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This community was essentially unmoderated for a while and I've been recently approached to take over moderation duties here. What I don't intend to do is to change any existing rules here but to enforce what has piled up in the moderation queue.

The discussion under the recent post about spam accounts turned into a flamewar regarding US domestic politics which has literally nothing to do with the Fediverse.

With dozens of comments, I don't have the bandwidth to sift through them individually and I've locked the thread. The PSA about spam accounts still stands which is why I didn't remove the post. The accounts involved with that flamewar get a pass for this time. Consider this a warning. Further trolling about US political parties will result in bans.

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The fediverse has been good to me so far, I am more than happy to support these projects, and to support the future of social networking.

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submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by technomad@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I'm still learning the quirks of federation and the behaviors of communities hosted on different instances, so I apologize if this is something that's been asked repeatedly.

I made a post to a community I am subscribed to at lemmy.ca, from my home instance at slrpnk.net. Public posts on that community (as well as the post that I made) are not showing up from my home instance. My profile page on my home instance does not show any record of the post that I made.

I was only able to find existence of the post that I made by going to lemmy.ca, and then finding the community that I posted to from there.

!woodworking@lemmy.ca

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Last Week in Fediverse - ep 90 (fediversereport.com)

This week's news

  • The Fediverse Schema Observatory is a new tool to help interoperability
  • the botsin.space server will shut down
  • Add monetisation to federated WordPress blogs with sub.club
  • You can now set custom handles on fediverse accounts that are bridged to Bluesky
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It must be the recent questionable moves made by YouTube recently disabling the upload date and the viewer counter.

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submitted 2 days ago by bishbosh@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Article by Mike Masnick

Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised a $15 million seed round, and with it announced some plans for building out subscription plans and helping to make the site sustainable (some of which may be very cool — stay tuned). A few days prior to that happening, Bluesky hit 13 million users and continues to grow. It’s still relatively small, but it has now done way more with a smaller team and less money than Twitter did at a similar point in its evolution.

I’m excited with where things are trending with Bluesky for a few reasons, but I wanted to actually talk about something else. Just before I joined the board, I had met up with a group of supporters of “decentralized social media,” who more leaned towards ActivityPub/Mastodon/Threads over Bluesky. Even though I wasn’t officially representing Bluesky, they knew I was a fan of Bluesky and asked me how I viewed the overall decentralized social media landscape.

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How is the best way to get started building apps in the fediverse?

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Technically, anyone with the knowledge and interest can spin up a single-user ActivityPub server and go about their business, but generally these servers aren't being developed with that usage in mind. In other words, they can be overkill for individuals in terms of features or resource use.

That's where single-user software comes into play. Explicitly developed for individuals, or in some cases very small groups, to use, this software is lighter on resources and more focused in its features for individuals.

As to why you might want this: it enables you to benefit from many of the benefits of ActivityPub, connecting and engaging with others & building your own curated feeds, without some of the drawbacks of multi-user servers such as keeping up with federation/defederation decisions that may affect what you can interact with & follow.

So on to a couple lists, in no particular order:

"Microblogging" but with relaxed character limits:

  1. GoToSocial
  2. Hollo
  3. Ktistec
  4. Seppo - Note: more specialized/limited compared to above.
  5. Takahe - More experimental compared to others above

Other

  1. GoBlog - Simple blogging
  2. Betula - Bookmark management & sharing.
  3. Postmarks - Same idea as Betula, but some differences like ActivityPub commenting possible.

I'm sure there's way more, but these were a few that stuck out to me. Let me know any others you're into that I may have overlooked!

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(relates to https://thebrainbin.org/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/350958/Minetest-Luanti-rejected-suggestion)

Pure walled-garden behavior (by federation/decentralization) from the Minetest devs.

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It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

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For a long time, users have been able to submit microblog-style posts to link-aggregator subs (a.k.a. subcommunity, community, magazine, etc.). Some platforms such as mbin require you to select one for your post. Previously, I've thought this sub selection as a special hashtag for the post. However, I've recently been reminded that posts actually show up in communities as full-on threads. So what do you (or the threadi gods) consider to be proper etiquette in selecting a proper sub to make your microblog post to? There's always !random, but that feels kinda worthless...

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Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

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By which I mean in terms of usage, development, or stability. Also along those lines, which English-speaking instances would you recommend?

Interested as Misskey & forks have some feature edges over Mastodon in my opinion, but it's somewhat harder to find discussion/info about them.

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It looks like they have some kind of whitelist set up, limiting federation to the big instances, which seems like a strange thing for one of the small instances to do.

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They don't want to get the "First Game of the Fediverse" title.

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Radiofreefedi.net is a super cool internet radio with a couple stations that plays music from fediverse artists, along with a "words" station that plays non-music stuff like podcasts or other kinds of spoken programming

I've really enjoyed it and only learned about it cause someone here on lemmy mentioned it in passing, I thought I'd share so other folks know about it as well :)

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by iso@lemy.lol to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I've been rewriting Lemmy Federate for the last 3 days and finally finished it. While there are no changes on the frontend, many things have changed behind the scenes.

Mbin support

After several requests, I have added Mbin support to Lemmy Federate. It is currently in experimental state. I may improve it in the coming days.

Currently, Lemmy-Mbin connection is off by default. You can enable it by activating the "cross software" option in the instance settings.

how it works?Since Mbin has OAuth support, the tool creates the client with OAuth instead of creating a bot user directly. Theoretically, you should be able to activate the tool simply by creating a OAuth client from instance settings.

But unfortunately, I couldn't try it enough because I'm not an admin on an Mbin instance.


Federation mode option

I added this option for small/single user instances. If you select federation mode as seed only in the instance settings, your instance will not follow other instance communities, but other instances will follow your communities.

Although I am not a fan of this option, I think it will work for instances like under 100 users.

Lemmy Federate

source code

Here’s example settings page:

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

As RSS fans here may know, you can grab RSS feeds of communities and even your profile on Lemmy instances if you like. You can also do this with profiles on Mastodon, and I imagine other ActivityPub microblogging services.

However, you may not have known that public Bluesky profiles are much the same. By public, I mean their posts can be viewed without signing in to Bsky. I'm not sure but I'd think those limiting their visibility may not (or should not) permit pulling a RSS feed of their posts.

All you do is copy the account's Bsky handle, e.g. [username].bsky.social (or custom domains, should work the same I think) to your RSS reader of choice, and you should have a feed of their posts.

It's a nice way to get feeds for news sites that don't directly offer them and that have moved to Bsky but not Mastodon or other ActivityPub microblogging services. It's also great if you're simply not into microblogging in general and/or don't want to make another social media account and download another app.

Hope this helps!

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submitted 1 week ago by thenexusofprivacy to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17792698. I had posted here last week asking for suggestions, and incorporated some of them -- for example, the last section mentions the proof-of-concept Faircamp integration into Hubzilla.

Including:

  • DAIR-tube, the PeerTube page of Dr. Timnit Gebru's Distributed AI ResearchCenter
  • The Website League, an island network that's taking a very different approach
  • GoToSocial v 0.17, continuing their focus on safety and privacy with interaction controls.
  • Piefed and the Threadiverse
  • Bonfire's new Mosaic service along with their work on Open Science Network and prosocial design
  • Letterbook
  • Bluesky and the ATmosphere's continued momentum

The post has more info on all of these and more ... there really is a lot going on.

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submitted 1 week ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27020356

We are officially finished with The Book. Now onto something that matters.

Today is an exploratory session to explore the lemmy codebase, see how well it's documented for contribution, and make a targets for contribution.

If anyones following along this week is dedicated to familiarizing ourselves with the codebase. Pull it down, set up our dev environment, run the code. After that pick a directory and attempt to explain a few functions to a duck. If a duck is not present find a google search result for the term "duck" will suffice.

As always, a stream will be available at the following link of myself doing this for around 2 hours starting one hour after this post is made. https://www.twitch.tv/deerfromsmoke

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