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Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads? What is Meta's goal here?

Farcaster, a crypto-based decentralised social networking protocol hit the news this week, by raising an eye watering 150 million USD, with a valuation of 1 billion USD, all the while sporting around 80K daily active users. For context, Bluesky has around 300k daily active users. The news raises a few questions: What exactly is Farcaster, […]

The Lemmy developers hosted an AMA, and I take a look at some of the comments that stood out to me.
Bonfire released more information how their project can be customised by different communties.
Open metaverse platform Viverse announces ActivityPub integration.
Owncast has released an app for iOS and tvOS, after many struggles of getting it approved by Apple.
Castopod has released an index of all podcasts hosted by Castopod. The Podcasting Index is building a bridge with the fediverse.
The WordPress ActivityPub plugin has received an update.

RSS Parrot is a new tool that allows you to turn your fediverse feed into a RSS feed. What was intended to be an ‘under-the-rader late night launch’ turned about to be massively popular hit in the fediverse. The tool is simple: mention @birb in a post with the address you want to follow, and […]

The link-aggregator part of the fediverse has grown, with the launch of PieFed’s beta test. PieFed joins platforms like Lemmy and Kbin who all have the ability to share links, and comment and vote on them. PieFed focuses on making the platform easy to manage, maintain and develop for, and uses Python. Developer Rimu is […]