If you are kind enough to follow me, I’ll follow you.
If you are kind enough to talk to me, I’ll talk to you.
I’ll boost that may help another or make them happy or laugh or think.
I love it here. ❤️
If you want people's advice about any topic, type your question and tag it with #AskFedi, which is kind of like a bat signal for advice on the Fediverse 🦇
If you want a post to be shared, try adding "Boosts appreciated!". Some servers may even have an emoji for this such as :boost_ok:
Marketing sucks, but I think we're failing to push the "unique selling proposition" (ugh) of the #fediverse. So many kinds of social media exist, but this place is about "attention democracy". We are "decentralized boosts with dialogue". That the best art, info and ideas go viral, as decided by everyone collectively. No gatekeepers or advantages for advertisers. It embraces journalism's ideals. It's why it matters at a cultural level. It should be the focus of future development and our message.
@ajsadauskas Across the internet, there's a host of niche communities on message boards and web forums, using platforms such as phpBB and its various competitors.
Is there scope to get these communities on the Fediverse?
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been trying out Lemmy (lemmy.ml ), which is basically a Reddit-like platform on the Fediverse. (For those reading this on Mastodon, this post is actually a reply to a post on Lemmy, meaning you can read it on Lemmy, on Mastodon, or elsewhere!)
It's shown me that the concept of a Fediverse -connected discussion forum certainly can work.
So is there scope to either add ActivityPub to any existing message board software platforms?
Alternatively, is there scope to develop a fediverse-connected general purpose message board platform?
Takahē is a new kind of Fediverse server which is aimed at small to medium size servers. It's unusual as it allows the same server to host multiple domains, and allows each user to have multiple identities. You can find out more from the project's official website at:
Since the #fediverse / #mastodon is growing and growing and since it’s wonky as hell, hard for non-techies to figure out I tend to post things on #WelcomeWednesday to help those who fled from #twitter figure things out. I also boost #introduction posts on #wednesday to help new #twittermigration people as well 😊
So if you don’t like it you can mute me on Wednesdays to save your eyeballs 😂
Whoa — #Mastodon passed 10 million users yesterday. According to @mastodonusercount, the number of hours people spend on here is increasing too. That's incredible.
It's a moment to celebrate and to get excited about the work we still have ahead scaling and securing the #fediverse.
I'm starting work on a blog about what it will take to get us to the next 10 million, and I'm curious about what my friends on here think about it. What do we need, in terms of tech or otherwise, to keep growing?
Automattic, the company behind WordPress is now the official author of the ActivityPub plugin. This is pretty big news, since it allows every WordPress website to be a potential fediverse server.
In this piece I take a look at the potential impact on #fediverse culture, zooming in on how tagging your WordPress posts makes them show up when you search for a specific hashtag here on the fediverse.
If #activitypub is implemented on #tumblr I wonder if subblogs will be part of the #fediverse in addition to the main blog. I know I'm ignorant on the technical side of things, but it would be great if subblogs could be part of the Fediverse as well...
👋 Welcome to the #ChaMona account dedicated to crafting and sharing some of the finest @MonaApp custom themes, and occasional tips to making the most out of #MonaApp.
➡️ Follow and turn on Posts Notifications for when new Themes go Live from this account.
🔁 To help reach all Mona for Mastodon users on the #Fediverse, Boosts of existing and new shared custom themes will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 🙏
Dear #mastodon and #fediverse gurus. Can you work out what I'm missing for making my account appear as verified? I'm sure I've got the right rel=me incantation at https://zz9.org/social/
("help me fediverse... you're my only hope" ... wait, wrong franchise!)
Keep your current handle, but look into #SelfHosting any #Fediverse instance. Keep your current #Mastodon and add on a unique experience that you control completely.
Hell, even #Pixelfed if you're really into pictures. F Instagram.
When Rome sent their first scouts to your village you didn't consider that an honor of recognition of your tribe's achievements. You trained your tribe's people, produced weapons and prepared to defend yourself, because it wouldn't be long until they send their first armies to your village.
Hot take/rant time for #ActivityPub with the news that #Meta plans to dip their toe in the water.
I would view Meta as an existential threat to a non-corporate, AP-based #fediverse in large part because of the immaturity of and lack of interoperability in the AP spec itself.
Why?
Because when you have that big of a fish involved in your space made up of small players, the big fish gets to set the rules unless you have some pretty strong protections in place.
One of the most exciting tech developments at the moment is the advent of the #Solid web standard, which lets people "store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure personal web servers for your data."
Is it technically possible for #ActivityPub to support the Solid standard? Or this would be something apps like #Mastodon should implement?
I'm a game release specialist working on the Anvil Pipeline at Ubisoft Montreal. I've been working in #gamedev since 2005 on consoles/PC and mobile platforms. I've been a gamer and playing #videogames my entire life and actually doing a lot of #retrogaming and #emulation. Very interested in #gamepreservation and #arcade games and arcade culture. Just started learning some #nesdev as well recently.
I've also recently became interested in #WeightLoss as I've lost 250 pounds in the last year. Feel free to poke me if you're interested in how I've done it or want to know about #BariatricSurgery. I've added a link to my bio to the documentation I received when I had the surgery so that you can get an idea of what to expect: https://cloud.zerojay.com/s/BariatricSurgery
I'm also really interested in everything having to do with the #fediverse. I've collected a bunch of links that are likely to be of interest to anyone from a complete Mastodon beginner, power users and even server administrators that you can find in my bio as well as here: https://cloud.zerojay.com/s/mastodon
#cuiProdest is still useful for more roundabout proposals. For example, post.news used a #pyramidScheme for onboarding to pump up the numbers when it had barely just launched and create noise to divert from the attention #Mastodon and the #Fediverse were getting on the first #TwitterExodus. People were sharing their referrals to invite others to join post.news hoping to move faster in the queue (#WIIFY), but this was all to the benefit of the post.news' owners.
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
Lemmy shows how Fediverse-connected message boards can work. So is it time for a Fediverse-connected general purpose message board platform (like phpBB)? Is anyone working on this?
I'll elaborate on my thoughts further in my reply below, but I'm keen to hear what everyone thinks of this concept