IFTAS, the Trust and Safety organization for the #Fediverse, launched a new community portal full of guides, resources, discussion groups, and tools for community moderators and instance admins. We take a look at what it does.
IFTAS is making good on their promises. Last week, the Trust & Safety organization launched IFTAS Connect, a resource portal and discussion forum for Fediverse moderators....
You may have recently started using Nostr and realized that your profile ID looks super ugly. It’s a long string of letters and numbers, starting with npub....
In pursuit of our mission, we have partnered with Nos Social as part of their Journalism Accelerator Program. This will allow us to reach a new audience, explore Nostr further, and spread our coverage of other networks to the Nostr community. We’re thrilled to be taking part in this, as it gives us an opportunity to grow,...
TIDAL made a surprising announcement earlier this week, stating that they are embracing Nostr and going all in on adopting the protocol....
FediVision is an annual music competition in the spirit of Eurovision. This year probably had the biggest turnout ever: 72 entries from a variety of artists and musicians, and you can listen to all of them!
FediVision is an annual music competition in the spirit of Eurovision. This year probably had the biggest turnout ever: 72 entries from a variety of artists and musicians, and you can listen to all of them!
FediVision 2024 started off big this year, with a record 72 entries from the FediMusic community, “just shy of four hours of music”....
A recent update to Bluesky introduces a long-requested feature of the platform: Direct Messages! According to the developers, this implementation is pretty limited: messages are not end-to-end encrypted, don’t support images, and don’t currently federate from one personal data server to another....
We dug into Mastodon’s new US-based non-profit entity, and checked out who their board members are, and what they’ve accomplished in the past.
We dug into Mastodon’s new US-based non-profit entity, and checked out who their board members are, and what they’ve accomplished in the past.
Mastodon recently incorporated a 501c3 Non-Profit in the United States, and brought on a Board of Directors to assist in shaping and coordinating this new entity. This has been broadly seen as a big step for the project, but the Board selection is not without controversy and backlash....
Bridgy Fed’s Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
Bridgy Fed’s Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
Recently, Bridgy Fed launched a public-facing version of their integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse. The service is still in beta, and there are a few quirks, but bridged Bluesky and Fediverse accounts can now follow each other....
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Nostr is a strange beast: in some ways, it resembles what the Fediverse built with ActivityPub. In other ways, it follows a bunch of totally different concepts. This guide is a best attempt to understand and explain what Nostr is, why it’s different, and how it works. We’ll also cover how to get started with using it....
It’s that time of the year for something truly wonderful: FediVision, the Fediverse’s annual music contest, is back, and accepting submissions from May 5th to May 12th....
Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey briefly confirmed yesterday that he is no longer part of Bluesky’s board of directors. While he had distanced himself from the platform over the course of the last year, opting for Nostr instead, it was still a somewhat surprising announcement....
