ActivityPub was not invented in 2018, in fact it has a history of multiple protocol iterations since 2008 including OpenMicroBlogging and OStatus.
2010 another company named diaspora raised $200k to create another federated protocol. In 2018 #diaspora peaked at 1 Mio. users with 200 federated servers. Then the core dev decided to ignore #ActivityPub. That was the end.
Lets see how #Bluesky and #Nostr inventing the wheel again.
Recent mosque attacks raise questions about the affinity between white supremacy and far-right Hindu nationalism
This shared intense hatred of “monstrous” Muslim men brings Hindu and white extremists into a “transnational affective alignment.” That is, the mutual hate of Muslims and a mutual love for Hindu and white national ideals.
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Giant Rhubarb" 2023.04. The highlights of this release are
The Mastodon compatible API of Friendica was improved,
Drag and Drop functionality was added to the Frio theme for image attachments, and
Christian Pöschl from usd AG reported a XSS fulnurability in a javascript dependency in the gallery of the Frio theme that was fixed.
What is Friendica?
Friendica is a decentralized communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr.
@virgil_tibbs@kuketzblog@imke ich weiß nicht, ob die Entwicklungsaktivität so aussagekräftig ist. mW ist die Haltung bei #Diaspora: Hier läuft soweit alles gut und stabil, da muss gar nicht viel weiterentwickelt werden. Zu Friendica und Hubzilla bestehen ja auch einige Verbindungen der User untereinander. Und für Einige ist das einer der Pluspunkte von Friendica und Hubzilla, dass man auch mit Diaspora verbunden ist