A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which describes
Fediverse, which is a portmanteau of Federation and Universe, is the name for a new protocol for the social internet: a bunch of different social networks and platforms that are connected to each other. Users on any of these services can follow users on any other one and respond to, like, and share ...
An effort to bring a broader news ecosystem to the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is now in the hands of the social magazine app Flipboard.
TikTok is getting it's own Mastodon-like competitor.
Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called
Loops promises to bring the TikTok experience to the fediverse.
A Threads update allows users to see more details about their followers and interactions with people from other servers across the fediverse.
Meta is dipping its toes into an idealistic vision for social media, known as the “fediverse.”
The Social Web Foundation is a new non-profit for the W3C standard, ActivityPub. But it doesn't include Bluesky, which W3C's founder uses.
Will an app or a protocol be the next big thing?
Users will be able to download their data or migrate their account to another Mastodon instance, if they choose.
Love you, too, Cloudflare.
You can now post on the Threads and be seen in the fediverse.
During the FediForum conference, Threads showed off a new link that leads directly to its fediverse sharing settings. This may seem like a small update, but it could make it easier to convince other users to toggle on the feature, as they won’t have to dig through their settings themselves.
Not quite "press", but substantial reach
Sub.club thinks premium feeds could also serve other use cases, like supporting helpful bots or generating funds to help maintain a community's Mastodon server, for instance.
You’ll now start seeing replies from other parts of the fediverse under posts that aren’t yours, as shared by Threads’ Peter Cottle. Nice way to see more posts from other ActivityPub-based platforms.
Threads is allowing users who have opted in to fediverse sharing to see replies on other people’s posts.
They have published a roadmap, which says it will be fully bidirectional by the end of the year. So far they have followed that roadmap, and I don't see a reason why they would stop doing that.
This does not appear to be an applicable analogy here. If it were, Mom (presumably the owner of the house) would not be able to identify anybody in the house, only how many people there are in total in the house. Not something she'd be happy with, I assume, nor you. (Strangers? Friends? Family?) And your complaint appears to be that you didn't have ownership rights in your room -- but if you had had them, according to your version of privacy, you could only tell that there was one other person in the room with you, but not that it was Mabel. It could have been her dad. Presumably also not what you would have wanted.
I want to see the list of subscribers to a group that I created for the same reason I want to see who is following me on Mastodon: 1) so I have some idea who the people are who are interested in what this group produces, and I can steer content in the direction that's actually appreciated by the subscribers and 2) so I can invite people who I think should be in it, but aren't yet, and 3) so I can (potentially) preemptively block.
Re your point about privacy: I would think that if I create a group, and moderate it, I am the host of that group. I decide who gets to be in and who doesn't, just like IRL who gets to sit on my porch and who doesn't. Privacy does not really enter the picture here in my view.