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Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One(wedistribute.org)
1 points by DeadSuperHero 2y ago|0 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
Loops aims to be an open Fediverse alternative to TikTok, Snapchat, and Vine. We take an early look at the app, and talk about what it's like!
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
Check out Fedify. There are still advantages to bespoke protocol implementation, but this is the closest we've gotten so far to "protocol-in-a-box", and it's great. https://fedify.dev/
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Evan Prodromou Launches the Social Web Foundation(wedistribute.org)
69 points by DeadSuperHero 2y ago|17 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
Evan Prodromou, the creator of StatusNet, the OStatus protocol, and co-author of ActivityPub, is launching a dedicated nonprofit for the purpose of advocating for and supporting the Fediverse.
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
We just sat down and wrote a review about NeoDB, and it's a fascinating project. In a nutshell, it's a federated user review system for cultural works. Not only does it log books, but also movies, tv shows, video games, board game
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
PubKit is a spinoff project from Pixelfed, and is used by the project's lead developer to actually develop Pixelfed. It has some pretty great ideas about mocking up entities and data, testing data streams, and working with different se
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
Article is now available here: https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/us-government-hosted-fedive...
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: “Why didn’t the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?” Here’s some very basic musings on what it would take
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
Technically, yes, that's totally doable. However, whatever NGO is operating the instance would still have to get buy-in from administrations and officials that this is the server to join. You'd still likely have contractual and
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by DeadSuperHero 2y ago
I'm actually writing a piece about this today for We Distribute. The long and short of it is that it's not impossible, there's just a lot of red tape. Whether it's a government entity, or a large corporation, you're
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Interview with Bridgy Fed dev, who connects different federated protocols(wedistribute.org)
1 points by DeadSuperHero 3y ago|1 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 3y ago
We talked to Ryan Barrett, the creator of Bridgy Fed! Ryan has a lot of experience in working with a variety of decentralized social web protocols, including IndieWeb, ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and Nostr, and has a lot of interesting though
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Debunking the Top Myths About Mastodon(wedistribute.org)
5 points by DeadSuperHero 3y ago|1 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 3y ago
A lot of people make up all kinds of wild assumptions Mastodon, how it works, and what it is. We're here to help clear up some of the biggest ones.
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How to Connect Your WordPress Blog to the Fediverse(wedistribute.org)
1 points by DeadSuperHero 3y ago|1 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 3y ago
ActivityPub-WordPress is a plugin sponsored by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. Recently, they made a 1.0 release with some quality-of-life changes that makes integration easy and approachable to most people. We wrote a guide g
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Check Out These Beautiful Retro Mastodon Clients(wedistribute.org)
30 points by DeadSuperHero 3y ago|3 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 3y ago
A collection of really cool retro clients for Mastodon, dating back to the very early days of consumer desktops.
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The Newcomer’s Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer(wedistribute.org)
9 points by DeadSuperHero 3y ago|1 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 3y ago
This is a comprehensive guide that I wrote for people new to Mastodon, and people interested in trying it out. It’s more of a “field manual” than anything else, but it attempts to highlight some of the most important things new users should
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How to Make Your Own Karaoke with Free Software(deadsuperhero.com)
1 points by DeadSuperHero 5y ago|1 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 5y ago
Recently, I started experimenting with the prospect of turning some music that I had made into karaoke. I was curious about whether it was possible to do entirely with Free Software, and what the karaoke landscape looked like out here on Li
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PeerTube's Content Wasteland(deadsuperhero.com)
24 points by DeadSuperHero 5y ago|0 comments
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by DeadSuperHero 6y ago
I mean, in practice that would probably work. But an interesting caveat is that apps for federated networks don't typically have one singular privacy policy. It varies server by server. Architecturally, this is a different beast than h
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by DeadSuperHero 6y ago
Ostensibly, you are correct. However, an increased problem of app curation is that, all too often, perfectly innocent apps can get caught in the cross-fire of bad automation. The fact that most people get their apps from one of two app stor
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by DeadSuperHero 6y ago
Another key point is that LBRY and PeerTube have different philosophies on how to approach decentralization. I believe LBRY uses a Blockchain for media storage, but PeerTube is more built around the concept of data federation - people set u
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by DeadSuperHero 7y ago
The fediverse has conversation streams that are mostly in public indexes, which other people can observe and interact with. In addition to these conversations comprised of statuses representing activities, it is also possible to follow the
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by DeadSuperHero 8y ago
Oof. I forgot my description said that. Thanks for the dose of humility.
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by DeadSuperHero 8y ago
That's super ridiculous. You wouldn't want to use a decentralized social platform in a production environment that's only got 5 weeks of development work in it. As an aside, do the submissions have to use the Blockchain? Th

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