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Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Idea (mull.net)

Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative (ioc.exchange)

Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :...

PeerTube 6.1 is out! (joinpeertube.org)

ive been seeing more and more lemmy instances lately (www.youtube.com)

i think the reddit IPO is working

Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of...

George Takei looks like good company on the Fediverse, agreed ? (universeodon.com)

I think it was last week when George Takei announced to quit with social media but is still there! Does the Fediverse need a few more well known names to attract more users ?...

A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) (yewtu.be)

A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.

The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)

ActivityPub has remained the dominant Fediverse protocol over the past few years. In that time, many bright ideas have come on how to improve the spec. Here's where those efforts are today.

Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ? (news.itsfoss.com)

The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems:...

Building ActivityPub (activitypub.ghost.org)

Looks like it's really happening!

It’s my 15 year fediversary today!

That’s longer than I ever used XMPP or IRC.

Ghost has open sourced their ActivityPub implementation (github.com)

Open source meets open science - announcing the Open Science Network initiative (bonfirenetworks.org)

Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity (wedistribute.org)

New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) (codeberg.org)

This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.

An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok alternative, made by pixelfed has just successfully tested federation. (mastodon.social)

Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse (mastodon.de)

It's mostly about mastodon, but spammers also have hit Lemmy communities. This mastodon post contains solutions to mitigate the wave for admins, and also link to the origin of the thread. Turns out they're japanese kids from discord.

ActivityPub author is writing a book about ActivityPub (evanp.me)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12904730...

One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub (thenewstack.io)

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/10963743...

PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)

PubKit is a spinoff project from Pixelfed, and is used by the project's lead developer to actually develop Pixelfed. It has some pretty great ideas about mocking up entities and data, testing data streams, and working with different server implementations to see where pieces might differ.