Fediverse

What is the Fediverse?

Wikipedia defines the Fediverse as:

The fediverse is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other using a common protocol, ActivityPub. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network.

Your podcast is connected to the Fediverse and, for example, Mastodon users can subscribe to your handle and will receive a message every time your podcast publishes a new episode. You can also broadcast messages to your followers on the Fediverse from your home page. Mastodon users can like and share your posts.

Manage Fediverse Blocks

You can block a Fediverse user or an entire domain to help stop harassment or spam.

Blocked Accounts

To block a specific Fediverse user, enter the user’s handle in the Account Handle text box. It should be in the format of @user@domain.com. Press Block to block the user from following your podcast.

A list of all blocked accounts is shown below the Account Handle text box. You can choose to unblock a user by pressing the Unblock button.

Blocked Domains

To block an entire domain, enter the domain name such as www.example.com in the Domain Name field and press Block.

A list of all blocked domains is shown below the Domain Name text box. You can choose to unblock a domain by pressing the Unblock button.