Anybody visting #froscon at this weekend?
If interested in #Forgejo #federation I will show what is going on:
https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/71b947bc-46fe-415e-b7e8-50ad3c05d597/
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Today, we’re announcing the second phase of our Flipboard federation test: Flipboard Magazines are coming to the Fediverse! Now, you’ll be able to follow content from 1,000 Magazines, organized by themes and topics — so you can get FanSided’s Los Angeles Lakers stories, but nothing about the Yankees. Take a look at @mike’s post, which explains all you need to know about this.
https://medium.com/@mmccue/federating-flipboard-magazines-575a18297bd6
It's vacation-planning time (and also Travel Tuesday), so here are a few federated Magazines to follow, whether you're looking for gear recommendations, ideas for family travel, outdoor adventures, restaurant suggestions in the world's best cities (we want to visit NYC) or hotel tips.
@hotel-news-and-inspiration-AfarMedia
@outdoor-adventure-outside
@family-travel-FrommersMag
@eater-new-york-Eater
@travel-products-travelleisure
#Travel #TravelTuesday #Lifestyle #Flipboard #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse
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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.
https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-federation-in-europe-b7e2ba3651d3
#Flipboard #ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse #Germany #Deutschland #UnitedKingdom #News #Tech #Culture #Art #Politics #MastodonMigration #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb
Im letzten Dezember haben wir damit begonnen, Flipboard für das Fediverse zu öffnen. Heute machen wir einen weiteren wichtigen Schritt in diese Richtung, indem wir unsere Testphase ausweiten: Die ersten Publisher aus Deutschland sind nun für das gesamte Fediverse zugänglich.
Mehr Infos dazu findet ihr auf unserem Blog:
https://de-de.about.flipboard.com/flipboard-zieht-ins-fediverse
I've been busy wrapping up the final parts of Loops ActivityPub federation!
We will ship with two modes (Open and Lockdown), the latter allowing you to restrict federation with allowed instances only (and enforced via AuthorizedFetch)
You can also disable Federation support
I'll have a better ETA this weekend after some more testing ✨
Thanks to phpstan, this may even ship this weekend 🚀
Thanks to Pixelfed, I've made Loops a lot easier to install & manage.
Loops also handles comment threading, mentions, notifications and like/share/reply counters much better.
The upcoming federation PR is my biggest ever, and will bring full ActivityPub federation to Loops 😍
Threads is the largest player so far to adopt #ActivityPub, and as @mike says, “The implications are huge.”
Why is Threads doing this? How is the team working with the community? How are they thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
In the newest episode of @dot_social, Mike digs in with @rklambo, Director of Product Management, and @pcottle, Software Engineer. Check it out in the fediverse on PeerTube or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. More details here:
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/threads-dot-social/
#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Federation #MastodonMigration #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Flipboard
Fall #FediForum has wrapped, but if you want to catch up on everything that happened, follow
@tchambers's feed, created with Surf, here:
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547
#SurfFeeds #FediForum #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Federation #OpenSocial
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Today is #WWDC24, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. To mark this, and to add even more tech to the fediverse, we've federated the Flipboard accounts of 10 tech publishers.
Follow their profiles for everything they publish, and specific Magazines (topical feeds of content) if you're interested only in particular types of story (we're big fans of We Distribute's Across the Fediverse Magazine, @across-the-fediverse-WeDistribute).
@9to5mac
@cnet
@DigitalTrends
@inversedotcom
@Techcrunch
@thenextweb
@PCMag
@WeDistribute
@WIRED
@ZDNet
#Tech #Technology #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #FlipboardMagazines
To discover more federated Flipboard Magazines, follow the Flipboard Magazine Community account, @FlipboardMagazines.
One of the powerful things about the Fediverse and Social Web is that people can follow you from anywhere!
People from the same server you are on.
But also people from other servers can follow you.
Should the ability for people on other servers to follow you be OFF by default?
And, only people on the same server you are on can follow you by default?
#Federation #Fediverse #SocialWeb
Options: (choose one)
As part of our mission to bring more high-quality journalism to the fediverse, we’re federating today the profiles of nine U.S. media sites, bringing their content to Mastodon and other platforms. We think this is especially important now as the world faces serious crises like Ukraine, Gaza and climate change — not to mention pivotal elections coming up this year in several countries.
We’re delighted to welcome this next wave of trusted publishers:
Bloomberg: @bloomberg
Bloomberg Law: @BloombergLaw
Bloomberg CityLab: @citylab
The Kyiv Independent: @KyivIndependent
Politico: @politico
Quartz: @quartz
Salon: @Salon
Time: @time
Vox: @Vox
Here are just a few of the amazing Magazines you’ll be able to follow:
Business News by Quartz, @business-news-quartz
Congress by Politico, @congress-politico
Markets by Bloomberg, @markets-bloomberg
News & Politics by Salon, @news-politics-Salon
Supreme Court by Vox, @supreme-court-Vox
Urban Planning by Bloomberg City Lab, @urban-planning-citylab
World News by Time, @world-time
More details on today's announcement: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-brings-more-news-to-the-fediverse/
#Journalism #News #Media #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Flipboard #Federation
Another small step in Forgejo federation.
Getting Forgejo and mastodon services to talk had some unexpected pitfalls.
Mastodon only federates on port 443 for example, that means Forgejo needs to be able to listen on a privileged port even for testing. You can imagine the troubles setting up our e2e tests properly.
This is finally behind us and were now aiming to integrate the test into the automated test suite (with a lot of work already done by @famfo)
Creators no longer have to depend on “walled garden” platforms that change algorithms on a whim and own the audience. Digital sovereignty is the ultimate influencer status. Help our proposed fireside chat with @molly0xfff become a reality at SXSW '25! Community votes are a powerful signal. TYIA 🙏🏼
#SXSW #Federation #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #WalledGardens #Flipboard #DigitalSovereignty
🌐 中文（繁體）
偉大的聯邦宇宙各位朋友好 🙌
請問這裡有 Adobe InDesign 或 InCopy 的高手嗎？
我正在學習這兩款軟體，想了解一些 工作流程與協作方式。
另外也想請教：
有沒有推薦的 免費 InDesign 版型／範例網站？
匯出 EPUB 時，有什麼方法能避免 排版失真或跑版？
任何資源或經驗分享都非常感激 🙏
#adobe #indesign #incopy #epub #design #layout #publishing #workflow #federation #help
🌍 English
Hello, amazing Fediverse friends 🙌
Are there any Adobe InDesign or InCopy experts out there?
I’m currently learning both tools and looking for insights on workflow and collaboration.
Also wondering:
Any good free InDesign template/sample websites?
How can I export to EPUB without layout distortion?
Any tips, tutorials, or resources would be super appreciated 🙏
#adobe #indesign #incopy #epub #design #layout #publishing #workflow #fediverse #help
🇯🇵 日本語
フェディバースの皆さん、こんにちは 🙌
ここに Adobe InDesign や InCopy の達人はいらっしゃいますか？
今、この2つのソフトを勉強中で、ワークフローや共同作業のコツを知りたいです。
さらに教えてください：
無料で使える InDesign のテンプレート／サンプルサイト はありますか？
EPUB に書き出す時のレイアウト崩れを防ぐ方法は？
情報やアドバイスをいただけたら本当に助かります 🙏
#adobe #indesign #incopy #epub #デザイン #レイアウト #出版 #ワークフロー #フェディバース #help
I don’t know who needs to hear this but…
Federation != Decentralization
If you want proof look at bsky implementation
Mastodon is both federated and decentralized. A community can form in the middle of nowhere without the need to connect to Mastodon.social
That’s not the case in bsky?
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📣 It's been a while since we've federated a batch of publishers — so to make up for it, here are 250, and they're big ones.
Today, we're bringing names like @abc, @RollingStone, @forbes, @BleacherReport, @NationalGeographic and @newyorktimes to the fediverse. They join the 174 profiles we've already federated, which include everyone from @19thnews to @Vox
Here's a blogpost with more details on this latest batch of publications that cover news, business, cooking, home design, politics, sports, science and more. Follow their Magazine feeds if you're only interested in one topic, or their whole profiles if you want the lot. The spreadsheet below lists out all federated accounts.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
#Flipboard #Federation #SpreadMastodon #ActivityPub #Media #Publishers #Journalism #News #Politics #Sports #Entertainment #Food #Lifestyle #Science
Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
If they can’t see what we say, it’s not #federation.
If they can’t follow us, it’s not federation.
If it requires account duplication, it’s not federation.
@mosseri and the rest of you. #Threads, #bluesky, i’m talking to you. But you shut your ears, because all these tricks are ones you need. To continue your data-thieving business model.
The #GreatDataHeist of 2024, that’s you. Trying to do it to us, candidly, but I pay my dues in money, not privacy.
#fediverse, or don’t
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We love hearing your lightbulb moments when it comes to the #fediverse! In our new short video series, we want the unconverted* to see its tremendous power through your stories. (*Which is why we’re posting these clips to “walled gardens” like TikTok.)
https://www.tiktok.com/@fedi.curious
#Flipboard #WalledGardens #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Federation
People who’ve figured out the fediverse understand its power. Hear from early adopters who explain their lightbulb moments in our new short video series. The use cases and potential of the system are awesome, and these stories are just the beginning. Tell us: what's your favorite thing about the fediverse? We're listening and looking for more people to feature.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/best-thing-about-the-fediverse-short-videos/
@newyorktimes's veteran tech reporter @Markoff interviewed some of #TeamFediverse including @Gargron, @reckless1280 and our CEO @mike for a feature on the rise of decentralized social media. “It goes back to the original principles where the internet started out as decentralized,” Eugen Rochko told Markoff. Here's the full story [may be paywalled].
We're so excited to develop these conversations further at SXSW this weekend — check out the itinerary and sign up to join us at #FediverseHouse at the second link.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #SXSW #JohnMarkoff #EugenRochko #MikeMcCue #SXSW2025
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Quote Repost is coming to Mastodon!
I'm glad they're taking time to think this through.
#mastodon #federation #fediverse
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
I've been wrestling with implementing #multilingual content support in Hackers' Pub, our #ActivityPub-powered platform for software engineers.
While ActivityPub theoretically supports multilingual content through the contentMap property, the reality is that most server implementations (Mastodon, Misskey, etc.) don't properly handle this content as of April 2025. This creates a significant challenge for us.
We want our users to share their knowledge in multiple languages, but we need to ensure compatibility with existing ActivityPub servers. I'm considering several approaches:
Creating separate posts for each language with clear language indicators, linking them through inReplyTo relationships (so translations appear as replies to the original post)
Using the primary language in content while storing translations in contentMap
Adding "View in other languages" links at the bottom of each post
Implementing inline language dividers that degrade gracefully on non-supporting servers, for example:
<div lang="en"> <h3>English</h3> <p>This is the English content…</p></div><hr><div lang="ko"> <h3>한국어</h3> <p>한국어 내용입니다…</p></div>
I'm leaning toward a hybrid approach—showing content in the user's preferred language when possible while providing easy access to other language versions.
Has anyone tackled this problem effectively? I'd love to hear about your experiences or ideas for making multilingual content work well in the fediverse, especially when dealing with server implementations that don't fully support ActivityPub's multilingual features.
Today, we're beginning to federate publisher accounts in Italy, France and Spain, and expanding in Brazil and Germany.
You can now follow even more of your favorite news, lifestyle, tech and sports sources from Flipboard on the open social web. Read more about it here. See the spreadsheet at the second link for the full list of federated profiles.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit
#Federation #Flipboard #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Germany #Deutschland #France #Spain #España #Italy #Italie #Brazil #Brasil #News #Media #Journalism #Publishers