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fediversereport

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The Fediverse Report is a curated blog, giving you links and context to all the news that is happening in the fediverse.

Every week you get 'Last Week in the Fediverse', with a summary of the relevant news of the week.

Feel free to follow my personal account as well.

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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,
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@bedirthan also on a more practical note, I was planning on writing about Friendica's new Bluesky connector this week as well, so there would have been more of a thematic cohesion between the stories. I simply ran out of time for this week, so that'll come soon

fediversereport,
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@bedirthan hey, thanks for asking!

I write about social networks (beyond just fediverse stuff) more broadly at my personal website, which is where I first published this story about Bluesky (https://laurenshof.online/bluesky-has-3-million-accounts-invites-going-away-soon/ ). I sometimes include stories and coverage from beyond the fediverse in the weekly Fediverse Report when I feel that it has direct impact on the fediverse.
Bluesky saying they'll remove the invite system soon is one of those cases, so thats why I included it in this weeks update

fediversereport, to bluesky
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Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the 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,
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Bluesky also crossed the mark for 5 million accounts today.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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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,
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If you want more information on how Bluesky works and what a PDS is, I wrote an explainer of the technical terms here:

https://fediversereport.com/how-bluesky-works-the-network-components/

thisismissem, to random
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Latest dotSocial podcast has me wondering if it'd be cool to be able to have Administrators create "topics" in Trending and support inviting specific people to be curators of those topics on the local mastodon instance?

cc @mike

fediversereport,
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@mike @rysiek @thisismissem

check out @newsmast, they are going big on curated feeds, and doing some really cool work. They're about to release more updates and are working on API support as well. I'll be writing more about it next week

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New: opens network, making it a massive hit in Japan

Bluesky's network grew by 50% in the last two days, adding 1.5million accounts since dropping the invite codes. The surge of popularity and interest seems to come mainly from Japan, with large popular Japanese accounts coming over.

Bluesky also talks more about their plans to make money, and how they will start with federation this month. With that, bridges to the become possible.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-opens-the-network/

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Small note: if you check feeds like 'Discovery' and wonder what the hell I'm talking about with all these Japanese posts: make sure that all languages are checked in your settings. AFAIK if you are not Japanese it is most likely turned off by default, making it that you don't see posts in Japanese.

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Last Week in Fediverse - ep 50

  • The massive response to the launch of RSS Parrot, a new tool which allows you to view RSS feeds in your fediverse account, showcases the large demand for better integration of the fediverse with RSS
  • an uncertain future for Firefish
  • Authorized Fetch has been circumvented
  • PieFed, a new link-aggregator platform launches

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-50/

fediversereport,
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With a bonus shoutout for all the scuba divers on the fediverse: diveDB is a web app that allows scuba divers to track their dives. The site has now added ActivityPub support, so you can follow all your favourite scuba divers (?) directly from your fediverse app

piefedadmin, to python

https://piefed.social is running, please make an account and give it a try!

There will be bugs, probably many bugs. When you see one, please reply to the welcome email you received, with info about it, or report it in the issue queue. Let’s catch ’em all!

developers are invited to check out the code repository at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi. In coming days I’ll write better setup instructions and put together a code walk-through screencast.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/01/05/piefed-begins-beta-test/

fediversereport,
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@piefedadmin congratulations on the launch!

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Last Week in - ep 70

This week's news:

  • The Verge and 404 Media are preparing to add federation to their news sites
  • @newsmast starts adding and accounts into their communities to create a hub in the social web
  • Combining and in a single feed with the app @openvibe
  • A 10k seed funding bounty for building DeviantArt on

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/

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New: Last Week in - ep 56

  • Discourse around a potential bridge between the fediverse and . The proposed bridge between the networks featured opt-out mechanism, but after an intense backlash by the community, changes towards a more opt-in nature are being made.
  • The @BBCRD extends their Mastodon trial
  • @Flipboard expands their fediverse integration, with over 1000 curated magazines now available via

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-56/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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Last Week in - ep 60

The fediverse continues its trend of rebuilding popular large platforms, but with . This week two projects were announced to be in development:

  • Loops, a platform for short-form video
  • Ibis, a federated version of Wikipedia

also a fascinating paper about the hashtag , and much more news this week.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-60/

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New: Last Week in - ep 62

This week's news:

  • @mobilizon changes ownership away from Framasoft, but development will continue
  • An overview of the current work on cross-app podcasts comments with
  • Mastodon.social 'knows' about some 2800 Threads accounts, indicating that the amount of people on Threads who have turned on federation is in the couple of thousands.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-62/

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New: Last Week in - ep 67

This week's news:

  • Opt-in bridge between Bluesky and the fediverse silently launches for testing
  • A new version for @peertube, with some new plugins as well
  • More federation: this time between Discourse and WordPress, with Lemmy and NodeBB being worked on as well

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-67/

fediversereport, to random
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New: Lemmy Ask You Anything (again)

The Lemmy developers held another AMA this week (https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519 ), and in this article I go over some of the answers that stood out to me. They gave answers about platform identity, why decentralisation matters for a healthy community, more details about their roadmap and funding, as well as a whole lot more.

read at: https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything-again/

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New: Last Week in - ep 65

This weeks news:

  • Interoperability between NodeBB and Discourse set a new way of federation between forums
  • Publishing platform Ghost starts work on adding support
  • testing platform @pubkit launches in closed beta
  • Following podcasts on your fediverse account became even easier with PodcastAP
  • Mastodon has gotten funding to start implementing quote posts

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-65/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Last Week in - ep 66

This week's news:

  • The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
  • Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
  • Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-66/

fediversereport, to random
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is starting, exciting to see so many of you there!

For a live blog, check out @hello at https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/fediforum-live/

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New: Last Week in - ep 69
It's this weeks news, with:
Celebrating the 16th birthday of the fediverse
European Commission sets up their own Mastodon server after the previous fediverse pilot by the EDPS has ended.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/

fediversereport, to random
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New: Last Month in #Bluesky - March 24

  • Stackable moderation is live, and people can subscribe now to third-party labelers
  • Blogging comes to the ATmosphere with WhiteWind, allowing anyone with a Bsky account to blog
  • More information on how Bluesky plans to make money

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-march-24/

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Correction: the original version stated that the Mostr.pub bridge was used for a spam wave on Bluesky. This is incorrect, a different bridge between Nostr and the fediverse, momostr.pink, was used. Mostr.pub creator Alex Gleason explains that the Mostr.pub bridge has anti-spam filtering that would have prevented such as spam attack.

https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/112468656710956489

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New: Last Week in - ep 57

Two major news items this week:

  • the fediverse gets hit with a persistent spam wave, which indicates the current vulnerabilities in the network to such an attack.
  • Bluesky opens up for federation, allowing 3p Personal Data Servers to connect to the network. This starts a new period of experimentation and new projects on the network, which will likely impact the AP-fediverse in a variety of ways that are not yet clear

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-57/

fediversereport, (edited ) to fediverse
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New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 58

This week's news:

  • NodeBB joins the fediverse, expanding the fediverse more into the world of forums!
  • Announcement of the Open Science Network, based on @bonfire

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-58/

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New: Last Week in - ep 59

  • @phanpy has released Catch-Up, a new feature that gives you great control of how you want to view your timeline in a great variety of new ways.
  • Threads' work on continues, and now some people that are not part of Meta also have their posts show up in the fediverse
  • Fedify is a new fediverse server framework that's in development

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-59/

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New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 63

This weeks news:

  • @potus is now posting into the fediverse
  • @vernissage is expanding into a full photo sharing platform
  • @newsmast has a report on the broad variety of communities on the fediverse

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-63/

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New: Last Week in - ep 68

This week's news:

  • Significant interest and use of the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky, even though it is still in active development
  • Ghost gives a first glimpse at their powered reading app

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-68/

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