Content warning: This issue contains discussions of mass shootings and US politics. It also deals with the presence of alt-right gathering spaces on the Fediverse. Finally, some screenshots in the Fedichive section contain various slurs. This issue is more opinionated than the previous.
Read More »The Fediverse TriBune Issue 2Hello and welcome to the first issue of The Fediverse TriBune. I’m aiming to create an interesting news-style post every now and then (perhaps weekly?) to update users of fedi and outsiders alike on the happenings of the Fediverse. If necessary, issues may begin with warnings about the nature of the content.
Read More »The Fediverse TriBune Issue 1The popular Mastodon instance berries.space recently shut down, with all of their content being taken offline, most likely permanently. It was a popular home for teenagers migrating away from tumblr. At its peak, it had over 3,000 users.
When an instance on the Fediverse shuts down, its data is gone, unless the administrators make it accessible in some way. While other instances may have locally cached copies of some posts, for the most part, it’s gone.
This was not the case with berries.space.
Read More »Archive Team and the FediverseThis post contains coarse language. Thank you all for participating in my little survey! It ended about 15 hours ago now, so it’s time to look over the results one last time. This post will mostly be about the feedback I received, so If you want to do see a… Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 3
Mastodon recently added a cool feature that blurs images when they’re marked as sensitive and while they’re loading. I noticed that it automatically hides this blur when the image loads, but it’s trivial to put it back. Combined with the glitch-soc setting to display full images rather than cropping them, we can use two little CSS rules to change those ugly letterboxes and pillarboxes to a nice-looking blurred background!
Read More »A simple glitch-soc tweakUpdate 20/05/19: The survey has ended.
This is the second summary of my Fediverse summary. The first is available here.
The new data has been made available in this Nextcloud folder. It is available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
Not much has changed since the original summary.
Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 2Update 17/05/19: Changed the license to CC-BY-SA.Update 20/05/19: The survey has ended. I decided to create a small survey to get some information about the Fediverse. It opened about 16 hours ago, and I’ve already received over five hundred responses!! As promised, the response data is available under a free… Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 1
Updated on 13/05/19 to reflect new closing date, and again to link to the results post. I decided to create a small survey to ask a few non-personal questions about Fediverse users, their opinions on its various platforms, and their thoughts on non-Fediverse networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. The… Read More »A Survey of the Fediverse