New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) (codeberg.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15109471...
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be (wedistribute.org)
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the Fediverse, is built on IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
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.
Mastodon tries to solve its problem with tracking down other users (www.yahoo.com)
FediForum, an online unconference for discussing the future of the Fediverse, 19-20 March (fediforum.org)
Could we use this sorting algorithm on Lemmy? (linklonk.com)
I found this link aggregator that someone made for a personal project and they had an exciting idea for a sorting algorithm whose basic principle is the following:...
Has anyone looked at codifying community control of communities before? (communityrule.info)
Hello all, I am just curious if anyone has taken a tool like community rule to define how their instance or community control is handled? Even more so if there has been any effort to make the actual decision-making actionable by the system.
Fediverse software fork management (kbin.cafe)
Hey, if there are any folks here involved in friendly forks of fediverse software - Do you use any fancy merge strategies to merge upstream changes into your fork? What's your mileage?...
WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon (news.yahoo.com)
In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse – the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others – with the acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is announcing...
I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM. (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2896209...
YSK: You can use alexandrite (alternative lemmy web front-end) to switch your default post layout and easily switch between lemmy accounts (alexandrite.app)
I use alexandrite to switch between different lemmy instances and change the default post layout to card style. When I first started using lemmy, the I found the difference between the reddit and lemmy in the post feed to be jarring as I was used to a card style layout....
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
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.
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)
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....