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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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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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Zuckerberg says that he has always believed in decentralized social media protocols, but that it's too complicated to implement it in Facebook. He says that the opportunity cost of transitioning an existing platform is too big. Threads is different, because they are starting from scratch.

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Here, Zuckerberg's view is that interoperability improves the value of all products. He's positioning Threads here to compete with other products based on the quality of the product and not on exclusivity of content.

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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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The German state of Saxony has started their own 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

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I personally find it interesting to see that the agency originally started with their own account on the federal German government server ( https://social.bund.de/explore ), and have now decided to spin up their own server for the state of Saxony. It illustrates how the government servers can function as as example for others to follow and start their own social media servers.

https://social.sachsen.de/@sdtb/111130251537346896

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h/t to @gunchleoc for the tip, thanks!

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Last Week in - ep 36

Been a busy week, with:

  • , with tons of cool demos and interesting sessions
  • 4.2 has officially launched
  • After reporting on the CSAM attacks at a few weeks, new tools are being developed to help admins deal with this. One example is scanning images with generative AI, that can run locally on an admin's GPU, without uploading images anywhere.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-36/

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A short writeup of this week's @fediforum

https://fediversereport.com/fediforum-september-2023/

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@fediforum Cool, thanks! I've updated the article to mention that, and will post the link there as well once they're out.

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the full notes of all the sessions are now available here

https://fediforum.org/2023-09/

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Last Week in the - ep 35

Main news of the week:

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

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

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@askans Hey, thanks for letting me know, appreciate it! I need to do an accessibility check on the website, and will also change this

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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

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We now have the following national governments with a Mastodon server:

As well as the EU with

Let's hope that other countries will follow this design pattern, and all launch a fediverse server at social.[governmentwebsite].[TLD]. Following this pattern makes it immediately clear to people they are communicating with an official government account.

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Last Week in Fediverse - episode 34

The news of this week:

Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-34/

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Last Week in Fediverse – episode 33

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/

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Last Month in Bluesky - August 2023

A new monthly series with the news on . In this edition:

  • Tools to find out who blocks you raise questions about protocol affordances: should you always build a tool just because the protocol allows it?
  • Bluesky is leaning more into it's unique feature of custom feeds, with more than 10k already made.
  • Two types of spam networks seem to be slowly emerging.

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

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A short disclaimer, considering the name Fediverse Report: I do not currently consider Bluesky part of the fediverse. I've written about the multiple meanings of the term fediverse recently in this article:

https://fediversereport.com/the-multiple-meanings-of-fediverse/

However, I think that to fully understand what's happening in the fediverse, having context on what is happening on other decentralized protocols is valuable. Thus, I want to provide that context and give news on Bluesky as well.

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Last Week in Fediverse - episode 32

The weekly overview of everything that has happened in the :

read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-32/

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  • search is currently available as a beta. At least mastodon.social and mastodon.online have it. If you check your server says 'v4.2.0-beta2' in the bottom left to double check.

If you are interested in how to opt-in, or some of the more advanced features, check out this post by @mastodonmigration : https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110957761613273404

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The multiple meanings of

In this piece I take a look at how you can approach the term fediverse from different perspective, and how they all have different ideas on what the fediverse actually is.

Is the fediverse a group of communities with a specific culture? All software that uses ? Or decentralised social networks that interoperate with each other?

read at: https://fediversereport.com/the-multiple-meanings-of-fediverse/

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@fediversereport

https://indieweb.social/@elgg/110935788574406956

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@django interesting, thanks for the tag!

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Last Week in the - 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/

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@maegul Yeah thats a good point, thanks!

It's definitely a subject I want to come back to in the future, there is a lot more to be said around it. Like you said, the dynamics of link aggregators make multiple accounts significantly more logical than it does on microblogging platforms. My expectation is that this might contribute to Lemmy and Kbin splintering into multiple -verses, each with their own identity

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@erlend Yes, that's correct, thanks!

In the case of dbzer0, I choose to simplify it a little bit. The biggest community on dbzer0, !piracy, has over 40k subscribers, while it's second biggest community (!adhd) is only one tenth of the size at 4k subs. So defedding from only the biggest community has an outsized impact on the rest of the server as well.

But for sure, the granularity in defedding is interesting and worth a followup!

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