@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

Oh and I added an #ActivityPub blog 👆to my website that I think? should work with other blog services on the #fediverse

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The latest version of Mastodon can verify FEP-8b32 integrity proofs, which replace outdated Linked Data Signatures.

Docs: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/#fep-8b32

#activitypub #fedidev #fep_8b32

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

- Pluraldawn: Decodes indicator emoji information from account avatars to provide a PluralKit-esque experience inside of various fediverse webapps

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

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!

• Mastodon
• Matrix
• Github

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

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 boosted

Fedilab Apps » 🌐 2026-08-21
@apps@toot.fedilab.app

The 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

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

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)

https://sill.social

Now that's my beloved free software

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Sill

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.

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

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!

#Pixelfed #AccountMigration #ActivityPub

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

Earlier today I attended the #ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce meeting!

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety/blob/main/meetings/2026-08-19-interim-taskforce-meeting.md

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

#Mastodon #OnlineSafety #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@spraoi @gumnos @evan

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.

#SX #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

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!

#tech #activityPub #fediverse #socialWeb

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.

https://fedihood.social

Don't hesitate to share. Thank you!

Is it OK to write code that does new things on the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPub #Fediverse

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!

#Loops #LoopsDev #LiveStreaming #ActivityPub

RE: https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-request-august/

UPDATE 16-Aug-2026 16:25 UTC+7:
UPDATE 16-Aug-2026 16:25 UTC+7:

Deadline ASAP:
⏳ $99/$250 for groceries, $151 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

$494 in total still needed this month.
Any support is appreciated. Please boost so this reaches further than my feed.
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

I often see that question about the way I use #E2EE over #ActivityPub.
#FediHood and #HolosSocial do not use the end-to-end encryption #Mastodon is working on. They are going for MLS over ActivityPub. I use the Signal Protocol, already working between Holos and FediHood, which I both maintain. Once MLS is available, I'll happily switch.
But to be clear: it works perfectly with the Signal Protocol. The switch would only be for compatibility.

Can confirm that the MaW fediverse server properly broadcasts all public #ActivityPub activities it receives to every possibly interested inbox it knows, shoutout to @evan but for a moment before checking the activity details I was SCARED someone had logged into it and started asking about butts lol

Anyway XL and larger don't @ me

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From https:/dallawan minotaursatwork eu/ap/mawdev. Sent to hittps://activitypub.academy/users/eubecio_insaboth/inbox Update Question What's the best butt size? #EvanPoll #poll #butts #Buttsize 22:09:40

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Activity details showing actor and attribution

#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

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

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.

https://fedihood.social

Thank you for your support

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

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedi

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.

#activityPub #fediverse #socialWeb #builders

#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.

Hello World

Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.

Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.

Follow us to get our latest updates, we’ll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks 😉

#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse

RE: https://mediaformat.org/2026/07/nuages-says-hello/

Announcing it here publicly for the first time!

I've been building a general purpose activitypub pwa.

Follow @nuages for official updates!

#activityPubAPI #ActivityPub

wakest ⁂ boosted

Nuages » 🌐 2026-07-11
@nuages@mediaformat.org

Hello World

Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.

Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.

Follow us to get our latest updates, we’ll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks 😉

#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse

#FediHood should be easy to use, with a very simple interface. It fully uses #ActivityPub and is compatible with the #Mastodon API (tested with #Fedilab). It will of course bring extra endpoints related to how it works. The project reuses the combined work from #HolosSocial and #PawFed.

Here are some screenshots of the Web UI.

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FediHood's map set to an 8 km radius: an interactive map showing two count badges, each marking how many people are in that spot.

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FediHood's Nearby feed: a distance slider set to 10 km, then a few posts from people close by, each with a time, a city, a distance and a topic tag such as Sport or Events.

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FediHood's compose screen: a large message box, then four options: Visibility (who can see the post), Reach (how far it shows in Discover), Topic (its category) and Language (what you write in), plus Add image and Publish buttons.

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The topic list in FediHood: Chat, Meet people, Events, Help, Buy & sell, Transport, Local news, Politics, Sport and Culture.

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 #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

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 #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

#snacAnnounces

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