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En este #SábadodeComunes de julio les traemos aportes que nos invitan a cuestionar lo que damos por hecho, imaginar otros rumbos posibles y construir…

Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

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Decentralized media is off to an agonizingly slow start — but there are glimmers of progress

by Stefan Laser, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, Koushik Ravi Kumar

So… it’s coming together.

Alt-tech, the constellation of right-wing social media platforms, has created a problem for internet governance as it is currently practiced because of these platforms’ well-researched connection t...

UFOCOMES-blog aus Berlin. Teil von UFOCOMES. Mein Beitrag zur politischen Willensbildung.

UFOCOMES-blog aus Berlin. Teil von UFOCOMES. Mein Beitrag zur politischen Willensbildung.

UFOCOMES-blog aus Berlin. Teil von UFOCOMES. Mein Beitrag zur politischen Willensbildung.

This post addresses the "quiet fediverse" problem, where users often experience fragmented conversations on decentralized social networks. The core issue stems from ActivityPub's distributed nature, where conversations are spread across multiple servers, leading to incomplete views of discussions. The author explores two main approaches to solve this: reply tree crawling and the context owner approach. Reply tree crawling, pioneered by Mastodon, involves fetching all replies to reconstruct the conversation, while the context owner approach centralizes conversation management with the original author or designated entity. The post details the technical mechanisms, advantages, and disadvantages of each method, highlighting the importance of the `context` attribute in ActivityPub. It also discusses ongoing debates, such as moderation paradigms and solutions for missing parent propagation, and introduces additional backfill mechanisms like periodic crawling and mention-based discovery. The article emphasizes the need for hybrid approaches, combining multiple strategies to ensure more complete conversations, and underscores the importance of standardization efforts and collaboration among different implementations. Ultimately, the post provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions for creating a more connected and coherent user experience in the fediverse.

Hi all, I’ve been wanting to start a blog since forever, and here we finally are! In this post I’ll lay out some thoughts about recent d...

Oh, you want to know how the fediverse/activitypub works? Let me explain it to you!!! 🧵

El Fediverso o Bluesky son soluciones para necesidades diferentes, y el puente a dia de hoy no da buena experiencia...

LA MODERACIÓN EN BLUESKAY 1/ Que todos los operadores moderan, lo sabemos. También sabemos que unos más que otros, y alguno que otro, mira a otro lado. @bsky.app aparte de hacerlo medianamente bien, nos lo enseña para que podamos verlo. Abro hilo 👇

Bluesky has a censorship problem. In the last few weeks some Turkish and Gaza users have been blocked due to government pressure or to avoid future pressures. Right now there is an appeal signed by hundreds to #Bluesky moderation: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114564513570490377 Let's be clear. It is not really Bluesky's fault. It's a centralized platform controlled by a US corporation and has no choice but to accede to political pressures. Truly decentralized, public social media is the only defensible solution.

All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their costs growing out of control, ping me and see if I can help lower your bill. Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth. It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢 https://newsie.social/@jeff/114513118997692099