Notices by Jeff Sikes (box464@mastodon.social), page 2

Day 3 of #Fediforum is starting up with some demos! Up first, Encyclia, a way to share ORCID data on the fediverse. Follow at @encyclia

https://encyclia.pub/

Up next is Gobo, which allows posting across platform. Really nice UI that gives you information about how your post will appear on various platforms. It also gives you previews so you can really tweak the post to look great across them all.

Handles Mastodon

Follow at @gobo_social

I've heard of this one before, but great to see a demo! Seems like the soft beta is open, too.

https://gobo.social/

#FediForum

I only had a few fleeting moments to catch the #FediForum today. But wow was I so glad to have been there!

@_elena premiered a new video that introduces the fediverse to mainstream social users, and it was very well produced. I got a little emotional about it! I believe it will be released on PeerTube within the week.

Something to look forward to, and share generously. You'll want to shake the cobwebs off your old Twitter and Facebook accounts and post it! :)

Day 1 of FediForum - Demo Summary Thread

Bounce is a new offering from @anewsocial that allows you to move accounts across platforms (Bluesky <---> Mastodon) including ALL of your followers and many of your followed accounts.

https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cross-protocol-migration-tool/

#FediForum

@surf showed off their app, which allows users to create their own timelines (feeds) that are either private or public. All kinds of open content can be incorporated into the feeds, including RSS, Mastodon and Bluesky data from your own timelines. Currently in beta, if you can get an invite it's a really fun app! Can't wait for this to be released generally.

https://about.surf.social/

#FediForum

@bonfire demoed their Social 1.0 Release Candidate, transitioning from an experimental build into a production ready platform. One of the unique features demonstrated was the creation of "Circles" - a way to create smaller group feeds, either private or public. (From personal experience, there's a LOT of great features here with extensive ways to customize, check it out!)

https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_rc/

#FediForum

@newsmast demonstrated their Channels platform, which allows a user or group of individuals to curate content to create feeds based on human curation, hashtags, etc. This is opening up to a wider public beta soon.

https://home.channel.org/

#FediForum

Emissary, an activitypub framework from @ben, adds a commerce kit to accept payments for "exclusive files", be it art, music, private feeds, etc.

https://emissary.dev/home

#FediForum

Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm (BYOTA) is a mozilla.ai Blueprint that can be used to create customized timelines that focus on topics of interest. This one was a bit over my head, but at first glance it looks similar to Bluesky feed builders I've seen.

https://github.com/mozilla-ai/byota

#FediForum

So after writing this up - it's obvious that customizing your timeline is a top trend in fediverse dev circles right now! Curious what will see in the upcoming demos as well.

#FediForum

https://mastodon.social/@box464/114636575586922812

Here's a link to the Thunderbird Add On that made it possible.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/

Just finished moving my email from Proton to Fastmail. The documentation for this makes it sound like the only option for importing your email from Proton is by hand via .eml files in batches of 1,000. :yikes:

But I was able to use Thunderbird, connected via Proton Bridge, to create MBOX files for each folder and then use the "HEY" import feature in Fastmail. Much easier.

Thunderbird has an Export tool called "ImportExport Tools NG" that made this possible. Hooray!

#Fastmail #Proton #Export

@Mastodon Judge Mastodon presiding! (Great link preview art) 🤭

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/