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An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse's interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.
Fediverse Report – #109An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse’s interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.
User Intents
The Bluesky Company (Bluesky PBC) recently announced a proposal to add User Intents to the AT Protocol (ATProto). The proposal allows people to set account-wide preferences how their data should be handled outside the network. It gives people the ability to opt in or opt out their account from a few different things, such as bridging to other protocols or not wanting any of their data being used in generative AI datasets. The proposal is similar to how robots.txt works, meaning that it is a machine-readable format which good actors are supposed to abide by, but is not legally enforceable.I cover both the fediverse and Bluesky (including ATProto) under Fediverse Report because these networks are deeply interconnected and influence each other. Decisions on one network, like Bluesky’s User Intents proposal, can influence how the fediverse develops and builds their own features. My goal is to help readers understand the fediverse more deeply. By observing how Bluesky’s approaches default user preferences, the fediverse can build their own systems that use its strength of having many diverse and connected communities.
The proposal by Bluesky PBC is as follows:
- People are able to set their preferences for four different categories:
- generative AI
- protocol bridging
- bulk datasets
- public archiving and preservation
- These preferences are account wide. They are valid not only for Bluesky, but for every app build on ATProto.
- The default value is ‘undefined’, not opt-in or opt-out.
- Projects which are intending to use the public data should decide for themselves whether data reuse when the intents are classified as “undefined” is acceptable or not.
- the current proposal is set to lead the way for more granular user preferences, allowing people to specify on an app-level or post-level what their preference is.
Also, some concepts of ATProto that are relevant, which makes the protocol different from ActivityPub:
- On ATProto, a user has only 1 account, and can use that account to log into any service. This is in contrast with ActivityPub, where you need a new account for every service.
- Data on ATProto is public by default, and designed to be accessible. Everyone has full and free access to the data of the entire network.
One thing about user preference settings in social apps is that they are a bit of red herring. The majority of people never change the default settings. Giving people choice is a good thing, but it is impossible force people to choose: the majority of people will just not choose anything. This makes it so that the default value for any preference is hugely important, as it is the de-facto value that the majority of people will experience.
Bluesky PBC tries to avoid this issue by introducing a default “undefined” value. The advantage of using a default value of “undefined” is that Bluesky PBC will not overstep their boundaries and determine the preference of everyone on the network, including people who are not using Bluesky but are using other platforms on the network. The downside is that Bluesky PBC effectively makes no decision at all for the majority of people. Bluesky PBC leaves it to the organisations who use the data to determine how data can be handled if the preference is set to “undefined”. These organisations are likely to value their own interests more than the interest of people whose data they intent to process.
Bluesky PBC has three options here, that all have a downside:
- If Bluesky PBC sets default values for how ATProto account data can be handled it reinforces its centralising role in the network.
- If Bluesky PBC does not set a default value, no decision is made for the majority of people, and it is left to organisations whose goals do not align with those of the people whose data they process.
- If Bluesky PBC sets User Intent not on an ATProto-account wide level, but only on an per-app basis, choices quickly become overwhelming if users must set preferences for every app.
So far I’ve only been talking about Bluesky and ATProto. But the fediverse has a long history of debates, conversations and drama on how to deal with data processing that happens outside of the network. Some high-profile cases include the blowup around Bridgy Fed considering making the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky opt-out, or the backlash against Searchtodon, which saved user’s timeline locally for searching.
These debates are around data scraping, consent, things being opt-in or opt-out. But one of the struggles that the fediverse has had is to build structural solutions. A significant portion of the fediverse does not consent to have their data handled outside of the network. A persistent problem is that this preference is not expressed in a machine-readable way. This leads to an endless cycle of new developers coming in that are not familiar with the culture who then cross lines of consent and it all blows up in drama again.
Moreover, the fediverse and ActivityPub have a significant advantage on how to deal with the dilemma of setting default values over ATProto. The fediverse is a network that is build up of many different communities connecting with each other. A variety of communities allows for diverse preferences, which can also be expressed in setting default values. And it is a shame that the fediverse is not capitalising on this advantage.
There are communities from whom discoverability is important. Just as there are communities for whom not being easily publicly discoverable is important. These preference can differ within an individual as well: people treat personal photos shared with friends differently from blog articles.
The fediverse can sidestep the question of default account values because people have many accounts on the fediverse, for different use cases. This gives the option to set a different default value for different services. A Pixelfed platform for close friends should set stricter default data-handling preferences. A Mastodon server for blogging platform Medium that has the goal of giving more visibility and reach to its writers could consider setting default values to be more open.
The power of the fediverse is in that there does not have to be a single default at all. Instead, communities and servers should be able to set default values for themselves. This can help shape the tone of the community, and makes it clear what the identity of a community is about. What’s even more powerful is that this only concerns the default value, giving people the ability to set their preferences as they desire. The state of the open social web is such that there are now two protocols in competition with each other. That gives the ability for the fediverse to take ideas from other networks, and improve on them in a way that plays up to the unique strengths that the fediverse has.
The News
Reminder: next week will be FediForum, on April 1-2, and you can register here.FediverseSharing: A Novel Dataset on Cross-Platform Interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users is a new academic paper (currently under review and up on arXiv) that explores the interaction between Threads users and Mastodon users. It takes a dataset of 20k Threads users that have fediverse sharing enabled and compares it to 20k Mastodon users that have interacted with these Threads users. The main goal of the research is to build up this dataset and share it with the community for further research. How sharing a dataset of aggregated user interactions relates to the above essay on user preferences for being included in bulk datasets is left as an exercise to the reader.
PeerTube has done a major redesign for their v7 of the software that came out a few months ago. The organisation now shared the design and development reports that shaped the update.
IFTAS recently had to shut down most of their larger projects due to a lack of funding. One of their projects, FediCheck is now available as open source for someone else to continue with. FediCheck is a deny list management tool that allows server admins to subscribe to external deny lists.
The Lemmy developers will hold an AMA on Wednesday March 26th.
Last week, Ghost made their ActivityPub integration available in public beta for Ghost Pro subscribers. Their weekly update says that now over 250 sites already use the integration. WeDistribute has a hands on with the new features that Ghost offers.
Note: Last week I wrote about the new fediverse platform Forte, and said that the repository did not include an install guide. This is incorrect, the guide can be found here.
The Links
- Website League and the Rise of Island Networks – Sean Tilley/WeDistribute.
- The fediverse has a long tradition of building silly clients for Mastodon. This article has an overview of some of them.
- Two new video tutorials by FediHost, for setting up a GoToSocial instance and configuring a PeerTube instance.
- An update on how search works in music sharing platform Bandwagon.
- A development update for Letterbook, an upcoming fediverse microblogging platform.
- This weeks’ fediverse software updates.
- Fediverse Events hackaton project.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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@Schneems Computer Systems. I'm doing great in the program; very happy with the content and workload so far.
This is the first semester I've taken two classes -- on top of my full-time job and non-profit work. But the second class is ODA -- I didn't take CS for undergrad, so I wanted to to refresh my data structures and algorithms before going into IGA.
This is my 5th semester, so I'm on the downhill side. Really enjoying it so far!
nice! Two classes in one semester is tough.
I didn’t have a CS degree either (but now I do!). My undergrad is Mechanical Engineering.
I felt I got enough data structures and big O in High Performance Computing. That class was grueling but fun. In hind-site maybe I should have taken Algorithms and picked easier electives 😅
UPDATE: Officially the problem has been "fixed". But lets see....we will look for another provider and in case we will be forced to move, we should be able to do so in a day or two.
Our TROM.tf server was flagged by the hosting company as "Abuse: NetscanOutLevel: scansnarf-ng detected Netscan from: We have indications that there was an attack from your server." - and we have a few hours to fix the issue else they are going to shut down the server....
Please be aware of that since the websites may go down and we may have to move to another hosting provider...
This is very bad news but unaware what it can be. Please keep an eye on status.tromsite.com
We will try to update there in case anything happens.
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Ghost si apre al Fediverso per migliorare le newsletter
La piattaforma ha attivato la connettività al Fediverso, permettendo così agli utenti di condividere i propri contenuti su piattaforme social che supportano il protocollo ActivityPub, come Mastodon, Pixelfed e Friendica. Una novità non da poco, che mira appunto a rivaleggiare con alcuni nomi noti sulla scena come Substack.
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Aggiungo anche un piccolo commento personalissimo sulla 💩💩💩💩💩 razzista che gira su Substack, per consigliare a tutti coloro che stanno utilizzando quella piattaforma di migrare altrove
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The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.Jonathan M. Katz (The Atlantic)
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In case you missed it, I also run several other accounts you might find useful:
@FediFollows - Recommending interesting accounts to follow
@FediVideo - Sharing the best videos & video accounts on the Fedi
@FediGarden - Well-run Fediverse servers to join or move to
@homegrown - Encouraging people to start their own servers
@PixelfedHelp - Help for Pixelfed users
@fedivideo@fedi.video - Uploading public domain & creative commons videos
@fedivideomusic - Uploading public domain & creative commons music
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Il Buon Soldato Sc'vèik di Jaroslav Hašek Capitolo I - Come ebbe luogo l'intervento del buon soldato Sc'vèik nella guerra mondiale "Sicché ci hanno ammazzato Ferdinando", disse la fantesca al signor Sc 'vèik , che avendo lasciato da qualche anno il..Ario Libert (La Tradizione Libertaria)
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Uno dei capitoli più discussi della bozza delle nuove Indicazioni nazionali è quello che riguarda l’insegnamento della storia, capitolo redatto dalla sottocommissione coordinata dal professore Ernesto Galli Della Loggia.Reginaldo Palermo (Tecnica della Scuola)
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Newsletter publisher Ghost is now connecting to the fediverse in public beta, updates about the bridge that connects the fediverse with Bluesky, and more.
Fediverse Report #108Newsletter publisher Ghost is now connecting to the fediverse in public beta, updates about the bridge that connects the fediverse with Bluesky, and more.
The News
The public beta for connecting Ghost to the fediverse is here, and the ActivityPub integration is now available for Ghost Pro subscribers. Ghost is a publishing platform for sending out blogs via email. With this latest update, Ghost now has another method of distribution, namely via the fediverse. Ghost’s integration with the fediverse consists of two parts: sending out long-form articles published on Ghost into the fediverse, and a reader app to the fediverse from Ghost.Publishing Ghost articles on ActivityPub makes them accessible to the rest of the fediverse, similar to how WordPress with the ActivityPub plugin works. For users of Ghost this is an easy sales pitch, it is simply another free and automatic distribution channel for their blog. The second part of Ghost’s integration with the social web is a reader app. This app allows Ghost users to browse and read posts on the fediverse. It is split up into two parts: an inbox for reading other long-form posts from Ghost or WordPress, and a feed for all other types of posts. This allows accounts on Ghost not only to send out posts via the ActivityPub integration, but also to connect, respond and follow their audience. It even allows you to post short-form microblogs (notes), just like you’d use on Mastodon, that do not show up on the Ghost website. This makes the Ghost integration a full fediverse experience.
A New Social is the non-profit organisation that builds and manages cross-protocol tools for the open social web. The organisation currently manages Bridgy Fed, the connector that allows accounts to ‘bridge’ between both ActivityPub, ATProto, Nostr and more, and is currently in the process of setting up and launching the organisation. In their first update they shared this week, A New Social shared that they have a board of directors, consisting of Erin Kissane, Ben Werdmuller and Susan Mernit. Bridgy Fed Config is the first upcoming launch that they announced, scheduled for early April. To bridge their account, Bridgy Fed currently requires people to follow the Bridgy Fed account on their platform, which can be confusing and opaque for people as to what is actually happening and if it is working. The upcoming Config settings page allows people to log in with their social web account (Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed) and turn the bridging on with a simple switch. A New Social also mentions supporting Threads with the new Bridgy Fed Config update, which is currently not supported by Bridgy Fed.
Forte is a new fediverse platform, that comes from the lineage of Hubzilla and Streams, created by the same developer Mike Macgirvin. Forte’s major feature is that it has Nomadic Identity over ActivityPub. Nomadic Identity means that you can port your entire account, including your posts, settings, social connections, etc. It is slightly different than the account migration that Mastodon has, which transfers your social graph to a new account. With Nomadic Identity, you create a single identity that can be connected to multiple different servers, so when one server becomes unavailable, all your personal data can be transferred and accessed from another server linked to your account. Forte, as well as Hubzilla and Streams, remain on the bleeding edge on what’s possible with ActivityPub. However, Forte also suffers from the same issue that its predecessors have, namely that getting to use the software is surprisingly difficult. By design there is no way to see a list of Forte servers. Forte mainly targets people with technical know-how, as the code repository does not include guide on how to setup your own Forte server. It leads to the funny situation where I would like to give Forte a try because I’m interesting in trying out the new features, but I legitimately do not know how.
Myo is a new image-focused client for the open social web, and allows you to connect your Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr accounts into a single timeline. Combining multiple accounts into a single timeline is similar to OpenVibe, but Myo instead focuses media, in a design that is more reminiscent of Instagram than Twitter. Myo is made by the same developer as SoraSNS, which is also a multi-protocol app that focuses on microblogging instead. Myo and SoraSNS are both available for iOS.
ActivityPub badges is a new project that is currently in development to build a badges/credential system similar to Credly on ActivityPub. The project is currently at the proof-of-concept phase, where badges can be created and send over ActivityPub.
IFTAS, the non-profit for collaborative work on trust & safety on the fediverse, recently had to shut down various of their services due to a lack of funding. In their latest update, the organisation talks about how they are rescoping and moving forward, as the organisation itself is not shutting down. IFTAS will continue with various community support projects, such as their community platform IFTAS Connect. They will also continue providing insight into commonly blocked domains, in a scaled down version of the shut-down FediCheck program.
A new form of spam/scam has recently emerged on the fediverse, and it involves private messages from an account that identifies itself as ‘Nicole the fediverse chick’. So many people have gotten a variation of this message that it is quickly becoming a meme on the fediverse. It is unclear what the exact purpose of this spam is, with either a doxing ex or an elaborate 4chan troll as likely explainers.
- Keeping Watch Over the Fediverse: Mass Surveillance in Non-Centralized Social Media – Eric Fassbender
This article by Fassbender examines how state surveillance treats federated and decentralised social networks, focusing on the BlueLeaks dataset, which contains a large amount of internal documentation of state surveillance organisations. Fassbender writes: “[…] surveillance actors are less interested in understanding decentralization within platforms, but rather look at organizations first, then take an interest in all platforms that they spread to. This means that any platform (or in the case of the fediverse, grouping of platforms that share a method for interconnecting) can become suspect.”
The Links
- The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls – Aram Sinnreich and Robert W. Gehl/The Conversation.
- PeerTube’s latest update revamps the about page and brings better podcast support.
- The Fireside Fedi livestream interviewed Laurin, the developer of ActivityPods, as well as PieFed developer Rimu.
- Piefed makes community discovery easier by integrating with the Lemmyverse community dataset.
- Sneak peek: Mastodon’s upcoming update will finally include the ability to show all replies on a post.
- FEP Search Tool is a small web tool to search all the FEP’s.
- Forum software Flarum got funding by NLnet in 2023 to implement ActivityPub, but recently decided that this effort would be postponed for the foreseeable future.
- Notes on migrating an account from Mastodon to GoToSocial.
- A Manyfold 3D viewer directly in a Mastodon timeline.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- Setting Up A New Mastodon Instance – a PeerTube tutorial by FediHost.
- Mastofuse is a Mastodon file system client.
- Roboherd is a tool to build automated Fediverse actors.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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Nei prossimi giorni dovrò ottimizzare le grandi tabelle del database di libranet.de e venera.social. Il database è cresciuto a tal punto che il server esaurirebbe lo spazio su disco nelle prossime settimane.Questo è un processo che richiede molto tempo e risorse e che può bloccare altre query del database. Ecco perché attiverò prima la modalità di manutenzione.
Inizierò con le grandi tabelle del database di venera.social. Quando questo sarà fatto, continuerò con libranet.de.
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So sick of this gaslighting.
To frame making changes in preparation for #Bluesky permitting (selling???) user content for AI scaping as letting
"people set their preference (‘user intent’) on how their data should be handled outside of the protocol," is manipulative garbage.
People do not want their content used for AI training. There is no one clamoring for this.
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The most precious bit is that the default "undefined" category will be up to "downstream" (read AI companies that get/purchase/scrape Bluesky content) to determine what the user's intent actually is.
Come on! 🤦♂️
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non ho mai apprezzato Chiara Valerio quando parla di matematica e con questo articolo non posso che rafforzare la mia impressione.
Diciamo che riesce quasi a farmi essere d'accordo con il ministro... 😅
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Tu dici, @macfranc?
Io non lo trovo così malvagio.
Personalmente insegno matematica e con ogni classe prima o poi mi capita di dedicare un'oretta a mostrare che non in tutti i contesti 2+2=4. Oltre a dover ripetere spesso che il "principio di autorità" in matematica non vale gran ché.
Forse l'appunto che farei all'articolo è: personalmente uso la parola "verificabile" quando la verifica è un esperimento scientifico. In matematica userei invece "dimostrabile".
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l'appunto che farei all'articolo è: personalmente uso la parola "verificabile" quando la verifica è un esperimento scientifico. In matematica userei invece "dimostrabile".
Ecco, hai fatto un esempio interessante. Ho iniziato a leggere la scorsa estate il libro di Chiara Valerio "Matematica e è politica" e ho trovato tante imprecisioni di questo tipo. Provenivo da letture di libri di Lucio Russo e di Carlo Rovelli e ho avuto la stessa impressione che ebbi quando passai dai libri di Luciano Canfora sulla democrazia al pamphlet di Massimo Fini.
Con la differenza che Massimo Fini è un bravo scrittore e che conosce i propri limiti culturali.
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@Pare sarei comunque curioso di sapere cosa ne pensa @mau di quell'articolo
Bisogna ammettere che la matematica è un terreno scivolosissimo da affrontare in contesti divulgativi (anche un vecchio furbacchione come Odifreddi certe volte non riesce a soddisfarmi), ma lo è ancora di più in contesti divulgativi legati alla pedagogia.
È lì che la discussione sulla pedagogia matematica deve districarsi tra la complessità vera e tentazione di stigmatizzare i luoghi comuni attraverso il contrario, altrettanto banalizzante, di quegli stessi luoghi comuni
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innanzitutto la mia recensione di Matematica è politica:
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Sull'articolo: a parte che nemmeno io avrei usato verificabilità (ma avrei preferito "deducibilità") secondo me Valerio ha detto una cosa giusta ma l'ha detta male.
Mi spiego: la mia lettura (politica) è questa. Valerio pensa "Valditara cerca di sfruttare la 'verità' della matematica come base per buttare a mare il relativismo: col cazzo che la matematica è vera, è relativa come tutto il resto". E giù dovizia di esempi.
Tutto condivisibile: ma se stai scrivendo su Repubblica devi esplicitare la tua tesi prima di demolire quella altri, altrimenti i lettori non ti seguono. Per me insomma non basta dire
«Usare il teorema di Pitagora per dire che esiste una verità perenne e immutabile è un pensiero che reprime la volontà di lottare per il futuro. »
cosa che tra l'altro non è nemmeno corretta. I matematici dopo aver dimostrato il teorema di Pitagora hanno detto " orpo, adesso non abbiamo più nulla per lottare?"
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Mah, io so di avere dei limiti culturali, ma non sempre riesco a non varcarne i confini, per quanto io tenti di evitarlo.
Citi Carlo Rovelli. Ho presente almeno alcuni capitoli di suoi libri in cui a parer mio parla a sproposito di cose di cui non sa abbastanza. Ciò non mi impedisce di stimarlo e di apprezzarne i libri.
In questo messaggio, è citato malamente il titolo dell'autrice di cui stai parlando, perché "è" è ben diverso da "e"; ti perdoniamo.
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In questo messaggio, è citato malamente il titolo dell'autrice di cui stai parlando, perché "è" è ben diverso da "e"; ti perdoniamo.
La dettatura è uno strumento fantastico, ma non sempre riesco a correggerne i refusi 🤣🤣🤣
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Chissà, forse dettandolo proprio corretto, compreso l'articolo, lo strumento automatico avrebbe avuto una minore probabilità di inserire un refuso.
O forse no, dipende da quanto è "largo" lo "sguardo" statistico sulle parole di contesto...
Quante imprecisioni che scriviamo per "limiti culturali" o "limiti tecnici" o ...
Accettare le proprie e altrui debolezze è sempre un buon inizio.
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forse dettandolo proprio corretto, compreso l'articolo, lo strumento automatico avrebbe avuto una minore probabilità di inserire un refuso
Sì, è così. Quando una frase viene dettata per esteso il sistema riesce a interpretarla molto meglio. Uno dei problemi principali che ho si verifica quando devo dettare monosillabi fuori dal contesto, come gli "è" o gli "ho/ha". È in quei casi che la dettatura dà il meglio di sé con mostriciattoli come "ogni hanno", "ha casa", "non e bello"
Quante imprecisioni che scriviamo per "limiti culturali" o "limiti tecnici" o ...
Questa frase sarebbe formalmente corretta in sé, ma nel contesto della nostra discussione, non sono disposto a lasciarla passare senza una necessaria puntualizzazione: sarebbe infatti metodologicamente scorretto e sostanzialmente sbagliato porre sullo stesso piano il falso ricordo dell'articolo determinativo di un titolo letto otto mesi prima, con le approssimazioni e le banalizzazioni che si trovano in quel libro
Accettare le proprie e altrui debolezze è sempre un buon inizio.
Questa frase invece non mi convince affatto. Certo, potresti aver utilizzato il verbo accettare per errore, mentre avresti voluto dire "essere consapevole", ma, premesso che accettare non significa far finta di non vedere, l'accettazione di una propria debolezza (non di un limite, ma di una debolezza) è un atteggiamento sbagliato.
Quanto alle debolezze altrui, non sono disposto ad accettarle se si ripercuotono negativamente su di me o sull'ambiente in cui vivo.
Se invece —come immagino— parliamo di "limiti culturali" o "limiti tecnici", allora è epistemologicamente difficilissimo comprendere i propri limiti e quindi è altrettanto difficile accettarli. È invece molto più facile accettare i limiti altrui, ma anche in questo caso c'è un problema: saremmo in grado di accettare solo i limiti altrui che siamo in grado di riconoscere e non i limiti altrui che non siamo in grado di riconoscere come limiti, perché vanno al di là della nostra portata; il ché dovrebbe farci capire che forse tutta questa fatica è antieconomica per tutti, sia in termini di risorse sia in termini di tempo...
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Limite, o debolezza?, dei miei messaggi è il voler restare nella brevità della piattaforma che uso: 500 caratteri.
Si potrebbe approfondire, ma vedo tanta di quella gente che pur di non accettar le proprie debolezze le nega o distrugge il mondo che ha attorno pur di nasconderle, che arrivo a preferire chi le accetta; e magari coopera, con chi ne ha di diverse per reciproca compensazione.
Poi concordo, certo, non tutte le debolezze sono accettabili.
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La Digitale è un editore di strumenti digital liberi e reponsabili per l'educazione.ladigitale.dev
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Hey Friendica users! There is now a Friendica app called Raccoon available in the Google Play store:
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It's also available on F-Droid:
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As well as Friendica, the app is also compatible with Mastodon and Glitch Mastodon.
Friendica is a Fediverse platform so you can follow and interact with Friendica users from Mastodon. If you've never heard of Friendica and want to know more, have a look at fedi.tips/friendica-a-flexible…
Mobile client for Friendica, Mastodon and compatible federated social networks.play.google.com
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@. ݁₊ ⊹ Juniper . ݁₊ ⊹ Mastodon glitch-soc is a friendly fork of Mastodon that offers some improved features:
- posts formatted in Markdown or HTML
- enhanced features for publishing concatenated threads
- more customizable interface, with the possibility to collapse long posts
- publishing posts visible only from the instance
Of course the formatting options can be used to their full potential only if the 500 character limit is removed, but that can be done without using glitch-soc
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Glitch is an unofficial customised version of Mastodon with extra features added, such as rich text formatting and making it easier to have higher character limits.
A lot of the features on Mastodon were originally created by Glitch Mastodon and then copied over to the official version of Mastodon.
Because Mastodon and Glitch Mastodon are both free open source software, they can use and contribute to each other's code like this.
Pixelfed raises 138k Canadian dollars for their project, and a new way to connect researchers to the fediverse with an upcoming ORCID bridge.
Fediverse Report #107Pixelfed raises 138k Canadian dollars for their project, and a new way to connect researchers to the fediverse with an upcoming ORCID bridge.
The News
The Pixelfed Kickstarter campaign has concluded, and the project has raised 138k Canadian dollar (88k EUR/95k USD). The campaign raised money from over 2100 backers, and reached far past it’s original goal of 50k CAD. The campaign has grown significantly in scope, and indicates that the Pixelfed campaign is much more than just about the image-sharing platform Pixelfed. Pixelfed itself has also grown, and there are now reportedly 8 people joining the team. With the money, the team is working on the following:
- Further development of Pixelfed, as well as supporting the pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art servers
- Development of Loops, and getting it to a state where it can be made available as open source. In the most recent update Pixelfed says that this will be “once it is ready in 2025”.
- Building a dedicated server environment around the world, that can handle “the 1000s of TBs of video traffic (plus storage requirements)”.
- Building Fedi-CDN to host and serve Loops videos, as well as offering “excess compute/bandwidth to other fediverse platforms as a collaborative shared service.”
- Building an E2EE messaging platform Sup, with the near future focused on development planning.
- The latest update of the Kickstarter also notes that Pixelfed has started another side project, FediThreat, for fediverse admins to share information about lower-risk harmful actors such as spam accounts. This project is currently in the proof-of-concept stage.
- Launching a Pixelfed Foundation. Setting up a foundation was originally put behind to a 200k CAD stretch goal, but it seems like this will still happen, even though the goal is not met. The latest Kickstarter update notes that a Pixelfed Foundation is currently being worked on, as a non-profit under the government of Alberta, Canada.
The amount of money that Pixelfed has raised is significant, especially by fediverse standards. At the same time, this is a lot of different types of projects that the team is undertaking. Pixelfed has a history of overpromising and underdeliving, for example the Groups feature has been announced to be released “soon” for over 2 years now, and this is a feature that they have gotten an NLnet grant for. The new projects that Pixelfed is working on, such as a shared CDN are definitely valuable for the fediverse. But with the attention of the Pixelfed team being pulled in so many different directions, and a lack of clarity on which projects will get focus, it is unclear on which timeline Pixelfed can deliver the planned features.
Encyclia is a newly announced project to make ORCID records available on the fediverse. ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a unique identifier for researchers and scientists. Every researcher can have their own unique ORCID, and with it, every publication become records connected to that ORCID. With Encyclia, all these ORCIDS can be followed from your ActivityPub account, meaning that you can always keep up to date with research, even when the researcher does not have a fediverse account. Encyclia is currently still in pre-alpha, and not yet available for use by the public.
This weekend was the SXSW festival, and Flipboard hosted the Fediverse House, with quite some well-known names within the fediverse community, as well as representatives from Bluesky and Threads, as well. There does not seem to be recordings available, but Jeff Sikes was there and had a good live blog if you want to also experience some FOMO.
In my recent updates on Bluesky and ATProto I talk about how Bluesky is increasingly becoming a political actor, due to the presence of various high-profile people who are actively speaking out against the Trump/Musk regime. This impact so far is less visible on the fediverse, as there are no politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using the platform to speak out. But resistance does not only come from high-profile individuals, it comes from people on the ground that organise themselves. To that end, Jon Pincus wrote two articles on organising on the fediverse: If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next has an overview of the current state of the networks in relation to organising. Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere has a lot more practical details, examening various softwares that can be used in practice. Both articles are great sources of information to get more practical details for people who are considering using decentralised social networks.
The Links
Decentralized Social Networks & WordPress with Alex Kirk. The Open Web Conversations has a new Fediverse series, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin creator Matthias Pfefferle. They discuss talk about how a WordPress blog can be build into a full decentralised social networking node with the Friends plugin by Kirk and the ActivityPub plugin by Pfefferle.Standards War? – Robert W. Gehl. Gehl compares IFTAS’ funding struggles with the Free Our Feeds campaign, who are raising money to build alternative ATProto infrastructure, and describes it as an illustration of the emerging standards war between ActivityPub and ATProto.
A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media – John Markoff/New York Times. The NYT interviews Flipboard’s CEO Mike McCue to talk about how the company is using building a new decentralised social web with Flipboard and timeline app Surf.
The Software Sessions podcast did an interview with Hong Minhee. Hong is the developer for ActivityPub framework Fedify, as well as Hollo, a single-user microblogging platform.
- The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied – Joan Westenberg/The Index
- PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions) – Elena Rossini
- Ghost’s weekly update on their ActivityPub implementation.
- This week’s fediverse software updates. Some notable app updates: Ivory now supports grouped notifications, and OpenVibe can save your position in a timeline.
- Keeping PeerTube Storage Under Control – a tutorial by FediHost.
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PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)
A walk-through of PeerTube, an open-source, federated alternative to YouTubeElena Rossini
Sulla Forge des communs numériques éducatifs si può testare l'app #PDF2flip che permette di trasformare un #Pdf in un libro sfogliabile (#flipbook): pdf2flip.forge.apps.education.…
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Nella descrizione delle immagini la traduzione italiana delle istruzioni. #ALT
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PDF2flip permet de transformer un PDF en un flipbook (livre numérique à feuilleter)pdf2flip.forge.apps.education.fr
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Raccoon è un client per Friendica e Mastodon libero ed open source pensato principalmente per dispositivi mobile.
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Friendica è una piattaforma social straordinaria e vanta una serie di caratteristiche che la rendono unica nel panorama della federazione:
• supporto a post di grandi dimensioni, formattati, con titolo e spoiler;
• supporto nativo ai gruppi ActivityPub;
• messaggi diretti;
• galleria multimediale dove è possibile gestire foto album;
• possibilità di organizzare i contatti in cerchie;
• possibilità di citare (cross-post) post altrui;
• importazione di feed RSS;
• calendario eventi integrato;
• ovviamente molto altro (fare riferimento alla documentazione ufficiale).
L'interfaccia web è ottima per accedere a tutte queste funzionalità, ma su un dispositivo mobile ci sono vincoli diversi per usabilità e leggibilità, quindi è utile avere un'app per utilizzare le più importanti tra le funzioni offerte dalla piattaforma.
• visualizzazione timeline con la possibilità di cambiare tipo di feed (pubblica, locale, iscrizioni e liste personalizzate);
• dettaglio post, visualizzare le risposte, le ricondivisioni e gli utenti che l'hanno aggiunto ai preferiti;
• dettaglio utente con visualizzazione post, post e risposte, post fissati e multimediali, e possibilità di registrarsi per le notifiche, seguirlo, visualizzare elenchi di seguaci e seguiti;
• supporto ai gruppi ActivityPub, con possibilità di aprire i thread in modalità forum;
• visualizzare i post di tendenza, gli hashtag e i link in tendenza e i suggerimenti su chi seguire;
• seguire/smettere di seguire un hashtag e visualizzare tutti i post che lo contengono;
• interagire con i post (ricondividere, aggiungere ai preferiti o segnalibri) e – nel caso dei propri post – modificarli, cancellarli o fissarli sul profilo;
• ricerca globale di hashtag, post e utenti in base a termini di ricerca;
• personalizzare l'aspetto dell'app cambiando i colori, font o dimensione del testo, ecc.
• effettuare l'accesso tramite il protocollo OAuth2;
• visualizzare e modificare i dati del proprio profilo;
• visualizzare e filtrare l'elenco notifiche;
• gestire le richieste di essere seguito;
• visualizzare la lista dei preferiti, segnalibri o hashtag seguiti;
• creare post e risposte formattati, con allegati (e testo alternativo), spoiler e titolo;
• schedulare post (e cambiare la data di schedulazione) o salvarlo nelle bozze;
• segnalare post e utenti agli amministratori per la moderazione dei contenuti;
• silenziare/bloccare utenti e gestire la lista dei propri utenti silenziati o bloccati;
• gestire le proprie cerchie (liste personalizzate);
• visualizzare i sondaggi (sola lettura);
• supporto multi-account con possibilità di cambiare account (e, in modalità anonima, di cambiare istanza);
• inviare messaggi diretti ad altri utenti e visualizzare le conversazioni;
• gestire la galleria foto;
• visualizzare il calendario eventi (sola lettura).
W la Friendica (che dio la benedèndica): la guida al Facebook del FediversoLa guida di Informapirata a Friendica, dedicata a tutti coloro che dal Fediverso vogliono ottenere tutto il possibile.
Un Mastodon con gli steroidi e attualmente l’unica alternativa a Facebook di tutto il Fediverso. Con mille pregi e, soprattutto, mille difetti. E mai nessuno che ci spieghi come utilizzarlo.
Almeno finora…
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La guida di Informapirata a Friendica, dedicata a tutti coloro che dal Fediverso vogliono ottenere tutto il possibile. Un Mastodon con gli steroidi…informapirata
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@Thiago Skárnio Estoy de acuerdo. También sé que el desarrollador @𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 está trabajando en agregar notificaciones y traducciones, pero obviamente es una tarea compleja y la aplicación solo tiene unos meses, por lo que imagino que comenzará a trabajar en ello seriamente solo si su aplicación tiene una buena respuesta en términos de usuarios activos.
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@Aracnus Me gustaría agregar que una de las características innovadoras de esta aplicación es la posibilidad de explorar los mensajes en tu cronología de derecha a izquierda y viceversa. Esta es una característica que ni siquiera las aplicaciones multimillonarias de Facebook, Instagram y X, tienen.
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IFTAS shutting down most of its services following a lack of funding. Fediverse tumblr-like platform Wafrn has a native Bluesky integration.
Fediverse Report #106IFTAS is shutting down most of their services following a lack of funding, and Tumblr-like platform Wafrn now has its own apps, and a Bluesky integration to boot.
The News
The fediverse trust and safety organisation IFTAS has announced it is shutting down most of its services, following a lack of funding. Last month the organisation said that they would soon run out of funding, and that they’d do a final effort at getting structural funds for the organisation. This has not happened, and now IFTAS will shut down most of their services. The biggest project to be shut down is IFTAS’ Content Classification Service, a service which handled CSAM scanning and reporting for fediverse servers. When fediverse server admins encounter CSAM, most countries have mandatory reporting requirements that admins are obliged to follow. Another project that is shutting down is FediCheck, which provides shared deny lists that server could use to build their own deny lists for their servers.IFTAS shutting down their services is a double blow to the fediverse. The obvious one is that functions like IFTAS’ Content Classification Service were aiming to provide a service that filled an crucial gap in the operations of many fediverse servers. Scanning for CSAM, and handling the legal requirements on reporting to the relevant agencies is a challenging task for server admins to execute, and many fediverse servers do not have good procedures in place to handle this delicate process. IFTAS’ CCS would have provided a way for smaller fediverse server to handle the legal obligations they have regarding handling CSAM.
The second blow to the fediverse is in that IFTAS fills an important role in building a collaborative structure for moderation across fediverse servers. The fediverse is a network of independent places (servers), and while they are interconnected on a technical level via a protocol, building connections between servers for collaborations is proving to be much harder. Over the years there have been many suggestions and ideas on how fediverse servers could work together, for example regarding on sharing information on which servers to block. These conversations currently take place mainly via admin backchannels or via the #fediblock hashtag, and a more structural interface could help streamline this process. For such a process to work trust is needed between fediverse server admins to participate with such infrastructure. IFTAS, as a grassroots fediverse organisation, is one of the best-placed organisations to have build trust and provide a nexus around which such infrastructure could be build. IFTAS got pretty far with their rollout of FediCheck, which was building such a place for collaboration between server admins. Now that IFTAS will not be the center around which shared moderation infrastructure can be build, will there be another organisation in the future to do so? Especially when IFTAS found out that getting funding for such a project is so difficult?
Fediverse platform Wafrn has announced they now have apps for Android and iOS available in testing. I have not talked about Wafrn much, but it is one of the more interesting fediverse platforms that is currently being worked on. Wafrn is a Tumblr-inspired platform that clearly does not take itself too seriously: the name stands for “We Allow Female Representing Nipples“. It is a reference to a decision by Tumblr to ban adult content, and they used the phrase “Female-presenting Nipples” in their community guidelines which became a target of ridicule. Wafrn has a variety of unique features, such as a place to ask and answer questions for the Wafrn community. The most standout feature of Wafrn however is a native integration of both ActivityPub and ATProto. A Wafrn account allows you to have a full connection with the fediverse, as well as with Bluesky. On the fediverse, your account is visible as @name@app.wafrn.net, while on Bluesky your account is visible as @name.at.wafrn.net. Because this is not a bridge, and instead a native integration, a Wafrn account can interact with any Bluesky and fediverse account, other accounts are not required to opt-in in order to connect. In a real way, this means that Bluesky is now indeed federated, it just took an app called “We Allow Female Representing Nipples” to get there.
Link aggregator platform PieFed has added support for feeds. Feeds on PieFed are similar to how multi-reddits work on Reddit: it allows you to create a custom feed that displays posts from multiple communities. Feeds can also be shared, allowing people to follow a feed that others have created. Feeds on PieFed are somewhat similar to their Topics feature. Topics are also a collection of multiple fediverse communities around a certain theme. The main difference between topics and feeds is that topics are created by the server owner, and set for the entire server. With feeds, anyone can create and share one, and you can also follow feeds from other PieFed servers.
The Links
- Timeline app Tapestry has gotten an investment by Tumblr.
- WeDistribute writes about Funkwhale and their decision to filter out far-right music.
- Ghost‘s weekly update on their ActivityPub implementation
- Xenon is a new fediverse client app for iOS
- Fireside Fedi is a interview series on PeerTube, and this week they’re talking with one of the people behind ActivityPods.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
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Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web | TechCrunch
Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from acrossSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
We are aware of a bug in the latest version of our app that causes duplicate posts to appear in profile feeds.
We're working on the fix, and apologize for the inconvenience.
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Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it’s surrounding ecosystem of media apps. The News Constellation is a project that recently released that provides a database of […]
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.dWelcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again on Bluesky and it’s surrounding ecosystem of media apps.
The News
Constellation is a project that recently released that provides a database of all backlinks in the entire network. Constellation now has a database of over 1.2 billion links, and an accompanying website with statistics to slice through. The Constellation API is now also getting integrated into multiple PDS browsers, both PDSls and atp.tools show backlinks to the ATProto records now. This puts PDS browsers more into their own specific place on the network: not a full AppView, but more than just a way to view the content of a PDS.Bluesky PBC has put out a new proposal for ATProto, Sync 1.1. The proposed update concerns the relays, and the validation work they do. As part of the Authenticated Transfer, which ATProto is named after, relays validate every event on the firehose. This validation process currently requires a relay to store the entire repo, which can take up a lot of space. This is one of the aspects that make hosting a relay more expensive. The proposed update changes the way validation works, which allows a relay to validate the integrity of all the data going through the firehose without having to store the entire repo. Bluesky engineer Devin Ivy provides an explainer thread on how this works here. This update makes it much more feasible for people to self-host relays.
Another proposal by Bluesky PBC is for moderation routing report. The new feature allows labelers to select which type of report they want to receive. A common problem that labelers currently face is that users tend to receive reports that are not relevant for their specific labeling service, which causes them unnecessary extra work, as well as getting unnecessarily exposed to awful content. The new proposed update allows labelers to opt-out of specific reporting categories. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold says Bluesky PBC is currently working on implementing the feature, aiming to ship it soon.
In Other News
Bluesky has posted some new job vacancies, and they are now hiring a System Integrity Engineer, Product Designer and Senior Trust and Safety Lead. Both the System Integrity Engineer and Trust and Safety Lead indicate that Bluesky is expanding their Trust and Safety work: both of these jobs are newly created positions, with the engineering position explicitly focused on moderation systems and regulatory compliance.Some podcasting news: two podcasting apps, Transistor and TrueFans, both added support for displaying Bluesky comments on the podcast episode page. TrueFans also supports fediverse comments, so that a podcast episode page can display comments and reactions from both networks.
Bluesky engineer Jaz wrote an article about ‘lossy’ timelines. The summary is that to maintain performance, the home timelines of accounts that follow more than 4k accounts will not always see all posts on the timeline.
Upcoming ATProto short-form video platform Spark shared their outline on some of the limits they’ll set. Spark aims to allow videos of 300 MB or 3 minutes long (compared to Bluesky’s 50MB or 1 minute), and 12 files for image posts (5MB each). This is part of the reason why Spark is not using Bluesky’s lexicon, instead developing their own. Setting these limits higher will also require Sparks to provide their own PDSes, as the file size limit is set by the Bluesky PDS. Hosting video is expensive, and it is not yet clear how Spark will finance this.
A short tutorial on how to publish lexicon verification. The first verified lexicons are now starting to show up on lexidex.
Roomy has posted a deep dive on their tech stack, how they are combining ATProto and Automerge to build public chatrooms.
Web browser Opera adds Bluesky integration, allowing you to more easily doom scroll in the sidebar of the browser.
Bluesky video client Skylight is now available in beta on Android, after Skylight had trouble with Google to get the Android beta approved.
Some events: Feed builder Graze will hold a meetup in New York this Friday the 28th, and at SXSW (March 10th, Austin) there will be Bluesky meetup.
The Links
- An interview with Game Industry Labeler developer Trazy on how builds a community of thousands of game devopers on Bluesky.
- A guide (in Japanese) on how to upload videos using Bluesky API (XRPC)
- An interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber at Knight Media Forum.
- A podcast interview with the developer of the ATProto art platform Pinksea
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How one developer is connecting thousands of game creators on Bluesky
A new digital home: Quietly creating Bluesky's game developer network, one label at a time.Chris Brandrick (overkill)
Un video di protesta generato tramite intelligenza artificiale, che mostra Donald Trump mentre bacia i piedi di Elon Musk, è diventato virale dopo essere stato trasmesso in un ufficio governativo. Il video, condiviso su Bluesky dall'utente Marisa Kabas. è stato rimosso dalla piattaforma, classificandolo come "non consensuale", dato che né Trump né Musk avevano acconsentito alla sua creazione.
Bluesky ha notificato Kabas via email, spiegando che il video violava le linee guida della comunità. Kabas ha contestato tale decisione, argomentando che il contenuto fosse di interesse pubblico e costituisse una forma legittima di informazione... ma nulla!
Sebbene le politiche di moderazione dei contenuti sui social generalmente consentano critiche verso figure pubbliche, la rimozione del video appare utilizzare la presunta neutralità delle policy come giustificazione per proteggere Trump, attraverso una poderosa captatio benevolentiae.
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Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's richest man.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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A variety of smaller news updates this week.
Fediverse Report #105While the news in the world is louder and intenser than ever, the fediverse has had one of it’s most quiet news weeks in a long time. But as compensation I’ll have another article out tomorrow, that I did not manage to finish for today.
The News
Some updates for GoToSocial: GoToSocial published the documentation that would also allow other fediverse platforms to implement their Interaction Policies. And Slurp is a new CLI tool to import your posts from other fediverse servers into GoToSocial. A guide to import your Pixelfed posts into GoToSocial with Slurp is available here.Last week I wrote extensively about Mastodon’s plan to implement quote post. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput confirmed in a follow-up that Mastodon will not display quote posts if they are made using another implementation than Mastodon proposes. This means in practice that even when Mastodon has added support for quote posts, it will not display quote posts made by Misskey, unless Misskey also implements Mastodon’s new proposed system for quote posts.
Elgg is an old-school open source social network that started in 2004. It added a plugin for ActivityPub this week.
John Oliver discussed content moderation on Last Week Tonight, quickly promoting Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky and Signal as alternatives.
The Identity Graph Explorer is a simple tool to find out how “identifiers on the Fediverse / Social Web are connected to one another”.
The Hexbear Lemmy community recently lost control of their domain, leading to a bidding war for the domain name for thousands of dollars. The admins now report that they have gotten back control of their domain.
The Links
- IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis – WeDistribute
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse – with unique controls – Elena Rossini
- How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server – WeDistribute
- Website League update for February
- Managing Mastodon Storage – FediHost
- Lemmy biweekly development update.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
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English writer Hanif Kureishi from his wheelchair begins his article entitled Why I am becoming a fascist in this way:
"If I could raise my arms, I’d be doing a Nazi salute right now. If I could walk, I’d be goose-stepping." #trumpism #autocracy #fascism #democracy #MAGAHat #liberalism
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Perchè Apple e Google cambiano nome al golfo del Messico: poliverso.org/display/0477a01e… I #GAFAM si inchinano alla politica di #Trump, #Wikipedia resiste. Un articolo di Leonhard Dobusch ( @leonido )docente di Organizzazione all’università di Innsbruck, cofondatore di Momentum-Institut e Momentum-Magazin. #mappe #geografia #imperialismo #democrazia #traduzioni #Friendica
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Perché Google e Apple sbagliano a rinominare il Golfo del Messico
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Quando autocrati come Donald Trump prendono il potere, le istituzioni, le aziende e le organizzazioni della società civile non possono semplicemente continuare come prima. Quello in cui Google e Apple sbagliano, l'organizzazione no-profit Wikipedia riesce a fare meglio. Un commento di Leonhard Dobusch.
Il nome che da 500 anni viene dato al mare tra la costa meridionale degli Stati Uniti, il Messico e Cuba sembra essere uno dei problemi più importanti degli Stati Uniti. O almeno, così si potrebbe pensare. Perché uno dei primi atti di Donald Trump nel suo secondo mandato è stato quello di rinominarlo. Con un decreto, ha fatto rinominare il “Golfo del Messico” in “Golfo d'America”, secondo l'interpretazione ufficiale del governo statunitense.
Google e Apple rinominano il Golfo del Messico
In primo luogo, la “cambio di nome” è ovviamente un atto altamente simbolico che risponde a riflessi nazionalistici. Fa parte della strategia Flood-the-zone-with-shit-Strategie (Inonda il campo di merda) della nuova destra di Trump & Co. Ma è più di uno stupido scherzo, più di un semplice simbolo. Il cambio di nome costringe gli altri a relazionarsi con Trump.
Questo pone un problema ai produttori di mappe mondiali. Il mare deve essere chiamato come Trump lo immagina o come il resto del mondo e la maggioranza delle persone lo conoscono da secoli? I giganti della tecnologia statunitensi, Google e Apple, hanno deciso: si allineano ai rispettivi governi del paese - in questo caso anche a Trump. Negli Stati Uniti, questo è l'unico nome che utilizzano nei loro servizi di mappe. Ma nella versione in lingua tedesca di Google Maps, il “Golfo del Messico” è stato recentemente etichettato anche come “Golfo d'America”.
La propaganda autocratica non è normale
Quanto più assurda è l’azione di autocrati come Trump, tanto più forte è se gli altri potenti coinvolti si comportano come se questo fosse normale, come se si trattasse di faccende quotidiane. Questo è esattamente ciò che hanno fatto Google e Apple. Lutz Mache, responsabile degli affari governativi e delle politiche pubbliche di Google, ha risposto alle critiche sull’immsdiato cambio di nome di Google Maps: “In questo caso viene rispettata la legge in vigore. Nulla di più, nulla di meno”.Inoltre, Mache ha citato una dichiarazione ufficiale (naturalmente su X-Twitter, dove se no?) in cui Google fa riferimento alla “prassi di lunga data” di adottare i cambiamenti di nome se sono stati modificati in fonti governative ufficiali (negli Stati Uniti si tratta del “Geographic Names Information System” (GNIS)). Può darsi che sia così, ma tale consuetudine non è una legge. E finché il GNIS non è stato usato impropriamente per la propaganda nazionalistica del governo, non è stato un problema.
Ma se i politici autoritari abusano delle istituzioni statali per scopi propagandistici, allora anche l'abitudine di continuare a fidarsi ciecamente di queste istituzioni deve essere messa in discussione.
Senza resistenza, gli autocrati vanno sempre più lontano
Questo è importante perché tutto ciò che funziona senza resistenza è visto dagli autocrati come un invito a mettere una marcia in più. È così anche in questo caso: un deputato repubblicano ha presentato una mozione per rinominare la Groenlandia “Red, White and Blueland”.Ci sono certamente delle alternative a questa reazione. Wikipedia, ad esempio, non solo è più resistente alla disinformazione rispetto alle piattaforme orientate al profitto, ma anche agli interventi propagandistici delle forze autoritarie.
Wikipedia è più resistente
Nella Wikipedia in lingua inglese, il “Golfo del Messico” viene ancora chiamato così. Il motivo è da ricercare nelle convenzioni di denominazione di Wikipedia: ciò che conta è il modo in cui ci si riferisce prevalentemente a un luogo, non come qualcuno pensa che debba essere chiamato.È quindi giunto il momento che Google riconsideri la sua “prassi consolidata”. Perché non adottare semplicemente i termini geografici di Wikipedia? In ogni caso, il tempo del “Business as usual” è finito. Questa non è un’esercitazione.
Leonhard Dobusch è docente di Organizzazione all’università di Innsbruck, cofondatore di Momentum-Institut e Momentum-Magazin.
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A new P2P group chat with Roomy, Microcosm makes ATProto even more modular, other new tools and much more!
Welcome to this week’s edition of all the news that happens in the wider ATProto ecosystem. This edition is somewhat more technical, next week I’ll focus again on Bluesky and the growing ecosystem of video and image apps around it.
@Ernesto Wong García estaba pensando en hacer algo así para los hashtags, a ver... ¿qué te parece?
Se va a poder hacer clic en cada elemento (por ej. "linux" aquí) y abrir la pantalla correspondiente con todos los post que contienen el hashtag seleccionado.
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Le #deportazioni hanno una lunga storia negli #USA. La canzone #Deportees di Woody Guthrie nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=qu… si ispira a quella che avvenne per via aerea nel 1948 e costò la vita a 32 braccianti e #migranti messicani #WoodyGuthrie
Qui la voce di Wikipedia sull'incidente aereo: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident…
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Abschiebungen als Patentrezept, auch in den USA. Dieses Lied (hier: Original von Woody Guthrie und Baez/Dylan) handelt von 32 Mexikaner:innen 1948.blogs.taz.de
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This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
Last Week in Fediverse #103This week I’m zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they’ll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
On bridging and fediverse culture
Erin Kissane wrote an excellent article this week, about ‘bridging’ (connecting separate networks), fediverse culture, and why this regularly leads to drama and blowups. Kissane gives three explanations as to why this type of drama keeps happening, of which I want to highlight one: ‘Conflicting models of what the fediverse “really” is’. Kissane focuses on two different cultures on the fediverse regarding how connections between different places on the fediverse should be made, and how they should deal with consent.I agree with Kissane’s observation, both that these competing models exist, as well as that a lack of acceptance that there are different models leads to conflict. Just last week I wrote about two separate cases of drama between various people about fediverse software that deals with these conflicting models on what the fediverse really is. In general I think that it is highly important to have a good understanding of what the fediverse truly is, and not only what people want the fediverse to be.
This Sunday was the NFL Superbowl, with the halftime show by Kendrick Lamar. Lamar made some powerful visual statements in his show, such as a flag of America that consists entirely of Black men. Browsing both the fediverse and Bluesky this Monday morning served as a good indication of how different the cultures of these two networks are.
On Bluesky, 20 of the most liked 25 posts of the entire network 1 discussed the Superbowl, and of those 20, 12 were specifically about Lamar’s halftime show. Shortly after the end of the show, network traffic spiked to almost double the traffic for a short period as people logged in to talk about the show.
On the fediverse, I had a hard time finding any posts discussing the Superbowl. I saw one post on the trending page of mastodon.social. Browsing through all posts made with the hashtag #superbowl gave me more than five times as much superb pictures of owls as it gave me posts about the halftime show.2 There is a long tradition of posting pictures of owls with the tag SuperbOwl, that far predates the fediverse.
It shows two social networks with very different cultures: one as a place to discuss mainstream cultural events, and one as a place for counterculture and the subversion of mainstream culture. I do not think this difference is an anomaly either, in general I see significantly less conversations about pop culture on the fediverse. This specific example with the Superbowl halftime show is just a clear example of a larger trend
To be clear here: this is not a criticism of the fediverse, nor is it a call for the fediverse to change and suddenly start posting about Lamar. The reason I’m highlighting these difference is to show what the fediverse actually is. There is a significant group of people that have an interest in the fediverse for the potential that it can be. This group frames the fediverse as an alternative to platforms like X, as a way to build social media platforms that are welcoming for everybody. This is a laudable goal to strive for. The ongoing coup in the US illustrates the urgent need for social platforms that are not owned by the oligarchy. But I also think that working towards such goals requires a good understanding what the fediverse currently actually is.
That is why I’m placing this observation in the context of Kissane’s post, who notes that people having ‘conflicting model of what the fediverse “really” is’ leads to conflict, and hampers potential for change in the fediverse. To me, how the fediverse responded to the Superbowl is a good illustration of the current culture of the network. What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture. This is an absolutely fine identity to have! But for the people who are working to bringing the fediverse into the mainstream, it is important to realise that this countercultural identity clashes with with bringing a mainstream cultural identity to the fediverse.
The News
IFTAS has announced that they are running out of funding, and that barring new funding sources that will come through this month, the organisation will have to scale down their activities significantly. IFTAS says that they are currently focused on getting funding for their Content Classification Service (CCS). CCS is an opt-in system which helps fediverse server admins with CSAM detection and reporting. Running a social networking server comes with a fair amount of requirements regarding reporting CSAM, which are difficult to do for fediverse admins. CCS is intended to help with that, but IFTAS describes it as an “a ridiculously expensive undertaking, far beyond what the community can support with individual donations”. If IFTAS cannot secure funding by the end of the month, they will have to suspend the operation of CCS and its CSAM detection service. Other work that IFTAS will have to halt if no funding comes through is giving policy guidance, like their recent work for server admins on how to navigate the new UK Online Safety Act.Funding Trust & Safety has been a major challenge for the fediverse. Recently, Mastodon tried a fundraiser for a new Trust & Safety lead, where Mastodon only managed to raise 13k of the aimed 75k. It is a concerning situation for the fediverse. One of the selling points of the network is that it can be a safer place for vulnerable people. But it turns out that actually funding the work that can make the fediverse a safer place is a lot harder than it should be.
Tapestry is a new iOS app by Iconfactory, who once made the popular Twitter client Twitterific. Tapestry is a combination of a news reader and a social media site. It allows you to combine many feeds into a single timeline. Tapestry supports social feeds like Mastodon, Bluesky and Tumblr, as well as RSS, YouTube, and more. The app was funded via Kickstarter last year. In a review, David Pierce from The Verge describes Tapestry as a ‘timeline app’, in a similar category as apps like feeeed and Surf. In his review, Pierce describes how timeline apps are about consuming information and new in a different way, and help manage the information overload that social media feeds present us with. I think that is also why I find these types of apps interesting, as they also frame the fediverse in a different way. Most popular fediverse software like Mastodon and Pixelfed are wired around social interaction. However, they follow the same patterns as the Twitters and Instagrams that came before, and over the last 15 years society has reshaped itself so that platforms like Twitter became not only used for talking, but also as a way to distribute news. So far, the fediverse is repeating this structure; Mastodon is used both for organisations that just want to send out a link to their news article as well as for people to chat with their friends. Timeline apps like Tapestry help split out these use cases, and allow people to take one part of the interaction pattern of Mastodon (following news and updates) without the other pattern (chatting with friends).
The Links
Some more videos of fediverse presentations that happened at FOSDEM last week were published online:
- Fediscovery – Improving Search and Discovery on the Fediverse – David Roetzel (Mastodon)
- Castopod & Web Monetization on the Social Web – Benjamin Bellamy (Castopod) & Jeremiah Lee (Web Monetization)
- Presenting ActivityBot at FOSDEM – Terence Eden
- Fediverse Fighters – The Role of Public Institutions – Melanie Bartos
The Brazilian Institute for Museums, a Brazilian government agency, is hiring two people to expand their integration with ActivityPub.
Flipboard has published more information and a schedule for Fediverse House, a conference about the social web. It will be held in Austin, Texas, on Sunday March 9th and Monday March 10th.
And some more links:
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025, Mastodon Engineering’s monthly update.
- A Brief History of Alternative Social Media Scholarship – Robert W. Gehl
- Pixelfed Crowdfunds More Open Source Social Alternatives for the Fediverse – David Cassel/The New Stack
- Release candidate 0.18 for GoToSocial with a wide variety of new features.
- Lemmy is working towards a 1.0 release with breaking changes in their API.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
- I checked at 6am PST, and looked at the past 12 hours. ↩︎
- Also checked on 6am PST, and checked all posts made with that hashtag as visible from the mastodon.social server. I saw 61 pictures of owls, and less than 10 pictures by non-automated accounts of the show by Lamar. I’m saying less then 10 here because there were some automated bot accounts in there who mirror posts from news websites. Due to the size difference in userbase between Bluesky and Mastodon I’m less interested in the absolute numbers as in the relative difference between them. ↩︎
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Pixelfed Crowdfunds More Open Source Social Alternatives for the Fediverse - The New Stack
A wildly successful KickStarter campaign suggests grassroots interest in open source alternatives to Instagram and TikTok.David Cassel (The New Stack)
Oggi, la National Security Agency (NSA) sta pianificando una "Big Delete" di siti web e contenuti di rete interni che contengono una qualsiasi delle 27 parole vietate, tra cui "privilegio", "parzialità" e "inclusione". La "Big Delete", secondo una fonte della NSA e la corrispondenza interna esaminata da Popular Information, sta creando conseguenze indesiderate. Sebbene i siti web e gli altri contenuti siano presumibilmente cancellati per rispettare gli ordini esecutivi del Presidente Trump che prendono di mira diversità, equità e inclusione, o "DEI", la rete a strascico sta eliminando il lavoro "relativo alla missione". Secondo la fonte della NSA, che ha parlato a condizione di anonimato perché non è autorizzata a parlare con i media, il processo è "molto caotico", ma sta comunque andando avanti.
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Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
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@carini allo stesso modo, le religioni più totalitarie ed eversive sono quelle che rivendicano spazi pubblici in base alla libertà di religione. Salvo poi, una volta giunti al potere, cancellare ogni libertà religiosa o non religiosa... O la tirannia con la democrazia.
È un gioco antico dal quale Popper ricavò il suo famoso paradosso della tolleranza
Peccato che il "gioco della tolleranza" di popper viene spesso citato (a sproposito) dagli intolleranti, esattamente nello stesso modo in cui l'effetto Dunning-Kruger viene costantemente citato proprio dai meno competenti.
In ogni caso non si applica alle religioni che non possono, per definizione, essere tolleranti.
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Se manca qualche emoji che usereste molto volentieri segnalatela e la renderemo disponibile.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Ross M.
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in reply to Ross M. • • •I don't understand what your question is. What announcement are you talking about?
This was a session at the W3C Breakouts Day 2025. We had an hour-long discussion about how ActivityPub-enabled profiles and content show up in browsers. I did a presentation, which is here:
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Browser Experience of ActivityPub
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