Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/18019157...
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Blocking AI crawlers on the fediverse (fedia.io)
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...
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Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon (vijayprema.com)
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PSA: You can block instances in your settings (last tab) if your instance is running version 0.19.X
Hello everyone,...
0.19.3 is now the most installed version (fedidb.org)
Good to see that most of the instances have caught up...
The main feature i would like to see on Lemmy
Im pretty satisfied with Lemmy, but one thing i wish you could do is browse instances. Like i wish there was a way i could almost emulate being on my programming.dev account and see all that instances communities while im logged into this account. Afaik theres no easy way to do that without visiting some aggregator website. It...
Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator (defed.xyz)
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:...
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Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting?
With recent events hilighting the value of quality moderation, it got me to consider: How can we help you out?...
What's going on with kbin.social?
It’s been inaccessible for roughly 24hrs right now and I’m having a hard time finding any group talking about it. Was there a change recently, or some kind of an explanation posted?
I rent a vps to run fediverse instances. Here's what I've found
Hi everybody! I rent a vps with 6 cores, 16 GB ram and 100 GB nvme to run fediverse instances (mastodon, lemmy, matrix, peertube) and a couple related services (nginx proxy manager, nodebb forum, wiki.js, uptime kuma, portainer, tig-stack)....
WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Any android client that can do both Lemmy and Mastodon?
I’d like to use both, with preferably the same account, but mainly the same android app
Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app (www.theverge.com)
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...
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One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub (thenewstack.io)
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...
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So today I finally deleted the bird app
It not only have problems with CSEM (the real-life stuff), but there are now bots spamming it and Twitter made reporting it a chore....
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (www.theverge.com)
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What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?
Looking for journalists, researchers, professionals, creators, etc....
subredditstats.com now promotes Lemmy and the Fediverse (feddit.de)
Link for anyone curious:...
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New communities and flooding the feed
What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this....
Over 1 million new users and over 600 new servers added in one month across the fediverse. (fedidb.org)
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is there a search engine for the fediverse?
Since big part of the web is drowning in AI junk, including Reddit, is there a good search engine to find answers in the fediverse?
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?”...
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How would fedi fans feel about a paid LinkedIn alternative on the fediverse?
Before you start throwing 💩 , hear me out…...
Bringing the power of books to the fediverse (lemmy.world)
Hello everyone,...
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