http://gyptazy.com/fedi/gyptazy/

#mastodon #alternatives #fediverse #activitypub #customizing

Stories might be our most complex feature yet (harder than Collections, Groups, Portfolios combined).

But they're everywhere - Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn. People expect them.

Love them or hate them, they're how we share moments.

@pixelfed is doing Stories ethically - no tracking, no ads, just authentic sharing.

The future is federated. ❤️

#pixelfed #stories #ethicalAlternatives #theFutureIsFederated #fediverse #activitypub

Piefed has a new official test instance and the url is perfect.

https://crust.piefed.social/

#piefed #activitypub

Social Web Conferences

https://reiver.codeberg.page/social-web-conferences/

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I am working on creating a list of upcoming Social Web Conferences.

Using a broad definition of "Social Web" that includes the ActivityPub, AT-Protocol, ATmosphere, Bluesky, Farcaster, Fediverse, Matrix, and Nostr.

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These are conferences that I might want to attend. (And, perhaps you may, too.)

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Is there anything else I should add to this?

#ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #bluesky #bsky #farcaster #fediverse #matrix #nostr #SocialWeb

Haha! Het werkt! #ghost #activitypub

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Profile for me on my website's ActivityPub integration.

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 244 (Everest edition) ⛰️

a blog post that details some of the highs and lows I have been experiencing lately in my self-hosting adventures. I have a major challenge ahead - learning #Docker - in order to take advantage of #Ghost x #ActivityPub federation. It's my new Everest 🥲

🔗​:
https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-244-everest-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Fediverse / ActivityPub experts, need some advice 🙂

I assume that subscribing to relays just pulls in posts to your server and doesn't affect your own posts' reach?

Is this a fair assessment, or does the relay subscription push your own posts to others in any way?

#AskFedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

#fediverse #activitypub

Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!

The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.

#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python

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Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy

I have expanded my list of domain extensions I would recommend:

.be (Belgium)

.nl (Netherlands)

.is (Iceland)

.ch (Switzerland)

.at (Austria)

.tw (Taiwan)

.fi (Finland)

.se (Sweden)

.li (Liechtenstein)

.cz (Czech Republic)

All of these countries have strong protections for freedom of speech, including speech that defends and promotes minority rights — such as LGBTQ+ rights. Domain registration is open to everyone... You don’t need to be a citizen or own a business in any of these countries.

I would also add an optional, alternative:

.de (Germany, with registrar help * )

* Germany technically allows anyone with verified contact details within the country to register a domain. Many registrars offer this as a service. However, you should ensure your domain registrar is located outside U.S. jurisdiction.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #PexelFed #LGBTQ

What's the difference between the Fediverse and corporate social media?

Hypothetically speaking, if Mastodon ever became evil, there is always Misskey, which can effortlessly communicate with existing Mastodon sites (no bridge needed).

That's the wonderful thing about the Fediverse. There is always another alternative. But corporate sites like Blue Sky — you're their bitch, and your only choice is to put up with their shit or go without.

That's the difference. On the Fediverse, you always have choice, and you always have a say. But with corporate social media, you're at their mercy and their whims.

#Mastodon #Misskey #BlueSky #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Takahe is one platform I never got to try. Similar to GtS in that the focus was on small to medium sized instances.

https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe

#ActivityPub

有人使用過這些平台嗎？

https://blog.ocf.tw/2023/04/10-youtubereddit.html

#開源 #去中心化 #社群媒體
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #乳齒象

Função muito supimpa do #SNAC que só recentemente constatei como é útil: podemos pôr no texto a ligação para uma imagem externa, que ele a transforma em anexo da "atividade" (a publicação no #ActivityPub), sem precisar armazená-la! Pode notar que essa foto do Locutus — Cap. Picard (Patrick Stewart) assimilado pelos Borg — é descarregada diretamente da Wikimedia Commons!

Não sei se outros sistemas, mesmo os que também já suportam #Markdown, fazem isso! Quem aí pode dizer?

Dumb question that I was always too afraid to ask:

I know how the #Fediverse and its federation works. It's intuitive and familiar to me; I mean, I even host my own instance.

But I never understood how interaction cross-software is supposed to work. In theory, I can use whatever #ActivityPub software I want and still interact with everyone else. But in practice that just... isn't the case, right?

I mean, for text it's quite simple: I write a short post on #Mastodon and people on #GoToSocial or #Misskey or whatever can see and read that same post and interact with it. They can see my profile and it appears on their instance in their style and with their features.

Even outside of microblogging I still get it. A super-long post on #Friendica or #Diaspora appears on my timeline, too. Their profiles might have more fields than I can see here, but that's fine.

But what's up beyond that?

I can see #Pixelfed posts here, converted into image galleries. But what about the other way 'round? If someone on Pixelfed follows my Mastodon account, they can't see any of my non-image posts, right?

What about #PeerTube and such niche software? I guess I could follow a PeerTube account as a microblogger and see their videos and descriptions in my timeline. Video comments are replies.

But the other way 'round? How are they supposed to interact with Friendica or Pixelfed users? PeerTube doesn't even have a "timeline".

Doesn't that feature disparity undermine the whole idea of the #Fediverse or am I missing something?

#AskFedi #FediAdmin

Week in Fediverse 2025-08-15

Servers

- Manyfold v0.121.0
- Hubzilla v10.4.3
- NeoDB v0.11.8.3
- Oni: A single user ActivityPub server that supports Client to Server API

Clients

- Tusky v30.0
- Tuba v0.10.1
- tinmop v0.9.9.14142135623730951
- Aria v1.3.6
- Blorp v1.9.11
- NeoDB You: A native Android App for NeoDB

For developers

- APx v0.16.0
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.16

Articles

- Big Updates Are Coming to Loops
- Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?
- Bridging identity with account links
- There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses
- Fediverse Report – #129

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01988be7-7a91-ee71-ece6-1684c60759e8

使用 Mastodon（& Liker.social）近一年的心得
https://blog.giveanornot.com/a-year-after-joining-mastodon/

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

Thankfully, I don’t see this behavior often on the Fediverse — not to say that it doesn’t happen, of course.

I can point out that it certainly happens on Facebook. And on Twitter, it definitely used to happen a lot — which is why they added a time limit.

I do think it’s something worth considering for Mastodon and Misskey.

#Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Some recent #Smithereen updates:
- Finished discussion boards in groups
- Server rules (with translations)
- New reporting flow, almost like Mastodon's
- Moderators can now exclude content from reports
- ...as well as add extra content via the new "content" tab in user moderation UI
- Admins can now specify custom CSS for their server
- Admins can create announcements that display under the main menu for all users

#activitypub

Mastodon could really use tombstone placeholders when a reply is deleted so the tree/chain isn't broken or orphaned.

I've implementing this in Loops, and it is a bit tricky federation wise, but it makes the experience much better.

#loops #activityPub

Shoutout to @lain for creating Pleroma - arguably the most technically ambitious fediverse project.

From ActivityPub innovations to sponsoring ElixirConf, they've put their money where their code is.

The fediverse needs more builders, fewer critics.

#activityPub #fediverse

@laurenshof

Well formulated re: #SocialHub and indicative of larger challenges that exists in our grassroots ecosystem.

For #ActivityPub et al open standards its vital that the people involved in the ecosystem look beyond their own project's scope and tend to foundational tech they rely on.

“Any decentralized [ecosystem] requires a centralized substrate, and the more decentralized the approach is the more important it is that you can count on the underlying system.” - Byrne Hobart

A minor update to FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/662

- Explained how to identify public keys. They can be identified by publicKeyPem and publicKeyMultibase properties ("duck typing").
- Added a warning for JSON-LD consumers. Even innocuously looking property can become publicKeyPem or publicKeyMultibase after doing JSON-LD transformations.

You can read more about this problem in this post: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/am-i-understanding-something-wrong-or-is-json-ld-remote-context-support-a-gigantic-security-vulnerability-if-any-dumb-c2s-server-implementation-tries-to-federate-with-the-current-network/5439/1

@kopper suggests possible workarounds there but I think they are way too complicated. Just don't do JSON-LD.

#fep_fe34 #jsonld #ActivityPub

Week in Fediverse 2025-08-08

Servers

- PieFed v1.1
- Ghost v6.0
- Mastodon v4.4.3
- Hubzilla v10.4.2
- Hollo v0.6.6
- Ktistec v2.4.8
- NeoDB v0.11.8.1
- Wafrn v2025.08.0
- NodeBB v4.4.6
- kmyblue v19.4
- Lemmy Development Update July 2025
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2025 (Mastodon)
- Bridging the gap (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- jekyll-activitypub: A plugin for Jekyll to generate an ActivityPub feed

Clients

- Tuba v0.10.0
- Photon v2.0.1
- Aria v1.3.5

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.15.0
- fedidevs.com: Discover amazing developers across the fediverse

For developers

- APx v0.15.0
- Fedify v1.8.1
- Botkit v0.2.2
- Fedialgo v1.0.4

Articles

- Reflections on the social web
- Navigating the UK Online Safety Act
- Mastodon Defence Command: The Scam Wave
- IWF Offers Fediverse a Way to Block CSAM
- Fediverse Report – #128

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0198674a-03a6-4e5c-39fc-b934f3ee7708

Long-form articles

I was reading the Fediverse Report – #128 post by @laurenshof and several sentences caught my attention:

Ghost’s connection to the fediverse currently means that following a Ghost blog from your fediverse account results in seeing a post with the article headline and a URL

That's how Mastodon displays Article objects: only a headline and a URL (see issue #24079). However, Mastodon is the only fediverse platform that removes content from articles. According to funfedi.dev data, others don't remove content:

https://funfedi.dev/support_tables/generated/object_types/

GoToSocial, Hollo, Misskey, Mitra, Pleroma. These platforms either have full support for long form content or use graceful degradation. The dataset doesn't include some other popular platforms like Friendica, but I am sure they also display long form content just fine. So this really has nothing to do with Fediverse or #ActivityPub.

Fediverse platform developers (including Mastodon, Ghost, WordPress, WriteFreely and more) are collaborating on creating a space on the fediverse that suites the need of blogging and articles well

I keep seeing this again and again, it increasingly looks like an attempt to take credit for solving the problem with articles in ActivityPub. But the problem doesn't exist, it is literally a flaw in a single implementation that can be fixed with a single line of code.

There are, of course, real problems with rich content. How to prevent tracking when remote media is embedded in the page? What to do with CSS? What about interactive content? Unfortunately, I haven't seen anyone talking about these problems.

This is a long form article, by the way. You can read it from Mastodon.

Huomasinpas tuossa jännän ongelman liittyen ActivityPubiin. Näytän omassa blogissani Mastodon-kommentit ja kellonaika toimii linkkinä alkuperäiseen kommenttiin.

Yksi kommenteista tuli Ghost-julkaisujärjestelmästä, jossa on nykyään ActivityPub-tuki. Koska mitään julkista UI:ta kyseiselle kommentille ei ole, linkki johtaa Ghostin tarjoilemaan JSON-tiedostoon.

Ymmärrän mistä tämä johtuu, mutta onhan tuo nyt aika ikävä käyttökokemus, varsinkaan kun minulla ei nähdäkseni ole mitään tapaa selvittää, että aukeaako kommentin takaa ihmisen luettava käyttöliittymä, vai JSON-klöntti.

#ActivityPub #Ghost #Fediverse

Thanks to @nlnet I was able to revamp and fully update the delightful #fediverse experience curated list, with hundreds of #ActivityPub-related #FOSS projects.

Just now I added a new section Application plugins, that will soon be published at:

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

Until that time you can check out the plugin section in the #Codeberg repo at:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience#application-plugins

#ActivityPub

Now that that's over
( #WordPress #wordpressDevelopment @photomatt LOL )

Let's say a person wants to experiment with Mastodon outside if kindergarten e.g. turdPress - more in the way that perhaps @garuda

i dunno. messing w/ like bare bones stuff. fk the CMS . did anyone even ever leverage at once, all of what Drupal/ Joomla, Xoops, etc. so many could do? haha. why?

If you have a #blog , does it have #ActivityPub integration - either natively or via an appropriate plugin (such as the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress)?

If so, share its account name here - so that people can follow them and comment on them with their regular #FediVerse account!

I think this functionality is one of the most underappreciated aspects of the Fediverse. It's not quite an #RSS feed, but it's awesome in its own right.

Alt...

The Fediverse logo - five differently colored circles connected by colored lines.

We are basically doing what #signal and in particular moxie refused to do or declares impossible: federation.

Both #email and #activitypub ecosystems are all about federation.

However, #deltachat is vertically centralized in that all UIs use the same #rust core which implements all networking, encryption, chat/group/message logic in a single centralized place. The now 40+ #chatmail mail relay network is driven from centralized code.

At each level replication and federation is built in.

I am still looking for #ttrpg / #pnpde blogs with #ActivityPub integration! Feel free to add your own to the list!

Remember - thanks to the power of the #Fediverse, yoi can subscribe to and comment on these blogs with your regular Fediverse account!

https://kai.nl.tab.digital/s/w9AzCzCLToxXfb5

Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link (anyone can make comments for review.)

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025.

We will be discussing:

• FEP 7888/f228 adoption update
• Context Inheritance
• Context Ownership
• Merging of Contexts (aka "cross-posting")

Week in Fediverse 2025-08-01

Servers

- Mbin v1.8.3
- Manyfold v0.120.0
- Hubzilla v10.4.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.2.0
- Sharkey v2025.4.4
- snac v2.81
- Mitra v4.7.0
- NeoDB v0.11.8.0
- NodeBB v4.4.5

Clients

- Fedilab v3.34.0
- toot v0.49.0
- Mangane v1.16.9
- Pachli v2.15.0
- PeerTube Mobile v1.0.4
- P2Play v0.9.3
- Aria v1.3.0
- Blorp v1.9.9

Tools and Plugins

- fediverse.ooo: Generic Fediverse redirect service

For developers

- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.15

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #127

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01984313-9820-11b7-06e3-a78721777ed0

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.