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:...
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 67 ( fediversereport.com )
Bridge to Bluesky silently launches to significant interest. New features for PeerTube. Increased federation between the forums, WordPress and Lemmy.
Are you as woke as you can be on purpose?
Is there a good Lemmy community for comparing amps, headphones, speakers, complaining about Audacity, etcetera?
How to Stream to PeerTube or Owncast with OBS Studio ( wedistribute.org )
The Fediverse has, not one, but two different streaming platforms readily available to people. They both work a bit differently...but, both of them work great with OBS Studio. We dive in to how to set each up.
Poast owner was bragging about poisoning the results Cloutier of Bird.Makeup gets from their server, if you use that service we need an alternative lol. Currently I use my friend's small Nitter.
From looking at their posts they were able to get enough performance to start caching popular tweets, that doesn't sound that expensive to me. Might get into hosting that soon but putting this out there in the hopes someone else does, I'm happy with my secluded option....
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.
A Mobilizon instance for the Americans among us ( birchtree.events )
Last time I checked there was no functioning Mobilizon instance based in North America, so I started one. If you have an event coming up this summer but don't want to use Facebook or some other corporate platform, maybe give Mobilizon a shot?...
PeerTube 6.1 is out! ( joinpeertube.org )
This site claims to run Mastodon but its front-end looks fresh and smooth! ( veganism.social )
Is it easy to customize Mastodon front-end or front-page like that ? Any pointers ?
FediGov, an initiative by GNU/Linux.ch + FSFE-CH to encourage public institutions to use federated free software solutions to communicate with their people. ( fedigov.eu )
https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/112353096731501600
Mastodon and Peertube: EU closing up shop in Fediverse because nobody wants to run servers ( netzpolitik.org )
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 66 ( fediversereport.com )
The EU pilot for the fediverse comes to an end, but the European Commission will stay on the fediverse; Ghost announces that they will support ActivityPub and build a fediverse news reading client, and Mastodon creates a U.S.-based non-profit.
Some ideals for fediverse platform design ( hachyderm.io )
A little thread I wrote on masto after watching this talk by Bret Victor and reflecting on their stated ideals for how computing ought to be designed.
The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament (2019 Aral Balkan) ( ar.al )
Related to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112337323830773758...
Share your fediverse accounts
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Evergreen content gardens - blog Open Indie ( blog.erlend.sh )
tl;dr paragraph titles :...
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......
Mobilizon v/s Nextcloud (v/s other?) for a network of people event calendar
I have been given the task of finding a proper platform for building a network of education, medical and other initiatives in my country, that have all the same focus (I am sorry I can't give details yet on the project, but you could probably could get a grasp of the idea if you think in something like a church whose attendants...
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit ( blog.joinmastodon.org )
We’re excited to announce the Board of Directors governing this newly formed entity:...
Does the concept of the fediverse act as a template for original apps that couldn't be done with non fediverse software?
Fediverse privacy vs information in dating apps, the case of Alovoa
This dating app has many problems yes the fediverse is all about privacy but what about actually knowing enough information to swipe yes or no. For all one knows the person may or may not be single, may or may not have kids may be an evangelical ect ect. All one knows about the person is where they live an a picture that may or...
EU : Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay. ( social.network.europa.eu )
EU :...
EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story ( www.edps.europa.eu )
Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve”.