Technologist, writer, admin of indieweb.social. Fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa.
Technologist, writer, admin of indieweb.social. Fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa.
OC Getting Tangled Up in Threads (wedistribute.org)
The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.
The State of the Federation, with Mastodon's Eugen Rochko (flipboard.video)
From the description:...
OC After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)
After a long silence from the developer, project moderators stepped down. The mobile app for Kbin appears to have closed its doors.
Twitter failed to pay cloud bill or migrate, off the service. So it then DDOS'd itself
Ernest Appreciation Post
Kbin has seen a staggering amount of growth in the past few weeks, and with it a bunch of discussion about issues and bugs....
Just created m/TwitterMigration (kbin.social)
Mods, please let me know if this is not allowed. I’ll remove it....
If ActivityPub can't survive Meta, it was never going to succeed in the first place
Corporations don't just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can't force them to. Defederating from Meta's new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything....
Spread Mastodon.org is now LIVE (spreadmastodon.org)
A portal for new users to join Mastodon, exiting users to enrich accounts with more follows, and for organizing to help #TakeBackSocial and spread the open social web and the Fediverse.
Chrome extension to add a "search" link when browsing logged out Lemmy instances (github.com)
I've been annoyed by the "copy !communityname to your instance's search" aspect of joining new communities. To make this more streamlined I created this extension to add a "Search on [myhomeinstance]" button on community pages. It's currently submitted for approval in the chrome web store, which could take a few days, but you...
Daily traffic visits to the top two #Kbin and #Lemmy servers over the last 28 days, up until June 11th.
ThreadCount bot: uses #Fedidb data to track the growth of the "Threadiverse" - both Lemmy and Kbin (indieweb.social)
Hourly Mastodon bot that uses Fedidb data to show the total local users on all known Lemmy and Kbin servers
Twitch stream of Reddit blackout status (www.twitch.tv)
Originally found through this link which now redirects to the twitch stream: reddark.untone.uk...
Welcome to RedditMigration!
This is where breaking news, the latest numbers, information, and questions about the #RedditMigration will be posted. There will also be a place to discuss tactics to best help users make that jump and feel at home in the Fediverse. Welcome!
Ernest seems thirsty (www.buymeacoffee.com)
Maybe someone should post this link every day for the foreseeable future because I think it’s gonna be a sleepless week for the Fediverse, but a great one as well....