I've recently made some updates to the ActivityPub Relay I maintain. This includes a regularly updated list of connected instances for monitoring their status and having an easy way to refer to instances for inquiry. I've also added a relay policy which states instances will be banned for featuring bigoted content or having poor admin/uptime.

I definitely have room for some more Mastodon, Misskey, and Pleroma instances.

The relay server itself is located in the east coast of the United States, but open to all regions.

ActivityPub Relay, US East: circlewithadot.net/services/ap…

Follow on Mastodon for relay status updates and info:
mastodon.circlewithadot.net/@c…

Our official website is now live!

webintents.net

#WebIntents #Fediverse #ActivityPub

WebIntents - Universal Follow Button for the Fediverse

Simple, beautiful follow buttons for ActivityPub. Works with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, and all fediverse platforms. Less than 10KB, zero dependencies.

^{webintents.net}

If decentralization is the future of social media, where millions or even billions of people share knowledge, then we can learn a lot from how the Open Knowledge Foundation (@okfn) and the Wikimedia Foundation (@wikimediafoundation) built cross-border, international movements with clear missions.

These two organizations are just two examples, but they demonstrate an important point: decentralization worked because communities were intentionally nurtured, not just because the technology was open.

The Fediverse, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, already has the technical capacity to thrive (UI tweaks aside).

What we still lack is the decentralization of communities, including shared ownership, coordination, and a mission that extends beyond individual instances.

Cc @eloquence @bjoernsta @_elena

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Openknowledge #Wikimedia #Decentralization #SocialMedia

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RE: loops.video/v/dANKAqCss8

Does anybody know of any way to auto post from my other instances like Loops or Pixelfed onto my Forks account?

That is the missing piece in my mind. If I'm understanding correctly, I can just repost from any of my other instances to my main timeline here but it would be nice to have it automated.

All of this so that I can tell a family member "hey just follow me here and you'll see all my social media in one spot" without having to take them into the rabbit hole.

#fediverse #help #loops

Warm up the fire! We're LIVE!

Fireside Fedi - Episode 72 - David Revoy - Pepper & Carrot Web Comic

#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF

stream.firesidefedi.live

Testing the inline media embed.

Peertube video with the VIDEO code:

Youtube video with the VIDEO code:

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Quote:

We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!

In the post preview I see the same video despite being 2 different ones. I cannot see the Youtube embedded video

#friendica #tromsite #fediverse #fedi

Friendica updated to the latest stable. Man this was fast. Huge thanks to the wonderful people behind Friendica and also Yunohost.

Testing the Peertube embed:

I wonder if I now paste a Peertube link it can embed the player directly into the post. That would be amazing.

And some hashtags: #friendica #trom #yunohost #fedi #fediverse

!Friendica Support

I was investigating the "Channel" feature, and I noticed a channel with the name "Dansk" (Danish). The query is friendica.dk/network?channel=l…

As far as I can see it gives me a list of posts across the #fediverse with a language specification matching my language settings in my profile. For another one of my accounts (with English specified) the channel is called "English".

Is it possible to create a query/URL (so, not a channel per se) that will give me posts based on a specific language code? So something like

friendica.dk/network?language=… (Danish ISO code)
friendica.dk/network?language=… (German ISO code)
friendica.dk/network?language=… (English ISO code)

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Having some silly fun with @stegodon a new fediverse platform with an SSH TUI interface. The first screenshot is the web profile, the second is the TUI interface.

This is the first command line UI for ActivityPub client I've seen that has an actual backend server platform tied to it.

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

We have 3 more supporters who donate 5€ a month. Thank you so much to Colin, John, and Kershaw! tromsite.com/donate/

We need 12 more people to start a new video series, bring back TROMnews, and increase the storage for our TROM Files (nextcloud) to 20GB for everyone.

Maybe we can make it happen. Would be fantastic!

#tromsite #nextcloud #fedi #fediverse #volunteer #campaign #trom #tromtf #foss #opensource

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We will update our TROM Social tomorrow!

Be aware that some things may not work well for hours. And in case of failure it will take us some time to restore from a backup. Let's hope all will go well. And if you'd like to support what we do and pay for our servers, you can consider a donation here tromsite.com/donate/ . Is up to you, our services will always be trade-free regardless. Cheers! @Tio

#fedi #fediverse #friendica #yunohost #selfhosting

join-lemmy.org regularly crawls all active Lemmy instances to keep the instance list updated. Additionally it also collects data from all Lemmy communities. The data is now publicly available in the following git repository:

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-stat…

See the readme for details about the available data. Interestingly the numbers are quite different from other websites:

Here are some ideas what to do with the data:
- Recreate the Lemmymap, graphically showing the connections or defederations between instances.
- Render graphs, which could be added directly to join-lemmy.org (#532).
- Investigate what is causing the different numbers shown above.
- Run various types of analysis, like this one done by @malsadev.
- Build a tool to help users discover interesting and relevant communities.

Display statistics as graphs

We are crawling over 500 Lemmy instances four times per day, which produces a lot of data and statistics. If we make this data public, people can analyze and visualize it. Relevant for !dataisbeaut...

^{Nutomic (GitHub)}

Walking through time

#forest #photography #naturephotography #fediverse #landscapephotography #pixelfed #foggy #misty #moody

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Blacksky has already built their own ATProto stack that's fully independent from Bluesky.

Now Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS.

I see more independent infrastructure springing up on atp.fyi/network, including AppViews.

For anyone hoping that we'll get another wave of people coming to the fediverse once Bluesky folds/enshittifies, that might not necessarily be the case as people will have more options to stay in the Atmosphere.

#fediverse #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #SocialMedia

This will be the last #Mastodon post that will be bridged to #Bsky!

Choosing another protocol, okay sure we can work with that. But hosting and even verifying criminal orgs like #ICE is just a spit in the face

Almost everything is PUBLIC on Bsky, It's not a viable decentralized alternative, since hosting it all yourself would bankrupt almost anyone

So if you want to keep following me, please do join the #Fediverse mstdn.social/invite/C3pBKk4Y

Or better, host your own!
fediverse.party

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.

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From @MaggieMayhem BlueSky:

Epstein went to @defcon at least in 2018 & was monitoring the event for years.

Special shoutout to Vincenzo Iozzo who offered to get tickets for Epstein + “4 girsl” in 2016 & stated he could to introduce him to @thedarktangent in 2018

justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

#epstine #epstinefiles #jefferyepstein #fediverse #mastodon #defcon

(Vincenzo is allegedly the former
@crowdstrike senior director &
@blackhatevents board member in the files.)

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

^{www.justice.gov}

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!

vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions…

#HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhosted #selfhosting

PhD Position in Decentralized and Federated Cloud Computing ( HCC )

PhD Position in Decentralized and Federated Cloud Computing ( HCC ) We invite applications for a fully-funded 3-year PhD position on the topic of us...

^{Aalborg University}

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We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.

#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-…

Vivaldi Social, a new instance on Mastodon. | Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance, is your gateway to reliable, big-tech-free social networking

^{Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)}

HOLY SHIT

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#epstein #epstienfiles #Israel #palentir #fediverse #mastodon

I think it’s time to have a list of Zionist, pro-genocide Mastodon servers on Gaza Verified, just like we have a list of servers friendly to Palestinians suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and settler colonialism so our friends in Gaza – and anyone with even a sliver of a conscience – can know which parts of the fediverse to avoid.

I’ll add that to my endless todo list, then, shall I?

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialsm #Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #complicity

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*Translatlation feature does not work*

Yep, this is correct.
It is an annoying, IMHO honestly avoidable issue:

Automatic language detection seems to be an ubiquitous feature on many websites. It should be quite easy to perform in a #Fediverse app or on the PC as well, IMO.
Afterwards, a pop-up window could appear, e. g.: your post's language is set to English but appears to be in German instead. Would you like to change your language setting? "

In the...
@AdrianRiskin @klu9

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Hi, I am Søren (the "ø" is pronounced like the "ea" in "Earth"), a guy from Denmark. I am trying out the #fediverse to see what it is all about and support it with a bit of content.

I post about #Lego and #EuropeanAlternatives (and #DanmarkSkifter in Danish), but as a person who goes through hobbies like people go through.. stuff they change often.. that is bound to change down the road. In tha last year I have been around sewing, macramé, 3d printing, and a few others.

#introduction

Gedanken | Basteln an einen neuen Projekt

Ich habe mir in den Kopf gesetzt ein klassisches Forum für SciFi zu machen, so wie es früher einige gab. Gleichzeitig bin ich aber ein absoluter Fan des Fediverse, also musste es etwas sein das beides verbindet. Das Ergebnis bzw. den Ansatz den ich nun verfolge ist ein NodeBB Forum, welches sowohl als klassisches Forum funktioniert und gleichzeitig im Fediverse eingebunden ist. Derzeit findet man es unter scifihub.de aber es ist noch in einen sehr frühen Stadium. Wenn Ihr Ideen dafür habt, oder Lust dabei mitzumachen, meldet Euch gerne bei mir.

#Gedanken #Projekt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Forum #Fediverse @Science Fiction

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#FOSDEM #Fediverse #Privacy

We need to be careful with this Fandom-ization of the fediverse. Fandom creates blind followers and makes critical thinkers potential enemies of the groupthink.

Mastodon is a giant dangerous experiment that does NOT protect user data and has no e2e encryption!

This is NOT a win for humanity, but creating the next big brother network masked as "cool b/c federated".

We need to build privacy aware networks now!