Free codes in Fortnite are occasionally released in bunches, but most of them give out emotes, free Fortnite skins, or any of the game's various cosmetics rather than V-Bucks which are hard to come by.
@triskelion Forgejo is preparing for that as we speak. You already can use a mastodon instance as oauth provider, according to the docs (Haven’t tried it yet)
@cliffwade The hardest part was getting it installed as it wasn’t in the package manager of the distribution I’m using. But once I got it installed, it surprisingly just worked (no futzing with drivers or config files needed). Was able to listen to FM radio stations, NOAA weather radio, air traffic control for the nearby airport, and some local ham activity.
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.
The European Commission has announced their new Mastodon account, and that they will stay on the fediverse. Over the last 2 years, the European Data Protection Supervisor had run a Mastodon and Peertube pilot for the EU, and that pilot has come to an end. The European Commission had by far the most successful and impactful presence on the fediverse out of the pilot, and they wanted to continue. The problem was that the EDPS struggled to find another EU organisation willing to take on the responsibility of hosting. As I wrote when the news came out, the perception and framing of the EDPS was wrong on how the fediverse should be approached by the EU: taking on responsibility for all EU-affiliated organisations social media presence is an unrealistic ask, and it is not a surprise that they could not find an organisation willing to do so. Instead, now the European Commission is taking responsibility and control of their own account; they are hosting their own Mastodon server. This is a much more sustainable and realistic approach for EU organisations moving forward.
The bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky has been used to spam Bluesky with pro-Trump messaging, with the spam originating from Nostr. The spam was created on Nostr, which bridges to the fediverse with the Mostr bridge, which in turn can be bridged to Bluesky. While all the networks have many places of easy, open signups, spam tends to happen were signups can easily happen in bulk, and the protocol design of Nostr makes it especially easy to create new accounts.
Micro.blog held their yearly micro.camp as an online live stream event, with a conversation about blogging with Christina Warren, as well as a demo of two new features of micro.blog: hiding replies on your blog and a new way for people to comment by verifying their Mastodon, Bluesky or micro.blog account.
Bluesky projects
This week I also wrote about three projects from Japanese developers who are building on top of ATProto, and build a video platform, audio spaces and a blogging platform, and I go into more detail on the challenges that building new products for the ATmosphere poses.
Ghost’s weekly update about building on ActivityPub, showing more progress. Ghost estimates that a release will take “more than a month, but less than a year, probably”.
Pixelfed has a Matrix channel again. Pixelfed developer lost admin control of the previous Matrix channel, and considered going exclusively to Discord. After many requests from the community now there is a new matrix channel again.
The ForgeFed project, which works on federated software forges, has gotten their NLnet grant extended, and showcased a demo of their reference implementation.
Hackaday.com looks at ‘your open-source client options in the non-Mastodon fediverse’
Hab hier ein Kuvert mit 16 Kunstdrucken / Farbdrucken verschiedener "Kult-Modelle", das ich gerne für einen kleinen Obulus einer Interessent*in abgeben möchte :)
Attention, #fediverse. My wife and I are private pilots and visiting Paris and Bordeaux in the fall. We’d love the opportunity to fly the French countryside. Any recommendations?
Attention, #fediverse. Ma femme et moi sommes pilotes privés et visitons Paris et Bordeaux à l'automne. Nous aimerions avoir l'occasion de parcourir la campagne française. Des recommandations?
Donate to your and your friends' admins, and all the developers actively building the fediverse and the apps and other tools that make it better. See if you can volunteer. Help spread the word.
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
Seit einigen Minuten teste ich das Plugin, um WordPress mit dem Fediverse zu verbinden. Im Fediverse bin ich schon aufrufbar. Nun muss ich mich erst mit den vielen Einstellungen vertraut machen.
It’s the weekend fedizens! Time to enjoy the rest and relaxing. Let’s get to our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and see what we all have going on for today.
I’m sipping on first cup of God’s nectar. Don’t have much planned at all today. Love it that way. Might get to hop on the Xbox and play. Wife is going to go to the oldest from college as muttfest is tomorrow. I probably won’t go as it’s going to be 95F.