I'll admit I wasn't following the channel from my Diaspora account here (I am now though) But I was following from my Mastodon account on manowar.social, and there's still no posts there - and that's honestly where I'd prefer to see it.
One caveat is that the modern relay federation model that most platforms use relies on users to be already subscribed to a channel to receive its updates - basically the channel has a manifest of everyone that a post is being delivered to. In theory you could subscribe to the channel, and I could "redeliver", which is a built-in function for Hubzilla posts, but I'm not quite certain whether that just sends everyone plus you a copy of the status, or it only delivers a new copy to people who didn't receive the first one.
Nice. My first challenge is that I want to load the first post in that channel in Mastodon, and to load a mastodon-post, that haven't federated to my server, I just put the permalink in the search box. But I can't seem to find any permalink for that post, that works to fetch it?
Alternatively I'd like to fetch the post to the Diaspora* pod I'm on, but I don't know of any way to do that?
This requires some adjustment and fine-tuning, but you can subscribe to it through Diaspora, Friendica, GNU Social, Mastodon, Socialhome, Hubzilla, or anywhere that can use #OStatus, #ActivityPub, #Diaspora Protocol, or #Zot.
Jason Robinson was a long-term volunteer dev to the Diaspora project who made several important code contributions before deciding to roll his own federated platform. An avid Pythonista, Jason has specializes in Django development, and continues to tinker with decentralized communication.
It may be too early to ask a question like this, but would you also consider a section for occasional articles about efforts to distribute non digital power? Like, energy production, agriculture, corporate and political organisation etc.
One of my largest concerns over the past few years has been in the decline of quality news coverage of Free Software projects and the shuttering of outlets such as Free Software Magazine and other Linux-friendly outlets. Indeed, even at the peak of such outlets, there has been a long history of awesome projects getting completely passed over because it is deemed uninteresting to "the average consumer". Even popular outlets such as OMG! Ubuntu have been on a decline for years in terms of meaningful coverage.
In 2018, I hope for We Distribute to become a full-blown publication, a periodical that syndicates content throughout The Free Network and covers technical advancements in the decentralization movement. Most of this will still be federation-focused, but I've decided to expand my definition of The Decentralization Movement to include:
Free and Open Source Software - GNU/Linux, BSD, desktop environments, applications, etc
Distributed Systems - This includes Peer-to-Peer projects, as well as initiatives such as i2p and Hyperboria
Cryptocurrencies - AltCoins as well as other types of distributed ledgers / distributed value storage
Mesh Networking - Scuttlebutt and other initiatives
The idea for this publication is to write articles in a structure and format similar to Ars Technica or The Verge. The core difference is that, instead of trying to sell you products, it provides exposure for an ecosystem of digital counterculture, all of which provides free knowledge as a basis to build on. It would also provide simple news updates alongside chunkier articles, interviews, and in-depth reviews.
I'm still evaluating how I want to build it out, but I'm looking very seriously at using #Hubzilla as a base - that way, every single article can be dispersed in a federated stream across OStatus, Diaspora, and ActivityPub protocols. It could even get cross-posted to Identi.ca and Libertree.