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Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users (lemm.ee)

Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

“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...

Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)

article headline: Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X...

Fediverse now well past 14 Million total users (fediverse.observer)

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.

Update: Pushing back against the wave of bot accounts on Lemmy (sh.itjust.works)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1823812...

Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)

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)....

Lemmy Handshake - Beta release (sh.itjust.works)

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....

GitLab plans support for ActivityPub (gitlab.com)

Several years in the making, GitLab is now very actively implementing ActivityPub! 🙌...

Mastodon gets better search, onboarding, and cross-server interactions (www.theverge.com)

I made a tool for discovering new communities on lemmy (sh.itjust.works)

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....

Great news — social media is falling apart (www.businessinsider.com)

Nothing to see here, just join lemmy promoting a pedophile instance. Not a good look for the fediverse (sh.itjust.works)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/6400327...

Canvas.toast.ooo is the Lemmyverse r/place! Going on right now! (canvas.toast.ooo)

Y’all come on over and drop some pixels!

[Lemmy active users] 28th of September was the only day with more monthly active Lemmy users than the previous one, probably thanks to the release of Boost for Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

Link to the daily stats: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats...

WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

[Back online] Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator (defed.xyz)

EDIT 3: All good now, the DNS has done its thing and defed.xyz is fully operational! Once again, thank you all for having checked out my tool, it means a lot to me....

I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM. (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2896209...

How (not) to get people to download your app 🫣 (builtformars.com)

A ddep dive review of the Reddit user interface by Peter Ramsay...

Mastodon 4.2 released, with (opt-in) search, and UX improvements (blog.joinmastodon.org)

Lots of small improvements across the user experience, and opt-in search, make this an important release.

Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Lemmy for Mastodon - A new account dedicated to promoting the Lemmy communities and instances that make the most sense in your Mastodon feed (mastodon.social)

This is shameless self-promotion, but part of a working theory I have that Mastodon users have more to offer Lemmy than your average Reddit user. See my other post about it here: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2174573...

WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon (news.yahoo.com)

In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse – the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others – with the acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is announcing...