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I write a weekly newsletter about the ATmosphere, a weekly newsletter about the fediverse, as well as the background articles on the networks.
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FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
on how @altstore, Tangled and npmx.dev are using open social networking protocols to build, distribute, and discover software, and how the most important part is not the code but the community building part
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr157-social-software-distribution/
@fediversereport Good overview as usual.
One point I would have added is that, while Mastodon announced this Share button a while back, a “pure” ActivityPub-based way to expose share URLs and similar features exists in FEP-3b86 (https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/3b86/) and has also been gaining prominence recently (c.f. the list of implementations).
For example, ActivityPub for WordPress published its v8.0.0 today, which includes new “Like” and “Share” buttons that use this proposal.
new from me: FR#156 - Share Where?
on @Mastodon 's new Share button, the Mastodon API and protocol ownership
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116092951019058045
this builds on last week's article about Where Does Community Live? That article was the theoretical basis, and here Im showing how the news in practice relates to that
FR#155 - Where Does Community Live - updates
a whole bunch of news from across the fediverse and the atmosphere, from the launch of toot.wales own app to the new Dutch ministers posting on Mastodon, to this week's FediMTL conference in Montreal
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr155-where-does-community-live-updates/
RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116065080142081016
The results are in: the community wants #HolosDiscover back. So we'll be bringing it back.
Source code will be reopened and the service restored from a clean slate as all data was deleted when we shut it down.
We've also heard the concerns and will work on making the opt-out process even more visible.
new from me: FR#154 - Search and Community
@HolosSocial shut down their fediverse search engine, over concerns that some users have the flag for being indexable turned on without consciously enabling it.
If the consent flag Holos relied on frequently doesn't represent consent, that's a problem, because Mastodon's FASP project relies on the same.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr154-search-and-community/
new from me - Where Does Community Live?
A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web
new from me: FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr153-what-does-a-discord-replacement-look-like/
new from me: FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr153-what-does-a-discord-replacement-look-like/
Julian Fietkau
Fedilab Apps
