I write articles and interview people about the Fediverse and decentralized technologies. In my spare time, I play lots of video games. I also like to make pixel art, music, and games.
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Patch 3.23 - What Do You Think?
Patch 3.23 released a week ago. It brought quite a bit of features, fixes and adjustments which touched many different parts of the game....
You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts! ( wedistribute.org )
Bridgy Fed's Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon ( wedistribute.org )
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why! | itsfoss.com ( mastodon.social )
How to Stream to PeerTube or Owncast with OBS Studio ( wedistribute.org )
The Fediverse has, not one, but two different streaming platforms readily available to people. They both work a bit differently...but, both of them work great with OBS Studio. We dive in to how to set each up.
Interview with Matthias Pfefferle, Author of the WordPress-ActivityPub plugin ( wedistribute.org )
We sat down with Matthias Pfefferle to talk about his journey in developing an ActivityPub integration for WordPress, along with the challenges of implementing a protocol for a platform that everybody customizes in a wide variety of ways....
ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods ( wedistribute.org )
ActivityPods is a wild project that's bringing the architecture and data capabilities of Tim Berners-Lee's Solid Protocol to the Fediverse. We dig in to what it is, how it works, and what's currently possible with the framework.
Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration ( wedistribute.org )
Ghost is a huge publishing platform, and a sizeable rival to Substack. By adopting ActivityPub, they are opening up to an entirely new audience, and harnessing the power of the Fediverse.
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be ( wedistribute.org )
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the Fediverse, is built on IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta ( wedistribute.org )
PubKit is a spinoff project from Pixelfed, and is used by the project's lead developer to actually develop Pixelfed. It has some pretty great ideas about mocking up entities and data, testing data streams, and working with different server implementations to see where pieces might differ.
Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging ( wedistribute.org )
We sat down and interviewed Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.Blog. Micro.Blog is an IndieWeb platform with microblogging capabilities that marries a social experience with a more traditional personal website / blogging concept. It federates via ActivityPub, and has been a part of the Fediverse since 2018.
Fediverse webradios?
Does anyone knows an opensource webradio server that uses activitypub? (I know funkwhale, but I find it more into music than into web radios). I’d like something like castopod but for radios....
Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? ( wedistribute.org )
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: "Why didn't the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?"...
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse ( wedistribute.org )
Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed” ( wedistribute.org )
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Decentered Podcast: Interview with creator of Blacksky ( wedistribute.org )
This ended up being such a great interview. I know some people will shrug it off, because it’s Bluesky and not Mastodon, but Rudy’s a super smart dude and an amazing guest, and he shed a lot of light on building a community space for black people on an emergent platform. There’s so much good info coming from this man!
Threadverse Working Group is formed ( mastodon.social )
At this year's FediForum one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a group-centric model of content representation....
What are some of the more novel forms of fediverse software?
By novel I mean not emulating an existing popular platform, e.g. Lemmy-Reddit, Mastodon-Twitter, etc.
Our Live Coverage of FediForum March 2024! ( wedistribute.org )
We’re trying something new: live coverage of the #FediForum March 2024 Event! It’s a first-ever experiment for us, come check out our coverage!
The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub ( wedistribute.org )
ActivityPub has remained the dominant Fediverse protocol over the past few years. In that time, many bright ideas have come on how to improve the spec. Here's where those efforts are today.
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub ( wedistribute.org )
Mike Macgirvin, the long-time developer that brought us Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams, and the Zot protocol, is bringing his most powerful concept to the rest of the Fediverse: Nomadic Identity.
Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App ( wedistribute.org )
The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He's helping other projects in the space, too.
Bonfire Launches Open Science Network for Academics and Researchers ( wedistribute.org )
Bonfire continues to impress by showing off how its modularity can be applied not only different from factors, but different communities and purposes entirely. In this case, federated research.
What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?
I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.
Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024) ( wedistribute.org )
Highlighting the recent report of users and admins being unable to delete images, and how Trust & Safety tooling is currently lacking.