Okay, big news for everyone with a WordPress blog, including people with a free blog on wordpress.com!

You can now turn *any* WordPress blog into a Fediverse server which can be followed from Mastodon etc.

I've updated the instructions on how to do this at:

➡️ fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-yo…

Just to repeat, this is now available to ALL WordPress blogs including free tier ones. The free tier has slightly different instructions, but effect is same.

(via wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/…)

#WordPress #Fediverse

Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com

The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com.

^{Matthias Pfefferle (WordPress.com News)}

Communal Bonfires; creating space for group-scale discourse on top of @matrix

blog.erlend.sh/communal-bonfir…

Today we're pre-releasing Commune, our first foundational step towards a community platform built specifically for alignment with digital gardens.

Cyber-ecological messaging anyone?!

It's an evolving piece of software serving as the primary bonfire component of the overarching Community OS concept.

github.com/commune-os/commune-…

#fediverse #opensource #threadiverse #community #matrix

GitHub - commune-os/commune-server: Build communities on Matrix

Build communities on Matrix. Contribute to commune-os/commune-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

I've been messing about with the Lemmy 🔁 Mastodon interop today and it has BLOWN MY MIND. 🤯

This excellent post from @vjprema explains how to use #Lemmy from your #Mastodon account. Amazing.

vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-fro…

As @evan says, don't bet against the #fediverse.

This thing is 🔥.

Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

^{Vijay Prema (Vijay Prema - The Mindful Technologist)}

people leaving Twitter... ... for Threads

#twitter #threads #fediverse #meme

There's an alternative version of Mastodon called "Mastodon Glitch Edition" (aka "glitch-soc" or just "Glitch"). Glitch is totally compatible with normal Mastodon, but adds experimental new features.

For example, Glitch instances let the admin alter the character limit, allow local posting, text formatting and lots of other stuff.

Many features in Glitch have eventually made their way into normal Mastodon after proving themselves stable and useful.

You can find out more at:

glitch-soc.github.io/docs/

If you run your own Mastodon instance you can switch to Glitch, and switch back again if you don't like it.

(You may be wondering how this post is so long? It's because FediTips is on an instance that uses Glitch, and the instance character limit has been extended to 1000.)

#FediTips #MastoTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #Glitch #GlitchSoc

Meta: OH, COME ON. ISN'T THAT BETTER NOW?

#meta #fediverse #threads
#MastoArt #krita

“The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come.”

Famous last words.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/…

#mastodon #fediverse #threads #BigTech #SiliconValley #zeroSumGame

Meine Damen und Herren. Auf dem ersten Bild sehen Sie die Daten, die die App #Threads von Ihnen speichern und einem Profil zuordnen möchte. Das zweite Bild zeigt die App #Mastodon und welche Daten dort erhoben werden. 👇

#fediverse #meta #zuckerberg

#Threads by #Meta forcing itself into the #Fediverse is bad and will harm the Fediverse as a whole if not straight up kill it.

I am baffled to see claims such as "we should give them a chance!" or "this could help the Fediverse grow!", as if we're not talking about one of the probably most immoral, unethical, and predatory businesses in this day and age.

Meta isn't coming to play fair. They're coming to use us for profit.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,…

1/🧵
#thread

От себя тоже поприветствую всех пришедших и дам несколько советов.

✅ Заполните профиль и поставьте аватарку. Неплохой идеей будет указать там ваши увлечения или вид деятельности.
✅ Напишите что-нибудь: приветствие, пост о себе (тут используют тег #introduction
✅ Листайте ваши локальные и глобальные ленты, и подписывайтесь на тех, кто интересен - тут нет алгоритма, который будет подсовывать вам контент. Набрать свою ленту нужно будет самостоятельно. Также возможно вам будет полезно зайти в настройки и установить языки контента, которые вы хотите видеть в ленте.
✅ Общайтесь с людьми.
✅ Не бросайте как только Twitter опять даст заднюю - дайте свободным соцсетям шанс, они могут вас удивить.

Эти простые советы могут помочь вам не заскучать и заинтересовать других людей подписаться на вас.

Если будет интересно почитать про Mastodon и Федивёрс в целом - список статей и постов по этой теме есть внизу на нашем проекте-лендинге Fediland:
fediland.github.io

Добро пожаловать и удачи!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #twitter #migration #TwitterMigration #log #новичкам #newbies

Hello, new folks from Twitter,

- Welcome to the fediverse!

- If you’ve joined mastodon.social because it was the default option in the app, please look to move to a smaller instance so mastodon.social doesn’t grow to become Twitter 2.0. (You can use instances.social to find a new instance or ask folks on here for suggestions.)

- Please add alternate text to your images so people who use screen readers can join in too. (accessibility.huit.harvard.edu…)

#TwitterMigration #mastodon #fediverse

Write good Alt Text to describe images

Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.

^{accessibility.huit.harvard.edu}

If the #Fediverse is going to see a #TwitterMigration2.0 ... please consider boosting #Calckey to newcomers.

calckey.org/join/
Calckey is a newer FOSS microblogging portal into the Fediverse. 100% interoperable with Mastodon, but with features Twitter users probably want:

* QTs (called "Quote Renotes")
* Support for markdown in notes which is bold* Gallery for images
* "Antennas" to help discovery and "Channels" to help organize

Mastodonauts can also migrate to Calckey just as they would another Mastodon instance (that's what I did).

Just saying... the Fediverse doesn't revolve around Mastodon. This is open source social media. Don't stop migrating!

Server List | Calckey

A fun, new, open way to experience social media

^Calckey

I only discovered the #fediverse this week because I stopped being able to conveniently access reddit.

Love the concept, still adapting to the execution.

This will probably only reach the void but: is there a community for professional chemists or laboratory workers like r/chempros or r/labrats?

oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse

tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."

can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case

#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads

@Nuno @amitten Well, I'd say it depends a lot on the concrete situation. Many #activitypub devs have seen how historically companies like Meta & Google have applied a Trojan horse strategy, to eventually take over the small spaces that decentralized and/or FOSS projects had opened. The #XMPP case comes to mind, but it also encompasses how the whole web has become.

If to put in place measures to avoid that happening to the #Fediverse is being a fanatic, long live the fanatics! 😃

Da bin ich ein Wochenende weniger online, weil ich anderweitig gearbeitet habe, und schon explodiert das #Fediverse und es geht um #Meta-Instanzen und sehr berechtigten Protest dagegen.

fedipact.online/

Ich bin ehrlich fassungslos.

@markus wir müssen uns für dresden.network mal mit was auseinander setzen.

Und falls es irgendwer vergessen haben sollte, warum das Fediverse so gut ist und funktioniert, wie es eben funktioniert, habe ich hier nochmal 2 meiner Sticker dabei.

Freie dezentrale Netze statt datenfressender Monopole

Social Media? Machen wir selbst!

Kitsune is a new project that has joined the fediverse recently. It's mostly written in Rust and intends on Mastodon API compatibility so it can use the existing app ecosystem. It also just got initial support for viewing full PeerTube and Lemmy posts!

You can learn more at joinkitsune.org, and you can follow the development from here at @dev, which is being posted from a Kitsune server! Here is an example post on a live server you can look at as well dev.joinkitsune.org/posts/0188… #fediverse

@mediawiki

Integration of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon Identity standards into the software that powers #WikiPedia & other Wiki's is so important I find it hard to express.

It is the first big step of integration between the Wikipedian and Fediverse communities, and it has been massively under-noticed and not gotten nearly the attention this deserved.

I'm all for it, want to find ways to help & hope this is the beginning of much more integration to come. 🔥

@fediversenews

My top recommendation to the @Mastodon team and all other #Fediverse instances fighting the influx of spam: Learn from @codinghorror about the concept of Trust Levels and consider implementing it asap.

blog.discourse.org/2018/06/und…

This is perhaps the most under appreciated feature of Discourse and I’m amazed it’s not more mainstream.

While not necessary for an initial implementation, this system can also be applied to a federated environment, as put forth by @how

meta.discourse.org/t/federated…

Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of… * Sandboxing new users in your community so that they cannot accidentally hurt themselves, or other users while they are learning what to do.

^{Jeff Atwood (Discourse)}

We're spreading the news! Check out our latest blog, "Follow Freedom Scientific on Mastodon:" blog.freedomscientific.com/fol…

#FreedomScientific #Fediverse #Introduction #Introductions #FreedomScientificTraining

Follow Freedom Scientific on Mastodon

We now have a presence on the social media platform Mastodon. This enables us to increase the ways we connect with you to share training content and news. Mastodon is a social network where users c…

^{Freedom Scientific Blog}

This is what I was hoping to achieve when I made jointhefediverse.net.

#fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #MissionAccomplished

Ich würde gerne Artikel sammeln, die das #Fediverse beschreiben. Vielleicht könnt Ihr die (bislang magere) Sammlung noch ergänzen?

-**Gemeint sind: **aktuelle (ab 2022) Artikel in deutschsprachigen (Print-)Medien 📰 , die das Fediverse korrekt vorstellen 🚀

-hier nicht gemeint sind: Artikel, die einen bestimmten Fediverse-Dienst vorstellen und nebenbei auch das Fediverse erwähnen oder (im Optimalfall) erklären

Das ist meine bisherige Sammlung:

"Mehr als nur Mastodon: Das Fediverse erklärt" in @t3n@t3n.social

"Der dezentrale, soziale Mensch" in wienerzeitung.at

"Fediverse: So funktioniert die Kommunikation im dezentralen Netzwerk" in ct/Heise von @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social

"Fediverse: Was Sie über Mastodon und Co. wissen müssen" in ct/Heise von @evawolfangel@chaos.social

"Alternative zu Facebook & Co: Fediversum-Plattformen sind die besseren sozialen Medien" in @riffreporter@mastodon.social von @Welchering@chaos.social

"Fediverse: Freie Alternativen zu Facebook, Instagram, Twitter und mehr" in @uploadmag@mastodontech.de

@Igor Warneck @👤 𝟳𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 ✅🖖🇨🇮🔒 Genau weil mastodon so murksig ist, verwenden wir es nicht.

Dieses #fediverse wird sich nicht an dich anpassen ... das musst du schon auch selbst gebacken kriegen. ;)

#JournalistsOnMastodon

Folks, I just found a treasure trove:

a list of over 1,300 #journalists that already are on #Mastodon in the form of a #googledoc

In order to give the #BorgSite its final push, journalists there need to see that there really is an audience for them here in the free #fediverse

Some pull marketing would be helpful: follow as many, as you find sensible. This helps a lot.

Please boost!

@feditips
@FediFollows
@fediversenews

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses)

Form Responses 1 Timestamp,What name do you wish to be listed by?,What is your Mastodon handle (@user@instance.

^{Google Docs}

Well, that escalated quickly. 🤗

#Fediverse #Bonn #ActivityPubAddicted

Bonn.social (@Mastodon)
Bonn.pics (@pixelfed)
Bonn.video (@peertube)
Bonn.jetzt (@gancio)
Bundescast.de (@Castopod)
Bonn.live (@owncast)
…

Wow. Wordpress just announced they have to drop support for Twitter in their Jetpack post sharing plug-in as they haven’t been able to reach agreement with Twitter for access. They are committing to adding support for Mastodon!
The majority of the Web’s individually run websites are Wordpress! It’s ON!!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterBroken #Mastodon #activityPub #Fediverse

Audon is a great real-time audio streaming service for the #fediverse! Think Spaces or Clubhouse, and you pretty much got it. You create a room for audio, where other people can listen to you, or just give them the role of speaker as well.

You can easily log in with your fediverse (Mastodon/Calckey/Pleroma) account, create a room, share the link, and you're ready to go!

Check it out at audon.space

Greetings!

If ya so desire, you can now follow me among the #misskey side of the #fediverse by visiting

fediverse.projectftm.com/@quee…

For mobile clients that maybe friendly to the #Blind, check out #MilkTea for Android:
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Milktea - Misskey App - Apps on Google Play
, and #Misscat for IOS
apps.apple.com/app/id150505999…

Trenton Matthews (@queenslight)

The Queen's Sunlight! Adores #MLP, #Blind empath, charismatic ophiuchus, loves Chocolate & Coffee, Bootleg remixer & African Djembe Drummer.

^{fediverse.projectftm.com}