web client -they're mostly looking for #Fediverse web clients - Pinafore is a Fediverse web client, perhaps you can retool your client to support other Fediverse server types like #Pinafore does?

Maybe something like:

fe.SoapBox.Pub

That supports a wide range of Fediverse server platforms, and of course, mastobrand is included in that list.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS

⛵

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“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!

Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed!

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

#fediverse

@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers

Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?

And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:

What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendica is / should be"?

My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.

Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).

In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)

Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?

Cheers

Marek

Time for a recurring self-promotion (sorry): I run an invite-only community #PeerTube instance over at spectra.video

It's still a fledgling community, but it's geared towards creators who want to share their stuff with the wider #fediverse. We connect to a lot of great instances, have pretty strong community guidelines, and do our best to counter spam and harassment.

Creators are allotted an unlimited amount of upload space for videos!

If you're looking to join PeerTube and put your stuff out there, please DM me!

Use Mastodon 🐘 on desktop? I made a Chrome extension to make following people, favoriting, bookmarking & boosting toots on remote instances easy as your home instance! (1-click)!

🙌 Appreciate the boosts! 🙌

🌐 Install Graze For Mastodon — chrome.google.com/webstore/det…

🗨️ Suggestions or issues — graze.canny.io/

❓ FAQ — faqabout.me/iam/graze

(Supports Chromium, Edge, Brave. Safari & Firefox coming soon!)

#Mastodon #GrazeForMastodon #fediverse #programming #MastodonTips

There's a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:

➡️ chirp.social

You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers

It is similar to the existing a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.

It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Why #Mastodon and the #Fediverse are so important:

“Relying on market-based means of communication made it inevitable that sooner or later, the ruling class would get to determine who can speak and how.”

crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/cana…

#TwitterMigration #FederatedSocialMedia

Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media

Is there life after social media? Will reactionary billionaires determine all we can imagine and do, or will we establish other forms of connection?

^CrimethInc.

Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.

It doesn’t take long to write one.

And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.

Even Linux has apps that do this (like Frog: tenderowl.com/work/frog/)

#accessibility #a11y #fediverse #altText #images #screenReader #mastodon

Apologies to people waiting for me to get to their submission. I have an amazing backlog to get through 😅

You might also want to submit your account to:

➡️ communitywiki.org/trunk - The original Fediverse directory

➡️ fediverse.info/explore/people - A cleverly designed hashtag-based directory

Both of these directories welcome general personal accounts.

#Fediverse

fediverse.info

The bespoke fediverse guide

^{fediverse.info}

Whether you are disabled or not, accessibility is really useful for everyone. Accessibility makes social media easier to use and lets your posts reach a wider audience.

You can find out how to make your posts more accessible at:

➡️ fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver…

Special shout out to @norrumar who has just created a Spanish language article about Mastodon for users of the free open source NVDA screen reader:

➡️ nvdaes.github.io/mastodon (in Spanish)

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Accessibility #Disability

Mastodon and Fediverse Accessibility Tips | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

4 years using and championing the #fediverse full time and I've never written a #introductions toot. Well, or I have and can't find it.

I'm a #blind guy from 🇬🇧 with a passion for #technology and #programming, particularly #lowLevel #systemsProgramming in #C, #C++, #Rust, etc.

I've been a huge #freeSoftware / #openSource advocate for the majority of my life. I run #Linux and I love open, #decentralised technologies like #ActivityPub, #Matrix, #bitTorrent etc.

In my view, technology is built to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it isn't these days. It is truly my opinion that the only way #tech can be sustainable is if it's built using #FOSS, and does not give ultimate control to any 1 entity, individual or corporate. If technology is to help the people, it must be built *for* the people.

Currently working on odilia.app, various projects with the rest of the Lower Elements gang at lowerelements.club, and a Computing Science BSC at the #University of #stirling

#Writers of the #Fediverse! Looking for a writing exercise/writing prompt? Join the #ALT4you and #ALT4me mutual aid effort to provide #ALT descriptive text to images in the #fediverse

ALT descriptive text is used by blind and visually impaired people to understand and process photos and images that they otherwise cannot see. So please add ALT to any images you Toot.

Putting an image into words can be a very creative exercise that forces you to look at images more deeply and then convey their content and meaning in words.

Also follow the #ALT4me hashtag. It's used by blind and visually impaired tooters (is that even a word?) to request mutual aid when they encounter an image that does not have ALT.

Respond to #ALT4me by replying with the ALT text.

Here's a great example of #ALT4me in action:
universeodon.com/@groo79/10945…

The first toot is a request for ALT and the comments provide them.

Read more about it here: fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver…

Mastodon and Fediverse Accessibility Tips | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

The United Federation of Instances project already has close to 40 overall contibutors, 13 Merge Requests, 16 topics being disussed, and closed to 50 overall comments on topics.... The #UFoI is really taking off!

gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

#fediverse

UFoI / Constitution · GitLab

GitLab.com

^GitLab

Hey @yatil - I came across your #accessibility in the #fediverse post: yatil.net/blog/accessibility-i…

I'm currently working on a #chess game that can be played over Mastodon, and I'm keen for it to be as good an experience as it can be for everyone. I've done some research, have a prototype, and now I feel like I can start talking to users...

Would you be willing to offer your thoughts, and could you recommend a few people I could email or chat to?

Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert

Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.

^{Eric Eggert}

You can find answers to your questions about Mastodon and the Fediverse straight away at:

➡️ fedi.tips

If you can't find the answers you need on the site, ask me and I will reply.

(By the way, my replies aren't publicly-visible because most people don't need to see them.)

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

@rich

(Starting new thread)

Check out

fediverse.party/en/miscellaneo…

Which seems to be the best directory of #fediverse style software I've seen

- 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}

Hey friends! ottawa.place is now open for signups 🎉🇨🇦❤️

@andrew and I built it as a hosted-in-Canada, capital-region-focused (but open to all Canadians) instance.

Please boost so folks can find us! 👀

#fediverse #twittermigration #canada #ontario #ottawa #canpoli

ottawa.place

Mastodon instance for residents of Ottawa, Gatineau, and surrounding regions. Instance de Mastodon pour les résidents d'Ottawa, de Gatineau et des régions avoisinantes.

^{Hometown hosted on ottawa.place}

OK, so this is interesting. Some major organizations have now set up their own Mastodon instances:

European Union: EU Voice >>> social.network.europa.eu/explo…
German gov: Explore social.bund.de >>> social.bund.de/explore
Internet Archive: Explore Internet Archive >>> mastodon.archive.org/explore

#twittermigration #mastodon #fediverse #governmentInstance
@mastodonmigration

Explore Internet Archive

Discover users based on their interests

^{Mastodon hosted on mastodon.archive.org}