starting out with an unpopular opinion: of all the centralized social media platforms, Facebook was always my favorite.

Why? it is the most full featured. Has threads, reactions, groups, “Pages”, polls, and it even has granular privacy controls (for hiding content from other users, not to be confused with Facebook’s privacy violations and commercial data use).

This makes me wonder, could we have a Facebook-like experience using Lemmy as a backend? similar to how lemmy has a phpBB experience using lemmyBB.

Lemmy already has threads, and communities can represent groups. Pages and user pages can be simulated with communities.

We would be missing polls and reactions, which I can live with. I am not at all mad that we would be missing content algorithms either.

Although we can’t make it identical to Facebook, I think it will get reasonably close and exemplify most of the good parts.

I am thinking to take this project on, but wondering if people have thoughts, if this already exists, or if people would even want to use this.

Unlike traditional social media, the fediverse operates without a central authority. This creates a unique set of challenges and opportunities for how it’s governed.

Luckily, there are thoughtful stewards who want to see decentralized social media succeed in the most human — and humane — fashion. Two of the most prominent are Erin Kissane, a writer and researcher working on new networks, and Darius Kazemi, a senior engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Earlier in 2024, the pair researched and wrote a 40,000-word report on governance in the fediverse. Now they are deep in other projects designed to move the fediverse forward, including Erin’s new studio devoted to network work and Darius’ Fediverse Schema Observatory (software built to enhance the ecosystem’s interoperability while being sensitive to user data). You’ll hear about these projects and more in the latest episode of our Dot Social podcast.

Highlights of the conversation include:

• The impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on this work
• Thoughts on the migration to Bluesky
• A model for how to socialize software in the fediverse
• What needs to be done next: a prioritized list
• The nutritional label analogy
• Funding and sustainability
• Bridging protocols and avoiding fragmentation

Meta's microblogging platform and X rival, Threads, has taken another step closer to two-way connectivity to the Fediverse.

The version 1.3.0 of Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework, released! The key changes include:

• Instrumented spans for OpenTelemetry are added. In most cases, it's automatically enabled if your application configured OpenTelemetry SDK.
• Since Fedify 1.3.0, you can configure different MessageQueues for incoming and outgoing activities.
• Fedify now allows you to manually route an Activity to the corresponding inbox listener. It is useful for invoking an inbox listener for an Activity enclosed by another Activity.
• Context.sendActivity() and InboxContext.forwardActivity() methods now reject when they fail to enqueue the task.
• Thanks to @robin_maki@planet.moe, @fedify/fedify/x/sveltekit module is added for integrating with SvelteKit hook.
• Fedify now makes HTTP requests with the proper User-Agent header, e.g., User-Agent: Fedify/1.3.0 (Deno/2.1.2).

For details, see the full changelog as well!

Fedify 1.3.0 is available at JSR and npm.

кросс-пост из: https://lemmy.world/post/22588805

The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

cross-posted from: https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-7967-436d-12c8-1b3699371761

Raccoon for Friendica, the mobile client for Friendica and Mastodon has landed on F-Droid

#RaccoonForFriendica is the new app developed by @dieguitux8623 to manage your Friendica account but also allows Mastodon accounts to view ActivityPub groups in an intuitive way like for Friendica users. Now it is finally available on the alternative store most appreciated by the #OpenSource community

@fediverse

f-droid.org/it/packages/com.li…

#FDroid #Friendica #Mastodon

So I remember a couple of days ago when I went to https://lemmyverse.net/ it showed about 30k communities, now it only shows 9k. Does anyone know what happens?

I was trying to search for a coffee community and it didn't basically show anything, same for espresso while I know that there are communities about it.

Do some alternative community search engines exist which perhaps even find PieFed and Mbin communities?

I had dozens of accounts with notifications activated, and it was definitely becoming too much, so I am starting to use lists, finally!

I see that there are not many resources about this feature around the web, though…

Any suggestions/tips/useful links?

Cc: @FediTips @mastodonmigration @fedilove @fediverse

#help #mastoaiuto #mastohelp #lists #suggestions #Fediverse #FediverseLists #FediTips

Loops aims to be an open Fediverse alternative to TikTok, Snapchat, and Vine. We take an early look at the app, and talk about what it's like!

“Bluesky is called a decentralized network and uses the term federation. The problem is that their technology, from the point of view of power dynamics, is not decentralized at all,” emphasizes Christine Lemmer-Webber, an expert on decentralized social protocols. “The use of some decentralisation techniques, but the decentralized service itself is not today. There is one big company that controls the flow of information, and without which this network cannot operate at the moment.”

This does not mean that moving from X/Twitter to Bluesky is a bad idea. “I appreciate that Bluesky wants to build a service that can quickly fully replace Twitter. But I don’t think they should claim that this service is decentralized and instead focus on the date of a “trustworthy way”.

Source: https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych

The vegan community is growing on the lemmyverse now at 110 registered users that makes a MAU of 69 (0.15%) of the 44.9k Lemmy userbase.

If we apply the 90-9-1 rule with rounding factored in, we would have 55 lurkers, 5 small contributors and 1 contributor.

Lemmy.vg has 39 users, 7 communities, 533 posts, 376 comments and 18 6mo active users. Started on 24-05-09.

Vegantheoryclub.org has 71 users, 13 communities, 1200 posts, 2500 comments and 51 6mo active users. Started on 24-04-10.

!vegan@lemmy.vg has 106 posts, 110 comments, 83 subscribers and 671 6mo visitiors.

!vegan@vegantheoryclub.org has 388 posts, 1300 comments, 310 subscribers and 2500 6mo visitors.

Here are the signup pages if you’re interested: Lemmy.vg and Vegantheoryclub.org both are anarchist.

FOSDEM is a huge grassroots Free and Open Source Software conference held annually in Brussels, Belgium. It brings together thousands of users and developers from Europe and around the world. The conference is organized into themed tracks called "developer rooms" or "devrooms".

For the first time (I think) there will be a devroom at FOSDEM 2025 devoted to Open Source software that implements ActivityPub or is otherwise closely related to the Fediverse.

Interested software developers are invited to submit proposals for talks at the event. It would be especially great to have talks about Lemmy or from the wider Lemmy ecosystem, since this is such an important part of the Fediverse developer community.

Instructions for submitting a proposal are in the link. Please let me know if you have any questions!

After I recently dived into the Lemmy world and found out which API route I needed for a Lemmy integration as a Mentions United Provider Plugin, the rest was no longer particularly difficult, because the data is very heavy due to many redundancies, but easy to process. So my new plugin is ready and running on this blog to display Lemmy interactions …

https://kiko.io/post/Mentions-United-Lemmy-plugin-a-few-updates/

Well I have signed up for Loops, the federated tiktok alternative. I signed up on Monday and haven't still a mail about how to start, after the signup. So I'm writing this to hear from others, who have signed up for loops, whathavet you experience with the signup, have you got both mails, or are you just like me still waiting and looking for news all the time on Mastodon? Maybe we could help each other, be patience together and yir discuss loops and talk about the hopes we have for the tiktok alternative.

I hope this isn't too spammy, but I wanted to share a blog post and ask some questions.

On Bots I saw the bot issue a little back and I am kind of surprised it wasn't talked about more on the fediverse. It's something that think is worth discussing so I wanted to share my take on it.

Important note, the .world fediverse community locked threads. I respect there decision and am not sharing it there but please please please don't start a flamewar here too. Bots effect everybody.

I also wanted to ask about the blog. I created a pen name and a blog to share my thoughts and found it fun so I might continue. I wanted feedback on the blog. Is there anything missing or that needs fixing? It's bare bones for now but if I keep posting that would hopefully change.

And with ActivityPub turned on in WordPress does that mean I can integrate it with Lemmy? Make my own community and share posts automatically or something?

They don't want to get the "First Game of the Fediverse" title

Since I wasn't satisfied with the way syndicated interactions were displayed on my blog, I built something myself with #javascript. What do you think of the idea and implementation?

Finally, Hollo 0.1.0 released! Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is ActivityPub-enabled and powered by Fedify.

Hollo has the most of features that Mastodon has except for moderation tools, and also include:

• CommonMark (a.k.a. Markdown) and up to 4,096 characters per post
• Misskey-style quotes (compatible with Misskey, Akkoma, Fedibird, etc)
• Misskey-style emoji reactions (both Unicode emojis and custom emojis are supported; compatible with Misskey, Akkoma, kmyblue, etc)
• Generally much relaxed limitations (more poll options, more attachments, and so on)
• … and many more!

If you're interested in Hollo, please give it a try! There are several ways to install it: using Railway, using Docker (and Docker Compose), or manually.

If you're already using Hollo, please upgrade it to v0.1.0:

• To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
• To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.1.0 or simply latest!
• To manual installers: Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it!

Hey fellow Lemmings,

I've been thinking about how we measure the liveliness of our communities, and I believe we're missing the mark with Monthly Active Users (MAU). Here's why I think Posts + Comments per Month (PCM) would be a superior metric:

Why PCM is Better Than MAU

1. Quality over Quantity: MAU counts lurkers equally with active participants. PCM focuses on actual engagement.

2. Spam Resistance: Creating multiple accounts to inflate MAU is easy. Generating meaningful posts and comments is harder.

3. True Reflection of Activity: A community with 1000 MAU but only 10 posts/comments is less vibrant than one with 100 MAU and 500 posts/comments.

4. Encourages Participation: Displaying PCM could motivate users to contribute more actively.

5. Easier to Track: No need for complex user tracking. Just count posts and comments.

Implementation Ideas

• Show PCM in the community list alongside subscriber count
• Display PCM in each community's sidebar
• Use PCM for sorting "hot" communities

What do you think? Should we petition the Lemmy devs to consider implementing this? Let's discuss!