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[Video] "Four years later, while the fediverse plays host to a thriving community and unique culture, it remains a nonentity by the standards of social media giants. Why is this? How has ActivityPub created a constructive and enjoyable social media experience while also failing to bring that experience to a large audience? And what can this tell us about the possibilities and limitations of anarchistic spaces as a whole?"

From the creator of Cucumber/Gherkin: "The biggest problem with Cucumber is that most people trying it out don't understand what it is. Cucumber is not a tool for testing software. It is a tool for testing people's understanding of how software (yet to be written) should behave."

[Video] Mastodon is a "federated" social network that works like Twitter. It puts the control of data into the user's hands, not in a single corporation.

[Video] The plugin implements the ActivityPub protocol for your blog, to federate articles/notes and receive reactions from the fediverse.

The goal of these documents is to provide an implementation path for adding
Fediverse capabilities to Gitlab.

If you want to analyze Mastodon posts, getting them into Apache Kafka® is a sensible first step. Read on to find out how to do this with Typescript and NodeJS.

Learn how to get access to the Mastodon API and use it with CircuitPython! This guide covers what's necessary in Mastodon to get your API access token. Then, there are two examples, the first to post a toot, and the second to retrieve all posts under a specific hashtag. Toots away! (Uses Raspberry Pi Pico W)

twister is an experimental peer-to-peer microblogging software.
User registration and authentication is provided by a bitcoin-like network, so it is completely decentralized (does not depend on any central authority). Post distribution uses kademlia DHT network and bittorrent-like swarms, both are provided by libtorrent.

RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

Table that compares various Fediverse software platforms.