Fediverse

While looking for posts with the #degoogle hastag with my mastodon account, I realized that mixed in the hastag timeline there were posts to the !degoogle@lemmy.ml community, but not containing the hastag itself in the text.

I tried to look around, but In wasn't able to find an explanation of how this is supposed to work: is it because of the name of the community that is the same of the hastag? Or is or because the hastag is "embedded" in the community itself?

Post announcing this (warning, it's JSON): https://john.onolan.org/.ghost/activitypub/note/61fa1ab7-8612-4780-a894-7d5d63062efd

I originally signed up to mastodonapp.uk. Now that I'm attempting to get m.dollha.us running, I'm looking to pull my account from the former and move it to the latter. Easier said than done, though, because I cannot, for the life of me, seem to get my instance to federate with that instance. I have tried leaving it for a week or three, I have tried starting it in limited federation mode and whitelisting the instance in question, and I have tried a dedicated relay provided by fedi.buzz.

Today I noticed something interesting in my sidekiq logs: My instance is actively rejecting mastodonapp.uk - despite it not being in any blocklists. This is, of course, via the dedicated relay, so it could be a relay issue, but I can see no obvious reason why that would occur.

What could be the problem here?

- This may have already been shared here. Apologies if it has. I saw this on #Reddit Fediverse group and it seems interested. Hopefulyl it work well with #Friendica post locations. (If I can ever figure out how to use those properly. )
RE: mastodon.social/users/benpate/…

Must've been a recent change because somewhat frequently I'm using it on the go and just now it started appearing for me.

Also banners appear on the top of communities now too. =D

Gerade berät die EU bei einem Sondergipfel über #digitaleSouveränität in Berlin: Als ein Baustein könnte Open Source in Zukunft #Bigtech flächendeckend in der Verwaltung ablösen.

Wir setzen bei unserem Portal bereits konsequent auf #OpenSource, in unseren Arbeitsprozessen nutzen wir aber auch Microsoft-Produkte. Könnt ihr euch eine konsequente Umstellung vorstellen oder arbeite ihr schon immer frei von Big Tech?

@fediverse @wikimediaDE @fragdenstaat @zendis #digitalgipfel #openCoDE #EU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M_6jbcI3U0

Evan Prodromou is often called “The father of the Fediverse”. It's amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more! The Fediverse consists of independent social networking platforms including Mastodon (micro-blogging), PeerTube (videos), Pixelfed (images) and more.

Just like WordPress, most of the Fediverse runs on open source code. And just like WordPress, you get to create content that isn't swallowed by corporate algorithms. And you can build successful business or communities on your platforms that you own control.

We talk with Evan about the origins and evolution of the Fediverse. Evan has played a key role in building several early Fediverse sites such as Wikitravel, Identi.ca, and StatusNet. He also helped to develop Activity Pub which the key protocol that enables Fediverse to talk to each other.

BMX Escape is a very cool synthwave band that I really enjoy listening to. And as of yesterday they have a Mastodon account, which is partially because of me.

Looking back at a year of FOSS activism, spurred by political events.

Fediverse Report 142 - this week's #fediverse news

• More on bonfire's crowdfunding and why software maintenance matters
• But which communities are the ones that are going to start new fediverse servers?
• Mastodon updates their roadmap, with starter packs, new landing pages for mastodon servers and improved onboarding tools coming for 4.6

Is there any directory on which l can get to know about open source communities on various platforms ?

How do I fetch my mastodon account onto my brainbin account ?

Hi. I'm new to federation and would like to set up my own instance.

I'm able to get a lemmy website up and running, but for some reason I can't see or search for other instances.

The only thing that I'm able to connect to, for some reason, is the technology community for lemmy.world. Even that loads improperly though as the posts only seemed to load once and aren't getting any updates. There are also no comments and my subscription to the community remains pending.

Trying to connect to the community directly using myinstance.com/c/othercommunity@otherinstance does not work. It returns an error page that says "The server returned this error: Error".

Does anyone know what could be causing this, or a possible fix?

I made some off-hand comments on a post on 196 and didn't realize they'd be taken the wrong way. I made a few more comments to help clarify my idea but caught a blanket ban from blahaj.zone with no warning or message.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=588349

I'm mortified :( It's never been my goal to make others feel bad online. I had a quibble with the wording on a meme and clumsily worded my idea of "Our differences shouldn't be minimized because they make us special" was seen as transphobia/TERF rhetoric.

But with no prior warnings or even a message from a mod to 'cool it', I got banned from the entire instance. I love these communities (feel free to look at my 2.5 years of comment/post history) and I would like to be able to continue to participate.

So, is there a formalized method of ban appeal beyond messaging mods? Their instance has like 12, so I don't want to spam them and have it seen as harassment.

We need a system like a RockChip processor based single board computer, paired with a trusted protection module, and all fediverse services prepackaged for minimal user input required to self host any fediverse services. All updates should be safely installed over the air via the TPM chip based encryption just like with Graphene OS. All of the necessary connections should be preconfigured to punch a hole for the port into the internet. The hardware should be completely locked down with an immutable base system and SE Linux fully configured. There shouldn't be any accommodations for obscure edge cases outside of the base configuration. It should not require any further payment or services.

A RockChip RK3588 is fully documented with a 3k3 page long full datasheet. As I understand it, this chip is open hardware, though it still has the ARM proprietary blob (TrustZone), similar to the x86_64 Intel Management Engine, and AMD Platform Security Processor. I have not heard of a similar system present in RISC-V processors, but I also have not seen RISC-V SBCs that are more than alpha prototype dev kits. Unlike other single board computers, the RK series has the documentation required for community based Linux kernel support. No one could pull kernel support that they are the only ones providing using a proprietary datasheet.

There are many RK3588 single board computers available for around $100 already. As a back of the napkin quality idea using baseless imaginary statistics, I bet we could get around 3-5% of regular users to purchase hardware within a year if it was within a $250 price point. This should be set up for one click image and video hosting, threadiverse, mastodon, file sharing, git, blogging, etc.

This is way outside of the scope of a project I am qualified to manage; I am no real developer, just a sloppy hacker type. I'd volunteer to do a hardware design, or at least the bulk of the tedium for someone more experienced with production stuff to review. I would not mind playing the glue between those that have more limited time. If LW has 6k plus active daily users, and 3-5% of these purchased the hardware, the rough margins are nowhere near a viable business. Still, something in the back of my head says the only thing actually impeding internet freedom with the fediverse is the challenge of self hosting, and this is like the issue that Android addressed with mobile hardware. If people could one-time purchase the hardware, and only pay for their regular internet connection, I think they would buy straightforward honest open hardware they fully own.

I don't know if it is possible, or if the fediverse projects would participate in some kind of automatically updated end point. This was just a fantasy shower thought that I have been mulling over all day. It addresses all of my personal hesitations and insecurities about self hosting, and is simple enough I can imagine my techno illiterate family giving it a try. It is the kind of project I would like to be a part of.

What's new

• Media library that lets you upload images to comments/post body and paste from the clipboard
• Animated gif support for user profile pictures
• Specify alt-text for link posts that link to an image
• Emoji picker and spoiler button added to markdown toolbar
• More links to the modlog (footer, community sidebar, user profile) and improved searching/filtering
• Leave a conversation to remove it from the list of their direct message conversations
• Post urls are now "friendly" since they include the community name and a snippet of the title instead of just a number
• Add link to show parent comment when directly viewing a comment reply
• Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g. ![image alt text :: width=300px](https://url/ to image)
• Code syntax highlighting in code blocks and allow for style selection in user settings
• Tag cloud added to sidebar for feeds and topics
• Better searching and filtering of the Instances list
• Add a block (of a user, community, instance or domain) from the blocks and filters management area, without doing it via a post
• Popup suggestions when mentioning a community or user as you type
• Onboarding plugin which auto-subscribes, auto-blocks and sends a welcome message for new accounts
• Improved federation efficiency
• Old posts can be automatically archived (saved to S3) to free up database space
• Old posts by bots with no comments are automatically deleted
• LLDAP support, which does LDAP a bit differently

To upgrade

To upgrade from 1.2.x:

git pull  
git checkout v1.3.x  
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh  

In the past we had a separate project for realtime notifications, which is now unsupported as it's code has been merged with the main PieFed project. To set it up, refer to the Push Notifications section of install.md. As well as enhancing the user experience doing this will decrease load on your server if it hosts local communities with many subscribers as some of the federation work has been offloaded to the push notifications service.

Donations

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Fediverse projects are maturing and adoption of them is trending up. I'm excited for the further development of the underlying technologies as well as the apps being built to leverage those technologies into even more integrated, user-friendly experiences.

With any developing tech, small annoyances are found and ultimately patched or worked around. It's to be expected that no user experience is ever perfect, even for matured ecosystems. Typically, some smaller annoyances are tolerated when balanced with the overall utility and usefulness of the tech.

One of the issues I've noticed (and I'm sure I'm not the first or only), is that when posts are relevant enough that the OP decides to cross-post into multiple communities, the comments and engagement stays with each community post leading to separate conversations.

The existance of separate conversations itself isn't necessarily a bad thing. Maybe you post a recipe for Pot Roast in a general cooking community and also a community that helps refine recipes to improve them. It may be that the two separate conversations make more sense as the nature of discourse is focused on two different aspects of the content posted. If they were combined, it would be more difficult to sift through chatter to get at the discussion you were looking for.

This concept is true for different communities as well as different instances. Maybe the Pot Roast recipe conversation generated on carnivores(at)lemmy.instance is substantly different from the conversation at vegan-curious(at)lemmy.instance and the existance of both is bolstered by the cultures and seneabilities of the different instance/communities. That could create usefull and/or thoughtful discourse that maybe wouldn't have happened if everyone was mixed together and talking past each other.

However, there are plenty of informative posts attached to very similar communities on a given instance as well as posted to mirror-communities across separate instances. Each individual post is a separate entity and i find myself jumping in to different conversations of the same content to see what's being said in each. In addition to general replies often asking the same questions across all of the posts, unique engagement is diffuse and not connecting.

I imagine that an OP would have trouble keeping up with all of these different interactions and likely defaulting to paying their attention to only one or two while the remaining posts are left to fend for themselves. Even if the OP stayed on top of them all, I assume they'd often have to answer the same questions multiple times.

_The question I pose is: _

What is the solution to myriad and diffuse conversations around cross-posts? Is there a way to handle this situation thru lemmy-ettiquette or does it require a technological solution?

Maybe we handle it thru culture and expectation. If the decided upon method was to post once and then link that post to other communities for exposure, maybe that funnels everyone into one post to interact (when that's what OP wants).

Is there a software solution on the app developer level that combines like posts together? Is it a protocol level solution thats required? Maybe something that allows a single post to essentially 'tag' different communities for exposure, while only posting once? Can we associate posts to an individual user rather than associating the post to a community, so all replies come to the user post rather than in a community?

I don't know what the solution looks like and I'm not savvy enough to understand the protocol/software side to know if any of my examples are realistic. I also don't know if this is an issue for anyone else, or at least one that lemmy-ites actuallly care about enough to try and solve.

Does anyone know if work is being done to address this? Am I focusing on something that is simply not a priority? I welcome your thoughts.

...I tried to choose what I thought was the best place for this post, but I'm open to moving it if I was in error. (Ironically, something that might be easier if posts were handled differently). :)

_edited to make the community examples formatted as from the same instance instead of two separate instances _

Fediverse community platform Bonfire launches, together with a crowdfunding campaign. Mastodon now officially quote posts, and a fediverse client for the Media Liberation Day campaign.

I remember signing up for the newsletter for this a while ago. They've come a good way since then, and I appreciate how much thought and planning they've put into this. There's value to having a clear road map of how they intend to put it all together.

This page seems to have the most information: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

I've pulled out the parts I thought were relevant:

Welcome to the open social web: a growing constellation of people and interconnected apps reclaiming the web.

But most people aren’t here yet. They’re trapped in mainstream social media platforms controlled by billionaires, where [...]

The solution isn’t another winner‑takes‑all platform, but a resilient, diverse web of interoperable services built on open protocols like ActivityPub, with bridges to other networks (AT Protocol/Bluesky) where useful. [...]

After several years of tireless work, we’ve just launched Bonfire Social 1.0, built on our modular toolkit that's fully customisable and extensible by design, which powers federated spaces that connect with Mastodon and the wider fediverse, balancing local autonomy with global conversation.

Then about the campaign:

This campaign aims to strengthen what we've built and unlock what comes next: federated groups, events, and governance tools; shared moderation and end‑to‑end encryption; mutual aid networks; Bluesky interconnection and mobile applications; living memory and Gaia.

The code is a public good (no investors, no ads), so rewards honour the craft and invite participation.

They then list out their plans for each step, as well as who they are collaborating with already:

For example, for federated events:

co‑created with LAUTI, interoperable with Mobilizon, Gancio, and Gathio. Follow groups and places and make event discovery and participation spread across the fediverse

For E2E Encryption:

Standards‑based MLS encryption for DMs and group chats, developed in partnership with the Social Web Foundation and another federated plaform, with usable key management and an interoperability path for the wider fediverse.

Messages are encrypted on devices and readable only by intended recipients—even by instance operators. We’ll focus on usable, federated key management and a path toward interop across the fediverse, setting a stronger baseline for privacy, especially for at‑risk communities.

Mutual Aid:

Local gifting and mutual aid: location-based offers/requests and resource matching, co‑designed with Mutual Aid Networks and local BuyNothing communities to strengthen solidarity and local resilience.

BuyNothing‑style gifting and mutual aid features support everyday sharing and crisis response: offers, requests, matching, and interoperable accounting with ValueFlows.

We’ll work with gifting and mutual aid communities to migrate from closed platforms, and explore bridges to connect existing networks (e.g., TrashNothing) where useful, so care and resources can flow without surveillance or lock‑in.

Gaia:

Environmental sensor and open data can appear in feeds as stories, visuals, and alerts. Co‑created with ecologists, artists, and sensor networks to turn data into dialogue and stewardship, taking Citizen Science to a whole new level.

Streams of environmental data, such as sensors, citizen science, open datasets can become understandable and actionable signals. Communities can contribute local data, listen with place, and turn awareness into care. The network of life is already federated, Gaia helps us listen and respond together.

Hello all,

Apologies if this isn't the right place, but I have moved instances a few times, and in doing so I've accumulated a number of subscriptions from my old instances. I always used the "migrate" feature, and I have roughly 200 communities I'm subscribed to. Most are from various other instances that aren't my own. That being said, I have Lemmy open on "subscribed" and "scaled", as I found this gives me just what I want to see when I boot up the site.

But it is very slow, sometimes even timing out on Jerboa. I thought it was my instance, but I've had this issue on other instances as well. I'd imagine federating all my subscriptions would take some time, but then wouldn't "All" cause even more problems? I've tried to look into this to no avail.

Am I the only one? I'm asking this more out of curiosity than an actual solution.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38329467 Will include various fediverse talks & presentations.

Main site at https://seagl.org/ and they are on fediverse @SeaGL@mastodon.social

A number of talks and expo hall. All are welcome; please help re-share so people can know about it and attend. Lots of the talks will be on streaming as well for remote participation. They also have Matrix chats https://seagl.org/meet