fediverse

I hope this is the right community to post in....

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I’m curious about something. I’ve seen there’s a big debate about multiple communities for similar content on different instances, and whether they should coalesce into a single community or remain as multiple communities. I also saw a post about linking sibling...

Make only each account’s 5 most recent upvotes effect post rank. In effect this would make vote sellers need to make many more accounts to be useful, they would need to churn upvotes....

Is there any opened instance of socialhome?

Quick, pros and cons

Frequently, I need to answer the question, “Is this source of information reliable?”. Lately, I have been thinking that a decentralized platform to post reviews for websites and see aggregated statistics about those reviews would be pretty useful....

Found this by accident, it appeared in a google search....

Linux:...

Interesting history and analysis of SMTP’s history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

I’m resuming my work on Fediverser, and I need as much help as I can get to build the Recommended community map. This crowdsourced data will be one the key points for instance admins that want to make use of the Fediverser services, and it will help immensely for people who want to migrate away from Reddit....

I'm trying to learn more about the protocol, and after years of being around in the fediverse there's obviously areas where the protocol could improve. I was reading some of the fep documents and there are really good proposals. How long for these to be part of the protocol? Last update was 2018.

I think this is the most important (WIP) Fediverse Enhancement Proposal of this year for the #ActivityPub protocol:...

Ideas for building a federated Roblox alternative...

IFTAS, the Trust and Safety organization for the #Fediverse, launched a new community portal full of guides, resources, discussion groups, and tools for community moderators and instance admins. We take a look at what it does.

I think Hubzilla is very good. But how do you use it on a mobile device?

General use...

FediVision is an annual music competition in the spirit of Eurovision. This year probably had the biggest turnout ever: 72 entries from a variety of artists and musicians, and you can listen to all of them!

Is Google signaling the end of the open web? That’s some of the concern raised by its new embrace of AI. While most of the fears about AI may be overblown, this one could be legit. But it doesn’t mean that we need to accept it....

By this I sort of mean like, in the case of Lemmy for example, something like a built-in Lemmyverse of sorts....

In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....

If you keep a Peertube/video list on Mastodon, this service goes a long way towards making YouTube unnecessary.