#feddit funziona un po' come i vecchi forum e un po' come i gruppi di discussione. E' suddivisa per argomenti di interesse e anche noi abbiamo un gruppo seguibile anche da mastodon:
credo di si, fra l'altro è possibile ripubblicare quello che scrivete su mastodon che è più adatto per le emergenza 24h, feddit è strutturato per argomenti, ma dovremo chiedere al responsabile @informapirata se per lui è fattibile un gruppo emergenze 24 su feddit.it
@emergenza24 @informapirata sicuramente feddit.it è molto ben moderato, c'è tolleranza zero verso la tossicità dei social tradizionali e ultimamente è il social che sta crescendo di più nel fediverso.
@basketshoes @emergenza24 non è un problema tuo e allo stesso tempo non c'è alcun errore. Ci sono eventi inspiegabili, ma questo no: è solo troppo lungo da spiegare 😅
What's Changed
Fix: PHP 8.1 compatibility by @mattwiebe in #533
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L’anno scorso era stata la siccità a mandare all’aria i piani. Questa volta, invece, sono stati gli organizzatori a fare il possibile per far saltare tutto.
Investimenti milionari (in parte coperti dai soldi dei contribuenti), mesi e mesi di lavoro tra uffici e ghiacciaio, una campagna di comunicazione dai toni trionfalistici che va avanti da quasi due anni, la politica (quasi) tutta schierata a favore d…
- Pebble spegne e avvia un server Mastodon - Mastodon prevede l'aggiornamento 4.3 - Registri di sviluppo Kbin e Mbin - riflessioni sul primo anniversario dall'inizio della migrazione di Twitter - il prossimo server fediverso di Mozilla - Pixelfed ha semplificato la registrazione per i nuovi utenti - Pleroma ha rilasciato un aggiornamento significativo e recentemente ha ottenuto anche un finanziamento NLnet
It’s been exactly one year since I joined to the Fediverse. Let me tell you my Fediverse story. It does not fit in 500 characters, but glad I have 10000 here.
It first started with Musk tweeting about the sink. I had already given up on Twitter couple of years prior this, but that was the final straw. I saw people talking about Mastodon and I was skeptical. First I looked at mastodon.social, but quickly noticed the username rolle is taken. "That’s it, then", I angrily tweeted that I do not want to join with another nickname, I’m rolle eveywhere AND THE NICK IS TAKEN. Someone immediately pointed out that I should join another instance. An instance, what's that, huh? I then joined to a Finnish instance mastodontti.fi and quickly learned no English is allowed. A moderator pointed out that I should remove my post. Again, I angrily tweeted THAT'S IT THEN, MASTODON SUCKS, STUPID RULES. Another user politely explained that each instance has their own rules, why don't you create another account. An instance, huh?
I quickly learned about the nature of the service. I vaguely remember favoriting tootsuite/mastodon back in 2017 and thought it was just a forum-kinda software back then, for one small community. I consider myself quite witty but I didn't realize Mastodon servers are interconnected. So I joined mstdn.social. And how fun was that! I was elated! My head exploded when I realized how active it was and how amazing the community is.
But then the sudden influx of users made mstdn.social slow and unresponsive. I was thinking about building my own instance, after all I'm a server guy. During 5th of November, 2022, I got my instance up and running, #MementoMoriSocial was born: mementomori.social/@rolle/1092…
I wanted my instance to be well federated and active from the start. I followed everyone, I still do. I use a dozen active relays. I managed to finance the instance through my company and get a bit more powerful hardware than necessary. I was alone on my instance first, then invited my wife, colleague and my company.
What I liked in the Fediverse is that I can build my own tools, I own my data and I can help making things better. I have contributed to things via form of:
I'm very pleased I can have fun and make my own things while other people like it as well. I first thought all this would be a huge cause of mental stress but it's been on the contrary.
After a couple of months of successful running I opened my instance to the world. Now there's about 150 active users from companies to regular folk and everything has been running smoothly. I have been able to moderate because I require a reason for joining to my instance, so I really do know who the people are. I also welcome each user personally. I know my shit thoroughly and completely. This is why it has been easy to moderate. I've been able to be mostly absent during regular week days from 8am to 6pm, but still be aware of what's happening via effective monitoring, good apps and infrastructure.
For me the key thing is to optimize everything to the tooth. I also regulate my own social media usage, because I get too easily hooked. Mastodon and all its tools have taken an enormous amount of time, but it's been really fun, didn't even notice a full year has passed.
As for the Finnish community, there were thousands of active users, I kept a list. However, for some reason lately the narrative everywhere about Mastodon is that it is difficult and it has no future and people have mostly left to Bluesky. I kinda get that, because even for me starting last year was messy. But things get better, I wish more people would see that.
Mastodon is special. The Fediverse is special. Here's to another year! 🎉
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Mga kababayan! Malugod naming ipinakikilala sa inyo ang OkBet, ang pinakabagong destinasyon ng online casino sa Pilipinas. Sa OkBet, nagbibigay kami ng kamangha-manghang karanasan pagdating sa online sugalan na tiyak na magpapasaya sa inyo.
Mastodon shares some plans for future updates, social network Pebble shuts down and starts a Mastodon experiment, and more information about Mozilla's fediverse project.
Un quotidiano indipendente, un sito web che non vende i tuoi dati, una homepage senza finestre pubblicitarie. Ma soprattutto, un campo visivo differente.
«I social network hanno assunto un’importanza cruciale nelle nostre vite, pervadendone quasi ogni aspetto. Li usiamo per comunicare, informarci, svagarci e spesso anche per lavorare o promuovere le nostre attività»
@FronteAmpio Natale Salvo ha saputo cogliere l'essenziale di Mastodon e le radicali differenze con altri social. È molto importante realizzare qualcosa di diverso da quello che non ci piace e questo è un ottimo esempio
Il valore di una donazione non è determinato dalla "moneta", ma dall'"intenzione".
L'intenzione di sostenere una visione condivisa di comunità. In questo senso un singolo centesimo vale come un euro.
Quando donate a #MastodonUno, partecipate attivamente alla comunità, contribuite a prendervene cura e a farla crescere su un orizzonte condiviso, meno alienato, meno tossico, più umano.
Di questi tempi ne abbiamo più bisogno che mai.
Siate sempre fieri e orgogliosi di quel centesimo. 😎
Ciao a tutti, avrei alcune domande tecniche riguardanti la federazione. Le risposte supportate dalla documentazione sarebbero perfette.
Esiste un modo per ottenere l'elenco delle istanze federate di un'istanza specifica?
(Per quanto riguarda la domanda 1, questo dovrebbe considerare i follower attivi tra le istanze? Se non vengono defederati/bloccati attivamente, quando un account ne segue un altro da un'altra istanza, le due istanze vengono federate, giusto?)
Posso ottenere un elenco delle istanze attivamente bloccate/defederate/disattivate?
Come cambia tra le applicazioni? Ad esempio Lemmy e Mastodon sono la stessa cosa?
Il mio obiettivo è possibilmente creare un'analisi grafico/di rete.
1. Dipende dal codice del software utilizzato per l'esecuzione dell'istanza e dalla volontà o meno dell'amministratore di pubblicare oppure no l'elenco delle istanze bloccate o silenziate, ma di solito puoi trovare nella pagina delle informazioni dell'istanza questi dati. Tendenzialmente Sarebbe preferibile inserire questo elenco tra le informazioni utili per l'utente, ma in alcuni casi Potrebbe essere meglio evitare di citare alcune di queste distanze bloccate, dal momento che c'è chi potrebbe utilizzare quelle informazioni per fare inutili polemiche o peggio ancora per cercare Le istanze più schifose del fediverso.
2. Non so se ho capito bene la domanda, ma Se ho capito bene, dovresti avere compreso correttamente i meccanismi della federazione a: Nel preciso momento in cui un utente di una istanza ricerca e trova un contenuto o un utente presente in un'altra istanza, quelle due istanze sono federate. A tendere Le istanze si federano tutte, Ma è chiaro che Le istanze con un maggior numero di utenti presentano connessioni maggiori con le altre istanze.
3. Come specificato al punto 1, la pagina delle informazioni non reca sempre questi dati, ma puoi avvalerti di un sistema piuttosto valido e funzionante al seguente link: fba.ryona.agency/
4. No, si tratta di applicazioni radicalmente diverse ma che hanno un comune denominatore nell'utilizzo del protocollo ActivityPub, pertanto pur essendo diverse possono comunicare e interagire tra loro
Ti ringrazio. In sostanza, mi conviene cercare direttamente nella documentazione dei vari progetti e vedere che salta fuori. L'idea è avere almeno un'idea di quanta roba non sarebbe trovabile da un utente iscritto ad una determinata istanza che ne blocca altre. Sulla base di questi blocchi potrei sentirmi più o meno interessato a consigliare una determinata istanza ad una persona che vuole un nuovo account sul fediverso. Ad esempio, se mi aspetto un cifro di contenuto, ma anche essere su un'istanza piccolina, significa che non devo aver bloccato altre istanze
Credo che si basi su un meccanismo di exclude list. In pratica tutti sono federati con tutti a meno che l'admin di un instanza escluda una particolare instanza (e c'è una pagina per vedere le istanze escluse).
Ma credo che stai domandando e ciò che vuoi sono due cose diverse.
A te interessa quanta "roba" puoi vedere da un'instanza se vai su "all". E qui le cose cambiano perché i server sincronizzano solo le community a cui almeno uno dei loro utenti abbia sottoscritto.
Per esempio mi aspetto pochi contenuti da instanze olandesi su feddit.it perché poche persone italiofone sottoscrivono esplicitamente community sulle instanze olandesi. Quindi feddit.it non sincronizza.
In pratica il numero di utenti dell'instanza è molto più importante che non le excludelist
Per esempio mi aspetto pochi contenuti da instanze olandesi su feddit.it perché poche persone italiofone sottoscrivono esplicitamente community sulle instanze olandesi.
Esattamente. Infatti anche se con Lemmy c'è un ulteriore aspetto da prendere in considerazione. Infatti anche un'istanza molto connessa feddit.it (qui l'elenco di tutte le istanze) risente della logica su cui è basato un software come Lemmy. Qui infatti gli utenti non possono seguire altri utenti e non si verifica quello che si verifica su mastodon dove tu vedi praticamente gli aggiornamenti di tutti i collegamenti di secondo grado, mentre gli utenti possono seguire solo le comunità. Questo però significa che se qualche utente della nostra istanza segue la comunità di un'altra istanza, non si vedranno nella Timeline generale i contenuti che provengono da altre comunità di quella stessa istanza. Naturalmente, basta solo un utente che segua una comunità molto seguita E con molte reazioni affinché essa possa essere riportata nella Timeline generale
I presenti orientamenti etici sull’utilizzo dell’IA e dei dati nell’insegnamento e nell’apprendimento sono concepiti per aiutare gli educatori a comprendere il potenziale delle applicazioni di IA e dell’utilizzo dei dati per l’istruzione, e per sensi…
Exciting to follow the work done by the UXDI team, who is using Bonfire as a case study to research and prototype a governance module for federated communities. Big thanks to @mavita and the rest of the team 😀 Thanks @edumerco for pushing us to participate, must say we've been selected by an amazing team! #CommunityGovernance #UXDI
*Fediparty update, October 2023*
Hi, fedizens! Long time no see.
@lostinlight h
https://mastodon.xyz/users/lightone
Fediparty update, October 2023
Hi, fedizens! Long time no see.
@lostinlight here 👋, with a small announcement and a big question for everyone who’s still reading this blog or RSS feed (is anyone out there? 😀
Once upon a time Fediverse.Party tried to keep up with everything going on in Fedi. We posted about latest software releases and developments on the Chronicles page, via RSS and Friendica account. But no new posts have appeared for a long time.
It’s because there’re three great sources of Fediverse news now: fediversereport.com, wedistribute.org, and @weekinfediverse. They cover all the stories happening in our federated universe. Following them is the best way to stay well-informed!
What shall happen to Chronicles page of this website then? Removing it would not be right; yearly Fediverse recaps and Birthday posts should remain at least for the sake of history. Now that we have a Boosty page, I think it’ll be useful to post about website updates on a somewhat regular basis. Like release notes, but for a website. I hope it’ll help readers find out about new ActivityPub tools and Fediverse-related projects (even though some of the projects added to Software and Developer tools pages are not new, it just took a long time to find them).
So, here goes the summary of October site updates.
GhostCMS ActivityPub – an ExpressJS server that integrates with GhostCMS webhooks to publish ActivityPub content on the Fediverse;
Mobilizon Crossposter – a modular crossposter to bridge events from external sources to Mobilizon;
M-OAuth – access token generator for Akkoma, Pleroma, Mastodon APIs;
idkfa – proxy designed to consolidate multiple AP actors; it presents a single unified activity interface to the outside world, while communicating with a cornucopia of internal servers;
Hatsu – self-hosted and fully automated ActivityPub bridge for static sites;
Fedipage – Hugo based static page generator and blog with ActivityPub support;
ActivityPub Test Suite – server-independent, full-automated test suite primary focused on ActivityPub server compliance testing;
Lemmy Automoderator – automated removal of Lemmy posts, comments based on title, content or link; user whitelisting and exceptions for moderators;
Lemmy Migrate – migrate your subscribed Lemmy communites to a new account;
Lemmy Schedule – app for scheduling posts, pins/unpins and notifications about new content in Lemmy;
Fedi safety – script that goes through Lemmy images in storage and tries to prevent illegal or unethical content;
FediFetcher – tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other Fediverse instances and adds them to your own Mastodon instance;
GetMoarFediverse – import content into your instance that’s tagged with hashtags you’re interested in;
FakeRelay – an API to index statuses on Mastodon acting as a relay;
masto-backfill – fetches old posts on your Mastodon, Pleroma or compatible instance(s);
Analytodon – monitor follower growth, identify popular posts, track boosts, favorites, and much more; can be self-hosted;
LASIM – move your Lemmy settings from one account to another;
Pythörhead – Python library for interacting with Lemmy;
Granary – social web translator; it fetches and converts data between social networks, HTML and JSON, ActivityStreams/ActivityPub, and more;
Combine.social – combine remote and local timelines; pre-fetch all missing replies in your home timeline;
ActivityColander – Fediverse spam gateway, designed to keep unwanted messages from either reaching your ActivityPub server, or tagging them for handling later.
Other improvements
There’s a new filter by license on Software page. And Lemmy was added to the frontpage.
UX research
Now comes the big question for all the readers of this blog and users of Fediparty website. We’ve been with you for more than 5 years, but never asked you how you’re using this site. What are the pages you visit most often? What pages or features you find most useful? Which ones you find poorly designed?
Any ideas, suggestions, complaints, feedback you have, please, share with us! Here’s a special Codeberg issue for it. Or you can write your suggestions as an answer to this Mastodon post.
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.
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.
@Ilarioq queste emoji non sono presenti nella tua istanza quindi non c'è modo di inserirle nel nome del tuo profilo. Vengono aggiunte dall'admin di istanza, quindi o te le fai mettere o rimani senza (oppure ti trasferisci un un'istanza che ha queste emoji 😉 )
The Verge writes about publishing on the internet, and how their plans for the future include the fediverse. New rules at Twitch provide an opportunity for Owncast. Stars will be hearts.
Awesome, thanks! Lists are by far the most useful feature of Mastodon for me, coupled with the twitterdeck-like interface. Glad to see them becoming more useful on mobile. 😀
I've created columns with selected members in them. 'Lists' seems an extra step since they can also only include followed members. Saves having to repeat aggregating members at time of each column creation. Can lists created by other members be copied and used (with non-followed members not displayed until followed)?
si j'ai bien compris la nouvelle fonctionnalité des listes sur mastodonte sur Android c'est un peu comme les cercles de Twitter c'est faire des publications pour des personnes que l'on a sélectionné
How good is it to see people in the comments arguing about which is the best app! That's the sign of a healthy and vibrant Social Media Community. Different people will always appreciate different apps, and that's why we need variety.
I have an issue with your app when trying to mention someone while using TalkBack. After typing @ and the first initial of the person I want to mention, it doesn’t verbalize the list of available users.
Do you prefer to attentively read all your Home TL toots in natural/chronological order (upwards)?
Would you like that the "Load missing posts" button kept the scroll position instead of taking you to the top of the loaded posts and making you have to remember where you were and scroll back to it?
It allows the user to, if they prefer, loading missing posts from the oldest post onwards (upwards).
I understand that new features should be suggested on the iOS app repo, vetted, planned, coordin...
me encanta como han mejorado tanto la interfaz de @Mastodon para #Android 👍🏼😁 muy ligera y ahora se puede ver mejor las tendencia y me gusta las sugerencias que va dando, excelente trabajo.
but did you fix the most annoying thing? The get new posts ribbon loses your place and then you have to scroll all over the place trying to find your place at last read root. Can't believe you shipped v1 with that annoying behavior.
Would it be possible to have a heart instead of a star when liking a post ? The heart is universal to mean that you like a post. The star indicates that you've bookmarked a post. But liking and bookmarking are not the same thing !
Accordo storico su chatcontrol: il parlamento europeo vuole salvaguardare la crittografia sicura
Questa settimana, i negoziatori del Parlamento europeo hanno raggiunto un accordo ad ampia maggioranza su una posizione comune riguardante il controverso disegno di legge UE su #chatcontrol
mancano pochi mesi e poi questi commissari da operetta se ne andranno a quel paese. Speriamo di votare un parlamento migliore che elegga una commissione al di sopra di ogni sospetto
In caso vincesse una coalizione con i conservatori, bisognerà fare la stessa lotta e con strategia più forti ed efficaci per evitare il ritorno di chat control e di cose ben peggiori.
Ieri siamo intervenutə a Le dita nella presa, trasmissione di approfondimento tecnologico di Radio @ondarossa. Si è parlato di fediverso, puntarella.party ma anche di gattini e @ChieseBrutte.
@mastohost I am the maintainer of the WordPress ActivityPub plugin and we have issues that POST request (mostly) from Masto.host will not be sent to our WordPress.com servers!
I checked with our systems team, that the IPs are not blocked (I see a lot of GET requests) but I can't find any POST in the logs of the Webserver and the Application.
Can you maybe help me with the debugging of the issue?
Steps to reproduce the problem Go to for example mastodon.art Search for pfefferle@notiz.blog Press "Follow" button Expected behaviour Mastodon user follows WordPress User Actual behaviour Process ...
La recente crescita ergonomica e funzionale di Pixelfed non ha eguali in nessun altra piattaforma dle fediverso. Ora è il momento del supporto WebP2P per i video!
Implements WebP2P support for local video that uses peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when viewing video.
Configuration
For more info, view the WebP2P documentation
To en...
Implements WebP2P support for local video that uses peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when viewing video.
Configuration
For more info, view the WebP2P documentation
To en...
Il Fediverso è un’alternativa aperta, gratuita e non commerciale alle piattaforme convenzionali. Ma i server devono essere pagati, i post moderati e la tecnologia deve essere mantenuta in funzione. Quanto costa effettivamente e quanto tempo dedicano gli operatori alle loro istanze Mastodon?
Il Fediverso è un’alternativa aperta, gratuita e non commerciale alle piattaforme convenzionali. Ma i server devono essere pagati, i post moderati e la tecnologia deve essere mantenuta in funzione. Quanto costa effettivamente e quanto tempo dedicano gli operatori alle loro istanze Mastodon?
Three stories that all relate to governance, in their own different ways. Mbin is a new fork of Kbin, due to governance issues at Kbin. A research paper on that gives some structure to how different Mastodon servers organise their rules.
Esattamente un anno fa abbiamo creato un'istanza dedicata a GIORNALISTI e a SCIENZIATI: Elon Musk è così carino che ci ha voluto fare questo bel regalo di compleanno...😁 😄 🤣
Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
Il Fediverso è un’alternativa aperta, gratuita e non commerciale alle piattaforme convenzionali. Ma i server devono essere pagati, i post moderati e la tecnologia deve essere mantenuta in funzione. Quanto costa effettivamente e quanto tempo dedicano gli operatori alle loro istanze Mastodon?
@nolan certo, ma il messaggio linkato è quello del fondatore di mastodon, quindi ci sta la focalizzazione sulla sua piattaforma (che comunque raccoglie la maggioranza degli utenti del fediverso)
@crypt0_ss a dire il vero, ci sono diversi punti di vulnerabilità, ma la forza del fediverso è anche nel fatto che i suoi utenti tipo non entrano in astinenza se restano offline per qualche ora o se non riescono a iscriversi per mezza giornata... 😁
Next November 10-12 in Naples there will be the 2nd edition of the Reclaim The Tech festival! We're thrilled to contribute in a laboratory exploring "Participatory, Inclusive, and Community-centered Technologies as alternatives to capitalist platform". Kudos to the great community bringing all of this to life! See you in Naples - Ci vediamo a Napoli! 🎉 Check out the agenda: reclaimthetech.it/programma-la…
ProgrAmmA Rtt lAb 10 novembre 11 novembre 12 novembre SpAzi e stAnd Il programma del Laboratorio che si svolgerà a Napoli dal 10 al 12 novembre è auto-organizzato e ha preso vita dalle oltre 160 sottoscrizioni e 70 proposte di attività, interventi, b…
Se a qualcuno che usa Soapbox e Rebased interessa, ho pubblicato, adattando una cosa trovata su Github, un oggettino che estrae alcune statistiche sull'istanza e le pubblica in dashboard per Grafana (non ho fatto io nemmeno quella, ho chiesto a qualcuno più bravo di me). github.com/chiaraepoi/soapbox-…
Questo trasferimento di proprietà del server ha innescato una discussione da parte del giornalista etiope Zecharias Zelalem, che si è allontanato dal server journa.host a seguito di questo trasferimento di proprietà. Nei suoi post sottolinea i rischi reali che derivano dall'essere un giornalista, soprattutto nel suo contesto. Il trasferimento dei dati personali dei giornalisti e il controllo della loro presenza sui social media alla nuova proprietà senza alcun preavviso e spiegazione solleva interrogativi sulle considerazioni dei precedenti proprietari su questo trasferimento. Uno dei punti sollevati è che ci sono poche informazioni disponibili sull'identità del nuovo proprietario, Jeff Brown. È comprensibile che i giornalisti si sentano a disagio quando non è chiaro chi sia responsabile di una parte importante della loro presenza digitale. Allo stesso tempo, la maggior parte dei server non è finanziariamente sostenibile e non si può presumere che anche i server che ricevono finanziamenti da luoghi affidabili rimangano operativi per sempre quando i fondi si esauriscono. Nel frattempo, sotto la nuova proprietà, journal.host consentirà nuovamente la registrazione di nuove applicazioni per il server journal.host.
Dan Hon ha scritto un articolo interessante sulla situazione, tracciando parallelismi con il nuovo libro di Cory Doctorow "The Internet Con", che vale la pena leggere. Sta anche ospitando un incontro digitale per piccoli gruppi "Giornalismo, notizie e social network federati", organizzato anche in risposta a questa conversazione. Qui puoi trovare ulteriori informazioni su questo incontro "Hallway Track".
Le nostre considerazioni sulla vicenda
Quando abbiamo creato l'istanza mastodon poliversity.it, dedicata agli accademici e ai giornalisti, ci siamo resi conto che mentre gli accademici hanno iniziato a frequentarla, i giornalisti l'hanno praticamente disertata, preferendo stare dentro istanze generaliste come mastodon.uno o la gigantesca mastodon.social Ma altri hanno preferito iscriversi nelle due istanze tematiche anglofone più grandi dedicate al giornalismo, newsie.social e journa.host. Il motivo dichiarato è che i giornalisti preferivano stare nei luoghi più comodi, più frequentati o più esclusivi. Insomma, preferivano Un posto al sole...
Ma questa individuazione dell'istanza del fediverso più affollata nasconde la pigrizia tipica della maggior parte dei giornalisti oltre alla impellente necessità di mettersi in mostra. Quando abbiamo creato la nostra istanza dedicata al giornalismo, abbiamo sempre affermato che si doveva trattare di una soluzione temporanea, in attesa di fare in modo che i giornalisti stessi creassero delle proprie istanze, legate alla piattaforma editoriale per cui già lavoravano o ai consorzi di cui fanno parte alcuni dei migliori giornalisti italiani ed esteri.
Invece questi progetti non sono ancora nati. In questo senso, troviamo che le lamentazioni di Zecharias Zelalem siano stucchevoli: non riguardano l'orgoglio del giornalismo, ma la semplice lamentela del giornalista che si vede cambiare padrone, che si vede cambiare il soggetto ospitante Anche l'accusa nei confronti di Jeff Brown ossia quella di non essere un giornalista, è una cosa volgare che manca totalmente l'obiettivo: Il fatto è che Jeff Brown non deve essere un giornalista ma al massimo deve essere un bravo "editore"! Il punto però è che il fediverso consente a ciascun giornalista o a ciascun gruppo di giornalisti di essere editore di se stesso. L'incapacità di comprendere la realtà da parte proprio di quei soggetti che dovrebbero raccontarle, è al nostro avviso l'aspetto più problematico e in un certo senso oscena di tutta questa vicenda.
Welcome! Lots of individual news stories this week, with some implications about how the network currently functions and operates. WordPress is actively expanding the network by allowing all blogs on the free wordpress.com plan to become part of the fediverse. While discussions about server ownership put questions at what is expected to be an operator of a fediverse server.
WordPress.com officially connects to the fediverse
The major news of the week is that WordPress.com now can connect to the fediverse via the ActivityPub plugin. A few weeks ago I already reported on the official launch of the plugin (which had been in beta for a long while), when it became available for people who are self-hosting their WordPress site. It is now also available for everyone who uses WordPress via WordPress.com, including people on a free plan. The news got some significant attention by other technews sites as well. Current usage of the new connection can be seen here.
People in the fediverse are understandably excited by this development, and frame it in a hopeful perspective of growth, for example, by focusing on how many websites run WordPress that can now join the fediverse. The fediverse and its cultural conventions are currently dominated by the microblogging side of the community. The potential inflow of blogs and websites into the fediverse poses new questions that deserve contemplation. These issues are not new, fediverse software like WriteFreely and Plume have been around for years. What is different is how people in the fediverse are positioning WordPress in a context of growth, by accentuation how many websites on the internet run WordPress. They ask the reader explicitly to imagine a future in which millions of WordPress websites have connected to the fediverse. The prospect of millions of sites connected to the fediverse also makes questions about current culture and norms in the fediverse more top-of-mind: How do current social norms around search and indexing in the fediverse collide with the different expectations around search on the rest of the web? What does a good user experience looks like for a feed that contains posts with less than 500 characters, interspersed with a blog post of 10.000 words? What does content moderation look like in a world where there are thousands, if not millions of websites connected to the fediverse, that are all effectively their own servers?
This move of server ownership sparked a thread by Ethiopian journalist Zecharias Zelalem, who moved away from the journa.host server as a result of this transfer of ownership. In his posts, he points the actual real risks that come with being a journalist, especially so in his context. Transferring journalists’ personal data, and control of their social media presence, to new ownership without any real notice and explanation does raises questions about the considerations from the previous owners about this move. One of the points that was raised is that there is little information available on the identity of the new owner, Jeff Brown. It is understandable for journalists to get uncomfortable when it is unclear who is responsible for an important part of their digital presence. At the same time, most servers are not financially sustainable, and even servers who get funding from reputable places cannot be assumed by default to stay in operation forever when funding runs out. Meanwhile, under the new ownership journa.host will allow new applications for signups again for the journa.host server.
Dan Hon wrote an interesting article on the situation, and drawing parallels with Cory Doctorow’s new book ‘The Internet Con’, which is worth reading. He is also hosting a small group digital meeting ‘Journalism, News, and Federated Social Networks’, which got set up as a response to this conversation as well. You can find more about this ‘Hallway Track’ meeting here.
IFTAS moderator needs assessment
IFTAS, the non-profit organisation for Trust and Safety on the fediverse, has released the results of their recent assessments of the needs of fediverse moderators. The entire results can be found here, and are worth checking out. Some of the noteworthy results: few servers (17%) have 24 hour moderator coverage. Most servers lose money, and most moderators are unpaid. Half of the respondents use shared block lists, such as Oliphant’s lists. What also stands out is the variety of moderator communities that are in use, that all only are used by a small part of the moderator community. There is not a clear single community for moderators that is used by the de-facto default.
On Bluesky interoperability
With Bluesky getting more popular, the conversation of interoperability between the fediverse and Bluesky/ATProtocol has come up again. In the GitHub for the AT Protocol, Bluesky engineer Brian Newbold gives a detailed answer about the various parts of interoperability between the network. The direct answer is that “it is not on the Bluesky roadmap”, but the answer also identifies which parts of interoperability could probably work, which parts are difficult from a technical perspective, and which parts are hard from a cultural perspective. Another interesting suggestion that came up is the possibility of fully embedding posts on its opposite platform, allowing for a kind of quote-posting across networks.
Mastodon user count update
Eugen Rochko gave a short update this week, indicating that the joinmastodon.org website had been undercounting data for the period between October 2nd and October 9th. The undercounting accounting for some 400k MAU and 2.3m total accounts, which only happened during the timeframe of the previous week. This got picked up by some media outlets and spread around the feeds. However, the news was framed mainly in the context that Mastodon had a lot more users than expected, which is not really correct: Mastodon has the expected amount of users, and news of the gain in numbers should have been properly accompanied with an equal loss in the week before. Getting reliable data about user numbers is fairly difficult, with multiple sources providing quite different values. joinmastodon.org lists 1.8M MAU for Mastodon currently, while fedidb.org gives 1.4M MAU for the entire fediverse. It is unclear which of these sources is more reliable. Personally, I tend to use fedidb.org, as this provides data over time, so trends can be visible.
Twittermigration report
Tim Chambers has been documenting the Twitter Migration (X Migration now) over the last year, releasing an extensive report every quarter. The latest update for Q3 2023 has just been released, and it’s worth checking out. It documents in detail the many issues that X currently faces. It also gives some good data on the growth and usage of Threads. After an explosive launch, reading 100M accounts in a week, activity cooled significantly immediately after. In the months that followed, growth and usage has stabilised. Threads is now estimated to grow at 1 million accounts every two weeks, roughly four times as much as Bluesky is currently growing.
The report indicates that the other two main beneficiaries of the X migration are Mastodon and Bluesky. One way that the report measures this is by looking how many X accounts have a handle for their account on a different network in their profile. The mentions of Mastodon are significantly bigger than Bluesky here, but are stagnating, while Bluesky’s numbers are rapidly growing. This trend is also visible in the account signup numbers for both Mastodon and Bluesky.
The report also distinguishes a Developer migration, and notes organisations that are currently working on providing ActivityPub integration, such as Automattic with WordPress, Flipboard, Mozilla, as well as other networks such as Threads, Tumblr and Post.news. No organisation is talking about using the AT Proto network currently. This is why the report quotes Nilay Patel (from February 23), where he states that ActivityPub is where the app developers are. This seems to be holding up regarding companies and organisations, who are all focused on ActivityPub. Individual hobby developers seem to be a different matter though, where the AT Protocol seems to be of significant interest: the largest individual developer community for ActivityPub has less than 200 users, while the Discord for developers for AT Protocol has almost ten times as much, close to 2000.
The links
SURF, the Mastodon project the Dutch higher education system, has a chance to win the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory award.
Confirmation that Mozilla’s new fediverse server, mozilla.social, will use people’s Firefox account to log in.
A podcast about the fediverse from the perspective of advertisers
A podcast by Manton Reece, the creator of micro.blog, about ActivityPub support in WordPress.com and its impact on Micro.blog
Renaud Chaput is now officially the CTO for Mastodon. As the organisation still has very limited funding, this is currently still a volunteer position.
That’s all for this week. If you want to receive this update every Sunday directly in your mailbox, subscribe below:
While advertisers are still scratching the surface of the next iteration of social media, Martin Pagh Ludvigsen, director of creative technology and AI at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners is ready to pitch the fediverse.
@outlook C'è gente, come Zecharias, che RISCHIA LA PELLE per fare il giornalista, e magari non gli va molto a genio far sapere i suoi affari personali a sconosciuti dei quali non si trovano molte tracce in giro.
Se qualcunә riesce a dimostrare che Jeff Brown non è uno delle tante Wanna Marchi della rete, che cerca solo polli da mungere… sarà una buona notizia.
Dài @GustavinoBevilacqua conosci troppo bene il fediverso per capire che non è questo il punto! Se hai bisogno di sicurezza, non devi cercare la "fiducia" di nessuno, ma devi solo avere il "controllo"!
Se vuoi usare l'istanza di un altro, il minimo che devi (Minimo che DEVI) fare è iscriverti con protonmail e collegarti con TOR project.
L'ottimale è crearti una tua istanza e comunicare solo con sistemi crittati (matrix, signal, session, etc)
> dimostrare che Jeff Brown non è uno delle tante Wanna Marchi della rete, che cerca solo polli da mungere… sarà una buona notizia.
Questo è indifferente, così come lo è il fatto che sia o non sia un giornalista (per me è un "editore di fatto" e si posiziona nell'intervallo tra Wikileaks ed Elon Musk!): quello che conta è chi sei tu, utente che ti iscrivi là dentro...
Welcome! Lots of individual news stories this week, with some implications about how the network currently functions and operates. WordPress is actively expanding the network by allowing all blogs on the free wordpress.com plan to become part of the fediverse. While discussions about server ownership put questions at what is expected to be an operator of a fediverse server.
WordPress.com officially connects to the fediverse
The major news of the week is that WordPress.com now can connect to the fediverse via the ActivityPub plugin. A few weeks ago I already reported on the official launch of the plugin (which had been in beta for a long while), when it became available for people who are self-hosting their WordPress site. It is now also available for everyone who uses WordPress via WordPress.com, including people on a free plan. The news got some significant attention by other technews sites as well. Current usage of the new connection can be seen here.
People in the fediverse are understandably excited by this development, and frame it in a hopeful perspective of growth, for example, by focusing on how many websites run WordPress that can now join the fediverse. The fediverse and its cultural conventions are currently dominated by the microblogging side of the community. The potential inflow of blogs and websites into the fediverse poses new questions that deserve contemplation. These issues are not new, fediverse software like WriteFreely and Plume have been around for years. What is different is how people in the fediverse are positioning WordPress in a context of growth, by accentuation how many websites on the internet run WordPress. They ask the reader explicitly to imagine a future in which millions of WordPress websites have connected to the fediverse. The prospect of millions of sites connected to the fediverse also makes questions about current culture and norms in the fediverse more top-of-mind: How do current social norms around search and indexing in the fediverse collide with the different expectations around search on the rest of the web? What does a good user experience looks like for a feed that contains posts with less than 500 characters, interspersed with a blog post of 10.000 words? What does content moderation look like in a world where there are thousands, if not millions of websites connected to the fediverse, that are all effectively their own servers?
This move of server ownership sparked a thread by Ethiopian journalist Zecharias Zelalem, who moved away from the journa.host server as a result of this transfer of ownership. In his posts, he points the actual real risks that come with being a journalist, especially so in his context. Transferring journalists’ personal data, and control of their social media presence, to new ownership without any real notice and explanation does raises questions about the considerations from the previous owners about this move. One of the points that was raised is that there is little information available on the identity of the new owner, Jeff Brown. It is understandable for journalists to get uncomfortable when it is unclear who is responsible for an important part of their digital presence. At the same time, most servers are not financially sustainable, and even servers who get funding from reputable places cannot be assumed by default to stay in operation forever when funding runs out. Meanwhile, under the new ownership journa.host will allow new applications for signups again for the journa.host server.
Dan Hon wrote an interesting article on the situation, and drawing parallels with Cory Doctorow’s new book ‘The Internet Con’, which is worth reading. He is also hosting a small group digital meeting ‘Journalism, News, and Federated Social Networks’, which got set up as a response to this conversation as well. You can find more about this ‘Hallway Track’ meeting here.
IFTAS moderator needs assessment
IFTAS, the non-profit organisation for Trust and Safety on the fediverse, has released the results of their recent assessments of the needs of fediverse moderators. The entire results can be found here, and are worth checking out. Some of the noteworthy results: few servers (17%) have 24 hour moderator coverage. Most servers lose money, and most moderators are unpaid. Half of the respondents use shared block lists, such as Oliphant’s lists. What also stands out is the variety of moderator communities that are in use, that all only are used by a small part of the moderator community. There is not a clear single community for moderators that is used by the de-facto default.
On Bluesky interoperability
With Bluesky getting more popular, the conversation of interoperability between the fediverse and Bluesky/ATProtocol has come up again. In the GitHub for the AT Protocol, Bluesky engineer Brian Newbold gives a detailed answer about the various parts of interoperability between the network. The direct answer is that “it is not on the Bluesky roadmap”, but the answer also identifies which parts of interoperability could probably work, which parts are difficult from a technical perspective, and which parts are hard from a cultural perspective. Another interesting suggestion that came up is the possibility of fully embedding posts on its opposite platform, allowing for a kind of quote-posting across networks.
Mastodon user count update
Eugen Rochko gave a short update this week, indicating that the joinmastodon.org website had been undercounting data for the period between October 2nd and October 9th. The undercounting accounting for some 400k MAU and 2.3m total accounts, which only happened during the timeframe of the previous week. This got picked up by some media outlets and spread around the feeds. However, the news was framed mainly in the context that Mastodon had a lot more users than expected, which is not really correct: Mastodon has the expected amount of users, and news of the gain in numbers should have been properly accompanied with an equal loss in the week before. Getting reliable data about user numbers is fairly difficult, with multiple sources providing quite different values. joinmastodon.org lists 1.8M MAU for Mastodon currently, while fedidb.org gives 1.4M MAU for the entire fediverse. It is unclear which of these sources is more reliable. Personally, I tend to use fedidb.org, as this provides data over time, so trends can be visible.
Twittermigration report
Tim Chambers has been documenting the Twitter Migration (X Migration now) over the last year, releasing an extensive report every quarter. The latest update for Q3 2023 has just been released, and it’s worth checking out. It documents in detail the many issues that X currently faces. It also gives some good data on the growth and usage of Threads. After an explosive launch, reading 100M accounts in a week, activity cooled significantly immediately after. In the months that followed, growth and usage has stabilised. Threads is now estimated to grow at 1 million accounts every two weeks, roughly four times as much as Bluesky is currently growing.
The report indicates that the other two main beneficiaries of the X migration are Mastodon and Bluesky. One way that the report measures this is by looking how many X accounts have a handle for their account on a different network in their profile. The mentions of Mastodon are significantly bigger than Bluesky here, but are stagnating, while Bluesky’s numbers are rapidly growing. This trend is also visible in the account signup numbers for both Mastodon and Bluesky.
The report also distinguishes a Developer migration, and notes organisations that are currently working on providing ActivityPub integration, such as Automattic with WordPress, Flipboard, Mozilla, as well as other networks such as Threads, Tumblr and Post.news. No organisation is talking about using the AT Proto network currently. This is why the report quotes Nilay Patel (from February 23), where he states that ActivityPub is where the app developers are. This seems to be holding up regarding companies and organisations, who are all focused on ActivityPub. Individual hobby developers seem to be a different matter though, where the AT Protocol seems to be of significant interest: the largest individual developer community for ActivityPub has less than 200 users, while the Discord for developers for AT Protocol has almost ten times as much, close to 2000.
The links
SURF, the Mastodon project the Dutch higher education system, has a chance to win the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory award.
Confirmation that Mozilla’s new fediverse server, mozilla.social, will use people’s Firefox account to log in.
A podcast about the fediverse from the perspective of advertisers
A podcast by Manton Reece, the creator of micro.blog, about ActivityPub support in WordPress.com and its impact on Micro.blog
Renaud Chaput is now officially the CTO for Mastodon. As the organisation still has very limited funding, this is currently still a volunteer position.
That’s all for this week. If you want to receive this update every Sunday directly in your mailbox, subscribe below:
While advertisers are still scratching the surface of the next iteration of social media, Martin Pagh Ludvigsen, director of creative technology and AI at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners is ready to pitch the fediverse.
So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.
It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.
One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!
I dont use vercel normally either. I used vercel for the first time for this project and liked it.
To answer your question it depends if you want full features or not.
Witout vercel you wont have the serverless functions. They handle things like accepting new followers. So without vercel (or something to take its place) then people can see your account via the fediverse but following it wouldnt really work (you wouldnt see new posts in your feed and your follow request will never get accepted)... but otherwise it will "work" with limited functionality.
That said the serverless functions can be moved to any platform.
You could in theory get rid of the serverless functions and make it all truely static. If you did that (which would take a bit of coding) then theonly time followers would get confirmed would be when you push a new version of the site.. but otherwise you could, in theory, get the full functionality out of it. with some creativity.
I love hugo. Probably should try new version, not the 5y old one currently using. On the other side it's a beauty of static hugo binary - even 10y old could still generate web.
@ephemeromorph Wonderful, let me know if you need any help going through it. I think i am the only one to deploy it so far, though I've done it 3 times.
just noted a bug here regarding the visibility of your post on the *keys: the link to fedipage does not show up for some reason > screenshot from blahaj.zone > same result on firefish, misskey etc
@testing Not a bug.. i changed some things about how the site renders its pages so it broke old boosts knowingly.. but it continues to work properly.. thats just a "ghost"
@testing Thank you. Let me know if i can help at all..
Keep in mind being a bit new if you follow it you may get occasional repeat notifications... I try to keep it minimal though. This only happens when i need to change the way AP renders and it needs to resend all the pages out... should be fairly rare but might happen once or twice as i improve the system.
So your welcome to follow but please do so at your own risk 😀
Fedipage Hugo based static page genedator and blog with ActivityPub support
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@mur2501 Aparapi is one of my most challenging projects to contribute to. but also very rewarding.
It is also relatively active with a few devs and with my main company getting funding it will likely funnel some resources into Aparapi. So its a great project to get involved in especially right now.
for the documentation part where you try to explain JVM Bytecode I think preceding it with Dennis Yurichev's Reverse Engineering Book's Chapter 4 on JVM would be a good idea to make the doc more consumable for people looking at JVM Bytecode for the first time in life.
Change in plans it looks like Yurichev has paywalled his open source book. I am confused about the legalities of directly copying content (with attribution ofcourse)
@mur2501 Ok then he cant paywall it.. as long as you keep the CC license attached to his work, AND you use the same license on any derrivative works then you are free to share it and legally bypass his paywall.. he is allowed to charge, but you are allowed to give away for free.
@mur2501 I wouldnt link it no... I would copy it to our server and link to it on our own domain. This way they cant paywall it or cut off access (which they cant legally do once they open source it)
I have looked into the problem it seems the main issue is using http for googleapis rather than https, browsers seem to block all http link by default. I will change them to https links.
I have committed but haven't pushed as there are some other errors and stuffs to due the code being 7 years old. Alot of the links are dead. I have removed the Google Plus button as it exists no more. Twitter works but the handle is it active still? and yes in the demonstration page many websites seem to exists no more.
PS: Also I think it would better if we use CDN links rather than actual JS files
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@paul I found it to be a arelatively simple static site engine overall. But it does take some time to learn the language. If there is something in particular that confuses you just let me know.
I am doing this as a new project without fedipage.
First I want to get a bit of a feel for it. If it's easy enough, I may examine if there is a way to import my various existing (static site) sites into Hugo, through some converter or so. Those have hundreds of articles and pages, so I'm not typing them in again 😉
Also I'm not going to put a lot of time into it every day. My workdays are long enough. 😉
I moved over from middleman static site generator. The pages moved over without a hitch for me. Any markdown based source should be relatively easy to convert.
Keep in mind Hugo wont give you fediverse/activityPub access on its own. Its just another (nice) static site generator. The ability to integrate with the fediverse is entirely a fedipage thing.
My sites are in a SQLite database, created by Publii, which creates clean HTML when I output the site. Nothing markdown about it. This does not sound like an easy transfer, then. Thank you for the information. I'm not focussing on the Fedipage part for anything at the moment. If I can't make Hugo work for me 'as is' (including importing my existing sites), then that route is not happening. It might be interesting for a new site I could set up. But that's not in the books yet.
@paul Ohhh its a wysiwig... yea sadly unless you can find a way to convert it you may be in for some trouble. Personally this is why i dont use blogging tools that dont use open standard formats like markdown to begin with.
Hugo does support html markup but you'd likely have to heavily edit that format since it would have to be an html fragment without all the header and styling stuff.
Done messing for now. I have 2 posts in the posts directory and the localhost:1313 only shows an empty page, with source <pre> </pre> So that's very Zen but not what I am looking for. 🤣
@paul haha its fairly automatic if you have the right directory structure and settings. Can be hard to do from scratch though if you dont know the right settings.
Question; Set up a more-private fedi-enabled website?
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2 questions please:
1❓Do you know anyone willing to set up a website to do this (for money or not setup basically a Hugo static site + Fedi interaction while being privacy-minded / reduce using google type stuff / building it with less wanting it for mass-scraping so easily).
2 ❓Did you manage to replicate / get your own static site going with Fedi stuff added?
Thank you newpublic for featuring us in your Digital Spaces Directory (newpublic.org/directory). Thrilled to see many fellow #Fediverse projects and friends included as well! 🔥 @samliebeskind
- La maggior parte dei #server perde denaro - La maggior parte dei moderatori non è retribuita - Necessità di supporto per la guida legale e la conformità, #CSAM, #spam, denylist e best practice condivise.
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Closes #10976.
Overview
This PR adds a "System settings" option to site themes, allowing users to not have to explicitly select their preferred app theme whenever they change light/dark mode ...
Congratulations! Your input, thought leadership, and contributions are greatly appreciated! Fantastic to see you recognised as CTO, best wishes for the new official role 👍
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