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Short-form video might in fact be the next frontier for federated media. The dev behind a popular photo-sharing platform is diving in headfirst.
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The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.
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A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
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We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.
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For our third episode of Decentered, we talked to Ryan Barrett, the creator of [Bridgy Fed](https://fed.brid.gy/)! Ryan has a lot of experience in working with a variety of decentralized social web protocols, including IndieWeb, ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and Nostr, and has a lot of interesting thoughts on making them talk to each other.
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The Mixtape is an ongoing effort by We Distribute to showcase the musicians of the Fediverse and their work. Each issue is a playlist of 10 tracks centered around a theme, that our followers can vote on. For Issue #4, it’s SPACE VIBES! These are various themes of discovery, exploration, travel, and danger. Even if the tracks aren’t explicitly about space, we put them together based on the complementary vibe and feeling, and interpreted them.
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When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
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Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of choice.
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Sora is a really cool iOS fediverse app that supports Mastodon, Misskey, Firefish, and Bluesky all at once. It’s slick, has some incredibly innovative features, and is a delight to use. We sat down with Hoshida, and talked about his journey into app development, his discovery of the Fediverse, and some of the lessons he learned in making an app that suited his needs.
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This podcast has been a long-time coming. Damon, Laurens, and I have been hard at work interviewing all kinds of people building for the Fediverse, and after hours and hours of interviews, we’ve finally started publishing episodes. [Decentered](https://wedistribute.org/series/decentered/) is our attempt to shine a light on all of the amazing things happening across the network: it’s a place where we talk to some of the brightest minds developing amazing concepts, and their vision of what’s possible. Join us as we cover what’s going on in the network, and what we’re all making together!
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Authorized Fetch (also referred to as Secure Mode in Mastodon) was recently circumvented by a stupidly easy solution: just sign your fetch requests with some other domain name.
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The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.
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After a long silence from the developer, project moderators stepped down. The mobile app for Kbin appears to have closed its doors.
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Mastodon, we wrote this because we love you and care about you. People have been saying a lot of things, and we need to get the facts right.
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@ono Yeah, fair point. It's more geared towards patron support and donation prompts, but it does support things like redeemable codes, which could be paired with some kind of recurring donation system.
It does make me wonder what it would take to build in a checkout system, and whether that goes way beyond what a static site can handle.
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A lot of musicians are looking for better, more resilient platforms for selling and distributing their work. Faircamp may be a good solution.
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In a crowded space of Twitter competitors, a friendly and beloved platform closed its doors. One of the creators now runs a Mastodon instance.
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We've made a special spooky playlist for Halloween! Come check out a hand-picked selection of awesome and unusual songs by Fediverse musicians!
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Firefish is a new Fediverse social platform with a beautiful design, cool features, and great tools for your feed. It has a lot of potential to grow.
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While Mastodon has many, many different kinds of microblogging clients, Audon dares to instead flirt with online talk spaces, and it's fantastic.
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@donuts Kbin and Lemmy support is a little bit janky at the moment, it's also kind of easier to view this from the microblogging / social side of the Fediverse.
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@donuts I'm biased, but I run We Distribute. @news@wedistribute.org 😁
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It's now possible for WordPress blogs to use ActivityPub to talk to the rest of the Fediverse. Here's some tips and tricks to get started.
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Integration between WordPress and ActivityPub has been a long time coming. It's existed in several different iterations over the years, but the latest attempt is directly sponsored by Automattic, the owners of WordPress. This article covers some basic how-tos and explains some various quirks in the integration.
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The Mixtape is an ongoing feature highlighting the musicians whose tracks are broadcast on Radio Free Fedi. For this edition, we've decided to put together a blended mix of songs to accompany you on a drive!
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This magazine seriously needs moderators.
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@BraveSirZaphod Hey, I'm the guy that wrote this. While I absolutely hold negative bias towards Meta, the point of the article was not to produce a piece of propaganda, but instead illustrate that their policies have updated to acknowledge the existence of third-party accounts on other servers, that they will be collecting data, and that this is likely a sign that federation may be happening sooner than expected.
Not everybody is happy about that, and some developers are working on hardening their applications to protect against unauthorized access for edge cases related to this.
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Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".
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@fazalmajid Maybe so, but Mastodon historically has only allowed users to look up other users, search hashtag indexes, and depending on the server, search your own posts. A lot of this was done under the pretense of protecting users from harassment, but it's a bandaid covering over insufficient tooling for post-based interaction capabilities.
Anyway, the bigger problem is that it's harder to find stuff in federated systems, which can be a big headache for getting new people into the Fediverse. Search isn't a silver bullet, but it goes a long ways towards making discovery easier.
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@stopthatgirl7 lmao, looks like we literally posted at the same time 😅
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One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
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Pixelfed, an alternative to Instagram, has matured over the years. One of its biggest, most powerful features is about to touch down - federated groups. And it will be compatible with Lemmy and Kbin.
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She's actually in Super Hell.
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When joining or returning to a service with potentially hundreds of servers, it's possible to get mixed-up about what part of the network you joined on. Pixelfed has a handy new feature to put you on the right path again.
A brand new messaging app is coming to the Fediverse, and it's all thanks to the creator of Pixelfed.
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As the Fediverse continues to grow, new challenges arise in community management and user safety. A new organization seeks to make it easier.
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An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It's a solvable problem, with challenges.
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It's entirely possible that a fediverse platform emerges that's capable of performing many different kinds of activities. But, the far more likely outcome is that platforms eventually implement the Client-to-Server half of the ActivityPub protocol, which currently very few platforms implement.
The idea is that virtually every Fediverse platform could, in theory, act as clients for one another, enabling a "one account posts everything" possibility with different frontends accessing different subsets of data.
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We Distribute is bringing in a new feature - The Mixtape! We create playlists of songs that broadcast through Radio Free Fedi, and share it with the wider fediverse. It’s an opportunity for people to discover music by Fedizens, and help support artists on the network. Our first playlist is themed around hot summer vibes.
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@Mishmash2000 Well, get crackin' and code something!
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The unconference for "the people who move the Fediverse forward" is taking place again this year from September 20th - 21st. Learn more here!
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The 2023 Summer Fediverse Jam has closed, and the voting phase has started. Check out the games that were submitted, and give them a try!
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There's an increase in analytics services on the fediverse nowadays, and the trend seems to be shifting from personal to business products.
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A slew of bad internet bills are being pushed through the US Legislature. Can we look to the Fediverse to carry activist causes?
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After a month of waiting, CalcKey's official rebranding has been announced as...Firefish? The project's future is looking bright.
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@DrChickenbeer The guy's write-up that we linked is really something, just absolutely wild what he was able to do. Apparently he tests his app in MAME before actually running it on his Apple IIc.
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@nevernevermore It's honestly an awesome concept. The fact that the creator ported JavaScript to DOS first just blows my mind.
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Some hobbyist hackers have come up with novel ways to connect vintage computers to the Fediverse, and you can run the code yourself.
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This has nothing to do with the Fediverse, get this spammy crap out of here.