If you're wondering about how the Online Safety Act applies here in the fediverse ... it's complicated.
@iftas has a lot of resources at https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-regulatory/online-safety-act/
Ever fancied a #FediBookClub ? 👀
Recently built on Channel.org, @fedibookclub is a new place to share what you're reading and why you're reading it!
To post there, all you need to do is include the #FediBookClub hashtag on your book-loving posts 📙
Let's come together and share what we love, recommendations, and get the Fediverse reading.
#Books#BookClub#Reading#Mastodon#Fediverse#OpenSocialWeb#SocialWeb#CustomFeed#Channels#Fedi
All Rise News, by journalist Adam Klasfeld, is now available on Flipboard and in the fediverse via his federated Magazines.
Follow the profile, @allrisenews, for all his stories on the law, your rights and your powers to effect change in the Trump era. He also has Magazines specifically about immigration, @tonight-in-your-rights-immigration-allrisenews, and about significant developments in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, @kilmar-abrego-garcia-allrisenews.
#News#Publishers#Fediverse#Federation#Flipboard#LegalNews#KilmarAbregoGarcia#Immigration
Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.
The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.
I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.
The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."
Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.
Mastodon's latest version has the ability to fetch missing replies from a conversation (under an experimental flag, not enabled by default).
This is a big deal, especially for smaller instances. Mastodon joins other platforms - of which I know of: Streams, GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET and Bonfire - that pull back replies on request.
The hard work on the backend is done, and now there needs to be a discussion about how this interaction works as part of the user experience.
🎉 The Fediverse is meeting IRL
Talks. Demos. Panels. Real humans.
🎟️ Get your tickets now ⬇️
https://lu.ma/p4bbb941
🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 1-2
More information here:
https://fedicon.ca
Today, alongside our updated Newsmast app, we migrated our 62 Newsmast Curation Accounts to https://channel.org (so you might've seen some down time!) 🤯
Whilst this shouldn’t affect your https://newsmast.community curated Channels, if you are a featured contributor you might’ve noticed a new account following you!
If you’re one of those experts, we’re really glad to have you 🧡
⚠️ Newsmast App Update Complete⚠️
We've rolled out a major renovation to the Newsmast app!
You'll still be able to post, comment, follow and explore the open social web but now you can do it from our shiny new Newsmast app.
If you use Newsmast, just update the app. Or, if you're looking for a new Mastodon client, download the new app now and check it out. It's built to help you connect with and learn from your social web community!
🎉 Big thanks to @2chanhaeng for his first contribution to #Fedify! He implemented the new fedify webfinger command in PR #278, which allows isolated #WebFinger lookups for testing configurations. This addresses the need for developers to test WebFinger functionality without performing comprehensive object retrieval.
The contribution includes:
fedify webfinger <handle> command that accepts @user@domain format handles or URIsThis was originally filed as issue #260 and marked as a good first issue—perfect for newcomers to learn the codebase structure while contributing meaningful functionality. The PR has been merged and will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.8.0 release.
We appreciate all first-time contributors who help make Fedify better for the entire #fediverse community. Welcome aboard, ChanHaeng!
This is a really great read by the @bonfire team. As someone who has done all kinds of experiments with long-form articles and publishing directly on the #Fediverse, there are a number of headaches and hurdles we still need to figure out.
My overall philosophy is this: rather than adapting existing content management systems to use ActivityPub federation, it’s preferable to build a CMS for the Fediverse, with explicit considerations for how the instance and the network should interact with each other. Everything, from the dashboard to side-effects of interaction, should be designed with federation considerations in mind.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
