Notices by Jeff Sikes (box464@mastodon.social)

Christian Selig has joined Digg as an advisor to assist with their new iOS app interface.

https://www.theverge.com/news/671326/apollo-creator-christian-selig-is-joining-digg-as-an-advisor

Federated flair for PieFed communities and users is here. Think of them similar to hashtags that follow these objects around. It gives you a sense of the user's specific interest in a topic, or a way to filter a community to posts about a specific flair. Your community flair can be associated to a specific color.

https://join.piefed.social/2025/05/10/how-piefed-federates-flair-on-posts-and-comments/

#PieFed #ActivityPub #Threadiverse

@tchambers It’s a work in progress, but I’ve got it started at:

https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jpgqa8ajbd351bf8xjkr16jv

Adding this to my Fediverse Podcast Surf Feed.

If you find any interesting video/audio podcasts related to the fediverse just use the #SurfAPCast hashtag and it should get picked up? I think. :)

https://video.fedihost.co/w/os8cetziL1mDQHby2gxbny

#SurfAPCast #SurfFeeds

Threads updated their terms of service. Lots of CYA when interacting with “the Protocol” which at this point in time, is ActivityPub. But it’s never named, and it’s noted that the protocol could change at anytime.

Important terms to review: protocol and third party *. Also that little sneaky point about needing to adhere to both Threads and Instagram’s ToS.

https://help.instagram.com/769983657850450

#Threads #ActivityPub

Today I learned about Null Island, located at coordinates 0,0 on the map. Null exists!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

#TIL #Null

@Gargron Oh! Now that there’s a featured tab, can Featured Profiles be added back? Definitely a possibility now. 😊

https://box464.com/posts/mastodon-featured-profiles/

If you’ve ever wondered about the usefulness of hashtags, today is a good day to check out #HandsOff across all your social media platforms.

Fediverse, Bluesky, Nostr, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Threads, Facebook, and I assume X - all using the same tag to quickly find information about what’s going on.

#Hashtags

Listen, as someone that follows many fediverse platforms, @thisismissem is one of the most active in the community. She has jumped in and assisted with security and ActivityPub issues across them all.

Please consider contributing to her tip jar if you can, especially for this last bit of advocacy work. Find her contribution options on her profile.

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114268511720117041

#FediDev #ActivityPub

Today I learned that #PieFed has RSS feeds for at least Topics and Communities.

That community one is a hoot - PieFed, serving up a #NodeBB forum as an RSS feed. ActivityPub is bonkers.

https://piefed.social/topic/fediverse.rss

https://piefed.social/community/activitypub@community.nodebb.org/feed

Tumblr continues to take baby steps into the fediverse. 👶

Buried in the latest Changes blog post, it was mentioned that specific blog has been running on WordPress for the past week! Doesn’t look like fediverse posting has been enabled…yet!

https://www.tumblr.com/changes/779006991147384832/tuesday-march-25th-2025

#Tumblr #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Excited to see some new apps for the fediverse drop recently.

This one is a cool - similar to how there are now Bluesky image centric apps like Flashes, the fedi dev @me has introduced Myo. It creates timelines of image and video from your fediverse accounts. Lists, hashtag timelines, etc. are supported.

https://mszpro.com/myo

#FediApp #Fediverse

A collection of silly Mastodon apps (the best kind). It includes a Fax-To-Mastodon app. :omgdotlol:

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/03/18/silly-mastodon-apps/

#MastoDev #FediDev #Fediverse #mastodonapps

I’m really impressed with David’s questions. “Threads was adopted more quickly than was expected - is full fediverse integration still as important as it was initially?”

“What are the roadblocks to full fediverse compatibility in threads?” Peter mentions getting the foundations in place…including fediverse accounts in your feeds, merging fediverse replies into the main threads, media distribution. Hints at these type of foundational items being released in 2025.

@mmasnick brings up a great point on this fediverse panel. Social doesn’t have to be big. Use the protocols being built to create cool small websites with a social aspect for you and your friends. It doesn’t have to be everything everywhere all at once. Totally agree!

#FediverseHouse

Answer given: Open social web is important. ? If anyone else is here what did you think of the response?

@manton takes the stage to talk micro.blog and the fediverse

#FediverseHouse

Up first is @reiver taking about a common problem with mastodon instances - caching overloads. And decentralizing search, custom feeds. They have an idea - robin.live

#FediverseHouse

Fediverse House continues this afternoon with a developer meetup. And there are lots of developers here! It’s been fun getting to meet them in person.

#FediverseHouse