In 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) and its cross-posts, quite a few people said things like "maybe racism is a problem on Mastodon, but I don't see it on Lemmy." Then again, plenty of comments in the various threads were in fact examples of racism on Lemmy, so one takeaway is that at lot of people don't see racism even when they're looking at it. And helpful commenters pointed out some of the other patterns of racism on Lemmy. ... but that wasn't really the thrust of that discussion.

So I wanted to ask more generally, what are some of the examples you've seen of racism on Lemmy? Quotes and links are great, but also feel free just to describe examples or call out more general patterns!

This week's news:

• @mmasnick joins Bluesky's Board of Directors
• @bonfire shows some more information on Mosaic, another project of Bonfire, and puts out bounties for developers to help get to a 1.0 release
• A platform for football fans with CollabFC
• 3d printing platform @manyfold has added early #activitypub support

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Context: Reddit made a few controversial annoucements, feel free to have a look at [email protected]

For people wanting to discuss why some people focus on Lemmy's growth, here is a recent thread from [email protected] :

• https://lemmy.ca/post/26542837
• https://lemmy.world/post/18403382

https://shop.fediverse.events

hi, i'm the guy that ran Canvas (on an alt) and I was suggested to post it here to get more traction

(i was having federation issues posting from my main account @[email protected])

(shop.fediverse.events redirects to sc07.shop)

i'm selling Canvas 2024 and Canvas 2023 posters with various instance stickers (with proceeds going to the respective instances)

poster sales will go to funding Canvas and any other Fediverse Events :)

instances participating in the sale (stickers):

• mastodon.world
• lemmy.world
• blahaj.zone
• toot.community
• toast.ooo 🍞
• Canvas 2024 (although not an instance, still a sticker available lol)

posters will next ship out August 15th (or around then) & should ship to most countries

international shipping is a pain and can get expensive fast, prices also fluctuate, so if your country isn't listed or you want me to check the shipping costs again, feel free to message me on Matrix, or Discord (grahhnt) or via Email ([email protected])

it'd also be cool to sell more fediverse related things to help with projects or instances or whatnot, so if you have an idea for something, shoot me an email :)

what is/was canvas?

Canvas is a yearly event that is similar to Reddit's r/Place event, except for the Fediverse!

Last year it was limited to just Lemmy, but this year it was extended to the entire Fediverse (sorry if this is your first time hearing about this, it's a bit hard to get the event out there, even with the month long notice)

Canvas 2024 ran from July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC til July 16th @ 4am UTC (72 hours + 24 hours) (it was extended due to a massive performance issue that caused major downtime)

The community can be found at [email protected] -- WeDistribute article

pro tip: if you're getting a poster, adding stickers won't change the shipping costs! (same with adding an additional poster)

So my understanding is that KBin.social is now gone from the internet for the indefinite future. Ernest, who meant well, simply could not keep up with the demands due to his personal life and the development issues that were cropping up all the time. Let me get ahead of any replies and say that it's perfectly reasonable to shut down a large instance if it's taking up your time and money or becoming a burden on your personal life. Personal health should always come before a bunch of random dudes/dudettes that happen to be on the internet. Additionally, it's a good reminder that developing software while also maintaining a large instance probably isn't a good idea and that you should probably make sure you're taking a reasonable amount of work off your plate.

But I can't help but feel like there's another story here regarding the potential risks of the fediverse: Admins need to be ready to migrate ownership to others who are willing to take on the financial or user account management burden. Additionally, there should be a larger focus on community migration features for more flexibility to sudden instance losses.

I managed a community that had partially migrated to Kbin after the great reddit exodus last year and managed to continue to admin said community up until a few months ago when Kbin's service became very very spotty. I understood Ernests' particular dilemma so I was willing to give it a month or two to figure out what actions I needed to take to migrate the community again, but enough time has passed now that I am no longer confident that Kbin will return to even a read-only, moderator only state. This means that whatever community I had there is now completely out of my control and the users might not know why posts have stopped entirely. Basically, I have to start from the ground up which might be OK but I'm not particularly keen to start it all over right now.

So this is basically a plea to the admins out there: If you are having trouble with management and need to stop, could you please give the community a vocal heads up so that whatever subcommunity happens to form on your site has some means of migrating? Additionally, software out there should have more policies for community migration, whether that's lemmy or mbin, as we never know when it might be necessary to migrate to a new domain under different ownership. Lastly, if there's an option to give ownership to others in the community, please consider it as it would really help the fediverse if admins were willing to migrate domain and databases to other users who are willing to carry the torch.

That's it from me for now, thanks for reading this minor rant. 🤙

The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.

This post can reach not only #Mastodon & the #Fediverse, but beyond like #Bluesky. How far can it go? I have built a tool to aggregate, with what software and from which instance it is boosted (or faved). Please share far, to show where you're seeing this.

(Let's see, if this works)

This post can reach not only #Mastodon & the #Fediverse, but beyond like #Bluesky. How far can it go? I have built a tool to aggregate, with what software and from which instance it is boosted (or faved). Please share far, to show where you're seeing this.

(Let's see, if this works)

This post can reach not only #Mastodon & the #Fediverse, but beyond like #Bluesky. How far can it go? I have built a tool to aggregate, with what software and from which instance it is boosted (or faved). Please share far, to show where you're seeing this.

Edit: This URL works, please boost there 👇
https://fedia.io/m/fediverse/p/645161/This-post-can-reach-not-only-Mastodon-and-amp-the-Fediverse

Video link min 22:18 (YT) | Link Invidious

"(...) what is there on the internet that is like ye olden times where you know, you go on, you make a free account, it's everything goes?"

"The Fediverse. I think would be the closest."

Hello! What is the best alternative to Telegram channels in Fediverse? I need platform where I can post messages in different topics and users can subscribe to them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25357952

I saw this and thought this would be useful in noticing and analyzing trends across the web and fediverse in specific. Which could help with noticing and finding disinformation.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

Full toot

If you follow any of the #GoToSocial developers you've probably seen this going around already, but 0.17.0 of #GoToSocial will be the first release that includes interaction policies, aka reply-controls.

In the first iteration of this feature, you'll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.

So for example, you will be able to create Public posts that can only be replied to by your followers and people you follow, or unlisted posts that nobody can reply to or like, etc.

GoToSocial interaction policies will be a superset of other reply control proposals created elsewhere (and already implemented by softwares like Pixelfed and Peertube), so your GoToSocial instance should recognize interaction restrictions set not only by other GoToSocial instances, but by Pixelfed and Peertube as well.

If you're interested in reading about how this will work on a protocol level, you can take a look at the documentation here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/posts/#interaction-policy

Please note that this feature is not 100% finished yet, and may be subject to change before release. We're aware of where the headaches and difficulties are, so please don't reply to this post griping about them; we already know (and this instance is still running on 0.16.0 so no interaction policies yet).

Thanks for reading :)

And yes, they are compatible with Lemmy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15011909

Feedback welcome! Here's the TL;DR list

1. Listen more to more Black people
2. Post less – and think before you post
3. Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
4. Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects

Other suggestions?

Looks like it's still in the planning stages. But looks like a cool project.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900

[Transphobia Warning] Nutomic’s Stance on Transgender People

And from lemmy.world?

Initiated by https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman

Updated! Updates are shown in quote text like this. Some scores are updated following app updates.

An Apps Experiment

Cross-posted from https://lemmy.world/post/18159531

Introduction

This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I've seen a lot of comments recently about one app or another not displaying something right. Lemmy has been around for a while now and can no longer be considered an experimental platform.

Lemmy and the apps that people use to access the platform have become an important part of people’s lives. Whether you are checking the app weekly or daily, and whether you use it to stay up on the news or to stay connected to your hobby, it’s important that it works. I hope that this helps people to see the extent of the challenge, and encourages developers to improve their apps, too.

How I did it

I wanted to investigate objectively how accurately each app displays text of posts and comments using the standard Lemmy markdown. Markdown is a standard part of the Lemmy platform, but not all apps handle it the same. It is basically what gives text useful formatting.

I used the latest release of each app, but did not include pre-releases. I only included apps that have released an update in the last 6 months, which should include most apps in active development. ~~I was unable to test iOS-exclusive apps, so they are not included either. In all, 16 apps met the inclusion criteria.~~

I also added Eternity, which is in active development, although it has not had a recent update. I was able to include several iOS apps thanks to testing from @[email protected] – Thanks, Jordan! This made for 20 apps that were tested.

Each app was rated in 5 categories: Text, Format, Spoilers, Links, and Images. I chose these mostly based on the wonderful Markdown Guide from @[email protected], which was posted about a year ago in [email protected] (here).

I checked whether each app correctly displayed each category, then took the overall average. Each category was weighted equally. Text includes italic, bold, strong, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript. Format includes block quotes, lists, code (block and inline), tables, and dividers. Spoilers includes display of hidden, expandable spoilers. Links includes external links, username links, and community links. Images included embedded images, image references, and inline images.

Thanks to input from others, I also added a test to see if lemmy hyperlinks opened in-app. There was a problem with using the SFFA Community Guide that caused some apps to be essentially penalized twice because there was formatting inside formatting, so I created this TEST POST to more clearly and fairly measure each app.

In each case, I checked whether the display was correct based on the rules for Lemmy Markdown, and consistent with the author’s intent. In cases where the app recognized the tag correctly but did not display it accurately, that was treated as a fail.

Results

Out of a possible perfect 10, 6 apps displayed all markdown correctly:

Alexandrite - 10.0

Connect - 10.0

Jerboa (Official Android client) - 10.0

Photon - 10.0

Summit - 10.0

Voyager - 10.0

Quiblr - 9.5

Arctic - 9.3

Interstellar - 9.1

Lemmuy-UI - 9.0

Thunder - 8.9

Tesseract - 8.6

mlmym - 8.0

Racoon - 7.6

Boost - 7.3

Eternity - 7.0

Lemmios - 6.9

Sync - 6.9

Lemmynade - 6.1

Avelon - 5.7

More details of testing here

Sometimes I like to browse Mastodon just to see what's going on, especially when breaking news is happening (similar to how twitter used to be useful for). I don't have any interest in posting or commenting or boosting or anything, I just want to browse. I'm currently just using mastodon.social as a PWA and it works ok I guess, but I'm wondering if there are any android apps that will allow me to browse Mastodon without requiring a login.

I tried looking at a bunch of Mastodon apps about a year ago and every app would start with a login page and wouldn't let me proceed until I logged in. Is that still the case? Or are there any apps that will let me browse anonymously without logging in first?

I will say, this is one thing I love about Lemmy over Mastodon. Every Lemmy app I've tried defaults to anonymous browsing but still has the option to login if you want. This makes it so much easier to try out multiple Lemmy apps to see which one I like best.