https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/

  • Celebrating the 16th birthday of the fediverse

  • The European Commission sets up a new fediverse instance

  • bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky has been used to spam Bluesky with pro-Trump messaging

  • Three new products for the ATmosphere by Japanese developers: Video platform Bluemotion, Blogging with WhiteWind, and audio spaces with Bluecast.

  • Fediverse share button - https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/

UPDATE:

EPISODE 70 - https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/

  • aasatru@kbin.earth
    10·
    1 month ago

    Fascinating how the federated Bluesky spam came from Nostr. Dorsey’s lovechild vomiting crap all over his disowned brainchild. Clearly he bet on the right horse.

  • lizard_socks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    The thing with replacing DeviantArt could be interesting. Sites like that - not just DA but also Fur Affinity, Weasyl, etc - have a very different philosophy about how to show your “feed”:

    1. there’s always a separation between images and text posts from the people you’re following
    2. no reposts - instead each user has a gallery of “favorites” (essentially your likes, but it’s public by default)

    These two things are what makes it possible for me to discover artists on sites like these, and why I can’t do the same on Twitter, Tumblr, or Mastodon. The tonal whiplash is just too distressing.

    I have made a web app called Crowmask that exposes my Weasyl posts to ActivityPub, but unfortunately it’s one way only for now (and single-user - I’m not prepared to take responsibility for hosting content from someone I don’t know offline).

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I feel like video is a Borg that assimilates every communication medium ever invented, and turns it into crap after a while. So this report doesn’t excite me.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    I really hope the eu gets addicted to the openness and starts forcing it on other companies to ensure competition

    • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      There are some provisions in the Digital Markets Act that go in that direction. It only took effect roughly 3 months ago though, so remains to be seen if it works out as intended.

      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Thats the whole rcs thing tho. Isnt signal WhatsApp and all Facebook messenger things use xmpp? Can we bridge them to rcs or have the alphabet bois locked that down.

        • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          No, the DMA has nothing to do with RCS, at least not directly.

          Yes, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were initially just XMPP servers, but have since had proprietary expansions.

          In the context of the DMA both of them will be forced to make interoperability with other third-party messengers possible, since Meta has been designated a “gatekeeper” under the new regulation. Meta has announced they plan on doing so via an implementation of the Signal protocol.

          • muntedcrocodile@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            This sounds like i can finally self host signal and its going to be interoperable? Or is it gatekept for only the big bois?

            • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              Signal protocol ≠ Signal messenger

              AFAIK you could always have selfhosted a Signal server, you just can’t interact with the “normal” Signal messenger and its network.

                • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  2·
                  1 month ago

                  Not with Signal messenger, the company running it hasn’t been designated as a gatekeeper under the DMA rules. You can see which services will be affected on the Wiki page (only WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger currently).