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Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.

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Can Palestinians leave Gaza voluntarily?

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  • Yes (1%, 1 vote)
  • Yes, but... (9%, 9 votes)
  • No, but... (14%, 14 votes)
  • No (75%, 74 votes)
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The trouble is that the poll risks creating the impression that the Smotrich/Trump lethal racist ethnic-cleansing proposal are a thing that reasonable people can argue about the benefits/costs of. I decline to join such a discussion.


Un nuovo fondo di sicurezza viene attivato per aiutare a proteggere il fediverso

La @The Nivenly Foundation (Nivenly Foundation), ha annunciato il lancio di un nuovo fondo di sicurezza che pagherà coloro che rivelano in modo responsabile le vulnerabilità di sicurezza che interessano le app e i servizi fediverse.

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@Che succede nel Fediverso?


Over the past year, we've been thinking about how we can improve the security of the Fediverse to provide a safer, more trustworthy experience for people of the Fediverse.

Today we're launching a time-and-funds limited Fediverse Security Fund, where we will pay researchers and contributors for the responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities in open-source Fediverse software.

We're starting small as an experiment to gauge interest, figure out our processes, and eventually decide if/how to expand this program and make it more permanent. If you're a security researcher or upstream contributor, join us in making the Fediverse a safer place.

You can read more about this program on our blog: nivenly.org/blog/2025/04/01/ni…


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I'm doing my first indoor germination this Northern spring. A dozen different sets of #NativePlants seeds, from Jerusalem artichokes to smooth aster to monarda fistulosa to pearly everlasting. They're going to live inside the house for about 6 weeks, and then harden off and move into the garden. It's exciting work! #gardening
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That’s not enough light, you’ll end up with leggy seedlings. Add a few lamps with wide spectrum bulbs.

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It was National Indigenous Languages Day yesterday.

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in reply to Evan Prodromou

Indigenous languages of North America can be very different in structure and vocabulary from European languages like English and French. I found the experience extremely challenging, and really mind-expanding. If your local indigenous community has language classes available to non-native people, I really recommend it.
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It's also important to note that many indigenous communities consider their language a cultural treasure, and are not open to outsiders learning. Definitely use native-created materials and native-led courses if you are going to try to learn, to make sure you're using the treasure with respect and consent.
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A vulnerability in Pixelfed caused private posts from other platforms to leak, a post-mortem on the CSAM scanner from IFTAS, and Fediforum has been cancelled.


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I solved the Tuesday 4/1/2025 New York Times Daily Crossword in 16:57!

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Trans rights are human rights.

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How different are your two most different Internet personae?

#EvanPoll #poll

  • 0-25% (56%, 70 votes)
  • 26-50% (23%, 29 votes)
  • 51-75% (9%, 12 votes)
  • 76-100% (10%, 13 votes)
124 voters. Poll end: 1 giorno fa

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This is interesting. I think I'm 26-50%. Thanks to everyone who responded.
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I'm in that same 26% - 50%. Above 26% but well below 50%.


Mastodon | i social media rafforzano il giornalismo indipendente: apritivo e presentazione al Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia

Unitevi ai Mastodon per un aperitivo al Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo!

Siete curiosi di sapere come Mastodon sta plasmando il panorama mediatico per i giornalisti indipendenti? Organizzeremo un aperitivo insieme con una breve presentazione sulle ultime tendenze e sviluppi in Mastodon. Dopo la nostra presentazione, partecipate a una discussione e a una sessione di networking con il team di Mastodon, dove potrete condividere le vostre idee ed esperienze.

Saranno offerti drink e spuntini leggeri gratuiti.

Questo evento è aperto a tutti, ma è richiesta la registrazione, poiché lo spazio è limitato. Si prega di confermare la propria presenza tramite questo link.

Luogo: Umbrò , Via Sant'Ercolano 4, Perugia.

Informazioni di contatto: philip@joinmastodon.org

Organizzato da @Mastodon

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Mastodon | social media empowering independent journalism (Perugia International Journalism Festival)
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Join Mastodon for an aperitivo at the International Journalism Festival!

Are you curious about how Mastodon is shaping the media landscape for independent journalists? We will host an aperitivo together with a short presentation covering the latest trends and developments in Mastodon. After our presentation, join a discussion and networking session with the Mastodon team, where you can share your ideas and experiences.

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Mastodon | social media empowering independent journalism (Perugia International Journalism Festival)
Ven 18:30 - 20:30 Via Sant'Ercolano 4, Perugia
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We watched "A Complete Unknown" last night. It was a great movie about what making music means to a culture and to oneself. Timothée Chalamet does a great job as Bob Dylan. The music is awesome and moving. Ed Norton is a sweet, deep Pete Seeger. The emotional stakes are high, and the Night That Dylan Went Electric feels like a personal and movement watershed. Don't miss it.
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@tchambers Saw it twice in the cinema. And bought it on Apple Store. It’s ace 😊

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I just finished my homework for the week. I have another stack of work to do next weekend, but for today I have the rest of the day off.

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Which of these is the best word for a 250th anniversary?

#EvanPoll #poll

  • Semiquincentennial (21%, 28 votes)
  • Bisesquicentennial (13%, 18 votes)
  • Sestercentennial (6%, 8 votes)
  • Quarter millennial (58%, 76 votes)
130 voters. Poll end: 3 giorni fa

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Thanks all. "Sestercentennial" is the best word here.

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These bad times can be the starting point for the next world.

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"4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

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Is the Fediverse part of the solution to the global rise of far-right populism?

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  • Yes (30%, 255 votes)
  • Yes, but... (41%, 338 votes)
  • No, but... (14%, 122 votes)
  • No (13%, 110 votes)
825 voters. Poll end: 4 giorni fa

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Yes, but... we have to be vigilant about expressing our own impatience, keeping it respectful when the facts fail to convince.


Mastodon-LaTeXclient

Lavori in ambito scientifico o in un ambiente in cui, in ogni caso, potresti leggere PDF con margini ampi impostati in Computer Modern? Vuoi rilassarti durante le ore di lavoro? Ecco il client Mastodon perfetto e di sola lettura per te: Mastodon-LaTeXclient trasforma la tua cronologia in un documento, così puoi tenerla aperta in modo molto discreto su uno schermo di lato!

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@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Tratto dal blog di @halcy​


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I'm up early to try to see a bit of the eclipse. We've got some cloud cover but I'm gambling we'll get a tiny bit of the occlusion between the horizon and the clouds. 🤞🏼
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Getting up at 5 meant the coals were still hot in the fireplace and I was able to revive the fire. It always feels like magic when that happens.

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yes. This a demoralizing tactic that authoritarians have used for years. It exists to make you worried about the whims and moods of a person rather than have rules and laws that we can all rely on. Keeping people nervous and afraid

Is the tactic

On purpose. The less it makes sense the more it works.



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This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement ❤️

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I love reading about your progress.
Going from dipping a cautious toe on the Mastodon beach to plunging head first into the Marinara Trench of Linux and Fediverse self-hosting.
And evangelising about it in such a great accessible way.
You have a lot of stuff to be proud of.
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@jarulf awww thank you! You just made my day ☺️❤️

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@Evan Prodromou We are doing everything in our power to prevent abuses by the government. We've been trying for years, and we can't guarantee that we will succeed. Especially considering that the courts and politicians won't even stop flagrant violations of our rights. You basically just blamed the Jews for not stopping Hitler. I know you mean well, but that is extremely upsetting and inappropriate.
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@scott I think you need to re-read. I am not blaming anyone; I'm saying that asking to be excused from blame by people who are dealing with the real risk of invasion is unfair; those people have other things they are doing. If that doesn't resonate for you, please feel free to ignore!

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Is it safe to talk about Palestine on the Internet?

#EvanPoll #poll

  • Yes (11%, 42 votes)
  • Yes, but... (42%, 149 votes)
  • No, but... (20%, 72 votes)
  • No (25%, 90 votes)
353 voters. Poll end: 5 giorni fa

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yes but self-censorship is culturally enforced and some people and some opinions are safer than others


The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.


ATmosphere Report – #109

The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.

Conference


This weekend was the first ATProto conference, the ATmosphereConf, in Seattle. Over two days there were a large number of speakers and sessions, with over 150 people in attendance, and a significant number watching the live streams as well. I could not make it to the US, so for a full overview of the event, I recommend this extensive article by TechCrunch’ Sarah Perez, who was present at the event. The entire event was livestreamed, and all talks can be viewed via this YouTube playlist.

Some assortment of thoughts I had while watching the livestream and VODs over the last few days:

  • Bluesky CEO Jay Graber gave a short speech, about her background as a digital rights activist, and how she is now “holding the door open, so people can see another world is possible”. Graber is clearly aware of her position, where she is seen as a figurehead of the network, while also wanting to build a decentralised network where there is place for competing platforms. Being a figurehead of a network, without becoming the de facto leader of the network, while also holding the leadership position of by far the largest organisation in the network, is a challenging position to balance.
  • Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee talked about where Bluesky came from and where it is going. One of the things he talked about is the consideration of why Bluesky decided on their own protocol and not ActivityPub. His answer focuses on practical considerations, especially how ActivityPub handles identity and account migration. Watching the ATProto Ethos talk by Bluesky protocol engineer Daniel Holmgren it struck me that the question could also be framed as a matter of lineage. Holmgren talks about how ATProto takes inspiration from the Web, Peer to Peer systems as well as Distributed Systems. Placing it in such a context makes it clear that ATProto has quite a different background and other ways of thinking than ActivityPub has.
  • Ændra Rhinisland talked about how community projects can become load-bearing for the network, without adequate support structures for the people who run such projects. She also runs the popular news feeds using Graze. Graze has been adding support for advertisements, and Ændra is one of the first to take advantage. In her talk she walked through how at current usage rates, the feeds could generate over $20k per month in ad revenue. She plans to use this revenue to support the queer communities building on ATProto, and showed early plans for a self-sustaining fund powered by Graze’s feed revenue, to support initiatives such as Northsky.
  • The talk by Ms Boba is a great indication of how much under-explored design space there is on Bluesky and ATProto. Her talk focuses on labelers and fandom communities, and has some great examples of how they can be used outside of moderation.
  • Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser gave an excellent talk, describing Bluesky as a skeuomorphism, meaning that it imitates the design of the product it’s replacing. This phase is a part of the adoption cycle for new technologies, but Fraser does not to stop at imitation but instead explore the new ways that communities can be build online. Fraser is specifically interested in building platforms that can serve mid-sized communities, ranging from hundreds of thousands to a few million people. The Blacksky community is an example of this, and Fraser hopes that Blacksky can inspire other communities to do the same. His framing of content moderation as community care and not a cost of business also resonated with me.
  • Erin Kissane’s talk goes into detail about vernacular institutions, local and grassroots organisations and practices that are often illegible to outsiders but deeply embedded in local communities. This allows them to be close to the needs of their community members, but makes them hard to see and understand from the outside. This outside illegibility is a double-edged sword: IFTAS served a crucial role for trust and safety in the fediverse ecosystem, but had to shut down to a lack of funding as a result of being illegible to financiers.

Some more articles on the events:


On relays


Bluesky PBC has been working on a new version of the relay that makes it easier and cheaper to host, under the Sync 1.1 proposal. This new version is now starting to roll out, showing a significant drop in resource usage. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold shared some statistics here. Independent ATProto developer @futur.blue set up his own relay as a speedrun. He shows that a full network relay can be run on a 50USD Raspberry Pi, with an easy-to-follow tutorial here.

That full network ATProto relays are cheap to run has been known for a while within the ATProto developer community, but that knowledge has not spread much yet. One reason for this is that independent developers have set up relays primarily for their own use, sharing access with a few friends, but no other publicly accessible full-network relays exist yet1.

Upcoming short-form video platform Spark is building their own complete infrastructure. Spark’s relay will publicly accessible, and hosted in Brazil. Having ATProto infrastructure outside of US jurisdiction is a conversation that has come up regularly, and often followed by the assumption that the alternative is to have infrastructure like a relay hosted in Europe. Spark is bringing in a slightly unexpected twist here, by having the first publicly accessible relay that is not owned by Bluesky PBC being hosted in Brazil instead.

Having other relays that are not owned by Bluesky PBC has been the subject of a lot of conversation, and the Free Our Feeds campaign was founded on the idea that a significant financial investment is needed to do so. Furthermore, it assumes that such a relay is not only expensive, but that it requires an extensive governance infrastructure to manage it. The current developments regarding relays call both of these assumptions into serious question: relays are cheap, not expensive. Furthermore it seems that there is enough incentive that organisations that are serious about building their own ATProto platforms are willing to run their own relays.

In Other News


Bluesky PBC has published a proposal on how they want to handle OAuth Scopes. OAuth Scopes is one of the main projects on the roadmap for the first half of this year. Currently, logging into an ATProto app via OAuth requires you to give that app permission to access all the data for your account. OAuth Scopes allows an app to only ask for the permissions that are necessary, and not the entire account. There are two problems that need to solve: the technical part of making it work, as well as the handling the UX to communicate clearly to people what data an app wants to access. The challenging part of the UX is how to handle the translation from the technical description of the data that is requested (stylised like ‘app.bsky.feed.getFeed’, for example), into a way that is understandable for the everyday user. The second challenge is that apps require permission not for one, but for many types of this lexicon data. A third-party Bluesky client that is restricted to only Bluesky data will still have to request a dozen of these Lexicons. A long list of technical lexicon names makes it impossible for regular people to have an informed opinion on what data is and is not being accessed. Bluesky PBC’s proposal is to group different lexicons into bundles, and create new lexicons that reference these bundles. Scoped OAuth can then request access to a bundle of lexicons, with a description that is legible for regular people.

Git repository platform Tangled is working on news ideas how a GitHub alternative might do things differently, and one of their first proposals is defining two types of pull requests. For another look at Tangled, this blog post experiment with what the platform allows.

One of the talks at the ATmosphereConf was by independent developer Rashid Aziz, who is the co-founder of basic.tech. Basic is a protocol for user-owned data, and seems to be fairly comparable to the PDS part of ATProto, with the major difference that Basic allows for private data on their version of a PDS. Aziz used the combination of these two protocols to create private bookmarks for Bluesky.

The new Record Collector labeler automatically displays if someone has been using other apps in the ATmosphere outside of Bluesky.

Rocksky is a new music scrobbler service on ATProto, that is currently in closed beta testing. It allows people to connect their Spotify account and automatically ‘scrobble’ (track) the music they are listening to.

The Links


Some tech-focused links for ATProto:

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all this week’s articles, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.


  1. Cerulea.blue is a publicly accessible relay, using a custom implementation, but it is limited to non-Bluesky PDSes. ↩︎

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The whole point of protests is to undermine foreign policy. That's what we're protesting.

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So, here's my defense plan for Canada. Basic philosophy: it is unsafe to wait for an attack.

1. Get public confirmation from NATO that Article 5 applies even if the aggressor is also a NATO member.
2. Send an ultimatum to Washington demanding a public acknowledgement of Canadian sovereignty by the President and confirmation of non-aggression.
3. In the absence of that acknowledgement, sever diplomatic ties, close the borders, and embargo trade. Blow bridges, tear up roads and rail lines.

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Stupid plan, don't you think, I mean, frankly, it is stupid that this is indeed neccicery ! The plan that you outline is a good plan, don't get me wrong, but it is stupid.

For you saying "is #nato #article5 also applicable betwéén NATO-members" there is some history: #France has a mutual defence argreement with #Greece because of the tread #turiye poses to Greece

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@feike it's almost impossible, but I don't see a lot of alternatives. But, yes, it's stupid that we need a plan.

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This is happening right now!

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The announcement is kinda vague. Are they looking at integrating ActivityPub support directly into browsers?
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I don't understand what your question is. What announcement are you talking about?

This was a session at the W3C Breakouts Day 2025. We had an hour-long discussion about how ActivityPub-enabled profiles and content show up in browsers. I did a presentation, which is here:

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How many clubs do you belong to?

#EvanPoll #poll

  • 0 (54%, 129 votes)
  • 1 (17%, 41 votes)
  • 2 to 5 (24%, 59 votes)
  • 6 or more (4%, 10 votes)
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My wife and I are in two bowling leagues (32 weeks from early September to late April, each once a week) but I would not have called them clubs.


An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse's interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.


Fediverse Report – #109

An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse’s interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.

User Intents


The Bluesky Company (Bluesky PBC) recently announced a proposal to add User Intents to the AT Protocol (ATProto). The proposal allows people to set account-wide preferences how their data should be handled outside the network. It gives people the ability to opt in or opt out their account from a few different things, such as bridging to other protocols or not wanting any of their data being used in generative AI datasets. The proposal is similar to how robots.txt works, meaning that it is a machine-readable format which good actors are supposed to abide by, but is not legally enforceable.

I cover both the fediverse and Bluesky (including ATProto) under Fediverse Report because these networks are deeply interconnected and influence each other. Decisions on one network, like Bluesky’s User Intents proposal, can influence how the fediverse develops and builds their own features. My goal is to help readers understand the fediverse more deeply. By observing how Bluesky’s approaches default user preferences, the fediverse can build their own systems that use its strength of having many diverse and connected communities.

The proposal by Bluesky PBC is as follows:

  • People are able to set their preferences for four different categories:
    • generative AI
    • protocol bridging
    • bulk datasets
    • public archiving and preservation


  • These preferences are account wide. They are valid not only for Bluesky, but for every app build on ATProto.
  • The default value is ‘undefined’, not opt-in or opt-out.
    • Projects which are intending to use the public data should decide for themselves whether data reuse when the intents are classified as “undefined” is acceptable or not.


  • the current proposal is set to lead the way for more granular user preferences, allowing people to specify on an app-level or post-level what their preference is.

Also, some concepts of ATProto that are relevant, which makes the protocol different from ActivityPub:

  • On ATProto, a user has only 1 account, and can use that account to log into any service. This is in contrast with ActivityPub, where you need a new account for every service.
  • Data on ATProto is public by default, and designed to be accessible. Everyone has full and free access to the data of the entire network.

One thing about user preference settings in social apps is that they are a bit of red herring. The majority of people never change the default settings. Giving people choice is a good thing, but it is impossible force people to choose: the majority of people will just not choose anything. This makes it so that the default value for any preference is hugely important, as it is the de-facto value that the majority of people will experience.

Bluesky PBC tries to avoid this issue by introducing a default “undefined” value. The advantage of using a default value of “undefined” is that Bluesky PBC will not overstep their boundaries and determine the preference of everyone on the network, including people who are not using Bluesky but are using other platforms on the network. The downside is that Bluesky PBC effectively makes no decision at all for the majority of people. Bluesky PBC leaves it to the organisations who use the data to determine how data can be handled if the preference is set to “undefined”. These organisations are likely to value their own interests more than the interest of people whose data they intent to process.

Bluesky PBC has three options here, that all have a downside:

  • If Bluesky PBC sets default values for how ATProto account data can be handled it reinforces its centralising role in the network.
  • If Bluesky PBC does not set a default value, no decision is made for the majority of people, and it is left to organisations whose goals do not align with those of the people whose data they process.
  • If Bluesky PBC sets User Intent not on an ATProto-account wide level, but only on an per-app basis, choices quickly become overwhelming if users must set preferences for every app.

So far I’ve only been talking about Bluesky and ATProto. But the fediverse has a long history of debates, conversations and drama on how to deal with data processing that happens outside of the network. Some high-profile cases include the blowup around Bridgy Fed considering making the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky opt-out, or the backlash against Searchtodon, which saved user’s timeline locally for searching.

These debates are around data scraping, consent, things being opt-in or opt-out. But one of the struggles that the fediverse has had is to build structural solutions. A significant portion of the fediverse does not consent to have their data handled outside of the network. A persistent problem is that this preference is not expressed in a machine-readable way. This leads to an endless cycle of new developers coming in that are not familiar with the culture who then cross lines of consent and it all blows up in drama again.

Moreover, the fediverse and ActivityPub have a significant advantage on how to deal with the dilemma of setting default values over ATProto. The fediverse is a network that is build up of many different communities connecting with each other. A variety of communities allows for diverse preferences, which can also be expressed in setting default values. And it is a shame that the fediverse is not capitalising on this advantage.

There are communities from whom discoverability is important. Just as there are communities for whom not being easily publicly discoverable is important. These preference can differ within an individual as well: people treat personal photos shared with friends differently from blog articles.

The fediverse can sidestep the question of default account values because people have many accounts on the fediverse, for different use cases. This gives the option to set a different default value for different services. A Pixelfed platform for close friends should set stricter default data-handling preferences. A Mastodon server for blogging platform Medium that has the goal of giving more visibility and reach to its writers could consider setting default values to be more open.

The power of the fediverse is in that there does not have to be a single default at all. Instead, communities and servers should be able to set default values for themselves. This can help shape the tone of the community, and makes it clear what the identity of a community is about. What’s even more powerful is that this only concerns the default value, giving people the ability to set their preferences as they desire. The state of the open social web is such that there are now two protocols in competition with each other. That gives the ability for the fediverse to take ideas from other networks, and improve on them in a way that plays up to the unique strengths that the fediverse has.

The News


Reminder: next week will be FediForum, on April 1-2, and you can register here.

FediverseSharing: A Novel Dataset on Cross-Platform Interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users is a new academic paper (currently under review and up on arXiv) that explores the interaction between Threads users and Mastodon users. It takes a dataset of 20k Threads users that have fediverse sharing enabled and compares it to 20k Mastodon users that have interacted with these Threads users. The main goal of the research is to build up this dataset and share it with the community for further research. How sharing a dataset of aggregated user interactions relates to the above essay on user preferences for being included in bulk datasets is left as an exercise to the reader.

PeerTube has done a major redesign for their v7 of the software that came out a few months ago. The organisation now shared the design and development reports that shaped the update.

IFTAS recently had to shut down most of their larger projects due to a lack of funding. One of their projects, FediCheck is now available as open source for someone else to continue with. FediCheck is a deny list management tool that allows server admins to subscribe to external deny lists.

The Lemmy developers will hold an AMA on Wednesday March 26th.

Last week, Ghost made their ActivityPub integration available in public beta for Ghost Pro subscribers. Their weekly update says that now over 250 sites already use the integration. WeDistribute has a hands on with the new features that Ghost offers.

Note: Last week I wrote about the new fediverse platform Forte, and said that the repository did not include an install guide. This is incorrect, the guide can be found here.

The Links


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Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ ha ricondiviso questo.


How long has it been since you last sent a text message you regretted?

#EvanPoll #poll

  • A day or less (6%, 16 votes)
  • About a week (5%, 15 votes)
  • About a month (7%, 19 votes)
  • A quarter or more (80%, 203 votes)
253 voters. Poll end: 1 settimana fa

in reply to Evan Prodromou

It's possible I was generous to myself. I like to think that I don't regret text messages, but it happens. I did answer >3 months.


Cinque passi per iniziare a utilizzare al meglio Friendica (e un'idea per una passeggiata diversa nel Fediverso)

Questo post è rivolto soprattutto agli utenti Friendica e in particolare a quelli di Poliverso, ma consigliamo di leggerlo a tutti gli abitanti del Fediverso.
Se non ti interessa, ignoralo, altrimenti guardalo come a un modo insolito di guardare le cose.
Se invece ti piace così tanto il nostro progetto da volerci aiutare finanziandolo, puoi farlo attraverso Liberapay o Ko-Fi

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Ma veniamo ai cinque passi per iniziare a utilizzare al meglio Friendica:

1) Primo passo


Leggi la sezione dedicata ai nuovi iscritti (ma è utile anche a quelli meno nuovi)


2) Secondo passo


Accedi alla pagina di modifica del tuo profilo
Dalla sezione "PERSONALE" puoi aggiungere una descrizione breve
Dalla sezione "VARIE" puoi aggiungere link alle tue pagine e ai tuoi profili social
Dalla sezione "Campi profilo personalizzati" puoi inserire quello che ti pare...


3) Terzo passo


Accedi alla pagina di gestione dell'Account
Da qui ricorda di impostare il fuso orario della tua località perché ti sarà utile per la gestione del calendario eventi (sì, Friendica può gestire anche gli eventi Mobilizon e Gancio!)


4) Quarto passo


Visita la directory dei profili pubblici di Poliverso e segui i profili che ti interessano. Esiste una pagina anche per i gruppi Friendica.
Se vuoi, puoi anche scaricare la lista completa di tutti gli account gestiti dallo staff di Poliverso e subito dopo, importala dalla sezione "Importa contatti" della pagina apposita.
Puoi trovare una lista di utenti interessanti di tutto il fediverso italiano a questa pagina


5) Quinto passo


Se hai un account Bluesky, dalla sezione Social Networks puoi collegare il tuoi account Bluesky per utilizzarlo attraverso il tuo Friendica.


E ADESSO...
...è il momento di una passeggiata di allenamento nel Fediverso!
Di seguito troverai alcuni link utili:
A) Termini di servizio (può sembrare banale, ma non tutti li leggono)
B) Guida generale a Friendica
C) directory dei profili pubblici dell'istanza
D) Note generali su Friendica
E) Come evitare problemi di visibilità del proprio profilo
F) Fediquette, la fediquette del fediverso
G) Risorse informative sul fediverso italiano
H) Una guida a mastodon che può essere utile anche per chi è entrato a far parte del mondo di Friendica
I) Note sui "gruppi" Friendica (= gruppi facebook)
L) Interoperabilità tra friendica e le piattaforme meno complete
M) Friendica e Lemmy, una coppia fantastica
N) Un articolo sulla socialità del Fediverso
O) Alcune considerazioni sulla moderazione scritte dallo staff di mastodon.uno più grande istanza italiana

informapirata.it/2022/03/22/fe…


Friendica è un progetto nato per dare agli utenti di Facebook un ambiente social rispettoso del principio “privacy by default”.
Ma l’utente che non lo sa, rischia di trovarsi solo e non sapere perché…

informapirata.it/2021/09/03/mi…




Questa magari la "pinniamo", eh


Risposta alla domanda "perché nessuna istanza elimina gli utenti inattivi?"

Diverse risposte, su piani diversi:

1) come ha detto qui @Il Fediverso fa schifo? gli amministratori preferiscono far vedere di avere centinaia di utenti, quando invece ne hanno solo qualche decina o millemila utenti quando invece ne hanno solo qualche centinaio
2) come ha detto qui @Lorenzo avere un numero di utenti complessivi più alto ti pone più in alto nelle tabella internazionali e quindi tra i primi a essere scelto dagli utenti (una bella coccolina per l'ego degli amministratori)
3) come ha detto qui @Piero Bosio è anche una rottura di palle eliminare gli utenti inattivi, soprattutto in mancanza di apposite funzioni messe a disposizione dagli svilupatori
4) come ha detto qui @Luca Sironi quasi nessuno ha preventivamente impostato regole di cancellazione e pertanto questo rende meno facile programmare un'eliminazione degli utenti inattivi (noi l'abbiamo fatto praticamente solo dopo tre avvisi)
5) come ho ricordato qui ultimo (e più importante) motivo è il fatto che per primi gli sviluppatori non vogliono creare tool di cancellazione massiva degli utenti inattivi e, a differenza degli amministratori, non lo fanno solo per avere coccole per l'ego, ma anche per dimostrare a donatori e investitori di essere un investimento interessante ("ehi, guarda quanti utenti abbiamo!"). Finché le cose staranno così, è impossibile che gli amministratori si mettano a cancellare utenti a caso



@Eleonora @Lorenzo

Diverse risposte, su piani diversi:

1) come ha detto qui @Il Fediverso fa schifo? gli amministratori preferiscono far vedere di avere centinaia di utenti, quando invece ne hanno solo qualche decina o millemila utenti quando invece ne hanno solo qualche centinaio
2) come ha detto qui @Lorenzo avere un numero di utenti complessivi più alto ti pone più in alto nelle tabella internazionali e quindi tra i primi a essere scelto dagli utenti (una bella coccolina per l'ego degli amministratori)
3) come ha detto qui @Piero Bosio è anche una rottura di palle eliminare gli utenti inattivi, soprattutto in mancanza di apposite funzioni messe a disposizione dagli svilupatori
4) come ha detto qui @Luca Sironi quasi nessuno ha preventivamente impostato regole di cancellazione e pertanto questo rende meno facile programmare un'eliminazione degli utenti inattivi (noi l'abbiamo fatto praticamente solo dopo tre avvisi)
5) come ho ricordato qui ultimo (e più importante) motivo è il fatto che per primi gli sviluppatori non vogliono creare tool di cancellazione massiva degli utenti inattivi e, a differenza degli amministratori, non lo fanno solo per avere coccole per l'ego, ma anche per dimostrare a donatori e investitori di essere un investimento interessante ("ehi, guarda quanti utenti abbiamo!"). Finché le cose staranno così, è impossibile che gli amministratori si mettano a cancellare utenti a caso


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Poliverso è un progetto indipendente per mettere a disposizione modi alternativi di usare il Fediverso. Ecco i motivi per cui è importante sostenerlo. Anche se sei un utente di altre istanze

Il progetto Poliverso, da cui nasce lo stesso progetto feddit.it, è stato creato per mettere a disposizione degli utenti italiani un'intera istanza basata su Friendica, che non è solo la più completa alternativa a Facebook, ma è anche il software più potente per l'esplorazione del Fediverso!

Con poliverso.org puoi interagire con tutti i profili delle Fediverso, ma puoi anche collegare il tuo account Bluesky; a differenza di Mastodon puoi scrivere post lunghi con il testo formattato e le immagini in linea, ma puoi anche creare eventi o interagire con gli eventi di Mobilizon, seguire il feed RSS di altri siti web o addirittura di canali telegram e puoi impostarne anche la pubblicazione automatica dal tuo profilo.
Con Friendica è possibile anche creare utenti di servizio gestiti da uno staff di più utenti ognuno con un proprio account.
Infine è possibile creare gruppi del Fediverso, come i gruppi Facebook, ossia degli account che quando vengono menzionati ricondividono automaticamente il post pubblicato, cosicché venga visto da tutti gli utenti (utenti di tutto il fediverso!) che seguono quel gruppo.

Ma il progetto Poliverso non si ferma qui: insieme al blog lealternative.net abbiamo aperto feddit.it, la prima istanza italiana basata su Lemmy, un'alternativa a reddit perfettamente federata con il resto del Fediverso.
Su feddit.it puoi scegliere una delle tante comunità tematiche presenti e aprire un nuovo thread, come su un subreddit, e segnalare o commentare i link di articoli di giornale o di post interessanti, visualizzandoli in un interfaccia che ricorda quella di un forum.
Feddit.it non è soltanto uno spazio a disposizione dei suoi utenti, ma tutti coloro che dispongono di un account Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Misskey o Pixelfed [b]possono aprire un nuovo thread (anche dal tuo blog WordPress!) creando un nuovo post e menzionando la comunità di proprio interesse![/b]

E questo è esattamente quello che abbiamo fatto con questo post che è stato creato da Friendica, menzionando l'account Lemmy @Che succede nel Fediverso? e che può essere visualizzato nella relativa comunità.

Il terzo progetto di Poliverso è costituito da poliversity.it, la prima istanza Mastodon in Italia dedicata al mondo dell'università e della ricerca ma anche a quello del giornalismo. Se sei un ricercatore, uno studente, un giornalista o se semplicemente sei interessato a questi temi, poi iscriverti e partecipare alle discussioni.

Poliverso vuole essere un servizio non solo per i suoi utenti ma per tutto il Fediverso italiano, grazie agli account di informazione di Poliverso (come il nostro bollettino sul Fediverso, la rassegna sulla Cybersecurity, quella sulla Privacy e quella sulle notizie dei Pirati internazionali), i gruppi Friendica e le comunità Lemmy.
Per questo motivo, saremmo molto lieti di ricevere un contributo anche da parte di utenti italiani di altre istanze, italiane e straniere. Se vuoi contribuire al progetto Poliverso, puoi fare una donazione su questi due canali di raccolta:
1) Ko-fi
2) Liberapay

Se invece vuoi contribuire in maniera specifica al solo progetto feddit.it, puoi offrire un contributo economico di sostegno al manutenzione dei server a questa pagina Liberapay

Grazie di cuore ❤

ko-fi.com/poliverso

in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

La più grande pecca di friendica è la mancanza di un app decente e l'interfaccia web anni 2000 secondo me😅
in reply to Man

@Man

> La più grande pecca di friendica è la mancanza di un app decente

Sì, vero, ma funziona così discretamente bene da browser mobile che la mancanza di un'app non è tutta questa grande tragedia

> e l'interfaccia web anni 2000

Diciamo 2010... dài! 😁
E comunque qui hai totalmente ragione: l'interfaccia è davvero retrò, ma qui su Poliverso stiamo valutando la possibilità di creare un accesso alternativo attraverso Soapbox o Semaphore (grazie a un'idea di @Chiara [Ainur] [Айнұр] ❤️). Questi strati applicativi sono molto interessanti e forniscono addirittura un'interfaccia molto più bella e moderna rispetto a quella dello stesso Mastodon, ma dobbiamo prima capire bene come farci girare le funzionalità più avanzate di Friendica, perché sono quelle funzionalità che rendono questo software così unico e vantaggioso rispetto agli altri software del fediverso

@Man
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

Mai usato Friendica, ho giusto dato uno sguardo all'API per un'applicazione a cui ho lavorato (wink wink), ma consultando la documentazione ho notato che implementa l'API di Mastodon. Non basterebbe utilizzare uno dei tanti frontend già disponibili per Mastodon? O per caso Friendica ha delle funzionalità in più che non sarebbero disponibili su tali frontend?
in reply to Nerd02

@Nerd02 hai compreso perfettamente il problema: è vero, Friendica implementa l'api di Mastodon, ma per far funzionare alcune funzionalità devono essere tarati gli strati applicativi che oggi vanno bene per mastodon o per pleroma. Questo è il problema che, discutendo con @Fabio è emerso come Maggiore criticità.

Non sono un talebano di Friendica, ma bisogna fare una analisi funzionale per capire quali sono le cose alle quali poter rinunciare e quali no. Sì siamo costretti a eliminare alcune peculiarità distintive del sistema per far somigliare tutto a mastodon o misskey, Allora tanto varrebbe utilizzare mastodon o misskey 😅

Friendica è un software eccezionale nel quale c'è tutto o quasi, ma è chiaramente stato realizzato da sviluppatori eccezionali che tuttavia mancavano di una cultura adeguata nella gestione di prodotto.

Friendica sembra essere stato sviluppato Per esaudire tutti ma proprio tutti i desideri di tutti i potenziali utenti...

In pratica, si è voluto realizzare un gigantesco e potentissimo Mecha modulare come Voltron

Purtuttavia il risultato estetico ed ergonomico è stato più simile a uno di quei mostri Goffi e dimenticabili che venivano spediti a ogni puntata per sconfiggere il robottone protagonista...😁 😄 🤣

in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

Ahahaha splendida analogia.

Non metto in dubbio i vantaggi di Friendica. Anzi, volendomi avvicinare al mondo del microblogging (dal quale ahimé sono tagliato fuori, usando Lemmy) stavo giusto pensando di aprirmi un'istanza con Friendica, piuttosto che Mastodon. Però personalmente trovo l'UI davvero DAVVERO brutta, è ciò che finora mi ha allontanato dal provarlo.

Se si riuscisse ad avere un backend come l'attuale Friendica e un'UI bella moderna come Soapbox o Misskey sarebbe davvero il meglio dei due mondi.

in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂

Ed usare i vecchi script Greasemonkey per personalizzare l'interfaccia? Troppo complicato 🤔🤔?
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@Antonino Campaniolo 👣 :birra: sì, Infatti mi sembra chiaro che attualmente non ci siano energie nella community di Friendica per realizzare una nuova interfaccia...

Purtroppo noi siamo ancora nella fase 1, ossia quella per individuare uno strato applicativo versatile e affidabile. Sull'affidabilità, ovviamente, soapbox è avvantaggiato, considerando la sua maturità e la qualità del prodotto.
Il problema è che dobbiamo valutare anche la versatilità e per farlo ci serve tempo.

Una volta Superata la fase 1 bisogna passare alla fase 2 che è la valutazione della fattibilità di un'operazione del genere sulla base degli strumenti che abbiamo a disposizione.

Poi c'è la fase 3 che non consiste ancora nel mettere le mani sul codice, perché non abbiamo la forza per farlo, ma piuttosto di iniziare una campagna di coinvolgimento di persone disposte a contribuire allo sviluppo di una versione beta... in questa fase sarà importante coinvolgere sia la comunità di Friendica sia quella di Soapbox.

Solo dopo si può iniziare a fare qualcosa... 😭

@Man