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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

If you have seen folks talking about "Omarchy" or maybe seen a screenshot that looked neat, please be aware that it is an operating system for nazis, by nazis. DHH made a linux distribution with Hyprland, which is a tiling Wayland compositor for bigots, by bigots.

I am sorry if you'd seen some […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21h

It’s me, stumbling around the kitchen (my ghost install) trying to find the coffee (my ability to write words about networks in this wild year).

Which is to say: Still here, still hammering away on a lot of things. Still don’t know what will happen! […]

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@fedify really exciting! Fedify is such an Important project, and urs really detest to see the support you’re getting!

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Riley Testut :fatpikachu: @rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

While this solves our problems, we are far from the only Fediverse project that could use some funding and we want to support the growth of the entire ecosystem.

So to give back to the open social web, we’re also donating $500,000 total to these incredible Fediverse-related projects 🎉 […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

the "vibe engineering" version of this — even in the fantasyland scenario where the tools work and produce correct results, somehow, even in the face of all the evidence that they don't — is that you establish a permanent unfixable dependency on *OpenAI's subscription services*, which are being […]

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Box464 @bsky.box464.social · 2d

Checking out Bonfire's latest release. This Federation Status dashboard is pretty cool.

And get this - it's not just visible to admins - end users can see the same, just filtered to their OWN processes.

That's really helpful if you're trying to debug an […]

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A dashboard for Federation Status, showing logs from failed federation attempts with other instances.

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

with regard to Jay of bluesky suggesting they would platform engineer away the dynamics that lead to people demanding jesse singal be banned, reminder to our members that

a) you can report me or any of the members of the social working group and the reported person will not be involved in […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

🔥 Bonfire now supports post imports when migrating instances.

You can bring your posts (+ optionally replies) with you when moving to a Bonfire instance from another instance or platform. Imported posts keep their original dates and URIs. Threads are preserved, as are like/boost counts. It […]

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

congrats, really great news!
@fedify

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Fedify: ActivityPub server framework @fedify.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

We're excited to announce that #fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the @sovtechfund! The Sovereign Tech Fund is investing €192,000 in Fedify's development over 2025–2026 to strengthen the fediverse ecosystem.

This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's […]

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@SDF is still on Mastodon 4.1.25 so that might have something to do with it ...

@Edent

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Don Marti @dmarti.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

dammit, they got me. I accidentally shook my phone and got the new #Firefox "shake your phone to replace the web page you were reading with AI slop" feature (who thought that was a good idea?) My notes on how to turn it off on Apple iOS:

https://blog.zgp.org/turn-off-ai-summaries-in-firefox-on-ios/

turn off AI summaries in Firefox on iOS

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

If you missed my interview with @firesidefedi check it out at https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/saKY2TWfwNYgPUQFkE4xsi #fediverse #mastodon #accessibility

Episode 9 - Robert Kingett - Accessibility in the Fediverse - Livestream 2025-04-11

Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 9 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse. Wit...

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

WOW WOW WOW

Bright green stripes of auroras with some chunky columns. There's the silhouette of a spruce tree on one side of the photo

The green horizontal stripe of auroras almost looks like it's made of a series of vertical stripes

Bright green horizontal stripes of auroras, with a chunk of red over on one side, over the silhouette of a bunch of spruce trees

The Milky Way faintly visible through bright green auroras below, with the silhouette of several spruce trees

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@sundogplanets wow! but alas, it's cloudy and raining in Washington state, so no aurora for us.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Monolithic servers doesn't have to be the way for ActivityPub, but we're just here because that was the easiest way to build originally, and everyone just copied everyone else here, stuffing activitypub into their software as essentially a bolt-on service.

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@alexisbushnell here’s the statement from multiple civil liberties groups - it links out to the letter with details https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/rights-groups-urge-starmer-to-abandon-plans-for-mandatory-digital-id/

人权组织敦促英国首相斯塔默放弃强制数字身份证计划

Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk) 09-24 ↑ 117 HN Points

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 13d

added #shig (https://shig.de), #encyclia (@encyclia), #photon (@photon), #url.life (https://code.uri.life) and Ibis (https://ibis.wiki) icons to #fediverseiconography at https://iconography.fediverse.info

a screenshot of Fediverse Iconography, the bottom row is the icons of Shig, Encyclia, Photon, uri.life and Ibis

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Yeah really, great thread @glyph !

@xgranade

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Gee. Thanks Fediverse.

When I complain about Windows, I literally never thought about running Linux in my life.

As I stare at my shelf full of Linux laptops.

Or look back at my decades of working and playing with Linux systems.

Or the Linux stickers on my desk.

Or ...

Sometimes people just […]

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Connected Places @fediversereport.com · 19d

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism […]

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Jon @jdp23.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

yeah really, agreed all around! @dgodon @WADeptHealth

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Demian @dgodon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Kudos to @WADeptHealth for providing this valuable info, and also for doing so on the #fediverse
https://universeodon.com/@WADeptHealth/115221419953853706

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21d

I'm now offering a snapshot release of the Fediverse Schema Observatory database:

https://observatory.cyber.harvard.edu/snapshots/

This is in advance of the impending release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer (see previous post in thread), which requires an Observatory snapshot to run correctly.

It's […]

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