I write the Fediverse Report, a news site about what is happening in the fediverse.
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Last Notes npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof public group chats on #nostr npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Linux is such an unserious ass OS npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Piefed is considering getting good interop/federation working with mobilizon. Posting events into link-aggregator communities would be cool! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof "Now, Bluesky says it has seen a 60% jump in general activity from accounts in the UK, with several MPs also joining the platform recently." npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Social web observations: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof oh god i just saw this on farcaster. jesus everything about this is bad, the incorrect attributions, the screenshot-ceptionlayers, lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four." npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Last Week in Fediverse - ep 78 npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof I think a significant part of real-time news events that is currently still being discussed via microblogging platforms will probably move towards predication market platforms npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i did it, i found the peak of mastodon reply guy culture. and its complaining that "you should be able to opt out of being able to seeing all the replies to a post, because mastodon's current functionality where half the replies to posts are not visible due to badly implemented federation is good, actually" npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof but that a 1500 word post from a 500 followers account can get just as much engagement than the link to the post by a 7k follower account is super fascinating to me, and I think few people are aware of this effect yet, and the implications of it npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof If you compare comments on the post about The Conversation AU stopping using Mastodon, versus the engagement on the large majority of their regular posts (2 or less likes), than it seems to me that a lot of people are mainly interested in having news outlets here as a validation of 'their' network npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof which server did this lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Uhhhh, so Sam Altman says here in this clip that OpenAI already had GPT4 internally in Nov22, when chatgpt (3.5) got released. npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof think that someone will announce an onlyfans clone on farcaster within the next 3 months npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof beautiful npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Farcaster founder Dan Romero says someone build a PoC partial Farcaster - #ActivityPub bridge. Does anyone have any more information on this? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Bluesky has just launched DMs: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub14xh…3mqu im especially surprised by the amount raised specifically, 150M is insane for a team of like 10 ppl npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof fedi MAU: https://fedidb.org/ npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof #Fediverse has no daily active user data, but it does have monthly active user data (1.02m MAU according to fedidb) npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1m29…khl9 yeah, 300, its really annoying npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof its 2024 and were still pivoting to video npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof yo @npub1eu5…3nau (or other ppl active on #nostr), just out of curiosity: hows the conversation on Nostr regarding Farcaster? Has there been talk of bridges between nostr and fc? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof This week's edition of @npub1qu2…uj0d is now also visible on the Social Hub Discourse forum! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof excellent deepdive in how google is killing independent review sites npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1mdk…aptk yeah, mastodon as infrastructure seems like the most likely (and good) outcome to me at this point in time npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof if youre looking for more schadenfreude on #TSLA: npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1cxc…akj4 very useful for sure! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1psa…xhme yeah for my specific use case I worry that it might end up a bit spammy npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1psa…xhme what would the effect be if you link to multiple different fediverse posts in a single Wordpress blogpost? I do that a lot lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof what i like about AI is that its such a bubble that you can go 350M to 2B valuation in 6 weeks, without generating any revenue npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub14xh…3mqu hey, have you officially launched with openvibe yet? i see it on the stores, but im unclear if youre in beta or officially launched at this point. At any rate, really nice work! npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof i would not be surprised if trump launches a crypto coin soon, considering how the DJT stock is doing, as well as the alt coin mania currently going on. he'd print money with it, too npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1k08…6xvn yeah suddenly a few things clicked for me. i think im going to take a few days to think about it (also busy writing other things first), but think this might be a viewpoint worth pushing with an article as well npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Seeing #nodeBB #ActivityPub implementation in action here is just really cool. Especially since I first saw the post on my masto feed, and then you open it up in the original source and you're suddenly on a forum npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1cx7…8tc2 @npub13rw…nfd8 @npub1v4z…48dt @npub1xzm…eykm npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1cx7…8tc2 @npub13rw…nfd8 @npub1v4z…48dt @npub1xzm…eykm npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1k08…6xvn ive really enjoyed using piefed.social recently npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof does anyone have MAU data for the entire #fediverse (only #mastodon is also okay) for nov 22 and dec 22 specifically? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof how did a #Discourse forum manage to follow my #Mastodon account? npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1dl0…49nf yeah same, definitely on the look-out for some good takes on that npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1jc6…7v67 id also be very curious what it looks like if the catchup feeds shows post slightly more expanded so its closer to the regular feed. it does feel a little bit cramped right now npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof this makes my usage of the fediverse so much better holy shit npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof 2 weeks ago: fedi in uproar because a bridge between networks was proposed to be opt-out and not opt-in npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof source for #ATmosphere npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof thinking about starting to also use the term ATmosphere to describe the entire #ATproto network npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof like i said when they dropped invites, bluesky has become a japanese social network first, english second npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1g8e…qdqf the discord groups that are fighting are currently having a 'ceasefire' (lol) npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1qmc…v6gx npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof just a quick observation: as far as i can tell there is no discussion on lemmy whatsoever about the bluesky bridge npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1r4h…u0jf https://fediversereport.com and https://wedistribute.org npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof @npub1agu…j0sk hey, do you have an explanation of how to get the bridge to actually work? I've been trying for weeks, but theres no documentation and nobody seems to be able to explain how to actually use it npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof Casey Newton feels on a bit of a redemption arc finally lol npub1cf27656assh3ykhn0ruxspw8xvpx4c9xk0f8sasfsqk2qf8tauss64lnhq Laurens Hof lol, lmao
