Mastodon displays properly Markdown posts from other instances, but doesn't allow creating posts with it. I'm trying to fix this. I know there is glitch-soc, but I don't want to switch to a fork for a single feature. So is there a patch for mainstream Mastodon that adds this functionality?

On Mastodon's new Share button, and protocol ownership.

like can i send a dm to someone and talk to them here?

I can never seem to get the page to load, the prpgress bar is always stuck when trying to access the webpage.

https://wayfindr.online/

On mastodon side there is iftas.

What would be an equivalent for lemmy?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160218

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160073

I've been working on Habitat for the past two years. It all stemmed from this idea that I posted in April 2024.

Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area. More about what I've been building and the future plans here.

Features

• Habitat specification of location and size - enabling posts related to the local area
• Home feed - Displays the most recent posts
• Nearby feed - Displays posts sorted by proximity to the user
• Create posts - Upload photos, set locations, comments
• Categories - Location rules
• Amazon S3 image storage option
• Personalisation - Overrides Habitat defaults per user: kms/miles, hidden categories
• Moderation tools - User, post, comment moderation, block email addresses
• Announcements - Scheduled announcements
• Public moderation log - Keep moderator actions visible for 30 days

If you're interest in this at all, please give it a spin and let me know how you get on. I'll keep an eye here on Lemmy, but you can also post to the Habitat discussion board on GitHub.

In other words, can any user delete its data on its will and is there something that will remove its data from all the connected activitypub services? I believe this should actually be a basic feature and pretty much a requirement.

Hey, I tried to make it so that upvotes people give this post and my comments won't actually affect my nodeBB forum reputation. Anyone mind upvoting a few times to test this out.

For my own reference to see if it changed:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43738698

I made a post over on Upscrolled recommending people check out the Fediverse:

https://share.upscrolled.com/en/post/6890f5f0-159f-11f1-8080-80006ddcdcfc/

It was kind of a random thought, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

Upscrolled is a newer, strongly pro-Palestine/Leftist platform, and a lot of the users there already care about decentralization, censorship resistance, and not relying on big corporate platforms.

That feels very aligned with what the Fediverse is about.

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Since it’s still growing, I’d imagine a lot of users there might be open to trying alternatives like Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube, Loops, etc.

Especially if it’s framed less as “leave your platform” and more as “here’s a broader network you can also be part of.”

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I was also curious if anyone else here was interested in recommending the Fediverse over there, as well.

Not in a spammy way, obviously — just sharing info and letting people know there are decentralized options that line up with their values.

Curious what others think.

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Edit:

https://upscrolled.com/en/about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpScrolled

https://lifehacker.com/tech/what-is-upscrolled

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/whats-upscrolled-the-app-gaining-popularity-after-tiktoks-us-takeover

I browse different lemmy instances usually because the feed is always different. Was blown away when I recently went to lemmy.today, no clue when they did the change but whoever is in charge of the design has my admiration! (chef's kiss)

For averyone wondering why converser.eu is slow and/or you can't register, I had a conversation with the admin of matrix instance converser.eu, the convo is in french so i'm copying the translation here ! (I did remove my and someone else's answers so you only have their explanations)

"- FYI, I'm the admin of the converser.eu server. I know that right now, the server is a disaster. I'm doing my best. Synapse is a pain to administer and optimize. We have almost 7,000 accounts on the server and that number is still growing. We could greatly improve the situation by switching back to a server with SSD. I had to switch back to HDD because of disk space, which obviously doesn't help performance. But I'm stuck because of budget constraints. However, if you feel like it, you can help: https:// liberapay.com/converser.eu/ . "

"- It's been eight years since I launched the server, paying for successive servers to maintain the service. I've spent hours trying to understand performance issues when they arise, getting everything back up and running. In short, I'm doing my best."

"- Thank you for your support. I admit that I am very, very bad at communicating. And ultimately, when I launched the server eight years ago, I didn't think it would take on such proportions. As for closing registrations, it's complicated. Shutting the door when people need it or want to try it out could clearly discourage them from switching. And the converser.eu server is known for being open and hosted/managed in France. If I suddenly close registrations, I'll have to deal with all the emails asking me “why can't I register?”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43657336

So I’ve been thinking about the whole PSKY winning the bid for WBD situation, plus a ton of other US News sites being owned and controlled by MAGA — and now that PSKY owns massive legacy brands like CNN and platforms like TikTok, it got me wondering:

What would it look like if the Fediverse built its own large-scale news station?

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And I don’t mean news apps (I know things like Flipboard already exist and are experimenting with federation). I mean:

A full-on journalism operation that is:

Fediverse-first

Hosted via PeerTube, Loops, its own website, etc.

Producing regular news broadcasts, investigative journalism, live streams, analysis panels, documentaries, etc.

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Two Possible Models

1. Professional Model (CNN-style equivalent)

A structured newsroom:

Editors, reporters, correspondents

Daily live broadcasts via PeerTube

Clip distribution via Loops

Federation across Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed

Transparent funding (co-op model? public donations? instance-backed?)

Essentially: a decentralized alternative to cable news, but not algorithm-driven or corporate-owned.

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2. Amateur / Grassroots Model

Think:

Independent PeerTubers collaborating

Loop creators reporting locally

Lemmy communities functioning as distributed editorial desks

Citizen journalism amplified through federation

This could look more like a decentralized wire service, where stories propagate organically across instances.

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Alternative Idea: Federated News Aggregator

Instead of building from scratch, what if the Fediverse collaborated with existing independent outlets like:

World Socialist Web Site

Communist.red

Mother Jones

The Nation

Common Dreams

The Intercept

Jacobin

Cpusa.org

(And many others.)

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Podcasts:

The Deprogram:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/The_Deprogram

Revolutionary Left Radio:

https://revleftradio.com/

Guerrilla History:

https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/

etc

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YouTubers:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Hakim

Second Thought:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Second_Thought

YUGOPNIK:

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/YUGOPNIK

r/TankieTheDeprogram

https://www.reddit.com/r/TankieTheDeprogram/s/mJqfxpGOYK

r/TheDeprogarm

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogarm/s/Re7CYFSaSW

Lee Camp-Unredacted Tonight

https://youtube.com/@unredactedtonight

Chris Hedges

https://youtube.com/@chrishedgeschannel

Jimmy Dore

https://youtube.com/@thejimmydoreshow

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Maybe:

A federated aggregator

A shared ActivityPub-based publishing layer

A “news hub” instance that boosts and categorizes content

Or something similar to the federated streaming marketplace idea I suggested before — but for journalism instead of an Amazon Prime alternative

https://lemmy.world/post/40697282

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Big Questions

Would a Fediverse news network increase credibility — or fragment it?

How would editorial standards work in a decentralized ecosystem?

Could co-op funding sustain professional reporting?

Would mainstream journalists ever migrate?

Should this aim to compete with centralized media — or complement it?

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Also: would this risk becoming ideologically siloed? Or would federation naturally diversify perspectives?

Curious what everyone thinks.

Is this unrealistic? Inevitable? Already quietly happening?

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Link to same post, but on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/s/wt59TIXVv3

Is it possible to listen to music hosted on Funkwhale from Mastoson (or any other fediverse social media for that matter)? I can see user accounts (though empty), but I couldn't get albums or songs working.

cross-posted from: https://multiverse.soulism.net/c/soulism/p/51754/multiverse-has-defederated-fedinsfw-app-for-hosting-child-pornography

Hello MULTIVERSE users and off-site visitors alike. We have recently defederated fedinsfw.app due to ongoing child pornography concerns which the fedinsfw admin team are aware of, and do not intend to address. Before I explain the key issue, I'd like to define a few terms:

• In Australia, Child Pornography Material is legally defined by the Criminal Code Act 1995, section 473.1 as:

(a) material that depicts a person, or a representation of a person, who is, or appears to be, under 18 years of age and who [...] is engaged in, or appears to be engaged in, a sexual pose [...]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive;

[...]

(c) material that describes a person who is, or is implied to be, under 18 years of age and who [...] is engaged in, or is implied to be engaged in, a sexual pose [...]; and does this in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, offensive; or [...]

• Jailbait is a slang term for pornography depicting subjects who appear to be of age (adults), but are in fact underage (children; adolescents)

• Fauxbait is faux jailbait - pornography depicting adults who appear to be children who appear to be adults.

According to the legal definition of child pornography material here in Australia, fauxbait is child pornography material, because of the implication that the actors depicted represent underage persons. And frankly, we here at MULTIVERSE agree with the law here. Fauxbait is disgusting. Legally and in our opinion, pornography depicting adult women who appear as adults is completely fine. But if someone posts a picture of an adult woman and calls it "fauxbait", we are disgusted and the law is interested. Reality is not objective - the same legal picture of an adult person becomes illegal child pornography when it's posted with a particular framing.

fedinsfw.app hosts a community, !fauxbait@fedinsfw.app, which is for Fauxbait. I have contacted the admin of the site, @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app, both privately and in public, pointing out that the community breaks the site's rules 1 and 8. The admin disagrees. Although they dislike the community, they don't believe it breaks the rules, and do not wish to violate their impartiality by banning the community.

We here at MULTIVERSE have no such impartiality. The admin inaction on child pornography violates our Rule 3 on Restricted Violence, in that it's fucking nasty. It's degrading to the women being posted to call them fauxbait, it's dangerous towards the users to expose them to risks of committing sex crimes, and it has the potential to desensitise people to child porn, making them more likely to re-offend in worse ways. We are joining the growing movement of instances defederating fedinsfw.app, and we ask if your instance has not, that you speak to your admins and ask them to do the same.

So, I’ve uploaded some videos on peertube.wtf and I can’t see how large each one is, nor can I sort them. I want to be able to delete large videos if I run out of total quota. This is on version 8.0.1.

I do think a video quota is a good idea, and PeerTube has two quotas, your daily limit, and total limit.

The total limit will fill up eventually if the account is active, and I think a way to see the largest videos you have on your account would help a ton.

As it stands right now, it looks like we have to just judge based off of how old posts are to see if we can still interact with a community.

a blog post that chronicles what I've been up to this month: from attending FOSDEM in Brussels to creating an easy-to-follow self-hosting guide for newbies…

A big grab bag of news, that ties into the question of 'Where Does Community Live?'

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61027702