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@discuss.onlinehttps://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/111834755939845773
New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 53 This week's news: - a closer look at the upcoming project @bonfire@indieweb.social - Threads adds quote posting to their ActivityPub implementation - @sublinks@utter.online is a new link aggregating platform that recently started development As well as a whole lot more! Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-53/
https://jasongr.im/blog/why-i-started-sublinks/
https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/sublinks-a-replacement-for-lemmy/
The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.
https://conda.org/blog/2023-12-27-social-move/
Conda is retiring its Twitter account. Please join us on Mastodon and LinkedIn
https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust/releases/tag/0.5.0
This release consists mostly of bug fixes and minor improvements. Biggest change is the removal of the builtin federation queue as Lemmy implemented its own persistent queue. Now there is only a si...
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases/tag/2023.12
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Yellow Archangel" 2023.12. Finally wrapping up the changes since May - the highlights of this release are the...
https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209
https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77
Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this.
https://universeodon.com/@siderea/111478703259005044
There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se. The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too. 🧵 CC: @Gargron@mastodon.social
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969994/president-joe-biden-threads-account
The White House says, “the wait is Joe-ver.”