fediversereport

fediversereport, 2 days ago to random

No newsletter this week, as I gotta listen to Justice and Slowdive at a festival this weekend. Back next week! In the meantime you can check out Last Month in Bluesky I wrote this week: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-may-2024/

fediversereport, 6 days ago to bluesky

New: Last Month in #bluesky

The news:

• Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky
• DMs have arrived on, in a basic implementation so far
• New roadmaps for the app and the protocol
• The timeline for applying #atproto to formal standards body is pushed back until more independent active projrects have been build

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-may-2024/

fediversereport, 9 days ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 71

• @iftas has launched a community for fediverse moderators with IFTAS Connect
• The Canadian House of Commons has been presented with a petition to work towards open and federated social media
• @piefedadmin now federates with #peertube, and for some Topics (community aggregators) peertube videos will now show up
• Some more news from #Farcaster and #nostr

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-71/

fediversereport, 12 days ago to random

I'll be the moderator for the session on "What's neXt? From Mastodon via ActivityPub to the Fediverse or Social Web" on the PublicSpaces conference next week in Amsterdam!

Come check it out and join the conversation!
👇
https://social.publicspaces.net/@publicspaces/112529943297959269

fediversereport, 13 days ago to random

New: What is Farcaster, and why did a16z value it at 1 billion dollar?

#Farcaster is a decentralised social network that has seen significant growth recently, with currently around 80k daily active users. The network has strong ties with crypto and Ethereum. They got an investment of $150M recently by (among others) a16z.

I take a closer look at how Farcaster works, and why some crypto VCs think its worth a billion dollars.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/what-is-farcaster-and-why-did-it-raise-150m-usd/

fediversereport, 16 days ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 70

This week's news:

• The Verge and 404 Media are preparing to add federation to their news sites
• @newsmast starts adding #bluesky and #threads accounts into their communities to create a hub in the social web
• Combining #nostr and #Mastodon in a single feed with the app @openvibe
• A 10k seed funding bounty for building DeviantArt on #ActivityPub

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/

fediversereport, 21 days ago to random

Correction: the original version stated that the Mostr.pub bridge was used for a spam wave on Bluesky. This is incorrect, a different bridge between Nostr and the fediverse, momostr.pink, was used. Mostr.pub creator Alex Gleason explains that the Mostr.pub bridge has anti-spam filtering that would have prevented such as spam attack.

https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/112468656710956489

fediversereport, 23 days ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 69
It's this weeks news, with:
Celebrating the 16th birthday of the fediverse
European Commission sets up their own Mastodon server after the previous fediverse pilot by the EDPS has ended.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/

fediversereport, 26 days ago to bluesky

New: Video, audio and blogging: Japanese #Bluesky is building in the ATmosphere

I take a look at 3 new products build on #atproto

Blogging with whtwnd.com
Video with bluemotion.app
Audio spaces with bluecast.app

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/video-audio-and-blogging-japanese-bluesky-is-building-in-the-atmosphere/

fediversereport, 30 days ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 68

This week's news:

• Significant interest and use of the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky, even though it is still in active development
• Ghost gives a first glimpse at their #ActivityPub powered reading app

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-68/

fediversereport, 1 month ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 67

This week's news:

• Opt-in bridge between Bluesky and the fediverse silently launches for testing
• A new version for @peertube, with some new plugins as well
• More federation: this time between Discourse and WordPress, with Lemmy and NodeBB being worked on as well

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-67/

fediversereport, 1 month ago to bluesky

New: Last Month in #Bluesky - April 2024

Last months news:

• Brazilian president Lula joins Bluesky, and a Portugese community with it
• Skygaze shuts down the popular For You algorithmic feed
• #atproto grant recipients announced

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-april-2024/

fediversereport, 1 month ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 66

This week's news:

• The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
• Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding #Activitypub to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
• Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-66/

fediversereport, 1 month ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 65

This weeks news:

• Interoperability between NodeBB and Discourse set a new way of federation between forums
• Publishing platform Ghost starts work on adding #activitypub support
• testing platform @pubkit launches in closed beta
• Following podcasts on your fediverse account became even easier with PodcastAP
• Mastodon has gotten funding to start implementing quote posts

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-65/

fediversereport, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 64

• the DSA for server admins by @iftas
• P2P video calls with your fediverse account, with iOS app Sora @SoraSNS
• Full 2-way federation with @Flipboard
• An escalating fight between the Brazilian government and Musk's X leads to president Lula joining #bluesky

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-64/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 63

This weeks news:

• @potus is now posting into the fediverse
• @vernissage is expanding into a full photo sharing platform
• @newsmast has a report on the broad variety of communities on the fediverse

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-63/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to random

New: Last Month in #Bluesky - March 24

• Stackable moderation is live, and people can subscribe now to third-party labelers
• Blogging comes to the ATmosphere with WhiteWind, allowing anyone with a Bsky account to blog
• More information on how Bluesky plans to make money

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-march-24/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 62

This week's news:

• @mobilizon changes ownership away from Framasoft, but development will continue
• An overview of the current work on cross-app podcasts comments with #activitypub
• Mastodon.social 'knows' about some 2800 Threads accounts, indicating that the amount of people on Threads who have turned on federation is in the couple of thousands.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-62/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 61

A busy newsweek in the fediverse:

• Threads has joined the fediverse in an open beta, allowing people from US, Canada and Japan to opt-in to having their Threads post be visible in the fediverse
• @fediforum happened this week, with a ton of great demos, a large variety of sessions, and multiple calls and initiatives for more collaboration across the fediverse

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-61/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to random

#fediforum is starting, exciting to see so many of you there!

For a live blog, check out @hello at https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/fediforum-live/

fediversereport, 2 months ago to fediverse

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 60

The fediverse continues its trend of rebuilding popular large platforms, but with #activitypub. This week two projects were announced to be in development:

• Loops, a platform for short-form video
• Ibis, a federated version of Wikipedia

also a fascinating paper about the hashtag #asstodon, and much more news this week.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-60/

fediversereport, 3 months ago to fediverse

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 59

• @phanpy has released Catch-Up, a new feature that gives you great control of how you want to view your timeline in a great variety of new ways.
• Threads' work on #activitypub continues, and now some people that are not part of Meta also have their posts show up in the fediverse
• Fedify is a new fediverse server framework that's in development

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-59/

fediversereport, 3 months ago to bluesky

New: Last Month in Bluesky - Februari 24

An overview of all the news that has happened in #bluesky and #atproto of the last month:

• Opening of the network with federation launching and no more invite codes
• Bluesky turns out to be popular in Japan
• Hashtags and mute words
• A new head of T&S

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-month-in-bluesky-februari-2024/