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 New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 68 This week's news: Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-68/ 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'. #Bluesky is ready to open the network. 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). If you want more information on how Bluesky works and what a PDS is, I wrote an explainer of the technical terms here: https://fediversereport.com/how-bluesky-works-the-network-components/  @fediversereport bout time.π€£ They've been spouting their "open protocol" bs for 2 years now and I wondered when they'd make good on that. 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. Read at: https://fediversereport.com/newsmast-and-news-curation-in-the-fediverse/
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@fediversereport @gov  @fediversereport @gov Seriously cool. This is how to do #Mastodon and the great reasons for doing so. Last Week in Fediverse - episode 32 The weekly overview of everything that has happened in the #fediverse: read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-32/ * 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. If you are interested in how to opt-in, or some of the more advanced features, check out this post by @mastodonmigration : https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110957761613273404 Last week in the #fediverse episode 27 The highlights: Read more at: @fediversereport a programming note: there will not be a new episode next week, Iβm taking a holiday break. See you all again soon! 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. The Secretary mentions in her announcement a letter to the government explaining her support for 'value-driven alternative social networks', such as Mastodon. For more information on that, check out  @fediversereport @avhuffelen  @fediversereport those weekly reports are incredibly well done and full of news/stuff to check out.  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. Entire statement: https://shared-digital.eu/statement/ 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 (~β¬ 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!) 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 https://audon.space Audon makes good use of the social graph of your fediverse account as well. You need to sign in to listen in on a room, and that means that there is a lot of different privacy settings available for the room. Like, you can have a room with only your followers, or only the people you follow. See the screenshot for all the available options. Wikipedia is now on Mastodon, at @wikipedia! They've taken an interesting approach here, as it is an account run by the community, where everyone can contribute (explanation here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia). At the same time, it is verified on the official homepage of wikipedia.org, as you can see in the screenshot. Personally, I think this suits the spirit of the fediverse that the Wikipedia account is not a PR department, but community members building something together!
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 Do you also want to follow @pluralistic but struggle with how the massive threads can take over your timeline? You might want to consider checking out phanpy.social, an excellent web client by @cheeaun. Its absolutely gorgeous, and also sorts out the boosts in your timeline into a separate 'carousel'. On the first screenshot you see how the posts get collapsed into a thread. Single click on it, and you get the second screenshot. Absolutely worth checking out!
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@fediversereport @pluralistic @cheeaun Or, just create a filter here in your profile that looks like this  @fediversereport @pluralistic @cheeaun This is very nice! @pluralistic was jamming my feed. Also the posts in long threads were in backwards order. Phanpy fixes this and the look and feel are pleasant and intuitive! Good job!  @fediversereport @pluralistic @cheeaun Alternately, if your server runs #Hometown, you can do what I did and make an exclusive list (which filter posts from your home timeline to that list) that just has Cory on it. π https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists @fediversereport @fediversenews Nice roundup! Happy to see the numbers going up! P.S. I noticed that instead of saying "operating systems", you said "operation systems". Is that intentional? 12
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