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.
We'd love to get the #NewstodonFriday hashtag going again. This, as far as we can remember, was started by @gbhnews, and is an initiative to feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #fediverse
If you're a news organization, share your handle and your favorite story of the week in the comments to this! And if there's a publication in the fediverse that you love, let us know about that in the comments too.
Anyone in the Bay Area happen to have a connection to The Mercury News and/or SF Chronicle's digital media team? Would love to attempt to connect with them and somehow try and convince them to create their own official #Mastodon account. Not a Mastodon instance. Just an account. It'd be nice if they could use the #fediverse to better serve the local Bay Area community.
I like following accounts from different countries on here. I have not found very many (any really) accounts from Asian or African countries though. Are there not that many on Fedi yet, or am I just not finding the right ones?
Good morning and happy FRIDAY #Fediverse. We’ve made through another week.
Let’s take a moment for our #KoffeeWithKyle chat and see what we all have planned for today.
I’m currently at my neurologist appt. After that I have the usual work thing. Already have a couple of support issues from yesterday from when I was out. The later today just some school work and chillin. Not sure about the weekend yet.
Hach ja, nun ist es hoch offiziell, dass Reddit nun deine Daten für OpenAI sammelt. Alternativen diesbezüglich im Fediverse hatte ich schon länger her vorgeschlagen, das ist @LemmyDev und/oder @kbin, die nicht an deine kostenlosen Daten verdienen (profitieren).
»OpenAI darf Reddit-Daten nutzen:
Die beiden Unternehmen wollen eng zusammenarbeiten – und voneinander profitieren.«
🧵 …weshalb und warum ich oben @LemmyWorld und @kbin hier im #Fediverse zum obigen Artikel vorschlug, ist kein neues Thema aber auf Deutsch so gut wie (fast) nie in der (Fach-) Presse angegangen. Wie auch andere Fediverse #Tool's sonst auch, die miteinander #kommunizieren.
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»Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives?
Love #Reddit but tired of what's happening to it? We check out #Lemmy and #Kbin, two open-source fediverse #alternative's that are growing fast.«
Pixelfed - Wie Mastodon, aber mit schönen Fotos - GNU/Linux.ch
Wer keine Lust auf Instagram hat, weil es dem Meta-Konzern gehört, sollte sich mal Pixelfed anschauen. Denn Pixelfed ist Teil des Fediverse – so wie Mastodon. Nur dass sich bei Pixelfed alles um schöne Fotos dreht.
Was ist das Fediverse?
Wer neu bei Mastodon ist, wird die Belehrung schon bekommen haben: Mastodon ist keine Plattform, sondern nur einer der Dienste, mit denen man am „Fediverse“ teilnehmen kann. Das Fediverse besteht aus einer ganzen Reihe Dienste, die alle das gleiche Protokoll benutzen – also kompatibel untereinander sind.
Was ist Pixelfed?
Pixelfed ist ein Dienst, bei dem Fotos im Mittelpunkt stehen. Während man bei Mastodon mit dem Text anfängt und gelegentlich ein Foto anhängt, fängt ein Post bei Pixelfed damit an, dass man ein Foto hochlädt und man dann vielleicht noch etwas dazu schreibt.
Since some of you in the #fediverse have asked: Yes I can see your replies when I post from Flipboard. And yes, I can also reply back from Flipboard to people in the fediverse and I try to do so as much as possible.
Hello everyone! Consider this an #introduction post! Not used to post pictures online, but with my growing interest of the #fediverse, I thought I might as well try #Pixelfed, so here we go!
Da ich diesen Account hier gerade von meinem alten umgezogen habe (leider ohne meine Follower mitnehmen zu können, da mein alter Account ein Adminaccount einer Single-User-Instanz war - da klappen umleitungen auf neue Accounts nicht) stelle ich mich kurz und knapp neu vor:
This Should be *a huge conversation in the #Fediverse - really.
@jupiter_rowland certainly paraphrases much of the sentiment here in the Fediverse where many conversations are taking place, albeit briefly, and then dismissed, but why? Are people too busy to care? Are people too apathetic to take seriously anything that begins with the letters, masto...? Do those 5 letters really invoke such categorical dismissiveness that cuts into topics that would otherwise likely gain immediate traction were it not for mention of that corporate monolithic silo brand?
Probably; likely; perhaps - take your pick. There is indeed a general apathy amongst especially long term Fedizens and also Lemmy users who are refugees from Reddit, but it's okay to dismiss masto as the neo-corporate EEE platform conceivably threatening the UX for millions of Fedizens. And like it or not, there does need to be a viable shitposting platform, which is exactly what masto is, inhabited in very large ways by people who, as Jupiter raises the question, "are incapable of actually engaging in textual conversation. There's something to that.
Well, #A11Y is a very real concern, perhaps for the FEPs, considering there are projects that are very close in architecture to completely ignoring anything that isn't part of the W3's official specification, and that's okay.
It is, however, a misnomer that one must insert alt-text into media on the masto platform, at least at this juncture. Forcing the hand of refugees from the deprecated, #Privacy_Mining, monolithic silos is yet another complication that those poor souls need to be gently nudged into accepting - but even more importantly, ... "Why".
Some popular Android clients will complain if you try to post media without also including alt-text, some have no facilities at all for doing so. This is an adoption phenomenon, slowly being rolled out, as awareness increases (awareness of the WHY - not the HowTO) with respect to the reasons it is an important design consideration.
Do people actually get unceremoniously banned for not including alt-text for attached media on masto? Yes, On some instances they do, as if it will have any affect at all on the wider Fediverse - I have heard on several occasions that this does indeed happen - there aren't many things that piss people off more than having something that is important to them getting yanked out from underneath them in rug-pull fashion than that of an #instabanhammer, and yet childish, juvenile moderators and admins on several masto instances are truly guilty of such dystopian tyranny and abuse of privilege.
Those types of adversarial, clickish masto instances are much of the reason Fediverse gets a bad rap in some silo social networking circles, and it isn't a fair characterization, but the offensive behavior persists. More than an impetus for the deployment of #smolweb, single-user instances, it is indeed primarily a masto phenomenon.
Not a pretty thing, but masto always has been a caustic cauldron of cacophony of enmity and active vitriol, and that's just one more reason to expedite the outreach programs popping up all over the place to entice the good folks to ditch it in favor of many other good social networking platforms mentioned by Jupiter in his cw-LONG article (I wish he wouldn't bother catering to those mastoblasters with that sentiment, they should at least be smart enough to see that it's more substantive than their shitposting personas are capable of parsing).
@gay_ornithischians@yassie_j Hey there 👋 ! I am so excited for the future we are heading to, yet I can't see why you don't seem to be excited for what's about to happen in #mastodon adoption? I believe that it is imperative we should stop the #fragmentation within the #Fediverse to get everyone on the same page 😁