A lot of good stuff is happening in the fediverses!

https://privacy.thenexus.today/good-stuff-in-the-fediverses

Including:

- DAIR-tube, the PeerTube page of Dr. Timnit Gebru's's Distributed AI ResearchCenter
- The Website League, an island network that's taking a very different approach
- GoToSocial v 0.17, continuing their focus on safety and privacy with interaction controls.
- Piefed and the #Threadiverse
- Bonfire's new Mosaic service along with their work on Open Science Network and prosocial design
- #Letterbook
- #Bluesky and the ATmosphere's continued momentum

And that's not all! The last section of the article briefly touches on @kissane's work on revealing the fediverse's gifts, Weird and the Leaf protocol, @newsmast's Channel.org and the Patchwork fork, @Flipboard bringing @19thnews and hundreds of other publishers to the Fediverse, Bandwagon, a proof of concept integration of Faircamp into Hubzilla, Mastodon 4.3 ...

There really is a lot going on!

#fediverse @fediversenews

Bluesky introduces anti-toxicity features -- including permission on quote posts

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features

Some of the other highlights:

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"hiding" replies, meaning they don't show up in the thread (aka conversation) view

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timed word mutes

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seeing where a post has been quoted, and the ability to "detach" a specific quote (so that you can't get to it from the original post)

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notification filtering (somewhat similar to in Mastodon 4.3)

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only showing replies from people you follow in the "following" feed (their equialent of the Home feed) if it's a reply to somebody you also follow (this matches Mastodon's behavior; previously, Bluesky showed all replies from people you follow in the home feed)

All in all, it's serious progress, and builds on their previous work with reply permissions. It'll be interesting to see how #mastodon's upcoming quote boost feature compares.

#bluesky