The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.

Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/

Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.

#DotSocial#Podcast#Fediverse#Flipboard#OpenSocialWeb#SocialMedia#Tech#SocialWeb#Governance#Federation#Bluesky#ActivityPub#ATProtocol#SocialNetworks

Looks like two way federation with Threads is starting now.

It'll be very interesting to see how this works out.

#FediVerse#Threads#Federation

Big thanks to @quillmatiq, @docpop, @jaz, @andypiper and @_elena for being among the first to share their thoughts with us.

#Fediverse#FediLove#ActivityPub#Federation#Flipboard

People who’ve figured out the fediverse understand its power. Hear from early adopters who explain their lightbulb moments in our new short video series. The use cases and potential of the system are awesome, and these stories are just the beginning. Tell us: what's your favorite thing about the fediverse? We're listening and looking for more people to feature.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/best-thing-about-the-fediverse-short-videos/

#Fediverse#FediLove#ActivityPub#Federation#Flipboard

⭐️This Week's Featured Voices on Flipboard⭐️
It's not just Mastodon and Threads accounts you can discover on Flipboard — you can also find and follow folks from (to paraphrase the Beatles) across the fediverse! In this week's Community tab, we featured these photography accounts from @pixelfed:

@chris.zielecki
@cyclingtogether
@Iancylkowski
@mmccue
@parisstroke
@Potassium

Follow their accounts in the app to see their photography right alongside content from your favorite publishers. If you miss them in the Community tab, you can always search for their accounts on Flipboard.

Download the Flipboard app to check it out:
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard#Federation#ActivityPub#Pixelfed#Photography#Fediverse#MastodonMigration

Twenty years ago this past February, Kevin Marks and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.

Full post: https://tantek.com/2024/044/t1/twenty-years-microformats

Aside: This is an even shorter summary of that post from ~200 days ago, which #Mastodon readers never got due to a Mastodon #federation bug (details in https://tantek.com/t5Yo1).

Since early 2023, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:

1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.)
 * Wikipedia, Threads, omg.lol
2. Proposal to merge #microformats2 h-review into h-entry, since in practice (e.g. on #indieweb) reviews are just entries with a bit more.
3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, iteration

Interested in slow news?

There's a UK based news publication called Tortoise 🐢 who specialise in it. You can read what that means on their website: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/

Recently, they joined Threads so we asked them to turn on Fediverse Sharing. They did!

Follow @tortoise or catch them in the @journalismandcomment Feed!

#journalism #news #mastodon #press #slownews #federation #fediverse#Threads

Neat!

"[ @Flipboard] users will be able to follow accounts from within Flipboard, but the functionality will be closer to following an RSS feed: they will be able to read and share posts, but won’t yet send follow requests or replies."

https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flipboard-fediverse-following/

via @hellohttps://social.wedistribute.org/objects/098da748-1f9e-4882-87ad-c6fb09838ce5

#fediverse #flipboard #federation #news#TechNews

Creators no longer have to depend on “walled garden” platforms that change algorithms on a whim and own the audience. Digital sovereignty is the ultimate influencer status. Help our proposed fireside chat with @molly0xfff become a reality at SXSW '25! Community votes are a powerful signal. TYIA 🙏🏼

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/best-friends-forever-if-you-vote-for-our-sxsw-2025-fireside-chat-creator-track/

#SXSW#Federation#Fediverse#OpenSocialWeb#WalledGardens#Flipboard#DigitalSovereignty

I’m surprised that no one has used ActivityPub to federate block and allow lists. All they are is a collection of actors. Even the instances themselves could be classified as a Service (which is a type of actor).

#ActivityPub #federation #fediverse

Flipboard CEO @mike will be joining the @threads AMA about the fediverse on Monday, along with Block Party founder Tracy Chou. Get ready to ask away — no question is too basic or complex.

#Fediverse#Federation#Threads#ActivityPub#MikeMcCue#TracyChou#AMA

In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.

"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/federation-timeline/

#Federation#Fediverse#Flipboard#FediCurious#ActivityPub#Publishing#Media#Technology#MastodonMigration#Mastodon