Flipboard Users Can Now Follow Anyone in the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Flipboard continues its rollout of federation capabilities, this time implementing a “soft-follow” system for users to try out federated subscription for the very first time.
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Flipboard continues its rollout of federation capabilities, this time implementing a “soft-follow” system for users to try out federated subscription for the very first time.
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15079433...
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....
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....
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.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9483559...
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 by Red Planet Labs...
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?
Useful Masto thread on strategy.
cross-posted from: https://m.freespace.nohost.me/post/2872...
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....
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 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....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10629691...
Hello folks,...
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!