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#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)
blog.elenarossini.com/peertube…
My PeerTube account: @elena
mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @paige @srosset @MakerTube
#ActivityPub #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog
PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)
What is it like to use PeerTube as a video creator? Spoiler alert: it's amazing!Elena Rossini
Good morning Fedi friends!
I just added a new link to my Mastodon profile: @elena 🤗
How many #ActivityPub profiles do I have now? I don't want to know 😆
Off I go continue writing about #PeerTube for #TheFutureIsFederated (part 2, showing what it's like to use the software from the POV of a creator). I look forward to doing some tests and seeing what it's like to embed PeerTube videos on my website. Article coming tomorrow.
Wishing you all a lovely day!
A reminder, the Fediverse cost money.
Yes, it is free for YOU to use, but your local administrator pays for domain registration, web hosting, storage space, CDN, and of course, bandwidth.
The busier and more active your Fedi site, the most it cost.
If you are able, consider reaching out to your admin, and asking how you can help. Even small contributions add up and make a difference.
Some groundbreaking method is needed for an independent #ActivityPub server to run financially independently without compromising its core values.
Thank you for your work @stux
Nick Gerakines ( @ngerakines.me ):
ActivityPub and Mastodon are effectively the same thing to most people.
( @reiver note: this seems similar to the phrase "the Mastodon in the room".)
#ATmosphereConf #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #TheMastodonInTheRoom
Paul Frazee ( @pfrazee.com ):
Bluesky didn't use ActivityPub for 2 reasons —
№1:
Because of the identity issue.
Once you make a choice (of server) you are locked in.
You cannot migrate freely.
(Current Fediverse migration not good enough.)
№2:
The culture on the Fediverse at the time.
There was a culture on the Fediverse of being hostile towards global aggregators.
( @reiver note: AFAICT, this is a very small minority of hyper hostile individuals.)
ActivityPub 5.5.0 for WordPress is here! 🚀
This update brings a ton of improvements, including a first step toward supporting Moves from Mastodon to WordPress—big things ahead!
wordpress.org/plugins/activity…
ActivityPub
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.WordPress.org
Little known fact: @evan and I worked at a startup in 2020 that never launched. It wasn't a great experience for me, but I loved the team we had hired, including Evan. I didn't know much then about #activitypub or the social web.
I went back to @Flipboard in 2021 and in 2023 I started to learn about #federation because of @mike's vision. Fast forward to 2025, Flipboard + @surf are organizing #SXSW's first #FediverseHouse. Evan was one of the first people to sign on, which created a snowball from there, which helped the event be a success.
This week, we got to meet IRL for the first time! So when I think about "the purpose" of that hard 10 months at that startup, I now know what it was.
Is Tumblr on the Fediverse?
A couple years back we heard that #tumblr was working to add #ActivityPub support and join the #fediverse.
Attached is an article from 2013 discussing exactly this folllowing the sale of Twitter.
Anyone know how that went? Is Tumblr connected now, or what happened? Where we at.
Ref: theverge.com/2023/4/20/2368957…
Can ActivityPub save the internet?
Mozilla, Meta, Medium, Flipboard, Tumblr, and so many other companies are betting that the future of social networks looks more like email than it does Elon Musk’s Twitter. And they’re betting on a little-known protocol to make it happen.David Pierce (The Verge)
"When you publish a post via ActivityPub it doesn't just get stored in 1 database, it gets sent out to every follower you have, and the server of every single one of your followers stores that post in their database, too. If you want to delete a post, it has to be deleted in all those different places, too — and that doesn't just happen automatically."
activitypub.ghost.org/actually…
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)
blog.elenarossini.com/peertube…
mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @fedihost@mstdn.social @fedihost@video.fedihost.co @paige @veronicaexplains @ewen @docpop @hikingdude
P.S.: this is the 20th article for The Future is Federated 🤗
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #ActivityPub #video
PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)
A walk-through of PeerTube, an open-source, federated alternative to YouTubeElena Rossini
I'm finally unveiling the #ActivityPub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #ORCID bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂
It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community feedback on functionality and safety aspects. Read more at encyclia.pub or follow @encyclia for news!
@atomicpoet is a fediverse enthusiast who makes smart observations and has a 10,000-foot view of all the innovation happening across the open social web (not to mention a few ideas of his own). Listen to his conversation with @mike on the latest episode of Dot Social.
about.flipboard.com/fediverse/…
#Fediverse #DotSocial #Podcast #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #SocialWeb #OpenSocial
Leaving the City of Big Social, with Fediverse Enthusiast Chris Trottier
Chris Trottier is a sage presence who has a 10,000-foot view of the innovation happening across the open social web.Mia Quagliarello (About Flipboard)
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn’t RSS enough?
cdevroe.com/2025/03/04/need-ac…
Does my blog need to support ActivityPub?
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn't RSS enough?Colin Devroe
In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For @netzpolitik_feed, we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
#eu #europeanunion #opensource #activitypub #mastodon
netzpolitik.org/2025/open-sour…
Open source funding on the brink: „Delivering what’s needed to make Europe sovereign“
The EU is paying a fortune for broken commercial software, criticizes Michiel Leenaars of the Dutch NLnet Foundation in an interview with netzpolitik.org. Together with his team, he supports open-source, free solutions — funded by the EU.netzpolitik.org
