Quoting the toot sent out by the blog: > In this blog post I sum up and review the experiences gained from last Stream. Check out the [VOD](https://youtu.be/RuvVvxwT1tY) If you like this content and would love to send me some treats you can Subscribe on my [GitHub Sponsor Page](https://github.com/sponsors/Toasterson) or checkout all the other pages via [Linktree](https://linktr.ee/toasterson) If you would like to have me as a coworker or consultant I am available for hire! #fedihire

Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era. The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll get it. If you don’t like Gmail, you can switch to something else, but you don’t have to quit email entirely as a concept.

"Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities – including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according to documents obtained by Platformer."

> With the rise of the Fediverse driven by Elon Musk's continued efforts to make Twitter unpleasant for the majority of people, it has been interesting and exciting to see increased interest in forms of Social Media outside the corporate hegemony dominated by Twitter and Facebook over the last decade. > Truthfully, for a lot of us who had been on Twitter pre-2012 or so, Mastadon, with it's user-curated stream of content, feels more like a return to something that was lost instead of something new. There is an excitement about Mastadon, it's underlying protocol ActivityPub, and the collection of inter-operable apps and servers that make up what we're now calling the Fediverse. > And I'm glad for it.

I'll elaborate on my thoughts further in my reply below, but I'm keen to hear what everyone thinks of this concept

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/903143 > This video site is worth checking out, if you haven't already. Share videos of what's working, and what isn't, in your community.

I want to announce a new version of the activitypub-federation crate. Over the last weeks I worked on major improvements to the usability and documentation. It now includes an extensive guide on getting started to implement federation from scratch, and also an example project which can directly be deployed to a server and federate with projects like Mastodon. The library takes care of basic functionality like HTTP Signatures, activity sending, and fetching data from other servers. Application developers can focus on the main logic, and treat federation as another form of API. There is no restriction to the content being federated: you can implement a microblogging platform, link aggregator, video hosting site or any other type of social media. The goal is to encapsulate all basic functionality, so that developers can easily implement federation without any prior knowledge. Using this library can help to share core Activitypub logic between different projects, so that the same code doesn’t have to be implemented and maintained separately by each project. This way improvements can benefit everyone. It also encourages the use of effective patterns to make Rust and Activitypub work together. All of this has been proven to work in Lemmy which uses this library and is the biggest Activitypub project written in Rust. https://docs.rs/activitypub_federation

I'm wondering because I've been shamelessly using [@Sal@mander.xyz](https://mander.xyz/u/Sal) as portal for all the Mander sublemmies

(they are looking for people to help with infrastructure so might be worth letting them know if you can help with that)

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub [https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/flipboard-joins-the-fediverse-with-a-mastodon-integration-and-community-plans-for-activitypub/](https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/flipboard-joins-the-fediverse-with-a-mastodon-integration-and-community-plans-for-activitypub/) [@fediverse@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) [@acrossthefediverse](https://links.artemai.art/c/acrossthefediverse) [@fediverse@midwest.social](https://midwest.social/c/fediverse)

FORUM OR SOCIALNETWORK? THIS IS THE QUESTION. YET THERE IS ALREADY A SOLUTION! [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) **[Indeed, a few days ago something was born that could create a revolutionary point of contact between these two tools for social comparison among web users...](https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/)** This (very long) post from [@informapirata](https://mastodon.uno/users/informapirata) tries to take stock of the situation. [\#Lemmy](https://poliverso.org/search?tag=Lemmy) [#Friendica](https://poliverso.org/search?tag=Friendica) [#Fediverse](https://poliverso.org/search?tag=Fediverse) [www.informapirata.it/2023/02/2…](https://www.informapirata.it/2023/02/28/si-profila-allorizzonte-un-punto-di-contatto-tra-forum-e-social-network/)

After years of procrastination I finally deleted my not-much-used FB account. Posted my Fediverse profiles and links as my last act but FB disallowed the `lemmy.ml` URL. What's that all about?

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/464068 > The goal of this two-minute survey is to help us improve the WordPress-related Mastodon instances and Mastodon as a meeting place for the WordPress Community in general. > We want to know your needs and challenges and how you think we – as WordPress-related instances – can strengthen the WordPress community on Mastodon.

Full text: > " Here's a preview of #SpaceHost, a fully-managed Fediverse hosting service that @reiver and I are building. > As you can see, you'll be able to select your Fediverse community server based on: >* Micro Blogging >* Macro Blogging >* Forums >* Image Posting >* Video Posting >* Media Posting >* Social Coding "

Lemmy release v0.17.2. Mostly a big fix update, but most importantly, posting from Mastodon was fixed! Change log: [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#lemmy-v0172-release-2023-02-22](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#lemmy-v0172-release-2023-02-22) [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)

I'm not sure if this is appropriate to post here, but this may have a significant impact on The Fediverse if it causes migration?

This standard document explains how group federation works in Lemmy and other projects. It can be useful to developers who want to implement a similar federation model.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/219612 > Boomer in like Facebook/tiktok is their final technology frontier. > > My friends/circle (ages 19 - 72): 95% don't know how to set up Adblock on desktop. 20% only use computers once a week. 5% use shortcuts like copy and paste. 30% of them buy iphones bc they find android too hard too bother with (I agree with this). 1% struggle with basic concepts like knowing if they are posting a status or DMing someone. Tho 10% trade stocks by themselves, so with sufficient motivation they could learn. > > I have onboard 1 person irl and I had to walk them through it. > > I rate the fediverse as 0/10 for assessibility to boomers but have not tried the whole fediverse

[@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse), Is it now possible to post on Lemmy from Mastodon?

[@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) Hope I’m in the right place, but Mastodon won’t let me post for several days. A new post pops up and quickly disappears.

A comment by the EFF: "People coming from Twitter tend to think of the fediverse as a Twitter-replacement [...] but that’s only a fraction of its potential. The question isn’t if the fediverse can replace Twitter ... With enough momentum the fediverse can be the fabric of the social web, incorporating existing systems like Tumblr and Medium and outright replacing stragglers."

[@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) [github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop…](https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/issues/3982)

There's something about the method that Friendica uses to generate timelines that I find really compelling, and that doesn't seem to be talked about much. Friendica's timelines are "post" centred, with replies appearing as a tree attached to that post, in a similar way to Facebook. It's distinct from the more Twitter like method common on most of the [#microfedi](https://embers.social/search?tag=microfedi) platforms, in which there is no real difference between a post and a reply. The reason that I find this framework so compelling is that it means you always have context and full conversations in view. If someone you follow replies to someone else you follow, the whole post and all of the replies appear in your timeline again, with full context at a glance. Similarly, when you're reading your timeline, everything is grouped together. Everyone in your timeline that replied to a post is there on that post with full context. And if you're not interested, it's trivial to just scroll past. Compare this to Mastodon, Misskey etc and their forks, where you tend to only see one branch of a conversation, and often have the same conversation showing up in your timeline multiple times depending on who is involved. It's an option for interacting with timelines that I'd love to see implemented in other FediVerse platforms! [\#friendica](https://embers.social/search?tag=friendica) [#Fediverse](https://embers.social/search?tag=Fediverse) [#Fedivangelism](https://embers.social/search?tag=Fedivangelism) [@friendica](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/friendica) [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse)