Friends of the #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
Good morning and have a great week!
#Photography #Photo #Sunrise #Picture #Pic #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Sea
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Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann 
Teilen erbeten ‼️ 
als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/iLDoTt03wkGUL3dA39ScX6hV/
#DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
Good day folks! #FiresideFedi #Episode 18 starts NOW!
Joining me today is @nikclayton with the @pachli project!
Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live
After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live
All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live
#stream #owncast #live #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #fedicast #livestream #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease
User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback
Local news matters, now more than ever. So a few weeks ago, we asked you for your thoughts on federating local papers in the USA — where you're located, and the specific publications you'd like to see. You responded, with ideas, suggestions, and an education on American geography. Now, we've federated 64 publications. Here's a blogpost with more details, plus a spreadsheet with a list of all the federated profiles, which include everyone from @AlaskaBeacon to @SunSentinel. If you spy a profile you like, search for it in the fediverse and you should see all its Magazines (topical feeds). Follow the profile to see everything in your feed, or just Magazines if you're only interested in, for example, South Florida Sports (@south-florida-sports-SunSentinel) or Texas Barbecue (@texas-bbq-TexasMonthly). If we've missed something or you have a suggestion for us, just let us know in the comments. Follow our @FlipboardMagazines account for regular updates on federated Magazines.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-brings-local-news-to-the-fediverse/
#Flipboard #FlipboardFederation #LocalNews #Fediverse #USNews #SpreadMastodon
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In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.
BookWyrm lets you keep track of what you're reading, publish book reviews and discover new books from other people's recommendations. It's part of the Fediverse, so you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc. More info at:
There are BookWyrm servers where you can sign up at:
➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances
You can also follow BookWyrm news at @bookwyrm
I've gone live!
Fireside Fedi - Episode 18 - Nik Clayton - Pachli
#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
What if the Harris campaign - or the White House - wanted to join the fediverse properly?
They'd have to admin their own Mastodon (or similar) instance.
I'm convinced there's a need for a VIP hosted instance for brands, government, professional organizations, and anyone who cares about branding, brand safety, analytics, tight links to other branded web properties (including WordPress integration), and professional moderation.
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Found 11 new servers and 20 servers died off since 7 hours ago.
22,813 servers checked. 14,892,241 Total Users with 1,036,257 Active Users today. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
misskey.tarohouse.net a #misskey server from Private
torikago-suki.net a #misskey server from Japan
tsundere.love a #pleroma server from Private
sloth.beepboop.city a #gotosocial server from Germany
caw.killtheradio.net a #mastodon server from United States
goto.queer.re a #gotosocial server from Finland
gay.byte.kiwi a #mastodon server from Australia
social.stroskler.xyz a #mastodon server from Germany
playingin.snowis.me a #sharkey server from United States
babar.petite-maison-orange.fr a #mastodon server from France
social.tracevectrics.com a #gotosocial server from Germany
Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
https://Fedi.Garden doesn't just list Mastodon servers, it also lists servers from other kinds of Fediverse platforms.
If you run a Fediverse server and it is compatible with the requirements (https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/), please message me if you would like to be listed.
At the moment people sign up via the list on JoinMastodon so they tend to only see Mastodon servers. I'm trying to create a platform-neutral alternative while still having some curation and listing requirements.
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Dear friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
since December 2023, snac.bsd.cafe has been operational, initially in an experimental phase but has proven to be stable and reliable.
Thus, Snac2 is now available as a service of BSD Cafe. It is considered one of the best and most comprehensive "lightweight" implementations of #ActivityPub, offering one of the best ways to interact with the Fediverse without the need for the extensive dependencies and components of Mastodon.
It is now possible to request an account on the snac2 instance of BSD Cafe. There isn't an automatic sign-up process (snac2 does not provide one, as it wasn't designed to create large communities).
For information and details, I suggest reading the relevant page on our Wiki: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/snac.bsd.cafe
Have a great week!
#OpenSource #TechCommunity #DecentralizedSocialMedia #snac #snac2
There is a new Mastodon / Fediverse app for iOS currently in beta testing called Fedicat. You can follow its official account at:
➡️ @fedicat
...there's more info on its website:
As the website notes, it's compatible with many Mastodon and also many other Fediverse platforms (https://fedicat.com/about).
It's not in the app store yet, but you can sign up for its beta testing via Apple TestFlight:
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.6 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: #Mastodon ↔️ #Pixelfed )
with shout-outs to @phanpy @tapbots @ivory @Tusky @dansup
✨ and special thanks to @evan @cwebber for your work on #ActivityPub, the magic protocol that is making all this possible ✨
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #RebelAlliance
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Exactly one year ago, I launched the snac instance of BSD Cafe: https://snac.bsd.cafe
Some users gave it a try and decided to self-host. Others have kept it as a secondary account, while some use it regularly.
Happy anniversary, snac.bsd.cafe - and thanks to @grunfink for the ongoing development and improvement, always staying true to the principles of simplicity and integrity.
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafe #snac #snac2 #Fediverse #SocialNetworks
Some users gave it a try and decided to self-host. Others have kept it as a secondary account, while some use it regularly.
Happy anniversary, snac.bsd.cafe - and thanks to @grunfink for the ongoing development and improvement, always staying true to the principles of simplicity and integrity.
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafe #snac #snac2 #Fediverse #SocialNetworks
I'm reading that Meta's social networks are experiencing accessibility issues across Europe.
The Fediverse is open for (not) business, as usual.
Long live decentralization!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Decentralization #OSS #OwnYourData #SocialNetworks
4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)
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Dear friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
some of you have expressed the desire to offer a bit of support to BSD Cafe.
In response, I've set up a Ko-fi page and a LiberaPay account for the project.
You can now buy a coffee for BSD Cafe at this link: https://ko-fi.com/bsdcafe or https://liberapay.com/bsdcafe
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New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 78
This week's news:
- @gotosocial latest update adds reply controls
- Conversations about racism on the fediverse, leading to work on a separate allow-list based federated network
- @peertube adds automatic video transcription using Whisper
- A closer look at Patchwork, an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-78/
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 78
Welcome back to another edition of the weekly-ish news of the fediverse. This edition contains the news of last week, as well as some news items from the previous few weeks that I’ve spotted while I was on holiday break. My holiday was indeed fully offline out of the feeds, but I could not resist afterwards to dig in to find out what happened while I was offline.
As a teaser: I’ve started working behind the scenes to launch something new with Fediverse Report, that will be in addition to the weekly newsletters. Stay tuned!
The News
GoToSocial’s latest release adds comment-controls, which allows people to determine who can reply to their posts. GoToSocial explains: ‘you’ll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.’
Safety has been a major conversation on the fediverse feeds recently, especially with Black people pointing out the lacking safety tools and major harrassment they experience on the fediverse. One aspect that facilitates the harassment is the default opt-out approach to federation; where racists and other bigots will simply spin up a new fediverse server and send (semi)-private messages with hate speech to Black people. This is why ‘just switch to a server with better moderation’ is such a problematic response; it does not actually fix one of the main ways Black people experience on the fediverse, while placing the onus on them to solve the problem. One interesting response is in building a separate network with ActivityPub based on allow-list federation, and I’m keeping a close eye on how this evolves.
PeerTube’s latest update adds ‘automatic video transcription using Whisper , a new comment policy “requires approval first”, auto-tagging/labelling of videos and comments based on specific rules and a comment moderation page for video publishers’. This blog post provides more details about the development story on adding the transcription feature.
Patchwork is an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon that is developed by Newsmast, that is tentatively scheduled to be released next month. The latest update by Newsmast showcases the variety of plugins that they’ll offer, including setting local-only posts, changing post length, and scheduling posts. The bigger part is also the addition of Channels, custom timelines that will allow external parties to hook into as well.
Some statistics that relate compare the different platforms. A comparison of sources of traffic to news site heise.de, showing the fediverse can keep up with Threads in clicks, while Bluesky is not a source of traffic at all. A new comparison by Kuba Suder shows the different ways people post on Bluesky that is not done via a PDS that is hosted by Bluesky company. In February this year, Bluesky started support for having people self-host their own Personal Data Server (PDS) that is not managed by their company. The amount of people who do so is small, with less than 100 active account. Significantly more people post onto Bluesky via their bridged ActivityPub account. Speaking of bridged accounts: Eugen Rochko has now bridged his Mastodon account to Bluesky. Rochko has been outspokenly critical of Bluesky in the past, saying that they should adopt ActivityPub instead of building their own protocol.
Some more updates by Ghost, who is getting along further with their ActivityPub implementation. The newsletter is now getting better connected to the fediverse, allowing you to follow it directly from your Mastodon account.
Mastodon moves their iOS app development in-house, and is recruiting a full-time iOS app developer. Up until now, the Mastodon iOS app was developed by two freelance developers.
A slightly obscure news update because I love interoperability: Guppe Groups have been around for a while, and are a way to get some semblance of Groups added onto microblogging platforms, functioning similar to hashtags. Now link-aggregator platform PieFed has added support for these types of groups, you can see an example here. I’m mentioning this news here because I think there is a lot more space to experiment with different platform designs that take inspiration from both microblogging, link-aggregators and forums, and this is a small example of it. PieFed added support for community wikis as well.
Bluesky released Starter Packs a month ago as a way to easy the onboarding process, and reactions on the rest of the fediverse were that this was a good idea that could potentially be copied. Statistics show however that the feature has not been actively used by the community. Part of the reason could be that signups to decentralised social networks in general have mostly stopped.
WeDistribute wrote about NeoDB, calling it ‘a review system for culture’. NeoDB is one of the more interesting platforms available in the fediverse, with an incredible wide variety of features. NeoDB themselves describes by drawing comparison to other platforms, saying ‘NeoDB integrates the functionalities of platforms like Goodreads, Letterboxd, RateYourMusic, and Podchaser, among others.’ NeoDB’s own pitch is taking fediverse platforms tendency to be ‘centralised platform concept + ActivityPub’ to the extreme, and I enjoy the simplicity of NeoDB is a fediverse review platform for culture more.
What is the fediverse? This question is answered by a tech-free explainer video by Newsmast, a new video series by WordPress.com, or a podcast episode by TheNewStack with Evan Prodromou.
The latest update for software forge Forgejo has foundational parts of ActivityPub based federation, and the first forgejo instances that have federation in some alpha form are starting to appear.
The Links
Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide – by WeDistribute.
‘Rethinking Trust and Safety in the Fediverse, with Samantha Lai and Jaz-Michael King’ – the latest podcast episode by Flipboards dot social podcast.
An update on the Bridgy Fed, the bridge between the fediverse, Bluesky and the web, and websites can now be bridged directly onto Bluesky.
A tool to view all labels applied on your Bluesky. posts and account.
Replies from the fediverse can now be read on Threads.
The history of the fediverse logo.
The third party app for Pixelfed Vernissage has been renamed to Impressia. Vernissage is now exclusively the name for the fediverse photo sharing platform that is currently in development by the same developer.
A tool to temporarily mute words in Bluesky.
An experimental demo of how a “Sign in with the Fediverse” mechanism might work.
IceShrimp originally started as a Misskey fork, but they have changed so much it is starting to make more sense to see it as their own project: a full rewrite of the backend, and now the added support for plugins.
Smoke Signal is a new event planner platform that is in development and build on top of atproto.
The newsletter ‘The Future is Federated’ has a showcase of the interoperability between Mastodon and WordPress.
An extensive comparison how different apps for Lemmy display content correctly.
This week’s overview of fediverse software updates.
Activitypub.academy is ‘a modified Mastodon instance that allows you to study the ActivityPub protocol in real life’ that has gotten some new features.
In the main Bluesky app, if you block someone and you have a thread in which both you and the blocked account have posted replies, it prevents other people from viewing those posts, which often breaks the thread. This system, the ‘apocalypseblock’ is intentional for Bluesky, but the openness of the protocol allows people to build other thread viewers that do not have this feature.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
EDIT 2024-08-05: an earlier version misstated that statistics for heise.de showed that Bluesky surpassed the fediverse in traffic. This was due to a misreading of the chart, and has been corrected.
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Fun! I like this style of these live streams, more casual and more focused on the person rather than just the code. Check it out.
Found 11 new servers and 18 servers died off since 7 hours ago.
22,230 servers checked. 13,431,920 Total Users with 1,027,115 Active Users today. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
hollo.ssig33.com a #hollo server from Private
diaspora.delaylama.de a #diaspora server from France
mastodon.mulesgaming.com a #mastodon server from Private
cabamacnagoya.harumaki2000.net a #misskey server from Private
pl.firelink.digital a #pleroma server from Private
kurage.homes a #sharkey server from Germany
social.seedoubleyou.me a #gotosocial server from United Arab Emirates
this-email-list.ispants.com a #wordpress server from United Kingdom
altair.nyoroooon.xyz a #nexkey server from Private
fedi.merta.xyz a #gotosocial server from United States
lvgaldieri.com a #wordpress server from United States
Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
It's January and that means @mastowatch has officially been out for two years! To celebrate, Mastowatch Pro is $2 all month. That’s the lifetime unlock, so no subscription either.
You don’t even have to send a birthday card!
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If you want to discover more nice videos and livestreams on the Fediverse, you might want to follow my other account Fedi.Video:
➡️ @FediVideo
It regularly boosts #PeerTube vids, which you can interact with from Mastodon etc just like any other post.
It also boosts #OwnCast streams, you can sign in on OwnCast chat with your Mastodon etc account.
Fedi.Video also has a website which provides a safe, high quality way to explore and search PeerTube:
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#FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.
* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #Masto #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #MastoJS #nodejs #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev
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