Notices by Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social), page 8

Here, Zuckerberg's view is that interoperability improves the value of all products. He's positioning Threads here to compete with other products based on the quality of the product and not on exclusivity of content.

Zuckerberg says that he has always believed in decentralized social media protocols, but that it's too complicated to implement it in Facebook. He says that the opportunity cost of transitioning an existing platform is too big. Threads is different, because they are starting from scratch.

Mark Zuckerberg: "the more that there’s interoperability between different services and the more content can flow, the better all the services can be"

The Verge just released an interview with Mark Zuckerberg about a wide variety of topics, including Threads and ActivityPub.

You can read the entire interview here, with some of the most relevant parts for the fediverse down below:

https://www.theverge.com/23889057/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-elon-musk-threads-quest-interview-decoder

h/t to @gunchleoc for the tip, thanks!

I personally find it interesting to see that the agency originally started with their own account on the federal German government server ( https://social.bund.de/explore ), and have now decided to spin up their own server for the state of Saxony. It illustrates how the government servers can function as as example for others to follow and start their own social media servers.

https://social.sachsen.de/@sdtb/111130251537346896

The German state of Saxony has started their own #mastodon server at https://social.sachsen.de/

The server is intended for the departments and organisations that are part of the government of Saxony.

It is run by the Saxon Data Protection Authority ( @sdtb ), who states:

“I am pleased that I can provide public bodies with a data protection-compliant social network for their public relations work."

https://www.datenschutz.sachsen.de/social-media-sdtb-startet-mit-eigener-mastodon-instanz-6314.html

the full notes of all the sessions are now available here

https://fediforum.org/2023-09/

Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 36

Been a busy week, with:
- #FediForum, with tons of cool demos and interesting sessions
- #Mastodon 4.2 has officially launched
- After reporting on the CSAM attacks at #Lemmy a few weeks, new tools are being developed to help admins deal with this. One example is scanning images with generative AI, that can run locally on an admin's GPU, without uploading images anywhere.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-36/

@fediforum Cool, thanks! I've updated the article to mention that, and will post the link there as well once they're out.

A short writeup of this week's @fediforum

https://fediversereport.com/fediforum-september-2023/

@askans Hey, thanks for letting me know, appreciate it! I need to do an accessibility check on the website, and will also change this

Last Week in the #Fediverse - ep 35

Main news of the week:
- Swiss government starts their own #Mastodon server
- The SWICG has talks about restructuring
- Doubts about the moderation tools and governance of Lemmy
- The #activitypub plugin for #wordpress is officially released

Read at https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/

We now have the following national governments with a Mastodon server:

- Germany: https://social.bund.de
- The Netherlands: https://social.overheid.nl
- Switzerland: https://social.admin.ch

As well as the EU with
- https://social.network.europa.ec

Let's hope that other countries will follow this design pattern, and all launch a fediverse server at social.[governmentwebsite].[TLD]. Following this pattern makes it immediately clear to people they are communicating with an official government account.

The Swiss Government has officially launched their Mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/

In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.

Official press release: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

Speaker of the Swiss Government: @gov

Last Week in Fediverse - episode 34

The news of this week:

- Social bookmarking is back, and now on the #fediverse with #postmarks
- The Swiss government is close to launching their own #mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/
- @evan , one of the #activitypub co-authors, will release a programming book on ActivityPub with O'Reilly Media next year

Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-34/

@bumble thank you, thats really nice to hear!

Last Week in Fediverse – episode 33

#Lemmy has experienced CSAM attacks in the last week, with the material posted on multiple communities for people to see. Due to how federation works on Lemmy, this meant that the images also got send over and stored in the databases of other Lemmy servers. This poses questions and challenges for the admins, among others on how to make sure they are legally compliant.

For this, and other news, read: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-33/

A short disclaimer, considering the name Fediverse Report: I do not currently consider Bluesky part of the fediverse. I've written about the multiple meanings of the term fediverse recently in this article:

https://fediversereport.com/the-multiple-meanings-of-fediverse/

However, I think that to fully understand what's happening in the fediverse, having context on what is happening on other decentralized protocols is valuable. Thus, I want to provide that context and give news on Bluesky as well.

Last Month in Bluesky - August 2023

A new monthly series with the news on #bluesky. In this edition:

- Tools to find out who blocks you raise questions about protocol affordances: should you always build a tool just because the protocol allows it?
- Bluesky is leaning more into it's unique feature of custom feeds, with more than 10k already made.
- Two types of spam networks seem to be slowly emerging.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-august-23/

At the last FediForum, we got the #Fediverse #Developer #Network started.

If you don't know about it, it's mostly about half dozen Matrix rooms where a lot of Fediverse developers hang out and discuss matters they care about, from highly technical interop problems and best practices for implementing the Fediverse protocols, to how to talk about and market the fediverse.

We also have a website and had the occasional video call for show-and-tools and face-to-face discussions.