Thanks also to: mkljczk, clairemont, Sprite_tm, wincentbalin, koru and anyone else I may have inadvertently overlooked who contributed to the improvements in this release!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.95 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/34472

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

Added some fixes to media proxy code.

Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

#FediHood now supports #Lemmy through #ActivityPub. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from groups, read threaded discussions with their upvote scores, and reply or upvote yourself (through the fav button).

This is the first step: FediHood will also automatically split messages into city, region and country groups that everyone on the fediverse using groups will be able to interact with.

«There is no such thing as full decentralization»

There's always an axis that centralizes: identity, connectivity, discovery, or cost. The useful question isn't "is it decentralized?", it's which of these it sacrificed, and what that costs you the day that point breaks.

https://en.andros.dev/blog/603e4e90/there-is-no-such-thing-as-full-decentralization/

#Web #Fediverso #ActivityPub #XMPP #OrgSocial #IndieWeb #Nostr

one thing i always wondered but couldnt be bothered to check

if i edit my post here on fedi to add/remove/change semantic information contained therein (e. g. hashtags, mentions, language ...), does it actually cause the events associated with those to still trigger reliably even remotely?

like for example, if I edit my post to mention someone, do they still get a notification? if I add a hashtag to my post afterward, does my post appear in the relevant hashtag subscriptions? is this consistent throughout federation?

#askfedi #activitypub

Did you know there is 48,212 Fedi sites?

Now you know.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

abuuba 1.0 is out

A Fediverse server built with Elixir and Phoenix. A drop-in replacement for Mastodon. abuuba.com

• All 289 client API endpoints

• Keeps your domain, accounts, and existing phone tokens

• Timelines at least 12× faster

• Fan-out to 10,000 followers 68× faster

• Less compute. Lower hosting costs.

• MIT licensed

Swap it in. Keep everything. Go faster. Pay less.

And a friendly nudge to our favorite sparring partner @Mastodon@mastodon.social 🐘 meet 🐆.

Your move. Show us how fast a mastodon can run. 😉

Shoutout to @wintermeyer@vutuv.de who built abuuba because vutuv.de needed a fast Fediverse peer.

#Mastodon #ActivityPub #floss

🆕 blog! “ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!”

Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it:

Reclaim the public nature of the internet

Small and medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/activitybot-is-the-recipient-of-an-nlnet-grant/
⸻
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #fediverse #NLnet

I recently discovered that Jorge Aguilera (@jorge) gave a 1 hour introduction to #ActivityPub in Spanish called "ActivityPub: El Protocolo que Impulsa el Fediverso" at Commit Conf in Madrid and the whole thing was recorded:
https://koliseo.com/commit/2026/agenda/1?selected=JNIEz5zgefpMwrJMRpl7 #fedidev #fediverso

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a screenshot showing Jorge Aguilera talking about Webfinger

If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse

Somewhere else, this is a patent fight. Here it's a GitHub issue.

https://github.com/pixelfed/starter-kits/issues/1

Almost 2 years ago I started planning federated Starter Kits. @Mastodon took the idea, turned it into a FEP, and built it with my feedback rather than around it.

It shipped in @loops this year. Mastodon shipped Featured Collections months later.

Compatible. Collaborative. Consent-driven 🚀

https://blog.joinloops.org/introducing-starter-kits/

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

#StarterKits #FeaturedCollections #ActivityPub #Collaboration

Name another photo app that will happily send you to a competitor.

If Pixelfed isn't for you, there are many amazing alternatives like:

- @frequency
- @gotosocial
- @admin
- @vernissage

All of them let you share images. All of them talk to Pixelfed. Leaving isn't a punishment here, because you never lose the network.

When you put people first, you build doors instead of cages.

#powerToThePeople #activityPub

If Pixelfed isn't for you, maybe one of these are:

- @frequency
- @gotosocial
- @admin
- @vernissage

Every one of these can share images, and every one of them federates with Pixelfed. Your followers, your posts, your reach: they come with you.

ActivityPub means no one has to be trapped anywhere. That's the magic.

❤️

#powerToThePeople #activityPub

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-28

Servers

- Hollo v0.9.13
- gush! v0.0.41
- tootik v0.25.0
- Mitra v5.10.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.9
- Hollo v0.9.15
- Funkwhale v2.0.10
- PieFed v1.7.13
- tootik v0.25.1
- NeoDB v0.17.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.8.1
- Fedilab v3.43.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.6

Protocol

- FEP-49eb: Batched Inbox Delivery

Articles

- A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
- The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a0269e-d9e5-7a03-a62d-6ef77099e4a7

What are the most important issues and discussions about the Open Social Web we need to have this late summer and fall?

#FediForum #FediForumFriday #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Fediverse #atproto

@hongminhee how can we get more East Asian #ActivityPub developers involved in the #W3C #SocialCG and #SocialWG?

There are now more than 700 users on #FediHood, and I've added new topics.

You can tailor your timeline in three ways:
- The distance from your city
- The topics you want to see
- The languages

Topics are more powerful than hashtags (in the context of the project) because:
- They avoid typos
- They work whatever the language
- One mute covers everything, unlike hashtag variants

It also fully supports the #ActivityPub Events used by #Mobilizon.

If you want to join: https://fedihood.social/

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New topics available in FediHood, with a search field: Lost & found, Food & drink, Jobs & services, Recommendations, Safety & alerts, Gardening & nature, Activism, Art, Music, Announcement. A "Displayed topics" link at the bottom lets you hide the topics you don't need when composing.

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 💅 🚀

#pixelfed #loops #fediverse #activitypub

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 😉

#pixelfed #loops #activitypub #fediverse

Going to TPAC 2026 as part of the @sovtechfund Standards cohort!

#ActivityPub #W3C #SovereignTechStandards

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Confirmation email about TPAC 2026

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

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

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.