Plot twist: TikTok's "secret sauce" is recommendation ML + video encoding (likely ffmpeg like the rest of us).

They built their empire on open source foundations.

We're doing the same with @loops but keeping it open, federated, and yours.

The magic was open source all along.

Who's really disrupting who?

https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

#loops #fediverse #tikTok #activityPub

The FediDB CommunityDB project is a curated list of apps and projects for the fediverse that powers https://fedidb.com

We just merged a PR for a new promising #NeoDB app called NeoComment!

https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB/pull/42

https://fedidb.com/apps?projects=neodb

#fediDB #communityDB #activityPub #fediverse

@alteredspecifis @debacle @kitkat @JeremyMallin @Goffi true, #fediverse was originally only about #ActivityPub servers. But it expanded to include adjacent cousins like #PixelFed, #Lemmy, #Peertube, and now #Loops (none of which are twitter/X replacements). So then it was only a small hop skip and a jump to include any Open Protocol which federates (#XMPP, #Matrix, #Deltachat, email, etc)

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-21

Servers

- Bookwyrm v0.8.2
- GoToSocial v0.20.2
- Manyfold v0.129.2
- Mitra v4.13.1
- Mastodon v4.5.2
- Hubzilla v10.6.1
- Misskey v2025.11.0
- tootik v0.19.11
- NodeBB v4.6.2
- PieFed v1.3.3

Clients

- Elk v0.17.0
- Photon v2.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.4
- Blorp v1.10.0
- Fread v1.7.21

For developers

- roboherd v0.1.14
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.3.5

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #143

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a841a-6ed9-3f60-73ef-d558b9db5abb

Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?

Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial

Alt...

Graph showing twelve different Mastodon servers with their percentage of the active Fediverse on the Y axis. Mastodon.social has almost 30% of active Fediverse users while all other servers have about 1% or less. Caption under chart says "Largest Mastodon servers vs % of active Fediverse, 21st November 2025, data from FediDB.com" Another caption next to the bar for mastodon.social says "Percentage occupied by mastodon.social is growing! It used to be less than 15%! JoinMastodon.org and official Mastodon apps are STILL promoting mastodon.social!"

I could use some #FediHelp with some website traffic weirdness I have encountered.

I use a #WordPress blog with the #ActivityPub plugin. This means that I get #Fediverse -based requests that look like this in the #Apache logs:

"POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/1/inbox HTTP/1.1"

So far, so unspectacular. In the latest logs - spanning from 20/Nov/2025:01:49:32 to 21/Nov/2025:05:49:47 - I've had 2046 such requests. Most of these are one-time affairs.

However, 1099 of these requests are from mastodon.sdf.org , which is very suspicious. They are very evenly spread, too - a new request comes every minute or two.

This instance is on #Mastodon 4.1.25. Does this version have a known bug where it sends the same request over and over again?

@SDF

Hey everyone,

Today, @joynewacc and I had the pleasure of talking to two and welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.

They are:

• Ahmad (@goodahmad)
• Suad (@suad)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse and contribute to their fundraisers if you can. (And please share this so others can do the same.)

Remember that you can see a list of our members and their fundraisers in one place (ordered by those who have raised the least in the past week) at:

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #Canada News!

mastodonserver.ca is now thesocialweb.ca

Its Fediverse handle should be updated automagically (i think?) to @directory

All servers and instances in Canada are welcome to get in touch and have their server listed on the webpage!

#mastodon #Peertube #Lemmy #Loops #community
https://thesocialweb.ca/welcome-to-thesocialweb-ca-a-new-name-to-welcome-all-social-web-and-fediverse-communities-in-canada/

Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 51 starts NOW!

Special Guest: @anca #Connector, #Instigator, #Maker. #Slime #mold #farmer. #fediforum2025 #fediforum25

Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live

After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live

#Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@btfree_org

All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live

#stream #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree

If you're enjoying the show, please consider supporting our new nonprofit btfree.org at https://givebutter.com/btfree. We're currently running https://tubefree.org which is a moderated peertube open for signups right now!

I've been here for years and I still haven't cracked the Fediverse code.

On Twitter I could post "eating cereal" and get 50 bot likes + one crypto bro following me.
Here I can post a 30-second video of my cat trying to fight the vacuum cleaner with the caption "me when someone's instance federates with threads dot net" and… absolute silence. Not even a sympathy boost from the admin who literally pays for the server I'm yelling on 😭

So please, someone finally explain the secret sauce:
Do I need to switch my cat to a vegan gluten-free diet? Do I have to mention systemd negatively in every post? Or is the real trick sacrificing a Raspberry Pi to the old gods of ActivityPub??

#Fediverse #Mastodon #CatsOfMastodon #ActivityPub #SystemdHateClub #PleaseBoostImBeggingYou

#snac2 #snac #fediverse #selfhost #联邦

1. 目前不支持 wss://，不知道代表了什么，至少目测没有公开时间轴，relay约等于摆设
2. snac2 适合1c1g的超低配用户，据我所知snac基本上全都是个人实例、不对外开放注册，中文snac2实例一只手数的过来，去fedi列表里找基本大海捞针。如果你要发消息给snac2实例上的人，实测私信是收不到的，你可能需要找到我的帖子，然后 at 我+ 公开，不然问就是看不到（已经联合的不知道还是不是这样，其实也可以点个follow）。
3. 下面的配置文件retry可以调小一点，反正收不到就是收不到。你可能要apt install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev，不记得是不是误解了什么，反正装一个又不会死；总之就是编译一个snac，apt install lighttpd (+启用tls、proxy拓展)的反代就完事了，或许也可以直接用cloudflared
4. 有服务器了为啥不吃点好的呢？

``` json

{
"host": "填你的域名，下面那个prefix基本是空的，除非你的网站在某个子目录里面，layout不要动，让它自己生成",
"prefix": "",
"address": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 2345,
"layout": 2.7,
"dbglevel": 1,
"queue_retry_minutes": 1,
"queue_retry_max": 5,
"queue_timeout": 8,
"queue_timeout_2": 16,
"cssurls": [
""
],
"def_timeline_entries": 50,
"max_timeline_entries": 50,
"timeline_purge_days": 120,
"local_purge_days": 64,
"min_account_age": 10,
"admin_email": "填你的邮箱",
"admin_account": "ui",
"title": "ui的snac运营试点",
"short_description": "personal snac instance",
"short_description_raw": false,
"protocol": "https",
"shared_inboxes": true,
"fastcgi": false
}

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

#TheFutureIsFederated

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/