How Does BlueSky Work? (steveklabnik.com)
Interesting post about BlueSky’s underlying federated protocol (AT Protocol)
Pixelfed is introducing Curated Onboarding: A Personal Touch to Community Building (pixelfed.blog)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7026921...
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...
Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters | Bluesky (docs.bsky.app)
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/5484255...
What are the proposal to make the ActivityPub protocol better? (kbin.social)
I'm a fan of the Fediverse, but what are the major issues we faced right now because of the limitations of the #ActivityPub protocol? Recently, decentralize social networks are at their peak, big players are trying to be part of it, and is constantly in the news....
Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer (blog.fyralabs.com)
A really interesting look at the recent spam wave.
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....
Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks (techcrunch.com)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 56 (fediversereport.com)
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.
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)
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....
