In other news - Last Week in Fediverse 44
A roundup of the other news items of the week. For the full article, check here.
- @Jpd23 has been writing an extensive blog series about safety and blocklists. I’ll write more about it once the series has finished, but it is already worth reading, and provides good context and perspective on safety in the fediverse. Part 1 here, part 2 here.
- Evan Prodromou has published a command-line client API for ActivityPub, as part of his work on a book about ActivityPub.
- @Jaz is maintaining a list of all organisations that are self-publishing, meaning running their own fediverse server.
- One year since the day of the Twitter lockout, in which a quarter of a million people signed up for the fediverse in a single day.
- A call to action by Netzpolitik for higher education organisations to join the fediverse and control their own social media presence.
- Misskey fork Sharkey has added post importing, where they have taken the approach of not federating the posts, just importing them to the account. This avoids the problem of sending out notifications for old important posts, but does mean old posts lose favourite counts.
