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@RaccoonForFriendica a new alpha version has been released, containing most of the features which will be included in the first beta at the beginning of next month. If anyone wants to try it and submit any feedback, it would be highly appreciated

#friendica #friendicadev #androiddev #kotlin #kmp #opensource #livefasteattrash

A British migration wave to Bluesky, Flipboards expands their fediverse integration, and more.
[share author='Laurens Hof' profile='https://fediversereport.com/author/laurenshof/' avatar='https://poliverso.org/photo/206608119366e42c304ffac007248590-5.jpeg?ts=1765017471' link='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-80/' posted='2024-08-18 14:46:52' guid='08552256-1db60fc771464a1d-24e5efb6' message_id='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-80/']Last Week in Fediverse – ep 80

A British migration wave from X to Bluesky, Flipboard expands their fediverse integration, and more.

The News

Bluesky has seen a new migration wave away from X towards Bluesky, which consists predominantly of people from the UK. The move comes as Labour MPs begin quitting X, as The Guardian reports, as Musk feuds with the UK government over recent riots in the UK, per Reuters. Quite a few MPs have signed up for Bluesky, here is a starter pack with all MPs that are on Bluesky. In the UK press issues with X have become a subject of conversation again. It is clear that in the perspective of the UK press there are two alternatives to X, either Threads or Bluesky. Mastodon mostly does not get mentioned at all, and neither has Mastodon experienced any meaningful change in signup numbers during this period. The FORbetter newsletter takes a look at Google trends data which also shows that it is all Threads and Bluesky, with Mastodon missing the boat. What is also notable about this Bluesky migration wave is that it is spread out quite far in time, and less spiky. Previous waves (such as when an Indonesian community or the BTS ARMY joined Bluesky) tend to have a very big spike at the beginning which then quickly dies down: in this case, an increase started almost two weeks ago, which plateaued a week later with multiple days staying at the same level. This all indicates a more steady and consistent interest from the UK in Bluesky.

Flipboard has expanded their fediverse integration, and with the latest update you can follow people from the rest of the fediverse in the Flipboard app. Flipboard is now getting close to full two-way federation, as some accounts can also like and reply to other fediverse posts with their Flipboard account. Some more reporting by WeDistribute and The Verge on the feature. Flipboard is heavily leaning on federated Threads accounts for the new feature: 80% of the accounts that were recommended to me by Flipboard are Threads accounts. On the flip side, Flipboard does not seem to be particularly focused on Bluesky, with no (bridged) accounts recommended, and the account for Bluesky board member Mike Masnick is his Mastodon account, and not his more active Bluesky account.

An observation about Bluesky: one thing that interests me about Bluesky is how some of the experimental new features that are implemented find traction not in their original intended use case, but get repurposed by the community for another goal instead. Third party labeling is implemented by Bluesky as a way to do community labeling, but as good moderation is hard to do (and the most prominent labelers have called it quits). Instead, a different use case for labeling is emerging: self-labeling: setting your pronouns, country flags, or your fursona. Another emergent use case is for starter packs, which have gotten low usage during regular periods (with more use during migration sign-up waves), which seem to be more used as a Follow-Friday list.

The Links

• WeDistribute writes about ‘The Untapped Potential of Fediverse Publishing’.
• Mastodon’s monthly engineering update, Trunk & Tidbits. Andy Piper, Mastodons Developer Relations Lead, writes a personal blog post on the series as well.
• Fediverse Trust and Safety: The Founding and Future of IFTAS.
• Piefed’s monthly development update, with an indication that the software is almost ready for an official 1.0 release.
• Ghost’s weekly update says that they are still working on having the posts show up on Mastodon reliably.
• Dhaaga is a cross-platform app for both Mastodon and Misskey.
• Altmetric is a product to track academic research being discussed online, and they announced that they are working on adding Bluesky support.
• Bluesky engineer Brian Newbold wrote an update on the current state of atproto and how much progress is made regarding reaching the goals and values of atproto.
• A research paper that looks at the impact of Bluesky’s opening to the public on the community.
• The third episode of WordPress.com’s video series on the fediverse, on how the fediverse can make social media fun again, talking with Mammoth’s co-creator Bart Decrem.
• A new app directory dedicated to ActivityPub platforms, clients, and tools for easy browsing and discovery.
• A new blog series by the mod team of the hachyderm.io server to explain Mastodon moderation tooling.
• Hubzilla, Streams and Friendica creator Mike Mcgirvin continues his tradition of forking his own projects; with Forte being a new fork of his Streams project. Not much is known yet about what makes Forte different than Streams.
• ‘5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people’.
• Pipilo is a fediverse iOS app with a timeline that scrolls horizontal instead of vertical.
• A first federated instance of NodeBB that is not run by NodeBB themselves, and the difficulty of explaining the concept to people outside of the fediverse.
• A presentation by Robert W. Gehl on how ActivityPub became a standard.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!

#fediverse

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È stata rilasciata la versione 2024.08 di Friendica!

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Siamo molto felici di annunciare la disponibilità della nuova versione stabile di Friendica "Yellow Archangel" 2024.08. Oltre a diversi miglioramenti e nuove funzionalità, questa versione contiene diverse correzioni per problemi di sicurezza segnalati da apexrabbit, Devilx86 e ponlayookm – Consigliamo vivamente a tutti gli amministratori di Friendica di aggiornare le proprie installazioni a questa versione stabile.

I punti salienti di Friendica 2024.08 sono

- l'utilizzo delle risorse di sistema e le prestazioni sono state migliorate in varie parti di Friendica,
- aggiunti endpoint di monitoraggio per esempio Zabbix e Grafana,
- aggiunta visualizzazione abbreviata dei link (predefinita 30 caratteri, gli amministratori possono definire la lunghezza nel file di configurazione tramite display_link_length)

Si noti che con questa versione la versione minima di PHP per Friendica è stata aumentata a PHP 7.4.

Per i dettagli, consultare il file CHANGELOG nel repository

Friendica News

2024-08-17 17:19:12

Friendica 2024.08 released

We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.08. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by apexrabbit, Devilx86 and ponlayookm – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.

The highlights of Friendica 2024.08 are

• the usage of system resources and performance has been improved in various parts of Friendica,
• added monitoring endpoints for e.g. Zabbix and Grafana,
• added shortened display of links (default 30 characters, admins can define the length in the config file via the display_link_length)

Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.

For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.

What is Friendica

Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.

How to Update

Updating from old Friendica versions

If you are updating from an older version than the 2022.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.

Pre-Update Procedures

Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.

Using Git

Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.08 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.

Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.

Using the Archive Files

Due to problems with the build pipeline we cannot provide archive files at the moment that contain all dependencies as usual. We will update this documents as soon as possible.

Do not use the archive files provided by github as they do not contain the dependencies.

Post Update Tasks

The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.

Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.

Known Issues

At the time of writing this, none

How to Contribute

If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.

Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.

Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!

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