Over the past few months, Damon and I have both dealt with a very annoying headache: the instances we were both on kept shutting down. First, it was Firefish.social, with a gradual degredation in service that never recovered. We moved to Mozilla.social, and loved it for a while, but a combination of bad moderation and …
The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.
It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/
New Episode! 📣 We sit down with Jaz Michael-King from IFTAS to talk about the challenges of building out Trust & Safety for decentralized social spaces. #Decentered
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/trust-safety-jaz-michael-king/
The fledgling Fediverse discovery hub takes a big step today, showcasing deeper integrations with Mastodon, and a developer API for communities.
Here’s an awesome, fun project to start off the week. Fedi Trading Card Maker is a simple, easy-to-use app programmed by nash, with art assets made by hexephere. The app is extremely easy to use, and the included guide at the bottom of the page gives good suggestions for image size and additional features. There …
A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/
Bonfire is an emerging Fediverse project that's been in development for years. It's more than just a platform.
For the second time this month, a Fediverse project reports a critical vulnerability. The devs are on top of it: admins, update your servers!
Bluesky, the ambitious spinoff effort of Twitter to develop a platform, protocol, and ecosystem - finally opens the floodgates.
A Trust & Safety organization is offering a covenant and language to help instances adjust their policies. Will it help?
https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/iftas-vs-deadnaming-misgendering/
A new Mastodon vulnerability was found out in the wild, and it's a nasty one. Admins are advised to update to the latest release ASAP.
Episode Three of our #Decentered Podcast is now available! This time, were talking about Bridgy Fed! 🌈🦄
Join us and nostr:npub192zgfvxl3xukuwld7fcd3l88un9rxxynsxd4fay4pj3x9cgxrh2qvxegjh as we talk about decentralized social web protocols, and the effort to make them talk to one another. We cover #IndieWeb, #ActivityPub, #ATProto, and #Nostr.
Get ready to hear all about #BridgyFed with nostr:npub192zgfvxl3xukuwld7fcd3l88un9rxxynsxd4fay4pj3x9cgxrh2qvxegjh on tomorrow's #Decentered podcast!
Ryan has explored many different protocols within the #Fediverse, and has some opinions about working with them!
You voted, we committed to the bit. Check out the latest playlist of Radio Free Fedi music. This Mixtape commits to the sound of space, adventure, and exploration.
Thanks, Ryan, you're a real one!
Check out Ryan Barrett, creator of #BridgyFed, next week on The #Decentered Podcast!
Mastodon instance Queer.af is shutting down because the country that provides the domain is now ruled by the Taliban.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/queer-af-is-shutting-down-due-to-taliban-tld-policy/
The Threadiverse is growing again, this time offering an effort to build a new Lemmy replacement from scratch, with API compatibility.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/sublinks-a-replacement-for-lemmy/
After putting in a lot of research, collaboration, and hard effort, our dedicated podcast is finally here! We're excited to share it with you.
https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/welcome-decentered-podcast/
We've launched a new podcast called Decentered! It covers different aspects of federated social media, but it's mainly about decentralized communications, user empowerment, and the future of the Internet.
Give it a listen!
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/decentered-s1e1-creation-and-discovery/