You have to be crazy to put in this much effort as a single fedi developer.

But it's the crazy ones who change things — those who aren't fond of rules or shortcuts, who push forward against all odds.

Call them foolish, but they're the ones who change the world.

#fediverse #dreamer

Someone joined our Discord to post that @vidzy@fosstodon.org was a better alternative to Loops.

It's not a competition on the fediverse, because no matter where you are, everyone wins.

I love supporting fellow #fediverse projects, and look forward to working with the Vidzy team on federation and potentially a universal API so clients will be interoperable with both Loops and Vidzy.

You should follow them, they need more visibility ❤️

The roadmap a beast
3 apps for Apple
Preparing the feast
End of year timeline
Fedi will eat

🚀

#pixelfed #loops #sup #fediverse

The CEO of a well established company reached out to me regarding adding their project to https://fedidb.org, and I was able to provide them with the implementation details they need to allow FediDB to crawl and ingest their stats.

Once complete, this will boost the total fediverse MAU/statuses/users count quite a bit!

The fediverse keeps growing 🚀

#fediDB #activityPub #fediverse

I'm building a public Autospam detection service that will be compatible with Pixelfed, Mastodon and other projects!

I'm leveraging my expertise* in Autospam, along with my 3 year old dataset to build the best fediverse Akismet alternative.

Are you interested? Boosts appreciated!

• • https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

#pixelfed #fediverse #spam #autospam #activitypub #mastodon

Endless scrolling on Meta? $10.

Another privacy breach? $20.

Your data harvested and sold? $30.

Joining a community where YOU own your data and control your experience? Priceless.

For everything else, there's the Fediverse. #fediverse #OwnYourData

I’m just a guy from Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada

If my lil @pixelfed@mastodon.social project threatens Meta to the degree they join the fediverse, ban links or mentions of pixelfed, threaten legal action over photo filter names or copy features or side projects like Loops

I can’t do anything

But think I’m on to something

#fediverse

Shoutout to @jaz@toot.wales for suggesting the FediDB Popular Accounts list should show full federation accounts by default, while allowing you to see the full rankings from read-only platforms like Threads!

https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts

#fediDB #fediverse #popularAccounts

tired: Using Instagram to clone TikTok

wired: Building a federated TikTok

hired: Planning your "For You" federated TikTok algorithm on Matrix

#loops #fediverse #history

BlueSky was created by Jack, and he could have picked ActivityPub, but he didn't.

You know why most fedi developers have such a distaste for BlueSky?

Oh right, it's because Jack saw a need for monetization that couldn't work without a centralized infra.

Then he abandoned BS.

As much as you may think the SWF wants to bring ads to your fedi feed, I'm pretty sure you'll see ads on BlueSky first.

But the real ones will keep building, where it matters.

#fediverse

Fediverse Spam is a real problem!

Most fediverse implementations cannot handle it without reports or manual intervention.

There is one #fediverse platform that can though, and the local AI algorithm that powers it gets better every time a potential spam post is detected, and and the admin trains it by deciding "spam" or "not spam"

And it's about to get even more powerful, we're working to release the nextgen Autospam that can do much more, with much less intervention.

https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

Loops aims to be the #fediverse TikTok

We're building it for everyone, even those who may not care about federation!

The whole platform and discovery algorithm will be open source, and fingers crossed, will be funded by a grant by NLnet (if our application gets approved)

But more importantly, I'm eager to implement better safety and moderation tools to empower users and admins to create more safe, healthy and sustainable communities.

We can do this better, without influencers 😎