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Release v2.4.1 of Ktistec


Eh, I didn't test enough and released v2.4.0 of Ktistec with a few annoying regressions. Release v2.4.1 fixes them! ☹️ 😠 😡 🤬

Fixed

  • Handle edge cases and race conditions in script runner.
  • Reconnect editor autocomplete support.
  • Fix permissions on uploaded files.

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang


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A febbraio 2023 ho acquistato una stampante usata per sostituire la mia vecchia stampante, guastatasi dopo 13 anni, stesso modello. Molto soddisfatto ma c'è un problema. La "nuova" stampante si rifiuta di lavorare con cartucce non originali, a meno che non si imposti il cosiddetto "override". Per impostare l'override permanente c'è bisogno del driver originale, che è installabile solo sulle vecchissime versioni di Windows! È anche possibile impostare un override temporaneo, tenendo premuti per due tasti per alcuni secondi durante l'accensione della macchina, ma cessa di funzionare al suo spegnimento. Finora ero andato avanti così.
Oggi finalmente mi sono armato di pazienza e ho installato in una macchina virtuale (con 512 MB di RAM) Windows XP e i driver originali. Un tuffo nel passato, che mi ha consentito di impostare l'override permanente!

Lascio a voi le considerazioni sull'importanza di garantire un supporto prolungato nel tempo. Oggi sempre più l'uso dei dispositivi è vincolato all'installazione di app sui telefoni, che si agganciano a servizi cloud proprietari del produttore... la cosa mi fa paurissima.

in reply to Luca Allulli

diciamo che, essendo meccanica, quei 12 w sono destinati a crescere. Dipende molto dal modello. Per il resto progettino molto interessante il tuo. 🙂
in reply to PiadaMakkine

@PiadaMakkine nono sono 12 W tutti elettronici, assorbiti quando la stampante è accesa, in attesa di un lavoro. Ed è un valore massimo. La presa smart include un misuratore di potenza assorbita, così potrò misurare il consumo effettivo!

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#CoseBelle

Il bello di Mastodon è che puoi conoscere tante persone fantastiche che poi incontri dal vivo! Ieri sera la nuova sede @uaar di Pordenone si presentava senza più il logo di Twitter/X ma con il nuovo logo Mastodon @uaarpn 😍

Sede demuskizzata 😄

#uaar #pordenone #mastodon

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se per questo noi di ILS Pavia siamo nati da pochi giorni già con Mastodon 😉 pavia.ils.org

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Aggiornata la guida semplice a mastodon di @prealpinux, utile per fare i primi passi:

<img class=" title=":mastodon:"/> mastodon.link

Molto consigliata a chi è appena arrivato o a chi vorrebbe iniziare ad usare mastodon.
Ora in home page c'è l'animazione introduttiva doppiata da @artofstimart.

Qui potete seguirlo e vedere tutte le sue video guide del fediverso su peertube:

:peertube: @art_of_stimart

#mastodon #M1Tutorial #Fediverso #Peertube

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Release v2.4.0 of Ktistec


I just released v2.4.0 of Ktistec. This release encompasses a few things that I've been working on for a while: improved support for operating without JavaScript available/enabled and support for running scripted automations.

Except for a few items, Ktistec now works without JavaScript. Obviously, things like WYSIWYG editing of HTML don't work—I plan to add support for Markdown to compensate. Running in Lynx is a stretch, but...
24346865lynx on osx displaying the authenticated home page
Since the early days, most controller actions supported both text/html and application/json. I cleaned up support for the latter and have officially documented the Ktistec API in the README.

In addition, I've added support for running bots/automations (prior announcement). The Ktistec server will periodically run any executable script in the etc/scripts directory. These scripts have access to the Ktistec API and can post, follow, share, like, etc. This is experimental and obviously introduces an attack surface, though that shouldn't be a problem on correctly configured hosts.

Here's the full changelog:

Added

  • Support running scripted automations.
  • "Fetch Once" button on hashtag and thread pages. (fixes #108)
  • Support navigation to a post's threaded view. (fixes #108)
  • Add support for post name and summary.

Fixed

  • Improve support for operating without JavaScript available/enabled.
  • Only enforce CSRF protection on "simple" requests.

Changed

  • Replace use of multi-action controller with formaction. (fixes #101)

Other

  • API usability improvements.

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang


I've been thinking about the demise of botsin.space. Running a site for bots is hard (and expensive) but writing and running an ActivityPub-based bot should be easy.

To prove this was the case I added experimental support for bots/automations to Ktistec in the form of scripts that the server periodically runs. These scripts can be in a programming language of your choice. The server provides credentials for its API in the process environment (if you can use curl you can publish posts), simple interaction happens via stdin/stdout/stderr, and the complexity of using ActivityPub is abstracted away.

The code is only available on the following branch for the moment:

github.com/toddsundsted/ktiste…

There are a couple example shell scripts here:

https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec/commit/4982925a...

I have a few enhancements in mind, but it's already proven useful as a means to periodically log data from my server host, and I'll use it, when finished, to publish release notes.

#ktistec #activitypub #fediverse #bots



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Molti nuovi utenti riferiscono quanto sia difficile trovare contenuti, ecco una guida per trovare chi seguire.

L'ultima versione di mastodon ha finalmente integrato un ottimo sistema di scoperta, qui: mastodon.uno/explore/suggestio…

Questa sezione esplora vi fornirà tutti gli account più interessanti e attivi su #mastodon.

Nella lista compaiono le persone più seguite fra quelli che già seguite, alcune delle persone più attive su #MastodonUno e una selezione di account verificati di M1.

#M1Tutorial

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Visualise statistics about your account with multiple new tools, Bridgy Fed discusses governance, and further integration of the ATmosphere ecosystem with 3p clients

One of the main goals of writing this newsletter is not only to share links, but more importantly, to give context to help you make sense of what is happening in the world of decentralised social networks.


Last Week in the ATmosphere – 24.11.a

One of the main goals of writing this newsletter is not only to share links, but more importantly, to give context to help you make sense of what is happening in the world of decentralised social networks. Yesterday and today I thoroughly exhausted my ability to make sense of things, and as such this edition is more of a collection links to everything.

For an in-depth analysis, earlier this week I wrote about how to think about how ATProto works, how that relates to governance and power, and what decentralisation and federation mean in this new context.

fediversereport.com/a-conceptu…

The News


In an update on Bridgy Fed, the software that allows bridging between different protocols, creator Ryan Barrett talks about possible futures for Bridgy Fed. Barrett says that Bridgy Fed is currently a side project for him, but people make requests for Bridgy Fed to become bigger, and become ‘core infrastructure of the social web’. Barrett is open to that possibility, but not while the project is his personal side project, and is open for conversations to house the project in a larger organisation, and with someone with experience to lead the project.

Atmosphere Stats and Blueview.app both allow you to show you statistics about your account. Blueview shows you your follower growth over time, and Atmosphere Stats assigns you an animal based on your posting style, as well as showing an overview of your posts by time of day.

The Links


Some updates on Bluesky:

  • Bluesky will added the ability to post Threads in one go soon, and the feature is already available to test, and a preview of what it looks like here.
  • A short thread on how the Discover feed works, and some of the steps the Bluesky team is taking to improve the quality of it.
  • Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold shares some aspects about what the Bluesky team currently is working on.
  • There is a renewed call for private data on ATProto: Bluesky Engineer Devin Ivy shares some ideas the team is considering, while Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold reiterates that the team understands the need for it, and says it is a ‘heavy lift’ to implement.

New additions to the wider ATProto ecosystem:

Further integrations of ATProto applications

  • Hagoromo is a third-party client for Bluesky, focusing on multi-column, and their latest update now also adds support for your Linkat.blue profile.
  • Third-party client Klearsky now supports showing all other ATProto-powered profiles on your Bluesky profile (as well as other updates).
  • Blogging platform WhiteWind has added support Frontpage; if a WhiteWind blog is posted on Frontpage, this now automatically shows up in the comment section of the WhiteWind blog as well.

Links for developers:

  • Supercell is a lightweight and configurable atproto feed generator.
  • Out-of-band tag support on third-party Bluesky client Ouranos.
  • Display your Bluesky posts on your Astro sites.
  • A (technical) reflection on a stalled attempted to build a Vine clone on ATProto.
  • PDSls allows you to paste in bsky.app urls for easier searching.
  • New tools to export your repo and blob, as well as viewing the PLC operations log.

Articles:

Podcasts:

  • Bluesky COO Rose talked with the Quiet Riot podcast about elections and platform values.
  • Bluesky board member Mike Masnick talks on Ed Zitron’s Better Offline about tech media and joining the Bluesky board.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online.

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Ora più che mai sarà di importanza fondamentale che Mastodon e il fediverso non siano gestiti centralmente da miliardari negli Stati Uniti, a differenza di quasi tutte le altre piattaforme social.

semicit @Gargron

#mastodon #social #fediverso

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Trames
@giotras @casarayuela @ideeperscrittori @ilmanifesto Sarebbe molto vantaggioso cominciare da questo server che è particolarmente user-friendly.
in reply to Trames

ho revisionato questo post
mastodon.uno/@casarayuela/1135…
di risposta a
@giotras

per iniziare a esprimere la mia personale conclusione sull'esperienza fatta con il collettivo di
@ilmanifesto

dove non sono riuscito a far comprendere l'uso di un dominio internet come contenitore di un potenziale documento di lavoro ipertestuale

da fare evolvere coinvolgendo chiunque fosse disponibile a condividerne lo scopo

@ideeperscrittori


Una comunità di lettori dovrebbe essere abilitata ad INTEROPERARE con utenti di altre comunità

Per quel tipo di abilitazione il giornalismo dovrebbe darsi un ruolo di sostegno alla comunicazione tra sistema sociale e sistema tecnico.

Un trentennale divario culturale impedisce di motivarne la necessità e di capire come renderlo realizzabile.

La gestione del problema potrebbe richiedere l'approccio indicato dal profilo di questo account
???


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Kudos to @KamalaHarrisWin @newsmast @tchambers and all the wonderful people involved in pushing the Harris campaign and crowdfunding across the fedi, despite the result this is the approach we need to cultivate for the years to come.
Use the fediverse to organize, care, protect and grow the commons.
Make alliances, experiment, build cooperatives, transform how we work and connect and have fun.
Explore the art of living in a damaged planet.
We the network.
in reply to Bonfire

Thank you - we are all grieving the loss - but the group is a good community for that, too… 👍
in reply to Bonfire

Thank you for the kind words.

Helping the @KamalaHarrisWin Group has been such a privilege for our whole team.

We're sure the community that has been created across the Fediverse will continue to grow as we reimagine how to help the people that need us in the US (and across the world).

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Loops has finally launched, Radio Free Fedi will shut down, and governance for Bridgy Fed.


Last Week in Fediverse – ep 91

Loops has finally launched, Radio Free Fedi will shut down, and governance for Bridgy Fed.

The News


Loops.video, the short-form video platform has finally launched, after weeks of delays. There is now an iOS app on TestFlight available, as well as an Android APK, and it there is no waitlist anymore. In some statistics shared by Loops developed Daniel Supernault, Loops now has more than 8000 people signed up and close to a 1000 videos posted. The app has the bare minimum of features, with only one feed that seems to be algorithmic, and there is no following feed. Supernault says that he is currently working on adding discovery features as well as notifications to the app. The app currently loads videos smoothly and quickly, and Supernault has already had to upgrade the server to deal with traffic. Loops is currently not federating with the rest of the fediverse, and you cannot interact with Loops from another fediverse account. This feature is planned, but there is no estimation when this will happen. Third party clients are already possible with Loops, and one is already available.

Radio Free Fedi has announced that it will shut down in January 2025. Radio Free Fedi is a radio station and community that broadcasts music by people on the fediverse. The project has grown from a simple stream into multiple non-stop radio streams, a specialty channel and a channel for spoken word, and build up a catalogue of over 400 artists who’s art are broadcast on the radio. Running a project requires a large amount of work, and was largely done by one person. They say that this is not sustainable anymore, and that the way that the project is structured make handing the project over to someone else not an option. Radio Free Fedi has been a big part of the artist’s community on the fediverse, which has contributed to a culture of celebrating independent art, and the sunset of Radio Free Fedi is a loss for fediverse culture.

In an update on Bridgy Fed, the software that allows bridging between different protocols, creator Ryan Barrett talks about possible futures for Bridgy Fed. Barrett says that Bridgy Fed is currently a side project for him, but people make requests for Bridgy Fed to become bigger, and become ‘core infrastructure of the social web’. Barrett is open to that possibility, but not while the project is his personal side project, and is open for conversations to house the project in a larger organisation, and with someone with experience to lead the project.

The Social Web Foundation will organise a Devroom at FOSDEM. FOSDEM is a yearly conference in Brussels for free and open source software, and will be on February 1-2, 2025. The Social Web Foundation is inviting people and projects to give talks about ActivityPub, in the format of either a talk of 25 minutes for bigger projects, or a lightning talk of 8 minutes.

OpenVibe is a client for Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr, and has now added support for cross-posting to Threads as well. OpenVibe also offers the ability to have a combined feed, that shows posts from your accounts on all the different networks into a single feed, which now can include your Threads account, as well as your Mastodon, Nostr and Bluesky accounts.

The shutdown of the botsin.space server lead to some new experiments with bots on the fediverse:


The Links


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

#fediverse

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in reply to The Gib

L'immagine mostra due immagini di un alieno con la bocca aperta e denti affilati. La parola "ALIEN" è scritta sotto la prima immagine e la parola "ITALIEN" è scritta sotto la seconda immagine.

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Quali sono gli utenti threads più seguiti su #Mastodon?

Viste le elezioni imminenti una buona parte sono account ufficiali di politici USA, il resto sono figure tech chiave del #fediverso e di #threads:

159 @mosseri Capo di Instagram e Threads
154 @potus Joe Biden
138 @barackobama Barack Obama
93 @mkbhd youtuber tech
50 @whitehouse Casa Bianca
42 @evanprodromou uno dei creatori di Activitypub e del fediverso
40 @wordpressdotcom Wordpress
40 @zuck Mark Zuckerberg
39 @blklivesmatter Black LM

in reply to Manuel

@manuel questi elencati comunque sono solo in lettura, nessun account threads può interagire con noi.
Hanno promesso che a fine anno o inizio del prossimo ci sarà una federazione completa, vedremo…

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Da ANSA.

Sono sempre di più gli italiani che si trasferiscono all'estero e c'è la crisi dei rimpatri

Da 2020 l'Italia conta circa 652 mila residenti in meno, continua la crescita di chi ha deciso di risiedere fuori dei confini nazionali


Secondo il 19/esimo Rapporto italiani nel mondo della Fondazione Migrantes, curato dalla sociologa delle Migrazioni Delfina Licata, presentato oggi, cambia anche l'età media di chi si trasferisce in Italia dall'estero: "Nel 2023 e nel 2024 l'incidenza percentuale della fascia degli over 40 ha continuato a salire, con un trend che si è rafforzato nel 2024. La fascia dei giovanissimi 20-30 anni, dopo essere cresciuta nel 2023, diminuisce nel 2024, ma il calo è soprattutto concentrato nella fascia 30-40 anni, che per la prima volta in assoluto scende sotto al 50% (47%). Un fenomeno non positivo".

ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2…

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Ska
@acor3 top! Lo aggiungo all'articolo 👍

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in reply to Le Alternative

scopro solo ora che toglieranno di mezzo Chromecast. Forse uno dei prodotti migliori.

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Esiste una #fediquette?
La risposta breve è sì, ma abbiamo creato un post per spiegarlo meglio.
E ricordiamoci sempre che la parola #fediverso contiene le radici delle due parole più importanti per la socialità universale: alleanza e diversità.
#Netiquette

informapirata.it/2022/03/22/fe…


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È stato rilasciato PeerTube 6.3!

@fediverso

Questa versione include molte nuove funzionalità interessanti, come la separazione dei flussi audio e video per una maggiore flessibilità, la possibilità di streaming audio da solo e la visualizzazione dei sottotitoli in un pannello laterale.

È stato inoltre semplificato il download dei video e sono state aggiunte opzioni per gli amministratori per migliorare l'importazione dei video da altre piattaforme grazie all'integrazione con Youtube-dl.

Ecco alcune delle novità principali:

  • Flussi audio e video separati per ridurre la dimensione dei file e migliorare la flessibilità
  • Opzione per streaming audio da solo e un player audio per le trasmissioni live
  • Pannello laterale per i sottotitoli con funzionalità di ricerca e navigazione
  • Miglioramenti per l'importazione dei video da altre piattaforme
  • Miglioramenti dell'interfaccia utente e della esperienza di utilizzo

Tutte le novità e i miglioramenti nel changelog.


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botsin.space chuide


Come al solito, le spese crescono, la voglia passa.

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5 modi per combattere la disinformazione elettorale su Bluesky e Fediverse


  • PENSA prima di impegnarti o condividere
  • CONDIVIDI informazioni accurate sulle elezioni
  • SEGNALA la disinformazione quando la vedi
  • ISTRUISCI te stesso, i tuoi amici e la tua famiglia
  • COINVOLGITI – e coinvolgi i tuoi amici e familiari

I suprematisti bianchi, i fascisti e i loro alleati stanno già diffondendo disinformazione per cercare di rubare le elezioni presidenziali degli Stati Uniti. Il CEO suprematista bianco e pro-fascista di X è uno di loro. Il CEO fascista-friendly di Meta sta sospendendo gli account delle persone che si oppongono. Una coalizione per i diritti civili sta chiedendo a Musk e Zuckerberg di agire contro la disinformazione elettorale , e forse faranno qualche sforzo simbolico, ma io per primo non ci trattengo il fiato.

about.iftas.org/2024/10/29/5-w…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?



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Ci sono stati parecchi commenti sulle alternative ad #amazon, il tema è sentito ma lo si usa comunque per vari motivi, quindi se il fattore etico non fa molta presa ecco la lista su come spendere meno non usando amazon:

LIBRI libraccio.it e bookdealer.it bookrepublic.it

ELETTRONICA refurbed.it backmarket.it

TUTTO IL RESTO USATO subito.it vinted.it wallapop

TUTTO IL RESTO NUOVO trovaprezzi.it idealo.it aliexpress

ne avete altri?

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@:fedora: filippodb :cc: :gnu:
Idealo.it, comparatore prezzo con filtri raffinati (almeno per i prodotti più importanti).
idealo.it/


@Fedi.Tips I wanted to tell you about a new app that was released in beta for Friendica, but it already works very well. The peculiarity of this app is that it can also be used for Mastodon in particular it is the only app that I know of that allows full use of the features of the Mastodon glitch-soc fork, the fork that allows you to write formatted posts with hypertext references.

Another peculiarity of this app is that it allows you to view Activitypub groups in the best way I have ever seen among all the apps in the Fediverse.

If you want to try it, let me know what your impressions are.

The developer who created it is @Dieguito 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕

Here is a post in which I describe the most important peculiarities

informapirata.it/2024/10/18/ra…


Oh yes! #RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world capable of managing the potential of Mastodon Glitch-soc

informapirata.it/2024/10/18/ra…




Mastodon, due anni dopo. Un bilancio a due anni di distanza dalla prima grande esplosione mediatica


Proprio come nel 2017, molte persone che si sono riversate su Mastodon dopo l'acquisizione di Twitter da parte di Apartheid Clyde nell'ottobre 2022 hanno avuto grandi esperienze su Mastodon... ma la maggior parte no. Alcuni (soprattutto le persone di colore) hanno avuto esperienze davvero orribili. Nel giro di pochi mesi, l'ottimismo e l'eccitazione si sono trasformati in delusione e frustrazione.

Perché? Sfide di usabilità e onboarding, razzismo e sessismo e altri problemi culturali, mancanza di strumenti per proteggere se stessi...

Il post di @The Nexus of Privacy

privacy.thenexus.today/mastodo…

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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Immergersi nel mondo di Lemmy. Dopo l'articolo Il mio blog ora ha commenti su Lemmy ecco il nuovo post di @kiko


«È tutto un po' diverso da Mastodon, ma è principalmente perché qui devi avere a che fare con un altro livello, le community»

«Ciò per cui trovo una soluzione davvero buona, però, è il modo in cui i commenti sono collegati tra loro, o meglio, come questo si riflette nella risposta. Wherever parent_id è utilizzato in altri oggetti, un commento ha un "percorso'' con un elenco separato da punti di tutti gli ID dei commenti fino al commento corrente, a partire da 0.»

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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Nell’acquario del fediverso. Il Fediverso come ecosistema e modello sociale

«Non è solo una delle famose bolle dei social, ma un sistema di acquari interconnessi, ognuno con popolazioni, temperature, salinità e pH diversi, e rappresenta un modello di socializzazione e di governo globale in cui gli amministratori hanno strutturato regole di convivenza che realizzano il bando degli intolleranti teorizzato da Karl Popper»

Di @macfranc su #IlPost

@fediverso

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The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.


Last Week in Fediverse – ep 90

The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.

The News


The Fediverse Schema Observatory is a new project by Darius Kazemi, who runs the Hometown fork of Mastodon as well as co-wrote to Fediverse Governance paper this year with Erin Kissane. The Observatory collects data structures from the fediverse; it looks how different fediverse softwares use and implement ActivityPub. It explicitly does not gather any personal data or posts; instead it looks at how the data is formatted in ActivityPub. ActivityPub and the fediverse has a long-standing problem in that the selling point is interoperability between different software, but every software has their own, slightly different implementation of ActivityPub, making good interoperability difficult to pull off. Kazemi has posted about the Observatory as a Request for Comments. The Observatory is explicitly not a scraper, but considering how sensitive the subject can be in the fediverse community, Kazemi has taken a careful approach of informing the community in detail beforehand about the proposed project, and how it deals with data. The easiest way to see and understand how the Observatory is works is with this demo video.

The botsin.space Mastodon server for bots will shut down in December. The botsin.space server is a server dedicated to running bots, with a few thousand active bots running. The server is a valued part of the community, with the wild variety of bots running on the server contributing to the Mastodon in both useful and silly ways. The admin states that over time running the servers has become too expensive over time, and that is was not feasible to keep the project going. The shutdown of botsin.space showcases an ongoing struggle in the fediverse, running a server is expensive and time-consuming, and every time a server shuts down the fediverse loses a block of its history.

Sub.club is a way to add monetization options to fediverse posts. Sub.club started with being able to add paywalls to Mastodon posts, recently expanded to long-form writing with support for Write.as, and now has added support for WordPress blogs as well. Sub.club has posted a tutorial on how to add the plugin to WordPress, making it an easy system to set up.

Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive.

Upcoming fediverse platform for short-form video, Loops, got some press by The Verge and TechCrunch. Creator Daniel Supernault said that there are now 5k people on the waiting list, and that a TestFlight link will go out soon for the first 100 people. An Android APK will be made available at some point as well.

GoToSocial is working on the ability to for servers to subscribe to allowlists and denylists. This makes it easier to create clusters of servers with a shared allowlist, such as the Website League. As I recently wrote about Website League, it is a cluster of federating servers that uses ActivityPub but exists separately from the rest of the fediverse, and it is started by people who build a new shared space after Cohost shut down. Website League servers predominantly use GoToSocial or Akkoma, and have been actively working on tuning the software to meet their needs.

The Links


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

#fediverse

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Some big news for Bluesky this week, as they raise $15M in their series A. Another new option to import your old tweets into Bluesky, and more.


Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct wk 5

Some big news for Bluesky this week, as they raise $15M in their series A. Another new option to import your old tweets into Bluesky, and more.

Bluesky announces series A


Bluesky has announced their series A funding round, raising $15M, using the announcement to give a first look at some of their monetisation plans as well. The series A funding round is lead by Venture Capital firm Blockchain Capital. In summer 2023 Bluesky had an $8M seed round, and various investors of the seed round also returned for the series A. Kinjal Shah, a Partner at Blockchain Capital, will join the board of Bluesky.

The seed round already had investors from the crypto world, but this drew much more attention with the series A, as the headline of Blockchain Capital as a lead investor made the connection loud and clear. Bluesky is aware of the negative connotations that many people have regarding blockchains and crypto, explicitly stating that “the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).”

Bluesky also announced two avenues they will start to explore for monetisation; a subscription model and payment processing. For the subscription model Bluesky will explore various additional features that do not touch on the core experience, such as higher quality video uploads, or profile customisations. Bluesky will also start working on payment services to support creators. Not much information is known yet on this, and Bluesky says they will share more information as it becomes available.

Kinjal Shah wrote the investment thesis for Blockchain Capital, which gives good insight in the vision of what Blockchain Capital hopes to get out of the investment. She writes: “With this investment, we’re investing in more than a product but rather a vision of what social infrastructure could be. A future where users own their identity and data, developers can innovate freely, and networks are as diverse as we are.” The reason for Blockchain Capital to invest into a social infrastructure is the new opportunities that an open developer ecosystem brings for (other) developers to build new products, which is also stated here by Bluesky developer Why.

On Enshittification


A common response to the news of Bluesky’s series A being lead by a VC firm called Blockchain Capital is that “the enshittification has started”. This response was dominant on the fediverse, and less so but still present on Bluesky. It’s been such a common response that I think it deserves a closer look at ‘enshittification’ and how it relates to Bluesky taking money from a blockchain VC firm. The meaning of the term enshittification has shifted over time, and both meanings provide an interesting lens to look at the news.

When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification in 2022, he used it to describe a process of platform decay. A platforms subsidises growth by operating at a loss, and places themselves in between the suppliers and customers on a two-sided marketplace. Once suppliers and customers are locked in on the platform and cannot easily leave, the enshittification cycle happens: the platform uses their control of the marketplace to take an ever increasing part of the value while while making the experience on the platform worse, for both suppliers and consumers.

What is interesting here is that in earlier interviews, Jay Graber has mentioned the idea of building marketplaces on Bluesky as a way to make money. If enshittification is used to describe platform decay, it stands out that a marketplace is not present in the Series A announcement as a way for Bluesky to monetise. For a platform to become enshittified in this meaning of platform decay, a platform needs to have exclusive control of a marketplace on the platform. However, Bluesky is currently not taking the direction of a marketplace for monetisation, instead opting for subscriptions and payment processing. This is still open to change at a later point, as Graber has expressed interest in it before.

Doctorow also mentions two principles to combat platform enshittification. Platforms should be interoperable, allowing users can switch to a different provider. Users should also have the ability to control the content they see, and not be dependent on an opaque algorithm owned by the platform. As both of these principles are deeply embedded in the design of ATProto, Bluesky is an interesting case study if the principles that Doctorow mentioned are indeed good enough to stave off enshittification.

The meaning of the term enshittification has drifted and expanded over time. Enshittification is now commonly used to refer to any business practice that makes the company or product, well, shit. There is a fairly widespread negative attitude towards both venture capital as well as blockchains and crypto. People perceive that these systems have not brought benefits they promised, and enriched a small elite instead, all the while degrading the experience of using the internet. This is not a newsletter to deconstruct blockchains or VC (I’m sure you can find your own sources for that), but I do want to point out that public perception of both venture capital and blockchains matter here. Bluesky is in an active growth phase, and part of the sales pitch to get people to join the network is that Bluesky is a ‘better’ place, for various interpretations of ‘better’.

Getting people to join Bluesky while also being associated with technologies and organisations that many people perceive as ‘not better’ is much harder. People want to join a new network because they hope that the new network is a better experience for them. Judging from the outside if a network is a suitable place is hard, so people tend to fall back to simple heuristics to determine if a network is a good place for them. BlockChain Capital might provide valuable support to Bluesky, but this hard to see as an outsider that is considering joining Bluesky. Instead, it is more likely that they will fall back on their preexisting opinions about startups that take VC money or affiliated with blockchains.

The News


Porto is a new free tool that allows you to import your Twitter archive into Bluesky. The tool asks you to download your tweets from X as an archive, and upload the folder with your archive into the tool, via a browser extension.

Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive. As such, you can now follow my fediverse account on Bluesky at @fediversereport.com.

Last week I wrote that the “new wave has a higher retention rate than other waves”. Another week later and this effect still holds.

ProtoScript is a tool that lets you publish Javascript code directly to your PDS, and then view and execute code from any user directly in your browser. Conceptually it is similar to ATFile, which lets you store arbitrary files on your PDS, but this time with Javascript code instead. Both ProtoScript and ATFile are exploring the idea that the PDS is a website, and it seems like there is still a lot of design space left to explore here.

The ATProto Tech Talks is back, with a new event November 7th. This event will feature various ways people build blogs on ATProto, including by Bluesky developers Samuel and Hailey. Smoke Signal event to register is available here.

Tracking how the space of labelers for self-identification is evolving:

  • The Games Industry Labeler now is now automated via DMs, where a chat interface walks a user through setting their labels.
  • The permissionless nature of ATProto allows people to backdate posts. This feature allows people to import their Twitter archive to the original date of posting, but can also create confusion. The Backdated Labeler labels posts that have a different timestamp than the time they first become visible on the network.


The Links


And some more links that cater towards developers:

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online.

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Fediverse Enhancement Proposal in Progress


An initial draft for the FEP A common approach to using the Event object typehas been published.

codeberg.org/linos/fep/src/bra…

The pull request is still marked as work-in-progress. Firstly, we would like to have a discussion about it with the community, which you are invited to join on SocialHub.

in reply to Event Federation

The latest additions to FEP-8a8e “A common approach to using the Event object type”


First of all I would like to thank all reviewers and contributors to the FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal): @lesion, @mro, @naturzukunft, @laurin and more.

This article tries to outline some areas where the FEP is currently undergoing evolution:

Dates


Providing an [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-endtime]endTime[/url] is now mandatory, but guidelines how to deal with events that do not have one set are also included. In addition, a new attribute has been proposed to mark an event as open-ended, so that no end date should be displayed to users, while at the same time being available to applications, e.g. for processing a list of current and future events.

It has not yet been decided whether to include a property to mark an event as all day, or to use a similar flag for the start time.

There are currently no plans to include proposals for recurring events, both based on schedules or not, in the proposal. As the topic seems to be too complex, it looks like it will be in a separate FEP.

Organizers


When writing ActivityPub integrations for several existing WordPress event plugins, it became apparent that handling organizers only via [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attributedto]attributedTo[/url] is not practical. This became even more apparent when it came to interoperability between different applications. For example, Gancio has only one actor, but can have multiple users and therefore organisers, but the organisers are intentionally hidden, and the ActivityPub actor in attributedTo is just the Gancio instance.

We therefore proposed an organizers attribute which is a collection holding the organizers. If it’s not present fallback guidelines are provided, and it’s also possible to leave it explicitly empty. Note that this also gives the opportunity to just include links to non-ActivityPub things.

Still under discussion is whether to include a process or proof that an ActivityPub actor has actually agreed to be part of an organiser collection for a particular event. Contributions are very welcome here!

Collection of Upcoming Events


Parsing an outbox to search for the upcoming and ongoing events is not practical. Therefore a special collection has been introduced.

Attendees


In this respect, the question arised as to whether mechanisms should be included to allow pre-confirmation of whether anonymous (non-ActivityPub-public) joins are allowed, or whether they are rejected by default.

Contributing


Everyone is welcome to help us improve this document. Every comment helps. If you are familiar with code forges, comments and reviews on codeberg are preferred, but replies to this article are also very welcome!

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in reply to stefania maurizi

la storia è piena di “robin hood” che pagano caro l’aver provato a fare la cosa giusta, vedi Aaron Swartz per fare un altro esempio 😢

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@RaccoonForFriendica new version 0.1.0-beta13 available!

Changelog:
🦝 migration to Material3 pull-to-refresh components;
🦝 moved app info to navigation bar and improve "About" dialog;
🦝 add open-source licences screen;
🦝 additional more readable font;
🦝 redesign application icon and splash screen;
🦝 add new l10ns (Polish and Portuguese);
🦝 fix spoiler closing immediately after being opened;
🦝 added experimental support to background notification check;
🦝 code refactoring and cleanup.

The icon change was made necessary because in order to display notifications in the status bar a small monochrome icon has to be provided and the old one has too many details. But since every cloud has a silver lining, this was the occasion to redesign a new one and, by combining it with the icon of the Lemmy app, create a logo for the Procyon project, i. e. the umbrella organization both clients belong to.

Have a great weekend and, remember, #livefasteattrash!

#raccoonforfriendica #procyonproject #opensource #fediverseapp #friendica #friendicadev #mobileapp #androidapp #androiddev #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #foss


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📢 Any devs in #London today? Join us for a talk and Q&A on the Bonfire Framework at the Elixir London meetup! 🔥

@mayel will introduce @bonfire, a flexible framework of tools and libraries to build federated, social and collaborative apps.

Perfect for devs interested in Elixir and open-source, modular and federated software.

📅 7:00 PM Friday October 25th @ Erlang Solutions, Whitechapel

meetup.com/elixir-london/event…

#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

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Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.


Last Week in Fediverse – ep 89

Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.

The News


Loops is an upcoming fediverse platform for short form video, build by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. On the loops.video site there has been a countdown over the last month that ended this Monday, and with it, people can now sign up for Loops. Loops is currently still being worked on, with Supernault working on getting the apps out to release. The Android app will be made available as an APK, and the iOS app is waiting approval for TestFlight. Loops is currently developed as a mobile-first platform, and does not have a webUI yet, with Supernault saying that a webUI will come later. He also reports that emails welcoming people after they have signed on are rate-limited by the email provider, resulting in a long delay before people can be onboarded. Moderation services for Loops are currently being worked on as well, and Supernault is looking for moderators to help moderate the platform.

Mosaic is a new service by the Bonfire team, where the Bonfire team will help organisations build and set up their own digital federated spaces. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that focuses on customisation and extensibility, that people and organisations can customise to meet their needs. Mosaic is a way for the Bonfire team to help onboard organisations and customise the platform to their needs. Extensions and other improvements made with Mosaic are then available for the rest of the community to use as well, as part of their AGPL license, so that everyone benefits from contributions made by others. Bonfire is currently available for testing, but not for official release yet. The main blocker seems to be slow performance of Bonfire, and the developers have put out a bounty for other developers to help them improve performance.

An update by Newsmast on what they are working on with Channels.org. They relate Newsmast’s Channels to Bluesky’s custom feeds (as DYI algorithms) and Farcaster’s channels (‘Cozy corners’). For Newsmast, Channels are a way to onboard public organisations, giving them their own place (the channel) to distribute their content, where the space is clearly their own, but still part of the larger fediverse network. Newsmast also notes that they’ll focus on Channels for now, and that Patchwork, the plugin system for Mastodon servers is postponed to early next year to prevent the team from stretching themselves too thin. Newsmast’s Michael Foster also blogged about how we can build a different web together as well, reiterating my point that the current trend seems for AT Protocol to be used for public and global conversations, and ActivityPub for (semi)-private networked communities.

IFTAS held a 2024 Survey among fediverse moderators, and while they are preparing a full report they give some early highlights on the results. Based on their survey data IFTAS estimates that there are 5500 users per moderator on the fediverse, which is between three and ten times as many moderators compared to other Big Tech platforms.

An article by Techpolicy.press goes into detail on ‘The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media’. It draws attention to pravda.me as an example of the expanding thread landscape on decentralised social networks; a large Mastodon server that bears all the hallmarks of inauthenticity, but is barely blocked on or on the radars of the larger fediverse community. The article also makes a distinction between moderation questions where decentralisation empowers communities (often related to political or sexual content), and issues where centralisation is more beneficial, such as spam and CSAM. Accompanying the article is also a podcast interview with Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi about their fediverse governance report.

Fediverse event planning platform Mobilizon got transferred from developers Framasoft to a new organisation, Kaihuri, who have gotten a grant from NLnet to further expand the platform. They have now released v5 of Mobilizon, with new features such as a homepage redesign, a monthly calendar view, better management of recurring or ongoing events, and more. You can test out the new version of Mobilizon here.

The Links


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A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build interoperability with each other, and more.

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⚠️ WARNING: the instance swiss-chaos.social has nothing to do with chaos.social! ⚠️

This instance is NOT chaos.social, but is an instance of disinformation and conspiracy theories called SWISS-chaos.social!
The name adopted wants to make people believe that it is a sort of "Swiss branch" of the illustrious instance that hosts the most important activists for digital human rights. But that is not true!

cc @ordnung @leah @rixx

in reply to informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:

@informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: @@ordnung @rixx @Leah (Cloudstylistin) @Esserci. O no?

I don't understand, just because they express their thoughts against the Great Reset, Adverse Effects of the Covid Vaccine , they must be labeled as conspirators , conspiracy theories ???

in reply to Anomaly

@x Anyone who opens an instance with a deliberately misleading name to spread the anti-scientific disinformation that circulates on the internet (not to express thoughts: there is no original thought, but only toxic waste shared as fertilizer), is just a professional disinformer.
Do you understand the problem now?

@ordnung @rixx @leah @esserci

in reply to informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:

@x I would like to be even clearer: I am not angry with conspiracy theorists, nor do I despise them, and in fact I fully understand their way of thinking.
What I hate are psyop strategies that exploit the fragility of conspiracy theorists

@ordnung @rixx @leah @esserci

in reply to informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:

@informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: @@ordnung @rixx @Leah (Cloudstylistin) @Esserci. O no?

Anyone who opens an instance with a deliberately misleading name


I agree with you .

But you can't tell me they spread anti-scientific misinformation , maybe they have their reasons

in reply to Anomaly

@x There are still open questions about the effects of Covid-19, the effects of vaccines and mitigation policies, but they do not concern either the information garbage about the alleged conspiracies of the Chinese government, nor the alleged dangerousness of the vaccine.
There is NO longer any scientific debate about the dangerousness of the vaccine: the mRNA covid vaccines are safe beyond all expectations and reduce damage to the disease. STOP 🛑
in reply to informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:

@informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:

But this is your thought , it's okay . But what do you know about these people on this social network or in general why they think this way!

You don't know how many people I know who are sick after the Covid vaccine, and now they think differently . I told you this to tell you that , you don't know why those people think that way.
Just because you think differently, others are conspiracy theorists

I am for freedom of speech

if such a person would come to your social network , what would you do you would ban him on the first post?

in reply to Anomaly

> But this is your thought , it's okay

No. It's not my opinion, but the current scientific consensus.

> I am for freedom of speech

I am for freedom of discussion. A flock of parrots that copy and paste anti-scientific slogans are enemies of discussion.

> to your social network , what would you do you would ban him on the first post?

If one writes, I warn him; if more than one, I silence him; if he only writes this nonsense, I ban him. I don't pay for a server to host bullshit.

@x


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We're now shipping the #Plushtodon to Norway and Switzerland! Only 173 left in Europe. News on the US and other regions to come soon!

shop.joinmastodon.org/products…


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Contrariamente a quanto successo ieri sera a #GoogleDrive, il cloud nextcloud di #MastodonUno ha continuato a funzionare regolarmente, inoltre è impostato per crittografare tutti i file, quindi nessuno potrà mai sapere cosa inserite e nessuno vi potrà chiudere il cloud perchè mettete le foto di vostro figlio:

wired.it/article/google-foto-p…

il nextcloud è attivabile solo dagli utenti attivi di mastodon.uno e pixelfed.uno, fornisce 25GB oltre a servizi Office, ecc., da qui:

cloud.mastodon.uno/apps/forms/…

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in reply to Devol

Nextcloud ha un sacco di vantaggi e Google un sacco di problemi, su questo siamo d’accordo..ma essere bloccato da piracyshield non è tra questi, dai..poteva succedere anche a mastodon.uno di essere bloccato
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in reply to Filippo Valle

@fvalle capita che Google sia bloccato ma capita anche che Google ti blocchi senza motivo, in ogni caso ci si affida a un servizio che può essere tagliato da un momento all’altro.

Avevamo in effetti avuto problemi con un servizio simile perché era aperto a tutti ma su nextcloud le iscrizioni sono solo su invito e solo per persone fidate che si conoscono bene perché molto attive su M1.


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We’re excited to launch Mosaic: a new initiative from the Bonfire team that empowers organisations by creating their own customised and federated digital space - built just for them.

✨ Learn more about Mosaic: bonfirenetworks.org/mosaic/

📣 Read our announcement post: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/mosa…

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in reply to Meljoann

@meljoann @radiofreefedi yeah it’s a pity we still didn’t found a way to focus on RFF pilot! We are trying to get the 1.0 out and at same time find sustainability to pay ourselves and onboard new devs among other things. Maybe applying to a grant to develop the needed features could be a way to push this forward? Happy to chat more about it…
in reply to Bonfire

That’s understandable, yeah we’re in a tricky position for grants as we’re so international. A grant to support both your work and our main dev would be amazing.

I’m not a tech person myself (just experience with Arts funding). So, a bit out of the loop regarding funding help available… any leads you could point us to? I’d be happy to help with the application

@radiofreefedi



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Oh yes! #RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world capable of managing the potential of Mastodon Glitch-soc

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in reply to Al Kath

@Al Kath I confirm that if you hadn't noticed that Raccoon worked so well with Mastodon glitch-soc
1) I would never have suggested to @Dieguito 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕 to pay attention to this fork
2) I would not have decided to change poliversity.it from Mastodon classic to Mastodon Glitch-soc
3) I would not have had so much fun doing a lot of testing 🤣

So thanks again for your contribution! ❤️

@informapirata ⁂ :privacypride: @Jerry Bell :bell: :llama: :verified_paw: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​ @informapirata