Fediverse

A slew of bad internet bills are being pushed through the US Legislature. Can we look to the Fediverse to carry activist causes?

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

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

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

A good little resource to help people find their local kbin

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....

Some hobbyist hackers have come up with novel ways to connect vintage computers to the Fediverse, and you can run the code yourself.

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 went and searched for a community on Lemmy. Found it, but was logged out so I couldn't create content... tried to login, it says "logged in" in the lower left, but I'm not as it still says "login" at the top right....

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?...

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

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 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.

Hey all,...

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.

ActivityPub API service - Werd Cloud

Is reddit really that unaffected? Are tech media companies keeping quiet on purpose? Is the Play app giving more artificial visibility to reddit app VS fediverse apps? It feels like all the mainstream centralized social platforms and search engines (Google) are censoring any updates on reddit's status to maintain a status quo....

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

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1418762...