New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 75

This week's news:
- #Threads expands their fediverse connection
- Bandwagon is a new platform for musicians on the fediverse that has entered early testing
- @dot_social interviews Ghost's John O'Nolan

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-75/

Latest #FOSSAcademic post: On Threads's Blocklist

https://fossacademic.tech/2024/06/28/ThreadsBlocking.html

In which I offer some quick analysis of #Meta #Threads new list of blocked servers.

There's so much more we can do to study what Threads is doing. Indeed, I will have a chapter on Threads in my book. But these are my initial thoughts a day into this event.

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Wait, Threads is now blocking mastodon.social?

https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

#mastodon #threads

EDIT: mastodon.social has been removed from the list after about 30 minutes. It will be interesting to hear what happened, and how this affected folks who follow each other.

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A screenshot from the "Moderated Servers" page on threads.net, showing mastodon.social being blocked for violating "Community Guidelines or Terms of Use". The explanation text on top says: "We've blocked communication with some other servers on the fediverse for a variety of reasons, including lack of privacy policy, violations of our Community Guidelines, and lack of compliance with our deletion requests."

Threads implements #Misskey's `_misskey_quote` standard and gives them a shutout in the Facebook Engineering blog and then *blocks them* for "No publicly accessible feed" which is a completely baseless reason for blocking a server.

"We chose _misskey_quote because its naming makes it clear that it’s not an official ActivityPub method, and because we know that it’s supported by Misskey, Firefish, and potentially other servers that use quote posts." https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse #fediverse #threads

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misskey.io, the biggest instance of misskey, on threads block list

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 70

This week's news:
- The Verge and 404 Media are preparing to add federation to their news sites
- @newsmast starts adding #bluesky and #threads accounts into their communities to create a hub in the social web
- Combining #nostr and #Mastodon in a single feed with the app @openvibe
- A 10k seed funding bounty for building DeviantArt on #ActivityPub

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

Eine wichtige Unterscheidung über die Definition des Begriffs "Fediversum" wird langsam deutlich. Wer entscheidet, was dieser Ort ist? Wie werden wir repräsentiert? Diese Fragen sind nicht leicht zu beantworten, und wenn wir es nicht schaffen, uns selbst besser zu beschreiben, dann wird diese Aufgabe von Leuten übernommen, die unsere grundlegenden Werte nicht verstehen. #fediversum #meta #threads

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Das "Offene Fediversum“ Symbol Die Repräsentation des Fediversum durch die Leute Das "Korporative Fediversum" Symbol Die Threads* Repräsentation des Fediversum *Threads ist eine Untermarke von Meta, wie Instagram, Facebook und WhatsApp

"I can see #Threads posts in my #Firefish client"
by Meta Threads Engineer, Peter Cottle (@pcottle) in this interview https://flipboard.video/w/2q29uCjnHjot1CHu1CZBim?start=10m57s by @dot_social

Threads is the largest player so far to adopt #ActivityPub, and as @mike says, “The implications are huge.”

Why is Threads doing this? How is the team working with the community? How are they thinking about moderation, monetization and privacy in these early days and going forward?
In the newest episode of @dot_social, Mike digs in with @rklambo, Director of Product Management, and @pcottle, Software Engineer. Check it out in the fediverse on PeerTube or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. More details here:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/threads-dot-social/

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Federation #MastodonMigration #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Flipboard

The answer is: 1 (doesn’t count though because he’s a threads tech engineer).

The answer is: 1 (doesn’t count though because he’s a threads tech engineer).

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