jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Admin account
@jrollans@jrollans.com

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BeAware »
@BeAware@social.beaware.live

I'm sure it's not massively known quite yet, so I'll mention them again:

There's a Fedi scraper on multiple instances that's been here for about 6 months now. It won't go away.

Search for "Awakari" on your instance and block/report every account with the same profile pic, as a data scraper.

I've posted about them 7 or 8 times now because they've made multiple instances to ban evade. Those instances include Awakari.com, Awakari.app, and Indy.rest

The owner is Akurilov@mastodon.social

Just thought I should keep mentioning them for the new users that haven't blocked them yet, as Mastodon Gmbh seems content with allowing them to operate from their instance.

Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

BeAware »
@BeAware@social.beaware.live

Just seen someone unironically call Fediverse, "The Mastodon Network".

I don't have the energy to correct them anymore.

I, for one, refuse to bow to Mastodon overlords.

To each their own though.😑

wakest ⁂ »
@liaizon@social.wake.st

is anyone building a selfhosted federated alternative or working on an importer for cohost users who are about to have to find a new home?

BeAware »
@BeAware@social.beaware.live

When discussing BlueSky, it's not entirely correct to say that "everyone is on the same server".

I used to think the same way.

However, I've been informed over time, by very knowledgeable people that it's more complicated than that.

If you're knowledgeable about Fediverse and how the protocol works and are interested in a comparison, I posted a detailed explanation of *my understanding* of how BlueSky works and what I believe are it's shortcomings here:

social.beaware.live/@BeAware/1

Mark Gardner »
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org

@dan_the_architect @lisamelton The Venn diagram of “ is not ” and “it’s actually / ” people is a single circle

Fediverse Report »
@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New: Last Week in - ep 83

This week's news:
- The signup wave from Brazil to continues, adding more than 3 million accounts in just over a week
- Fediverse integration for the podcast app Truefans
- Firefish has died another dead, and the project now has definitively come to an end

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-

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BeAware »
@BeAware@social.beaware.live

Did you know that Pleroma, a Fediverse software, has the option to make "followers only" posts that reach their instance, public on their instance if they choose?

They can also automatically deny deletion requests if they want.

It's always important to remember that there's very little privacy on the internet. If you post something, even if it may seem private, always has several ways of going public and existing forever.

Pretty much everything on the internet is public and will not be deleted on request.

Screenshots and internet archive also exist.

If you don't want your post to be seen by most people, don't post it.

You are not safe just because the software or platform you're using says you are.

Week in Fediverse »
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social

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Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

This one is for server admins and moderators 👇

Would you be open to new trying technology built to help you manage your Mastodon server?

Please boost for more visibility!

Yes, I want to try new things!:1
Maybe...:1
No, I'm content at the moment:0

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

With coming up next week, we thought we'd give you a little more info on our new service for server admins - Patchwork.

Patchwork servers won't just benefit the admins who run them, but also the people who use them. For example, admins can choose to add complex post types to their server, including:

- Long Posts
- Post Scheduling
- Rich text
- Local Only Posts

We're happy to chat to server admins about what Patchwork can do!

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

"For Fediverse 2.0 to be a meaningful hub, pulling different platforms and protocols together, we can’t just be providing plumbing for Meta and Google. Going beyond a debate about people vs protocols, we need to add in a third “p” that’s definitely not plumbing: politics."

Going beyond recent migration and into the future, take a look at what @michael thinks the next steps are: blog-pat.ch/brazil-bluesky-fed

Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Ooh, fediverseexplorations.org is mentioned on the German version of the Wikipedia article about the fediverse!

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedivers

But not the English version, hmm 🤔

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

We're working on something really exciting for server admins 👀

Patchwork - our server management service - is getting closer to release.

If you're a server admin who wants to become an early adopter and help us test this technology get in touch!

The Patchwork logo, a colourful wheel made up of two-line segments, besides text. The text reads: Patchwork for server admins. Now open to early adopters! Reconnect with the community you built. newsmastfoundation.org

Alt...The Patchwork logo, a colourful wheel made up of two-line segments, besides text. The text reads: Patchwork for server admins. Now open to early adopters! Reconnect with the community you built. newsmastfoundation.org

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) »
@hongminhee@fosstodon.org

I'm curious about the size of the in the -speaking world.

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Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

I think this is the first time I'm seeing a fediverse post embedded in an article by a major news site.

theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298

A screenshot from a section of the linked article showing an embedded Mastodon post from Tom Casavant @tom@tomkahe.com.

Alt...A screenshot from a section of the linked article showing an embedded Mastodon post from Tom Casavant @tom@tomkahe.com.

Fediverse Report »
@fediversereport@mastodon.social

Last Week in - ep 82

This week's news:

- A massive signup wave on after Brazil bans X
- Premium feeds in the fediverse with @subclub
- Moderated microblogging groups by @newsmast
- Popular tech show WVFRM with YouTuber @mkbhd discusses the fediverse as the protocol wars.
- Hiding comments and preventing quote posts with Bluesky's latest update

Read at fediversereport.com/last-week-

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Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Well, if anyone wants to share this with their Brazilian friends:

"O fediverso é vasto. Ele é formado por milhares de comunidades com milhões de pessoas como eu e você, que querem se conectar e compartilhar."

jointhefediverse.net/?lang=pt-

Week in Fediverse »
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social

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@liaizon@social.wake.st

I have continued to add icons to fediverse.wake.st and now have 107 fediverse projects represented. I would love for this to become more of a community resource! If you want to help please come join in at codeberg.org/FediverseIconogra

Alt...a video of all the icons added to the Fediverse Iconography project

洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) »
@hongminhee@fosstodon.org

On the , there's a word called (yeonchin; literally “fedifriend”) which stands for (yeonabuju chingu; literally “fediverse friend”). It means someone who follows each other or frequently exchanges replies. It's only used on the fediverse!

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

We’re very proud to announce that we’ve worked with @tchambers & team to build a new membership-only group on the Fediverse!

@KamalaHarrisWin is a group dedicated to organising and discussing Harris’s 2024 campaign. With better moderation controls the people there can focus on what matters, like protecting democracy, rather than having to fight through trolls and bots.

We hope the members are enjoying it! 🥥🌴

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⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

A moment of gratitude for @imdavidpierce - The Verge's editor-at-large - for his coverage of the .

While most other tech publications and reporters ignore it, David has been a great champion of it.

He covered the asterism symbol debate on Friday (theverge.com/2024/8/23/2422675) and wrote a fantastic piece last year: "2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse" theverge.com/23990974/social-m (thank you @liaizon for pointing out Friday's piece).

Thank you David! 🙏

Fediverse Report »
@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New: Last Week in - ep 81

This week's news:
- A massive new report on governance on the fediverse by @kissane and @darius
- Conversations on public votes on Lemmy and Mbin, and @piefedadmin users can now make their votes private
- @FediverseSymbol proposes ⁂ as a symbol for the fediverse
- Better debugging with browser.pub

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch

Things are getting different in social media.

X: Probably still my favorite platform but it’s getting worse and worse. At least, my lists and circles are fully functional, the search works quite good and brings me up the desired content. Finding new people gets different and is almost only possible when they commenting things with valuable content. The stream is going in the wrong direction (at least for me), where videos of fights, death or typical “sex sells” posts are shown. But working with communities and lists is still a great way to use it.

Fediverse: Runningm my own instance here for month. Sure no ads, but just a few interactions, finding new content is difficult, using the search is the probably worst experience ever. Sure, an instance cannot have knowledge of all instances in the world but when searching for not even niche content and only finding three posts that are even outdated, this is not useful or a great experience.

Threads: Could have been a great alternative. However, EU accounts do not support Fedi federation and the content is too mainstream in form of the typical Instagram content which is more about “sex sells”.

Blue sky: Anyone really still using it? I haven’t seen anyone anymore there being active.

Nostr: Hm yeah, too nichy.

Conclusion:
X stays on top, because only there I can find and interact content and people. Feediverse is a great alternative when you finally found your matching community where people are sharing your interests, because finding something by the search is just annoying. I can clearly understand why many ones are going back to Twitter/Y.


Week in Fediverse »
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social

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Andy Piper »
@andypiper@macaw.social

Blog post: in which I wade in to (or at least attempt to summarise) the discussion about a symbol for the .

andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/23/on-

Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Some great recent additions to @FediverseExplorations! I'd love to keep adding more, so definitely let me know if you've written or read anything interesting.

fediverseexplorations.org

⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

wakest ⁂ »
@liaizon@social.wake.st

Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), , , (streams fork) and (Misskey fork) icons to at fediverse.wake.st (repo at codeberg.org/FediverseIconogra)

a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura

Alt...a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Friends of the and of the ,
initially, for just over a year, BSD Cafe's media was stored in a FreeBSD physical server jail with an outgoing bandwidth of 250 Mbit/sec. To address bandwidth congestion, I had integrated Cloudflare with a tunnel, serving media (and only media) through Cloudflare.

In line with the principles of self-hosting and data ownership, I’ve decided to remove Cloudflare. This has led to some bandwidth congestion when media was posted and slower download speeds for users, particularly during peak times. This is because as soon as content is published and federated servers are notified, they will rush (depending on how full their queues are) to download the newly published content - media included.

I’ve now revised the setup (currently in beta) by moving DNS management to two personal nameservers run with PowerDNS. The media server remains the same, but I’ve added two reverse proxies, one in the USA and one in Germany (the media server is in Poland). They're connected to the Media server via WireGuard.
I’ve installed the excellent Varnish and created a custom VCL. Media requests will be directed by the PowerDNS LUA scripts to the caller's closest reverse proxy. Nginx will pass requests to Varnish, which will serve data from the cache if available. If not, it will fetch from the original server, but request volume has decreased significantly.

I’m analyzing the results, and they look very promising. I may expand this home-made CDN by adding more VPSs, potentially closer to Asia and Oceania.

A detailed blog post will follow.

Stay tuned!

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⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

Hello Fedi Friends!

I've been running lots of tests between and the rest of the and I've been learning so many interesting things! I cannot wait to write about all this for . (For the record these are content aggregators, the Fedi’s answer to ).

I may have to resort to hand-written graphs because some of the stuff is a bit convoluted 😅

Spoiler alert:
↔️ ✅🥳
↔️ ❌😵‍💫
↔️ ⚠️😐

Fediverse Report »
@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New: Last Week in - ep 80

This week's news:
- A British migration wave to as the UK gov feuds with Musk
- @Flipboard expands their fediverse integration
- Some thoughts on how experimental features on Bluesky get repurposed by the community for different goals instead

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

I've just updated my blog post on installing Mastodon on FreeBSD, making it clearer and more streamlined.

it-notes.dragas.net/2022/11/23

Week in Fediverse »
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social

Andy Piper »
@andypiper@macaw.social

New blog post - what I mean(t) when I said governments should have their own "sovereign owned/operated" instances.

andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/15/fed

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

If you haven't seen already, @jaz at @iftas shared this brilliant blog yesterday: about.iftas.org/2024/08/13/fed

It's a really important, in-depth look at how we scale trust & safety on the Fedeiverse.

We've always supported the work of IFTAS, but when you read through this blog it makes you realise just how important they are in the future of this space.

Thank you IFTAS & the whole team!

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch

has been released in version 1.0.2 and adds some smaller features and squashes some bugs.

ProxLB is a Load Balancer for clusters, which rebalances your VM/CT workloads across nodes in your cluster.

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.0.2


Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

For this , I want to express my gratitude to SDF.org.

This long-standing community, thriving and healthy, is built on .

Many years ago (I’d have to dig through old emails, but it’s definitely over 20 years), I reached out to them for advice on setting up a public access server (which I ended up not doing). They were incredibly kind and provided me with a wealth of information.
They are also present in the Fediverse - @SDF - showing that they are always keeping up with the times and looking toward the future.

Long live SDF, and thank you for everything!

 

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

The Newsmast app is open to all Mastodon accounts!

Login to Newsmast using your Mastodon account to get access to:
- 60+ hand-built topical communities
- Our Amplifier
- Built-in federation control
- Your servers home & following feeds
- Long posts
- Automatic hashtags
- Drafts
- Post scheduling

Download the Newsmast app today or visit on desktop: newsmastfoundation.org/downloa

A person holding a mobile phone displaying Newsmast's sign-in screen.

Alt...A person holding a mobile phone displaying Newsmast's sign-in screen.

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⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

Bonjour Fedi Friends (from a small island off the coast of Brittany!) 🇫🇷 🥖

A moment of gratitude this morning for the , and .

I love how I can seamlessly switch from one Fediverse account to the other to "catch-up" on posts I missed. @cheeaun your platform Phanpy.social is AMAAAAZING! It works perfectly not just with , but AND too 💛🏆✨

a screenshot of Phanpy.social's interface, showing the "account switcher" function. Here you can see how I added to Phanpy my Mastodon, Pixelfed and Friendica accounts

Alt...a screenshot of Phanpy.social's interface, showing the "account switcher" function. Here you can see how I added to Phanpy my Mastodon, Pixelfed and Friendica accounts

Fediverse Report »
@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New: Last Week in - ep 79

This week's news:
- @mmasnick joins Bluesky's Board of Directors
- @bonfire shows some more information on Mosaic, another project of Bonfire, and puts out bounties for developers to help get to a 1.0 release
- A platform for football fans with CollabFC
- 3d printing platform @manyfold has added early support

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-

Week in Fediverse »
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social

Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Really great write-up about by @_elena!

"I have often heard people describe Friendica as the Fediverse’s answer to Facebook. [...]

I would say Friendica is an incredibly powerful aggregator of social networks and online content."

blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

"We want to bring organisations and content creators into the Fediverse, step by step."

Our Foundation co-founder has just published an interesting piece on how we're working to help organisations and content creators find their way to the Fediverse!

For more information on what we plan to do as a charity and how Patchwork, a new service we'll be launching soon, can help 👇
blog-pat.ch/enter-the-fedivers

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⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

Hello Fedi Friends! I'm planning to cover in the next issue of my newsletter and I have a question for power users.

What is a feature you love, that you wish new users would know about right off the bat? Or something that is not widely known and that makes Friendica really special for you?

Personally I love being able to follow my favorite blogs via RSS integration...

I would really appreciate it if you could boost this ✨🙏✨

wakest ⁂ »
@liaizon@social.wake.st

the audio player in statuzer.com looks quite nice, I would love to see more people experiment with more media focused fedi features mixed in with the microblogging interfaces

screenshot of an audio player in a fediverse client called statuzer.com

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wakest ⁂ »
@liaizon@social.wake.st

This is a milestone worth celebrating!
In development as we speak, @forgejo can now federate comments (and tons of other stuff) from issues in repos!!!

The first screenshot is @algernon (a Forgejo account able to be tagged in this post!) commenting on the issue: shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project as seen in @phanpy while logged into my Mastodon account!

a screenshot of a Fogejo account with comments as seen through a Mastodon account logged into Phanpy

Alt...a screenshot of a Fogejo account with comments as seen through a Mastodon account logged into Phanpy

a screenshot of a Fogejo issue that contains comments that are viewed in the previous screenshot

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Fediverse Report »
@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New: Last Week in - ep 78

This week's news:
- @gotosocial latest update adds reply controls
- Conversations about racism on the fediverse, leading to work on a separate allow-list based federated network
- @peertube adds automatic video transcription using Whisper
- A closer look at Patchwork, an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-

Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Some recent articles I wrote about the :

"A lot of people think that the pentacle was chosen because of its occult or satanic connotations."

stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-his

Analysis of the usage of link verification feature.

stefanbohacek.com/blog/verific

A look at custom emoji used across the fediverse.

stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-

Week in Fediverse »
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social

⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.7 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 2: ↔️ )

blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu

with shout-outs to @pfefferle @oblomov @evan @cwebber

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Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Speaking of and , I have to give a shout out to @liaizon, who's been doing incredible work over at fediverse.wake.st.

A large grid of black-and-white icons of a variety of fediverse platforms and services.

Alt...A large grid of black-and-white icons of a variety of fediverse platforms and services.

Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

"A lot of people think that the pentacle was chosen because of its occult or satanic connotations. And while it would be in Fediverse's rebellious spirit, this was not the case."

stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-his

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Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Hey, anyone running a WordPress site interested in helping me test a fediverse sharing button plugin before I submit it for review?

github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv

(EDIT: You can use the "Code" -> "Download ZIP" button.)

Here's more about the project: stefanbohacek.com/project/fedi

Alt...A short recording of me using the fediverse sharing button, filling out various fediverse domain names, showing how the icon changes to match the software running on each server. The interface itself consists of an input field for the domain name and a share button preceded by an icon. An "https" placeholder text is before the input field to signal that this part of the URL is not needed.

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Stefan Bohacek »
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Rather than a recommendation, I'd like to propose that those of us outside of the community on here broaden who we follow.

Even if for just a few days, and then unfollow later on. Just to get a sense of what is going on outside of our usual bubbles.

I seriously don't want to see another "show me an example of racism" comment.

Newsmast »
@newsmast@newsmast.social

This week we want to talk to you about Patchwork, an upcoming project, using technology we developed for Newsmast to make new and existing spaces on the social web more safe, more connected and more fun!

Here’s an update from our Foundation Ambassador @FreddieJ 👇

⁂ Elena Rossini ✏️✨ »
@_elena@mastodon.social

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.5 👩‍🚀

"How do you get more 'regular people' and more friends on the Fediverse? I’ve sketched a plan"

blog.elenarossini.com/how-do-y

I would LOVE to hear your feedback and suggestions about how to improve this plan...

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