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Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative ( ibis.wiki )
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.
EU : Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay. ( social.network.europa.eu )
EU :...
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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.
Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover ( github.com )
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.
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....
Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter ( www.businessinsider.com )
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:...
Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China ( emacs.ch )
Funny if true.
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.
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal ( techcrunch.com )
Reminiscing about the "Reddit migration"
Seeing more "cake days" pop up lately, it seems we're approaching (or in) the 1 yr anniversary of the Reddit migration....
Defederating with Threads overview ( fedipact.veganism.social )
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112174670147908804
Fediverse turns 16 tomorrow ( cosocial.ca )
"Nobody uses Mastodon"
A little comparison...
Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server ( reestr.rublacklist.net )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14155096...
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.
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)....
Prismic: A federated social VR sandbox using ActivityPub. ( codeberg.org )
Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative ( ioc.exchange )
Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :...
PeerTube 6.1 is out! ( joinpeertube.org )
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.