Independent Federated Trust and Safety: Who, What, and How? (wedistribute.org)
As the Fediverse continues to grow, new challenges arise in community management and user safety. A new organization seeks to make it easier.
A reminder that kbin is still violating the zlib license of Postmill (the software that powers Raddle) (raddle.me)
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 30 (fediversereport.com)
[Fediverse Report] Lemmy ask you anything (fediversereport.com)
How to Move Your Instagram Feed to Pixelfed, the Photo App That Doesn't Track Your Every Move (www.wired.com)
Pixelfed got featured on the Wired and here’s what @dansup, the author of @pixelfed, says:...
Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)
original article headline: “Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X”...
App to schedule posts on Lemmy (schedule.lemmings.world)
I’ve made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It’s available at schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance....
honk 1.0 (flak.tedunangst.com)
If you’ve heard that people have problems with the head of mastodon (gargron) this recent little incident might be an example. (github.com)
The link is to a GitHub discussion, where gargron shuts down a discussion because he’s made a unilateral decision and then locks the thread to avoid debate....
Pixelfed + Account Migration, almost ready for showtime! (mastodon.social)
Pixelfed cross-posting in Micro.blog - Maton Reece (www.manton.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3509989...
Akkoma stable 2023.08 release - Secure ARMs are bookworms (meta.akkoma.dev)
Digesting the "Child Safety on Federated Social Media" Report (wedistribute.org)
An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It’s a solvable problem, with challenges.
Peer-bay? (lemm.ee)
Possibly a dumb question, but is there, or could one of the extra smart people here build, a federated marketplace to allow for direct buying and selling without the middle-man enshittification of ebay, reverb, and the like?
The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)
URL seems to be wrong … here’s the correct URL...
Spacehost fediverse hosting platform is offering to share revenue with the platforms it hosts ... starting with Lemmy (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2665269...
Introducing The Mixtape - Hot Music from Radio Free Fedi (wedistribute.org)
We Distribute is bringing in a new feature - The Mixtape! We create playlists of songs that broadcast through Radio Free Fedi, and share it with the wider fediverse. It’s an opportunity for people to discover music by Fedizens, and help support artists on the network....
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer (www.eff.org)
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/
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.
Lemmy.one still down - does anyone have news? (lemmy-status.org)
Update: they are back! lemmy.one/post/1464480?scrollToComments=true...
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.
