#fediverse

But I think this discussion also opens up another, related question: Do we need to live in a world where every network is the biggest thing ever? Can you have a thriving community without your primary platform being a zeitgeist machine? Gruber’s framing on the issue seems to suggest that Twitter circa 2009 is the ideal. But what if that moment has genuinely passed? The Threads algorithm that Gruber points to specifically goes out of its way to discourage the very kinds of interactions that a 2009 Twitter once allowed. The fediverse’s server-oriented setup favors interactions in smaller communities even if, in practice, people still tend to favor the larger ones.

Here it is then: a python script designed to be run from a cron job, which grabs your latest posts from your fedi account, converts them to a plain text format, and dumps them into ~/.plan along with your bio. This is then picked up by the finger daemon when someone runs finger [youruser]@[yourserver].

Well, I had this idea. A new bot that would post one bookmark per day to a Mastodon account.

Built a Mastodon observability stack over the weekend for toot.community: Grafana dashboards (web/sidekiq/streaming/edge), VictoriaMetrics rules, SLOs & alerts. The ultimate goal was to get meaningful symptom (user-facing) alerts and to learn about Jsonnet and Grafonnet.

It is very, very unlikely that in the Mastodon universe, Sarah Kendzior’s account would suddenly have globally vanished. It is quite likely that the shot-a-man post would have been edited appropriately, and possible that it would have just vanished.

A bot that posts questions without context.

Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces where the metrics that matter aren’t engagement and growth but understanding and connection, where algorithms serve the community rather than strip-mining it.

This project has multiple goals. First, it's a demonstration of how to build an ActivityPub server, with most of the important parts implemented. It should be useful for implementers who want to know how ActivityPub works in the real world. Second, it's a platform for testing and experimentation with new client apps and new server features.

welcome to the fedibot club! we can help you make fun and cool bots!

An ActivityPub server with an NNTP interface.

So the fediverse is technically open and culturally anxious about it.

So what's it like to set up your own GotoSocial server? Well, I can walk you thru what I used for my setup. Yours might be different; that's OK! I made these up-front choices to simplify the operational overhead because I didn't want this to be a hassle and I don't need the extra engineering that comes from trying for nine nines of uptime:

If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?

The reason I think these problems are worth solving is because one of most valuable gifts of the fediverse as it currently exists is the ability to experience the fediverse from within a home server that is good for you—that cares about your experience, that moderates (locally and remotely) in ways that meet your needs and protect you from the things you actually want protection from, that is built to last.

A federated microblogging software for single-users. ActivityPub-enabled, Mastodon-compatible API, supports CommonMark and Misskey-style quotes.

ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript. Contribute to dahlia/fedify development by creating an account on GitHub.

On Saturday 8 July 2023, user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance. What was going on, how did this happen, and what were the consequences?

On Saturday 8 July 2023, user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance. What was going on, how did this happen, and what were the consequences?

ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging

ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging

Relay List is a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays that have been shared with the public or with the creator. Each relay is checked every 30 minutes, updating the number of participating servers, the registration status, and if the relay is online. This information is useful for server administrators when considering adding a relay to their instance.

Relay List is a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays that have been shared with the public or with the creator. Each relay is checked every 30 minutes, updating the number of participating servers, the registration status, and if the relay is online. This information is useful for server administrators when considering adding a relay to their instance.

Simply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know you’d like to join in. You’ll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.

Simply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know you’d like to join in. You’ll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.

The tech industry is abuzz about a new standard for social networking that is more open, more user-centric, and potentially more powerful than Twitter and Facebook. But we’ve been here before.

Follow, react and publish across your Mastodon instance

Follow, react and publish across your Mastodon instance