will surely provide insights. What is decentralisation as defined by a social protocol and social network(s)? #fediverse #ActivityPub #Socialweb #Mastodon #Askfedi

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

I was featured in the latest issue of Ctrl-ZINE! I wrote a piece about the fediverse and why I believe it can be a sustainable model for the future of social media.

Check it out here: https://ctrl-c.club/~/loghead/zine/Ctrl-ZINE.issue.17.pdf

#writing #writingcommunity #fediverse #mastodon #zine #zines #ctrlzine #socialmedia

Alright, here's a proof of concept: A starter pack of bridged fediverse accounts you can follow on Bluesky.

https://go.bsky.app/C6UaMCs

Seems to be working?

I don't really intend to keep this updated, but feel free to borrow the idea!

#bluesky #fediverse #StarterPack

Can a few people share their bridged usernames to try this out?

You can follow @bsky.brid.gy to get started.

(Unless your server's admin blocked the bridge.)

#bluesky #fediverse #StarterPack

We’re getting it wrong when we tell folks that #Mastodon is just like “Old #Twitter”. If you want that, that’s #Bluesky. Mastodon is a different kind of place.

This is a more intimate community that discourages “influencing” because there’s no profit motive for eyeballs. The microblogging approach may look similar to Twitter but the way the communities form and conversations evolve is fundamentally different.

It’s no uptopia; we’ve got a shitload of work to do to make it safer.

#Fediverse

Asking for my better half: At the end of 2024 what are your recommended/proven #POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) setups for people who aren't super technical (but would have help setting it up) and want to publish photos, short videos and the occasional blog post/essay? #OpenSource #FOSS solutions preferred, but also happy to consider commerical solutions and would need integration with IG/BSky, but also #Fediverse...

I have the perfect domain in reserve for ActivityPub Starter Kits:

activitypub.social

Help me pick a subdomain!

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse

Sending this out to #Bluesky from #Mastodon.

I hope this of you on Bluesky would consider following https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy over there so that your posts are bridged over to the #Fediverse so we can interact with each other without changing platforms.

I don't want to duplicate efforts with other Starter Pack/Starter Kit projects, so if you are building one for the fediverse, we should chat!

I'd love more help, and plan to release the source code under the established Pixelfed banner!

#starterKits #fediverse #activityPub

ActivityPub Starter Kits update:

I'm making exceptional progress and am wrapping up a few things before I prepare to launch this exciting new service!

ICYMI: I'm building an open source/self-hostable Starter Kit service that will allow fediverse users to safely build kits and share/use them with ease.

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse #onboarding

Just a reminder: everything you do on social media is public. Even if you delete a post on your instance, it can still exist on other instances, in the cache of search engines or private databases.

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #decentralisation

Discord 落ちてるらしいので #Fediverse で逢いましょう

Update: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113497558334297218

ActivityPub Starter Kits will go live later tonight in beta, some other highlights:

- Safety first (Opt-in + Notify + Self-rem)
- Open source + self-hostable
- Compatible with several projects, and will accept PRs for other projects
- Is a temporary measure until Starter Kits are implemented in the core of fediverse projects.

Expect an update in the next hour or so 😎

#starterKits #fediverse

How I instruct people to join Mastodon. First I don’t mention instance anything ! Secondly i provide them a link. Either Mstdn.social or my instance if they like gaming … tell them to follow the prompts to sign up. Give them a few suggestions to follow. And boom they are generally hooked ! Once they are familiar I mention instances I mention federated vs local. Once they’re comfortable they seem to grasp it way better.
#mastodon #fediverse #howto

AcitivityPub isn't the only protocol used by the Fediverse.

NodeInfo is another protocol that makes up the suite of protocols that the Fediverse is based on.

https://github.com/jhass/nodeinfo/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md

NodeInfo is used to discover various information about the server node.

Such as:

• the software it is running (ex: Mastodon, PIxelfed, etc)
• the server node's total number of users,
• the number of posts on the server node,
• the number of active users,
• etc.

#Fediverse #NodeInfo

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko @Gargron comments on the growth of this #Fediverse platform in a clear sign that it is also benefiting from the “eXodus”

Mastodon does not depend on venture capital to survive...

https://www.blogpocket.com/en/fedipost/mastodon-does-not-depend-on-venture-capital-to-survive/

#Moderator Issues.

New #report comes in.

No description.

Posts are all part of a thread criticizing the Mainstream Media, with focus on slanted reporting of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Nothing advocating any violence, nothing racist, nothing that seems like blatant misinformation.

No description.

Report was from another server so can't ask for one.

Forced to move on because there's no information about what is being reported.

Perhaps some ability to send internal messages in response to #reports, regardless of server, should be added to #ActivityPub? I know I've seen people talk about adding the ability to share moderator notes, and it would really help with moderation between servers on the #fediverse to be able to ask these questions and see what other #moderators are thinking...

Honestly baffled

#fediverse #twitter #bluesky

In the early days of the Web, research institutions and Universities were some of the first to join.

Has your research institute or University joined the Fediverse as yet? How about suggesting to do so? Maybe set up a server yourself, with their permission? We can all contribute to building the Fediverse. This is the best way to build a true social web.

#fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #Facebook #BlueSky #Threads #university #Research

🦋 Maybe Bluesky has “won” - Gavin Anderegg

"I’ve seen folks mention that it’s either federated or decentralized. I’m here to tell you that it’s currently neither. This one really irks me because the service is getting the credit for work it hasn’t done"

https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

#blusky #fediverse #atprotocol

フォローしてる #CatsOfMastodon タグからたくさんの猫ちゃん🐈🐈‍⬛🐱 画像が流れてくるー

#Caturday ということも影響しているのかな
#Fediverse の人々、猫好きだよな…（俺も好きなので癒し

@sublimer あ、やっぱり #Mastodon 独自の機能なんですね〜 💦
おっしゃる通り、より汎用的な仕様として、例えば #Fediverse #ActivityPub 側で同様の機能を取りこんでもらうとか、そもそも使う人が増えてくれると良いですよね

Bluesky (and the other alternative decentralized social-media networks: Farcaster, Lens, Matrix, Nostr) are not our rivals — they are our friends.

And, keep in mind that software that is considered Fediverse software (ex: Mastodon) has already changed protocols in the past.

We shouldn't get attached to any particular protocol.

The means we are seeking is — to decentralized social-media and to federate with each other. Not any specific protocol.

#atmosphere #fediverse #bluesky #pixelfed

Should @pixelfed explore adding native support for Bluesky/AtProto?

Feedback wanted!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/5348

#pixelfed #bluesky #fediverse

Here's a few things you can expect when there's a #Fediverse outage:

- oh wait, there's no such thing, the Fediverse is actually federated
- there are over 30k totally independent servers
- if one of them goes down the rest of the Fediverse works just fine

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3lawdqryaws2q

#Bluesky #BlueskyOutage #ATProto #ActivityPub #federation

実際のところ、日本での SNS マーケティングという文脈で #Fediverse とか #ActivityPub が話題に上がることなんてほぼないんだろうな…

というか、自分にとっては #Fediverse が眩しすぎて、#BlueSky とか霞んでよく見えない、みたいな感じかもなー

#BlueSky の界隈の盛り上がりはよく知らないけど、#Fediverse は #ActivityPub がすでに標準技術としてあって複数のソフトウェアとそれを使ったサーバーが建っている（実際に分散運用されている）というだけじゃなく、最近は

* いろんなクライアントがある（#PhanpySocial 推し
* #Flipboard みたいなメディアも #Fediverse に積極的にコミットしてる
* 企業がサーバー立てる例もふえつつある（一方で #Mozilla とかは閉じちゃったりもしてるけど）
* テック系のアカウント（特に英語圏）は結構いる
* 推しの #Vivaldi もサーバー建ててる

みたいに、#Mastodon の中の人だけじゃなく、いろんな人や企業が参加・コミットし始めてて、そこに広告的メリット以上の何か（そもそも #Fediverse は広告的なメリットは既存の SocialMedia に比べれば大きくない）意義を見出して関わっている感じがあって、そこに自分の理想みたいなものを重ねて応援している部分もあるので、あんまり他の場所に興味を持ててない。

そういう意味では全然フラットじゃなくて#Fediverse 贔屓な意見だし、そういう自覚もある。
それくらいには を応援していますという宣言を、ここに置いておこう…（そっ

@Sarahp next: How to join the #Fediverse, the network that will take on them all eventually 😘

Get Future Proof Now
Fresh. Free. Fun.

For the #Newhere and Welcome in the #Fediverse!

The best #Mastodon Apps for #iOS
https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/05/here-are-the-best-mastodon-apps-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac/

The best Mastodon Apps for #Android
https://www.androidpolice.com/best-mastodon-apps/

Wird Robert #Habeck am Ende der -#BDK24 einen Account im #Fediverse besitzen?

We may not be the biggest by numbers yet, but Mastodon (and the fediverse) has proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. The #fediverse is the future.

Recommendations for accessible fediverse software?

I'm working on a blog post for people thinking of joining the fediverse and want to include this information!

Here's what I think I know so far (although might be wrong) ... other suggestions welcome

Mastodon's web UI is pretty good from accessibility perspective, but has some issues.

Pinafore used to be the most accessible web UI but isn't maintained anymore. Semaphpore is a fork doesn't seem to have had any updates in the last year, so I'm not sure of its status. Enafore is another fork but it's described as "somewhat unstable".

I haven't seen anything about what Mastodon mobile apps are better or worse from an accessibility perspective.

For Lemmy, OurBlind says that moderators have and continue to work with the developers to improve accessibility; Thunder, a Lemmy app for iOS and Android, performs well; and Mlem developers are implementing native accessibiity.

#accessibility #a11y #fediverse

A new release of TootSDK - 12.0.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/12.0.0

What's changed:

- [BREAKING] Add support for Xcode 16, it is no longer possible to run tests on Xcode 15 @konstantin
- Attributed string renderer @luckkerr
- Pleroma fixes @luckkerr

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

It is so funny that people consider Bluesky decentralized. Yes, in theory it could be, but no, it is not decentralized now at all since most users are on the same server. Let's call it what it is, Bluesky is just a Twitter clone with some optional decentralized sparkles on top of it.

Why would anyone go back to what we all ran away from?

#Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-15

Servers

- Pixelfed v0.12.4
- snac v2.63
- Lemmy v0.19.7
- Ktistec v2.4.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.2.0
- PieFed development update Oct/Nov 2024
- Trunk & Tidbits, October 2024
- ActivityBot: A Simple ActivityPub Bot Server in a Single PHP File
- Letterbook: Sustainable federated social media built for open correspondence

Clients

- toot v0.47.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.9.0
- Mangane v1.13.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.1.0
- Voyager v2.19.0

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.5

For developers

- Fedify v1.2.5
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.6.0

Protocol

- FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model

Articles

- A bare-minimum ActivityPub server from scratch
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 92

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01930d04-d0b2-a2a2-9b84-90a91046a329

Feeling abstract and zen today after some turmoil yesterday. Enjoy your Friday!

"Lotus Zen - Balance in All Things" - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/lotus-zen-balance-in-all-things-peggy-collins.html

#abstract #abstractart #peace #zen #tranquility #art #arte #friday #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #buyintoart #ayearforart #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #canadian #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

This is a powerful statement from UK journalists and we agree.

X is no longer neutral and no longer a home for journalists.

We are ready to support any and all journalists who make the move to open social networks, now and in the New Social future.

Please, feel free to send journalists or publications our way if they have any questions. Or, if you're a journalist yourself, feel free to reach out.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dFfEZ8xl8GZChTl17FAoOghAQs-PFEaAyGH1y_vGk6E/edit?tab=t.0

#SocialMedia #X #Journalism #News #OpenSocial #Mastodon #Fediverse

今日は Vivaldi Social は誕生日！ 🎉
私たちが Mastodon を始めて、もう丸２年が経ちました。

私たちはいつも、みんなのウェブ体験をもっと楽しくするために色々取り組んでいます。Vivaldi Social はその一部として、とってもいい感じに役立っていると信じています！

２周年を迎えて、私たちが望むのはたった一つ。もっと多くの人に Fediverse の魅力を知ってもらうこと！賢くて、面白くて、心温まる場である Vivaldi Social、ぜひお友達にも 紹介してみてくださいね！

これからもたくさんの楽しい時間を一緒に作っていきましょう

チーム Vivaldi

#vivaldi #VivaldiSocial #Birthday #Mastodon #fediverse

I should probably get in touch with the #PeerTube developers

It would be cool to support following PeerTube accounts in Loops and seeing their videos in your Following feed.

#activitypub #fediverse #loops

Microblogging social media before:

- Twitter

Microblogging social media today:

- Threads
- Bluesky
- Mastodon
- Nostr

The SOCIAL WEB in the future (I want to believe):

- It doesn't matter, they all connect to each other, use whatever service you prefer.

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #ActivityPub #Bluesky #Nostr #Mastodon #Threads

I'm really proud of the ecosystem I'm building around @pixelfed

We have some really innovative features that are unique to our platform, and are powered by microservices like:

https://api.fedidb.org
https://beagle.pixelfed.net
https://fdroid.pixelfed.net
https://push.pixelfed.net
https://recovery.pixelfed.org
https://versions.pixelfed.org

With @loops and @supapp on the horizon, you can expect a few more 😎

I really need to blog about this, because I'm having a blast 🚀

#loops #pixelfed #sup #fediverse

I've just shared my story on why I've left other social media for the Fediverse at the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/tell-us-have-you-migrated-between-social-media-platforms-recently

Perhaps more people could tell them about this place? Maybe some of it will be published allowing more people to discover the Fediverse.

#TheGuardian #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech #TechPolicy #Internet #Media #Journalism

Welche #Fediverse-kompatible Blog-Lösung würdet ihr derzeit empfehlen?
(#Wordpress ist raus, nachdem der Chef am Zeiger dreht.)

Sie sollte low-maintenance sein und einfach zu bedienen.
Ich liebäugle mit #Friendica.

Empfehlungen/Meinungen willkommen!

Israel is bombing areas near Beirut’s International Airport as planes filled with civilians prepare to take off. Imagine the global outcry if a similar scene were happening in Ukraine. But since it's happening in Lebanon, hardly anyone notices.

#lebanon #israel #FuckIsrael #Palestine #usa #uk #europe #genocide #fediverse #ukraine #russia

ここは #VivaldiSocial であり #Mastodon であり #Fediverse だということがとても居心地よい。
ありがとう #Vivaldi

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

203 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@paris_luttes (FRA)
@linuxnews (GER)
@macstories (ENG)
@universalhub (ENG)
@technews24h (ENG)

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

Has anyone made a good, reliable "log in with your fediverse account" library/service, ideally for node.js, yet?

#fediverse #oauth #nodejs #opensource

Před pár dny jsem tu sdílel info, že botník press.coop končí a že se jeho boti stěhují na Flipboard.com.

Dneska jsem se tomu trochu věnoval a ukončil 2 boty, ale hlavně...

Na Flipboard.com aktuálně běží reálně několik stovek velmi zajímavých informačních zdrojů, počínaje ofiko @NationalGeographic a konče třeba @BBCNews.

Když si do Explore zadám Flipboard.com a nechám zobrazit všechny výsledky, je jich opravdu moooc a jsou hodně zajímavé, tak to zkuste.

#fediverse #tip_mastodon

Set your domain name as your handle for a BlueSky bot which is bridged from the Fediverse

If you've found this page, it's because you are me in the future and want to remember these instructions!

0. Create an account on the Fediverse using a domain you control
   • For example @[email protected]
1. Follow the Fediverse-ATProto bridge @[email protected]
   • Your account will need to be over 2 weeks old and have a name, profile picture, etc.
2. You now have an account on BSky! Its name will be something like user.bots.example.com.ap.brid.gy
3. Get the DID of your account
   • https://public.api.bsky.app/xrpc/app.bsky.actor.getProfile?actor=user.bots.example.com.ap.brid.gy
   • Or https://fed.brid.gy/ap/@[email protected]
4. Add the DID to your domain
   • I think the easiest way is sticking it in a plain text file at bots.example.com/.well-known/atproto-did
5. Use the BSky Debugger to make sure it was successful.
6. Send a Direct Message from the Fediverse to @[email protected]. The message must only contain username bots.example.com.
   • That's literally the word username. It isn't your account's username.
7. Wait a few moments.
8. Your bot will now be on BSky as https://bsky.app/profile/bots.example.com!

You can see that https://bot.viii.fi/bot is also available at https://bsky.app/profile/bot.viii.fi

#BlueSky #bot #fediverse #mastodon

We're helping important organisations move away from Big Tech platforms and towards open New Social platforms - like Mastodon!

But, we can't do it alone. We'd love to hear which organisations you think should make the move and why, so we can show them that there is a community waiting here for them.

Better yet, if you have a connection to an important organisation, we'd love to be introduced!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Help #SocialMedia #Tech #X #Twitter #Charity #Government #News #Academia

You want to promote #Mastodon / the #Fediverse? The Guardian searches opinions for a feature: "have you migrated between social media platforms recently? We would like to hear from people who have recently switched social media platforms about their reasons why." https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/tell-us-have-you-migrated-between-social-media-platforms-recently (*everything* is explained in the link, also the possibility to use SecureDrop).

#SocialMedia #Newcomers

So, when #Bluesky get's its first big problem and subsequent exodus, will #Mastodon be ready and have #StarterPacks by then? Because, they are really a gamechanger in #onboarding and when migrating en masse.

@Gargron @renchap

#SocialMedia #MastodonMigration #TwitterMigration #Threads #Fediverse

#fediverse question: Is there a Fediverse instance, which facilitates creating an account that will just toot all new entries from a website, an atom/rss feed, a newsletter etc. ?
I’m imagining just entering a URL and a regular expression and the rest is done by the server…

People of the Fediverse, is there a way to export your filters?

#Fediverse #Filters #Sanity

The IFTAS Connect Community successfully mitigated a wide-ranging attack on the network by tracking impacted servers and conducting personal outreach to nearly a hundred servers, in English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French and German!

We have an after-action report on the web site: https://about.iftas.org/2024/10/21/coordinated-community-response-mitigates-fediverse-spam-attack/ .

#Spam #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb
https://about.iftas.org/2024/10/21/coordinated-community-response-mitigates-fediverse-spam-attack/

How are you feeling today?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

Comment below and let's discuss why you're feeling the way you are, assuming you wish to discuss it.

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD

@simondassow The folk over at @SocialCoop run their Mastodon instance as a cooperative and they conveniently have a wiki that describes exactly how they operate.

https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Main_Page

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #Cooperative #SocialCoop

Running #fediverse software as a #collective seems like a nice way to build communities on a strong legal ground. Any plans, blueprints, or concepts out there on how to go about it already?
Asking for a (lot of) friend(s) 😉

#AskFedi

👏 About time! I hope they are the first of many responsible media companies to move away from X.

I don't see links to any social media on their website. If anyone has influence with the Guardian, maybe a word about a place on the #Fediverse would be worthwhile.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x?CMP=share_btn_url

#TheGuardian #Guardian

Survey by Japanese News Site Nlab asks users where they are moving to from Twitter/X - Misskey wins with 41% (n=5119)

Voting Results

The final ranking is as follows.

1. Misskey (41.3%)

2. Bluesky (19.9%)

3. Taittsu/タイッツー (13.4%)

4. Mastodon (10.7%)

5. Discord (5.5%)

@[email protected]

#Fediverse #MissKey #Bluesky #Mastodon #Discord

have you already tested the "fediverse preview" in #WordPress 6.7?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

#activitypub #fediverse

A new release of TootSDK - 11.1.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/11.1.0

What's changed:

- Fix configuration.urls not working with the Instance v2 API @dale_price

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

Big thanks to the people who went on camera first — like @quillmatiq, a writer and builder, who explains how it finally allows us to own our online relationships. 🙌🏻

https://www.tiktok.com/@fedi.curious/video/7434314336350326058

#Flipboard #WalledGardens #ActivityPub
#OpenSocialWeb #Federation #Fediverse

We love hearing your lightbulb moments when it comes to the #fediverse! In our new short video series, we want the unconverted* to see its tremendous power through your stories. (*Which is why we’re posting these clips to “walled gardens” like TikTok.)

https://www.tiktok.com/@fedi.curious

#Flipboard #WalledGardens #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Federation

Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 92

This week's news:
- New updates on @loops and more information about further plans for their For You Algorithm
- @Flipboard is taking over the automated accounts on press.coop
- An ActivityPub bot+server that consists of only 2 simple files

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-92/

The Newsmast Foundation was created in response to misinformation and the oppression of marginalised communities and expert voices on Big Tech social media.

In light of the U.S. election results, those communities are more at risk than ever.

This is our statement 👇

https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/our-blog/trump-elected-our-take/

#Fediverse #USPol #Statement #Trump #SocialMedia #X #Twitter #BigTech

Good morning #Fediverse friends!

Let's all check in via the comments below and talk about our day and what it has in store for each of us today.

For me, it's yet another day of training with a couple of meetings from 2 - 4pm.

Not much else going on other than that. After work, which ends at 7pm, I'll just rest and relax before calling it a night.

#MorningMoments #GoodMorning #HappyTuesday #Work #Meetings #Training

If you run a Mastodon server you probably already know about some of the existing tools for collectively managed domain blocks.

As an alternative, I created a simple Python script that lets you copy public domain blocks from servers you trust for an easy import.

https://stefanbohacek.com/project/mastodon-domain-block-exporter-script/

Keeping your community safe should be a number one priority!

#fediverse #FediAdmin #mastodon #MastoAdmin #DomainBlocks #safety #community #python #opensource

I could make start.fedi.pub a landing page for Starter Kits, allowing users to select the client of their choice, aside from Pixelfed.

Lots of possibilities with Starter Kits, and I look forward to working with other projects to establish a shared spec, aka FEP!

#pixelfed #starterKits #fediverse #activitypub #fep

Create a Starter Kit with all your existing friends/fam and share the link or QR code and the invited person will be onboarded and auto follow all accounts in the kit, along with other auto settings.

The best part is Pixelfed Starter Kits are ActivityPub objects, and will be compatible with other software!

I am working on a FEP 🚀

#pixelfed #starterKits #fediverse #fep

Do I remember correctly that there was some conversation around #Bluesky considering a native #ActivityPub support?

#fediverse #SocialMedia

Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory

I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.

We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.

#Fediverse

#Mastodon から #Threads アカウントのアドレスを検索してもアカウントが検索結果の候補に出てこないけど \@[email protected] とかユーザー ID 形式で検索するとでてきたりするの is 何

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #threads

Wow-whee. Today is the day we celebrate FIVE YEARS of https://oslo.town being a thing. 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

A big THANK YOU to everyone who has stuck with us over the years, especially to those who post regularly or have donated to the running costs for the site. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Here's to FIVE MORE YEARS. 🥂 🍾

https://oslo.town/public/local
https://ko-fi.com/oslotown
https://patreon.com/oslotown

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Oslo #Oslove #Norge #Allheimen #Norway #Fediverse #MastoHost #Anniversary

まあ #Threads が #Fediverse 完全対応したら、 #Threads でいいんじゃない？という気持ちはある。
#BigTech とか #Meta イヤ！みたいな意見はとくに #Fediverse #mastodon に長くいる人とかにはあるのかもしれないし、そういう考え方もわからなくはないけど。
「まあ、細かいことはいいから、とりあえず #Fediverse おいでよ 」みたいな気持ちのほうが勝っている

#X アカウント消すし、技術系の情報とかはますます #Fediverse に #boost していく所存。
日本語の技術系の投稿はまだまだ全体の総量として少ない印象だけど、英語の情報は結構流れているし

Check out @steve on #SocialHub with a proposal to work on #ActivityPub #C2S, the client-to-server Social API part of the #W3C Recommendation.

The Social API didn't get much uptake on the #Fediverse where generally the #Mastodon API is used (and abused) for client/server communication.

It is not because the Social API isn't good, just that no one ever did the legwork to mature this part of the spec.

Are you interested in C2S and help push the #SocialWeb?

More info:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/nextgen-activitypub-social-api/4733

Hatsu is a self-hosted bridge that interacts with Fediverse on behalf of your static site.

🩵 https://hatsu.cli.rs

#fediverse #selfhosting #staticsite #rust #rustlang #json #atom #rss #web #wip

Regarding:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113456456180951639

The Fediverse and Decentralized Social-Media (DeSo) needs more developer tools.

Dan ( @dansup ) has already done a lot of good work with this with PubKit. And we should all be grateful to him.

But, more people need to get involved.

More needs to be done (by others). More tools. More programming-languages supported. More tutorials. More documentation. Etc.

#DeSo #Fediverse

Here's a good question and I have the answer: #Traffic per Follower for different social networks (here for the last 4 weeks).

#Mastodon is now behind #Bluesky, #Flipboard still far ahead. #X and #Threads are really far behind.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk
#Fediverse
#MastodonMigration

«As you may have read, #BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated #bot accounts living on the #Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work.

»I write my own #ActivityPub server? Why, yes! Yes I did!

»I took the code and stripped it down to the bare essentials. All you need to do is upload two files- index.php and .htaccess - fill in your details, and you're done.»

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/introducing-activitybot-the-simplest-way-to-build-mastodon-bots/

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 66F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

The first Emperor Penguin known to be in Australia turned up on a tourist beach in the town of Denmark.

The Taurid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky across the US tonight.

Democratic Sen. Seth Moulton of Mass. chooses not to back down on his comments on trans kids in sports.

I guess it is not a surprise. Most of you think that social media platforms that utilize algorithmic feeds are inherently anti-free-speech. So do I.

You have made the choice to join Mastodon, where the content you see is chronological and not decided by algorithms. IMHO, you have made the right choice.

I remember a time when we all viewed the Web with optimism. The more people we could get to join, the better for the world. Now it is a bit more mixed, but IMHO social media companies that utilize algorithmic feeds are to blame. We can move towards a better Web together by getting more people to join us.

#Facebook #Twitter #Mastodon #fediverse

Good morning and happy Monday #Fediverse

It's a new week, so let's all discuss what we did for the weekend as well as what the new week has in store for each of us.

For me, I'm starting week 2 of my job and it'll be another week filled with training.

Tonight will be Fortnite with friends right after work and then not much else beyond that to my knowledge.

#MorningMoments #GoodMorning #NewWeek #Work #Training #VideoGames

The chart showing the #engagement with @heiseonline shows a slow decline in Boosts, Favs and Replies. Thanks @analytodon for the data!

Any idea, what I should look out for in the data we have?

(🧵 3/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk
#Fediverse
#Bluesky
#Threads
#MastodonMigration

If you add all the #TwitterAlternative s, they have been in the lead for a while now.

If you add @Flipboard and sum it up wit #Mastodon (because #Fediverse 😉), then #Facebook ist not far.

But, if you have a look on the numbers since the beginning of 2022, then it's clear, that this is mainly a story about the decline of #Twitter.

(🧵 2/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk
#Bluesky
#Threads
#MastodonMigration

The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

@tante this is a golden opportunity for the #Fediverse & #Matrix to emerge as the communications hubs for government, academia, non-profits, transportation and alert system… if only admins inside these orgs started a big wave of adoption. Fediverse for social, Matrix for private messaging.

At the Matrix conference, people from the French gov talked about how they had ALL French civil servants (some 500,000 people) move their internal comms to #tchap, built on the Matrix protocol. It is doable!

Videon julkaisu ilman Youtubea. Mistä löydän minuutin videoille sopivan #peertube instanssin eurooppalaisesta #fediverse stä?

So to all others in the #Fediverse desperately trying to get people to understand the benefits of a non-corporate infrastructure without improving the very infrastructure, you will fail. Case and point, email. People still don't understand why someone would prefer email and forums to, say, Facebook, for example, so use your energy to make this place better. This means working on making things better for marginalized people exclusively, trust me. I mean, look at the alt text culture here. Average non-fedi people whined about using it for years but suddenly figured out it helps them, too! Apply this to *every* other marginalized user asking for a feature. Then, eventually, when another rich person takes over #Bluesky and people will be looking for alternatives, we have something better. #Mastodon

Just rediscovered:

https://followgraph.vercel.app

If you're looking for more people to follow, this tool scans who you follow and has suggestions. Neat!

#fediverse #mastodon

Are social media platforms that utilize algorithmic feeds inherently anti-free-speech?

In normal discourse, we all have a voice and we all have the choice whether to listen. In the algorithmic space, formulas are used to decide which voices to amplify and also which voices to de-amplify.

Here on Vivaldi Social (Mastodon), I see posts that people I follow post, including posts they choose to boost. No formulas needed. This is, IMHO, the closest to free-speech you can find, although there are some hate speech rules, which is IMHO a good thing. Basically the same as in normal, social discourse.

On Facebook I see posts Facebook thinks I want to see (and boy do they get it wrong), as well as a lot of AI generated nonsense. There are some posts in there that I am interested in, but most are not.

Twitter has turned into amplification of what Elon wants to amplify, mostly hate speech and misinformation. There are still interesting voices in there, but they are harder and harder to find.

What do you think?

#Facebook #Twitter #Mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia

🆕 blog! “Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots”

As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/introducing-activitybot-the-simplest-way-to-build-mastodon-bots/
⸻
#ActivityPub #bot #fediverse

Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots

As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels like putting my fate in someone else's hands.

Say… didn't I write my own ActivityPub server? Why, yes! Yes I did!

I took the code and stripped it down to the bare essentials. All you need to do is upload two files⁰ - index.php and .htaccess - fill in your details, and you're done.

Get the ActivityBot source code on GitLab.

There's no database, no containers, no caching. It is as simple as I could make it

This bot can do the following:

• 🔍 Be discovered on the Fediverse
• 👉 Be followed by other accounts
• 🚫 Be unfollowed by accounts
• 📩 Send messages to the Fediverse
• 🖼️ Attach an image & alt text to a message
• 🕸️ Autolink URls, hashtags, and @ mentions
• 🔏 Verify cryptographic signatures

That's it! Here's what it doesn't do:

• ❌ Thread replies
• ❌ Delete or update a post
• ❌ Create Polls
• ❌ Attach multiple images
• ❌ Set focus point for images
• ❌ Set sensitivity for images / blur
• ❌ Set "Content Warning"
• ❌ Accurate support for converting user's text to HTML

Grab a subdomain (don't buy a whole new domain name!) and stick this code on it. You'll have an ActivityPub bot running in minutes.

Feedback very much welcome.

#ActivityPub #bot #fediverse

#SocialNetworking: How we interact.

#SocialWeb: How we support human interaction online.

#Fediverse: How we support the social web using decentralized social networking technologies.

#ActivityPub: How we support the fediverse with an open standard communication protocol.

#ATProto: Another fediverse communication protocol.

#Mastodon: How we support activitypub for our microblogging app.

#Bluesky: An atproto app.

さっそく書きました!!

はてなブログに投稿しました
はてなブログの記事の著者としてMastodonアカウントを設定する方法 - await wakeUp(); https://sublimer.hatenablog.com/entry/2024/11/10/170413

#はてなブログ #Mastodon #OGP設定 #fediverse

Regarding:
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113456445683645336

The Fediverse and decentralized social-media (DeSo) in general needs to be more than just an online social-network.

It also needs to be a developer platform where people create things.

#deso #fediverse #networkEffects

I just want to pause for a moment to appreciate the fact that we have this distributed #socialnetwork and don’t need to fear it being taken away or monopolized. I think that is the best outcome out of the last several years. I am excited by the potential of the #fediverse to help communities weave together patchworks of resistance and subversive thinking, and eventually swarm together to foment societal transformation. We have barely scratched the surface of this capacity.

個人的には、#X からはみんな離れたほうがいいくらいに思ってるからなー

別に #Mastodin #Fediverse じゃなくても、 #Instagram でも #Threads でも #Bluesky でもいいんだけど。

#X は、やっぱり牧歌的な過去の SNS の雰囲気を経験してきた身としては、もう「ああいう場所にユーザーとして貢献したくない」くらいの場所になってる。
まあ自分が変えられるのは自分の行動くらいなので、#X にいる人に直接とやかく言うつもりもないのだが。

I have for the last 11 years talked about the problem with user profiling and algorithmic content. Creation of echo chambers and the ability to easily manipulate what people see for marketing purposes and worse. Even made a cat video to try to make the point. I wish more would see this.

The point is not for political parties to see the potential here, but rather to see the risk. The only way to fix this is to ban user profiling.

You have made a good choice to move the the Fediverse. It would help for more of your friends to join us.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548

#Politics #fediverse #Mastodon @EUCommission #Privacy #Twitter #Facebook #USPol #USPolitics

mookie's #introduction / #reintroduction

it's me, hi. i'm the mookie, it's me.

i'm a serial #fediverse instance creator (and destroyer) and have been doing this since 2018. many will already be familiar with my name or my avatar.

i'm the father of two awesome kids. i love watching and talking about #movies. i'm a #gamer. i eat to #run. i'm a giant #starwars and #startrek nerd. i'm a born and raised #engineer.

my home is at https://ultramookie.com where i should be spending more time writing.

The deeper I dig into the #Fediverse, the more I realize that we aren't building a "federated" group of individual apps. It's a single, integrated system. Something like a digital hive-mind, and everything is connected.

Those once isolated websites and services are like individual cells in the body whole, making connections between (API's, protocols, etc) even more important than the individuals themselves.

Each party that is building the "new era of social media" have their own agendas.

Bluesky states literally "Bluesky is an open network. With one account, you can access both an easy-to-use social network and a shared identity across the entire social internet."

Nostr states: "Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media."

Threads says: "Threads is part of the fediverse, also known as the federated universe. The fediverse is a global, open, social network of independent servers operated by third parties around the world."

But they are still more or less separate and not "easy". It's this fantasy of having interoperability, but years go by and everyone are still developing their own protocols and apps. Bluesky and Threads can be partly connected to the Fediverse, but limited to one-way or opt-in setting. It's not "across the entire social internet", nowhere near.

As of right now I can reach most platforms via ActivityPub and I can fully have the control to myself with my own server on the Fediverse. That can't be achieved with Bluesky or Threads, with them you are always dependent on someone else's servers. I hope some day we'll get the bigger players fully connected too, somehow, better and easier.

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Nostr #Mastodon #Fediverse #Interoperability

As more people are abandoning X, again, perhaps my short introduction to Mastodon might be of use, if you'd like to share it with your friends?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia #X #twitter

"We ourselves have torn down the wall between editorial and business interests if as journalists, our calculation here is not values-based. To wit: “But I have a large following and neither BlueSky or Threads does.” That is the rationalization of a marketer, not a journalist who believes in the SPJ Code of Ethics dictate to “minimize harm.” h/t @ben

https://kiesow.net/journalists-is-twitter-actually-your-community/

#journalism #media #fediverse

Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse

Vor genau zwei Jahren haben wir für @heiseonline unseren Account auf #Mastodon in Betrieb genommen 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

Es hat länger gedauert, als ich gedacht hätte, aber es sieht danach aus, dass der jetzt tatsächlich kontinuierlich mehr #Traffic auf heise.de bringt, als #X (#Twitter) insgesamt. Und das mit nur ¼ der Follower (von denen viele längst wieder inaktiv sind).
Diagramme kommen nach dem Wochenende.

#SocialMedia #TwitterExodus #MastodonMigration #TwitterMigration #Fediverse

We are celebrating #AaronSwartzDay by hosting Knitting Our Internet workshop at #SFSCON today (Seminar 2, 10:40).

Not only on this occasion, I always dedicate the whole workshop to the inspiring, bright, loving human being #AaronSwartz was.

Thank you for still making us pursue a better #Internet, and a better world, Aaron.

(The event is free, no reservation required. It’s not going to be streamed, but its video recording will be published.)

@AaronSwartzDay #Web #WWW #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware #PoliticalTechnology #FSFE #Fediverse #workshop #InternetHistory #SurveillanceCapitalism

was finally asleep when the smell of burning wood hit me. woke up, ran to the kitchen, checked my heated blanket, checked all the rooms.

apparently there are fires in some New Jersey forests and the wind is blowing so hard we are getting hit by the smoke.

a 2025 #fediverse #Mastodon priority should be to rebuild the PSA megaphone we lost with #Xitter. not just for USA but the world over. look at happened in Valencia. we need country channels.

ok, back to sleep.

STAY SAFE NEW JERSEY!

@phocks this would be a good time for #Mastodon instances and the rest of the #Fediverse to reconsider their ill-advised #defederation with #Threads

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

So... About that debate we had months ago regarding #Threads, #fediverse and federation...

PieFed development update Oct/Nov 2024: key updates include the addition of community icons for better identification, a notification management interface, and various enhancements to our API for eventual mobile app support.

See https://piefed.social/post/317673 for a detailed overview of these changes and many more!

#fediverse #PieFed

A very interesting podcast, IMHO. Have a listen and share with people for them to join us here.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/evan-prodromou-social-web-foundation-for-a-better-web/

#Vivaldi #fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #X #Facebook #Threads

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-08

Servers

- Hollo v0.2.0
- Sharkey v2024.9.1
- GoToSocial v0.17.2
- Hubzilla v9.4.4
- Manyfold v0.87.0
- snac v2.62
- Mitra v3.9.0
- Lemmy v0.19.6
- Ktistec v2.4.0
- Gancio v1.20.0

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.8.0
- Tesseract v1.4.20

Tools and Plugins

- FediBlockHole v0.4.6

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.13
- Fedify v1.2.3
- ActivityPods v2.0.3

Protocol

- FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text

Articles

- ManyFold: A Decentralized, Open Source Platform for 3D Model Distribution
- Mastodon’s Account Recommendations Explained
- Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 91

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0192e941-03f3-61de-e8f7-7c7cf62ddaf1

People who’ve figured out the fediverse understand its power. Hear from early adopters who explain their lightbulb moments in our new short video series. The use cases and potential of the system are awesome, and these stories are just the beginning. Tell us: what's your favorite thing about the fediverse? We're listening and looking for more people to feature.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/best-thing-about-the-fediverse-short-videos/

#Fediverse #FediLove #ActivityPub #Federation #Flipboard

Following what feels like the longest 2 days of my life I want to express my gratitude for the #Fediverse and the connections I have made on here. You people GET IT - and rejected corporate social media a long time ago.

When 99% of my friends are on the bad apps & even send me links to Instagram videos about "resistance"... I just don't know what to say or do - I wanna scream. I wish they'd see the light and come here.

I LOVE the Fediverse & I'm so thankful for all of you ❤️

P.S.: f**k Meta

👆 #Bluesky has starter packs to help people find interesting accounts. I built one with accounts from #Mastodon, that can be followed from there (thx @bsky.brid.gy).

But it was challenging to find more, that aren't already also active there. Any suggestions, whom I could add?

Because let's build more bridges!

#SocialMedia #TwitterExodus #Fediverse #Bridgy

Yeah the hollo.service works 👍
All that's left now is to wait for local storage support (because at the moment there's only support for storage on S3).

#Hollo #Fediverse

Bridgy Fedで にブリッジしたアカウントは、元の のアカウントをそのまま で検索することが出来るので、ブリッジしていると分かっている人はそれで検索できて便利ですよ〜
例えば私の場合も添付スクショのように検索結果に出てきます。

#bridgyfed #bluesky #fediverse #fedibird

Murmel is built for folks who want a curated experience on Mastodon. Know someone who’d love a quick way to catch up on the most-shared news? Tag them below to help us spread the word! 👋 #MastodonTips #Fediverse #DigitalWellbeing https://murmel.social

Any other #FediMods / #FediAdmin seeing a #TwitterMigration right now? I'm seeing an above-average number of new #Fediverse users saying they just closed their Twitter account...

I tried out @hollo and it looks like a promising project. It was relatively easy to get up and running with docker on my own server, but I don’t think I can make the switch to it yet. I’d want a bit more control over my profile and server before that. I’m perfectly fine with not having a web interface to browse the timeline, but I want more controls for the backend stuffs. Also a bit more documentation for setup and troubleshooting.
#selfhost #fediverse

Is this a Mastodon server setting or why do external accounts (that likely haven't been "synced" to the current instance) not have profile pictures (and header) showing?

It's not that they are on a completely new instance or that their instance is blocked.

Just a random example below:

#Mastodon #fediverse

It's time for charities and for-good organisations to ditch X - a platform which helped grow and fund the Trump campaign - and move to alternatives where they aren't at the mercy of a single persons politics.

As a start, we're excited to be featured as an organisation which can help in this @BylineTimes article

There's a lot of hard work to be done, but we like hard work. Hard work is good work.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/07/x-odus-charities-and-campaigners-to-abandon-musks-twitter-after-trump-endorsement/

#Fediverse #Charity #NGO #News #USPol #Politics #X #SocialMedia #Twitter

Digital communities (like #Fediverse instances) - where discourse about new knowledge happens - need to think seriously about their stance on conversation data being used for training large language models.

A few possibilities:

a) Ban it altogether. This will require closing down our communities and implementing proof-of-humanness, reputation scores etc.

b) Exclusively license the data to #AI companies and use that to pay for server costs.

c) Change nothing. Allow anyone to use the data.

Playing with @MakerTube.

Testing the automagically importing from YouTube option. I still had a channel on #YouTube with #music & #sound tinkering which I wanted to move to PeerTube for quite some time.

#Makertube seemed like a nice site, so I decided to apply for an account to play with @peertube without having to clean up my vps or create another one 😉

Got my account approved, donated some money for the hosting & now my YouTube footage is moving towards the #Fediverse. Pretty cool 🤓 😎

Hmm I can't start Hollo with systemd, I don't really understand why.

I've tried the example given on the Bun website, I think the problem comes from this line :

ExecStart=/home/my_user/.bun/bin/bun run index.ts

I do want to remind people that some of us aren't the normal scum and villainy you see on the #Fediverse and would love to help you deploy services that you can host and maintain yourself to help you remove anything you might not want on centralized infrastructure.

Trochu jsem zabředl do toho, jak vlastně funguje #BlueSky, konkrétně jejich #ATProto protokol, na kterým to celý stojí. Některý věci jsou fajn, např. jednodušší oddělení identity (klidně na vlastní doméně) od dat (a jednodušší přenos účtu, kterej je možnej i v případě, že server zanikne). Z toho by si #ActivityPub (AP) protokol (pohání #Fediverse/#Mastodon) mohl vzít příklad. Problém AP je taky to, že se uživateli kolikrát nezobrazej všechny komentáře, lajky apod. Na BlueSky tohle funguje. Proč?

Hi I’m Ben (he/they), and here are some Random Interests of mine (and therefore things I might toot about) in no particular order: #TNR #Cats #CommunityCatCare #LaborOrganizing #Leftism #Politics #MutualAid #Crowdfunding #BeingTrans #BeingQueer #TransSurvivalStrats #QueerSurvivalStrats #Polyamory #Disability #Neurodiversity #ADHD #Autistic #Fediverse #Fandom #Wuxia #Xianxia #Danmei #Movies #Cinema #TV #SFF #Reading #Nature #Photography #TaiChi #MovementArts #Art #Creativity

Like many, we are devastated after the result of the US election.

We will be taking some time as a team to regroup, process, and understand how we can better support diverse and marginalised communities as we head into a new period.

As a charity, we have always believed in supporting these communities. Our thoughts are with them and the many people who worked hard in their attempt to prevent this result.

Our mission is more urgent than ever. Onwards, always.

#fediverse #mastodon #USPol #US

I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there.

Bon bah j'ai n'y les moyens financier, ni matériel (en plus d'y connaitre quedale) de faire du S3 du coup ça bloque totalement l'utilisation de Hollo ​​
En espérant que le stockage local soit rajouté dans les prochaines versions.

#Hollo #Fediverse

I like the idea of providing paid content on the Fediverse (even though I do not pay for such anywhere currently). https://sub.club/ implements it via premium accounts and DMs but I wonder if we could (and should) enhance the protocol to allow for payment.
At the start only two clients will support it natively because of that.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

It's true that a lot of servers in the fediverse are probably run by cool people, but remember that everything you say is copied many, many times over to many, many different databases. For example, my single user instance here federates with like, 11,000 fucking instances, I am not joking. That means this little post could be copied into 11,000 databases, give or take, depending on the nature of the instances I'm federated with.

So in theory, let's say I posted something, like, I dunno, "fuck dtolnay". Any one of those servers could take offense with that and be shitty to me about it. And I don't control their retention policies.

So! While we don't have to worry about Mark "My Cold Dead Eyes Are The Mark of the Beast" or Elon "I fucked my own cybertruck and liked it" being shitty about our stuff here, it's not a bad idea to consider the nature of the fediverse when writing spicy things that could be prone to misinterpretation.

#activityPub #fediverse

【関西オープンフォーラムに出展します！】
今週末の11月9日の関西オープンフォーラム( #KOF2024 )で #FediLUG #Fediverse ユーザー有志としてブース出展します。
LLMで魂を取り戻したOHaNASの展示や #にゃんぷっぷー ステッカーなどの配布を行います！！(写真は他カンファレンスでの出展の様子)
私たち以外にも様々なセミナー、ステージ、ブース出展があります。ぜひお越しください

日時：11月8日(金)・9日(土)（展示は9日のみ）
会場：大阪南港ATC ITM棟 10F + 6F PCルーム
詳細：https://www.k-of.jp/2024/ #fedilug #kof2024

You know what I just discovered?

There should be WAY more
users and instances of Mobilizon (@mobilizon),
especially in North America.

Maybe today is a good day to start that: https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

#Fediverse #Mobilizon #Activism

ここ は結構早くスパムアカウント消してくれる印象あるけど、このサーバー側からできる対策ほとんど対症療法だと思うので、スパムの発信源にされてしまっているサーバー側がそれぞれ登録制限とかアカウント停止とかしてくれないと。
頑張れ #Fediverse

Bon bah ça fonctionne pas mal du tout ​​
Va juste falloir mettre un truc de stockage en place pour tester bien la chose.

#Hollo #Fediverse

RE: hollo.zarchbox.fr/@KazukyAkayashi/0192fda2-f090-7c21-9a15-4d1896aa573f

Hello world 👋

#Hollo #Fediverse #Moshidon

Ah bah zut alors Mangane ça marche pas avec Hollo ​​

#Hollo #Mangane #Fediverse

Aie gros points noir :

- une dépendance a cdn.jsdelivr.net sur l'interface web.
- et visiblement l'obligation d'avoir un S3 compatible pour les medias ​​ ​​

Je vais tester le reste mais ça semble pas mal foutu dans la même veine que GotoSocial mais qui fonctionne mieux ​​

#Hollo #Fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 91

This week's news:
- @loops has launched and is now available for everyone!
- @radiofreefedi will shut down early next year
- Bridgy Fed talks about potential governance directions

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-91/

It's polling day in the US! 🗳️

We've heard the queues over there can get pretty long, so remember to take a snack and some water when you head out to the polls.

Take time to understand what you are voting for. This is an important moment for yourself, your family, and the people in your life.

You can keep up with discussion in the @uspolitics Feed or stay up to date on all things Harris in the @KamalaHarrisWin Group.

#USPol #Election #Fediverse #FederateTheVote #USPolitics

Here I am, two years into this experiment we like to call the fediverse.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/my-two-full-years-in-the-fediverse/

#fediversary #anniversary #fediverse

Polls have just opened in the US!

If you're interested in following the US election, check out our @uspolitics Feed.

It features the @KamalaHarrisWin Group alongside experts and discussion from across the web of social networks.

We'll be moderating our US Politics Feed and Community closely over the next few days.

We're expecting a lot of posts, so please report anything you see that you don't think should be there!

#USPol #USPolitics #FederateTheVote #Election #Fediverse

@MonaApp I wish #mona would support #sharkey servers ... :-)

#fediverse

Bon j'install une instance Hollo ​​ ?

#Holo #Fediverse

Jäsenen ominaisuudessa laitoin Helsingin seudun pyöräilijät ry:lle (Hepo) pyynnön, että he voisivat tulla tänne Fediversen puolelle. Samalla pyysin RSS-syötettä kotisivuille.

Loin painetta toteamalla, että @HelsinginJalankulkijat toteuttaa molemmat ja pyöräilyjärjestön pitäisi pystyä samaan 😉

#hepo #pyöräily #fediverse #rss

A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness

https://privacy.thenexus.today/flatness/

The next installment of Mastodon, two years later

Contents:

• It's not "just like email"
• Usability and gatekeeping weren't the only challenges newcomers faced
• The first complicated high-stakes decision is even before you sign up
• Why not help people choose an instance that's a good fit?
• But no

#mastodon #fediverse

【イベントに出展します】
今週末の11月9日の関西オープンフォーラム( #KOF2024 )で #FediLUG #Fediverse ユーザー有志としてブース出展します。
LLMで魂を取り戻したOHaNASの展示や #にゃんぷっぷー ステッカーなどの配布を行います！！(写真は他カンファレンスでの出展の様子)
私たち以外にも様々なセミナー、ステージ、ブース出展があります。ぜひお越しください

日時：11月8日(金)・9日(土)（展示は9日のみ）
会場：大阪南港ATC ITM棟 10F + 6F PCルーム
詳細：https://www.k-of.jp/2024/

The relative sizes of the 6 major decentralized social media (DeSo) networks.

(The scale is a bit odd, and the numbers are approximated to round-numbers — to make it so the graph is more legible, but — I think the information is more easily communicated this way.)

#bluesky #DeSo #farcaster #fediverse #matrix #lens #nostr

Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 50F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Musician and music producer Quincy Jones, who had a far-ranging impact on American music from pop to jazz, has died. He was 91.

Vice President Harris is spending the day campaigning in Pennsylvania, while former President Trump is expected to visit Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan.

Tomorrow is the US election. See a reply to this toot for a coverage note.

@risottobias @tchambers @pluralistic @Mastodon I don’t mind having multiple accounts on the #fediverse. I have my Mastodon account, my WriteFreely instance, and a pixelfed account. I use them for very different things.

It would be super cool to see Mastodon doing more regarding app discoverability on mobile. I’m imagining a small logo on avatars to indicate which app a user is posting from.

New: A Conceptual Model of ATProto and ActivityPub

You might want to know a little bit more about how #Bluesky and #atproto works, without needing to know all the technical details. This is a high level overview of how to think about how atproto works, and how it differs from #ActivityPub.

It is also a reflection on the concepts of decentralisation and federation, and what they bring to both the #fediverse and the #atmosphere

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/a-conceptual-model-of-atproto-and-activitypub/

Hello English-speaking #filmfans and cineasts in the #fediverse. I could need some #mastohelp.

Is there something like a widely accepted and known abbreviation for the expression "original version/track with (English) subtitles" in #English? (I am thinking about a similar short form, like the German #OmU for "Original mit Untertiteln").

Asking for a friend. ;) All hints are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

#cinema #filmfestival #englishlanguage #abbreviations

I want to talk about some of the comments I made towards @evan last week. We had a heart to heart yesterday, and talked for almost two hours in a safe space where we could both vent and express our frustrations, sorrows, and dreams.

First and foremost, my objections came from a heated place. While I think there’s still amazing things happening at the grassroots level for the #Fediverse, the reality is that a lot of projects and institutions that are keeping the network going are really struggling right now.

For a lot of people, morale is at an all-time low: there’s burnout, infighting, and a profound amount of negativity to contend with. Loads of people are effectively locked-in to performing free labor for years and years on end, and it’s hard to see whether this amazing movement can hold it together.

Is the #Diaspora social network still alive?

Some people list it as part of the #Fediverse but others do not. I'm not sure if it has an #ActivityPub protocol plugin or not, which tends to be the litmus test for being part of the Fediverse.

Tmitter って名前よく取れたなとおもったら .Tokyo ドメインだった
#Fediverse にも対応してくれないかなこれ
https://tmitter.tokyo/

Vor lauter Workshop-Vorbereitung hätten wir fast unser monatliches #Datenschutz und #Fediverse Treffen Morgen vergessen, das sei somit nachgeholt.

Am 5. November, 19 Uhr in den ACME Labs in der Mühlenstraße 5 in #Bielefeld

Bis dann!

On Tuesday we #FederateTheVote and make some bit of #fediverse organizing history…. #Uspol boost this post to grow our following to the biggest social reach we can! cc: @GottaLaff

The Fediverse MUST grow to encompass all websites and apps that want a future without centralized gatekeepers that are soft targets for authoritarian takeovers.

The protocols are TOOLS for doing this they are not ends in themselves, and they MUST be SECONDARY to the goal of an interconnected, open social web. To do that, we need to find ways to work together and stop yelling at each other so much.

We'd better, or we are all screwed.

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/11/the-federation-deathmatch.html

#fediverse #atproto #activitypub

Do you love blobcats? Are you a fan of free culture? Then you’ll be happy to know there’s been a brand new blobcat pack made specially (but not exclusively) for the Fediverse! Now also available in English!

Designed from scratch for a neater look, these new blobcats try their best to preserve and emphasise the original’s fuzzy feel. Bold, yet lean. Refined, yet silly. Blob, yet cat.

And best of all? They’re all free! Not just free of cost, but free to use, share, and change in whatever way you see fit! Possibly the first truly original blobcat pack released under a free culture licence. What’s a blob if not malleable? Make them yours today! (Or tomorrow. No pressure.)

More info on the website, link above. Come in for a visit!

#lang_en #art #blobcat #blobcats #emoji #emojos #English #Fedi #FediArt #Fediverse #free_art #free_culture #stickers

The #FediJam, a game jam exclusively for users of the Fediverse, will soon enter its second round! During December, team up with others or go in alone, and... CREATE – A – GAME! Analog or digital, using whatever (non-AI) tools you feel comfortable with. The jam's page just went live, so what are you waiting for?!? ➡️ JOIN NOW: https://itch.io/jam/fedi-jam-2 🙂

Boosts VERY appreciated! ❤️ Spread the word!!!

#GameDev #GameDesign #IndieGames #BoardGames #GameJam #Fediverse #Mastodon #Introduction

It's a long road to write a book, but I got word that, assuming the production goes as planned, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, my book about Mastodon and the ActivityPub-based fediverse, will be out from Oxford UP around August of next year!

Still a lot of work to do behind the scenes: editing, proofing, indexing. But I'm already giving book talks and would be happy to do so if you want me to visit your class/university to talk about the fediverse!

@bookstodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #books

You can get amazing recommendations from the sfba.club folks 💜📚💜 #Bookwyrm #fediverse https://sfba.social/@announcements/113416794930309208

The #Fediverse is #Enshittification proof by @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

#Mastodon @Mastodon

Group update: since breaking our 4,000 followers goal last #EarlyVote deadline, we have not been pushing new followers but people, we are in the end game of the end game now.

We just about 20ish followers away from 4,100 followers and we want to be at maximum social reach this group will ever be at for Election day.

Boost to help share to all your pro-Harris friends! On Tuesday, 3 days from now, we want to make the biggest spash for getting out the vote that the #Fediverse has ever seen. Our early vote day was stunning and this one we hope to make some fediverse history in scale.

The tag will be #FederateTheVote and we want every single #KamalaHarris supporter we can get to join in. cc: @GottaLaff

My follows on Mastodon/AP fediverse: "Bluesky is so stupid. Neener. Neener."

My follows on Bluesky: "Mastodon is so stupid. Neener. Neener."

Lets keep our eye on making federated/decentralized systems the norm again. Let's try to avoid internecine battles. #fediverse #bluesky #rant

Still planning to do an informal #Fediverse get-together at #SeaGL2024 in Seattle next weekend.

Tentatively: in the "TeaGL" break Saturday afternoon.

Join me?

To help you celebrate Caturday, I give you Samantha and Tabitha...

ARTWORK - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/samantha-and-tabitha-peggy-collins.html

#caturday #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #cat #artnouveau #art #arte #buyintoart #ayearforart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart #canadian

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-01

Servers

- PeerTube v6.3.3
- Hatsu v0.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.0.2
- ActivityPods v2.0.2
- NeoDB v0.10.4.9

Clients

- Pachli v2.8.3

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.1.1

For developers

- Fedify v1.2.0
- pl-api: A JavaScript library for interacting with Mastodon API-compatible servers, focused on support for projects extending the official Mastodon API
- WebFinger Split-Domain Canary

Protocol

- FEP-7952: Roadmap For Actor and Object Portability

Articles

- One year after X: Embracing open science on Mastodon
- Request for Comments: The Fediverse Schema Observatory
- Diving Into the World of Lemmy
- Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 90

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0192c4f8-a18b-911e-3605-83248ab4737b

We are seeing a nice uptick in Brazilian #fediverse instances enabling #xmpp for their members. They even gave it a funny new nickname: #Xampu (Shampoo in English, but it kinda sounds like you could pronounce XMPP in Brazilian Portuguese).

I thought I'd share some whimsy today, so here is Village of Quirk Under Moonlight...have a great Friday!

ARTWORK - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/village-of-quirk-under-moonlight-peggy-collins.html

#landscape #village #houses #snow #winter #whimsical #moon #trees #art #arte #buyintoart #ayearforart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

What do you do when someone you know become inactive on the #Fediverse ?

はやく #Threads 完全に #Fediverse ⁂ 対応してくれないかなぁ

I've been testing a federated classified ads server, flohmarkt ("Flea Market") which I think is a promising idea for promoting a circular economy among friends. Details on my hub.

It raises quite a few questions for me though - it's going to need more trust & safety features than other #Activitypub applications for example.

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Fediverse #SelfHosting #CircularEconomy #Yunohost

Hatsu v0.3.0 "Strobe Nights" has been released!

https://github.com/importantimport/hatsu/releases/tag/v0.3.0

#Hatsu is a self-hosted bridge that interacts with Fediverse on behalf of your static site, written in #Rust .

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #importantimport

🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 72F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Happy #Halloween to all who celebrate #SpookySeason.

Top US officials are headed to the Middle East to try to restart ceasefire talks.

UMass Boston will begin offering free tuition to low-income students starting in 2025.

There are 4 days remaining until the US election.

After a good question another chart:

This one shows the #traffic to heise.de via #X/#Twitter (as a whole), (only!!) our account @heiseonline on #Mastodon (so also from the #Fediverse), our account on #Bluesky and #Threads (as a whole again) – weekly since the beginning of 2022..

#SocialMedia #TwitterExodus #TwitterMigration #ElonMusk

I've added a new hummingbird to my collection...hope you enjoy!

ARTWORK - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/summer-garden-hummingbird-peggy-collins.html

#hummingbird #birds #bird #flowers #nature #naturelover #abstract #colorful #wildlife #art #arte #ayearforart #buyintoart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

I have a long way to go, but slowly starting my #BotsInSpace migration.

#gotosocial #fediverse #ServerMigration

Last night I added a setting to my glitch-mastodon instance that lets you save your atproto did:plc value alongside your account since I didn't want to have to go through and add an individual TXT record everytime I make a new bot account. Then, I added an endpoint to my instance at username.domain/.well-known/atproto-did which retrieves that DID value. And since @snarfed.org recently updated BridgyFed to let you set custom domain handles on bridged accounts, I can set the DID:PLC in the account settings and then dm the bridgy account and get the handle updated on the bluesky side.

A tale of two prototypes

https://privacy.thenexus.today/a-tale-of-two-prototypes-2/

The next installment of Mastodon, two years later

Contents:

• Mastodon 2017 and Glitch 2017
• A BDFL gets to do what he wants
• Flash forward seven years ...
• Seven years later, is Mastodon significantly closer to being a good Twitter alternative?

#fediverse #mastodon #GlitchSoc

🚀 Senior Risk Governance Manager - CIO
🏢 Aviva
📍 Multiple locations

🔗 Apply now: https://totalcyber.io/jobs/aviva/senior-risk-governance-manager-cio

#cyber #cybersecurity #job #mastodon #fediverse #fedihire #fedijobs #getfedhired #infosec #hiring #gethired #joboffer #flossjobs #jobhunt

It makes me sad that some #fediverse and #activitypub
advocates don’t believe a pluriverse of social web protocols is possible;

that’s literally all the web has ever been. Additive, composable stacks.

It was never that *one* protocol. It’s the mixing and matching of multiple protocols - like http+html ad infinitum - that makes the World Wide Web so resilient.

Plurality is the web’s superpower; the more you fight it the more the pluralists will route around you instead of with and through you.

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 90

This week's news
- The Fediverse Schema Observatory is a new tool to help interoperability
- the botsin.space server will shut down
- Add monetisation to federated WordPress blogs with @subclub
- You can now set custom handles on fediverse accounts that are bridged to Bluesky

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-90/

Are there any ActivityPub projects that do anything with Location? I think Pixelfed lets you assign a location to a post and I'm sure Flohmarkt needs to use location for a lot of what it does.

I ask because when I went to get lunch today the whole road was shutdown about a quarter mile away from where I work with a dozen police vehicles surrounding the area- it'd be interesting to have location based news articles when a local news org has the exact location of an event that could just show up on my maps or something.

Even outside of the news space, Google maps uses their restaurant reviews and places those on their map, I'm not sure if we have a yelp-like service on the fediverse yet but it'd be neat

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 59F at Logan Airport and visibility is 6 mi.

Prosecutors are seeking a 17 year term for Jack Teixeira, a US Airman who leaked classified documents about Ukraine into a Discord chat with video gaming buddies.

In a blow for #Halloween spirit, children in Des Moines, IA will trick or treat on on Hallooween for the first time since *checks notes* 1938.

5 days remain until the US election.

it's takeout time:

I am publishing a small #ActivityPub / #fediverse project: https://fietkau.software/webfinger_canary and @canary 🙂

It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.

So this project, aimed at devs and power users, is part test case, part feature recommendation/advocacy. The bot's website at https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ has all the details.

It's been a busy year at Newsmast for The Newsmast Foundation team, but we've done a lot!

We've actually done too much to fit it into one post 👀

So, we broke out the video editing skills... hope you like it!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialWeb #FediDev #SocialMedia #BuildInPublic

"The thing with building in a decentralised space is that it's constantly changing. That can be hard to keep up with but, personally, I love it.

Instead of one omnipotent platform, multiple projects build, launch, grow, fail, side-by-side. It's kind of romantic."

Looking back at a year of Newsmast and decentralised social media

https://forbetter.ghost.io/hope-the-power-of-a-year/

#SocialMedia #Decentralised #Open #Fediverse #Mastodon #Blog #X #Threads #Bluesky #SocialWeb

I thought I'd share one of my recent landscapes, hope you enjoy!

"Moonrise" - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/moonrise-peggy-collins.html

#moon #landscape #landscapes #mountains #blue #art #arte #buyintoart #ayearforart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart #fullmoon

It’s our birthday! |The best thing that’s happened over a year of @newsmast on the Fediverse is the network of friends and allies we've made. Thank you everyone!

We’re celebrating with a big upgrade to our Foundation website, highlighting what we're going to be working on in the coming year. We can’t wait to see what the next year brings.

https://www.blog-pat.ch/our-birthday/

#Fediverse #Newsmast
#SocialMedia

Someone joined our Discord to post that @vidzy was a better alternative to Loops.

It's not a competition on the fediverse, because no matter where you are, everyone wins.

I love supporting fellow #fediverse projects, and look forward to working with the Vidzy team on federation and potentially a universal API so clients will be interoperable with both Loops and Vidzy.

You should follow them, they need more visibility ❤️

Foreign Trolls and Bots are a problem on social media and the Fediverse is not immune so here are two links to help you identify them:

On of the links is interactive so you can test your skill.

#SocialMedia #Election #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bot #Troll

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-do-i-spot-fake-social-media-accounts-bots-and-trolls/a-60313035

This one is interactive:

https://spotthetroll.org/start
Deutsche Welle · Jan 3, 2022
How to spot fake s

Create personalized feeds for your community with Social Reader—no accounts, no ads, no algorithms, just pure content. Give your followers real control and agency.

#SocialReader #Fediverse

https://distributed.press/2024/10/29/escape-the-algorithm-meet-social-reader-your-personal-feed/

A new release of TootSDK - 11.0.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/11.0.0

What's changed:

- Instance v2 @dale_price
- Update README with related work @konstantin

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 49F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

Brush fires are still creating smoky conditions north and east of Boston. Much of Massachusetts is currently at an elevated fire risk.

Timothée Chalamet crashed his own lookalike contest after the crowded event was shut down by police.

Six days remain until the US election. #uspol

You're voting.

Happy National Cat Day! This is another attempt at creating an image that looks like a 3D quilt...

ARTWORK - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/little-abner-in-the-flower-garden-2-peggy-collins.html

#nationalcatday #caturday #cat #cats #abstract #art #arte #pets #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #buyintoart #ayearforart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

posting yet another little thing, this time about a prevalent problem in the AP world: "view more replies on {origin instance}", AKA the "source of truth" problem (as I've dubbed it).

https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l7mnsf7p2s27

#activitypub #atproto #fediverse #tech #technology #protocols

Twitter’s decline has sparked interest in alternatives like #Bluesky, #Threads, and #Mastodon. In my latest video, I dive into what these platforms offer and how they stack up after a year away from Twitter. Watch here: https://youtu.be/lKnMtZTI_9E?si=C4-UaBI1IQBM7VG6 #Youtube #Fediverse #opensource

 🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 46F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

A brushfire blazed overnight, lighting up the sky over Salem, MA as the city braces for the Halloween onslaught.

A Trump rally at Madison Square Garden featured racist comments about Puerto Rico.

Some Apple AirPods can be used as hearing aids after a software update released Monday.

7 days remain until the US election. #uspol.

Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt

Yesterday, I set up an instance of flohmarkt on a Raspberry Pi, to experiment with a self-hosted, federated "fleamarket" system, for advertising some old tech stuff that really needs a new home.

It's alpha, and has a few rough edges, so perhaps my notes will help:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/10/setting-up-my-federated-fleamarket-with-flohmarkt/

Thanks to everyone who helped test it!

#fedimeta #fediverse #flohmarkt #selfhosting #RaspberryPi

On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩‍🚀

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-fediverse-has-empowered-me-to-take-back-control-from-big-tech-now-i-want-to-help-others-do-the-same/

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education

Good morning 🌞

This feels like a special week for The Newsmast Foundation...

Keep an eye on our socials because there's a lot on the way! 👀

#Fediverse #Newsmast #Mastodon #Monday

Poll: how would you describe Mastodon and the migration from Twitter that started in late 2022 after the acquisition?

(You can check more than one reponse. Or, if you've got other descriptions, please leave them in the comments)

For my take, see Mastodon could have leaned into what it's good at

@fediversenews

#mastodon #fediverse

Mastodon, two years later

https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-two-years-later/

A continuation of Mastodon: a partial history

#mastodon #fediverse

The alpha version of Raels is now hosted at https://raels.online #fediverse #ActivityPub #tiktok
This is ALPHA software, expect bugs, problems, account deletion, etc.

Bugs, breakthroughs and BlueSky. #fediverse #ghost

https://activitypub.ghost.org/bugs-breakthroughs-and-bluesky-2/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into THE FEDIVERSE VS. CORPORATE SOCIAL MEDIA @the-fediverse-vs-corporate-social-media-mobileatom

These stats seem wrong. The number of active monthly #GoToSocial users seems really low -- I can't be one of 65 month active GoToSocial users.

https://gotosocial.fediverse.observer/stats

#fediverse

Question for something I’m writing: would it be possible for Substack to make substack Notes (its twitter like feature within the Substack app) part of the fediverse?

I’m wondering if this is something that’s technically possible or not and I don’t know enough about how the fediverse operates to know if it would be feasible. #fediverse

I noticed my recent posts say "1 boost" but when I look to see who boosted them, it says there's no boosts. 🤔 I never got a notification for them. What could be causing that?

(Will it happen to this post?)

edit: well no boost on this one yet... it looks like it's my #Ideon posts. I use a bunch of hashtags on those, maybe one is getting picked up by a bot?

#test #boosts #fediverse

Plenty of posts recently questioning whether BlueSky is actually a decentralised, federated social network like the Fediverse.

(Yes, the following description of ATproto is a gross oversimplification. I realise this. Bear with me a moment.)

Basically, under BlueSky's AT Protocol, you can opt to have your data hosted on your own personal data server (PDS). But these servers all need to connect to a central relay, and at present the only central relay is BlueSky.

Any account that follows Bridgy Fed @bsky.brid.gy also gets federated into the Fedi.

Now.

Let me introduce you to WhiteWind. https://whtwnd.com/

What's WhiteWind?

It's a longform blogging platform, where all your blog posts are saved to your BlueSky PDS.

So right now, today, you can set up your own PDS. Allow BSky access and store your BSky posts in it. And also grant WhiteWind access and allow WhiteWind to store its files there.

And any BlueSky posts replying to your WhiteWind blogs are visible — on WhiteWind.

So potentially, in the future, you could be storing data from multiple social networks and apps — including photos and videos — in your PDS.

In effect, federating across multiple networks doesn't happen at the level of BlueSky. It happens at the level of your account.

#Fediverse #BlueSky #ATproto #ActivityPub #BSky