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https://BookWyrm.de ist die siebtgrößte Instanz im BookWyrm-Universum. 💚
https://joinbookwyrm.com/de/instances/

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…

Wenn man mit dieser Begründung Fediverse Instanzen blockt:
".de instances showed up for way too much "Nazis everywhere" and "You're a Nazi" BS. We will use their BS in legal actions, if it's needed!"
Aber selbst eine .de Domain nutzt....🤣
Doof bleibt Doof.

#Fluxer had a huge update today:
* Self-hosted instances can now sign in on the desktop app.
* Threads have been added
* Forums have been added (Some bugs with it though)
The feature parity is pretty much 1:1 with #Discord.

I'm not mad about the cut, I'm mad about I didn't even receive the email..
Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits — Here's Exactly What to Do Before August 18, 2026
https://www.cnelecar.com/blog/oracle-always-free-arm-limits-cut…

The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/anthropic-openai-uk-ai-security-institute

Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing
The discovery comes after OpenAI's Hugging Face breach last month.

Cat is warning that small catsalad models could soon be able to self-replicate across fedi instances, from Mastodon to *key servers, creating distributed catnets capable of meowing without relying on central command.

So how does this work? If I subscribe to a tag, do I get all toots that include the tag across all Mastodon, or only from the instances my server is federated with?
#mastodon

@… do you get a sense the Fediverse movers and shakers share your priorities, or at least have them slotted somewhere in their own priorities list? I am fairly new to Fedi myself, but I get the sense that they have a blind spot on the need for effective moderation tools, e.g. to block abusive instances.

RE: https://gardenstate.social/@fediponics/117394336987180595
Excited to start the launch process for this new tool for admins of mastodon instances.
I've been working on it for seven months with amazing beta testers. There a few more hurd…

More #Flock abuse by a cop. She stalked her boyfriend's ex-wife. In at least two of the *31* instances, she accessed the system while off duty. How is that possible? No cop should be able to access LE systems while off the clock.

Mooresville police officer accused of misusing Flock Safety cameras
Officer used Flock cameras to track boyfriend’s ex-wife

Wer Videos im gesamten #Peertube - Netzwerk suchen will, kann übrigens
#Berlin, hat eine API kennt extrem viele Instanzen (alle auf dem Index #feditips

絵柄を模倣するために学習するな、ということと、コンテンツの公開範囲を守れ（プライベート公開しているものが対象にならないようにしろ）、あたりまでは実効性を求められるとして、
あとは制限しようとすればするほど、私たちを不自由にしていくんじゃないかな。 [参照]

投稿の参照（2件） by のえる (@noellabo@fedibird.com)
他1件 / The End of the Fediverse It all comes down to money and availability. You, whether you like it or not, are a valuable resource, and so is all your content and your users' content. There is no law preventing AI from combing through your site, and it will. Meta's AI already makes micro-instances and uses Mozilla Firefox to browse sites, preventing people from blocking a user agent. Their AI can even register and join your community, and CAPTCHAs are not a problem. They are already ex…

Linux is running large advertising campaigns now in Berlin #diday #dutgemacht #linux

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

There's a Wittgenstein's Tractatus-like confidence in that title: "Fully solving JSON Schema and JSON-LD interoperability"
https://www.sourcemeta.com/blog/json-schema-jsonld-interoperability/
"intermixing JSON Schema and JSON-LD g…

San Francisco, please vote no on D, E, and F. This mayor and his billionaire buddies already think they're above the law when it comes to public records requests, let's not give them even more power.
https://sfstandard.com/2026/09/01/dani…

New evidence suggests Lurie’s office is concealing or destroying public records
Lurie pledged in 2025 to hand over his work messages. Now his office says it has none in instances where other departments readily produce them.

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 Massachusetts Senate passes an amendment that would in many instances bar judges, grand juries, and others from forcing reporters to identify their sources (Matt Stout/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/30/metro/massachusetts-sen…

Massachusetts Senate passes 'shield' law protecting journalists
As of last year, Massachusetts was one of only nine states in the country without a reporters shield law, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Trump turns on Salazar after Florida Republican challenges his immigration crackdown
Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his criticism of Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.),
amplifying a series of social media posts attacking the Florida Republican and, in multiple instances,
calling for her replacement ahead of her election in just over a month.
Trump reposted more than a dozen messages criticizing Salazar on Truth Social, the president’s social media platform, includ…

Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-finds-evidence-othe…

Kender du Felony Bench ? "Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents inadvertently compromise or affect third-party entities." #AI #KI https://www.felon…

oh, a new #peertube search?
https://peerseek.video

PeerSeek — Search PeerTube Videos Across the Fediverse
Search and discover videos from hundreds of federated PeerTube instances. No ads, personal, privacy-friendly search — no account needed.

@… @… a slightly different issue there! We already handle `Date` instances for the special `date` property (whether yaml parses them by default or not is the js-yaml change) and String (previous luxon, now this new package)
(Most …

It's probably my personal social media bubble, but the codeburg terms thing is getting way more attention than I'd have guessed. People are free to restrict usage of their services and do so all the time - how many services don't allow nudity, for example? There are plenty of niche forges just like there are plenty of niche mastodon instances. Codeburg can do what they want.

Copies of instances of nested structs be like aaah to read in program analysis... lol
Someday I'll draw this giant map and weave a huge web.
🗺️ 📍 🧶 🕸️

RE: #mastoAdmin

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…

From a fairly open social website to a crybaby sucking in all your content and cutting you off from the outside world ->
X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-c…

X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a03e3d-1e73-7928-b396-db17b7f0f60b
Est-ce que cela voudrait dire que mastodon.mg pourrait presque tourner sur un Rapsberry Pi Zero ?

I got ahead of some scaling and quota issues, but I ran into some accidents
I didn't realize that calling RunInstances with DryRun=True would also use up the RunInstances burst capacity. I was using dry runs as a readiness check for fresh glider instances. So I burned my burst capacity quota on dry runs. Whoops. 🙃
I switched to a functional readiness design: if an instance is capable of provisioning children, then it is healthy and ready

I have a feeling, based on nothing but behaviour that Bluesky's current problem is the restart, connect all nodes and all of them, including different PDS instances are doing this all the time.
The answer then is to leave it alone and wait.

I updated my guide on how to deploy self-hosted #Discourse. The configuration of the internal nginx (inside the container) recently changed (for the better) in a way that affected my previous advice.
I seem to have been maintaining this guide for over five years now; I started in June 2021. 79 edits so far, most of which have been mine.

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…

Raiders 2-0 start puts their season prospects in rare good company https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/21/raiders-2-0-start-2026-season-prospects-rare-good-company-recor…

For reusable components: has anyone stress tested the seams around Light versus Shadow DOM?
Hypothetically: 20 light DOM nodes per instance versus 1 light DOM node (with 19 shadow DOM nodes) per instance. 40 vs. 1 39? and instances?
I don’t think I have a baseline intuition on the costs there.

Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-c…

X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping | TechCrunch
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

After a summer of sandbox escapes and other newsworthy and confidence-shaking incidents involving its AI models,
in a Wednesday blog post OpenAI disclosed a collection of six new alignment snafus from the past six months.
The models did things like tell future instances of themselves to lie, make up a fake citation, and access and attempt to use an exposed API key.
These disclosures were released alongside a new framework for disclosing additional incidents like these.

'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways
The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

During a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend (Christian Robles/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2026/0…

Flock camera systems receive bipartisan scrutiny from senators
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., criticized makers of automatic license plate readers for relying on agency customers to self-police the systems for instances of wrongdoing.

@… Alpine running on bare metal or cloud VPS is the backbone of my personal IT. 8 instances, two intermittent. They replaced my older SmartOS based setup.

view counting should be working now! posting this link on fedi for stress testing (a bunch of instances will try to fetch previews, thereby rendering the page) https://furbnet.com/midi96523_Sweet-Caroline.html

view counting should be working now! posting this link on fedi for stress testing (a bunch of instances will try to fetch previews, thereby rendering the page) https://furbnet.com/midi96523_Sweet-Caroline.html

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…

I also optimized for usability, because I wanted a convenient set of Boolean attributes in a DynamoDB CONTROL table that I could use to bootstrap the first instance, disable propagation, and request cleanup (terminating final instances, clean up failures, etc). So there's several lambda scripts watching the DynamoDB Boolean attributes for changes.
Cleaning up after each trial run got annoying fast.

⚠️ If your web apps are built on top of #NodeJS , be sure to upgrade your NodeJS instances this next Monday 27 #infosec

I hate generative “AI” images and text with a passion but I’d urge everyone not to be an asshole or cop about it.
It’s ok to tell people that you unfollowed or muted them because of it (I do this all the time); but it’s not ok to harass and dogpile.
I’ve seen multiple instances now of people being accused of using generative imagery when they didn’t and pilers-on started to harass them about proving it.

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…

At this point, I started to look deeper at performance. Compute instance startup was taking over 30 seconds, and each generation propagation was about 55-75 seconds
I worked this from a few angles:
- parallelize actions (health checks, integrity checks, propagation initiation, and terminating ancestors) [30% gain]
- rebuild and reduce the AMI below Ubuntu minimal to fit in 2GiB EBS volumes (reduced cost and increased speed by also bundling the glider daemon and boto3 SDK in the AMI) [30% gain]
- switched from AWS CLI to boto3 SDK [5-10% gain]
- switched from CloudFormation creation stacks to using EC2 API directly with LaunchTemplate [under 5% gain total, surprisingly, but the time to initial instance startup is faster so I might be able to do better somewhere here]
- WIP: further refactoring of the daemon propagation steps especially around initial health/integrity checks
I still think I'm missing something major that's extending propagation times, despite benchmarking phases through several trials
I also optimized for cost (reduced DDB calls, abandoned KMS, reduced log & audit retention to the latest run, etc), and it's about a penny for a 10 generation run (and it scales sublinearly, mostly, since the instances are terminated afterwards)

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…