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We're going to delete this poll, we heard you!
We will stay focused on #ActivityPub
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Once we fix all open bug reports, and federation, would you like to see us add support for AtProto (what Bluesky uses)?
56% of 43 people said no
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"You have freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences."... was all too popular.
In China, the phrase:
"You have freedom of speech, but not the right to be heard."... is all too common.
In the United States, both are being embraced, and we should be concerned.
Authoritarian regimes rarely start by banning thought, but rather they corrupt expression itself. They grant the theoretical right to speak, then engineer a reality where doing so is civic suicide.
Consider the first mechanism, perfected in the shadow of the gulag: "You have freedom of speech, but not freedom from consequences." Under totalitarianism, the state manufactures the consequences. You can say anything, provided you are willing to lose your job, apartment, or liberty. The regime doesn't need to drag you away; they make the price of speaking so high you gag yourself.
Next is the digital cage perfected in China: "You have freedom of speech, but not the right to be heard." You can vent online all day, but algorithms quietly intercept your words. They throttle your reach and shadow-ban your profile, rendering your voice a tree falling in a digital forest with no ears to hear it.
The real tragedy is that these tools are no longer confined to foreign adversaries. They are being enthusiastically imported into the United States by both citizens and institutions.
In America, "freedom from consequences" has been weaponized by a hyper-partisan culture. People demand professional ruin and social excommunication for anyone stepping outside approved ideological boundaries, crowd-sourcing a secret police that imposes a devastating economic tax on wrong-think.
Simultaneously, the American public square has outsourced the "right to be heard" to algorithmic overlords. Under the banner of safety, tech platforms quietly bury non-conforming viewpoints, sterilizing the marketplace of ideas.
When a society willingly adopts both constraints, it ceases to be free. We are sleepwalking into a system where the First Amendment exists on parchment, but its soul has been traded for the illusion of ideological safety.
#FreedomOfSpeech #HumanRights #Humanity #Society #Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub
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I know the Pixelfed codebase is messy, but I'm a far better Laravel dev than when I started it, and @phpstan has been keeping Loops rock solid at every level.
This week: preparing the new mobile app, fixing comment threading so you never miss a reply, and laying the foundation for the next-gen APIs that will power the new webUI and mobile app.
Tests are coming to lock in stability too. Pixelfed is getting the Loops treatment 💅 🚀
I will admit, I did get a bit carried away with @pixelfed features over the years.
Collections, DMs, Ephemeral Stories, Filters, Groups and Portfolios were all started with good intentions, but without the continued focus and stability they deserve.
Once I get caught up with bug fixes and making the core features more solid, they are up next!
No new features will be added until the platform is as rock solid as Loops is 😉
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I wish there was a Fediverse platform for music #scrobbler. Something similar to last.fm but OpenSource and supporting #ActivityPub. There is libre.fm, but despite being active, I cannot find their source code and I believe they are a centralized platform.
It would be great if we can also self-host our music history and be able to share it.
There is multi-scrobbler under MIT license that can be a nice place to start:
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Does #Mastodon even use `contentMap` in posts (`Note`)? The #ActivityPub spec specifies a method for multilanguage posts in the form of `contentMap`, but does the rest of the #Fediverse even get to read it? Do posts that have `contentMap` but **not** `content` get to show at all?
Going to TPAC 2026 as part of the @sovtechfund Standards cohort!
#ActivityPub #W3C #SovereignTechStandards
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Confirmation email about TPAC 2026
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Where Are All the Americans? Fediverse Adoption and the Missing US Crowd
Spend enough time poking around Mastodon instances, looking at who runs the bigger ActivityPub servers, or reading about governments experimenting with decentralized social media, and a pattern starts to show up. A surprising amount of the interesting activity has happened outside the United States. Japan, Germany, India, and even China come up again and again in the history of the fediverse. American institutions, meanwhile, have mostly watched from the sidelines while Silicon Valley […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Spend enough time poking around Mastodon instances, looking at who runs the bigger ActivityPub servers, or reading about governments experimenting with decentralized social media, and a pattern starts to show up. A surprising amount of the interesting activity has happened outside the United States.
Japan, Germany, India, and even China come up again and again in the history of the fediverse. American institutions, meanwhile, have mostly watched from the sidelines while Silicon Valley platforms grew larger and more centralized.
I went looking for academic research to see whether that impression holds up. The answer is: maybe, but the research I found does not really answer the question I was asking.
Two studies from Arizona State University looked closely at migration away from Twitter. One focused on the Twitter-to-Mastodon exodus after Musk’s takeover. A later study looked at migration to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads at the same time. Both examined who left Twitter, why they left, what made them stay on another platform, and how the different platforms shaped user behavior.
Neither study breaks the data down by country.
The researchers were interested in behavior, not geography. So if you’re hoping for a clean chart showing “Mastodon users by nation,” you’re going to be disappointed. I was.
That missing data is worth mentioning because a lot of what gets said about international fediverse adoption, including what I’m about to say, comes from scattered reporting and institutional history rather than good comparative survey data.
Still, the scattered evidence is interesting.
Mastodon was reportedly much bigger in Japan than in most other countries for years before many Americans had heard of it. A big part of that came from Pixiv, which launched a Mastodon-based server called Pawoo not long after Mastodon itself appeared in 2016. Pawoo quickly became one of the largest individual servers on the network.
Germany’s role looks different. Its influence is less about one giant server and more about the institutional side of the project. Mastodon is developed by a German nonprofit. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein runs its own instance through the project. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has also provided more than half a million euros for infrastructure work.
The European Union went a step further with EU Voice, an official Mastodon instance intended to give EU institutions an alternative to American-owned social networks. The experiment lasted a couple of years before being wound down.
India has its own chapter in the story. In 2019, nearly 20,000 Indian Twitter users temporarily moved to Mastodon during a dispute over moderation. Homegrown Mastodon-derived services such as Tooter also appeared, although Tooter became controversial over changes it had made to the underlying code.
China is a very different case. Mastodon has been used there as a way around domestic censorship. That’s not really the same phenomenon as Americans leaving Twitter because they dislike a new owner or recommendation algorithm. For some Chinese users, decentralized social media has been about access to open communication in the first place.
Australia had another kind of example. Switter was a Mastodon instance built specifically for sex workers. It eventually shut down in 2022 after legal and regulatory changes in Australia and the United States made operating it increasingly difficult.
None of this proves that the United States lags behind the rest of the world in fediverse adoption. I don’t think the available evidence supports a claim that strong.
What it does suggest is that institutions and communities outside the US have sometimes treated decentralized social media as something worth building deliberately.
In Japan, the motivation was partly cultural and community-driven. In Germany and the EU, digital sovereignty played a role. In China, censorship circumvention mattered. In India and Australia, particular communities had reasons to create alternatives that served needs mainstream platforms were not meeting.
The American experience has looked different. Mastodon tends to get attention here when something goes wrong somewhere else. Twitter changes ownership. A moderation policy changes. Another platform does something users hate. People rush toward Mastodon, create accounts, look around, and some of them stay.
That is not the same thing as deciding ahead of time that decentralized communication infrastructure is worth having.
That distinction between reactive migration and deliberate infrastructure-building may be the more interesting question. I just haven’t found the dataset that would let me prove it.
The broader small web is even harder to pin down. I’m thinking here of Gemini, old Gopher servers, personal HTML sites, webrings, and the various little corners of the internet that never quite accepted that five giant websites should become the internet.
I have no solid numbers on where those people live.
My own experience gives me the impression that Germany, the Netherlands, and the Nordic countries are overrepresented in those spaces too. That would make some sense given how often those countries appear in open-source and digital-rights communities more generally.
But that’s a hunch. I can’t point to a study that demonstrates it, and I’d rather call it a hunch than dress it up as data.
If anyone knows of research that actually maps fediverse or small-web adoption by country, with real numbers behind it, I’d like to read it.
Until then, this is an observation built from scattered evidence rather than a documented trend. And when it comes to the small web, that may be about as much certainty as the available data allows.
I tightened the repetition around the research caveat, broke up a few dense paragraphs, and made the central distinction between reactive migration and deliberate infrastructure-building do more of the structural work. I also kept the speculation clearly labeled instead of making the argument sound more certain than your evidence supports. That follows the voice-preservation approach you specified: plain, conversational, restrained, and minimally polished.
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global fediverse adoption
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@kathimmel @raphaellakay @Geri @franciswashere @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaidspace @disability @edendestroyer @QuyetPawz @ellespeaks @frugalcoffee @actuallyadhd @raphaellakay @wrzky
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidspace #disability #poverty #helpfolkslive #mentalhealth #healthcare #chronicillness #neurodivergence #activism #activitypub #fedihelp #fediverse #disabilitycrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #emergencycrowdfund
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Oh and I added an #ActivityPub blog 👆to my website that I think? should work with other blog services on the #fediverse
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Say goodbye to Linked Data Signatures
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/
We now support verifying FEP-8b32 Object Integrity Proofs using either eddsa-jcs-2022 or mldsa44-jcs-2024.
The latest version of Mastodon can verify FEP-8b32 integrity proofs, which replace outdated Linked Data Signatures.
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Week in Fediverse 2026-08-21
Servers
- Funkwhale v2.0.8
- PieFed v1.7.11
- TinyAP v0.1.13
- Wafrn v2026.08.04
- Mastodon v4.7.0
- gathio v1.6.5
- NeoDB v0.17.7
- NodeBB v4.15.1
- Flox v2.7.0
- 5.0: Laying the foundation (Mastodon)
Clients
- PleromaFE v2.11.3
- chan-fe v0.3.0
- Tuba v0.11.0
- Mangane v1.24.3
- Mastodon for iOS v2026.07
- Miria v4.0.0+125
- Summit v1.84.0
- Voyager v2.48.5
- Pixelix v5.1.1
Tools and Plugins
Protocol
- ActivityPub Miscellaneous Terms
Articles
- Implementing Pagination for ActivityPub Collections
- Owncast Newsletter August 2026
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a001c8-99bc-7663-85ed-1ef3e36035e8
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Welcome to Prismo revived!
Welcome to Prismo revived!
Not so long ago, after a bit of encouraging from @dansup, I decided to revive this project using more modern stack. Apart from it being more modern, it is also way lighter than before and that's my main goal when working on it: everything should be as simple, light and independent as possible.
Technical stuff
New Prismo only depends on Ruby and sqlite. JS layer is minimal and based on importmaps so no heavy build step is needed anymore. CSS is being generated by native tailwind binary so produced stylesheet files are as small as possible and generation footprint is tiny.
When it comes to federation, old Prismo was based on a code extracted from Mastodon which was both messy and far from optimal to be used by such a small and simple website. Now we're using an excellent ruby library called Fedipub instead.
Why another link aggregator?
While other projects are focused on supporting multiple groups with massive amount of people in them, Prismo is more about small cozy federated single-topic instances. Being small and simple will let us perfect our feature set more easily.
What's next?
There is no any roadmap as of yet but, for starters, i will try to bring back original feature set (as you might feel like new Prismo is a downgrade from the old one - i just brought back the essentials for now). After that - we can discuss on what's needed and what would be good to have :)
There are obviously plenty of rough edges and issues but we will get there eventually. Let me know in the comments and, as usual, boosts highly welcome! :)
Let's talk!
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Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), #gofed, #Habitat, #Forte (streams fork) and #Sakura (Misskey fork) icons to #FediverseIconography at https://fediverse.wake.st (repo at https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography)
#fediverse #ActivityPub
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a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura
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RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117135174541471537
#FediHood now supports #ActivityPub events, which means it is compatible with software such as #Mobilizon. You can create and receive events in the area you selected.
Joining and leaving events is not implemented yet.
fedicat boostedThe source code of #FediHood is now available under the AGPLv3.
A #Fediverse app using #OpenStreetMap to display timelines close to you, filtered by topics.
More about the project: https://fedihood.social/about
Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood
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In short, Fediverse Report says that launching Threads as part of the Fediverse is basically dead in the water. They have decided not to pursue it in 2026, and nobody is actively developing it anymore.
Well, good riddance, I guess. It was fun before it even started. Many of us saw this coming. I would not be surprised if they phase it out completely over the next few years. The Fediverse was never a real priority for them, it was just marketing hype all along. Just like some open source LARPing from the Big Tech corporates.
Direct quote:
"Threads’ integration with the fediverse is on maintenance mode, says head of Threads Connor Hayes in an interview by Alex Heath. Hayes said about the fediverse: ““It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out”. In October 2023, Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview with Alex Heath, who asked him about decentralisation and open protocols, with Zuckerberg saying he “always believed in this stuff“. With the fediverse integration for Threads now in maintenance mode, this must surely be a big blow for Zuckerberg’s belief in decentralised social networking.
Threads’ integration with the fediverse was never popular, especially from the side of Threads. In January 2025 the mastodon.social knew about 25k Threads accounts which had turned on federation. But while that number is already low considering the total number of Threads users, the interest in actually following an account on Mastodon from Threads was even lower: in January 2025, only 800 Threads users followed at least one account on mastodon.social. Threads deliberately made it difficult to follow fediverse accounts, and later updates deprioritised the fediverse feed even more. Regardless, it is not particularly hard to understand why a platform that now boasts about having 400M monthly active users is not putting in much effort to maintain a complex system that only a few thousand people at best make use of."
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/
#FediverseThreads #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Protocols #Platforms #SocialMedia #Mastodon
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Fediverse Threads marketing photo with post-like bubble shared to Fediverse
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I'm a big fan of Sill, a service that connects to your Mastodon account in read-only mode (and your ATProto account, if you're so inclined), and then sends you a daily newsletter with popular links! (i.e. that had lots of reboosts among your follows)
Now that's my beloved free software 
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Here's v0.3.0 of ties, the federated bookmark manager, with a new light mode, flexible bookmark editing tools, and a critical security fix!
If you're using ties, please update at your earliest convenience. If you're not using it yet, now's a good time to try it out!
https://github.com/raffomania/ties/releases/tag/v0.3.0
#fediverse #selfhosted #activitypub #rust #htmx
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Screenshot of the ties home screen, with one half of the image showing the light mode, and the other half the dark mode.
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what years of being on the fediverse does to you
#tomodachilife #linux #fediverse #activitypub #bluesky #atproto
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Tomodachi Life screenshot of an upset Tux the Linux Penguin saying he doesn't really like thinking about decentralised social media
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Loops, Pixelfed, Mastodon
#loops #pixelfed #mastodon #activitypub
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My homescreen on my iPhone showing 3 groups of notifications from Loops, Pixelfed and Mastodon
Being able to migrate your 
posts along with followers to other Pixelfed servers is something we need to do, and will be a priority after I ship the new release, and mobile app later this month.
I say to other Pixelfed servers, because I'm not aware of any other software that would support this, but I do plan to write a FEP so we can support full account migration between software!
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All aboard the Fediverse Express! 🚂
🆕 security_risk_domains.csv
A list of Fediverse domains running software that is at least one year out of date or past its supported lifecycle, and may therefore contain known security vulnerabilities. This includes instances running outdated versions of Misskey, Mastodon, and other Fediverse software.
This list is separate from my other blocklists because these domains are included due to software security concerns, not content or user behavior. 😉
Of course, I have also updated block_spam_scam_users.csv. Your Misskey or Mastodon feed will be so much cleaner and clutter-free once you remove those repeating spam and scam users! 🥳
How to use:
1) Pick a source of your choice.
2) Copy and paste or download the file as a CSV (example, blocks.csv).
3) Upload and merge.
Sources:
GitHub: https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse
GitFlic: https://gitflic.ru/project/fediverse-express/fediverse
As always, enjoy the Fediverse! 😇
#Mastodon #Misskey #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediBlock
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Earlier today I attended the #ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce meeting!
It was my first time popping by, but I had a specific reason, namely a call to work on a specification for interaction controls based on various existing work. You may remember that I tried this before, earlier in the year, and it stalled due to a lack of time. So this time around I'm doing it during my work hours. Thanks @Lambo! 😉
Here's how I'm trying to get started: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/issues/159#issuecomment-5348012095
Okay, so
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/
According to resources linked in the #Mastodon docs, it seems that signature validation gets the entire #ActivityPub Actor (thus the `#main-key` which the server is supposed to ignore) and then within the Actor it gets the `publicKey` property.
Soooo back to the `#main-key` nomenclature, I guess
For reasons I cannot get into I will be adding Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online to my blocklist. Additionally, I am adding JoinMastodon.org including several sub-domains currently functioning under that domain, for example, demo.joinmastodon.org
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I feel the hidden question of the #poll is: Given the #technology base exists, can you just code against it at will? I.e. the tech #ethics question is asked. Where on one end of the spectrum we find the techbro / fossbro, and on the other end of the spectrum we are still learning what we should have there as an alternative to make a social web be social and keep it that way. As "social web" technology by itself offers zero guarantee of that.
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Decided to hop on https://fedihood.social and see what it's like. Seems like a fun concept! Those of you who feel comfortable joining totally should (you can use a pseudonymous acct if you like).
It seems to be largely lacking in users still. I would love to see this thing take off in a real way!
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RE: https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-request-august/
🚨 UPDATE 18-Aug-2026 13:40 UTC+7 🚨
still urgently needed:
⏳ $97/$250 for groceries, $153 still needed to cover my monthly groceries. I really need food to survive.
⏳ $0/$218 for meds. Over seven months without medication now, traded for food just to survive. This has to stop.
⏳ ‼️$0/$125 for electricity, water, and internet -- past its 16 August deadline. I'm afraid they are going to cut off my water and internet again.‼️
$496 in total still needed this month.
Please support however you can. Sharing this also goes a long way.
https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal
Thank you, thank you 🙂↕️💜
@mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaidspace @disability @edendestroyer @QuyetPawz @ellespeaks @frugalcoffee @actuallyadhd @autistics @wrzky@wrzky.com
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #mutualaidspace #disability #poverty #helpfolkslive #mentalhealth #healthcare #chronicillness #neurodivergence #activism #activitypub #fedihelp #fediverse #disabilitycrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #emergencycrowdfund
We are now more than 300 users on #FediHood. The project is stable enough for me to invite you to try it.
It is a software running on #ActivityPub and using #OSM.
The idea? Discover people near you or all around the world, and filter by topic.
It doesn't use GPS, you pick the town. The app warns you if your city is too small and suggests a bigger one nearby. Bonus: it supports #E2EE DMs.
Don't hesitate to share. Thank you!
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Is it OK to write code that does new things on the Fediverse?
#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPub #Fediverse
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| Yes, but...: | 0 |
| No, but...: | 0 |
| No: | 0 |
Loops has developed it's own optimized server to server communication to support near real-time federation of latency sensitive activities, like Live stream chat messages.
I'm working on the draft FEP, and will share more details soon!
#FediHood keeps growing, and many bugs have been fixed thanks to your feedback.
Federation now works smoothly over #ActivityPub. The Nearby and Discover timelines work as intended, and push notifications are available. #E2EE still needs work to support several browsers or devices.
It is a good start. You can join this new fediverse software at https://fedihood.social
Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14
Servers
- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)
Clients
- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software
Tools and Plugins
For developers
- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)
Protocol
- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians
Articles
- Deploying your own Vernissage instance
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a
#FediHood is in beta and the core is there, with more of you joining to talk with people near you, fully over #ActivityPub.
Pick your location and the app notices when a town is too small and suggests a larger one nearby, so you stay at city level, never exact coordinates. DMs are end-to-end encrypted and push notifications work.
A project like this only grows if the people using it carry it, so share it if you want it to exist.
Thank you for your support
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GNOME is now on PeerTube! Follow @gnome@tube.kockatoo.org on your Peertube instace (or any other Fediverse instance!) to get all the good stuff. You can already watch our recent GUADEC videos there!
Become a friend of GNOME to support future GUADECs 👉️ https://donate.gnome.org
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Hey theATL.social 👋
Thanks to your suggestions, we now have a new service: #WriteFreely , a publishing/blogging platform that runs on #ActivityPub.
This new service is available at https://write.theatl.social - users at any membership level may now create a blog.
Logging in is easy: your existing theATL.social Mastodon account logs you in.
I've (publicly) forked the WriteFreely repo to continue developing on additional features...first of which is easy adding of pictures and other media. I'm open to suggestions as to what should be worked on next.
More thoughts in the thread 🧵
My advice to new activitypub devs:
- be bold: ship what big tech won't.
- consent first: opt in, never opt out.
- keep evolving: your v1 federation code will be wrong, and that's fine.
- federate the future: interop over lock in, every time.
8 years in and I still come back to these.
#FediHood and #HolosSocial, two separate #Fediverse projects (that I maintain), can now send each other #E2EE DMs, fully over #ActivityPub.
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Screenshot of an encrypted DM conversation in Holos. A banner reads "Messages are end-to-end encrypted", and each message shows a padlock next to its timestamp.
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Screenshot of the same conversation in FediHood, showing an "Encrypted" label at the top and a padlock next to each message.
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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.
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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
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.
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This release has been inspired by the song The Answers to the Questions by #Christabell and #DavidLynch.