A group devoted to news about the Fediverse, which includes all ActivityPub-enabled services.
Hubzilla 10.2.3 Released!
Hubzilla 10.2.3
Sorry for the noise!
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Hubzilla 10.2.2 Released!
Hubzilla 10.2.2
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Mastodon has merged "fetch all replies"!
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...
This is pretty huge news for Mastodon users: Once this feature is up and running comments to a post will not be limited to whatever is federated to your server through indirect means. The whole platform should feel a lot more vibrant after this, and it addresses what has been one of the main complaints about Mastodon.
It is summarized like this by @[email protected]:
Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳
The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.
(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615)
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PieFed adds multi-reddit, multi-community feature
PieFed just added a multi-reddit feature, which we're calling "Feeds". It combines multiple Communities (actors of type "Group" in ActivityPub) into one.
Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.
Try it out at https://piefed.social/feeds
It's similar to PieFed's concept of a Topic https://piefed.social/topics, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.
When you subscribe to the feed (which you can do from a remote Piefed instance, you don't need to be on the same instance as the feed), behind the scenes PieFed subscribes you to all the communities within. If the feed owner adds a community then all the feed subscribers automatically follow/join the new community too.
The Verge just interviewed Evan Prodromou. That is, @evan, Research Director at @swf, and co-author of #ActivityPub. And he shares some big news:
The Verge just interviewed Evan Prodromou. That is, @[email protected], Research Director at @[email protected], and co-author of #ActivityPub. And he shares some big news:
The #Fediverse just broke 2M MAUs!
The #Fediverse just broke 2M MAUs!
2,162,745 MAUs, to be exact!
And keep in mind, this does not count data from servers that have opted out of indexing, which accounts for another 2M accounts (which may or may not be active)!
Two new features are coming to #Fedify! Both have to do with controls over domain names:
Two new features are coming to #Fedify! Both have to do with controls over domain names:
https://hollo.social/@fedify/01953693-1afd-7430-988a-23d649099e1c
FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.
FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.
Prior to this change, #FediDB counted 12,923,233 accounts. Now it counts 10,868,233 accounts.
Now let me be blunt: respecting robots.txt is a good thing. But now when we look at #Fediverse accounts, it must clearly be seen with the acknowledgement that these only count services that haven't opted out of tracking.
So when people compare user counts of #Bluesky vs. the Fediverse, remember that Bluesky has the luxury of a more complete count because they host all accounts there. In contrast, the Fediverse is actually decentralized, and a good many services simply do not want to be tracked -- and are therefore not counted.
I wanted to see the current status of group actor support in #Mastodon.
I wanted to see the current status of group actor support in #Mastodon.
This feature has been requested all the way back in 2016. It's a feature request that is so old, it's the 139th ticket. After it was made, @[email protected] stated shortly after:
I made a decision not to implement groups. They offer little benefit over a cost of added complexity, and the bangtag syntax personally irks me too.
A year later, he re-opened the feature request and said:
Reopening, but not high priority.
No further update since then. Nearly a decade after this feature had been requested, group support has not been added and it's still not a high priority.
Now the intent of this post isn't to wag my finger at Mastodon and say, "How dare they!" It's clear that Mastodon is in a transitional state right now, and their focus is on other things -- like quote posts and search.
But it is to say that the development of this feature is so completely out of Mastodon's control that it now repre
Piefed android app (only works with preferred.social and pythag.net!)
Andrew has been working on the piefed API for a long time and now we see its benefits! It's very close, and later we will see it being deployed to piefed.social and other instances.
Yep, you can post from a #Pixelfed account to a #Piefed community!
Yep, you can post from a #Pixelfed account to a #Piefed community!
This is a big bloody deal to me, and I have lots of use cases for that ability!
Basically, this means my #Pixelfed account doesn’t have to be devoted to a single topic anymore! I can put all my images on one account and sort them according to community—which can also be used by others!
Here’s the original Pixelfed post:
https://pixelfed.social/p/atomicpoet/798415830074783205
Here’s how it exists on Piefed:
https://piefed.social/post/489174
And the screenshot is how it appears in the #Lemmy app @[email protected].
Testing to see if I can post an image from #Pixelfed to #Piefed. If I can, that would be big news.
Just discovered Emissary. It’s a social web toolkit that’s “designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins”. It’s a highly customizable and scalable ActivityPub-enabled server software with
Just discovered Emissary. It's a social web toolkit that's "designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins". It's a highly customizable and scalable ActivityPub-enabled server software with few dependencies.
Only two known servers currently use #Emissary, but one of them is highly prominent: bandwagon.fm.
This has lots of potential if you want to build federated social web software with a specific use case scenario in mind.
Here's the website:
Here's their Git repo:
https://github.com/EmissarySocial/emissary
And here's their kanban board:
NeoDB now has five active servers!
NeoDB now has five active servers!
All of them allow new sign-ups. The newest server, neodb.kevga.de, is aimed at #German speakers.
If you're unfamiliar with #NeoDB, it is a media database and social platform that allows users to review art and media. It is similar to #GoodReads, #RateYourMusic, and #LetterBoxd. #Bookwyrm does something similar, but its specifically made for books.
NeoDB has a public user count of 20,713 with 1,980 MAUs.
A Pixelfed non-profit is coming soon!
It’s true. I’m retiring , and have created as its successor.
It's true. I'm retiring @[email protected], and have created @[email protected] as its successor.
I used to post constantly to that #Friendica group. However, I am incredibly pleased with the moderation toolkit of #Piefed, so it only makes sense to use that software instead.
For those who don't know, Piefed is a #Reddit-like platform -- similar to #Lemmy and #Mbin -- but I feel it has amongst the best community management tools of the federated Reddit-like platforms. So I am thrilled to be migrating an old community over to Piefed.
Oh yeah, and I'm looking for moderators. So if this interests you, let me know.
Welcome!
This community is the next iteration of @[email protected], which is currently a Friendica group that will be retired in a month.
@[email protected] is quite popular, and currently has 2.6K followers. However, I stopped sharing news on venera.social as I discovered that moderation there was quite difficult. Having tested #Piefed for the past month, I am thrilled to see that it has a more advanced moderation toolkit -- so this will be replacing the old community.
A big welcome to everyone who is current or past member of @[email protected].