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The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card - We Distribute in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

I disagree. Decentralization has its own quirks when it comes to usability. This is not a call to exactly emulate centralized platforms, but a recognition of where many of the pain points are, and how we can collectively improve the UX to make it a better experience for newcomers.

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The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card - We Distribute (wedistribute.org)
 

This is a follow-up to Tim Chambers' "The Seven Deadly UX Sins", in which we collaboratively review where and how the network has improved over the past six months, with a lot of different initiatives to show for it!

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Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon (wedistribute.org)
 

Important progress has been made regarding bringing MLS end-to-end encryption to the ActivityPub protocol, with developers already building implementations and providing feedback to a future version of the protocol spec.

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Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy (deadsuperhero.com)
 

I wrote a little bit of what forms of advocacy on the Fediverse have historically looked like, and contrasted with a few interesting case studies that are trying to move the needle on network growth.

Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress? in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is something I've been slowly exploring, too. There aren't a lot of great options yet, and my personal opinion is that we have yet to see a platform that's purpose-built to be a Fediverse CMS. Hubzilla comes the closest conceptually to this idea, but unfortunately it's closer to Drupal than it is to WordPress.

Bonfire remains an extremely interesting prospect, I feel as though it might be possible to create something very similar to the Ghost experience with Bonfire and extensions. It might be worth reaching out to their devs and having a discussion about publishing capabilities.

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Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked (deadsuperhero.com)
 

Look, I think Ghost is a really great publishing platform. But after dogfooding their Fediverse integration for six months, I'm realizing there's still a lot missing. With their blog dormant, I'm left to wonder: is development still happening?

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The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization (deadsuperhero.com)
 

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about PeerTube, Loops, Bandwagon, and other platforms in the Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.

Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is what the thread looks like on Wafrn's side: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/39562254-048e-4224-8445-36bba052ea91

Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  1. From what I can tell, there have been successful tests with posting to the Threadiverse. I'm not sure how good this experience actually is on Wafrn yet, but it's promising: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/5fa12345-e4ff-4da3-8a95-d1ef1c4bd186/wafrn-a-tumblr-clone-that-federates-with-fedi-and-now-also-has-opt-in-native-bluesky/
  2. I don't think it will natively support RSS anytime soon. It's not a bad idea, but I've only seen platforms from the Friendica family tree and maybe Emissary supporting this. That being said, a lot of publications are on the Fediverse or Bluesky, and it's not too complicated to set up an RSS bot?
Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Oh, I misunderstood, I didn't realize this related to Tumblr specifically...

Still, it might make some of the dev work easier, if they do end up migrating the backend over to WordPress.

Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That might be more related to what they're doing with the WordPress-ActivityPub integration, as a way to work around some of the weird limitations WordPress has for representing notifications and activities other than comments. It's fairly standard for Fediverse stuff.

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Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy (wedistribute.org)
 

For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising. It can speak both ActivityPub and AT Protocol, offers a ton of interesting features and customization, and focuses on making an incredibly fun experience.

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Decentered S2E5: Anuj Ahooja and Ryan Barrett from A New Social (spectra.video)
 

This was a really great interview we had with the team from A New Social. We talked about bridging, being able to migrate data across different protocols, some of the team’s latest ongoing efforts, and a long rant about where the network is, and where we hope it will go.

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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API (wedistribute.org)
 

The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.

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Relay, By We Distribute: Something Brewing (newsletter.wedistribute.org)
 

We Distribute recently launched a dedicated weekly newsletter that aims at rounding up a lot of things happening around the Fediverse and wider Social Web, and adds other publications and community voices to amplify them. This is our very first issue!

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CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
 

This was initially demoed at FediCon 2025, but CrowdBucks is an open source, self-hostable fundraising system that allows people to financially support one another. You use your existing Fediverse account to hold a fundraiser, and can also donate to other people's fundraisers as well. The form factor is kind of similar to Kickstarter or Patreon.

Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

No, the GPL is strictly a software license. Even then, most Fediverse platforms are AGPL at best, which only really deals with modifications to the source code of AGPL projects. Content licensing itself is more nebulous and more complicated.

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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? (wedistribute.org)
 

Building on some initial reports coming from the FediPact account and Dropsite news, we dive into potential measures admins can take for their instances.

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Big Updates Are Coming to Loops (wedistribute.org)
 

There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release.

“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Regardless of how you feel about it, it's still notable that people on the Fediverse managed to scrape $500k together. This is the first time something like that has ever happened on this network. In the world of big politics and presidential campaigns, it's not much. However, within the scope of grassroots organizing, it's substantial.

I agree that I would love to see that funding go towards mutual aid, infra and project funding, and supporting people who work on different parts of the network.

Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

He is a bit bombastic, and has a habit of biting off more than he can chew sometimes. I think these side-projects are ultimately useful, though, and probably help fend off boredom or burnout. Maybe he gets better at coding and design through doing that, I dunno.

Regardless, he's continues to do a lot of great development work.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I really wish this was standardized more across instances. The fediverse is extremely large, but a lot of servers end up being paid for solely by whoever runs them.

I get that not everybody can afford it, but...a few bucks a month to supporting a server goes a long way.

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