Immer mehr Organisationen wird klar, das wir dort aktiv werden müssen, wenn wir die in unseren Mission-Statements verfassten Ziele nicht nur in schönen 🌞 Sonntagsreden vor uns her tragen wollen.
So z.B. auch der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin: https://bewegung.social/@zlb_berlin
Seit letztem Monat betreibt die #ZLB ihren Mastodon-Kanal: @zlb_berlin
und wir heißen sie herzlich WILLKOMMEN ! 🙋♀️ 🙆 💁
Mögen sich auch die noch nicht im Fediverse aktiven #Hochschulen von diesem Beispiel inspirieren lassen.
Helft mit, dass dieser Umdenkprozess zügig voran kommt und unterschreibt die Petition:
👉 https://openpetition.de/unisinsfediverse
An interesting news week, that fits Newsmast’s description of the fediverse as a hub for the social web: the trend for the fediverse is clearly in the direction of how other products and platforms can be connected together in order to form a larger network.
The News
Digiday writes “why publishers are preparing to federate their sites“, and in the article they break the news that both The Verge and 404 Media “are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.” The Verge has been interested in the fediverse for a while now, and 404 Media are also active users. Both sites are very aware of the risks that come from depending on Big Tech platforms for reaching their audience, and are looking to secure that connection without an intermediary. The Verge has been working on switching to using WordPress, but it is not clear if they will be using the current ActivityPub plugin or are developing their own solution. The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel said in response to Ghost’s announcement earlier this month that The Verge is also interested in having paid newsletters that connect to the fediverse. The interest of 404 Media to connect to the fediverse is directly linked to Ghost as well, as their site runs on Ghost.
Newsmast has posted an update on how the fediverse can be “a hub for the social web”, and how Newsmast can play a role in that. Newsmast is focused on bridging, and how connections between differnet platforms, products and protocols can all be connected to form a larger social web, in which the fediverse can function as a central hub. As a first step, the communities on Newsmast now start featuring posts by people on Bluesky and Threads as well.
Openvibe is a social media client that supports both Nostr and Mastodon. The client was originally for Nostr, but now fully supports Mastodon, and is working on adding support for Bluesky next. What stands out about the way Openvibe supports multiple networks is that Openvibe tries to integrate multiple platforms into a single experience. This means that you can have a single timeline on your homescreen that combines both posts from Nostr and Mastodon. Posting also allows you to easily post to both networks at the same time. There have been clients that allow you to connect multiple accounts before, but Openvibe’s vision of integrating different networks into a single feed represents a new steps towards how the different decentralised social networks relate to each other.
Another update by Bridgy Fed on improvements towards the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky. Last week the news got picked up that the bridge was used to spam Bluesky with pro-Trump messages that originated from Nostr, and Bridgy Fed is now working on implementing spam filters.
Bart Decrem, co-founder of Mastodon app Mammoth, offers a 10k USD seed funding for anyone to build a DeviantArt alternative on top of ActivityPub. This comes after a recent article by Slate about “The Tragic Downfall of the Internet’s Art Gallery”, explaining how bots with AI generated content have overrun the revenue-sharing programs of the platform. Decrem focuses on the community aspect of DeviantArt, saying that “the critical thing here is to truly understand what DA is/was all about, what this community needs”.
The Links
FediVision 2024 is live, with musicians all over the fediverse sending in over 70 tracks in a song contest.
Owncast creator Gabe Kangas wrote a blog post marking four years of fediverse streaming platform Owncast.
Vivaldi hosted a community talk “Why does being on the Fediverse matter to us?”. Notably they used fediverse audio platform Audon.space for the talk, which integrates with ActivityPub.
gestern habe ich mein neues Projekt "Politische Perspektiven" gestartet. Dort findet ihr Kommentare, Essays und andere Formate, zu #Politik, #Gesellschaft und #Zeitgeschehen - als #Podcast und #Blog.
Ein #Trailer und zwei reguläre Folgen sind bereits veröffentlicht. Ich würde mich freuen, falls ihr mal vorbeischaut.
@SketchyAbstractions Nice to watch and I love the result! Some day when I have an actual shop and better tools I'd love to make quality stuff like this.
Also appreciated the lack of ads btw, instant subscribe. 🔥
Es ist nicht leicht Kids (Menschen im Allgemeinen) davon zu überzeugen, dass TikTok eine mentale Sucht ist um Menschen zu beeinflussen. Ich hatte dies mal mittels folgenden verlinkten Toots versucht, dies den Menschen näher zu bringen. Den Link zum Fediverse kann ich zB über Chats teilen und sie können es ohne Einschränkungen, wie ua einen extra Account usw, lesen.
1️⃣ - started setting up obsidian for interstitial journaling
2️⃣ - got some advanced french books to study, in hopes of unlocking that part of my brain (all my schooling, k-12 was in french and haven’t spoken it to anyone since)
3️⃣ - the general sentiment here in the #Fediverse that the internet, as it is, sucks a big fat one but we can build things and work together to make it better. that shit is punk af and i’m here for it.
There are so many updates happening on Google it’s destroying the publishing business. Or is it? It’s time to start experimenting with other platforms to drive traffic to your websites. On of these is Flipboard combined with the Fediverse. The first thing to do is to change your thinking. It’s no longer about keywords but now you have to cater to readers and their interests. #flipboard#blog#google#mastodon#fediverse#reading
Auf der Suche nach einem Publikum gehen einige Medien den Schritt ins Fediverse. Ein Versuch, unabhängiger von den großen Gatekeepern zu werden.
I feel like the way #Nostr does apps is superior to how we do it in the #Fediverse.
This isn’t to say that Nostr apps are inherently better. Some Mastodon apps have an incredible amount of polish, and extremely creative features.
Nostr’s standardization on identity and credentials and appended data is really, really good, though. Everything I sign into just works. Whereas, as a Non-Mastodon user with partial MastoAPI support, that isn’t always the case. I often have to cross my fingers and hope it works.
This week I have been more involved on the #geminiprotocol side rather than the #Fediverse and it has been very refreshing... 😊
More engagement and less distraction, posts on platforms like Bubbles or Station aren't meant to consume are just people talking to each other, no links to videos, pictures or memes... It is just text inside the gorgeous frame of #Lagrange and each platform is so well integrated into this amazing client, whether is the desktop or the android version, that your experience feels like with native applications... This is just amazing...
I actually have no idea how many boosts and favs some of the most successful posts get here in the Fediverse, because my instance shows a fraction of them no matter how successful they are. But guess what? I don’t care! It’s the best part here, to effectively unlearn that like-craving social media trait.
Everyone likes ”likes”, but in here it happens in our own terms and overall the metrics don’t really matter in the end.