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Good morning, #BSDCafe
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Have a great Friday!
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I made a slide to communicate the power and benefit of decentralizing walled gardens via open standards. Feel free to use this if helpful.
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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 74
More news about Ghosts’ work on ActivityPub, statistics of Mastodon show the massive diversity in software ecosystem that happens when you have a fully open API, and much more.
The News
Ghost has published another update on their work on implementing ActivityPub, showcasing their reader app, and how different Ghost publications can now start to follow each other. They also mentioned how their switch to fediverse server framework Fedify has significantly improved their development. Ghost also says that they will make their ActivityPub code open source soon. They also tease a podcast next week between the founders of Ghost (Jonathan Nolan) and Flipboard (Mike McCue).
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko shared some statistics about the different tools that people use to publish posts on mastodon.social. It shows an very large variety of platforms, with Mastodon’s own native tools (web, iOS and Android together) making up less than a third of the tools people use to post to Mastodon. The statistics are also noteworthy for how incredible diverse the set of tools is, with the most popular third party app Tusky only taking up 3.3%.
NLnet has released their latest grant round, with two fediverse projects getting support: Gancio and COmmunecter. Gancio is a shared agenda for local communities that supports ActivityPub. Part of the grant will be used to improve interoperability with other fediverse event planning tools. COmmunecter is an open source social and societal platform, and the funding will be for COCOLIGHT, a light weight client for COmmunecter.
A blog by Michael Foster from Newsmast on re-centring the fediverse around long-form content. Foster refers to a conversation with me that sparks the blog post, so I think it is worth clarifying my thoughts here: I think that there is a much bigger opportunity for the fediverse by focusing on long-form content and forums, than on recreating a microblogging Twitter-like experience. Selling the same product that people already know, but now with less of their social graph, is always going to be an incredible hard task. Exploring how new products can be build that stimulate thoughtful conversation is a much more interesting direction to me. There is a reason that I’ve put the update of Ghost at the top of the newsletter, after all.
Alquimídia is an association dedicated to promoting the fediverse in Brazil, and they have launched a campaign to encourage the adoption of the fediverse by public institutions in Brazil. The Brazilian government is clearly open to move beyond the world of X, as Brazilian president Lula recently joined Bluesky after a conflict between the Brazilian government and X.
A session on ‘The Fediverse And The Future Of Social Media: What Policymakers Need To Know’, with among others, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick. Video here, transcript here. It’s an interesting conversation that’s worth listening to. One quote I do want to pull out, since it’s a trend I’ve seen happen more now, about the meaning of the term fediverse: “Today, we’re going to use a broader definition of the fediverse, which covers a wide variety of these decentralized platforms and tools that covers Mastodon, which is ActivityPub based, but also things like Bluesky, and also other services like Nostr, which is more of a peer to peer, totally decentralized system, or something like Farcaster, which is based on cryptocurrency.” How language around the meaning of the term fediverse evolves is interesting to me, and this wider usage also seems to be implied by Casey Newton this week.
Stefan Bohacek has been active this week with building fediverse projects: Fediverse Explorations is an overview of studies, papers and polls that explore the fediverse build by Bohacek. Bohacek also wrote two blog posts, exploring Fediverse domain blocks and Lisa Melton as the fediverse’s own algorithm.
The wider network
A fairly technical news item, but I think it is relevant all the same. Posts bridged from the fediverse to Bluesky that are over 300 characters (Bluesky’s character limit) get trunkated. Bridge developer Ryan Barrett has implemented a feature that allows third party clients to work around this limit, and this has now been implemented by Skywalker, a third party client for Bluesky. People talk about federation often in terms of technical interoperability: can servers of different products communicate with each other. But to quote @maegul: “federation happens in the client”, meaning that the interoperability in a manner that users care about happens on a client level, not server level. This news is a clear example of this phenomenon.
Ditto is a new type of server that has been released, made by Alex Gleason. Ditto sits on the boundaries between Nostr and ActivityPub; it functions as a Nostr Relay and Nostr client combined, while also implementing the Mastodon API so that it can be used with Mastodon client apps. It also brings the concept of servers to the Nostr protocol, which so far has been focused on Relays. Personally I’d expect to more projects like this to show up over time, that blur the boundaries between the different social networking protocols.
Directly related to the previous news item, Fediverse Report would also like to explicitly state that trans women are women.
The Links
- Castopod has introduced a new plugin architecture, which allows anyone to extend and customise Castopod.
- A first release for FediTest, a Fediverse Test Suite. FediTest also released a first draft report on a large conformance test for a wide variety of fediverse software.
- Flipboard has federated another set of high-profile publications.
- A devblog by PieFed on features for growing healthy communities.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a deep dive into Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads, and how these different platforms compare
- Tedium posts a letter to Meta asking them to finish the work on implementing full federation.
- Tim Chambers, the admin for the indieweb.social server, shared some notes on how they are using robots.txt to disallow AI scraper bots as a small speedbump.
- A blog by Jeena on why he switched from Lemmy to PieFed.
- NodeBB has released their work on ActivityPub as the alpha version, which includes a fully functional ActivityPub server in the forum software.
- A new newsletter, The Future is Federated, that helps people move towards the fediverse and introduce it to a wider audience.
- IceShrimp allows you to do some cool stuff with federation.
- A weekly overview of the fediverse software updates.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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A new release of TootSDK - 20.2.0 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/20.2.0
What's changed:
- Add support for current trending link properties and link timelines @dale_price
- Support additional quote states from Mastodon 4.5 @dale_price
- TootResponse header properties should be case-insensitive @konstantin
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
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Fireside Fedi - Episode 64 - Jo Blakely - Artist (Oil, Acrylic, Digital)
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Fediverse people, need your advice! 🙂
Do you know any GoToSocial servers that are open to public signups?
Would especially like to know about general servers that aren't aimed at a specific niche.
I've had many people asking about joining a GTS server lately, not sure what to suggest as there isn't a "JoinGoToSocial" website anywhere and the official GTS site is aimed at self-hosting people.
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Bald ist es soweit: das #Fedicamp2024 steht vor der Tür 
Vom 16. bis 21. Juli findet das #Fedicamp in Gedelitz statt und einige Restplätze gibt es noch. Einen kleinen Hintergrund-Artikel zum Camp gibt es im neuesten Beitrag meiner Kolumne bei @gnulinux
Just getting this out there. I've had a few DM's now about this image and reuse (you very polite copyright respecting people)
I created it (it's a title card from my stream) using downloaded assets but in compliance with their licenses although correct me if I'm wrong.
I absolutely do not mind anyone using it for any purpose if it's boosting awareness of the Fediverse.
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Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world:
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求助：如何在gotosocial上“偷“取其他实例的表情
项目： https://codeberg.org/pswilde/gts_emoji_importer
账号：jay、有admin权限
- 配置安装环境工具
curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh
# 手动配置PATH环境变量
nano ~/.bashrc
末行添加：export PATH=/home/jay/.nimble/bin:$PATH
source ~/.bashrc
git clone https://codeberg.org/pswilde/gts_emoji_importer.git
cd gts_emoji_importer
nimble build
# 找不到fedi_auth就运行nimble install https://codeberg.org/pswilde/fedi_auth & nimble build
- 偷远程表情包（出错了）
cd bin
# gts_emoji_importer --home=myinstance.com --remote=remote.com
./gts_emoji_importer --home=gts.feddit.social --remote=myce.li
点击链接获得token的链接一定要手动复制，因为read和write之间有空格，导致链接不会包括 write权限导致不够无法上传emoji
然后粘贴token即可
但是我这里还是无法拉取emoji...求教
- 导入本地表情包（还是出错了）
curl -s https://myce.li/api/v1/custom_emojis > emojis.json
cat emojis.json | jq -r '.[] | "\(.shortcode) \(.url)"' > links.txt
mkdir -p downloaded_emojis/myce_li_emojis
cd downloaded_emojis/myce_li_emojis
while read shortcode url; do
echo "下载: $shortcode"
curl -L -O -J "$url" 2>/dev/null || curl -L "$url" -o "${shortcode}.${url##*.}"
done < ../../links.txt
- 漫长等待图片下载完，导入
cd ../..
./gts_emoji_importer --import --home=gts.feddit.social --dir=/home/jay/gts_emoji_importer/bin/downloaded_emojis/myce_li_emojis --category="myce.li"
但是还是出现很多错误，求教！
构造admin权限url、只上传少量emoji等操作也尝试过了，还是无效
难道真的要手动一个一个上传吗
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Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 76
This week's news:
- A fully-featured review platform for the fediverse with @neodb
- #Mastodon better supports journalism with author bylines on links, and seeing what people are talking about on trending news links
- The first Ghost instance joins the fediverse, at @index
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-76/
My first post on @pixelfed — it’s awesome to see it pop up in my #Mastodon feed, it feels like magic.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub
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Misskey の 頻道 查詢 清單 天線 是做什麼的
自從我喫了聯邦宇宙 考試都考 100分
噗 不過還是很多咦問…..
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Looking for Fediverse oddities!
I am super late, OVER THE DEADLINE to submit the slides of my talk at SFSCON 2025, but I still want to add a few little things, and I need tips.
My presentation ends by listing a few “crazy but true” things about the Fediverse.
Can you help me find a few more in the next couple hours?
So far I have:
- Truth Social uses Mastodon and it was forced to open-source its code after it was discovered
- Some public institutions host their own Fediverse instances!
- You could host a Fediverse server in your living room
- You can use a car’s on-board computer to power a Fediverse server
- You can synchronize your personal calendar with federated calendars from the Fediverse (using @gancio)
- You can buy indie music by paying an artist directly (using @bandwagon)
- You can do academic peer-reviews via the Fediverse (using @bonfire)
What else??? I only want cool or incredible things.
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I just found a 4 minute video by Elena Rossini, @elena It's a really well-done intro video about the #fediverse.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
It describes what the fediverse is, where it came from and why you are just now hearing about it.
We just sent our first GoFedi newsletter!
GoFedi is coming soon—a fully managed Fediverse hosting service for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, Akkoma, and PeerTube. It’s built to make Fediverse hosting effortless.
All servers will be in Canada. No tech skills required. We’ll handle setup, backups, and maintenance so you can focus on your community.
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In the upcoming release you will be able to follow any blog on the XMPP network directly by clicking on the [Follow] button without being mutually friends (like it was until now), its a small change but with big impacts 😁!
We wrote a detailed and accessible article that explains the differences between the #XMPP network and the #Fediverse and shows how blogs are handled on the XMPP network a bit more in details 😸
If you are curious to see how XMPP works (spoiler: it's pretty simple in the end 😌) checkout our article (and don't forget to leave a ♥️ or a comment!
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If you're a Mastodon music lover, you may already know @elsemusic, as Leigh supports many musicians here on the #fediverse. But did you know the combo just released an album ? It's called "Space for you", and it's brilliant. I've had a real crush on "Vertical dead", may it be the darkest of the 10 titles of the album. And there is such a peculiar sound for guitar solos throughout the whole piece, I couldn't figure how it's produced : is it a synth guitar, paired with an electroacoustic sound ?
Listen to "Space for you", you'll get a full load of nice tunes and fine progressions, brilliant drumming, and Aelyth's really elegant voice.
https://mirlo.space/sidesister/release/space-for-you