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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.

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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][1]!

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][2]!
• 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!

[Hollo 0.1.0]: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo/releases/tag/0.1.0 [1]: https://docs.hollo.social/intro/ [Railway]: https://docs.hollo.social/install/railway/ [Docker]: https://docs.hollo.social/install/docker/ [manually]: https://docs.hollo.social/install/manual/ [2]: https://docs.hollo.social/install/railway/#upgrading [ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.1.0]: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo/pkgs/container/hollo/292999204?tag=0.1.0 [latest]: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo/pkgs/container/hollo/292999204?tag=latest [stable branch]: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo/tree/stable

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!

Hello everyone! 🎉

I’ve created an RSS Feed Bot that automates sharing news in Lemmy and Fediverse channels, helping to keep Fediverse users better informed. The bot is written in Python3 and can easily run via Docker Compose.

Hope you find it useful! 🚀

#Lemmy #Fediverse #RSS #Python #Docker #Automation #OpenSource

> Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few. > > Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world. > > I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn’t experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it’s the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content. > > source

Hey everyone! I'm curious about the number of communities on Lemmy and the activity levels within them. Specifically, is there a reliable source where I can check the total number of communities and the average number of posts per month? It seems like the number of communities might be quite high, but I wonder how low the post activity is across most of them. Any insights or links to resources would be greatly appreciated!

cross-posted from: https://www.informapirata.it/2024/10/18/raccoon-the-friendica-app-that-also-has-surprises-for-mastodon-users-automatic-translation-from-italian/

> RaccoonForFriendica is the most complete app ever seen for Friendica and, in addition to working with Mastodon, it might be the only app in the world capable of managing the potential of Mastodon Glitch-soc > > https://www.informapirata.it/2024/10/18/raccoon-the-friendica-app-that-also-has-surprises-for-mastodon-users-automatic-translation-from-italian/

Any thoughts? Seems interesting, looks like they're planning on developing communities as well.

It would be really interesting to see how this pans how and how it would affect the future of the Fediverse in general.

I would be really interested in seeing if an internal bridge to automatically translate their platform to ActivityPub will be built in order to federate with Lemmy Instances.

Due to the ongoing strain of trying to write, edit, and publish articles on a consistent basis, and a handful of personal obligations of our founders, We Distribute is officially on temporary hiatus.

This is not the end of our publication or our project, but we need to step back for a while and regroup, if the project hopes to survive.

This release contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements. Thanks to Kalcifer for reporting many of these.

• LaTeX formatting is now supported to handle mathematics (thanks Silver-Sorbet)
• The editor now has a live preview of rendered markdown
• Better layout for edit history
• Fixed user links in edit history
• Edits are now correctly sorted by date
• Removed maximum width for page
• Render markdown titles smaller than page title
• Disable markdown plugins for url shortening and smartquotes
• Resize article edit input based on length

More details and download

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/24088740

> Do you think Lemmy and other parts of the fediverse will eventually enshittify? I think this would be an interesting discussion to have. There currently is not financial incentive like the ones that have led centralized platforms to enshittify. But there might be in the future. Does decentralization protect against that tendency in some way? > > Lemmy and Mastodon do give me the hope, that when one platform turns to shit, there will be people creating a platform that - for the time being - is not.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/12273255

I've only been on Lemmy a few days and I've already witnessed a lot of thinly veiled transphobia, anything from people dismissing the existence of trans people, to trying to claim we are predators. I've also seen people downvoted in the general communities for expressing trans support, or seemingly for no reason other than simply being openly trans or visibly queer. I know it's an ongoing effort to moderate transphobia on Lemmy, and the fediverse as a whole. We have to also address mentions of thinly veiled transphobia and transphobic users. Transphobia isn't just a differing opinion, it is a dangerous hateful sentiment which causes harm to vulnerable people and it needs to be addressed, at the instance and community level. We need to put in the effort to identify transphobic dogwhistles and language used by transphobes to eradicate this type of behavior from our communities and servers alike.

Some people will argue that the light stuff isn't something to worry about, but that's not true. This is a tactic they use to blend in with normies and make them think that nothing they are doing or saying is wrong. It's what transphobic right-wing YouTubers and Facebook users do to avoid being banned for hate speech. We are better than these corporations though, Fediverse is run by communities and for the users, we should not let these things slide as easily as Corporations do, they're in it to make money, we... We're in it to create a community for the users. Part of that means kicking out those who don't have all our best interests at heart.

Earlier this month, the Mastodon project announced a new initiative funded by NGI Search: Fediverse Discovery Providers! The goal is to build a resource framework for different kinds of services that can work with potentially any instance or platform.

Evan Prodromou, the creator of StatusNet, the OStatus protocol, and co-author of ActivityPub, is launching a dedicated nonprofit for the purpose of advocating for and supporting the Fediverse.

I hope my post doesn't break the rules ; I'd like to invite as many people as possible to participate to Sunnyvision, the summer edition of the Lemmyvision song contest.

It's a fun way to celebrate summer, and discover new music, more info on the original post, quoted below !

> > TL;DR > - In this thread the thread on !lemmyvision@jlai.lu, in the comments, post a song that was released in summer of any year. > - Next week, you'll be able to vote for your favourite song from the songs posted here. > > Remember that time I wanted to set up a smaller scale Lemmyvision for summer? Yeah me neither. > > But here it is, it's still summer for a week, so.. > > > Welcome to Lemmyvision's summer edition, Sunnyvision!🌞 > > If you don't know what Lemmyvision is, check out the sidebar! > > The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists. > > The first edition concluded on April (https://jlai.lu/post/6041838) with 9 instances/countries/communities participating! The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXKhJfRQ7k), the feddit.uk submission, won! > > For this 'lighter' edition, the goal is to celebrate the last week of summer, with some summer related tunes. You do not need to bring your instance/community, everyone can share a song, no matter what instance they're on, as long as they can federate here! > > > Rules > - Just post a song that was released in summer, from any year you want > - At the end of the week I'll gather all the songs posted in this thread > - You'll then be able to listen to a playlist with all those songs, and vote for your favourite! > > Spread the word if you can, and I hope you have fun, and that everyone can discover new music! 🎶

For Fediverse musicians looking for a new Bandcamp alternative, Bandwagon feels extremely promising. It's built on top of the Emissary platform, and offers a robust amount of features for playing, promoting, and discovering music.

sub.club is an emergent new platform for paid subscriptions in the #Fediverse. It's simple, smooth, and easy to use.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27579423

> This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities. > > I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.) > > I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community. > > Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map: > > https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map

Are there any decent, smaller, #Queer-friendly #Mastodon instances that don't block #Threads?

@fediverse@lemmy.ml @mastodon #socialNetwork #fediverse @fediverse@a.gup.pe #lgbtq

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3384817

> link that was attached to original post (1st ever ActivityPub), original post is linked in this post > > > The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’t seem quite right though - its not as if the spec came into existence in any sense upon that date. In fact, Mastodon implemented it before thne. > > > > There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump [github.com] and pushed it to Github > > > > It wouldn’t be until November that I actually submitted (a revised and enhanced version of) that draft to the working group, but even then I had the very nucleus of the specification written down. > > > > Happy 10th birthday, ActivityPub. 🍰

In the development and building of a shared, open, collaborative network, efforts have come and gone over the years for the Fediverse. We dig into the history, various attempts, and some of the ideas people have had.

I recently read Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant from starbreaker.org. The post does a great job linking to and summarizing a spate of posts that I will call “people being mad at the IndieWeb”, while also being one of these posts. These posts accuse “the IndieWeb” of being elitist, exclusionary, overengineered, complicit, and unnecessary, among many other things. There are some common threads I noticed among these posts: None of them mention micro.