Changing PieFed's appearance with themes - PieFed ( join.piefed.social )
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4986083...
The Verge - The fediverse, explained ( www.theverge.com )
Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon ( vijayprema.com )
Bluesky opens to public registration ( bsky.social )
NodeBB Update on Activitypub Development ( community.nodebb.org )
are people still all riled up about beehaw? ( kbin.social )
in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began....
The Fediverse is starting to break walled gardens [TechAltar] ( piped.video )
What Meta’s Fediverse Plans Mean for Threads Users ( www.wired.com )
Meta is treading carefully, doing a phased implementation while continuing conversations with Fediverse leaders. This will give the company more time to iron out some of the integration kinks. “Do we adapt the protocol to be able to support this?” Lambert asks. “Or do we try to do some kind of interesting, unique...
Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover ( github.com )
If your instance is not up to date (see footer), you can pass this along to your admins to check
GitHub - Asudox/lemmy-wikibot-rs: A lemmy bot written in Rust to send summaries of wikipedia articles mentioned in user comments ( github.com )
NOTE: Bot is currently down...
Decentered S1E3: Ryan Barrett Has a Bridge to Sell Us ( wedistribute.org )
For our third episode of Decentered, we talked to Ryan Barrett, the creator of Bridgy Fed! Ryan has a lot of experience in working with a variety of decentralized social web protocols, including IndieWeb, ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and Nostr, and has a lot of interesting thoughts on making them talk to each other.
Proposal for GitLab to support ActivityPub ( docs.gitlab.com )
The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network....
Spreading of the 100 biggest fediverse account ( wehavecookies.social )
I just saw, that fedidb now has data for the biggest fediverse accounts, so I did a little plotting with it. Here is a graphic of the scattering of the 100 biggest accounts by the instance they are on. 38 of them are on mastodon.social https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts (the data is in the alt text) #mastodon #chart...
Last Week in Fediverse – episode 53 - a closer look at the upcoming project Bonfire, Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation, Sublinks is a new link aggregating platform ( fediversereport.com )
0.19.3 is now the most installed version ( fedidb.org )
Good to see that most of the instances have caught up...
What is going on with kbin - a week has passed with no sign of any life ( kbin.melroy.org )
I know some of you consider this as documented whining. I hear you but won't stop sharing my opinion and reminding. I recommend continuing commenting on the original post to keep it a bit organized (this post is a link to it)...
The Mixtape #4: Space Vibes ( wedistribute.org )
The Mixtape is an ongoing effort by We Distribute to showcase the musicians of the Fediverse and their work. Each issue is a playlist of 10 tracks centered around a theme, that our followers can vote on....
Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events ( jasongr.im )
Steps towards a safer fediverse (DRAFT) ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7992691...
I created a Sharkey instance... ( sharkey.world )
Next to Mastodon.world and Lemmy.world I am also running Calckey.world....
Proposed better Mastodon + Lemmy parity | Attachments ( github.com )
Suggested for better post viewing inside Mastodon
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.
Scientific Study analyzing impact of Reddit Migration on Lemmy ( www.jmis.org )
Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy ( wedistribute.org )
Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of...
Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem ( popcar.bearblog.dev )
I made a blog post on my biggest issue in Lemmy and the proposed solutions for it. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.