PixelFed is a decentralized, open-source photo-sharing platform that works similarly to Instagram but is part of the Fediverse, allowing users to interact across different federated social networks. It prioritizes privacy, no ads, and user control over content.

Trying out Mastodon? Here’s how to find the people you already know.

‘He has made me feel unsafe’: Ohio sheriff’s Kamala Harris Facebook post draws complaints (usatoday.com) c/newsby MicroWave 3 hours ago The letters obtained by the Akron Beacon Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, show people’s concern over the tone of the Facebook post by Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski

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Federated bookmarking software.

Not sure if an Akkoma MRF could help moderate posts bridged from Bluesky.

This person attended a special conference with Meta (Facebook) about their plans for integrating Threads with other Fediverse systems (mostly Mastodon). There are many potential problems but overall his assessment was positive.

social bookmarking on activitypub

Federated music sharing

Something that I’ve learned over the years of running botsin.space is that a lot of people want to be able to publish RSS feeds to Mastodon. A few months ago, I decided to implement a service to run alongside botsin.space that people could use to setup accounts for RSS feeds, but without needing to go through the work of setting up a full Mastodon account on botsin.space.

The point is, we’re not trying to solve a technical problem here, we’re trying to solve a social problem. We don’t want people to do certain irritating and dangerous things with data scraped off the Fediverse. So, when there are things that people can do but shouldn’t, what tools do we usually apply? Hmm… I guess when I said “social” I meant “legal”.