I looked here but none of the options really stood out to me

• I am looking to both view and create English videos
• Preferably with a high amount of storage allowed per user
• No opinion on 'Sensitive videos' (Is this referring to pornography?)
• I don't plan to do livestreams

I just started my own Lemmy instance, and it looks to be mostly working.

The problem that I have is that the communities I went through the process of subscribing to only display up to 50 threads and no comments.

This looks like something I've seen on other servers, so I'm wondering what could be causing it and how to fix it.

ChatGPT says something about webfinger and nodeinfo, but I honestly have no idea what any of that is and there's no mention of it in https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/federation_getting_started.html

Just want to make sure, we're currently down for everyone, right? I'm trying to ~~procrastinate on productive stuff I want to do like the AuDHD gremlin I am~~ do totally normal doomscrolling and it seems like the Lemmy instance is down. Other SDF services are active.

If you tried it in the past and had issues, try it again. It's the best ui for using lemmy imo. I had been using arctic for a while but was getting bugs with clicking on notifications not leading me to the correct comment.

The testflight has experimental piefed support, don't think notifications work there yet.

Voyager also has piefed support, and is my second favorite right now. Mlem is also stable, but i'm not a fan of the look no matter how I customize it.

"we should stay weird. unsanitized. unmarketable. for to do otherwise would be to forfeit the very soul of what makes the fediverse so special"

also published at https://vanta.blog/posts/2025-8-14-stay-weird-fedi

Before the fossbros/fediverse elitists comment here, read the article.

Especially these parts:

Some of Bluesky's most innovative and well-developed features are extremely enshittification-resistant, like "composable moderation," which gives users an extraordinary degree of control over their feeds, which means that the service's owners can't readily dial down the amount of desirable information in those feeds in order to create space for ads or posts that someone has paid to boost (or, as is the case with Twitter, the personal maunderings of the service's boss and whichever esoteric fascist crony talked to him last):

https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

What's more, this composable moderation, along with an open API for clients, allows Bluesky (the company) to adhere to its legal obligations to block content, while allowing Bluesky users to sidestep those blocks. For example, Bluesky has a labeling service that flags content that has to be blocked under Turkey's system of authoritarian censorship, and, by default, the Bluesky client blocks anything with that flag for Turkish users. But users can turn off that block, and/or use an alternative Bluesky client that doesn't pay attention to the blocked-in-Turkey flag.

The good news here is that Bluesky has made enormous progress in true federation. The cost of operating a full Bluesky stack has fallen from tens of millions of dollars per year to tens of dollars per month:

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l

This is an extremely welcome development and it goes a long way toward enshittification-proofing the Bluesky service, and some way to enshittification-proofing Bluesky, the company.

But Bluesky, the company, still needs serious work.

Found it to be quite cool and largely unkown.

The dev is interested in others testing to self-host it: https://github.com/cetra3/divedb

Un viaggio nel #Poliverso oltre i #SocialNetwork tradizionali
#fediverso #social @diggita @fediverse @fediverso

https://webappsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/08/un-viaggio-nel-poliverso-oltre-i-social.html

As Matrix is UK based, meaning they're even more exposed than most services?

From the article:

Meeting and beating our obligations under the Online Safety Act

We’re based in the UK, and we’ve engaged productively with the Online Safety Act since its conception.

Building on some initial reports coming from the FediPact account and Dropsite news, we dive into potential measures admins can take for their instances.

Better social media is possible.

In his new book Move Slowly and Build Bridges, Robert W. Gehl tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate with one another.

These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more privacy-respecting social media alternative.

The most notable part of the fediverse is Mastodon. Founded in 2016, Mastodon was positioned as an alternative to Twitter. Like Twitter (or X), Mastodon members can post, like, share, and connect with one another across the world. Unlike Twitter/X, Mastodon can be completely under the control of its members, from how it’s run to its underlying software.

Making a noncentralized, ethically run social media system isn’t easy. The people building the fediverse have faced long hours, burnout, angry debates, and, worst of all, bigotry, death threats, and discrimination. They face constant, nagging doubts: Can we really do this? Can noncentralized social media survive in a world that is used to corporate social media? Can we—all of us—have our own social media?

As Move Slowly and Build Bridges shows us, the answer is yes, but it’s going to take a struggle.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34293577

A fresh update is here! This release brings initial support for PieFed. The PieFed API is still under development, so some features are limited, but here’s what’s new:

• Support for PieFed (limited while the API evolves)
• Notifications for new activity on communities, posts, comments, or users on PieFed
• View topics and feeds

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!

• The SocialHub ActivityPub forum might shut down: the current admin is looking for another team to take over the operation, and it is currently unclear if this will happen
• Meta is likely scraping many fediverse servers, a leaked document alleges
• Mastodon is working on adding Starter Packs

How good of an alternative is it to twitch? I've seen pretty less discussions about it compared to other fediverse platforms

As you've probably seen or heard Dropsitenews has published a list (from a Meta whistleblower) of "the roughly 100,000 top websites and content delivery network addresses scraped to train Meta's proprietary AI models" -- including quite a few fedi sites. Meta denies everything of course, but they routinely lie through their teeth so who knows. In any case, whether the specific details in the report are accurate, it's certainly a threat worth thinking about.

So I'm wondering what defenses fedi admins are using today to try to defeat scrapers: robots.txt, user-agent blocking, firewall-level blocking of ip ranges, Cloudflare or Fastly AI scraper blocking, Anubis, stuff you don't want to disclose ... @deadsuperhero has some good discussion on We Distribute, and it would b e very interesting to hear what various instances are doing.

And a couple of more open-ended questions:

• Do you feel like your defenses against scraping are generally holding up pretty well?

• Are there other approaches that you think might be promising that you just haven't had the time or resources to try?

• Do you have any language in your terms of servive that attempts to prohibit training for AI?

Here's @FediPact's post with a link to the Dropsitenews report and (in the replies) a list of fedi instances and CDNs that show up on the list.

https://cyberpunk.lol/@FediPact/114999480874284493

@fediverse @fediversenews

#MastoAdmin #Meta #FediPact

Bridges like Bridgy-Fed and others can connect Fediverse to interact with Bluesky from their Fediverse account. Bridges are an opt-in which I think its a great thing for privacy. But at the same time, I don't think the majority of Fediverse users who would be interested in using bridges know that they exist.

What I am suggesting is that large Fediverse instances (and Bluesky) encourage and make it easy to use brigdes by having an easy tool to turn on or turn off bridges.

An example situation could be when someone creates an account on mastadon.social, a small pop up shows ups explaining what bridges are in two-three sentences, and has a recommended bridge to use along with a drop down of other options to choose from, and ask it they would like to bridge or not like to bridge.

Well, yes, sounds stupid, but I can't figure out the name of the mod who deleted my message. It looks like it IS possible, but I just don't know how.

There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release.

cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/23155906

Released version 1.0.3 of #FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed. Incredibly minor bugfix release.

• Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
• Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
• Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
• Release notes: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/releases

I'm so excited for the second Fediforum of 2025 in October. The first one earlier this summer was excellent.

Say what you will about what happened earlier in the year with on of the organizers. Johannes has done a good job finding new board members to ensure the Fediforum continues.

!Technology@programming.dev