bibbasaYSK about Bubbles, a Federated Hackernews-like Link Aggregator for General Blogging
Tom's BookmarksBlasta
"A federated PubSub bookmarking system for XMPP.
Blasta is a collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content. It allows you to add links to your personal collection of links, to categorize them with keywords, and to share and synchronize your collection among your own software, devices, machines, and also with others. The ability of Blasta to display to you the links that other people have collected and shared, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific link is what makes Blasta a collaborative system. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you deem to be interesting. Blasta does not limit you to save links of certain types; you can save links of types adc, dweb, ed2k, feed, ftp, gemini, geo, gopher, http, ipfs, irc, magnet, mailto, monero, mms, news, sip, udp, xmpp and any scheme and type that you desire."
"A federated PubSub bookmarking system for XMPP.
Blasta is a collaborative bookmarks manager for organizing online content. It allows you to add links to your personal collection of links, to categorize them with keywords, and to share and synchronize your collection among your own software, devices, machines, and also with others. The ability of Blasta to display to you the links that other people have collected and shared, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific link is what makes Blasta a collaborative system. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you deem to be interesting. Blasta does not limit you to save links of certain types; you can save links of types adc, dweb, ed2k, feed, ftp, gemini, geo, gopher, http, ipfs, irc, magnet, mailto, monero, mms, news, sip, udp, xmpp and any scheme and type that you desire."
Simona [has moved]Ok, I still have to understand exactly how Lemmy works, but in less then a hour of random surfing I found so many interesting discussions and information! 🤯
How do you use it yourself? What community/instance did you join (or plan on joining) and why?
🔁 Boost for research purposes appreciated. Grazie!
melroyMbin v1.8.1 released
Mbin v1.8.1 released #mbin #update #release #fediverse #software #php #symfony #federated #microblogging #activitypub #link-aggregator #updates
Mbin release v1.7.4
Mbin release v1.7.4 #mbin #version #new #fediverse #threadiverse #link-aggregator #updates
Frontpage.fyi
Federated link-aggregator for atproto (bluesky's protocol)
Federated link-aggregator for atproto (bluesky's protocol)
Mima-samaTbh I think the #Threadiverse like #Lemmy and #kbin would make a lot more sense if they were simply frontends and perhaps a backend too but just for the forums themselves. IOW, no accounts live in Lemmy or kbin, all users post from their preferred #fediverse account instead.
Sure you can already technically do that from your #Mastodon or #Misskey or whatever fedi you're in, but that means using whatever app you're on right now, which almost certainly means it's not a #linkaggregator UI. Not ideal at all.
If I had any good programming skills I'd make it so that the link aggregator is merely a client that uses the Mastodon (with #Pleroma extensions too) and Misskey APIs, treat (almost) all #ActivityPub actors as their own forums or subs, and each post would be a boost from said actor. Users authenticate from their preferred fedi account. Voting would be tallied by few special actors, which internally receive votes via direct messages (the app will make this transparent, but this also means you can technically vote without the app if you know the exact command), which will effectively make votes secret to non-admins like in #Reddit. Users can also choose which vote counters they want to rely from.
This would make the fediverse-powered link aggregator very flexible and minimal, imo. It may look janky but that's the general idea I have. :seija_coffee:
RE: https://mementomori.social/users/owen/statuses/112285464236904945
Sure you can already technically do that from your #Mastodon or #Misskey or whatever fedi you're in, but that means using whatever app you're on right now, which almost certainly means it's not a #linkaggregator UI. Not ideal at all.
If I had any good programming skills I'd make it so that the link aggregator is merely a client that uses the Mastodon (with #Pleroma extensions too) and Misskey APIs, treat (almost) all #ActivityPub actors as their own forums or subs, and each post would be a boost from said actor. Users authenticate from their preferred fedi account. Voting would be tallied by few special actors, which internally receive votes via direct messages (the app will make this transparent, but this also means you can technically vote without the app if you know the exact command), which will effectively make votes secret to non-admins like in #Reddit. Users can also choose which vote counters they want to rely from.
This would make the fediverse-powered link aggregator very flexible and minimal, imo. It may look janky but that's the general idea I have. :seija_coffee:
RE: https://mementomori.social/users/owen/statuses/112285464236904945
Owen (@[email protected])
To make clear at the start: I do not intend to denigrate anyone with this post, or anyone's efforts. I have a genuine question which has puzzled me since I first went off to explore Lemmy and Pixelfed. What purpose do people think that they serve in the Fediverse? When I first asked, people told me that Lemmy served as an alternative to Reddit and indeed lemmy.world describes itself as "the World's Internet Frontpage". But Reddit exists solely because of the sheer amount of users it houses. Reddit stands as the poster child for user-generated content whereas lemmy.world has less than 8K users a day. Pixelfed has a similar very-poor-cousin relationship to Instagram. If you have a keen desire for the world to see your images then Instagram will scratch that itch much better than Pixelfed. Posting your images here might also attract more attention, since the pool of possible viewers seems much, much larger. The biggest group I found on Lemmy? Mastodon.lemmy.world ! I found several posts there like this: "[mastodon] is like making an entire post out of a throwaway comment. That's what I saw on mastodon, didn't choose to participate." At the very least this serves to demonstrate that different people have wildly different experiences on Mastodon because that bears no relationship to my experiences. In the world of Big Tech people start new social media because they think they see a gap in a market, or a way of splitting off some users of a current platform into their all-new shiny silo. Here, though, everything can live alongside everything else, hence my question: what functions do Lemmy, Pixelfed, and others serve that Mastodon doesn't? I think I do understand the function of some projects like Bookwyrm or Funkwhale. They have very specific goals: much more specific than "sharing media" or "discussing in threads", for example, both of which can happen in Mastodon. Their design highlights these differences. I understand that I could well have missed the point completely here, and hence my question. I joined Lemmy and Pixelfed wanting to participate but the level of traffic seemed too low to generate the interaction I had hoped for. Did I look in the wrong places, or did I fail to notice the action, or did I look too early? (When I first joined Mastodon it seemed empty. Now it certainly doesn't.) Let me give a concrete example. I have a fifteen year project for which I take a single photo every day. Should I post it here or on Pixelfed? What difference would it make? Does it matter? And finally, as part of looking into Lemmy I explored a lot of apps. If you like Ice Cubes for Mastodon and want to explore Lemmy then I recommend Artic. #mastodon #lemmy #fediverse #pixelfed #artic
@LemmyDev That #vulnerability was zero-day and immediately exploited leading to at least three very large instances I know of getting unscheduled downtime for a long amount of time, and it took a full 24 hours IIRC for those #Lemmy instances to get their frontends all properly patched up with a release. A #security disaster all preventable if you had just took the #CSP issue that has been there before the exploit a bit more seriously... 
Compare that with #Sharkey's JSON vulnerability which was already mitigated and fixed in no time.
Funnily enough #kbin had a similar #XSS problem too one month before yours. But it didn't lead to that disaster your carelessness in security caused because kbin had a line of defense that didn't break down which is the safe link handling in their #Markdown parser.
You had three chances and you spectacularly failed in all of them! For some elementary security issue every #linkaggregator / #socialmedia dev should know of when dealing with untrusted Markdown input! 
Now if you could kindly piss off with that poor reply that didn't really address anything in my thread, you fucking #tankies. :seija_coffee:
#tankiesfuckoff
@SinclairSpeccy
Compare that with #Sharkey's JSON vulnerability which was already mitigated and fixed in no time.
Funnily enough #kbin had a similar #XSS problem too one month before yours. But it didn't lead to that disaster your carelessness in security caused because kbin had a line of defense that didn't break down which is the safe link handling in their #Markdown parser.
You had three chances and you spectacularly failed in all of them! For some elementary security issue every #linkaggregator / #socialmedia dev should know of when dealing with untrusted Markdown input!
Now if you could kindly piss off with that poor reply that didn't really address anything in my thread, you fucking #tankies. :seija_coffee:
#tankiesfuckoff
@SinclairSpeccy
DanieMbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network
Mbin main page showing list of links with descriptions below them, much like the Reddit or Lemmy sites. Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source […]
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Danie van der MerweMbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network
Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alter ...continues
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