Joe Biden's official account is now connected to the Fediverse, thanks to Threads. We'll see if anything comes of it.
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https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/presiden
In a surprising first, Joe Biden’s social media team enabled Fediverse integration on his Threads account today. For now, the integration is a minor gesture, as it’s only a one-way connection from Threads to the Fediverse.
As viewed from Mastodon.
That being said, the implications make for a pretty big deal: Joe Biden is the first US President to federate with the rest of the network. Even though Donald Trump is on Truth Social, which is based on Mastodon, the backend has never actually federated with another server.
You can follow President Biden and the White House below:
Over the last few years, a number of governments and officials looked to the Fediverse as the base of their online social presence. The European Union notably offers official Mastodon and PeerTube servers for followers to connect with, and the Dutch government officially uses Mastodon as well.
People familiar with the RSS publishing format may find it helpful to think of Fediverse as “Really Simple Social Syndication”. Similar to RSS an agency can publish subscribable feeds, but with the added bonus of social interaction with citizens and stakeholders.
In effect, this combines the deliverability and reach of email with the personalisation and device-alerting capabilities of social media apps. IFTAS
Some organizations, such as IFTAS, have begun advocating towards governments currently on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to move over. It’s still an emerging part of the network, and definitely will take some time for more organizations to set foot over here. Still, it’s a promising development and will hopefully get more public officials to think about connecting to the Fediverse.
@Fedi.Tips I'm on Friendica primarily due to the RSS integration. It works seamlessly. Useful for following sites (and authors) that are not yet on the fediverse.
That table isn't the official #Fedipact site. It's run by @nm If you check their feed, you'll see they've been offline for the past few weeks due to health issues. There are problably some updates that haven't been applied.
I am listed as being part of fedipact, which I did sign onto, but I then reconsidered. There doesn't appear to be a way to remove my name from the fedipact.
@chris @onepict @nm It was also incorrectly reporting my instance as not blocking Threads while the endpoint that lists blocked servers was not public, I reported the issue yesterday.
given how inaccurate it is, I have to wonder what the intent was. Cause it certainly doesn't seem to be meant as an accurate portrayal of which sites are and aren't federated w/ threads.net ...
Pare siano nati siti che vorrebbero rifare la lista di istanze che bloccano Threads ma elencano molte istanze che in realtà non lo bloccano affatto! Qua i reclami degli admin:
@prealpinux la lista era già ridicola quando era su fedidb, per questo era stata rimossa, ora è una barzelletta. Pare ovvio che chi è interessato a bloccare saranno qualche centinaio di istanze, una netta minoranza, la maggioranza(migliaia di istanze) non sono intenzionate a isolarsi, e questo dice tutto.
That table isn't the official #Fedipact site. It's run by @nm If you check their feed, you'll see they've been offline for the past few weeks due to health issues. There are problably some updates that haven't been applied.
Mobilizon gets new ownership. One of the primary suppliers of shared deny lists in the fediverse is spinning down, in favour of IFTAS' new upcoming FediCheck shared deny list project.
If you're wondering what the eye 👁️ icon on the Mastodon web interface does, here's the answer:
When a thread contains posts hidden by content warnings, clicking the eye icon toggles all the thread's posts open or closed. This is really useful, it means you don't have to open each post one by one to read the whole thread.
If there are no CWs in the thread, the eye icon does nothing.
(There is also an eye icon on the official Mastodon app, but this just hides or reveals one post at a time.)
@bruhSoulz some applications like Fedilab allow you to follow other instances. To be precise, you can follow all messages from the public timeline as well as those from your approved contacts.
@bruhSoulz to follow an instance you must search for any account of that instance, open the profile of that account and click on the context menu at the top right. At this point you must choose the "follow instance" option
There are also other applications that allow you to follow the instance, but I don't remember which ones they are; you could ask @Fedi.Tips
A community index of servers added a new rule recently, that requires every participant to defederate from Threads. Some admins are unhappy.
The post Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed” appeared first on We Distribute.
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The presence of Threads within the Fediverse remains a polarizing and controversial subject, with a deepening divide between those that want to embrace it, and those who want to keep it out. Recently, these calls seem to be renewed, with community members even demanding that Mastodon’s flagship instance block the server.
A number of instance admins opened their Private Mentions this week to see the following message:
Hi,
Could I ask, has [your instance] now defederated threads.net? The rules for being listed on fedi.garden will require blocking instances cited in human rights reports on genocide. This would require blocking Threads.
The rules for being listed on fedi.garden will require blocking instances cited in human rights reports on genocide. This would require blocking Threads.
Of course it’s your decision what you do, I’m asking just so I can update the fedi.garden website accurately.”
These admins had been making use of Fedi.Garden, a community index intended to point prospective new members to vetted parts of the network. Reflecting a recent policy change, the service operator began reaching out to their members.
What is Fedi Garden?
Fedi Garden describes itself as “a small, human-curated list of nice, well-run servers on Mastodon and the Wider Fediverse.” As a service, it follows in a long tradition of directories designed to help connect people to individuals or communities based on interest, location, profession, or politics.
For newcomers, an entry point for discovery can be crucial in deciding whether they stay on the network, or go elsewhere. This initial point of contact can set expectations on behaviors, norms, and other points of connection to discover.
A Change in Policy
For the most part, Fedi Garden’s long-standing policy for included instances mirrored the Mastodon Server Covenant, setting basic standards on community stewardship and admin competency. For many instances, it’s a great starting point for providing a consistent quality of life, in terms of what to expect.
Recently, the project announced the addition of a policy that every listed server will be required to block Threads.net. To be clear: the service operator is not going to defederate with instances who federate with Threads, nor are they advocating for admins to treat each other this way.
“I don’t think it’s nice to federate with a company that has been cited in multiple independent reports of massacres/genocides,” FediGarden’s operator tells us, “That’s why I’m adding the rule about not federating with such companies. If servers want to do that it’s their decision, but it doesn’t seem a nice thing to do. I can’t honestly recommend such servers.”
Why Block Threads?
Aside from the fact that Threads is a Meta product, it also appears to have policy issues that stand in stark contrast with the rest of the network: a recent report by GLAAD reveals that homophobia and transphobia have largely flourished within networks stewarded by Meta, and transphobic content still seems to flow freely from accounts like Libs of Tiktok on the platform. Similarly, Facebook’s own moderation practices have exacerbated cultural tensions to the point of promoting violence and genocide.
Threads has also remained problematic with regards to news and politics: according to The Verge, the platform’s head boss doesn’t see politics and hard news as being worth the risk. Given the platform’s aversion to political content, this could raise questions about organic discovery coming from the rest of the Fediverse to Threads.
Community Members React
Many people celebrated the change, citing the protection against vulnerable users as a valuable decision. Not everyone was happy, though: Some admins, like Cliff Wade from All Things Tech, feel uncomfortable about the fact that they hadn’t agreed to additional requirements when they joined, and now feel pressured.
“It wasn’t really about the stupid ‘I want to change the rules’ thing so to speak,” he writes, “It was all about how we as admins were approached with a bullying attitude as that’s what several other admins mentioned, long before I ever mentioned it.”
Cliff and his co-admin Kyle Reddoch are now working on their own alternative index, that doesn’t include this requirement. It’s a massive undertaking, and requires vetting communities asking permission for inclusion, and regularly checking in on community developments. Still, they’re optimistic.
“[We] are making a list on our Wiki of instance that both federate and defederate from Threads,” Kyle writes, “we feel people [should] have the choice themselves and not have someone else choose for them.”
Moving Forward
Fedi Garden’s operator has updated the rules on their site, and adjusted their lists. Various projects have been tracking FediPact adoption, such as the tracker on Veganism Social. One thing that’s important to understand, though, is that Fedi Garden and this FediPact tracker aren’t the only tools for tracking safe spaces in the network.
“FediGarden is a tiny site with a tiny following, its account has about 1% of the follower numbers of FediTips,” FediGarden tell us, “FediGarden isn’t some massive gateway onto the Fediverse, it’s just a small list of servers that are Covenant-compliant but also under a certain size, to encourage decentralisation.”
With the Fediverse being what it is, we’re bound to see more indexes and discovery tools come and go, with their own processes and policies for inclusion and promotion. There is no singular landing page for the network, nor a standard point of discovery to the network.
Il Cremlino ha richiesto al proprietario di Telegram, il 39enne russo Pavel Durov, di prestare "maggiore attenzione" dopo che l'applicazione di messaggistica sarebbe stata utilizzata per reclutare gli uomini armati che hanno attaccato il Crocus City Hall, una sala da concerto alla periferia di Mosca
La sorpresa più intrigante di Un mondo a parte, regia di Riccardo Milani, in sala dal 28 marzo, arriva sui titoli di coda: con i nomi di 47 ... Scopri di più!
Perché gli utenti di feddit.it sono scortesi? Perché non mi seguono e non mi "retwittano" mai? Ecco la spiegazione che John Mastodon non ti ha mai dato...
Ebbene, Lemmy è una piattaforma del Fediverso molto particolare: ha delle funzionalità social ma in realtà è molto simile a un forum!
Un forum è un luogo in cui segui solo conversazioni tematiche. Le "categorie" del Forum su Lemmy si chiamano "comunità" e vengono rese utilizzando i "gruppi" ActivityPub, un tipo di utenza che non esiste in Mastodon, ma che gli utenti Mastodon sono perfettamente in grado di interpretare.
Di fatto le comunità sembrano utenti, esattamente come l'account @fediverso che "sta ricondividendo" i messaggi di questa conversazione.
Le comunità Lemmy, come i gruppi Friendica, funzionano come le vecchie liste di distribuzione email: voi inviate un nuovo messaggio a una lista di distribuzione ed essa distribuisce il messaggio a tutte le email iscritte.
Allo stesso modo, gli utenti Mastodon possono "iscriversi" semplicemente seguendo un "utente comunità".
Perché gli utenti di feddit.it sono scortesi? Perché non mi seguono e non mi "retwittano" mai? Ecco la spiegazione che John Mastodon non ti ha mai dato...
@freezr ma in questo caso non si tratta di una mancanza, ma di una caratteristica.
L'utente Lemmy non ha alcun bisogno di seguire utenti e retwittare messaggi, perché Lemmy non è un social!
ActivityPub o no.
È come lamentarsi del fatto che un pinguino sia un uccello malfatto perché troppo grasso e con ali troppo corte: ma quello è fatto per nuotare in acque gelide, non deve mica volare!
Il Fediverso è un mondo strano e certe volte è impossibile comprendere certi messaggi o certi comportamenti Senza capire bene che dipendono dalla piattaforma di partenza
@lgsp@urbanists.social premesso che avere un account Mastodon è sempre utile, credo che Mastodon stia un po' stretto a un utente Lemmy, abituato a scrivere contenuti lunghi e formattati.
Un utente Lemmy si troverebbe molto meglio con Friendica o, al massimo con quelle istanze Misskey e Pleroma che ti consentono di scrivere post lunghi e formattati.
Personalmente vedo Friendica e Lemmy due piattaforme estremamente affini
@lgsp in realtà dipende da quello che vuoi. Lemmy è una piattaforma focalizzata sulla conversazione e non presenta distrazioni: non c'è una timeline e gli unici elementi suggeriti in home page sono le comunità che vuoi vedere tu (quelle con i contenuti più recenti o con più interazioni/commenti). In questo caso non hai bisogno di seguire utenti, né di "retwittare" i loro contenuti.
È uscito il n.22 di #Jacobin Italia Una storia italiana. Il 27 marzo di trent'anni fa la vittoria di Silvio #Berlusconi inaugurava la Seconda Repubblica, durata poi un ventennio. Si trova in libreria e si può anche acquistare online. nelle immagini copertina e sommario #1994 #sinistra #letture @macfranc @mcp_
oddio ci sarebbe anche mozilla con la sua istanza, brave ha il suo account ufficiale: @brave e pure librewolf ha il suo spazio: lemmy.ml/c/librewolf
comunque bravi quelli di vivaldi che hanno un'istanza aperta mentre mozilla pare abbia disinvestito sul fediverso in un momento in cui pure meta sta puntando molto 😁
Nella rassegna stampa ho sentito qualcosa del tipo: "L'ispezione dell'Ufficio Scolastico Regionale ha rilevato una irregolarità, la scuola ha aggiunto 4 giorni di chiusura al calendario, ma ne poteva aggiungere solo 3, uno di troppo, quello per il Ramadan. Anche se il giorno di chiusura aggiuntivo è compensato dal fatto che la scuola ha deciso di iniziare le lezioni con un giorno di anticipo". Faziosetto, no? @maupao @scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@poliverso.org @scuola@mastodon.uno @mauriziocarnago @alephoto85 @macfranc
Dopo le polemiche con il governo, nella delibera che prevedeva la sospensione delle lezioni è stato specificato che la decisione è dovuta al gran numero di assenze e non alla festa religiosa in sé
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…
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…
P.S - We know threads federation isn't for everyone
If your Pixelfed server hasn't blocked threads, you can use a domain block to block them yourself by going to the Settings -> Privacy and Domain Blocks page!
I have said this elsewhere - the issues I have seen is because a lot of activitypub instances are already blocking threads. This causes lots of things to be a bit strange in the matrix!
Metas goal is to control the fediverse... it always has been.
They'll integrate, grow their userbase until it's the largest one or close to it.
Then they start making changes, brining in updates that make it harder for other instances to interoperate with them unless they use their code/updates.
Those that refuse will be isolated in the hope that instances will disappear if people leave them.
Meta think they're entitled to everything. Your data, privacy, & eyeballs. Block now
By sheer weight of numbers, Threads will come to dominate and dictate. As much as federation is supposed to be a cooperative thing, when you cooperate with dictators you lose your agency.
"We're happy to see Threads open up federation, and look forward to working together to build a better fediverse."
are you serious?! have you been living under a rock for the past decade?! it's Facebook/Meta we're talking about!! nothing they ever touch becomes "better"!!
Despite assurances that Threads wants to be good neighbors in the Fediverse, some think Meta might be pulling out some old tricks.
The post Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? appeared first on We Distribute.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/is-thre
More than a few Meta employees showed up at FediForum earlier this week, doubling down on their commitment to open protocols and “being a good neighbor on the Fediverse”. While there were some demos and fruitful conversations, one public concern flew under the radar.
An eagle-eyed Threads user noticed that their status giving Pixelfed a positive mention was seemingly hidden from the tree of a public conversation. From there, coverage picked up across the network, and even made it back to Daniel Supernault, Pixelfed’s creator.
“Meta is free to do whatever they want on their platforms,” the developer mentioned, “and I hope this is a bug.”
For now, no one’s quite sure. Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available. We have yet to see a statement from the Threads team on the situation. Bug or not, a vocal part of the network is apprehensive about Meta’s true intentions with the platform, ranging from pessimism on how much effort Threads is really putting in to the Fediverse, to accusations of hostile behavior. Dropping the ball like this can hurt user confidence, especially when building community goodwill is so crucial.
Prior History
Pixelfed has something of an established history with being at odds with Meta. Some of that points to Pixelfed’s form factor, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Instagram. Left: my Pixelfed, Right: my Instagram In the past, the project was warned by a Meta employee about using the same filter names and styles for images, citing a potential violation of Meta’s intellectual property. Pixelfed complied, and changed their image filters and styles in hopes of sidestepping the issue. It never came up again.
Pixelfed filters
Additionally, there have been situations in the past where both Twitter and Facebook have censored posts linking to open source Fediverse alternatives. Even if Threads is an effort to right wrongs of the past, these situations don’t reflect well on Threads or its parent company.
When is a bug just a bug?
For all we know right now, this is very likely an unfortunate bug. However, it’s important for the Threads team to nip this in the bud, if they really want to establish good vibes about their efforts.
On the other hand, it’s important to acknowledge that there’s a segment of the network that won’t be satisfied with an explanation, no matter how much evidence is presented. Some people will block Meta no matter what, and that’s their choice.
Regardless, we’ll keep you posted if we learn anything more.
More than a few Meta employees showed up at FediForum earlier this week, doubling down on their commitment to open protocols and "being a good neighbor on the Fediverse". While there were some demos a
Siamo molto felici di annunciare la disponibilità della nuova versione stabile di Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. Oltre a numerosi miglioramenti e nuove funzionalità, questa versione contiene diverse correzioni per i problemi di sicurezza segnalati da snajafov, arcanicanis e r1pu5u – Grazie per le segnalazioni! Consigliamo vivamente a tutti gli amministratori di Friendica di aggiornare le proprie installazioni a questa versione stabile.
I punti salienti di Friendica 2024.03 sono
Sono state ottimizzate le prestazioni in alcune aree. - È stato aggiunto un componente aggiuntivo OCR basato su Tesseract per creare facoltativamente descrizioni di immagini mancanti dal testo contenuto in un'immagine. - La funzionalità Canali, l'algoritmo definito dall'utente per ordinare il flusso di rete introdotto con Friendica 2023.12, è stata migliorata e ampliata. - La gestione di video e immagini è stata migliorata ed è stato aggiunto il supporto per WebP
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by snajafov, arcanicanis and r1pu5u – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.03 are
We could optimize the performance in some areas.
An OCR addon based on Tesseract was added to optionally create missing image descriptions from the text containd in an image.
The Channels feature–our user defined algorithm to sort the network stream that was introduced with Friendica 2023.12–has been improved and expanded.
The handling of videos and images has been improved and support for WebP has been added.
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.03 release would be cd friendicagit pullbin/composer.phar install --no-devcd addongit pull If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
We experience some problem with the build process for the addon archive of the stable branch and will add instruction how to upgrade your installation using the archive files as soon as possible.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure update from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
#WebinarPiF – Francesco Macchia – Riflessioni sul fediverso e la scuola
Webinar di Programma il Futuro – Riflessioni sul fediverso e la scuola Martedì 19 marzo 2024 Relatore: Francesco Macchia programmailfuturo.it/notizie/w…
@luca ti ringrazio per il tuo riscontro positivo. Io continuo a sperare che sempre più scuole possano avviare progetti basati sulla Fediverso e sul FOSS, ma dovrebbe iniziare la pubblica amministrazione centrale a intraprendere qualche iniziativa di questo tipo...
condivido pienamente, ma ci sono molti aspetti da considerare (la strategia da usare, la preparazione degli insegnanti, il supporto "dal basso",...). Hai per caso voglia di fare una chiacchierata? Mi trovi qui alle 15:00 bbb.f-si.org/rooms/wtx-e9k-rlr… (se qualcun altro volesse unirsi -ben volentieri)
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> ci sono molti aspetti da considerare (la strategia da usare, la preparazione degli insegnanti, il supporto "dal basso",...).
Vero. È importante lavorare sulla formazione (e l'autoformazione) degli insegnanti oltre che preparare dei "menù pronti" da poter modificare a seconda del contesto
> Hai per caso voglia di fare una chiacchierata?
Volentieri, ma non questa settimana. Se vuoi, possiamo sentirci da lunedì in poi
Webinar di Programma il Futuro – Riflessioni sul fediverso e la scuola Martedì 19 marzo 2024 Relatore: Francesco Macchia programmailfuturo.it/notizie/w…
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by snajafov, arcanican
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by snajafov, arcanicanis and r1pu5u – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.03 are
We could optimize the performance in some areas.
An OCR addon based on Tesseract was added to optionally create missing image descriptions from the text containd in an image.
The Channels feature–our user defined algorithm to sort the network stream that was introduced with Friendica 2023.12–has been improved and expanded.
The handling of videos and images has been improved and support for WebP has been added.
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.03 release would be cd friendica git pull bin/composer.phar install --no-dev cd addon git pull If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
We experience some problem with the build process for the addon archive of the stable branch and will add instruction how to upgrade your installation using the archive files as soon as possible.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure update from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.03. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by snajafov, arcanicanis and r1pu5u – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.03 are
We could optimize the performance in some areas.
An OCR addon based on Tesseract was added to optionally create missing image descriptions from the text containd in an image.
The Channels feature–our user defined algorithm to sort the network stream that was introduced with Friendica 2023.12–has been improved and expanded.
The handling of videos and images has been improved and support for WebP has been added.
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.03 release would be cd friendicagit pullbin/composer.phar install --no-devcd addongit pull If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
We experience some problem with the build process for the addon archive of the stable branch and will add instruction how to upgrade your installation using the archive files as soon as possible.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure update from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse.
Mastodon.Uno è la prima comunità generalista italiana.
Con oltre 70.000 iscritti è il più grande nodo Mastodon italiano.
Anima ambientalista a supporto della privacy e del mondo Open Source.
We're attending the Fediverse's most popular unconference, and providing updates of the talks, along with commentary!
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FediForum is a wonderful unconference intended for builders, designers, and thinkers to come together and have discussions about the Fediverse.
Don’t Forget: FediForum is Coming Soon! FediForum is the Fediverse’s recurring unconference where developers, community members, designers, and thinkers come together to share their ideas!
We’re trying something new this year: we’re live-blogging the event from on the page. It’s largely an experiment, but it’s an effort to provide deeper insight into the various events happening throughout the day. Keep an eye on the updates below!
When does it start?
FediForum starts at 8am Pacific Daylight Time, on Tuesday, March 19th, and again at the same time on Wednesday, March 20th.
What is the schedule?
A tentative schedule can be found on the site here. We’re going to do our best to cover the presentations, discussions, and demos as they come up.
Where can the readers hang out?
Regardless of whether you’re attending the conference, or just checking out updates from this page, you’re welcome to come hang out in our Matrix Space, under our Off-Topic Island channel.
ActivityPub has fostered a social web for millions of people. To grow, some developers believe it needs improvement. These are their efforts.
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ActivityPub is at an interesting place. Since its intial adoption by Mastodon in 2017, the standard has become all but ubiquitous across the Fediverse. In less than seven years, it has become the most-used protocol across the entire network.
According to FediDB, the ActivityPub side of the Fediverse is now used by nearly 10 million people, across more than 27,000 servers. FediDB also tracks 48 different platforms leveraging ActivityPub in some way. With Threads actively doing work their own implementation, these stats are likely to skyrocket, in more ways than one.
This kind of growth is a really positive sign for the network, as it suggests that widespread adoption of the Fediverse might actually be feasible. In order to get there, though, a number of developers have looked at ActivityPub and wondered: what could we do to make this better?
While the Fediverse has seen an explosion of features involving chat, multimedia, live streaming, groups, events, and more, some people would say that the network suffers from a few glaring omissions.
In light of some of the developments taken on by Nostr and Bluesky, ActivityPub can feel downright limited in terms of what platforms in the Fediverse can do today:
Bluesky makes server migration dead simple for users, leading to a process that feels seamless and non-intrusive.
Bluesky offers a stackable moderation system that allows people to subscribe to labeling services and help each other curate and filter the network.
Nostr benefits from a relay system that eschews the need for dedicated instances entirely, instead relying on keys for identity.
While a little more on the cryptocurrency side of things, Nostr incorporates direct payments into the network, allowing creators to compensate each other.
This isn’t a proclamation that ActivityPub is inherently bad, so much as these other projects can offer advantages that most existing implementations lack.
There are a lot of big ideas on how to improve the situation, and it boils down to two problem areas:
The ActivityPub protocol specification
The ecosystem built around ActivityPub.
ActivityPub’s Protocol
The ActivityPub protocol is the heart and soul of most Fediverse platforms these days. As a specification, it stipulates methods and behaviors for implementations to follow. Unfortunately, critics have pointed to the fact that the spec can feel too flexible in defining some behaviors, but too loose in defining others.
“The spec is incomplete,” writes Ilja, a regular contributor to Akkoma, “if someone makes a followers-only post and someone replies, then the ‘Mastodon way’ is to address the reply to the followers of the account who replies. The proper way to handle this, is by addressing the followers collection of the OP, and let OP forward the Activity to its followers. But we don’t do that because we don’t know how to do forwarding.”
Another headache that exists for implementors right now comes from most ActivityPub platforms needing to rely on undefined behavior. The following pieces are heavily relied on, but don’t exist in the spec:
Webfinger – Webfinger is a common tool and data format for looking up resources at an address. If you’ve ever copied and pasted a URL into search to pull in a remote post, Webfinger is what powers it!
Privacy Scopes – in standard ActivityPub, servers make use of to and cc fields to determine which people a post gets sent to. These fields can address individual Actors, or a Collection of Actors. However, there isn’t really a specification on how scopes ought to work: Quiet Public, Followers-Only, Private Mention and Local-Only are all examples of privacy scopes that not only define a grouping of people, but also behavior for posts themselves.
Account Migration – Mastodon kind of set the standard for moving accounts from one server to another: your old profile Authenticates your new one, and a relationship is established. After the primary account is set, the old account gets marked with a Tombstone object that redirects to the new profile.
Moderation Tooling – federated reports, instance blocks, management of blocklists and permission levels, individual user moderation, etc. This is a rapidly evolving space that depends heavily on collaboration.
However, they’re absolutely required for a working platform to exist in the Fediverse. This leads to implementors to do a lot of extra work to figure out how things work today, and how to correctly use them.
ActivityPub’s Ecosystem
The ecosystem built around ActivityPub suffers from problems, too. Despite aspirations to provide a common protocol between very different kinds of platforms, the Fediverse still predominantly looks and works like Mastodon.
There are three reasons for this:
Lack of a Test Suite – ActivityPub was first adopted by Mastodon, which acted as rocket fuel for mass adoption of the standard. However, the lack of an independent testing suite for implementors left builders to instead test against Mastodon, making it a de facto standard.
Bespoke Client APIs – In addition to a server-to-server federation protocol, ActivityPub offers a secondary spec for client-server relationship. Mastodon ended up pushing it’s own API that was arguably easier to use, but just about every platform in the space could have instead been a client, instead of building their own stacks, APIs, and federation extensions.
Duplication of Effort – A very weird phenomenon in this space is that implementors don’t just build something once. As of this writing, there are approximately six different Group Actor implementations, all of which are built slightly differently, made by different people, and meant to solve different problems.
None of these things are necessarily earth-shattering problems per se, but we’ve ended up with an ecosystem where a lot of effort gets duplicated, people are implementing entire platforms from scratch, and everyone is also using Mastodon as a compatibility benchmark.
Ongoing Efforts
The important thing to remember is that this is far from a hopeless situation. As of this writing, there are some incredibly smart people trying to figure out how to fill in the gaps.
“The most important thing about ActivityPub is that it’s extensible,” says ActivityPub co-author Evan Prodromou, “that’s a strength; it means we can really quickly get new distributed social applications running on the network.”
These groups all intersect in a variety of ways, and each one of them is attempting to attack specific problem areas. They’re constantly comparing notes, holding deep discussions, and investigating what enhancements the whole Fediverse might benefit from.
FediDevs
The Fediverse Developer Network is a newer effort that aims to make development more approachable to implementors and newcomers alike. Their goal? Get people in a room together.
“How do we build this stuff to be compatible with other people’s projects, while also lifting the lowest common denominator for everybody?” says FediDevs founder Johannes Ernst, ” It probably starts with making it easier for developers to find each other and compare notes.”
According to Johannes, FediDevs incorporates three big ideas:
Developers in the Fediverse ought to have an easy way to find where everyone else is at, and catch up on what’s happening.
New developers need a resource library of best practices, emerging concepts, and documentation to prepare for connecting their apps to a global federated network.
There needs to be a place to publish guides and tools that make everyone’s lives easier.
FediDevs has already beared fruit through a project called FediTest, a test suite intended to provide different “test profiles” so that builders can see how their own work might interact with other platforms.
Even though FediTest is still very young, the promise of such an effort is clear: people could stop relying on a specific platform for compatibility testing, and instead use a more flexible, agnostic solution that accounts how lots of different projects do things.
Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
The Fediverse Enhancement Proposals project is a comprehensive effort to distill some of the network’s best ideas into standardized documents that explain how they should work. The effort is an initiative of the SocialHub developer community, and serves as a testbed for their ideas.
FEP-1b12: Group federation – Specifies how a federated group or forum could work. Originally, this was proposed by Nutomic from the Lemmy project, and now Lemmy, Kbin, and Friendica all support this as a standard.
FEP-5624: Per-object reply control policies – Some centralized platforms have a way to disable comments or replies on a status. What would it take to make this work in a federated model?
FEP-c390: Identity Proofs – How might a Fediverse Identity prove its authenticity, while also verifying associated links and accounts?
FEP-ef61: Portable Objects – How might we separate user data from an instance, so that the user can move it if they need to migrate somewhere else?
FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol – Derived from the Hubzilla Project’s technology. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your Fediverse identity across the network? No matter what server URL you land on, permissions can be unlocked for you to perform basic interactions and see private content.
The repository contains a treasure trove of ideas, ranging from immediately obvious needs to larger, more abstract concepts about how the network could work one day. Many of these submissions are still in a DRAFT status for the moment, but a few of the FINAL entries are actively being used. The project is already helping the network develop further.
Social Web Incubator Community Group (SocialCG)
The SocialCG is an implementor’s group that focuses on best practices for those building on ActivityPub. A big focus for the group involves running case studies for different conventions are approached within the Fediverse. Here are a few ongoing studies:
HTTP Signatures – An examination of how systems like Mastodon use cryptographic signatures as identity proofs on actors and their activities.
ActivityPub-Webfinger – Studying the how and why so many ActivityPub systems rely on Webfinger to fetch remote data.
Testing – A monumental collaboration between dozens of people, this is an ongoing study of existing ActivityPub Testing Suite tools, and insights on how exactly a standard test suite could be built.
Data Portability – researching existing cases for moving data, activities, objects, and Actors across the network.
Towards ActivityPub 2.0
So, what does all of this add up to? Is it possible to bring all of this work into an updated version of the ActivityPub Protocol standard?
“I think there will be a working group chartered at the W3C to make backwards-compatible changes,” Evan Prodromou explains, “especially clarifying difficult text, and possibly recommending profiles for other standards…”
Despite the importance of the W3C and standardization, though, Evan also believes that there’s value to the fast-paced development of emerging projects with new ideas.
“…the innovation is always going to be at the edge, with new extensions.”
I, for one, agree with him. There’s some amazing developments happening in the space, and the future is looking bright.
One of the Zot's most powerful concepts for identity management and remote access is being ported to work on ActivityPub. It could change the Fediverse.
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Even if you’ve been a part of the Fediverse for a long time, you’d be excused if you had never heard of Nomadic Identity. Within the confines of Mastodon, it’s a relatively unknown concept. But, for some of us, it’s something of a pipe dream: decentralized identity management with remote access control. On paper, that doesn’t sound too exciting, but it’s a huge concept. Even more exciting: the guy who designed it is bringing it to ActivityPub.
What the Heck is Nomadic Identity?
Nomadic Identity is a concept pioneered by Mike Macgirvin, a longtime builder in the Fediverse. If you’ve ever used Friendica, Hubzilla, or Streams, you’ve used software written by this guy.
Got Zot — Mike Macgirvin on building your own apps and protocols An interview with the brilliant mind behind the Zot protocol, MagicAuth, and Nomadic Identity.
One of the big problems in federated social systems involves permissions, identity, and data. We can sum this up in three parts:
Permission Management – If I visit a friend’s site to interact with something, there typically isn’t a way for me to do anything while I’m over there. I have to go back to my server.
Identity Management – Okay, I have a way to validate that I’m really me. What do I have as a fallback if that fails?
Data Portability – What happens to my stuff if my server goes down? Can I move to another servers and get my statuses, messages, and interactions back? Could I even just do it temporarily, to keep my followers, while my server gets sorted out?
From the end user’s side of the house, everything boils down to how their identities are coupled to their instances. ActivityPub-based systems like Mastodon do a pretty decent job with letting people migrate from one server to another, letting users pull in remote statuses from a URL, and letting users decide who is allowed to see or reply to their posts. It’s a far better situation than what came before ActivityPub.
At the end of the day, though, what is currently provided in the ActivityPub side of the network is somewhat limited, compared to what the Zot protocol brings to the table with Nomadic Identity. Let’s dive into the three different components: OpenWebAuth, Channel Relays, and Data Migration.
OpenWebAuth
OpenWebAuth used to be called “Magic Auth”, because of how seamless the experience is. Instead of only being able to manage things from your social dashboard, you can jump from one part of the Fediverse to another, and your permissions will be granted automatically. It all happens in the browser.
The way this works is relatively simple: your browser accesses a token inside of a cookie. That token references your Digital Identity in the Fediverse, verifies it, and a handshake is performed. Afterwards, anything you were given permission to access unlocks and becomes visible on the page.
spectra.video/videos/embed/98b… A really old video of Hubzilla doing it. I’m navigating from my site to Andrew’s. OpenWebAuth solves one of the most frustrating UX problems the Fediverse currently has: dealing with remote content that you discovered somewhere else.
Channel Relays
Channel Relays are the second major piece of the puzzle here. Using a common ID, you can associate separate accounts across the network with one another. Each relay is verified through an Authorization process, and then each relay is tethered to one another like so:
Using your credentials, you can log into any one of these three relays, and post to your followers. If the server my work account is on suddenly goes down, I can still log in to my family account or blog, and keep interacting like nothing happened. I’m still in contact with my followers, and if I want, my relay accounts can replicate statuses posted from elsewhere.
A few clear benefits emerge from this:
Network Resilience
Censorship Resistance
Ease of Migration
In fact, this mechanism is so good, it feeds directly into the next use-case: Data Migration.
Data Migration
So, we already have two pieces: multiple identities can be connected together across a network, logging into one can allow you to post from another, and a person can decide, at any time, which account will serve as their primary.
Because all of these things are set up, the act of moving your stuff becomes relatively trivial. All of your accounts are aware of each other. If you switch to a new primary, you can trigger an update to all of your existing conversation threads and comments to switch the author, and replicate the data on your end. Thanks to the way that Nomadic Identity is set up, those verified parts of your identity can perform those kinds of actions, whereas no other account can.
Why is This Important?
As we continue to think about how to further develop the Fediverse and give people more robust tools capable of doing more things, we have to consider the plumbing that holds it all together. Identity Management is one of those pieces of plumbing that’s surprisingly shaky, and requires serious consideration.
Digital Identities aren’t something unique to the fediverse and it’s not something Mastodon could stop if they wanted to. Nomadic identity is coming to the internet. The only question is who is going to own your identity. VISA/Mastercard, your government, Google, Microsoft, or you. Mike Macgirvin
As Threads, Tumblr, and other big social networks come into the space, developers need to think about the stakes. The user migration flow is decent for moving from one server to another, but it’s relatively brittle, and currently only updates a reference from one account to another. The network lacks meaningful ways for people to pull their posts, messages, and media from the place they left.
The biggest takeaway here is that these are mature, time-tested mechanisms that could add extra layers of user agency and control to the Fediverse.
What’s Next?
Mike is already doing the work of figuring out how to retrofit these concepts onto ActivityPub. It’s likely that we’ll see additional Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to accommodate certain needs. For implementers, there are a few existing FEPs in the DRAFT stage that come recommended:
Short-form video might in fact be the next frontier for federated media. The dev behind a popular photo-sharing platform is diving in headfirst.
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. At least the person behind the reigns already makes great apps. That’s right: Daniel Supernault, creator of Pixelfed, is building a new social video app called Loops.
Introducing Loops, a fediverse TikTok platform.
Explore and share short videos on the fediverse using your Pixelfed or Mastodon account.
Not much is known about the app yet beyond what Dansup has said online. According to him, videos are only a maximum of 30 seconds in length, and that the Loops experience will be a separate app/platform from Pixelfed itself. Apparently, Loops is intended to recapture some of the experience of the beloved but short-lived Vine app. In Dansup’s own words, Loops is a revival of an older Pixelfed project, a dedicated UI for looping video.
The developer also stated an intention to assist and mentor the developer behind the similar Goldfish platform, which is intentionally designed to be more like Tiktok rather than Vine. Evidently, both apps are intended to be compatible with one another, as well as other video platforms in the Fediverse, such as PeerTube or Vidzy.
Honestly, I’m stoked about Loops, and can’t wait to beta test it. Maybe we could test it right alongside Dan’s other app, Sup?
One of the Bonfire project's partner communities has launched, and it's to support scientific research for the commons.
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The Bonfire project made a splash earlier this month by announcing the launch of the Open Science Network, an initiative to build a federated and open academic commons. Their blog post opens with a stirring call-to-action:
The scientific method must be liberated. In an era marked by misinformation, mass surveillance and political propaganda, corporate monopolies and platforms hinder scientific innovation and knowledge sharing.
Scientists, researchers, academics and their affiliated organisations must have control over the tools and medium they use to publish, review, share, study and discuss their work. Bonfire Project
The platform itself is another one of Bonfire’s Flavors, with features specific to collaboration, publication, and public discussion. The Open Science flavor is currently a prototype, but it’s carefully being built with feedback from members of scientific research cooperatives.
The ultimate goal is to build something that suits the day-to-day needs of that specific community, while building novel features to make their lives earlier.
Features of Open Science
The Open Science Network site describes a handful of features that sets their effort apart from Bonfire Classic or even Mastodon. I could talk about the features and show off some slick screenshots, but I want to also talk about how these things can work together for a heightened user experience.
ORCID Integration
I think this is the first indication that the Bonfire devs really know their audience. ORCID is a single sign-on offering used by researchers and academics alike, and Open Science instantly allows people to use it.
ORCID is interesting, because it’s not just a login system, but an identity system that ties into a person’s published works. What this means is that it’s possible for Open Science to pull in published papers and research, sort them by publication, and share them to others in a digital space.
From there, it’s possible to discover other published works from people you follow, or pieces of research shared by people on the timeline. The Bonfire Project indicates that this could be a way for researchers to easily establish their professional work, while also having easy access to other sources of study.
Open Science also allows people to avoid a cluttered timeline filled with engagement bait, instead offering tools for people to subscribe to publications, research groups, and topics relevant to them. With this model, the whole space can open up for teams conducting research, to talk shop and share ideas.
Collaborative Peer Review
Another big aspect of research is the ability to exchange notes and ideas between peers in a community.
One area where this really shines in Open Science involves how research can be shared between peers. Researchers can either upload or import their work, which can be read through a built-in PDF reader. People can easily parse through the contents, and the document itself becomes a conversation thread for feedback and suggestions.
The Future Looks Bright
The release of Open Science by the Bonfire project is significant for several reasons. First and foremost, it is the first effort of its kind to attempt leveraging ActivityPub for academic use. It’s also a clear showcase of Bonfire’s modular architecture, composing a series of modules into a coherent distribution.
Most of all, it’s a validation of one of the project’s key pilot programs, where a system is built for a specific group of people, and tailored to their feedback. The idea that researchers and academics could directly benefit from this system, while also pushing Fediverse technology forward, is frankly awesome.
FediForum is the Fediverse's recurring unconference where developers, community members, designers, and thinkers come together to share their ideas!
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The Fediverse’s favorite unconference, FediForum, is happening on March 18th and 19th. It’s a wonderful opportunity for community members, developers, designers, and builders to come together to share what they’ve been working on, and how to deal with various challenges in the space. Attendees are encouraged to break out into discussions, share their insights, and consider other perspectives.
Trust & Safety – Tooling, Moderator Resources, Moderation and Governance, Regulatory Challenges
Demos – NodeBB, Distributed.Press, PieFed, ActivityPods, Sora
Standards – Interoperability, Protocol Extensions, Different flavors of ActivityPub like RDFpub
Identity – DIDs, Ownership, Identity Re-use across services, identity attestation/verification
Live Coverage
We want to try to do something different for this FediForum: treat it like an Apple WWDC event. We’re going to attempt live coverage of the talks, demos, and events during the two-day unconference. The goal is to provide an insight into major developments happening across the Fediverse, with an emphasis on ideas and initiatives to help make the network better.
We’re currently experimenting with some tools to make it possible, but we think that there will be a lot of big presentations that need to be covered. Keep an eye on our site next week during the conference!
Tickets are Still Available!
You can still hop over to the FediForum site and order tickets to attend. The following pricing tiers are below:
General Ticket – $40
Almost Free Ticket – $199
Contributor Ticket – $100
Platform Employee Ticket – $250
If you have the funds to spare, we highly encourage going with the $100 Contributor Ticket. This helps offset the cost of $1.99 Almost Free Tickets for attendees that might not be able to attend otherwise.
We can’t wait to see what everyone has to share next week! Join us if you’re able, and check in on We Distribute next week for live coverage of event discussions.
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Following its investigation, the EDPS has found that the European Commission (Commission) has infringed several key data protection rules when using Microsoft 365. In its decision, the EDPS imposes corrective measures on the Commission.
Cosa ne pensate del fatto che grazie al fediverso e ad activitypub stiamo connettendo tante piattaforme diverse come Wordpress in modo da creare un web aperto, libero e rispettoso di standard aperti e condivisi?
A me piace, l'unico problema è che se scelgo un server in lingua straniera e provo a postare in italiano mi sembra di parlare da solo. O forse è solo un impressione perché uso il fedi da poco e ho pochi contatti. Comunque adoro Lemmy e Iceshrimp come software per navigare il Fediverso
Rimangono delle perplessità, IMHO, sui meccanismi della federazione (soprattutto sulla gestione dei conflitti tra persone e la democrazia nella gestione dei processi) e soprattutto sulla reale possibilità di migrare un account personale da un server all'altro, che è ancora da migliorare IMHO
(per esempio su Mastodon non si possono migrare bene i messaggi e la history, tantomeno gli allegati caricati)
@opensoul si la migrazione è ancora incompleta, ma ci saranno miglioramenti, per quanto riguarda la democrazia ci sono già gruppi Matrix che servono per discutere e votare le scelte su mastodon uno.
Introducing Loops, a fediverse TikTok platform.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •GitHub - mahomedalid/mastodon-rss-dotnet-bot: Very simple Command-Line based Mastodon RSS dotnet bot
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It is, it's really handy! Many PeerTube accounts are podcasts, you can use PeerTube as a podcast publishing platform if you want.
Powersource
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in reply to William • • •Yes! It's so useful and easy and impressive to just enter an RSS feed into search and click follow 🤩
It could also get RSS back into the public consciousness if more social networks had this feature. Every Fedi platform ought to offer this.
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