preview: "Bob Mottram, Freedombone maintainer, shares A People's History of the Fediverse, covering federation advantages, Fediverse milestones and much more"
New minor diaspora* release is out. This version lets you see full-resolution images by clicking on photos inside a post. The release also improves diaspora* memory usage, provides a docker-based setup, and adds the ability to assign administration and moderation roles from within admin panel.
preview: "As an open-source Free Software project, diaspora* is created by its community. With an influx of new users there's a new call for collaboration"
preview: "New feature — client-side picture resize — merged in diaspora* develop brunch, will soon be available. Author got a $200 bounty. Take a bounty too"
title: "Fediverse Birthday, 12 years and counting"
date: 2020-05-18
updated: 2020-05-18
tags:
- fediverse
preview: "On this day, twelve years ago, Mr. Evan Prodromou published his first post on Identi.ca. That project now belongs to history, but Fediverse lives on. Happy Birthday, Fedi!"
preview: "Here's an overview of major events, new projects, issues and achievements in Fediverse 2019. You'll also find out about one important change on this website!"
Have a look at [fediverse.network](https://fediverse.network) - new stats. As any numbers in the federated environment, these numbers are not precise, but still valuable. Glue them together with [the-federation.info](https://the-federation.info) and you'll get a good picture of the Fediverse.
preview: "Announcing the first episode of a new podcast about Fediverse! The show will feature conversations with fediverse makers and community members"
preview: "This release includes bug fixes and enhancements, like hashtag autocomplete, automatic installations, terms of service module and translation updates"
This release includes some bug fixes and enhancements, like hashtag autocomplete, automatic installations, terms of service module and translation updates. You'll find more information and a full changelog [here](https://friendi.ca/2018/06/01/friendica-2018-05-released).
This release brings the restructuring of the item table in the database, alongside some 100 closed issues from the tracker. Other changes include translation updates, new configuration structure, possibility for admins to block certain nicknames and to mark a node for explicit content, and addition of private flag to API results.
You'll find more information in the official [announcement](https://friendi.ca/2018/09/23/friendica-2018-09-released).
preview: "Friendica the Tazmans Flax-lily is the name of the release, a tribute to Tony Baldwin. The big adventure of reorganising code brings many updates"
Friendica the Tazmans Flax-lily is the name of the release, a tribute to the memory of Tony “tazman” Baldwin. The big adventure of reorganising the code brings many updates and bug fixes.
More info [here](https://friendi.ca/2018/03/23/friendica-3-6-the-tazmans-flax-lily-released).
preview: "Join Friendica hackathon this weekend, offline in Berlin, or online! Hacking will be focused on the open issues of the upcoming 2018.12 release"
preview: "Hubzilla 3.8 released this morning. The entire apps and settings infrastructure was re-organised, simplifying the settings and improving general UX"
Hubzilla 3.8 released this morning. The entire apps and settings infrastructure was re-organised, simplifying the settings and improving general UX.
Among the notable changes you'll find: markdown table support, new addon which provides a reputation system for community channels, new addon that implements a WYSIWYG editor, new subscriptions submodule for Cart addon which provides online store functionality.
Read the official [announcement](https://hub.somaton.com/channel/mario/?f=&mid=819074605423c8e62856528cb91d2d2a3e5364f9014ce01d4ffa2faafb68b7b5@hub.somaton.com).
preview: "Disroot community created a comprehensive HowTo about Hubzilla. Check it out to know more about Hubzilla features (news by @paulfree14@todon.nl)"
preview: "As always, new release has many additions and improvements. In terms of better privacy, you can now hide following / followers lists, if you wish"
As always, new release has many additions and improvements. In terms of better privacy, you can now hide following / followers lists, if you wish. It also includes better offline support, performance improvements, RSS for users, admin UI improvements, support for running Mastodon as a hidden service, and much more.
Read full changelog [here](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0).
preview: "This release adds autofollow option to invites, preferred languages choice, default language instead of auto-detect, UI improvements and minor fixes"
This release brings autofollow option to invites, which can be useful for bringing followers over from other platforms.
Language opt-out is replaced with opt-in: users can now select the languages they want to see. Manual default posting language option is added next to auto-detect. The release includes some UI improvements and minor fixes.
Read full changelog [here](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.2).
This release brings public profiles and toots redesign, a handy new dialog to interact with remote posts on any Mastodon page, public profile endorsements which one may use to recommend interesting users to follow, better resize for long images (like comics), a new admin dashboard with a summary of what's happening on the server, and many other improvements and fixes. Read full changelog [here](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.0). This release also features federation relays - an optional tool that helps new small instances get more content.
Several long-awaited additions in 2.6.0 Mastodon release, including "read more" link on overly long toots, and link previews. It also features link ownership verification and redesigned forms.
You'll find the full changelog [here](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.0).
A regression was found after the release, so you might as well go streight for the [2.6.1](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.6.1) hotfix.
This release adds limit for the number of people that can be followed from one account. Once upon a time administrators used "follow bots" to find and follow Fediverse users. The main goal was connecting to as many other servers as possible, improving the view of federated networks, getting more content into one's timeline. Today we have relays for this purpose: there's a solution from [Mastodon](https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/pub-relay), and one from [Pleroma](https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/relay), while diaspora-protocol networks have had [the relay system](https://relay.iliketoast.net) for a long time.
Still there are and will be accounts that follow tens of thousands of users. Some Fediverse administrators think collecting user data is their mission. Servers like Albin project openly state data tracking. One way to deal with this problem is adding limitations to the software. Another way is mass blocking by other administrators. Perhaps, the most reliable solution is to consider all data users share publicly to be public, potentially trackable by anyone. As opposed to private data — data not shared publicly and not stored as plain text.
preview: "New web client for Mastodon. Simple, fast on low-end laptops and phones. Mastodon already has several alternative clients. Good open API is the key!"
preview: "Tootle is a new Linux GTK3 client for elementary OS and Mastodon. Confirmed to also work with Pleroma. Already available in elementary OS AppCenter"
preview: "Brutaldon is a brutalist web interface for Mastodon. It is compatible with almost any web browser, including text-mode browsers like lynx, w3m or eww"
PeerTube 1.1.0 release comes with the following improvements: CLI to run PeerTube without client, speeding up PeerTube startup, ability to disable webtorrent, admin email verification, ability for users and administrators to mute an account or an instance, moderation tools in the account page, bulk actions (delete / ban) in users table, search filter in admin following, followers and users table, ability to list all local videos.
Full [changelog](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases.atom)
PeerTube, federated video streaming platform, reached first [stable release](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v1.0.0). It's in the final testing stage, the official announcement is due Monday.
Following the successful [crowdfunding campaign](https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform) a great ammount of work has been put into the project. It was polished, improved and enforced with new features. Most [milestones](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/milestone/1?closed=1) were met. Among other things, PeerTube now has user subscriptions, subtitles and localization support, [advanced search](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/60), QR code to share video's URL, scheduling a video update, adding NSFW videos policy, ability to delete your account, blacklist local videos or set a moderation comment to an abuse, ability to import videos from a URL (YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, raw file etc), remote comments from other Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, Pleroma etc, magnet URIs in player and download modal.
Some well-known organizations, including [Blender](https://video.blender.org/accounts/blender), [Krita](https://share.tube/accounts/kritafoundation/videos), [GNOME](https://peertube.video/accounts/gnome/videos) and [KDE](https://peertube.video/accounts/kde/videos) have officially joined PeerTube. See updating list of early adopters [here](https://fediverse.party/en/peertube).
Would you like to see more video creators in PeerTube? Invite them to join!
preview: "Here comes Rustodon - Mastodon-compatible, ActivityPub speaking server in Rust. Currently under development. Go check it out, join and contribute"
preview: "Join the efforts to standardize Zot protocol, used in Hubzilla platform. This is a community initiative to push Zot adoption for federated social web"
