How integrated is FOSS decentralized social media into your digital life?

#Foss #fediverse #decentralisation

Domani e dopodomani si terrà il DevConf Italia!

Purtroppo non riuscirò a partecipare di persona ma presenterò in streaming: "FediMeteo, i BSD e il Fediverso: sotto il sole, senza nuvole, liberi e connessi"

Se potete, partecipate perché tutti gli interventi saranno davvero interessanti!

Maggiori informazioni su https://www.devconf.it

#DevConf #Conferenza #Conference #FediMeteo #BSD #Fediverso #Fediverse #OpenSource

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DevConf la prima conferenza italiana dedicata a sviluppatori/sviluppatrici creatori di software open source. Tutte le info su DevConf.it

The new guide to the fediverse is now available ✨

spread the word!

https://fediverse.info/why

#fediverse

#Introduction

I've been back and forth a few times but figured I should fire up another one.

Hello #Fediverse and #GamepadClub

I'm Liam, 40-ish-ish Brit and usually goes by the online moniker of "Guillin"

I live in #England and I'm into #Gaming (mainly #WoWClassic #Hearthstone and #Civ6). I like watching #Cricket and occasionally #football

I'm also exploring ways of using #technology in a more intentional manner.

Anyhow, feel free to say hello!
Ta-ra 👋

Burningboard.net is a Mastodon server for nerds and fans of technology. It's a continuation of a bulletin board which began in 2002. The main languages are English and German.

This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://burningboard.net

You can find out more at https://burningboard.net/about or contact the admin account @Larvitz

#FeaturedServer #Tech #Technology #Nerds #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Federated portfolio builder for photographers, illustrators and any sort of creatives. Something like #behance but federated and with custom themes. Would you use it?

#fediverse #needboost #boost #needhelp #fedidev #art #artists #artist #photography #illustration

You know whats really cool about the new fediverse.info People Directory?

You will be able to hide accounts using localStorage and client-side filtering, allowing for more privacy friendly discovery across every device!

#fediverse #peopleDirectory #privacy #clientSideFiltering

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fediverse.info people directory hidden accounts modal

Edit: Shipped! https://fediverse.info/people

Imagine being able to find people based on a combination of several topics!

Ethical, opt-in and consent driven discovery done right ✨

Shipping soon!

#fediverse #discovery #fediverseInfo #peopleDirectory #fedi22

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the new fediverse.info people directory

I generally agree with the sentiment that the fediverse is "big enough" and that it doesn't need to "grow", in terms of how many people are here.

That is, if we can grow the diversity of our community and at the same time kick out the gatekeepers.

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

#fediverse #diversity #gatekeeping

I built a whole admin dashboard for the new fediverse.info, and will invite a few trusted people to help manage this!

Such a useful and important resource shouldn't be controlled by just me, and I look forward to making this a community project.

#fediverse #fediverseInfo

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Fediverse.info admin dashboard

Loops Starter Kits and Mastodon Collections will soon be easier to find and discover, once the new https://fediverse.info ships!

#fediverse #fediverseInfo #starterKits #featuredCollections

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New Fediverse.info Starter kits page

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New Fediverse.info Starter kits page

Built a lil helper tool to convert IFTAS DNI CSV to a format that I can import for the new fediverse.info admin dashboard ✨

https://dansup.github.io/iftas-dni-helper

#IFTAS #IFTASdni #csv #fediverse

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fediverse.info admin dashboard

The new fediverse.info is built around consent.

To be included in the People Directory, you will need to add the #fedi22 hashtag to your bio.

To add a Starter Kit or Collection, it needs to have `discoverable` === true.

We do not crawl or store personal data like statuses/followers/following, and will make it easy for admins to block access as we use a constant user agent and will check robots.txt

✨

#fediverse #fediverseInfo

Last minute feature addition, the new fediverse.info People Directory will allow you to find people via multiple topics (up to 5)!

One more thing, I added query parameter support, so you can share links to specific topics or multiple topics 😎

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#fediverse #fediverseInfo

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New Fediverse.info people directory

I'm almost ready to ship the new https://fediverse.info 🥳

Just wrapping up a report feature and the admin dashboard, so we can keep the People Directory and Starter Kit index nice and clean.

#fediverse #fediverseInfo

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The new fediverse.info People Directory with a report feature

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The new fediverse.info People Directory with a report feature

It can be hard to understand how hashtags spread around the #fediverse, so I built a little tool to help you explore how visible hashtags are on different servers. The page also contains tips for how you can follow hashtags more effectively and help your own tagged posts get spread more broadly.

https://tag-federation.online/

Week in Fediverse 2026-07-03

Servers

- TinyAP v0.1.10
- GoToSocial v0.22.0
- Mobilizon v5.2.4
- Bonfire v1.0.5
- PeerTube v8.2.2
- Ktistec v3.7.0
- PieFed v1.7.0
- Mastodon v4.6.3
- Hollo v0.9.6
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.0.2
- NeoDB v0.16.3
- Wanderer v0.19.3
- Trunk & Tidbits, May 2026 (Mastodon)
- Lemmy Development Update June 2026 and 1.0.0-beta.1

Clients

- Fedilab v3.42.1
- Pachli v3.7.1
- Aria v1.5.5
- Rocinante v1.0.9
- Holos v1.12.0
- Mitra Mini v0.4.2

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.21
- owncast-emojiwall v2.1.0
- Polls For ActivityPub (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be (Fedify)

Protocol

- FEP-8c13: Context-Authority Routing with Object Integrity Proofs for Restricted Threads
- FEP-f228: Backfilling conversations (Final comments)
- FEP-7628: Move actor (Final comments)

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f058a-b456-7c32-a9ee-f6ef93e8ee55

I will make things clearer. #HolosSocial has no web version. It can display profiles with some messages (during the TTL for public messages). The server runs on your device, and https://holos.social is just a relay that remains account-agnostic, so your account has little dependency on it.
This is very important to understand before using Holos Social. It is very different from what you currently use on the #Fediverse.

Warm up the fire! We're LIVE!

Self-Hosted Sovereignty: The One-Man Hosting Hero - Madiator2011 - E92

#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF

https://stream.firesidefedi.live

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Kind.Social is a general Mastodon server with a broad community – queer, disabled, neurodivergent, crafters, techies, friends of all sorts. Our aim is to foster a genuinely enjoyable shared social experience.

This server has been online since 2018.

https://kind.social

You can find out more at https://kind.social/about or contact the admin account @Texan_Reverend

#FeaturedServer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

RE: https://hackers.pub/@fedify/2026/why-activitypub-is-hard

This is a really great, technical overview of how the fediverse works behind the scenes. And really makes you appreciate that it works at all.

Massive props to @hongminhee for this write-up and all their work, and those of others that make fediverse possible.

#fediverse #activitypub

This release saw contributions from some new people, which is great to see.

In this release you can now follow other people, not just join communities. When you follow someone their posts will show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless of whether you have joined the community it was posted in or not.

You can also follow Mastodon+ accounts. Getting Mastodon integration working really well is going to be a long journey but this release gets us headed in that direction. Eventually I hope that this integration will provide a steady source of timely content to cross-post into threadiverse communities as well as being a peer citizen in the Mastodon-flavored parts of the fediverse.

New:

• You can follow other users and their posts will always show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless of the community they were posted into. Following Mastodon users works also but should be considered as very experimental. This will improve soon.

In the future you will be able to upload a list of people that you exported from your mastodon profile and follow them in one go. And add people that your instance doesn’t already know about - but not yet. These features will be rolled out in future versions once the dust settles on this version.

• Mastodon posts have a new design that is distinct from threadiverse posts - there is no post title and larger author profile pic.

• Communities can be marked as being a favorite, which makes them more prominent in the ‘Communities’ menu.

• Clicking anywhere in a post teaser takes you to the teaser - you don’t need to aim for the title

• Dramatically improved page load times on Chrome-based browsers (Speculation Rules API).

• Little spinner thing while a vote is being cast

• Updated translations

• Preview markdown when editing a wiki page

• RSS feeds on the home page, including a feed of posts from your subscribed communities

• Topic selection during onboarding looks way nicer now.

• Accessibility improvements to headers.

For Developers:

• Massive CSS reorganisation by travis-jeans. Lots more usage of CSS variables. Improves maintenance and accessibility.

• API: Users can now log out

• API: Follow and unfollow users

• API: video file upload works now

For Instance Admins:

• Communities where every moderator is a bot or inactive are flagged as un-moderated. Reports about posts in un-moderated local communities go to admins.

• Warnings on domains can be 3 types instead of only a warning - the other two are ‘helpful context’ and ‘recommendation’

• Send a DM to a user asking them if they are a bot, with 1 click. If they do not respond their account is automatically flagged as a bot

• Email bounce inbox can now be accessed through POP3, not just IMAP

• Tokens used by mobile apps can be set to expire, using the JWT_EXPIRY_DAYS environment variable

• More accurate tracking of when a user was last active. This will significantly increase your MAU stats.

• Strict allowlist mode to reduce attack surface exposed by federation

• /admin/federation form split up into 3 separate pages rather than one long confusing page.

• Option to disable DM sending for individual users if they lack the self-control to use it responsibly.

• compose.yaml has changed a bit: For most containers the build target is now “runtime’ instead of ‘builder’.

For example

  celery:  
    build:  
      context: .  
      target: runtime  

• Topics can be associated with countries, for more targeted onboarding suggestions based on the viewer’s location.

• To reduce server load and network traffic, a maximum number of votes that can be cast each day has been set at a level that will only affect the top 2% of voters, leaving the bottom 98% unaffected. This quota can be altered with an environment variable. View a profile to see how much of their daily quota has been used.

To upgrade from 1.6.x

git pull  
git checkout v1.7.x  

At this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then git checkout compose.yaml then git pull again (or use git’s stash feature). This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

If you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the target: part of the db container.

Donations

PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features.

Donations can be made via Patreon, Liberapay or Ko-fi.

Metalhead.club is a metal music themed Mastodon server hosted in Germany and powered by 100% green energy.

This server has a post size of up to 666 characters and has been online since 2017.

https://metalhead.club

You can find out more at https://metalhead.club/about or contact the admin account @thomas

#FeaturedServer #Metal #MetalMusic #HeavyMetal #Music #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

@dansup @Floppy It's funnier (to me) this way. I break *so much stuff* with it, particularly when using it as an email address. Also, as of last night, I own ʕᴖᴥᴖʔ.com.

Maybe I should just throw a bunch of #fediverse platforms on it. I'll make you the same offer I've made others - if you'd like a subdomain on any of these (see profile) to test with, I'd be happy to provide one. I'm fairly passionate about them, so seeing improvements where they can be made makes me quite happy.

@dansup

“It all just works together” is one of the amazing things about the #Fediverse, and it really ought to be trumpeted more loudly.

I can comment on Lemmy posts, look at cats on Pixelfed, and watch Loops videos, from Mastodon. On the corporate platforms, this level of integration is unheard of.

@daj @82mhz @stefano

The arbitrary limits in #Mastodon are a little infuriating.

And I really want to like Mastodon. It was my first experience on the #fediverse, and I actually like the UI/UX, for the most part.

Not to let the cat out of the bag prematurely, but...

If you were going to start posting about cool servers that aren't run by Mastodon GmbH on the @Mastodon account, which hashtag would you use?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin

"New things feel complicated until someone explains them plainly.

Here is the fediverse, minus the jargon."

The fediverse isn't complicated. We just need to make it easier to understand.

I look forward to your help and contributions to make the new https://fediverse.info more powerful and useful to newcomers!

Together we can 🚀

#fediverse

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New Fediverse.info FAQs page

Featured Collections and Starter Kits will soon have a central discovery index!

Adding your collection or kit is as simple as pasting the link and pressing Submit kit 🔥

#fediverse

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fediverse.info Starter Kits index

I created https://fediverse.info back in 2022, and am about to ship the 3rd major redesign.

2022 - "Social networking, back in your hands"

2025 - "Own your social universe"

2026 - "Social media that belongs to you"

The messaging hasn't changed, but I have designed several new pages and resources to improve onboarding ✨

#fediverse #fediverseInfo

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fediverse.info circa 2022

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fediverse.info circa 2025

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The new fediverse.info, shipping soon

apps. people. starter kits. one place.

fediverse onboarding has been broken for too long, and it doesn't have to be.

the new https://fediverse.info ships soon.

boost and spread the word 😘

#fediverse #onboarding #fediverseInfo

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new fediverse.info redesign

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new fediverse.info redesign

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new fediverse.info redesign

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new fediverse.info redesign

The fediverse is in for a treat!

I'm almost done the redesign of https://fediverse.info, and it will blow your socks off ✨

More deets soon 😎

#fediverse #fediverseInfo

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new fediverse.info header, using the fediverse symbol as the logo

Hey! I put up a quick Mastodon Collections directory!

https://collections.mastoadmin.social

Try it out, add some collections, use the search. Let me know if you find any issues! Thanks!

#MastodonCollections #Collections #Fediverse

Important call:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-call-proposals-shape-safer-and-more-inclusive-social-media-platforms

> This €1.48 million pilot project will involve young people from different countries and backgrounds in the conceptualisation and development of new European social media platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use.

> The core ambition of the project is the roll-out of at least one protocol-based service that is actively centred around the needs of young user audiences and is in line with European values (…)

#Fediverse

Today, I decided to back @gotosocial with a monthly donation of 10,00€.

The #GoToSocial project is free and open source Fediverse software providing a social media microblogging system that you can host yourself (or join an existing instance of) – very similar to how #Mastodon works, the software this instance is running.

In years of hosting my own personal GoToSocial instance, I have come to love the project and never once run into an issue, even during setup, when upgrading to new versions or when performing database migrations. The team is lively, clearly passionate, responsive and amazingly friendly, and their direction has turned GoToSocial into what is in my opinion the best Fediverse server software out there at the moment.

Supporting the project with a (recurring or one-off) donation provides their two main developers the means to live and continue developing the software independently and for free – by enabling them to pay themselves a very, very modest wage of just 1.000€ a month, according to their donation drive. You'd support the health of the entire #Fediverse, software sovereignty and not least a queer-led, progressive collaborative software project that makes the internet a better place. I encourage anyone and everyone to consider their support if they can afford to do so! :)

Not affiliated with the team, just a supporter. :)

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Screenshot of a German donation confirmation page that reads: "Vielen Dank! Du unterstützt nun GoToSocial. 242 finanzielle Unterstützer. Gespendeter Betrag: 10.00€/month"

In two days I am taking a whole week off. Before leaving you during that break, I wanted to thank you all for your contributions, your feedback, kind messages and donations.
I am happy to have worked evenly on #Fedilab and #HolosSocial.
And I am pretty proud to offer a new #Fediverse software that is now stable.
All of this was only possible thanks to you. So a huge thank you!

"What do you want to do?"

The new https://fediverse.info will be a powerful onboarding resource, and is shipping later this week!

#fediverse #onboarding

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New fediverse.info redesign, showing the new Apps page

Take a good look at https://fediverse.info

A new and much improved version is shipping later this week ✨

#fediverse #fediverseDotInfo

FediCon: The Canadian Fediverse Conference in Vancouver later this summer is happening!

It's not too late to propose a talk or buy tickets.

Spread the word ✨

https://fedicon.ca

#fedicon #fediverse

@fediversereport

A couple of thoughts.
1) If spam bot is a business, do they really find an economic incentive in the #fediverse ?
Isn't significally lower, like programming viruses for windows is more convenient than for linux or osx
(well, i guess this will change also)

2) why don't the AI bots simply fire up their own instance and start following people, instead of counting on accounts being approved

@laurenshof

Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.

What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster

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snac2 sending push notifications to a user via MastoBlaster App on iPhone

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

Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory

I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.

We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.

#Fediverse

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/