Oh snap, #Discourse is adding #ActivityPub support!
meta.discourse.org/t/federatio…

#Fediverse

Federation support for Discourse

Yes, the username (aka “preferredUsername”) is set in the category settings. “announcements” is what I set for that category.

^{Discourse Meta}

Yes, but that is still not good. Within ActivityPub, one cannot write a *message* that, a priori, is known to be correctly readable by any of the intended recipients -- unless it is a short (< 500 bytes) text in plain ascii, with no italics, boldface, or other markup, and no embedded images... >>

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FediverseFragmentation

But that is BAD, VERY BAD! So the Fediverse is split into a myriad platforms -- and hence communities -- with incompatible features.

That may be great for the computer nerds who will join a dozen platforms just to revel in the features. It is terrible for those who only want a platform to communicate with other people...

#Fediverse #FediverseFragmentation

We want to take a moment to thank @tilvids for hosting our videos, and for offering a privacy-respecting, open source alternative to YouTube.

As a token of our appreciation, we're now a monthly Tier-3 supporter via Patreon.

If you use #TILvids, consider a small donation to help them keep the server humming.

patreon.com/tilvids/membership

Or consider a donation to #Mastodon, #PeerTube, or a project that you love.

#OpenSource #Video #Fediverse #Thunderbird

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^Patreon

Happy day! Got my copy of Mastodon for Dummies by
@workingwriter @chrisminnick huge thanks to them for sending it to me😊

Will be reviewing the book and testing out the explanations on my favorite dummy, since my husband has finally decided to make a Mastodon account 👀

#Mastodon #Fediverse #books

“Among the unexpected sources of support for the magazine was the #fediverse—the collection of decentralized Mastodon servers that soared in popularity following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Many comments on the GoFundMe page mention that the donors learned about the Observer through #Mastodon—where the Texas Observer was one of the first journalistic outlets to set up its own server, @jamescanup said.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m… via Guardian

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #mastodon #journalism

Texas Observer journalists raise $270,000 in bid to save publication

Magazine’s editors asked board not to lay off anyone for a month if staff raised $200,000 after Friday’s vote to cease publication

^{Julia Carrie Wong (The Guardian)}

WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open!

Our board just voted to rescind both the layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation at our publication—and you were a huge part of it. THANK YOU! You proved to the world that #TexasNeedsAnObserver!

texasobserver.org/texas-observ…

#Fediverse #Mastodon #WeWin

We Did It, Y'all! Texas Observer Will Remain Open!

"Thanks to the extraordinary success of the staff’s fundraising this week," the publication's board of directors voted to rescind layoffs and shutdown.

^{Texas Observer Staff (The Texas Observer)}

I keep seeing lots of people who are totally giddy about the #Fediverse, who are gushing over it, who want to promote it, who want it to spread.

And who want it to advance. To learn new abilities. To grow new features.

That's all fine and dandy.

But almost all of these people are still fully convinced that the Fediverse equals #Mastodon. And nothing else. At least not until Tumblr and P92 join the fray. Okay, maybe the #WordPress plug-in that's the talk of the town now that it has become official. Okay, maybe a few of them have also heard of #Pixelfed and/or #PeerTube because their makers are all over the Fediverse.

When these people are talking about the Fediverse, they mean Mastodon. And when they're thinking about the Fediverse, they're only thinking about Mastodon. Because that's all they know.

So these people want new cool features or even new cool use-cases in the Fediverse, stuff that Mastodon doesn't have. They want Mastodon to have it, or they want new projects to be launched that have these features.

If only they knew.

If only they knew that everything, literally everything they propose has already been done. Yes, in the Fediverse. In projects which are fully federated with Mastodon. Why don't they know? Because they've never heard of any of these projects, much less what they can do.

So they want "quote-tweets" in the Fediverse. Which means they want Mastodon to introduce them.

Tell you what: Mastodon is the only microblogging project in the Fediverse that doesn't have quotes. Not only will Eugen Rochko never introduce them, but all the other projects have them with Mastodon forks #GlitchSoc such as being the exception. #Pleroma has them. #Akkoma has them. #MissKey has them. #CalcKey has them. #FoundKey has them. #GoToSocial has them. The old heavyweights #Friendica and #Hubzilla have them, and so does Hubzilla's youngest decendant, the #Streams project. Et cetera.

You want "quote-tweets"? Switch to something that isn't Mastodon, and you've got "quote-tweets".

Or text formatting in posts like bold type, italics, underline, strikethrough, code blocks etc. Would be great if Mastodon had that, in spite of other people saying they don't want it.

Again: Pleroma already has it. Akkoma already has it. MissKey already has it. CalcKey already has it. FoundKey already hasit. GoToSocial already has it. Friendica already has it. Hubzilla already has it (look at this post at its source in a Web browser and weep). (streams) already has it. And so forth. This time, even Mastodon forks have it.

It has been done. It has been done many times. It has actually been done before Mastodon.

Next, long-form blog posting. We need something like #Medium in the Fediverse that isn't Medium itself. Mastodon's 500 characters are too few, and Twitter-like threads are inconvenient.

Except we already have that, too. #Plume and #WriteFreely are about as close to Medium as Mastodon is to Twitter, including clean and distraction-less layouts. Oh, and Hubzilla can do that, too.

By the way: Again, Mastodon is the only Fediverse project that can do microblogging that has a 500-character limit. Pleroma, Mastodon's oldest direct competitor, raised it to a default of 6,000. MissKey and its forks have 3,000 as a default. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have character limits of "go ahead, drop your short story in one post in its entirety," so virtually none at all. And yes, Hubzilla has long-form writing on top of that.

Speaking of Hubzilla: Most recently, there has been the idea to uncouple one's online identity from a specific instance. Your online self should no longer be firmly tied to any one server exclusively. Now, this sounds so ambitious, it might just as well be science-fiction.

What if I told you that just this very thing already exists as well?

No, really. No, I'm not making this up. But you should know by now that I'm not.

Better yet: It was conceived as early as 2011. By the guy who launched Friendica in 2010. He invented a new principle named #NomadicIdentity and a new protocol named #Zot. In its early stages already, even with no technical implementation yet, Zot was more powerful than ActivityPub is today.

In 2012, Zot became reality as the basis of a Friendica fork which later became known as #RedMatrix and, upon its 1.0 stable release in late 2015, which is still prior to Mastodon's initial release, Hubzilla. Hubzilla is still being developed and improved, and it has a fledgling but growing "successor of a successor" named (streams) which offers nomadic identity, too.

Now, what does this nomadic identity even look like? Well, not only does it let you move your channel(s) around from instance to instance with ease and, unlike on Mastodon, with absolutely everything on it. No, it also lets you have your channel on multiple instances at once. Identical clones, automagically kept in sync in real-time, all with the same identity, the same content, the same connections.

Your identity is no longer strapped down to one instance. Not only that, but your channel, your posts, your content is no longer hosted on only one server. This means that if one instance with one of your clones goes down, you still have spares.

Okay, so how about community groups/forums? That'd be cool.

Well, for one, there's #Guppe. It's basically bolted on Mastodon, and in practice, it's centralised because there's only one instance. But it's impractical to use.

Besides, this is becoming a running gag here, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have exactly this built-in and open for the rest of the Fediverse.

Better yet: There's also #Lemmy which amounts to a federated #Reddit or #HackerNews clone. So not only does Lemmy offer this, it specialises in it.

Hubzilla alone can provide Fediverse feature suggestions with "has been done" for years to come. Not to mention what else the Fediverse has to offer. Even if someone should want a free, non-commercial, decentralised, federated #GoodReads clone in the Fediverse, it has been done: #BookWyrm.

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.

^{fediverse.party}

Who's checking out #MozFest next week? We'll be in virtual attendance, and this is one of the talks we're excited about (for obvious reasons):

▶️ Dialogues & Debates: Making the Fediverse | Mozilla is joining the Fediverse in 2023 to co-create its future. What are its greatest opportunities and limitations? How can we scale methodology and not solutions? What is the public discourse square of the future? Who is building it?

schedule.mozillafestival.org/s…

#Mozilla #Fediverse #Mastodon

Mozilla Festival 2023 Schedule

Mozilla Festival 2023 Schedule. Activists in the internet health movement will gather at MozFest to move the needle in tech, art, social responsibility, ethics, and AI. Will you join us?

^{schedule.mozillafestival.org}

Are you a #Fediverse developer?

There's a new initiative by @gabek (the lead developer of the Fediverse livestreaming platform @owncast) called FediDocs. It aims to provide an easy-to-find set of documentation for how to federate with a Fedi platform, in order to promote better federation between platforms.

The FediDocs website is still very new and empty (fedidocs.org/about/) but if you are a Fedi developer please contact @gabek about contributing info on federating with your project.

Let's look at an example, backups and security, currently on #mastodon and the whole #Fediverse the is an understanding that nothing is actually private (ok mastodon keeps telling white lies about this, i don't blame them) so we trust our admins not to spy, and we don't stress about the lossyness of it all.

Add the security of secret chat, and you add a whole another stress to running an instance. Why do we need to do this?

Guten Morgen liebe Menschen auf #Mastodon, #Pixelfed und im restlichen #Fediverse.
Ziemlich genau ein Jahr ist es nun her, dass wir im #Pfälzerwald waren. Von riesigen Felsen, Bäumen und herrlichen Formen eines #Sonnenaufgang|s haben wir einiges mitgenommen und genossen.
Trinkt Tee und Kaffe und habt einen schönen Tag!

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#fotografie #natur #landschaft #Pfalz #Morgen #Wolken
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#photography #nature #sunstar #landscape #sunrise #throwbackthursday #cloudporn
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#art #fineart #mastoart #fediart

As I've mentioned, I've been working with some people to launch Cosocial.ca, a Canadian #Fediverse instance which is a long-term self-supporting sustainable operation based on the member-owned co-operative model.

There's an online conversation today; invited so far are people who signed up as potential technical contributors, but if you might be interested, drop on by: lu.ma/u4jlxafp

Co se stane, když si administrátor jedné Mastodon instance řekne, že už toho má tak akorát plné kecky?

Správně. Uživatelé se můžou poměrně jednoduše přesunout na jinou instanci. A vy možná ani nic nepoznáte.

A krásné na tom je, že lidé z okolí vám s tím rádi pomůžou
#fediverse

Radio Free Fedi is an online radio station playing music, spoken word and other audio content made by people on the Fediverse. You can listen at:

➡️ radiofreefedi.net

It's all Fedi all the time

To submit content or to follow the project, see the official account at:

➡️ @radiofreefedi

Take a look people, this is proper grassroots loveliness! ❤️

#Fediverse #Radio #InternetRadio

radio free fedi - sounds from the fediverse to the universe

^{radiofreefedi.net}

“The #fediverse is like #email.”

Yes.

Now read this and understand it:

“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“

cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self…

Via @cancel

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne

^{cfenollosa.com}

Hello #fediverse !

Journée bien remplie pour le projet:

➡️ première journée sur mastodon

➡️ ouverture de la v0 du site web panoramax.fr

➡️ première réunion mensuelle sur meet.jit.si/panoramax à partir de 17h 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

➡️ dernières heures pour voter pour le slogan du projet: forum.geocommuns.fr/t/presente… 🗳️

Présenter Panoramax en 1 seule phrase: on vote!

Passons au vote ! Vu qu’il y a une vingtaine de propositions, vous pouvez choisir vos 3 slogans préférées pour faciliter le départage et laissons-nous jusqu’au 9 janvier pour voter.

^{Forum GéoCommuns}

Za naší komunitu přejeme šťastný a úspěšný nový rok 2023. A všem našim podporovatelům moc děkujeme.

Soukromí není výsada ale právo. Zůstaňte s námi.

#opensource #fediverse

Hello #Fediverse! #Pinetta is a decentralized FOSS social pinboard in the style of Pinterest. After a month of planning, we've settled on a basic game plan and are opening up our @Codeberg repo for contributions from devs and designers!

We'll be working on a prototype that uses #Python and #Django to get the basic functionality working. We'll also be hosting weekly sharing sessions on #CommunityBuilding principles to develop our Code of Conduct and a larger framework for community wellness. 🥳

declares intent on #fediverse - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

With their track of incubating #RustLang I'm curious how this pans out.

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech

That's fantastic news! Welcome to the Fediverse!

And thank you for making the conscious decision to use the word #Fediverse, instead of the brand of just one particular type of Fediverse server among myriad others.

I've assembled a short list of platforms available to choose from here:

write.as/tallship/making-bette…

Particular favorites for many are those of #Friendica, #Akkoma, #Soapbox, #Hometown and #Calkey.

Don't forget to checkout other Mastodon forks like Glitch-Soc too 🙂

⛵

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Hello! We are a new instance for #artists and #creators, both amateur and professional. We serve the creative community and want to provide them a place to promote their work and build an audience on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. Your fans can follow your accounts from other servers, but this is exclusively for artists and creators for now.

We're just starting out, but applications are open for artists and creators, come see us at artistalley.space/about

#introduction

Artist Alley

ArtistAlley.space is a place for professional and amateur artists and creators to share their work and build an audience on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

^{Mastodon hosted on artistalley.space}

Weiß jemand was über den Verbleib von #FediverseSpace ?
Ich wollte kürzlich drauf verlinken, aber es zeigt nun 404: fediverse.space/
Das war die Seite, die solche interaktiven Grafiken zeigte:

"Es gibt keine offiziellen und vollständigen Statistiken. Man muss seine eigene Instanz schließlich nirgendwo registrieren. Aber da in „ #Fediverse ” ja das Word „Universe” enthalten ist: ziemlich groß. Tausende von Instanzen sind bekannt, die jeweils einen bis mehrere tausend registrierte Benutzer haben; die Zahl der Nutzer geht also zumindest in die Millionen. Wer sich das Universum gern veranschaulichen möchte, besucht beispielsweise Fediverse.space. Kennt man keine Namen, klickt man einfach die Sterne – und erhält dann Informationen zu der jeweiligen Instanz."
android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

/ @IzzyOnDroid ✅ @ɟloʍ

In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

More info here: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

Welcome to the #Fediverse, @mozilla! Yeah, let’s get moving! 💚🌱

"In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. "

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

#moa #TwitterMigration

Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative

In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

^{Steve Teixeira (The Mozilla Blog)}

For anyone who doesn't know, @Framasoft support and fund a whole wide range of decentralized, #FOSS, #privacy respecting tools such as #Peertube ( @peertube ), #Mobilizon (think Facebook Groups for the #Fediverse, @mobilizon ) and more!

They do it all on super low funding, so go throw a few or your local currency at them to help grow the #fedi!