Fediverse

Mark Zuckerberg made his first post in the “fediverse” on Thursday. If you have no idea what the hell that means, join the club. The fediverse is a relatively new concept for social networking, and Threads became the largest member of it this week. Millions of Threads users will soon be able to opt in and “federate” their posts. I know that was a lot of gibberish, but here’s what that means.The Fujifilm X100VI is the Most Fun I’ve Had With a Camera in Years“First post in the fediverse,” said the Meta CEO in a Thursday…

Fediverse support in Meta Threads is up and running in beta. Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Thursday that adult Threads users in eligible countries can now turn on sharing to the fediverse — including Mastodon and other ActivityPub services. Before today’s wider beta rollout, Meta had been testing the cross-platform compatibility with a handful of accounts since late last year.The fediverse is a collection of decentralized online communities (servers) that speak the common “language” of ActivityPub. This lets each hub maintain…

Meta is continuing its slow march toward compatibility with the fediverse. The company has been experimenting with making posts from a handful of accounts available since the end of last year. Now, it’s offered a brief preview of how the integration works and what it might look like once more people have the ability to share from Threads directly to the fediverse.Instagram engineer Peter Cottle gave a short presentation on “Threads in the Fediverse” at , a virtual event for decentralized social media enthusiasts. In the…

Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is getting rid of its waitlist and opening its decentralized platform to everyone. The service, which opened in beta last spring, currently has a little over users, though that number could rise quickly now that prospective users don’t need an invitation to join.It’s a significant moment for Bluesky, which began as an internal project at Jack Dorsey’s Twitter (Bluesky ended its association with the entity now known as X after Elon Musk’s takeover, though Dorsey is on…

The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse. It’s been more than a year since Musk showed up at Twitter HQ with a literal sink in tow, but many social media users are still a bit nomadic, floating among various emerging platforms. And if a user made the choice to leave Twitter in the Musk era,…

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The Fediverse, or federated universe, is a network of interconnected social media platforms including Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and PeerTube that allows users of different servers to interact with each other. Each platform, be it a Mastodon server or a Pleroma instance, is hosted on its own server, managed by administrators who set their own rules, moderation policies, and community guidelines. Users on these platforms have their own profiles and identities within their…

The social publishing and reading app Flipboard is embracing interoperability with the fediverse.The fediverse, a system of decentralized social networking services that includes Mastodon and video sharing software PeerTube, lets users of independently run social hubs see and interact with each other’s content. A common standardized protocol called ActivityPub lets independently owned servers in the fediverse talk to one another, similar to how industry standards make it possible to send email from one provider to another…

Flipboard is the latest mainstream app to officially join the fediverse, the collection of decentralized services that run on the ActivityPub protocol. The news reading app, which has been experimenting with Mastodon for nearly a year, now plans to become with Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse.The news reading app is starting with the accounts of about two dozen publishers, including Polygon, Medium, Semafor, Kotaku and Mental Floss, whose Flipboard content will be discoverable across the fediverse. By next month,…

Two days ago, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Threads has started testing making its posts available on Mastodon and other platforms that support the ActivityPub protocol. But the full fediverse play may still be quite some distance away as Instagram head Adam Mosseri has highlighted several key issues the company will have to iron out before it can fully become interoperable. If some of these terms we have mentioned appear foreign to you, then you are not alone. The latest buzz in social media platforms is still…