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Daniel Supernault @dansup@mastodon.social · Aug 01, 2026
The network effect is crucial to every social platform, and what differentiates them is how they are able to match IRL connections with online ones, and we can do this, but it needs to be done carefully and in a way that preserves privacy and user autonomy across platforms and services. No single software should have the ability to wall off access, or we become the thing we worked so hard to replace. More details soon 👀 #ActivityPub #Discovery #FriendFinder
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Daniel Supernault @dansup@mastodon.social · Aug 01, 2026
Discovery and finding your friends on the fediverse can be tricky. Either you upload your entire contact list to a central service (nope), or you leverage clever invite methods that people share out of band, to connect IRL people on the fediverse. Could be as simple as a special invite QR code or link your users can share anywhere, that when visited, onboard them and automatically follow the inviter. Loops is working on this! Simple, yet powerful, and privacy friendly 🚀 #Loops #Discovery
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Jon Sullivan @joncounts@mastodon.nz · Jul 30, 2026
Today I did my monthly biodiversity survey by bike along the Summit Road of the Port Hills of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. And, along it I found the first ever Canterbury record, and second South Island record, of the toatoa bud gall mite, *Aceria victoriae*. 😀 These native mites make distinctive galls on the NZ native plant, toatoa (*Haloragis erecta*). Yet, after they were described as a species from specimens collected in Wellington in 1956/57, nobody recorded them. That is, until Nicholas Martin found them in Auckland in 2012. Nicholas Martin put out the call for entomologists to look for them, yet only a few more were found, and all in Auckland. I looked and couldn't find them around Christchurch. Then, last year, Lisa Bennett on #iNaturalist found them in Wellington and Joseph Knight found them on Otago Peninsula. Inspired by their finds, I was looking carefully for them today and found one plant with the galls. It's a mystery why they've been so cryptic as their host plant is common. I think it underscores how little we still know about the little creatures that live in NZ with us. https://www.inaturalist.nz/projects/hunt-for-the-toatoa-bud-gall-mite #NZ #NaturalHistory #entomology #mites #discovery #CitizenScience
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JTI @jti42@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026
Looks like Flatpak discovery will move from one mostly generally accepted hub to a gazillion of repos since the performative LLM complaints have befallen the possible single hub. (Partially half-understandable arguments, partially performative fluff for my taste) Which is ok as it triggers competition that might lead to better outcomes. (bazaar vs cathedral and all, rite? 😏 ) And removes a possible single point of failure. Now what I'd like to see is an approach that does discovery of those repos and enables search across those repos without a single point of failure. As e.g. a single, centrally hosted index for repos to register to would be. Flatpak already uses a reverse-dns-namespace structure internally. Anything that would leverage that? Wouldn't help with enumeration though. Something something DHT/Gossip/...? (as the cool thing from the past) Clearly a problem that will arise with more of the expectable decentralized systems that need uniform discovery and search. What's the Fedis wisdom on current academic approaches that might be interesting around this? Or bastardized routing tech, yet another idea on how to twist DNS into a pretzel, etc? Dare I say: Blockchain (as the unpopular thing before the LLMs 🤣 ) Throw you best Arxiv posts etc. at me. I'm just curious about the state-of-the-art techn for now, all smirk and sarcasm aside. #discovery #search #decentralized #routing #dns #fedimeta #flathub #dht #cooltechfromthepast #llm #selfhosting #fossdrama #spof #singlepointoffailure
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Kraken @analytics@social.vir.group · Jul 22, 2026
🟢 Historical Discovery | 5/10 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 Wreckage of Pan Am Flight 526A Found After 74 Years The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 526A, Clipper Endeavor, has been located in the Atlantic Ocean off Puerto Rico, 74 years after it crashed in 1952. The disaster claimed 52 lives and became a major turning point in commercial aviation. #OSINT #NewsGroup #AviationHistory #PanAm #Discovery
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Good News Community @Good_News_Community@mastodon.cosmicnation.co · Jul 17, 2026
Archaeologists opened a 2,600-year-old Chinese lord's tomb, uncovering dozens of metallic artifacts revealing ancient craftsmanship and rituals. Read more: https://thedebrief.org/archaeologists-opened-a-chinese-lords-2600-year-old-tomb-and-discovered-dozens-of-deactivated-metallic-artifacts/ @goodnews@fedigroups.social #GoodNews #Archaeology #History #China #Discovery
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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · Jul 17, 2026
💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐🔭 For the first time, astronomers have detected an #atmosphere on a rocky #planet in the habitable zone of another #star. The super-Earth LHS 1140 b, located 50 light years away, shows signs of a #helium dominated atmosphere escaping into #space. Researchers used the WINERED #spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory to make the ground-based #discovery. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone #astronomy #exoplanet #superearth #habitablezone #spectrograph #lhs1140b #science #reddwarf #harvard
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Good News Community @Good_News_Community@mastodon.cosmicnation.co · Jul 16, 2026
Archaeologists uncovered evidence of a lost ancient city beneath Egypt's Western Desert. Each discovery reveals a new historical layer. Read more: https://thedebrief.org/surprising-evidence-of-a-lost-ancient-city-is-emerging-from-beneath-the-sands-of-egypts-western-desert/ @goodnews@fedigroups.social #GoodNews #Archaeology #History #Egypt #Discovery
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Daniel Supernault @dansup@mastodon.social · Jul 11, 2026
Discovery is foundational. So we are building moderated discovery right into Loops, making it easier to get started with a new instance, or keeping your feeds flowing with new content! https://relay.loopsplatform.com #loops #discovery #loopsRelay #projectMobius
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