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#Medium – the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter – now has a #Mastodon server.

It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.


Celebrating Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists showing an interest in the fediverse is like celebrating wolves showing an interest in your chicken coop.

#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon


I have been largely keeping out of the debate about #fediverse “governance”. As someone who has participated in OSS governance systems I see the value of them and I do think a #fediverse foundation could be a good idea. More importantly I think now that the overall #activitypub system is being used so much more there will be a need to revise and extend the protocol and for that we will need @w3c activity (workshop / working group).


People often say, “The #Fediverse is bigger than just #Mastodon!”

But that’s not quite true; Mastodon is actually four times bigger than the rest of the Fediverse COMBINED. And its size matters:


@h2o my 2023 wish is to learn #Krita. I saw real nice artists here in the #fediverse


We pinned the tag #Fediverse and with a long press, we added in "Any of these" #Fedilab, #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.
Now the pinned timeline will display all messages having these tags.
You can also exclude tags. #FedilabTips
Screenshot of Fedilab where a pinned tag has been long pressed. A menu allows to add "Any of these". We added fedilab, Pixelfed and Mastodon.


There are a few clips from #ladygaga interviews that I keep on hand to just to keep me from going insane. On a few occasions her insight is so piercing that it justifies the five separate accents she says things in. #twitter #fediverse


Hello !Friendica Support
when I click a #Fediverse post link in #Firefox it opens in @Fedilab Apps, but it only works to load the post if a Mastodon account is selected and not if a Friendica account is active.

How can we trouble shoot this? @Fedilab Apps what does #Fedilab do with such a link, which API call does it perform to retrieve the post?


The problem as I see it is very much not the information or technology itself, but the very real ways in which corporations have poured billions of dollars into hijacking the #brain. After a month on #Mastodon, I think decentralized, not for profit social media like the #fediverse is the massive, accidental #PublicHealth intervention we really need right now.


It takes all sorts to make a world. We just do our business and we don't argue with other instances. That's #fediverse


Instagram is trying to intimidate us with threats of legal action.

Help us bring awareness to our project by sharing this post, and consider donating if possible.

We're not giving up. #fediverse


Our Fediverse isn't done. It's designed for change. Newcomers, please keep this in mind before lamenting. Also, there are manuals. We require real discourse to implement needed features. We will build it, but there's a well established process. Start here with 'Open Source' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Floss has and will prevail over commercial hegemony. Then, learn how to submit bugs and feature requests here. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/dev/disclosure/
Does this seem like too much work? Your behaviors and posts are not monetized here, so your time, feedback and understanding is what floss needs to prosper. Also, if you can, pay into your instance. Bandwidth costs. It's a huge amount of work to moderate responsibly. #Fediverse #OpenSource #BlackMastodon #TwitterMIgration



I have spent the last two days working on making good quality SVG versions of the logo/symbols for #fediverse projects and I feel like it was worth it. I think the hard/less fun part of this project is getting them out there for all to use. I am pretty unfamiliar with submitting to Wikimedia Commons that is probably the best place for them to all live
#FediDev
a screenshot of fediverse icons


@PhenomX6I loathe being compelled to visit a third party site when I'm doing #Fediverse stuffs, but when it comes to audio and videos, #Soapbox is one of the most capable of all Fediverse server platforms.

I can post a link to a podcast or song on a #FunkWhale server for example, and play it right here without ever having to leave my Gleasonator account - it handled such media better than pretty much any other platform, and even those that do accommodate in site viewing, Soapbox is much much prettier.

When it comes to YouTube, however, a trick i picked up in #Matrix, that also works in Soapbox, is to simply run it through a sanitizer like #Invidious.

Then i can play the video inside Soapbox.

This is handled automagically with #Fedilab if you're posting to a Soapbox Pub server.

https://invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/teK_CFdc7gM&local=true?feature=share

#tallship #FOSS #media #playback



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By default, Mastodon has a 500 character limit for posts.

However, you may have seen posts with more than 500 characters.

This is possible because Mastodon is just one type of server on the Fediverse. Many of the accounts you interact with on here may be using different server types with different character limits.

For example, there are modified "forked" versions of Mastodon such as Glitch (https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/) and Hometown (https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown) which allow server admins to easily change the character limits.

There are also completely different kinds of servers such as Friendica (https://friendi.ca) which have much larger default limits.

Because the Fediverse uses a common technical standard for communication, different kinds of servers talk to each other seamlessly, and you won't necessarily notice which server types people use. (I'm on a server running Glitch Mastodon, which is how this post can be so long.)

#Mastodon #Fediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits


… Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech


Hello! We are a new instance for #artists and #creators, both amateur and professional. We serve the creative community and want to provide them a place to promote their work and build an audience on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. Your fans can follow your accounts from other servers, but this is exclusively for artists and creators for now.

We're just starting out, but applications are open for artists and creators, come see us at https://artistalley.space/about

#introduction


✨ Discover and follow people from across the fediverse

Explore our real-time index of topics to find interesting accounts to follow or submit your account in less than 30 seconds

It supports Pixelfed, Mastodon and many other #fediverse platforms!

https://fediverse.info/explore/people #peoplePowered #fediverse #fediverseDirectory
Fediverse.info People Directory
Fediverse.info People Directory


#Mozilla just announced they are joining the #fediverse :fediverse:

"In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social"

they will start with Mastodon, but are "looking forward to working on the challenges that crosscut the Fediverse"

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/ #FediNews


You are not the audience. That is one of the most difficult lessons to learn when you’re an early career journalist in an audience role. We’re biased to assume that our experiences and motivations are similar to those of the majority. That’s not necessarily so. A good audience director is part economist, part sociologist, part anthropologist and part journalist.

#journalism #twittermigration #journalists #mastodon #fediverse #STEM


Are folks really pressuring independent artists, authors, etc., not to promote their work here?

Do you also picket your local independent cafe and mom and pop stores? What happens if you succeed in shutting them down? That’s right, you end up with a McDonald’s in their place.

Please learn to separate capitalists from folks trying to survive under capitalism. Independent people trying to pay their rent isn’t advertising, it’s existing. What Coca-Cola does is advertising.

#fediverse ❤️ #indie


Shoutout to all the #activityPub developers that are dealing with this huge influx of people!

I have the unique privilege of running the only non-mastodon instance (https://pixelfed.social) among the top 20 most popular #fediverse instances.

Doing my best to keep it running smoothly, and also ship bug fixes, new features and the mobile apps 😅


@João Pinheiro Got it. The software is fine though, and while I acknowledge they're the biggest #Fediverse player, I wish they were more gracious about the larger network.


@Mastodon
Understanding that freedom of the press is absolutely essential for a functional democracy, we are excited to see Mastodon grow and become a household name in newsrooms across the world, and we are committed to continuing to improve our software to face up to new challenges that come with rapid growth and increasing demand.
No love for the #Fediverse, huh? I understand you are the coolest kid in the room right now, so please be mindful of your behavior and decentralize the attention.


@Angle I do not share your worry. Most of the #Twitter experience is summed up by having access to all the people all the time, and this was only possible because of the centralized nature of the platform. You simply can't recreate the same paradigm on the #Fediverse for network structure reasons. Not even on mastodon.social that now gets routinely defederated, cutting into the access some people crave.


@evan

Look, it's late and I'm a silly old fool but...

... my entire life, I have worked in one way or another to try and make the Trek / Culture future come true. And now I'm chatting to you, on a platform based on something *you* created that is a seed of that future. I find that incredible.

#TheFederation / #Fediverse / #Culture is sooo close, so damned close. The free association of sentients as equals, beyond all our ridiculous, pernicious -isms.

We need our dreams!


Beware of billionaires peddling “decentralisation”.

Anyone seeking a decentralised world would never allow themselves to do the things it takes to become (or remain) a billionaire. Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are the epitome of centralisation.

Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself.

#JackDorsey #BlueSky #billionaires #capitalism #twitter #fediverse #centralisation #decentralisation #corporateCapture #embraceExtendExtinguish #warning


Last Boost: Adweek called out fake brands on the #fediverse as "bad for advertisers", and to that, I say: good! Stay out of our space!

Remember, kids, only trust brands that are the ludicrous ones we host at https://brands.town !


I am not prepared to give up on Quote Boosts. I want to speak with the manager. #makemastodongreat #newfeatures #fediverse #mastodon



Hey, new friends from Twitter! Welcome to the #fediverse. <gestures broadly>

Thanks for coming to help us build a rich and varied social network.

If you appreciate having this network to come to, you can show it by:

- sticking around
- posting regularly
- connecting with people
- engaging in conversation

We know you need to talk about Twitter right now. That's OK! But we're more than just an anti-Twitter support group, so make sure to bring more of yourself here.


Pro-Elon trolls are joining the #TwitterMigration so here's your regular reminder to block and report them immediately. If a server continuously fails to take action against abuse, block that server and demand your instance admin do the same.

Here, we're the content moderation. I've got major respect for the folks who built this place because, while the rest of us were complaining over on the #birdsite, they were successfully de-federating Gab.

Let's continue this proud #Fediverse tradition.


Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed!

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win"

#fediverse
Twitter screenshot showing a warning about a potentially harmful link to a pixelfed account