Oversharing is becoming part of who I am, a way I process the world, connect with others, and just be unapologetically myself

If it’s not your thing, no worries at all, I totally get it, and I’ve got a handy pinned mute ready just for you whenever you need it.

📌 Pinned Oversharing
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672483154448377

📌 Pinned Mute
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672491895997540

No pressure, no drama, just good vibes and a lot of laughs. You do you and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

#AutisticAndProud #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Oversharing #Mute #Fediverse #FediBlock

Oversharing is becoming part of who I am.

📌 Pinned Oversharing
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672483154448377

If it’s not your thing, no worries, I’ve got a handy pinned mute just for you!

📌 Pinned Mute
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672491895997540

#AutisticAndProud #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Oversharing #Mute #Fediverse #FediBlock

Oversharing is becoming part of who I am. If it’s not your thing, no worries, I’ve got a handy pinned mute just for you!

📌 Pinned Oversharing
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672483154448377

📌 Pinned Mute
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114672491895997540

#AutisticAndProud #ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Oversharing #Mute #Fediverse #FediBlock

PieFed reaches 1.0 status, and two Lemmy apps announce experimental support for PieFed - @voyagerapp and @interstellar

I’ve tried Interstellar and it works! Voyager app I couldn’t login - yet.

https://piefed.social/post/956553

#PieFed #Fediverse

I’m accidentally becoming a #FediMerch guy.

Shiny stickers

Last year, I wrote a blog post, Fediverse for Freedom – which was about the importance of a free and open Fediverse, and how and why public institutions can support it. Since then, I’ve referred to this blog post in many of my talks and in conversations, and started to use the hashtag #FediverseForFreedom.

Ahead of FOSDEM back in February, I created some stickers to share – a Fediverse logo, overlaid with the text “I Am Part Of The Rebel Alliance #FediverseForFreedom”. They were quite a hit at the time, and since then I’ve used the same image in presentations. When people have seen them, I’ve quite often been asked where they came from.

Last week, Elena Rossini – writer of the fantastic The Future is Federated blog/newsletter, talented filmmaker and photographer, and (perhaps) the Fediverse’s Number One Fan – released a great, four minute video that both explains and promotes the Fediverse and open platforms not owned by billionaires

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One of the stickers shows up in several shots of the the video, and once again, I heard that people would like to be able to get some for themselves.

A simple site

I’ve been wanting to make the stickers available for a while, but the release of the video finally pushed me into getting this done!

I’d recently bought some stickers myself, from the talented Robb Knight, and he mentioned that he used Stripe Payment Links for his site. I already had a Stripe account, so thought I’d try the same thing.

So: now you can visit fediverseforfreedom.org (.com points to .org), and click on a link to to get a handful of stickers shipped in your direction! You can also easily just tell your friends, “oh yeah, I got them from Fediverse For Freedom dot org”. Nice and straightforward.

A small pile of I Am Part Of The Rebel Alliance stickers

There’s a bit more information about it all on that simple site, but I thought it might be interesting to write down a bit more about how I made it.

The site is running on Codeberg Pages. Previously I’ve put these kinds of one-off, single page sites up on GitHub Pages, or on Glitch. I’m feeling increasingly less comfortable about having all of my stuff on GitHub and hosted in the US; and, unfortunately, Glitch is going away soon (more on this in a future post). So in this case I chose Codeberg Pages, although I’m aware that they are themselves a platform that is currently in maintenance mode. I’m open to suggestions for similar sites, as I’ll need to migrate some Glitch apps somewhere very soon!

Apart from that: the whole operation is very low tech. Stripe Payment Links are convenient – Stripe itself can handle a huge variety of payment types – but, on the backend… it does not do much. No order acknowledgement emails, order management tools, or anything like that. All I get is a basic dashboard with information about the orders. I whipped up some simple Python that uses the Stripe API to grab the postal addresses of orders, and then creates SVG address labels for printing. The same code also grabs the email addresses so that I can send an email thanking the customer for the order.

In terms of shipping, that’s also a manual process – no “drop-shipping” here, I’m getting the stickers from my regular supplier (StickerApp), putting them in envelopes, and posting them out myself. That also means that delivery times will vary – although I had enough in stock to cover all of the initial orders, I’ve also been in Amsterdam for the past 3 days, so the first batch will go out on Monday.

One more thing I’m experimenting with here is GoatCounter, just to get a sense of traffic and interest. I didn’t want to put a load of invasive Google Analytics onto such a basic page, and I’ve had GoatCounter recommended to me a few times now – like Mastodon, it has also benefited from NLNet funding from the European Union in the past, and I wanted to see what was possible. It seems to do just what I wanted, whilst also being unintrusive.

What’s next?

Look… I don’t intend to become some kind of merch magnate, but I do know that some people share my own desire to display our commitment to the Fediverse and related causes, and if I can help folks to do so, then I will (did you know we already made a t-shirt? Elena has asked me for more in the same vein!).

If you want to look for other ways to show your support in public, and to give back to people or projects that work on tools that you use, take a look at the Awesome Fediverse Merch list that Jeff Sikes is curating. Plenty of options for everyone.

Finally – remember to support the creators of your favourite sites, services, and open source software directly, whenever you can!

1. Remember, as I heard in a keynote at the PublicSpaces conference this week: “the Internet is currently controlled by four or five fucked up right wing white men” – it’s time to rewild the internet, and take ownership of our data and choices. ↩︎

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#100DaysToOffload #FediMerch #fediverse #FediverseForFreedom #merch #sticker #stripe #swag #webApp

Já tem um "OnlyFans" do Fediverso?

Hashtag VemProFodeverso

#VemProFediverso #fediverse

How’s are day going #Fediverse friends? Have anything fun planned today?

I’m home today not feeling well. 😞 Rested in bed for a bit but now up drinking some coffee then going to work on a side project for a friend.

#koffeewithkyle #goodmorning

Alongside our upcoming plans, we’ve already shipped several important features in recent releases. Here are some highlights of what’s now available in the ActivityPub plugin.

Onboarding

We’ve added an onboarding flow after plugin activation to help guide new users through key decisions — such as selecting the Actor Mode.

It’s also a great opportunity to explain Fediverse concepts for users who are new to them.

More details:

👉 5.9.0 — Easier onboarding for your Fediverse experience

Move

The Move Activity is used by Mastodon to migrate accounts to different servers — and can also be used for domain or username changes.

In the WordPress ecosystem, one of the main motivations for implementing Move was to support changing the domain of a WordPress blog — a common scenario for WordPress site owners.

We’ve built a solid foundation in the plugin to both send and receive Move Activities. However, because Move is not yet widely adopted across the Fediverse, we’ve decided to pause further work on this feature until there is broader ecosystem support.

Account migration remains a crucial capability for a healthier, more portable social web. If you’re interested in the broader context and challenges around this, we recommend watching Cory Doctorow’s keynote from the June FediForum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Gs1t0qe78

We’ll revisit this as the standard matures and more servers implement consistent handling of Move.

More details:

👉 GitHub — Move Milestone

Outbox

Earlier versions of the plugin supported only the federation of custom post types, sending all messages in one bulk.

That approach works up to about 1000 followers, but does not support retries, logging, or error handling.

To support larger blogs or news sites — we needed a more robust system.

We now have mechanisms to:

• Federate activities to more than 1000 followers.
• Use a staggered delivery system that prioritizes servers.
• Provide a stable and scalable architecture.
• Support retries and error reporting.

This improved Outbox system also makes it easier for third-party plugin developers to federate their own content types in a reliable and scalable way.

More details:

👉 GitHub — Outbox Milestone

Changelogs

These are just the major milestones. If you’re interested in everything we ship, be sure to subscribe or follow the blog — we publish detailed changelog posts with every new plugin release, listing all new features and improvements.

As always, we welcome your feedback and ideas — they help shape the future of the ActivityPub plugin and the growing WordPress Fediverse community! 🚀

🚀 Our first online install party is happening!

Join us this Friday to set up your own Bonfire instance 🔥
We’ll focus on setting up an instance with @coopcloud, answer questions, and support each other along the way.

📅 Friday 26 June at 15:30 UTC
📍 Details: https://mobilizon.libretic.fr/events/c0c0b536-5216-412b-a277-1dadead06997

#Bonfire #Fediverse #FOSS #InstallParty #SelfHosting

In case you missed it over the weekend, Tapestry 1.2.1 is now available in the App Store.

Sound effects respect Silent Mode, we’ve added a new refreshing behavior, checks to prevent ads from appearing when they shouldn't and more.

View the complete list of what's new - https://usetapestry.com/history

Available now in the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tapestry-by-iconfactory/id6448078074

#TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb

BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm

This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.

If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading

#FediTips #BookWyrm #Goodreads #Fediverse #Books

Bienvenidos a masto.es, servidor de Mastodon para hispanohablantes de temática general. Ampliación del límite de caracteres en una publicación a 2000 caracteres.

https://masto.es

Acerca de: https://masto.es/about
Administrado por: @rober

#FeaturedServer #Español #Hispanohablantes #España #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

EDIT: Unclear if PeerTube is still using this...see thread for more info.
 
PeerTube has RSS feeds with WebTorrent links. You can grab those links and seed whatever content you wish using a WebTorrent client without having to install an entire PeerTube instance.

What does this do? It helps alleviate some of the streaming costs of servers and ensures a smoother experience for everyone on the decentralized web.

Yay for open source platforms!

https://webtorrent.io/desktop/

#Fediverse #PeerTube

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A webtorrent client (the only webtorrent client?) that allows you to be a peer and seed data for the videos.

Greetings 👋
#Fediverse
#MutualAid
Guys I have already pack the bricks 🧱 today for more space for other 20 bags which’s left to make bricks.

Next week we will complete making bricks 🧱. My donation is still going as we are looking forward to use and pay the contractor and his workers.

I still need help right now because it’s soon going to be rain and would be nice we starts before it rains.

🙏Please if you can’t support financially you can please boost our post!

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

Sunny.garden is a Mastodon server for creative people who draw, paint, sculpt, write, design, program, play, sing or build, and anyone who thinks that is a nice place to be.

https://sunny.garden

Posts on this server can be up to 1500 characters in length. This server is hosted in Canada and has been operating since April 2022.

You can find out more at https://sunny.garden/about or contact the admin @brook

#FeaturedServer #Creatives #Art #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Greetings thank you all.
#Fediverse
Guys now we create a ko-Fi account for our house #donation as we are still trying raise some money to build our house and asking for #Help ✌️

#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest

We post pictures and text it’s less than 5min reading on the link below and you can now donate for us through there!

Link

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

if anyone has extra and can help we really appreciate. 🍀

🙏🙏If you can’t support financially you can please boost our post. Bless you❤️

Greetings.👋

#Fediverse

I’m planning to starting on Tuesday on the house rebuilding since we got sand an cement but I’m left with few things which I really need like concrete stone and gravel I’m please 🙏 asking for #help on our donation as every dollar help and nothing is small. Whatever we will kindly appreciate ❤️ God bless.

#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

Please If you can’t support financially you can please boost our post. God Bless you❤️

Greetings 👋
#Fediverse

#Guys so far we are at 26% on our donation out of 2500 euro we are still going small by small I thank you all for the support.🙏❤️🍀👍

We now secure stone sand and 20 bag of cement to the 30 to make it 50 bags.

Right now I only need two things which’s gravel and some money to pay the contractor and I still need some help if anyone can #contribute as nothing is small through our kofi

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

If you can’t support financially you can please boost our post🙏

My family really thank you all from the bottom of their heart for standing by us especially some who really want to see us in our house again may God bless you all for the support as you can see we are making a good progress almost got all the material needed I send you all a big thank you and I’m truly grateful to you.

Let please make it work out.

Everything you see on the video is from one person to another which’s a big love anyone can get from you all on the #Fediverse more blessings.

Greetings 👋
#Fediverse

#Guys so far we are at 46% on our donation out of 2500 euro we are still going small by small I thank you all for the support.🙏❤️🕊️✌️

Now we secure sand stone cement and I will be buying gravel with steal rod soon for the pillars back fill. But I still need some help to start paying the contractor.

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

The space needed to make some bricks is clean as I’m looking forward to it this week

If you can’t support financially you can please boost our post🙏

Greetings 👋
#Fediverse

Guys yesterday we started making bricks as we are already done with buying the materials needed for the house #rebuilding.

We will continue making bricks as I expect to use either 50 or 60 bag for bricks only.
The boys has already hit 20 bags it’s left with 40 bags.

Tomorrow they’re coming for another 20 bags once we hit the 60 bags we will stop making bricks but for now we are continuing with the bricks.

Guys #Fediverse so far we received 46% out of 2,500 euros on our #donation to rebuild our family house.

It’s the money we use to buy sand concrete stone gravel and cement we are already done with the buying but I still need some help to use about 800 euros to pay the workers to come and starts the house itself.

I’m still asking for help as nothings small every dollar means a lot.

you all made this possible, let's keep it going👍🤲

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

🙏Please you can boost our post❤️

Greetings 👋
#Fediverse

Guys we are still continuing with the bricks 🧱 but now it’s left with 20 bags to make it 60 bags as we plan. I’m going to water bricks in this two days and pack them for space and hit the other 20 bags which’s left.

Guys I still need your #Help and #support to be able to pay the contractor and his workers as we got all the materials needed.
Whatever we really appreciate❤️👍

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

Please 🙏 if you can’t support financially you can boost our post. 🤲🤲

Greetings 👋
Current position on the land.
#Fediverse
#MutualAid
#MutualAidRequest

Cleaned the house area which I starts.

Everything is set once we raise some money through on our kofi/paypal we will start the house directly as it’s the only things whichs taking us from starting the house itself an all work will be post on the kofi and fedi.

We need some help 🙏🙏 as we want to pay the contractor and his workers to starts the house since we secured materials needed.

https://mstdn.social/@Sbarry8520/114700812631261721

Greetings 👋
#Fediverse

Guys so far we raised 60 euros out of 500 euros which I want to use to pay the contractor and his workers to build the house.

The contractor and his workers need almost 1000 euros for the whole project as payment but I need 500 euros to give them as a starting.

I really need help from anyone who can support financially or please 🙏 boost our post and share the words.

https://ko-fi.com/uggla/goal?g=23

It’s soon going to rain 🌧️ and it will be good if we starts before that.

Please read the screen cap closely and also read the Alt text & realize how much boxyBSD has blown up

600 plus VMS!!!

#BoxyBSD #programming #Coding #Debian #GNU #Linux #FediVerse #freeBSD #HowTos #KVM #Module #Development #OpenSource #OS #ProxLB #LoadBalancer #Proxmox #Ansible #Virtualization #Xen #Bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh

An insightful article was written by @gyptazy
If this is of your interest, and you take the time to read, analyze between the lines what has been said, you will learn a lot from this

If you are passionate about Proxmox like I am, you will love to read these kind of posts, because they've been systematically, logically and relatively simply formulated, so that it's digestible for the end user of proxmox all the way up to the diehard programmer who hacks in Proxmox code

#BoxyBSD #programming #Coding #Debian #GNU #Linux #FediVerse #freeBSD #HowTos #KVM #Module #Development #OpenSource #OS #ProxLB #LoadBalancer #Proxmox #Ansible #Virtualization #Xen #Bash #csh #zsh #ksh #tksh

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The image shows a mobile device screen displaying a blog post titled "How My BoxyBSD Project Boosted the Proxmox Ecosystem" by gyptazy, a DevOps professional. The post is dated 2025-06-06 and covers topics such as Ansible, BoxyBSD, coding, Debian GNU/Linux, and Proxmox. The post's content is about building a free VPS hosting platform with full IPv6 support, aimed at beginners and small open-source projects. The post's author, gyptazy, is represented by a cartoon penguin avatar. The blog post is part of a website with navigation options for About, Blog, Talks, Projects, and Skills. The image also includes a logo for BoxyBSD with the text "ProxLB BoxyBSD" and a brief excerpt from the post discussing the initial goal of the BoxyBSD project. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.233 Wh

Hi, if you speak any of the following languages, I could really use your help translating a few words for https://jointhefediverse.net.

فارسی,العربية,Bahasa Indonesia, Български, Català, Čeština, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Deutsch (DE), Español (ES), Esperanto, Euskara, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português (BR), Русский, Slovenčina, Suomi, 臺灣正體中文

- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/118
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/138
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/137

#translation #localization #opensource #HelpWanted #fediverse #JoinTheFediverse

Warum Sharkey?

Ich bin schon seit einigen Jahren im Fediverse unterwegs. Mastodon, Friendica, GoToSocial, Firefish – ich habe sie alle ausprobiert. Jede Instanz war ein neuer Versuch, ein neues Fragment von dem, was ich suche: einen Ort, an dem meine Gedanken nicht nur verhallen, sondern Resonanz finden.

Man muss sich irgendwann die Frage stellen: Was will ich eigentlich mit all dem? Und welche Funktionen braucht es, um das zu ermöglichen?

Sharkey ist ein Fork von Misskey, entstanden aus den Überresten von Firefish. Und genau hier habe ich gefunden, was ich brauche. MFM, Gruppen, Kanäle, Clips, Seiten – all diese Dinge ermöglichen mir, Inhalte auf eine Weise zu teilen, die zu mir passt. Es geht nicht nur um das Posten, sondern um Austausch und Zusammenarbeit. Um Räume, in denen eine kleine Gemeinschaft wachsen kann, spezifisch und geschützt.

Das Design? Endlich etwas, das nicht aussieht, als wäre es in den frühen 2000ern oder gar 1990ern hängen geblieben. Es ist stimmig, aufgeräumt und modern, ohne dabei kühl zu wirken.

Und obwohl Sharkey viele Funktionen bietet, bleibt es ein Microblog – und das ist gut so. Verständlich, klar strukturiert. Hubzilla mag mächtiger sein, aber darin liegt auch seine Schwäche: es erschlägt, verwirrt, verliert die einfachen Nutzer:innen schnell im Dschungel seiner Möglichkeiten.

Ich hoffe, dass Sharkey bleibt. Dass die Entwickler:innen weiter daran arbeiten, dass es wächst und nicht – wie Calckey oder Firefish – irgendwann einfach verschwindet. Es scheint ein Fluch zu sein, der auf Misskey-Forks liegt. Und doch: vielleicht überlebt Sharkey. Vielleicht bricht es den Zyklus.

Für jetzt jedenfalls bin ich angekommen.
Ich wünsche euch einen ruhigen, erholsamen Sonntag. Wir alle suchen einen Ort, der uns nicht verändert – sondern versteht.

#Fediverse #Sharkey #Misskey #Microblogging #Firefish #DigitaleIdentität #Plattformwahl #Hubzilla #Mastodon #ActivityPub

Ω🪬Ω
new release of #Fedialgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, counts the number of times each hashtag appears in your timeline even if people don't use a "#" character to give you a better sense of what people are talking about in the Fediverse.

there's a little bit of art vs. science here because some strings are disqualified from this kind of counting (e.g. a word like "the" should not be counted even if some maniac decided to make it a hashtag) so let me know if you see any weirdly high counts.

* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #Masto #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #MastoJS #nodejs #node #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev #hashtag #typescript #hashtags

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screenshot of fedialgo hashtag filters

The #fediverse family just grew! You now can share and interact with trails using #wanderer ! I love this a lot!
The federation feature just got released, so check it out and if you want contribute: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
In the screenshot attached you can see a post by @demo, how cool is that?!
#activitypub #selfhosted #opensource #foss

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The image shows a screenshot of a mastodon client. In it a post by @demo@demo.wanderer.to displaying a picture of a trail with the GPX file attached and a link to the post.

my friend @Momodou is probably the only person on the #fediverse using it to build a house with, and that's pretty incredible
https://mstdn.social/@Sbarry8520/114700812631261721

wanderer, a self hosted trail logging app, has added federation via ActivityPub. You can now follow, like and comment on trails shared from other instances.

https://wanderer.to/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

Kzoo.to is a community Mastodon server for the Kalamazoo area in Michigan, USA:

https://kzoo.to

You can find out more at https://kzoo.to/about or contact the admin @notsle

#FeaturedServer #Kalamazoo #Michigan #USA #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Overlooking the Rady Shell amphitheater, a fediverse sticker has been placed by <someone> on a lamp post on the patio of the convention center.

This is a perfect spot, as they tend to blast classic Star Wars soundtracks to test audio setups during the week. Sure to attract potential fedizens!

@anewsocial has the sticker if you’d like to purchase it

#Fediverse

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A sticker for the fediverse placed in a lamp post overlooking an amphitheater on the bay in San Diego.

Eagle-eyed product developer @parkerortolani spotted something in Apple's WWDC 2025 presentation: Mastodon. During designer Billy Sorrentino's section on visual intelligence, there's a clear shot of @ivory. "It was clearly both a way to subtly show developers what they can do with their own apps, but also read as a sort of endorsement of Mastodon as a social platform," Ortolani writes on his blog. "Apple didn’t show Bluesky, Threads, or X. They chose to show a third-party Mastodon client."

https://flip.it/WaNDJK

#Tech #Technology #Mastodon #Ivory #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Apple #WWDC

Week in Fediverse 2025-06-20

Servers

- PeerTube v7.2.1
- Manyfold v0.114.0
- Mitra v4.5.0
- Misskey v2025.6.1
- Sharkey v2025.4.3
- NodeBB v4.4.4
- Surfacing discussions (Ghost)
- New Look, Faster Blocks in ActivityPub 6.0.0 (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- BadgeFed @ FediForum June 2025: Unconferences, Demos, and Community Feedback (BadgeFed)
- BDServer: Server software for making blogs and other similar websites
- Shoot: Instant messenger for the fediverse

Clients

- Moshidon v110
- Aria v1.2.2
- Thunder v0.7.1
- Voyager v2.36.0
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.4.0.1
- xymopen/CuckooPlus: A GooglePlus-like third-party web client for Mastodon

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v14.0.0
- FIRES Server v0.2.0
- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.1.1 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- Fedify v1.6.2
- Fedialgo v0.74.0

Protocol

- Messaging Layer Security over ActivityPub
- FEP-844e: Capability discovery
- FEP-521a: Representing actor's public keys (Finalized)

Articles

- Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
- ORCID and the Fediverse: What Can We Do with Public Information?
- The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)
- Fediverse Report – #121

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01976ad6-6dbf-3ce4-c032-b3717e766ace

The Fediverse Report will now be known as Connected Places, still keeping a. weekly fediverse report along with other decentralized platforms in separate newsletters.

This makes sense to me, as I have followed Laurens work for a few years now. They have never been ONLY covering the fediverse - Nostr, Farcaster, Bluesky - were always fully investigated, understood and reported on. It's one of the reason I subscribed early on.

Now the name fits!

https://connectedplaces.online/

#Fediverse

🚀 FediCon has a new shiny look for its website.

Thanks for FediCon's new look go to @dansup !

Check it out at:

https://fedicon.ca

...

FediCon is where the Fediverse community gathers IRL.

📍 Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 1-2

Get on the early bird list:

https://fedicon.ca

...

And, if want to present at FediCon, reach out to us via e-mail:

📧 hello@fedicon.ca

OR find me on the Fediverse:

📱 @reiver

#FediCon #FediCon2025 #Fediverse

The #fediverse has given me so much, so I love giving back.

Beyond @pixelfed, @loops and @supapp, I've built tools to help our community thrive:

https://fedidb.com
https://fediverse.info
https://pubkit.net
https://respectfulplatforms.org
https://socialweb.network
https://fedithreat.net

Actions speak louder than words, so build 🚀

#WeTheFediverse

In this version of ActivityPub for WordPress, most blocks received a pretty fundamental overhaul of their technical infrastructure, design, and functionality.

The biggest change is almost invisible—all blocks now use WordPress’ Interactivity API under the hood, shedding a substantial amount of load-heavy scripts. On well-optimized sites, this should lead to noticeably quicker load times and improved web vitals.

Let’s dive in and look at each block individually.

Follow Me Block

After updating, you might glance at your existing Follow Me blocks and think… “Did anything change?” That’s the goal! We’ve worked hard to keep things fully backwards compatible, so nothing should break—or even look too different—unless you want it to.

The “Follow” button was updated to use WordPress’ built-in Button block, so all those customization options you already know and love are right there. We also turned “Button Only” into a proper Block Style. You’ll see it right next to the default, complete with a hover preview, making it easy to switch between.

And speaking of style: there’s a new Profile style! This transforms the block into something that looks like an author card, complete with a description, header image, and post/follower stats. More social, more visual, still fully customizable. Not into the rounded corners and shadows? No problem—you can tweak those in the Styles tab.

But that’s not all! The Modal containing the follow information also received a slight makeover, making it more theme-agnostic in its appearance.

Followers Block

For this block we didn’t hold back on updating the design—subtler styling and better theme integration, so it looks at home wherever you drop it. Like we did with the Reactions block in version 5.9.0, we’ve updated the title to use WordPress’ native Heading block. That gives you more control over appearance, while keeping things compatible with existing content.

This block now benefits from the same Interactivity API improvements and renders server-side on first load, making it feel noticeably faster and more responsive right from the start.

We also introduced a new Card style here (you might’ve spotted it in the 6.0.0 announcement). It pairs nicely with the Follow Me block’s Profile style—rounded corners and a coordinated look that helps everything feel part of the same family.

They’ll be more changes to come soon, as we unlock font and background customizations to bring the block up to par with the rest of them.

Reactions Block

The Reactions block is a bit of a behind-the-scenes hero. Thanks to block hooks, it can automatically appear at the end of posts—no editor work required. But if you want to place it manually (like we’re doing here), you totally can.

Beyond receiving the same technical upgrades as the other blocks, this one now displays the actual reactions in the Editor, matching what you see on the frontend—no more stand-in data unless there are no reactions yet. It also includes a few subtle improvements, like rendering an HTML comment when there’s nothing to show (so you’re not left guessing), and displaying more avatars when the block is set to “wide” or “full”-width, making better use of the space.

Remote Reply

This one’s a bit niche, but clever: Remote Reply lets logged-out users respond to Fediverse comments directly from your site. It’s not a block you can add in the editor, but it now uses the same lightweight tech as the Follow Me button—so it loads faster and feels smoother.

If you’ve never seen it in action, you’re not alone—it only appears when certain conditions are met (logged out, looking at a Fediverse-sourced comment, etc.). Here’s a quick demo:

While most of what ActivityPub does happens quietly behind the scenes, this update puts a little more shine on the parts your visitors can see. The blocks are lighter, more flexible, and a bit more fun to work with.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think! Every improvement in this release was shaped by feedback from users like you—so keep it coming.

🔥 Want to start your own Bonfire instance?

We’re hosting online install parties, come set up your server alongside others! Bring your questions and curiosity, we’ll figure it out together and support each other through the process.

✅ Ideally have a (sub)domain + server with DNS set up, or just follow along and take notes.

📆 Vote on possible dates/times: https://crab.fit/bonfire-install-parties-394649
📩 Sign up to be notified: https://mailchi.mp/a601c2e1e132/bonfire-install-parties

#Bonfire #Fediverse #FOSS #InstallParty #SelfHosting

I just shipped a bunch of improvements to fediverse.info, thanks for the feedback 😉

Keep it coming!

https://fediverse.info/?n

#fediverse

Raphus Social 🦤 is a better bird site, a safe and inclusive place for bringing together open minded people interested in technology, open source, games, and other general geekery. (In case you are wondering, "Raphus" is Latin for the dodo 🙂)

https://raphus.social

This server has an extended post size of 1024 characters and up to 8 poll options.

More info at https://raphus.social/about or contact the admin @raphus

#FeaturedServer #Tech #FOSS #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Musicians.today is a Mastodon server for musicians of all levels, instruments, regions, languages, and genres. You don’t have to be a professional musician to join, but you should at least play an instrument or sing as a hobby.

https://musicians.today

You can find out more at https://musicians.today/about or contact the admin @cambraca

#FeaturedServer #Music #Musicians #Bands #Instruments #Singers #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Tapestry sponsorships are a great way to reach a new audience for your app, blog, website or brand.

Affordable slots are available now and just waiting for awesome sponsors like you. 🫵

Get started - https://usetapestry.com/sponsors/

#TapestryApp #marketing #Fediverse

This week's #fediverse news:

- @activitypub.blog talks about how they plan to make WordPress sites a full member of the fediverse, with replies, follows, and your own feed
- @fediforum videos now available, with some thoughts on the ones that stood out to me
- server admins can now opt-in to @fed.brid.gy on a per-server basis
- @swf releases draft for E2EE messaging over #activitypub with MLS

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-121/

Lol. Another depressing Fediverse "update" on Threads has Fediverse users cornered off like the evil stepchild and still can't reply.

Feeling like the dream of true cross communication on Fediverse is dead more and more every second.😒

Fediverse will never be fully cross platform with these billion dollar corporations.

They're too scared of losing their users.🤦‍♂️

#Fediverse #Fedi #Threads #Meta #SocialMedia

@Davidimel just interviewed @pcottle about Threads new #fediverse integration and answers some questions that I hadn't seen directly mentioned before
https://www.threads.com/@davidimel/post/DK-rDi4MDyV

Meta Fediverse by Facebook Threads by Instagram with built tracking and WhatsApp ads is live!
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/its-now-easier-see-more-fediverse-content-threads #fediverse #meta #fedidev #threads

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A screenshot of the official Facebook announcement

#Threads #Fediverse
Agora é mais fácil ver mais conteúdo fediverso no Threads

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/its-now-easier-see-more-fediverse-content-threads/

It's alive! #threads #fediverse

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The fediverse feed on Threads

TheBlower.au is a general Mastodon server based in Australia. Do you need to sort it out? Get on The Blower, a public social network site that’s part of a global federation! You don’t have to be Australian to post here, but it helps.

https://theblower.au

You can find out more at https://theblower.au/about or contact the admins @geton, @mike, @s0, @shug

#FeaturedServer #Australia #Australian #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

What kind of issues or concerns might I have if I shut down one kind of AP server software and then set up a different AP server on the domain previously occupied by the now decommissioned first AP server?

(I don’t think the soon-to-be-shutdown server has a self-destruct.)

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #Admin #SelfHosting

People just don't get Mastodon.

Even, in my case, people with a background in experimental art and political activism. I'm currently involved in endless online discussions about Mastodon vs. Bluesky, and people just don't understand what it's about and why one is preferable to the other.

The language of "instances" and "decentralisation" completely confuses them (and it would be much more helpful to use more understandable, jargon-free language such as "globally interconnected community servers").

Everyone thinks that in Mastodon/the Fediverse/a decentralised network you can only communicate and connect with people on your own instance, and doesn't understand that you can also post, read and connect globally across instances.

I am afraid that after 25 years the cultural hegemony of internet platforms is irreversible. Mastodon confuses people because it looks like a platform.

#mastodon #fediverse #decentralization

Just a reminder: everything you do on social media is public. Even if you delete a post on your instance, it can still exist on other instances, in the cache of search engines or private databases.

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #decentralisation

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 91

This week's news:
- @loops has launched and is now available for everyone!
- @radiofreefedi will shut down early next year
- Bridgy Fed talks about potential governance directions

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-91/

Anyone got an idea?

Anyone got an idea?

An important distinction is slowly being uncovered about the definition of the term "fediverse." Who is it that gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented? These are not easy questions to answer and if we don't do a better job describing ourselves, then the job will get done for us by people who don't understand the underlying values we hold. #fediverse #meta #threads

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An info graphic with two icons, one is the symbol for the fediverse that has risen from below and the other is made by Threads The "open fediverse" symbol The peoples representation of the fediverse The "Corporate Fediverse" symbol Threads* representation of the fediverse *Threads is a sub-brand of Meta as is Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

Working on a page for my #fediverse SVG icons. Anyone want to help make this page better? My CSS and HTML abilities are lacking...

The page is live at https://fediverse.wake.st

I have a @Codeberg repo here up here https://codeberg.org/FediverseX/pages

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screenshot of a website with a list of the icons of a bunch of fediverse projects