Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), #gofed, #Habitat, #Forte (streams fork) and #Sakura (Misskey fork) icons to #FediverseIconography at https://fediverse.wake.st (repo at https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography)
#fediverse #ActivityPub

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Friends of the #BSDCafe and of the #Fediverse,
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!

#SelfHosting #DataOwnership #OwnYourData #Varnish #PowerDNS #ReverseProxy #CDN #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements

Hello Fedi Friends!

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

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

Spoiler alert:
#Mbin ↔️ #Mastodon ✅🥳
#Mbin ↔️ #Friendica ❌😵‍💫
#Mbin ↔️ #Lemmy ⚠️😐

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 80

This week's news:
- A British migration wave to #Bluesky 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: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-80/

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

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/11/23/installing-mastodon-on-a-freebsd-jail/

#Mastodon #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #RunBSD #Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-16

Servers

- Castopod v1.12.9
- honk v1.4.1
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2024

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.49
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta34
- Voyager v2.17.0
- Thunder v0.5.0
- Dhaaga: An opinionated, cross-platform (Android & iOS) mobile client for Mastodon and Misskey

Protocol

- FEP-c16b: Formatting MFM functions
- FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions

Articles

- ForgeFed: Actor Factory
- The Untapped Potential of Fediverse Publishing
- Fediverse for Freedom

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01913802-2bfe-da50-aacd-258558dfe1c6

If you haven't seen already, @jaz at @iftas shared this brilliant blog yesterday: https://about.iftas.org/2024/08/13/fediverse-trust-and-safety-the-founding-and-future-of-iftas/

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!

#trust #safety #moderation #fediverse #mastodon

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

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

#virtualization #virtualisation #vmware #esxi #esx #kvm #qemu #xcpng #xen #xenserver #alternatives #opensource #free #fediverse #support #migration #VM #virtualmachines #virtualmachines #container #containers #LXC

5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people

https://privacy.thenexus.today/start-making-the-fediverse-less-toxic/

1. Listen more to more Black people – and amplify their voices
2. Post less – and think before you post
3. Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
4. Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
5. Approach it intersectionally

The article also has links to anti-racism resources and appendices with a list of common mistkes to avoid and blocklist resources for moderators.

Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on earlier drafts!

Read on for some excerpts (1/N)

#fediverse #mastodon #antiracism

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

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

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!

#SDFCommunity #Fediverse #TechHistory #Gratitude #RunBSD #Community #ThankYou #SDF

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: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/download-the-app/

#mastodon #fediverse #technology

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

A moment of gratitude this morning for the #Fediverse, #ActivityPub and #Phanpy.

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

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New: Last Week in #Fediverse - 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 #activitypub support

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-79/

#Fediverse Tip: Turn Your #ActivityPub Username Handle Into A Forwarding Email Address 🔛 @darnell@darnell.day (Seize The Day) 📰 https://darnell.day/fediverse-tip-turn-your-activitypub-username-handle-into-a-forwarding-email?pk_campaign=rss-feed

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-09

Servers

- mbin v1.7.0
- Manyfold v0.75.0
- snac v2.57
- Socialhome v0.20.0
- Mitra v3.1.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.1.0
- honk v1.4.0
- Ktistec v2.2.0
- Castopod v1.12.6
- Gush!: Federated social media platform for sharing the things you love

Clients

- Moshidon v107
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.8
- Voyager v2.15.0
- Eternity v0.2.0

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.13.0
- FediFetcher v7.1.6

Articles

- The Archipelago: An Island Network In Practice
- The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0191141b-f558-57f8-0c0c-fa0f64396a92

Really great write-up about #friendica 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."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

#fediverse #SocialMedia

The total fediverse MAU on https://fedidb.org does not include Misskey (which would give a noticeable boost)

@syuilo please consider adding MAU to Misskey!

https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/issues/10852#issuecomment-2274932577

#fediverse #fediDB #fediverseMAU

"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 👇
https://www.blog-pat.ch/enter-the-fediverse/

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #FediDev #FediAdmin #MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Technology

Hello Fedi Friends! I'm planning to cover #Friendica in the next issue of my newsletter #TheFutureIsFederated 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 ✨🙏✨

#Fediverse

the #fediverse audio player in https://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

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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: https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/algernon/federation-test/issues/4 as seen in @phanpy while logged into my Mastodon account!
#fediverse #ActivityPub #FediDev #federation #forgejo #git #GitFederation

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New: Last Week in #fediverse - 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: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-78/

Some recent articles I wrote about the #fediverse:

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

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-history-of-the-fediverse-logo/

Analysis of the usage of link verification feature.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/

A look at custom emoji used across the fediverse.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/

#emoji #verified #verification #mastodon

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-02

Servers

- Pleroma v2.7.0
- PeerTube v6.2.1
- Misskey v2024.7.0
- gathio v1.5.0
- Activity-Relay v2.0.6
- Castopod v1.12.4
- ActivityPub for Wordpress v3.0.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.9
- NeoDB v0.10.4.5

Clients

- Husky v1.6.0
- Impressia v3.0.0
- IceCubesApp v1.10.46
- Voyager v2.14.0
- Pachli v2.7.0
- Moshidon v106

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.4
- Poduptime v5.3.1

Articles

- Verification in the fediverse
- The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 2: Wordpress ↔️ Fediverse)
- The story behind peertube's transcription feature

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0190f14b-a6ea-81cc-c715-78f423020ed9

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

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

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-part-2-wordpress-fediverse/

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

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog

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

#design #uxui #webdev

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

"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."

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-history-of-the-fediverse-logo/

#fediverse #logo #design #SocialMedia #history

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

https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button-wordpress/

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

Here's more about the project: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/

#wordpress #WordpressPlugin #fediverse #SharingButton #SocialMedia #webdev

An important distinction is slowly being uncovered about the definition of the term "fediverse." Who is it that gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented? These are not easy questions to answer and if we don't do a better job describing ourselves, then the job will get done for us by people who don't understand the underlying values we hold. #fediverse #meta #threads

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An info graphic with two icons, one is the symbol for the fediverse that has risen from below and the other is made by Threads The "open fediverse" symbol The peoples representation of the fediverse The "Corporate Fediverse" symbol Threads* representation of the fediverse *Threads is a sub-brand of Meta as is Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

Working on a page for my #fediverse SVG icons. Anyone want to help make this page better? My CSS and HTML abilities are lacking...

The page is live at https://fediverse.wake.st

I have a @Codeberg repo here up here https://codeberg.org/FediverseX/pages

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