“The #fediverse is like #email.”

Yes.

Now read this and understand it:

“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“

cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self…

Via @cancel

After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne

^{cfenollosa.com}

I got tired of forgetting where the #RSS / #Atom #feeds are on various #Fediverse platforms and having to track them down, so I started a list.

hyperborea.org/tech-tips/fediv…

Currently covers *deep breath* #Mastodon, #Bookwyrm, #Funkwhale, #GoToSocial, #Lemmy, #Misskey & forks, #Pleroma & forks #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Plume, #Snac2, #Takahe, and #WriteFreely

*whew*

Feel free to let me know what I should add to the list (or any corrections I need to make) in a reply to this post!

Finding Fediverse Feeds

How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.

^{Kelson Vibber (Hyperborea Tech Tips)}

Here’s @coachtony sharing more about what we’re up to with me.dm, why we’re excited about #Mastodon and the #fediverse, and what it will mean for #Medium writers and members.

blog.medium.com/medium-embrace…

As @coachtony writes:

”Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community."

Medium embraces Mastodon - 3 Min Read

Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are…

^{Tony Stubblebine (3 Min Read)}

Attention fedizens, it has come to our attention that more trolls are causing a ruckus on the #fediverse. Beware of users who use acronyms like lgbtq/lgbtqia in posts or on their profiles.

LGBTQ/LGBTQIA stands for Let's Get Banned Today Quickly (by) Instance Admins, is used to refer to a group of trolls who like to block evade or "speedrun" getting defederated.

They will make inflammatory posts such as the one below to see how quickly they can get on #fediblock.

If you see any #lgbtqia individuals please block and federate safely.

#FediTips#MastoTips#Speedrun#Mastodon

RT @ItsRogueRen@twitter.com

Yo #fediverse (and Twitter when this crossposts) 1st #YouTube stream starts in less than an hour! (6:30pm CST) Check the upcoming #stream @ youtube.com/@rogueren

#vtuber #vtubers #pokemon #linux #gaming

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ItsRogueRen/status…

Rogue Ren

English Vtuber with a focus on showing cool free tech for Vtubers on any Operating System! New videos on Fridays, and streams on Twitch 3 times a week! https://twitch.tv/itsrogueren Business Inquiries: roguerenbusiness@protonmail.

^YouTube

There's a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:

➡️ chirp.social

You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers

It is similar to the existing a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.

It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Hello new people! 👋

I run a human-curated directory of interesting accounts to follow on here:

➡️ fedi.directory

Do you have an account that posts a lot about a particular topic? Would you like to be listed in the directory?

If so, @ me or send me a DM and let me know!

(The site only went live a few days ago so some topics are less populated than others, but this is why I am working on expanding it!)

Boosts appreciated :blobcat:

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Fedi.Directory

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^{fedi.directory}

Incredible talk about #ActivityPub by @rolltime. I used it as a podcast while setting up ActivityPub stuff on my micro blogging site, and I was really well informed & entertained.

youtu.be/vnciCz83t70

#fediverse #mastodon #talk #presentation #aNewHope2022

A New HOPE (2022): ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi

Friday, July 22, 2022: 1:00 pm (DAC 416ABC): ActivityPub celebrated its fourth anniversary as a W3C standard this January. The spec defines protocols which a...

^YouTube

My mother is _sort of_ on the #fediverse. Her #singer / #songwriter blog supports #ActivityPub, so you should all give her a follow!

@yo

She's even got a video up there from...well, I won't post the exact year. ;p

musicbyyo.com/for-once-in-my-l…

Any #gnuradio experts here in the #fediverse?

I've done so little with this recently outside of listening to FM radio. 🤣

Still, it'd be cool to connect with others interested in SDRs and #radio #hacking.

#SDR

I just realized that it’s our first #caturday here in the #fediverse.

Ziggy wishes you a great day! 🐾

#catsofmastadon #catparent #furbabies

What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?

You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 👀

It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).

#fediverse #mastodon

hello !Friendica Support

I am using the 2022.10 version of friendica. I know the bug, that i can't like a post of somebody I don't follow. but this one, I also cannot reshare. I can also not mark it for later:

amical.info/display/ec054ce7-3…

Also I don't see all the counted likes and comments, that exist on the original post..
somebody has an idea ? what to do... ? should i use the develop version? never tried that

Michael Vogel

Ich bin gerade hinreichend geflasht. Das #fediverse ist gerade echt massiv am Wachsen. Auf squeet.me habe ich ja ein paar Bot-Accounts, die Beiträge von Nac...

^amical.info

Livestreaming people!

Do you want people on Mastodon to be able to follow your livestream and be notified when you go live?

There's a free open source streaming platform called @owncast which is also part of the Fediverse:

➡️ owncast.online

You can follow OwnCast streams from Mastodon, and a post will appear in your timeline when they go live.

For example you can follow music accounts like @live or tech & gaming streamers like @Hamish or @hatnix

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OwnCast

Owncast

Owncast is your self-hosted live streaming solution.

^Owncast

For anyone else going down the whole "how does #mastodon and the #fediverse work" rabbit hole...

This tutorial showing how messages are sent provides a great starting point: blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/…

And, to go deeper on the full spec see: activitypub.rocks/

Food for thought: The bigger mastodon.social gets, the less successful the #fediverse is.

Sadly, the fundamental design of Mastodon mirrors the design of Big Tech (a server architecture that can support hundreds of thousands of “users”) and thus inherits its success criteria.

I feel it’s time we at least started thinking about what the web would look like if we all had our own place on it and what it would take to get there from here.

#decentralisation #centralisation #fediverse #SmallWeb

We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people.

(And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-s…)

#decentralisation #federation #fediverse #SmallWeb

What is the Small Web?

Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about: The Small Web.

^{Aral Balkan}

✨ Hi to all our new followers!

We're an open source photo sharing platform that is compatible with Mastodon and other fediverse projects!

iOS App - testflight.apple.com/join/5HpH…

Open " title=""/> - fedidb.org/network?s=pixelfed&…

#pixelfed #fediverse

Join the Pixelfed beta

Available on iOS

^{testflight.apple.com}

Finally, the fediverse icon mosaic is finished - and I love the result :blobheartcat:

#art #mastoart #fediverse #inkscape

Hello !Friendica Support why is this post "unlisted" on #Friendica, but "visible to everyone" on #Pixelfed, where I composed it from?

Link on Pixelfed:
pixel.tchncs.de/p/utzer/440241…

Link on Friendica:
social.yl.ms/display/8df4b0e8-…

utzer shared a post

Three random pics of my #cat, not #caturday, probably a repost too, but what is there better to test post as photos of #cats, there is not enough #catcontent in the #Fediverse yet!

^Pixelfed

Are there any developers out there interested in making a Film & TV review/discussion platform for the Fediverse?

Almost every time I've mentioned the Fediverse's excellent book platform @bookwyrm (joinbookwyrm.com) there have been people asking whether a film/TV version would be possible.

Does this sound doable to devs? Maybe it could use wikidata (wikidata.org) for film data the same way BookWyrm and @inventaire do with books?

If you know someone looking for new Fediverse ideas, could you pass this on to them?

#Fedi #Fediverse #Dev #Development #ActivityPub #Film #TV #Television