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fediversereport, 8 months ago to random

The Swiss Government has officially launched their Mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/

In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.

Official press release: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

Speaker of the Swiss Government: @gov

fediversereport, 10 months ago to threads

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, posted a message on #Threads explaining why Meta is committed to adding #ActivityPub support. The reason he lists is the ability to take your social graph to another server.

https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J/

fediversereport, 10 months ago to random

The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server, State Secretary of Digitalisation @avhuffelen announced today! The server lives on the official domain of the Dutch government, at social.overheid.nl.

The Secretary mentions in her announcement a letter to the government explaining her support for 'value-driven alternative social networks', such as Mastodon. For more information on that, check out
https://fediversereport.com/dutch-government-officially-launches-mastodon-server/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to fediverse

Automattic, the company behind WordPress is now the official author of the ActivityPub plugin. This is pretty big news, since it allows every WordPress website to be a potential fediverse server.

In this piece I take a look at the potential impact on #fediverse culture, zooming in on how tagging your WordPress posts makes them show up when you search for a specific hashtag here on the fediverse.

How do you think this will change the fediverse?

@fediversenews
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/wordpress-on-the-fediverse/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to fediverse

Audon is a great real-time audio streaming service for the #fediverse! Think Spaces or Clubhouse, and you pretty much got it. You create a room for audio, where other people can listen to you, or just give them the role of speaker as well.

You can easily log in with your fediverse (Mastodon/Calckey/Pleroma) account, create a room, share the link, and you're ready to go!

Check it out at https://audon.space

Screenshot showing the room itself with my personal account as host and speaker, and this account as listener

fediversereport, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to RedditMigration

Last Week in the Fediverse - ep 23 - An overview of what happened in the fediverse last week

• Background readings on the #redditMigration
• News on the threadiverse; new apps in development, custom styles, and more
• Launch of the spreadmastodon.org website
• Flickr is “definitely still considering” adding ActivityPub support

@fediverse] Lemmy group]

Read it all at: https://fediversereport.com/the-roundup-episode-23/

fediversereport, 4 months ago to random

New: Last Week in Fediverse - ep 51

In this week's news:

• WordPress ActivityPub plugin gets updated to v2.0
• Bluesky hits 3m accounts, invites going away soon
• Podcasting news (including WeDistribute launching a new podcast!)
• And a whole load of other news items, bridges, more information on Thread's roadmap, updates to ActivityPods, and more!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-51/

fediversereport, 7 months ago to random

Mark Zuckerberg: "the more that there’s interoperability between different services and the more content can flow, the better all the services can be"

The Verge just released an interview with Mark Zuckerberg about a wide variety of topics, including Threads and ActivityPub.

You can read the entire interview here, with some of the most relevant parts for the fediverse down below:

https://www.theverge.com/23889057/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-elon-musk-threads-quest-interview-decoder

fediversereport, 2 months ago to bluesky

Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the #bluesky network.

In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.

Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

fediversereport, 10 months ago to fediverse

The developer of Sync, a popular Reddit app for Android, has confirmed that they're building 'Sync for Lemmy'.

The developer confirmed it on Reddit here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14ee1ul/sync_for_lemmy_is_happening/

You can track it in the new Lemmy community here: https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

@fediversenews @fediverse ]

fediversereport, 11 months ago to fediverse

A group of over 40 European organisations have recently released a statement calling for the EU to set up a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund.

They call for this fund to support Digital Public Spaces, that are, among other things, based in FOSS, and ensure privacy by design. The statement gives three examples: #Mastodon, #PeerTube and #ActivityPub, stating that they would benefit from such a fund to further flourish.

Entire statement: https://shared-digital.eu/statement/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to spreadmastodon

There are quite a few tools that help you find interesting accounts to follow. I wrote about how the space has evolved, and these tools have build upon each other. Here's an overview of some of them:

https://fedifollows.fedified.com/ by @DataDrivenMD A curated list with the accounts separated by ~20 topics. Allows 1-click follow, and prioritizes accounts by activity. A good option for new users that want to get started.

⬇️ 1/X

@spreadmastodon

https://fediversereport.com/a-next-generation-of-follow-finders/

fediversereport, 3 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 55

• #Bluesky drops the invite codes, and turns out to be a massive hit in Japan. The network grew by more than 50% in less than a week's time.
• The different federated event planning apps (#mobilizon, #gath.io and Event Federation) are working together for a better unified experience
• @theverge explains the fediverse.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-55/

fediversereport, 3 months ago to bluesky

#Bluesky is ready to open the network.

Starting today, Bluesky will not require invite codes anymore and anyone can join the network. Later this month, the team will roll out an "experimental early version of federation", allowing other people to run their own 'Personal Data Server' (PDS).

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

fediversereport, 8 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in Fediverse – episode 33

#Lemmy has experienced CSAM attacks in the last week, with the material posted on multiple communities for people to see. Due to how federation works on Lemmy, this meant that the images also got send over and stored in the databases of other Lemmy servers. This poses questions and challenges for the admins, among others on how to make sure they are legally compliant.

For this, and other news, read: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-33/

fediversereport, 7 months ago to random

Last Month in Bluesky - September 23

Bluesky is undergoing a period of significant growth: mid September saw the network hitting 1 million accounts, and another 400k in the four weeks since.

Bluesky announced that the architecture for federation is now ready, and said they will start (internal) federation in the next few weeks. They will start federation with new servers (PDS) that are run by the Bluesky team, with open federation coming later.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-september-2023/

fediversereport, 8 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in the #fediverse - episode 31

This week I talk about defederation on Lemmy. Multiple servers have decided to defederate from each other for a variety of reasons. Underlying it all is a culture that has experienced rapid growth recently, and now the hard part of community building is beginning, including figuring out how and when defederation is a good tool to use.

In other news, some more clues on Threads and ActivityPub, and more!

Read it at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-31/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to fediverse

Introducing Fediverse 201, a new series in which I take a deeper dive in all the other cool products and services on the fediverse that go beyond microblogging, and talk to the creators about their product.

In this first edition: Owncast!

#owncast is a free and open source live video streaming server, that can also connect to the rest of the #fediverse in a variety of ways.

Read more at https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-201-owncast/

fediversereport, 7 months ago to mastodon

The German state of Saxony has started their own #mastodon server at https://social.sachsen.de/

The server is intended for the departments and organisations that are part of the government of Saxony.

It is run by the Saxon Data Protection Authority ( @sdtb ), who states:

“I am pleased that I can provide public bodies with a data protection-compliant social network for their public relations work."

https://www.datenschutz.sachsen.de/social-media-sdtb-startet-mit-eigener-mastodon-instanz-6314.html

fediversereport, 6 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 41

• The Verge has some ideas about publishing content, and how this relates to the fediverse
• Can Owncast create new opportunities now that Twitch does not forbid streamers from simultaneously streaming to different platforms?
• Hearts or stars?

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-41/

fediversereport, 9 months ago to random

Last Week in the Fediverse - episode 28

• An extensive report by Stanford on CSAM and Mastodon. As the fediverse grows, so do challenges related to content moderation. How different groups are working on meeting this challenges will be a major story of the near future for the network.
• Bluesky users talk about why they don't use Mastodon, highlighting challenges in curating culture
• Calckey rebrands as Firefish, and spawns new forks

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-28/

fediversereport, 10 months ago to fediversenews

Last Week in the Fediverse - ep 25

Some standouts of this weeks news:

Lemmy and Kbin (the 'threadiverse') have experienced rapid growth over the last two weeks, before yesterday's shutdown of third party apps for Reddit.

Meta's Twitter competitor is named Threads, new screenshots available.

Kolektiva.social's data got seized by the FBI in an (unrelated) raid, after the admin erroneously had left an unencrypted backup on a local drive.

@fediversenews
Read it at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-25/

fediversereport, 15 days ago to bluesky

New: Last Month in #Bluesky - April 2024

Last months news:

• Brazilian president Lula joins Bluesky, and a Portugese community with it
• Skygaze shuts down the popular For You algorithmic feed
• #atproto grant recipients announced

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-april-2024/

fediversereport, 6 months ago to bluesky

Last Month in #Bluesky - October 2023

• The bluesky team has provided a roadmap, indicating plans to fully implement federation in early 2024
• They also talked about housing governance of the #ATProtocol at the IETF
• A high-profile case of impersonation of the Kyiv Independent

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-october-23/

fediversereport, 5 months ago to random

Thank you to all of you who joined the #PeerTubeAMA livestream, this was great fun. Great to see so many people tune in and ask all these questions, thanks a lot!

Link to the VOD will come tomorrow!