Fediverse

On September 22nd the Free Software Foundation Europe, the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Centre for Civic Education of North Rhine-Westphalia) and the VHS Köln (Adult Education Centre Cologne) organized a symposium about “The world after Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. A new generation of the Internet?”

fsfe.org/news/2023/news-202310…

The (German) recordings of the symposium are now available at the Peertube instance of the FSFE at media.fsfe.org .

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7849011

before people criticize me I am not using my main account because I do not feel safe bringing up these issues there, as these people and issues still are not dealt with. I do not want to put myself in danger, I will not be engaging in or attempting to post polls or votes here.

I would like to start by saying that I've noticed a lot of bad faith or spammy communities pop-up recently. The user is dramaticcat many of the communities break rules 1 and 2, maybe even rule 3 (an example of one such community is !kiwifarms@sh.itjust.works) as they are purely dedicated to hatred, trolling, and possibly even spam.

Also a small handful of users have also been making threats or calls to violence and while these have been moderated nicely moderators and external instance admins the admins of this instance haven't done anything about this. This is worrying as admins are supposed to enforce the instance rules and remove disruptive users and communities who are in violation of said rules but the admins of Sh.itjust.works have not been doing that. This is a problem because it means that any malicious actor could join at any time and wreak havok on this instance just like Exploding-heads did on another unmoderated instance known as rammy.site way back when. We obviously know how that went.

It's important that we discuss this problem now while we might have a chance of contacting the admins rather than later when the damage has been done.

I have struggled with my alcoholism for some time and finally was able to get sober. I'd like to pay it forward and decided to start /c/sobriety for ANY drug/alcohol addiction for those currently or afflicted in the past and ready to nurture and guide newcomers to sober living.

If that's you, please join and help me to grow a wonderful place in the fediverse for sober living. Thank you for the consideration and I look forward to seeing you in our community ;)

Very nice improvement and I hope more fediverse software starts supporting this. tl;dr popular videos are also uploaded by the viewers, thus lowering the server load, similar to Bittorrent, but all in the browser.

Can one add bulk load a list of words for filtering on Mastodon and Lemmy. #help #lemmy #mastodon

I am writing a research paper about #fediverse . I am almost at the deadline and I would greatly appreciate if you could comment down

• the difficulties you faced in the fediverse

• challenges faced by the fediverse in attracting users and retain them

• your experience in fediverse

• feedbacks about fediverse

• your suggestions to improve

• setbacks of fediverse and anything related to fediverse.

[Update] I created a form to submit your responses

I would greatly appreciate if anyone could participate in the survey I created for my research about #fediverse . it won't take much time and it is hosted on privacy friendly service #cryptpad . all responses are anonymized. You don't have to answer all questions. Fill as much you can and submit when you had enough. The survey link : https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/LyJcsEgXPzaWJtwXXsGq4uoGwK6C+VzujXC6Wrz3YqI/

Update: requested !movies@lemm.ee :

• https://lemm.ee/post/12118646
• https://lemm.ee/post/12118885

Hello everyone,

For people interested in movies, you may have noticed that !moviesandtv@lemmy.film is now gone, unfortunately.

The community was quite active, especially with the movies discussion threads, it would be nice to create a new one elsewhere.

As Lemmyworld and lemmy.ml already have most of the active communities, I thought it would be interesting to have this one (maybe two, one for movies, one for TV) on lemm.ee ? In a similar way that !games@sh.itjust.works is a popular community on sh.itjust.works (thanks @nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works for posting there)

What do you think?

Tagging the active contributors to the previous community @realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city @ClarkZuckerberg@lemmy.world @simple@lemm.ee @ZeroCool@feddit.ch

I found this on fediverse.party's app list, and instantly loved it.
It's such a neat and well executed idea!

Firefish is a new Fediverse social platform with a beautiful design, cool features, and great tools for your feed. It has a lot of potential to grow.

https://lestat.org/ shows 63% uptime

https://lemmy.film/

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3186183

I was shocked to see that there are no English-language Mobilizon servers. It seems like it may be an ideal secondary service for certain existing fediverse communities and was wondering if anybody here had considered it.

For those unaware, Mobilizon looks to fill the role of something like Facebook groups for the fediverse. I believe it is compatible with both Mastodon and Lemmy through the groups actor in the ActivityPub spec but provides additional functionality dealing with scheduled events and shared resources.

What if authors pick a symbol and ban it ? This original plan is oulipo.social's bid. Is it a fun workout for word fanatics ?

While Mastodon has many, many different kinds of microblogging clients, Audon dares to instead flirt with online talk spaces, and it's fantastic.

The Atlantic Council is the Global North’s premier foreign policy think tank, and the fediverse is on its radar now. PDF

Emphasis mine:

Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

• https://archive.ph/jneKS
• https://archive.ph/rIwQq

Learned about this fork from a post about a potential shutdown of Fedia.io, a Kbin instance.

https://lemmy.world/post/6797580

As you can see in the comments, https://kbin.run/ already moved to Mbin.

Interesting to see if that can help with the development of new features compared to kbin being managed mostly by the main developer.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6755643

Mushrooms could maybe be a fruitful metaphor to make the Fediverse depictable in Solarpunk stories.

ghostarchive

Our latest update for Q3 2023 — now renamed the “X/Twitter Migration Report” — finds that Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to “X,” as well as the ongoing struggles and controversies surrounding the platform, have had negative consequences for X/Twitter, which continues to experience a steady decline in usage and advertising revenue. We also found that Threads, after its initial burst of growth and subsequent decline, has emerged as a steady competitor to the X/Twitter platform. And the trends we’ve been identifying — particularly the continued emergence of open social protocols — are ongoing.

After Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in November 2022, some high-profile Twitter users — as well as many low-profile ones — publicly announced that they were leaving the platform. The exodus has ebbed and flowed due to X’s new policies, user fees, mass layoffs of Trust and Safety teams, continuing technical issues, and Musk’s own behavior.

In December 2022, we produced our first Twitter Migration report, using the data available to us to estimate the size and scope of the phenomenon of users leaving Twitter for other platforms. We’re proud to present our latest quarterly report.

As we saw in past reports there continues to be a steady decline in the number of Twitter users as more and more users “quiet quit” Twitter for other platforms. Our Q2 2023 report found three additional migration patterns: a user migration and developer migration to other platforms, and a technology migration to open protocols undergirding them.

Lemmy.world has somehow decided to become to extreme defenders of "copyright" and decided they will now delete posts that contain archive links in an absurd move that not even corporate websites like Reddit do. Archive links provide a service to provide access to an article long after it is deleted or changed.

They made this post and locked it immediately so no one can comment on how ridiculous it is and they're deleting threads about the decision...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6711646

The LW admins have requested that communities remove any posts that include the entire article or archive links to articles.

A short summary is allowed, but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. This includes links to sites that rehost copyrighted articles for paywall sites.

If your post is removed for a rule 1 violation you can edit the post and let the moderators know the copyrighted material has been removed.

Thanks All!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6596106

Either its no concern for the Lemmy community, then it should stay because it may be an issue for the fediverse in whole or its a concern then it shouldn't be deleted.