@jeff Also interesting is that they've been on the fediverse for a while, and they are on a server that still runs Mastodon 3.4.6 for some reason: https://unnerv.jp/
The #Lemmy devs held an AMA this week, answering a large variety of questions from the community. I wrote about some of the themes in their answers, and how the developers think about Lemmy, the fediverse and community.
The lemmy.world (@lwadmin) admins release a statement about the recent reoccurring outages at lemmy.world.
They state that for multiple hours per day, they are under a DDOS attack. The attackers find database queries that are 'expensive' to run, to try and overload the database.
The lemmy.world admins also respond to remarks that lemmy.world is too big, and should close down registration.
The BBC has joined the fediverse, setting up their on Mastodon server. The experiment will run for six months, after which they'll evaluate. There's a variety of different responses, from conversations about blocking, to Threads being excited about this news.
An extra call with the W3C working group about the Social Web and CSAM. I've noted some of my takeways of this important conversation.
On another note, I messed up my posting of this yesterday, so it's a day late on here, my apologies.
But if you don't want to depend on this being posted on the fediverse, you can simply sign up directly for my newsletter, and get an update every Sunday of all my writings of the week, with some extra personal commentary. You can sign up directly via https://fediversereport.com/
An extensive report by Stanford on CSAM and Mastodon. As the fediverse grows, so do challenges related to content moderation. How different groups are working on meeting this challenges will be a major story of the near future for the network.
Bluesky users talk about why they don't use Mastodon, highlighting challenges in curating culture
Calckey rebrands as Firefish, and spawns new forks
The highlights:
The Dutch government officially launches their #Mastodon server
Mastodon hits 2m active users, but a dev also reports that there is currently no work being done on big features
A meta engineer joins the #activitypub working group in the W3C
In the many discussions about #threads promise to add #activitypub support, regulations such as the #DMA and the #DSA, as well as the Canadian Online News Act have come up.
In this piece I dive deep into the specific articles of the Acts to see if they might impact Meta's decision making.
One of the requirements of the DMA is that "the gatekeeper shall provide end users [...] with effective portability of data [...] and including by the provision of continuous and real-time access to such data." (article 6(9)).
Personally, I think that the requirements that the access to data portability needs to be continuous and real-time is a potential explanation of why Threads promises to add ActivityPub.
Keep in mind I'm not a lawyer however, and feedback is much appreciated!
The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server, State Secretary of Digitalisation @avhuffelen announced today! The server lives on the official domain of the Dutch government, at social.overheid.nl.
@fediversereport@avhuffelen
Love it:
“[…] the fire department send out an emergency text warning to people, urging them to check Twitter for the latest updates. However, this coincided with Twitter preventing people who do not have accounts from viewing tweets, resulting in people not being able to see emergency service updates. The House filed a motion in response, stating that emergency situations, the government should make sure that information is publicly accessible.
More Dutch government institutes have joined Mastodon today:
⛅The National Meteoreological Institute @knmi
🌊The National agency for Infrastructure and Watermanagement @rijkswaterstaat
🚗Traffic updates for the highways, also via Rijkswaterstaat @RWSverkeersinfo
@fediversereport
>"Allowing news articles to be published in Mastodon, which then federate to Threads, allows Meta to sidestep the payments to the Canadian publishers."
Maybe this doesn't completely explain #Meta's interest in joining the Fediverse, but it might at least add to it!
Bloomberg also reports that #Threads will not launch in the EU.
Yesterday, the Irish Data Protection Commission said that Threads will not be rolled out in the EU "at this point".
Now, Bloomberg also reports the same, stating that Meta is waiting on more regulatory guidance on the DMA. The EU is expected to give more guidance in September.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, posted a message on #Threads explaining why Meta is committed to adding #ActivityPub support. The reason he lists is the ability to take your social graph to another server.
@fediversereport he actually says "your audience" not your social graph, and that's a significant difference which we should note. Because the difference between Mastodon/fedi is that they are primarily social platforms which is about to be confronted by an anti social behemoth when it is allowed to federate.
Many here, sadly including admins think the protocol can preserve this, but like those arguing for search they haven't thought this through or are not considering the evidence.
#Kbin is growing fast, and its new community is coming together to crowdsource their own unofficial mascot. Animal themed mascots are common in the #fediverse, so it is no surprise that Kbin has continued this tradition, with a parrot.
The community has settled on this mascot after multiple iterations and polls. Now the final question is: what will the mascot be named?
@fediversereport@fediversenews@fediverse Awesome for Android users and Lemmy!
For iOS users, Memmy is great and evolving fast (it’s in beta so only available through TestFlight for now).