Sono sempre di più gli italiani che si trasferiscono all'estero e c'è la crisi dei rimpatri
Da 2020 l'Italia conta circa 652 mila residenti in meno, continua la crescita di chi ha deciso di risiedere fuori dei confini nazionali
Secondo il 19/esimo Rapporto italiani nel mondo della Fondazione Migrantes, curato dalla sociologa delle Migrazioni Delfina Licata, presentato oggi, cambia anche l'età media di chi si trasferisce in Italia dall'estero: "Nel 2023 e nel 2024 l'incidenza percentuale della fascia degli over 40 ha continuato a salire, con un trend che si è rafforzato nel 2024. La fascia dei giovanissimi 20-30 anni, dopo essere cresciuta nel 2023, diminuisce nel 2024, ma il calo è soprattutto concentrato nella fascia 30-40 anni, che per la prima volta in assoluto scende sotto al 50% (47%). Un fenomeno non positivo".
"Dal 2020 l'Italia conta circa 652 mila residenti in meno. Nello stesso periodo, invece, continua la crescita di chi ha deciso di risiedere fuori dei confini nazionali (+11,8% dal 2020). La Sicilia è la regione con più residenti all'estero (ANSA)
Esiste una #fediquette? La risposta breve è sì, ma abbiamo creato un post per spiegarlo meglio. E ricordiamoci sempre che la parola #fediverso contiene le radici delle due parole più importanti per la socialità universale: alleanza e diversità. #Netiquette
Questa versione include molte nuove funzionalità interessanti, come la separazione dei flussi audio e video per una maggiore flessibilità, la possibilità di streaming audio da solo e la visualizzazione dei sottotitoli in un pannello laterale.
È stato inoltre semplificato il download dei video e sono state aggiunte opzioni per gli amministratori per migliorare l'importazione dei video da altre piattaforme grazie all'integrazione con Youtube-dl.
Ecco alcune delle novità principali:
Flussi audio e video separati per ridurre la dimensione dei file e migliorare la flessibilità
Opzione per streaming audio da solo e un player audio per le trasmissioni live
Pannello laterale per i sottotitoli con funzionalità di ricerca e navigazione
Miglioramenti per l'importazione dei video da altre piattaforme
Miglioramenti dell'interfaccia utente e della esperienza di utilizzo
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
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I suprematisti bianchi, i fascisti e i loro alleati stanno già diffondendo disinformazione per cercare di rubare le elezioni presidenziali degli Stati Uniti. Il CEO suprematista bianco e pro-fascista di X è uno di loro. Il CEO fascista-friendly di Meta sta sospendendo gli account delle persone che si oppongono. Una coalizione per i diritti civili sta chiedendo a Musk e Zuckerberg di agire contro la disinformazione elettorale , e forse faranno qualche sforzo simbolico, ma io per primo non ci trattengo il fiato.
Ci sono stati parecchi commenti sulle alternative ad #amazon, il tema è sentito ma lo si usa comunque per vari motivi, quindi se il fattore etico non fa molta presa ecco la lista su come spendere meno non usando amazon:
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Nella vendita online vale la seguente equazione: libraccio=feltrinelli=ibs. (Basta vedere in fondo alla pagina. Me l'hanno confermato anche i commessi di una libreria del Libraccio.) - Faccio inoltre notare che aliexpress ha base in Cina, non proprio un paese guida per le sue virtù democratiche e di rispetto per i diritti civili. - Invito inoltre a confrontare i prezzi di Amazon con quelli dei negozi fisici. Ho trovato spesso significative differenze in favore dei negozi fisici.
@ilcomizietto se è per questo nemmeno gli USA lo sono. L'unica differenza con Amazon è che su AliExpress puoi trovare hardware utile a ricondizionare vecchi computer ancora utili, schede grafiche recuperate sa mining rig ma ancora utili a prezzi stracciati e puoi acquistare direttamente dalle fabbriche
ho messo anche bookdealer che utilizza le librerie locali per spedire il libri ma mi sto già pentendo, il loro sito proprio ora è offline, si commenta da solo... Su aliexpress c'è tutto quello che c'è su amazon fra quello che viene prodotto in cina ma ad una frazione del prezzo perchè tagli l'intermediario amazon. Se si hanno problemi con la cina lo si dovrebbe avere ancor di più con l'americana amazon che di fatto rivende prodotti cinesi ad un prezzo superiore.
Si commenta da solo? Che senso ha cercare alternative ad Amazon se poi scartiamo opzioni più etiche quando non raggiungono gli stessi livelli di ingegneria e i costi che si può permettere un'azienda multimiliardaria e monopolistica?
@kilgoretrout @super_user_do @ilcomizietto veramente nessuno ha scartato bookdealer che è un'ottimo progetto ma ci ho fatto una pessima figura a consigliarlo in quel momento in cui manco si apriva e quindi per molti avrà fatto una pessima impressione. e la prima impressione è sempre quella che conta...
@martinatesta @super_user_do @ilcomizietto ok, ottimo! Per fortuna si è ripigliato, purtroppo proprio nel momento in cui ho pubblicato il messaggio ha avuto problemi, era offline o era molto lento.
@super_user_do @ilcomizietto aggiungo che AliExpress non sempre ha prezzi inferiori ad Amazon. Da Alibaba puoi spedire direttamente nei magazzini Amazon, tramite una integrazione tra i due store. Per quantitativi grandi riesci ad avere un prezzo finale su Amazon inferiore a quello su AliExpress, volutamente gonfiato. Per quanto riguarda subito, non sono mai riuscito a vendere nulla, probabilmente per colpa mia, e anche acquistare è difficile per la troppa pubblicità, secondo me.
@DigiDavidex eh lo so bene, amazon sta investendo moltissimo per farti avere tutto alla velocità della luce, fra lockers e magazzini sparsi in italia perchè sa che non può battere tutti nel prezzo aliexpress o i vari vinted, refurbed stanno prendendo sempre più piede...
@halnovemila haha grande, cosa hai preso di bello? Adoro refurbed trovi praticamente tutto a prezzi ridicoli e ridai vita a oggetti che altrimenti rimmarrebbero nel cassettino.
non conoscevo il servizio di altroconsumo, ottimo!
Libraccio ormai fa parte di LaFeltrinelli a questo punto quindi suggerirei anche la stessa Feltrinelli (che tra l'altro spesso fa buoni prezzi e sconti) e anche IBS (sempre gruppo LaFeltrinelli). E poi le biblioteche, spesso sottovalutate e dimenticate! 🧡
@skariko libraccio lo devo mettere per ilibri usati come servizio alternativo alle offerte dell'usato di amazon. Bookdealer per tutti i libri nuovi, hanno delle belle offerte anche loro. poi ovviamente la piorità va a tutta la filiera locale di librerie, biblioteche, mercatini 😀
@sabrinaweb71 si certo, subito non è una cooperativa sociale, ma rispetto ai vari vinted ha il vantaggio di poter essere usato da browser e quindi di poter bloccare quasi tutto. Inoltre per come è strutturato ti spinge a fare acquisti locali.
questo è vero. Sarà che subito l'ho usato e vinted no, ma mi ha dato fastidio, su subito, il loro volermi guardare tra le gambe (ovvero voler sapere se sono maschio o femmina, che per vendermi un tablet dovrebbe essere irrilevante)
poi posso scegliere di non essere profilata, certo, ma intanto me l'hai chiesto e non hai previsto un "non te lo voglio dire" come alternativa, e a me basta questo a farmi girare le scatole
e si può fare? Nel senso, anche io ho cancellato l'account dopo l'acquisto, ma posso mettere dati fasulli? Non hanno bisogno di un nome e cognome vero a cui spedire?
@sabrinaweb71 comunque vinted si può usare da browser 😅 e per bloccare i tracker delle app io uso una impostazione dell'app di duckduckgo che fa proprio questo
@elios @sabrinaweb71 ottimo, avevo usato vinted solo da app, aggiunto vinted.it su cui mi sono trovato benissimo sia nel vedere che nel comprare. Ha i suoi problemi, anche questa non è una cooperativa sociale, ma è un'alternativa per comprare le stesse cose di amazon a prezzi stracciati e con un equivalente sistema di spedizione e reso.
trovaprezzi vende direttamente? Mi sembra di aver sempre visto liste di offerte raccolte da siti di e-commerce diversi. E spesso, a seconda del tipo di articolo cercato, le uniche opzioni sono tutte amazon.
@Eh__tweet trovaprezzi è il mezzo per trovare un oggetto al prezzo più basso fra un alto numero di negozi, sono tantissimi, qua la lista: trovaprezzi.it/negozi
@limone86 @Steutt amazon conta da sempre a eccellere nel servizo lienti, su quello non c'è che dire, sa come viziare i propri clienti sapendo che nessuno mai potrà fornire un servizio simile così veloce ed efficiente. però è anche vereo che se voglio qualcosa subito vado in negozio e se devo aspettare 1 giorno o 10 giorni per me cambia poco...
@Steutt Non è quello che ho detto, forse mi sono espresso male. Parlo di assistenza al cliente, resi ecc. Comprai un tv arrivato rotto, li contattai via chat e mi inviarono il corriere per il ritiro e lo scambio. Il reso ti rimborsano subito i soldi (se rispetti certi parametri). Con Aliexpress come fai a inviare un pacco in cina? Non ha proprio senso sarebbe complicato. Non cito i negozi fisici, se il post parla di alternative ad amazon che è solo in eCommerc.
@limone86 @Steutt si si, stiamo dicendo la stessa cosa, ho provato anch'io più volte i resi e i rimborsi amazon e sono di un'efficienza straordinaria. Ma anche con gli altri servizi ci sono servizi di protezione dell'acquirente e resi gratuiti anche se non arrivano ai livelli di amazon ho sempre avuto indietro i soldi e restituito gli oggetti gratuitamente.
@limone86 @Steutt io avevo fatto un account due anni fa, mi sono ritrovata a doverlo usare di recente e ho chiesto il reset della password, dato che non avevo idea di quale fosse. Già è impossibile contattarli per email, li devi chiamare, poi una volta che parli con qualcuno ti mandano mail da account no-reply (che io considero l'equivalente di parlare al telefono con qualcuno e riattaccare in faccia all'altro quando hai finito). Continuo nel prossimo toot che ho finito i caratteri
@limone86 @Steutt una volta riuscita a parlare con qualcuno, hanno detto che sul mio account c'erano movimenti sospetti e che quindi dovevo mandargli un mio documento (che mi rifiuto di mandare a chi scrive da indirizzi no-reply) oppure una bolletta con indirizzo di casa (che mi rifiuto ancora di più, dato che sono tutte intestate al marito e io per la privacy altrui sono ancora più paranoica che per la mia). Ora secondo voi è normale che facciano queste richieste?
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@pirati @lastknight @limone86 @Steutt il mitico Matteo Flora! Quello che è successo a lui su vinted a me succedeva regolarmente su ebay, prima che li mandassi a stendere. Tanto prima o poi avrò bisogno di un nuovo account e allora terrò conto di questo consiglio
@pirati @lastknight @limone86 @Steutt ma seriamente, è normale che un'azienda americana che si occupa di vendite e spedizioni chieda documenti e bollette a chi vuole comprare?
@sabrinaweb71 @pirati @lastknight @limone86 @Steutt Dato che é una transazione economica é abbastanza normale che una piattaforma che fa intermediazione abbia bisogno di identificare i soggetti.
Meno normale che lo faccia chiedendo documenti come le bellette assolutamente inaffidabili e falsificabilissimi.
@emanuelecariati i sono sempre trovato molto meglio su refurbed, però ho sentito parlare molto bene anche di backmarket, lo aggiungo come seconda alternativa, grazie!
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@PiadaMakkine anche secondo me non ha senso, ali é più economica ma non più etica, ed anzi il servizio resi é una roba allucinante. Senza contare che a volte i pacchi non arrivano.
@PiadaMakkine @Lyra c'è anche trovaprezzi.it, in ogni caso è scritto chiaramente che è una "lista su come spendere meno non usando amazon". Per quanto riguarda aliexpress dipende da che si cerca, su aliexpress trovi oggetti introvabili su amazon e per quanto riguarda amazon serve approffondire tutte le controversie e gli abusi: peertube.uno/w/wUFfPrSN8tjUnBj…
nella descrizione compaiono tutti i link se non bastasse già il fatto che il fondatorie di fatto sta aiutando Trump a diventare presidente
Amazon è irresistibile: la celebre piattaforma di e-commerce, fondata da Jeff Bezos, per mezzo della sua offerta 'Prime', esercita un "condizionamento operante". Quanto più velocemente arriva il pa...
@PiadaMakkine @Lyra invece le soluzioni più etiche sono sicuramente quelle che ti permettono di riutilizzare oggetti usati, come libraccio, refurbed, backmarket, subito, vinted o bookdealer che usa librerie indipendenti.
aliexpress è stato aggiunto non perchè particolarmente etico ma perchè è l'unica seria alternativa ad amazon, lo sanno tutti che il servizio amazon è quasi perfetto, ma l'obbiettivo è di scongiurare il monopolio delle vendite online di amazon. con un servizio su cui trovi tutto
@Lyra per me c'è una confusione di fondo. Stai assolutamente tranquillo che chi cerca cose usate (salvo davvero acquisti occasionali) ha i suo canali. Su amazon si comprano tendenzialmente cose al day one nei campi che hai citato. Ed in questo caso sono ESSENZIALI il servizi di rimborso e reso.
@PiadaMakkine @Lyra chiariamo una cosa, tutti i servizi elencati sono stati testati da me personalmente con acquisti, reso e rimborso, hanno funzionato tutti perfettamente e con questi ho sostituito brillantemente amazon senza rimpianti, anzi con qualche soldino in più in tasca.
L'elenco serve sopratutto a chi pensa che non esistano alternative ad amazon o a chi vorrebbe usare alternative ma non sa se fidarsi o meno.
Chi è più smaliziato ovviamente potrebbe trovare la lista scontata...
Io mi sto trovando molto bene con Wallapop, ho acquistato diverse cosette usate che sono arrivate esattamente come descritte, sono riuscito anche a vendere qualcosa. Hanno una specie di protezione che fa si che il venditore non riceva i soldi se tu non confermi che quanto ti è arrivato è conforme alla descrizione.
forse sono stato fortunato, negli ultimi tempi ho preso uno stereo portatile (boombox), un lettore DVD portatile e una piastra per minidisc, tutto vecchiume stagionato, ma ho un sacco di cassette, minidisc e CD che non butterò mai 🙂
@allanon ho provato a vendere qualcosa su wallapop e sono stato sommerso da messaggi di truffatori, alcuni segati subito dai moderatori, altri ho dovuto segnalarli io... ma in generale mi pare che vinted sia enormemente più frequesntato e vivo o almeno così mi confermano anche amici che usano entrambi i servizi.
sicuramente è così, anche le mie nipoti usano vinted ma la roba elettronica li non si trova, io ho venduto una console portatile dopo qualche mese ma non ho ricevuto spam ad essere sincero, su queste piattaforme bisogna stare comunque attenti perché i truffatori si annidano ovunque ci sia movimento di soldi, ci vorrebbe un firewall che lasci fuori i ladri 🙂
@:fedora: filippodb :cc: :gnu: @brandy17 esistono aziende a scopo di lucro con un codice etico (lavoro per una di queste, di solito sono piccole), ed esistono aziende a scopo di lucro che non basano interamente il loro business su sfruttamento ed enshittificazione, ed esistono aziende a scopo di lucro che un po' si basano sullo sfruttamento, ma con moderazione e ritegno. E poi c'è Amazon.
Di Aliexpress che io sappia si sa di meno perché sfrutta cinesi anziché occidentali come Amazon, ma non mi risulta abbia pratiche *molto* migliori.
esistono anche cooperative sociali che vendono oggetti ricondizionati.
ma questa è una breve lista che raggruppa un pugno di siti che rimpiazzano interamente amazon, permettendo pure di risparmiare.
Aliexpress è diverso da Amazon perché agisce solo come piattaforma di e-commerce, non ha magazzinieri, corrieri ecc. e non vende prodotti direttamente ai consumatori. Potrebbe essere più preciso confrontare AliExpress con eBay, funge unicamente come host per altre aziende.
@Fedi.Tips I wanted to tell you about a new app that was released in beta for Friendica, but it already works very well. The peculiarity of this app is that it can also be used for Mastodon in particular it is the only app that I know of that allows full use of the features of the Mastodon glitch-soc fork, the fork that allows you to write formatted posts with hypertext references.
Another peculiarity of this app is that it allows you to view Activitypub groups in the best way I have ever seen among all the apps in the Fediverse.
If you want to try it, let me know what your impressions are.
Oh yes! #RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world capable of managing the potential of Mastodon Glitch-soc
Oh yes! #RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world…
Proprio come nel 2017, molte persone che si sono riversate su Mastodon dopo l'acquisizione di Twitter da parte di Apartheid Clyde nell'ottobre 2022 hanno avuto grandi esperienze su Mastodon... ma la maggior parte no. Alcuni (soprattutto le persone di colore) hanno avuto esperienze davvero orribili. Nel giro di pochi mesi, l'ottimismo e l'eccitazione si sono trasformati in delusione e frustrazione.
Perché? Sfide di usabilità e onboarding, razzismo e sessismo e altri problemi culturali, mancanza di strumenti per proteggere se stessi...
«È tutto un po' diverso da Mastodon, ma è principalmente perché qui devi avere a che fare con un altro livello, le community»
«Ciò per cui trovo una soluzione davvero buona, però, è il modo in cui i commenti sono collegati tra loro, o meglio, come questo si riflette nella risposta. Wherever parent_id è utilizzato in altri oggetti, un commento ha un "percorso'' con un elenco separato da punti di tutti gli ID dei commenti fino al commento corrente, a partire da 0.»
Nell’acquario del fediverso. Il Fediverso come ecosistema e modello sociale
«Non è solo una delle famose bolle dei social, ma un sistema di acquari interconnessi, ognuno con popolazioni, temperature, salinità e pH diversi, e rappresenta un modello di socializzazione e di governo globale in cui gli amministratori hanno strutturato regole di convivenza che realizzano il bando degli intolleranti teorizzato da Karl Popper»
«Non è solo una delle famose bolle dei social, ma un sistema di acquari interconnessi, ognuno con popolazioni, temperature, salinità e pH diversi, e rappresenta un modello di socializzazione e di governo globale in cui gli amministratori hanno strutt…
@andre123 sì, Friendica ha gli strumenti per farlo, ma esistono appositi sw del fediverso come Gancio o Mobilizon che gestiscono eventi in maniera specifica (e qualsiasi social abbastanza evoluto, come Mastodon Pleroma o MissKey può seguire i loro contenuti)
ottimo articolo che spiega con chiarezza lo spirito del fediverso. Lo sto facendo girare tra gli amici che ancora non stanno esplorando questo mondo ma che, lo so per certo, ne apprezzeranno l'aria fresca.
The Fediverse Schema Observatory helps to improve interoperability, the botsin.space server will shut down, and more.
The News
The Fediverse Schema Observatory is a new project by Darius Kazemi, who runs the Hometown fork of Mastodon as well as co-wrote to Fediverse Governance paper this year with Erin Kissane. The Observatory collects data structures from the fediverse; it looks how different fediverse softwares use and implement ActivityPub. It explicitly does not gather any personal data or posts; instead it looks at how the data is formatted in ActivityPub. ActivityPub and the fediverse has a long-standing problem in that the selling point is interoperability between different software, but every software has their own, slightly different implementation of ActivityPub, making good interoperability difficult to pull off. Kazemi has posted about the Observatory as a Request for Comments. The Observatory is explicitly not a scraper, but considering how sensitive the subject can be in the fediverse community, Kazemi has taken a careful approach of informing the community in detail beforehand about the proposed project, and how it deals with data. The easiest way to see and understand how the Observatory is works is with this demo video.
The botsin.space Mastodon server for bots will shut down in December. The botsin.space server is a server dedicated to running bots, with a few thousand active bots running. The server is a valued part of the community, with the wild variety of bots running on the server contributing to the Mastodon in both useful and silly ways. The admin states that over time running the servers has become too expensive over time, and that is was not feasible to keep the project going. The shutdown of botsin.space showcases an ongoing struggle in the fediverse, running a server is expensive and time-consuming, and every time a server shuts down the fediverse loses a block of its history.
Sub.club is a way to add monetization options to fediverse posts. Sub.club started with being able to add paywalls to Mastodon posts, recently expanded to long-form writing with support for Write.as, and now has added support for WordPress blogs as well. Sub.club has posted a tutorial on how to add the plugin to WordPress, making it an easy system to set up.
Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive.
Upcoming fediverse platform for short-form video, Loops, got some press by The Verge and TechCrunch. Creator Daniel Supernault said that there are now 5k people on the waiting list, and that a TestFlight link will go out soon for the first 100 people. An Android APK will be made available at some point as well.
GoToSocial is working on the ability to for servers to subscribe to allowlists and denylists. This makes it easier to create clusters of servers with a shared allowlist, such as the Website League. As I recently wrote about Website League, it is a cluster of federating servers that uses ActivityPub but exists separately from the rest of the fediverse, and it is started by people who build a new shared space after Cohost shut down. Website League servers predominantly use GoToSocial or Akkoma, and have been actively working on tuning the software to meet their needs.
The Links
Flipboard is now federating accounts of publishers in Brazil, Canada, Germany and the UK.
A long read on Content Warnings, that extensively touches on the culture on using Content Warnings in Mastodon and the Website League as well.
Ghost’s weekly update on their project to implement ActivityPub, mentioning that they have bridged their ActivityPub-based Ghost account to Bluesky as well.
Some big news for Bluesky this week, as they raise $15M in their series A. Another new option to import your old tweets into Bluesky, and more.
Bluesky announces series A
Bluesky has announced their series A funding round, raising $15M, using the announcement to give a first look at some of their monetisation plans as well. The series A funding round is lead by Venture Capital firm Blockchain Capital. In summer 2023 Bluesky had an $8M seed round, and various investors of the seed round also returned for the series A. Kinjal Shah, a Partner at Blockchain Capital, will join the board of Bluesky.
The seed round already had investors from the crypto world, but this drew much more attention with the series A, as the headline of Blockchain Capital as a lead investor made the connection loud and clear. Bluesky is aware of the negative connotations that many people have regarding blockchains and crypto, explicitly stating that “the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).”
Bluesky also announced two avenues they will start to explore for monetisation; a subscription model and payment processing. For the subscription model Bluesky will explore various additional features that do not touch on the core experience, such as higher quality video uploads, or profile customisations. Bluesky will also start working on payment services to support creators. Not much information is known yet on this, and Bluesky says they will share more information as it becomes available.
Kinjal Shah wrote the investment thesis for Blockchain Capital, which gives good insight in the vision of what Blockchain Capital hopes to get out of the investment. She writes: “With this investment, we’re investing in more than a product but rather a vision of what social infrastructure could be. A future where users own their identity and data, developers can innovate freely, and networks are as diverse as we are.” The reason for Blockchain Capital to invest into a social infrastructure is the new opportunities that an open developer ecosystem brings for (other) developers to build new products, which is also stated here by Bluesky developer Why.
On Enshittification
A common response to the news of Bluesky’s series A being lead by a VC firm called Blockchain Capital is that “the enshittification has started”. This response was dominant on the fediverse, and less so but still present on Bluesky. It’s been such a common response that I think it deserves a closer look at ‘enshittification’ and how it relates to Bluesky taking money from a blockchain VC firm. The meaning of the term enshittification has shifted over time, and both meanings provide an interesting lens to look at the news.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification in 2022, he used it to describe a process of platform decay. A platforms subsidises growth by operating at a loss, and places themselves in between the suppliers and customers on a two-sided marketplace. Once suppliers and customers are locked in on the platform and cannot easily leave, the enshittification cycle happens: the platform uses their control of the marketplace to take an ever increasing part of the value while while making the experience on the platform worse, for both suppliers and consumers.
What is interesting here is that in earlierinterviews, Jay Graber has mentioned the idea of building marketplaces on Bluesky as a way to make money. If enshittification is used to describe platform decay, it stands out that a marketplace is not present in the Series A announcement as a way for Bluesky to monetise. For a platform to become enshittified in this meaning of platform decay, a platform needs to have exclusive control of a marketplace on the platform. However, Bluesky is currently not taking the direction of a marketplace for monetisation, instead opting for subscriptions and payment processing. This is still open to change at a later point, as Graber has expressed interest in it before.
Doctorow also mentions two principles to combat platform enshittification. Platforms should be interoperable, allowing users can switch to a different provider. Users should also have the ability to control the content they see, and not be dependent on an opaque algorithm owned by the platform. As both of these principles are deeply embedded in the design of ATProto, Bluesky is an interesting case study if the principles that Doctorow mentioned are indeed good enough to stave off enshittification.
The meaning of the term enshittification has drifted and expanded over time. Enshittification is now commonly used to refer to any business practice that makes the company or product, well, shit. There is a fairly widespread negative attitude towards both venture capital as well as blockchains and crypto. People perceive that these systems have not brought benefits they promised, and enriched a small elite instead, all the while degrading the experience of using the internet. This is not a newsletter to deconstruct blockchains or VC (I’m sure you can find your own sources for that), but I do want to point out that public perception of both venture capital and blockchains matter here. Bluesky is in an active growth phase, and part of the sales pitch to get people to join the network is that Bluesky is a ‘better’ place, for various interpretations of ‘better’.
Getting people to join Bluesky while also being associated with technologies and organisations that many people perceive as ‘not better’ is much harder. People want to join a new network because they hope that the new network is a better experience for them. Judging from the outside if a network is a suitable place is hard, so people tend to fall back to simple heuristics to determine if a network is a good place for them. BlockChain Capital might provide valuable support to Bluesky, but this hard to see as an outsider that is considering joining Bluesky. Instead, it is more likely that they will fall back on their preexisting opinions about startups that take VC money or affiliated with blockchains.
The News
Porto is a new free tool that allows you to import your Twitter archive into Bluesky. The tool asks you to download your tweets from X as an archive, and upload the folder with your archive into the tool, via a browser extension.
Bridgy Fed, the bridge between ActivityPub and ATproto has gotten some updates, with the main new feature is that you can now set custom domain handles on Bluesky for fediverse accounts that get bridged into Bluesky. This brings the interoperability between the networks closer to native accounts, and makes having a bridged account more attractive. As such, you can now follow my fediverse account on Bluesky at @fediversereport.com.
Last week I wrote that the “new wave has a higher retention rate than other waves”. Another week later and this effect still holds.
ProtoScript is a tool that lets you publish Javascript code directly to your PDS, and then view and execute code from any user directly in your browser. Conceptually it is similar to ATFile, which lets you store arbitrary files on your PDS, but this time with Javascript code instead. Both ProtoScript and ATFile are exploring the idea that the PDS is a website, and it seems like there is still a lot of design space left to explore here.
The ATProto Tech Talks is back, with a new event November 7th. This event will feature various ways people build blogs on ATProto, including by Bluesky developers Samuel and Hailey. Smoke Signal event to register is available here.
Tracking how the space of labelers for self-identification is evolving:
The Games Industry Labeler now is now automated via DMs, where a chat interface walks a user through setting their labels.
The permissionless nature of ATProto allows people to backdate posts. This feature allows people to import their Twitter archive to the original date of posting, but can also create confusion. The Backdated Labeler labels posts that have a different timestamp than the time they first become visible on the network.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online.
Welcome back to ATProtocol Tech Talks! For the November 7th edition, we'll be hearing from a number of builders who are creating on top of ATProtocol. 3 blogs and a client!
The pull request is still marked as work-in-progress. Firstly, we would like to have a discussion about it with the community, which you are invited to join on SocialHub.
The latest additions to FEP-8a8e “A common approach to using the Event object type”
First of all I would like to thank all reviewers and contributors to the FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal): @lesion, @mro, @naturzukunft, @laurin and more.
Providing an [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-endtime]endTime[/url] is now mandatory, but guidelines how to deal with events that do not have one set are also included. In addition, a new attribute has been proposed to mark an event as open-ended, so that no end date should be displayed to users, while at the same time being available to applications, e.g. for processing a list of current and future events.
It has not yet been decided whether to include a property to mark an event as all day, or to use a similar flag for the start time.
There are currently no plans to include proposals for recurring events, both based on schedules or not, in the proposal. As the topic seems to be too complex, it looks like it will be in a separate FEP.
Organizers
When writing ActivityPub integrations for several existing WordPress event plugins, it became apparent that handling organizers only via [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attributedto]attributedTo[/url] is not practical. This became even more apparent when it came to interoperability between different applications. For example, Gancio has only one actor, but can have multiple users and therefore organisers, but the organisers are intentionally hidden, and the ActivityPub actor in attributedTo is just the Gancio instance.
We therefore proposed an organizers attribute which is a collection holding the organizers. If it’s not present fallback guidelines are provided, and it’s also possible to leave it explicitly empty. Note that this also gives the opportunity to just include links to non-ActivityPub things.
Still under discussion is whether to include a process or proof that an ActivityPub actor has actually agreed to be part of an organiser collection for a particular event. Contributions are very welcome here!
In this respect, the question arised as to whether mechanisms should be included to allow pre-confirmation of whether anonymous (non-ActivityPub-public) joins are allowed, or whether they are rejected by default.
Contributing
Everyone is welcome to help us improve this document. Every comment helps. If you are familiar with code forges, comments and reviews on codeberg are preferred, but replies to this article are also very welcome!
#Hacker è #JeremyHammond,che si è fatto 10 ANNI di galera,condannato per aver hackerato agenzia privata d'intelligence, #Stratfor,SENZA MAI aver venduto o ricattato nessuno: per esporre loro business NON etico
Changelog: 🦝 migration to Material3 pull-to-refresh components; 🦝 moved app info to navigation bar and improve "About" dialog; 🦝 add open-source licences screen; 🦝 additional more readable font; 🦝 redesign application icon and splash screen; 🦝 add new l10ns (Polish and Portuguese); 🦝 fix spoiler closing immediately after being opened; 🦝 added experimental support to background notification check; 🦝 code refactoring and cleanup.
The icon change was made necessary because in order to display notifications in the status bar a small monochrome icon has to be provided and the old one has too many details. But since every cloud has a silver lining, this was the occasion to redesign a new one and, by combining it with the icon of the Lemmy app, create a logo for the Procyon project, i. e. the umbrella organization both clients belong to.
Elixir London meeting; October 2024 edition. All are welcome
**Confirmed Speakers**
* Mayel: Introduction to the [Bonfire Framework](https://bonfirenetwo
Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
The News
Loops is an upcoming fediverse platform for short form video, build by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. On the loops.video site there has been a countdown over the last month that ended this Monday, and with it, people can now sign up for Loops. Loops is currently still being worked on, with Supernault working on getting the apps out to release. The Android app will be made available as an APK, and the iOS app is waiting approval for TestFlight. Loops is currently developed as a mobile-first platform, and does not have a webUI yet, with Supernault saying that a webUI will come later. He also reports that emails welcoming people after they have signed on are rate-limited by the email provider, resulting in a long delay before people can be onboarded. Moderation services for Loops are currently being worked on as well, and Supernault is looking for moderators to help moderate the platform.
Mosaic is a new service by the Bonfire team, where the Bonfire team will help organisations build and set up their own digital federated spaces. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that focuses on customisation and extensibility, that people and organisations can customise to meet their needs. Mosaic is a way for the Bonfire team to help onboard organisations and customise the platform to their needs. Extensions and other improvements made with Mosaic are then available for the rest of the community to use as well, as part of their AGPL license, so that everyone benefits from contributions made by others. Bonfire is currently available for testing, but not for official release yet. The main blocker seems to be slow performance of Bonfire, and the developers have put out a bounty for other developers to help them improve performance.
An update by Newsmast on what they are working on with Channels.org. They relate Newsmast’s Channels to Bluesky’s custom feeds (as DYI algorithms) and Farcaster’s channels (‘Cozy corners’). For Newsmast, Channels are a way to onboard public organisations, giving them their own place (the channel) to distribute their content, where the space is clearly their own, but still part of the larger fediverse network. Newsmast also notes that they’ll focus on Channels for now, and that Patchwork, the plugin system for Mastodon servers is postponed to early next year to prevent the team from stretching themselves too thin. Newsmast’s Michael Foster also blogged about how we can build a different web together as well, reiterating my point that the current trend seems for AT Protocol to be used for public and global conversations, and ActivityPub for (semi)-private networked communities.
IFTAS held a 2024 Survey among fediverse moderators, and while they are preparing a full report they give some early highlights on the results. Based on their survey data IFTAS estimates that there are 5500 users per moderator on the fediverse, which is between three and ten times as many moderators compared to other Big Tech platforms.
An article by Techpolicy.press goes into detail on ‘The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media’. It draws attention to pravda.me as an example of the expanding thread landscape on decentralised social networks; a large Mastodon server that bears all the hallmarks of inauthenticity, but is barely blocked on or on the radars of the larger fediverse community. The article also makes a distinction between moderation questions where decentralisation empowers communities (often related to political or sexual content), and issues where centralisation is more beneficial, such as spam and CSAM. Accompanying the article is also a podcast interview with Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi about their fediverse governance report.
Fediverse event planning platform Mobilizon got transferred from developers Framasoft to a new organisation, Kaihuri, who have gotten a grant from NLnet to further expand the platform. They have now released v5 of Mobilizon, with new features such as a homepage redesign, a monthly calendar view, better management of recurring or ongoing events, and more. You can test out the new version of Mobilizon here.
A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build interoperability with each other, and more.
⚠️ WARNING: the instance swiss-chaos.social has nothing to do with chaos.social! ⚠️
This instance is NOT chaos.social, but is an instance of disinformation and conspiracy theories called SWISS-chaos.social! The name adopted wants to make people believe that it is a sort of "Swiss branch" of the illustrious instance that hosts the most important activists for digital human rights. But that is not true!
@esserci such disgusting instances have always existed and always will exist, but the serious thing is that this one is called almost like chaos.social When I was followed by one of their Chinese users, I didn't read his posts but I accepted the contact because I really believed he was a Chinese activist of the chaos.social instance! This really pisses me off!!!
I don't understand, just because they express their thoughts against the Great Reset, Adverse Effects of the Covid Vaccine , they must be labeled as conspirators , conspiracy theories ???
@x Anyone who opens an instance with a deliberately misleading name to spread the anti-scientific disinformation that circulates on the internet (not to express thoughts: there is no original thought, but only toxic waste shared as fertilizer), is just a professional disinformer. Do you understand the problem now?
@x I would like to be even clearer: I am not angry with conspiracy theorists, nor do I despise them, and in fact I fully understand their way of thinking. What I hate are psyop strategies that exploit the fragility of conspiracy theorists
@x There are still open questions about the effects of Covid-19, the effects of vaccines and mitigation policies, but they do not concern either the information garbage about the alleged conspiracies of the Chinese government, nor the alleged dangerousness of the vaccine. There is NO longer any scientific debate about the dangerousness of the vaccine: the mRNA covid vaccines are safe beyond all expectations and reduce damage to the disease. STOP 🛑
But this is your thought , it's okay . But what do you know about these people on this social network or in general why they think this way!
You don't know how many people I know who are sick after the Covid vaccine, and now they think differently . I told you this to tell you that , you don't know why those people think that way. Just because you think differently, others are conspiracy theorists
I am for freedom of speech
if such a person would come to your social network , what would you do you would ban him on the first post?
We created a stuffed toy of the highest caliber. Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy measures a height of 35cm.
Hi. I have a problem and few questions about. Do the rules that apply here apply to all users? Or are there some "privileged" groups of users that can do whatever they want, including harassing and attacking others?
Do the moderators here act selectively, punishing only some people and ignoring the actions of others? Or they should be neutral and equally doing their job?
I would like to get some official statement on this topic, because I no longer understand this at all. 🤔🙄
Contrariamente a quanto successo ieri sera a #GoogleDrive, il cloud nextcloud di #MastodonUno ha continuato a funzionare regolarmente, inoltre è impostato per crittografare tutti i file, quindi nessuno potrà mai sapere cosa inserite e nessuno vi potrà chiudere il cloud perchè mettete le foto di vostro figlio:
Un padre ha fotografato l'infezione inguinale del bambino per inviarla a un dottore. Google ha sospeso il suo account e ha inviato alla polizia una segnalazione per immagini pedopornografiche, che si è conclusa con un nulla di fatto.
Nextcloud ha un sacco di vantaggi e Google un sacco di problemi, su questo siamo d’accordo..ma essere bloccato da piracyshield non è tra questi, dai..poteva succedere anche a mastodon.uno di essere bloccato
@fvalle capita che Google sia bloccato ma capita anche che Google ti blocchi senza motivo, in ogni caso ci si affida a un servizio che può essere tagliato da un momento all’altro.
Avevamo in effetti avuto problemi con un servizio simile perché era aperto a tutti ma su nextcloud le iscrizioni sono solo su invito e solo per persone fidate che si conoscono bene perché molto attive su M1.
We’re excited to launch Mosaic: a new initiative from the Bonfire team that empowers organisations by creating their own customised and federated digital space - built just for them.
Mosaic is a service where the Bonfire team collaborates with you to co-design and build a bespoke online presence that serves as a hybrid between a traditional website and a social networking platform—going well beyond merely sharing pictures or short posts. Depending on your specific needs, we will include Bonfire extensions to facilitate all kinds of information sharing, community building, and collaboration.
Why does it matter? Because yesterday, we used to work in companies. Today, we thrive in networks. Today an organisation’s success hinges not only on internal efficiency but also on how effectively it can communicate and flourish within a broader network of relationships, partnerships, and collaborations. Unfortunately, most platforms just aren’t designed for this. They are stuck in the past, limiting what organisations can achieve.
Enter Mosaic—a fresh approach to meet today’s needs. In a networked environment, the flow of information between teams, partners, and different layers of collaborators is a key factor for success. It’s no longer about working in isolation; it’s about thriving through connections.
Whether you integrate into the global network or build your own archipelago, the fediverse offers a refreshing alternative to the dystopic enshitification of Big Tech.
If Mosaic sounds like a solution worth exploring—or you're simply fed up with the unpredictability of profit-driven platforms—we’d love to chat! Let’s schedule a call: calendly.com/bonfire-networks/… to discuss your specific needs and explore how we can collaborate to create the ideal federated digital space for your community or organisation.
@meljoann @radiofreefedi yeah it’s a pity we still didn’t found a way to focus on RFF pilot! We are trying to get the 1.0 out and at same time find sustainability to pay ourselves and onboard new devs among other things. Maybe applying to a grant to develop the needed features could be a way to push this forward? Happy to chat more about it…
That’s understandable, yeah we’re in a tricky position for grants as we’re so international. A grant to support both your work and our main dev would be amazing.
I’m not a tech person myself (just experience with Arts funding). So, a bit out of the loop regarding funding help available… any leads you could point us to? I’d be happy to help with the application
Oh yes! #RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world capable of managing the potential of Mastodon Glitch-soc
Oh yes! #RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world…
LOL, no. Those are releases for Obtainium, an Android app that downloads, installs and updates apps from sources like Github. You're probably looking for the Racoon for Friendica releases.
@Al Kath I confirm that if you hadn't noticed that Raccoon worked so well with Mastodon glitch-soc 1) I would never have suggested to @Dieguito 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 to pay attention to this fork 2) I would not have decided to change poliversity.it from Mastodon classic to Mastodon Glitch-soc 3) I would not have had so much fun doing a lot of testing 🤣
Raccoon, l’app Friendica che riserva sorprese anche per gli utenti Mastodon
#RaccoonForFriendica è l’app più completa mai vista finora per Friendica e, oltre a funzionare anche con Mastodon, potrebbe essere l’unica app al mondo in grado di gestire le potenzialità di Mastodon Glitch-soc
#RaccoonForFriendica è l'app più completa mai vista finora per Friendica e, oltre a funzionare anche con Mastodon, potrebbe essere l'unica app al mondo…
@lgsp se usi anche l'app per Lemmy sei il mio eroe! Credevo di essere l'unico ad avercela ancora installata, e solo perché è in gran parte roba mia quindi mi dispiaceva disinstallarla 😂 scherzi a parte, ci tornerò su eh, pian piano sto ritirando su tutti i pezzi...
glitch-soc è un fork amichevole che integra alle caratteristiche di Mastodon classico alcune peculiarità, come il testo formattato e linserimento di riferimenti ipertestuali: poliversity.it/@macfranc/11329…
Poliversity è una comunità dedicata alla ricerca scientifica e al giornalismo, all'università e all'istruzione ed è nata per promuovere il diritto alla conoscenza e la corretta informazione
Ti rispondo a grandi linee, poi @macfranc mi correggerà o ti risponderà meglio di me.
È aperto a tutti? È un'istanza tematica, dedicata a giornalismo, informazione, istruzione, scuola. Perciò chi ci s'iscrive dev'essere almeno interessato a questi temi se non proprio coinvolto come "mestiere". Ciò non esclude che si possa andare "fuori tema" ogni tanto, ma sarebbe cosa buona non perdere di vista il focus.
È federato con Threads? Poliversity vede gli account di Threads federati (che come sai non sono europei, inoltre sai bene che non si tratta di vera federazione ma solo di visibilità), tant'è vero che ne seguo alcuni account interessanti.
È possibile migrare da un account Mastodon classico? Sì, ci si può migrare. Io ci arrivai migrando da Livello Segreto.
Ti ricordo @lgsp che la "migrazione" di Mastodon è un po' una sòla, nel senso che puoi trasferire da un account a un altro i follower e gli utenti seguiti, ma non certo i post del vecchio account
Si tratta della app più completa mai vista finora per Friendica e, oltre a funzionare anche con Mastodon, è —da quello che ho potuto vedere— l'unica app al mondo che è in grado di gestire le potenzialità di Mastodon Glitch-soc!
Complimenti a @dieguitux8623 che è riuscito a fare un vero capolavoro e mi auguro che lo sviluppo prosegua altrettanto bene rispetto a come è iniziato. Adesso mi auguro che ci siano tanti utilizzatori che possano apprezzarla.
What's Changed
fix: avoid crash in HTML rendering by @AkesiSeli in #353
fix: text color for direct message conversation title by @AkesiSeli in #354
fix: avoid dismissing bottom sheets on long pres...
Chatting comes to the ATmosphere with Picosky, X is unbanned in Brazil, and a significant group of Brazilians moved back, and a deeper dive into aviary.domains.
Chatting comes to the ATmosphere with Picosky, X is unbanned in Brazil, and a significant group of Brazilians moved back, and a deeper dive into aviary.domains.
Picosky
Picosky is a new chatting service build on top of atproto. Picosky was created by Juliet, and started as an experiment with building an simple chatting app on atproto, originally limited to just 12 characters per message. It was a demonstration of making an AppView for chatting on atproto that utilises the existing infrastructure of the network: You log in with your Bluesky/atproto account, messages are stored on your PDS, and the PicoSky AppView listens to all the messages on the Relay and displays them. The direct connection of your Bluesky account made it a fun place for atproto hackers to hang out, which expanded the scope of Picosky quickly to a serious project.
Over the last week or so Picosky has undergone rapid changes by the developers Juliet and Elainya: you can log in with OAuth, the character limit got increased multiple times, now at 2048, you can edit and delete your posts, and UI updates where it is now a clear and minimalist proper chat UI.
The simple structure of Picosky, and the way that it integrates with the atproto infrastrucuture, makes Picosky an attractive place to further build on by other developers: one of the first Picosky-compatible projects to make it available via IRC. This is a separate AppView, that reads the same posts as the Picosky AppView does, and that can fully interact (federate) with each other. Other projects in the works are an iOS client or one for the terminal.
Meanwhile, the Lexicon structure (which determines the format of the messages) has had a major update the other day: there is now support for creating separate rooms on Picosky. Anyone can create rooms, and the owner of the room can set moderation to be based on a deny-list or an allow-list. The frontend has not been updated yet to take advantage of this however, but I’m sure we’ll get back to Picosky next week.
The News
It is now a week since X has been unbanned in Brazil, and a significant part of the Brazilian user base that joined Bluesky has gone back to X. Daily Active User count dropped by half, from 1.2M to 600k. This number was around 300k before the ban, indicating that a large number of Brazilians did stick around: Portuguese is still the most popular language of the platform; 45% of posts are in Portuguese, compared to 32% English posts. It shows that social networks are extremely sticky, and people have very high switching costs. In that context, Bluesky has done well with the number of Brazilian who stayed around after X became unbanned.
Bluesky is hiring, and they are looking for a Feed Algorithmics Engineer. The job is to “design and implement machine learning models to improve personalized content recommendations, spam detection, labeling, and more.” As the network grows, so do the challenges of providing algorithmic recommendations for feeds and spam detection.
Threads struggles with moderation on their platform, and Bluesky is seizing the opportunity by creating an account on Threads to promote the platform as an alternative on (and to) Threads.
Altmetric, which tracks online engagement with academic research, is looking for people that are willing to help with feedback sessions for their Bluesky attention tracking roll-out.
Bluesky has updated their app (v1.92), with some new features: you can now pin a post to your profile. There are also design improvements, including new font options. You can also now filter your searches by language.
TOKIMEKI, an alternative client for Bluesky, now supports showing your atproto-powered Linkat and WhiteWind profiles.
Threads struggles with moderation on their platform, and Bluesky is seizing the opportunity by creating an account on Threads to promote the platform as an alternative on (and to) Threads.
Frontpage, a link-aggregator platform build on atproto, is now open and available for everyone to use. The developers say that they’ll work on notifications first, and that decentralised and self-sovereign sub-communities are coming later.
For the protocol-people: what happens when there are clashing lexicon fields? Nick Gerakines publishes his thoughts on how the Lexicon system can evolve, with some additional thoughtsby Bluesky protocol engineer Bryan Newbold.
Deep dive: Aviary.domains
Aviary.domains is a new service that helps managing domains for Bluesky and the ATmosphere, that recently launched in early access. Aviary makes it easy for people who have a domain name to share that domain name with other people as their handle.
To place Aviary in a larger context, a short explanation: It helps to understand as the central offering of the ATmosphere being a single digital identity. When you first sign up for Bluesky, two things happen:
You join the ATmosphere, by creating a digital identity (a DID) that works with all other products that are build on atproto.
You log in with this newly created identity into Bluesky, and use Bluesky with this digital identity.
This digital identity, a DID (Decentralized IDentifier) is a unique string of letters and numbers that can never change, which is good for computers because it is unique, but very unpractical for humans to use. That’s why you have a handle, which corresponds behind the scenes with your DID. The idea of atproto is to use a website domain name as your handle. You can always change your handle to a different handle if you want, as long as you have a website domain you can use. Most people do not have their own website domain, so when you first join the ATmosphere and your DID gets created, Bluesky also gives you one of their sub domains you can use: yourname.bsky.social.
The goal for Bluesky is that people use their website domains as their handle, as it gives an easy way to verify ownership: the owner of the website is also the owner of the account. One problem however, is that many people do not have their own website domain. This is both an opportunity for Bluesky (which now sells domain names to people), but also still a challenge: a significant group of people are simply not interested in paying money for what amounts to a better user name. Even if you have your own website domain, having to change DNS settings is still a technical barrier that is too high for a large group of people.
This is the part where Aviary.domains comes it, as it tries to find an audience for people who have a domain name, that they want to share with their community. It has created a system where an owner of a domain name can invite other people to use a version of that domain as their handle on Bluesky. So as the owner of laurenshof.online, I can log in with Aviary, and generate a subdomain for, lets say my cat. Aviary generates a link that my cat can click; they log in on Aviary with Bluesky’s OAuth, type in their name, press accept, and their handle is now changed, without them having to change settings.
What makes this different from projects like swifties.social, which also hand out subdomains for people to use as handles on Bluesky, is that it does not require the final step, changing settings in the app. It also gives the owner of the domain control over each subdomain, with the ability to subtract subdomains as well. This makes Aviary more useful for people who want to have more control over who identifies with the domain, and can show they are part of the community.
Audio spaces app Bluecast now can show your broadcasting history.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow me on Bluesky @laurenshof.online.
A quieter news week: self-hosted 3d printing app Manyfold joins the fediverse, and write.as now offers paid subscriptions for fediverse accounts with sub.club.
The News
Manyfold is a self-hosted open source web app for organising and managing your collection of 3d files, and in particularly 3d printing. With their latest update, Manyfold has now joined the fediverse by adding ActivityPub support. With the new integration, you can now follow a Manyfold creator from your fediverse account of choice, and get notified when the Manyfold account uploads a new 3d file. New Manyfold uploads appear as short posts with a link in the rest of the fediverse. To demonstrate, here is the Manyfold account from the creator Floppy as visible from Mastodon, and here is the profile on their Manyfold instance itself. The Manyfold server also has a button to follow the account on the fediverse. Manyfold implementing ActivityPub support is an illustration of how ActivityPub can be viewed as a form of ‘Social RSS’: it allows you to follow any Actor for updates, and adds social features (sharing/liking to it).
Sub.club is a service that lets people create paid subscription feeds on the fediverse. The service recently launched with the ability to monetise Mastodon feeds, and has now expanded to also include long-form writing, by collaborating with write.as. Write.as is the flagship instance of fediverse blogging software WriteFreely. With this update, blogs on write.as can now set on a a per-blog basis if a blog is a premium blog, and where the cut-off is. People who follow the blog from a fediverse account will see an option to subscribe and view the full post; this post by the sub.club account shows how a premium blog will look like from various perspectives. Adding sub.club to a write.as blog is as simple as following this three-minute PeerTube video.
La lista degli utenti suggeriti ora comprende le persone più attive e popolari dentro #MastodonUno oltre alle persone suggerite manualmente da M1.
Questo va a migliorare l'esperienza di scoperta e aumenta la forza delle community locali/italiane i cui utenti ora possono essere "scoperti" molto più facilmente rispetto alle enormi istanze "multilingua" 👍
Mastodon.Uno è la prima comunità generalista italiana.
Con oltre 73.000 iscritti è il più grande nodo Mastodon italiano.
Anima ambientalista a supporto della privacy e del mondo Open Source.
si ma la lista dei suggeriti era fatta male e inoltre non si capiva perchè l'account fosse suggerito, ora la lista dei suggeriti è di qualità ed è spiegato chiaramente perchè l'account è rilevante.
per fortuna nessuno traccia le preferenze (stelline o reblog) ma sono suggeriti solo gli utenti più seguiti dagli amici. Il che è un grande modo per espandere la propria bolla. È una funzione chiave di scoperta già presente su bluesky, threads, X, solo che Mastodon lo fa in modo più trasparente 😉
Raccoons of the Lemmyverse, we're back! A new beta version of the app has been released, as promised in the last AMA (it was the next internal milestone).
Let us know what you think about it, you'll notice that there have been several layout improvements since the last version, e.g. bottom sheets have a new style, clickable areas now show the ripple effect, etc.
Hope you all enjoy it and, as always, L.F.E.T. 🦝🦝🦝
What's Changed
fix: rolled back README breaking changes, added new disclaimer by @N7-X in #1
chore: restore README.md by @livefast-eattrash in #2
enhancement: uniform comment cards by @AkesiSeli i...
The wait is over*—The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now available for purchase in the EU! Other regions to come later. Share your pictures with the #Plushtodon hashtag!
We created a stuffed toy of the highest caliber. Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy measures a height of 35cm.
* We're waiting for our UK VAT number before enabling shipping to the UK to avoid you having to pay any unexpected duties on the package. As for the US, the stock hasn't arrived at the warehouse yet.
From your privacy policy: "We may use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites."
I don't care so much where it came from; it does say it on your site and doesn't align with what I thought were Mastodon's values. And it makes me not wanting to use the shop.
Welp, I was about to order one but the shipping cost is a bit steep, considering the price of the item itself. But I get it, shipping internationally is not cheap even within the EU
Ah come on. Another micro-plastic-fossil-polluting-cheap-article for merch? Why? When do we finally learn to use our ressources in a responsible manner? #stopfossil #noplasticwaste #responsibility #plushtodon
Is there another direct donation for you other than Patreon? I'm not a fan of the platform and don't want to sign up, but want to send you money monthly 🙂🙌
The development cycle for the 2024.09 release enters the last stage before the stable release – today we have branched off the 2024.09 release candid branch. 2024.09-rc contains all the features of the stable release and is meant to test the new features, find some last rough edges and smooth out the path to the final stable release at the end of October. 2024.09 will be mostly a maintenance release fixing issues in various parts of Friendica. If you want to help out in testing, please checkout the new 2024.09-rc branch and report problems that you encounter.
The most notable changes in this release are:
we now support HLS and further improved the compatibility with Bluesky,
we dropped the support of OStatus (the predecessor of ActivityPub) after evaluating the amount of active servers/contacts that are still only using this protocol,
Friendica is now REUSE compliant and supports FEP-67ff
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralized 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.
How to use the 2024.09 RC Version of Friendica
If you want to help in the release process, you can checkout the 2024.09-rc branch from the git repositories. git fetch git checkout 2024.09-rc git pull bin/composer.phar install --no-dev Note that you only need to pull the composer dependencies in the core repository.
Should the upgrade process of the database get 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 above. What to do with Quirks
The 2024.09-rc phase is meant to identify and preferable resolve quirks and bugs that should not be in the 2024.09 release, but have slipped through so far. So if you switch your node to the 2024.09-rc version of Friendica, please let us know about rough edges you find, either at the issue tracker (github account required), in the support group or in the developers group.
poi - se li vedi realmente - li trovi chini sugli smartphone. Un po’ come i cartelli in qualche frazione della mia città : “rallentare, qui i bambini giocano ancora per strada”.
Poliversity.it evolve grazie a Mastodon Glitch-soc, un fork amichevole. Poliversity consentirà quindi post lunghi fino a 9999 caratteri, formattazione del testo, scrittura di messaggi visibili solo in locale, modalità thread e… gli scarabocchi
Poliversity.it evolve grazie a Mastodon Glitch-soc, un fork amichevole. Poliversity consentirà quindi post lunghi fino a 9999 caratteri, formattazione del testo…
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Molto interessante, specialmente per una istanza come Poliversity focalizzata sul giornalismo, il mondo dell'educazione e la ricerca scientifica! 👍 Ho una curiosità tecnica, è possibile tornare alla versione Mastodon ufficiale se un domani doveste cambiare idea?
@prealpinux tornare indietro non dovrebbe essere affatto difficile, ma ovviamente questo significherebbe che tutti i vecchi messaggi scritti con formattazione speciale verrebbero ricompilati e Resi una ammasso illeggibile di codice sorgente Mark down o html. Non so invece come si metterebbero le cose per i messaggi visibili solo all'interno dell'istanza, ma credo che anche in quel caso verrebbe verso più o meno tutto
@Trames tornare indietro non è impossibile. Il problema è che tornare indietro sarebbe semplicemente inaccettabile. Quando provi qualcosa in più, è difficile tornare indietro
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