#piefed — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #piefed, aggregated by home.social.
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Looks like #lemmy/#piefed/#mbin are about to experience European redditors signing up. #ageverification just tossed an adult off of the platform with no recourse. #palantir #chatcontrol
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@mailbox Instagram → Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/) und Vernissage (https://joinvernissage.org/).
Pixelfed ist als direkter Instagram-Ersatz vorgesehen. Man kann sogar komplette Instagram-Konten nach Pixelfed importieren. Vernissage ist jünger und nicht ganz so dicht an Instagram dran, es scheint auch die Funktionsweise von Flickr abzudecken.
Beide sind Teil des Fediverse wie auch Mastodon. Das heißt, beide sind mit Mastodon und miteinander verbunden.
Noch mehr Alternativen im Fediverse, alle miteinander und mit Mastodon verbunden:- X, Bluesky, Threads, W Social → z. B. Sharkey (https://joinsharkey.org), Akkoma (https://akkoma.social)
- Facebook → Friendica (https://friendi.ca), Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org), (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams), Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte)
- Reddit & Hacker News → Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/), Mbin (https://joinmbin.org/), PieFed (https://join.piefed.social/)
- YouTube → PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org)
- Twitch → Owncast (https://owncast.online)
Gruß übrigens von Hubzilla.
#Instagram #Instagram-Alternative #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Twitter #X #Twitter-Alternative #Bluesky #Bluesky-Alternative #Threads #W Social #Mastodon #Sharkey #Akkoma #Facebook #Facebook-Alternative #Friendica #Hubzilla #(streams) #Forte #Reddit #Reddit-Alternative #Hacker News #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #YouTube #YouTube-Alternative #PeerTube #Twitch #Twitch-Alternative #Owncast #Fedi #Fediverse #Digital Independence Day #DI.Day #DI.Days #DI.Days 2026 -
@mailbox Instagram → Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/) und Vernissage (https://joinvernissage.org/).
Pixelfed ist als direkter Instagram-Ersatz vorgesehen. Man kann sogar komplette Instagram-Konten nach Pixelfed importieren. Vernissage ist jünger und nicht ganz so dicht an Instagram dran, es scheint auch die Funktionsweise von Flickr abzudecken.
Beide sind Teil des Fediverse wie auch Mastodon. Das heißt, beide sind mit Mastodon und miteinander verbunden.
Noch mehr Alternativen im Fediverse, alle miteinander und mit Mastodon verbunden:- X, Bluesky, Threads, W Social → z. B. Sharkey (https://joinsharkey.org), Akkoma (https://akkoma.social)
- Facebook → Friendica (https://friendi.ca), Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org), (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams), Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte)
- Reddit & Hacker News → Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/), Mbin (https://joinmbin.org/), PieFed (https://join.piefed.social/)
- YouTube → PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org)
- Twitch → Owncast (https://owncast.online)
Gruß übrigens von Hubzilla.
#Instagram #Instagram-Alternative #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Twitter #X #Twitter-Alternative #Bluesky #Bluesky-Alternative #Threads #W Social #Mastodon #Sharkey #Akkoma #Facebook #Facebook-Alternative #Friendica #Hubzilla #(streams) #Forte #Reddit #Reddit-Alternative #Hacker News #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #YouTube #YouTube-Alternative #PeerTube #Twitch #Twitch-Alternative #Owncast #Fedi #Fediverse #Digital Independence Day #DI.Day #DI.Days #DI.Days 2026 -
Small fedviserse SEO hack for fediverse awareness: remove utm's trackers in URL, then add `utm_source=fediverse` everywhere.
#technology #fediverse #mastodon #Lemmy #pixelfed #piefed #mbin
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Small fedviserse SEO hack for fediverse awareness: remove utm's trackers in URL, then add `utm_source=fediverse` everywhere.
#technology #fediverse #mastodon #Lemmy #pixelfed #piefed #mbin
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Small fedviserse SEO hack for fediverse awareness: remove utm's trackers in URL, then add `utm_source=fediverse` everywhere.
#technology #fediverse #mastodon #Lemmy #pixelfed #piefed #mbin
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Small fedviserse SEO hack for fediverse awareness: remove utm's trackers in URL, then add `utm_source=fediverse` everywhere.
#technology #fediverse #mastodon #Lemmy #pixelfed #piefed #mbin
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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The Programmer’s Fulcrum 10 July, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno […]https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-10-july-2026/
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @[email protected]
🚀 #VOD https://tubefree.org/w/nmkrU9EH4VmzA85GtfRJFr
Never miss an episode!
📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934
🎧 #Podcast tubefree.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 #FiresideFedi #FiresideChat #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #DecentralizedSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #VodCast #lemmy #mbin #piefed #canvas
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @[email protected]
🚀 #VOD https://tubefree.org/w/nmkrU9EH4VmzA85GtfRJFr
Never miss an episode!
📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934
🎧 #Podcast tubefree.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 #FiresideFedi #FiresideChat #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #DecentralizedSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #VodCast #lemmy #mbin #piefed #canvas
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @[email protected]
🚀 #VOD https://tubefree.org/w/nmkrU9EH4VmzA85GtfRJFr
Never miss an episode!
📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934
🎧 #Podcast tubefree.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 #FiresideFedi #FiresideChat #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #DecentralizedSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #VodCast #lemmy #mbin #piefed #canvas
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Café & Canvas: Painting the Fedivnvas 17/07/2026 - Grant - E95
Special thank you to @[email protected]
🚀 #VOD https://tubefree.org/w/nmkrU9EH4VmzA85GtfRJFr
Never miss an episode!
📡 #RSS tubefree.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934
🎧 #Podcast tubefree.org/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=5934 #FiresideFedi #FiresideChat #Podcast #VideoPodcast #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #DecentralizedSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #VodCast #lemmy #mbin #piefed #canvas
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @[email protected] - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 10/07/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #threadiverse #lemmy #piefed #misskey #canvas #community #event
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @[email protected] - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 10/07/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #threadiverse #lemmy #piefed #misskey #canvas #community #event
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @[email protected] - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 10/07/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #threadiverse #lemmy #piefed #misskey #canvas #community #event
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!
Special Guest: @[email protected] - Threadiverse CANVAS
I run various fediverse things. fediverse.events . Canvas social.fediverse.events/@can... . sc07 mastodon.social/@sc07
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 10/07/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #threadiverse #lemmy #piefed #misskey #canvas #community #event
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⚠️ Be sure your Fedi site is current. An updated current site is a happy site. 😇
Mastodon: 4.6.2
Misskey: 2026.6.0
GoToSocial: 0.22.0
Mitra: 5.6.0
Iceshrimp: 2026.5.1
Iceshrimp.NET: 2026.1.1-beta
PeerTube: 8.2.1
Owncast: 0.2.5
Loops: 1.0.0-beta.12
PixelFed: 0.12.7
FunkWhale: 2.0.4
Lemmy: 0.19.19
Mbin: 1.10.0
PieFed: 1.6.27
Pleroma: 2.10
Akkoma: 3.19.0 (2026.05)
Sharkey: 2025.4.7
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #GoToSocial #Mitra #IceShrimp #PeerTube #OwnCast #Loops #PixelFed #FunkWhale #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #Pleroma #Akkoma #Sharkey
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⚠️ Be sure your Fedi site is current. An updated current site is a happy site. 😇
Mastodon: 4.6.2
Misskey: 2026.6.0
GoToSocial: 0.22.0
Mitra: 5.6.0
Iceshrimp: 2026.5.1
Iceshrimp.NET: 2026.1.1-beta
PeerTube: 8.2.1
Owncast: 0.2.5
Loops: 1.0.0-beta.12
PixelFed: 0.12.7
FunkWhale: 2.0.4
Lemmy: 0.19.19
Mbin: 1.10.0
PieFed: 1.6.27
Pleroma: 2.10
Akkoma: 3.19.0 (2026.05)
Sharkey: 2025.4.7
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #GoToSocial #Mitra #IceShrimp #PeerTube #OwnCast #Loops #PixelFed #FunkWhale #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #Pleroma #Akkoma #Sharkey
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⚠️ Be sure your Fedi site is current. An updated current site is a happy site. 😇
Mastodon: 4.6.2
Misskey: 2026.6.0
GoToSocial: 0.22.0
Mitra: 5.6.0
Iceshrimp: 2026.5.1
Iceshrimp.NET: 2026.1.1-beta
PeerTube: 8.2.1
Owncast: 0.2.5
Loops: 1.0.0-beta.12
PixelFed: 0.12.7
FunkWhale: 2.0.4
Lemmy: 0.19.19
Mbin: 1.10.0
PieFed: 1.6.27
Pleroma: 2.10
Akkoma: 3.19.0 (2026.05)
Sharkey: 2025.4.7
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #GoToSocial #Mitra #IceShrimp #PeerTube #OwnCast #Loops #PixelFed #FunkWhale #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #Pleroma #Akkoma #Sharkey
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⚠️ Be sure your Fedi site is current. An updated current site is a happy site. 😇
Mastodon: 4.6.2
Misskey: 2026.6.0
GoToSocial: 0.22.0
Mitra: 5.6.0
Iceshrimp: 2026.5.1
Iceshrimp.NET: 2026.1.1-beta
PeerTube: 8.2.1
Owncast: 0.2.5
Loops: 1.0.0-beta.12
PixelFed: 0.12.7
FunkWhale: 2.0.4
Lemmy: 0.19.19
Mbin: 1.10.0
PieFed: 1.6.27
Pleroma: 2.10
Akkoma: 3.19.0 (2026.05)
Sharkey: 2025.4.7
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #GoToSocial #Mitra #IceShrimp #PeerTube #OwnCast #Loops #PixelFed #FunkWhale #Lemmy #Mbin #PieFed #Pleroma #Akkoma #Sharkey
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf web
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf web
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf web
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf web
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf
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Eu nem sei de onde eu achei o #fediverse, so sei que pirei! 😜 Achei o maximo, fiz varias contas, muitas mesmo. #pixelfed , #llemmy, #mastodon, #friendica, #pieFed, #Kbin, #threads, #mbin. Fiz ponte no #BridgyFed, usei varios aplicativos pra turbinar tudo e, agora, to achando o maximo o #surf
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Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app
> A newly-implemented popup — which can't be closed — begs users to "get the app to keep using Reddit," frustrating users.
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Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app
> A newly-implemented popup — which can't be closed — begs users to "get the app to keep using Reddit," frustrating users.
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Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app
> A newly-implemented popup — which can't be closed — begs users to "get the app to keep using Reddit," frustrating users.
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Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
https://futurism.com/future-society/reddit-breaks-mobile-website-download-app
> A newly-implemented popup — which can't be closed — begs users to "get the app to keep using Reddit," frustrating users.
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Isn't it harmful for the Threadiverse when people are complaining of bot posters more than suspicious downvoters?
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Isn't it harmful for the Threadiverse when people are complaining of bot posters more than suspicious downvoters?
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Isn't it harmful for the Threadiverse when people are complaining of bot posters more than suspicious downvoters?
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Isn't it harmful for the Threadiverse when people are complaining of bot posters more than suspicious downvoters?
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Bigger Versions of these Fediverse Stickers will be coming to our store in the near future. Each being updated to a 50mm Height format instead of the current 25mm of these small ones.
What do you think of these stickers? Would you purchase something like this?
@[email protected]
#Fediverse #FediverseStickers #Stickers #SmallBusiness #Mastodon #Sharkey #Lemmy #PieFed #Misskey #PeerTube #Loops #PixelFed #Advert #Decentralized #SupportSmallCreators -
Bigger Versions of these Fediverse Stickers will be coming to our store in the near future. Each being updated to a 50mm Height format instead of the current 25mm of these small ones.
What do you think of these stickers? Would you purchase something like this?
@[email protected]
#Fediverse #FediverseStickers #Stickers #SmallBusiness #Mastodon #Sharkey #Lemmy #PieFed #Misskey #PeerTube #Loops #PixelFed #Advert #Decentralized #SupportSmallCreators -
@Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️I would also be in favor of Fediblock for instances where this behavior is rampant.
Alt-text on images is only a thing on Mastodon and amongst Pixelfed users who are also on Mastodon.
Fediblocking entire servers for a too low quota of sufficiently accurate, sufficiently detailed, rule-conforming alt-text would end up defederating Mastodon from most of the rest of the Fediverse. It would end up in the Fediblocking of entire Fediverse server application types. Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp-JS, Iceshrimp.NET, CherryPick, Sharkey, Catodon, Smithereen, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Socialhome, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed, nodeBB, WordPress, Ghost, Flipboard, Plume and a whole lot of others would end up being defederated from Mastodon in their entirety because they don't have alt-text (and everyone upping their game in alt-text style, accuracy and level of detail) as an integral part of their culture.
Basically, from Mastodon's point of view, the Fediverse would end up actually being only Mastodon because Mastodon would have defederated with everything else, server by server.
I think I'm the only one on Hubzilla who actually describes their images. I'm definitely the only one amongst the few dozen (streams) users who does. But even if I put more time and effort into describing images than just about anyone else in the Fediverse, I think that wouldn't be enough to save either server application from being defederated from Mastodon in their entirety as long as not everyone else adds sufficiently accurate, sufficiently detailed, rule-conforming alt-texts to every last one of their images, as cumbersome as that may be on Hubzilla.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Iceshrimp #Iceshrimp-JS #Iceshrimp.NET #CherryPick #Sharkey #Catodon #Smithereen #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Socialhome #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Lemmy #/kbin #Mbin #PieFed #nodeBB #WordPress #Ghost #Flipboard #Plume #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta -
How to use Really Simple Licensing (RSL) to block all AI crawlers
RSL is a new initiative by a group of big internet publishers that seeks to define the conditions under which AI crawlers can harvest their content. Their guide describes the various ways the content can be made available, including for free or a paid royalty but only by digging deeper into their reference material was I able to figure out how to prohibit all usage.
Your robots.txt needs to link to a XML file, like this:
License: https://your-domain.tld/rsl.xml
Then in that file you want this:
<rsl xmlns="https://rslstandard.org/rsl"> <content url="/" server="https://rslcollective.org/api"> <license> <prohibits type="usage">all</prohibits> </license> </content></rsl>That’s it.
If you want to be more liberal you could change the <prohibits> line to
<permits type="usage">search</permits>That will let them use the content for search, which is probably quite similar to what traditional search engines do. More details in their reference docs.
Optionally to dispel any plausible deniability you can also add a link to rsl.xml as a Link header in every HTTP response.
Link: <https://example.com/rsl.xml>; rel="license"; type="application/rsl+xml"
It’s still too early to say whether AI crawlers will respect the terms of the license any publishers specify, it’ll probably take a court case or two to sort that out.
PieFed has added RSL to it’s code just now. Instance admins who wish to disable RSL can set the ALLOW_AI_CRAWLERS environment variable to anything.
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@JustBob Discord has completely warped the term "server" for entire generations of Internet users. On Discord, "server" means "chatroom".
In the Fediverse, "server" doesn't mean "chatroom". It means "server". A computer.
For example, a rack computer with no screen and no keyboard and no mouse bolted into a server rack at a data centre.
Or an old laptop that someone had lying around or a Raspberry Pi mini-computer running at someone's home, connected to their landline.
On each one of these, a big or small Twitter can be running (Mastodon).
Or a wholly different Twitter (Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Meisskey, Tanukey, Neko...).
(Here's the first important new thing for you to learn about the Fediverse: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon.)
Or a Facebook with a side of a blog and a cloud server (Friendica, (streams), Forte).
(Here's the second important new thing for you to learn about the Fediverse: The Fediverse is not only short-form microblogging. Look at this comment. Look at what I've done. Embedded links. Bold type. Impossible on Mastodon. But possible elsewhere in the Fediverse.)
Or a Facebook meets WordPress meets Google Cloud Services meets even more stuff on top (Hubzilla; this is where I am).
Or an Instagram (Pixelfed).
Or a YouTube (PeerTube).
Or a Twitch (Owncast).
Or a Reddit (Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed).
Or a Goodreads (BookWyrm).
Or whatever. There are over 150 different server applications in the Fediverse.
mastodon.social, where you are, is only one of over 10,000 big and small Twitters of the same kind (Mastodon).
If Mastodon was like Discord, all 10,000+ Mastodon servers would run in one and the same gigantic data centre in the USA, owned by Mastodon, Inc. And they would all be property of Mastodon, Inc.
If the Fediverse was like Discord, all 30,000+ Fediverse servers would run in one and the same gigantic data centre in the USA, owned by Mastodon, Inc. And they would all be property of Mastodon, Inc. Also, they would be fully identical in functionality.
But as I've said above: They're all running on their own separate machines. With their own separate owners.
And the different server applications have different developers, and they are being developed independently from one another.
Okay, now comes the kicker: These server applications are not walled up against one another. Not only are all instances of the same server applications (e.g. Mastodon) connected to each other, but all instances of one server application are also connected to all instances of all the other server applications.
Imagine you're on Twitter. But your new friend is on Facebook. You can't follow a Facebook user on Twitter, and you can't follow a Twitter user on Facebook.
In the Fediverse, you can. You can be on Twitter. And follow a Facebook user. Directly from Twitter. Without a Facebook account.
Only that they aren't named Twitter and Facebook in the Fediverse. Twitter is named Mastodon or Pleroma or Akkoma or Misskey or Calckey or Firefish or Iceshrimp or Sharkey or Catodon or... There are dozens of Twitter alternatives in the Fediverse. Well, and Facebook is named Friendica or Hubzilla or (streams) or Forte.
You can be on Mastodon. And you can follow Friendica accounts. From Mastodon. Without a Friendica account.
This comment is a very good example. You are on Mastodon, created by @Eugen Rochko in 2016 as an alternative to Twitter that aimed to be as close to Twitter as possible.
The server that you're on, mastodon.social, is owned by Mastodon, Inc. and running on one or multiple rack servers in San Francisco, California, USA owned by Fastly.
I am on Hubzilla, created by @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ in 2012 by forking his own Friendica from 2010, and currently mainly maintained by @Mario Vavti and @Harald Eilertsen. Hubzilla has got nothing to do with Mastodon whatsoever. It started out as an alternative to Facebook, but not a clone, rather better than Facebook, with full-blown long-form blogging capability and a built-in file storage, and it has been enhanced greatly in functionality even beyond that.
The server that I'm on, Netzgemeinde, is owned and administered by @Mark Nowiasz, who has no affiliation with the Hubzilla developers, and running on a rack server in Nuremberg, Germany owned by Netcup.
And yet, you can see this comment coming from Hubzilla on Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Server #Instance #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Catodon #Meisskey #Tanukey #Neko #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Owncast #Lemmy #/kbin #Mbin #PieFed #BookWyrm #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse -
@JustBob Discord has completely warped the term "server" for entire generations of Internet users. On Discord, "server" means "chatroom".
In the Fediverse, "server" doesn't mean "chatroom". It means "server". A computer.
For example, a rack computer with no screen and no keyboard and no mouse bolted into a server rack at a data centre.
Or an old laptop that someone had lying around or a Raspberry Pi mini-computer running at someone's home, connected to their landline.
On each one of these, a big or small Twitter can be running (Mastodon).
Or a wholly different Twitter (Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, Catodon, Meisskey, Tanukey, Neko...).
(Here's the first important new thing for you to learn about the Fediverse: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon.)
Or a Facebook with a side of a blog and a cloud server (Friendica, (streams), Forte).
(Here's the second important new thing for you to learn about the Fediverse: The Fediverse is not only short-form microblogging. Look at this comment. Look at what I've done. Embedded links. Bold type. Impossible on Mastodon. But possible elsewhere in the Fediverse.)
Or a Facebook meets WordPress meets Google Cloud Services meets even more stuff on top (Hubzilla; this is where I am).
Or an Instagram (Pixelfed).
Or a YouTube (PeerTube).
Or a Twitch (Owncast).
Or a Reddit (Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed).
Or a Goodreads (BookWyrm).
Or whatever. There are over 150 different server applications in the Fediverse.
mastodon.social, where you are, is only one of over 10,000 big and small Twitters of the same kind (Mastodon).
If Mastodon was like Discord, all 10,000+ Mastodon servers would run in one and the same gigantic data centre in the USA, owned by Mastodon, Inc. And they would all be property of Mastodon, Inc.
If the Fediverse was like Discord, all 30,000+ Fediverse servers would run in one and the same gigantic data centre in the USA, owned by Mastodon, Inc. And they would all be property of Mastodon, Inc. Also, they would be fully identical in functionality.
But as I've said above: They're all running on their own separate machines. With their own separate owners.
And the different server applications have different developers, and they are being developed independently from one another.
Okay, now comes the kicker: These server applications are not walled up against one another. Not only are all instances of the same server applications (e.g. Mastodon) connected to each other, but all instances of one server application are also connected to all instances of all the other server applications.
Imagine you're on Twitter. But your new friend is on Facebook. You can't follow a Facebook user on Twitter, and you can't follow a Twitter user on Facebook.
In the Fediverse, you can. You can be on Twitter. And follow a Facebook user. Directly from Twitter. Without a Facebook account.
Only that they aren't named Twitter and Facebook in the Fediverse. Twitter is named Mastodon or Pleroma or Akkoma or Misskey or Calckey or Firefish or Iceshrimp or Sharkey or Catodon or... There are dozens of Twitter alternatives in the Fediverse. Well, and Facebook is named Friendica or Hubzilla or (streams) or Forte.
You can be on Mastodon. And you can follow Friendica accounts. From Mastodon. Without a Friendica account.
This comment is a very good example. You are on Mastodon, created by @Eugen Rochko in 2016 as an alternative to Twitter that aimed to be as close to Twitter as possible.
The server that you're on, mastodon.social, is owned by Mastodon, Inc. and running on one or multiple rack servers in San Francisco, California, USA owned by Fastly.
I am on Hubzilla, created by @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ in 2012 by forking his own Friendica from 2010, and currently mainly maintained by @Mario Vavti and @Harald Eilertsen. Hubzilla has got nothing to do with Mastodon whatsoever. It started out as an alternative to Facebook, but not a clone, rather better than Facebook, with full-blown long-form blogging capability and a built-in file storage, and it has been enhanced greatly in functionality even beyond that.
The server that I'm on, Netzgemeinde, is owned and administered by @Mark Nowiasz, who has no affiliation with the Hubzilla developers, and running on a rack server in Nuremberg, Germany owned by Netcup.
And yet, you can see this comment coming from Hubzilla on Mastodon.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Server #Instance #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #Catodon #Meisskey #Tanukey #Neko #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Owncast #Lemmy #/kbin #Mbin #PieFed #BookWyrm #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse