Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)
Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.
A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members (wedistribute.org)
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
A Crash Course Guide to Nostr (wedistribute.org)
Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US (wedistribute.org)
Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration (wedistribute.org)
PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be (wedistribute.org)
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Um, yay?
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
We're Hosting Our Own Fediverse Instance. Here's Why. (wedistribute.org)
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)
After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)
After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)
Artemis was stopped in its tracks because the source code hasn’t been released, and the app is only set to work with Artemis Camp. The two workarounds used to get the project going have taken a turn for the worse, because all of Artemis development depends on one person, and one server
Spoutible Introduces Cross-Posting to Mastodon and Bluesky (wedistribute.org)
Last Week in the Fediverse: Episode 46 (wedistribute.org)
“Lemmy gives their developer update on the work they have been doing in the last 2 weeks. Lemmy is preparing for their new release, v0.19, and the lemmy.ml server is already running the update. One of the changes is a new sorting algorithm, scaled sorting, that gives more visibility to smaller communities on Lemmy.”
Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance? (wedistribute.org)
Firefish *Could* Be the Next Big Thing (wedistribute.org)
italics mine
Bluesky Continues Rapid Growth, Reaches Federation Milestone (wedistribute.org)
How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish (wedistribute.org)
BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)
Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…...