Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94
Keeping up with links shared on your feeds with Sill, a new open protocol with Leaf, and PeerTube is starting to test their mobile app.
The News
Sill is a new app that aggregates the most popular links that are posted in your network. Sill connects to both your Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, and gives a combined overview of all the networks, as well as the option to filter the links. It not only shows you the links, but also shows you what people you follow have posted about these links, and sends you a daily email update. Creator Tyler Fisher describes Sill as an open-source passion project, and says he wants to make it sustainable, and is thus thinking about potential ways to make revenue. Fisher also says that he is ‘committed to always keeping the basic Sill web client free’.
The Leaf Protocol is a newcomer in the space of decentralised protocols, a peer-to-peer federation protocol. The Leaf protocol is working towards what they call an ‘agentic fediverse’. The Leaf Protocol is developed in tandem with the product named Weird, which provides people with a simple homepage on the internet. Underneath this website is Leaf, which provides the possibility of federation with other versions of Weird, as well as other potential products. The team has written here on how Leaf compares to ActivityPub and ATProto, as well as about capabilities and identity to see how it holds up to Christine Lemmer-Webber’s ‘recipe for making the “Correct Fediverse IMO (TM)”‘.
One of PeerTubes main goals for 2024 is to release a mobile app. PeerTube has now started testing the first versions of the app, available for both Android and iOS. They note that the app is still under active development, with some features missing.
Ghost’s latest update on their work on implementing ActivityPub shows that they are working on two different types of readers: an inbox for long-form content, and a feed for short-form.
The Links
- A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech – Elena Rossini.
- Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten – Soatek, as part of their series on E2EE in the fediverse.
- How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse.
- Loopless.app is a third-party Android app for short-form video platform Loops.video.
- This blog is now federated natively to lemmy – db0.
- Raccoon for Friendica is a new mobile Android app for Friendica and Mastodon.
- This week is Support Week for ActivityPub for WordPress.
- Discord is working on profile connections for Mastodon and Bluesky.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- ActivityPub Discovery is a new (draft) report by the SocialCG Discovery Task Force.
- ‘I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here’s what I’ve learned.’
- OpenVibe’s latest update supports for tagging users on multiple platforms.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!