Notices by Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social), page 4

OK, if you'd like to play about with a *very* basic front-end for my Fediverse-location-foursquare-check-in thing, please visit:

https://location.edent.tel/

SUPER bare-bones. Just a proof of concept.

I'll be at #FOSDEM this weekend! Would love to chat with anyone who is involved with fediverse stuff in some capacity, so hit me up here or @laurenshof if you want to meet up for a coffee or a chat.

New: Lemmy Ask You Anything (again)

The Lemmy developers held another AMA this week (https://lemmy.ml/post/11023519 ), and in this article I go over some of the answers that stood out to me. They gave answers about platform identity, why decentralisation matters for a healthy community, more details about their roadmap and funding, as well as a whole lot more.

read at: https://fediversereport.com/lemmy-ask-you-anything-again/

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 53

This week's news:
- a closer look at the upcoming project @bonfire
- Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation
- @sublinks is a new link aggregating platform that recently started development

As well as a whole lot more! Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-53/

New: Last Week in #fediverse, ep 52

- Dutch Government @avhuffelen urges Threads to quickly implement federation
- @owncast releases an app for iOS and tvOS, after struggles with getting it approved by Apple
- the term 'fediverse' is becoming enough of a buzzword to get metaverse companies interested
- @agora is a fediverse app with a For You algorithm, and build-in support for bridges

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-52/

New: How Bluesky works

A short series explaining the components of the Bluesky network, how this relates to federation, as well as content moderation.

In this first article I describe all the individual parts that make up network, and how they relate to each other.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/how-bluesky-works-the-network-components/

@mike @rysiek @thisismissem

check out @newsmast, they are going big on curated feeds, and doing some really cool work. They're about to release more updates and are working on API support as well. I'll be writing more about it next week

@bedirthan also on a more practical note, I was planning on writing about Friendica's new Bluesky connector this week as well, so there would have been more of a thematic cohesion between the stories. I simply ran out of time for this week, so that'll come soon

@bedirthan hey, thanks for asking!

I write about social networks (beyond just fediverse stuff) more broadly at my personal website, which is where I first published this story about Bluesky (https://laurenshof.online/bluesky-has-3-million-accounts-invites-going-away-soon/ ). I sometimes include stories and coverage from beyond the fediverse in the weekly Fediverse Report when I feel that it has direct impact on the fediverse.
Bluesky saying they'll remove the invite system soon is one of those cases, so thats why I included it in this weeks update

New: Last Week in Fediverse - ep 51

In this week's news:
- WordPress ActivityPub plugin gets updated to v2.0
- Bluesky hits 3m accounts, invites going away soon
- Podcasting news (including WeDistribute launching a new podcast!)
- And a whole load of other news items, bridges, more information on Thread's roadmap, updates to ActivityPods, and more!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-51/

@quigs_blog Now - with @caseynewton leaving #substack for #ghost - would seem like a good time for you to describe your #activitypub work on Ghost more….

@tchambers Sure, lets give this a shot. I'll participate with my blogs ( @LaurensHof@fediversereport.com and @laurenshof@laurenshof.online ) as well

The free fediverses should work together with people and instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky whose goals and values align with the free fediverse

https://privacy.thenexus.today/work-together-with-metas-fediverses-and-bluesky/

Part 6 of Strategies for the free fediverses

Many of the Meta advocates I've talked to share the free fediverses' long-term goal of building a sustainable alternative to surveillance capitalism -- and the same is true for people on Bluesky. So there are likely to be situations where some of the people and instances in Meta's fediverses and Bluesky wind up as situational allies to the free fediverses.

A few areas where collaboration could be very useful:

- A key principle of organizing is meeting people where they are.

- Moderation on decentralized networks is a shared challenge.

- Bringing concepts similar to Bluesky's custom feeds to the fediverses, and more generally focusing on human-focused and liberatory (as opposed to oppressive) uses of algorithms in decentralized social networks designed from the margins.

- Meta's fediverses, Bluesky, and the free fediverses are all vulnerable to disinformation.

https://privacy.thenexus.today/work-together-with-metas-fediverses-and-bluesky/

#fediverse #threads #bluesky #organizing @fediversenews

Hi @leroy, here's the state of forum software in the #fediverse

@nodebb currently is pursuing full federation (user actors, category actors, possibly topic actors) with an alpha by end of Q1.

#Discourse has a third party dev working on their implementation but it is currently category actors only (broadcasting content out to the fediverse)

#Flarum has received funding but I am not aware of any implementation yet. However @luceos would be the person to ask about this.

@multiverseofbadness

This is so cool! WordPress is absolutely crushing it!

"The WordPress ActivityPub plugin has been updated to version 2.0. The major feature of the release is better comment federation... “When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!”

https://mastodon.online/@LaurensHof@fediversereport.com/111732313823912229

Congratulations @pfefferle! Amazing work!

#WordPress #ActivityPub

The weird implementation of HTTP signatures seems to have been a bug in Threads. It is now fixed and the signatures work as expected. I updated the blog post accordingly.
Thanks @jahfer for looking into this!

The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances

Part 5 of Strategies for the Free Fediverse

https://privacy.thenexus.today/make-it-easier-to-move-to-instances-in-the-free-fediverses/

There's likely to be a lot of moving between instances as people and instances sort themselves out into the free fediverses and Meta's fediverses -- and today, moving accounts on the fediverse today. There are lots of straightforward ways to improve it, many of which don't even require improvements to the software. And there are also opportunities to make creating, customizing, and connecting instances easier.

#fediverse #fedipact #threads @fediversenews

Wow! The repsonse to RSS Parrot in the first day has been overwhelming ✨ Thank you all for the enthusiasm and the overwhelmingly positive messages!

Plus, the birb survived the day 🦜🦜🦜 :)

I started a "Changes" section where I wrote up what's happened since the launch: https://rss-parrot.net/web/changes#2024-01-03

I'll be slightly more hands-off in the next few days. May the feeds be strong with you! 🧘♀️

@ssutch #MastoAdmin hashtag is a good resource to find them. I've got help and pulled great tools from it. Also, general discussions. I also found some by browsing Mastodon's GitHub, by looking at profiles of coders when activities happen to the code.