publication croisée depuis : https://rblind.com/post/3476242

As part of OurBlind's continued efforts to provide accessible online spaces for the blind and visually impaired community, we've developed custom themes for Lemmy, to use on our Lemmy instance on Rblind, and to make available for others, in keeping with the themes' license terms and the spirit of free and open source software.

If you're reading this on www.rblind.com and are not signed in, you're using RBlind-Dark. We hope you're enjoying it! If you log in, you can switch to RBlind-Light. Once logged in, go to your username, then Settings and, use the Themes dropdown to make your selection: we suggest RBlind-Dark or RBlind-Light at the end of the list.

Why these themes matter to us

We started this Lemmy instance back in 2023, prompted by the Reddit API protests. Reddit Inc., the company that controls the website our community r/Blind is on, had announced policy changes that made t

Written Version: https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/migrating-to-gotosocial-from-mastodon

GoToSocial

If you've ever used something like Twitter or Tumblr (or even Myspace!) GoToSocial will probably feel familiar to you.

You can follow people and have followers, you make posts which people can favourite and reply to and share, and you scroll through posts from people you follow using a timeline.

You can write long posts or short posts, or just post images, it's up to you.

You can also, of course, block people or otherwise limit interactions that you don't want by posting just to your friends.

Mastodon & GoToSocial

Mastodon is great! If you want a full-featured ActivityPub microblogging server with all the bells and whistles, go use that instead :)

GoToSocial's niche is small or single-user instances running on low-powered devices, like single-board computers or old laptops repurposed as home servers.

Our focus is on providing lightweight soft

A thorough review of trials, tribulations, and tests to bridge the gap from publishing online to federated social networking.

Nice feature :)

At https://piefed.social/user/settings you can now choose who is allowed to PM you.

The default value is "This instance" which will cut you off from PMs from all other instances. We're currently dealing with a bit of gore spam but once a more long-term solution is found a more relaxed default should be possible.

So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're dreaming of building the next great federated app, a unique space connected to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and more. The temptation to dive deep and implement ActivityPub yourself, from the ground up, is strong. Total control, right? Understanding every byte? Sounds cool!

But hold on a sec. Before you embark on that epic quest, let's talk reality. Implementing ActivityPub correctly isn't just one task; it's like juggling several complex standards while riding a unicycle… blindfolded. It’s hard.

That's where Fedify comes in. It's a TypeScript framework designed to handle the gnarliest parts of ActivityPub development, letting you focus on what makes your app special, not reinventing the federation wheel.

This post will break down the common headaches of DIY ActivityPub implementation and show how Fedify acts as the super-powered pain reliever, starting wi

cross-posted from: https://dubvee.org/post/3151231

Bugfixes

• [a84bc5db] Add community-banned indicator to vote view if banned_from_community is present in the API response.
• [1e5bfeae] Disable actions if banned from community (all actions the API forbids if user is community banned):
  • Post/comment vote buttons
  • Edit post/comment
  • Delete/Restore post/comment
  • Report post/comment
  • Moderation buttons (if a mod is banned but not removed from mod team, they'll still see mod action buttons but be unable to perform any)
  • Create post, subscribe, and "community settings" buttons in /c/community and community modal
• [0216bc2a] Don't cache getCommunity lookup results. While nice in theory, it prevents being aware you've been banned or any changes to the community during the cache validity window with no way to automatically invalidate beyond a fixed TTL.
• [d4df7d05] Don't badge-ify post and comment links. That worked well until peopl

• context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40460535
• https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone&from=now-2d&to=now

Digg started asking 5 bucks for early access: https://early.digg.com/

Source: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy?version=0.19.11

Dont render images in private message (#3043)

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11

I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to BlueSky for text-centric social media.

If you want to see a live example: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33979666

Hello! I was checking out rblind today, and i'm curious to hear from people who're visually impaired on what they think of it.

It seems pretty cool, i'm wondering if the theme can be implemented for more instances to for help accessibility.

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Sum up

Peertube

• channel ownership transfert
• multi-user channel management
• instance customization
• installation wizard
• shared list of banned instance, account and keyword, tags

Peertube mobile app

• port mobile app to tablet and smart tv
• connection to your peertube account and manage your account subcription, channel, content, upload video, comment...