Last Week in Fediverse – ep 69\70 | fediversereport.com [Blog Article]
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 69\70 | fediversereport.com [Blog Article]
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/
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Celebrating the 16th birthday of the fediverse
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The European Commission sets up a new fediverse instance
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bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky has been used to spam Bluesky with pro-Trump messaging
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Three new products for the ATmosphere by Japanese developers: Video platform Bluemotion, Blogging with WhiteWind, and audio spaces with Bluecast.
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Fediverse share button - https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/
UPDATE:
EPISODE 70 - https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/
Fascinating how the federated Bluesky spam came from Nostr. Dorsey's lovechild vomiting crap all over his disowned brainchild. Clearly he bet on the right horse.
Thank you for sharing the article! Please note that this is last's weeks episode, the newest episode went out yesterday: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/
The thing with replacing DeviantArt could be interesting. Sites like that - not just DA but also Fur Affinity, Weasyl, etc - have a very different philosophy about how to show your "feed":
- there's always a separation between images and text posts from the people you're following
- no reposts - instead each user has a gallery of "favorites" (essentially your likes, but it's public by default)
These two things are what makes it possible for me to discover artists on sites like these, and why I can't do the same on Twitter, Tumblr, or Mastodon. The tonal whiplash is just too distressing.
I have made a web app called Crowmask that exposes my Weasyl posts to ActivityPub, but unfortunately it's one way only for now (and single-user - I'm not prepared to take responsibility for hosting content from someone I don't know offline).
Good news for the EU
I feel like video is a Borg that assimilates every communication medium ever invented, and turns it into crap after a while. So this report doesn't excite me.
Still, is good to have more channels.
I really hope the eu gets addicted to the openness and starts forcing it on other companies to ensure competition
There are some provisions in the Digital Markets Act that go in that direction. It only took effect roughly 3 months ago though, so remains to be seen if it works out as intended.