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The Fediverse Report is a curated blog, giving you links and context to all the news that is happening in the fediverse.

Every week you get 'Last Week in the Fediverse', with a summary of the relevant news of the week.

Feel free to follow my personal account as well.

#fediverse #fediversereport #technology #news #tech #technews #opensource

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

fediversereport, to bluesky
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Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the network.

In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.

Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

fediversereport,
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Bluesky also crossed the mark for 5 million accounts today.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Last Week in - ep 56

  • Discourse around a potential bridge between the fediverse and . The proposed bridge between the networks featured opt-out mechanism, but after an intense backlash by the community, changes towards a more opt-in nature are being made.
  • The @BBCRD extends their Mastodon trial
  • @Flipboard expands their fediverse integration, with over 1000 curated magazines now available via

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-56/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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Last Week in - ep 55

  • drops the invite codes, and turns out to be a massive hit in Japan. The network grew by more than 50% in less than a week's time.
  • The different federated event planning apps (, .io and Event Federation) are working together for a better unified experience
  • @theverge explains the fediverse.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-55/

fediversereport, to bluesky
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New: opens network, making it a massive hit in Japan

Bluesky's network grew by 50% in the last two days, adding 1.5million accounts since dropping the invite codes. The surge of popularity and interest seems to come mainly from Japan, with large popular Japanese accounts coming over.

Bluesky also talks more about their plans to make money, and how they will start with federation this month. With that, bridges to the become possible.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-opens-the-network/

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Small note: if you check feeds like 'Discovery' and wonder what the hell I'm talking about with all these Japanese posts: make sure that all languages are checked in your settings. AFAIK if you are not Japanese it is most likely turned off by default, making it that you don't see posts in Japanese.

fediversereport, to bluesky
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#Bluesky is ready to open the network.

Starting today, Bluesky will not require invite codes anymore and anyone can join the network. Later this month, the team will roll out an "experimental early version of federation", allowing other people to run their own 'Personal Data Server' (PDS).

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

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If you want more information on how Bluesky works and what a PDS is, I wrote an explainer of the technical terms here:

https://fediversereport.com/how-bluesky-works-the-network-components/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Last Week in ep 54

  • The developers host an AMA, talking about decentralisation, platform identity and a roadmap
  • @nodebb talks about how they are thinking about what federating forums actually means, and how their implementation of will look like
  • Project Tapestry by @Iconfactory is a Kickstarter to build an App that gives you a single chronological feed from a variety of sources, such as , and

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-54/

fediversereport, to random
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I'll be at this weekend! Would love to chat with anyone who is involved with fediverse stuff in some capacity, so hit me up here or @laurenshof if you want to meet up for a coffee or a chat.

fediversereport, to random
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New: Lemmy Ask You Anything (again)

The Lemmy developers held another AMA this week (https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519 ), and in this article I go over some of the answers that stood out to me. They gave answers about platform identity, why decentralisation matters for a healthy community, more details about their roadmap and funding, as well as a whole lot more.

read at: https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything-again/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Last Week in - ep 53

This week's news:

  • a closer look at the upcoming project @bonfire
  • Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation
  • @sublinks is a new link aggregating platform that recently started development

As well as a whole lot more! Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-53/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Last Week in , ep 52

  • Dutch Government @avhuffelen urges Threads to quickly implement federation
  • @owncast releases an app for iOS and tvOS, after struggles with getting it approved by Apple
  • the term 'fediverse' is becoming enough of a buzzword to get metaverse companies interested
  • @agora is a fediverse app with a For You algorithm, and build-in support for bridges

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-52/

fediversereport, to random
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New: How Bluesky works

A short series explaining the components of the Bluesky network, how this relates to federation, as well as content moderation.

In this first article I describe all the individual parts that make up network, and how they relate to each other.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/how-bluesky-works-the-network-components/

thisismissem, to random
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Latest dotSocial podcast has me wondering if it'd be cool to be able to have Administrators create "topics" in Trending and support inviting specific people to be curators of those topics on the local mastodon instance?

cc @mike

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@mike @rysiek @thisismissem

check out @newsmast, they are going big on curated feeds, and doing some really cool work. They're about to release more updates and are working on API support as well. I'll be writing more about it next week

fediversereport, to random
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New: Last Week in Fediverse - ep 51

In this week's news:

  • WordPress ActivityPub plugin gets updated to v2.0
  • Bluesky hits 3m accounts, invites going away soon
  • Podcasting news (including WeDistribute launching a new podcast!)
  • And a whole load of other news items, bridges, more information on Thread's roadmap, updates to ActivityPods, and more!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-51/

fediversereport,
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@bedirthan hey, thanks for asking!

I write about social networks (beyond just fediverse stuff) more broadly at my personal website, which is where I first published this story about Bluesky (https://laurenshof.online/bluesky-has-3-million-accounts-invites-going-away-soon/ ). I sometimes include stories and coverage from beyond the fediverse in the weekly Fediverse Report when I feel that it has direct impact on the fediverse.
Bluesky saying they'll remove the invite system soon is one of those cases, so thats why I included it in this weeks update

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@bedirthan also on a more practical note, I was planning on writing about Friendica's new Bluesky connector this week as well, so there would have been more of a thematic cohesion between the stories. I simply ran out of time for this week, so that'll come soon

fediversereport, to random
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Last Week in Fediverse - ep 50

  • The massive response to the launch of RSS Parrot, a new tool which allows you to view RSS feeds in your fediverse account, showcases the large demand for better integration of the fediverse with RSS
  • an uncertain future for Firefish
  • Authorized Fetch has been circumvented
  • PieFed, a new link-aggregator platform launches

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-50/

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With a bonus shoutout for all the scuba divers on the fediverse: diveDB is a web app that allows scuba divers to track their dives. The site has now added ActivityPub support, so you can follow all your favourite scuba divers (?) directly from your fediverse app

piefedadmin, to python
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https://piefed.social is running, please make an account and give it a try!

There will be bugs, probably many bugs. When you see one, please reply to the welcome email you received, with info about it, or report it in the issue queue. Let’s catch ’em all!

developers are invited to check out the code repository at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi. In coming days I’ll write better setup instructions and put together a code walk-through screencast.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/01/05/piefed-begins-beta-test/

fediversereport,
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@piefedadmin congratulations on the launch!

fediversereport, to fediverse
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PeerTube plans for 2024

In this article I take a look at @Framasoft plans for 2024 for PeerTube, with some new information from the AMA from recently as well. Learn more about what makes an alternative, not a rival, to Big Tech, their plans for a mobile app, redesign, and more!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/peer-into-the-future-peertubes-plans-for-2024/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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Last Week in - ep 49

The final weekly update for the year. Thank you all so much for all the support this year, it has been amazing to see the project grow with so much community support!

This update contains:

  • Flipboard federation
  • Peertube 2024 plans
  • lots of quick news links

I'll be offline for the next week to reset and take a break. Fediverse Report will be back next year. Stay tuned, and happy holidays!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-49/

fediversereport, to fediverse
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New: Flipping the Federation Switch: Flipboard joins the fediverse

has joined the fediverse this week, with the first selection of Flipboard accounts now fully interacting with the . I spoke with @mike to learn more.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/flipping-the-federation-switch-flipboard-joins-the-fediverse/

fediversereport, to random
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New: Last Week in Fediverse - ep 48

A busy week, with two projects starting to federate:

  • Discourse
  • Threads

As well as:

  • PeerTube releasing their plans for the new year
  • Lemmy getting a major new update, with new features that help visibility for smaller communities

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-48/

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