IFTAS release a guide to help instance admins comply with the Digital Services Act (about.iftas.org)
Lemmyverse historical data? (data.lemmyverse.net)
I am interested in checking out the historical growth of a particular community. Lemmy Explorer crawls for data about the Lemmyverse every 24 hours or something, and that data is made available on their website. But I can only find where to download the latest data. Is there somewhere that I can find historical data? Does Lemmy...
Lyrak (techcrunch.com)
Looks like another microblogging service promising Fediverse integration.
Evergreen content gardens (blog.erlend.sh)
Social bookmarking is a novel use case for ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything....
Funkwhale might be the most overlooked Fediverse project (raphael.lullis.net)
Russia's first politically motivated block of a Fediverse server (reestr.rublacklist.net)
Admin team of LGBTQIA.Social Mastodon instance received abuse email from Russian censorship agency, where they demanded to remove an account. The account in question represented a small group that ran a collaborative blog for LGBTQIA youth and adults in Russia....
Across the Fediverse (digitallofi.com)
An interesting take on the fediverse, namely mastodon.
Asking for your opinion on decentralized applications' usability (questionnaire.ink)
Hi all! I’m working on my cyber security bachelor’s thesis and am reaching out to gather insights from users who use decentralized messaging applications....
Social Software Hacker Theory #1 – Conflict-Encouraging- vs. Discussion-Encouraging-UI-Design on the Fediverse (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging (wedistribute.org)
We sat down and interviewed Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.Blog. Micro.Blog is an IndieWeb platform with microblogging capabilities that marries a social experience with a more traditional personal website / blogging concept. It federates via ActivityPub, and has been a part of the Fediverse since 2018.
TIL that NodeBB is working on implementing Activity Pub compatibility (community.nodebb.org)
“NodeBB is at this year’s FediForum, and one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a topic-centric model of content representation....
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.
Spreading of the 100 biggest fediverse account (wehavecookies.social) German
I just saw, that fedidb now has data for the biggest fediverse accounts, so I did a little plotting with it. Here is a graphic of the scattering of the 100 biggest accounts by the instance they are on. 38 of them are on mastodon.social https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts (the data is in the alt text) #mastodon #chart...
Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? (wedistribute.org)
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: “Why didn’t the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?”...
Introducing linkblocks, the Federated Bookmark Manager (www.rafa.ee)
New Service to Follow Nebula Creators via Mastodon/ActivityPub (nula.pub)
If you keep a Peertube/video list on Mastodon, this service goes a long way towards making YouTube unnecessary.
Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7477620...
Federated Webrings (blog.commune.sh)
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....
For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without losing its soul in the process? (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed” (wedistribute.org)
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (www.theverge.com)
Announcing a new Search Engine for Lemmy (www.search-lemmy.com)
I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it’s officially up and running now: www.search-lemmy.com...
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber (www.theverge.com)
A Share Button For The Social Web (werd.io)
Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads (glaad.org)
