Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era. The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll get it. If you don’t like Gmail, you can switch to something else, but you don’t have to quit email entirely as a concept.

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"Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities – including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according to documents obtained by Platformer."

> With the rise of the Fediverse driven by Elon Musk's continued efforts to make Twitter unpleasant for the majority of people, it has been interesting and exciting to see increased interest in forms of Social Media outside the corporate hegemony dominated by Twitter and Facebook over the last decade. > Truthfully, for a lot of us who had been on Twitter pre-2012 or so, Mastadon, with it's user-curated stream of content, feels more like a return to something that was lost instead of something new. There is an excitement about Mastadon, it's underlying protocol ActivityPub, and the collection of inter-operable apps and servers that make up what we're now calling the Fediverse. > And I'm glad for it.

I'll elaborate on my thoughts further in my reply below, but I'm keen to hear what everyone thinks of this concept

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/903143 > This video site is worth checking out, if you haven't already. Share videos of what's working, and what isn't, in your community.

**[Mastodon is just the start—here comes the Fediverse with PeerTube, PixelFed, Friendica and Funkwhale](https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media)** [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) > Most companies looking to support decentralized social media are adding support for ActivityPub or, in some cases, building new platforms for a decentralized future. Meta is rumored to be working on its own decentralized social network, code-named P92, which is said to include ActivityPub support. WordPress, Flipboard, and Mozilla have all announced features that integrate with the Fediverse cc fediversenews@venera.social ### [ Is available here ](https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media) [@mattontech](https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/mattontech) 's interview whith [@tchambers](https://indieweb.social/users/tchambers) ###

I want to announce a new version of the activitypub-federation crate. Over the last weeks I worked on major improvements to the usability and documentation. It now includes an extensive guide on getting started to implement federation from scratch, and also an example project which can directly be deployed to a server and federate with projects like Mastodon. The library takes care of basic functionality like HTTP Signatures, activity sending, and fetching data from other servers. Application developers can focus on the main logic, and treat federation as another form of API. There is no restriction to the content being federated: you can implement a microblogging platform, link aggregator, video hosting site or any other type of social media. The goal is to encapsulate all basic functionality, so that developers can easily implement federation without any prior knowledge. Using this library can help to share core Activitypub logic between different projects, so that the same code doesn’t have to be implemented and maintained separately by each project. This way improvements can benefit everyone. It also encourages the use of effective patterns to make Rust and Activitypub work together. All of this has been proven to work in Lemmy which uses this library and is the biggest Activitypub project written in Rust. https://docs.rs/activitypub_federation

**[As part of the expansion of hardware and software at Mastodon, an archive server was visible to all users for several weeks](https://www.heise.de/news/Konfigurationsfehler-fuehrt-zu-Datenleck-bei-Mastodon-7550217.html)** [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) > The cause of a data leak at Mastodon was not an external intrusion, but an insufficient configuration of the Mastodon server for storing user data. This made it theoretically possible for every user of the service to view the data uploaded to files.mastodon.social. Mastodon discovered the bug on February 24th and closed it within 30 minutes. However, the leak had existed since the beginning of February because the infrastructure had been upgraded at the time, the provider writes in an e-mail. ### [Link](https://www.heise.de/news/Konfigurationsfehler-fuehrt-zu-Datenleck-bei-Mastodon-7550217.html) ###

Linus Torvalds is not interested in religious wars in the fediverse. [@fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) Linus Torvalds knows there is a time to administer and a time to use. Linus Torvalds knows that the Fediverse is free because it is made up of different faiths. That's why we like Fediverse. And Linus too 😅 The [@torvalds](https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds) 's post ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ ♲ [social.kernel.org/objects/2d56…](https://social.kernel.org/objects/2d56c421-e90f-42eb-83d3-348f01d2b1d0)

What is the best fediverse-compatible service to run a blog (not microblog) on? I see a lot of #writefreely instances, but it doesn't seem too well-integrated. E.g. it seems to be impossible receive comments from #mastodon users. Then there is #plume, but it's harder to find instances and there is information about the software being less well maintained. So, what would be good options? I'd prefer not having to self-host.

I'm wondering because I've been shamelessly using [@Sal@mander.xyz](https://mander.xyz/u/Sal) as portal for all the Mander sublemmies

In Alpha. Great to see some niche ancillary services being developed with the potential to become useful for other communities, or a precursor to others. Hopefully will expand beyond the Mastodon = Fediverse approach over time.