Let's all comment below with what our day has in store for us today or what we've already gotten done today.
For me, I only have 5 hours left of work for the day with a meeting from 2 - 3pm and then I'm done for an entire week as I'll be heading to Myrtle Beach, SC for vacation with the wife and the family!
Just some video games throughout the day and evening tonight!
Happy Wednesday! Hope it's a great one for ya! The heat is still incredibly high for this time of year, so it'll be a day of indoor activities and naps. Probably mostly naps. Ha! This evening when it's a bit mire tolerable outside, a hike along the riverbank and watch the sunset. 🙌🙏🎉
"The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites."
If you're not looking at @theverge and @404mediaco as social web platforms that are hosting hand-picked content creators with a publisher's infrastructure, you're not paying attention. #Fediverse
awesome. we have to stop thinking about the fedi as a bunch of decentralized alternatives to the closed platforms, but AP as a social layer on top of the open web. that's where we become a threat to the vulture capitalists. the next step is to integrate the comment handling of lemmy/kbin/reddit. mastodon should do this too.
Good morning #Fediverse peeps! Hope the day is going well for you so far.
Let’s gather for our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and see what we have planned for today or what we’ve accomplished so far.
I’ve got two support calls I have to go do so far today that will probably take a good chunk of my day. This evening will be pretty much be relaxing. I’ll probably get my initial discussion post out of the way for this week and then watch TV.
When we asked the moderator community what resources they’d like IFTAS to work on, one of the most requested items was a way to convene and collaborate with fellow moderators around the world.
We heard requests for things like sharing lessons learned, tips and tricks, technical help with moderation tools, standard terminology, and translation of non-native language content.
Our favourite quote from the Moderator Needs Assessment… “together we are stronger”.
We couldn’t agree more.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of IFTAS Connect, a new community of practice designed specifically for Fediverse moderators. IFTAS Connect aims to provide moderators, community managers and anyone engaged in creating a safer Internet with a wealth of tools, resources, and a supportive network to help them connect, collaborate, and navigate the complexities of federated content moderation. (Read the Press Release here.)
We’ve worked with a broad array of moderators and advisors to kick-start the available resources – and we hope many more will join and contribute their experience.
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In addition we have aggregated news relevant to Fediverse community leaders, a multilingual feature under way to allow for contributed translations, and a wiki-like shared document feature being tested. Read more about the IFTAS Connect account features.
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Are there search engines that work like this: I publish my own list of sites on some topic that it should index.
And then perhaps I compose bigger lists with trusted others?
I googled for federated search but that's about searching the fediverse or federating search engines. I guess I'm looking for a federated search index.
I very occasionally check my formerly-known-as-Twitter account (because every few weeks, someone sends me a DM still).
I'm disheartened to see that there's still so much content over there I miss here, because so many accounts are only on X still - including friends, but also orgs like Amnesty Germany, local initiatives, etc posting different content to different channels, et al. I assume it's the same on BSky.
Don't get me wrong, I love the #fediverse, but I hate missing out.