Last Week in Fediverse – ep 88
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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 88
A quieter news week: self-hosted 3d printing app Manyfold joins the fediverse, and write.as now offers paid subscriptions for fediverse accounts with sub.club.
The News
Manyfold is a self-hosted open source web app for organising and managing your collection of 3d files, and in particularly 3d printing. With their latest update, Manyfold has now joined the fediverse by adding ActivityPub support. With the new integration, you can now follow a Manyfold creator from your fediverse account of choice, and get notified when the Manyfold account uploads a new 3d file. New Manyfold uploads appear as short posts with a link in the rest of the fediverse. To demonstrate, here is the Manyfold account from the creator Floppy as visible from Mastodon, and here is the profile on their Manyfold instance itself. The Manyfold server also has a button to follow the account on the fediverse.
Manyfold implementing ActivityPub support is an illustration of how ActivityPub can be viewed as a form of ‘Social RSS’: it allows you to follow any Actor for updates, and adds social features (sharing/liking to it).Sub.club is a service that lets people create paid subscription feeds on the fediverse. The service recently launched with the ability to monetise Mastodon feeds, and has now expanded to also include long-form writing, by collaborating with write.as. Write.as is the flagship instance of fediverse blogging software WriteFreely. With this update, blogs on write.as can now set on a a per-blog basis if a blog is a premium blog, and where the cut-off is. People who follow the blog from a fediverse account will see an option to subscribe and view the full post; this post by the sub.club account shows how a premium blog will look like from various perspectives. Adding sub.club to a write.as blog is as simple as following this three-minute PeerTube video.
The Links
- How to buy shoes in the fediverse – Erin Kissane.
- “We can have a different web, if we want it” – Newsmast’s Michael Foster.
- Mastodon’s monthly engineering update, Trunks and Tidbits, is out for September 2024.
- Ambition, The Fediverse, and Technology Freedom – Soatok, who is working on implementing E2EE for ActivityPub.
- ForgeFed is continuing to work on adding Actor Programming.
- Positioning Micro.blog.
- How to join Mastodon – Stefan Bohacek.
- Mastodon has started selling a plushy.
- Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2) – Elena Rossini.
- ‘I for one (cautiously) welcome the Social Web Foundation to the fediverses, but we really need to talk about the big elephant in the federated room’ – The Nexus of Privacy.
- The Challenge of ActivityPub Data Portability – bengo.
- Echo is a new iOS app for Lemmy.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- We Distribute Is On Temporary Hiatus.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
