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Meta aka Instagram is working on a Twitter competitor that is rumored to be ActivityPub compatible.

If you run a fediverse instance (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey and others), would you ban a Meta instance?

Boosts appreciated 👍 #fediverse #barcelona #activityPub #meta

  • Yes (31%, 47 votes)
  • Undecided (19%, 29 votes)
  • No (18%, 28 votes)
  • Show results (31%, 47 votes)
151 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


a 10 second meme I made about NPR allegedly joining #Mastodon / the #fediverse . Wouldn't an org that big make its own instance? Or at the very least, join the same instance that other large publications have been joining?
A "suspicious Fry" meme I made with the caption "me when a new account on the fediverse claims to belong to a large journalistic publication...but they made an account on @mastodon.social"


Audon is a great real-time audio streaming service for the #fediverse! Think Spaces or Clubhouse, and you pretty much got it. You create a room for audio, where other people can listen to you, or just give them the role of speaker as well.

You can easily log in with your fediverse (Mastodon/Calckey/Pleroma) account, create a room, share the link, and you're ready to go!

Check it out at https://audon.space
screenshot showing creation of an audio room
Screenshot showing the room itself with my personal account as host and speaker, and this account as listener


@David Slifka
"Server choice is a major obstacle to growing the #fediverse"

Question - how many people give up on #email because they don't know which #server to #choose ? I don't know anyone like that...


PS. Dzięki hakerom za #fediverse! Fejsbuk ostatnio postanowił mnie pogrzebać algorytmicznie, a tutaj zawsze jednak ktoś zauważy, rzuci gwiazdką... Nie wiem, cenne to dla mnie 😳


I beg of you, just say Twitter. Don't say birdsite, or T******, or any other cute thing. Just say Twitter, so people can mute that word and not see your post.

Same with Musk. Or Trump. Or any other thing you think some of your audience doesn't want to see. Just say the word and let people mute that word. Please.

#Fediverse #Twitter #Etiquette


Dear @Gargron,

Please reevaluate your decision to incentivise centralisation on mastodon.social in the official app.

This is the sort of design a VC-funded startup would implement, not a non-profit acting in the interests of a healthy commons.

I’m sure you don’t want mastodon.social to become mini-Twitter and you don’t want to become mini-Musk.

That’s not how we win this.

More instances, not larger instances is the key.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@feditips@mstdn.social/110233282943673558

#decentralisation #fediverse #staySmall

Screenshot (by fedi.tips) of official Mastodon app with emphasised/filled in “Join mastodon.social” button on top of a deemphasised (hollow) “Pick my own Server” button


@Wilfred Chan I encourage you to use the term #fediverse more often. If people hear/read only about mastodon everywhere (especially the titles!) they are usually not aware that there is a whole complete ecosystem in which there is room for different forms of publishing.


any #fediverse client apps with an interface for easily recording audio and posting it like signal or telegram have?


#fediverse alive stats

servers: 21,551 (-24, max: 21,575)
users: 9,001,401 (-14,143, max: 9,053,210)
MAU: 1,465,692 (-2,402, max: 2,444,236

top five projects (users / MAU / servers):

:mastodon: 7,397,832 / 1,367,428 / 12,434
😛eertube: 325,995 / 27,936 / 1,263
😛leroma: 130,593 / 15,210 / 1,358
😛ixelfed: 144,069 / 11,681 / 443
:fedibird: 29,354 / 11,147 / 3
mau graph servers graph
weeks graph users graph


@Stefan Bohacek Completely wrong question asked because just being here IS #influencing the development of the #fediverse .

The question should rather have options like : in which of the following (here a long list of options) activities for the development of the fediverse do you participate.


Do you feel like you can influence the direction of the fediverse?

Either through direct contribution as a developer, providing feedback, making feature requests, etc.

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia #poll #survey

  • Yes, I do! (47%, 120 votes)
  • Not really (52%, 135 votes)
255 voters. Poll end: 2 years ago


Is it federated on the #AT protocol? Or via #ActivityPub / #Fediverse? Last I heard they were doing their own thing.



@Rep. Ritchie Torres Welcome to the #Fediverse from Brooklyn! 👋 Gentle reminder that your Mastodon account can be followed from a number of different platforms, like #Friendica which I represent here. 😊


Yes, but that is still not good. Within ActivityPub, one cannot write a *message* that, a priori, is known to be correctly readable by any of the intended recipients -- unless it is a short (< 500 bytes) text in plain ascii, with no italics, boldface, or other markup, and no embedded images... >>

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FediverseFragmentation


But that is BAD, VERY BAD! So the Fediverse is split into a myriad platforms -- and hence communities -- with incompatible features.

That may be great for the computer nerds who will join a dozen platforms just to revel in the features. It is terrible for those who only want a platform to communicate with other people...

#Fediverse #FediverseFragmentation


There is a lot of talk on the #fediverse #mastodon about how #media sites should own their web/social presence and their audiences, by self-hosting.

Case in point,
@TexasObserver

But why stop there?

We should also be promoting the use of #peertube as a home for organizations to OWN their video presence as well.

Here's a great example of a media organization doing just that:

https://video.blast-info.fr

If you speak any French, you can follow them here: @blast_info

#selfhosting #video


@Gabe Kangas If you want to have everything that is on #mobilizon + two-way interaction with the entire #fediverse then rather choose a #friendica account


Am I missing something or is there no way in #Mobilizon to follow a remote account and get Federated events? I hope I'm wrong? Is anybody more familiar with it than I am?

For reference I was really hoping to build the scheduled streams functionality of #Owncast to be compatible with Mobilizon and show up in people's events.

Hopefully I can have this conversation with the #Framasoft folks on April 10th at the first #Fediverse developers call! https://events.nixnet.services/events/92296854-651d-417f-a732-ea51ea94ac12


Fully nomadic Mastodon fork!


Someone seems to have succeeded in forking #Mastodon and migrating the fork to #Nomad, the underlying protocol of #Streams which provides #NomadicIdentity. There's little information about what exactly is going on, only a tech demo video exists on PeerTube. It shows two test instances and the exact same account with the exact same identity running on both, remaining fully in sync. So yes, it's nomadic.

The choice of Nomad instead of #Zot is understandable as it has better integrated #ActivityPub support, so there might not be much incompatibility between vanilla Mastodon and the fork, and it'll stay compatible with the rest of the #Fediverse. Compatibility with #Hubzilla and especially (streams) will even be enhanced, not only because the fork finally recognises nomadic channels, but also also because it clearly features text formatting and quotes. It remains to be seen whether the handling of embedded images will be improved, too.

This is still very experimental, and more information has been announced to follow soon.



I've been running user-testing on the process of signing-up onto the #Fediverse (including #Mastodon , #Pixelfed , and others).

My tests suggest a lot (probably most) people find it very difficult & confusing.

I think most people who try to sign-up — fail and give up.

Which means that if about 2,000 people are joining the Fediverse every hour, then — A LOT more than that tried to join, failed, and gave up.



The good news is — the sign-up user-experience ( #UX ) process can be improved.


OSM Town is a Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap fans:

:Fediverse: https://en.osm.town

Their official description: "An independent community of OpenStreetMap people on the Fediverse/Mastodon. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation."

You can find more map-themed servers at https://fedi.garden/tag/maps-and-geospatial

#FeaturedServer #Fediverse #OpenStreetMap #Mapping #Maps



If you want people's advice about any topic, type your question and tag it with #AskFedi, which is kind of like a bat signal for advice on the Fediverse 🦇

If you want a post to be shared, try adding "Boosts appreciated!". Some servers may even have an emoji for this such as :boost_ok:

By the way, remember that if you want your post shared publicly you have to give it a Public or Unlisted visibility setting. (More info about post visibility settings here: https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/)

#Fediverse


Is there any people here on the #Fediverse that have deep knowledge of DC #excitation systems for #synchronous machines, so #powerelectronics, for machines that have field current up to a few thousand ampere?
This is about #eletronic, but the kind with higher voltage and "real" current like in #thermalpowerplants, but preferable in #hydropower plants, mainly for #generator in such setups, but it can also be synchronous #motors, both up to 1.5 GW (most likely a generator then 😀.

So #electrical engineers or masters of that profession that work with high current applications.


Oczywiście JEŚLI.

Spodziewam się jakichś min od FB, ale liczę na kreatywność devs #Fediverse, które może bloknąć co złe w interkonekcie, a przyjąć te lepsze elementy.

Jeśli nie musisz działać dla zysku, masz ogromne pole manewru ;)

@zen_xen_ni



Content warning: tl;dr: All that cool new stuff you want in the Fediverse already exists in the Fediverse, right outside of Mastodon


Content warning: tl;dr: All that cool new stuff you want in the Fediverse already exists in the Fediverse, right outside of Mastodon


The rise of the Fediverse is only accelerating as companies like Mozilla and WordPress make moves to support it. Even Meta is rumored to be working on a decentralized social network.

But there's one particular start-up that seems determined to go its own way.

I spoke with @tchambers and @evan about what's driving the Fediverse migration - and the obstacles that can thwart some would-be users.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media

#fediverse #mastodon



@Genders: ♾️, 🟪⬛🟩; Soni L. #ActivityPub. The language which (most of) the #Fediverse speaks.

It is how Mastodon instances talk to other Mastodon instances. And it is how, for example, Pleroma instances talk to Mastodon instances. Or to each other.



Re-inventing the federated wheel because you don't know that wheels exist



Thank you! I'm already hunting down your Patreon. This is far and away the best experience I've had in the #fediverse. Well done!