✨ New blog post: "Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole"
Turns out, the future of the internet might just be federated. 💜
https://laurahargreaves.com/growing-my-fediverse/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopost

#Fediverse #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty

Hello NeoComment! 🎉

The first release of NeoComment (1.0.0-alpha.1) is now available on GitHub.

NeoComment is an Android NeoDB client. You can sign up for an account on a NeoDB instance using your Fediverse account and start writing and reading reviews, as well as rating items such as movies, games, music, podcasts or even performances.

I will publish it soon on F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid.

https://github.com/mohammadrafigh/NeoComment/releases/tag/1.0.0-alpha.1

#NeoDB #NeoComment #Fediverse

Urbanists.video is a PeerTube video server for anyone interested in walkable, livable places and wanting to publish videos about them:

https://urbanists.video

You can find out more at https://urbanists.video/about/instance or contact the admin accounts @mattcaff & @alex

#FeaturedServer #Urbanism #Cities #Urbanists #UrbanPlanning #PublicTransport #WalkableCities #PeerTube #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

As I posted recently, the continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/).

The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.

If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to both these issues:
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/568
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023

Would you like to make your PeerTube accounts and videos more visible? Do you want to reach more viewers and more followers?

I've done a guide to promoting your PeerTube accounts, channels and videos at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-promote-your-peertube-videos-account-and-channels

I've tried to list everything I could think of, let me know if I've missed anything! 🙂

#FediTips #PeerTube #Fediverse

Kind.Social is a Mastodon server with a broad community - queer, disabled, neurodivergent, crafters, techies, friends of all sorts. Our aim is to foster a genuinely enjoyable shared social experience.

This server has been online since 2018.

https://kind.social

You can find out more at https://kind.social/about or contact the admin account @Texan_Reverend

#FeaturedServer #Queer #Disabled #Neurodivergent #Crafters #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

#TheFutureIsFederated

Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory

I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.

We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.

#Fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 91

This week's news:
- @loops has launched and is now available for everyone!
- @radiofreefedi will shut down early next year
- Bridgy Fed talks about potential governance directions

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-91/