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We Distribute is teaming up with Bonfire to develop a new kind of social instance - one that elevates curation and discovery to promote all things Fediverse. It's a social instance, but also a discovery portal.

Fedizen is a collaborative effort between ourselves and the Bonfire team to build a new kind of Fediverse instance, one built specifically for the network and the communities growing around it. It combines ActivityPub federation with curated aggregation to create a network-wide community portal

In a nutshell, Fedizen is almost like a grassroots approach to building Yahoo, but designed specifically to serve the space. It’s an effort to collect all of the news coverage, community opinions, development blogs, events, and media, and put it into one place that’s easy to find, easy to filter, and adjusts based on what you’re most interested in within this space.

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[–] 3 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

"a grassroots approach to building yahoo"? the company that fabousry hasn't known what it's doing for over 15 years?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago

    There was a time, long ago, before Google was a twinkle in anyone's eye, where Yahoo had a human curated directory of homepages. It had a tree structure organized by subjects, and homepages at the leaves. It was a great way to discover content online. I think that's what they're referring to.

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