Now's the time to listen and vote in this year's #Fediverse music competition! There's 72 entries this year, from 72 different artists, but only one winner. Come check out #FediVision.
It is very clear #mastodon will become like all the other corporate social medias, it is already happening as Mastodon social is following in Musk and Zuckerberg’s censorship shoes.
@LALegault While I have my own criticisms of Mastodon as part of the Fediverse, I don’t really see this as being an outcome. If you release a federated, open source platform that people can run themselves however they want, you kind of can’t really put the genie back in the bottle.
As far as the whole “censorship vs moderation” debate is concerned, any instance is free to set and uphold any policy they want. Sometimes, their moderation team will fuck up, or choose the wrong option based on a limited context. That’s not exactly the same thing as what a corporate, centralized system with millions of users does when it blocks someone’s ability to be Heard.
It's now possible to connect #Bluesky and #Fediverse accounts together, and talk across a bridge! We get into the nuts and bolts of how it works, and what you can do to get started! #BridgyFed
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking #Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
"Committed developers, deep knowledge of the code, community outreach, a coherent product vision, and having a designer all go a long way towards making this successful. Making it easy for communities to switch over is important, too."
@deadsuperhero Those are all good points, can I quote them? I'm updating my article, and will also include a quote from and link to your article in the section on "It's not as easy as it sounds"> "For me, a big concern involves trying to run a fork that actively competes with Mastodon, to the point of trying to replace it. This is what I see when people make calls for a hard fork"
That might say more about what you're seeing than what people are saying. The way I phrased it was
"It's worth highlighting that a new hard fork complements the official Mastodon fork, which is likely to remain a better alternative for large, Threads-friendly instances like mastodon.social."
@jdp23 You are more than welcome to quote and link!
And yeah, I may have been projecting some of my own discomforts a bit. The last few calls for a hard fork, to me, have felt less like “let’s build our own thing together!” and more like a call to abandon Mastodon in favor of this amazing hypothetical fork where some other person is the SABDFL.
I think there is very much a need for an alternative to Mastodon. I’m not sure it’s necessarily Mastodon itself.
For our first article on #Nostr, we wrote a crash course guide on the protocol and the network, along with what it is, how it works, and how you can get started.
@Huubje I don’t blame you at all. I still think the peer-to-peer aspects of Nostr are interesting and worth writing about, and I do like how they rely on multiple relays, rather than being tethered to a single server.
I’m doing my best to find the diamonds in the rough, as I think there’s good work happening there, just as there is with Bluesky or Secure Scuttlebutt or wherever else. My whole thing is taking notes on different ideas, and seeing if anything that seems good might help us somehow.
Fediverse has been, and always will be, my number one place.
Do you want to help support #Fediverse musicians, like the ones you hear on @radiofreefedi? We are looking to increase our coverage, starting with more Mixtapes. But, we need your help!
We are looking for volunteers interested in helping us make more Mixtapes, with the ultimate goal of releasing a new one every Friday. Don't worry - we'll be using a round robin so that different people take turns.
If you'd like to help out with this, send us a message!
I feel weird about @radiofreefedi. I'm not sure how to articulate it except that it's kinda centralized and it's not primarily #ccmusic afaik. imo the energy should be going towards people building apps like #funkwhale, letting everyone share/support the work however they want and highlighting all the curators running streams/podcasts about music. grow the whole infrastructure and community.
The #Fediverse has, not one, but two streaming platforms. Both of them are great. Both of them work with OBS Studio. Here's how to get started with @peertube and @owncast!
In a surprise move, #Mastodon now operates as a US entity! Featuring a new board of directors, and a 501c3 status, it's a new milestone for the project.
@hello The CTO of Mastodon, @renchap, wrote a comment on HackerNews explaining it:
> Our operating structure is still the Germany-based Mastodon gGmbH. The new US non-profit is here to facilitate fundraising in the US and promote Mastodon there (plus maybe one day pay developers directly, if we hire in the US). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180346
We officially have Publisher status on @Flipboard :flipboard: ! 🎉
If #Flipboard is your preferred way of reading articles, you can follow us over there! We're splitting our articles into several different magazines, based on the different networks we're covering.
@hello there, that seems like a nice movement but what kinda journalist casually use the word federate in a national context and expect the audience to understand it in an IT sense :blobfoxfacepalm:
The #ActivityPub ecosystem is evolving at a rapid pace. One project, #ActivityPods, is making an ambitious effort to combine the Fediverse with the power of #Solid.