 We have already suspended about a dozen spam acocunts and at least temporarily blocked about 6 servers. BTW: to all #Fediadmin #Mastoadmin folks out there, @iftas has been an invaluable resource today, and strongly recommend you join and support them. They are in a fund raising window now: Our server is proud to be one of the early supporters: https://about.iftas.org/first-50/ And you can give to support them here: https://about.iftas.org/donate/ Just a note saying how my #Fediverse experience has been made immeasurably richer for being able to take in and engage with carefully curated #Threads users, #BlueSky bridged users, #WordPress ActivityPub enabled blogs, Federated #Podcast episodes, #PixelFed photos, and Peertube videos. All from one Mastodon account. This works. And I'm grateful for the moderation tools to mute, block and curate all of this, and the Mastodon lists to make them all digestable and not just info overload.
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@tchambers Many times a #Bluesky user seems to be replying to or reposting something I can’t see. I assume it’s because the poster is not bridged. Disheartening. Does not seem to be as bad with #Theads. @tchambers That sounds really exciting. So far I have stuck to the Twitter/Reddit way of using this medium but we'll see what the future will bring  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. cc: @fediversenews 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.
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 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.. 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. Who's with me? cc: @dave @manton @dave @pfefferle  @tchambers There’s already the field that is visible from what tool is posting. Mastodon search could be upgraded to show all posts made by Castopod. Or, actually post of type Podcast rather than everything being a Note. And blogs can post as Article. Let’s not get stuck on what Mastodon can do and really exercise the ActivityPub protocol. @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.  @tchambers Sure, lets give this a shot. I'll participate with my blogs ( @LaurensHof@fediversereport.com and @laurenshof@laurenshof.online ) as well @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.”
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@tchambers @fediversenews it's wild to see cause I vividly remember the exodus from Digg to Reddit and that felt big at the time too.  @tchambers @fediversenews @Flipboard just announced it is ceasing support for X and focusing on Mastodon and other platforms. They just sent this to their 452,000+ X followers: https://twitter.com/Flipboard/status/1726999607866208604 cc: @fediversenews
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@tchambers @Flipboard @fediversenews Drops become drips, drips become a trickle, trickles become a stream, and this is good, very good.  @tchambers @Flipboard @fediversenews Headline: Flipboard flips bird to bird site @tchambers @Flipboard @fediversenews They are betting on the fediverse and doing it right. Can't credit @mike and the team enough for the work they did. 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.
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@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. @tchambers I can't seem to get my feed "tuned" to breaking news. Anything in particular you do? That is the point of what X turned into. The fascists thought they could capture the eyeballs there and disseminate propaganda and misinformation. The real human eyeballs are still moving. The fake eyeballs (bots) are not. OK very cool, @gabor, well done: "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." https://wedistribute.org/2023/11/pebble-shuts-down-but-starts-a-mastodon-instance/
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 @gabor And love that we get to watch it get built here: https://phanpy.social/#/indieweb.social/s/111344332187076020 🔥 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 Get it here: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3QaHR2W
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 @tchambers wonder how/if they counted profiles that mention “extinct pachyderm,” because that’s what mine says.  @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. Just in case anyone here having ANY buyers remorse at moving your social home away from X/Twitter.
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 Alt text: post from bgrahamdisciple that reads: To those of you who have abandoned Twitter, well played. There is an attached image, a screenshot of an email from Twitter which reads: Hello,  #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…. Now you can use your Mastodon account (or Wikipedia or Gavatar or Flipboard or Medium) account to verify your Threads, and vice versa. Everyone: I'm making another push for donating to this developer: @thisismissem - 🔥 if you care about evolving Mastodon, moving the Fediverse forward, no better way than to give to her. She is doing great work inside the Mastodon dev space, and would be a crime for her to not remain focused on that due to funding. 💰 I just gave again, join me in doing so here. Help us move this to 50% of the goal... https://ko-fi.com/thisismissem cc: @spreadmastodon |
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