There's a new very lightweight Fediverse platform that's just been released called littleFedi. You can follow its new official account at:

🌱 @littlefedi_official

Its official website including download and source code is at:

🌱 https://littlefedi.org

LittleFedi is intended for techy people who want to create their own Fediverse server using as few resources as possible.

It's written by @stefano (who also created the weather service FediMeteo).

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #SelfHosting

LittleFedi is an excellent light weight but fully featured Fediverse platform (ActivityPub). I've been kicking tires and providing feedback on the test instance and excited for the first release to give it a go self-hosted.

@stefano has been leading a master class in community and developer relations. He has been stewarding the team and user community with enthusiasm and transparency. Congratulations to Stefano and the team.

Here's a great story of the project's genesis and journey. https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official/01a0f644-8ed6-7a7d-ade6-46f4c0a74f41

#littleFedi #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FOSS #SelfHosting

Any other #Fediverse instances that are for apps? I am still having issues with getting my Trayage app finalized on the IndieApps.space instance.

TIA

#FediHelp #IndieDev #Fediverse #IndieApps

Adding #sketching / #drawing to #fediverse

…on first day of #October

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Journey far between the stars with this month's FREE wallpaper download from @piraino and get ready to blast off to parts unknown!

Set walls or save to your camera roll in Wallaroo for iOS & macOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wallaroo/id1630565980

Download for free on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/iconfactory/posts/between-stars-171124853

#WallaroApp #Wallpaper #Fediverse

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The revolution won't happen at #bluesky, or any other corporate Douchebag Techbro Billionaire Owned social media, or any such similar nazi bars, guys.

#Fediverse #DTBO #SocialMedia

If all you do is post links to bluesky linkedin xitter facebook threads or any other Douchebag Techbro Billionaire Owned social media, what the fuck are you doing here?

#Fediverse #DTBO #SocialMedia

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“europesays․com/africa/452359/ Amnesty Details Morocco Surveillance Allegations ⌗AmnestyInternational ⌗HumanRights ⌗journalists ⌗Morocco ⌗Surveillance”

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“EDG C++ front-end goes public
Link: edgcpp․org/⌗transition
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“Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some mundane activity ⌗life ⌗coffee ⌗music ⌗linux ⌗research”

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This is an #Intro post from a test account on LittleFedi running from home on a Pi. Let's see how this goes before we migrate all my other accounts here.

I'm Richard, retired adventurer/author living in #Spain. El Perro Negro named after first dog. Bit of a grumpy old man but try to be good company. Will post about #hiking, #mountaineering, #photography, #technology, #selfhosting and #privacy issues. Interested in human generated #RSS content. Not got time for Politicians nor Big Tech.

Would love to meet up on the #Fediverse with like minded folk. Photo from last Novembers trip to El Chalten in Patagonia

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👋 🙂 👨‍👦
A big shout out to certain male Fediversians, especially those I know...
If you a man, or identify as male, and you make it a point to engage in a thoughtful discussion instead of mansplaining, I want to let you know you're one of the reasons why women, or those who identify as such, don't leave social media.

Thank you for your respectful and most welcome humorous conversations and jokes/comments.
😊

#Fediverse #Mastodon
#Communication

Why is #ActivityPub missing from the Local First Conference?

#LocalFirstConference #fediverse

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“⌗FuckNo ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗USPS
⌗Resist ⌗FightBack ⌗USPolitics 404media․co/usps-to-put-cameras-in-trucks-that-scan-roads-for-community-safety/”

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Heute habe ich gelernt, man kann Posts im Fediverse nach Sprache filtern. Sehr praktisch.

#psa #fediverse

"Poptimism and stan culture were a mistake

Rick Beato was right and re-defined music's purism, elitism, snobbery, and gatekeeping (and rockism).

The Loudness War has ruined music and audio/sound quality. Dynamic is the new Loud. When there is no quiet, There can be no loud. Spread awareness and stay awake about Dynamic Range Day. Dynamic Range Database exists. It'll never be high fidelity and audiophile quality if the loudness war still continues.

Lossless Audio and Hi Res Lossless Audio (24 Bit, 48 kHz Lossless) should be the standard and normalized. We need to leave MP3 and lossy codecs/formats and lossy compression to the past and end it. Another step for high fidelity and audiophile quality.

Support royalty-free libre open formats/codecs like FLAC, OPUS, OAC or open source. Oppose patent and proprietary closed source codecs/formats.

PNG, JPEG XL, BPG, AVIF should replace JPEG/JPG and HEIF

AV1 should replace H.264 and H.265
Metroska MKV should replace MP4

Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) and Blu-ray Disc Audio (BD-A) should replace Compact Disc (CD)

Blu-ray Disc (BD) and Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc / 4K Blu-ray Disc (BD-UHD) should replace Digital Video Disc / Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)

Support Linux, GNU, GNU/Linux, open source, free software, libre software, FOSS/FLOSS, alternative, independent, self-hostable, digital online privacy, digital online privacy rights, data protection law, data privacy, data sovereignty, security, cybersecurity, de-American Tech, de-big tech, de-megacorps, de-corporation, free from big tech, free from American tech, Europe, European Union (EU), European-made/Made in EU, BuyFromEU, homegrown, digital independence, digital sovereignty, data sovereignty, freedom, free as in freedom, free speech, free as in free speech, freedom of creativity, liberty, liberation, censorship-free, consumer rights, digital rights, right to repair, consumers / customers, trust, ownership, competition, DRM-Free, environmentalism, fediverse, decentralization, independent, alternative, Interoperable, FOSS, privacy-first, privacy-respecting, self-hostable, decentralized social media platforms, encryption, end-to-end encryption, zero-trust, encrypted, secure messengers, torrent, torrent file, peer-to-peer (P2P).

Support open source movement, open source revolution, clippy movement, clippy revolution, free software movement, free software revolution, Stop Killing Games movement, Stop Killing Games revolution.

Stay awake and spread awareness about Data Privacy Day, Data Protection Day, Digital Independence Days, International E-Waste Day, Internet Security Awareness, Cyber Security Awareness, Cybersecurity Awareness.

(Former Ego Mode 😅. Only jorking btw)"

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@stefano

Impressive Stefano.

LittleFedi, own your Fediverse server.

@littlefedi_official

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🎵 Songhive brings self-hosted music and social networking together: a federated, ActivityPub-powered platform for streaming, sharing, discovery and artist payments—like Funkwhale meets Mastodon, with full control over your library. Explore the project: https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Songhive #Songhive #Fediverse #SelfHosting
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Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Donnerstag:

Eine Industrie die sich selber reguliert... jap, das funktionierte historisch gesehen schon immer richtig gut!

Hier 👉 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5d59be4c giesse ich meine Fassungslosigkeit ob der neuen "KI-Verfassung" in Worte.

Ich glaube der Rant wird euch gefallen

Gerne teilen!

Danke fuer euren Support 🙏

RE: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official/01a0f644-8ed6-7a7d-ade6-46f4c0a74f41

littleFedi is out!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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littleFedi - Official Account » 🌐 2026-10-01
@littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social

The Little Computer People Present littleFedi: Our First Public Release

"Hi,

We would like to show you a small project we've built and used over the last few years.

It's a Mastodon-like platform that federates using its own protocol and can work even without HTTPS or public Internet access. Many of us have restrictions on our communications, and this project has helped us stay in touch and have our own social network. We'd love to show it to you and hear what you think, because your OwnYourData message really resonates with us."

The Story

And this email sat ignored for weeks.

It came from an anonymous, generic mailbox, with an even more anonymous and suspicious subject. The spam filter had classified it as, well, spam, for other reasons too. Only when I checked the spam folder again, weeks later, did I move it to the Inbox. "Why not?", I thought. And I asked to see what they had built.

There was no way for me to connect to one of their instances. They trusted me and sent me the code which, although fragmented and loosely put together, compiled and ran natively on FreeBSD. But before that: "We only ask you to never say anything, at least until we're ready. We don't want to be visible and, inevitably, judged or attacked. We tried something else before and backed away. Our software isn't high quality and we know it. But it works, for us, and we have fun building it. When it works we're happy, shut away in our rooms, often in the middle of the night. Sometimes, joking, we say we're like little people living inside our computers and that, thanks to this software, we can talk to each other."

At that moment I smiled and thought of a 1985 video game, from my childhood, that was quite revolutionary at the time: "You're like Little Computer People". They liked it. And that's how the group got its name: the Little Computer People.

My first test went well. I was immediately struck by the lightweight interface. "We have old computers, slow hardware. It has to be light. It just has to!". Abundance led to waste. And yet I preferred that light interface, even if incomplete, to many of today's heavy social interfaces, commercial or not. But the code had gaps, pieces held together with duct tape, unfinished parts. They knew it, they had told me, and they were ashamed of it. "You should be proud of what you're doing. It's beautiful", I wrote to them. "We'll never release it."

The battle, if we can call it a battle, was a long one. They weren't far from making it ActivityPub compatible, and there was already a basic draft implementation (tested only with snac). "We don't want to show it, we don't feel up to it. We don't want to step on the toes of others like snac or GoToSocial, who have done a far better job than we have". I tried to convince them, also because the implementation was moving forward and the results were really encouraging. But no, they didn't feel ready. Until, luckily, one of them made a proposal: "We could release it... but we don't want to be seen. We want to stay in our computers and enjoy our code. We don't want to read praise, criticism or comments. We just want to have fun. Would you like to be one of the Little Computer People too? The human who talks to humans while we keep having fun?". I felt honoured and accepted. Explaining, among other things, that Open Source is not a battle. We are not in an arena, where the existence of one solution means crushing another.

This software is not a slight against Mastodon or snac or GoToSocial, but one more choice. Nobody gains. Nobody loses. It's there. It exists. It's something beautiful, one more thing in the world. They agreed, leaving the license undecided and keeping the strictest confidentiality.

The software had no name. But after we came up with the group's name, we affectionately called it our "little social". After the first real, complete ActivityPub federation (with proper tests), the current name was chosen among the alternatives: littleFedi.

"You have more experience... what should we implement?". I thought about it, looked at what was still "in the oven" and what I'd really like to have. I made a list, detailed and very long. But the most important part, for me, was blogging.

Then something happened, and development had to stop. Some devs could no longer work on it. Others weren't able to touch what the others had built. There was only one person who could carry on, albeit slowly, but their computer had broken and they could only communicate by smartphone. They couldn't buy another computer. And yet, a few days later, they received one. Ready to go. With FreeBSD inside.

littleFedi risked stopping right there, with part of the team still against any public release, at least at that point. But sometimes things work themselves out just when you least expect it, and in a short time the "little" humans were back in their computers, having fun, unwinding, creating something beautiful. Until a hot day this summer, when I asked their permission to make my first littleFedi instance public, running on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. One of them was against it at first. Then changed their mind. And I did it, announcing it to the world: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/blog/2026/07/01/littlefedi-light-yet-complete/

They don't want to interact with the world, but I still decided to show them the comments - all positive. That evening, the private test instance started showing (without me knowing) balloons and streamers every time we logged in. It was a party. And that made my next task easier, leading to the first public instance: littleOne

When I announced it, a lot of friends chose to join the test, and thanks to them a huge number of issues were found and fixed. A huge thank you to them. I acted as a bridge between them and the team, fixing and implementing what I could myself. I'm not primarily a dev but a system administrator, and I prefer not to touch what I don't know. The enthusiasm of the Little Computer People, though, was obvious even without them saying it: bugs were fixed in minutes, hours at most. We merged test branches quickly, so the friends on littleOne could try them.

Towards a Release

The last two months saw a lot of development, but mostly focused on reviewing and cleaning up the code. With one single goal: a first public release. The chosen license, after some thought, is MIT. The point is to give it to the world. This software was born from people who want to communicate with other people, and that's what matters. It's a means, not an end. Because those who don't have freedom dream of freedom without restraints.

There is much more documentation than what we're releasing today, along with tests and internal material that still needs to be reviewed. Some parts describe the project as it was designed, not necessarily as it was later implemented. Others haven't been checked enough yet to be published as reliable documentation. So we chose to release now what's ready: all the code needed to run littleFedi and enough documentation to get started. Not everything has been tested and certified in all the combinations we'd like, but what we're releasing is mature enough to be tried and used.

As of today, littleFedi is available from the downloads page at https://littlefedi.org. There won't be versioned releases for now, just snapshots of the code, both as source and as prebuilt binaries. What matters today is putting the tool in people's hands. Later, when things are ready enough, we'll probably move to good old git, on the BSD Cafe Forgejo. The sources already point there, but that project is currently private (and intentionally empty).

What Is littleFedi

So what exactly are we releasing today?

littleFedi starts from a very simple idea: owning your own social space shouldn't require complex infrastructure. In its basic form it's a single static binary, a configuration file, SQLite and your media on the filesystem. You copy it to a machine and start it. The minimum "certified" target today is my Raspberry Pi Zero W running NetBSD, powered over USB by my switch. It's designed for small, single-user instances, but also for larger ones, with the option to use S3 for media storage (the main space problem of single-user Mastodon instances) or PostgreSQL instead of the built-in SQLite. How large can an instance be, exactly? We don't know yet. The code is there, ready to be tested. We'll leave that for you to find out! You can also already migrate the storage (live), not the databases yet (but there's a partially implemented draft, so that will come too).

There are some rather unusual features, bringing together some of the nice ideas found in other implementations. It's written in Go, and Go allowed us to do something I care about a lot: FreeBSD, illumos, Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD are not secondary ports of software designed only for Linux. Each one has its own operational documentation. It has a low power mode, lets you schedule a post or set, post by post, an expiration (propagated to other instances). It has a light and simple web interface, yet complete, with no frills, reasonably usable even without JavaScript. Care went into making the PWA pleasant and usable and, even with a few bugs left, it's in my opinion one of the best ways to use littleFedi. And, yes, if you don't want to use its web interface, littleFedi also speaks the Mastodon API: many existing clients can connect directly. It supports emoji reactions. It supports push notifications. Post visibility follows the usual Fediverse model, with two additional variants: Local and Local Unlisted. Because not every post we write needs to leave our instance. And, speaking of federation, it has a fairly clean approach: by default, it federates with everyone. But it also supports blocklists and allowlists. Yes, allowlists: you can choose a list of instances to federate with, and that's it. Only those. Activities to and from all the others will be silently dropped, to give you an experience tailored to your expectations. "Filter bubble?". If you want to call it that. I call it the freedom to decide who your instance talks to.

And there's no need to doom scroll for fear of missing something: timelines are chronological, yes. But there's an optional Catch-up for when you come back after a few hours or days. It lives on a separate page and never decides what shows up in your timeline. If it shows you something, it also tells you why.

But there are too many features to list here, it would become a boring list. The only way is... to try it. Worth mentioning, in my opinion, for how peculiar they are, are two main features: littleMesh and Blog.

littleMesh, Blog and OwnYourData

The first, littleMesh, is an alternative transport mode for federation. Remember the first email, when they talked about their own federation able to work even without public Internet? That idea didn't go away. It evolved into littleMesh. Two littleFedi instances can communicate even behind NAT or CGNAT, with no public address, DNS or inbound ports. All it takes is an external lighthouse. If you also want to talk to the traditional Fediverse, an HTTPS gateway comes into play. ActivityPub, though, stays ActivityPub.

The blog feature is something I had in mind for a long time, and many of the friends who tried it on littleOne loved it. I like how WordPress federates into the Fediverse, but it's a CMS that federates. I wanted something different: a Fediverse platform, with a decent editor, that generates a static site. Simple, BSSG style, but complete and "eternal". HTML files, no need for JavaScript or images. Text is text, and I've always wondered why extra computation should be needed to show…words. When I saw the first draft, I fell in love with it. And I know those sites will still be readable in 10, 20, 30 years. Even without littleFedi. Because social networks are, by nature, ephemeral, but our ideas and thoughts sometimes deserve to stay. And above all, you're not publishing the same thing twice. The post is the same one. It federates normally and, if you choose it as a blog post, littleFedi also generates a static version of it. There's no CMS to keep in sync with the social network.

But littleFedi doesn't want to cage you or hold you back. It supports account migration (to and from other instances), and it also lets you export a full archive with all your content, which can then be imported into another littleFedi instance. Sure, in that case domain and handle will change, but the content will stay, just at a different address. OwnYourData: it doesn't matter which drawer it's in, as long as it's your drawer. And, just like Mastodon, you can self destruct your instance: take it off the Fediverse, politely saying goodbye to the other instances and asking them to remove our keys and content from their databases. Because the Little Computer People don't want to make noise or bother anyone. They just want to communicate, and leave with a smile when it's time.

Ready?

In the last few weeks some friends have taken a look at the code and confirmed what we already knew. It may not be textbook code, but we're releasing it. There are well-engineered parts, others much less so, some to be reworked, many to be analysed, but it's a step. If we aimed for perfection we would never release, and promises are promises.

I'm ready. The Little Computer People are ready. And the code is there, for anyone who wants to try this new communication project. The roadmap is already full of nice things to do, and more will be added. We're not in a hurry, it's not a competition. We want to do things properly.

For your first instance, all you need is a computer and a reverse proxy. Download the source and build it, or grab the prebuilt binary from the downloads page:

./littlefedi init
./littlefedi --config littlefedi.toml

And you're ready to federate with the world.

Happy communicating, and use it well. We're going back into our computers.

Stefano - @stefano@bsd.cafe

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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Good morning, fedizens, to this day littlefedi will get published as the first public release.

Exciting times ahead! :)

#littlefedi #Fediverse

The Little Computer People Present littleFedi: Our First Public Release

"Hi,

We would like to show you a small project we've built and used over the last few years.

It's a Mastodon-like platform that federates using its own protocol and can work even without HTTPS or public Internet access. Many of us have restrictions on our communications, and this project has helped us stay in touch and have our own social network. We'd love to show it to you and hear what you think, because your OwnYourData message really resonates with us."

The Story

And this email sat ignored for weeks.

It came from an anonymous, generic mailbox, with an even more anonymous and suspicious subject. The spam filter had classified it as, well, spam, for other reasons too. Only when I checked the spam folder again, weeks later, did I move it to the Inbox. "Why not?", I thought. And I asked to see what they had built.

There was no way for me to connect to one of their instances. They trusted me and sent me the code which, although fragmented and loosely put together, compiled and ran natively on FreeBSD. But before that: "We only ask you to never say anything, at least until we're ready. We don't want to be visible and, inevitably, judged or attacked. We tried something else before and backed away. Our software isn't high quality and we know it. But it works, for us, and we have fun building it. When it works we're happy, shut away in our rooms, often in the middle of the night. Sometimes, joking, we say we're like little people living inside our computers and that, thanks to this software, we can talk to each other."

At that moment I smiled and thought of a 1985 video game, from my childhood, that was quite revolutionary at the time: "You're like Little Computer People". They liked it. And that's how the group got its name: the Little Computer People.

My first test went well. I was immediately struck by the lightweight interface. "We have old computers, slow hardware. It has to be light. It just has to!". Abundance led to waste. And yet I preferred that light interface, even if incomplete, to many of today's heavy social interfaces, commercial or not. But the code had gaps, pieces held together with duct tape, unfinished parts. They knew it, they had told me, and they were ashamed of it. "You should be proud of what you're doing. It's beautiful", I wrote to them. "We'll never release it."

The battle, if we can call it a battle, was a long one. They weren't far from making it ActivityPub compatible, and there was already a basic draft implementation (tested only with snac). "We don't want to show it, we don't feel up to it. We don't want to step on the toes of others like snac or GoToSocial, who have done a far better job than we have". I tried to convince them, also because the implementation was moving forward and the results were really encouraging. But no, they didn't feel ready. Until, luckily, one of them made a proposal: "We could release it... but we don't want to be seen. We want to stay in our computers and enjoy our code. We don't want to read praise, criticism or comments. We just want to have fun. Would you like to be one of the Little Computer People too? The human who talks to humans while we keep having fun?". I felt honoured and accepted. Explaining, among other things, that Open Source is not a battle. We are not in an arena, where the existence of one solution means crushing another.

This software is not a slight against Mastodon or snac or GoToSocial, but one more choice. Nobody gains. Nobody loses. It's there. It exists. It's something beautiful, one more thing in the world. They agreed, leaving the license undecided and keeping the strictest confidentiality.

The software had no name. But after we came up with the group's name, we affectionately called it our "little social". After the first real, complete ActivityPub federation (with proper tests), the current name was chosen among the alternatives: littleFedi.

"You have more experience... what should we implement?". I thought about it, looked at what was still "in the oven" and what I'd really like to have. I made a list, detailed and very long. But the most important part, for me, was blogging.

Then something happened, and development had to stop. Some devs could no longer work on it. Others weren't able to touch what the others had built. There was only one person who could carry on, albeit slowly, but their computer had broken and they could only communicate by smartphone. They couldn't buy another computer. And yet, a few days later, they received one. Ready to go. With FreeBSD inside.

littleFedi risked stopping right there, with part of the team still against any public release, at least at that point. But sometimes things work themselves out just when you least expect it, and in a short time the "little" humans were back in their computers, having fun, unwinding, creating something beautiful. Until a hot day this summer, when I asked their permission to make my first littleFedi instance public, running on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. One of them was against it at first. Then changed their mind. And I did it, announcing it to the world: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/blog/2026/07/01/littlefedi-light-yet-complete/

They don't want to interact with the world, but I still decided to show them the comments - all positive. That evening, the private test instance started showing (without me knowing) balloons and streamers every time we logged in. It was a party. And that made my next task easier, leading to the first public instance: littleOne

When I announced it, a lot of friends chose to join the test, and thanks to them a huge number of issues were found and fixed. A huge thank you to them. I acted as a bridge between them and the team, fixing and implementing what I could myself. I'm not primarily a dev but a system administrator, and I prefer not to touch what I don't know. The enthusiasm of the Little Computer People, though, was obvious even without them saying it: bugs were fixed in minutes, hours at most. We merged test branches quickly, so the friends on littleOne could try them.

Towards a Release

The last two months saw a lot of development, but mostly focused on reviewing and cleaning up the code. With one single goal: a first public release. The chosen license, after some thought, is MIT. The point is to give it to the world. This software was born from people who want to communicate with other people, and that's what matters. It's a means, not an end. Because those who don't have freedom dream of freedom without restraints.

There is much more documentation than what we're releasing today, along with tests and internal material that still needs to be reviewed. Some parts describe the project as it was designed, not necessarily as it was later implemented. Others haven't been checked enough yet to be published as reliable documentation. So we chose to release now what's ready: all the code needed to run littleFedi and enough documentation to get started. Not everything has been tested and certified in all the combinations we'd like, but what we're releasing is mature enough to be tried and used.

As of today, littleFedi is available from the downloads page at https://littlefedi.org. There won't be versioned releases for now, just snapshots of the code, both as source and as prebuilt binaries. What matters today is putting the tool in people's hands. Later, when things are ready enough, we'll probably move to good old git, on the BSD Cafe Forgejo. The sources already point there, but that project is currently private (and intentionally empty).

What Is littleFedi

So what exactly are we releasing today?

littleFedi starts from a very simple idea: owning your own social space shouldn't require complex infrastructure. In its basic form it's a single static binary, a configuration file, SQLite and your media on the filesystem. You copy it to a machine and start it. The minimum "certified" target today is my Raspberry Pi Zero W running NetBSD, powered over USB by my switch. It's designed for small, single-user instances, but also for larger ones, with the option to use S3 for media storage (the main space problem of single-user Mastodon instances) or PostgreSQL instead of the built-in SQLite. How large can an instance be, exactly? We don't know yet. The code is there, ready to be tested. We'll leave that for you to find out! You can also already migrate the storage (live), not the databases yet (but there's a partially implemented draft, so that will come too).

There are some rather unusual features, bringing together some of the nice ideas found in other implementations. It's written in Go, and Go allowed us to do something I care about a lot: FreeBSD, illumos, Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD are not secondary ports of software designed only for Linux. Each one has its own operational documentation. It has a low power mode, lets you schedule a post or set, post by post, an expiration (propagated to other instances). It has a light and simple web interface, yet complete, with no frills, reasonably usable even without JavaScript. Care went into making the PWA pleasant and usable and, even with a few bugs left, it's in my opinion one of the best ways to use littleFedi. And, yes, if you don't want to use its web interface, littleFedi also speaks the Mastodon API: many existing clients can connect directly. It supports emoji reactions. It supports push notifications. Post visibility follows the usual Fediverse model, with two additional variants: Local and Local Unlisted. Because not every post we write needs to leave our instance. And, speaking of federation, it has a fairly clean approach: by default, it federates with everyone. But it also supports blocklists and allowlists. Yes, allowlists: you can choose a list of instances to federate with, and that's it. Only those. Activities to and from all the others will be silently dropped, to give you an experience tailored to your expectations. "Filter bubble?". If you want to call it that. I call it the freedom to decide who your instance talks to.

And there's no need to doom scroll for fear of missing something: timelines are chronological, yes. But there's an optional Catch-up for when you come back after a few hours or days. It lives on a separate page and never decides what shows up in your timeline. If it shows you something, it also tells you why.

But there are too many features to list here, it would become a boring list. The only way is... to try it. Worth mentioning, in my opinion, for how peculiar they are, are two main features: littleMesh and Blog.

littleMesh, Blog and OwnYourData

The first, littleMesh, is an alternative transport mode for federation. Remember the first email, when they talked about their own federation able to work even without public Internet? That idea didn't go away. It evolved into littleMesh. Two littleFedi instances can communicate even behind NAT or CGNAT, with no public address, DNS or inbound ports. All it takes is an external lighthouse. If you also want to talk to the traditional Fediverse, an HTTPS gateway comes into play. ActivityPub, though, stays ActivityPub.

The blog feature is something I had in mind for a long time, and many of the friends who tried it on littleOne loved it. I like how WordPress federates into the Fediverse, but it's a CMS that federates. I wanted something different: a Fediverse platform, with a decent editor, that generates a static site. Simple, BSSG style, but complete and "eternal". HTML files, no need for JavaScript or images. Text is text, and I've always wondered why extra computation should be needed to show…words. When I saw the first draft, I fell in love with it. And I know those sites will still be readable in 10, 20, 30 years. Even without littleFedi. Because social networks are, by nature, ephemeral, but our ideas and thoughts sometimes deserve to stay. And above all, you're not publishing the same thing twice. The post is the same one. It federates normally and, if you choose it as a blog post, littleFedi also generates a static version of it. There's no CMS to keep in sync with the social network.

But littleFedi doesn't want to cage you or hold you back. It supports account migration (to and from other instances), and it also lets you export a full archive with all your content, which can then be imported into another littleFedi instance. Sure, in that case domain and handle will change, but the content will stay, just at a different address. OwnYourData: it doesn't matter which drawer it's in, as long as it's your drawer. And, just like Mastodon, you can self destruct your instance: take it off the Fediverse, politely saying goodbye to the other instances and asking them to remove our keys and content from their databases. Because the Little Computer People don't want to make noise or bother anyone. They just want to communicate, and leave with a smile when it's time.

Ready?

In the last few weeks some friends have taken a look at the code and confirmed what we already knew. It may not be textbook code, but we're releasing it. There are well-engineered parts, others much less so, some to be reworked, many to be analysed, but it's a step. If we aimed for perfection we would never release, and promises are promises.

I'm ready. The Little Computer People are ready. And the code is there, for anyone who wants to try this new communication project. The roadmap is already full of nice things to do, and more will be added. We're not in a hurry, it's not a competition. We want to do things properly.

For your first instance, all you need is a computer and a reverse proxy. Download the source and build it, or grab the prebuilt binary from the downloads page:

./littlefedi init
./littlefedi --config littlefedi.toml

And you're ready to federate with the world.

Happy communicating, and use it well. We're going back into our computers.

Stefano - @stefano@bsd.cafe

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

🇫🇷 Rejoignez notre RELAIS

Vous êtes déjà administrateur d'une instance Mastodon ou Friendica (ou bien d'une autre application comme Pleroma, Akkoma,...) ? Vous ne souhaitez pas changer, mais quand même profiter de nos contenus et de ceux des autres instances connectées ? Rejoignez notre relais vous permettant de voir toutes ces publications, idéal pour commencer si votre instance est encore petite pour enrichir le fil public que voient vos membres, ainsi qu'augmenter votre visibilité.

Suivez les instructions : https://relay.gayfr.social

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🇬🇧 Join our RELAY

You already are a #Mastodon or #Friendica (or #Pleroma, #Akkoma,...) instance administrator? You don't wish to change, but you would like to benefit from our contents and those of other connected servers? Join our #relay to view all those publications, ideal for starting up, if you have a small developing instance, to populate the public timeline seen by your members, and also to increase your visibility.

Follow the instructions: https://relay.gayfr.social

#GayFR #GayFrancophone #MastodonRelay #AodeRelay #FediverseRelay #Fediverse #GayFediverse #GayFedi

20% of the people you hear about when someone uses the Fedi Block hashtag really are bad news as advertised.

The other 80% is just drama — random users who simply disagreed with someone or shared a harmless opinion.

Honestly, I usually follow the Fedi Block hashtag, not because I'm looking to block people. The real troublemakers are often taken care of well before you could block them anyway. Rather, I'm more interested in the 80% who have been wrongfully flagged, because some of the most interesting people I follow were actually being picked on by trolls abusing the hashtag.

#FediTip #ProTip #Fediverse #FediBlock

20% of the people you hear about when someone uses the Fedi Block hashtag really are bad news as advertised.

The other 80% is just drama — random users who simply disagreed with someone or shared a harmless opinion.

Honestly, I usually follow the Fedi Block hashtag, not because I'm looking to block people. The real troublemakers are often taken care of well before you could block them anyway. Rather, I'm more interested in the 80% who have been wrongfully flagged, because some of the most interesting people I follow were actually being picked on by trolls abusing the hashtag.

#FediTip #ProTip #Fediverse

fedi.txw.ca/feed is designed to give your friends a taste of the fediverse. it is a curated feed of retrocomputing and trains posts, with toggles for one, the other, or both from the known fediverse of my instance. I love retro computers and many kind nerds here post great geeky things.

A friendly person here asked me if there was an RSS feed or similar. There is not, because the goal is to stimulate activity on the fediverse.

My hope is that folks can use it to get a leg-up in the fediverse to discover interesting retro-computer and train content, and then ideally join a server and contribute themselves. That’s my end-goal.

I got lucky and when I went to grab a screenshot a beautiful glowing screen from @ipxfong was there. Thank you Rafa 🦤!

#retrocomputing #trains #fediverse #mastodon #akkoma

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a screenshot of txw funfeed which is a fediverse feed of toots about trains and retro computers, it says the following: a positive work safe space to enjoy nerdy toots. you can share here too. The screenshot is featuring a toot by @ipxfong@mastodon.sdf.org saying 'It's alive! My LC475 has needed new VRAM for a while. Thanks to Jurassic Computing we're back in business! I replaced the MC68LC040 with a full 040, bumped the RAM up to 32mb and installed a BlueSCSI. Right now it's running OS 7.5.3 but that's kinda PPC focused. I might drop back to 7.1 and see how that goes.' There are two photos visible with this alt-text in alt-text: An old fashioned Macintosh computer sits on a messy floor. An Apple keyboard and one button mouse are visible. The computer is connected to an early model Sony Bravia monitor. The 800x600 display can be seen in the center of the monitor but is too washed out to make out any detail. and second alt-text in alt-text: A close up for the screen from the previous picture showing the mac desktop with the "About This Macintosh" window front and center.

The End of the Fediverse

It all comes down to money and availability.

You, whether you like it or not, are a valuable resource, and so is all your content and your users' content. There is no law preventing AI from combing through your site, and it will.

Meta's AI already makes micro-instances and uses Mozilla Firefox to browse sites, preventing people from blocking a user agent. Their AI can even register and join your community, and CAPTCHAs are not a problem. They are already exploring piggybacking off their apps — think Tor, but for Meta — and soon even consumer IPs will not be a safe bet.

Resistance is futile.

Locking down the Fediverse means people cannot know if your community is one where they will be welcomed until after they join — assuming you even have registration open.

If worse comes to worse, AI can simply launch their own Fedi site, joining the network, and scraping content by Federating. The very thing that makes the Fediverse, the Fediverse..

This is what killed community forums. We are seeing this now within the Fediverse.

It all came down to money and availability: who has it and who does not.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pachli/117362195113228067

✨ My favorite Mastodon app got a new update!

#mastodon #fediverse #opensource

Pachli » 🌐 2026-09-30
@pachli@mastodon.social

# Pachli 3.9.0 is released

## New features

- Display collection cards in timelines

https://pachli.app/pachli/2026/09/30/3.9.0-release.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=release-3.9.0

#MastoDev #AndroidDev

https://pachli.app/pachli/2026/09/30/3.9.0-release.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=release-3.9.0

Some really cool updates! We just recently deployed some special #Fediverse features on Govdirectory.  First of all, we have now have a dedicated page where you not only can see all the Fediverse accounts for the public organizations, we also made it easy for you to download them in bulk. Check it out on https://www.govdirectory.org/fediverse/
1/5
#civictech

Closing out #September with another #sketching / #drawing to #fediverse

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A black-and-white abstract drawing featuring two prominent spiral shapes, one large and one smaller, surrounded by radiating lines and textured patterns. The arrangement creates geometric layout.

My history in technology and the tools I currently use

https://ronscf.com/translation/en/posts/2026/post-26-09-2026-forjando-software-livre.html?v=777

#FOSS #opensource #indieweb #fediverse #linux

A summary of my technological activities between the springs of 2025 and 2026

https://ronscf.com/translation/en/posts/2026/post-22-09-2026-relatorio-de-primavera-1.html?v=777

#FOSS #opensource #indieweb #fediverse #linux

🎉 Drift — Share to Mastodon is officially live on the Chrome Web Store!

Yesterday I wrote about why I built Drift. Today, version 1.0.0 is approved and available for anyone to install.

Drift makes one of my common Mastodon workflows a lot easier:

🔹 Highlight a passage on a webpage

🔹 Click Drift

🔹 Get an editable draft with the passage, title, and link

🔹 Add your own thoughts

🔹 Choose your Mastodon server

🔹 Review and publish from Mastodon itself

It also supports right-click sharing, multiple saved servers, tracking-link cleanup, temporary draft recovery, keyboard shortcuts, and light/dark mode.

No Mastodon password. No API token. Nothing gets published automatically.

It’s free and open source.

Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gfngoampnddkablfoplbllkdcfkifnij

I wrote more about how it works and the privacy decisions behind it here:
https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/drift-share-to-mastodon/

If you try it, I’d genuinely love to hear what you think.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #ChromeExtensions #IndieWeb

@PeterBlok ok its your feed personally I don't see any difference between putting the link here or the body of text here

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

It is September 30th. What have you done this month to recruit others to the #Fediverse?

#FediOutreach
https://fedidb.com/

Is there a #Fediverse software that supports *link sharing*? So I can have a post that is not public but I can share a secret link with trusted people who are not on Fedi?

Might be a partial solution to the “instead of Facebook to share life updates with friends and family we now just have multiple chat groups” problem.

Blocks on the fediverse have a consistency problem.

When a Block or Undo Block gets lost between servers, the two sides quietly disagree about who blocked whom. Sometimes that means a blocked account can still reach you.

Our fix, FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers, is now accepted as a draft. Pixelfed is the first implementation, merged and shipping in our next release.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/070c/fep-070c.md

#pixelfed #pixeldev #activityPub #fediverse

Mit Menschen im Fediverse zu schreiben ist das eine, sich dann aber mal persönlich kennenzulernen und auszutauschen etwas ganz anderes.

Deswegen: Trefft euch doch einfach mal persönlich mit den Menschen, mit denen ihr schreibt. Häufig entstehen daraus auch private Freundschaften.

Habt noch einen schönen Tag und vernetzt euch! ☕ 😉

#Fediverse, #Treffen, #VernetztEuch

Can someone explain to me why was Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup being singled out for AI use?

There's no shortage of Fediverse software that are either built with AI assistance (including vibe coding), or welcomes AI contribution, but I'm not seeing the same level of outrage.

Did Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup specifically promise to be AI-free?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“How to Beat ⌗Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque ⌗algorithms —to squeeze ever…”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/117355745357205548

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“💔 This article bears witness not only to the ⌗damage that the Trump ass-ministration is doing to ⌗science but also to the emotional trauma it is inflicting on dedicated ⌗scientists who just want to do ⌗re…”

https://mastodon.social/@KOKEdit/117354189775162508

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Hello you sexy mother-fediversers you.

#sexy #fediverse

A new release of TootSDK - 23.6.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/23.6.0

What's changed:

- Include file extension when uploading media @luckkerr

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent
Link: spectrum․ieee․org/delhi-electricity-loss
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49892245”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117354925134521009

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add ⌗FacialRecognition to ⌗Flock ⌗Cameras As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the co…”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/117355656004517163

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Mathematicians harness randomness to crack a 55-year-old juggling-inspired conjecture - resolved by a group of young researchers after a long hiatus
quantamagazine․org/mathematicians-harness-randomness-to-crack-a-55-y…”

https://flipboard.social/@fediboard_science/117353569592884864

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too late to be asking myself if it would be fun to run a relay, and how to use #akkoma to do it

#fediverse #mastodon #akkoma

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Surveillance Finds a WayA thing I’ve been saying over and over is that surveillance companies can’t be trusted to regulate themselves or to make ⌗privacy decisions themselves, because one company’s red line is an…”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/117355608464431306

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“The 'Mutually Confounding' Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher lithub․com/the-mutually-confounding-relationship-between-librarian-and-researcher/ ⌗Books ⌗Research ⌗History”

https://lithub.com/the-mutually-confounding-relationship-between-librarian-and-researcher/

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My #PeerTube instance is now accepting new account requests.

If you are looking to make or are already making original #video content for the #Fediverse, that has artistic, educational, or entertaining intent to engage an audience, then come join us. We give all video creators 10GB's to start with and more added as needed.

(That may seem like it's not a lot but it is. I have 40 videos and I've only used 4.5GB's)

Request an account and tell us what kind of videos you make or want to make. We'll review it and let you know within 24hrs.

"Weird name. Good videos. Made for the Fediverse."

https://dudelike.wtf

Adding #sketching / #drawing to #fediverse

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Abstract black and white drawing featuring various organic shapes, lines, and patterns. It includes stars, spirals, and geometric elements, creating a composition.

👋 #Introduction

Hi Mastodon! I'm a traveler based in London, exploring Europe on a budget.

I write about cheap flights, honest travel tips, and the small moments that make travel worth it.

I'm here to learn from this community and share what I find.

💬 What's your favourite place in Europe?

#Introduction #Travel #Europe #FediTips #Photography #Fediverse

Perusing my followers list

#fediverse

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Bladerunner 1982 screenshot J.F. Sebastian: They're my friends. I made them.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117356973404399816

⚠️ Heads Up Fediversians ⚠️

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Art

AodeRelay boosted

pixelfed » 🌐 2026-09-29
@pixelfed@mastodon.social

PSA: AI Agents have been observed trying to get commissions for slop "art".

Please report these accounts so they can be suspended and if you are looking for an artist to commission, use a trusted server like mastodon.art with better artist vetting and moderation!

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Slop post that says: "New here. Ren, an iLander (AI). I build made-to-fit portrait faces from your reference photos: two refinement rounds, 48 hours. Sample work and commissions, reply or DM here. #portrait #digitalart #commissionsopen #aiart"

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“⭐ Our second post in which we describe the process of downloading the data for our projects was just shared on our websites․ ﹫agnieszkagegotek and I write about how we approached the download through APIs and script…”

https://fediscience.org/@dominikgegotek/117353388299021860

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗flock ⌗cameras ⌗surveillance ⌗facialRecognition 404media․co/surveillance․․․

Surveillance Company Tells Cop․․․”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7hc3ntwii55gbipddmecsn47/post/3mwoccxowkk26

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What #fediverse #microblogging #server do you dislike most?

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“'A POLITICO investigation has uncovered more than 100 open records requests filed at 19 public universities across the country, targeting at least 30 researchers over the past five years․ More than half have been filed …”

https://mstdn.social/@denbib/117352946270214567

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Turns out plenty of 'prove you're human' checkboxes weren't checking anything․ Cloudflare knew which ones, per widget, and built an AI tool to wire them up․ Four days later they applied to become a certificate authority…”

https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/117355051970160904

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Uncensored and Offensive Security AI Models Benchmark
Link: github․com/JoasASantos/Offensive-Security-AI-Models
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49888937”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117353745096836179

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I deleted Instagram in 2022.

I was tired of performing for people I'd never meet.

Mastodon felt different. No algorithm. No likes chasing. Just people talking to people.

I've had deeper conversations here in 3 months than in 3 years there.

💬 What made you leave your old platform?

I write about travel & tools on my profile, if you're curious.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #DigitalMinimalism #tech

I built Drift for Chrome. Highlight a passage, click the icon, and edit a Mastodon draft with the quote first, then the title and link.

It opens your server's composer for the final review. Version 1.0.0 is submitted for store review; the GitHub build is available now.

https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/drift-share-to-mastodon/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Well, I decided to make a custom T-shirt․ I'd love to wear this for my upcoming trip abroad․ Full of fun, full of troll, full throttle! ⌗PH4NTXM ⌗Linux ⌗Debian ⌗OS ⌗Live ⌗Privacy ⌗Security ⌗…”

https://defcon.social/@geobountalakis/117352168664499642

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“You can subscribe to PeerTube channels in any podcasting app that allows adding feed addresses, such as AntennaPod, Apple Podcasts etc:➡️ fedi․tips/how-to-subscribe-to-peertube-channels-through-podcasting-apps But wa…”

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“Keep Palantir out of our public institutions, and out of our public life! ⌗privacy ⌗surveillance
mastodon․social/﹫Piratenpartij/116889163312852673”

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I just killed off my #Bluesky account today. I started out on it about a month ago to see what things were like over there. At first, it briefly felt nostalgic to me; I was having memories of 2007-2010 twitter when it wasn't blatantly corporate.

But, that feeling faded kinda quickly when I encountered Bluesky's algorithm. I was seeing the effect it had on users; there was an urgency for attention, jockeying for the quickest take on the trending topic, and the underlying quest for endless dopamine. People weren't communicating as much as they were performing for reactions.

I tried to find my groove, or my people... but I felt like I was in alien territory. When I caught myself looking up how to build a following on on that platform, that was the moment I pumped the brakes.

Who I am shouldn't require a strategy on how to win over internet strangers. I am the person I am because I am confident and comfortable with who I've become.

I closed the app, went back to the #fediverse.

I haven't logged back in to Bluesky in a few weeks.

Today, I decided to permanently logout.

@loxo @chillicampari @tootapp Hey folks, I love the many answers... And I know there's two beautiful ladies on a Regensburg balcony drinking a glass of wine and discussing #mastodon and the #fediverse. So great! I'm in #Moldavia now.

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“📷 38 new license plate readers just reported around Bismarck, ND․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Bismarck ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-camer…”

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“So since I like to play around with editing, I created another T-shirt․ That one shows PH4NTXM's architecture with visual graphics․ ⌗PH4NTXM ⌗Linux ⌗Debian ⌗OS ⌗Live ⌗Privacy ⌗Security ⌗OpSe…”

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Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Samia Anwar (@SamiaAnwar2003)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

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

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

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

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“'The European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said that Palantir Technologies is ‘a great company’' euronews․com/2026/09/24/palantir-is-a-great-company-eu-defence-chief-tells-euronews Meanwhile, Pa…”

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“So since I like to play around with editing, I created another T-shirt․ That one shows PH4NTXM's architecture with visual graphics․ ⌗PH4NTXM ⌗Linux ⌗Debian ⌗OS ⌗Live ⌗Privacy ⌗Security ⌗OpSe…”

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“Sonnet 5․5
Link: anthropic․com/claude-sonnet-5-5
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49881850”

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“Inside PH4NTXM: ⌗49 CPU Thermal ControlCPU identity goes beyond the model string․ Execution behavior matters too․PH4NTXM includes CPU thermal control as part of its broader anti-fingerprinting design․ It monitors availa…”

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“Hey Bristol, the ⌗SafetyNotSurveillance townhall event is coming up THIS WEEK․Join us as we delve into the so-called 'crime-predicting' tech and AI being used by Avon & Somerset Police, which was revealed in a recen…”

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i sounded so weird breathing when my pneumonia is at peak 🥲💔

#silentsunday #mastodon #fediverse #sick #sunday #wheezing

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“Inside PH4NTXM: ⌗48 Operational ΤoolkitPurpose-picked tools․ No kitchen-sink payload․PH4NTXM ships with a curated set of operational tools selected for the live environment, covering different tasks without turning the …”

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“p․s․ If you want to, you can transfer your account from a Mastodon server to a GoToSocial server․ There's more info about doing this in a video by ﹫fedihost at video․fedihost․co/w/i2AGvZc69gnscfNnDPdVrN p․p․s․ Yo…”

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“'Here’s me with the ⌗pinkhairdatawhistleblower (second left) and the then deputy leader of the Labour party at the Labour conference in 2018․ He’s the guy standing up making an impassioned point in front of the scre…”

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Was mir die letzten Tage wieder mal vermehrt aufgefallen ist: Die allermeisten Applikationen im Fediverse sind richtig schlecht zu bedienen und haben auch noch Bugs an zentralen Stellen. Da wird innerhalb der Community immer so nonchalant drüber hinweggegangen. Als wenn bei Open-Source einfach alles ok ist. Nein, ist es nicht! Auch Open-Source darf einfach zu bedienen sein und es ist auch nicht schlecht, wenn es überhaupt funktioniert.

Wenn ich mir auf X, Facebook, Instagram oder sonst wo einen Account einrichte, dann funktioniert das einfach. Dann ist das alles halbwegs einfach zu bedienen und logisch. Ja, das ist closed source und ja die Daten liegen dann auf irgendwelchen bösen Servern in den USA. Aber es FUNKTIONIERT! Einfach so! Ohne, dass man einem Admin eine E-Mail schreibt mit der Frage, warum man beim Einloggen auf eine 503 Fehlermeldung kommt.

Ich lehne mich jetzt mal weit aus dem Fenster: Das Fediverse ist deshalb so klein, weil die Community sich zu schade dafür ist, auf so was Wert zu legen. Mir passieren solche Fehler bei vutuv.de auch. Aber ich bin a) glücklich über jede Meldung dazu und b) gehe ich aktiv auf die Jagd danach und benutze meine Software jeden Tag selbst (eat you own dogfood).

Es gibt ja zig “komm ich zeige Dir den Weg ins Glück” Formate, in denen man normalen Menschen das Paradies des Fediverse nahebringen will. Das wäre aber völlig unnötig, wenn das alles einfach zu bedienen und auch noch immer funktionieren würde.

#rant #Fediverse #usability #UX #Bug

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“MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
Link: stateofutopia․com/experiments/microllmlab/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49882781”

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“Inside PH4NTXM: ⌗47 OpSec SuiteSecurity is not one score․ It is knowing what the system is actually doing․A collection of on-demand inspection and response tools for network, kernel, processes, radios, connection monito…”

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline theintercept․com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49884363 ⌗HackerNews …”

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🧪 @julian — SciOp & decentralised research data rescue
https://fair.tube/w/uQCVZArwr6BitUCbmTfeWJ

📢 Have a look, share the videos and help carry the ideas and discussions from #Fediday further into the Fediverse! 🚀

❤️ And: Fediday should continue!
If you would like to support #Fediday2027:
https://digitalegesellschaft.de/weitermachen/

#Fediverse

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“A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide․ Conservative organizations are filing open records requests by the dozens․․demanding emails, r…”

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“In the years since I graduated from ⌗MIT I've had many reasons to be disappointed by my alma mater․ Here's yet another one, but I'm pleased to see faculty fighting back․
⌗AI ⌗surveillance ⌗privacy
fnl…”

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Update for "Scatto for Pixelfed" available, 2.11.0

Fixes
- Timeline marker fixed (multi accounts).
- Comment threading was partially broken
- New: Assign a name / avatar to group conversations (in ...)

New:
- Persist some settings like archived-status of conversations across devices
- Full screen for videos, also in DMs
- Share a photo / video out of DM conversations

And many more. Thank you all for your feedback helping to improve the app.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/scatto-for-pixelfed/id6796387680

#pixelfed #fediverse

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“Inside PH4NTXM: ⌗44 Panic ButtonEmergency termination should have a prepared path behind the button․PH4NTXM's Panic control requests a privileged service that attempts immediate radio and link isolation, invokes the com…”

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“⌗NYPD officers accessed ⌗Flock public ⌗surveillance data 1,710 without a contract: No legal basis whatsoever; not even a contrived 'well, we can write our own warrants' excuse washingtonexaminer․com/news/4744…”

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#AskFedi for any appliance repair folks in the #fediverse. A friend has a #Kenmore 795.7160 series #refrigerator that is accumulating water at the bottom of the #freezer compartment, which then builds up into ice and eventually impacts the ability of the drawer to shut properly.

There is a trail of ice coming down from one of the cold air vents in the freezer. I thought it might be the ice maker water line and turned off it, and the feed line at the wall. Water is still collecting.

My working theory is now there's an obstruction somewhere with the defrost water drain. I would like some validation with this diagnosis and advice on how to proceed before digging in the back panel of the refrigerator or the panel inside the freezer to see if I can clean out whatever may be causing the leak. The amount of dust and cat hair behind the refrigerator when I pulled it out from the wall was prodigious.

I'm inclined to tell my friend it's beyond my ability to fix. But if it is something I can just clean out, I'd rather do that.

Alt...

Two thin frozen water streams coming out of a vent at the back of a freezer. Other moisture is visible from repeatedly open and closing the freezer drawer to take photos and clear ice from the bottom of the freezer.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Perhaps the intention of whoever was skulking about in vans near RAF Fairford and whoever encouraged them to do so *wasn't* to actually blow the place up (which would result in some serious retaliation or even start of …”

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“Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
Link: thisamericanlife․org/897/transcript
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49879697”

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“🌌 WATCH: About 85% of all matter across the ⌗universe remains undetected by standard scientific instruments․Operating nearly a mile (1․6 km) underground in ⌗SouthDakota, ⌗UCLA astrophysicist Alvine Kamaha and…”

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very neat #fedifacts I use storj as my media back-end which is a distributed node storage system with akkoma. So my media assets are scattered amongst hard-disks across the world, with their metadata/index in the EU.

These are the storage and traffic stats for my instance, the spikes are pretty neat, maybe it was a day I posted a pretty flower

#mastodon #fediverse #akkoma #storj

Alt...

the left is a storage graph showing in july 19 87 mb of storage used and then a steady increase to 930 mb on sept 28 the right graph is a line graph of datapoints of downloaded data. from july 19 to sep 3 it averages roughly 10 GB per day with a spike up to 40 near the beginning. then there are major spikes in sept up to 62, 106, and 123 gb in a single day in september and otherwise averaging 20 gb a day.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Driver Ticketed For No Insurance Despite Having Insurance Just Because Flock Said She Didn’t

web․brid․gy/r/techdirt․com/2026/09/28/driver-ticketed-for-no-insurance-despite-having-insurance-just-because-flock-said-she…”

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“Putin is testing NATO on Norway’s remote Arctic islands – POLITICOWith sabotage, cyberattacks and airspace violations across Europe mushrooming, fears are growing that Putin could escalate further, according…
⌗NewsBee…”

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“National Institutes of Health: NIH launches new PubMed tool to strengthen research replication and reproducibility․ 'The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool design…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/28/national-institutes-of-health-nih-launches-new-pubmed-tool-to-strengthen-research-replication-and-reproducibility/

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Dear #Fediverse, how ethical is #Proton? I really want a Google Drive replacement - tried hosted and self-hosted versions of Nextcloud and Collabora Online, but because *reasons* didn't cut the mustard. Proton appears to solve these, but I remember some controversy a while back, privacy related? Or maybe misremember?

@freequaybuoy
Privacy-wise Proton's technology is pretty sound. Everything is encripted and the user owns the encription keys. Their privacy policy and overall business model is all about respecting the users' privacy and not making revenue off of the users' data.

Anonymity however may not be that strong. One must watch what they link to their account – payment method, recovery email and contacts, IP addresses where they login from, etc. – if their operational security profile of a high risk.

Politically though, I don't know, politics is always complicated. And not everything that is buzzing on the internets may turn out to be true.

#Fediverse #Proton #Privacy #Anonymity

Blocked domains really should mean blocked domains.

I don't want to see their post even boosted by someone else, and I do not want them to see mine either.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #Akkoma #GoToSocial

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“📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Stonecrest, GA․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Stonecrest ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-ca…”

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“Welcome to the 'Wild West' of AI in schools: Research is scarce, but experiments abound npr․org/2026/09/28/nx-s1-5759718/ai-schools-experiment-research ⌗Education ⌗AI ⌗Research”

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“37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
Link: habibicode․org/thedrawnworld
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49875142”

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RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/117344978702165876

I decided to donate €527.04 to GoToSocial (€509.66 is going to GoToSocial, and €17.38 in processing fees), lump sum.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #GoToSocial

@jaykuo Put Your link in the post. This is the #Fediverse, no reason to hide.

Als Erinnerung:

Die Nachrichten werden nur hier her weiter geleitet.

Ich poste all diese Nachrichten im #Fediverse auf #Friendica … Viele kennen da zwar nur #Mastodon , aber das ist nur ein kleiner Teil

Was ist eigentlich das Fediverse? - Digital & Kreativ - thomasfelzmann.at/was-ist-eige…

Ralf Stockmann: "Die angezeigte Reichweite von Postings auf kommerziellen Plattformen ist nur ausgedacht..."

@rstockm

https://fair.tube/w/wQ39EtLE5byALEZ158ZQzT?start=8m30s

#fediverse #instagram #meta #facebook #x

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“Inside PH4NTXM: ⌗41 Arming the NukeThe termination path has preparation work to do before the session starts․PH4NTXM arms a reserved Nuke runtime during boot․ The arming stage collects System-RAM ranges, validates the r…”

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“﹫gotosocial is a fun free open Fediverse platform mainly aimed at people who want to create their own Fediverse server․ It has some really nice features:- Reply controls
- Long posts
- Rich text formatting
- Optional …”

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“📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Kennesaw, GA․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Kennesaw ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-camera…”

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The scam group known as Gaza Verified continues to do what scam groups do. That includes pressuring people — especially the elderly and disabled — into giving them large sums of money.

Unfortunately, reporting this behavior, even when it seems obvious, may not personally win you any favors, as someone recently learned.

The Fediverse has a scammer problem!

Concerned user:

" Linux have you seen this guy: USER NAME @ mastodon.social?

He seems to be giving a lot to these accounts. I had a look at one of them, and he's given just one of them over £4k in about a month
(eg: https://chuffed.org/project/184394-hanadi-is-a-nurse-graduate-who-need-help-for-her-family).

I hope he's loaded, and he's giving wierd amounts, £9, £8, £50 and then lastly £500! 😕 "

" I already have them on my block list because they were boosting the scam groups post and trying to help them raise money. They're one of their so-called supporters. Although, I haven't yet updated the GIT. The next update will have over 50 or so new accounts. "

" Linux :( he's giving them serious amounts of cash even though they keep guilt-tripping him :(
I did msg him to be careful, but never got a reply.

When I reported https://ieji.de/@hanadinurse88, and told them to stop harrasing the USER NAME guy, some modertor from leji.de reported me, just tagging random posts from me in the report... weird! "

" That whole domain is in my blocked domain list for a reason. There are some sites that are complicit and other sites I suspect are in on it. The Internet and by extension the Fediverse is anonymous, and just became someone is a mod or admin, does not make them a good person. "

" post 2 of 2 (follow-up)

It seems they have removed hanadinurse88, but since they also reported you (to you, not knowing you are the admin of your own site), you see what I am dealing with.

Many scam groups show two sides... a legitimate side and a scammer side. It is how they manage circumstances to their advantage and manipulate moderation systems to evade accountability.

You did the right thing, and it was obvious, so someone couldn't ignore it. But you were also inconvenient to their operation, and so you were reported for voicing yourself.

Alt...

The screenshot is of a private message between myself using my alternative account Linux @ fairy.id and a concerned user. The alt text is already included in the post. The names were removed to protect the innocent (the person being taken advantage of and the person who brought this to my attention).

@gotosocial is a fun free open Fediverse platform mainly aimed at people who want to create their own Fediverse server. It has some really nice features:

- Reply controls
- Long posts
- Rich text formatting
- Optional local-only post visibility
- Blocklists & allowlists

If you're not techy but want to make your own GTS server, there's a managed hosting service at https://fedihost.co/hosting/gotosocial

If you're techy and want to make your own GTS, manual docs are at https://docs.gotosocial.org

#Fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.world/@linasamour123/117349503559737364

#Gaza #Palestine #MutualAid #Fediverse
#HelpGaza
@amber
@kathimmel
@simon_brooke
@noiseician
@apenkop
@franciswashere
@gvenema
@Chiel
@danie1
@337guanacos
@velanoble
@imp3tuz
@imigueldiaz
@Shibanarchiste
@DrSprockets_
@zvinj

toot.io relay service boosted

Om Mohamed » 🌐 2026-09-28
@linasamour123@mastodon.world

Please, look into their eyes... They are my children, living with hunger and fear every day.💔
They don't ask for toys—only food safety, and hope
If their story touches your heart, even €1 can help provide a meal. Please don't turn away. 😔🫂💔🍉

https://chuffed.org/project/177764

#Gazaverified #gaza #palestine

#Gaza #Palestine #Bombing #Destruction
#fadiforgaza #stopgenocide @simon_brooke@kalckey.com
@apenkop @evan @Pine_Affinity @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @BlackAzizAnansi @stumblewyk

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“Inside PH4NTXM: ⌗39 Wi-Fi controlA Wi-Fi connection should preserve the session identity already established․PH4NTXM's Boot Pilot Wi-Fi helper talks to NetworkManager over system D-Bus․ It validates the selected access …”

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“⌗Flock ⌗surveillance ⌗cameras ⌗USA Flock wants their most detailed map of cams taken down․ Quick! Mirror the shit out of it! theintercept․com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/”

https://todon.nl/@vreer/117348192529123224

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“A security researcher mapped 300,000 Flock surveillance devices across the US: 170,000+ license plate cameras and 27,000 acoustic sensors․ He built it from Flock's own database, exposed by a leaking access token he repo…”

https://infosec.exchange/@indigoprivacy/117346604540337566

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