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The inflow of Brazilians to Bluesky continues, Firefish dies another death, 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-83/' posted='2024-09-08 18:23:42' guid='08552256-1db60ec771464850-0985b522' message_id='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-83/']Last Week in Fediverse โ ep 83
Bluesky and Brazil continues to be a great match, and lots of other smaller news items.
Programming note: Iโm switching the release day for this weekly newsletter to a Wednesday. Over the last year and a half Iโve spend my free Sundays writing this, and this is not sustainable in the long term. So look for the next edition to arrive on Wednesday the 18th.
Bluesky and Brazil
Bluesky remains highly popular among Brazilians as an alternative to X, that got banned in the country last week. Bluesky has added 3 million accounts since the ban went into effect just over a week ago. When I reported on it last week Bluesky had added 1 million accounts. Of these new accounts, around 85% are from Brazil. The popularity of Bluesky in Brazil also shows up in both politics and the media: President Lula, his party PT Brazil, the Supreme Court, and House of Representatives all have their accounts validated by using their domain as their handle. The media is also paying attention, one of the most popular news programs in Brazil, Jornal Nacional, showed their Bluesky handle during the show. Some of the biggest newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo and Correio Braziliense covered Bluesky as well.
What stands out to me about both articles is that they do not mention Threads. Threads have not made any data available regarding the impact of the Brazilian ban on X on the platform. While Threads is likely to still get a large number of signups simply due to its massive size, it is not part of the conversation in the way that Bluesky is for Brazil.
The inflow of new people also shows up for the Trust and Safety team. In an update Blueskyโs head of Trust and Safety, Aaron Rodericks, shares that the team normally receives about 20k reports per week, a number that skyrocketed to 270k reports, predominantly in Portugese.
The News
Firefish has died another death. This February, the original creator of Firefish Kainoa transferred ownership to the maintainer naskya, without naskya being informed beforehand. Naskya has been maintaining Firefish alone for the last 7 months, while noting that this them taking over the project as unwillingly. Naskya says that this is unsustainable, putting the project in maintanance mode. IceShrimp provides migration instructions for server admins who want to transfer from Firefish to IceShrimp. Iโve got fond memories of the time period during which Firefish worked well, which is sadly a while ago now. It enabled me to build a community in a way that Iโve found much more difficult to do on Mastodon, and the community that Iโve build during the Firefish period is still one that feels like my closest community on Mastodon.
Truefans is a podcasting app that is building ActivityPub integration. It gives you the possibility to create a fediverse account as well (truefans.social), and activities that you take in the Truefans app (listen/comment/follow) are broadcasted into the fediverse.
The IFTAS Moderator Survey for 2024 is live. Last yearโs survey led to an extensive report on the actual needs that fediverse moderators have.
Forgejoโs monthly update: โFederation is getting useful. There is now more than preliminary background work, and the first exciting things could be tried out by users. The work is not near the goal yet.โ
The SocialCG held their monthly meeting, and decided on two new Task Forces: a task force to update the website activitypub.rocks, and a Trust and Safety Task Force. The goal for the website task force is to make sure that the activitypub.rocks website is a better entry point, as it is badly out of date, with the last post from January 2021. The Trust and Safety team from Threads has already expressed interest in participating in the task force.
Trending topics are a feature that is highly sought after by the Brazilian community, and the community has build two versions themselves: as a browser extension and as a separate site.
Peertube continues to make inroads with livestreaming, especially via the livechat plugin, which got a significant upgrade again.
Bluesky continues the tradition of 3rd party clients implementing features before the official clients does: this time the Skeets app already supports displaying videos, even though the feature is not released yet and only the developers can post (otherwise invisible) videos.
The developerโs site atproto.com got a major overhaul, including a Quick Start guide that showcases how to build a complete and different type of application on atproto, an extensive article โATProto for distributed systems engineersโ and more.
A research paper โ An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises โ provides a critical analysis of the extend that the fediverse can deliver on the promises of decentralisation. Worth checking out, I also find the framing of โtechno-romanticismโ as to explain the gap between what is promised and what is actually happening in the fediverse.
The Dutch coalition of public organisations PublicSpaces is starting PeerTube Spaces to promote the usage of Peertube as as suitable alternative for public organisations.
The (unofficial) atprotocol.dev community held a talk with the creator of event planner Smoke Signal, the video recording is available here. The recording from the previous talk, by the creator of frontpage.fyi is available as well. This Thursday is the next event, โFrom Feeds to Labelers with รndra Rininslandโ
The Links
Thatโs all for this week, thanks for reading!
#fediverse
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Eleonora
in reply to informapirata โ • • •io non avevo particolari aspettative e non avevo fretta.
Sono entrata, ho visto che mi trovavo bene e che potevo uscire e rientrare quando volevo.
Quindi tuttapposto! ๐
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impottibile
in reply to informapirata โ • • •(consigli interessanti quelli nel link, grazie)
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Unknown parent • • •Al Kath
in reply to informapirata โ • • •da ex utente twitter di lunga data, ho avuto un po' di traumi all'inizio perchรฉ qui non avevo capito cosa vedevano gli altri utenti di me.
Se dovessi dare un consiglio ai nuovi, direi di mettersi nei panni degli altri utenti ma per farlo bisogna prima capire che cosa vedono gli altri utenti. Per questo motivo i tuoi consigli sono fatti bene e consiglierei anche di visitare il sito di @FediTips che spiega tante cose ai nuovi e anche a chi รจ un po' piรน esperto
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in reply to Al Kath • • •@kathsone grazie! Mettersi nei panni degli altri utenti รจ forse la formulazione migliore che abbia mai sentito per un consiglio eccellente, che vale in tutti i campi!
Consiglio anch'io di seguire il sito e l'account di @FediTips perchรฉ รจ una risorsa fondamentale per tutti i membri del Fediverso (ma non dategli ascolto su Lemmy, eh... ๐ )
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Unknown parent • • •@Amerb71 vero, anche se Mastodon non puรฒ ancora competere con Twitte da questo punto di vistar, ma proprio per questo รจ stata un'aggiunta essenziale quella della pagina mastoodon con i trend delle notizie piรน citate nel mastodon globale
mastodon.uno/explore/links
Mastodon Uno Social - Italia
Mastodon ospitato su mastodon.unoGiorgio Sarto
in reply to informapirata โ • • •io ho il consiglio per avere la maggiore visibilitร ma vale solo per i sessantenni con la pancia e la barba incolta
Fingersi una ragazza molto sensibile e anche disponibile, postare foto prese da siti stock in cui ogni tanto mostri qualcosa ma anche no e poi fare la vittima quando ti sgamano
โผ Cassandra Seldon
in reply to informapirata โ • • •La prima cosa che ho fatto รจ stato cercare gli utenti qui e il mio account padre รจ stato lo stesso.
Non mi sono mai trovato con la TL vuota; ma sono asociale quindi scrivo per me e non per piacere agli altri.
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in reply to โผ Cassandra Seldon • • •unaemma
in reply to โผ Cassandra Seldon • • •La mia storia รจ simile alla tua, ho aperto l'account a novembre 2022, perรฒ io sono ancora piรน asociale di te, ho mollato X e normalmente non scrivo.
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in reply to unaemma • • •Ivan
in reply to informapirata โ • • •Imparato molto di tecnologia e non ultimo ho iniziato ad usare Linux.
Un grazie a tutti๐
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in reply to Ivan • • •informapirata โ
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in reply to informapirata โ • • •La Guerra delle Formiche
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in reply to peppeson • • •peppeson
in reply to informapirata โ • • •informapirata โ
in reply to peppeson • • •@peppeson questi sono i gruppi Friendica e sono tutti leggibili da Mastodon.
dir.friendica.social/search/grโฆ
Questi sono quelli di Poliverso insieme alle comunitร Lemmy di Feddit:
informapirata.it/2023/03/14/coโฆ
Ti consiglio di provare con Mastodon un'app pensata per Friendica; รจ ancora in versione alfa, ma ti fa vedere i gruppi in modo molto intuitivo
github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRacโฆ
Comunitร Lemmy e gruppi/forum Friendica in italiano - informapirata
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Francesco Barresi
in reply to peppeson • • •@peppeson la maggior parte li vedi in "lingua straniera" anche perche il tuo account รจ su mastodon.social
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Unknown parent • • •@paolabonacini l'attivitร fine a sรฉ stessa รจ una forma di dipendenza! Ci si connette quando si ha voglia, quando si ha qualcosa da dire e quando si vuole leggere qualcosa di interessante...
Anzi, se inizi a sentire la necessitร di connetterti, vuol dire che stai sbagliando qualcosa... ๐
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Unknown parent • • •@naixke Twitter per me รจ come il tuffo di Capodanno nel Tevere: un modo per entrare in contatto con i liquami, ma in un contesto surreale...
@zipidog @francina1909 @signoredibaux
Angelo Schirinzi
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Unknown parent • • •@zamby2c
> sono tre anni che non odio piรน la ggente
Premio social dell'anno! ๐ ๐ ๐คฃ
OrionBeltยฉ
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