Social Web Bookmarks

"This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web. We gather evidence from the technology powering the Fediverse (especially the ActivityPub protocol), current statistical data regarding Fediverse user distribution over instances, and the status of two older, similar, decentralized technologies: e-mail and the Web. Our findings suggest that Fediverse will face significant challenges in fulfilling its decentralization promises, potentially hindering its ability to positively impact the social Web on a large scale."

"Mastodon link previews can lead to excessive requests at the same time, which is not Mastodon’s fault."

Compaints about Mastodon's (and the AP microblogging fediverse) link preview behavior and the performance problems it causes.

"The short version of this is that I believe that Mastodon — more specifically federation and decentralization won't work out."

“SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published (broadcast) using the ActivityPub protocols and can be subscribed to from any client that supports those standards”

Provide definitions of "Fediverse" and "Instance".

"Threads.net has joined the Fediverse, and it is already blocking some servers. It uses a feature called Authorized fetch to ensure those servers cannot even fetch content from Threads. If your server is blocked, you can work around it by configuring a separate domain on your Rebased install to use only for fetching data."

"Specification documents and API documentation for the polyproto federated messaging protocol - GitHub - polyphony-chat/docs: Specification documents and API documentation for the polyproto federate..."

Data science study of Fediverse decentralization.

Critical view of some of the moderation-related activities in the Fediverse.