https://mander.xyz/u/mrh posted on Mar 1, 2026 22:43
Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don’t even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
Now I’m reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I’m instantly sold.
Well, to be honest, “Movim” also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it’s a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.
You have to ask whoever is running the server but it is possible
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.
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.”
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.
So far, only 4 upvotes, and two comments:
One telling me to add Misskey and Sharkey to the post, and the other one of the spam Gaza comments / posts.
I’d think that it would probably work better if more people posted posts about the Fediverse, than just me
We keep things open and simple with lightweight, common-sense protections-spam/bot filtering,
That is incredibly not-true. That platform is an absolute dumpster fire of spam and illegitimate content.
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.
That’s an interesting idea. I think this would be most successful in a city that prides itself on being high-tech. Maybe somewhere in Japan or somewhere in Silicon Valley or something.
Nice that doesn’t sound too hard
Monthly Active Users^[1]^:
| Software | Current | Yesterday[1D] | Last Week[6D] | Last Month[30D] | 3 Months Ago[90D] | 6 Months Ago[180D] | 1 Year Ago[365D] | All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 6179 | 6173 | 5556 | 2322 | 1632 | 1648 | 304 | 6179 |
| Lemmy | 40418 | 41389 | 39183 | 36132 | 35313 | 40214 | 48182 | 72618 |
| Mbin | 808 | 822 | 825 | 773 | 739 | 880 | 914 | 3967 |
| Threadiverse | 47405 | 48384 | 45564 | 39227 | 37684 | 42742 | 49400 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 787641 | 788844 | 798673 | 740922 | 676783 | 684859 | 913427 | 2737163 |
| Pixelfed | 119519 | 120239 | 115309 | 120485 | 77178 | 111147 | 234134 | 338813 |
| Peertube | 41181 | 41348 | 40855 | 28695 | 26691 | 23287 | 35082 | 41348 |
| Loops | 8088 | 8316 | 8110 | 4423 | 1969 | 29174 | 0 | 29821 |
| Bookwyrm | 1563 | 1606 | 1609 | 3817 | 2805 | 2962 | 7524 | 9429 |
| Friendica | 2632 | 2618 | 2637 | 1460 | 1297 | 1743 | 4395 | 4734 |
| Forgejo | 114 | 121 | 124 | 510 | 386 | 370 | 615 | 1168 |
| Funkwhale | 267 | 266 | 270 | 258 | 218 | 227 | 480 | 1114 |
| Flohmarkt | 21 | 18 | 33 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 1008431 | 1011760 | 1013184 | 939830 | 825014 | 896511 | 1245057 | |
Difference^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[6D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 6 | 623 | 3857 | 4547 | 4531 | 5875 | 0 |
| Lemmy | -971 | 1235 | 4286 | 5105 | 204 | -7764 | -32200 |
| Mbin | -14 | -17 | 35 | 69 | -72 | -106 | -3159 |
| Threadiverse | -979 | 1841 | 8178 | 9721 | 4663 | -1995 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -1203 | -11032 | 46719 | 110858 | 102782 | -125786 | -1949522 |
| Pixelfed | -720 | 4210 | -966 | 42341 | 8372 | -114615 | -219294 |
| Peertube | -167 | 326 | 12486 | 14490 | 17894 | 6099 | -167 |
| Loops | -228 | -22 | 3665 | 6119 | -21086 | 0 | -21733 |
| Bookwyrm | -43 | -46 | -2254 | -1242 | -1399 | -5961 | -7866 |
| Friendica | 14 | -5 | 1172 | 1335 | 889 | -1763 | -2102 |
| Forgejo | -7 | -10 | -396 | -272 | -256 | -501 | -1054 |
| Funkwhale | 1 | -3 | 9 | 49 | 40 | -213 | -847 |
| Flohmarkt | 3 | -12 | -12 | 18 | 0 | 0 | -19 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -3329 | -4753 | 68601 | 183417 | 111920 | -236626 | |
Change (%)^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[6D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 0.1% | 11.2% | 166.1% | 278.6% | 274.9% | 1932.6% | 0.0% |
| Lemmy | -2.3% | 3.2% | 11.9% | 14.5% | 0.5% | -16.1% | -44.3% |
| Mbin | -1.7% | -2.1% | 4.5% | 9.3% | -8.2% | -11.6% | -79.6% |
| Threadiverse | -2.0% | 4.0% | 20.8% | 25.8% | 10.9% | -4.0% | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -0.2% | -1.4% | 6.3% | 16.4% | 15.0% | -13.8% | -71.2% |
| Pixelfed | -0.6% | 3.7% | -0.8% | 54.9% | 7.5% | -49.0% | -64.7% |
| Peertube | -0.4% | 0.8% | 43.5% | 54.3% | 76.8% | 17.4% | -0.4% |
| Loops | -2.7% | -0.3% | 82.9% | 310.8% | -72.3% | 0.0% | -72.9% |
| Bookwyrm | -2.7% | -2.9% | -59.1% | -44.3% | -47.2% | -79.2% | -83.4% |
| Friendica | 0.5% | -0.2% | 80.3% | 102.9% | 51.0% | -40.1% | -44.4% |
| Forgejo | -5.8% | -8.1% | -77.6% | -70.5% | -69.2% | -81.5% | -90.2% |
| Funkwhale | 0.4% | -1.1% | 3.5% | 22.5% | 17.6% | -44.4% | -76.0% |
| Flohmarkt | 16.7% | -36.4% | -36.4% | 600.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -47.5% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -0.3% | -0.5% | 7.3% | 22.2% | 12.5% | -19.0% | |
Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:
| Software | Fediverse-Observer^[1]^ | FediDB ^[2]^ |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 6179 | 6196 |
| Lemmy | 40418 | 49143 |
| Mbin | 808 | 1418 |
| Threadiverse | 47405 | 56757 |
| | | |
| Mastodon | 787641 | 1026747 |
| Pixelfed | 119519 | 129301 |
| Peertube | 41181 | 38969 |
| Loops | 8088 | 7997 |
| Bookwyrm | 1563 | 3818 |
| Friendica | 2632 | 3293 |
| Forgejo | 114 | 1421 |
| Funkwhale | 267 | 761 |
| | | |
| Fediverse | 1008431 | 1269064 |
Notes:
Takeaways:
Piefed
Thanks, I guess measuring the other way only makes sense in the community based threadiverse.
Wrong place to post this.
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)*
omg he’s still following you? what’d you do to trigger him so much?
Yeah. He hasn’t let up even a little bit. Seems he’s my new pet!
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;
[…]
© 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.
As a feddit.org user, I’m really interested how this discussion about instances obeying local laws will turn out when it’s about child porn.
For the record, I believe feddit.org goes far beyond the legal requirements with respect to zionist hate speech.
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.
Thanks. 85% for 2.0.0 is really good!
Thank you both for the news @myszka@lemmy.ml .
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?””
The later people are paying to join and sustain an existing and thriving community built by the earlier people.
I mean, from that perspective, sure. But if the main concern is lack of storage, SSDs currently are of no help with that compared to HDDs (let alone with production being shifted over to serve AIs and datacenters).
Perhaps a dual SSD solution, but still would have to be planned with the potential outcome of either upgrading one of the SSDs or add a third one.
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?
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.
Two Possible Models
- 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.
- 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.
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.)
Podcasts:
The Deprogram:
https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/The_Deprogram
Revolutionary Left Radio:
Guerrilla History:
https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/
Jacobin Radio:
https://jacobin.com/author/jacobin-radio
The Majority Report:
https://majorityreportradio.com/
Against the Grain:
https://kpfa.org/program/against-the-grain/
etc
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
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
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?
Also: would this risk becoming ideologically siloed? Or would federation naturally diversify perspectives?
Curious what everyone thinks.
Is this unrealistic? Inevitable? Already quietly happening?
Link to same post, but on Reddit:
The answer is in cross-posting.
They aren’t fediverse-first, and they’re French-based/French-focused/French-language-only, but Blast is an online, video-first news station that hosts their own peertube instance (https://video.blast-info.fr/) where they upload everything as well as putting their videos on YouTube. They also have a mastodon account where they share everything they publish: https://mamot.fr/@blast_info.
So, it’s definitely possible to have news on the fediverse, but I don’t think we’re at a point where it can be exclusively on the fedi - even if the stations’ website is ActivityPub-enabled, the majority of the people that a news station would want to reach just aren’t browsing the fediverse, let alone have accounts here.
