Fediverse

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

I stumbled upon this third party tool called Reddit Wrapped, and I was surprised that there isn’t a Lemmy alternative / equivalent.

BMX Escape is a very cool synthwave band that I really enjoy listening to. And as of yesterday they have a Mastodon account, which is partially because of me.

Mastodon 4.5 brings the long-awaited consent-respecting quote posts feature, as well as fetching replies from remote servers, and more customisation and moderation tools for admins.

Apparently there is an attempt for a federated alternative to Discord.

I know this isn’t directly Fediverse related but in these unprecedented times it’s important to use our platforms to protect the countless innocents getting kidnapped by the government.

For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising. It can speak both ActivityPub and AT Protocol, offers a ton of interesting features and customization, and focuses on making an incredibly fun experience.

This was a really great interview we had with the team from A New Social. We talked about bridging, being able to migrate data across different protocols, some of the team’s latest ongoing efforts, and a long rant about where the network is, and where we hope it will go.

Seeing some push back here on the idea of confusing things with more terms than just “fediverse”. I get that. The problem is that that cat is very much out of the bag. Surely, for the vast majority of people that have any awareness of the fediverse, they think it’s just Mastodon.

I wrote about my motivations and thoughts on switching away from centralized social media and to the Fediverse with some thoughts on self-hosting.

The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here’s what they’re up to.

Please post on their actual forum not just the comments here as I’m not at all involved in the project (yet).

Building on some initial reports coming from the FediPact account and Dropsite news, we dive into potential measures admins can take for their instances.

This past June, I put together a write-up about two major approaches to backfilling conversations. The ability to properly backfill conversations means we will be able to make major inroads toward solving the feeling that the fediverse is quiet.

I setup a Mastodon relay - anyone want to help me test by adding it to their instance? Would help me know if the “Recent jobs” stat is working (I think it requires 2 instances at minimum to show jobs) and if adding to instances (outside of my own) is working properly and how traffic looks.

We Distribute recently launched a dedicated weekly newsletter that aims at rounding up a lot of things happening around the Fediverse and wider Social Web, and adds other publications and community voices to amplify them. This is our very first issue!

This was initially demoed at FediCon 2025, but CrowdBucks is an open source, self-hostable fundraising system that allows people to financially support one another. You use your existing Fediverse account to hold a fundraiser, and can also donate to other people’s fundraisers as well. The form factor is kind of similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.

“we should stay weird. unsanitized. unmarketable. for to do otherwise would be to forfeit the very soul of what makes the fediverse so special”

Better social media is possible.

There’s a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let’s dive in, and see what’s coming in the next release.

Although some people debate whether or not Nostr is part of the Fediverse, the reality is that we have a lot in common, and the networks do overlap in places.

If the USA were to implement such, how would it effect lemmy instances and other federated services?

Hello, dear “Lemmings” (correct address?)

The latest release of the ActivityPub WordPress plugin introduces new functionality for performing remote follows directly from WordPress. Here’s why that’s important for the future of WordPress on the Fediverse.

Or another term which is more descriptive. This is the first thing people see when they type in Lemmy

SPREAD THE WORD 🔥

it’s time to get hyped!

one of the Fchannel0 forks is still getting updated, and has an instance running.

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