The #fediverse, a collection of #decentralised web products, aims to provide a viable #open web alternative to corporate #socialmedia.

💗 While it has a #passionate user base, it remains a #niche platform.

📲 At #FediForum, new apps like #Bounce, #Surf, and #Bandwagon were showcased, demonstrating progress in social graph migration, feed management, and monetisation for creators.

👉 https://thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-back-to-the-web-fediverse-vs-centralized-apps/?Fedizen.EU#Fedizen#Fediverse#ActivityPub#News

I'd love for this to happen but we're also stuck in the stage of replicating corporate platforms, instead of thinking about what we can do that they can't.

#ghost and #wordpress are doing this by making the article an AP item, instead of linking to it from a post. Maybe lemmy and mastodon should merge. most people don't post videos so maybe they don't need a #peertube account. maybe it should function more like podcasts. same with #funkwhale and #bandwagon.

Hello World!

I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).

I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .

I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.

What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?

I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.

I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.

#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub

@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon

I've been really enjoying some episodes of the podcast for Lorenzo's Music. As a band they're champions of CC licensing and Free Code audio production tools, and recently they've done a number of interviews about community-hosted music platforms, fediverse projects and platform cooperatives.

* Simon Repp of #FairCamp: https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/01/simon-repp-faircamp-self-hosted-music.html

* Simon Vansintjan of #Mirlo: https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/02/simon-vansintjan-of-mirlo.html

* Ben Pate of #BandWagonhttps://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/04/ben-pate-of-bandwagonfm.html

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#podcasts#LorenzosMusic

@lorenzosmusic

1. @anewsocial and snarfed.org@snarfed.org showed "Bounce" a tool to migrate between different social apps with different protocols e.g. from Bluesky to Mastondon or vice versa.

2. @benpate shows "Bandwagon" an application for musicians & artists to share their work & get paid using Stripe or other payment providers. He's using "Emissary"(?) to build this. Online payments are indeed important as Ben stated.

Awesome demo's. Very inspiring!
#Fediverse#ANewSocial#BandWagon #

"...the goal is that [BandWagon.fm] is maybe the hub of a network of servers. Maybe this is the first server people come to, set up all their stuff, and then use it to port out eventually to the server they want to be on. All those servers out there in the network, they could easily be run by small labels, or co-ops, or community organisations."

@benpate, lead developer of Emissary and BandWagon, 2025

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lorenzosmusic/episodes/Ben-Pate-of-Bandwagon-fm---Crafting-a-New-Site-for-Musicians-e31vrl7

#CommunityHosting#BandWagon

The Lorenzo's Music podcast have been doing a series of interviews with various people developing fediverse tech, or adjacent projects. The most recent examples include @benpate of BandWagon;

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lorenzosmusic/episodes/Ben-Pate-of-Bandwagon-fm---Crafting-a-New-Site-for-Musicians-e31vrl7

... and Gabe Kangas
of OwnCast;

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/lorenzosmusic/episodes/Gabe-Kangas---Owncast-Self-Hosted-Streaming-Software-e334rbt

#podcasts#LorenzoMusic#BandWagon#OwnCast

Awesome #Bandwagon news: I've just pushed a number of cool updates to bandwagon.fm - including newly revamped profile pages that are smarter, more streamlined, and easier to manage.

The new profiles highlight your albums, concerts, and news posts separately, showing each in its own customized layout.

If you're already a Wagoneer, then sign in to see the results of the spring cleaning. And if you're a musician and you're not on Bandwagon yet, well…. you know what to do :)