Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter (lemmy.world)
@beheerder
Developer of RedReader (a reddit app with 100k downloads on play store) is considering porting it to Lemmy or Mastodon (old.reddit.com)
The content of the reddit post:...
A Call to Action: Universities of the World, Join the Fediverse! (netzpolitik.org)
Ernest seems thirsty (www.buymeacoffee.com)
Maybe someone should post this link every day for the foreseeable future because I think it’s gonna be a sleepless week for the Fediverse, but a great one as well....
Reddit perma-banning account promoting Lemmy has Streisand effect (news.ycombinator.com)
As Reddit's enshittification reaches new heights their attempts to suppress attention for alternatives, like federated Lemmy, has the opposite effect as this Hacker News discussion shows.
Wikimedia Foundation joins the fediverse (wikimedia.social)
Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server (fediversereport.com)
The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.
Multiple lemmy instances are getting hit with a js injection
Lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone have been hit with a JavaScript injection attack it seems.
Pixelfed is adding a Sign In with Mastodon option
3 days until reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy users drive 985% surge with 5.7 million daily comments this month (lemmy.world)
From 528k daily comments on June 1, 2023 to 5.7 million daily comments on June 27, 2023....
There's no karma? [OC] (lemmy.world)
Not gonna tell you what to do, but here is the post on Reddit....
As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users (techcrunch.com)
4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1400% this month (lemmy.world)
From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023....
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
It's really important for those of us who've lived through previous megacorp attacks on free software ecosystems to TEACH that history....
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
What happened to Vivaldi Social? (thomasp.vivaldi.net)
A deep dive into the events of Saturday 8 July 2023, when user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance.
Theory: the only reason Meta cares about the fediverse / ActivityPub is so that threads isn't labeled a "gatekeeper" under the EU's new "Digital Markets Act" (yiffit.net)
Links to source articles below....
Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (privacy.thenexus.today)
I'm changing my stance on the whole Meta/project92 thing after reading this article. I think the entire* fediverse should block project92 by default. Later, some instances can re-evaluate whether to maintain those blocks, once we have a better idea of what the benefits and consequences of federating will be:...
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps (techcrunch.com)
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)
“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...
The many branches of the Fediverse (discuss.tchncs.de)
Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_branches_1.2.png#mw-jump-to-license
Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives? (www.pcmag.com)
Love Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out Lemmy and Kbin, two open-source fediverse alternatives that are growing fast.
Best thread I've seen thus far on the issue of Meta joining the Fediverse (social.coop)
Lemmy.world grew by about 40% on the first day of reddit migration (lemmy.world)
Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!...
