Out of curiosity, how many hashtags do you all follow without your home timeline becoming too cluttered?

I subscribe specific hashtags to my instance as relays using the excellent #FediBuzz service so this all appears in my federated feed and Home is just for people I follow. Trying to figure out if there's any other ways to view posts optimally.

Appreciate this is a little different for a self hosted instance.

The social media platforms we once relied on for authentic connection are disintegrating. Here's how you can make a difference.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/social-media-2/2025/02/authentic-connection

Okay this is a test. Trying out @openvibe Android app and Nostr. The latter leaves a LOT to be desired, VERY rough and ready. Still, one hopes they are successful. #Federation

It's quiet crazy when you think about it...

There's about 900 people who are following us here, while we're self-hosting our instance(!) I mean.. #Federation works beautifully! #Mastodon is the present and the future. And, that is also possible thanks to the contributors of @yunohost which allows us to host it easily (!).

All this possible thanks to the collective effort of excellent people building commons. We're honored to contribute with our episodes and hope you make great discoveries.

"#Socialmedia seems to have splintered — much like other aspects of the internet have — into separate #fiefdoms, one (or possibly two) for conservatives and right-wing trolls, and another (or possibly two) for the left. Not to mention private Discord groups and other “dark social.”

…the potential for #federation of posts and other content [the Fediverse] is one of the few rays of hope in the current fractured landscape.
@mathewi
https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/06/18/reports-of-blueskys-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/

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Astonishingly Meta are actually federating Threads

In the past I’ve argued that we shouldn’t trust Bluesky or Threads when they claim they will federate their services, opening them up in a way which radically reduces the switching costs for users. Even if the leadership is ideologically committed to this, would investors really let them when they get past the early growth stage which precedes enshittification? As I wrote at the time:

The fact Bluesky has staff with patently good intention and the firm itself is a public benefit corporation doesn’t provide us with grounds to assume they will evade this trend. The problem is that, as Doctorow observes, “The more effort we put into making Bluesky and Threads good, the more we tempt their managers to break their promises and never open up a federation”. If you were a venture capitalist putting millions into Bluesky in the hope of an eventual profit, how would you feel about designing the service in a way that reduces exit costs to near zero? This would mean that “An owner who makes a bad call – like removing the block function say, or opting every user into AI training – will lose a lot of users”. The developing social media landscape being tied in the Generative AI bubble means this example in particular is one we need to take extremely seriously.

I’m astonished therefore that Meta actually seem to be federating Threads, even if this is being done in a way which doesn’t reduce switching costs as radically as might be possible i.e. you’d still leave your network on Threads, it’s just opening up that network across platforms:

To the surprise of some, the company actually followed through. It built features to let Threads users share their posts to the Fediverse, meaning that someone who preferred Mastodon could follow a user on Threads and see that user’s posts in their Mastodon feed. They also enabled Fediverse replies to Threads posts for those who opt in, and let Threads users follow Fediverse accounts.

https://www.platformer.news/threads-fediverse-feed-bluesky-mastodon/?ref=platformer-newsletter

Maybe rather than talking about federating everything on the web, we need to talk about federating what, and how.

In an interview with Simon Vansintjan from Mirlo, he talks about anyone with an account on their platform can create a music blog. It would be great to be able to subscribe to one of those blogs via ActivityPub, and get a notification in nu fediverse account whenever they publish new post.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lorenzosmusic/episodes/Simon-Vansintjan-of-Mirlo---A-Cooperative-Music-Marketplace-e2v2tfe

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→ Linux Foundation Announces the #FAIR Package Manager Project for #OpenSource Content Management System Stability
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-fair-package-manager-project-for-open-source-content-management-system-stability

“Features of [the] project include:
- Eliminates reliance on any single #source […] enabling #federation across the ecosystem […]
- Advances #WordPress’s alignment towards #GDPR to improve #privacy and security […]
- Brings together a fragmented #ecosystem […]
- Builds #security into the supply chain, including improved cryptographic security measures […]”

The #XMPP Newsletter for May 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2025/06/the-xmpp-newsletter-may-2025/

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation

flohmarkt/flohmarkt: federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub - Codeberg.org https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt #activitypub #OpenSource #federation #codeberg #market

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I love #Mastodon for so many reasons. But when it comes to race politics, whew boy. It's clear many still view yourselves as the default. It's like a stench. And POCs can smell it a mile away. That's why there aren't many here.

Mastodon is uniquely uniformed on race but is the most confident of the contrary. It's a dangerous mix. Race is our achilles heel. A small group of bad actors could tear this place apart in a weekend

This #federation will never survive unless we fix this

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