Cans are raining down from a Portland highrise...and nobody knows who is behind it ( www.independent.co.uk )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15559886
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15559886
Ok – I figured out why I could not find this blog on #mastodon, and why my posts didn't seem to federate....
Recently, Bridgy Fed launched a public-facing version of their integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse. The service is still in beta, and there are a few quirks, but bridged Bluesky and Fediverse accounts can now follow each other....
In light of the announcement of Mastodon’s US-based 501c3 Non-Profit, and the reveal of that organization’s board members, there has been backlash from members of the Mastodon community. Some people are even saying that this is the last straw, it’s time for a hard fork of the project!...
Nostr is a strange beast: in some ways, it resembles what the Fediverse built with ActivityPub. In other ways, it follows a bunch of totally different concepts. This guide is a best attempt to understand and explain what Nostr is, why it’s different, and how it works. We’ll also cover how to get started with using it....
It’s that time of the year for something truly wonderful: FediVision, the Fediverse’s annual music contest, is back, and accepting submissions from May 5th to May 12th....
Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey briefly confirmed yesterday that he is no longer part of Bluesky’s board of directors. While he had distanced himself from the platform over the course of the last year, opting for Nostr instead, it was still a somewhat surprising announcement....
The prospect of making the Fediverse more secure is an ongoing topic, with a number of developers, privacy advocates, and user communities weighing in on how to do it. On Tuesday evening, ActivityPub spec co-author Evan Prodromou announced that he and Tom Coates have received a grant to develop end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for...
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The first Chick-fil-A within the Portland city limits will open in a strip club that served as the stage for a deadly April 1 shooting, according to police reports and a design review recently approved by the City of Portland.
One of the Fediverse’s most-repeated selling points is the following premise: YOU OWN YOUR DATA. It’s a wonderful sentiment, the idea that you can pack up everything and take it with you. The problem is, most platforms on the network can, at best, redirect your followers to a new account....
Today, open source publishing platform Ghost announced that it will soon join the Fediverse with ActivityPub integration baked-in to its feature suite. The announcement includes a handy explanation of what ActivityPub is, the benefits that provides to publishers on Ghost, and a deep dive into where these features will be found...
There were some really cool demos at FediForum last month, but the one that really opened my eyes was Emissary. It’s a newer project developed by Ben Pate, and it does something totally new: composable interfaces....
The long-awaited developer offering from the Pixelfed project took a big step today! PubKit is a suite of tools designed to help people build the next generation of Fediverse applications. For now, it can be broken down into four components:...
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Writing this down, so people and myself can easily find this solution...
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Matrix System Failure...