Notices by wakest ⁂ (liaizon@social.wake.st), page 5

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) just joined the #fediverse and announced it to their 5 million followers on twitter!
(proof: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1589662802477998086)

William Gibson is here: @GreatDismal

#mastodon's official patreon just reached $12k a month!
The goals of this amount have been set as:
Multiple developers for the main project
Multiple developers for official iOS/Android apps
Multiple UX designers
Hosting of mastodon.social, mastodon.online, joinmastodon.org and related services

so for new people who want to #contribute financially: your local servers can always use help, and other software that makes up the #fediverse almost always accept donations!

Support Bookwyrm! :fediverse:
(federated social book tracking and book related activities)

Join: https://joinbookwyrm.com
Donate: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm
Code: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

#feditips #fediverse #bookwyrm

the #fediverse / #mastodon is on the front page of CNN right now
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/tech/mastodon/index.html

this influx might be bigger then we realized...

#mastodon is the number two trending thing on US twitter rn. probably part of the reason for the crazy influx we are having

You can now move from followers from a #Mastodon account to a #Pleroma account (and vice versa) if the Pleroma instance is on the Develop branch.

Merged here if you are interested in the details:
https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/3524
ht to @mkljczk and @lanodan

the #fediverse is on the front page of techcrunch at the moment

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/31/mastodons-microblogging-app-saw-a-record-number-of-downloads-after-musks-twitter-takeover/

whats the influx look like from your instance? are we getting a real wave this time?

just discovered @podverse, an podcasting client that is #floss, on iOS and F-Droid and active here on the #fediverse

@sl007 thanks for the reply Seb, I hope you are well!

I remember seeing somewhere that @dansup had been working on a test suite. And I just saw something @bengo was working on that looked related too. This does indeed seem like a really pressing issue that we need to make some progress on.

anyone know where @cj of https://github.com/go-fed is? I noticed their website is down and there is no activity on their github for 9 months. I see they posted something in June about maternity care so maybe they are just offline with baby care duties.

@MediaFormat pinged them (https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/unofficial-test-suite-go-fed-testsuite/805/9) cause the #activitypub test suite is down as well and it seems like they might be the one who has the keys...

#fediverse #FediDev

TIL that #ActivityPub used to be named ActivityPump

https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/commit/215721a391e920286c9834c198658bc8610fa529

@mike ok how can I see all the reviews already left by people from friendica/hubzilla/streams overlaid on a map?

@humanetech this might be nice to deconstruct in a lemmy post. It makes a lot of strange assumptions about the fediverse and it might be useful to break those down to better understand how we present ourselves to the outside world. The author seemed to get confused about the federation aspect and mentioned how there were "40 mastodon social networks"

The second we talk about choosing instances we confuse the hell out of a huge portion of the population. How can we solve this social issue?

the #fediverse is (sort of) in a Forbes article posted yesterday about @rabble and #SSB:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/09/11/jack-dorseys-former-boss-is-building-a-decentralized-twitter

its featuring a photo of @cwebber at #DWeb camp and includes mentions of @staltz, @manyver_se, Dominic Tarr, #Āhau, #Bluesky, #Mastodon, #ActivityStreams, Paul Frazee, and a bunch of other buzzwords that are bizarrely smashed together into an article. Still quite interesting to see this stuff in a mainstream publication.

its also posted on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32806481

a list of suggested unicode symbols to represent the fediverse:
@Moon: ꙮ
@haverholm: ❆
@raphael: ⁂
@maikek: ∞
@mariusor: ꖜ
@singitout: ᵮ
@kerleone: 𖡦
@lukasfx: ⨕
@humanetech: 🕸️
@wago: ⛢

whats the best unicode character to represent the fediverse? we need a symbol that is already encoded!

so far the suggestions (ignoring the joke suggestions) are:

@Moon: ꙮ
@haverholm: ❆
@raphael: ❅ or ⁂

Implementation of Importing Followers Across the Fediverse

Mastodon to Mastodon ✅
Mastodon to Pleroma ✅
Mastodon to Streams ✅

Who else is working on this #fediverse feature?