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I am a very happy #Microblog customer – and if you look on #FediDb, they are one of the top Fediverse-enabled platforms (in the top 6) and just launched the ability to post to both Mastodon/Fedi and #Bluesky.

They are having a virtual yearly event online #MicroCamp and it's about to kick off. And @Onmyom will be one of the keynote speakers.

cc: @manton

Go see it here: https://micro.camp/

—@tchambers

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Afternoon fedizens, we’ve made it to Friday, and we’re a good chunk of the way through it on top of that.
Not much has gone right today. I’ll have to find a way to get in touch with a human at Audible because somehow my Audible account is no longer merged with my Amazon account, and when I attempt to re-merge, I can’t complete the second step. So as a result, Audible thinks I’m not a member, although I can see my library if I log into Audible with my username instead of… https://acarson.wtf/?p=255744

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#Barcelona, #Meta‘s Twitter competitor, will be ready by summer.

And lest you believe #ActivityPub integration was just some rumour, think again. In a slide, Meta confirms that Barcelona will indeed be decentralized and will be compatible with Mastodon.

Everyone who thought that AT protocol would easily win over ActivityPub, and that #Bluesky would kill Mastodon just because a few influencers joined doesn’t understand the sheer marketing power and pull that Meta has at its disposal.

But believe me, I’m not exactly cheering on Meta here. Generally, where Meta goes, shenanigans happen. I simply don’t think Meta is capable of releasing a product without dark patterns.

Nevertheless, I don’t think the Fediverse is even close to preparing for what will happen once Barcelona starts federating.

We should all be taking Barcelona very seriously.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak

@socialmedianews@venera.social

—@atomicpoet

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Public Notice

Lots of reports of crypto spam attacks coming in from multiple instances today.

Seems like the bad guys are getting kinda worried about Mastodon.

Instance admins are taking this very seriously and working hard to fend off the attacks.

What can you do? If you see a crypto scam post, don’t engage with it. It’s just a bot anyway. If you block and report the post it will help administrators isolate the attacker account.

We got this!

#CryptoSpamAttack #CryptoSpam

—@mastodonmigration

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In an exclusive interview, I sat down with Libo Cao Meyers, a top engineering executive at Apple, and talked with her all about her having polio, immigrating to America from China, working in tech, her new memoir, and giving back to the disability community.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/05/18/how-a-disabled-chinese-immigrant-turned-polio-and-ableism-into-becoming-an-apple-executive-and-author/

—@steven_aquino