Prismic: A federated social VR sandbox using ActivityPub. (codeberg.org)
Introducing Incremental Social, a community for both players and developers of incremental games! (incremental.social)
Howdy! I'm thepaperpilot, and for the past few months I've been working on something I think the internet doesn’t have enough of right now—a comfy, human-first social media space without ads or corporate interference....
MetaFilter was/is a pioneer in noncorporate social media. Lessons might be taken from them, especially w/r/t moderation (faq.metafilter.com)
MetaFilter is a 21 year old noncorporate social media community that has taken its culture and moderation very seriously. Scanning the questions of their FAQ is probably the quickest way to look for anything that might be worth consideration....
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.
Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover (github.com)
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)
cross-posted from: dormi.zone/post/1250988...
Last Week in Fediverse – episode 53 (fediversereport.com)
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....
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.
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...
Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem (popcar.bearblog.dev)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8955176...
Exploring Podcasting 2.0 Made Easy: Introducing Castopod Index (blog.castopod.org)
Decentered S1E2: Making Sora, with Takiyoshi Hoshida (wedistribute.org)
Sora is a really cool iOS fediverse app that supports Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, and Bluesky all at once. It’s slick, has some incredibly innovative features, and is a delight to use....
Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse (infrastructureinsights.fund)
Three months ago I posted about the Atlantic Council’s interest in the controlling the fediverse: lemmy.ml/post/6641106...
Where is all of the fediverse? (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 51 (fediversereport.com)
Bonfire: Cooperative Hosting Network? (bonfirenetworks.org)
queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban (archive.fo)
The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban....
We Distribute launches Fediverse Podcast (wedistribute.org)
This podcast has been a long-time coming. Damon, Laurens, and I have been hard at work interviewing all kinds of people building for the Fediverse, and after hours and hours of interviews, we’ve finally started publishing episodes....
How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse (plasticbag.org)
Solid - SSO (not only) for the fediverse (solidproject.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10530523...
Wordpress ActivityPub plugin Release 2.0.0 (github.com)
Thank you for making Owncast a success in 2023 (gabekangas.com)
You can define success any way you like. But I'm happy with the direction of the project, and I'm thankful for everyone who has helped make it happen.