Fediverse

cross-posted from: geddit.social/post/321375...

After a month of waiting, CalcKey's official rebranding has been announced as...Firefish? The project's future is looking bright.

There's an increase in analytics services on the fediverse nowadays, and the trend seems to be shifting from personal to business products.

We have territory given to us by the Fuck Spez Coalition. We just need more soldiers. Come help us spread the word of Lemmy!!...

The Fediverse must be very careful to avoid getting branded as the "alternative to X". In my experience, platforms that have historically branded themselves as "alternative to" or "anti-" have generally not done well. Learned this from the last Reddit exodus: let's make this one different!...

A good little resource to help people find their local kbin

Calckey has been one of the more popular Fediverse apps for a while now, and just of today they did a major rebranding....

Managing a Mastodon instance is hard work, with the most effort going to moderation and abuse, and not technical operations as one might expect.

Interesting rundown of the whole Meta/Threads/Fediverse situation so far. Not a lot of new information but might be a handy primer for curious newbies....

It’s just a filter that lets you see all your new followers....

Meta recently released Threads, their competitor to Twitter. However, within just days, the metrics aren't looking good...----------------------------SOCIAL ...

I've been saying for a while we need a wiki and I finally stumbled across one. But is it a good resource? Anybody use this site?...

Having spent a lot of time on Mastodon... There are tons of people there talking about federated and self-hosted services, software freedom, censorship, encryption, tech regulation... A very narrow range of topics directly surrounding the fediverse get a lot of attention....

This is just a thought I had that I wanted to bounce off people who know more about ActivityPub/the fediverse— would it be feasible (and would it make sense) to build an open-source, ActivityPub-compatible dating app as an alternative to Tinder/Bumble/etc.? And if so, what could that look like? Obviously the small userbase...

Like we've got Mastodon which is a microblog platform....

Federated infrastructure but user sovereignty: a “third way” between federated and P2P networks...

The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.

I was thinking about how there are similar communities on different instances. In some cases that is desirable/ok but maybe it would be cool to have another option....

I used to blog on blogger and livejournal before using Twitter destroyed my discipline and I find myself writing longer comments and mastodon posts right now. I'm thinking about a WriteFreely account. Does anyone know a good instance to start with?

The launch of Threads, with its promise of adding ActivityPub support in the future, is hotly debated. I take a look at 3 upcoming pieces of legislation, the DMA, DSA and the Canadian Online News Act, to see how this potentially impacts Threads decision to federate in the future.

Hey all,...

Twitter under Elon Musk’s chaotic reign has seemingly created an opportunity for an alternative microblogging service.

ActivityPub API service - Werd Cloud