This week's news:
- New updates on @loops and more information about further plans for their For You Algorithm
- @Flipboard is taking over the automated accounts on press.coop
- An ActivityPub bot+server that consists of only 2 simple files
@fediversereport Thanks for the @canary shoutout! 🙂 I'd like to pass on some of the high-fives to @davidism and the Flask team, whose project allowed me to scaffold a barebones ActivityPub server in like 200 lines of Python. 👍
This week's news:
- @loops has launched and is now available for everyone!
- @radiofreefedi will shut down early next year
- Bridgy Fed talks about potential governance directions
- A massive signup wave on #Bluesky after Brazil bans X
- Premium feeds in the fediverse with @subclub
- Moderated microblogging groups by @newsmast
- Popular tech show WVFRM with YouTuber @mkbhd discusses the fediverse as the protocol wars.
- Hiding comments and preventing quote posts with Bluesky's latest update
- A massive signup wave on #Bluesky after Brazil bans X
- Premium feeds in the fediverse with @subclub
- Moderated microblogging groups by @newsmast
- Popular tech show WVFRM with YouTuber @mkbhd discusses the fediverse as the protocol wars.
- Hiding comments and preventing quote posts with Bluesky's latest update
I also made an easy-to-share PDF, Fediverse for Publishers. It gives a quick overview of what the fediverse is, why it matters for publishers and journalists, and an easy overview of the different ways to get started. Check it out, and feel free to share and use it.
This week's news:
- @gotosocial latest update adds reply controls
- Conversations about racism on the fediverse, leading to work on a separate allow-list based federated network
- @peertube adds automatic video transcription using Whisper
- A closer look at Patchwork, an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon
This week's news:
- @gotosocial latest update adds reply controls
- Conversations about racism on the fediverse, leading to work on a separate allow-list based federated network
- @peertube adds automatic video transcription using Whisper
- A closer look at Patchwork, an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon
Instead, as noted in the comments on that thread, their graph paints both Facebook and Bluesky in confusingly similar shades of blue, making it easy to mistake one for the other.
OP also goes on to say "Bluesky is constantly behind Threads, despite us sharing all links on Bluesky".
Instead, as noted in the comments on that thread, their graph paints both Facebook and Bluesky in confusingly similar shades of blue, making it easy to mistake one for the other.
Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!
The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".
Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!
The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".
This week's news:
- Significant interest and use of the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky, even though it is still in active development
- Ghost gives a first glimpse at their #ActivityPub powered reading app
This week's news:
- The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
- Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding #Activitypub to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
- Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.
This week's news:
- The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
- Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding #Activitypub to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
- Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.
This week's news:
- @mobilizon changes ownership away from Framasoft, but development will continue
- An overview of the current work on cross-app podcasts comments with #activitypub
- Mastodon.social 'knows' about some 2800 Threads accounts, indicating that the amount of people on Threads who have turned on federation is in the couple of thousands.
This week's news:
- @mobilizon changes ownership away from Framasoft, but development will continue
- An overview of the current work on cross-app podcasts comments with #activitypub
- Mastodon.social 'knows' about some 2800 Threads accounts, indicating that the amount of people on Threads who have turned on federation is in the couple of thousands.
Bluesky has announced that today they have started with federation, allowing anyone to host their own data on the #bluesky network.
In a blog post they announced that anyone can now host their own PDS, framing it as a way to control your own data, and also explaining how it differs from Mastodon.
Bluesky describes it as an 'early access of federation for self-hosters'.
Starting today, Bluesky will not require invite codes anymore and anyone can join the network. Later this month, the team will roll out an "experimental early version of federation", allowing other people to run their own 'Personal Data Server' (PDS).
New: How Newsmast is building curated news and communities on the #fediverse
The UK charity @newsmast has build a fediverse-powered platform for sharing curated news and communities. I spoke with Newsmast to hear their story and perspective. Can recommend checking them out, and give Newsmast a try.
In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.
In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.
@fediversereport@gov
would be nice if they would have language specific accounts to follow. otherwise reading every message 4 times in your timeline is annoying
The weekly overview of everything that has happened in the #fediverse:
- Opt-in search is available* in #Mastodon!
- Gitlab is working on implementing #ActivityPub
- Some updates on #Lemmy and defederation
* search is currently available as a beta. At least mastodon.social and mastodon.online have it. If you check your server says 'v4.2.0-beta2' in the bottom left to double check.
The highlights:
The Dutch government officially launches their #Mastodon server
Mastodon hits 2m active users, but a dev also reports that there is currently no work being done on big features
A meta engineer joins the #activitypub working group in the W3C
The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server, State Secretary of Digitalisation @avhuffelen announced today! The server lives on the official domain of the Dutch government, at social.overheid.nl.
@fediversereport@avhuffelen
Love it:
“[…] the fire department send out an emergency text warning to people, urging them to check Twitter for the latest updates. However, this coincided with Twitter preventing people who do not have accounts from viewing tweets, resulting in people not being able to see emergency service updates. The House filed a motion in response, stating that emergency situations, the government should make sure that information is publicly accessible.
All the news of last week in the fediverse, split out by topic: Threads, Microblogging, Lemmy/Kbin and other protocols.
Stand outs:
- Adam Mosseri says Threads is not interest in hard news and politics
- Dutch government about to launch a Mastodon server
- A new search engine for Lemmy
- Bluesky plans to make money by letting you buy custom domains names you can use as handle
All the news of last week in the fediverse, split out by topic: Threads, Microblogging, Lemmy/Kbin and other protocols.
Stand outs:
- Adam Mosseri says Threads is not interest in hard news and politics
- Dutch government about to launch a Mastodon server
- A new search engine for Lemmy
- Bluesky plans to make money by letting you buy custom domains names you can use as handle
Last Week in the Fediverse - ep 23 - An overview of what happened in the fediverse last week
- Background readings on the #redditMigration
- News on the threadiverse; new apps in development, custom styles, and more
- Launch of the spreadmastodon.org website
- Flickr is “definitely still considering” adding ActivityPub support
Last Week in the Fediverse - ep 23 - An overview of what happened in the fediverse last week
- Background readings on the #redditMigration
- News on the threadiverse; new apps in development, custom styles, and more
- Launch of the spreadmastodon.org website
- Flickr is “definitely still considering” adding ActivityPub support
A group of over 40 European organisations have recently released a statement calling for the EU to set up a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund.
They call for this fund to support Digital Public Spaces, that are, among other things, based in FOSS, and ensure privacy by design. The statement gives three examples: #Mastodon, #PeerTube and #ActivityPub, stating that they would benefit from such a fund to further flourish.
The @EU_Commission has been supporting the fediverse for a while via @EC_NGI. This picture gives an idea of all the projects that have gotten funding via NGI.
The admin for misskey.io has put out a call for people to apps for Misskey that work with both iOS and Android. They offer a bounty of 800k Yen (~€ 5350) per person for building these apps.
The Japanese #fediverse community is growing rapidly, mainly using Misskey. Misskey.io is now by far the busiest server on the fediverse, publishing twice the amount of posts/month that mastodon.social does (while m.s. has 6x more users!)
@fediversereport Thanks for the @canary shoutout! 🙂 I'd like to pass on some of the high-fives to @davidism and the Flask team, whose project allowed me to scaffold a barebones ActivityPub server in like 200 lines of Python. 👍