Fediverse

Did I get punished for saying something wrong? Did it get an update?

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185

Hey all,

I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!

We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place

This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th

Some instances that are joining in:

• toast.ooo
• lemmy.zip

Join the Lemmy Community [!canvas@toast.ooo](/c/canvas@toast.ooo)

Join the Matrix Space #lemmy-canvas:matrix.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2665269

The platform/service is still in beta and opening up invites to its first users now.

The main developer is on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@reiver

Their webpage if you want to signup for early access: https://spacehost.live/

From what I've gathered, they intend to support a variety of fediverse platforms, but have started with lemmy with kbin close behind.

We Distribute is bringing in a new feature - The Mixtape! We create playlists of songs that broadcast through Radio Free Fedi, and share it with the wider fediverse. It's an opportunity for people to discover music by Fedizens, and help support artists on the network.

Our first playlist is themed around hot summer vibes.

Edit: they published some transphobic shit: https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/02/15/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/

Ugh.

How do people feel about Akkoma? It seems to be a fork of pleroma that's been showing up in comments lately. If you've tried it please share your experience.

With the mass migrations of Reddit users to Lemmy/Kbin, and Twitter now speedrunning its own mass extinction, it seems me that the eventual future of social media is de-centralized. I like how Lemmy is slowing turning out, even if it still has some work to do and growing pains to fix up. It's still able to inform me of all of the current events I want and has a large enough community that it doesn't feel empty.

I think a similar path will present itself for a de-centralized video media platform like PeerTube, since YouTube will eventually piss off enough of its users to cause a similar kind of exodus. Wanting to jump in on the concept at an early stage, I signed up for a channel on spectra.video and uploaded my video collection there.

But, I don't really see the same kind of community and usefulness on PeerTube. I check out the Discover and Trending pages, and it just seems like the same set of videos, really. There's not enough content to keep PeerTube from looking like a small indie project. I can click on Recently Added and it is usually other people just dumping their channel collections, instead of recent adds of new videos. It's very easy to scroll down and find videos from months ago.

After poking around on various other PeerTube sites, I think I found the real problem with the platform: Federation.

For example, let's look at how federated Lemmy's community is:

• Lemmy.ml
• Beehaw.org
• Lemmy.world
• Sh.itjust.works
• Lemmy.film

All interconnected with hundreds and hundreds (if not thousands) of other instances. If you sign up for one Lemmy account, you have little risk in not being able to access a remote community elsewhere. It feels like a federated community, where everything is de-centralized, but communication is linked everywhere. I can even link to my own video channel from Lemmy.

Now, look at PeerTube's instance lists, based on what I've seen on the Join PeerTube site:

• Spectra.video
• TILvids (basically non-existent)
• Neat.tube
• Video.blender.org
• BassPistol
• Diode.zone
• FTV
• PeerTube.io
• Review.PeerTube.biz

It's all so bare. At most, 80-90 instances for some sites. I can't see a lot of other instances' videos, and they can't see mine. Not from here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here.

It makes PeerTube a large collection of small silos, instead of a real federated community. People want to be able to sign on to an instance and find the content they want without having to jump through all of these different instances. Subscription feeds rely on having a unified list from many different instances. The technology has a lot of potential, but the PeerTube community is not nearly as organized as the rest of the Fediverse.

This sounds like a somewhat simple problem to solve, but I'm not sure what other kind of technological hurdles exist. How did the Lemmy community solve it?

Update: they are back! https://lemmy.one/post/1464480?scrollToComments=true

Basically title.

I know some info was shared on the other thread, but now Lemmy.world is back up (as always, kudos to the team!), I guess we can discuss lemmy.one here

Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.

Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

I thought this might be of interest to other users as well as admins.

Preferably on fdroid

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of their policy as a safe space. The known harasser has a history of using slurs, harassment, and editing screenshots to spread misinformation. However, the administrator of firefish.social has now forged a screenshot to paint mastodon.art in a negative light.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6795142

Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related hashtags and links pointing to CSAM trading and grooming of minors. One Mastodon server was even taken down for a period of time due to CSAM being posted. The researchers suggest that decentralized networks like Mastodon need to implement more robust moderation tools and reporting mechanisms to address the prevalence of CSAM.

The virtual unconference for #Fediverse Builders is back! Check out the dates, and come talk about the future of the network over a two-day event!

The 2023 Summer Fediverse Jam has concluded, and the voting phase has started! In the meantime, come check out some great small games, created by fedizens!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1025004

Hello Lemmy community!

I'm excited to introduce the Lemmy Apps Directory, a comprehensive directory of Lemmy clients across various platforms. This directory will help you discover and explore a wide range of Lemmy clients to enhance your browsing experience.

Features:

• Material UI-inspired responsive design (Dark/Light Mode)
• Filter by Supported Devices: Android/iOS/Windows/Linux/Web/MacOS
• Open/Closed Source
• URL/GitHub Link
• Client Status (beta/development/stable)

I welcome your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports to improve the directory further. If you encounter any issues or have ideas to enhance the user experience, please let me know.

If you find the Lemmy Apps Directory useful, please consider sharing it with your friends and fellow Lemmy users.

Thank you for your support, and happy exploring!

Update: Added Hot badge for popular apps with filter checkbox!

Any and all resources welcome on mod101

The questions that brought me here are:

1. How do I mod someone else?

2. Can I create tags so users can sort based on topic?

3. Assuming 2=no, what's the max on sticky post counts?

I have a metric fuckton of info I want to post on a new community I made, and I don't want users to get lost.

The Free Software Foundation Europe, the Centre for Civic Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Adult Education Centre Cologne are organising a symposium on Sept 22, 2023 in Cologne (Germany) about the Fediverse. Which is aimed at multipliers in political education, teachers, representatives of public institutions and educational establishments, as well as all interested parties.

fsfe.org/news/2023/news-202307…

The fediverse is growing, with millions of users sprawling across the network. But with user growth also comes an increase in non-profits, brands, public figures, and analytics products.

When reviewing this new landscape, we found that there are no fewer than 8 products for Mastodon.

CalcKey adopts a new name, new logo, new site, and new project infrastructure. While the name is somewhat odd, this feels like a really big step forward for the project.