Reddy (for Lemmy) is out! You can install it from Flathub now (flathub.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15079433...
Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US (wedistribute.org)
As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative....
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse (www.augment.ink)
IFTAS release a guide to help instance admins comply with the Digital Services Act (about.iftas.org)
We are in the middle of a Copernican Revolution on the Web, or: A Kantian Right to Fediverse Access (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Bonfire Offers Framework for Next-Gen Fediverse Platforms (wedistribute.org)
We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.
Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube! (framablog.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9483559...
Lemmy redirect service - now with support for post links (lemmyverse.link)
Quite some time ago I’ve posted about the tool, back then it only supported linking to communities, now it supports users and posts as well....
Mastodon clone that able to handle Twitter-scale (redplanetlabs.com)
Mastodon Clone by Red Planet Labs...
Age of Coordination (blog.erlend.sh)
How about participating in /r/Place and promoting the fediverse? (kbin.social)
Could we get all the former subreddit mods who migrated to lemmy/kbin to unite and make some promo for lemmy/kbin on /r/place?
If you'd like to draw some conclusions about ActivityPub from this, it should not be that a network should disallow supernodes ... (cosocial.ca)
Useful Masto thread on strategy.
The Newcomer's Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer (wedistribute.org)
cross-posted from: https://m.freespace.nohost.me/post/2872...
A better list of Mastodon servers that have pre-emptively defederated from Threads.net (fedipact.veganism.social)
Mastodon specific fundraiser for Harris for President at 18,700$ | update: now at 354k (mastodon.social)
What Meta-corp can give the fediverse: Money (blog.erlend.sh)
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism....
Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky (docs.bsky.app)
Today, we’re releasing an open labeling system on Bluesky. “Labeling” is a key part of moderation; it is a system for marking content that may need to be hidden, blurred, taken down, or annotated in applications. Labeling is how a lot of centralized moderation works under the hood, but nobody has ever opened it up for...
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....
ActivityPods 1.5 release (activitypods.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10629691...
Solid - SSO (not only) for the fediverse (solidproject.org)
Hello folks,...
The State of Events... as we wind down 2023 (neenster.org)
Recent progress in the world of event management systems and interoperation between the vast expanse of instances and platforms in the Fediverse looks really promising in the coming new year - so much has been accomplished!
The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
Breath Taker - A revised version of the Fedipunk story I posted here earlier (based on Feedback now with Fungi-Taylor-Swift, a Moderator character, Fridays for Fungi and MUCH MORE Lemmy-Drama) (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5328368...
Last year the EFF published this "legal primer" for people hosting Fediverse instances (www.eff.org)
Two important notes: (1) This guide is focused on legal risks that flow from hosting other people’s content, under U.S. law. In general, the safe harbors and immunities discussed below will not protect you if you are directly infringing copyright or defaming someone. (2) Many of us at EFF are lawyers, but we are not YOUR...
