The Bluesky and ATmosphere reports are back after I was occupied last week with the Ahoy! conference about ATProto in Hamburg. It was amazing to meet so many cool people in real life, and share the excitement of working on this network together. There were some great talks, and just being around people who you can talk in-depth about Bluesky and ATProto with is just great. Hoping to see many more ATProto conferences pop up and meet more of you in real life.
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Bluesky launches a blue check verification system
Bluesky has launched a new verification system for their platform, with blue checkmarks. With the checkmark system, Bluesky selects a few Trusted Verifiers, who can hand out checkmarks. Bluesky PBC will also hand out checkmarks to “authentic and notable accounts”. The main reason for this system’s existence is that the other verification system, using domain names as handles, did not perform well enough. Bluesky PBC says that 270k accounts have set their own domain name as a handle, but not enough high-profile accounts have done so. The other problem with domain names as verification is that many well-known public figures do not have a well-known website. The first organisations that are Trusted Verifiers in the Bluesky app are the New York Times and Wired Magazine.
Bluesky PBC advertises the new checkmark verification system with its Trusted Verifiers as “a healthy digital society should distribute power”. However, it is unclear with the current implementation to what extend power is actually distributed. Bluesky PBC is the one who selects the Trusted Verifiers that can be displayed in their app. In their blog post, they also write: “Bluesky will review these verifications as well to ensure authenticity.” To me, it seems far from distributing power, and can at best be seen as distributing operational work. With Bluesky PBC holding full control of who gets to be a Trusted Verifier, as well as reviewing their output, how much power has Bluesky PBC actually distributed?
The new checkmark verification system is not exclusive to the Bluesky app however, and it is build on an open system. Anyone can create verifications or become a Verifier, as all the data for verification is openly accessible to anyone. The only difference is that verifications that are not made by Bluesky PBC or one of their Trusted Verifiers will not be visible in the official Bluesky clients. Other systems have already sprung up, a new verifier tool by cred.blue allows anyone to easily hand out verifications. The Deer client, which is a fork of the Bluesky client, already allows for anyone to set their own Verifiers as well. I’ll talk more about this in an upcoming article, as what is happening with Deer and verification has some interesting implications on how the network will likely develop.
For now, Bluesky PBC has build a technologically cool system, which also solves a meaningful problem that their app has in the short term. While the way it is currently implemented falls short of the advertised distribution of power regarding verification, the team is clear that this is an early implementation and that the system will evolve later.
Streamplace funding
Some news from streaming software Streamplace:
Streamplace has raised 100k Livepeer tokens, worth around 500k USD, from the Livepeer Treasury to further expand the Streamplace platform. The money will be used to expand the team, enhance infrastructure and build a deeper integration with ATProto, as well as building content moderation infrastructure.
A short explanation of Livepeer, and how it relates to Streamplace. Livepeer is a decentralised network for video transcoding and processing. Transcoding (in this context) processes the video stream to make it accessible in various formats and qualities, so a stream can be viewed both by someone on a slow internet connection in 360p, as well as someone with fast internet in 4K definition. Livepeer is a DAO, with an attached crypto token. Streamplace uses Livepeer for the video transcoding, and because of this integration, which allows the Livepeer network to grow as well, the Livepeer DAO has awarded Streamplace 100k tokens, currently worth around 500k USD. It is unclear to me how the Livepeer token works, with its corresponding tokenomics, and where the value of the tokens is coming from.
Streamplace creator Eli Mellon gave an interview on the devtools-fm podcast where Eli goes into more detail on the background of Streamplace and how the software works.
Two other ATProto apps are working on integration Streamplace. Skylight already announced earlier to be working with Streamplace. At the ATProto conference Ahoy in Hamburg last week Joe Basser, co-founder of the ATProto video platform, announced to be working on livestreaming with Streamplace as well.
Streamplace is hiring a Decentralized Video Protocol Engineer and a Lead Front-End Engineer
An OBS overlay to display Streamplace chat on-stream.
An update on relays and independent infra
Bluesky PBC made some changes to how their relays work, with an update with the unassuming name of ‘Sync 1.1′. The update made it much cheaper to run relays, as they do not have to store data of the entire network anymore. This has made a drastic impact on running relays. Last month, independent developer @futurset up a relay on his own Raspberry Pi. Now Phil, another independent developer, has set up multiple relays and made them publicly accessible. This means that there are now multiple other full-network relays that index the entire network, that are outside of US jurisdiction. Just as importantly, running these full-network relays is cheap, with costs getting as low as 18 USD per month. Feed builder Graze is also creating their own implementation of a relay: Turbostream includes a large amount of extra information in the stream. For example, where Jetstream (a simplified version of a relay) broadcasts a reply, Turbostream broadcasts a reply together with the post that is being replied to, as well as a range of other information. This in turn makes it easier to other parties to build on, as most information needed is already included in Turbostream.
These developments leads to some interested new questions. When it comes to running a relay, technology and costs are clearly not barriers anymore. But what about moderation and uptime guarantees? Is having a relay that many other parties depend on even the right model of the network?
It also calls the model that the Free Our Feeds campaign had in mind, which aligned more with a perspective of expensive and large relays. Today, Free Our Feeds announced that they will donate a 50k USD grant to a new IndieSky Working Group. The IndieSky came out of the second day of the conference, organised by Boris Mann and Ted Han. Mann and Han are behind the ATProtocol Developer Community Group, and also organised the first ATProto conference in Seattle last month. The goal of IndieSky is to “work together on R&D, code, and infrastructure on how and why to run different parts of the ATProto stack”, with more details in the announcement. The first meeting for the working group is on May 8th.
In Other News
The Ahoy! conference for the European Social Web was last week, and as an extremely biased person who helped organise the conference I think it was a great success! Massive shout-out to Sebastian Korfmann who has done an incredible amount of work getting the conference to such a great place, super impressive. During the conference I did some longer video interviews with some of the people in the community, those videos will be released in the coming weeks. The main takeaway for me from the conference was to see the amount of positive energy and enthusiasm in the community. People are aware that they are contributing to a space that has massive potential and is undergoing rapid changes. I’m excited to see more conferences for ATProto, and meet more people from the community in real life, as it has been super great to meet the people at Ahoy!.
Turtleisland.social is a Mastodon server for the North American Native/Indigenous community. They have set up their own PDS server for community members to join Bluesky as well. Community-centered data hosting is one of the possibilities with the PDS system of Bluesky that is mentioned regularly as an option, but has not been borne out much yet. Two other communities are in the process of building out a similar structure: Blacksky is creating their own PDS software for the Black community, and Northsky is building out systems that allow people to easily migrate their ATProto account to a Northsky PDS. It’s worth pointing out here that the early adopters of new technology on social networking are all minority communities. For people building social networks this provides a pragmatic argument (besides the much more important ethical argument) for creating safe digital spaces: the people for whom safety is the most crucial are also the most likely to be early adopters of new technologies.
Not all early adoption is by minority communities: Gander.social is a newly announced social network on ATProto, focusing on the Canadian community. Gander has a lot of plans for features that make it stand out from the Bluesky app. The project is still in development, and it seems once the project gets closer to launch it will become clearer what the ATProto integration will actually entail.
Bluesky has made some changes to their PDS, allowing people to sign up directly for an ATProto account on a PDS without going through the Bluesky app. Link aggregator platform Frontpage is one of the first to take advantage of this, allowing account creation on the Frontpage platform now.
Bluesky PBC is joining Lexicon Community Technical Steering Committee. Bluesky Engineer Bryan Newbold will be the representative. It signals a growing maturity of the ecosystem, that an effort run by the ATProto developer community can come to a place where Bluesky joins the initiative on an equal footing.
Openvibe is a multi-network client that combines someones Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr and Threads accounts into a single app. Their latest update is an customisable For You algorithmic timeline, which combines posts from multiple networks into a unified algorithmic timeline.
Newsletter publishing platform Ghost now has a simple setting to share posts on Bluesky, via the ActivityPub bridge. This was already possible with Bridgy Fed, but that required some manual steps, where it is now a simple toggle setting.
The Links
For the protocol-minded people:
A proposal for private images (not posts!) on ATProto.
Proposal: A Simple XRPC Method for Signing Payloads in ATProtocol
News from Bluesky takes the most popular links on the network and displays them in an interface more like Hacker News.
Bluesky video client Skylight is working on a dislike feature so people can further fine tune their algorithm.
An example of how inauthentic accounts use Starter Packs to quickly build a following and integrate themselves into the network.
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bsky.app login screen at the top right showing account creation changed to turtleis.land Our Bluesky Personal Data Server joins our Mastodon server for a more complete Native/Indigenous social media experience The Bluesky Native community is much lar…
Hello! We're the team that builds and supports Mastodon, alongside the community. Today, we wanted to share an update on our organisation. blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/…
In the coming weeks, we'll be using this account to share a wider range of posts about what we're working on - events we're attending, updates from team members, and so on. You can also follow the core engineering team @MastodonEngineering and if you have an account on mastodon.social or mastodon.online (the two instances we operate) you can follow @staff
You can also expect to see us sharing more about the project outside of the Fediverse (in places like LinkedIn or YouTube) - this is so that more people can hear about a better, decentralised and more user-oriented alternative to legacy platforms.
i think this is great news! We need more people to know about mastodon. But. I worry about the things people have complained about in the past. Difficulty signing up, confusion around choosing a home instance, too many decisions having to be made in order to get started. and lastly, unfortunately, and unwelcoming user base.
I realize that some of this is out of your control. and some is human nature rather than a technical problem to solve. But i see a lot of folks try mastodon. and never even get past signup. Is there something that can be done there so that new users are not immediately turned off to the platform?
@gangrif thanks for these questions! We are working on it, and we're excited that some of the new folks on the core team bring fresh perspectives on these topics. We think we've made some improvements in the past couple of releases and we'll continue to do so.
but currently, mastodon is by far to complicated. How will you go on fixing the huge usability shortcomings with finding people, finding posts, following people, reposting, reacting and stuff like this. I mean you said you will share things outside the fediverse. But people clicking on shared things there will just notice the problem right away.
@fabiscafe thanks for this feedback. We've got a new designer joining soon, we have other new team members with additional perspectives. We've also been working on the Fediscovery project fediscovery.org to improve some of the things you mentioned. We're moving forwards!
Thanks! Please let us know any progress. I wanted to open a usability-collection-issue on github listing all the currently known shortcommings. Do you think this is something worth doing at this point?
@fabiscafe thank you so much for wanting to help! We have a lot of open issues, suggestions and discussions (as you can probably see on GitHub) so please look to see whether anything you want to open has already been created before logging something new.
It seems to me that what is necessary is more order on the GitHub suggestions: duplicates, suggestions that have been already ruled out, features impossibile to do, or otherwise easy to implement, suggestions not relevant because they pertain to specific apps or instances and not the software, etc. etc.
That would make easier for the team to make decisions and for the community to contribute.
it will be tricky to liberate people from legacy social media platforms. People that embrace the values and vision of the #fediverse have already migrated years ago, despite the usability issues. New opportunities do come when there are major shocks, like political events but luck favors the prepared: #bluesky grew a lot as of late because of a smoother UX and catering in particular to US users fleeing X/Tweeter.
@bazkie we appreciate the hesitation about those organisations, but we're hiring individuals and their experience, rather than the company they worked for in previous lives. There's a strong value alignment amongst the people in the team.
@vosje62 After @bazkie 's reply, she/he immediately blocked me 😄
Didn't even give me a chance to answer the question . Oh well.. @Mastodon
My answer would have been: Now you are being judgemental again and rude. You don't know me, but I believe in giving people a second, third and even way more chances.
This is good news. As the premiere platform on Fediverse, Mastodon needs a more mature organization to continue demonstrating what decentralized social media can really be.
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.
@mkj thanks for this! This is high on our list of priorities, but we do need to get the new organisational entity created first. Hopefully it will not be too long 🤞🏻
Why did you lose your nonprofit status in Germany in 2024?
And where's all this money for staff coming from? I thought you were unable to hire the trust & safety lead because the crowdfunding campaing stalled -- but you're bringing in several C-levels and a new project manager?
Why are those a higher priority than moderation policies and tooling?
@owls thanks for the questions. The non-profit situation is a major reason for our restructuring to a better organisational model / foundation. No new C-level hire in this update. Trust & Safety remains a high priority and we are absolutely working on the tooling side of things (and every hire comes with T&S in mind); we're also grateful to the team that looks after our hosted instances.
Awesome! As a bit of feedback, since Mastodon is european, and roughly half of the users are european, it would be great to see more european posts/news/suggested accounts in the explore tabs. 😊
To be honest, I really think that Mastodon should not have a prominent office in the US, but it should be clear to be a European entity under EU laws.
With the US office in New York mentioned on the website as prominent as it is, I think might very well turn a lot of people who want a break from US tech away from using Mastodon.
@AngelaScholder thank you, we're working on this with the new European non-profit that is being created right now. We do need to list the details of the US 501(c)(3) entity (which is for fundraising) on the site, but totally understand your point. Please stand by while the necessary processes are completed.
Mastodon is right, chill, it doesn't matter where they came from. Only thing that matters is "what can they do for us."
It doesn't matter that they presumably worked quietly and happily for organizations that do everything they can to profit, especially things that wreck our country and the planet
I mean, we imported actual Nazis from Germany to work on rocketry, and now we have the world's most advanced space program and NO OTHER PROBLEMS associated with Nazery WHATSOEVER
W la Friendica (che dio la benedèndica): la guida al Facebook del Fediverso
La guida di Informapirata a Friendica, dedicata a tutti coloro che dal Fediverso vogliono ottenere tutto il possibile.
Un Mastodon con gli steroidi e attualmente l’unica alternativa a Facebook di tutto il Fediverso. Con mille pregi e, soprattutto, mille difetti. E mai nessuno che ci spieghi come utilizzarlo.
Posts made by a Fosstodon server moderator on Reddit has caused some drama, leading to both Fosstodon admins to call it quits, a number of servers (threatening to) defederate from the Fosstodon server, leading to an uncertain future for the Fosstodon server.
Fosstodon drama
A few days ago someone published a post on Mastodon, with screenshots and links to posts made on Reddit by one of the Fosstodon moderators. In the linked posts, the Reddit account in question, which seemingly belongs to the Fosstodon moderator, holds various right-wing beliefs, ranging from defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to claiming Democrat supporters are in a cult. Backlash to the Fosstodon server was swift and strong, with various calls and plans from other servers to defederate from Fosstodon, members of the Fosstodon server looking for other servers to move their account to, and a general condemnation from the wider community. Both Fosstodon admins have postedarticles declaring they are stepping down, citing not only the current drama as a reason, but that they see the work of being server admins as frustrating with little pay-off. One Fosstodon community member is considering to take over the administration of the server, though as of writing, that process is still ongoing and the outcome unclear.
Some thoughts and takeaways about what this drama says about the social side of federation on the network, and how different communities interact:
When a server moderators holds opinions other people view as problematic, the social cost of these views is partially extended to server users as well. See for example the account for fediverse streaming platform Owncast, which has an account on the Fosstodon server. Owncast says that they are getting messages that say they need to move servers, otherwise people will see them as Nazis. This blog post about another Fosstodon user explains a similar thought process, where it is rational for them to move to a different server, because they will be associated with the politics of the server moderator in question otherwise.
This behaviour has an impact on how people on the fediverse should find an instance they want to join. It turns out that knowing the political affiliations of server moderators is important, and that this is something that people should know about before joining a server. People will be judged for being on a server that has a moderator with toxic political views. As such, it becomes important for people to know this information beforehand: both that they will get judged for the politics of server moderators, as well as knowing what those political views actually are.
This is another indication of why the process of selecting a server when someone joins the fediverse is actually a challenge: important information that should impact server choice is not made available to users, nor is it made clear that this information is important in the first place.
The second takeaway from the situation is that it shows a need for fediverse servers to have a federation policy. How federation currently works on the fediverse is that servers are connected with each other by default, and the assumption is that servers can disconnect from each other for any reason, but will mostly do so only if one of the servers is misbehaving in some way. Freedom of association is one of the valuable features of the fediv erse. Server operators should be free to defederate from any other server, for any reason. Being able to defederate from another server because you strongly disagree with the politics from one of the server moderators is a good thing. But if this is a consistent policy of the server, it would do well to make this policy public and explicit. Servers defederating from each other can have significant impact on users, who suddenly can lose connections with their friends. A policy of defederating from other servers based on the expressed beliefs of server moderators is something that is not immediately obvious to new people joining the fediverse. There are absolutely valid reasons to do so, but it seems to me that formalising such a policy would be a good step towards making the culture on the fediverse more sustainable.
The third takeaway is that running a fediverse server is challenging, especially over longer periods of time. Both Fosstodon admins have called in quits in response to the most recent drama. Their blog posts explaining their perspectives is that this has been a long time coming, and that the Fosstodon server has been uncompensated work that they do not love doing for years now. Regardless of one’s perspective on how the admins handled the latest situation, it is a further indication that being a fediverse server admin is a challenging job, one that should not be expected that someone can do forever. This means that servers like Fosstodon need governance systems that allow for better and earlier rotation of administrative power. Fediverse software should also be better at dealing with the realities of admin burnout. The users who are transferring from Fosstodon to another server will lose their posts; Mastodon does only transfer the social graph, and not posting history. While ideally the majority of servers would have extensive governance systems in place that can help deal with admin burnout, the reality is that most servers do not. More fediverse software should provide better support for users having to move to different servers, including with their posts.
The Links
NLnet, a fund that contributes to many open-source initiatives with a long track record of support fediverse projects, has published the beneficiaries of their latest funding round. PeerTube has gotten another grant, and publisher Framasoft talked about more how the money will be spend in their 2025 roadmap. The other fediverse beneficiary is an OpenScience flavour of Bonfire. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform with a broad range of features, but the platform has struggled to get to an actual release. Bonfire published a blog post about their ‘road to Bonfire 1.0’ in September 2023, and an update in October 2024 where they announced a bounty program to get contributions to improve performance of the app.
The Doo the Woo podcast, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin developer Matthias Pfefferle, interviewed André Menrath. Menrath is working on a plugin to bring WordPress events to ActivityPub.
The Bad Space is a project where various fediverse servers share their blocklists to build an aggregate of fediverse servers that are potentially worth blocking. The project is now available for self-hosting.
Some new features for FediAlgo, a customisable timeline algorithm for Mastodon, including a ‘What’s Trending’ feature.
A writeup on how to make a blog site using Lemmy as data storage.
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Bonfire is inching ever closer towards a 1.0 release of its social offering, which is a landmark development for the project. But beneath the surface, there's a bigger story going on: rather than simp
🚩ATTENZIONE🚩: il 2 maggio è prevista la migrazione di Pixelfed.uno su un nuovo server dedicato![i]
Venerdì 2 maggio, l'istanza Pixelfed.uno verrà spostata su un server più veloce e capiente per sostenere la sua recente crescita(sono stati superati i 500GB di immagini condivise!).
[b]⚠️ Cosa aspettarsi: - Interruzioni durante i lavori (il sito sarà offline alcune ore). - Nessun dato perso: tutte le foto e i profili saranno al sicuro!
Perché la migrazione? 🚀 Pixelfed.uno è la prima istanza italiana pixelfed e la prima consigliata dopo quella ufficiale: pixelfed.org/servers e c'è l'intenzione di mantenerla veloce, gratuita e senza pubblicità
@Daniel Supernault I think the ability to sort servers by number of active users is missing, but I still like the interface. Thanks for all the work you've done!
25 aprile (Europa) All’ingresso del Clubheim, grande sala e birreria del Millerntor - lo stadio del St. Pauli - e principale punto di ritrovo di soci e tifosi del club, ieri sera campeggiavano bandiere rosse e delle Brigate Garibaldi.
Questo è l'account di servizio dell'istanza italiana #Poliversity, nata per dare ospitalità a #giornalisti e #studiosi italiani e che consente di scrivere post lunghi fino a 9999 caratteri e formattati!
Poliversity.it utilizza il fork #Mastodon Glitch-soc per consentire opzioni aggiuntive come la formattazione del testo, la scrittura di messaggi visibili solo in locale, la 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, 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…
Poliversity è un progetto congiunto nato come spin-off di @poliverso (un'istanza italiana basata su #Friendica e dedicata alla discussione su politica e società) e de @lealternative.net (un blog che propone le migliori alternative open source al software proprietario).
Altri nostri progetti sono il blog di @informapirata e l'istanza Lemmy italiana @feddit
Vorrei ringraziare tutti i nostri iscritti che ci segnalano i contenuti di spam e tutti gli altri contenuti che danneggiano la qualità del #Fediverso
Le segnalazioni aiutano @amministratore e tutti noi moderatori di questa e di tutte le altre istanze che le ricevono a mantenere curato il giardino e a rendere più bella l'esperienza di ognuno qui dentro.
Nessun moderatore può tenere sotto controllo ogni messaggio pubblicato se non viene aiutato da tutta la comunità!
proprio stamattina ho scritto un messaggio in cui sottolineavo quanto il lavoro dei moderatori deve essere assolutamente affiancato dal comportamento del singolo utente che recepisce le regole di convivenza su mastodon e difende questo prezioso spazio di dialogo.
@Xebeche verissimo. I moderatori fanno quanto gli è consentito dagli strumenti che hanno a disposizione, ma è importante che ognuno si senta responsabile del mantenimento dei beni comuni
When FediForum got cancelled a few weeks ago, I heard from multiple participants that they were planning to showcasing some new features or products that they’ve been working on. The sudden last-minute cancellation has caused uncertainty on how to proceed, and there has not been a new date set for FediForum (nor is it clear in what format it will continue, if any). However, by and large participants have decided not to showcase or present their work outside of FediForum. This shows the influential role that FediForum plays in the fediverse development ecosystem. It is important avenue for developers to showcase their work to the rest of the developer community, with no clear replacement for it. As such, the news for the fediverse is especially slow this week.
An update from the Catodon project (a fork of a fork of Misskey), which is still on hiatus.
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🌐 Perché alcuni account sembrano "vuoti" nel fediverso?
Gli account esterni (es. @nemeyes o @gametrack) si vedono solo se qualcuno della tua istanza li segue. Questo evita di sovraccaricare le piccole istanze con dati non necessari
✅ Vantaggi: Risparmio di risorse, le istanze piccole si federano solo con una piccola parte del fediverso. Chiunque può gestire un’istanza low-cost!
❌ Svantaggi: moltissimi account nelle istanze piccole rimangono non visibili perchè nessuno li segue.
FediDB.org has proven to be a very useful fediverse resource.
Thanks to @dumpsterqueer for helping me address some robots.txt crawler bugs!
I'm thrilled to announce that I'm nearly finished rewriting FediDB's frontend, and will be publishing the source code finally as we migrate away from the current paid theme which prevented that.
I look forward to working with the community to steward this resource!
Has there really been a decline in MAU in the Fediverse overall in the last month, or is that because your system of measuring their number has changed?
La comunicazione e l'advocacy sul social web aperto stanno fallendo. Tutti cercano di dire qualcosa, ma in realtà nessuno dice nulla.
Il linguaggio tecnico non funziona. Questo include il "Fediverso". Le campagne isolate su reti decentralizzate non funzionano. Affermando la "purezza" della piattaforma, nessuno impara a conoscere questi spazi. "Costruisci e arriveranno" non è vero. Gli esseri umani sono cose complesse e hanno bisogno di più di quattro mura per sentirsi a casa.
My experience at the International Journalism Festival, 2025
When does compensation become complacency?
I posed the question above to a small group discussing the intersection of technology and news media at the International Journalism Festival la…
@notizie bluesky doesn't force you to pick a server. Picking a server is like pledging allegiance. It's a lot of responsibility. For jornos in particular often important to uphold an aura of impartiality.
@teirdes I'm sorry but this is a totally fallacious reasoning that can be forgiven to an uninformed user, but it is not acceptable on the part of a journalist.
First of all, there are many instances dedicated to journalism, but each of them has particularities: instances based on the verification of the journalist, others pertaining to a particular linguistic area, others still linked to a specific political area. For example, we created an Italian Mastodon instance for journalists and academics and we accompanied it with a special version of Mastodon that allows you to create long and formatted texts. Well, it was of no use: academics are ten times more than journalists!.
Beyond these instances, there are others of a generalist nature, multilingual or localized in the national language.
Finally, there is always the possibility of creating your own instance: a personal instance of the individual journalist or an instance of the organization to which it belongs (publisher, newspaper, cooperative, collective). Without excluding the possibility of federating your Wordpress blog (a very simple action: all you need is a free plugin) or creating a newsletter on Ghost.
As you can see, no journalist would be forced to embrace an instance.
The problem is mainly attributable to journalists: 1) their laziness 2) their ignorance of the Fediverse (which was initially sold as an alternative to Twitter, but IT HAS NEVER BEEN AND CANNOT BECOME SO 3) the subjection that journalists suffer from fashions (Bluesky and Threads)
On our part, on the part of us activists of the Fediverse, there is obviously some blame, including that of having presented the Fediverse as something difficult to explain and not as something easy to use.
@notizie have you tried simply sending journalists spam email to market your journalism oriented servers? Or for instance awareness raising through their labour unions or clubs?
@teirdes I had the presumption to identify some journalists who I thought were more sensitive to the issue of decentralization and the independence of their digital presence. I limited myself to those. Many of them didn't even answer me, while others told me that they would have preferred to register in an international instance, demonstrating that they had understood absolutely nothing about decentralization. And in fact their profiles have stopped being active for a couple of years now... 😅
Now for a while I've been dealing more with the consolidation of the instance rather than with new entries, but I will surely soon start doing a bit of a broad-spectrum campaign again, as you suggested and as I should have done from the beginning
@teirdes Thank you, even if it would take a specific commitment in each Nation, explaining well, based on the characteristics of the national publishing industry, What could be the strengths of opening your publishing to the Fediverse. Of course one of the critical points that I see is that of advertising collection and fundraising in general. Publishing and monetization in fact go hand in hand, with the additional variable due to the fact that many online newspapers are actually fictitious and designed only to publish garbage pre-digested by artificial intelligence. In this scenario, real journalism finds itself facing new critical issues and unfair competition. Asking publishers to enter the Fediverse without solving this problem is very difficult
@notizie in sweden the labour union for journalists should be able to act. They could surely cooperate with some tech NGO. the larger challenges for news media... The problem is that owners of media organisations are complacent. Public service broadcasting? The industry is very inflexible in its financial models due to copyright and poorly enforced data protection laws
Facciamo i complimenti per il bel risultato all'istituto Galilei di Verona e ad @Carlo il coraggioso amministratore di quella che è ancora l'unica istanza scolastica italiana!
Mercoledì 2 aprile 2025, presso la succursale del Liceo Galileo Galilei di Verona, si sono svolti i Campionati Regionali di Dama, un appuntamento atteso e partecipato che ha coinvolto ventidue squadre provenienti da istituti superiori di tutto il Veneto.
A distinguersi in particolare sono stati i padroni di casa, con ben otto squadre iscritte e un livello di preparazione che ha permesso al Galilei di conquistare la qualificazione ai Campionati Nazionali di Misano Adri...
Mercoledì 2 aprile 2025, presso la succursale del Liceo Galileo Galilei di Verona, si sono svolti i Campionati Regionali di Dama, un appuntamento atteso e partecipato che ha coinvolto ventidue squadre provenienti da istituti superiori di tutto il Veneto.
A distinguersi in particolare sono stati i padroni di casa, con ben otto squadre iscritte e un livello di preparazione che ha permesso al Galilei di conquistare la qualificazione ai Campionati Nazionali di Misano Adri...
Siamo nel pieno di un colpo di stato digitale . E le tasche profonde e gli ingenti investimenti pubblicitari delle Big Tech hanno alimentato – ormai da vent'anni – l'illusione che per essere visti e ascoltati online, per avere un impatto attraverso la scrittura, sia necessario utilizzare le loro piattaforme centralizzate. Perché "sono l'unica via".
"Non sono assolutamente d'accordo. Sono completamente sintonizzata con il Fediverso e le soluzioni di pubblicazione FOSS. Con questo post, spero di mostrarvi che un'altra soluzione è possibile"
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.
#adoptawriter sounds great, really! That's a perfect example of getting the most out of complentary skills and interests and use this to build a better future.
I don't yet know my place in it, but I'm intrigued. Maybe giving a warm welcome for any adopted writers could be a first small step. 🙂
So it's undoubtedly the combination of content and form: I went to read because the subjects interested me, but the overall layout made for very enjoyable reading. Often, technical subjects are written by technical people, so the readability of the text is less of a concern 😅
Elena I read your article 👍 , if you are serious about social justice and the rights of women please look deep into the attack on the human right to self defense, and check out this video of empowered women too! firearm-videos.sixguns.com/vid…
I finally got to read your article 😊 I like your idea of #adoptawriter but to be able to adopt one, they must already be willing to join and I think this is the harder part than the technical hurdles.. But on the other hand it's a complex question and there is no silver bullet, the way to federate social media consists of many parts, and being helpful for sure is one of them.
- 'If she decided to move her newsletter to another platform she could make even more money'
My hunch says that most of this big names have separate agreements where they make more money than we think (part of the VC money would go there, for growth). With NDAs and all that.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but a lot of stuff works like that.
I loved your article though, and I'll start thinking of a writer to adopt right now!
posts like this make mastodon feel like one of the underground news feeds that Spider Jerusalem uses to unseat multiple corrupt presidents in Transmetropolitan
This is excellent and something I have been saying for a while. If anyone feels the need to use one of the Corporate Social Media Platforms, just make sure you are always pointing people back to sources hosted on the #SocialWeb or similar. Also put in your Bio "You can mostly find me on Mastodon here....." or similar There are lots of reasons why people might still want/need to be on those platforms but none of them should stop us trying to build something better.
Mastodon.Uno è la principale comunità mastodon italiana.
Con 77.000 iscritti è il più grande nodo Mastodon italiano: anima ambientalista a supporto della privacy e del mondo Open Source.
L'articolo proviene da #Euractiv Italia ed è stato ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Intelligenza Artificiale Il colosso tecnologico Meta ha intenzione di ricominciare ad addestrare la sua intelligenza artificiale sui post dei cittadini dell’UE, ha
Nulla sfugge alla guerra commerciale intrapresa da Donald Trump nel suo ritorno alla Casa Bianca. Sono passate meno 24 ore da quando il vicepresidente della Commissione europea l'henné Virkkunen (52 anni, Joursa, Finlandia) ha presentato il piano in …
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Una interessante spaccato storico sulle modalità di pubblicazione adottate, partendo da Hubzilla e Pterotype a #Ghost e #Wordpress con i suoi fantastici Plugin
ho sperimentato l'integrazione del mio progetto di pubblicazione di notizie con il Fediverse per quasi cinque anni. Ci sono stati diversi esperimenti, errori e momenti di insegnamento che mi hanno portato dove sono oggi. Voglio parlare di alcune delle cose che ho provato e del perché queste cose sono state importanti per me.
I wrote up an article on my personal (Ghost-powered!) blog about some of the work I’ve been doing to integrate our news publication at We Distribute into the #Fediverse.
This is the culmination of years and years of experiments, and we’re almost to a point where most of our ideas have been realized.
By the way, we take this opportunity to let @Sean Tilley and @Alex Kirk know that we tried the "Enable Mastodon Apps" plugin with #RaccoonforFriendica, which is an app developed for Friendica by @Dieguito 🦝 but is also compatible with Mastodon, but also allows you to write in simplified HTML with a very functional toolbar.
Well, it was wonderful to write formatted texts and with links from Raccoon for Friendica, even if I haven't managed to get the mentions to work yet.
Unfortunately, even if Raccoon allows you to publish posts with inline images, it can only do so with Friendica, while with the simple Mastodon API this is not possible.
I wrote up an article on my personal (Ghost-powered!) blog about some of the work I’ve been doing to integrate our news publication at We Distribute into the #Fediverse.
This is the culmination of years and years of experiments, and we’re almost to a point where most of our ideas have been realized.
This week is a bit of a shorter Report, it’s a relatively quieter news week and some other work is taking up most of my attention this week. Still, there is a PeerTube roadmap for 2025, some more updates on how FediForum is moving forward and more.
The News
Framasoft has published their PeerTube roadmap for 2025. Last year, PeerTube’s big focus was on the consumer, with the launch of the PeerTube apps. This year, PeerTube’s improvement is on instance administrators. The organisation will work on building a set-wizard, making it easier for new instance admins to get started and configure the platform. Framasoft will also work on further customisation for instances, allowing admins to further tune how the instance looks for the end-users. There is also a lot of work being done on video channels, with the new features being the ability to transfer ownership of a channel, as well as having channels that are owned by multiple accounts. Framasoft also mentions they are working on shared lists of blocked accounts and instances, where admins can share information with other admins on which instances to block. And now that PeerTube is available on Android and iOS, other new platforms that PeerTube will come to is tablets and Android TVs.
The planned FediForum for early April was cancelled at the last minute. A group of attendees held the Townhall event that was held in its place to discuss how to move forward, and listen to people’s perspectives. The notes of the FediForum Townhall have now been published. Last week, the FediForum account posted: “Planned next steps: another townhall likely next week, and a rescheduled & adapted FediForum in May.” The organisers posted a survey for attendees on how to move forward as well. Jon Pincus has an extensive article, “On FediForum (and not just FediForum)” that places the entire situation of why FediForum was cancelled, in its larger context.
PieFed now allows people to limit who can DM them. By default only people on the same instance can receive DMs from each other. The Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin network has seen a rise on spam DMs which send gore images, and this is a helpful way of dealing with this harassment.
IFTAS wrote about how they are continuing their mission. The organisation recently had to wind down most of their high-profile projects due to a lack of funding. This is not the end of the entire organisation however, as IFTAS will continue with their Moderator Needs Assessment, the CARIAD domain observatory, which provides insight in the most commonly blocked domains and more, as well as the IFTAS Connect community for fediverse moderators.
A master’s thesis on the fediverse, which looks at the user activity and governance structures, with the main finding: “The findings reveal that instance size and active engagement—such as frequent posting and interacting with others—are the strongest predictors of user activity, while technical infrastructure plays a more supportive role rather than a determining one. Governance structures, such as moderation practices and community guidelines, show a weaker but positive correlation with user activity.”
Sean Tilley from WeDistribute writes how his work on ‘Integrating a News Publication Into the Fediverse’. Tilley has over a decade of experimentation on building journalistic outlets on fediverse platforms, and in this article he reflects on all the different case studies he has done over the years, and where WeDistribute is headed next.
Building a blog website on Lemmy. This personal website uses Lemmy as a backend for a personal blogging site, where the site is effectively a Lemmy client that looks like a blogging site.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
Sei affascinato dal fediverso, il social web decentralizzato basato su protocolli come ActivityPub . Forse sogni di creare la prossima grande app federata
È qui che entra in gioco Fedify . Si tratta di un framework TypeScript progettato per gestire gli aspetti più complessi dello sviluppo di ActivityPub, consentendoti di concentrarti su ciò che rende speciale la tua app, senza dover reinventare la ruota della federazione
La fuga dalle piattaforme commerciali di molti giornalisti, testate, ricercatori e produttori di contenuti, viene spesso sminuita come un velleitario lavaggio della coscienza di chi vuole rifugiarsi in una bolla comunicativa.
PS: dispiace che non sia stata citata la nostra istanza poliversity.it dedicata al giornalismo e all'università e unica istanza Mastodon italiana che consenta di pubblicare testi lunghi e formattati, ndr
Sull’Aventino digitale, rinchiusi in una bolla impermeabile e autoreferenziale, ci sono Musk, Zuckerberg e una base di utenti costruita a immagine dei loro interessi politici e aziendali, non chi abbandona le loro piattaforme cercando alternative nelle reti federate e decentralizzate, assieme a milioni di altri soggetti che nella loro ricerca di libertà digitale si riscoprono nuovamente persone dopo anni di sudditanza trascorsi come “utenti”. Su @valigiablu
La fuga dalle piattaforme commerciali di molti giornalisti, testate, ricercatori e produttori di contenuti, non è un rifugiarsi sull'Aventino, è una forma di assunzione di responsabilità sociale davanti alla storia.
Vi siete segnatə vero che domenica 13 alle 14:30 alla Città dell'Utopia in via Valeriano 3f a #Roma c'è la quarta assemblea di istanza di Puntarella?
Come scrivevamo ieri, uno dei punti all'odg pensiamo possa essere la proposta di blocco delle istanze che fanno mirroring da X. Altre questioni che ci eravamo segnate sono: emendare la policy sulla moderazione di istanze/utenti spam; eventuali altri servizi da installare sul nostro server.
Chiediamo però a voi puntarelle di quali ulteriori temi pensate sia utile discutere: usate questo thread oppure, a patto di toottare in modalità pubblica, l'hashtag #PuntAssemblea
Quarta Assemblea di Puntarella.party - A/Social indipendente de Roma
Inizia:Domenica Aprile 13, 2025 @ 2:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Domenica Aprile 13, 2025 @ 6:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
La quarta assemblea di istanza di #Puntarella sarà esattamente un anno dopo la terza: domenica 13 aprile, dalle 14:30 a La Città dell'Utopia, in via Valeriano 3f a #Roma. Come sempre, sarà un'occasione per confrontarci sulla nostra community, sulle regole che ci diamo, sull'infrastruttura tecnica, sulla vita, il fediverso e tutto quanto.
A new security fund for the fediverse, and the Lemmy developers held an AMA.
The News
The Nivenly Foundation, the organisation that administers the Hachyderm.io instance, is opening a new security fund to sponsor contributors who disclose security vulnerabilities. All software has security vulnerabilities, and the fediverse is no exception. The recent Pixelfed vulnerability, which affected non-Pixelfed servers, is a clear example of how fediverse software can make software vulnerabilities more complex due to the interaction between different software platforms.
The Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund will sponsor $250 USD for vulnerabilities that are rated as high risk (7-9 CVSS score) and $500 USD for vulnerabilities with a critical score (9+ CVSS). The program will run until the end of September 2025. Nivenly members “hold a member vote to determine if we want to continue the program, and to establish a longer-term committee to steward and maintain the program.”
Last week, I wrote how Pixelfed’s vulnerability actually showed three different problems: The main problem is Pixelfed’s software vulnerability itself, but there were also two other problems: other software like Mastodon do not make it clear which risk comes with their private posts feature. And once a leak like this one happens, very few fediverse software admins communicated to their users that they might have been affected.
A security fund contributes to combating software vulnerabilities, but it can also help with communication to the rest of the fediverse once a vulnerability is found. It incentives that standard industry practices regarding software vulnerability get followed, and make communication clearer to a wider audience. For example, if Pixelfed’s recent vulnerability had gotten a CVSS classification, it might have been easier to make the severity of the vulnerability explicit to other fediverse software admins. In turn, this might have made it more likely that server admins would communicate the situation with their users.
In last week’s email essay I also wrote about how the fediverse is missing governance infrastructure that connects the various independent nodes and communities. One way to view the fediverse is as a response to centralised Big Tech platforms. These platforms have centralised governance, and are under the control of few people. The fediverse’s response to this is to build a social network that consists of tens of thousands of independent communities, all with their own governance structure. The fediverse has been successful in decentralising the single entity that oversees a social network into many pieces that all oversee a small portion of the network. But it has struggled to build a governance structure that ties all these individual pieces together again.
The Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund is a good example of this problem: software security impacts all the thousands of independent fediverse communities, but there is no overarching structure to collaborate and improve the security. It took one server taking the initiative into their own hands and provide a service for the entire network, at their own cost. Ideally, communities would collaborate on such a security fund instead. Nivenly’s announcement does leave space for such a future direction of the fund, saying that they are open to “establish a longer-term committee to steward and maintain the program”.
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The Lemmy developers, Dessalines and nutomic, held an Ask Me Anything recently, and here are some of the answers that stood out to me:
Lemmy is working towards their 1.0 release. This is currently expected to be in the fall, although nutomic also says that “these things always take longer than expected”. He also expects some instances like lemmy.ml already to upgrade some months before.
One of the main features for Lemmy 1.0 is private communities, where only approved accounts can browse and posts to the community. This type of closed group functionality is in high demand, and both Mastodon and Pixelfed have tried to implement it. Mastodon got a grant for it, but the proof-of-concept code has been sitting there since 2022. Pixelfed has announced and teased a group feature multiple times over the year and showed screenshots of it, but it also is not publicly available yet.
Lemmy posts are interoperable with Mastodon, but the interoperability is not great: a Lemmy post appears on Mastodon as the title plus the URL. There has been many conversations about how Mastodon handles content from other platforms, with no changes so far. In this AMA, nutomic is explicit in saying that it is up to Mastodon to change this. While Mastodon seems open to the idea, and has been in conversations with developers from platforms like Ghost and NodeBB on how to show their content better on Mastodon, there has been little indication that Mastodon is taking steps towards making Lemmy content also better visible on Mastodon.
On the subject of how Lemmy can grow, Dessalines describes it as an organic progress, saying: “niche communities on reddit will keep getting fed up with the changes, and migrate to lemmy.” Nutomic describes a similar dynamic for fedi and Bluesky more broadly, saying that he expects that over the long term the fediverse might grow in a similar manner: “when the Bluesky admins make decisions that the community doesnt like, and then there may be another migration wave to the Fediverse”. Both replies indicate Lemmy’s vision of how the project can grow in the long run: stay consistently working on your product, and because platforms like Lemmy are not beholden to investors, they can have a longer lifespan, and outlive platforms who are beholden to shareholder expectations.
Grouping of communities (similar to PieFed’s topics or Reddit’s multireddits) “will be implemented soon“.
Ahoy! is a one-day conference for the European Social Web, and will be held on April 24th 2025 in Hamburg, Germany. The conference is mainly focused on Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and has some super fascinating speakers of people who are in the forefront of building new communities on the open social web. If you’re around I can definitely recommend it. I’ll be doing some interviews with people there, so if you are considering joining, let me know and we can say hi!
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La cantante partenopea ha appena prodotto il suo nuovo album, Furèsta, uscito il giorno di primavera. Tra le tracce, una più bella dell'altra, spicca il brano Figlia d' 'a Tempesta, un potente inno alla dignità femminile
In Parque Ibirapuera in São Paulo. It's a beautiful urban park; rightfully considered one of the city's main attractions. Glad I made it off Avenida Paulista to here.
One thing that's wild about climate change policy is that the US considers a carbon tax an absolute non-starter despite the critical need to reduce GHGs and then puts a 25% tariff on cars for practically no good reason.
I recall reading several months ago what seemed to be wishful thinking speculation (hmm, maybe _slightly_ better than that, based on quick search source may have been the then soon to be nominated treasury secretary reuters.com/world/us/bessent-c…) that a CBAM (likely only kind of tariff I'd be in favor of) could be part of the mix.
Instead we get massive stupidity, which happens to include tariffs on cars: even a crazy clock is occasionally correct-ish.
Unfortunately I need to cancel the #SocialCG #ActivityPub issue triage today. I had a travel mixup and won't have a quiet, private place to hold the meeting. Sorry for the late notice, and please plan on attending next week.
For full transparency, the "travel mixup" is that I went to the wrong location of the hotel chain I had a reservation for, and I had to get in a car and go across town to the location where I could actually get online and do a call. 😐 #MistakesWereMade
forwards AC in the summer, reverse AC in the winter. 1 high efficiency heat pump system. Loving it after 2y, costs are way down vs the old system, and the govt provided grants and interest-free financing.
yes but…. If homes were built to a higher efficient spec (effectively #passivehouse) they’d barely need even a heat pump. There’s good value in both insulation and heat pump retrofit and stronger building code.
Reaching an age where my tolerable temperature range is narrowing.
Sad thing is, a/c is going to become necessary for health. But its use is among the decaying, not balancing, feedback loops in our climate situation.
Shade, open windows, cool breezes are all preferable, but increasingly not viable, certainly not in urban heat islands in the most southern, most populous parts of the country.
No, but A/C is sadly increasingly necessary for survival as we hit deadly combinations of heat & humidity.
The problem is that people without A/C will still die, as will wildlife. And power outages from stressed grids will mean people who rely on A/C for survival will die. Also A/C units use greenhouse gases for refrigerant, and use energy that increases emissions.
We need to focus on stopping climate change and design buildings & outdoor spaces to be survivable without air conditioning.
Most of the time the places where I experience it they're turned up way too high. And the energy footprint is high.
but... I'm planning on moving up to a trailer in our off-grid camp in the Los Padres, where it regularly gets to temps where cooling will be a necessity. I'll try a swamp cooler first, which may be sufficient in the dry socal air. But I've sized my solar and battery storage to be able to handle an efficient mini-split AC if that doesn't cut it.
I'll be able to operate at more reasonable temps where it doesn't shock the body going in or out of my space, and being 100% off-grid solar the energy/carbon footprint is no longer a concern.
Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.
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Mastodon
in reply to Mastodon • • •reshared this
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Mastodon
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JBrickelt963 ✊(φ)🚩
in reply to Mastodon • • •[nate@social0 ~]$
in reply to Mastodon • • •i think this is great news! We need more people to know about mastodon. But. I worry about the things people have complained about in the past. Difficulty signing up, confusion around choosing a home instance, too many decisions having to be made in order to get started. and lastly, unfortunately, and unwelcoming user base.
I realize that some of this is out of your control. and some is human nature rather than a technical problem to solve. But i see a lot of folks try mastodon. and never even get past signup. Is there something that can be done there so that new users are not immediately turned off to the platform?
Mastodon
in reply to [nate@social0 ~]$ • • •Mostafa Hussein Omar
in reply to Mastodon • • •Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈
in reply to Mastodon • • •I mean you said you will share things outside the fediverse. But people clicking on shared things there will just notice the problem right away.
Mastodon
in reply to Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈 • • •Fediverse Discovery Providers
Fediverse Discovery ProvidersFabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈
in reply to Mastodon • • •I wanted to open a usability-collection-issue on github listing all the currently known shortcommings. Do you think this is something worth doing at this point?
Mastodon
in reply to Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈 • • •el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
in reply to Mastodon • • •@fabiscafe
It seems to me that what is necessary is more order on the GitHub suggestions: duplicates, suggestions that have been already ruled out, features impossibile to do, or otherwise easy to implement, suggestions not relevant because they pertain to specific apps or instances and not the software, etc. etc.
That would make easier for the team to make decisions and for the community to contribute.
My 2 cents.
Open Risk
in reply to Mastodon • • •it will be tricky to liberate people from legacy social media platforms. People that embrace the values and vision of the #fediverse have already migrated years ago, despite the usability issues. New opportunities do come when there are major shocks, like political events but luck favors the prepared: #bluesky grew a lot as of late because of a smoother UX and catering in particular to US users fleeing X/Tweeter.
Tough job but failure not an option 🙏😍😬🖖
bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵
in reply to Mastodon • • •Mastodon
in reply to bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵 • • •bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵
in reply to Mastodon • • •yeah.. I'm sure people who work for Amazon and Google have a strong value alignment..
maybe not with OUR values, but hey, they have some tech experience! 🤡
jade
in reply to bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵 • • •bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵
in reply to jade • • •Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉
in reply to bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵 • • •@bazkie I'm sure @Mastodon is able to hire someone. It's your kind of BS that is just as worse as some of the companies you fight against.
"Our" values is that you look at people, not at that BS.
☑️ Cath
in reply to Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉 • • •bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵
in reply to ☑️ Cath • • •☑️ Cath
in reply to ☑️ Cath • • •@vosje62 After @bazkie 's reply, she/he immediately blocked me 😄
Didn't even give me a chance to answer the question . Oh well..
@Mastodon
My answer would have been: Now you are being judgemental again and rude. You don't know me, but I believe in giving people a second, third and even way more chances.
Martin
in reply to Mastodon • • •@bazkie@beige.party
Anca
in reply to Mastodon • • •Fubaroque
in reply to Mastodon • • •This sounds just like the corporate spam I get from my employer… and they are paying me to ignore it. 🤔
#unfollow
MisterMultiverse
in reply to Mastodon • • •Mastodon
in reply to MisterMultiverse • • •The people should own the town square
Mastodon Blogdon Elías (como los buses) 🥨
in reply to Mastodon • • •Distante
in reply to Mastodon • • •Mastodon
Unknown parent • • •owls, but thankful 🦃
in reply to Mastodon • • •Why did you lose your nonprofit status in Germany in 2024?
And where's all this money for staff coming from? I thought you were unable to hire the trust & safety lead because the crowdfunding campaing stalled -- but you're bringing in several C-levels and a new project manager?
Why are those a higher priority than moderation policies and tooling?
Mastodon
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Lokjo - a European online map
in reply to Mastodon • • •Mastodon
in reply to Lokjo - a European online map • • •jonny (good kind)
in reply to Mastodon • • •Angela Scholder
in reply to Mastodon • • •To be honest, I really think that Mastodon should not have a prominent office in the US, but it should be clear to be a European entity under EU laws.
With the US office in New York mentioned on the website as prominent as it is, I think might very well turn a lot of people who want a break from US tech away from using Mastodon.
Mastodon
in reply to Angela Scholder • • •@spyhunter256@mastodon.social
in reply to Mastodon • • •TurkeyFlanTrout he/him
in reply to Mastodon • • •Mastodon is right, chill, it doesn't matter where they came from. Only thing that matters is "what can they do for us."
It doesn't matter that they presumably worked quietly and happily for organizations that do everything they can to profit, especially things that wreck our country and the planet
I mean, we imported actual Nazis from Germany to work on rocketry, and now we have the world's most advanced space program and NO OTHER PROBLEMS associated with Nazery WHATSOEVER
Y'all lost your goddamned minds
Hummus Member☭🔻
in reply to Mastodon • • •Tygeryder
in reply to Mastodon • • •Good luck, I hope all proposed changes and taken actions will turn out to be good for the platform and for the account holders of the #fediverse.
In support of your decision to not accept VC funds, I just made a small donation.
Thank you, and Godspeed!
Grievous Angel
in reply to Mastodon • • •Nico Christmann
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