Fediverse

A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.

The FediForum Unconference is facing backlash and speakers pulling out in the face of public bigoted comments.

List of instances: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

Piefed has a few nice features that Lemmy and Mbin lack

• instance blocking
• comments combination, posts only appear once
• keyword filter
• topics (admin-managed feeds)
• user-managed feeds, public and private
• ability to reduce the amount of Trump and Musk content

It doesn't have an app yet, but it's in progress

At the moment, it only has 352 monthly active users, so it seems like people aren't very interested in it yet

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

Is this the lack of app, or is there anything else?

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59352893

app.wafrn.net is the original instance.

Wafrn is a tumblr-like fediverse software. Its extremely underrated, and it has bluesky support.

Snac (AKA Snac2) is a minimal microblogging ActivityPub instance written in C.

Features (from its Codeberg repo):

• Lightweight, minimal dependencies
• Extensive support of ActivityPub operations, e.g. write public notes, follow users, be followed, reply to the notes of others, admire wonderful content (like or boost), write private messages...
• Multiuser
• Mastodon API support, so Mastodon-compatible apps can be used
• Simple but effective web interface
• Easily-accessed MUTE button to silence morons
• Tested interoperability with related software
• No database needed
• Totally JavaScript-free
• No cookies either
• Not much bullshit

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/38239

What are we going to do about it?

Sorry for the Google Translate Link. An easy alternative is much appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/18485419

It seems like this isn't an easy problem to solve without lots of money to pay for hosting.. but I had the thought recently, what if a video heavy fediverse platform was designed from the ground up with the intention that people were going to remix video content and that those remixes/tweaks could be saved and transferred across the network as modifications of a pre-existing large video file instead of needing to copy the entire video file onto to some valuable and scarce storage again just to slightllllyyy tweak it?

For some content you might not even need to create a new copy of the video file at all, not even a clip, the "new video" could just be specific instructions for how to playback portions of the original video file with certain additions/tweaks.

I know this is abstract, but I think there might be something to treating the way certain videos and concepts become "meme-ified" as a logical and natural way to structure intelligent minimization of unnecessary data use. A "montage" from a livestream or long video could just be a series of playback instructions for a pre-existing video file or video files with some tweaks and additions like text overlays or different audio.

It would have lots of practical benefits too, say a professor uploaded a video and needed to make a correction to a small part of the video where she stated something incorrect in her lecture. If the edit to the video involved her creating a "new video" that just had instructions to this hypothetical video player to play the original lecture video and then insert a brief new video segment with the correction (or just several frames of a textbox with the correction), or to just simply cut that section of the video from the playback with a simple fade... might that be a much quicker process than creating an entire new video file and re-uploading it and better than just settling for a comment in the video overlay/in the video description?

shrugs I know it is just a vague idea but has anybody tried something like this? (in practice maybe it would look something like a really simple video editor built into a youtube-like interface?).

A very simple example of this for picture memes would be a meme creation and sharing fediverse software where each meme format was only ever represented by one picture on the server, and every meme created of that type was just vector graphics style instructions for how to overlay text on that image. You could store a massssive amount of memes with a tiny tiny tiny amount of storage space right?

https://mastodon.social/@rustfoundation/114201416943539071

https://github.com/idunnololz/summit

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27182706

At the time of writing Summit for Lemmy should be completely open source.

After a lot of contemplation I've decided to open source the app. There are still some changes that probably need to happen before it can be considered "FOSS" but this is a huge step I think.

As I'm voiced my opinions on this previously, the main repository for Summit will not be to the public for PRs. If you encounter bugs or have any feature requests please continue to send them through the proper channels (ideally to this community).

Enjoy~~

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Ghost enables ActivityPub for paid users.