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fediversereport, 7 months ago to random

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 61

A busy newsweek in the fediverse:

• Threads has joined the fediverse in an open beta, allowing people from US, Canada and Japan to opt-in to having their Threads post be visible in the fediverse
• @fediforum happened this week, with a ton of great demos, a large variety of sessions, and multiple calls and initiatives for more collaboration across the fediverse

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-61/

fediversereport, 10 months ago to random

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 49

The final weekly update for the year. Thank you all so much for all the support this year, it has been amazing to see the project grow with so much community support!

This update contains:

• Flipboard federation
• Peertube 2024 plans
• lots of quick news links

I'll be offline for the next week to reset and take a break. Fediverse Report will be back next year. Stay tuned, and happy holidays!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-49/

fediversereport, 10 months ago to random

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 47

• 5 years of Mobilizon, with new updates and new ownership
• Mammoth 2 launches, with more curated content
• A closer look at Mostr, the bridge that connects #Nostr with the fediverse

Don't forget there will be a PeerTube AMA livestream this Wednesday Dec 13th, 18u-20u CEST. Ask your questions now already with #peertubeama

Read this weeks news at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-47/

fediversereport, 11 months ago to random

Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 46

This week's news:

• NLnet funds a variety of fediverse projects
• #PeerTube has released there latest version with a variety of new features
• #Misskey has published their recap for 2023

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-46/

fediversereport, 11 months ago to random

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 45

• Mastodon starts work on improving the reply culture
• @Flipboard takes the next steps on the social web
• Updates on fediverse projects supported by Nivenly

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-45/

fediversereport, 11 months ago to random

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 42

• Pebble shuts down, with some interesting reflections on building social networks. There's also a new Mastodon server for Pebble users as an experiment
• Mastodon gives some updates towards the next update, as well as a timeline on quote posts (expect it in first half of 2024)
• #fediversary reflections.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-42/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to random

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 41

• The Verge has some ideas about publishing content, and how this relates to the fediverse
• Can Owncast create new opportunities now that Twitch does not forbid streamers from simultaneously streaming to different platforms?
• Hearts or stars?

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-41/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to random

Last Week in #fediverse - ep 38

• #mastodon releases their annual report for 2022, providing an interesting insight in their financials, as well as what they accomplished last year. The amount of work they managed with the means they have is absolutely impressive.
• Work on the closed beta for mozilla.social server continues, with some interesting glimpses of their plans.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-38/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to random

Last Week in #Fediverse, ep 37

The news of this week:

• Mark Zuckerberg talks about #Threads and interoperability of social networks
• #Fediseer started as a way to find spam servers on #Lemmy, and is now quickly expanding into the wider fediverse to become a crowd-sourced place to exchange information about other fediverse servers
• government of the German state of Saxony joins the fediverse
• A blogging resurgence

Read it at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-37/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to random

Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 36

Been a busy week, with:

• #FediForum, with tons of cool demos and interesting sessions
• #Mastodon 4.2 has officially launched
• After reporting on the CSAM attacks at #Lemmy a few weeks, new tools are being developed to help admins deal with this. One example is scanning images with generative AI, that can run locally on an admin's GPU, without uploading images anywhere.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-36/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to random

Last Week in the #Fediverse - ep 35

Main news of the week:

• Swiss government starts their own #Mastodon server
• The SWICG has talks about restructuring
• Doubts about the moderation tools and governance of Lemmy
• The #activitypub plugin for #wordpress is officially released

Read at https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/

fediversereport, 1 year ago to random

Last Week in Fediverse - episode 34

The news of this week:

• Social bookmarking is back, and now on the #fediverse with #postmarks
• The Swiss government is close to launching their own #mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/
• @evan , one of the #activitypub co-authors, will release a programming book on ActivityPub with O'Reilly Media next year

Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-34/