Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server (kbin.social)
The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl...
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There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl...
Discuit is one of the alternatives to Reddit which emerged at the same time as Lemmy (the other one being Tildes, mentioned at the end of the post)...
I realise this is a known issue and that lemmy.world isn’t the only instance that does this. Also, I’m aware that there are other things affecting federation. But I’m seeing some things not federate, and can’t help thinking that things would be going smoother if all the output from the biggest lemmy instance wasn’t 50%...
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/7623713...
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/18019157...
Given how Reddit now makes money by selling its data to AI companies, I was wondering how the situation is for the fediverse. Typically you can block AI crawlers using robot.txt (Verge reported about it recently: https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders). But this only works per...
Good to see that most of the instances have caught up...
A few months ago I released the Defederation Investigator, a tool to verify the federation status of Lemmy instances. With this new update, I’ve expanded it to support multiple Fediverse softwares, including:...
Flipboard is making good on a major fediverse promise. Late last year, at the same time it announced it would be switching user accounts to ActivityPub, Flipboard said it planned to let users follow users on federated platforms that used ActivityPub from the Flipboard app. Starting Tuesday, that feature is here, meaning that you...
In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not...
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?”...
article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X...
A couple days ago I updated search-lemmy.com to 0.4.0....
the user sh.itjust.works/u/goat appears to be impersonating the mastodon user hellsite.site/@goat...
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/8095934...
Hey all,...
Lots of small improvements across the user experience, and opt-in search, make this an important release.
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5484255...