jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Site description
These are the voyag... uh, things I post about.
Admin email
jrollans@gmail.com
Admin account
@jrollans@jrollans.com

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[?]FediForum » 🌐
@fediforum@mastodon.social

Have you ever wondered how actually works?

This presentation by Evan Prodromou from should answer your questions in 30 minutes.

spectra.video/w/s8DKnnaPFw2b1J

/cc @evanprodromou

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    [?]The Fulcrum ⚒️ ⛓️‍💥 🏴‍☠️ » 🌐
    @SymfonyStation@drupal.community

    Evan Prodromou says: Check out "movies.pub". cosocial.ca/@evan/116510880892

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      [?]Waidler :mastodon: » 🌐
      @waidler@bayerwald.social

      Radical Speed Month — The Reader Meets the Fediverse activitypub.blog/2026/05/05/ra , , , , , , ,

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        [?]TelH90 » 🌐
        @kkarhan@c.im

        : A -friendly / - System that allows people to and communicate even on extremely narrowband connections like (espechally ) and similar.
        - Potentially even over -Radio, , 'd comms and others... So way below bandwiths.

        Basically something that could work within the few bytes of an transmission, using with short TTL for authentification and is so brutally simple that one could manually send/recieve messages/posts with (or ) and even support "" systems without a like in between (tho that is also an option)...

        A bit like in terms of simplicity.
        - With like a simple, short message:
        ```
        curl -d "test message" domain.example/@xsample&totp=1234567890
        ```
        Which comes out to 62 Bytes or 9,45¢ [U$D] in costs over . [excl. baseline fees]...

        Did anyone else thought of this? If so, let me know down below!

        ntfy.sh/docs/publish
        github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy
        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_
        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowba
        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity
        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-bas
        rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238
        javainuse.com/bytesize
        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-sca
        m-cramer.shop/documents/0214_I
        github.com/ActionRetro/FrogFind

          [?]Demigodrick » 🌐
          @Demigodrick@mastodon.zip

          Less than 24 hours until goes live for Season 3!

          You can even sign up early and start recruiting people for a little bonus ;)

          thebutton.lemmy.zip

          Works with all servers!

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            [?]Gregory » 🌐
            @grishka@mastodon.social

            Wanted to check out ? Well, now you can! I've just set up a demo server that lets you sign up for a temporary account to play around:

            try.smithereen.software

              [?]dansup » 🌐
              @dansup@mastodon.social

              We can build better, and they will come.

              Trust me.

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                [?]LAUTI » 🌐
                @lauti@bonfire.cafe

                We are a little bit late to the party, but on the 1. May we celebrated #lauti's first anniversary 🥳.
                This year was crazy, we got in touch with so many amazing people a long the way. We did our first talk at the #39c3 self organized session of @techfrombelow@chaos.social.
                We visited #fosdem with our friends from @Bonfire where they announced our collaboration working on #events in the #fediverse.
                We are just getting started, SSO is around the corner and we are working on #activitypub at the moment.
                For more updates take a look at our last blog post
                lauti.org/blog/lauti-updates...

                  [?]Phoenix Paulina Schmid » 🌐
                  @gelbphoenix@social.gelbphoenix.de

                  Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?

                  Read here what I think about this:
                  blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-

                    [?]julian » 🌐
                    @julian@activitypub.space

                    Combining groups and payments into a fedi-forward service for content creators

                    Unfortunately I was only able to join for the third and last day of FediForum, but the energy was quite strong even then! There were some interesting discussions with @ozoned@btfree.social @reiver@mastodon.social and others (@johannab@cosocial.ca, @j12t@j12t.social, etc) about fediverse payments and growing the open social web — this spanned two session slots, actually! One thing that came out strongly was the need for content creators to get paid. This directly echoes @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com's talk from @fedimtl earlier this year. The other half was reflecting on the lack of appropriate value-adds for donators, such as private groups. We have all of these things, but separately. Perhaps combining them into an easy-to-use service is the secret sauce that will open up the fediverse to content creators.[...] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                    Unfortunately I was only able to join for the third and last day of FediForum, but the energy was quite strong even then!

                    There were some interesting discussions with @ozoned@btfree.social @reiver@mastodon.social and others (@johannab@cosocial.ca, @j12t@j12t.social, etc) about fediverse payments and growing the open social web — this spanned two session slots, actually!

                    One thing that came out strongly was the need for content creators to get paid. This directly echoes @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com's talk from @fedimtl earlier this year. The other half was reflecting on the lack of appropriate value-adds for donators, such as private groups.

                    We have all of these things, but separately. Perhaps combining them into an easy-to-use service is the secret sauce that will open up the fediverse to content creators.[...]

                    There is work with the Interledger Foundation (@jeremiah@alpaca.gold) to make the financial side happen. There's ongoing work with CrowdBucks (@reiver@mastodon.social) to connect fediverse accounts with payment gateways. On the threadiverse side, each of us (NodeBB, Lemmy, Piefed) have support for private groups, but not federated private groups.

                    This might be an opportunity for the threadiverse implementors to work together (especially with @mayel@bonfire.cafe and the rest of the SWICG Groups Task Force (@groups)) to bring federate private groups out of the realm of theoretical possibility and into reality.

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                    [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
                    @evan@cosocial.ca

                    Hooray movies! 🎉 🎥🍿

                    movies.pub/movie/Q107105860

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                      [?]⚓💾 Tueddelmors 💾⚓ » 🌐
                      @reeeen@norden.social

                      Kleines Fediverse-Mysterium: Ich folge jemandem auf einer Pixelfed-Instanz, antworte über Mastodon, die Person sieht es auf Misskey – und alles funktioniert einfach so. ✨

                      Stell dir vor, du könntest einer Gmail-Adresse von Outlook aus schreiben. Ach warte, das geht ja auch. Nur bei sozialen Netzwerken haben wir das irgendwie 15 Jahre lang vergessen. 🤔

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                        [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
                        @evan@cosocial.ca

                        Two fixes I submitted to are in the latest release. I am so amped to see this happen; I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for established platforms to support the ActivityPub spec correctly. I love seeing this happen. Thank you Misskey for making the Fediverse a slightly easier place to write software!

                        github.com/misskey-dev/misskey

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                          [?]Week in Fediverse :fediverse_light: » 🌐
                          @weekinfediverse@mitra.social

                          Week in Fediverse 2026-05-01

                          Servers

                          - Hollo v0.8.0
                          - ActivityPub for WordPress v8.2.0
                          - NodeBB v4.11.0
                          - PieFed v1.6.20
                          - TinyAP v0.1.8

                          Clients

                          - Pachli v3.6.0
                          - tooi v0.24.0
                          - Tusker v2026.1
                          - Nicolium v0.2.0
                          - Jerboa v0.0.87
                          - PeerTube Mobile v2.1.2
                          - Mitra Mini v0.3.0
                          - Holos v1.5.2

                          For developers

                          - Fedify v2.2.0

                          Articles

                          - The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card
                          - The Architecture of Autonomy and Freedom
                          - What would a LinkedIn alternative look like on the open web?

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                          #WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

                          Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019dc0ea-e585-7be3-8174-327c55ab28d5

                            [?]Connected Places » 🌐
                            @fediversereport@mastodon.social

                            New from me: Federation Has a European Legal Problem

                            on what the recent Russmedia ruling means for open social protocols like and

                            warning: do not read if you value your sanity

                            connectedplaces.online/federat

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                              [?]Hannah Grace » 🌐
                              @hpod16@eupolicy.social

                              So is coming back, this time as !
                              Does anyone know anyone who can get me an invite code? I want in!
                              The App is coming back with no allowed, and will allow people to own their own content.

                              For the geeks: it's built on the protocol , and apparently they're experimenting with integrating the , future integration with , the protocol behind and .
                              youtube.com/watch?v=zUGnNIh60-0

                                [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
                                @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

                                Social Web Foundation at Wikimedia Hackathon

                                I (Evan) will be at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 in Milan, Italy this weekend (May 1-4). I'm especially interested in how we can connect Wikimedia projects and content to the Social Web using ActivityPub. I'll be holding a session on the topic on Sunday May 3 at 9AM, but I'll also be available for discussions throughout the weekend. My hacking project plan is to make an ActivityPub object server for films. There are about 343,000 films in Wikidata, which compares pretty favourably with the […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                I (Evan) will be at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 in Milan, Italy this weekend (May 1-4). I’m especially interested in how we can connect Wikimedia projects and content to the Social Web using ActivityPub. I’ll be holding a session on the topic on Sunday May 3 at 9AM, but I’ll also be available for discussions throughout the weekend.

                                My hacking project plan is to make an ActivityPub object server for films. There are about 343,000 films in Wikidata, which compares pretty favourably with the 740,000 films in IMDB. There is a JSON-LD interface to Wikidata, but the types used don’t match up with ActivityPub types like Video. So, like places.pub, I’ll set up movies.pub to share an ActivityPub object for every Q-item for a movie, as well as a search endpoint to find films by name.

                                If I get ahead of the project and I’m not too jet-lagged, I’d like to add an ActivityPub API app to “check in” to a movie that you’re watching (and maybe give a little review). Similar to checkin.swf.pub with places!

                                If you’re at this weekend, please come say hi. I love talking about Wikimedia projects and the open social web.

                                [?]Marcos Dione » 🌐
                                @mdione@en.osm.town

                                hashtags in are diacritic agnostic, so and are the same :)

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                                  [?]Beady Belle Fanchannel » 🌐
                                  @Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz

                                  Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards. It's well worth a read!

                                  coding.social/blog/grassroots-

                                    [?]veeso [he/him] » 🌐
                                    @veeso_dev@hachyderm.io

                                    Btw, I'm working on Mastic: a instance written in , running entirely on the Internet Computer as canisters.

                                    One canister per user, Internet Identity auth, SNS-based DAO governance, no PostgreSQL/Redis/Nginx. Fully ActivityPub-compatible.

                                    Live by the end of September.

                                    blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/btw-i-m

                                      [?]David Revoy » 🌐
                                      @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

                                      Character study of the GoToSocial sloth, a future new member, when I'll be drawing the group of mascots of the Fediverse.

                                      Directly inspired by the GotoSocial logo by @Anna − CC-BY-SA 4.0 gotosocial.org/


                                      A digital sheet of concept with four time the same character: a tiny cute sloth. First post is happy with a little heart nearby their head. A pose expresses surprise. Another full body pose shows the sloth in a three, curious. Last pose is about the sloth eating leaves and being happy excited about it.

                                      Alt...A digital sheet of concept with four time the same character: a tiny cute sloth. First post is happy with a little heart nearby their head. A pose expresses surprise. Another full body pose shows the sloth in a three, curious. Last pose is about the sloth eating leaves and being happy excited about it.

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                                        [?]Fedilab Apps » 🌐
                                        @apps@toot.fedilab.app

                                        For those who have questions about . I've seen a lot written recently, and since the project is young, it's normal that things stay ambiguous or get misunderstood. This is a thread, with one post per remark most often read, and a direct answer.

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                                          [?]@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: » 🌐
                                          @reiver@mastodon.social

                                          What should the file-extension for ActivityPub / ActivityStreams documents be?

                                          I.e., for application/activity+json data?

                                          I've been using .activity

                                          Ex: filename.activity

                                          (The extension cannot be .json or .jsonld if you want to be able to detect it just based on the file-extension.)

                                          What do you think?

                                            [?]Terence Eden [He/Him/♂/男] » 🌐
                                            @Edent@mastodon.social

                                            In *theory* you should be able to follow this test user:

                                            @你好@i18n.viii.fi

                                            But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.

                                            If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂

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                                              [?]Caio C. G. Oliveira » 🌐
                                              @caiocgo@mastodon.world

                                              RE: social.wake.st/@liaizon/116476

                                              It would be really cool if ended up being federated and built on top of !

                                              [?]wakest likes your bugs ⁂ [they/them] » 🌐
                                              @liaizon@social.wake.st

                                              RE: tacobelllabs.net/@ultranurd/11

                                              someone bought friendster.com and is trying to make a new social network on it, though the idea that the domain alone was worth $30k is so silly to me.

                                                [?]@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: » 🌐
                                                @reiver@mastodon.social

                                                Can an ActivityPub 'Place' also be an Actor?

                                                w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca

                                                With followers, an outbox, etc.

                                                That could be useful for both real-life places, and fictional places in stories, and in video games.

                                                  [?]@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: » 🌐
                                                  @reiver@mastodon.social

                                                  What makes an ActivityPub Actor an Actor?

                                                  I think it is probably a bad idea to just restrict it to things with 'type': "Application", "Group", "Organization", "Person", and "Service". Restricting it to just those would mean you couldn't have new actor types (and sub-types) in the future.

                                                  So then, do we do it in a duck-typing way? And if "yes", how?

                                                  Maybe if something has an "inbox" OR and "outbox" it is an Actor. I.e., it could have just one of those.

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                                                    [?]@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: » 🌐
                                                    @reiver@mastodon.social

                                                    Should an ActivityPub 'Place' be used to represent a fictional place?

                                                    w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca

                                                    Such as a fictional place in a story, or a video game?

                                                      🗳
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                                                      [?]Fedilab Apps » 🌐
                                                      @apps@toot.fedilab.app

                                                      is a project that lets users run their own server on a device (Android/iOS). Would a desktop version interest you? For purists, dynamic DNS could replace the relay entirely, which is simply not realistic on mobile.
                                                      Main account: @HolosSocial
                                                      Your opinion?

                                                      Yes, with relay support:7
                                                      Yes, purist mode (no relay):12
                                                      No, mobile is enough:2
                                                      No interest:11
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                                                        [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
                                                        @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

                                                        How To Bullshit Your Way Through a Conversation about ActivityPub

                                                        I (Evan) will be giving talk at Fediforum 26-04 next week, April 28, 2026, on the exciting topic of faking your way through ActivityPub conversations. Here's the description: "One of the best bluffers in the field of distributed social networks gives you just enough knowledge about ActivityPub to sound smarter than everyone around you. In this talk, Evan will cover the essential architecture of ActivityPub, what works and what doesn't, and what is coming up next for the standard. You'll walk […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                        I (Evan) will be giving talk at Fediforum 26-04 next week, April 28, 2026, on the exciting topic of faking your way through ActivityPub conversations. Here’s the description:

                                                        “One of the best bluffers in the field of distributed social networks gives you just enough knowledge about ActivityPub to sound smarter than everyone around you. In this talk, Evan will cover the essential architecture of ActivityPub, what works and what doesn’t, and what is coming up next for the standard. You’ll walk out of this talk with just enough knowledge to speak with confidence about anything at Fediforum.”

                                                        If you’ve ever wanted to know what ActivityPub is and how it works, please come along. I hope the event is fun and interesting. Bring questions!

                                                        [?]dansup » 🌐
                                                        @dansup@mastodon.social

                                                        full account migration could leverage a trusted third party service that simply serves authorization attestation (also for in the event the origin becomes unavailable), allowing remote servers to simply rewrite data/relations without having to delete and refetch.

                                                        ap devs: let's chat about this, I'm already building this for Loops and Pixelfed

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                                                          [?]Week in Fediverse :fediverse_light: » 🌐
                                                          @weekinfediverse@mitra.social

                                                          Week in Fediverse 2026-04-24

                                                          Servers

                                                          - Hollo v0.7.11
                                                          - Lemmy v0.19.18
                                                          - Wafrn 2026.04.02
                                                          - Ibis v0.3.2
                                                          - Ktistec v3.3.6
                                                          - ActivityPub for WordPress v8.1.0
                                                          - Gush v0.0.36
                                                          - Iceshrimp.NET v2026.1-beta
                                                          - Mitra v5.2.0
                                                          - tootik v0.22.0
                                                          - NeoDB v0.14.0
                                                          - Vernissage Server v1.34.0
                                                          - PieFed v1.6.19
                                                          - ActivityPub Bots v1.1.1

                                                          Clients

                                                          - Jerboa v0.0.86
                                                          - Holos v1.4.0

                                                          Protocol

                                                          - FEP-35b7: Fediverse Servers, Instances, and Tenants
                                                          - FEP-ae49: Semantic Routing for ActivityPub

                                                          Articles

                                                          - Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

                                                          -----

                                                          #WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

                                                          Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019d9ce7-bae8-7d4c-da66-27acb019a9e6

                                                            [?]FediForum » 🌐
                                                            @fediforum@mastodon.social

                                                            Before anybody thinks we're trying to arrange for a battle of the protocols, vs ... that's not the intention.

                                                            Instead, for people not deep down in the technical specs, these talks should give you an idea how these protocols work and you can better understand why their designers made different design choices and tradeoffs.

                                                            And for people who know one protocol well but not the other, we'd like to create ...

                                                              [?]FediForum » 🌐
                                                              @fediforum@mastodon.social

                                                              Evan Prodromou, editor of the ActivityPub standard, will give a talk at FediForum on Tuesday, April 28, titled:

                                                              "How To Bullshit Your Way Through a Conversation about ActivityPub"

                                                              Have you ever wondered how actually works? Come join us to find out, online! fediforum.org

                                                              /cc @evanprodromou

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                                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.78 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                Hashtag following also allow URLs to RSS feeds of ActivityPub objects (like e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/ThankYouTuesday).

                                                                Users can now configure a webhook to receive an HTTP POST for every notification. This can be useful for implementing bots that react to activities, like autorepliers, chatbots or interactive textual games (see snac(1) for more information).

                                                                The number of pending follow confirmations is shown next to the "people" link.

                                                                Faster performance metrics (contributed by dandelions).

                                                                Improved lowercasing in hashtags (contributed by postscriptum).

                                                                A search-by-url tweak for implementations that return 200 for invalid webfinger queries (e.g. piefed).

                                                                Mastodon API: added follow confirmation endpoints, fixed collisions in attachment file names.

                                                                Fixed potential crashes in attachment uploads.

                                                                https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                If you find useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


                                                                  [?]Chris Trottier » 🌐
                                                                  @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org

                                                                  #Elgg is getting an #ActivityPub plugin!

                                                                  Now if you’re not familiar with Elgg, it’s one of the first ever open source social media platforms. It launched all the way back in 2004 and was founded by @ben and Dave Tosh.

                                                                  I remember installing Elgg 15 years ago, playing around with it for a bit, and not doing much with it because there wasn’t anyone I knew who used it. So ActivityPub will definitely extend its network effect.

                                                                  https://github.com/RiverVanRain/activitypub/wiki/Welcome#groups

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                                                                    [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                    @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                    I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.70 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                    Notifications are now shown in a more compact way (i.e. all reactions are shown just above your post, instead of repeating the post ad nauseam for every reaction).

                                                                    New command-line option unmute to, well, no-longer-mute an actor.

                                                                    The private timeline now includes an approximate mark between new posts and "already seen" ones.

                                                                    Fixed a spurious 404 error in the instance root URL for some configurations.

                                                                    https://comam.es/what-is-snac

                                                                    If you find useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

                                                                    This release has been inspired by the song The Answers to the Questions by and .

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