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/
Lemmy World is down once again.
Ugh.
Akkoma - Magically Expressive Social Media (akkoma.social)
How do people feel about Akkoma? It seems to be a fork of pleroma that’s been showing up in comments lately. If you’ve tried it please share your experience.
PeerTube has a federation problem
With the mass migrations of Reddit users to Lemmy/Kbin, and Twitter now speedrunning its own mass extinction, it seems me that the eventual future of social media is de-centralized. I like how Lemmy is slowing turning out, even if it still has some work to do and growing pains to fix up. It’s still able to inform me of all of...
Lemmy.one still down - does anyone have news? (lemmy-status.org)
Update: they are back! lemmy.one/post/1464480?scrollToComments=true...
Lemmy.world should close registrations and not allow new communities
Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.
Why is Lemmy World down?
Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.
Lemmy.world down, probably following the upgrade. A reminder to move to smaller instances for a better experience (lemmy-status.org)
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...
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
I thought this might be of interest to other users as well as admins.
are there any apps I can use for firefish?
Preferably on fdroid
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6795142...
"FediForum" Virtual Unconference is Coming Back in September! (wedistribute.org)
The virtual unconference for #Fediverse Builders is back! Check out the dates, and come talk about the future of the network over a two-day event!
[Solved for LW] Lemmy World and Sh.itjust.works currently down (lemmy-status.org)
Stay Up-to-Date with the Ultimate Lemmy Apps Directory: Discover the Trending Apps for Your Devices (lemmyapps.netlify.app)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1025004...
CalcKey Officially Rebrands as Firefish (wedistribute.org)
CalcKey adopts a new name, new logo, new site, and new project infrastructure. While the name is somewhat odd, this feels like a really big step forward for the project.
Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
Alexandrite is slick, gorgeous, and brings a lot to the Lemmy experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.
The Rise of Social Analytics on Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
The fediverse is growing, with millions of users sprawling across the network. But with user growth also comes an increase in non-profits, brands, public figures, and analytics products....
WE NEED MORE SOLDIERS!!!! (lemm.ee)
We have territory given to us by the Fuck Spez Coalition. We just need more soldiers. Come help us spread the word of Lemmy!!...
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
Feedposter - a configurable bot that checks RSS/Atom feeds periodically and posts to Lemmy. (codeberg.org)
I figured I’d post this here so that people can know about it. If it is against the rules mods please let me know....
Evolving Mastodon’s Trust & Safety Features • Renaud Chaput (renchap.com)
is the mastodon instance tech.lgbt federated with threads?
I’m planning to join but don’t want to join if I’ll see treads there
Who are your "must follows" on Mastodon?
Hey all! I’m interested in creating an account on mastodon, and am looking to build up a list of people to follow. Let me know who your must follows are!
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
