Undead Network is direct action. Even in the digital world, autonomy is possible. NO MASTER - NO SLAVE.
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/12/10/join-undead-network-today/
#art #autonomy #federation #fediverse #FOSS #freedom #music #opensource
fediverse
The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.
Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/
Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #Tech #SocialWeb #Governance #Federation #Bluesky #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #SocialNetworks
Jetzt auch auf #Mastodon:
Hier ist ein #StarterPack mit Accounts von Redakteuren & Redakteurinnen sowie vielen anderen Personen bei @heiseonline & Co. Kann man direkt mit wenigen Klicks folgen:
#SocialMedia #Onboarding #Fediverse #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday #NeuHier
Pretty Peony Unicorn to start your day. Have a good one! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/peony-unicorn-lisa-s-baker.html
#unicorn #fantasy #mythical #beautiful #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #horse #flowers #buyintoart #CreativeToots #artforsale #beautiful #romantic #love #floral #buythatart #fillthatwall #canvasprints #painting #giftideas
Pretty Peony Iguana to start your day: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/peony-iguana-lisa-s-baker.html
Happy Monday!! 😀
#iguana #lizard #peonies #flowers #painting #mixedmedia #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #buyintoart #CreativeToots #artforsale #beautiful #soft #delicate #whimsical #fun #monday #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #giftideas #iguanalovers
Swim, swim, swirls. New sea life art added to my collection. Have a good one.
https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/sea-turtle-swirls-lisa-s-baker.html
#turtle #seaturturtle #sealife #sea #ocean #water #underwater #swirls #blues #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #mastoart #mastodonart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #giftideas #beautiful #waves #buyintoart #fillthatwall #buythatart #canvasprints #artprints #whimsical #lisasbaker
Another #Fediverse question: we have a lot of "kinda sorta" equivalents. Mastodon is sort of Twitter. Pixelfed is sort of Instagram. Lemmy is Reddit, Peertube is YouTube, Loops will be TikTok, and so on.
Is there a Fedi Facebook?
@mike I think you’ll like this :-) #Fediverse https://mastodon.cloud/@wfryer/113915119550324476
My FOSDEM 2025 social web lightning talk is out!
🎉 Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025 | https://ayos.blog/elk-fosdem-2025
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-a-fediverse-project-that-is-beautiful-inside-out/
special thanks to @pancakes for his awesome post on Misskey forks 🙏
#blog #Fediverse #Misskey #Sharkey #Firefish #MFM #FOSS #FLOSS #SocialMedia #tech
So, 2025 is going to be a huge leap forward for the #Fediverse in general, and #Bandwagon specifically. I've finally made enough progress on the search engine that it's finally worthy of sharing a screenshot.
There's TONS more to do, but I'm so excited about getting this into your hands in January that I couldn't wait to share this now.
The 2024 IFTAS Needs Assessment Report is Here!
We are pleased to to announce the release of the 2024 Fediverse Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report. This annual report is a cornerstone of our mission to support the decentralised social web with evidence-based research and actionable recommendations for moderators, community managers, and administrators.
This year’s report reflects the insights of 183 services spanning platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, and Peertube, collectively hosting over 4.3 million accounts. This year we also heard from volunteer independent moderators on Bluesky. By analysing the experiences and feedback of these moderators and admins across the Fediverse, the report highlights the challenges and opportunities within this rapidly evolving ecosystem.
We will follow up with an analysis of what we’ve seen change since last year’s report, as well as key resources we think can help solve some of the needs identified.
Key Findings
Resource gaps – only 16% of communities have 24-hour moderator coverage, and nearly half of moderator teams lack formal guidance. That said, we see roughly one moderator for every 1,200 active accounts.
Top ranked priorities – moderators need tools for CSAM detection, spam prevention, and legal guidance for compliance with regulations like GDPR.
Burnout is a persistent issue – one in five moderators report experiencing trauma or burnout this year, underlining the need for wellness and resilience resources.
Financial struggles – most communities operate on donations, and overall our survey participants are not generating enough money to cover costs. Very few moderators are receiving any compensation for their labour.
IFTAS Initiatives
Informed by last year’s findings, IFTAS has developed several solutions and programs, including a Fediverse CSAM scanner, a comprehensive Moderator Handbook (coming soon), and the creation of FediCheck for automated denylist management. Moving forward, we aim to expand resources for moderator wellness, launch our CSAM scanner for broader use (please register your interest), improve tooling for non-consensual image detection, and introduce new community guidelines templates.
We encourage everyone in the Fediverse community to read the full report for a deeper understanding of the challenges facing decentralised moderation and the innovative solutions underway.
Get Involved
IFTAS thrives on collaboration. Join our community of practice at IFTAS Connect, use our resources, or support our mission with a charitable donation to help make the Fediverse a safer, more inclusive space for all.
Let’s work together to empower moderators and create a stronger, safer social web!
#ActivityPub #BetterSocialMedia #Bluesky #Fediverse #TogetherStronger
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Sharing one of my newer winter piece, Snowy Winter Moose. Displayed in a frame. Have a good one. https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/snowy-winter-moose-lisa-s-baker.html
#moose #winter #snow #snowy #forest #whimsical #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #artforsale #wallartforsale #framedart #winterscene #buyintoart #CreativeToots #animals #wildlife #swirls #fun #giftideas
Sharing one of my new pieces Wood Duck. Have a good one.
Available here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/wood-duck-lisa-s-baker.html
#woodduck #duck #bird #birds #birdsofmastodon #art #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #buythatart #fillthatwall #buyintoart #mastoart #arte #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #artforsale #swirls #colorful #canvasprints #artprints #beautiful #wallartforsale #CreativeToots #whimsical
Happy #Caturday. Here is Winter Kitty - Sage. https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/winter-kitty-sage-lisa-s-baker.html
#cat #cats #catlover #catlovers #catsofmastodon #mastocats #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #buyintoart #homedecorideas #artforsale #mastoart #mastodonart #fediart #fediverse #canvasprints #artprints #cute #fun #mixedmedia #kitty #kitten #bundledup #winter #sweet
Cute Santa Owl heading your way, have a good one!! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/santa-owl-lisa-s-baker.html
#owl #santa #snowyowl #bird #birds #birdsofmastodon #Christmas #snow #winter #berries #beautiful #mastoart #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #artforsale #canvasprints #artprints #whimsical #holiday #holidaydecor #merrychristmas #buyintoart #CreativeToots
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Please forgive me for asking Help & Kind Support, I'm at the bottom right now, I have an urgent notice of Unpaid Bill that I need to pay before the 15TH. I'm still short of funds & Tbh I'm running out of Food for my Cats & as for myself. I've been asking for extension but was declined since its Last Month for 2024. Please if you can, Any amount spare is a big Help🙏🏼 Pls kindly Boost.
paypal.com/paypalme/nekoow77
#Mastodon #Fediverse #CatsOfMastodon #kindnessmatters #BoostWelcome #UrgentHelp
#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
📺 The weekly #WatchPartyCalendar 📅 is out for #Fediverse 🐘 #Mastodon 🦣 events running THU-THU (12/12-12/19)🎄🎅🏻 (includes 🦋BlueSky info)
Details & updates @ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties ⌚️All times Eastern
#scifi #Westerns #Comedy #Music #Horror #Mysteries #Action #Movies #TV
Tx hosts♥️
@rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @culturalgutter @FabULiz @noirdame @JohnnyDoesntCare @MirrorAyako @Taweret @lilymarswrites @analgesicsleep @AnnOMalley
Fediverse tech roadmap 2025
One year ago I published Fediverse tech roadmap for year 2024. How did we do?
- Data portability. FEP-ef61 has advanced significantly. Compatible IDs were introduced, which make portable objects fully compatbile with existing ActivityPub implementations. Identity can be represented using any DID method, not just did:key. Security of the protocol has been studied extensively. And most importantly, there are now two interoperable implementations: Streams and Mitra.
- End-to-end encryption. An end-to-end encryption system is being developed for social networking platform Enigmatick. It is based on the Olm protocol, which is also used by Matrix.
- Connectivity. A big improvement came from Mastodon, which now notifies its users when relationships are severed by moderation actions. ActivityConnect AP-to-AP bridge was developed, but it didn't see much use, indicating that the problem it attempts to solve is not serious.
- Moderation / spam resistance. Two different conversation moderation mechanisms emerged: Conversation Containers (implemented by Streams and Hubzilla) and Interaction Policies (implemented by GoToSocial).
- Scalability. The number of platforms implementing FEP-8b32 is slowly increasing but the biggest ones still don't sign their activities (or use non-standard LD signatures). Some preliminary work on optimizing media delivery was done in FEP-1311: Media Attachments.
- Plugins. Lemmy developers are discussing WASM plugins in an RFC. A WASM-based MRF was implemented in Kitsune.
- Discovery. Mastodon introduced fediverse:creator OpenGraph tag. Relay protocols were documented in FEP-ae0c, and ActivityPub Discovery report was published. Several projects are working on Starter Packs similar to ones used by BlueSky platform.
- Developer experience. Fun Fediverse Development project continues to improve, and now provides support tables for many protocol features. ActivityPub and WebFinger and ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures reports were published, as well as FEPs about Origin-based security model and various features such as OpenWebAuth and Emoji reactions. FEDERATION.md is becoming more popular, the number of projects using it nearly doubled in 2024.
- Groups. Conversation Containers were implemented in Streams and Hubzilla, and FEP-171b: Conversation Containers was published. FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers have many similarities, and the work on further alignment is ongoing.
- URL handlers. No significant progress.
- Synchronization of replies. Both FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers naturally lead to synchronized conversations.
- Markets. No significant progress.
- Quoting. FEP-e232 is now supported by 8 platforms.
- Forge federation. Forgejo implemented federated stars, and the development of other features has started.
I think the work on these problems should continue in 2025, especially in the following key areas:
- Conversations and groups. FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers are good solutions and may eventually become one because their differences are mostly superficial.
- Data portability and Nomadic identity. A lot of work still needs to be done. Some aspects of FEP-ef61 are underspecified, for example media storage. A fully featured nomadic client (FEP-ae97) has not been developed yet and migration of data between implementations has not been demonstrated. I would also like to see experiments with peer to peer networking (FEP-ef61 is designed to be transport agnostic, this means HTTP transport can be replaced with something else, such as Iroh) and cross-protocol interop (identities created for Nostr and ATProto are compatible with FEP-ef61).
- ActivityPub C2S API. Although standard client-to-server API is not popular among developers, the work on it should continue because nomadic client-to-server API (FEP-ae97) is very similar.
- End-to-end encryption. I think that adoption of solutions developed for other protocols is a good idea. A custom solution may take many years to develop.
- Developer experience. Code reuse in not common in Fediverse: most developers implement ActivityPub primitives themselves. Libraries for all programming languages need to be created, along with online validators, testing tools and good documentation.
Help SocialBC.ca launch in 2025!!
Right now, it's just me, @PhotographyElf, @arbutus, @kevin, and @jrenken but on January 1st we're going to open registration and welcome (hopefully!) a whole bunch more people!
We’re going to need the help of the #Fediverse, and our future members of the instance, to make this thing go!
We have $50 in our bank account. Our launch goal is $CAD2500 to get us through 2025!
#PleaseBoost #PleaseDonate #Fediverse #Mastodon #BCPoli
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N
🎉🥳🚨#Fediverse #TwitterMigration #SocialBC #PleaseDonate #PleaseBoost🚨 🥳🎉
SocialBC.ca has started its Launch Fundraiser!
We* want to raise a year's worth of operating funding.
Our goal is $CAD2500!
You can donate at the link below.
(troubles with the link? please let me know!)
Registrations open in January so we want to be prepared if we need to increase our masto.host resources.
Thank YOU!!
We is: @chris @PhotographyElf, @arbutus, @kevin @jrenken
#BCPoli #CanPoli
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N
Phanpy and GoToSocial is a killer combination.
GoToSocial has some great privacy controls, but has no front end by default. https://gotosocial.org
Phanpy, the alternative Mastodon web client, looks really sleek. https://phanpy.social
And it seems pretty easy to run them side by side.
As 2025 starts we can expect a lot of change to many social media platforms with the rise of AI
We will never ever take such steps!
I keep our services running purely by donations from people on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse and sometimes that's a little hard but it is and will be the only way
If you can and want, we can do this together❤️
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
It can be different 💪
Happy Friday!
Here is an early look at the Loops web UI that will be launching later this weekend.
Yeah, you won't need an app to use Loops anymore ✨
