The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.
@dnanian No, this is exactly what “federated” means. Multiple services exchange messages, but any single service only knows about the messages it sends and receives.
Server admins can also subscribe to relays that push content from other servers.
I have decided, as a #selfhost with just two other people on my instance, that I'm going to limit threads.net following the example of @Jerry quoted below. I didn't know that you can “unlimit” specific accounts! This is an interesting option.
For other admins who might not be familiar, I am discovering this too for the first time:
When you ‘Limit' a domain (under Federation—>Add new domain block) and then click on that domain in the list it brings you to the screen in the first picture.
You can then see which accounts have been organically “stored" (i think of it more like being "noticed”) by the server. I’m excited that @stonekettle is there! I miss him!
After a long thought, and 20 years of experience with them on social media: after all this talk about federation, opt-in, opt-out and all that, I came to the conclusion that being connected with Americans on social media should be opt-in by default.
Pakkanen: Instead of uniting the lands of the Russian federation, Putin’s war has started pushing then apart. The privileged position of ethnic russians combined with ”nazi” rhetoric and growing material exploitation to feed the war machine have angered many in the southern federations, who now seek to establish their local identity and language instead of russian in protest.
I’ve decided on a name, but I’ve blanked it out because anyone who followed my Instagram account (when I had one) knows I’m a tease 😆. I also recreated the escape pods (they are all individually numbered) and printed them onto white decal paper. #StarTrek#GalaxyClass#Federation#Starship#ScaleModels#ModelBuilder#MKMModelwerx
There is now an (intermediate) option for setting federated repos via UI.
Based on that we are currently developing the sending of activities to distribute stars to the federated repos.
We also noticed that there are some things to consider, regarding activity sending. Feel invited to share your thoughts on this. 🙂
The biggest misconception I see on #Threads about #federation is that a ton of people think they need to “link” their Threads account to a Mastodon account. As if it were a cross-posting feature.
Maybe Threads could do a better job explaining federation or maybe so many years of siloed social networks has made a world where the idea of email or web-style interoperability doesn’t immediately come to mind.
Either way, I’m doing my best to kindly explain it to folks over there 🫡
Servers in the fediverse have a responsibility to make decisions they believe are right for their users, like moderation—and naturally, some folks might disagree with those decisions.
But that’s a huge advantage of the fediverse: you can choose or move to a server that you trust, that you agree with, etc. and still interact with the rest of the fediverse; you can even bring your followers with e.g. if you switch between Mastodon servers!
As a reminder, choosing whether or not you want to see/interact with posts from a specific server is also something you’re empowered to do as a user. On Mastodon, for example, you can block any individual account or even an entire server if you know you don’t want to interact with any account from there.
As a practical example, if you don’t want to engage with Facebook/Meta/Threads, it’s two taps to block threads.net—should you care to do so. 💪
Great interview with Jay Graber (CEO, #Bluesky) on Decoder with Nilay Patel (@reckless1280), where they dig into some of the major difference between Bluesky (#ATProtocol) and #Mastodon (#ActivityPub).
"As Flipboard’s head of creator community, I’m often explaining WTF the fediverse is and trying to convince creators to set up camp there. (Flipboard believes this is the future of social media.)," writes @miaq in the latest edition of our Fedi Curious newsletter. "If I’m lucky, the person is open to it, able to figure out how to get set up, and gives it a try. But more often than not, I get the digital equivalent of a blank stare and a groan — not another social platform?!" Here's her post about why creators should pay attention to what's happening here, and why the fediverse is not the same as all those other platforms.
Serious question: How does one direct the people they haven’t talked to in years, because they’re only on Facebook, to my Mastodon feed via Threads? #threads#facebook#mastodon#federation
Wir haben von einigen aus der Community das Feedback erhalten, die Artikelanzahl sei für einige föderierte Publisher sehr hoch. Daher möchten wir einen Überblick dazu geben:
Die Anzahl der Beiträge bezieht sich auf die Gesamtbeiträge bei Flipboard und damit i.d.R. auf einen Zeitraum von mehreren Jahren.
Folgendes ist aus unserer Sicht die beste Möglichkeit, sich auf dem Laufenden zu halten und dabei spezifischen Content eines bevorzugten Publishers zu bekommen: den Flipboard-Magazinen zu folgen, um kuratierte Artikel zu bestimmten Themen zu erhalten.
Was bedeutet das konkret? Wenn du dich für Wirtschaftsnachrichten oder Klimapolitik interessierst, kannst du den Magazinen eines Publishers ausschließlich zu diesen Themen folgen, oder wenn du alle Inhalte sehen willst, kannst du dem Profil des Publishers folgen – so hast du mehr Möglichkeiten, die Art der Inhalte, die du in deinem Home-Feed siehst, anzupassen.
Das föderierte Profil eines Publishers ist nur eine weitere Möglichkeit, seinen Inhalten zu folgen und mit ihnen zu interagieren.
So folgst du einzelnen Magazinen über Mastodon:
Verwende die Suche, um nach den Magazinen eines Publishers zu suchen (Die Liste an bisher föderierten Publisher haben wir in unserem Profil angeheftet).
Wähle "Alle ansehen" bei den Suchergebnissen aus.
Folge nun den thematischen Magazinen, die dich interessieren. Wir haben hierzu einen Screenshot von ZEIT ONLINE als Beispiel hinzugefügt.