jaseg, to random Wow this is bad. Some Italian researchers decided there wasn't enough anti-right-to-repair hardware #DRM in the world already, and developed a way to physically profile and recognize individual battery cells that can be combined with classic DRM technologies to prevent non-OEM battery cells from working inside a device, even if the classic DRM portion is circumvented. Whyyyyyy?!
kubikpixel, to random German Ach guck, das #Fediverse / #Mastadon wird nun immer beliebter, weil selbst Konzerne wie @SAPOpenSource und Medien wie @ntv (schon länger) hierher flüchten. Diese Welle von der #X-Flucht ist wohl kommerzieller Natur und deswegen evt einflussreicher? 🤔
Wenn du ihr #Account nicht sehen willst, könnt ihr diese stumm schalten oder sperren damit sie euch nicht folgen können (dann aber seht ihr sie gar nicht mehr). Sieht so aus, als seien #Kommerz-#Alternative'n noch unfertig und nicht reif genug 🤷
operationpuppet, to random I dunno who first coined the phrase “the re-wilding of The Internet” to describe the post-enshittification push towards the #Fediverse, blogging, self-hosting etc, but I love it.
Digital bohemian, me.
Ruth_Mottram, to random I just found #Flipboard's #peertube channel.
This is an interesting interview with @BBC_News_Labs on how #BBC see the #Fediverse developments
BBC’s Experiment in the Fediverse, with Senior Firestarter Ian Forrester
https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/2ce52ee8-fe4a-46c2-9b4c-a6e4b8637a77
dschulten, to random While Mastodon is quite a lively place, my attempts with #peertube were disappointing. Did I start on the wrong instance?
Youtube has a lot of interesting content, and I pay them to get rid of ads. They collect revenue and share some of it with the creators. That allows them to sustain an ecosystem, where independent creators can make a living from their uploads. Also, they get on my nerves by suggesting a lot of right-wing videos, and by making me pay to suppress ads. Advice?
mike, to random The last 10 days have been a whirlwind for the #fediverse. Important new versions of @mammoth and @ivory launched. Wordpress and Tumblr reaffirmed their commitment to ActivityPub. And Threads and Flipboard began to federate. What does this all mean for the fediverse? How will moderation work? Who will be next to federate?
I asked @Gargron the founder and CEO of Mastodon.
Check out this very special interview which notably is hosted on our #PeerTube instance.
mike, to random Hello Fediverse!
I'm excited to let you know that we have stood up our very own #PeerTube instance. This is so cool. We've posted all the videos for my Dot Social podcast. We also posted our original Flipboard launch video for fun.
You can check out our PeerTube instance here:
You can follow the Dot Social channel on our PeerTube instance here:
I'm super impressed with PeerTube. It's quite a capable platform and it is fully federated via ActivityPub.
LeftistLawyer, to random
liaizon, to random shoutout to journalists @Sarahp and @davidpierce who have both been continually covering #fediverse news in the mainstream press!
J12t, to random @davidpierce at the Verge describes what makes the #fediverse so interesting extremely well. Go read this.
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
peterbutler, to random "If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers — there won’t be a new titanic company to rival Meta or a platform with eye-poppingly huge numbers like Facebook
"What we’ll get instead is something much bigger: an entirely new infrastructure for our online lives that no company or platform controls”
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
mike, to random I think that fully integrating #ActivityPub into Flipboard's backend is going to be one of the best things we've done since we started the company.
There are three phases:
Phase 1 (Today): Federate 25 accounts to test and learn
Phase 2 (January): Enable anyone in the Fediverse to engage with any public curator on Flipboard
Phase 3 (April): Enable anyone on Flipboard to follow and engage with any public account in the #Fediverse
Check out my Medium post for more
https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209
BeAware, to random It seems people have become allergic to the BOOST button or maybe they don't know that Favorites don't give the content exposure.
Either way, boosting has gone way down since I joined 6 months ago and I wonder why.
It's like we don't enjoy endorsing other content anymore.
You should Boost content that you find enjoyable so that others can see it too!
liaizon, to random I learned about a new #fediverse initiative working on standardizing event federation between WordPress and @mobilizon (and others like @gancio and https://gath.io) being lead by @linos and a group of folks working under the umbrella of https://event-federation.eu.
They got @NGIZero funding for the project! (https://nlnet.nl/project/WordPress-EventFederation)
Discovered thanks to the newest reporting by @fediversereport, who's doing great work shining light on stuff like!
ghostrunner, to random