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Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. (mander.xyz)

www.threads.net/

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

Edit: they published some transphobic shit: thepinknews.com/…/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/

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.

Looking for fediverse platform for a minimal corporate website.

Some friends have websites. I encourage them to do. But they have them only to publish contact info, opening times, and a couple of photos of their business. What would be the best fediverse platform for this? Of course being able to post/toot news every now and then, is also a good feature.

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.

Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)

An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) (www.staygrounded.online)

PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.

Poptalk.scrubbles.tech is going down temporarily due to fear of federating CSAM (lemmy.world)

poptalk.scrubbles.tech/c/poptalkmeta...

Mbin is a community fork of Kbin focused on what the community wants, pull requests can be merged by any repo member. (github.com)

Do you think opensource + Fediverse will develop into some kind of political force/movement in the next years?

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3932795...

“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism (wedistribute.org)

The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.

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:...

Instagram Users Shown Transphobia As Promotional Tool To Join Threads (neuromatch.social)

The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you....

Faircamp is a Free Bandcamp Alternative (wedistribute.org)

There’s a really cool open source alternative to Bandcamp that just came out. With some questions raised about Bandcamp’s future, some musicians in the Fediverse are leaning into the new platform as a different approach to selling their music....

What happened to Lemmy ML? It had disappeared from my list and I had to log in again.

Did I get punished for saying something wrong? Did it get an update?

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...

Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)

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....

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.

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