Notices by wakest ⁂ (liaizon@social.wake.st), page 3

Element really just told us if we don't like their direction of selling services to cops we should use another app. This is seriously the direction they settled on.

"we fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments, which includes police: if you don’t like that then please feel free to use a different app" May 9th, 2023 -@element

source https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110340953550548309

@prologic posting this link in the thread for later rememberification that shows what has been implemented https://twtxt.net/twt/qglp4wa

I discovered today that @prologic has added #ActivityPub support to their twtxt server software https://yarn.social and its largest instance https://twtxt.net essentially bridging the #fediverse and twtxt networks together.

If you are unfamiliar with #twtxt, it is a different take on decentralized microblogging that has been around for many years, and it is quite interesting to see it now bridged between this side and that one!

yay @mediawiki is here! its the software behind the famous @JoinFediverseWiki if you've never heard of it. oh and it also powers @wikipedia!

wow @cryptpad forms are good! def recommending this to people from now on!

@forteller oh yeah I agree its totally completely fucked of Apple to do such a thing in the first place. but sadly this is now just an accepted norm for these types of things in contemporary tech world

just discovered Truth Social is buying top ad placement for the search term "fediverse" on the US Apple App Store

I totally don't need it but this external USB C BlackBerry keyboard by @arturo182 is awesome and I totally want one.

$30 on Tindie https://www.tindie.com/products/arturo182/bb-q20-keyboard-with-trackpad-usbi2cpmod/ #OSHW :openhardware:

go follow @oshwassociation as they are doing important work! #ff

started following some people on #nostr from from here via the turf bridge. seems to work alright except the external links to the original post go to a .json representation of the post which is not ideal

also mentions look pretty bad, here is a mention of @rabble via the bridge:
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa

@silverwizard I have been here since 2016, I know the name of the network. there is still such thing as Mastodon. People talk about "the mastodon network" regardless if its "correct" or not, and its not owned by anyone.

fuck you google

@silverwizard there is a big difference between owning trademark rights and owning Mastodon. no one owns Mastodon (the network)

Discovered these 2009 photos of Laconica Hackfest by @zcopley!

Laconica is the first piece of the #fediverse. It took a over decade of work to blossom into what it is today... Some participants who have taggable handles on this version of the protocol:
@evan, @davew, @csarven

more information on the old #Laconica website
https://web.archive.org/web/20090721023800/http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/east_bay_laconica_hackfest and https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/upcoming:event=1841645

Medium.com (@medium) launched a Mastodon instance that will have a "Login with Medium" button in the near future.

"Medium has somewhere between 85 and 100 million monthly active users"

https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11 #FediNews #medium

@coloco I don't know if you noticed the name on that link but I made that lol

@coloco thanks I hadn't seen the first two links before, so I am glad you sent them. all the others I am very aware of but always glad to get new recommendations

@coloco no worries, I found what I was looking for, its posted as a reply to the OP now

@coloco AWS and OVH are large hosting/server providers. And thanks but the graph is not on fediverse.party, its posted on someones feed here like 6 months ago