The developer of LastLogin.io has implemented FedCM on his end, but he needs the help of a Discourse plugin developer to test the complete login pipeline with his own community forum.
The European Commission has announced their new Mastodon account, and that they will stay on the fediverse. Over the last 2 years, the European Data Protection Supervisor had run a Mastodon and Peertube pilot for the EU, and that pilot has come to an end. The European Commission had by far the most successful and impactful presence on the fediverse out of the pilot, and they wanted to continue. The problem was that the EDPS struggled to find another EU organisation willing to take on the responsibility of hosting. As I wrote when the news came out, the perception and framing of the EDPS was wrong on how the fediverse should be approached by the EU: taking on responsibility for all EU-affiliated organisations social media presence is an unrealistic ask, and it is not a surprise that they could not find an organisation willing to do so. Instead, now the European Commission is taking responsibility and control of their own account; they are hosting their own Mastodon server. This is a much more sustainable and realistic approach for EU organisations moving forward.
The bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky has been used to spam Bluesky with pro-Trump messaging, with the spam originating from Nostr. The spam was created on Nostr, which bridges to the fediverse with the Mostr bridge, which in turn can be bridged to Bluesky. While all the networks have many places of easy, open signups, spam tends to happen were signups can easily happen in bulk, and the protocol design of Nostr makes it especially easy to create new accounts.
Micro.blog held their yearly micro.camp as an online live stream event, with a conversation about blogging with Christina Warren, as well as a demo of two new features of micro.blog: hiding replies on your blog and a new way for people to comment by verifying their Mastodon, Bluesky or micro.blog account.
Bluesky projects
This week I also wrote about three projects from Japanese developers who are building on top of ATProto, and build a video platform, audio spaces and a blogging platform, and I go into more detail on the challenges that building new products for the ATmosphere poses.
Ghost’s weekly update about building on ActivityPub, showing more progress. Ghost estimates that a release will take “more than a month, but less than a year, probably”.
Pixelfed has a Matrix channel again. Pixelfed developer lost admin control of the previous Matrix channel, and considered going exclusively to Discord. After many requests from the community now there is a new matrix channel again.
The ForgeFed project, which works on federated software forges, has gotten their NLnet grant extended, and showcased a demo of their reference implementation.
Hackaday.com looks at ‘your open-source client options in the non-Mastodon fediverse’
If I did my time zone maths right, @stux is about to do our server migration soon. If the good lords a-willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, I’ll see ya on the flip side.
Seit einigen Minuten teste ich das Plugin, um WordPress mit dem Fediverse zu verbinden. Im Fediverse bin ich schon aufrufbar. Nun muss ich mich erst mit den vielen Einstellungen vertraut machen.
Nein. Ich habe ihn vor ein paar Tagen gelöscht. Ich betreibe nur noch meinen kleinen Blog hier. Es wurde mir zunehmend zu viel mit meinem Account.
Und ich fühlte mich zunehmend gestresst.
Jetzt bin ich wieder klein und unbedeutend und blogge ich ein bisschen vor mich 😅
@2ndStar Ich hatte auch ganz kurze Zeit eine eigene Instanz, habe dann aber sehr schnell realisieren muessen, dass das ja nur ein weiterer Layer ist, den ich administrieren muss. Also gleich wieder gekuebelt. 😃
FediForum, the online unconference for the Fediverse, has its 3rd day on a Saturday this time. Join your peers to discuss the future of the fediverse and how we get there? Have unmet needs and wishes? Of even better: have solutions? Demos of interesting fedi software? Or just want to meet people who think like yourself?
Consider joining us on September 14. More info and registration: https://fediforum.org
There’s a new playbook being written right now when it comes to the future of social media. The early-mover advantage is still in effect, and there’s a lot to figure out. Gone are opaque algorithms and the whims of any single company.
The fediverse represents a chance for quality journalism to shine again.
We talked to two leaders at fedi-forward publications — @TheConversationUS's @BostonAbrams, and @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler — about why they’re investing in the open social web, what they’ve learned so far, and their advice for other publishers just getting started.
We'd love to get the #NewstodonFriday hashtag going again. This, as far as we can remember, was started by @gbhnews, and is an initiative to feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #fediverse
If you're a news organization, share your handle and your favorite story of the week in the comments to this! And if there's a publication in the fediverse that you love, let us know about that in the comments too.
Change the social contract to make non profit journalism more valued than Agenda (Corporate) Journalism
Rate journalistic platforms (Real and Agenda) like Credit Ratings Agenies
Set up non profit Patraon models for Real Journalism
Demand non fascist politicians give equal legitimacy to real and Agenda journalism slowly phasing out Agenda journalism until only Maga and the olds pay for it
I had such a great chat with @mike on his Dot Social podcast, where we talked about the future of the web and why I'm a web optimist, why everyone should be a blogger, digital ownership, and decentralized social media.
@freezr@molly0xfff We do have a bad habit in the tech world of calling people "users" and stories "content" and artists "creators". This kind of shorthand is often used to make it easier when building or discussing products but risks overly simplifying or categorizing.
When I use the phrase "content creator" I'm referring to people like bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters who often tell stories in a way that is deeply rooted in their passion or expertise. I think these are people who I think should be celebrated in the fediverse and given an opportunity to subsidize their work so that can be sustainable.
@mike@freezr@molly0xfff It bugs me that "content" has become such a dirty word. I blame the social media companies that intentionally conflated the terms "content" and "copy" because while nobody wants to make copy for free, that's exactly what content becomes when it's shared to a for-profit social media platform.
The companies don't care if you're "connecting with an audience" they only care that you're influencing that audience's behavior (the definition of copy).
What I find strange in #ActivityPub and #Fediverse that there is no way to put a note to follow request. Like "I want more posts in language_name in my feed and I liked the cat videos you repost".
It gives cases when someone concerned that they did not understood why someone follows them.