So this is apparently NOT enough for mastodon.social to defederate Threads.
What a complete and utter betrayal.
#mastodonSocial #meta #threads #moderation #fediverse #mastodon #mastodonGGMBH #lgbt #lgbtq #humanRights
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RaveNation.club is a Mastodon server for all the ravers in the universe. Anyone who listens to electronic music (or not) is welcome:
You can find out more at https://ravenation.club/about or contact the admin @main
#FeaturedServer #Raves #Rave #Music #ElectronicMusic #Electronica #Techno #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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What a whirlwind 72 hours in #Brussels for #FOSDEM! Everyone I met has been working so so hard to build technology explicitly trying to break out of a broken system of corporate hegemony. There were so many different fields present here but I primarily focused on the #fediverse track.
Because of X and Meta fucking things up once again, people are talking about abandoning social media, because there are no corporate free alternatives. Right.
A few days ago, I boosted a photo I liked, posted by someone who shares many photos and with whom I've never interacted. Yesterday, this person blocked me. Considering that I haven't posted anything, I am really puzzled trying to figure out the reason behind it. Maybe it's because I don't show the number of followers and following?
#Fediverse
#Fediverse
Bluesky founder and CEO @jay.bsky.team says social media is stagnating because "we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out." She talked to @mike for the Dot Social podcast about building a healthier internet, how Elon impacted Bluesky's trajectory, innovating on social identity, and how different protocols can come together.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jay-graber/
Watch the video and listen to the podcast on PeerTube here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://flipboard.video/w/ophhJTECuL7fcBNbUitV3q
Discover past interviews here: https://flipboard.com/@mike/dot-social-the-future-of-the-social-web-3r0pl8ge5dju9965
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #Bluesky #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #OpenSocialWeb #JayGraber #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia
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I’m proud to have once again played a small role in pushing  #Mastodon and the #Fediverse forward. Today’s announcement is an important step in bringing greater community ownership and governance to @Mastodon
RE: https://hannahaubry.online/on-community-governance-for-mastodon
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Hi everyone,
I just migrated to this instance from elsewhere in space and time, so I'm feeling kind of woozy, but please give me a chance and I will be a great Follow.
Thanks to those who got migrated over with me; hello to new folks on here; can I get a WOOT?.
I hope I mostly did it right.
I will spend the next week looking over new Follows and such. Please no DMs.
🍸 🐲 🚬
#DragonAfterDark
#Fediverse
🧶 La Nostra Rete in tour! 🇮🇹
(English version in the following post)
Da domani partirà il fantasmagorico imperdibile tour de La Nostra Rete, che porterà il workshop in giro per l’Italia! ⛵
Se sarete nei luoghi in cui si terrà il laboratorio siete assolutamente invitatз, 🆓 l’ingresso è libero e gratuito. Se non foste nei paraggi, condividete appppalla con amicз tecnoscetticз, tecnoinnamoratз, tecnoasceticз, tecnorepellenti o tecnoindifferenti. Sono tuttз benvenutз 💕
Grazie alle persone stratopiche che mi ospiteranno! @collettivodemand @reclaimthetech
✨ Nota speciale: mentre sarò a Bologna, ci stiamo organizzando per trovarci di persona e partecipare collettivamente al @fediforum, tuttз insieme da Scift, la nuova officina che aprirà domani a Làbas!
ℹ️ Per info aggiornate, visitate https://ournet.rocks/it/
#LaNostraRete #LaNostraReteTour #OurNetTour #Milano #FaLaCosaGiusta #Napoli #Roma #Velletri #Làbas #UrbanArtLab #Bologna #Bolo #Verona #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetHistory #Web #DWeb #Zero81 #Fediverse #decentralization #decentralizzazione #Demand #laboratorio #lab
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"Summer Colors" is my latest effort...hope you enjoy!
ART - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/summer-colors-peggy-collins.html
#flowers #floral #flower #sunday #garden #colorful #color #art #arte #buyintoart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99
A major news for governance this week on the open social web, with Mastodon shaking up their organisational structure and more.
The News
Mastodon published plans for their new governance structure, with control of Mastodon moving to a new non-profit organisation, and moving ownership away from CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon will set up a new top-level non-profit organisation. This new organisation will become owner of various Mastodon related assets, including names and copyrights. These assets are currently still held by Eugen Rochko, and Mastodon says that this is not the intent of Mastodon. Rochko and the Mastodon organisation believe that “Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.”
Rochko has been a major driving force in growing Mastodon into the platform and product that it is today. While his singular ownership in his name of Mastodon does not fit with the current state of the platform, it is indicative of the outsized influence and impact his work has had over the years. In a thread, Rochko also explains his own perspective, writing about how Mastodon has become tightly integrated with his own identity. He also says that the last two years have taken a toll on him, both mentally and physically. Stepping away from a leadership position that has become so tightly integrated with a sense of self is an incredibly difficult thing to do, and Rochko deserves recognition for both his work, and knowing when to take a step back. Rochko will focus on his original passion of product strategy for Mastodon.
Even for the Mastodon organisation, there are still multiple unknowns, and the organisation is still in the process of figuring it all out. The short summary of what the organisation of Mastodon will look like: There will be a new top-level organisation for Mastodon. This will be a non-profit organisation that is based in Europe. Mastodon does not know yet which European country. The organisation will be led by a new CEO. The new CEO has already been picked, but Mastodon is waiting for a few final practical details before they will be announced. Under this top-level organisation will be 2 other organisations, the US-based Mastodon non-profit and the current Mastodon GmbH organisation. For the US-based Mastodon non-profit nothing will change, this organisation is mainly for fundraising purposes. The current Mastodon GmbH organisation has become a for-profit organisation due to unclear German bureaucracy. This organisation will involve itself with the daily operations, both of running the mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers as well as development of Mastodon software.
404 Media reported this week that Meta is blocking links to Pixelfed on their apps, after various fediverse users reported that links on Meta platforms to their Pixelfed account immediately got taken down as spam. Meta later admitted to Engadget that “removing the posts was a mistake and that they’d be reinstated.” Meta’s actions have been beneficial for Pixelfed, which has been at the centre of a news cycle. Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault said that the pixelfed.social was seeing “unprecedented levels of traffic“, and according to fedidb.org (also created by Supernault) monthly active users for Pixelfed jumped from 20k in December to 27k as of right now. Supernault also reports that pixelfed.social had 11k people joining in the last 24 hours, which also is validated by fedidb.org. I’m not clear on what the correct statistics are here, but a sudden jump in interest after all the media attention is clearly happening. Pixelfed also got the official apps finally out of testing and available in the Android Play Store and iOS App Store. The move has been announced and teased for a long time, and the app has been available in testing for a while.
Meta and Zuckerberg decided this week to go fully mask-off, making significant changes to their platforms and rules around hate speech. Most notably are the rules around hate speech, where Meta is now explicitly allowing hate speech against various minorities. The move sparked a wide backlash, and various Mastodon servers who previously federated with Threads decided to cut defederate from Threads. Notable examples include Hachyderm and mstdn.social. Other servers such as mastodon.social and indieweb.social condemned the move by Meta, but refrained from defederating from Threads.
The Analysis
In last week’s email introduction I wrote that I was unhappy with the state of governance of both the fediverse as well as the ATmosphere. This week’s news regarding Mastodon is a great step in the right direction. Mastodon has clear ambitions and values about decentralisation, and having a self-styled dictator-for-life who runs the software just does not fit at all with the stated values. The Mastodon Operations organisation now being a for-profit organisation is also interesting. While this happened outside of the control of Mastodon GmbH as a result of opaque Germany bureaucracy, I think it is potentially a good thing. Running a social media server with 250k monthly active users costs real money. Having servers be financially sustainable is an integral part of having fair and equitable social media platforms. So far, the fediverse has struggled making this happen on a donations model.
It is the next moves that are the real important ones: what form of governance will the non-profit holding organisation take? Will it allow for real community ownership, as implied by the title of the blog? Who will be the new CEO? What new sets of strategic priorities for Mastodon will be set? Many things are still up in the air, even for the people at Mastodon itself, and those aspects will be where we will see the most impactful changes. Still, this is a great step in the right direction.
I do find the contrast between the moves that Rochko has made and how Supernault approaches Pixelfed and Loops notable. Rochko has been aware of the downsides of his model of governance for Mastodon, and has made the necessary changes, while Supernault seems determined to go at it alone. Supernault has a wild number of projects on his plate: building the Pixelfed platform as well as mobile apps, as well as video platform Loops with it’s mobile apps, running the pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art server, running fedidb.org and more. It is incredibly impressive what Supernault has managed to build, all by himself in his spare time. Supernault has high ambitions, explicitly positioning his platforms as competitors to Instagram and TikTok. But as the looming TikTok ban in the US shows: one of the most important aspects of social media platforms these days is how they are governed, and by whom. Having a single developer governing the development of two different types of platforms, as well as their flagship servers, seems like a form of governance that is not particularly sustainable.
Rochko shared some more statistics about the connection between Threads and mastodon.social in a conversation on the Mastodon Discord, writing: “For some context, 81,745 people follow at least one Threads account from their mastodon.social account (and we are aware of 25,042 Threads account that federate), with some of the most followed accounts being MKBDH, Barack Obama, and Nilay Patel.” He also noted that only 811 Threads accounts follow at least one mastodon.social account. These statistics only represent mastodon.social, not the entire fediverse. But considering mastodon.social is by far the largest server and many other servers do not federate with Threads at all, it does provide a good indication of the actual usage of Threads. Hachyderm also shared some statistics on the connection between Threads and Hachyderm: “There were 2033 unique Hachyderm accounts following 919 unique Threads accounts and 26 unique Threads accounts following 22 unique Hachyderm accounts.”
Last month I wrote an article ‘Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?’, going through the various reasons for Meta to add federation to Threads. I did not have a clear single answer to that question. The data above provides at least an indication that users are also not clear on why Threads should have fediverse interoperability. It turns out that in practice, marginally few people are interested in the two-way connection between Threads and the rest of the fediverse.
In conversations last week regarding whether or not servers should defederate from Threads, one argument that got brought up repeatedly that connecting with Threads allows people to migrate away from Threads to Mastodon, while still keeping connections with people on Threads. Seeing the statistics on how few people actually use the Threads fediverse connections this argument rings hollow to me.
The Links
The 5th edition of online unconference FediForum will take place on April 1st and 2nd this year.
Threads is slowly making their fediverse integration available for a small number of EU users.
Castopod has made a demo server available where people can test out the fediverse podcasting platform.
PeerTube is slowly making more servers available in their official apps, being careful to comply with app store regulations.
Hachyderm shares their monthly operations costs breakdown.
Biweekly Lemmy development update.
Ghost’s update on implementing ActivityPub and reflection on their work in 2024.
Piefed held a community vote for their roadmap for 2025.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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Love seeing what our friends at @vernissage are doing!
Multiple creative platforms make the fediverse stronger.
Are you a Fediverse developer? Do you work with ActivityPub?
You should follow https://activitypub.space
And here is the awesome thing — you can follow it from your existing Fediverse account!
Follow these activitypub.space channels:
• @general
• @technical-discussion
• @faq
• @random
• @meta
(Thank you @julian )
who´s up for a calisthenics challenge here in Fediverse? i can also call it a yoga challenge as the poses are used in both.
I want to improve my L-sit and Tuck Planche (Lolasana) by doing approximately one month challenge but it´s a lot more fun if somebody else join, and the more people the better!
I´m thinking about planning everyday short video drill or a fun but helping pose variation. Good to start from a scratch and good to improve if you have already nailed the poses.
What do you think?
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the goal is not only to archive or develope the poses, but also to gain more strength, to reduce stress, to become healthier and to have fun 😃
spread the word if you think it´s a good idea! 😂
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#calisthenics #yoga #challenge #fitnesschallenge #fitness #fit #strengthtraining #workout #veganfitness #vegan #health #healthcare #fediverse #gym #training #online #home
I was really excited for the #Fediverse in 2024 and I think that feeling has borne out. Projects have released or started in earnest but so did the influenze of facebook, a long-term genocide and queer violence supporter who have this week changed their terms to expressly permit queerphobic and other vicious harms.
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I just signed up for the #FediForum "Un-Workshop" coming up in March. Who else is planning to sign in?
🙋♀️🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️
"Growing the Open Social Web" was already on my bingo card for 2026. I have my own ideas, but I'm more excited to hear what others have to say.
https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/
If we blame misinformation on social media for the trouble in our democracies, then growing the #Fediverse (responsibly) may be our best path forward.
@pixelfed was mentioned in a Daily Show skit. Hopefully we can all take a joke, but a mention of a fediverse platform on a popular syndicated show is something!
Kzoo.to is a community Mastodon server for the Kalamazoo area in Michigan, USA:
You can find out more at https://kzoo.to/about or contact the admin @notsle
#FeaturedServer #Kalamazoo #KalamazooMI #Michigan #MI #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
🦣 Stegodon v1.7.0 brings powerful CLI commands for like, boost, follow & reply, plus remote user profiles with improved navigation! Enhanced notifications keep you connected. #stegodon #fediverse #golang #tui
Exquisite.social is a delightful general Glitch Mastodon server, with a slight focus on technology, privacy and *BSD. We are here to play and make friends in a supportive atmosphere.
This server has a post size of up to 1250 characters.
You can find out more at https://exquisite.social/about or contact the admin @exquisite
#FeaturedServer #Technology #Tech #BSD #Glitch #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Tchafia.be est une instance généraliste Mastodon en Belgique administrée par un collectif associatif. Ouvert à tous et toutes.
À propos: https://tchafia.be/about
Administré par: @owl
#FeaturedServer #Belgique #Belge #Belgium #Belgian #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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#Pixelfed is getting talked about on TikTok as an alternative to #Instagram.
Almost every video about it has people in the comments saying "Why do I have to pick a server? What does that mean?"
Either people are just dumb beyond help, or we need to do better at onboarding people to the #fediverse.
Edit: I love the ideas and discussions this post is stirring up!
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Newcomers keep coming here. Welcome everyone!
Don’t forget, a good transition is a soft transition. Habits needs to be planted, and then grow. Here, no company wants you to develop addiction and click on ads, so there is a discovery time you may want to take to build your Fediverse network! Enjoy this time!
Also ask me anything, I am a 7 years old fedi citizen maybe able to help, or find someone who can.
#newcomers #fediverse #mastodon #tips
⭐️ Spotlight ⭐️
This week in our Community tab, we've featured these inspiring voices from the fediverse, including experts on everything from British history to the NFL.
@greg_jenner
@Julia
@kateaconger
@noahshachtman
@rkrelentless
@profgalloway
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