We’re working on federating all Flipboard accounts and implementing two-way conversations (see @mike
’s blogpost in our pinned post for more) but in the meantime, here's a thread of all the profiles you can currently follow in the Fediverse.
There’s a new playbook being written right now when it comes to the future of social media. The early-mover advantage is still in effect, and there’s a lot to figure out. Gone are opaque algorithms and the whims of any single company.
The fediverse represents a chance for quality journalism to shine again.
We talked to two leaders at fedi-forward publications — @TheConversationUS's @BostonAbrams, and @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler — about why they’re investing in the open social web, what they’ve learned so far, and their advice for other publishers just getting started.
Today, we're beginning to federate a selection of publishers based in Germany and the U.K. We've also introduced @FlipboardDE, a new profile for the Mastodon community in Germany. In the first test, we are partnering with 21 publishers to federate their profiles and Magazines. Follow the profile to see all the stories they are posting on Flipboard, or topically curated Magazines to get coverage on specific areas of interest. Here's a blogpost that explains more.
Hier sind alle Profile von föderierten Publishern in Deutschland, denen Du nun folgen kannst. Verwende einfach die Suche mit dem jeweiligen Publisher-Profil, um ihre Magazine zu finden und eine Liste von allem zu sehen, was sie kuratieren.
Here are all the accounts you can follow for federated publishers in the United Kingdom. To find their Magazines, simply search for the publisher profile and you should see a list of everything they're curating.
Proud to support @ernest and #Kbin — moments like what Ernest describes in this post are exactly why I do this work, and why #Fastly (@devs) has a program like #FastForward. Because your contributions to #OpenSource, to the #OpenSocialWeb, shouldn't be stressful moments, and they shouldn't cost you. You should be focused on building.
Flipboard CEO @mike interviewed leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement for the Dot Social podcast. Here's how to follow everyone he spoke to.
No offence to proponents of the Fediverse, but when I tell regular people about it, the name is a bit of a turn off. I'm sorry, it just is. It's not something to be upset about. It's just... people. So I have been trying to think of other words or terms and I think I have landed on the one I like best.
The Fediverse = The Open Social Web.
OSW for short.
We've launched a biweekly newsletter on LinkedIn to help connect the dots on the world of decentralized social media. We'll be taking a big step back to help non-technical people understand what the Fediverse is, why it's an improvement on traditional social media, and how to get started.
Mastodon founder and CEO @Gargron leads a "hero’s journey’" to create a better social media experience for us all. But how will Threads entering the Fediverse change the landscape? @mike ignites a sprawling conversation that looks back on Mastodon’s epic year, dissects the moment we’re in today, and ponders a future filled with big changes and new ideas.
@tchambers, author of the Twitter Migration report and admin of indieweb.social, is an internet steward everyone should know. In this podcast with @mike, Tim expounds on social media’s thorniest issues and explains how the Fediverse offers a better social home than anything we've had before.
I suspect the ideal size of an #ActivityPub server to be around 100-200 people. It’s very possible to scale way past that size, though it becomes exponentially harder to do in a responsible & calm manner with every 10x 100x 1000x multiplier of co-tenants.
Let’s not fight our current state of evolution as a tribally oriented species. We don’t make very good hive-minds of our collective consciousnesses yet, but the #opensocialweb glue of the #fediverse will get us there eventually.
Dear all Canadians and also all Fediverse Citizens!
Please boost and sign (name and place please) this open letter that will be sent to the Parliament of Canada. This is a followup to #e4769 petition which is now awaiting a formal response from Government. This Open letter will be sent on Monday June 3rd to the Speaker of the House of Commons and other critical officers and Ministers to encourage a positive response to the petition.
Last chance. If you want to have your signature on the real life letter that goes to Canada's House of Commons Speaker and others, you must tell me before 9AM PDT (about 40 minutes).
You do not have to be Canadian to sign.
Signatures received after 9AM will be on the web version.
I've made some updates to the letter including more supporting links and sources.
When he built a bridge to connect Bluesky to Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered platforms, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org started a new chapter for the fediverse. The software engineer opens up to @mike about his rollercoaster ride in the latest episode of Dot Social:
@molly0xfff is a leading cryptocurrency critic, but get to know her and you’ll see she’s anything but cynical about the future of the web. Hear why this researcher, writer and software engineer thinks so in this fascinating conversation with @mike:
Last month, Meta's Threads took its first step into the fediverse. @quillmatiq, aka @quillmatiq took that as his cue to experiment with how his Threads feed would look like on Mastodon. Here's what he discovered about organizing the chaos, different clients (hello @phanpy) and whether he'll cut the Threads cord when federation is complete.