An Interview with Fosstodon's Former Senior Moderator

An insightful interview of Chris Miller’s unique perspective and experiences as a former senior moderator on the popular Fediverse instance Fosstodon.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/interview-fosstodon-former-senior-moderator/

#blog #Fosstodon #Fediverse #interview @grueproof

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Chat bubbles appear above two silhouettes of people sitting in office chairs. Near by stands a title of 'Interview with Chris Miller' and 'Fosstodon's Former Senior Moderator'.

Special shoutout to film-maker Elena Rossini who is working hard to promote the Fediverse, runs the "Future is Federated" newsletter, and is writing about how to self-host Fediverse services from a novice's point of view.

Rossini's blog about the Fediverse is at:

➡️ https://news.elenarossini.com

You can follow Rossini's main account at:

➡️ @_elena

You can also follow Rossini's self-hosted accounts:

➡️ @elena (GoToSocial)
➡️ @ele@videos.elenarossini.com (PeerTube)
➡️ @ele@photos.elenarossini.com (Pixelfed)

#Fediverse

Good day folks! Monday April 28th at 1200 Eastern / UTC-4 I'm going to be speaking with Stefano Marinelli of the FediMeteo project @admin .

Please let me know if you have any questions for Stefano.

#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live

After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live

All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live

#stream #live #interview #firesidefedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #openinternet #open #internet #Meteorology #meteo #fedimeteo

Can you believe that
you are here, and I am here,
and we can share and communicate together,
and no billionaires were involved in this happening or continuing in any ways?

How fraking fantastic is this!

#Mastodon #Fediverse

This 2019 Mastodon feature request suggests supporting post transfer when migrating to a different instance. If you'd like such a feature (I sure do) consider thumbing-up or reacting to the issue.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12423

Thanks @tokyo_0 for the reminder.

#mastodon #fediverse

The tech stack we use is an endorsement of the companies behind it. Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.

@_elena: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114348001009857066

#platforms #NotNeutral #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #fediverse

https://elenarossini.com/2025/04/my-fedi-activism-q2-2025-edition/

In the spirit of: “Ask not what the Fediverse can do for you, but what you can do for the Fediverse” here are some initiatives I’ll be undertaking, starting next week:

1) Production of a 5 minute video about the Fediverse

I’m really lucky to have the help of two interns for this project: a video introducing the key benefits of the Fediverse to people not familiar with it.Our goal is to have the video ready by May 23rd, in time for my talk at a FOSS conference (more details about it coming soon).Naturally, I will release the video on my brand new self-hosted PeerTube instance (aka the Fediverse’s answer to YouTube).

2) A new blog series: “People of the Fediverse”

For the next two months I will be busy planning, shooting and editing videos… and won’t have time to sit down and write 2,000 word, deep dives of Fediverse software for The Future is Federated. So, I had an idea: how about doing written interviews with fascinating people on the Fediverse, showcasing the interesting ways they communicate on it and the initiatives they’re spearheading? This project would allow readers to discover new interesting people to follow on the Fediverse – or to get to know better people they are already familiar with. And on my end, I could use the same blueprint for the interviews – and thus save a lot of time writing. Win/win!

3) Stock video: a collection of motion graphics animations showing Fediverse software

Earlier this year I created a Fediverse “stock photo” that journalists and bloggers could use to illustrate articles about the Fediverse… since most articles on the topic showed mobile phones with apps by Big Tech.Well, since I will be already creating motion graphics animations for my Fediverse videos, I thought: I could release these on my PeerTube instance and add a special Creative Commons license that would allow anyone to download and re-use my clips. I’ve noticed how online creators who talk about the Fediverse often use still images from websites… and well, my gift to the Fediverse could be cool motion graphics animations that look a little more polished and sophisticated.Hopefully when my little one will be a teenager, I will have stuff to show her: “Look at what mommy did to fight against Big Tech.” I’m trying my best, I really am.If you have any other ideas about how I could help the Fediverse – as a creative person – I’m all ears. And if you’re doing something similar, please let me know how I can support your initiatives.Thanks for being here,Elena

#activism #blog #fediverse #PeopleOfTheFediverse #stockPhoto #stockVideo #TheFutureIsFederated

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a photo of a woman - you can see her from the side, only from the knees up to her waist - wearing a bright red cape and holding a Sony camcorder in her hands

@mwl It's a good thing the #fediverse is actually decentralized. And trying to explain this to a friend using the analogy of e-mail and telephone.

Another highlight from 5.8.0:
You can now embed any Fediverse post in the WordPress editor—even if it doesn’t support oEmbed! When no oEmbed handler is available, we automatically fall back to our custom embed view.

Basically: if it’s on the Fediverse, you can embed it. ✨

#WordPress #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:

“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”

Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼

https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW

Thanks @grunfink@comam.es for the #snac server, @stefano@bsd.cafe for the blog posts that pointed me to it, @voron@snac.nya.pub for the theme and @manton@manton.org for motivating me with your book

Saturday night.
Wife is listening to some music and singing, relaxed.
I'm writing a part of a new blog post about doing something with #NetBSD, relaxed.

Have great weekend, #BSDCafe, have a great weekend, #Fediverse!

Tapestry 1.1.1 is here and we’ve improved the improvements! Jump to top? Improved! Timeline loading? Improved! Crosstalk? You guessed it. Improved! 👍

Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by-iconfactory/id6448078074

#TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb

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Screenshot from the Tapestry website showing what's new in v 1.1.1 Visit https://usetapestry.com/history for the full list of what's new

4chan: dead (and good riddance).

tumblr: Everyone's fired, probably shutting down?

wordpress: Run by the psycho who bought & fired tumblr, and is having a war with an ISP.

tooter, blooski, etc.: Ha no. Stick my dick in stupid twice, shame on me.

masto: Run by a doofus who thinks corpo scum are his friends & the "charity" is not ownership.

…

Well, what the fuck now‽ I gotta move my blog off to something safe. Just dhtml in Apache again? Go back to Gopher? I dunno.
#fediverse #tumblr #drama

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"

https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash @ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli

I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #resistance #SaveSocial

Good morning, friends of BSD Cafe and the entire Fediverse!
It's Wednesday, the day of the sea. Let's start the day with a photo of me taking a photo of the sea. 🙂

#Photography #SeaWednesday #MeerMittwoch #Sea #BSDCafe #Fediverse

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A lone figure - me - stands on wind-swept sand, capturing the restless sea with a phone. Waves break against ancient rocks, their white spray frozen mid-dance beneath a calm blue sky.

I used to be able to search for things using a search engine. It would point me to a source of information, I could decide for myself if the source was good or not. But not anymore. Recently I just wasted a lot of time trying to find something using a search engine only to get lost in an ocean of AI slop.

I finally gave in and asked my question to ChatGPT and it answered my question perfectly, it even showed me where it got it’s sources of information. The places it linked me to were either no longer existent (if ever) or only vaguely related. But it at least created the appearance of citing factual sources of information, in whatever way the statistical models have been trained to give that impression to the humans who use it.

In Orwell’s novel “1984,” we saw how a single government agency took all control over information, how the staff would keep a database of facts but constantly alter these facts to fit the view of reality that their despot “Big Brother” wanted the citizens to believe. The same thing happens now with LLMs presenting a very carefully tuned image of the facts in the database.

AI chat bots are an innovative new method of brainwashing, one which nobody could have ever imagined possible even a few years ago: get everyone to trust a mechanical Big Brother because it chats with you like a friendly fellow human would.

(Full article here.)

#AI #tech #internet #politics #ChatBot #LLM #ChatGPT #Orwellian #GeorgeOrwell #BigBrother #CriticalThinking #SearchEngine #Fediverse

Very excited to be at an in-person @Mastodon aperitivo at #IJF25. @andypiper is welcoming us all and setting the stage. The #fediverse can help build a more free, more international, more democratic social web.

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Andy Piper at the official Mastodon event at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.

Today was a good day. A very good one. One to remember for a lifetime.
Goodnight, #BSDcafe
Goodnight, #Fediverse
Goodnight, world!

The Biggest #fediverse #exquisitecorpse !!!

Thank you for playing: @cienmilojos @khm @thedaemon @Gregori @qrstuv @gortbrown @gettie @KotLovecrafta @smoon

#surrealism #art #gaming

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The biggest exquisite corpse. Starts with a Furby head turning into feet on shoulders of a graveyard around a black geometric fish turning into breats facing more breasts that say trump fascist which is the body of a wide man turning into the word CVLT which becomes a nice occult symbol melted into wires and strings of a bee-worm-snake which are actually a closeup of a shouting face amogus in a colorful maze and ink blots that are the body of highschool desk doodles on a face that are high art of castles and boats. phew.

Good morning, friends of the #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse,
today will be a long - but hopefully good - day for me.

I hope you'll have a great day, too!

Get a quick walkthrough of some of v1.1’s helpful shortcuts that make browsing Tapestry’s timeline even easier.

Download the free update on the App Store today - https://apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by-iconfactory/id6448078074

#TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb

If you're at #IJF25 next week, I'd love to say hi!

Particularly excited to chat about:

- Building a high-functioning technology culture
- #opensource for newsrooms
- Maintaining source anonymity
- The #fediverse / #atprotocol
- Collab with open source projects

But also, I'd love to hang out!

25 Years Later

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/25/25-years-later/

Old post, but still relevant – maybe even more relevant today than it was in 2023.

#MyNotes #OwnYourData #Fediverse #Mastodon

Tapestry 1.1 brings a host of great new features: Follow individual accounts & lists on Bluesky & Mastodon, automatically remove duplicates from the timeline with Crosstalk, and quickly switch your timelines with Tapestry’s redesigned navigation.

Learn more about these features plus dozens of other improvements in today's FREE update of Tapestry - Your personal timeline app.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/04/tapestry-whats-new-no-deja-vu/

#TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb

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This week we have @amin for the #OverUnder 012!

His views on the following topics:

- #Libraries
- #severance
- #searchEngines
- #MassSurveillance
- #Curry

#fediverse #blog #fediverse #web

#100DaysToOffload : 040/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-012

ICYMI: this weekend @Cris_Color posted on #Lemmy: "The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind"

https://lemmy.world/post/27824597

An excerpt:
"The fediverse is small, and that's both a blessing and a curse - one of its several blessings is that in a smaller space we all individually have a bigger impact on what the culture of this space is like."

I highly encourage you to read the full post - it's brilliant. Thank you Cris! ❤️

Wishing you all a great day & week!

#Fediverse #kindness

The Biggest #fediverse Exquisite Corpse Game

Connect the eight black marks in some way and post it to this thread. Try not to look at what other people drew before you make yours.

Don't know how Exquisite Corpse works? See my example in image2 or read about it here: https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/exquisite-corpse

#surrealism #art #unix_surrealism #theLudarium

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exquisite corpse example

Friends of the #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse,
good morning! And have a nice Friday!
It's sunny and warm, here. April at its best.

https://song.link/s/242juCDbq2XKb7FaPALYfO

#April #Music #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio #JukeBox

• Loads #Fediverse notifications
• @Tusky whimpers
• Phone bursts into flames
• Spacetime folds in on itself
• I'm playing Pasur with Dave Bowman in the hotel room at the end of time
• The unnerving space fetus is keeping score
• Captain Picard's 42 palms are simultaneously placed on his forehead
• The universe is singing its song to me:
  "Oooolwayyyz look on the broight soide of loife....!"

#Hellthreadia

@twizzay, I feel this toot was worthy of you.

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/peertube-the-fediverses-decentralized-video-platform-part-2-creator-edition/

My PeerTube account: @elena

mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @paige @srosset @MakerTube

#ActivityPub #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog

Today I got an email notification from #Unsplash informing me that my #Fediverse stock photo just hit the 1,000 downloads milestone. But when I clicked on its link I saw that the number is actually closer to 2k downloads - yay 🥳

🔗: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-person-holding-a-smart-phone-in-their-hand-9Xf-jxvfpW8

Long live the Fediverse - and yes I plan to create more stock photos! ❤️

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