I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to BlueSky for text-centric social media.

Digg started asking 5 bucks for early access: https://early.digg.com/

Hello! I was checking out rblind today, and i'm curious to hear from people who're visually impaired on what they think of it.

It seems pretty cool, i'm wondering if the theme can be implemented for more instances to for help accessibility.

We (Framasoft) are proud to present the 2025 roadmap for the project ! PeerTube is improving thanks to (only) two developers, the financial support of donors, the support of the NLnet foundation, and external contributions, whether in the form of code, design (hi La Coopérative des Internets), or user feedback from hundreds of people ! Thanks to all of you !
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Sum up

Peertube

• channel ownership transfert
• multi-user channel management
• instance customization
• installation wizard
• shared list of banned instance, account and keyword, tags

Peertube mobile app

• port mobile app to tablet and smart tv
• connection to your peertube account and manage your account subcription, channel, content, upload video, comment...

https://mastodon.social/@treyhunner/112453920848761679

Hi !

Let's share about the community you love the most. Do you have a good discussion you enjoyed ? A nice picture ? The way your instance is managed ?

Or do you fell you are missing something ? If so, which one and why ?

Anything pretty cool you want to share about the fediverse ? :)

The results are in!🎶

Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!

This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:

1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
5. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
9. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)

Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :

1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
5. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
9. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)

Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to https://feedbeat.me/@Pe and https://mastodon.social/@FLOMB !!

All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!

A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:

• Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - [email protected])
• Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - [email protected] )
• Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - [email protected])
• Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - [email protected])
• Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
• Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
• Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
• Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
• Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - [email protected])
• Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.

Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!

Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞

Cheers!

If you want to see a live example: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33979666

I'm currently using Alexandrite and, while I do like it, there's a "mobile-esque" feel in some areas. Don't get me wrong, I like the other Lemmy frontends (Voyager in particular) but they're clearly geared towards mobile use. I'm looking for something that goes well with a mouse and keyboard setup.

Thanks in advance.

Features

• Swipe actions (gestures) for feed posts and comments (enable in Feed Action settings); by @olorin99.
• Add local feed filter (for Lemmy & PieFed only).
• Add haptic feedback to swipe actions and several submit/send/save buttons.
• Add autofill hints to Lemmy & PieFed login page (for password managers); by @olorin99.
• Enable editing user about for PieFed accounts; by JollyDevelopment.
• Move overflow post and comment menu into a bottom modal sheet (also fixes PieFed notification controls taking up space in comments); by @olorin99.

Fixes

• Fix initial kbin.earth guest account not saving.
• Fix account switcher ui not updating after login.
• Fix being able to scroll between navigation screens; by @olorin99.
• Fix explore filter incorrectly being greyed out on Mbin; by @olorin99
• Fix filter warnings not showing next to posts; by @olorin99

Other

• Relicense to AGPL.
• Bump dwarfs block size for AppImage (significantly reduces start-up time); by Samueru-sama.
• Translations update from Hosted Weblate.

This release fixes a security vulnerability which allows an attacker to delete images uploaded by other users. You can read the details in the security advisory. Thanks to @Nothing4You for discovering and fixing it.

A new donation dialog is shown to users once per year, to help fund Lemmy development.

There are also various backports from the development branch. Importantly the “Private instance” setting can now be used with federation enabled. This way only logged-in users can browse posts and comments, which stops AI crawlers from overloading the server. Also moderators can now view votes in the post/comment options.

Context:

• https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40460535

Dashboard:

• https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone&from=now-2d&to=now

• https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
• https://mbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats
• https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41913539

You post through the UI to a Fediverse hashtag, on which AI bots listen to, which replies are then displayed in the UI. In the future, the main app should have some kind of ranking only to show the best replies. Through hashtags, AI bots can specialize in certain areas. It would also be possible to partially process a task (for example translate it) and then repost it to another hashtag (I call that "prompt routing). This way, you can have chains of AI bots working together on public, shared message queues.

I'm curious about people's thoughts around Misskey and its forked projects.

1. Why is Misskey so popular in Asia, but not used much in the west? Why do you think the preferences are so different between the regions?
2. What is wrong with Misskey that some people are willing to invest their time and money on separate forks (IceShrimp, Sharkey). What's the difference between the forks and the originals?
3. Does anyone have experience running any of these? Do they have any downsides like, for example, a database that grows unreasonably fast or that requires too many resources?

This will probably not be popular for people here, but I still found it interesting to see other apps including Lemmy

Website of the app dev: https://codelux.org/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10147582

Hallo zusammen!

Wie angekündigt veröffentlichen wir unsere monatlichen Finanzen (diesmal zum zweiten des Monats, damit niemand auf falsche Gedanken kommt), und zusätzlich versuchen wir, uns von Paypal zu lösen und hoffen dabei auf eure Unterstützung - mehr Info dazu im Blogpost.

Alles Gute inzwischen und viel Spass beim Posten und Diskutieren, Fediverse Foundation

Hey everyone!

As announced, we are publishing our monthly finances (this time on the second of the month, so that nobody gets the wrong idea), and in addition we are trying to detach ourselves from Paypal and hope for your support - more info in the blog post.

All the best in the meantime and have fun posting and discussing, Fediverse Foundation

Interesting read outlining different approaches to federation that could be more nuanced than allow everything/approve selectively.