In the remote chance that it’s interesting, I ranted along similar lines here (on another now deleted account): https://hachyderm.io/@[email protected]/112278407165110460
This week's news: - Opt-in bridge between Bluesky and the fediverse silently launches for testing - A new version for @peertube, with some new plugins as well - More federation: this time between Discourse and WordPress, with Lemmy and NodeBB being worked on as well
This week's news: - The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence. - Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding #Activitypub to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app. - Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.
@buttondown Hey! I'm Laurens, author of a weekly newsletter about the fediverse. Excited to hear you are working together with Ghost on adding ActivityPub. Would love to have a short chat or email you some more questions about this, are you available for this? Thanks! -Laurens
@fediversereport Threads will be part of the Fediverse only when they allow their users to follow people on other federating instances (ie the FEDerate part of FEDiverse).
Until then @[email protected] is only posting to Threads, not the Fediverse. @vernissage @newsmast
- Stackable moderation is live, and people can subscribe now to third-party labelers - Blogging comes to the ATmosphere with WhiteWind, allowing anyone with a Bsky account to blog - More information on how Bluesky plans to make money
This week's news: - @mobilizon changes ownership away from Framasoft, but development will continue - An overview of the current work on cross-app podcasts comments with #activitypub - Mastodon.social 'knows' about some 2800 Threads accounts, indicating that the amount of people on Threads who have turned on federation is in the couple of thousands.
The fediverse continues its trend of rebuilding popular large platforms, but with #activitypub. This week two projects were announced to be in development: - Loops, a platform for short-form video - Ibis, a federated version of Wikipedia
also a fascinating paper about the hashtag #asstodon, and much more news this week.
- @phanpy has released Catch-Up, a new feature that gives you great control of how you want to view your timeline in a great variety of new ways. - Threads' work on #activitypub continues, and now some people that are not part of Meta also have their posts show up in the fediverse - Fedify is a new fediverse server framework that's in development
An overview of all the news that has happened in #bluesky and #atproto of the last month:
- Opening of the network with federation launching and no more invite codes - Bluesky turns out to be popular in Japan - Hashtags and mute words - A new head of T&S
This week's news: - NodeBB joins the fediverse, expanding the fediverse more into the world of forums! - Announcement of the Open Science Network, based on @bonfire