Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important (ploum.net)
I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta....
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.
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I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta....
Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it’s officially up and running now: www.search-lemmy.com...
Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media...
article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X...
On the Lemmy specific front, Active daily users seems to still be stabilising following the exodus from elsewhere, Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise though – promising stats all in all.
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1823812...
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Dont forget to do your part by telling other people not on lemmy to try it. Its content has improved a lot so ask them to try it again if they didnt find communities they liked before. It will help the continued growth :)
In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....
The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl...
The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it’s opensource and free, currently working in android and windows....
Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing ActivityPub! 🙌...
Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.
Hey, I made a simple webapp, that shows you a random community with basic stats, description and top 10 posts of all time from this community....
Goodreads is perhaps the best example of enshittification imo. It’s only good now as a way to track your reading lists....
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/6400327...
Y’all come on over and drop some pixels!