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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.

#fediverse #fediversereport #technology #news #tech #technews #opensource

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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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!

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New: on Mostr, the bridge between and the , that has just gotten an upgrade.

With the bridge, connections between the two networks become easier, and the borders of what the fediverse is become fuzzier. But not everyone might be interested in the connection, however.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/bridging-nostr-and-the-fediverse/

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Last Week in - ep 46

This week's news:

  • NLnet funds a variety of fediverse projects
  • has released there latest version with a variety of new features
  • has published their recap for 2023

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-46/

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Last Week in - ep 45

  • Mastodon starts work on improving the reply culture
  • @Flipboard takes the next steps on the social web
  • Updates on fediverse projects supported by Nivenly

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-45/

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If you want to receive these updates during the week directly into your fediverse feed, you can follow me at @LaurensHof. The WordPress blog has been connected to the fediverse for a while now, but I'm starting to make more active use of it.

Here is how this looks in Phanpy, for example: https://phanpy.social/#/indieweb.social/s/111460628402404033

All of these shorter articles will also be boosted from this account to make things even easier, so they'll just show up in your microblogging client of choice.

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I'll be at today and tomorrow. Hit me up if you're also there!

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Last Week in - ep 43

  • Dutch Public Broadcasting organisation NPO joins the fediverse
  • German news outlet Heise Online reflects on a year on
  • An update on Tumblr, casting doubts on the platform joining the fediverse in the near future
  • October update on

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-43/

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Last Month in - 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 at the IETF
  • A high-profile case of impersonation of the Kyiv Independent

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

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@spudart Mastodon does not have any system in place to warn against fake accounts. Most servers either ban them, or defederate from servers who do not ban impersonator accounts

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Last Week in - ep 42

  • Pebble shuts down, with some interesting reflections on building social networks. There's also a new Mastodon server for Pebble users as an experiment
  • Mastodon gives some updates towards the next update, as well as a timeline on quote posts (expect it in first half of 2024)
  • reflections.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-42/

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Last Week in - 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/

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Last Week in Fediverse - episode 39

  • WordPress.com sites can now connect to the fediverse!
  • The journa.host server transfers ownership, and with it, come some interesting questions about the responsibilities of managing a server
  • IFTAS releases their report on the assessment of the needs of fediverse moderators

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-39/

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With the excellent news that all accounts on WordPress.com can now connect with the fediverse, it seems like a good moment to mention that Fediverse Report has had this feature enabled for a while as well.

You can follow me directly at @LaurensHof to see all the blog posts directly in your fediverse feeds.

Announcement blog for WordPress.com: https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

Announcement post: https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/111217236362579201

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I've also started a personal blog about decentralised social networks more broadly, with the ActivityPub plugin enabled. You can follow me there at @laurenshof

Enabling a fediverse connection on your WordPress blog allows for an interesting short-ish form of writing:

  • Space for your own thoughts and arguments, moving beyond just a hot take
  • Keeping it slightly limited so it fits well within the structure of microblogging
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Last Week in - ep 38

  • releases their annual report for 2022, providing an interesting insight in their financials, as well as what they accomplished last year. The amount of work they managed with the means they have is absolutely impressive.
  • Work on the closed beta for mozilla.social server continues, with some interesting glimpses of their plans.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-38/

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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/

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@Teri_Kanefield Yes, but with a pretty big asterisk added to that.

The protocols for Bluesky and Mastodon are different, and do not intrinsically allow for communication between them.

The protocols are also open source however, and that allows for smart people like @snarfed.org@snarfed.org to build their own connection between the networks. He's currently working on connecting the 2 networks, so that you can see posts made on Bluesky in Mastodon and visa versa.

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@Teri_Kanefield @snarfed.org@snarfed.org

His latest update (https://snarfed.org/2023-10-06_bridgy-fed-status-update-7) shows already how far along this is, and that is without the Bluesky protocol being 'finished', it does not even federate yet. As soon as Bluesky is finished and is really a decentralised protocol, I'd expect that there is a functional connection between both Mastodon and Bluesky. That won't really happen as long as Bluesky is still invite-only, but pretty soon after I'd guess.

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@Teri_Kanefield @snarfed.org@snarfed.org

The best comparison is between Mastodon and Nostr. Both are also separate networks that officially do not communicate with each other. However, there is a fully functional 'bridge', which allows you to follow people (and comment etc) who are on the Nostr network directly from your Mastodon account, and visa versa.

I'd expect something similar to happen between Bluesky and the fediverse as well.

Great question btw, and sorry for the long answer haha

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@peterbutler theyve given an extremely informal and very rough guess as to EOY for when their internal infrastructure is ready to handle 10M accounts. So I doubt its before EOY. Beyond that, I have no idea.

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Last Week in , ep 37

The news of this week:

  • Mark Zuckerberg talks about and interoperability of social networks
  • started as a way to find spam servers on , and is now quickly expanding into the wider fediverse to become a crowd-sourced place to exchange information about other fediverse servers
  • government of the German state of Saxony joins the fediverse
  • A blogging resurgence

Read it at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-37/

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@nichu42 Yes, I talk about that in the article, but I agree it's not clear from this post, so I'll edit that in. Thanks!

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Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview with The Verge this week, talking about a wide variety of topics. He made some interesting comments on and , touting the advantages of interoperability, and told us that he has "always believed in this stuff".

In this article I take a deeper, critical look at the arguments that Mark Zuckerberg presents, and the implications for the rest of the .

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/zuckerberg-on-threads-and-activitypub/

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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

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On agency: "So, in a way, I actually think people will feel better about using our products if they know that they have the choice to leave."

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This thread is just to highlight some of the things that Mark Zuckerberg has said that relate to the fediverse in some way. In next Sunday's episode of Fediverse Report I'll dive deeper into this interview. You can find it at fediversereport.com

The interview was done by the excellent @alexeheath

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