Aktiviert doch das Activity Pub Plugin von Herrn Pfefferle! Das ist kinderleicht und eure Seite ist sofort föderiert! Schickt mir gern den Link, ich abonniere euch.
Activate the Activity Pub plugin from Mr. Pfefferle! It’s child’s play and your site is instantly federated! Send me the link and I’ll subscribe you.
ActivityPub

https://word.undead-network.de/2024/01/10/falls-ihr-einen-wordpress-blog-habt-if-you-have-a-wordpress-blog/

reverend

2024-01-10 12:01:43

Aktiviert doch das Activity Pub Plugin von Herrn Pfefferle! Das ist kinderleicht und eure Seite ist sofort föderiert! Schickt mir gern den Link, ich abonniere euch.
Activate the Activity Pub plugin from Mr. Pfefferle! It’s child’s play and your site is instantly federated! Send me the link and I’ll subscribe you.
ActivityPub

https://word.undead-network.de/2024/01/10/falls-ihr-einen-wordpress-blog-habt-if-you-have-a-wordpress-blog/

Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter spin-off championed by Jack Dorsey, continues to surge in users as the team inches toward federation.

Bluesky Continues Rapid Growth, Reaches Federation Milestone

From September 2023 onward, we’ve seen a significant period of growth and expansion for Bluesky and the ATproto network, in a variety of ways. On September 12, the network hit a milestone of one million registered accounts on the service. Bluesky has managed to grow consistently since it started in January of this year. In the past month, growth has averaged a little over 1% every day.

User Growth Over Time

As with all other microblogging platforms, Bluesky sees a significant influx every time something happens at X. Mid September Bluesky hit a new record of over 50k new accounts in a single day, after news came out that Elon Musk floated the idea of charging everyone to use X. This amounts to roughly three times the average daily signups.

Bluesky daily user count, May 2nd 2023 – October 12th 2023. Credit: vqv.app

Measuring account growth for Bluesky’s network over time reflects how consistent the growth really is. Sure, there’s fluctuations, but the size of the network consistently grows by about 1% on a daily basis. The larger the network is, the bigger that number is in absolute terms: After Bluesky reached 1 million accounts, the network added another 400,000 users over the following four weeks.

A mockup featuring several media outlets with embedded Bluesky cards. Credit: Sean Tilley

Beyond user statistics, several large US media outlets on Bluesky have now used their domain names for account validation. In Bluesky’s world, accounts can set their handles to domain names to establish identity, provided that the account holder also owns the domain. The New York Times, the Washington Post and Bloomberg are all examples of Bluesky accounts who have recently done this. Another notable organization is the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who received international media attention for a public argument with Elon Musk on X, prior to migrating to Bluesky.

Dealing with Growth

The other side of the coin is that Bluesky’s current infrastructure is starting to hit its limits. Over the next few months they will be working on upgrading their back-end to a new version (dubbed simply v2), that can handle over 10 million accounts. Bluesky engineer Jake Gold recently announced a major milestone in work on v2, which is also a major milestone on the work towards federation.

This post is traversing PDS -> BGS -> AppView instead of the old path PDS -> AppView…This took significant work…[and is a] big milestone in the v2 scaling effort because it enables multiple Bluesky PDS instances!

Jake gold

As there now seems to be momentum in the move towards Bluesky, Gold mentioned that they want to speed up the current growth by 10x ‘ASAP’. One of the ways they want to accomplish this from a technical perspective is by slowly starting the federation process, but limit it to other servers (PDS) that are also run by Bluesky.

A diagram illustrating how ATproto is intended to work, with regards to federation. Credit: Bluesky team.

The Bluesky team also provided an update on federation support. With the latest update, the entire system is now working to the team’s design plans. Federation is now possible, but not yet enabled. The team reiterated that the network could technically start federation right now, but that they intend to finish implementation details and security work. The team expects a basic version of federation to be available in the coming weeks, but initially will only allow federation with other servers (PDS) run by Bluesky.

Treading Water

Bluesky has been criticised for its casual approach to Trust & Safety. One concern is that the team has yet to appoint an official role to someone to fill that purpose. Speeding up network growth by a factor of 10 without addressing this seems risky. A startup building a network from scratch has a golden opportunity to start from first principles – Trust & Safety is a big one.

This thread provides a good example of how the shared understanding of the space is currently muddled. There don’t seem to be clear answers to how the network should deal with a server (PDS) that either contains bad actors, sock puppet accounts conducting astroturf campaigns, or other attempts to influence algorithmic feeds.

There are hard questions that deserve careful deliberation. And that careful deliberation seems hard to square with the team’s goal of expanding growth by 10x ASAP.

#Federation #Growth

https://wedistribute.org/2023/10/bluesky-continues-to-grow/

Frage | Gibt es bei Friendica auch entsprechende Ansätze um Threads zu blockieren?

Guten Morgen, eben bin ich auf den unten stehenden Beitrag von @Digitalcourage-Admins gestoßen und frage mich natürlich ob es hier auf Friendica ähnliche Ansätze gibt um ein Federieren mit Threads und anderen kommerziellen Mist zu verhindern. Wie ist da Euer Stand in dieser Richtung?

#Frage #Friendica #Threads #Blockieren #Meta #Federation #2023-07-16 !Friendica Support

Digitalcourage-Admins

2023-07-06 12:37:26

Viele machen sich Sorgen wegen des angekündigten Einstiegs des #Facebook-Konzerns #Meta ins Fediverse. Es geht um die App #Threads. Was wir darüber wissen, steht hier: https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2023/fediverse-teilen-und-herrschen

Bei @digitalcourage haben wir noch nicht entschieden, ob wir Metas Fediverse-Instanz(en) aus unseren Instanzen aussperren werden. Noch funktioniert bei threads.net das Föderieren nicht. Das kann sich aber jederzeit ändern.

Wer vorbeugend ausschließen will, dass die eigenen Tröts zu Meta/Threads gelangen, kann sich mit folgender Anleitung abschotten:

1. Die CSV-Datei von https://gitlab.digitalcourage.de/fediverse/lists/-/raw/main/blocked_domains.csv herunterladen.

2. In den persönlichen Mastodon-Einstellungen auf „Importieren und Exportieren“ gehen, dann auf „Importieren“, also hierhin: https://digitalcourage.social/settings/import

3. In der Auswahlbox „Domain-Sperrliste“ auswählen

4. Die zuvor heruntergeladene CSV-Datei dort hochladen

5. Wenn das geklappt hat, müssten Einträge mit „threads“ auf https://digitalcourage.social/domain_blocks zu sehen sein

Vielen Dank an @ordnung für die Vorlage!

#P92 #Project92

digitalcourage.social

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I'm so happy to have found Friendica and the Fediverse. I first discovered Friendica back in 2014, when I was just starting for the first time to think about federated social networks. Now, 6 years later, not only am I running my own instance, I'm also a few projects away from opening it up to my friends and actually hosting my own social network.

My biggest contribution to the project is typically dropping in on Github issues to make feature requests, which I'm sure makes me a bit of a gadfly. But I have deep appreciation for @Hypolite Petovan and the other devs who keep this amazing project running.

Happy birthday, Friendica!

Hypolite Petovan

2020-05-18 12:34:01

Today is #Fediverse12, the 12th birthday of the first post published on the #Fediverse by @Evan Prodromou on #Identica.

Back in late 2016 I'm glad the #Fediverse (comprising OStatus/ActivityPub-compatible social networks) and the #Federation (comprising Diaspora-compatible social networks) welcomed me when my #Facebook account was frozen and I was (and still am) too stubborn to give in to their demand to give me back access to it.

I've been contributing to #Friendica ever since, mostly through dogfooding through my own single-user node.

Happy Birthday to us and thank you to everyone who has contributed or still is contributing to this mind-boggling common project.