Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks (techcrunch.com)
Steps towards a safer fediverse (privacy.thenexus.today)
The good news is that there are some straightforward opportunities for significant short-term safety improvements. If fediverse funders, developers, businesses, and “influencers” start prioritizing investing in safety, the fediverse can turn what’s currently a big weakness into a huge strategic advantage....
Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities (techcrunch.com)
Get Your Own Fediverse Trading Cards! (wedistribute.org)
An awesome new app just got released for free on itch.io, that lets Fedizens create their own MTG-style playing cards.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 56 (fediversereport.com)
How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed (join.piefed.social)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5391072...
Oliphant: Curated Blocklists for Admins (interview) (wedistribute.org)
We sat down and chatted with Shawn Grigson from Oliphant, who gave us a fascinating and detailed view of what crowdsourced community moderation looks like....
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (techcrunch.com)
Can we improve the Fediverse Allow-List Model? (dbzer0.com)
Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges (wedistribute.org)
Bridgy Fed made a splash earlier this week by announcing its latest progress in connecting the Fediverse to Bluesky and Nostr. Sadly, not everyone was welcoming.
Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse (techcrunch.com)
BBC: Extending our Mastodon social media trial (www.bbc.co.uk)
Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion (github.com)
Github ticket: github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
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.
Lemmy Federate - automatically federate Lemmy communities (lemmy-federate.com)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/19638968...
FediForum, an online unconference for discussing the future of the Fediverse, 19-20 March (fediforum.org)
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement (www.anildash.com)
[…] being able to say, “wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that’s supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that’s not owned by any one company, that can’t be controlled by any one company, and that allows people...
Lemmy Webhook - add webhook support to your Lemmy instance (github.com)
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted about this package and quite a lot has changed since then....
Changing PieFed's appearance with themes - PieFed (join.piefed.social)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/4986083...
The Verge - The fediverse, explained (www.theverge.com)
Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon (vijayprema.com)
Bluesky opens to public registration (bsky.social)
are people still all riled up about beehaw? (kbin.social)
in summer 2023, when I moved here from reddit, the lemmy instance beehaw.org was extremely divisive. they wanted to create a website according to certain rules rather than a free for all. some people were saying it would be the end of the threadiverse before it even began....
