Newgrounds is considering adding activitypub support but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people (merveilles.town)
Original link www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1537550/3#bbspost279…
Academics on Mastodon (nathanlesage.github.io)
Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community's Mastodon server, for instance.
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
So… if the backend gets moved over to Wordpress, and Wordpress can already federate, I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse? 😮
Threads Enables Fediverse Replies (blog.karliner.net)
Last night Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, quitely announced the next step in the integration of Threads into the Fediverse. In addition to being able to follow Threads accounts from Fediverse/Mastodon accounts, we can now reply to and like Threads posts. Threads are taking a quiet, incremental approach to Federation, but seem...
Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse.
To take a step back and see how far we've gone, Discuit, another link aggregator created around one year ago, published their weekly report - 245 weekly active users (detailed report in link) (discuit.net)
Discuit is one of the alternatives to Reddit which emerged at the same time as Lemmy (the other one being Tildes, mentioned at the end of the post)...
BrowserPub: A browser for debugging ActivityPub and the ⁂fediverse (podcastindex.social)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 81 (fediversereport.com)
This week’s news:...
