Notices tagged with fediverse, page 3

Happy Friday!

Here is an early look at the Loops web UI that will be launching later this weekend.

Yeah, you won't need an app to use Loops anymore ✨

#loops #tiktok #fediverse

Yes, we have been tooting our own horn about this for the past few days but honestly, we’re pretty proud. Flipboard has opened a beta for @surf, a new app for building custom feeds and surfing the open social web. @theverge liked it — you can read more here and sign up for the waitlist at the second link.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24323903/flipboard-surf-fediverse-social-web-app

https://waitlist.surf.social/

#Flipboard #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Technology #Tech #Fediverse #Surf #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Have not yet finished the todo list for 2025 😉 Could you please help today, so the last task is fixed 🙏

[x] Litigation against #Apple in front of the European Court of Justice
[x] Produce and watch the "Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" movie with >700 children
[x] Raise awareness about the EU's cut in funding for #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
[ ] Convince 10 of my #fediverse followers in December to become @fsfe Supporter https://fsfe.org/support

Loops + NLnet

We are thrilled to announce that @nlnet and @loops have signed a MoU for a grant funded through the NGI0 Core Fund!

https://nlnet.nl/project/Loops/

#loops #NLnet #activityPub #fediverse

📚 Mastodon History

Back in February 23rd, 2016 — Mastodon first described itself as:

“Mastodon is a federated microblogging engine. An alternative implementation of the GNU Social project.”

The history of Mastodon is tied to GNU Social.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e/README.md

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/tree/fa33750105389110a3395ca19167f789d21a149e

#DeSo #Fediverse #FediverseHIstory #GNUSocial #Mastodon #MastodonHistory

#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science

BlueSky may be enshittification personified, but it's captured a lot of smug old media, advertising and influencer types, and that's a service, keeping them all walled off gibbering away at each other.

Mastodon's tiny barrier to entry looking fortuitous considering.

#bluesky #fediverse #socialmedia

Those (not us) who thought they were escaping Twitter/X by joining BlueSky might usefully note that a third of the money raised so far to run it was raised as a cross investment from.... Twitter/X.

So while they might be 'safe' from Musk right now, behind the scenes he's hardly disconnected.... oh dear.

If you really want to be in the fediverse you need to be in the fediverse

#BlueSky #fediverse

> リンクを含む投稿の優先度を下げる「リンクはメインではなくリプライに入れろ」というマスクの表明に、（自分の文章の告知を含む）リンクの共有こそがSNSの利用意義であるワタシも心が折れたところがありました。

https://wirelesswire.jp/2024/12/87795/

これ、気持ちわかるなあ。
（自分はもっと前の「サードパーティー開発者に対して予告無しに API を遮断した」あたりからもう折れていたけど）

イーロン・マスクのこのリンク含む投稿についての表明よりずっと前（買収前？）から、仕組み上はリンクのある投稿の優先順位は下げられていたみたいな話も見たような気もするけど、そもそも Web のプラットフォームで外部リンク推奨しないなんてはっきり言われると「ああ、やっぱり #X なんて、もはやそういう場所だよねー」という気持ちはより強くなるよな…

広告目線とかで見れば #X に限らず自分のドメインから離脱させたくないのはある意味では当然なんだけど、この記事にも書いてある通り政治にも大きな影響を持つようになった #SocialMedia #SNS に対して、そういう広告ビジネス的な発想で「外部リンク非推奨もまあ仕方ないというか当然だよね、無料で使ってるわけだし」みたいにプラットフォームのビジネスに妙におもねった理解をユーザーが示してしまうのも問題なんじゃないかと思ってて、とくに #SocialMedia みたいな性質のものは、ビジネス的にそのプラットフォームが成り立つかどうかって話の前にユーザーがそこでどんなコミュニケーションをとってどんな気持ちになって何を得るのか、みたいなことが先にあるべきのような気がするんだけど、最近はそれが逆転して、プラットフォームの存続のためにユーザーは課金して対戦型コミュニケーションを勝ち残るための武装するのである！ネガティブであろうがなんだろうがインプレッション至上主義、群雄割拠の対戦型マーケティングプラットフォーム！みたいになっちゃっているように見える。

そういう意味で、オープンな技術の上で小さなプラットフォーム同士がつながる #Fediverse は、#BlueSky のように過去の #Twitter やいまの #X の規模のプラットフォームにそのまま取って代わる力はなくても、「次の #Twitter」ではないなにか、になる可能性はむしろ #BlueSky よりあるんじゃないかと個人的には思っているけど、この記事は全くもって #Fediverse :fediverse: や #Mastodon :mastodon: への言及もなければ #Threads の :fediverse: 連携の話もなくて、この文脈の記事としてはとても残念（書き直し！ :vivaldia_5:

https://loops.video will federate before Christmas, starting with the first 100 users next week ✨

#loops #activitypub #fediverse

Hey all..

What's the best way to fund a service like #Bandwagon?

I strongly believe that the #Fediverse needs a sustainable funding model to be competitive with BlueSky, Xitter, and Facebook. More than just donations and mutual aid, people should be able to make careers on the Fediverse.

I'm reevaluating how I'll pay for bandwagon.fm in the long term. And I want to make something that's still "free forever"

Do you think there's a place for the #Freemium Fediverse?

#fediverse
#интересное
Мне показалось или Diaspora потихоньку помирает?

@GossiTheDog
Very nice. My only issue is that the #Fediverse is not confined to #Mastodon although it is the most prominent implementation
@selea

Nearly 4 years ago, I added a Labeler service to @pixelfed to add a WHO warning to posts related to the coronavirus.

I'm now working on extending this to allow Pixelfed users to create their own and follow others Labelers, in an exciting new experiment!

More details to follow this weekend ✨

#pixelfed #fediverse #labelers

morning #fediverse, heres your daily #mima #artspam :hrtp_mima_th05:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/25625163

#東方 #東方Project #東方旧作 #TouhouOldWork #Touhou #TouhouProject #PC98 #PC98Touhou

RE: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a1cqc6rb1t

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Issue №1:

host-meta is yet another format to write encoders and decoders for.

(host-meta is used to specify where WebFinger is. It does not necessarily have to be at "/.well-known/webfinger". And doesn't have to be on the same host.)

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#ActivityPub #FediDevs #Fediverse #WebFinger

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Their reason (for wanting to replace WebFinger):

“While useful, Webfinger is not part of the ActivityPub specification”

Why does that matter?

Having said that, (I do think) there some issues with WebFinger that could motivate one to replace it.

But that would mean that — any replacement MUST address these issues.

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#ActivityPub #FediDevs #Fediverse #WebFinger

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It seems like someone wants everyone on the Fedivese to stop using WebFinger.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17030

(WebFinger is used to resolve a Fediverse ID like "＠joeblow＠example·com" to an activity document ("application/activity+json").)

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#ActivityPub #FediDevs #Fediverse #WebFinger

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Issue №4:

Having to make one HTTP to WebFinger to resolve a Fediverse ID (such as "＠joeblow＠example·com"), and then make another HTTP request to get the activity document ("application/activity+json") — adds an extra HTTP request.

Using a well-known path to resolve the Fediverse ID and get the activity document ("application/activity+json") — in one HTTP request would be better.

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#ActivityPub #FediDevs #Fediverse #WebFinger

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Issue №3:

If we are going to use Internet domain-names, maybe host-meta could be replaced by a DNS TXT or DNS SRV record — that is used to specify what host to connect to to resolved a Fediverse ID like "＠joeblow＠example·com" to an activity document ("application/activity+json").

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#ActivityPub #FediDevs #Fediverse #WebFinger