Nice to see the Pleroma team getting an NLNet grant so development can pick back up. I missed it when it happened but apparently there was a big shakeup with the Pleroma dev team. I'm glad they seem to be recovering from that and hopefully we'll see some sustained progress with Pleroma again.
In a crowded space of Twitter competitors, a friendly and beloved platform closed its doors. One of the creators now runs a Mastodon instance.
We've made a special spooky playlist for Halloween! Come check out a hand-picked selection of awesome and unusual songs by Fediverse musicians!
When Twitter changed hands and Mastodon had its 15 minutes of fame, on October 2022, it seemed that we were on the verge of a digital revolution based on Act...
Who is the admin of this instance? I've send several emails using https://kbin.social/contact with no reply. Is this instance not moderated or what?
Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?
Firefish is a new Fediverse social platform with a beautiful design, cool features, and great tools for your feed. It has a lot of potential to grow.
While Mastodon has many, many different kinds of microblogging clients, Audon dares to instead flirt with online talk spaces, and it's fantastic.
Whenever I see a run of spam posts on the fediverse, Iβve taken to looking at the usernames behind them. Nine times out of ten, they turn out to be from kbin instances. Hereβs a recent example:...
Now that WordPress supports ActivityPub, anyone know of any good AP-enabled blogs worth following?
The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com.
And all the arguing in the world won't change the way things are going. ActivityPub isn't the standard. People want to be Mastodon-compatible, not ActivityPub-compatible. Much of what Mastodon is doing isn't part of ActivityPub, it's their own API.
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/6892121...
idkfa works by creating a two sided proxy. The frontside is public internet facing, and presents a single AP actor. The backside is intranet facing, communicating with a cornucopia of mastohonkoma servers. As activities pass through idkfa it rewrites them to ensure the actor and id fields are consistent. It also handles Follow...
I want fediverse iceberg, I think this will be help found out and understand about fediverse more, this can be useful for normies...
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/6400367...
In October 2022, Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter. Almost a year later and we have witnessed the gutting of the content moderation department, a huge increase in hate speech, and in real terms the end to API-based researcher access to data. Twitter (or βXβ) isnβt just unfriendly but actually unsafe for many...
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...
The open source, decentralized social network Mastodon is releasing an update designed to make it easier for users to use the platform.
It's now possible for WordPress blogs to use ActivityPub to talk to the rest of the Fediverse. Here's some tips and tricks to get started.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5198221...
