Today, we are taking the first step in building out an initiative to create opportunities for people to help build the Fediverse and create an organizational structure which can allow developers to coordinate their efforts where most needed.

We call upon anyone with both the skills and motivation to join us and the Guild we are starting, Guild Alpha. Read the announcement linked to learn more and find out how you can participate!

If anything discussed here has your interest or you want to help grow free-software and the Fediverse, fill out this form to let us know!

A video exploring the brief history of scheduling posts as a feature on Mastodon, in which ways it has been implemented, and progress being made to implement it.

YouTube Link

A lot of the other instance lists are automatically curated, so it can get confusing for very new users. I decided to quickly put together a manually curated one, to make it as un-scary as possible. If you have anyone you'd like to convince to join Mastodon, sending this link might help!

Considering adding more stuff to it later.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/588553

Eternal September is when influx from some other (often shittier and collapsing) platform overwhelms the unique culture that existed before, and in time fully replaces it. Destroying what existed before.

🧠 💭 Figure out strategies & actions in comments below .. participate!

For example, I introduced 2 hashtags for awareness:

• #AvoidEternalSeptember Raise attention to the culture clash.
• #DonateToFediInstances Help admins and moderators withstand the influx and give them your support.

We want to be gentle, welcoming to newcomers. Show them around. But also keep having the nice chattering and culture we had before, and maybe give those some extra boosts to exemplify and spread the vibes.

Here's a poll to make newcomers aware that taking Twitter culture with you on the Fediverse is just weir

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/476057

The activity of the SocialHub community, like all other 'fediverse-substrate' bodies, has waned. From an active community to just a forum. Now a decision has to be made for the future of SocialHub. The options are stopping, be just a forum, or revitalize a vibrant community. The last option needs people willing and committed to do so. To step up for the sake of Fediverse Futures.

Also relevant if you desire a non lemmy.ml experience

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/233810

Insufficient fediactivity across all the fediverse sublemmies

The EU via their Horizons Europe program, the Next Generation Internet (where e.g. NLnet are associated) (NGI Initiative) are the biggest funders of the free software projects that comprise the fedi. Without their support fedi wouldn't be what it is now.

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) recently launched a pilot to have both a Peertube and Mastodon instance on the Fediverse, hashtagged #EUVideo and #EUVoice respectively. On these servers official European Commission related institutions as well as individuals working at the EC can have their accounts.

This recognition of the Fediverse and the interest that exists in entering our decentralized social networking environment is an important development. With success of the pilot there will undoubtedly be a follow-up and more initi

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/279006

Note: Responses on cross-posted threads may be missed. The best way to indicate your interest is to reply to the SocialHub forum topic, or alternatively on the Fediverse announcement here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/273923

Hurray 🥳

On this 14th birthday test yourself on your knowledge about the fedi's history and our present state, and share the results with your fellow fedizens.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/248395

Nice introduction by Per Axbom who also just rejoined the Fediverse.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/228032

Quoting lostinlight who maintains Distributopedia:

🙃 Invitation 🙃

If you create any art / promo materials about #Fediverse under CC licenses, please, add them to this collection:

https://codeberg.org/lostinlight/distributopia/src/branch/main/sticker-bay https://codeberg.org/lostinlight/distributopia/src/branch/main/sticker-bay/promo-1

Also, please, use them!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/208058

Elementary my dear Watson, namely ...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/204666

On the new Discuss Social Coding (that has not officially launched yet) I posted some notes on a particular challenge the fedi imho faces, that hampers adoption and poses growing risks in the future if not dealt with appropriately.

The notes leave a lot of things I've been looking deeper into unmentioned, but you may find them interesting nonetheless.

Currently only a YouTube link, since the PeerTube instance I'm on has gone down.

Invite link along with general info can be found at: https://rentry.co/about-cc

If PeerTube isn't working, the video is also hosted on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjdzkZZOHk

Hey, I'm the new admin here, given that the previous admin has left. The only major change I'm introducing to the community right now is that there's now a Discord/Matrix server to allow for more real-time communication, which will make collaboration on these initiatives a lot easier. This thread goes more in-depth about the sort of direction I think we should take.

If you'd like to contact me, you can either do so on the server or via Mastodon.

One other thing I'll quick mention is that I have another community going, !selfpromo@lemmy.ml. If you have any of your own or know of a small fediverse creator's content, drop a link in the sub. Connecting creators with audiences I think is a good step towards fedivangelism.