Bluesky experiences a massive new wave of signups from Brazil, Premium feeds with sub.club, and much more.
[share author='Laurens Hof' profile='https://fediversereport.com/author/laurenshof/' avatar='https://poliverso.org/photo/206608119366e42c304ffac007248590-5.jpeg?ts=1734620326' link='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-82/' posted='2024-09-01 18:04:28' guid='08552256-1db60dc7714646e3-cb23b587' message_id='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-82/']Last Week in Fediverse – ep 82
1 million new accounts on Bluesky as Brazil bans X, and premium feeds with Sub.club, and much much more.
Brazil bans X, and a signup wave to Bluesky
The Brazilian supreme court has banned the use of X in an ongoing legal fight with Elon Musk. The ban follows after a long trajectory of legal issues between the Brazilian government and Musk’s X. In April 2024, the Brazilian court ordered X to block certain X accounts that were allegedly related to the 2023 coup attempt, which Musk refused to do. In that same time period, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened an account on Bluesky, and there was already an inflow of a Brazilian community into Bluesky. Now, the legal fight has further escalated over X’s refusal to appoint a legal representative in the country, and Musk’s continuing refusal to comply with Brazil’s laws and regulation has resulted in the supreme court banning the use of X in the country altogether.
The ban on X has caused a massive signup wave to Bluesky, with over 1 million new accounts created in just three days, of which the large majority are from Brazil. The user statistics shot up even more than that, suggesting that there are a lot of people with an existing account logging back in as well.
The new inflow of people to Bluesky is having some significant effects on the network, as well as on the state of decentralised social networks more broadly:
- President Lula is putting actual focus on Bluesky. In one of his final posts on X, Luala listed in non-alphabetical order all other platforms that he is active on, and placed Bluesky at the top of the list. Posts by Lula that are placed on Bluesky (134k followers) as well as on Threads (2.4m followers) get more than 5 times as much likes on Bluesky. Today, Lula explicitly asked people on Bluesky what they thought about the platform, in a post that got over 30k likes and counting. It is hard to imagine that the Brazilian government is not paying attention to this all, and is looking which platform(s) the Brazilian community is moving towards in the wake of the ban on X.
- Brazilians are a very active community on the internet (see Orkut), and bring with them their own unique culture to Bluesky. The current decentralised social networks are heavily focused on US politics, judged by top posts on both Mastodon and Bluesky, and beyond shitposts and memes there is surprisingly little space for mainstream pop culture and sports. The Brazilian community does seem to bring a large number of pop culture and sports to Bluesky, significantly diversifying the topics of discussion, and in turn, creating more space for other people who are interested in that in the future. The activity of Brazilians on microblogging can also be seen in the like counts on popular posts of Bluesky: before this week, the most popular posts of any given day usually got around 3k likes, this has sprung up to 30k to 50k likes. Brazilians are so chatty in fact, that currently 81% of the posts on the network are in Portugese, and the amount of accounts of people who post on a given day has gone up from a third to over 50%.
- The Bluesky engineers have build a very robust infrastructure system, and the platform has largely cruised along fine without issues, even when faced with a 15x increase in traffic. This all without having to add any new servers. For third party developers, such as the Skyfeed developer, this increase in traffic did came with downtime and more hardware requirements however. It shows the complications of engineering an open system, while the Bluesky team itself was prepared with their core infrastructure, third party infrastructure, on which a large number of custom feeds rely, was significantly less prepared for the massive increase in traffic.
In contrast, the ban on X in Brazil has made little impact on Mastodon, with 3.5k new signups from Brazil on Mastodon.social. I’d estimate that this week has seen 10k new accounts above average, with 15k new accounts the previous week and 25k in this week. That places Mastodon two orders of magnitude behind Bluesky in signups from Brazil. There are a variety of reasons for this, which deserve their own analysis, this newsletter is long enough as it is. One thing I do want to point out is within fediverse community there are two sub communities that each have their own goals and ideas about the fediverse and growth. Some people responded with the news that most Brazilians went to Bluesky with type of response that indicated that they appreciate the small, quiet and cozy community that the fediverse currently provides, and a distrust of the growth-at-all-costs model for social networks. For other people however, their goal of the fediverse is to build a global network that everyone is a part of and everyone uses (‘Big Fedi’), a view of the fediverse that is also represented in the latest episode of the Waveform podcast (see news below). And if the goal is to build ActivityPub into the default protocol for the social web, it is worth paying attention to what is happening right now in the Brazilian ATmosphere.
The News
Sub.club is a new way to monetise feeds on the fediverse, with the goal of bringing the creator economy to the fediverse. It gives people the ability to create premium feeds that people can only access via a subscription. People can follow this feed from any Mastodon account (work on other fediverse platforms is ongoing). Sub.club handles the payment processes and infrastructure, for which they charge 6% of the subscription fee (compared to 8-12% Patreon charges). Sub.club also makes it possible for other apps to integrate, both IceCubes and Mammoth have this option. Bart Decrem, who is one of the people behind Sub.club, is also the co-founder of the Mastodon app Mammoth. Sub.club also explicitly positions itself as a way for server admins to fund their server. Most server admins rely on donations by their users, often via services like Patreon, Ko-fi, Open Collective or other third party options. By integration payments directly into the fediverse, Sub.club hopes that the barrier for donations will be lower, and more server admins can be financially sustainable.
Newsmast has build a new version of groups software for the fediverse, and the first group is dedicated to the Harris campaign. There are few types of groups available that integrate with Mastodon, such as with Friendica or a.gup.pe. These groups function virtually identical to hashtags, by boosting out posts where the group account is tagged in to everyone who follows the group account. As there is no moderation in these types of group accounts, it allows anyone to hijack the group account. A group account dedicated to a political campaign is especially vulnerable to this. On Mastodon a volunteer Harris Campaign group used a Friendica group for campaign organising, but the limited moderation tools (blocking a user from following the group) that are available are not working, which allowed blocked users to still get their posts boosted by the group account. Newsmast’s version of Groups gives (working) moderation tools, and only boosts top level comments and not replies, to cut down on the noise. For now, the new Group is only available to the Harris Campaign group for testing, but it will come later to Mastodon servers that run the upcoming Patchwork plugin.
Bluesky added quite a number of new anti-toxicity features in their most recent app update. Bluesky has added quote posting controls, allowing people to set on a per-post basis if people can quote the post or not. There is also the option to remove quotes after the fact as well: if you’ve allowed quote posts on a post you’ve made, but someone made a quote post that you do not feel comfortable with, you have the possibility to detach your post. Another update is the possibility to hide replies on your posts. Bluesky already hides comments under a ‘show more’ button if the comment is labeled by a labeler you subscribe to. You now have the option to do so on all comments that are made on your posts, and the hidden comment will be hidden for everyone. Finally, Bluesky has changed how replies are shown in the Following feed, which is an active subject of discussion. I appreciate the comments made by Bluesky engineer Dan Abramov here, who notes there are two different ways of using Bluesky, who each prioritise comments in conflicting ways. As new communities grow on Bluesky, prioritising their (conflicting) needs becomes more difficult, and I’m curious to see how this further plays out.
The WVFRM (Waveform) podcast of popular tech YouTuber MKBHD has a special show about the fediverse, ‘Protocol Wars – The Fediverse Explained!’. It is partially a discussion podcast, partial explainer, and partial interview with many people within the community. They talk with Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko, Bluesky’s Jay Graber, Threads’s Adam Mosseri, and quite some more people. It is worth noting for a variety of reason. The show is quite a good introduction, that talks to many of the most relevant names within the community. MKBHD is one of the biggest names in the tech creator scene, and many people are paying attention to what he and his team is talking about. Furthermore, I found the framing as ‘protocol wars’ interesting, as the popularity of Bluesky in Brazil as an X replacement indicates that there is indeed a race between platforms to be build on top of the new dominant protocol.
Darnell Clayton has a very interesting blog post, in which he discovers that there is a discrepancy in follower count for Threads accounts that have turned on fediverse sharing. Clayton notes that the follower count shown in the Threads app is lower than the one shown in a fediverse client, for both Mastodon and Flipboard. He speculates that this difference is the number of fediverse accounts that follow a Threads account. It should be noted that this is speculation and has not been confirmed, but if this is true, it would give us a helpful indication of how many fediverse accounts are using the connection with Threads. While we’re talking about Threads accounts, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko confirmed that the mastodon.social server has made a connection with 15.269 Threads accounts who have turned on fediverse sharing.
The Links
- Threads has figured out how maximise publicity by making minimal incremental updates to their ActivityPub implementation, edition 500.
- A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse – The New Stack interviews Evan Prodromou about his new book about ActivityPub.
- FedIAM is a research project where people can use fediverse and Indieweb protocols for logging in.
- You can now test Forgejo’s federation implementation.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- Ghost’s latest update on their work on implementing ActivityPub: “With this milestone, Ghost is for the first time exceeding the functionality of a basic RSS reader. This is 2-way interaction. You publish, and your readers can respond.”
- Dhaaga is a multiplatform fediverse client that adds unique client-side functionalities.
- Lotide, a experimental link-aggregator fediverse platform, ceases development.
- A custom QR code generator, which some pretty examples of custom QR codes for your fediverse profile.
- Custom decentralised badges on atproto with badges.blue, a new work in process by the create of atproto event planner Smoke Signal.
- Smoke Signal will be presenting at the next version of the (third party organised) ATproto Tech Talk.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading.
COMUNICAZIONE DI SERVIZIO: modifica della regola 6 di Poliversity
Buongiorno a tutti!
Grazie a molti di voi, Poliversity è diventata la sesta istanza mastodon italiana con più utenti attivi, benché il numero complessivo di utenti sia poco più alto.
Per evitare la presenza di bot, utenti inattivi o che non ricordano più di essersi iscritti provvediamo a una pulizia periodica degli account inattivi.
(SEGUE)
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Per il Sostegno del Fediverso (messaggio lungo di 2000 caratteri)
Ciao a tutti! Vorrei ricordarvi l'importanza del fediverso e di sostenere la vostra istanza: Il fediverso è fatto da migliaia di istanze, la maggior parte delle istanze è gestita da volontari appassionati e il loro funzionamento è finanziato principalmente attraverso donazioni o a spese personali degli amministratori.
I social media commerciali sono sostenuti da pubblicità personalizzate, in quanto grazie alla raccolta dati e altre pratiche commerciali, sanno tutto su di noi e i nostri interessi.
il fediverso, al contrario, è libero da pubblicità e non ti spia, ma gestirlo comporta costi reali. È fondamentale riconoscere l'impegno e le risorse necessarie per mantenere attive queste piattaforme.
Vorrei esprimere la mia gratitudine a coloro che già stanno sostenendo la propria istanza. Il vostro contributo è importantissimo e fa la differenza. A chi invece non ha la possibilità di contribuire economicamente, voglio sottolineare che questi spazi sono aperti a tutti, indipendentemente dalla capacità di sostenerli finanziariamente.
Per coloro che possono permetterselo, vi invito a considerare la possibilità di fare una donazione alla vostra istanza. Se trovate valore nella piattaforma e desiderate vederla migliorare, il vostro supporto può essere un modo significativo per contribuire. Le istruzioni per effettuare una donazione sono disponibili nella pagina della vostra istanza, quindi non esitate a dare un'occhiata.
Infine, un ringraziamento speciale a tutti coloro che sostengono Pixelfed.uno, Mastodon.uno, Peertube.uno e tutti gli altri servizi etici dei @devol@mastodon.uno. Il vostro supporto è fondamentale per continuare a offrire un ambiente positivo, lontano dall'odio e dalla tossicità dei social e un ambiente più inclusivo nel fediverso. Grazie a tutti per il vostro impegno e la vostra partecipazione: ko-fi.com/devol
#mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverso #MastodonUno #peertubeuno #PixelfedUno
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Is BlueSky similar to the Fediverse? No.
The Fediverse is owned by the people and communities that use it. A basic server costs $5 a month all inclusive, anyone can make one. It's ad-free, made by volunteers, funded by donations, servers are independent.
BlueSky is a for-profit corporation funded by VC money. Its technical structure makes servers dependent on expensive corporate-run relays. BlueSky's business setup is eerily reminiscent of Ello: waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-dea…
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams - Waxy.org
Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?Andy Baio (Waxy.org)
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Farming out fediverse systems to some corporation is still supporting a corporation.
Beamship is running on a laptop with 1TB hard drive and 4MB RAM. Fiber ISP connections are practically everywhere. Our ISP blocks serving anything so, we bounce across a VPN.
MicroShit just bought GitHub and I have no doubt will decide all the programs on it is their property now.
All these corporations are using AI bots to steal everything. Gmail included.
Take back the Internet by Self-Hosting!!!!
Threads rafforza i suoi legami con il web sociale aperto, noto anche come "fediverso"
Meta ha annunciato che gli utenti di Threads potranno vedere le risposte dal fediverso su altri post oltre al proprio. Inoltre, i post originati tramite l'API di #Threads, come quelli creati tramite app di terze parti e servizi di pianificazione, saranno ora distribuiti al Fediverso
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Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the 'fediverse' | TechCrunch
Meta announced Wednesday that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Messaggistica sicura
I recenti eventi, e anche nuove proposte di legge sempre pronte ad essere ritirate fuori, ci stanno sempre di più obbligando a riflettere su quali sistemi di messaggistica istantanea sono considerabili sicuri per l'uso comune.
Vediamo quindi in questo post, una lista di app che ritengo sufficientemente sicure secondo la mia personale valutazione, che sarà comunque basata sui dati che potete trovare qui.
Signal
E' la più famosa app di messaggistica che vedrete in questo elenco, e per una buona ragione: è la più facile da usare ed offre una sicurezza decisamente rispettabile.
Lavora con la stessa strategia di WhatsApp e Telegram per quanto riguarda la gestione dei contatti, legando l'utenza al numero di telefono, e rendendo quindi la ricerca dei contatti facile e automatizzata, visto che può appoggiarsi sulla rubrica dell'utente.
Ha una solida crittografia end-to-end, e questo la rende estremamente sicura, ma ha due principali punti negativi: lavora con librerie closed, e quindi difficilmente verificabili da terzi, ed ha una architettura centralizzata, e quindi è poco resistente ad eventuali attacchi di inibizione del servizio. (Un governo diversamente democratico non ha difficoltà a impedire ai suoi cittadini di usare Signal, che risulta già essere bloccata in molti paesi)
Element
Questa app è basata sul protocollo Matrix, e sfrutta quindi una rete federata. L'utente può scegliere a che server iscriversi, e visto che i server comunicano tra di loro, poi è possibile per l'utente comunicare anche con utenti di altri server (esattamente come fanno le e-mail). Questo rende la rete più resistente ai tentativi di blocco, in quanto è necessario bloccare tutti i server della rete, e non soltanto uno, e anche in questo caso estremo, ne possono nascere di nuovi.
Dispone della crittografia end-to-end (come tutte le app in questa lista) con un buon protocollo, anche se migliorabile, in questo senso Signal è messa meglio.
Ogni utente ha un suo indirizzo, legato al nome utente e al server a cui è iscritto, ed è possibile registrarlo ad un server di identità che lo lega ad un indirizzo e-mail o ad un numero di cellulare, in modo da essere trovati più facilmente dagli altri utenti.
Conversations
Anche questa app sfrutta una rete federata, basata sul protocollo XMPP.
E' concettualmente simile a Element, per il suo funzionamento, tranne che cambia il tipo di protocollo utilizzato e che dispone di un protocollo di crittografia end-to-end migliore.
Come per Element, ogni utente ha un indirizzo che serve per aggiungerlo ai contatti, ma a differenza di Element non ho trovato la gestione tramite server di identità che lo associno a e-mail o cellulare, quindi per aggiungere un utente è necessario conoscere il suo indirizzo.
Jami
Questa app sfrutta una rete peer-to-peer il che la rende estremamente resistente ai vari tentativi di blocco, in quanto ogni utente che partecipa alla rete contribuisce a mantenerla in funziona, senza l'utilizzo di server che possono essere un bersaglio.
La crittografia end-to-end è buona, anche se migliorabile, da però notare che su questa app non sono noti controlli da parte di esperti di sicurezza che validino l'effettiva resistenza del protocollo usato.
L'aggiunta degli utenti anche in questo caso necessita di conoscere il suo ID.
Session
Questa app sfrutta anche lei una rete decentralizzata, ma questa volta basata sulla blockchain di Oxen
La crittografia end-to-end anche in questo caso è migliorabile, ma soddisfacente.
Per avviare una chat con un altro utente è necessario conoscere il suo ID.
Briar
Questa app è forse la più particolare, ma purtroppo è anche quella ad oggi più acerba e difficile da utilizzare.
L'idea alla base di questa app è quella di creare una rete peer-to-peer ma basandosi su diversi mezzi di comunicazione: se le persone che comunicano sono a portata di Bluetooth allora i messaggi passeranno da li, altrimenti se sono connessi alla stessa rete Wi-Fi l'app sfrutterà questa connessione per consegnare il messaggio. In mancanza di un contatto diretto, può sfruttare altri utenti che possano fare da intermediario per la consegna del messaggio (che sarà comunque cifrato e quindi non leggibile da terzi). Infine, se si dispone di una rete internet, può sfruttare la rete TOR per consegnare i messaggi in modo anonimo.
In generale questa è l'app più resistente ai tentativi di blocco, ed è infatti stata pensata appositamente per lavorare in paesi che applicano una censura stringente, infatti anche la crittografia end-to-end è estremamente robusta.
Di contro, l'aggiunta dei contatti prevede uno scambio di link, serve quindi essere in contatto con l'altra persona in un altro modo, e l'aggiunta avviene solo quando entrambe le persone inseriscono il link dell'altra.
#E2EE #crittografia #privacy #messaggistica #censura #signal #element #conversations #jami #session #briar
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.www.torproject.org
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🎉Qualche minuto fa l'istanza poliverso.org è tornata online e l'aggiornamento sembra essere andato a buon fine! 🎊
🕥 Come avevamo anticipato, proprio in considerazione del fatto che le modifiche al DB di questo aggiornamento sono particolarmente significative, si è trattato del processo di aggiornamento più lungo e impegnativo da quando è stata creata questa istanza! 😱
🙄 Per qualche ora il server sarà ancora rallentato, Anche perché abbiamo 40.000 processi in coda che devono essere riassorbiti dopo le cinque ore di stop... 🤷🏽♂️
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Per il compleanno di Poliverso abbiamo due comunicazioni da fare: siamo diventati l'istanza con più utenti attivi al mondo ma domani faremo un aggiornamento di cui non conosciamo le tempistiche...
La prima notizia è che poliverso.org è ufficialmente l'istanza Friendica con più utenti attivi al mondo.
Ringraziamo il nostro sistemista che pur con poche risorse è riuscito a rendere veloce e funzionale la nostra istanza! ♥️
La seconda notizia è che domani mattina provvederemo a un aggiornamento sia di Poliverso, sia della nostra istanza mastodon Poliversity.
Se l'aggiornamento di mastodon sarà molto breve, dal momento che si tratta di una semplice correzione di alcuni bug, L'aggiornamento del server Friendica potrebbe essere molto più impegnativo.
La nuova versione stabile di Friendica "Yellow Archangel" 2024.08 infatti prevede un vero e proprio stravolgimento del database e potrebbe comportare la indisponibilità del sistema per alcune ore.
Ci scusiamo per l'impossibilità di sapere in anticipo quanto tempo impegnerà l'aggiornamento, ma siamo certi della vostra pazienza!
Fateci tanti auguri! 😁
Se poi qualcuno dei nostri utenti volesse farci un regalino di compleanno, potrà andare sulla pagina che consente a chiunque di supportarci con una piccola donazione!
Profilo di poliverso - Liberapay
Poliverso è la più grande istanza italiana di Friendica. I fondi raccolti verranno utilizzati per finanziare la manutenzione di poliverso.org (friendica), di poliversity.it …Liberapay
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Madó, davvero? Non è già Aprile?
Beh, auguroni e alla grande!
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BrowserPub: un browser online per il debug di ActivityPub e del fediverso
Dopo l'interessante progetto ActivityPub Academy vogliamo segnalare a tutti i nostri follower questo browser on-line che consente di fare il debug sui profili del #Fediverso
Il progetto è stato realizzato e segnalato da @John Spurlock e costituisce un nuovo e affascinante modo per comprendere meglio come funzionano i profili delle Fediverso
Questo tipo di progetti è davvero appassionante anche se ancora in una fase iniziale.
BUON DIVERTIMENTO!
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Needle is an #elixir library that we have developed to provide universal foreign keys, shared data fields, and virtual & configurable schemas for Ecto.
🔗 Read the docs: hexdocs.pm/needle/readme.html
💬 Join the discussion on Elixir Forum: elixirforum.com/t/needle-unive…
#ecto #myElixirStatus
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Needle - Universal foreign keys, shared data fields, virtual and configurable schemas for Ecto
When using a relational DB (such an Ecto schema with a Postgres table), usually a foreign key field has to be pre-defined with a reference pointing to a specific field in a specific table.Elixir Programming Language Forum
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Besides regular schemas with universal foreign keys (Pointable), Needle provides Virtual for schemas that don’t have any fields on their own, and Mixin for storing common fields that can be re-used by multiple Pointables or Virtuals (eg. if you have multiple types that all have a name/description/body, they can share those and optionally the associated changesets and other logic).
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Needle also comes with two other homegrown libraries: needle_ulid which provides a ULID datatype for Ecto (using ex_ulid) and related helpers, and exto which enables extending Ecto schema definitions in config (especially useful for adding Mixin associations to different schemas)…
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📣 🏴☠️ Camp! expedition: We have some open bounties to improve bonfire performance :
Read more: indieweb.social/@bonfire/11294…
Repository: github.com/bonfire-networks/bo…
#ecto #myElixirStatus #elixir
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GitHub - bonfire-networks/bounties
Contribute to bonfire-networks/bounties development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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@RaccoonForFriendica utenti di Friendica, per chi fosse interessato ho pubblicato una nuova versione del client per Android cui sto lavorando (nel tempo libero), maggiori dettagli qui.
Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate, ogni feedback è ben accetto, tenete conto che è ancora in alpha, quindi ci sono parecchie cose da fare/rivedere, non aspettatevi in assoluto la perfezione ma qualcosa di perfettibile!
#friendica #friendicadev #opensource #androidapp #kotlin #kmp #compose #multiplatform #livefasteattrash
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È stata rilasciata la prima beta della prossima versione di #Mastodon, la 4.3.
È la classica release che non porta novità eclatanti ma aggiunge e migliora talmente tante piccole cose in diversi ambiti da renderla una versione corposa e importante.
Al rilascio finale descriveremo gli aspetti più rilevanti per gli utenti (come abbiamo fatto per la 4.2).
Un'anticipazione per il nostro @amministratore: la possibilità di personalizzare favicon e logo di #MastodonUno. 😁
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Release v4.3.0-beta.1 · mastodon/mastodon
WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will ...GitHub
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quelle rimarranno originali per non confondere i nuovi utenti in arrivò.
Invece per aumentare i caratteri ci sono novità? L’ultima volta che ho controllato pareva che avessero affossato la richiesta.
Ma avremo una sorpresa a breve 😉
Warning: we advise lemmy.world administrators to wait to update to 0.19.5 due to an incompatibility with the latest Mastodon releases
As it emerged in this thread, messages from the latest versions of mastodon are not interpreted correctly by the latest Lemmy releases
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@yessikg I understand that this bug might seem like a deliberately hostile action against the threadverse, but the reality is that ActivityPub is objectively a shithole 🤣 and with every good step forward, there is the risk of stepping on a shit!
These problems could simply arise from the fact that Mastodon is starting to really work on the management of Activitypub groups. It is therefore appropriate to report any incompatibilities to the Mastodon staff, so that they can correct their roadmap
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from what i can tell (from the work in progress pull request) mastodons group implementation explicitly does not aim for compatibility with lemmy
other than that, i agree on activitypub being crap in terms of making interoperability easy
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@kopper [they/them] rightly mastodon cannot and should not aim for full compatibility with Lemmy and Piefed.
In fact, Lemmy has some unique features (such as the intentionally limited management of crossposting) that cannot be managed.
However, it would be appropriate and above all ethical, for Mastodon groups to be compatible with Friendica groups, Gup groups and Mbin magazines.
This would allow mastodon users to continue using the Activity pub groups of other platforms, including Lemmy.
I remember in fact that even WordPress (which at the moment, represents the most important novelty of the Fediverse) is perfectly able to publish on the Lemmy communities and on the Friendica groups!
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These problems could simply arise from the fact that Mastodon is starting to really work on the management of Activitypub groups.
And re-invent the wheel once more, preferably in a proprietary way that's as incompatible with the rest of the Fediverse as possible but sold to the Mastodon users as the Fediverse gold standard.
It is therefore appropriate to report any incompatibilities to the Mastodon staff, so that they can claim the other side is broken unless the other side has rock-solid proof that it's actually Mastodon that's doing it wrong.
FTFY
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@Jupiter Rowland Unfortunately your acid comments don't seem too far from reality... 😁 😄 🤣
But for now, I'll pretend I didn't hear them 😅
Do you want an easy-to-understand beginner's manual about how to use Mastodon and the Fediverse? Try having a look at this website:
➡️ fedi.tips
Everything on the site is written in simple non-technical language.
There are two main sections:
- "Quick start" at the top with just a few essential guides.
- "Complete contents" with all the guides organised into categories.
However, if you want to ask for help directly, that's 100% fine too! 👍
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin sono al centro del quarto numero della newsletter di @Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸
Il numero di questa settimana di #TheFutureisFederated, in apparenza, è più di nicchia del solito, incentrato sugli aggregatori di contenuti nel Fediverso (ovvero piattaforme come Reddit, ma federate).
blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu…
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
An exploration of Fediverse content aggregators as an alternative to Reddit, with a twist: the magic of ActivityPub, allowing communication with other Fediverse projectsElena Rossini
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I've now finished testing from Mastodon Servers version 4.3.0-alpha.5+glitch to Lemmy and to Piefed
Apparently, there is currently some sort of incompatibility between instances running this very interesting mastodon fork and Lemmy-like platforms (but not with Mbin)
tech.lgbt/@informapirata/11300…
tech.lgbt/@informapirata/11300…
tech.lgbt/@informapirata/11300…
Thanks again to @mods and @jerry for hosting and @kathsone for reporting the issue!
cc @informapirata@mastodon.uno @informapirata@infosec.exchange
In the next few days I will submit an issue to the fork developer
PS: version 4.3.0-alpha.5+glitch is a beautiful fork with its ability to implement markdown. If it solved this problem with Lemmy I could almost think of using it in my poliversity.it instance
Informapirata (@informapirata@tech.lgbt)
Test from Mastodon Servers version 4.3.0-alpha.5+glitch to Lemmy @test@feddit.it Test messageLGBTQIA+ and Tech
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@Rimu The responses work fine. The problem occurs when a mastodon user residing on an instance with the latest Mastodon version or a glitched version, mentions a community on a Lemmy instance with release 0.19.5
Example
Infosec.exchange or Mastodon.social => lemmy.ml or feddit.it ❌
mastodon.uno => lemmy.ml or feddit.it ✅
Mastodon.social => lemmy.world ✅
@informapirata :privacypride: @Jerry Bell :bell: :llama: :verified_paw: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified: @tech.lgbt Moderators @Al Kath @Informapirata @Informapirata
@notizie Hey guys: good news!
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I have no idea how the problem fixed itself... 🤔
Now, just to be safe, I'm going to burn incense to the god of the Fediverse! 😅
@notizie @rimu @jerry @mods @informapirata@infosec.exchange @informapirata@tech.lgbt @lealternative
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A British migration wave to Bluesky, Flipboards expands their fediverse integration, and more.
[share author='Laurens Hof' profile='https://fediversereport.com/author/laurenshof/' avatar='https://poliverso.org/photo/206608119366e42c304ffac007248590-5.jpeg?ts=1734620326' link='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-80/' posted='2024-08-18 14:46:52' guid='08552256-1db60fc771464a1d-24e5efb6' message_id='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-80/']Last Week in Fediverse – ep 80
A British migration wave from X to Bluesky, Flipboard expands their fediverse integration, and more.
The News
Bluesky has seen a new migration wave away from X towards Bluesky, which consists predominantly of people from the UK. The move comes as Labour MPs begin quitting X, as The Guardian reports, as Musk feuds with the UK government over recent riots in the UK, per Reuters. Quite a few MPs have signed up for Bluesky, here is a starter pack with all MPs that are on Bluesky. In the UK press issues with X have become a subject of conversation again. It is clear that in the perspective of the UK press there are two alternatives to X, either Threads or Bluesky. Mastodon mostly does not get mentioned at all, and neither has Mastodon experienced any meaningful change in signup numbers during this period. The FORbetter newsletter takes a look at Google trends data which also shows that it is all Threads and Bluesky, with Mastodon missing the boat. What is also notable about this Bluesky migration wave is that it is spread out quite far in time, and less spiky. Previous waves (such as when an Indonesian community or the BTS ARMY joined Bluesky) tend to have a very big spike at the beginning which then quickly dies down: in this case, an increase started almost two weeks ago, which plateaued a week later with multiple days staying at the same level. This all indicates a more steady and consistent interest from the UK in Bluesky.
Flipboard has expanded their fediverse integration, and with the latest update you can follow people from the rest of the fediverse in the Flipboard app. Flipboard is now getting close to full two-way federation, as some accounts can also like and reply to other fediverse posts with their Flipboard account. Some more reporting by WeDistribute and The Verge on the feature. Flipboard is heavily leaning on federated Threads accounts for the new feature: 80% of the accounts that were recommended to me by Flipboard are Threads accounts. On the flip side, Flipboard does not seem to be particularly focused on Bluesky, with no (bridged) accounts recommended, and the account for Bluesky board member Mike Masnick is his Mastodon account, and not his more active Bluesky account.
An observation about Bluesky: one thing that interests me about Bluesky is how some of the experimental new features that are implemented find traction not in their original intended use case, but get repurposed by the community for another goal instead. Third party labeling is implemented by Bluesky as a way to do community labeling, but as good moderation is hard to do (and the most prominent labelers have called it quits). Instead, a different use case for labeling is emerging: self-labeling: setting your pronouns, country flags, or your fursona. Another emergent use case is for starter packs, which have gotten low usage during regular periods (with more use during migration sign-up waves), which seem to be more used as a Follow-Friday list.
The Links
- WeDistribute writes about ‘The Untapped Potential of Fediverse Publishing’.
- Mastodon’s monthly engineering update, Trunk & Tidbits. Andy Piper, Mastodons Developer Relations Lead, writes a personal blog post on the series as well.
- Fediverse Trust and Safety: The Founding and Future of IFTAS.
- Piefed’s monthly development update, with an indication that the software is almost ready for an official 1.0 release.
- Ghost’s weekly update says that they are still working on having the posts show up on Mastodon reliably.
- Dhaaga is a cross-platform app for both Mastodon and Misskey.
- Altmetric is a product to track academic research being discussed online, and they announced that they are working on adding Bluesky support.
- Bluesky engineer Brian Newbold wrote an update on the current state of atproto and how much progress is made regarding reaching the goals and values of atproto.
- A research paper that looks at the impact of Bluesky’s opening to the public on the community.
- The third episode of WordPress.com’s video series on the fediverse, on how the fediverse can make social media fun again, talking with Mammoth’s co-creator Bart Decrem.
- A new app directory dedicated to ActivityPub platforms, clients, and tools for easy browsing and discovery.
- A new blog series by the mod team of the hachyderm.io server to explain Mastodon moderation tooling.
- Hubzilla, Streams and Friendica creator Mike Mcgirvin continues his tradition of forking his own projects; with Forte being a new fork of his Streams project. Not much is known yet about what makes Forte different than Streams.
- ‘5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people’.
- Pipilo is a fediverse iOS app with a timeline that scrolls horizontal instead of vertical.
- A first federated instance of NodeBB that is not run by NodeBB themselves, and the difficulty of explaining the concept to people outside of the fediverse.
- A presentation by Robert W. Gehl on how ActivityPub became a standard.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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È stata rilasciata la versione 2024.08 di Friendica!
Siamo molto felici di annunciare la disponibilità della nuova versione stabile di Friendica "Yellow Archangel" 2024.08. Oltre a diversi miglioramenti e nuove funzionalità, questa versione contiene diverse correzioni per problemi di sicurezza segnalati da apexrabbit, Devilx86 e ponlayookm – Consigliamo vivamente a tutti gli amministratori di Friendica di aggiornare le proprie installazioni a questa versione stabile.
I punti salienti di Friendica 2024.08 sono
- l'utilizzo delle risorse di sistema e le prestazioni sono state migliorate in varie parti di Friendica,
- aggiunti endpoint di monitoraggio per esempio Zabbix e Grafana,
- aggiunta visualizzazione abbreviata dei link (predefinita 30 caratteri, gli amministratori possono definire la lunghezza nel file di configurazione tramite display_link_length)
Si noti che con questa versione la versione minima di PHP per Friendica è stata aumentata a PHP 7.4.
Per i dettagli, consultare il file CHANGELOG nel repository
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Friendica 2024.08 released
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel” 2024.08. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains several fixes for security issues reported by apexrabbit, Devilx86 and ponlayookm – Thank you for the reports! We strongly recommend all Friendica admins to update their installations to this stable release.
The highlights of Friendica 2024.08 are
- the usage of system resources and performance has been improved in various parts of Friendica,
- added monitoring endpoints for e.g. Zabbix and Grafana,
- added shortened display of links (default 30 characters, admins can define the length in the config file via the
display_link_length
)
Note that the minimal PHP version for Friendica was raised to PHP 7.4 with this release.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumbler and BlueSky.
How to Update
Updating from old Friendica versions
If you are updating from an older version than the 2022.12 release, please first update your Friendica instance to that version as it contained some breaking changes.
Pre-Update Procedures
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable
branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2024.08 release would be
cd friendica
git pull
bin/composer.phar install --no-dev
cd addon
git pull
If you want to use a different branch than the stable
one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
Using the Archive Files
Due to problems with the build pipeline we cannot provide archive files at the moment that contain all dependencies as usual. We will update this documents as soon as possible.
Do not use the archive files provided by github as they do not contain the dependencies.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script
bin/console dbstructure update
from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
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Danke an alle Beteiligten.
Die "Zwenkauer Flaschenpost" ist auch wieder aktuell.
Morgen werden @Malte und ich noch mal das Kontaktproblem angehen.
Wo kann ich mehr über die neue Zabbix-Integration erfahren ? Das hört sich sehr interessant an.
@Zabbix Forum
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Good morning everyone @Friendica Support
I would like to try to understand why from Friendica I can't connect to the Wordpress blog of @.mau. :friendfeed: already federated with @Matthias Pfefferle plugin, which is instead displayed correctly by Mastodon.
The blog is xmau.com/ while the user who publishes is @Notiziole di .mau.
If I paste the address of this post xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2024/08/…
in the Friendica toolbar, I get an error, while if I paste it on mastodon, I can view the post (here is an example: mastodon.social/@
Furthermore, if I try to search on Friendica for the user @Notiziole di .mau. I can see it, but if I try to follow it, I still get an error.
NB: I also have federation problems with Lemmy and not just with Friendica
Have any of you figured out what the problem might be that prevents Friendica and Lemmy from federating with that blog (but not Mastodon)?
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I had no issues with Friendica so far and on loma.ml it everything works smoothly. Maybe it's the redirection of `.well-known/webfinger` that is not supported by Friendica?!?
There was an issue with Lemmy, maybe it is not yet deployed everywhere?
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Discourse WordPress Integration
@pfefferle I also had a look at federation between Lemmy and Wordpress. There is a minor fix I have to get in to make comparison of response content-type headers case insensitive (because you send charset=UTF-8 while eg Mastodon has charset=utf-8.SocialHub
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@Matthias Pfefferle Thank you for your feedback. At this point I will test from other Friendica instances. I would not want my Poliverso.org instance to have some problems... 😅
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@Tobias I also get the follow button, but if I try to press it the page goes into error
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⚠️COMUNICAZIONE DI SERVIZIO⚠️
Edit: il riavvio è avvenuto correttamente. Abbiamo dovuto aumentare lo spazio disco perché stiamo avendo un po' di nuove iscrizioni 😅
L'istanza poliversity.it verrà riavviata per qualche decina di minuti
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La risposta su #MastodonUno della nostra #UnoCommunity é solo una:
"Ti aiuto io (a imparare a costruire uno spazio sociale più civile)". 😊
Nei prossimi giorni pubblicheremo una guida passo-passo su come inserire l'#AltText alle immagini. 😉
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Le madri, invece, se lo scrivono e poi imparano.
Ad oggi, che i manuali d'uso sono sempre piu' bistrattati e talvolta fatti molto male, la pazienza di chi sa' e vuole spiegare, e' importante.
A volte anche chi sa' impara dall'"ignorante" nuove prospettive in cui "il problema" viene visto e anche nuove possibili soluzioni.
Serendipity - uno strumento per offrire alle persone diversi modi per esplorare il fediverso
Quanto è difficile per i principianti scoprire account da seguire, postando cose che li interessano?
Gli algoritmi di raccomandazione sono un problema, ma la scoperta semi-casuale è una cosa che le persone trovano utile.
L'anno scorso è venuta a strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz l'idea di creare un'app separata con una serie di algoritmi di scoperta con adesione volontaria, pensati appositamente per trovare persone da seguire.
Questo è il progetto:
codeberg.org/fediverse/fediver…
Serendipity - a tool to give people a variety of ways to explore the fediverse
A lot of folks are pretty traumatised by The Algorithms(TM), thanks to their time on the DataFarms. So there's a strong aversion to them in a large chunk of the fediverse community. But 'chrological order, from most recent' is an algorithm.Codeberg.org
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A lot of the criticism of the fediverse focuses on how hard newbies find it to discover accounts to follow, posting stuff they're interested in. Despite all the downsides of recommendation algorithms, semi-random discovery is one thing people find them useful for.
Last year I came up with an idea for a separate app with a range of opt-in discovery algorithms, just for finding people to follow;
codeberg.org/fediverse/fediver…
#fediverse #FediverseIdeas #discovery
Serendipity - a tool to give people a variety of ways to explore the fediverse
A lot of folks are pretty traumatised by The Algorithms(TM), thanks to their time on the DataFarms. So there's a strong aversion to them in a large chunk of the fediverse community. But 'chrological order, from most recent' is an algorithm.Codeberg.org
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Lemmy interoperability with other Fediverse projects
Hi everyone!
I'm new here and I wonder if you have any advice/testimonials to share regarding Fediverse interoperability.
I'm working on a post about it for my blog series The Future is Federated. I’d like to do a show & tell, demonstrating what interoperability looks like between #Lemmy and #Friendica, #Mastodon + a federated blog to start with.
There’s a superb post by @informapirata@mastodon.uno about Lemmy and Friendica communities: informapirata.it/2024/01/02/ma… and I wonder if you have ever tried further integrations.
I know this sounds crazy, but does #Phanpy work with Lemmy? I’m asking because I use it with not only #Mastodon but also #Pixelfed and Friendica.
Anyway, any testimonials and tips would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
fediverse - Elena Rossini
Essays by Italian film director and photographer Elena Rossini - about women in film, representation, activism and life as a mom artist (mammartist)Elena Rossini
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“The loss of science on #Twitter is a contemporary mass extinction event”, says Professor Edward #Holmes, who recently was awarded the prestigious Croonian Medal by the Royal Society. He has also deleted his Twitter account recently. “Twitter used to be THE place where you shared ideas, data, preprints and papers. Now it’s a post-Apocalyptic hell hole.” #scicomm
bylinetimes.com/2024/01/16/elo…
Elon Musk's War Against Science, Evidence and Objective Truth – Byline Times
Scientists are abandoning Elon Musk's Twitter amid a "mass extinction event" on the social media network, says Philipp Markolin.Philipp Markolin (Byline Times)
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@j_bertolotti @mori_au @gubi @uniinnsbruck @helmholtz it would be great if there was a way (if it doesn't exists yet) to have a servers directory with hashtags.
GitHub - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon: A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon
A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodonGitHub
Quando si parla di accessibilità (cioè di un diritto universale sancito nel 2006 dalla Convenzione ONU sui diritti delle persone con disabilità), l'#AltText assume una connotazione ben precisa: è uno standard internazionale specifico (W3C), che prevede un utilizzo specifico, con uno scopo specifico: garantire accesso e partecipazione inclusivi a tutte le persone non vedenti o ipovedenti.
Questo è anche il position statement ufficiale di #MastodonUno. 😉
(segue)
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Siamo impegnati a sensibilizzare la #UnoCommunity a un utilizzo responsabile del #AltText.
Lo facciamo e lo faremo sempre con una consapevolezza: i cambiamenti culturali più profondi non sono mai calati dall'alto, sono processi che agiscono nei cuori e nelle menti delle persone.
Più che "spingere" all'uso responsabile del AltText, desideriamo "attrarre" all'uso responsabile del AltText: non deve essere una (nostra) obbligazione, deve diventare una (vostra) convinzione. 😉
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Flipboard rafforza il suo legame con il Fediverso, social web open source
Flipboard, un'app di social magazine dell'era Web 2.0 che si sta reinventando per capitalizzare la spinta rinnovata verso un social web aperto , sta rafforzando i suoi legami con il #Fediverso, il social network di server interconnessi che include app come Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Wordpress e, col tempo, Instagram Threads, tra le altre.
Giovedì, la società ha annunciato che sta espandendo le sue integrazioni del Fediverso ad altri 400 creatori di contenuti in Flipboard e che sta introducendo le notifiche del fediverso nell'app Flipboard stessa.
Quest'ultima novità consentirà agli utenti di #Flipboard di vedere i loro nuovi follower e altre attività relative ai contenuti che condividono nel fediverse direttamente nell'app Flipboard. Ciò segue l'introduzione dell'anno scorso di un'integrazione di Mastodon nell'app , in sostituzione di Twitter, e l'introduzione del supporto per ActivityPub , il protocollo di social networking che alimenta i social network open source e decentralizzati che includono Mastodon e altri software.
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Allora... Capisco che sia un commento da #Bimbominkia ma io che sono su #mastodon posto col mio account citando un'istanza di #Feddit sto pubblicando su entrambe le piattaforme e se mi seguisse qualcuno da una terza (diciamo #friendica ) potrebbe comunicare con tutti gli altri...
Questo é davvero un cambio di paradigma, é davvero una nuova #internet, un passo avanti per l'umanità, erano decenni che non provavo una simile emozione per un sistema tecnologico.
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Nel mondo che non c'è il #fediverso dovrebbe essere usato da tutte le istituzioni come unico canale social ufficiale
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Conviene essere molto chiari su un punto: se si ritiene che un utente di #MastodonUno stia violando il regolamento o sia "borderline" con comportamenti non espressamente vietati, ci si deve limitare a segnalarlo privatamente: moderatori e amministratori si occuperanno di gestire il caso nel modo più opportuno.
È l'unico modo con cui chiunque può essere sicuro di contribuire a far "crescere" la nostra istanza e comunità.
Qualsiasi post pubblico a riguardo, complica solo le cose. 😉
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If you are posting an image, video or audio on here, remember to add an alt text description if you can. This helps blind or deaf people access your post, and it also helps your post be much more widely shared.
Many people on here only boost posts that include a description. If you want your post to be boosted, add a description if you are able.
(If you are unable to add a description, you can include the hashtag #Alt4me which asks people to reply with a description.)
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I do enjoy not to watch cat-content.
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Mike Masnick joins the Bluesky Board, new ideas on microblogging focused on specific topics, and more.
[share author='Laurens Hof' profile='https://fediversereport.com/author/laurenshof/' avatar='https://poliverso.org/photo/206608119366e42c304ffac007248590-5.jpeg?ts=1734620326' link='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-79/' posted='2024-08-11 17:09:02' guid='08552256-1ddb98c771664f15-878de609' message_id='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-79/']Last Week in Fediverse – ep 79
While we’re busy enjoying the summer (or the Olympics), here is this week’s fediverse news.
The News
Mike Masnick, author of the ‘Protocols, not Platforms‘ paper has joined Bluesky’s Board of Directors. There has been a seat available since Jack Dorsey suddenly left the board a few months ago. In his personal announcement post, Masnick says that ‘Bluesky is the service that is coming closest to making the vision I articulated in my paper a reality‘. Masnick also explains that one of the key aspects that excites him about Bluesky is how ‘they recognize how a future version of the company could, itself, be a threat to the vision the current team has. As a result, they are designing the system to be technically resistant to such a threat.’
With the current implementation of Bluesky, two parts of the architecture (the Relay and the AppView) are theoretically decentralised, but with no incentive structure for other people to also run an alternative part of the infrastructure, nobody actually has done so. Furthermore, the Identity part of Bluesky is still fully centralised and under control of Bluesky, with no clear path to change this. This places Bluesky significantly behind other major fediverse software, who are all already fully resistant to future self-harm. As Masnick values this principle, it is worth seeing how his position on the board will influence the direction of the development of the AT Protocol.
Two new fediverse projects that stand out to me for a similar reason; they both shift away from ‘microblogging about anything you want’ to a community that is clearly defined by interests or topics. CollabFC is a football-based social network, that creates a specific network for football clubs. When you join a hub for a club, such as Liverpool for example, you have the possibility for a ‘local’ feed dedicated to Liverpool, as well as a feed for all other football instances. Gush is a platform that is in development for talking about video games. Part review site similar to BookWyrm and NeoDB, it focuses on posting about specific games. What is different about it is that each game ‘a first-class object that you can reference and share across the fediverse’. Both of these platforms are early in their lifecycle, but point in a direction of more focused discussion on fediverse platforms.
Bonfire shared some more information about their upcoming platform Mosaic. Full details will be available in September, but it looks like a front-end UI for displaying posts as a website instead of the regular feeds. Something similar is Servus, a CMS for Nostr, or Npub.pro, which are both experiments for Nostr to display posts not as a feed but a website as well. Meanwhile, the main aspect that is holding up the release of the ‘main’ version of Bonfire is a slow performance, and the Bonfire team put out two bounties for developers to help them fix this issue.
Threads held an AMA about the fediverse with Flipboard’s Mike McCue and Blockparty’s Tracy Chou. It seems relevant that Threads wants to promote their fediverse connection by hosting an AMA on their main account, but there were little answers that stood out or provided new information, with most answers talking more about a conceptual understanding of what the fediverse could be, more than what the actual rest of the fediverse outside of Threads actually looks like.
Manyfold is an open source self hosted platform for sharing your 3d printer files. They have been working on adding ActivityPub support, and the latest update added experimental early stage support for ActivityPub.
Link aggregator platform Kbin is getting closer and closer to being completely dead, with the main flagship instance kbin.social now also being offline. The lead developer could not keep up with work on the platform due to personal reasons for a while now. The project has been superseded by the hard fork Mbin, which has been around for a while now, and got another update this week.
The Links
- Newsmast’s Michael Foster writes about ‘how can we persuade organisations and creators that it makes sense to federate using tools they already have in place’.
- Bandwagon, the upcoming fediverse music sharing platform, is expanding their beta test.
- Buffer recently added support for Bluesky, and the Buffer CEO wrote a blog post about the significance of Bluesky and decentralised social networks.
- Elena Rossini’s newsletter ‘The Future is Federated’ does an extensive deep dive into Friendica.
- WeDistribute takes a closer look at the successful ‘Mastodon for Harris’ campaign, which raised over half a million USD.
- Bluesky is summoning a community marketing manager.
- The new video series Fediverse Files by WordPress.com has a second episode in which they interview Evan Prodromou about ActivityPub.
- Font Awesome for the fediverse, with Decentralised Social Icons, by WeDistribute.
- A blog by Smoke Signal, an upcoming event platform build on top of atproto, about building communities with atproto.
- Mastodon posted an update about the first half of 2024 for their Patreon supporters.
- A closer look at the new features in Newsmast latest update.
- For the atproto devs: an atproto browser.
- Owncast Newsletter August 2024.
- TechLinked discusses the fediverse and how the web is different now in their podcast.
- IFTAS Connect July 2024 roundup. IFTAS is also looking for admin support while they are seeking funding to continue their work on building an opt-in content classifier to detect CSAM.
- A proof of concept for fediverse spam filtering.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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GitHub - bonfire-networks/bounties
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@wizardfrag have tagged a few here: github.com/bonfire-networks/bo…
happy to discuss further here or in an issue if one catches your eye…
Grazie a tutta la #UnoCommunity per rendere #Mastodon e il #Fediverso più accessibile e inclusivo. 😎
#MastodonUno è l'11esima istanza Mastodon mondiale per numero di iscritti, e tra le 11 è attualmente la prima per utilizzo di #AltText.
Non abbiamo intenzione di fermarci, vogliamo consolidare la posizione e migliorarla ancora.
Pertanto rinnoviamo l'invito a inserire sempre (adeguatamente) l'AltText ogni qualvolta si inserisce un'immagine (o video) nei propri post. 😉
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E grazie ancora. 😎
Vale la pena ricordare che l'accessibilità e l'inclusività sono cambiamenti culturali, e come tali richiedono metodi, tempo, pazienza e conoscenza (invitiamo a leggere con attenzione l'articolo con le cose da evitare e il link ai numerosi esempi).
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Serve dar modo alle persone di acquisire consapevolezza là dove c'è buona volontà.
Su #MastodonUno è un cambiamento culturale in atto ed è tutto merito vostro. 😉
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Vorremmo ringraziare tutte le persone che usano mastodon.uno e che inseriscono immagini fornite di una descrizione per i non vedenti
M1 compare nella classifica di @AltTextHealthCheck come 20ma istanza mastodon fra le top 50 più virtuose in una classifica che monitora le 1000 più attive!
Questa è una grande occasione per migliorarci e rendere M1 sempre più inclusiva anche per le molte persone non vedenti, qua la nostra guida:
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Con un mio intervento sulla corrispondenza sulla scuola USA inviata al ministero da un funzionario dell'ambasciata di Washington nel 1888
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@scuola@a.gup.pe @scuola@poliverso.org @scuola@mastodon.uno @notizie @poliverso @intellectualhistory @intellectualhistorians @histodons @histodon @poliversity
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)
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#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
A "show and tell" of my favorite features of Friendica, which has fast become my favorite place in the FediverseElena Rossini
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> … its infrastructure is not as solid or reliable as Mastodon…
Sry but I can't confirm this.
Actually it's even quite imprecise, as you would need to define "infrastructure". There is more or less no infrastructure in the case of mastodon, except mastodon.social and the other server hosted by the gGmbH.
The friendica community has an own forum and even git server.
If you want to be on the safest side @basus, check out squeet.me, the admin is the main friendica coder.
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@Elena Rossini ✏️✨📸 @Shrutarshi Basu
The infrastructure and resilience of a software also depends on the resources that the server on which the software runs makes it available. CPU power, amount of RAM, disk space available for the database and bandwidth can make a lot of difference. The most powerful hardware resources come at a cost that not everyone can afford in the long run, especially those who host self-hosted instances.
"Google è un monopolista e ha agito come tale per mantenere il suo monopolio", afferma il giudice statunitense sulla sentenza che condanna Google.
La sentenza negli Usa è una mannaia: monopolio e azioni illegali per mantenerlo, #Google ha pagato miliardi per mantenere il suo monopolio, ma questa pratica sta per finire. 💰
Dettagli 👉 iltempo.it/attualita/2024/08/0…
Alcune alternative libere da Google:
Google, la sentenza negli Usa è una mannaia: monopolio e azioni illegali per mantenerlo
Google ha agito illegalmente per mantenere un monopolio nella ricerca online. Lo ha stabilito un giudice federale con una decisione storica che colpis...www.iltempo.it
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di solito si vende prima della notizia negativa, nell'ultimo mese ha perso il 20%!
e comunque per google ci sarà l'appello e poi si arriverà oltre, nel breve termine non ci sarà nulla da temere per i profitti...
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in reply to macfranc • • •Abbiamo quindi modificato la regola n. 6:
"Vogliamo utenti veri e pubblicazioni vere: utenti che neanche si presentano, saranno eliminati; il crossposting da twitter è deprecato. Le pubblicazioni automatizzate sono accettate solo se presidiate. Gli utenti non attivi da più di sei mesi potranno essere eliminati senza preavviso"
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in reply to Al Kath • • •@kathsone no, perché il fediverso è pieno di bot, di crawler, di profili duplicati e io non spendo soldi per tenere in piedi un server di bot.
Inoltre gli utenti che non si connettono da più di sei mesi quasi sicuramente si sono dimenticati di avere un account che probabilmente hanno aperto con un'email secondaria che non guardano mai.
Eliminare il loro account, dopo un paio di tentativi di contattarli, è un bene anche per loro, per i loro dati personali e per me che li gestisco!
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in reply to Trames • • •@Trames Mi fa piacere che sia stato apprezzato, considerando anche che poi alla fine la presentazione del proprio profilo costituisce anche un vantaggio per sé stessi e per il proprio ingresso nel fediverso perché aiuta a farsi conoscere e contestualizza la propria presenza all'interno del social
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in reply to macfranc • • •macfranc
in reply to Roberta Negrelli • • •@robertanegrelli puoi certamente iscriverti a tutte le istanze che preferisci.
Tieni conto però che iscrivendoti a due istanze con lo stesso software, o differenzi in maniera significativa i due account, usando per esempio in un caso la lingua italiana e nell'altro la lingua inglese, oppure alla fine tenderai a usare solo uno dei due account
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macfranc
in reply to macfranc • • •@robertanegrelli In alternativa, puoi migrare uno dei tuoi account su un account nuovo.
Un'altra possibilità è provare un account aggiuntivo basato su un software diverso come per esempio Friendica. In questo caso potresti provare a iscriverti dall'istanza poliverso.org
Una guida a Friendica
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