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I write the Fediverse Report. This is my public account. fediversereport.com [email protected] [email protected]

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  • I've tried multiple channels, and I never managed from other software, even though I could find the underlying individual videos that are part of the channels. Can you link an example?

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  • Hello from my Kbin account!

    I agree that this part of the article is not well developed, and I should have probably rewritten it. What I was trying to get at is that Flipboard has a hierarchy that is unique: The Actor owns a Group, with the Actor being the highest level, and the Magazine below it.

    While you could probably map a Flipboard Magazine onto a ActivityPub Group similarly like a Kbin Magazine is a Group, the intended usecase is still quite different, even though they are both link-aggregators. I dont think this is an insurmountable problem per se, but I dont agree that Kbins Magazines are super similar to Flipboards Magazines. If you wanted an fediverse comparison, I think Flipboards Magazines are actually way closer to the Postmarks.

  • Firefish Could Be the Next Big Thing
  • if anything, its gotten worse tbh. the upside is that the move account feature to mastodon works, was a bit concerned about that.

    it doesnt block your old account after a move like mastodon does, so i still have a functional firefish account, just not my followers anymore

    chris stating that hes hesitant to open his new (4 person) firefish server to other people until theyve tested more for stability makes me quite hesitant to recommend the platform for now, if stability issues are this deeply ingrained

  • So, what's the status on the update?
  • wishing you all the best Ernest!

  • Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 30
  • hey, thanks for letting me know. I think thats cloudflare, as its a pretty standard wordpress blog that I've not actively enabled settings to hide stuff behind captchas etc. Not really sure why it happens, but im taking a look

  • LemmyModBot - A Lemmy bot written in Python to detect and report toxic written content.

    lemmy.world [Showcase] - LemmyModBot - Lemmy.world

    Written in Python. Originally started to flag toxic content for Mod followup, but it’s growing to do other things too. Still very much a work in progress. Currently in use in !asklemmy https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot [https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot]

    Written in Python. Originally started to flag toxic content for Mod followup, but it’s growing to do other things too. Still very much a work in progress. Currently in use in !asklemmy

    https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot [https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot]

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    Only partial federation of hashtagged posts to Kbin microblog?
  • No, the value is in pulling in posts with a hashtag that arent being followed yet. But it feels like that isnt really possible yet, and that someone from kbin.social has to follow the account?

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social laurens @kbin.social

    Only partial federation of hashtagged posts to Kbin microblog?

    I've been looking for a usecase to see where the combination of Threads and Microblog was particularly useful, and with the news around the potential superconductor #LK99 I figured this would be an interesting test case. So I made a magazine on kbin.social for LK99, and added the hashtags to tags in settings.

    But now only some tagged posts show up under microblog. So it does work, because otherwise 0 posts would appear. But if I search on mastodon.social for #LK99, I get way more posts, and only about a third of them show up on Kbin.

    Its probably something to do with federation, but I'm not really sure where it goes wrong. Interestingly, even some posts that are made on mastodon.social that are correctly tagged do not show up on kbin, even though other posts from mastodon.social do. I even made sure to follow this account with my mastodon.social account to guarantee federation between the servers.

    Anyone has an idea how this works? And if there is a way to force more of the posts to show up?

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    Convert Mastodon blocklists to Pixelfed and visa versa

    mastodon.social pixelfed (@[email protected])

    ⚡ Introducing masto2pixel, a blocklist converter https://dansup.github.io/masto2pixel Easily convert blocklists between Mastodon & Pixelfed format, and share blocklists in url format! ✨ Open source (https://github.com/dansup/masto2pixel) ✨ Self-hostable ✨ Support for other platforms is planne...

    ⚡ Introducing masto2pixel, a blocklist converter https://dansup.github.io/masto2pixel Easily convert blocklists between Mastodon & Pixelfed format, and share blocklists in url format! ✨ Open source (https://github.com/dansup/masto2pixel) ✨ Self-hostable ✨ Support for other platforms is planned

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    Zowel Sylvana Simons (Bij1) en Farid Azarkan (Denk) stappen op

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    Frans Timmermans wil lijsttrekker worden van PvdA/GroenLinks
  • Denk dat dit een kandidaat is waar je wel stemmen bij d66 en cda kan wegtrekken

  • PvdA en GroenLinks met één lijst de verkiezingen in
  • Top! Had wel verwacht dat er mee ingestemd zou worden, maar 90% had ik niet verwacht, erg cool dat het zo breed gedragen wordt

  • Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server
  • The Nordic Council of Ministers set up a Think Tank for digital strategy stuff last year, and they published their recommendations two months ago. They specifically advised all the Nordic governments to go all in on ActivityPub.

    https://social.cloudless.world/@ruben_int/statuses/01GYC9A95YPKQZZJXH8VT27JRA
    https://pub.norden.org/nord2023-004/3-access-to-diverse-and-credible-digital-platforms-and-communities.html

  • Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server
  • soms wel fijn om toch af en toe een klein beetje trots te kunnen zijn op onze overheid

  • Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server

    The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl

    The official announcement post by the State Secretary of Digitalisation: https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685

    In the post she mentions that the government supports 'value-driven' alternatives to social media. In a letter to the house of representatives she describes Mastodon as a Digital Common Good, and that it fits in the larger strategy of the government of using 'open source, unless' (meaning theyll always use open source unless there is a clear explicit reason not to).

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    Mastodon server van overheid vandaag officieel gelanceerd!

    social.overheid.nl Alexandra van Huffelen (@[email protected])

    Bijlagen: 1 afbeelding Vandaag lanceren wij onze overheidsserver op Mastodon. In de brief die ik aan de Kamer heb gestuurd over 'Digitale gemeenschapsgoederen' op 22 juni, heb ik aangegeven dat ik twee waardengedreven alternatieven voor social media ondersteun. Een van deze alternatieven is een ...

    Via Alexandra van Huffelen:

    Vandaag lanceren wij onze overheidsserver op Mastodon.

    In de brief die ik aan de Kamer heb gestuurd over 'Digitale gemeenschapsgoederen' op 22 juni, heb ik aangegeven dat ik twee waardengedreven alternatieven voor social media ondersteun.

    Een van deze alternatieven is een 'eigen' Mastodon-server die door overheidsorganisaties gebruikt worden.

    Hiermee zetten we weer een stap in onze Werkagenda Waardengedreven Digitaliseren.

    Algemene informatie over ons ministerie: @minbzk

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    /kbin project management costs, financing, future plans
  • Thank you for the update and thoroughness! That growth from may to june is insane, massive props for keeping this all working and afloat!

  • How is the war going? — Mid July 2023

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    Should we be using hashtags and mentions more?
  • yeah I think it would be good to do more. hashtags are clunky and an eyesore, and I would love to see better support of them that mitigates this. But currently they are the main way to signal discoverability on the fediverse. And posts on kbin are (usually) made with the intention that the public can interact with them.

    One thing I would like to see is an extra field when you submit your post where you can add in some hashtags. These can be rendered as Tags in activitypub, which do exactly the same thing as hashtags, except that they are not visible in the main body of the text. The ActivityPub wordpress plugin also does this. I add tags to my posts on wordpress, and when you search for that hashtag, my wordpress blog post shows up, even though you'll not find the hashtag anywhere in the body of the text.

  • VanMoof pauzeert verkopen, heeft naar verluidt financiële problemen
  • Toch mooi dat VanMoof zo goed het concept van de Tesla voor e-bikes probeert te zijn dat ze zelfs de financiele problemen kopieren.

  • Assuming boost stays as some sort of a super-upvote/share combo alongside regular up/downvote buttons, here's a UI idea on how to merge it into one unified voting system. App animation + web block moc
  • yeah, its good to mention that boosts is also really relevant for the microblogging side. I actually found out about this post because i follow ernest on calckey, and he boosted it. Thats for me an important usecase of boosting kbin stuff. This looks really pretty, but it does put boosting too much in the category of 'superlike' for me.

  • Nederlandse overheid begint Mastodon-instance voor overheidsaccounts
  • hell yeah!

    De server zelf is natuurlijk tof nieuws, en erg happy mee om te zien. Maar minstens zo relevant vind ik de toelichting van Alexandra Huffelen, waarin ze ook meer ingaat op het gedachtegoed er achter. Sowieso het benoemen van Elinor Ostrom, in de context dat digital spaces public goods zijn, is heel erg tof. Dit geeft wel aan dat dit meer is dan alleen een korte tegenreactie op Elon's Twitter, maar een structureel andere manier van kijken naar hoe je als land met het internet om wil gaan.

  • Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
  • Germany (social.bund.de) and the EU (social.network.europa.eu) already have it. I think it's very likely that other governments, especially european ones, will start to do this.

    With the internet being so dominated by american voices, I dont think a lot of people have fully appreciated the sentiment change in the higher levels of european governments. Sovereign control over their digital spaces is something that is actually mattering on the level of nation states. Its a way of thinking that is kind of new to most people, as we rarely think about the sovereign powers of nation states, and even less so in the context of the internet. But now were starting to do that again, and it actually matters.

  • Any updates on the Tumblr activitypub support?
  • No, latest update is from early this spring, with no updates since.

  • nos.nl Premier Rutte op ramkoers, val kabinet lijkt niet ver weg

    De splijtzwam is een maatregel die het aantal nareizigers moet beperken.

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    Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta?
  • This conversation has been going on Mastodon for a while now. The problem kind of boils down to the following: there are people who think Meta is a bad actor and having the literal entire rest of the fediverse defederating is the best way of dealing with that. And there are people who also agree that Meta is a bad actor, and think that partial defederation is the best way of dealing with it.

    Its really hard to come (read: impossible) to come to a consensus on this, because part of the argument about what is a better tactical approach depends on knowing how Threads implements things like account portability, and this is currently unknown. Most people even assumed that Threads would not implement this at all, but Adam Mosseri just announced that this is an important feature, so who even knows.

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social laurens @kbin.social

    Does anyone know how the algorithm for 'hot' works in the microblog section of (https://kbin.social/tag/Kbin)?

    Does anyone know how the algorithm for 'hot' works in the microblog section of #Kbin?

    \#kbinMeta

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    Everything about Ukraine @kbin.social laurens @kbin.social

    Is there another Wagner insurrection coming?

    Prigozhin's coup against Putin failed, but it may have created the conditions that are necessary for success in a second attempt.

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    www.nytimes.com How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published

    The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.

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    Peace is not an option for Ukraine || video essay by Anders Puck Nielsen

    Russia's demands for a peace deal will be totally unrealistic, so it is hard to see how the war can end as long as Putin is president in

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