Jon Leibowitz @[email protected]

Shameless plug, I've written a chapter about Mastodon, content moderation, Gab, the Fediverse, and this phenomenon for an upcoming book published by UMD. And here's a video about it, complete with 🎵animation! 🎵

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966

#fediblock #isolatetrump

Mozilla has announced a grant of up to $30,000 "to people and projects that illuminate how to reimagine data in a way that shifts power away from big tech platforms and toward individuals and communities."

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/imagining-better-data-stewardship-mozilla-opens-call-for-creative-media-awards/

One of the questions I am asked at the #Eunomia meeting, are there any politicians/journalists using Mastodon? Help me out

Please send me handles of politicians/journalists who are active on Mastodon

[BREAKING] Leaked Facebook emails reveal "number one threat" to its platform: decentralized platforms.

#FediverseNewsNetwork

For Christmas I wish the fediverse to grow, and Facebook to die

✔ Overview of recent #ActivityPub projects

• Ocelot Social - social and knowledge network for active citizenship: https://github.com/Ocelot-Social-Community/Ocelot-Social

• Dharma - community-building platform for Eve Online corporations: https://github.com/cjslep/dharma

• Vagabond - social network built with security and privacy in mind: https://github.com/CameronWhiteCS/Vagabond

• hvxahv - multifunctional network based on AP, ipfs and Matrix protocols: https://github.com/disism/hvxahv

For all projects visit:
https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous |
https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps

Twitter has publicly launched their #Bluesky discord and theres ton of people joining it right now cause it was just boosted by Jack. I got them to set up a #fediverse channel and many folks are there discussing the fediverse in relation to the future of twitter. I think its important to make our voices heard there, whatever they may be. Right now there are way too many crypto people trying to push that direction. Come along for a ride!

https://discord.com/invite/YmrHBhCuFa

And yes I know, there's a lot of fediverse skepticism for BlueSky, and yes, I have my own skepticism, but skepticism does not mean that good things won't happen, just that it will be a hard fight to make good things happen. I like Jay a lot and think she is very thoughtful (she's the one that did the overview report, and that was definitely a very good document), so I am cautiously hopeful. But this is something best demonstrated by doing so we will see.

We've also submitted it to Product Hunt 😃

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mastodon-for-ios