@fediverse What type of social media do you feel is lacking most in the fediverse?
To elaborate, there are a lot of different types of social media already on the fediverse such as microblogs, regular blogs, image sharing, link sharing and video sharing.
Personally, I'd love to see a gaming-focused social media platform on the fediverse.
A federated #forum software. But most likely there are a couple in the works. There's The Pavilion cooperative working on a plugin for #Discourse and some time ago a #Flarum maintainer told me they are working on adding #ActivityPub support too. And there's #LemmyBB which has forum-like aspects.
A big thing that's lacking at the moment is not so much new platforms, but dedicated instances using the existing Fediverse platforms.
A great example of what I mean is something like Urbanists.video. It's a PeerTube instance dedicated to videos about urban planning, cycling, and transport.
We need more dedicated instances like that for more special interest communities.
Just imagine a PeerTube and LemmyBB instance dedicated to baking. Or Buddhism. Or the global Armenian diaspora. Or folk music. Or quilt makers. Or charity fundraisers. Or particular social issues. Or high school principals. Or a particular university. Or independent short films. Or netball. Or watercolour artists.
The more dedicated communities like that exist, the stronger the Fediverse ecosystem is as a whole.
It’s effectively the web3 alternative to #activitypub . It’s a good North Star for the fediverse to aspirationally build towards.
But I’m only interested in BlueSky insofar as it interoperates with the existing #fediverse .
And I think they recognize that the the fediverse movement & community would turn on them if they cannibalize the existing network instead of adding to it as a friendly & compatible node.
— Decentralized
Like #Mastodon, #Bluesky intents to be decentralized. This means that not Bluesky as a company will be part of it, but others can also join in.
The exciting part is that this is happening on multiple levels: where your data is stored, and how your feed is composed for your timeline.
Note: Right now the devs are working hard on making this happen, while currently everyone invited is on the same server.
@volkris many of the limitations people have with #Mastodon, or the underlying #ActivityPub, haven’t been addressed in years. I read very old blogs already pointing it out.
My best bet a new standard comes along that could be adopted, with the necessary work. I do see a lot of opposition against any new protocol, without trying to understand the need (of progress).
I believe Mastodon and ActivityPub are far from perfect, and we should blindly praise it. But that’s just me.
I realize it's not a popular topic around here, but I fear there's a storm coming if this catches. No matter how much we true believers see ActivityPub as the best approach to global social media, it does have a number of issues, as we know. Most of the public doesn't care about the big picture. They never really have.
Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits Android .
@shoq DARPA definitely funded development but I think enterprises settled on ethernet-TCP/IP because of their flexible designs, we have that with #ActivityPub we just need to flesh some stuff (e.g. identity 😜, scaled moderation) out.
Is #BlueSky built on top of #activitypub ? Hoping it’s going to be interoperable with #mastodon because it seems that the last wave of people fleeing #twitter are going there🤞
🤯 First thing that blows my mind is how wicked #Calkey looks compared to vanilla #Mastodon
🤯 Second thing is that I can even follow someone on a such a different looking app with different features, directly from my existing Mastodon.
🤔 Third thing: I wonder whether its possible to have the same Mastodon #activitypub handle but access it through a different app like Calkey on the same server??
#ElonMusk thought he could save #Twitter, but it turns out he may have saved the idea of an open social internet instead. When Musk spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter and then systematically destroyed everything people loved about the platform, users went looking for something better.
One of my regrets was advising an IT director at a previous employer that #ActivityPub wasn't worth pursuing at the time. Granted, this was a few years ago when it was far more "niche", but I was clearly wrong to downplay it.
as i predicted, Mastodon and other Fedi servers are woefully underequipped to deal with even the most basic spammers. hopefully this 1978-ass "thegx" guy and the vietnamese casino spammers provoke some defensive development. we literally have decades of email spam tools to reuse, and maybe infrastructure and organizations, but right now we don't even have keyword filters.
Excellent deep dive on the current state of the #fediverse and #mastodon, with a detailed history of the movement to #decentralize#social, and predictions about where we go from here.
@aronow They both utilize #ActivityPub. So you can follow and be followed by people in both apps.
Calckey is actually a fork of Misskey. There's also Akkoma and a bunch of others. They provide additive features on top of the core ActivityPub ones most of which I think Mastodon captures.
I love this about the #Fediverse. Unlike BlueSky and Nostr and of corse all those other centralized social media, the ActivityPub fediverse has a very rich and active interconnected ecosystem.
What are the odds that a load of fediverse implementations only support hacky security-vocab validation methods and would completely break if I used publicKeyPem instead of publicKey on the actor object.
The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But we’ve been here before.
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Why in the world is Wordpress.com charging $300/year to access its ActivityPub plugin. Just paid for 3 years of personal account only to find this out. WTF. Anyone have a good host for a Wordpress.org site with easy ActivityPub integration? Been trying to get it to work on Bluehost since November with no luck. #wordpress#activitypub#indiedev
If you have an independently hosted WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server by installing the WordPress ActivityPub plugin. This means people can follow your blog from Mastodon etc.
Here's how to do it:
Go to your WordPress dashboard's Plugins section, click "add new" and search for "ActivityPub" . Click "install now" on the plugin, and when it has finished installing, click "activate".
On the WordPress dashboard, go to the "Users" section. Click on your username and scroll to the bottom to find your Fediverse address. Share this address with whoever wants to follow your blog on Mastodon etc.
To alter the plugin's settings, on your WordPress dashboard go to Settings > ActivityPub
If you want to switch off or remove the plugin, go to "plugins", then "deactivate" or "delete".
NOTE: This plugin only works with independently hosted WordPress sites. It doesn't work with free accounts on WordPress.com.