Our passion project has relaunched, with all kinds of new coverage for the federated web.
WeDistribute, a fediverse magazine is back publishing articles related to the fediverse. An article concerning Facebook's imminent arrival into the fediverse and the reaction to this forthcoming event has already been published.
Why YSK? As a community the fediverse (lemmy, mastodon etc) would very much benefit from a dedicated magazine where fedi authors would be able to have their articles published intstead of in the mainstream media. It would act as a strengthening pillar for the fediverse.
Unfortunately there has been a wave of fake accounts being created on lemmy. Requiring email on signup is one way to try to prevent this from happening.
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not clearly defined entity called Barcelona or p92. This woud be very roughly comparable to Reddit saying they are going to federate with lemmy.
Yet here on lemmy I could only find a relatively small discussion.
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/62958
Did the lemmyverse not know or just not care that much?