Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It ( www.techdirt.com )
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon ( wedistribute.org )
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.
Defederating with Threads overview ( fedipact.veganism.social )
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112174670147908804
How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka ( www.theverge.com )
Seven years later, Kyle’s argument is that AirSpace has turned into what he now calls Filterworld, a phrase he uses to describe how algorithmic recommendations have become one of the most dominating forces in culture, and as a result, have pushed society to converge on a kind of soulless sameness in its tastes.
Bluesky opens to public registration ( bsky.social )
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber ( www.theverge.com )
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days wandering the earth and saying things like Twitter should be a protocol and not...
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’ ( www.theverge.com )
They’re not done yet. Just announcing (and the verge reporting on it)....
Evan Prodromou - Bytedance: Add ActivityPub to Tiktok Notes ( evanp.me )
The grandfather of the fediverse @evan wants TikTok Notes to join the fediverse
Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads ( techcrunch.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10361406
Negative experiences like this kneecap people migrating to Lemmy. ( www.reddit.com )
Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover ( github.com )
What is Farcaster, and why did it raise 150M USD? ( fediversereport.com )
I take a deep dive into crypto-based social network Farcaster, aka Torment-Nexus-on-the-blockchain....
Mike Macgirvin recounts the depressing history behind Mastodon's rendering of `article` vs `note` ( fediversity.site )
Here's the reason Article became a second class citizen......
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )
Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban ( wedistribute.org )
When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? ( wedistribute.org )
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: "Why didn't the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?"...
The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub ( wedistribute.org )
ActivityPub has remained the dominant Fediverse protocol over the past few years. In that time, many bright ideas have come on how to improve the spec. Here's where those efforts are today.
[opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it ( fortune.com )
archive.today link...
PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to #lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude to lemmy. That would be bad 😱 ( tech.michaelaltfield.net )
This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs....
Building ActivityPub ( activitypub.ghost.org )
Looks like it's really happening!
George Takei looks like good company on the Fediverse, agreed ? ( universeodon.com )
I think it was last week when George Takei announced to quit with social media but is still there! Does the Fediverse need a few more well known names to attract more users ?...
Update on Pixelfed groups ( mastodon.social )
Shipping soon (tm) but we heard that before. Still looking forward to it and they explicitly mention Lemmy compatibility....
An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by pixelfed has just successfully tested federation. ( mastodon.social )
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) ( codeberg.org )
This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods ( wedistribute.org )
ActivityPods is a wild project that's bringing the architecture and data capabilities of Tim Berners-Lee's Solid Protocol to the Fediverse. We dig in to what it is, how it works, and what's currently possible with the framework.
