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Nice overview of Matrix in Europe, an open standard for decentralised communications.
https://element.io/blog/digital-sovereignty-is-built-on-an-open-standard-that-enables-federation/

Digital sovereignty is built on an open standard that enables federation
Across Europe, sovereign communications systems are already being deployed, and crucially, they don’t have to exist in isolation.

To give myself a break tonight, I'm focused on the state of the Federation instead. #StarTrek

The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-sued-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
4 YEARS FULL-SCALE WAR: RUSSIAN FEDERATION COLLAPSE TRIGGERED Vlog 1328: War in Ukraine
After 4 years of the #fullscalewar and 12 years of russia`s

Be some happy wine producers down the King Valley today
The agreement also secured the right for Australian producers to continue to use the term "Prosecco" in the Australian market to describe a sparkling wine"

Farmers rubbish 'worst ever' EU free trade agreement
The National Farmers' Federation says the deal will leave farmers without meaningful access to the EU market.

The nonprofit Consumer Federation of America sues Meta, accusing it of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scam ads on Facebook and Instagram (Maddy Varner/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-sued-over-scam-ads-on-facebook-and-instagram/

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

The condition of the economy of the Russian Federation is now more complicated than in recent years
Due to a strong ruble, high interest rates, shortage of labor resources and budget restrictions,
Reserves in the economy are largely exhausted,
said the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov,
speaking on Friday at the All-Russian Forum of Entrepreneurship Support Infrastructure "My Business" in Vsevolozhsk.

Решетников заявил, что резервы в экономике РФ во многом исчерпаны
Ситуация в экономике РФ сейчас более сложная, чем в последние годы, на фоне крепкого рубля, высоких процентных ставок, дефицита трудовых ресурсов и бюджетных

If you wonder who is going to vote fore One Nation I would be betting Federation Council at Corowa would be a start.
Federation Council to remove Indigenous flags despite overwhelming community support
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/fed

Federation Council to remove Indigenous flags from chamber
Despite strong opposition, the council on the NSW-Victoria border will remove Indigenous flags from its chamber after it was revealed there were no protocols to display them.

With the recent integration of CERT-VDE’s CSAF advisories, it becomes even clearer why diverse vulnerability data sources are essential.
CSAF delivers direct vendor remediation information, and when correlated with the CVE Program , it highlights how important federation and data correlation are for remediation efforts and vulnerability management as a whole. (See example below)
🔗

I'm way to deep in the research rabbit hole, went all the way to OG proceedings from 1888 because the sources in Wikipedia were questionable (random Time articles).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Proceedings_of_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_1888_(IA_sim_american-federation-of-labor-proceedings_1888).pdf

@… it’s important to know the difference between the federation type 6 and type 7 shuttlecraft https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Fe

Ahh too bad! https://www.nolto.social shut down.
But this shows the potential!
> Within a few weeks, almost a thousand people signed up. Companies created pages. Articles were posted. Events were shared. I never marketed it. It spread through blogs and word of mouth.
There IS a market!

Nolto - Professional Social Network
A professional social network that runs on the ActivityPub federation protocol, focusing on privacy, accessibility, and a healthy user culture.

Our very own Klaas Wierenga will take the stage at the GARR Conference 2026.
On May 20, he and Giorgia Dragoni (Politecnico di Milano) will explore authentication, authorisation and federation mechanisms for secure and seamless access to distributed services.
#confGARR26 will take place from May 19 to 21 at the University of Pisa, bringing together Italy's R&E community. …

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

@… Sorry, didn’t see https://xoxo.zone/@datn/116413751815612046.
Federation is a double edged sword :)

am a bit disappointed to see #ipv6 seems de facto optional, 2nd class citizen for #ActivityPub #federation. I mean federating with

The Face on the Building: America’s Palazzo Braschi Moment
In 1934, the Fascist Party Federation draped the facade of Rome's Palazzo Braschi with an enormous sculpted face of Benito Mussolini, surrounded by the word "SI" repeated in cascading rows. The building sat between Piazza Navona and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in the heart of a city that had been shaping political identity through architecture for two thousand years. That face functioned as an instruction.

The Face on the Building: America’s Palazzo Braschi Moment | David Boles, Blogs
In 1934, the Fascist Party Federation draped the facade of Rome’s Palazzo Braschi with an enormous sculpted face of Benito Mussolini, surrounded by the word “SI” repeated in casca…

I don't get the #matrix hate on Fedi. Apparently federation is only desirable as long as the government doesn't use it?

The first release of the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) is now live 🎉
This marks an important step towards simplifying and unifying access to Europe’s supercomputing ecosystem for researchers, businesses and public sector organisations.
Leveraging the trusted identity frameworks developed by GÉANT and the European #Research &

Huh, cool. A #Fediverse professional network: https://nolto.social/ 🤞🏻 that it makes progress. The current sway of a shit platform like LinkedIn sorta makes me puke in my mouth regularly.

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

About two years ago @… predicted that the transportation fallout will leas to a collapse of the Russian federation. This is rolling out quite slowly, but inevitably.
This one is about airlines
https://sopuli.xyz/post/4…

Russian Civil Aviation Faces Major Crisis as Nearly Half Aircraft Suspended for Defects - Sopuli

I love this premise:
"It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet."
It sounds real, gloomy, and plausible in the grander scale of the Star Trek universe compared to the usual warping about the Alpha Quadrant.
It's from TNG's 1x14 (Angel One) Memory Alpha:
https://

Angel One (episode)
While Riker leads an away team to a female-dominated planet, a mysterious virus spreads among the Enterprise crew. The USS Enterprise-D has discovered the wreckage of the Odin, a freighter that disappeared seven years earlier. It was disabled by a collision with an asteroid, and there are no life signs on board, but three escape pods have been discovered missing. The Enterprise travels to Angel I, the nearest class M planet, to search for the freighter's survivors. Angel I is a...

The Baltic region is preparing for a NEW WAVE OF AGGRESSION from the Russian Federation #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/the-baltic-region-is-preparing.html

While listening to discussions about federated systems and protocols at #fosdem (like the one I’m currently using): I realized something.
It recently resonated with me through some past and ongoing projects: when people are afraid of federation, they call it “balkanization” or “fragmentation.”
Sorry for the wording @…

High Risk Area declared by ITF and JNG. Seafarers have to be informed and can refuse sailing to Strait of Hormuz
Hochrisikogebiet; Seeleute müssen informiert werden und können sich weigern in Region zu fahren - Tarifpartner zu Straße von Hormus.
ITF ist der internationale Verband der Gewerkschaften für Transportarbeiter und JNG vertritt die Seite der Arbeitgeber

Joint ITF–JNG statement: Designation of High Risk Area in the Strait of Hormuz | ITF Global
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Joint Negotiating Group (JNG), as social partners of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF), have today designated the Strait of Horm

whats the best labor group logo Macau Federation of Trade Unions got a cleeeaannn one

OK, I am giving the #Nolto thing a try. Let's see how this progresses. #LinkedIn

Nolto - Professional Social Network
A professional social network that runs on the ActivityPub federation protocol, focusing on privacy, accessibility, and a healthy user culture.

I couldn't go to #VCF #Montreal last weekend because I was away. Did any of you go? How was it? (Despite it being way down in St-Jean, not in Montreal…)
Haven't heard anything at all. Worth going if they do it again next year?

1. XMPP bekommt Trusted Federation, sodass Gruppenräume nicht mehr nur auf einem Server liegen.
2. #XMPP bekommt Spaces
> Matrix is quite sucessfull and we want to copy from #Matrix

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116206239189454041
It’s a critical time for farmers to have access to nitrogen fertilizer.
According to a March 9 analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), in total,
about 50% of nitrogen applied to corn,
28%…

@Medileth@federation.network Hey 👋

The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3348006/

AI rift widens as China urges boycott of top US conference over sanctions ban
Move to comply with US sanctions sparks backlash, with China’s top computing body threatening to blacklist the AI conference.

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

50,000 soldiers LOST per month – the optimal level for the Russian Federation, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/soldiers-lost-per-month-the.html

I'm the president of Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation,
and my city is under occupation by the federal government.
Our community has pulled together, doing everything we can to protect our neighbors from being kidnapped and detained by ICE and border patrol.
One of our members was detained by ICE in the parking lot of their workplace and taken to a facility in Texas.
After two weeks in detention under astonishing conditions,
being pressured to sign &quo…

Home Page - The Labor Force
The Labor Force unites all workers to strengthen the labor movement through groundbreaking organizing and strategic partnerships.

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismis

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismis

#Nolto seems still to struggle with #federation

@Medileth@federation.network Willkommen im #Fediverse. 👋

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

@karlailona@mastodon.social Ooh, same! vBulletin was my jam! The federation aspect really does make it feel like “a bunch of little forums”, but more convenient.
Also did some HTML and CSS in the past, before falling out of it, but then rediscovering the joys of programming as an adult!
If you ever need someone to learn Dutch with, let me know! (Finnish always seemed like such a daunting language to me… 😅)

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to the Honourable Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson who the first woman to be appointed to the Senate in Canada. Her appointment in 1930 marked the end of an era during which women in Canada were denied civil rights. Born in Montréal on February 4, 1885, into a wealthy Scottish-Canadian family, Cairine Reay Mackay married Norman F. Wilson, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Russell, Ontario, in 1909. In 1919, the Wilson family moved to Ottawa, where Mrs. Wilson soon became heavily involved in politics. Her privileged background did not stop her from publicly denouncing appeasement of Hitler, defying her own government to bring in #WWII Jewish refugees, or a lifetime commitment to child poverty and refugees. And she had time to fight for women's rights to be in government by founding the National Federation of Liberal Women of Canada in 1928 and the Twentieth Century Liberal Association in 1930.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairine_Wilson

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…

Good Morning #Canada
This past weekend we were in Toronto celebrating our granddaughter's 10th birthday (they grow up so fast...) and while consuming homemade cake we were discussing the recently completed #Olympics. The controversy in the #Curling competition came up and my son-in-law mentioned it was like another Broomgate.
I had forgotten about Broomgate which is understandable because I've watched about 8 minutes of curling in my 6 decades on the planet. Broomgate was a technological leap in the sport of curling that came to the attention of non-curlers, 99.9% of the world's population, during the 2015–16 season. New brush head technologies from a new company caused an uproar as sweepers gained far more control over a sliding chunk of granite. Traditionalists cried foul, or whatever they yell after tossing their stones. It resulted in a World Curling Federation summit to regulate and standardize brushes in the sport.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Broomgate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomgate