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Recently, Flipboard unveiled Surf to beta testers. It’s a new experience designed around discovery and curation, giving users the ability to create and follow custom feeds that integrate the Fediverse, Bluesky, RSS, and YouTube. It’s a radically different design compared to other Fediverse clients.
Loops is a huge deal for short-form video in the Fediverse. The app is currently in beta, and rapidly gaining new features. However, the lack of built-in recording and editing tools has left some users wondering about how to get started. This guide is geared towards people interested in making their own flashy videos, with some suggestions on tools and resources that we’re using internally.
Recently, a new symbol was proposed to represent the Fediverse. The network notoriously lacks an official symbol, although most people are familiar with the Fedigram, a five-point star made of connected lines. There have actually been a few different proposed symbols in the past, and we’ve compiled a list to talk about their differences and history.
It’s an exciting time for the Social Web movement: both WordPress and Ghost are experimenting with the ActivityPub protocol, Flipboard is federating their magazines across the network, and Newsmast is doing some really interesting development work regarding curation and content discovery. As we start to put these things together, it’s not hard to see an extremely compelling vision of how publishing and discovery can work here.
If you’re reading this, chances are, you’re brand new to the idea of the Fediverse, and are just now hearing about it. Someone may have tried to explain it to you in the comments, saying “it’s like email, but social!”, leaving you no closer to deducing what it even means. Don’t worry – we’re here to help you go through the concepts, step by step, without making anything complicated.
Mastodon brought life to the Fediverse and opened up the space for many people. As a platform, it’s been transformative for federated social networking, bringing millions of active users, hundreds of apps, and many new platforms to the network. The network couldn’t have grown without it.
In the aftermath of Epic selling Bandcamp to Songtradr, Bandcamp has found itself in a place of instability. Half of the company’s employees were laid off post-acquisition, leading many to speculate over the beloved platform’s future. Most importantly, many artists who depended on the service are left looking for alternatives.
In case you weren’t aware, there’s a plugin for WordPress that lets blogs talk to the Fediverse, and it’s sponsored / owned by Automattic, the parent company of WordPress. You can follow a publication, see its articles pop up in your social feed, and comment on them from your own instance. If a blog has comments enabled, your responses will show up on the other end.
Mastodon is a social media platform for microblogging, kind of similar to Twitter. If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve just signed up for Mastodon. Or, perhaps you’re thinking about trying it out, or have at least heard other people mention it. There are many guides out there about this topic already, but I think this one has something to offer.
A lot of people are once again looking at the Fediverse as an alternative to Twitter these days. Well, more accurately, a lot of people are looking at Mastodon as an alternative, and Mastodon’s part of a much larger ecosystem of interconnected social media sites and services called the Fediverse. But Mastodon’s getting the most attention, because it’s got the biggest installed base and a lot of similarities to Twitter, so that’s what I’m going to focus on in this post.