Amen. Every one of these developers - very much including @dansup - is doing us all a great service as a labor of love for the open social web. We owe them all nothing but support, encouragement and when we offer notes, to make them constructive ones. Oh and money, we owe them donations to help make good things happen.
Thanks, everyone at Flipboard, you have been a model for how to join in and be a good actor on the Fediverse - making the Fedi a good deal better because you are here.
Thanks, everyone at Flipboard, you have been a model for how to join in and be a good actor on the Fediverse - making the Fedi a good deal better because you are here.
We're almost done tearing down the walls around our own walled garden and I'm excited to see other networks starting to do the same. The next 6 months are going to be amazing for the fediverse. It now seems likely that we'll close out 2024 with more than two hundred million people on the open social web and a whole new generation of apps to surf it.
FYI, as we look at #spam on the #Fediverse, I do think there are things to prep for TODAY to prepare for whenever #Threads federates.
On that day if/when it happens:
I don't worry about spam hitting US from THREADS, I worry about spammers setting up shop here to flood the 160MM Threads users.
We need to prepare for that day and to be a good neighbor with our own houses in order. For the good of the Fediverse and the good of the open social web in general.
Good. A huge part of fediverse is hostile to threads. I don't want to be a good neighbour for thread because i don't want to be neighbour in the first place. Facebook is not welcome here.
@tchambers@indieweb.social I think fedi generally has a huge moderation advantage, being a collection of relatively small servers.. but the recent spam wave surprised me with how many "dead" instances are susceptible, aren't keeping up with security updates etc
As blogs from #wordpress, #ghostcms#microdotblog and others federate in, I'm trying to get everyone to use the tag #Fediblogs to make those posts discoverable and searchable.
As podcasts from @Castopod MicrodotBlog, and @funkwhale, #PodcastIndex others federate... I'm trying to push for the use of the tag #Fedicasts to become a common way to search and find federated podcast episodes.
@tchambers interesting 🤔 I use my wordpress blog mainly to publish via Podlove Publisher my podcast format, so Fedicast would be the better tag 🏷️ for this content.
"I find hope in the ‘we’s’ of my life...But of course, collaboration doesn’t mean never disagreeing, it means *often* disagreeing - hopefully in respectful & empathetic but still passionate ways.
Because when lots of people are trying to find the best way through, within that ‘lots of people’ will always be divergent value systems and and perspectives and everything else.
"I find hope in the ‘we’s’ of my life...But of course, collaboration doesn’t mean never disagreeing, it means *often* disagreeing - hopefully in respectful & empathetic but still passionate ways.
Because when lots of people are trying to find the best way through, within that ‘lots of people’ will always be divergent value systems and and perspectives and everything else.
@tchambers I think you're hitting the nail on the head here, I remember going to artschool and becoming deeply enamored with the critique process. This is frankly missing from most workplaces/community interactions in general.
People don't realize how valuable it is, and if you do have that in your life, cherish it by practicing it as much as possible.
“This mass exodus from Twitter represents one of the largest digital migrations in the history of the Social Web and a unique example of collective behavioral change that is documented through large-scale digital traces, that can thus be studied quantitatively and at scale.”
@tchambers@fediversenews The mass migration from twitter must be matched by a mass migration from the @GOP whose principles are represented by twitter.
Both Threads and Mastodon surfaced the news of Apple dropping X, and the Sam Altman news within minutes of it being live.
X is no longer the prime place for breaking news, these other platforms have grown to be equal - or actually better at that. And that was X/Twitter's main feature.
@tchambers@ramsey Eh, not for me. I get my news from subscription newspapers.
I miss my old network from back when Twitter was great. I’m now in three different places, and I don’t have the time to cultivate a new network, so I barely use any of them. There are a handful of people on each that I regularly engage with. That’s all.
"There is a silver lining: Pebble.is is gone, but Pebble.social has just recently launched. Gabor has stated, for the time being, that this new Mastodon instance is 'just an experiment,' but he appears hopeful that former Pebble community members will sign up there."
🔥 Our biggest update yet: our new quarterly report on the #TwitterMigration is live!
Covers the stark negative impact of the X rebrand, the dramatic rise, cooling & now stabilizing of Threads as a competitor closer on X’s heels than most think. Also features the state of play of Mastodon & BlueSky as rising alternatives while others shrink.
Is an in-depth view of the best third-party research and original analysis from my team. cc: @fediverse
@tchambers As one of the 60K of Twitter users with Mastodon in my profile, I feel seen. The X rebrand convinced me to let it go. The deletion happened in September.
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“The ultimate goal of FSEP is to provide Federating platforms the ability to integrate with dynamically updating blocklists. Now that we have released the v1.0 document, we need the help and collaboration of the broader Fediverse Trust & Safety community….We want FSEP to ultimately be compatible with all major Fediverse platforms, including but not limited to Mastodon, PixelFed, CalcKey, and more.”
“The ultimate goal of FSEP is to provide Federating platforms the ability to integrate with dynamically updating blocklists. Now that we have released the v1.0 document, we need the help and collaboration of the broader Fediverse Trust & Safety community….We want FSEP to ultimately be compatible with all major Fediverse platforms, including but not limited to Mastodon, PixelFed, CalcKey, and more.”
#Threads officially added its first Fediverse integration today adding “rel=me” verification support. I reached out three weeks ago suggesting that would be an early trust building step. And they did it…. Props to them for that first step.
Now you can use your Mastodon account (or Wikipedia or Gavatar or Flipboard or Medium) account to verify your Threads, and vice versa.
@tchambers@web3isgreat And of course the JPEG of Jack's first tweet, which is all that the NFT references, was and remains completely free.
Quite how allegedly intelligent (or at least evidently wealthy) people could get conned into paying for that sort of nonsense remains one of the great mysteries of the past few years.
"Obviously, the social networking space is undergoing a major shakeup. Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service. With #Threads and #Mastodon both embracing #ActivityPub, it might not be one platform that wins out—but an open standard. "
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