New Service to Follow Nebula Creators via Mastodon/ActivityPub (nula.pub)
If you keep a Peertube/video list on Mastodon, this service goes a long way towards making YouTube unnecessary.
The fediverse Goodreads alternative: Bookwyrm (bookwyrm.world)
If you are interested in sharing book recommendations with other, or just manage your books, then bookwyrm is great for that! The .world team also has a bookwyrm instance up and running at bookwyrm.world with a community here on lemmy as well at !bookwyrm. Read Ruuds original post about it here: https://lemmy.world/post/5904792...
For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without losing its soul in the process? (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed” (wedistribute.org)
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads (glaad.org)
A Share Button For The Social Web (werd.io)
Meta and the Fediverse: The Duopoly that could shape the Web to come (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)
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....
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber (www.theverge.com)
We are in the middle of a Copernican Revolution on the Web, or: A Kantian Right to Fediverse Access (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (www.theverge.com)
Decentered Podcast: Interview with creator of Blacksky (wedistribute.org)
This ended up being such a great interview. I know some people will shrug it off, because it’s Bluesky and not Mastodon, but Rudy’s a super smart dude and an amazing guest, and he shed a lot of light on building a community space for black people on an emergent platform. There’s so much good info coming from this man!
FediForum Showcases New Fediverse Apps and Developer Network - The New Stack (thenewstack.io)
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
Threadverse Working Group is formed (mastodon.social)
At this year's FediForum one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a group-centric model of content representation....
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
Our Live Coverage of FediForum March 2024! (wedistribute.org)
We’re trying something new: live coverage of the #FediForum March 2024 Event! It’s a first-ever experiment for us, come check out our coverage!
The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
ActivityPub has remained the dominant Fediverse protocol over the past few years. In that time, many bright ideas have come on how to improve the spec. Here’s where those efforts are today.
Newsmast Brings Huge New Features in 3.0 Update - Opening Up the Possibility of Custom Feeds for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
This is an older article, but I’m mostly curious what y’all think about newsmast? Have you used it?
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and the Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.
"How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 that is also relevant to how we teach new people about the Fediverse (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky (docs.bsky.app)
Today, we’re releasing an open labeling system on Bluesky. “Labeling” is a key part of moderation; it is a system for marking content that may need to be hidden, blurred, taken down, or annotated in applications. Labeling is how a lot of centralized moderation works under the hood, but nobody has ever opened it up for...