#social-web — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #social-web, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://berlin.social/@kingconsult/117166395023066308
Only 5 weeks left to apply:
Will the @EUCommission 🇪🇺 fund a project for a european youth-friendly publicly-owned #SocialMedia platform?
What will it look like? Who will build it? 🤔
#Eurosky #Fediverse #Mastodon #ATProto #ATmospehre #OSWA #OpenSocialWeb #2MR #Youth #SocialWeb
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It's hard for me to believe that very geeky people and those who have been online forever think that posts you can ignore here and never see (thanks to decentralization and no algos), are a bigger deterrent to adoption than obviously unwanted replies (even if you agree with the person making the annoying or worse comment) and not knowing which parts of the network you'll be able to access.
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I've never plugged anything other than my own books before. But after I released my book GOOSE CREEK HOLLER, Goose Creek Candle Company kept popping up in searches. OMG. The best candles, easy shopping, perfect shipping. My new go-to for birthday gifts. Now, if they would only plug my book, ha! #candles #goosecreek #goosecreekcandlecompany #goosecreekholler #mastodon #video #video #gifts #gift #pillsbury #fragrances #scent #sophiajanehayden #author #authors #authorLife #commerce #businessgrowth #businessnews #retail #retailtherapy #bought #economic #price #ShopIndy #indieAuthor #indie #indieAuthors #fediverse #socialnetwork #socialweb #bookstodon #bookTok #books #bookReview #writersCoffeeClub #writer #writers #monday
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1.2M people joined 2.1K Pixelfed servers and shared over 55M photos and videos!
Legit can't believe it sometimes.
Never give up and keep building, homies ❤️
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I know my "federate with everybody except trolls" norm for fedi comes off as weird, but I haven't heard a good argument. especially when I then ask what social media should our nice conservative family members use. people just want to say fuck Nazis (cause yes it feels good) and virtue signal by opposing all conservatives here. except doing so helps the bad guy army grow IRL.
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I feel the hidden question of the #poll is: Given the #technology base exists, can you just code against it at will? I.e. the tech #ethics question is asked. Where on one end of the spectrum we find the techbro / fossbro, and on the other end of the spectrum we are still learning what we should have there as an alternative to make a social web be social and keep it that way. As "social web" technology by itself offers zero guarantee of that.
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Decided to hop on https://fedihood.social and see what it's like. Seems like a fun concept! Those of you who feel comfortable joining totally should (you can use a pseudonymous acct if you like).
It seems to be largely lacking in users still. I would love to see this thing take off in a real way!
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Wow, what a year it's been, and it's only August. We moved houses, and sold our home of 25 years. I retired, and now spend more time photographing than in the 19880s when I started. (I was a much more loose canon in those days.) An inheritance had a lovely upside, I got to buy a mirrorless digital camera, the kind I've been dreaming about for 15 to 20 years. I've been so busy I have neglected all my online activities except for flickr and a bit of Tumblr.
Let's see how the rest of the year pans out.
https://daftsocial.com/s2art/
#SocialWeb #flickr #Tumblr #pixelfedau #daftsocial #microblogging #Neofinder #AffintyPhoto -
What if it had been a big news day? Journalism on fedi instead of #bluesky would mean they'd all be on their own organization's servers. Like @mondoweiss or the @TexasObserver.
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As week or so ago, I cut off 98% of Facebook and Instagram usage (I had fallen back into the habit due to needing to advertise something).
The biggest change has been how much more engaged I've been here + how much a better experience I've had!
No longer passively consuming, but instead producing, sharing, and chatting!
#socialMedia #mastodon #socialWeb #fediverse #instagram #Facebook
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Wanting strong moderation on wannabe monopoly corporate social media platforms makes sense. They have a huge influence on society by deciding what to promote.
But we would never demand that from the open web. Being decentralized and lacking algos, there is no controlling it and it possesses no power to push anything in front of anyone. We wouldn't say there should be limits on who you link to or what sites a browser could reach.
Fedi admins don't understand this distinction.
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Here is a #FeaturedServer for 🌎 Earth, 🦎 Earthlings, and their ⚖️ Advocates...
Earth.Law is for:
📜 Environmental lawyers & policy-makers
🦋 Conservationists & ecologists
🔬 Scientists in related fields
📚 Educators and students of environmental studies
🎤 Activists & advocates♻️ Hosted on a dedicated server in 🇫🇮 Helsinki and recognised by the Green Web Foundation for using renewable energy.
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Free idea:
A Fediverse/Social Web front-end for YouTube. Kill the algorithm and the front page. You make an account on an instance, and that server handles delivering videos for you to click on.
They *could* do this in any way they want, but let's be honest, the best way to do it would be via community sharing. You can "boost" videos, and then all your followers can see those videos. You just follow people who tend to like the same kinds of videos as you. You can also directly follow the people you're subscribed to (like, the YouTube channel, not a Fediverse account), and get a consistent feed of all their uploads.
The people running it wouldn't need to handle hosting video content. They just cache metadata, and it should theoretically be quite similar to running a Mastodon instance. You don't even need to have a video player, you can just have a link that sends you to the official YouTube site.
Does this already exist? Last I heard, YouTube has pretty good support still for their APIs that let people do this kind of stuff.
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“…the World Wide Web Consortium ( #W3C ) formally re-chartered the #SocialWeb Working Group (2026–2028). At the top of its agenda is a standard designed to make server #migration seamless: #LOLA (Live, #OnlinePortability ).
In this article, we examine how the LOLA specification works, why seamless account #portability is the missing pillar of the #openweb, and how it compares to alternative models like the AT Protocol's Personal Data Servers ( #PDS ).”
https://opensocialbiz.com/articles/right-to-leave-w3c-lola-fediverse-account-migration -
Today we're sharing additional guidelines about our Trade Mark Policy based on community feedback that we received.
The new guidelines, and more background about these changes, are available on our blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediDev #MastoDev #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin
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Finally, a special shout out and thank you to @neil - as well as the other friend who wished to remain anonymous - for their assistance with shaping these guidelines!
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Hey friends, it's me again :blobfoxwave:
We have more news to share today, though I must admit, this news is a little less fun.
Recently, the @Mastodon team received a fair number of questions about our trade mark policy. We realised we could add some guidelines to help make the Policy more clear, so over the last few months, we did just that! I'll post a "plain English" version of the guidelines as a comment.
You can read more background about the changes we made, and see the guidelines themselves, in this blog post:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/And the trade mark policy page is updated too:
https://joinmastodon.org/trademark -
I have exciting news to share!! :mastodondance:
It looks like we're finally gearing up to start migrating people over into @Mastodon's new @zulip instance for certain parts of our community next week (#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediDev #Mod etc.)! It has been a long time in the making and I'm sorry for the delay, but I'm so glad we're finally going to start getting people in there <3 We'll start by beta testing with a few individuals next week to make sure everything is ready for a larger wave of people to join <3 <3
More on #DefaultServerRecommendations soon too — stay tuned!
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Elon, or data sovereignty, will never work. It never did, so why are you still using the same approach 20 years later?
Want to make a dent against walled gardens? Get Pacific-Asia into the open #SocialWeb.
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The point is, the open #SocialWeb is not tapping the proper crowd. The largest SNS / Social Media crowd is in Pacific-Asia (CJKM, ASEAN).
You can only reach this crowd by sponsoring Kdramas, Jdramas, Cdramas, Pdramas / Teleresyes, Tdrama / ThaiDramas, and so on.
Talking about privacy, Meta, -
Here's yet another way.
Bluesky PBC, or someone with funds, should buy PPL (Product Placement) spots in popular Kdramas.
Watch how the ATmosphere network, and the open Social Web in general, grows.
#ATmosphere #SocialWeb #Bluesky -
Bluesky PBC, or someone else with funds, should partner/sponsor a Korean celebrity and their fandom to produce ATmosphere exclusive content.
Watch how the ATmosphere network, and open Social Web in general, will grow.
#ATmosphere #SocialWeb #Bluesky -
Invite links to the ATmosphere network should be restored but gamified.
It could be:
- Various levels of titles/achievements
- Some cool feature (unlock emoji reactions perhaps)
- Free 7 days pro to a user's choice of Standard site platform
- 7 days access to @[email protected] Premium -
My advice to new activitypub devs:
- be bold: ship what big tech won't.
- consent first: opt in, never opt out.
- keep evolving: your v1 federation code will be wrong, and that's fine.
- federate the future: interop over lock in, every time.8 years in and I still come back to these.
