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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, 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, 9 months ago to fediverse

A quick look at recent developments on the Japanese side of the #fediverse. The summary:

• Misskey.io is growing quickly, more than doubling their accounts in the last month alone, to over 370k.
• To deal with the rapid growth, signups are limited to only Japan
• Misskey.io has officially incorporated itself into MisskeyHQ
• NERV, an earthquake warning app popular in Japan, is leaving its 1.9M X followers and will only post on Mastodon from now on

https://fediversereport.com/misskey-and-the-japanese-fediverse/

fediversereport, 9 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in the #fediverse - episode 30

The highlights:

• Opt-in search is finally coming to #Mastodon
• initial release of the Federation Safety Enhancement Project
• #Misskey organises themselves into a company
• #Lemmy devs held an AMA

Read it at https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-30/

fediversereport, 9 months ago to fediverse

Lemmy ask you anything!

The #Lemmy devs held an AMA this week, answering a large variety of questions from the community. I wrote about some of the themes in their answers, and how the developers think about Lemmy, the fediverse and community.

Read the report at https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything/

fediversereport, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

The lemmy.world (@lwadmin) admins release a statement about the recent reoccurring outages at lemmy.world.

They state that for multiple hours per day, they are under a DDOS attack. The attackers find database queries that are 'expensive' to run, to try and overload the database.

The lemmy.world admins also respond to remarks that lemmy.world is too big, and should close down registration.

https://lemmy.world/post/2923697

fediversereport, 9 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in the #fediverse - episode 29

• The BBC has joined the fediverse, setting up their on Mastodon server. The experiment will run for six months, after which they'll evaluate. There's a variety of different responses, from conversations about blocking, to Threads being excited about this news.
• An extra call with the W3C working group about the Social Web and CSAM. I've noted some of my takeways of this important conversation.

Read more at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-29/

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 fediverse

Last week in the #fediverse episode 27

The highlights:
The Dutch government officially launches their #Mastodon server
Mastodon hits 2m active users, but a dev also reports that there is currently no work being done on big features
A meta engineer joins the #activitypub working group in the W3C

Read more at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-27/

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, 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, 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/

stefan, 10 months ago to threads

Is there any indication at all when #Threads should be getting #ActivityPub support?

liaizon, 10 months ago to memmy

Memmy app is looking to hire an Icon Designer if you know anyone, tag them here!

https://lemmy.ml/post/1707849 @memmy

fediversereport, 10 months ago to threads

Bloomberg also reports that #Threads will not launch in the EU.

Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission said that Threads will not be rolled out in the EU "at this point".

Now, Bloomberg also reports the same, stating that Meta is waiting on more regulatory guidance on the DMA. The EU is expected to give more guidance in September.

Irish DPC: https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html
Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/meta-won-t-offer-threads-app-in-the-eu-on-regulatory-concerns?sref=xuVirdpv?utm_medium%3Dsocial
Bloomberg (archive): https://archive.ph/fQyFT#selection-4203.1-4203.61

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 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, 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/