🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language?
We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release!
Nous recherchons des traducteur·ices ou des personnes bilingues pour traduire les extensions et l’interface de Bonfire dans un maximum de langues — surtout avant la sortie de la version 1.0 !
Aucune compétence en code requise — juste un amour pour les mots.
@krafting We'd like to switch to an open source tool that can be more directly integrated so that translators can directly see where each piece of text is used: github.com/bonfire-networks/bo…
Buscamos traductores o personas bilingües para ayudar a localizar las extensiones y la interfaz de Bonfire a tantos idiomas como sea posible — ¡especialmente antes de la versión 1.0!
No se necesita saber programar — solo amor por las palabras.
Cerchiamo traduttori o persone bilingue per localizzare le estensioni e l’interfaccia di Bonfire in quante più lingue possibile — soprattutto prima del rilascio della versione 1.0!
Non serve saper programmare — basta amare le parole.
not really, an initial translation was done by MT, and some of the text was reviewed and corrected but the majority has not (if you have a go you can mark an individual text as reviewed in the transifex system)
🌐 Kannst du helfen, Bonfire in deine Sprache zu übersetzen?
Wir sind auf der Suche nach Übersetzenden und zweisprachigen Menschen, die helfen mögen, Erweiterungen und die Benutzer*innen-Oberfläche von Bonfire in so viele Sprachen wie möglich zu übersetzen. Insbesondere vor der Veröffentlichung der Version 1.0!
Keine Programmier-Kenntnisse nötig — nur eine Liebe für Wörter.
P.S. Du kannst auch helfen, indem du diese Nachricht übersetzst und/oder teilst. Je mehr Gemeinschaften wir erreichen, desto zugänglicher wird Bonfire. 🌍💬
We’re hosting online install parties, come set up your server alongside others! Bring your questions and curiosity, we’ll figure it out together and support each other through the process.
✅ Ideally have a (sub)domain + server with DNS set up, or just follow along and take notes.
@BjornW Apologies for missing that! The technical answer is that you can run it on most devices (including a Raspberry Pi) but the honest answer is that for a snappy experience you want to have enough RAM available (say 8 GB or more, depending of course on how big the instance will be).
We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvements.
It may take us a moment to consult with the right people, so please bear with us while we do so. As always, we appreciate your patience and support.
déjà agréablement surpris par la synthèse faite par email ^^ c'est rare de voir des Conditions d'Utilisation aller se bonifier en faveur de l'utilisateur 😃
my hot take is that while I wouldn’t trust a binding arbitration clause with a large corporation, I trust Mastodon and I don’t think they would ever abuse it. I think it’s more of a defense against detrimental lawsuits from big tech rivals. That being said, I think there must be a better way to implement this to keep good standing with users since some were turned off by it.
But rather than just focusing on the TOS verbiage, you should also scrutinize the people involved in creating them, as their values do not seem aligned with the community’s.
Not going to put any (more) effort into this except to point out that the Issue on Github is now closed to further comment, thus:
"I'm going to close this issue at this point - there is a lot of feedback we've gathered from it, and we will be consulting with those offering support as we're able to. Thank you."
"ha!
Wow, this is not the first time that Mastodon / Gargron / his proxy-of-the-moment has shut down a convo on Github that I've seen
Not going to bother trying to find them, but the general template runs something like:
"I've / we've read this thread. Your opinions have been received. We're going to go ahead and do what we had previously decided, out-of-band and without public participation, because this is our software and we're going to do what we want to with it."
Don't anyone forget who actually owns Mastodon dot * gGmbH software, people, all the lawyer-speak smokescreen about "non-profit" notwithstanding"
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
Twitter: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore moving up the change date and taking away your blue checkmarks.
Facebook: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore making changes retroactive to your tenth birthday and adding all your exes to your friends list. This cannot be undone.
Mastodon: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore pausing changes while we re-think this.
you should get rid of the permanent arbitration clause, and add a grandfather clause for people who already joined who are still under the new age limit. also, maybe stop banning people for simply being a palestinian from gaza, that’s racist.
Since many answers are asking what was the problem, here is a thread explaining it (it has to do with a "binding arbitration waver"): (Quoting @pluralistic) mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11470688…
I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.
These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
hi, is email id staff@mastodon.social working? Our team has been trying to reach but no response so far? How we get in touch with the admin of this instance?
And blocking just Vance is not defederation. It does nothing to isolate the instance that is hosting him and platforming him. If you want to defederate, you need to block the entire bsky.social instance.
We ingest the firehose directly, we interact with bluesky directly. You can even view bluesky accounts like, say, bluesky's own directly: app.wafrn.net/blog/@bsky.app
Notice how there's no bridgy in there? You can check my profile on the bluesky side at bsky.app/profile/alexia.at.app… too ← Notice how there's no bridgy here either?
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users
the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-ext / mary.my.id has a neat lil' GitHub repo that collects them all in one place: github.com/mary-ext/atproto-sc…
Now if we wanna specifically exclude content from the PDS that JD Vance is on, all I'd have to do is look up which one of these PDS instances vance's account is, nuke it from our database and stop ingesting content from that PDS through the firehose
For reference, we can use pdsls.dev to look up JD's server and determine it to be https://woodear.us-west.host.bsky.network/
problem is, unlike how fedi tends to work, the underlying PDS instances are assigned automatically; Vance didn't choose that PDS, it was chosen for him. As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him
Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable.
It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works, it doesn't quite make as much sense to block the server vance is currently on, it makes much more sense to block the account and associated did:plc identity ← This makes sure that even IF vance moves his account (although I'd doubt it) to another PDS, he will stay blocked on our infra.
"As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him"
...in other words, too big to defederate?
That's a copout answer, shame on you.
If mastodon.social was hosting Vance, other instances would be defederating them including mine.
"Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable."
"It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works,"
Maybe you shouldn't be using ATProto then?
It's designed to give large organisations more control than small ones or individuals, and you chickening out over this is an example.
@alexia This is an unnecessary focus on defederation imo: the line to be drawn is at an individual instance's discretion, not for you to specify when you aren't even a user of that instance.
In this case, they've assessed that there's sufficiently many innocent / good accounts which they want to maintain relationships with on bsky (or, equivalently, mastosoc) that it's worth the moderation overhead of banning the individual accounts instead to protect their users - something which is also a viable choice between ActivityPub instances, albeit rarely chosen.
Some instances are irredeemable: those whose purpose and entire user base is complicit in spreading hate and vitriol; that does not currently, ime, describe bsky overall, whose users have pushed back against Singal, Vance, and hell, even bullied Adobe off their platform (something fedi, in any other context, would usually be celebrating).
Freedom of association exists and should be one of fedi's greatest strengths. Would I agree with their assessment myself? Idk. But my opinion doesn't matter here as I'm not a user of their instance, so I'm unaffected. If I was affected, then my opinion would matter as to whether I defederated from them or not -- but again, thus far, their moderation has meant I've been unaffected by similar actors, so...
"the line to be drawn is at an individual instance's discretion, not for you to specify when you aren't even a user of that instance."
No.
This is absolutely the wrong approach to fascism and hatred. Once you leave it entirely up to individual discretion, you are opening up society to 1930s scenarios where hatred is mainstreamed.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
It's vital that we drive fascists out of all mainstream discourse. They are not participating in good faith, they are participating in order to radicalise people to do acts of the worst kind of hatred and violence.
They don't care if individuals block them, because all they care about are those who don't block them. Those who don't block them can be radicalised into spreading hatred themselves, which radicalises even more people.
I feel obligated to clarify, given that you have misrepresented my words in your reply.
I did not, at any point, talk about individuals blocking fascists. I talked about instances banning the individual fascists, rather than cutting off entire instances, as a choice of moderation style. I also agree that defederation is a valid option for instances, perhaps due to moderation burden, or because the remote instance in question is irredeemable.
An instance banning Vance means, on that instance, no user is capable of being radicalised by Vance's account. This is the same as if an open-signup instance banned Vance's account upon registration. This is the same result as defederating the entire remote instance for the sole reason that Vance is on there, except that otherwise innocent users on the remote instance are not caught in the crossfire.
Many of those remote users will not be aware of Vance's presence on their instance (especially when that instance is Bluesky), and therefore cannot be considered Nazis by mere affiliation: they have not interacted with him. Those users remain on that instance, and defederating will do nothing to protect them if he attempts to radicalise them; however, a moderation team can monitor the users of that instance and continually assess the risks and whether defederating later is reasonable to them. What can, in fact, sometimes happen is the opposite: the Nazi gets bullied out of there, or -- as in the Nazi bar analogy -- the users notice the Nazi and leave of their own accord (at which point I'm sure the calculus will shift in favour of defederation); perhaps such users move to fedi in this scenario, having not been ostracised for reasons they would not otherwise have understood.
Finally: Does your instance currently block mastodon.social? If not, as some instances have out of concerns for its moderation & size, then that is an example of what I was describing which you quoted and responded "No." to.
No instance should be hosting a fascist who has masked thugs literally kidnapping people off the streets without due process.
Any instance that hosts such a person is itself supporting fascism, and should be shunned by everyone. Admins should defederate it, users on that instance should leave it.
The idea is to isolate not only fascists but those who tolerate and help fascism.
Fascism has to be resisted in every way possible, while such resistance is still possible.
fedi tips, let me ask you something: despite all the warnings and continued bad decisions, how many instances are defederating fosstodon despite its size? The answer might invalidate your argument
If Fosstodon hosted Vance, you can bet it would be defederated by people who are on the fence.
I would personally defederate any instance that hosted Vance, including mastodon.social.
I've also spent lots of time trying to discourage large instances even existing, I run a site at fedi.garden and account at @FediGarden to promote good smaller instances.
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so, is it not a big enough issue that they've platforms rightwing extremists as moderators on their instance, and then defended both of them? I personally felt like that's reason enough to defed, but plenty of instances are choosing to wait and see
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Some did defederate Fosstodon over that, some took the approach that the admins and moderators had changed and did a "wait and see" because of the change of leadership and staff.
But there is an order of magnitude difference between that situation and hosting fascists who have direct control over the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
It should be obvious that Vance is an instant defederation.
Precisely. I saw a number of their moderators dismissing and gas lighting the concerns of LGBTQ people in my feed
I don't see that on Bluesky. In fact when there is a trans /homophobic user there, they are dealt with swiftly by the community. Here there are often crickets, or when marginalized groups bring up concerns there is much defensiveness.
I guess you care more about making a point then addressing valid concerns about trans/homophobia here on the Fediverse.
I find that sad.
JD Vance is not a moderator on Bluesky.
And believe me, the fediverse often platforms racism, transphobia, misogyny and homophobia. Here it can only be dealt with after the fact. On Bluesky its mostly dealt with proactively.
I'm not being fucking smug, I'm being fucking angry and terrified.
People like Vance are threatening very vulnerable minorities who are shit scared of what will happen to them. People are living in fear and terror. If you're not even addressing this then you are the one who needs to do more research.
No one should have anything to do with anyone who welcomes people like Vance.
@gabboman @alexia listen, I don’t want to get embroiled in another argument, but let me provide my insights: I think Gabbo is allowed to have his instance and run it how he wants. Bluesky federation is currently opt-in, and I trust it’ll be completely removed if the situation gets much worse. secondly, some things aren’t worth arguing over. just block and move on. I like both of you, so please heed my advice.
Calling me a "smug cunt" for trying to warn against fascism is just... there's no words. What are you thinking?
Do you think this is some kind of childish tech vs tech dispute like Mac vs Windows?
I run these accounts purely to try to stop the spread of fascism and hatred. Any tech that helps in that fight, I promote. Any tech that hinders that fight, I warn about.
If you think I've got a tech wrong that's fine to discuss, I do discuss things regularly and I often message developers to find out more. But hateful name calling and patronising and avoiding mentioning the Nazi elephant in the room is not the way to do it.
@gabboman @alexia honestly, fair. I will probably be moving away from Wafrn in that case provided they don't get rid of Bluesky integration. I only have one major account over there and it already has an equivalent on another instance that I find works quite well. Thanks for the insight, FediTips!
@gabboman @alexia for the record, that “some things aren’t worth arguing over” bit was targeted mainly at Gabbo. I agree, fascism is DEFINITELY worth arguing over.
I can assure you I'm not. I am terrified about what is going on.
I don't care what protocol is used as long as it makes federation accessible and controllable by anyone including very-low-cost grassroots instances that can communicate without relays.
@gabboman @GroupNebula563 @alexia I don't really want to get involved in this disagreement but I have to say that the way Fedi.tips has been talking about how bluesky works seems to have some serious issues and it turns some people off. The blocking and defederation of instances works the way it does on fedi cause of how mastodon and most of the fediverse work but doesn't apply when you are talking about bluesky/atproto cause the way the whole system is designed is radically different
@gabboman Hi, question. If a user on your instance who is opted-in to Bluesky integration boosts a post from someone on another fedi instance, is the boost ingested by Bluesky?
Your insistence on believing there is a single bsky.social instance is commendable, for sure
Multiple people have explained to you over time how there is no singular bsky.social instance (as they have an entirely different technical model) and how blocking the server is less effective than deplatforming the user.
Because again, account moves are more powerful on Bluesky than they are on fedi.
Maybe you should do just a bit more research into how ATProto works
You're not really selling AT Proto if this is your approach.
Maybe you should take a bit more action against fascism instead of hiding behind technicalities and promoting something designed for corporations above individuals?
Using compulsory relays is hardly the way to democratise social networks.
"platforming fascists", it is an open protocol meant for everyone. In all reality, most people blocked him whether via manual blocking or mass moderation list for MAGA accounts. Plus, if he went a step further and hosted his own PDS, there would be no official way to de-platform him besides making the official relays disregard him (not including getting self-hosted relays to do the same). Which that would defeat the point of an open, decentralized protocol in the first place.
Gabbo hasn't been killing himself adding actual ATProto and firehose to Wafrn for you to dismiss them as a bridge. There's actual work there, there's a direct communication using the actual protocol. Wafrn is both a full-fledged AP server, and a full-fledged ATProto server
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users
the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-ext / mary.my.id has a neat lil' GitHub repo that collects them all in one place: github.com/mary-ext/atproto-sc…
Now if we wanna specifically exclude content from the PDS that JD Vance is on, all I'd have to do is look up which one of these PDS instances vance's account is, nuke it from our database and stop ingesting content from that PDS through the firehose
For reference, we can use pdsls.dev to look up JD's server and determine it to be https://woodear.us-west.host.bsky.network/
problem is, unlike how fedi tends to work, the underlying PDS instances are assigned automatically; Vance didn't choose that PDS, it was chosen for him. As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him
Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable.
It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works, it doesn't quite make as much sense to block the server vance is currently on, it makes much more sense to block the account and associated did:plc identity ← This makes sure that even IF vance moves his account (although I'd doubt it) to another PDS, he will stay blocked on our infra.
@alexia love how you try to tell them what they are. Eff off with your performative agenda. Have you defederated from Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online after years of Black and Brown folks pointing out the harassment, antiblackness, Islamophobia, etc You make a lot of noise but are you backing it up? There’s been CSAM on .social, did you defederate? Stop spouting as if you know what you’re talking about when you consistently look foolish
1. You're accusing me of being performative 2. You're saying people should defederate from mastodon.social 3. You're posting from an account on mastodon.social
I regularly post about how being on mastodon.social is a bad idea due to poor moderation and putting the network at risk, I have a whole article about this: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…
Mastodon.social blocks my posts from trending there because they were so pissed off with this.
On Bluesky you can subscribe to a Maga block list. It's a seamless experience and automatically blocked him for me before I heard he was there.
Here on the fediverse I encounter more homophobia than on Bluesky and fewer people speak up about it sadly.
Here I'll stumble upon admins of an instance defending a moderator who blocks LGBTQ hashtags and quotes homophobes in their profile because of 'free speech'.
Fascists care about people who don't block them, because they can radicalise them into believing and spreading hateful lies about vulnerable minorities.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
You've literally responded to nothing I've brought up.
Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there. On the fediverse there is a moderator on a bigger server who has blocked lgbtq/trans related hashtags and quotes a homophobe in their profile.
If you are trying to protect people from fascism, and hopefully homophobia I hope you are calling out fosstodon too. I didn't stumble on jd Vance on BS, but stumbled on them dismissing LGBTQ people here
"Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there."
Having 70% of a platform to talk to is a tremendous amount of power. Even if it was only 10% that would still be millions of people to potentially radicalise.
It's the people who don't block him but listen to him that are the problem. He isn't speaking in good faith, he's trying to deceive people into doing bad things.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
If you know someone who is interested but finds it intimidating or overwhelming, I would be happy to help. The website at fedi.tips is written for non-technical people for example, and I'm happy to directly answer specific questions 🙂
@t_robinart I sadly think many will just assume that wherever they move, the same will happen and they give up. I know too many who think Mastodon is too complicated for a « mass » move. But I’m crossing my fingers!
The final straw that made me delete my Facebook account was when Vance posts started getting shoved in my feed - I kept reporting and trying to block and they kept showing up. So I left.
That's a fair point and I did wonder for a while whether or not to link directly to the account.
I posted the link because it proves he's there and active (he had briefly been blocked because BS thought it was fake), it proves he's hosted by Bluesky and it proves he's been verified by Bluesky.
The link is a smoking gun of Bluesky's behaviour, so it seemed on balance best to post it.
@Eh__tweet If you don’t want to link directly to the account, you can link to the ClearSky page, which also gives you things like “How many people/Lists are blocking the account”
Thanks for providing the Link to JDV‘s BS profile. It is great to see how the community reacted. Actually I’m glad to see there’s almost only negative feedback to his posts. Great to see thinking people also outside the fediverse.
@Eh__tweet Screenshot would be a middle ground - easier to read than a user ID - if you wanted to avoid sending too many people to the posts of trolling (and bigotry).
No, he wasn't. Bluesky thought it was a fake account, but when they found out it was real they reinstated it, verified it and sent an email to Fox News welcoming him.
p.s. It isn't enough to say that individuals can just block stuff they don't like.
Fascists don't care about people who block them, they only care about those who don't block them.
Fascists use platforms to try to radicalise anyone who will listen. Fascists spread hateful lies about vulnerable minorities, and if someone believes those lies they may follow the fascist and spread lies too.
I've tried to explain this in a way that hopefully anyone can relate to:
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
p.p.s. No, Vance wasn't banned by Bluesky. That's why I included the link in the original post so you can see he isn't banned.
Bluesky had blocked the account briefly because they thought it was fake, but when they found out it was real they unblocked it, verified it and sent an email to Fox News saying that Vance was welcome on Bluesky.
Whenever I hear that a "new great very fine" new platform with "new management" is being advertised that would solve the issues of that bad last enshitificated platform, I think about this picture:
p.s. It isn't enough to say that individuals can just block stuff they don't like.
Fascists don't care about people who block them, they only care about those who don't block them.
Fascists use platforms to try to radicalise anyone who will listen. Fascists spread hateful lies about vulnerable minorities, and if someone believes those lies they may follow the fascist and spread lies too.
I've tried to explain this in a way that hopefully anyone can relate to:
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
I was talking to a close friend about the Fediverse a while ago. Her main reason to sticking to Meta platforms was mostly that she doesn't use social media for fun, but primarily for marketing. She's a singer, like me, and it's just sort of expected of you to use these things, because that's where your audience is.
But she also said that she's wary of dividing the world into different echo-chambers when using a platform that's more popular with left-wing users. Made me think of this.
No, here I have to disagree hard: I don't want the crazy hateful, fascist and / or simply cookoo voices to disappear. I want the tankie nutjob, the fascist white power lunatic and the vatnik idiot to be able to scream his or her vile bullshit into the void of the net. Because this is the freedom the net gives us.
Fascism and oppression has to be fought with dialogue, through teaching people and sometimes with fists and steel... but never through censorship and silencing of ideas.
Someone with millions of followers is telling people that you (not your group but you personally) are a murderer and rapist and all kinds of other untrue stuff.
People believe him, his speeches get carried on TV, on radio, and newspapers give him an easy time without questioning his allegations too much.
What would you do? Would you want even more people to hear his allegations about you? Would you want his audience to be even bigger?
"Fascism and oppression has to be fought with dialogue, ... never through censorship and silencing of ideas."
I'm sorry but that's a load of crap.
When the Nazis were defeated, their party was banned and their symbols were made illegal. Those who voted for them were made to march through death camps and look at the corpses to see the consequences of their votes.
Dialogue with fascists is like dialogue with rapists or murderers, it normalises stuff that should not be normalised.
I don't like being in an information bubble, myself. But I recall a quote about #Nazis and #Fascism (I do not recall where I heard it):
"The only thing that a tolerant society must not tolerate is #intolerance ."
There are a few things that should never be allowed a forum for discussion, because the uneducated and bigots do not debate; they merely jump straight to hate. Along the way, they pull others into their darkness.
It's not easy to walk the fine line between #FreeSpeech and justifiable #censorship , but we must be constantly straddling that line and holding onto it firmly.
We do not give pornography to children or spread it on social media. Nor should we give that same social media space to Nazis and hate.
I disagree. The Nazi party was banned because they ACTED upon their atrocious beliefs... purely talking about ideas - as much as I may despise them - has to stay possible.
Just think about it: If you start to censor ONE topic, what guarantees that this is not followed up with other topics?
This whole conversation is so important. And your argument with Graham Downs over on the original post is super interesting and I like that you both kept it respectful despite your obvious disagreement. And while I'm here, just wanted to say thank you for all the work you do for the Fediverse, it's truly appreciated.
This is *exactly* the reason I've never signed up for BlueSky! I.e. while it may look good now, there's nothing stopping the owners from going down the Twitter path or worse!
I realize that "I told you so!" is the least helpful thing ever uttered, but when Bluesky arose, I said to all the people fleeing Twitter that the same thing was going to happen there in a few years and that decentralization was the only viable solution.
It's one thing to allow openly fash trash to join your corporate social media platform. It's another thing to fucking send a welcome fascist notice to Fox News. Absolutely disgusted. Glad I only checked it out for 2 weeks & deleted it.
Moderation on BS is actually more decentralized than in the Fediverse - block lists managed by the community are a better tool than Fediverse instance admins being in command, especially since you can't yet switch fedi instances without changing identity.
How would that be different if Vance was setting up its own Fedi instance?
Yup, that's why I included the link so people could see for themselves.
If you do an internet search for "fox news bluesky vance" you'll find the article where Bluesky welcome him to the platform (I'm not going to link it).
"And there they are reachable for other opinions and ideas, which have no voice at Twitter. "
No, it doesn't work like that.
When you give fascists a broader audience, you simply get more fascists.
All you do is normalise fascism in mainstream discourse, and people who would have previously stayed away from it suddenly think it's okay to do fascist things.
The only effective response to fascism is to make its audience and reach as small as possible.
@dideldum @McWabbit Get lost with that "tolerate the intolerant". How often do people have to point out the tolerance paradox? How often do people be reminded that right extremists don't care what your intentions are as long as they gain attention and power from it? Western societies atre past the time when we had enough freedom to discuss with those that have "different opinions". We've done that and look how well we dismantled them: they sit in every government.
Oh, the blocklist I already had activated months ago when I joined there has him already added before I even knew he was on there so automatically blocked for me.
@drew Tell ya what. If people stopped following these prominent right-wing politicians, nothing would ever come out of their plan. But as it is, folks want to hear what they have to say... Well, that's why they are being heard...
In a recent @WIRED interview, when asked "Would you welcome President Trump?" CEO Jay Graber responded "Yeah—Bluesky’s for everyone." So their welcoming of Vance doesn't surprise me. (I don't support this choice, to be clear.)
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
I guess Bluesky's unofficial motto is now "Bluesky: the social network that welcomes fascists".
That is even more disturbing. Total lack of morality from Graber and Bluesky, at a point in history where people need to be taking a stand. Spineless bunch of greedy cowards.
Follow-up question should have been about whether Graber supports neo-nazis being on there, for example the neo-nazis Trump pardoned.
Everything on Bluesky flows through a central relay system controlled by the Bluesky Corporation. In practical terms they have complete control over everything, which is dangerous if they decide to do bad stuff.
"I still don't understand federated social media very well."
This guide might help? It tries to explain why having lots of independent servers is really important for the health of a social network:
Vance's Bluesky post is attacking queer people. I'm not "roping in" anyone, Vance and the far right hate me as a queer person.
In my part of the world the word "minorities" is pretty general and also covers queer people, disabled people, language minorities etc.
I don't know if this is an American vs European english thing, but I'm talking about vulnerable minorities in general, not specifically ethnic minorities.
We eventually plan to automatically check whether the boosted post is available via bridgy, and boost that on the fedi end (and vice-versa), but that doesn't exist in the software yet.
Bluesky's blocking and moderation tools are better than they ever were on Twitter. The culture is openly hostile to MAGA. This will be interesting to watch.
____ * couldn't find his account for some reason -- is it only available for logged in users? ** apparently a bot listing "bsky trending words" every ten minutes
It's not enough for individuals to block hatemongers, people spreading hate have to be de-platformed. Platform owners should be refusing to platform them.
Not everyone will block him, some will listen to him and believe his lies and become radlcalised. Then they will spread the hate even further, and it will kill people.
Ho vissuto a Venezia, per studio e durante la leva. Per questo, oggi mi unisco con convinzione ai comitati e alle associazioni cittadine che stanno contestando la presenza di Jeff Bezos nella città lagunare. Non è solo una questione simbolica: è una presa di posizione civile contro ciò che rappresenta.
Jeff Bezos non è un semplice imprenditore. È uno dei volti più potenti dell’oligarchia economica che gravita attorno a Donald Trump. Ha sostenuto apertamente la sua campagna elettorale, ha messo a disposizione il Washington Post quando faceva comodo, e si è presentato sorridente e in prima fila al suo insediamento, accanto a Elon Musk e agli altri signori del tecno-capitalismo.
Dietro la facciata dei servizi comodi e delle spedizioni veloci, Amazon è un colosso costruito sullo sfruttamento, sull’elusione fiscale, sulla distruzione del commercio locale e su un modello economico che concentra potere e ricchezza in pochissime mani. A scapito di tutti gli altri.
Ogni acquisto è un voto
Ogni volta che acquistate su Amazon, ogni volta che guardate qualcosa su Prime Video, che fate una diretta su Twitch o dite “Alexa”, state finanziando Bezos. State dando forza a un sistema che calpesta diritti, silenzia giornalisti e artisti, sfrutta lavoratori e svuota interi quartieri di botteghe reali.
Le condizioni di lavoro nei magazzini Amazon documentate in innumerevoli inchieste
George Takei l’ha detto chiaramente:
“Se Jeff Bezos si arrende di fronte al potere, noi consumatori dovremmo mostrargli il nostro. RIMANENDO FUORI DA AMAZON.”
Come vivere senza Amazon e i suoi servizi
Vivere senza Amazon è non solo possibile, ma liberatorio. Dopo più di un anno di boicottaggio, posso confermare che si vive benissimo senza dare un euro a Bezos. Ecco una guida pratica per liberarsi, passo dopo passo:
Quest’anno ho festeggiato i 25 anni da quando avevo aperto un account Amazon. Un pezzo d’archeologia digitale come l’email di Libero, ma era ora di dire basta. Non solo ho smesso di usarlo da tempo: ho deciso di chiuderlo definitivamente.
Se anche voi siete stanchi di finanziare un sistema che va contro i vostri valori, agite. Non limitatevi a lamentarvi. Disattivate. Cancellate. Scegliete.
Venezia non ha bisogno di miliardari in yacht che la trattano come una passerella di lusso. Il web non ha bisogno di un monopolio che distrugge ogni forma di alternativa. Il mondo ha bisogno di cittadini consapevoli, non di consumatori passivi.
Bezos può comprare di tutto. Ma non deve comprare anche noi.
È tempo di scegliere. Scegliamo il Piccolo Web. Scegliamo il locale, l’etico, il federato. Scegliamo di dire NO ad Amazon.
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Ciao, sto facendo una lista delle alternative ad uso dei gruppi per la Palestina. Ho trovato molto utile il tuo articolo. Volevo solo segnalarti che per quanto riguarda il "nuovo" i siti che indichi continuano a proporre prodotti dal market di Amazon, e per questo io suggerirei di usare (nei casi estremi) Aliexpress, come alternativa di ultima istanza ad Amazon
For the Digital Public Goods Alliance to achieve its mission, collaboration among governments, multilateral organizations (including UN entities), philanthropic foundations, funders, think tanks, and technology companies is needed.
“Over the past few years, we’ve shared annual reports that describe where our funding comes from: donations largely from individual / grass roots supporters (currently starting at $1 per month on Patreon).” - It seems the Patreon starts at $8/month, are lower recurring plans coming?
I genuinly hoped for improved tools for moderation and community safety, as well as onboarding*... 😢
I mean, if you want to grow, maybe we should work on user retention and making the experience a nicer one, including for others than white European dudes working in tech?
Sorry if that sounds harsh. Mastodon is great. But the priorities of the core developers seem not to align with what many of the community consider necessary.
* no, here I don't mean that mastodon.social should be the default instance. That could be replaced with randomly selected trusted instance from a pool.
@earthworm thanks for the comment here. This post is really on the non-technical, non-software side, to help to explain some of the other things you will have seen the team doing (events, etc). We are absolutely also working on improving Mastodon and the features you mentioned too. We hope you will see some of them in the upcoming version 4.4.
Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.
Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.
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Fediforum has published the videos of the keynotes and the software demos. For a list of all the demos, you can check out the website. Some thoughts on some of the demoes that stood out to me. For some of the other cool demos (such as Bounce and Bandwagon), check out last week’s news.
The keynote by Christine Lemmer-Webber talks about how the social media style of the 2010s is no longer good enough. With this, she refers to both the fediverse as well as Bluesky. Lemmer-Webber makes the case we live in an age of surveillance, and both Bluesky and the fediverse do not meet the need for safety and privacy that comes with that. She says that shame is not an effective way to get people to use better platforms, and that we need to bring joy to the new platforms. Lemmer-Webber is now working on different protocols with the Spritely Institute, that use Object Capabilities. I’ll go into more detail on that once Spritely gets closer to public usage, but to hugely oversimplify: with Object Capabilities, you can enforce who has access to your data that you send out. Seeing one of the co-authors of ActivityPub actively advocating for further development of new open protocols indicates to what extend the space of the open social web is still in active development.
BadgeFed is a platform for issues badges using the Open Badges standard and ActivityPub protocol, where the badges can later be verified cryptographically. There are some interesting parallels with how people are developing badges on ATProto, and it seems to me that both networks are now in the stage that there are solid proofs that you can build systems for credentials on decentralised protocols. The next stage is seeing how people will start using these new systems.
For developers: ActivityFuzz is an upcoming project from Darius Kazemi, and builds upon the Fediverse Schema Observatory. These tools give a much greater insight into how all the different fediverse projects have implemented ActivityPub in practice, and shows all the differences. This makes building fediverse platforms that are compatible with other platforms more accessible.
Gobo is a client that allows people to post to multiple different platforms, including Mastodon and Bluesky. One of the challenges with cross-posting tools is that these platforms have different character limits, which Gobo has some nice ways of setting the cutoff-point for a longer text thats different for each platform.
Encyclia is a recently-announced project to make ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) records connected to the fediverse, with the demo providing a first view of what this looks like in practice.
The Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm takes your Mastodon timeline and uses various customisable algorithms to create custom clusterings for the post, allowing you to sort your timeline into various different topics.
The team implementing the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress has posted a blog with a roadmap what they are working on. The team has plans to majorly expand the plugin, and make WordPress a full member of the fediverse. So far, the interaction has mainly focused on publishing to the fediverse, which will now be expanded to also be able to follow, read and interact with the rest of the fediverse directly via a WordPress account. The main feature will be a reader experience, which is effectively a timeline feed within WordPress. It places WordPress into even more direct competition with Ghost, who also offers a timeline reader as part of their ActivityPub integration.
The Social Web Foundation released a draft of their work to implement end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging over ActivityPub. Their plan uses Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a protocol for encrypting messages, that is designed to be used in combination with other protocols for sending the encrypted messages. One of the parts that is missing for ActivityPub is the ability to send real private messages to each other, and an integration with MLS can help with that. It might take a while before it gets there, this first version of the draft is now ready for proof-of-concept implementations and interoperability testing.
Bridgy Fed, the bridging software that connects ActivityPub with ATProto, has gotten an update where server admins can opt-in to the bridge for their entire server. For some context: Bridgy Fed was originally designed to be opt-out, meaning that every fediverse account could automatically be bridged to the Bluesky network and visa versa. After massive pushback from the fediverse community, this was changed to opt-in, where people have to actively take action to have their account be connected to the other network. The debate laid bare to what extend the fediverse struggled with being a decentralised network, where decentralised means that there are different communities with values that at times are incompatible with each other. Instead the debate got largely framed in terms of what the value (opt-in or opt-out) should be for the entire network. However, with this latest update individual communities can now be independently decide for themselves if they want to be connected to other protocols by default.
The Links
Bonfire has added the ability to create a separate ‘Events’ feed for Mobilizon and Gancio events.
Canvas is a yearly fediverse event where people can paint on a shared canvas, one pixel at a time, for 48 hours. This year’s Canvas event will start on July 12th.
Mastodon has made some tweaks to smaller screen layouts on web.
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How can you build modern, cross-platform applications that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving ecosystem of the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Friendica, etc.)?
Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform may be an interesting answer! Check out my blog post and stay tuned for more considerations stemming from my experience during the last 2 years maintaining the Raccoon apps.
The Fediverse represents the future of social media—decentralized, open, and user-controlled. As platforms like Mastodon, Friendica, and Lemmy gain momentum, developers face a crucial question: how do you build modern, cross-platform applications tha…
Credo che questa sia una questione particolarmente delicata e applicabile ad una vasta gamma di situazioni (attuali e non), ovvero quella del "cosa fare quando la legge è ingiusta".
Non ritenendo che questo sia lo spazio migliore per dirimere la questione, dirò solamente che (secondo me, ovviamente) bisognerebbe adeguarsi alla legge in questione, e intraprendere nel frattempo le vie più adeguate per "raddrizzare" la suddetta legge.
@nepenthes @Sicofante Ci sono situazioni che, pur essendo formalmente al limite della legalità, non giustificano il blocco di un'intera istanza. Ad esempio, la promozione del download di materiale protetto da copyright è tecnicamente illegale, ma non bloccheremo mai un’istanza per questo motivo.
Lo stesso vale per account che parlano o promuovono temi come l’eutanasia, che in Italia è ancora in una zona grigia normativa e non pienamente accettata dalla legge.
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
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FediForum and related announcements
The FediForum unconference was this week, with three days of sessions, keynotes and demos. The event was originally scheduled for April, but got cancelled at the last minute due to drama around transphobic statements made by one of the co-organisers. The individual in question left FediForum, and instead FediForum set up an advisory board with a number of community members. This edition of FediForum had keynotes for the first time, by ActivityPub co-creator Christine Lemmer-Webber, author Cory Doctorow, and Ian Forrester, who lead a Mastodon instance at the BBC. There were also a large number of demos (list here) and unconference sessions about a wide variety of subjects. I’ll write more about both the demos and the keynotes once the videos of them will become available online, likely next week.
Bounce is a newly-announced tool that allows people to migrate their social graph across protocols. It is made by A New Social, the organisation behind Bridgy Fed. The ability to port a social graph from AT Protocol to ActivityPub reshapes what is possible within the Open Social Web. For that reason, I think Bounce is a meaningful release, with its power mainly being in altering the shape of these networks. I wrote an essay on that this week that goes into the philosophical side of Bounce. For more practical information I can recommend this coverage by TechCrunch and The Verge. Meanwhile, A New Social’s CTO Ryan Barrett has shared all the updates and new features that have happened to Bridgy Fed over the recent months.
Music sharing platform Bandwagon shared more information during Fediforum on their development work, and how they are working on integrating album sales. A dev blog by Bandwagon recently shared their plans on adding a premium subscription, and how album sales work. During a Fediforum session, developer Ben Pate shared some screenshots on what this looks like. WeDistribute has a deep dive into Bandwagon and the current state of development based on the latest FediForum session.
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that has slowly been reaching the end of the line for development, and they announced the release candidate version of Bonfire 1.0. It is a framework and platform for building communities on the fediverse, and has a large variety of features and extensibility. One of the standout features is circles and boundaries. Circles allow users to define lists of accounts, and boundaries allows users to determine on a per-post basis to what circles each post gets shared. This creates a significant amount of flexibility on how to handle private posts, something which is in huge demand within the open social web. Bonfire also gives users a large amount of control over how they see and filter their feed. For more of a philosophical take on that, I recently wrote about how Bonfire’s approach on custom feeds compares to Bluesky’s approach. The developers are inviting people to install their own instance and experiment with the new features. It is unknown when Bonfire will be ready for a full 1.0 release. For another look at Bonfire, TechCrunch also covered the story.
Filmmaker and fediverse evangelist Elena Rossini has released her fediverse promotion video, which was highly anticipated by the community. The video can be viewed here, and tells the story of why the fediverse matters for a lay audience. The video is worth paying attention to for two reasons: first of all, it is a well-produced promo video for the fediverse that explains some of the core ideas in an accessible manner. Secondly, the video has gotten a huge amount of support from within the fediverse community, with a large number of prominent people within the community supporting Rossini’s work. One of the challenges of analysing a decentralised community is that there is no singular decentralised community, there are a wide variety of different groups and cultures. However, by seeing how and who responded positively to the video, it becomes clear that Rossini’s video does represent a dominant and popular understanding of what the fediverse is, and why it matters. In that way, analysing the video does provide good insight into the one of the more dominant and popular cultures of the fediverse.
Shutdown of Lemmy and opportunity for PieFed
Lemm.ee, one of the biggest Lemmy servers, is shutting down at the end of June. The team says: “The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.” This has some significant impact on the wider Threadiverse community, as the lemm.ee hosted a significant number of popular communities. This makes server shutdowns on Threadiverse platforms signficantly more impactful, as they also impact people who do not have an account on the platform. Community migration is challenging, and there are no specific tools to help with a community with migrating to a different server.
The shutdown of the Lemm.ee server provides an opportunity for PieFed, a link-aggregator platform similar to Lemmy. PieFed is over a year old, that has seen significant development and new features beyond Lemmy, but has not managed to gain traction yet, with growth of users being slow. However, now that communities on the lemm.ee. server need to find a new place, PieFed is emerging as one of the main destinations. In turn, this is giving PieFed some much need promotion and awareness within the Threadiverse community, with PieFed doubling the number of accounts within a week. Lemmy clients are also starting to add support for PieFed, with the Lemmy client Interstellar already supporting PieFed. PieFed also uploaded two PeerTube video walking through all the moderation and administration features the platform has.
Platform updates
Ghost’s work on implementing ActivityPub is getting close to an official release. In their latest update, Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be part of the Ghost 6.0 release, which will come in ‘a few weeks’. The team has been working on ActivityPub for over a year, and have grown from 3 people to 8 people now working on their social web integration. For Ghost, the ActivityPub integration is more than just another connector, describing it as ‘a statement that the open web still matters’.
Mastodon is planning to release a new update, version 4.4, with the first beta now available. Some of the new features include the ability to set more feature content on user profiles, more list and follow management tools. For admins, there are better tools for setting legal frameworks, moderation tweaks and more. The biggest feature of the patch is that it will display quoted posts. The highly requested feature will only be fully available in version 4.5, which will include the ability for users to create quoted posts. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput says that he expects version 4.4 to be released at the end of June, with version 4.5 scheduled a few months later in September of October. The organisation also shared their monthly engineering update for May.
PeerTube released their latest version, 7.2, with a new design for video management and publication pages. PeerTube also now has more features for handling sensitive content. Creators can now add an explanation of why the content is marked as sensitive. Users also have more flexibility with how they want sensitive content to be handled, with various different configurations between hiding, blurring or warning about a video with sensitive content. PeerTube is also running a crowdfunding campaign for the mobile app, which has now crossed the halfway mark at 35k EUR. This milestone is for video management from the mobile app, with the next milestone being for livestream support in-app. The PeerTube app developer also shared a blog post with his thoughts on the technical framework considerations for building the app.
Hollo is a single-user microblogging platform, and their latest release has a significant number of new features, including better OAuth and various upgrades to the UX. Developer Hong Minhee also announced that independent fediverse developer Emelia Smith will join as a co-maintainer for Hollo.
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Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.
Changes
This release includes various minor improvements and bug fixes.
Backend
Fix Peertube federation by @flamingos-cant in #5652
Show NSFW content by default if content_warning exists by @xaegit in #5655
Register users in a transaction by @Nothing4You in #5608
Fix email notifications for denied applications by @Nutomic in #5641
Dont run scheduled tasks at startup by @Nutomic in #5732
Only use HTTP/1 for federation by @flamingos-cant in #5744
Update user count from local_user table instead of person table, and only count users with accepted application by @dullbananas in #5495
Decrement fail_count instead of reset to 0 by @Nutomic in #5737
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I haven't had any time to devote to it, but sleepless has been helping to re-organize the lemmy back-end so that other rust projects (like lemmy-rs-client and lemmy-ui-leptos), can more easily import its types and API.
We need a lot more front end devs on both it, and lemmy-ui. There are 500+ github issues for lemmy-ui and about 1/3rd of a dev able to work on any of them.
the Peertube federation works really well now, I copy-pasted a bunch of video links into my search bar and it pulled them all no problem
https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/c/die4everplays@spectra.video (Lemmy was forcing the link to stay local when clicked, so you gotta copy-paste to see how it looks on that instance) (if you want to follow: !die4everplays@spectra.video )
Imagine a digital space that aggregates, organizes, and empowers you to act on any activity published across the fediverse.
With Bonfire, you can now add an "Events" feed to your sidebar—pulling in all events from users you follow on #Mobilizon and #Gancio, unified in one place.
That's just a glimpse of what our modular architecture enables.
WordPress plugins on ATProto, managing digital badges and attestations, and more.
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The News
The Linux Foundation has announced FAIR, a package manager project for WordPress. It is “a federated and independent repository of trusted plugins and themes for web hosts, commercial plugin and tool developers in the WordPress ecosystem and end users.” To achieve this independent and federated repository of tools for the WordPress ecosystem, FAIR uses ATProto underneath. FAIR has build their own protocol, the FAIR protocol, on top of ATProto. It uses DID PLC as an identifier for the packages, and ATProto for indexing and discoverability. As the project has just launched and some of the final parts are still being ironed out there are no packages yet that use the FAIR system. As such I cannot give yet a good context for what discoverability of WordPress packages over ATProto actually looks like. The chaos of the last year around the management of WordPress shows a need for decentralised repository of packages and plugins, and FAIR does already show that ATProto can be much more than only a microblogging network.
Gnosco is a new tool for digital badges and attestations on ATProto. It acts as a secure middleman between the application that issues the badge and your PDS. This allows applications to create a signed record to award a badge of attestation for a user. This badge is then not yet placed into the user’s PDS, but instead held in escrow by Gnosco. Users can then log into Gnosco with their ATProto account and review the badges. If they approve, the signed badge then added to their own PDS.
Gnosco took me a while to wrap my head around what the tool is and what it does, but it tackles the following problem. Badges and awards and other attestations need to be accepted and signed by both the issuer and the receiver. But not for all attestations that are issued it is known in advance if the user actually wants to receive this attestation and store it on their PDS. So there needs to be a way for the user to accept or reject a badge or attestation that is issued. Gnosco provides this interface that is platform-neutral, where users can accept and reject any attestation or badge.
Photo-sharing platform Grain now has their own moderation system on their own infrastructure. Grain is building a social photo-sharing network on ATProto that is separate from Bluesky, using their own lexicon. One reason why image-sharing platforms so far tend to have been alternate Bluesky clients is that means that the client does not have to be responsible for moderation. For Grain, the goal is to build their own independent social network, and thus their own moderation system is mandatory as well. The Grain developer also released a stand-alone app to embed Grain galleries on your own website.
Blacksky is proposing to make a soft-fork of the Bluesky client for the Blacksky community. With their own forked app, Blacksky can set some default values that benefit their community, such as setting the default feed to the Blacksky Trending feed, and setting the Blacksky moderation as default moderation. The organisation is looking for 2500 USD in recurring monthly donations, and they are close to reaching that goal.
ATProto chatroom app Roomy has released the another alpha version. Besides offering public chatrooms, Roomy continues to experiment with features for collecting and aggregating chat messages into longer-lived places for text. In this update they included ‘boards’, where people can create simple markdown pages as well as collect ‘threads’ that are pulled out of the chat log. Roomy is on the bleeding edge of technology when it comes to using ATProto, by combining it with Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT). The Roomy blogs go into more detail on why they are building the architecture this way, but the current practical problem is that CRDTs are new enough that what Roomy needs is still in development.
Tech updates and news
ATStudio is a new developer-focused tool that allows people to interact with ATProto. It allows you to “experiment with the protocol and debug code paths by making direct XRPC requests and executing @ATProtocol SDK methods using the integrated dashboard.”
Boost Blue is a new Bluesky client for Android and iOS, that has a few in-demand features that the main Bluesky client is missing, such as repost muting by user, drafts and bookmarks.
Bluesky’s latest update adds a ‘share’ button on every post, and an announced update to get notification on likes on reposts is pushed back to the next update which contains more notification filters.
An update by Skylight on how they are building their algorithm.
Graze announced they are backing Party Starter with a 1k USD grant, a “toolkit for creating short-lived, location-aware events”. Not much else is known yet about Party Starter.
A “minor change to the PLC Directory service, with the aim of expanding compatibility with non-atproto apps and services”.
Alumni Ventures is one of the companies who invested in Bluesky’s series A last October. They’ll be hosting a webinar next week on why they invested in Bluesky.
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A whole bunch of first-pass features; A path towards Roomy/Weird convergence; Temporary Backend Pivot (building on jazz.tools 🎶 for production-readiness).
A circle is simply a list of people. Bonfire includes default circles like “local users” or “people I follow”, and you can define your own, e.g. "friends", "mutual aid crew" or "monster movie fans."
Circles are private by default but can be shared with others
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
I'm really excited to dig into this more! - I've been feeling that this is something that has been missing from #mastodon / the #fediverse and I'm excited to see how you're implementing it! ✨
Un articolo e un video che raccontano l'esperienza della 5M dell'indirizzo grafico dell'IIS Gadda di Paderno Dugnano agli archivi della Fondazione Istituto per la storia dell’età contemporanea (ISEC) di Sesto S.Giovanni. Complimenti vivissimi agli studenti e agli insegnanti della 5M👏👏👏 #storia #memoria #scuola #ISEC #archivi
Details will follow soon — but the work on events in the #Fediverse is far from complete. Key upcoming milestones include:
Improvements and new features for the Event Bridge for [strong]ActivityPub[/strong] plugin for WordPress Continued development to maintain, fix issues, enhance, and expand functionality.
Work on Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEPs) Ensuring a robust final status of FEP-8a8e and focus on recurring and irregularly scheduled events.
Support for event interoperability in other Fediverse applications Contribute to other Fediverse applications and help them to explore and improve support for Event objects. For example, @linos@graz.social has outlined a potential roadmap for Mastodon.
Contribution to GatherPress Active involvement in the GatherPress project — a modern and truly FLOSS community oriented WordPress event plugin — to ensure full ActivityPub compatibility, including RSVP support and advanced federation features.
Community engagement and outreach Participation in conferences, public talks, and direct conversations to foster knowledge exchange, gather feedback, and grow the ecosystem around federated events.
Additional updates and technical details will be shared soon. Input, testing, and collaboration from interested parties are always welcome. Or if you know any conferences we should attend, let us know.
Il prossimo martedì, 10 giugno 2025, si conclude questa serie di 3 incontri che negli ultimi mesi hanno ravvivato lo sportello Linux presso la Biblioteca di Rovereto
L’appuntamento è alle ore 18.00 presso la sala multimediale e l’ingresso è libero
Parleremo di tutti quei servizi alternativi ai social media a cui siamo abituati da anni e vedremo che un alternativa etica esiste e si può usare, con un piccolo sforzo. E che spesso è migliore sotto tanti punti di vista
Il Fediverso: una nuova era dei social media. Il video di Elena Rossini è il contenuto più coinvolgente e interessante mai pubblicato sul tema del web sociale aperto
«Questo video è un'introduzione colorata al #Fediverso, guidata dalla regista e sostenitrice del Fediverso @_elena. Guardalo ora per scoprire un mondo completamente nuovo di vivere i social media, dove la privacy è rispettata, gli utenti hanno potere e le Big Tech non hanno voce in capitolo.»
complimenti @_elena! Bello, coinvolgente, scritto e fatto bene. Lo condividerò fuori dal fediverso il più possibile. Piccolo appunto personale: ho trovato un filo troppo drammatico il passaggio a 1:30, ma è solo un momento, poi si riprende.
Mannaggia a #gotosocial che non federa con #Lemmy! Da lì non vedevo le risposte di @elena ! Spero sistemino al più presto
Italian film director, photographer and editor on a mission to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it. In my previous (film) life I made documentaries promoting media literacy, gend...
#FediForum premiere for my Fediverse promo film = done.
How did it go? So well that I've been fighting back tears for the past half hour.
Getting such warm, positive comments from builders and champions of the fediverse is EVERYTHING ❤️ Thank you @j12t for this opportunity.
I'm almost tempted to "deploy on a Friday" and share the link to the video now 😅 But nah, I know better. Tuesday it is! (Monday is a public holiday here)
Excellent! But so mean to us! Now the weekend will drag for us all. Just kidding. Gives us something positive to look forward to next week. We need positive.
If you star ⭐ this #ServicePost here you will get an automated personal message with the public link to @_elena|s Fediverse promo film which just premiered at #FediForum.
Quote: "Tuesday it is!" 🤩
PS: Boosting this post will help to spread the video.
I'm not in marketing, but I know enough to know that all of us who loved this video need a call to action for how to share it, beyond preaching to the choir. This is a promotional video for the #Fediverse! What would a marketing team do with it? Post on non-fedi networks, to start with, sure. What should people say? How to start those conversations?
Ti piacerebbe avere una barra delle notifiche #Mastodon in grado di distinguere le notifiche per tipologia?
Allora puoi andare sulla campanellina delle notifiche, cliccare sulla rotellina delle impostazioni in alto a destra e aprire il pannello di configurazione delle notifiche. Da lì, scendendo un po' in basso, puoi attivare l'interruttore che attiva la barra con le notifiche differenziate
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
🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!
Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?
Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
An instance of Bonfire (https://bonfirenetworks.org) for Social.coop to gather round :)
This is in testing, may disappear at any time, do not trust it with critical data yet -- but enjoy!
@django @arod @Matt_Noyes yep! I'm traveling this week but I'll be back next and plan to do this. If somebody else in the tech group wants to give it a shot, it's running on coop cloud in server hypha and updating/rebooting the setup should not be too hard 😀 @3wordchant @edsu @dphiffer
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
This is great. #ORCiD (campground.bonfire.cafe/openid…) and federation is not yet working (I know it is a release candidate). The overall impression is “impressive!”. A lot of features suitable for research. Easy onboarding.💪 There is even a Weather widget ☀️
It seems that #bonfire can export and import all data (incl. posts, messages … Ghosted).
@devSJR FYI federation is not enabled on the campground as we don't want it to become a "flagship instance".
And thanks for the report about ORCID! It was not meant to be enabled on that instance as we have openscience.network dedicated to testing the Open Science flavour. We'll try to fix the issue there in the next release.
features look very good, but does it fetch all posts (and show correct favorite counts) regardless of which server you’re on or does it miss replies in threads (leaving behind a confusing reading experience) like #Mastodon does?
@eobet Our ActivityPub code does *some* automatic fetching of threads, but we also give users control over that, by including options to fetch replies per nested discussion branch or for an entire thread
a slight improvement for sure, but still a manual operation that I suspect many users won’t realize they have to do… (and even for those who know it feels like it will become a ux papercut).
Hi! Don't worry Bonfire is compatible with Mastodon and dozens of other apps that all use the ActivityPub server-to-server protocol.
Mastodon implemented a custom client-to-server API (which is what enables Mastodon users to use third-party mobile apps like Fedilab) rather than ActivityPub's client-to-server API though, which means *client apps* need to implement that API if they want to be compatible...
related to #915 and #917 #918 logged in user info https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_ui_me/blob/main/lib/api/masto_account_controller.ex and https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_me/...
Join us at #FediForum today — an unconference about the ActivityPub ecosystem. We’ll be doing a live demo and proposing a session:
Behind the Bonfire: building a fediverse app in public
Curious how a fediverse app actually gets made? We’ll share the journey to Bonfire 1.0, talk about deployment, governance, and what building in public really looks like — the good, the hard, and the weird.
This is a chance to poke at the process, challenge assumptions, and have an open conversation. Bring your curiosity, hard questions, and ideas about co-design, funding, burnout, moderation, and the messy realities of open-source work.
Let’s dig into how fediverse apps get built, maintained, and shaped by their communities.
@linarphy I think the demos at least will be recorded, and we'll be sharing some demo recordings soon in any case. But the most interesting part about an unconference is participating in the open discussions. There was some "almost free" tickets but unfortunately they're sold out.
Non ho quasi mai alcuna reazione ai miei post, né commenti, né like, né condivisioni. Su Facebook avevo 100-150 amici e ogni post aveva qualche like, qualche commento, qualche condivisione. Mi sembra di non esistere.
Qualche giorno fa ho messo un post di test chiedendo a chi lo leggeva se era visibile e ho avuto una sola reazione (tra l'altro, di una persona iscritta a questa stessa istanza).
A me sono venute in mente due possibili spiegazioni, ma magari ce ne sono anche altre, non so.
1. La mia uscita da Facebook ha coinciso con un calo verticale della mia capacità di scrivere o condividere cose che interessino qualcun altro oltre a me;
2. Non ho capito bene come funziona il Fediverso e per qualche motivo i miei post invece di arrivare alle migliaia di persone che lo affollano (come mi aspetterei) non arrivano a nessun'altra istanza (o arrivano in un numero insignificante di istanze), benché io usi sempre la permission "public".
non ti stupire amico, il mastoverso (mastodon e suoi cloni) è una porcheria, sia per questioni puramente tecniche e anche per altri motivi, ma il fediverso non è tutto uguale, per esempio nell'universo zot/nomad (diverso dal protocollo di comunicazione activitypub usato da mastodon) la situazione è molto più simile a quella da te descritta (facebook e vecchie reti sociali).
e mi dimenticavo di dirti che nel mastoverso non esistono i gruppi, mentre per esempio su friendica, che usi, sì, questo già potrebbe aiutarti a conoscere persone con i tuoi stessi interessi, in teoria, in pratica però devi capire ( e fartene un po' una ragione) che la maggior parte delle persone del fediverso usa appunto e purtroppo il mastoverso, e quindi a volte per esempio è difficile incontrare tanti italiani, o tanti brasiliani, o tanti spagnoli, per questo motivo giustamente, tipo che potresti creare un gruppo sul jazz e ritrovarti con zero italiani. Infatti, per esempio, alla fine, dopo tanti anni, ho trovato una buona comunità di amici ( oggi li considero tali) in quello che io chiamo zotverso, ma la lingua usata è l'inglese ( che mette un po' d'accordo tutti visto che siamo persone di vari paesi del mondo). Ps: sebbene si usa la stessa "lingua", activitypub, poi in pratica le persone del mastoverso non usano davvero, solo raramente, i gruppi creati su friendica o nel zotverso, la compatibilità quasi che scarsa e la differenza tecnica (ricordando che il mastoverso è simile a Twitter) di comunicazione complicano un po' il tutto, nonostante la "lingua" (protocollo) sia la stessa.
ovviamente i tuoi post non arrivano a tutto il fediverso, perché si tratta di migliaia di siti diversi, e i siti tra loro non si conoscono tutti, ma questo non ha molto a che vedere col fatto che non ottieni né like né commenti nei tuoi post, solo un po', questo è più dovuto al fatto che il mastoverso è appunto un universo strano, e di gente strana ( alla Twitter dove molti hanno centinaia e centinaia di seguiti/seguitori ai quali ovviamente non riescono a dare la giusta attenzione). In questo senso appunto la comunicazione nel zotverso (hubzilla streams) è più genuina, là di solito le persone hanno una 50a di contatti e a volte anche meno, e quindi riescono a dare attenzione e a leggere quello che scrivono i propri contatti, e comunque niente a che vedere con lo stile Twitter.
Ma per carità! Ci manca solo che uno si segni nel calendario che deve rispondere ai miei messaggi, su Facebook nessuno se l'era segnato epperò qualcuno con cui interagire c'era, mi domando come mai qui non ci sia NESSUNO che abbia voglia di interagire.
Non è la mancanza di like sui miei post il problema, è la mancanza di persone con cui interagire, in questo senso un like o un "vaffanculo stronzo" hanno lo stesso valore, segnalano l'esistenza di forme di vita con cui sono entrato in contatto.
Che tu non abbia voglia o che un altro non abbia voglia va benissimo, la domanda che mi pongo è se qui ci sia un social network o meno, perché da quello che vedo mi sembra di no.
Forse sono sull'istanza sbagliata? Un'istanza poco federata? Dovrei andare su Mastodon Uno pure io? Magari lì ci sono forme di vita in quantità sufficiente a stabilire una rete di contatti con cui interagire. Boh.
Ciao personalmente mi è capitato spesso anche a me,ma credo che dipenda anche dall'argomento del post se può attirare più o meno l'occhio della maggior parte dei mastodonauti presenti in quel server,ma personalmente essendo ex twitterino e anche avendo attualmente anche fb posso dirti che sicuramente se un mio post viene notato non corri il rischio di gente che ti commenta tanto per
1) nel primo caso il problema è l'iniziale visibilità di un profilo, soprattutto prsso le altre istanze, ma ci sono al cuni escamotage da adottare e alcune impostazioni da controllare
2) nel secondo caso il problema è che tendenzialmente le persone rispondono e interagiscono con un contenuto soprattutto quando quel contenuto si distanzia dalla propria visione del mondo e dalle prorie convinzioni. Tuttavia, nl Fediverso si tende a seguire persone affini e quindi questo "engagement" (spesso stimolante, ma a volte tossico) non viene valorizzato dal Fediverso.
Controllando gli utenti che segui però ho anche notato che su una quarantina di profili:
5 sono account di servizio dell'istanza poliverso
una decina sono bot
due o tre sono profili che non interagiscono mai o solo se menzionati direttamente
Di fatto perciò ti consiglierei di migliorare l'intellegibilità del tuo profilo scrivendo una bio facile (a proposito, come mai si vedono i TAG html?) e seguendo profili affini, ma soprattutto profili "umani" e non automatici.
Mi sono iscritto a Friendica, ma non c’è nessuno! No, non è così…
Friendica è un progetto nato per dare agli utenti di Facebook un ambiente social rispettoso del principio “privacy by default”. Ma l’utente che non lo sa, rischia di trovarsi solo e non sapere perché…
I tag HTML sono comparsi da soli, ad un certo punto, prima non c'erano. Da Raccoon comunque non si vedono, pensavo fosse tornato normale, controllerò dal PC.
confermo che è tutto ok. Forse Sono anche riuscito a capire il motivo di quei tag, ma voglio prima prendermi un po' di tempo per fare qualche verifica, Anche perché se è come penso non si tratta di un problema ripetibile.
Il tuo profilo Comunque adesso si vede così.
A proposito modi per migliorare la visibilità del tuo profilo, Ti consiglio di scrivere un post di introduzione e di fissarlo. La stessa cosa la puoi fare scrivendo un messaggio con il tuo account di gruppo; per esempio potresti fissare questo post: poliverso.org/display/0477a01e…
E' nato un gruppo per persone appassionate alla Fisica
E' appena nato un gruppo Friendica per parlare un po' di #Fisica.
Non ci sono limiti ai temi che si possono trattare, va bene la fisica classica, la teoria della relatività, la fisica quantistica... va bene tutto, basta che sia Fisica.
Sarebbe gradito che chi decidesse di frequentare il gruppo mettesse qualche parola per presentarsi e dire se è una persona "semplicemente" appassionata alla Fisica o se svolge attività in questo settore (docente scuola superiore, docente università, ricercatore, ecc.) e magari quali argomenti la interessano di più o di quali si occupa.
Spero che qualche utente tra voi decida di seguire e che questo possa essere utile per rispondere alle tante curiosità che la materia fa venire.
per curiosità, la scelta di impedire la visualizzazione del tuo profilo da parte di visitatori anonimi è deliberata oppure è stata casuale?
Mi riferisco a
Hide your public content from anonymous viewers Anonymous visitors will only see your basic profile details. Your public posts and replies will still be freely accessible on the remote servers of your followers and through relays.
Non è stata voluta, una di queste sere cerco di sistemare anche quello. Devo solo individuare il parametro giusto ma la sezione in cui cercare la conosco.
Credo di avere sistemato la cosa ma non so come verificare.
Ho visto che c'è la possibilità di visualizzare il mio profilo come se fossi un altro utente ma nel menu a tendina in cui scegliere quale utente compaiono solo i miei contatti, non compare per esempio un "anonymous".
C'è modo di controllare come vede il mio profilo qualcuno che non ha nessuna relazione con me?
@romitaggio Hubzilla è un software molto interessante, benché sia molto poco ergonomico da usare e focalizzato sulla tecnologia più che sull'utente.
Malgrado la visione idilliaca sostenuta da @elvecio l'utilizzo di Hubzilla comporta un'esperienza utente dispersiva e asfittica ed è un peccato, perché la tecnologia alla base del protocollo di comunicazione è davvero eccellente.
A causa di queste limitazioni, la comunità mondiale è composta da un migliaio scarso di utenti, di cui -come sempre- una percentuale non irrisoria è costituita da bot.
Se vuoi provare Hubzilla, ti segnalo questa istanza italiana: hubzilla.diaspo.it/
@DataKnightmare già... se ne sono resi conto gli account progressisti che rivendicavano i loro grandi successi social nei periodi in cui gender, pride, intersezionalità, woke, equality, diversity erano sovrastimati dagli algoritmi. Ma è bastata una taratura diversa e d'improvviso questi account (inclusi tanti movimenti e partiti) hanno iniziato a vedersi più che dimezzare reazioni, condivisioni e risposte.
Così si chiedevano "Uh, come mai adesso non mi si fila più nessuno?" e ogni tanto qualcuno gli rispondeva "Tranquilli, anche prima non vi si è mai filato nessuno!" 😂
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.
@PaoloParti vi assicuro che Poliverso è un'istanza connessa molto bene con tutte le istanze italiane, con tutte le principali istanze straniere e presenta anche un'ottima connessione con l'universo ddelle comunità "Lemmy".
cioè, tra tante cose che uno può anche condividere, poi mi scrivi : "una percentuale non irrisoria è costituita da bot.", come a far sembrare o meglio creare un problema che non esiste proprio, ho visto tanta gente lamentarsi di tante cose di hubzilla, ma questo sinceramente...in tutti questi anni non ho mai visto nessuno parlare di bot in hubzilla, e mai visto nessuno chiamare un bot per chiedere qualcosa, mentre su mastodon già... magari mi è sfuggito? Se così fosse allora la quantità di bot è, al contrario, super irrisoria, o io sono un'eccezione della madonna.
@elvecio vai, cercateli da solo... Che poi, fino a 10 minuti fa non ti era neanche chiaro il concetto di bot, ma fai l'offeso per l'ovvietà che ho affermato, ossia la quota fisiologica di bot che impatta sulle statistiche degli utenti attivi. Per non parlare degli utenti che utilizzano più di un account ma che sono comunque sempre la stessa persona. E Hubzilla non è immune da questo fenomeno fisiologico, Ma se ti fosse chiaro, non avresti fatto il tifoso offeso
ma io non mi sono offeso, so cosa sono i bot sì, ma non mi rompono e non li noto, forse perché negli ultimi 5 circa anni sto meno dietro ad hubzilla e più a streams (ma ho comunque diversi contatti hubzilla), io non avevo idea di questi bot che tu dici apparsi negli ultimi anni, ma, comunque, ripeto, io parlo molto con hubzilla, forse sono i più numerosi quelli di hubzilla nella lista dei miei contatti, e non mi sembra che qualcuno si lamenta dei bot, e io proprio non li vedo mai, a differenza di mastodon ( bot sul tempo nel mastoverso brasiliano o cose del genere).
noi sul zotverso ( streams hubzilla il vecchio zap redmatrix ecc ..) usiamo vari canali, nel senso che con un unico account puoi creare vari canali ( tipo il me che parla solo italiano - il me che parla solo portoghese - il gruppo sul progrock....e così via). Non lo facciamo, di solito, per creare bot, può anche succedere per carità, ma la maggior parte delle persone non lo fa. Basta una o due persone per creare sti bot, ma la maggior parte non lo fa.
un'altra delle grandi figate del zotverso è la possibilità di creare cloni del tuo canale in altri siti/istanze, veri cloni, sincronizzati eccetera...di modo che, se "muore" un sito tu continui a vivere.
..poi c'è anche il "magic-auth" o come azzo si chiama, che pure è una figata, ti permette di entrare in un sito diverso dal tuo e essere già riconosciuto senza fare niente, quindi andare a commentare in quel sito senza dover fare login, tutto automatico, o addirittura scrivere (quando il tuo contatto libera questa cosa) nel muro del tuo contatto sempre senza fare login, perché il sito già ti conosce.
e non ti dico quanto è utile questa ultima cosa quando, per qualche motivo, il tuo sito è offline e tu non avevi creato un clone, praticamente riesci lo stesso a commentare e scrivere nel sito del tuo amico/contatto, usando sempre il tuo profilo/canale originale. Una bomba ! 😉
@elvecio sì, sono delle trovate che dal punto di vista architetturale sono geniali, superano tanti limiti del protocollo ActivityPub e sono anche diventati un modello per il protocollo at di Blue Sky.
Purtroppo, però, mentre Activitypub è uno standard certificato a livello internazionale e estremamente flessibile (essendo sotto molti punti di vista un non-protocollo), Zot è un protocollo molto rigido e, come se non bastasse, gli sviluppatori di hubzilla (non ho mai usato streams) hanno realizzato un'interfaccia che sembra amichevole come quella di un NAS, ma meno divertente e più complicata.
Non parliamo poi dell'app Nomad, che è inguardabile.
Io nutro un profondo rispetto per questi esperimenti tecnologici e per chi ha dedicato tempo, soldi e risorse intellettuali per svilupparli, ma salvo migrazioni di massa di cigni neri con tanto di dotazione d'arma a base di cetrioli volanti, mi sembra evidente che il futuro di Hubzilla e del protocollo Zot sia segnato
non usiamo app, a parte una o due persone, perché comunque c'è la possibilità di webapp , ma io comunque non uso neanche quella, come molti. Nomad proprio non so neanche come è fatta, non mi ricordo chi l'ha creata, e non so neanche se funziona e/o è stata costruita per il zotverso. Sì, siamo dei dinosauri, sotto un certo punto di vista forse, ma navighiamo in un'astronave da anni, e ritornare alle biciclette non ci soddisfa minimamente, siamo in pochi ma siamo fatti così. Sul futuro di quello o questo progetto non mi sbilancio, sono qui da una vita e ho visto di tutto e di più.
Togli pure il "potenzialmente": penso che sia lo stato dell'arte per la gestione per esempio di hub familiari
ma che all'atto pratico non abbia (ancora) riscosso successo
Qui invece puoi togliere "ancora". Non avrà mai successo e quando parlo di successo non intendo riconoscimento globale e copertina sul Time, Ma intendo proprio che molto probabilmente il progetto vedrà diminuire sempre di più contributori e utenti
perché poco user friendly, mancando dell'immediatezza di altre soluzioni social...
Il fatto che sia poco user friendly non è stata la motivazione principale dell’insuccesso di hubzilla, mentre è stato molto più decisivo il fatto che l'80% dsgli utenti conosce solo mastodon, mastodon e mastodon. Anche progetti ben fatti e di un certo successo relativo come Misskey, Lemmy e Pixelfed soffrono tantissimo questa concorrenza interna, mentre piattaforme ben più scalabili come Pleroma o flessibili come Friendica, rischiano di rimanere intrappolate in un limbo eterno
@elvecio Ti capisco benissimo in quanto utente Friendica. Non è facile rinunciare alle potenzialità di una piattaforma oggettivamente Superiore.
Poi però bisogna anche fare i conti con il fatto che io utilizzo Mastodon per più della metà del tempo così come vedo che tu utilizzi Mitra per comunicare con noi e non Hubzilla.
La comodità è uno dei motori più importanti.
PS: approfitto per di condividere questo memino pubblicato tempo fa da @Lorenzo
scusa max ma ho dato un'occhiata al tuo profilo e ho notato che non utilizzi mai gli hashtags nei post.
Usandone qualcuno potresti raggiungere persone che non ti seguono ma interessate all'argomento del post, altrimenti diventa difficile scoprirlo(soprattutto in federata).
Io uso mitra per due motivi, uno che cerco di aiutare uno dei pochi dev del mastoverso che ammiro davvero, e due perché io ho problemi con activitypub nel mio sito ( o sarebbe meglio dire col mastoverso e non tutto activitypub) , e quindi ho deciso di passare tutti o quasi i miei contatti italiani su questo sito mitra.
... Che poi comunque da anni aiuto lo zotverso per quel che riguarda la federazione con altre piattaforme, e quindi per forza di cose apro vari profili in diverse piattaforme per aiutare ad eliminare certi bug di federazione/comunicazione, sono un po' conosciuto per questo nell'ambiente, ultimamente però mi sono stancato abbastanza, sto diventando vecchio e sono arrivati tanti problemi nella mia vita.
..e sembra che solo io ho sto problema tra tutti quelli che usano streams, intendo altri siti streams. Il che potrebbe farmi pensare che Contabo ci sta boicottando, ma come sono ignorante in relazione all'argomento "amministrazione server", meglio starmene buono, in ogni caso è molto strano sto fatto che solo il mio sito ha sta cosa.
Per me invece è importante avere rapporti con gli altri frequentatori di un social network, se mi bastasse scrivere e non mi importasse niente di essere letto o di avere interazioni con gli altri mi basterebbe un computer senza neanche un collegamento ad internet e un editor ASCII.
E quello che hai scritto sulla ricerca di "cuoricini" mi sembra una lettura un po' troppo superficiale.
per esempio: se parlo con centinaia di persone del zotverso non ho nessun problema, ma se parlo con una ventina di mastodoners il mio sito entra in coma per x minuti, poi ritorna. Ho un amico, esperto, che mi aiuta per l'amministrazione del server, ma fino ad ora non riusciamo a capire il problema, era già successo col vecchio sito streams, sempre nel vps Contabo, e comunque il problema del coma comincia sempre dopo x mesi , tipo che per circa 8 o 10 mesi tutto fila liscio. PS: nel mio sito non c'è praticamente nessuno a parte me e io sono uno che segue poche persone. E, ripeto, solo il mio sito streams ha questo problema 🤷🏼♂️
Il fediverso è diviso in gruppi più o meno tematici e autoreferenziali. L'autoreferenzialità è comune in tutti i social network di qualunque natura essi siano. Dove esiste un meccanismo automatico di proposta è inevitabile che si entri in contatto con simili/contrari pronti ad approvare ma anche a disapprovare le proprie esternazioni. In queste lande desolate che chiamiamo fediverso e in cui (per adesso) il meccanismo è sostanzialmente cronologico, la probabilità che i nostri aulici scritti incontrino è estremamente bassa. Il social cosiddetto commmerciale ha come intento la massimizzazione delle interazioni, fanno dati e profilazioni rivendibili. Qui nella media siamo tutti dei disadattati che tirano su istanze che nascono e muoiono a tempo di record. Va tenuto conto anche della vita media del post che per esigenze di risorse di sistema, è spesso breve. L'apparizione è più volatile e bisogna sempre trovarsi nel posto giusto al momento giusto per captare qualcosa di interessante in mezzo alla miriade di stronzate. È un lavoro più da minatori e meno da pappa pronta. Se vuole essere visto, migri su istanze ben posizionate con molti utenti (vada pure sull'uno che come lui non c'è nessuno), magari su più istanze posizionate e scriva a manetta per trovarsi il più possibile in cima alla timeline; usi gli hashtag, anzi abbondi. Spulci le timeline locali e federate e gratifichi gli altri per essere gratificato; la gente è sempre la stessa, le mette i like loro mettono i like in un reciproco (talvolta forzato) volersi bene.
abbiamo capito una cosa e non ne abbiamo capito un'altra: abbiamo capito che parlando con mastodon riceviamo una botta stratosferica nel server, perché arrivano migliaia di richieste tutte nello stesso momento mandando in coma il sito (cosa che non succede col zotverso); non abbiamo però capito perché questo inizia solo dopo x mesi e non subito ( e sono mesi che ho sempre gli stessi contatti activitypub là).
Il Fediverso è un po' strano, specialmente quando si federano applicativi diversi. Tu sei su Friendica credo? A volte i problemi di visibilità ci sono e dipendono da come funziona Mastodon o ActivityPub (che è il protocollo su cui si basa l'interazione tra istanze, diciamo).
A volte m'è capitato di perdere completamente di vista persone oppure di avere la TL piena di loro post se ci interagivo una volta.
Ad un certo punto ho smesso di preoccuparmi delle interazioni. Se qualcuno risponde bene, se qualcuno boosta meglio, se non c'è visibilità pazienza, prima o poi ci sarà.
su friendica, ma questo lo scrivo solo a te, l'ho seguito dall'inizio, lo ho usato tanto, gestivo un sito friendica, posso dire che dal Mio punto di vista è peggiorato tanto e non migliorato da quando Mike ,che lo ha creato, lo ha abbandonato, ho un profilo tutt'ora nel sito di un amico brasiliano e ...non mi ritrovo e rivedo più, troppo diverso da prima. Uno dei Dev principali di ora mi ricordo che all'epoca è stato alquanto stronzo con Mike , e comunque sicuramente ancora lo trovo migliore del mastoverso, soprattutto per il fatto che comunque ancora rispetta diciamo il sistema di comunicazione più alla facebook, Orkut, Google plus..e non quella roba alla Twitter insomma.
dal punto di vista tecnico il friendica dei primi tempi, prima di activitypub intendo, era migliore per la comunicazione/federazione, tu non perdevi mai e poi mai un commento, se succedeva era esclusivamente per una questione di messaggi incastrati nella coda di uscita, troppa gente nella porta di uscita 😉, mentre nel mastoverso se due siti non si conoscono tu i messaggi provenienti dallo sconosciuto non li vedi, perché non arrivano proprio, nel mastoverso i siti hanno la necessità di conoscersi, quindi in certe conversazioni si perdono diversi commenti, il sito b conosce il sito a ma non conosce il sito c eccetera... Chiaramente questo nel Twitter o nel Facebook non lo vedevi e non lo vedi, perché è centralizzato e non c'è modo di perdere commenti. Nel zotverso e nel friendica vecchio questa cosa di perdere commenti era pressoché impossibile, nonostante la decentralizzazione. Per esempio per me questo è super importante, per molti altri no. Questo in un certo modo influisce anche per i messaggi pubblici che scrivi a partire dal tuo sito.
@versodiverso ma tra "creare star" e "non avere interazioni" magari una via di mezzo... nessuno qui punta a fare l'influencer, questo è chiaro, nello stesso tempo se uno deve scrivere per non avere interazioni si fa un diario, non mette i pensieri su un "social"
Non aggiungo molto altro a quanto ti è già stato detto. Se vuoi interazioni potrebbe essere utile anche "stanare" le persone che conosci in modo da stimolare una loro reazione. Puoi approfittare anche per esplorare altre istanze partendo dalla timeline federata. E poi pazienza e interventi nelle discussioni, senza paura. #mastodon
P.s. se riesci sistema la formattazione della tua descrizione 😉
tranquillo, anche io nella mia istanza monoutente parlo da solo 😄 Prima avevo dei followers per cui avevo più interazioni, poi sono stato costretto a ripristinare il mio server casalingo a seguito di un fulmine che, non avendo altro da fare, ha deciso di visitare il mio impianto elettrico e ora non ho nessuno che mi segue, quindi meno interazioni e parlo da solo, spero solo che non ci siano psichiatri qua dentro 😄
@informapirata Da un po' il server era spento perché non avevo tempo, poi qualche mese fa il fulmine ha completato l'opera. Sono ancora con la scheda della lavatrice sotto al saldatore che tento di ripararla e uno scatolone da buttare tra router, switch, alimentatori, server Mastodon, un NAS qnap (che per fortuna ho riparato). Un casino, completato da un lutto in famiglia che mi ha notevolmente destabilizzato. Ora sono alle prese con la scheda della lavatrice 😊 @max
@max:sì...te ne sfugge una: per farla un po' esagerata, sei un traditore, hai lasciato la massa per seguire la tua strada e non te l'hanno perdonata. Tutto qui.
@elvecio io lo uso dal 2019 ma sono admin dal 2020. In questo periodo è migliorato tantissimo e ha risolto alcuni problemi architetturali e di sicurezza che erano rimasti pendenti per troppo tempo.
Purtroppo non è ancora stato trovato un buon bilanciamento tra il numero impressionante di funzionalità e una gestione ergonomica delle stesse, ma il miglioramento secondo me è evidente.
Ultimamente poi ho cercato di promuovere lo sviluppo di un'app e lo sviluppatore di Raccoon for Lemmy ha raccolto la sfida e ha realizzato un'app meravigliosa (Raccoon for Friendica) che peraltro riesce a funzionare con mastodon dando anche qualche cosa in più. Quindi adesso esiste anche una bella app Android che potrebbe essere portata senza neanche troppo sforzo su piattaforma iOS. Insomma, non posso lamentarmi affatto.
Purtroppo Mastodon detta legge perché è più facile e soprattutto perché ha potuto contare sulla continuità ergonomica sugli utenti ex Twitter che avevano abbandonato la vecchia piattaforma. Gli utenti Facebook, quelli virtualmente più affini a Friendica, invece non abbandonano Facebook e se lo abbandonano abbandonano proprio i social.
@elvecio in realtà ho iniziato con Mastodon e sono rimasto con mastodon (come informapirata, per esempio) ma poi ho creato un'istanza Friendica (poliverso.org) una Lemmy (feddit.it) e una Mastodon (poliversity.it), ma con il fork glitch-soc.
Mastodon mi piace moltissimo, lo uso veramente quanto tutti gli altri account Friendica: è come un Pandino. Ma quando possiedi un fuoristrada anfibio con un'elica per voli brevi, il Pandino non ti basta più 🤣
cazzarola , ti capisco. Io invece non ho molta simpatia neanche per lo stile Twitter di comunicazione come avrai capito dai precedenti commenti. Ora , comunque, si sta cercando di creare uno stile diverso anche per activitypub, hai visto sta roba qua codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src… ?
io sono abituato da decenni ad avere i miei ventun lettori del blog, e da zero commentatori di default a tre quando ci sono le vacche grasse. È però vero che qui dove non si pesano i like la gente è meno invitata ad apporli, e soprattutto non è che uno debba sempre avere un'opinione su tutto quello che legge. Spesso se lo assapora e buona lì.
Parlando per esperienza personale, le interazioni sul #fediverso mi sono arrivate e continuo ad arrivare quando: 1️⃣ Ho cominciato a seguire 200 account e quasi altrettanti hanno deciso di farlo 2️⃣ Gli accounts che seguo sono stati scelti sulla presenza di interessi comuni o affini 3️⃣ Seguo hashtags legati ai suddetti interessi (e dunque followo). Ad esempio #running #kdrama #fitness sono communities belle attive 4️⃣ Blocco e ammutolisco tutto ciò che non mi piace/interessa
un altro problema, nel tuo caso specifico potrebbe essere la bio (vedi immagine). L'app Megalodon non interpreta i tag HTML a meno che tu non specifichi che è HTML quando la crei.
Last but not least, do ut des. Si ricevono interazioni quando si interagisce (bene).
#Mastodon non è Instagram con un algoritmo che diffonde i contenuti processando quello che scrivi. Se vuoi raggiungere le persone attraverso condivisioni è imperativo usare gli hashtags
Questi tag sono comparsi all'improvviso, non capisco perché. Dalla mia app è tutto normale però oggi mi sono accorto che da PC li vedo anche io. Adesso sistemo.
Sono esterrefatto, ho avuto mezzo miliardo di risposte e altrettante richieste di amicizia (ma soprattutto alcune informazioni che non conoscevo o la cui importanza avevo sottovalutato).
@elvecio progetto interessante. Non ricordo se ne avessi già sentito parlare, ma ti ringrazio per avermelo segnalato. Secondo te c'è qualche possibilità che abbia successo? C'è qualche possibilità che qualcuno tra gli sviluppatori dei principali software possa iniziare ad accoglierlo come soluzione?
non lo so sinceramente, mi sembra che Eugenix vada molto per i cavoli suoi, e questo già basta e avanza, considerando il numero di utenti di mastodon, quello che potrebbe succedere è una piccola parte del fediverso adottare sta cosa e isolare/isolarsi da mastodon, creare un piccolo universo dentro il fediverso con questo activitypub modificato.
se cerchi intimità e comunicare solo con la tua cerchia di amici va benissimo dove sei, se vuoi espandere i tuoi orizzonti allora un'istanza grande ti connette a molte più persone interessanti, insomma è la differenza fra trovarsi al bar fra i soliti 4 amici e invece partecipare a una conferenza in cui oltre a incontrare amici incontri altre persone interessanti che ti parlano, ti fermano, ed è quello che succede in istanze più attive come livello segreto e mastodon.uno @PaoloParti
Da quello che ho notato, cambiando piattaforma cambia totalmente il modo di relazionarsi. Anch'io mi sento ancora parzialmente spiazzato dopo quasi due anni.
PS. Sempre da quello che ho capito, un post può finire sulla timeline locale di un'altra istanza solo quando un utente dell'altra istanza decide di ribloggarlo.
In generale, il tuo server può vedere i seguenti contenuti:
- Tutti gli account sul tuo server - Tutti i post pubblicati dagli account sul tuo server - Tutti i post condivisi da almeno un account sul tuo server - Tutti gli account che hanno almeno un follower sul tuo server - Tutti i post pubblicati da account che hanno almeno un follower sul tuo server - Tutti i post condivisi dagli account che hanno almeno un follower sul tuo server - Tutti i post dei gruppi che hanno almeno un follower sul tuo server - Tutte le risposte ai post sul tuo server - Tutti i post che menzionano account sul tuo server - Tutti gli account che hanno risposto ai post sul tuo server o hanno menzionato account sul tuo server - Tutti i post che sono stati cercati tramite l'indirizzo web della loro pagina originale - Tutti gli account che sono stati cercati tramite il loro indirizzo account - Tutti gli account che sono stati menzionati nei post che il tuo server ha notato - Tutti i post vengono inviati al tuo server da un server relay, i relay vengono aggiunti ai server dagli amministratori - Tutti i post vengono inviati al tuo server tramite script, ad esempio lo script Hypebot invia i post di tendenza da altri server al tuo. Gli script vengono generalmente aggiunti da amministratori tecnicamente qualificati.
Ma tieni presente che Friendica mostra la timeline in modo diverso: quando un thread di un utente che segui riceve un nuovo commento (oppure quando un thread riceve un nuovo commento di un utente che segui), quel thread lo vedi di nuovo al primo posto nella tua timeline. In un certo senso la visualizzazione di Mastodon è quella tipica di twitter, quella di Friendica è tipica di facebook, con la differenza che l'unico algoritmo è puramente "cronologico" e non condizionato dalla presunzione preferenziale della piattaforma
@notizie @FediTips Alcuni programmi distinguono tra "locale" (post locali + post di altre istanze ripostati da utenti della tua istanza) e "federazione" (post locali + tutti i post delle istanze federate). Per essere visibile in quella "locale" ti devi far ribloggare da qualcuno dell'altra istanza.
@notizie @FediTips Forse per la timeline "locale" valgono anche le risposte (come questa stessa risposta, ad esempio), ma non ne sono tanto sicuro, perché ogni tanto mi appare il messaggino "Alcune risposte dell'istanza XY potrebbero non essere visibili".
Per essere visibile in quella "locale" ti devi far ribloggare da qualcuno dell'altra istanza.
No, questo è quello che succede nella Timeline personalizzata, dove puoi vedere le ricondivisioni dei tuoi contatti. Al contrario, nel 99% delle istanze mastodon, nella locale puoi vedere solo ed esclusivamente messaggi di utenti della tua istanza.
Proprio per ovviare a questo problema ho fatto in modo che nella Timeline locale della nostra istanza mastodon poliversity.it fossero visibili anche le ricondivisioni di contenuti prodotti dagli utenti remoti quando queste sono effettuate da utenti locali
@notizie @FediTips Allora ho sbagliato ad usare la parola "locale". Non mi ricordo. Era il linguaggio che usava un'app che però non uso più da tanti anni.
@notizie @FediTips Comunque molto dipende anche dall'app che l'utente usa per vedere Mastodon. Alcune danno la possibilità di vedere due o tre feed diversi, altre no.
@notizie @FediTips Aggiornamento: Da qualche mese sto usando Mastodon da browser. Stasera ho scoperto che, così facendo, i feed che vedo sono addirittura quattro: "Home", "Questo server", "Altri server" e "Tutto".
@Enzo A24 confermo tutto. Le app possono davvero condizionare la tua esperienza di uso. Premesso che secondo me la versione web di mastodon è davvero ben fatta, le notifiche web funzionano bene sullo smartphone e non ci sono bug da tantissimi anni, una buona app può darti la possibilità di vivere il fediverso in modo davvero diverso.
Se sei curioso di provare un app diversa dal solito, puoi provare a scaricare Raccoon for Friendica, che a dispetto del nome funziona molto bene anche con mastodon.
Benché si tratti di una app più immatura rispetto a quelle più conosciute, è l'unica app che consente una gestione ottimale dei gruppi Activity pub anche per gli utenti mastodon
@Max 🇪🇺🇮🇹 al momento preferisco scaricare il file .apk perché l'app esiste solo da un anno e quindi ogni nuovo rilascio in beta corregge qualche piccola imperfezione rispetto all'ultimo rilascio ufficiale. Al momento per esempio l'ultimo rilascio ufficiale non consente una corretta modifica dei post già pubblicati. All'interno degli Store infatti non vengono rilasciate le Beta A meno che non ci si sia iscritti al programma di beta testing. Oltretutto in questo momento lo sviluppatore sta lavorando ad alcune modifiche di natura architetturale che vengono rilasciate solo in beta.
Ripeto, stiamo parlando di un'app abbastanza nuova e penso che già entro la fine dell'anno saranno stati superati tutti questi aspetti di stabilizzazione dello sviluppo
max@poliverso.org Non credo che i i post scritti da una istanza raggiungano le altre istanze se non c'è un server relay che prende i post provenienti da tutte le istanze e li ridistribuisca a tutte le altre istanze in una timeline globale. Si porrebbe il problema di chi mantiene il server relay. I tuoi post raggiungono le istanze di chi in quelle istanze ti segue. Comunque gli amministratori di istanza possono collegare la propria istanza a specifici relay che prendono e rilanciano i messaggi di altre specifiche istanze. Io nella mia istanza Mastodon, come in foto, ho attivato alcuni ripetitori da altre istanze che mi interessano e vedo i messaggi degli utenti di quelle istanze nella mia timeline federata. Ma i miei messaggi non raggiungono tutti gli utenti di quelle istanze, raggiungono solo quelli che in qualche modo mi seguono.
Non credo che i i post scritti da una istanza raggiungano le altre istanze se non c'è un server relay che prende i post provenienti da tutte le istanze e li ridistribuisca a tutte le altre istanze in una timeline globale
È giusto così: non tutti i post devono essere distribuiti in tutte le altre istanze, ma soltanto quelli degli utenti che sono connessi ad altri utenti appartenenti a tali istanze.
I relay sono comodi Se vuoi creare un network di istanze, Oppure se vuoi Popolare artificialmente la tua istanza con determinati contenuti provenienti da determinate istanze. Ma i relay comportano un carico di lavoro per il server che è assolutamente ingiustificabile. Per una questione puramente statistica, più della metà dei contenuti prodotti in una istanza sono insignificanti per un utente qualsiasi. È proprio per questo che la distribuzione dei messaggi viene focalizzata in base al rapporto tra follower
L’istanza italiana di #Mobilizon disponibile su mobilizon.it è in fase di migrazione verso un server più veloce per garantire migliori prestazioni e stabilità.
🚧 Durante la giornata di oggi potrebbero verificarsi brevi malfunzionamenti o interruzioni del servizio.
Ci scusiamo per eventuali disagi 🙏
A lavori completati, l’esperienza su Mobilizon.it sarà più fluida e affidabile per tutti gli utenti.
Esiste uno svariato numero di servizi liberi, decentralizzati e federati che permettono di scambiarsi messaggi e altri materiali con la nostra cerchia di persone senza finire nei recinti creati dalla piattaforme commerciali più note. Tali servizi, raggruppati sotto il nome di Fediverso, si distinguono per avere una rete di istanze (nodi della rete) indipendenti a livello di esecuzione, ciascuna avente i propri termini di servizio e le proprie regole per la riservatezza e per la moderazione, e interconnesse tra loro con il protocollo ActivityPub. Durante il corso della serata scopriremo quali sono, quali istanze scegliere e cosa possiamo farci. Mastodon, ad esempio, è un software libero e una rete sociale di microblogging decentralizzato che permette di pubblicare messaggi brevi. Simile a X e creato nel 2016. Pixelfed è una piattaforma di condivisione di immagini condivise simile a Instagram e connessa con tutto il Fediverso.
@Emanuele Cariati è piuttosto improbabile, dal momento che si tratta di un corso organizzato dalla biblioteca Rovereto. Tuttavia domattina potresti provare a contattarli via email o telefonicamente:
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Eccomi. Sí ci sarà una diretta, che poi rimarrà come registrazione. L'evento é ospitato dalla biblioteca, ma organizzato da @linuxtrent che dispone di una istanza Peertube. linuxtrent.it/vieni-a-scoprire…
🚧 Avviso di manutenzione e migrazione servizi Devol 🚧
#CryptPad A partire dal 4 giugno, il servizio su cryptpad.devol.it potrebbe risultare offline. Stiamo infatti procedendo con la migrazione su un server dedicato più veloce.
#FreshRSS ⚠️ È obbligatorio esportare il proprio file OPML entro il giorno 12 giugno, così da salvare l’elenco dei propri feed con cui si potrà ricreare l’account.
Grazie per la collaborazione e la pazienza! Il team #Devol
grazie, ottima risorsa, abbiamo riciclato la bellissima mappa qui: mastodon.uno/@devol/1146025816… su cui vengono segnalati anche servizi italiani (se presenti).
C'è una raccolta curata di social alternativi e servizi Europei stabili, con gruppi proponenti affidabili, rispetto della privacy e basati su software libero per affrancarsi dai #GAFAM! 💪🌱
Scopri come migliorare la tua privacy online, installare sistemi operativi open source, utilizzare social network decentralizzati e servizi web indipendenti. Prediligi software e prodotti europei.
Making custom feed building blocks with Surf, transfer your account to a new PDS in style with ATP Airport, and Bluesky expands their verification system.
Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gesellschaft.
The Surf app goes even deeper on building custom feeds for the fediverse and Bluesky, , a crowdfunding campaign for the PeerTube mobile app, and updates to the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky.
The Surf app goes even deeper on building custom feeds for the fediverse and Bluesky, , a crowdfunding campaign for the PeerTube mobile app, and updates to the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky.
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Surf is a new app by Flipboard, that describes itself as a browser for the open social web. The app allows people to build and browse custom feeds, that take in content from across the open social web. It can combine Mastodon posts with Bluesky posts, as well as RSS and more, into a single feed. With their most recent update, Surf has created Starter Sets for building custom feeds. Starter Sets are organised around various popular themes, like News, Tech or Sports. Within these themes, people can choose from a large variety of data sources to get started with building their own custom feeds. These custom feed sources can be from across the open social web and are modular. This means that a list of Mastodon accounts can be combined with a Bluesky custom feed to create a new single custom feed that consists of both data source. These custom feeds can also be published to Bluesky, so people who are not using the Surf app can also view these feeds.
Surf also now offers a variety of tools to manage the content of a custom feed. For example, a feed can be customised to include or exclude reposts, replies or adult content. There are also options to filter out posts about politics from the feed. The ability to filter about posts about Elon Musk is surely a popular feature as well. Surf categorises all posts via algorithmic clustering, which gives the ability to limit posts in a feed to a certain topic. This means that you can add an account to a feed, but only their posts related to the specified topic will be displayed. The app is currently in closed beta, and Flipboard is gradually onboarding more people from the waiting list.
PeerTube is starting a crowdfunding campaign for its mobile app. The first version of the PeerTube app was officially launched earlier this month. PeerTube is developed by Framasoft, a French non-profit organisation that builds a variety of open source software tools. The crowdfunding campaign is a way to raise money for the organisation, and also provides a way “to gauge public enthusiasm for the mobile application and the PeerTube project in general”. Some of the features that PeerTube wants to work on for its app are the ability to play videos in background, casting videos to TVs, managing channels and accounts directly from the app. Livestreaming from mobile is also being worked on, although Framasoft says they do not expect to release this in 2025. Framasoft says that these features will be worked on regardless of whether the fundraising goals are met, and that otherwise money from the generic Framasoft budget will be used, as a way to show their dedication towards PeerTube.
Mastodon has announced some upcoming new features that help server admins with the legal side. Server admins will be able to set a Terms of Service (ToS), besides server rules and a privacy policy. Server admins will also be able to set the server rules into multiple different languages. There will also be the option to set a minimum age requirement for sign-up for servers. Having a ToS is standard fare for any online platform, and multiple countries require by law that platforms have these. Europe’s DSA is fairly explicit about this, which states: “Providers of intermediary services shall include information on any restrictions that they impose in relation to the use of their service in respect of information provided by the recipients of the service, in their terms and conditions.” In that context, it is high time that Mastodon has added the ability for servers to set a ToS. Mastodon also says that they will provide a template for a ToS that other servers can use if they so desire.
A New Social, the organisation behind Bridgy Fed, has launched a dedicated page for people to manage their account bridging. Bridgy Fed is a piece of software that allows people to ‘bridge’ their account across multiple protocols. This allows people on the fediverse to interact with people on Bluesky (using AT Protocol). For this, people need to manually opt-in their accounts to be bridged to other networks (largely due to cultural reasons from the fediverse communities). Up until now, doing so was a fairly confusing process that involved manually following other accounts. With the new update, people can log in to Bridgy Fed with the account they want to bridge, and simply turn it on or off. It also has an easier option to update the handles for Mastodon accounts that are bridged to Bluesky. For example, by default my Mastodon account on Bluesky can be found at @laurenshof.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy, which is a fairly cumbersome handle, to put it mildly. At the settings page I can now change it to any handle I want, similar to how any Bluesky account can change their handle. A New Social is also launching a Patreon as they are working towards financial sustainability, with plans to launch merch soon as well.
Ibis is a federated wiki platform that is currently in development, made by nutomic, one of the Lemmy creators. With the most recent update, Ibis wiki articles are now compatible with Lemmy, and can be viewed directly from Lemmy. One of the driving reasons for making Ibis is that nutomic views Wikipedia as untrustworthy. He also says that other centralised Wikipedia alternatives have failed to gain traction, and sees federation as a solution for this. For now, Ibis has the same problem of getting traction.
Tvmarks is a new self-hosted platform to keep track of shows you’ve watched. It gives you a clean overview of shows you are watching, which ones you’ve completed, and provide reviews and ratings per episode. This information can be federated via ActivityPub, allowing others to see what you’ve been watching.
Upcoming photo sharing platform Vernissage gives an update on the work and design considerations for the last month.
A thread on how the name ‘ActivityPub’ came to be.
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Wir sind auf der Suche nach Übersetzenden und zweisprachigen Menschen, die helfen mögen, Erweiterungen und die Benutzer*innen-Oberfläche von Bonfire in so viele Sprachen wie möglich zu übersetzen. Insbesondere vor der Veröffentlichung der Version 1.0!
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