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Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon ( arstechnica.com )

Introducing Sign-in with Mastodon: Streamlining Sign-up and Login on Pixelfed ( pixelfed.blog )

Beehaw.org admin removes comments he doesn't like ( lemmy.zip )

Today I learnt that at beehaw.org you don’t really have to break any instance/community rules to have your comments removed by the admin. In their wiki page they wrote over the top, corporate-sounding articles about how “Beehaw aspires to be a diverse place” where “everyone plays an important role in that mission”, how...

Lemmy Fediverse subscription data ( github.com )

I was recently inspired by this post made by @mookulator to get the subscription statistics for a list of Lemmy instances....

Hey, I made a new lemmy instance focused on art and art discussion if you're interested in that. ( lemmyloves.art )

I posted a bit ago on a different account, and yeah here we are. I actually set it up!...

Digesting the "Child Safety on Federated Social Media" Report ( wedistribute.org )

An in-depth report reveals an ugly truth about isolated, unmoderated parts of the Fediverse. It’s a solvable problem, with challenges.

Important information about your Reddit account ( kbin.social )

Just gotten this email from reddit (it doesnt look like a scam mail and its sent from [email protected], and the link is for https://accounts.reddit.com/password...

Meta's Threads in the attempted gentrification of the Fediverse ( todon.nl )

A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate...

A poll: are followers-only posts on Mastodon public? ( infosec.exchange )

On Mastodon, Followers-only posts are only visible to your followers – and to admins of any instances your followers on. But if you haven’t turned on “approve followes”, anybody who’s logged in to an instance you haven’t blocked can follow you and get access to your followers-only posts....

Facebook's Threads is so depressing ( jogblog.substack.com )

Beehaw is also down, but they elected to do it ( hachyderm.io )

Lionir elected to prevent any potential data leaks by shutting down Beehaw until the issues lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone are identified and resolved

RSS Readers Can 'Follow' Hashtags on Mastodon ( mstdn.social )

Just passing on a tip from FediTips I didn’t know about. Using the format...

Peer-bay? ( lemm.ee )

Possibly a dumb question, but is there, or could one of the extra smart people here build, a federated marketplace to allow for direct buying and selling without the middle-man enshittification of ebay, reverb, and the like?