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...
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.
With lemmy.film down, where should we host the new movies community?
Update: requested !movies :...
Swiss Federal government starts pilot test on Mastodon (i.imgur.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.ch/post/1019586...
Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14155096...
Lemmy is to Reddit as ____?____ is to YouTube.
EU : Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay. (social.network.europa.eu)
EU :...
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.
PSA: Be careful not to leave your Lemmy instances unmoderated
A while back I signed up to rammy.site a small lemmy instance run by a single person. It was a very nice instance, very stable and had pretty good access to other instances, or at least it used to. Recently though all of that has changed when the instance was taken over by far right-wing users from the right-wing instance known...
If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces (www.theverge.com)
Regular posters, which communities are you currently focusing on?
Hello everyone,...