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bart, 16 hours ago to random

Seriously pissed about this. Offering $10,000 in seed funding for a Deviant Art alternative built on ActivityPub. Q&A below or email your pitch to info@moth.social. https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

cheeaun, 31 minutes ago to threads

Screenshots comparing columns UI between Threads.net and Phanpy.social

#Threads #PhanpySocial

A screenshot of a Phanpy social media feed. The interface shows three main columns: Following, FediDevs (list), and Notifications (showing recent interactions and messages).

dave, 1 day ago to random

It works! You can now follow podcasts using podcastap.com with a quick link from the podcast page on podcastindex.org.

Thank you @steven !

fediversereport, 1 day ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 69
It's this weeks news, with:
Celebrating the 16th birthday of the fediverse
European Commission sets up their own Mastodon server after the previous fediverse pilot by the EDPS has ended.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/

Gargron, 2 days ago to random

Back home after a very busy week in San Francisco. I spoke with @caseynewton, @mmasnick, @harrymccracken, @laurengoode, @chrismessina, @Markoff and so many others. In an age where the old web is gradually getting killed off by AI, there is still hope for the future in the shape of the fediverse.

forgefed, 3 days ago to random

ForgeFed news 💫❤️

💮 The grant from NLnet has been extended! And @andre 's frontend work is now funded
💮 We're in 2nd review for a new grant, to allow more work thru 2024 & 2025
💮 I'm working on the final piece of the OCAP system vision! Finally!
💮 2 new blog posts! Including a demo!

https://forgefed.org/blog/happy-family/
https://forgefed.org/blog/team-nesting/

We're happy for help renovating the website / joining the frontend team!

Federated forges are coming... 🥰

--Pere

fediforum, 2 days ago to fediverse

Weekend #Fediverse people!

FediForum, the online unconference for the Fediverse, has its 3rd day on a Saturday this time. Join your peers to discuss the future of the fediverse and how we get there? Have unmet needs and wishes? Of even better: have solutions? Demos of interesting fedi software? Or just want to meet people who think like yourself?

Consider joining us on September 14. More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

Questions? Just reply here.

evan, 3 days ago to random

Sixteen years ago tomorrow I published the first post on the fediverse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Thanks to everyone who made identi.ca a great place to be, and thanks to everyone who's expanded the fediverse since then.

#Fediverse16

stefan, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to fediverse

I'm prototyping a fediverse sharing button. Anyone interested in giving it a try?

Feature highlights:

• shows a logo of supported fediverse software
• lets you share selected text
• remembers the last fediverse domain used

Demo: https://fediverse-share-button.stefanbohacek.dev/
Download: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button/

#fediverse #FediverseSharingButton

EUCommission, 4 days ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

johnonolan, 3 days ago to random

We just sent a fresh edition of the Ghost ActivityPub newsletter — our behind the scenes build log of connecting Ghost to the fediverse.

This week we managed to get Ghost<>Ghost following working!

If you haven't signed up yet: Get instant access to the archive, here 👇

https://activitypub.ghost.org

mike, 4 days ago to fediverse

Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.

Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.

Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of #DotSocial on our #PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.

https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA

dangillmor, 4 days ago to random

I was honored to meet Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko, aka @Gargron, yesterday afternoon in San Francisco. He's the real deal: committed to doing something good for the world and boasting serious technical skills. He also has genuine humility, a welcome trait in the tech world.

The occasion was a meet-and-greet put together by Flipboard's @mike, whose company has enbraced the fediverse in a big way.

I hope to do more to help make the fediverse succeed.

You're helping, by participating.

conspirator0, 4 days ago to random

It's a great day to read about a botnet that recently spammed social media platform Bluesky with duplicate pro-Trump posts.

grunfink, 5 days ago to fediverse

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.53 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.

Added some (partial) support for Event object types.

Minor fixes: Allow unboosting your own posts (contributed by khm), CSS fixes for the Dillo browser (contributed by kvibber).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

#snacAnnounces

fediversereport, 4 days ago to bluesky

New: Video, audio and blogging: Japanese #Bluesky is building in the ATmosphere

I take a look at 3 new products build on #atproto

Blogging with whtwnd.com
Video with bluemotion.app
Audio spaces with bluecast.app

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/video-audio-and-blogging-japanese-bluesky-is-building-in-the-atmosphere/

Feditext, 5 days ago to random

general project update:

Vyr has been busy with other tasks for the past few weeks, but is returning to Fedi stuff, including Feditext.

Feditext is currently stalled on App Store submission by admin issues on Apple's end, so she'll be working on fixes for minor bugs while we wait for them to sort that out.

#feditext #metatext

stefan, 7 days ago to accessibility

Interesting to compare the use of alt text based on which apps people use.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #fediverse #mastodon

stefan, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to fediverse

Some recent #fediverse #data explorations and #polls:

• Fediverse clients vs alt text: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/
• Sending a post into the fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/data-on-sending-a-post-into-the-fediverse/ (with a great follow-up from @stefan!)
• Keeping fediverse sustainable: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/
• How many fediverse servers know about my server?: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-many-fediverse-servers-know-about-my-server/
• Analyzing fediverse followers: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/analyzing-fediverse-followers/ (featured on the official Mastodon blog!)

https://stefanbohacek.com/category/fediverse-explorations/

#dataviz #poll #mastodon

thisismissem, 6 days ago to random

Fediverse App developers, would this help you in building out the correct UI for filing reports?

Currently this is all hard-coded into the web version

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30301

#MastoDev #MastoAPI

rabble, 7 days ago to random

As always, @mmasnick, has an article that makes sense of what's going on with social media protocols today and the Jack Dorsey interview about his leaving the Bluesky board and funding Nostr.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bluesky-is-building-the-decentralized-social-media-jack-dorsey-wants-even-if-he-doesnt-realize-it/

mike, 7 days ago to fediverse

I talk about the #fediverse in this episode of Technically Optimistic, a terrific podcast by Raffi Krikorian and Emerson Collective. The topic: How to Save Social Media

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technically-optimistic/id1689164209?i=1000654155177

hyphacoop, 7 days ago to fediverse

Today we are releasing an exciting enhancement for Distributed Press: the Social Reader - a new way to read posts on the Fediverse.

https://hypha.coop/dripline/social-reader-is-out/

#activitypub #fediverse #DistributedPress

John_Livingston, 8 days ago to fediverse

Next major version of the livechat #Peertube plugin will have a now "to-do list" feature!

Here is the user's documentation:
https://livingston.frama.io/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/user/streamers/tasks/

Let me know if you have some feedback on the documentation: is it clear? are they some "english mistakes"?

fediversereport, 8 days ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 68

This week's news:

• Significant interest and use of the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky, even though it is still in active development
• Ghost gives a first glimpse at their #ActivityPub powered reading app

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-68/