Fediverse

Mastodon Engineering has announced a new network-wide effort to create a framework for service providers offering a variety of capabilities.

Threads users can now see who follows them and likes their posts from other fediverse servers, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed.

People participating on the open social web have a problem: it’s not yet possible to reach users on multiple sites like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads with a single post.

If you’ve tagged your location on Instagram, Threads’ approach should feel familiar.

A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20509588

Here is an update that explains what we have been working on recently (apologies for not having these for a few months, summer vacations and all that). This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

@privacyguard added Single-Sign-On (SSO) support to lemmy (this still needs some UI work and testing, but the bulk of the work is done). Special thanks to Privacy Portal for working on this!

@carlos-cabello added a way to filter posts by title only (and not body) when searching.

@Freakazoid182 added custom emoji and tagline views.

@nothing4u made our scheduled cleanup job delete denied users.

@sunaurus made a few image proxy fixes.

@sleepless has been working hard on lemmy-ui-leptos, which may eventually replace lemmy-ui. He made improvements to how posts are displayed; made SI formatting consistent with how the current UI handles it; added translations; added post content actions, creator, and community listings; and made some plugins for markdown-it.

@nutomic cleaned up the issue tracker by closing invalid issues and adding tags like good first issue. He also made some simple improvements, like adding a category to RSS feeds, fixing an issue with activitypub ids, and removing the enable_nsfw setting in favor of content_warning.

@dessalines integrated a new rust clearurls library into lemmy that will remove tracking params for any post or comment text (Much thanks to @jendrikw for creating this library), increased the bio max length from 300 to 1000, removes lemmy's reliance on openssl, made the list logins response more uniform, added the ability to restore content on an unban, added a default comment sort type for both the local site, and your user.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

PeerTube playlist: https://spectra.video/w/p/q1BXeNF5PWFipFy5f44v9h

With the announcement of the new author bylines feature Highlighting journalism on Mastodon which uses the new OpenGraph tag property which was previously approval-only.

Federation is coming, but get started now!

Users will be able to download their data or migrate their account to another Mastodon instance, if they choose.

Organized by @[email protected]

Welcome to Lemmyvision's summer edition, Sunnyvision!

Lemmyvision song contest is where communities and instances of Lemmy submit a song and vote on their favorites! With the aim of promoting different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.

For this 'lighter' edition, the goal is to celebrate the last week of summer, with some summer related tunes. You do not need to bring your instance/community, everyone can share a song, no matter what instance they're on, as long as they can federate here!

It's a fun way to celebrate summer, and discover new music, details below.

To participate

• Go to https://jlai.lu/post/10574876 post on [email protected] and in the comments, post a song that was released in summer of any year.
• Next week, you'll be able to vote for your favorite song from the songs posted there.

Spread the word if you can, and I hope you have fun, and that everyone can discover new music!

A new startup in Fediverse space offers a unique way for people to support their favorite creatives and builders on the network.

FediForum is back for its September 2024 session! Come join us and hang out as we cover the event in real-time!

We’re excited to present the Open Science Network initiative, a first step towards open and federated digital spaces designed to push the boundaries of open science and scholarly communication.

BandWagon is a new music experience for Fediverse musicians, and offers much of what they're looking for from Bandcamp.