Bookmarks tagged Fediverse

Meta has entered the Fediverse. This is their FAQ Guide for users interested in what it means. Note it branches off to many other areas as well.

One of the most comprehensive guides demonstrating the tools end users have for moderation and reporting on Mastodon instances.

Nice little client side generator for creating OAUTH tokens for Mastodon API compatible fediverse instances.

A guide to the current advanced search operators available in Mastodon 4.2 and above.

This site allows you to test webfinger responses from various fediverse sites.

From 2018 - We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from and the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame. Why it’s probably not going anywhere.

This week Evan Prodromou is back to take us deeper into the Fediverse. As many of us reconsider our relationship with Twitter, Mastodon has been by-and-large the target of migration. They helped to popularize the idea of a federated universe of community-owned, decentralized, social networks. And, at the heart of it all is ActivityPub.

Evan is one of the co-editors of ActivityPub and has spent more than 15 years working on distributed social network protocols. He ran an open-source social project called StatusNet, formerly chaired the W3C working group on Social Web standards, and is now the Director of Open Technology at Open Earth, where he builds digital architecture to scale climate action.

In this exciting episode, Matt Prewitt speaks with the inquisitive and captivating Christine Lemmer-Webber, who is CTO of the Spritely Institute and whose lifelong work focuses on advocating user freedom.

Chris Messina (the inventor of the hashtag) talks to the Podnews Weekly Review's Sam Sethi about ActivityPub and his work on its predecessor; podcast:txt, the person tag, and more.