Way more interesting and healthy fediverse news is happening in the shadows and is barely getting discussed! Which is: Discourse has federation between different instances of itself and other #fediverse software such as Mastodon working!
pretty cool to see a whole family of Hasidic Jews walking down Delancey St with big signs that say Free Palestine on one side and a big red X over the flag of Israel on the other
Just wanted to share some exciting news with you all.
My colleague, the talented @reiver, is currently hard at work on an awesome project called #PostFreely. It's actually a fork of the popular #WriteFreely blogging platform.
Together with other brilliant developers, they're brainstorming a bunch of potential new features for PostFreely. I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how our beloved Fediverse blogging platforms keep evolving. Pretty awesome, right?
Honestly its sorta weird to see yall talk about this fork without more explicit mention of where you are forking it from. It only got to the place where one would even want to fork it in the first place because of the tireless work for years from @matt and the whole team of folks making @writefreely
@atomicpoet I wasn't criticizing your post, it has just been the third post I had seen from Reiver that hasn't mentioned Writefreely or Matt so I felt a bit uncomfortable about that fact
@whatshisays@fediversenews "Yoshiki Eto, an administrator of one of Misskey's major servers, and president of the new company, confirmed the plan to Nikkei Asia. The company will be named MisskeyHQ. The developer of the project, Eiji Shinoda, will also serve as a director."
@laurenshof you should reach out to @/[email protected] directly and get their opinions on the matter I am sure they would answer some questions. I have chatted with google translate quite a bit with them before
@EU_Commission wait what? who is writing these press releases? the web will never have version numbers that actually mean anything other then hype train jargon that is too easy to regurgitate into marketing spam
The main subject of the week is the conversation around Meta joining the #fediverse. To make sense of it all, I created a timeline of the major events, as well as sort out the different types of discourse people are having into different subjects.
He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?
@nieceandtows I honestly think this would be doable and maybe worth perusing. I wonder who has the most contacts with Hollywood to make something like this happen
@bhaugen@technology I think this point is really fascinating. The idea that really what is needed is a balance or equilibrium between centralization and decentralization and that is really whats being fought for.
@bhaugen@technology I really highly recommend listening to Beer's whole lecture linked above if you have a spare 3 hours sometime. I would love to discuss it more, it feels very relevant to the current time
This is a major downside to how federation works currently and something we shouldn't need extensions for, but as a stopgap solution I am glad they exist.
"My long-term vision for RedReader is to restructure the app to more easily support other sites, including Lemmy" -RedReader
RedReader is a Reddit app with over 100k downloads on the Google Play store
"I think it would be cool to work with some kind of "open forum protocol" which would allow a variety of websites and apps to interoperate with each other through a uniform API."
As more and more instances are providing multiple services under the same management, we need a term to talk about this type of arrangement. A Fediverse Galaxy is a collection of federated software that is provided by the same admin or collective.
"Tafkars stands for "The API formerly known as...", is written in Rust and is pronounced like "tough cars". Tafkars is an API proxy that allows apps to talk to Lemmy through a familiar API from a kinder time. The hope is that this will make it easy for app developers to support Lemmy with only minimal code changes." @fediverse
Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and we have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore.
Whaf do you think of hosting an AMA with John Oliver to make Lemmy/kbin officially a viable Reddit replacement?
He would be the perfect person to AMA as he’s already associated with Reddit revolts, and it would result in tremendous media coverage and mark fediverse as a viable alternative to Reddit. What do you think?