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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 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, 11 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, 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, 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, 5 months ago to fediverse

Have questions about #PeerTube or want to know more about the team, and where the project is headed?

Next week there will be an Ask Me Anything with the @peertube team, streamed live directly on PeerTube!

I'll be the one to ask the questions to the team. You can already ask your questions right now, use the #PeerTubeAMA hashtag with your question to get them answered live on stream.

The stream will be Wednesday, Dec. 13th, 6-8 pm (CET)

You don't want to miss this!

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, 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, 10 months ago to kbin

#Kbin is growing fast, and its new community is coming together to crowdsource their own unofficial mascot. Animal themed mascots are common in the #fediverse, so it is no surprise that Kbin has continued this tradition, with a parrot.

The community has settled on this mascot after multiple iterations and polls. Now the final question is: what will the mascot be named?

The final options are between Kibby, Bink or Kebin. You can vote here: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/137236/FINAL-NAME-POLL-Kibby-vs-Kebin-vs-Bink

fediversereport, 5 months ago to random

New: Last Week in Fediverse - ep 48

A busy week, with two projects starting to federate:

• Discourse
• Threads

As well as:

• PeerTube releasing their plans for the new year
• Lemmy getting a major new update, with new features that help visibility for smaller communities

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-48/

fediversereport, 8 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in the #Fediverse - ep 35

Main news of the week:

• Swiss government starts their own #Mastodon server
• The SWICG has talks about restructuring
• Doubts about the moderation tools and governance of Lemmy
• The #activitypub plugin for #wordpress is officially released

Read at https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/

fediversereport, 11 months ago to fediverse

The admin for misskey.io has put out a call for people to apps for Misskey that work with both iOS and Android. They offer a bounty of 800k Yen (~€ 5350) per person for building these apps.

The Japanese #fediverse community is growing rapidly, mainly using Misskey. Misskey.io is now by far the busiest server on the fediverse, publishing twice the amount of posts/month that mastodon.social does (while m.s. has 6x more users!)

https://misskey.io/notes/9fgufm6o18

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, 9 months ago to random

Meet NLnet, the foundation supporting many fediverse projects

The NLnet foundation supports projects 'with ideas to fix the internet'. You might recognise some of the names: Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, PeerTube, Pixelfed and Pleroma all have had funding from NLnet.

I visited their office in Amsterdam to help you get to know foundation, what they do, and how they support the open internet, including the fediverse.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/meet-nlnet/

fediversereport, 4 months ago to random

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, 3 months ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse ep 54

• The #Lemmy developers host an AMA, talking about decentralisation, platform identity and a roadmap
• @nodebb talks about how they are thinking about what federating forums actually means, and how their implementation of #ActivityPub will look like
• Project Tapestry by @Iconfactory is a Kickstarter to build an App that gives you a single chronological feed from a variety of sources, such as #mastodon, #bluesky and #rss

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-54/

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, 5 months ago to fediverse

New: Flipping the Federation Switch: Flipboard joins the fediverse

#Flipboard has joined the fediverse this week, with the first selection of Flipboard accounts now fully interacting with the #fediverse. I spoke with @mike to learn more.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/flipping-the-federation-switch-flipboard-joins-the-fediverse/

fediversereport, 4 months ago to fediverse

PeerTube plans for 2024

In this article I take a look at @Framasoft plans for 2024 for PeerTube, with some new information from the AMA from recently as well. Learn more about what makes #PeerTube an alternative, not a rival, to Big Tech, their plans for a mobile app, redesign, and more!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/peer-into-the-future-peertubes-plans-for-2024/

fediversereport, 10 months ago to threads

In the many discussions about #threads promise to add #activitypub support, regulations such as the #DMA and the #DSA, as well as the Canadian Online News Act have come up.

In this piece I dive deep into the specific articles of the Acts to see if they might impact Meta's decision making.

Read it at
https://fediversereport.com/making-sense-of-threads-and-regulation/

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, 10 months ago to random

Last Week in the Fediverse - ep 26

All the news of last week in the fediverse, split out by topic: Threads, Microblogging, Lemmy/Kbin and other protocols.

Stand outs:

• Adam Mosseri says Threads is not interest in hard news and politics
• Dutch government about to launch a Mastodon server
• A new search engine for Lemmy
• Bluesky plans to make money by letting you buy custom domains names you can use as handle

Read more at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-26/

fediversereport, 22 days ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - 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 #Activitypub 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, 3 months ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse, ep 52

• Dutch Government @avhuffelen urges Threads to quickly implement federation
• @owncast releases an app for iOS and tvOS, after struggles with getting it approved by Apple
• the term 'fediverse' is becoming enough of a buzzword to get metaverse companies interested
• @agora is a fediverse app with a For You algorithm, and build-in support for bridges

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-52/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 60

The fediverse continues its trend of rebuilding popular large platforms, but with #activitypub. 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 #asstodon, and much more news this week.

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