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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative ( ibis.wiki )

Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China ( emacs.ch )

Funny if true.

Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" ( wedistribute.org )

Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.

I am extremely grateful to everybody involved with Lemmy. That includes you!

Hello!...

Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024) ( wedistribute.org )

Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.

Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...

My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog ( jewy.blog )

cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/7623718...

You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse ( wedistribute.org )

Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.

Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter ( www.businessinsider.com )

A pinned post in a one of the biggest communities is celebrating death. How is that possible?

Even though it’s against main lemmy instances rules...

Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App ( wedistribute.org )

The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He's helping other projects in the space, too.

Federated Blogging Platforms

Just trying to check and make sure I never missed any. Is it just writefreely and plume right now?

Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts ( wedistribute.org )

Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.

Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ? ( news.itsfoss.com )

The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems:...

Stop downvoting foreign languages posts. Just use the language filter. Portuguese

Constantly users from lemmy.world and lemm.ee are downvoting posts in languages other than english....

EU : Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay. ( social.network.europa.eu )

EU :...

A visual with the logo of the Commission and the logo of Mastodon linked by a blue heart.

A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) ( yewtu.be )

A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.

Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server ( reestr.rublacklist.net )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096...

Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub ( wedistribute.org )

Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and the Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.

Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network ( lemmy.ml )

Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...

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