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Interesting developments to bring Podcasting domain to the Fediverse. Check it out and add your related resources and/or experiences with the projects.

With Feneas shutting down the Fediverse Party website by @lightone needed a new home, and so too did the 3 ActivityPub watchlists that existed in the repository wiki. I am happy to announce that all of them have been migrated to Codeberg. With the new and fantastic Codeberg Pages the fediverse.party website is still at the same location.

The watchlists however have been migrated to the delightful project, so update your bookmarks:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-activitypub-development

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/140387

Open Webinar, 19 January 2022 at 10.00 UTC+1

What if you could easily collaborate with any free software project, no matter where it is hosted? Use the Github UI to discuss issues on a remote Gitea code forge project. Send a Merge Request from Gitlab to Github. Have you and your team members, all your project contributors, everyone working from their own favourite environment. Use your code forge of choice to collaborate. Just like you also freely choose your email provider to communicate with others.

This is the objective and vision that the forgefriends community is working hard to realize. Its members, all forge friends, strive to allow seamless interoperability between code forges by adding federation support. Using the Fediverse and open standards such as ActivityPub and DVCS they will enable free software development to liberate itself from centralized platforms that lock projects in with their network effects and FOMO.

In this webinar you will learn about the importance of forge federation, and what it means to be "a friend of code forges". The various community projects are introduced, with brief explanation how they work and what is on the roadmap. Anyone is highly encouraged to contribute and become a forge friend too. Each presentation is followed by a Q&A session where you can ask the presenter how you can jump in.

Agenda

• Forge federation: An overview from 10,000 feet by Loïc Dachary
• Go-Fed: ActivityPub and ForgeFed foundations in Golang by cjslep
• ForgeFlux: Using forge API's and adapters to interoperate by Aravinth Manivannan
• Gitea: Update and plans for adding federation support by techknowlogick
• Forgefriends: Contributing an incremental import/export to Gitea by Loïc Dachary
• Funding Free Software projects in a transparent way

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/140387

Open Webinar, 19 January 2022 at 10.00 UTC+1

What if you could easily collaborate with any free software project, no matter where it is hosted? Use the Github UI to discuss issues on a remote Gitea code forge project. Send a Merge Request from Gitlab to Github. Have you and your team members, all your project contributors, everyone working from their own favourite environment. Use your code forge of choice to collaborate. Just like you also freely choose your email provider to communicate with others.

This is the objective and vision that the forgefriends community is working hard to realize. Its members, all forge friends, strive to allow seamless interoperability between code forges by adding federation support. Using the Fediverse and open standards such as ActivityPub and DVCS they will enable free software development to liberate itself from centralized platforms that lock projects in with their network effects and FOMO.

In this webinar you will learn about the importance of forge federation, and what it means to be "a friend of code forges". The various community projects are introduced, with brief explanation how they work and what is on the roadmap. Anyone is highly encouraged to contribute and become a forge friend too. Each presentation is followed by a Q&A session where you can ask the presenter how you can jump in.

Agenda

• Forge federation: An overview from 10,000 feet by Loïc Dachary
• Go-Fed: ActivityPub and ForgeFed foundations in Golang by cjslep
• ForgeFlux: Using forge API's and adapters to interoperate by Aravinth Manivannan
• Gitea: Update and plans for adding federation support by techknowlogick
• Forgefriends: Contributing an incremental import/export to Gitea by Loïc Dachary
• Funding Free Software projects in a transparent way

Open Webinar, 19 January 2022 at 10.00 UTC+1

What if you could easily collaborate with any free software project, no matter where it is hosted? Use the Github UI to discuss issues on a remote Gitea code forge project. Send a Merge Request from Gitlab to Github. Have you and your team members, all your project contributors, everyone working from their own favourite environment. Use your code forge of choice to collaborate. Just like you also freely choose your email provider to communicate with others.

This is the objective and vision that the forgefriends community is working hard to realize. Its members, all forge friends, strive to allow seamless interoperability between code forges by adding federation support. Using the Fediverse and open standards such as ActivityPub and DVCS they will enable free software development to liberate itself from centralized platforms that lock projects in with their network effects and FOMO.

In this webinar you will learn about the importance of forge federation, and what it means to be "a friend of code forges". The various community projects are introduced, with brief explanation how they work and what is on the roadmap. Anyone is highly encouraged to contribute and become a forge friend too. Each presentation is followed by a Q&A session where you can ask the presenter how you can jump in.

Agenda

• Forge federation: An overview from 10,000 feet by Loïc Dachary
• Go-Fed: ActivityPub and ForgeFed foundations in Golang by cjslep
• ForgeFlux: Using forge API's and adapters to interoperate by Aravinth Manivannan
• Gitea: Update and plans for adding federation support by techknowlogick
• Forgefriends: Contributing an incremental import/export to Gitea by Loïc Dachary
• Funding Free Software projects in a transparent way

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/131681

So I spend little more than half an hour and just tooted an image I created with some of the hashtags we brainstormed at Fediverse Town. This version is higher-res, licensed CC0.

(Created in Inkscape using this CC0 vector image. #FediVolution hashtag credit @PaulaToThePeople, #FediverseRising by me.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/131681

So I spend little more than half an hour and just tooted an image I created with some of the hashtags we brainstormed at Fediverse Town. This version is higher-res, licensed CC0.

(Created in Inkscape using this CC0 vector image. #FediVolution hashtag credit @PaulaToThePeople, #FediverseRising by me.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/123094

Found this news via Michael Downey's toot (admin of FLOSS.social:

Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦‍♂️

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy

I suggest the most useful place to provide feedback is the Discourse thread, if you are a member of the Mastodon community forum.

It is a pity because there's interesting stuff going on that goes the fedi direction. I replied to Michael:

What is interesting is that both for #Discourse and for #Gitea there are plans to add federation support. In Gitea the first commits are already made after @forgefriends graciously made some money available from their own project budget. AFAIU they did not get @NGIZero grant, but will continue nonetheless.

And as for Discourse. The Pavilion plugin builders have shown interest to start in 2022 their #Fediverse entry. See Discourse will be joining the Fediverse

I hope both these projects do commence, as I consider them both very important for the #Fediverse as a whole. In any case they should get any encouragement and help we can give if only spreading the word on these intentions, like I do now.

Consider joining the Forgefriends community if you are passionate to help break code forge walled gardens, specifically Github.

Web of Agency

Yesterday I was inspired to come up with a new definition to set the web we build on with the Fediverse apart from the old, traditional web. And I just posted a follow-up.

The Web of Agency is one that empowers people, and where they can be in control of their life, their freedom and their destiny. A place where society can flourish online. It takes social interaction beyond mere discussions, and offers a place where humans can Act and do things together. It is an active-interactive Peopleverse.

Agency (philosophy):

• the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.
• an individual engaging with the social structure.

Agency (sociology):

• the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.
• one's independent capability or ability to act on one's will.

Social Fabric

I see a lot of fedizens (rightfully) complaining how blockchain / cryptocurrency movement have hijacked and co-opted the Decentralization movement. They try to make themself be seen as Web 3.0 and use the #Web3 hashtag broadly. To those not knowing much about the technology side of things it seems that:

Decentralization equals Web3 equals Blockchain.

And yes, this is super frustrating as it detracts from the many other initiatives that are better and more feasible, less crazy than the blockchain Wild West hype train, or tulip craze.

In a response just now to one of these complaints I pose that we need our own new Hashtag. We have #Fediverse already, but we need a broader category similar to #Web3 to encompass our branch of the #decentralization movement that we are part of with fedi. I'll quote my toots here:

I think we need our own new word, and a word that still stands upon #decentralization. A word we commonly use, and makes it clear that #web3 is just another fork of decentralization.

And I mean Web3 has zero inspirational value, right? The 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc. versioning scheme has become entirely meaningless.

We should be able to come up with something better for our own #commons branch of The Decentralized Web. We have a bunch of hashtags for desired characteristics already. #SmallWeb, #Weblite, #CalmTech, etc.

This here #Fediverse is about doing #Social right this time, agree? #SocialNetworkingReimagined

Why do we need #Web even? It's where a spider catches flies.

We could be #SocialFabric.

Fabrics are things of human creation. Cloth. Intricate beauty woven by people, artisans, craftsmen. Then when we create social fabric apps we know they wield the fediverse.

#Fediverse is where different things can be interconnected to create something bigger than the sum of its individual parts.

We have most of the capabilities of the #ActivityPub open standards still largely unexplored. Potential not yet tapped into fully. We touched the tip of the iceberg and created federated Microblogging fabric.

Now let's extend that to the full range of human activity and in ways where online world truly enriches the real world.

We just weave.

I have cross-posted this to Fediverse town.

(image credit HTNovo, CC BY-SA)

I just created this on Fediverse Town, inspired by Alja's toot and Houkime's Fedijams. In my own toot just now, I added:

#Fediverse, while we shaped a great place to be, we are sitting ducks for disruption by corporates where Metaverses are now the talk of the day.

We need broad vision to move forward, to ensure our relevance into the future, to inspire and become more united in our quest. We do a lot of talking and we could do with more walking. Coordinated action.

I might be dreamy or crazy, but am afraid we squander the huge potential we have. Let's build worlds, my fellow fedizens.

@Houkime on itch.io has recently started organizing Gamejams on the Fediverse. This is a great idea to get some real creative hackathons going that drive fedi forwards at the same time.

This brainstorming thread is for posting game ideas that might be picked up in these sessions.