I actually have no idea how many boosts and favs some of the most successful posts get here in the Fediverse, because my instance shows a fraction of them no matter how successful they are. But guess what? I don’t care! It’s the best part here, to effectively unlearn that like-craving social media trait.
Everyone likes ”likes”, but in here it happens in our own terms and overall the metrics don’t really matter in the end.
Auf der Suche nach einem Publikum gehen einige Medien den Schritt ins Fediverse. Ein Versuch, unabhängiger von den großen Gatekeepern zu werden.
An interesting news week, that fits Newsmast’s description of the fediverse as a hub for the social web: the trend for the fediverse is clearly in the direction of how other products and platforms can be connected together in order to form a larger network.
The News
Digiday writes “why publishers are preparing to federate their sites“, and in the article they break the news that both 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.” The Verge has been interested in the fediverse for a while now, and 404 Media are also active users. Both sites are very aware of the risks that come from depending on Big Tech platforms for reaching their audience, and are looking to secure that connection without an intermediary. The Verge has been working on switching to using WordPress, but it is not clear if they will be using the current ActivityPub plugin or are developing their own solution. The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel said in response to Ghost’s announcement earlier this month that The Verge is also interested in having paid newsletters that connect to the fediverse. The interest of 404 Media to connect to the fediverse is directly linked to Ghost as well, as their site runs on Ghost.
Newsmast has posted an update on how the fediverse can be “a hub for the social web”, and how Newsmast can play a role in that. Newsmast is focused on bridging, and how connections between differnet platforms, products and protocols can all be connected to form a larger social web, in which the fediverse can function as a central hub. As a first step, the communities on Newsmast now start featuring posts by people on Bluesky and Threads as well.
Openvibe is a social media client that supports both Nostr and Mastodon. The client was originally for Nostr, but now fully supports Mastodon, and is working on adding support for Bluesky next. What stands out about the way Openvibe supports multiple networks is that Openvibe tries to integrate multiple platforms into a single experience. This means that you can have a single timeline on your homescreen that combines both posts from Nostr and Mastodon. Posting also allows you to easily post to both networks at the same time. There have been clients that allow you to connect multiple accounts before, but Openvibe’s vision of integrating different networks into a single feed represents a new steps towards how the different decentralised social networks relate to each other.
Another update by Bridgy Fed on improvements towards the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky. Last week the news got picked up that the bridge was used to spam Bluesky with pro-Trump messages that originated from Nostr, and Bridgy Fed is now working on implementing spam filters.
Bart Decrem, co-founder of Mastodon app Mammoth, offers a 10k USD seed funding for anyone to build a DeviantArt alternative on top of ActivityPub. This comes after a recent article by Slate about “The Tragic Downfall of the Internet’s Art Gallery”, explaining how bots with AI generated content have overrun the revenue-sharing programs of the platform. Decrem focuses on the community aspect of DeviantArt, saying that “the critical thing here is to truly understand what DA is/was all about, what this community needs”.
The Links
FediVision 2024 is live, with musicians all over the fediverse sending in over 70 tracks in a song contest.
Owncast creator Gabe Kangas wrote a blog post marking four years of fediverse streaming platform Owncast.
Vivaldi hosted a community talk “Why does being on the Fediverse matter to us?”. Notably they used fediverse audio platform Audon.space for the talk, which integrates with ActivityPub.
Let’s take a brief moment and gather for our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and discuss what we have planned for our day.
I’m starting my day with coffee of course and watching the Monaco GP. Hoping Leclerc can get a win. Rest of the day is pretty clear. I do have to do some school work as Monday is the last day for the current class.
Die offizielle Programm-App zur #rp24: Stellt euch euren persönlichen Programm-Zeitplan zusammen, erhaltet News und Updates sowie alle Infos zu unseren Sprecher*innen, den Locations & Partnern!
⚠️ Wichtiger Hinweis: Wenn ihr noch die App vom vergangenen Jahr auf dem Handy habt oder sie erst kürzlich heruntergeladen habt, aktualisiert diese bitte, damit sie für das aktuelle Programm startklar ist! ⚠️
@republica Fürs #fediverse fehlen da aber zwei wichtige Hinweise: ⚠️ Nur bei Datensammelkonzernen verfügbar ⚠️ Proprietäre Software, leider keine freie Lizenz 😞 Wenn schon App-Store für Android, dann bitte #fdroid oder #IzzyOnDroid ;-)
#neuhier
hello fediverse^^,
es hat also geklappt, einen Account im Fediverse einzurichten.^^
Kurz zu mir: ich arbeite „irgendwas mit Medien“ und freue mich auf spannende Beiträge sowie auf anregenden Austausch, sofern erwünscht und möglich.
OMG if you use a hashtag that is used by marginalized people for their community conversations and they ask you to consider not using it because you yourself are not a member of that community, say thank you and consider editing your post, don't double down
Wir möchten die Einwohner:innen überparteilich und unabhängig als starke Kraft neben #Lokalpolitik und #Stadtverwaltung sichtbar und relevant machen, um damit das gemeinsame Ziel – die Zukunft Bottrops – auf Augenhöhe mitzugestalten. (1/3)
Hallo, ich bin #neuhier, Wirtschaftspädagoge und -didaktiker und interessiere mich für #OER und #Vernetzung. @nele und @joerglohrer haben mich auf der #OERimblick nicht nur zu #OER, sondern auch zu Social Media Aktivitäten inspiriert 🤗