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 New: Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads? Threads' most recent update allows people on Threads to follow people on the #fediverse, albeit with some significant caveats. But one simple question has bugging me for a long while: Why? Why is Meta adding interoperability to their platform? https://fediversereport.com/why-is-meta-adding-fediverse-interoperability-to-threads/ Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 92 This week's news: Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-92/  @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. 👍 New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 91 This week's news: Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-91/ And a teaser for next week: a demonstration of having a different username on activitypub than your server's address with https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ (wanted to write about it this week, but slight error in planning on my part) 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. Check it out here!
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  @fediversereport TIL https://social.overheid.nl exists, immediately followed a whole bunch there 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.🤣 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, I’m 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 (~€ 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!) 12
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@fediversereport@mastodon.social the most important reason is not mentioned, the DSA and the associated constraints from which Meta hopes to free itself or that these are not so effective
@fediversereport embrace extend extinguish