Today, we dig into the nitty-gritty of Surf, a new app by Flipboard. We document what it is, how it works, and areas where the experience could be improved.

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I want to take a little slice of the time I spend watching videos on Youtube and give that slice over to Peertube. I don't mean all of it, given I watch far too much Youtube, but a slither which I hope to grow as Peertube hopefully matures.

As such I don't want to have to make a Peertube account, I want to get Peertube videos straight into my Lemmy feed. To an extent I've already done this, but the videos are just links to the Peertube instance and aren't embedded.

And the other issue is that the comments section is, well, a mess. Lemmy hardly syncs the comments and only does so for comments from other Lemmy instances and the videos Peertube instance.

The first issue feels relatively solvable, Peertube embeds. The second feels like something to do with how activity pub works and as such I have no idea.

I do feel that Peertube is a platform that needs the most support from other platforms in the form of integration, as it's got a very uphill battle ahead of it, and it's the f

NodeBB has moved its ActivityPub integration to the testing phase. Or so I would assume. Up until now it was being developed in a special ActivityPub branch and it's just been moved into the develop branch.

The use case I have in mind: say for example, I read a lot of articles about a certain topic, such as Linux or chemistry or whatever. I want to combine the articles I write into a singular feed, and for others to be able to follow it. Call it "Alex's Linux Feed".

Another use case: Suppose I follow a news source (like washington post), but maybe I dont like the formatting of their feed. Maybe it does not have the full article, or maybe it is not organized right (sports news is mixed with political news, and I want to separate them right). So I create my own feed where I organize those same posts better.

The reason this would be a platform because the user should not be burdened with hosting it (even if it is not difficult), and it should be searchable.

Is there any platform like this of user created RSS feeds?

The Fediverse is a great system for preventing bad actors from disrupting "real" human-human conversations, because all of the mods, developers and admins are all working out of a desire to connect people (as opposed to "trust and safety" teams more concerned about user retention).

Right now it seems that the Fediverses main protection is that it just isn't a juicy enough target for wide scale spam and bad faith agenda pushers.

But assuming the Fediverse does grow to a significant scale, what (current or future) mechanisms are/could be in place to fend off a flood of AI slop that is hard to distinguish from human? Even the most committed instance admins can only do so much.

For example, I have a feeling all "good" instances in the near future will eventually have to turn on registration applications and only federate with other instances that do the same. But it's not crazy to imagine that GPT could soon outmaneuver most registration questions which means registrations will only s

For those interested in trying out Loops, you may be wondering: what are good tools or processes for making videos?

We go into detail with some of the tools we're currently using.

starting out with an unpopular opinion: of all the centralized social media platforms, Facebook was always my favorite.

Why? it is the most full featured. Has threads, reactions, groups, “Pages”, polls, and it even has granular privacy controls (for hiding content from other users, not to be confused with Facebook’s privacy violations and commercial data use).

This makes me wonder, could we have a Facebook-like experience using Lemmy as a backend? similar to how lemmy has a phpBB experience using lemmyBB.

Lemmy already has threads, and communities can represent groups. Pages and user pages can be simulated with communities.

We would be missing polls and reactions, which I can live with. I am not at all mad that we would be missing content algorithms either.

Although we can’t make it identical to Facebook, I think it will get reasonably close and exemplify most of the good parts.

I am thinking to take this project on, but wondering if people have thoughts, if this already exists,

Unlike traditional social media, the fediverse operates without a central authority. This creates a unique set of challenges and opportunities for how it’s governed.

Luckily, there are thoughtful stewards who want to see decentralized social media succeed in the most human — and humane — fashion. Two of the most prominent are Erin Kissane, a writer and researcher working on new networks, and Darius Kazemi, a senior engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Earlier in 2024, the pair researched and wrote a 40,000-word report on governance in the fediverse. Now they are deep in other projects designed to move the fediverse forward, including Erin’s new studio devoted to network work and Darius’ Fediverse Schema Observatory (software built to enhance the ecosystem’s interoperability while being sensitive to user data). You’ll hear about thes

Meta's microblogging platform and X rival, Threads, has taken another step closer to two-way connectivity to the Fediverse.

We must remember who owns these platforms and whose interests they ultimately represent. These are not neutral and unbiased channels that allow for the free flow of information. The content on these sites is carefully curated. Views and opinions that are unpalatable to the owners of these platforms are often suppressed, and sometimes outright banned. When the content that a user produces does not fit with the interests of the platform it gets removed and communities end up being destroyed.

Another problem is that user data constitutes a significant source of revenue for corporate social media platforms. The information collected about the users can reveal a lot more about the individual than most people realize. It's possible for the owners of the platforms to identify users based on the address of the device they're using, see their location, who they interact with, and so on. This creates a comprehensive profile of the person along with the network of individuals whom they interact

The version 1.3.0 of Fedify, an ActivityPub server framework, released! The key changes include:

• [Instrumented spans for OpenTelemetry] are added. In most cases, it's automatically enabled if your application configured [OpenTelemetry SDK].
• Since Fedify 1.3.0, you can configure different [MessageQueue]s for incoming and outgoing activities.
• [Fedify now allows you to manually route an Activity to the corresponding inbox listener.][1] It is useful for invoking an inbox listener for an Activity enclosed by another Activity.
• Context.sendActivity() and InboxContext.forwardActivity() methods now reject when they fail to enqueue the task.
• Thanks to @robin_maki@planet.moe, [@fedify/fedify/x/sveltekit] module is added for integrating with [SvelteKit] hook.
• Fedify now makes HTTP requests with the proper User-Agent header, e.g., User-Agent: Fedify/1.3.0 (Deno/2.1.2).

For details, see the [full changelog] as well!

Fedify 1.3.0 is ava

кросс-пост из: https://lemmy.world/post/22588805

The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

cross-posted from: https://poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e-7967-436d-12c8-1b3699371761

Raccoon for Friendica, the mobile client for Friendica and Mastodon has landed on F-Droid

RaccoonForFriendica is the new app developed by @dieguitux8623 to manage your Friendica account but also allows Mastodon accounts to view ActivityPub groups in an intuitive way like for Friendica users. Now it is finally available on the alternative store most appreciated by the [#OpenSource](https://p

So I remember a couple of days ago when I went to https://lemmyverse.net/ it showed about 30k communities, now it only shows 9k. Does anyone know what happens?

I was trying to search for a coffee community and it didn't basically show anything, same for espresso while I know that there are communities about it.

Do some alternative community search engines exist which perhaps even find PieFed and Mbin communities?

I had dozens of accounts with notifications activated, and it was definitely becoming too much, so I am starting to use lists, finally!

I see that there are not many resources about this feature around the web, though…

Any suggestions/tips/useful links?

Cc: @FediTips @mastodonmigration @fedilove @fediverse

help #mastoaiuto #mastohelp #lists #suggestions #Fediverse #FediverseLists #FediTips