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

Search results for tag #activitypub

[?]Alan Johnson » 🌐
@alan@friendica.argentwolf.org

@julian 2.4.0-RC6 is now built and live @ relay.argentwolf.org
github.com/thystra/Activity-Re…

This has fixed/adjusted the certificate issue, and I have documented transfer of posts from my test nodebb -> friendica and nodebb->mastodon
and vice versa.

I'll let it run for another day or two, looking for more test subjects/connections and I'll push it to final barring any new issues.

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    [?]alan » 🌐
    @alan@www.wolfandraven.blog

    Activity-Relay server 2.4.0 released

    29 July 2026Activity-Relay server 2.4.0 is released. Github: https://github.com/thystra/Activity-RelayNotable changes and features: Debian (.deb) and docker compose installation methods. Optional Caddy example reviewed from the idea in upstream PR 60, implemented as documentation rather than a runtime dependency. Standard actor outbox, followers, following, and shared-inbox metadata. Friendica and standards-style server-actor follow compatibility. NodeBB reciprocal follow, public-key, […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

    29 July 2026

    Activity-Relay server 2.4.0 is released.
    Github: https://github.com/thystra/Activity-Relay

    Notable changes and features:

    • Debian (.deb) and docker compose installation methods.
    • Optional Caddy example reviewed from the idea in upstream PR 60, implemented as documentation rather than a runtime dependency.
    • Standard actor outbox, followers, following, and shared-inbox metadata.
    • Friendica and standards-style server-actor follow compatibility.
    • NodeBB reciprocal follow, public-key, HTTP Host signing, and embedded Announce interoperability.
    • Public connected, receiving, and publisher status information.
    • Open signed publisher ingestion with policy enforcement.
    • Bounded queue, fan-out, remote response, and concurrency controls.
    • Multiple explicit daily-summary slots and resilient mail handling for reports to the server administrator.
    • Configurable Cache size limits in the config.yml.
    • Upgrade-safe optional website customization.
    • Native package identity preservation and inactive-by-default services.

    Changelog

    Future roadmap

    You can see a live install at: https://relay.argentwolf.org – Please try to connect and let me know of any issues!

    If you have any issues, please let me know at alan@friendica.argentwolf.org, on github, or here!

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

    I look forward to working with @benpate, @Bonfire and @evan from the SWF on E2EE Direct Messages in Loops, Pixelfed and Sup!

    They’re doing some amazing work, and it makes a lot of sense to collaborate and widen compatibility across our platforms!

      [?]Linux Is Best » 🌐
      @Linux@planet.moe

      BLOCK all 300 Gaza Verified Scam Accounts. 😎

      1) Simple copy and paste the list into your text editor of choice (Notepad, for example).

      2) Save the file as a CSV file, for example, block_scam_accounts.csv

      3) Go into your Mastodon settings, select import, select block list, select merge, and select upload.

      pastebin.com/23h6VZXU

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        [?]Cookifed » 🌐
        @cookifed@fosstodon.org

        Hello, and happy summer to you all.
        Cookifed is an Open Source and federated recipe notebook and baking tracker.

        Using us, you can keep track of your favorite recipes, plan when you can to cook/bake them, and keep track of each preparation/change you made in the recipe to get better next time.
        We are federated over ActivityPub. So you can also share your recipes and bakings with anyone on the fediverse.

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          [?]FediHost » 🌐
          @fedihost@mstdn.social

          All fedihost.co instances have been updated to v4.6.4

          If you notice any issues please let us know.

            [?]T_X » 🌐
            @T_X@chaos.social

            @DeutscherWetterdienst fürher war Vimeo mal dabei, aber war jetzt seit Jahren schon nicht mehr auf der Seite.
            Sonst benutze ich noch regelmäßig media.ccc.de/ vom @c3voc und media.freifunk.net/ von @freifunk, also was auf Basis von . (auch wenn voctoweb für euch zumindest alleine vermutlich eher uninteressant ist? leider kann voctoweb im Gegensatz zu auch noch kein / oder soweit ich weiß)

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

              Help HOPE Hackers Hop Onto the Fediverse

              On Friday, August 14, 2026 at the HOPE conference in New York City, we'll be running a workshop to help new people join the Fediverse. This is an exciting first for us, and we'd love your help making it a great experience. Here's what we need: Open-registration Fediverse servers that are welcoming the HOPE audience. The HOPE conference welcomes people involved in information security, digital rights, as well as experimentation with radio, electronics, and other tech. It also usually has […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

              On Friday, August 14, 2026 at the HOPE conference in New York City, we’ll be running a workshop to help new people join the Fediverse. This is an exciting first for us, and we’d love your help making it a great experience.

              Here’s what we need:

              • Open-registration Fediverse servers that are welcoming the HOPE audience. The HOPE conference welcomes people involved in information security, digital rights, as well as experimentation with radio, electronics, and other tech. It also usually has people from New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere in the Atlantic seaboard. If you know of servers that would welcome this kind of new member, please let us know! Even if the server isn’t open registration, but can accommodate new users on the day of the workshop, we’d love to coordinate.
              • First-timer Collections. Do you know of a good starter follow pack that new users might enjoy? Especially if their interests overlap with the HOPE audience. Just some names to follow is a big help, too.
              • New user tips. What helps people get started on the Fediverse? What helps them stay engaged?
              • Volunteers. Will you be at HOPE? Want to meet interesting people and help them get started with the Fediverse? It should be fun and easy.

              Please reply to this post with ideas or contact info. This is going to be fun!

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

              The thing about the fediverse is that when one of us wins, we all win.

              I couldn't be more proud to work alongside so many talented people who share the same belief: together we're stronger, and there's so much more we can build.

              The corporate platforms had a decade and billions of dollars on us. They still can't build the one thing we did: a network nobody owns, nobody can sell, and nobody can take away.

              A social home for the people. By the people.

              ❤️

                [?]Bonfire » 🌐
                @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe

                Today is announcement day 🔥

                Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...

                1. Bonfire for communities
                Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.

                A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.

                2. Our first Mosaic case study
                Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...

                3. A deep Ghost integration
                Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/

                4. The Telling
                One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/

                Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.

                Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe

                Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/

                Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience 💛

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

                  We are so proud of @dansup for being the only developer to be accepted into the Sovereign Tech Standards cohort.

                  You've seen what he's done with Pixelfed, Loops, Fediverse.info and FediDB.

                  Just imagine what he can do for standards work, having two major platforms that can steward and solve problems at scale and in the real world 🔥

                  sovereign.tech/news/meet-the-f

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

                    Honored to be one of ten maintainers in the first @sovtechfund standards cohort.

                    I'll be representing and the at the w3c, bringing eight years of running Pixelfed and Loops at scale into the room where the spec gets written.

                    sovereign.tech/news/meet-the-f

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

                      If there are any other developers working on a TikTok like platform for the fediverse:

                      Maybe we can join forces and work together with Loops, and if not, lets keep in touch so we can work on compatibility?

                      I'm already working closely with @stux on , which is shaping up to be a serious fedi TikTok contender!

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                        [?]alan » 🌐
                        @alan@www.wolfandraven.blog

                        Fediverse Relay server updated

                        I've updated the relay server back end to properly support wordpress clients pushing content to the relay. If you have a server you wouldn't mind pointing at the relay, I'd love to get some more sites on it to test it out. The address is: https://relay.argentwolf.org If you have any issues, please let me know at alan@friendica.argentwolf.org thanks! If you are interested in trying the server out, you can get it here. Version 2.4.0 is in testing and will be released […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                        I’ve updated the relay server back end to properly support wordpress clients pushing content to the relay. If you have a server you wouldn’t mind pointing at the relay, I’d love to get some more sites on it to test it out.

                        The address is: https://relay.argentwolf.org

                        If you have any issues, please let me know at alan@friendica.argentwolf.org thanks!

                        If you are interested in trying the server out, you can get it here. Version 2.4.0 is in testing and will be released soon!

                        https://github.com/thystra/Activity-Relay

                        [?]Michal Bryxí [he/him] » 🌐
                        @MichalBryxi@mastodon.world

                        If you've been wanting to move your activity history from Strava to FitPub but dreaded dealing with the export files, I made a small browser tool that does the heavy lifting.

                        Drop in your Strava export files, it decompresses the .fit.gz files, splits everything into correctly-sized ZIP batches, and hands them back for upload. No install, no server, runs entirely in your browser.

                        👉 🏃🏻‍♀️ vast-ch.github.io/strava-archi

                        Screenshot of the app. Move your activity history from Strava to FitPub. This tool converts your Strava data export into correctly formatted, sized, and counted ZIP batches ready for import.

                        Alt...Screenshot of the app. Move your activity history from Strava to FitPub. This tool converts your Strava data export into correctly formatted, sized, and counted ZIP batches ready for import.

                          [?]PoLiTiPeT » 🌐
                          @politipet@piaille.fr

                          @liaizon is the incumbent on the / bridging front, and currently the only "production grade" system available to te general user, right ?

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

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

                            "artist-alley implements ArchivePub, an open federation protocol built on the ActivityPub data model with DAM-shaped extensions for asset sharing, workflow state, and brand workspaces."

                            "Content-addressed federation:
                            Every reference to asset bytes uses a content-addressed URI:
                            cas://<sha256>?content-type=image/png&size=12345"

                            artist-alley.org/docs/archivep

                              [?]🪦 [she/her] » 🌐
                              @wrzky@kolektiva.social

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                              [?]Tradeless Earth » 🌐
                              @PrPl@todon.eu

                              Is it possible to get an account without email ? Please help.

                              Or if on any other similar activity pub platform?

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                                [?]Stefan » 🌐
                                @kranzkrone@quasselkopf.de

                                [Decentralized, federated platform for dog owners]

                                I haven’t been able to get this idea out of my head for a while now. 😩😁

                                Why are there centralized platforms for dog owners—but no open, decentralized alternative? 🤔

                                What if clubs, animal shelters, dog training schools, or local communities could run their own instances while still being interconnected, based on ActivityPub, similar to the Fediverse? 😃

                                Possible features could include:
                                🐶 Dog profiles
                                🚶 Walks & meetups
                                📍 Dog parks & local spots
                                ⚠️ Poisoned bait and hazard alerts
                                🔎 Missing & found dogs

                                The focus would be on data sovereignty, local communities, and open standards instead of a centralized platform. 😉

                                Attached is a preliminary concept diagram to make the idea more tangible.

                                I’d be interested to know:
                                Would you use something like this, or even help build it? ⁉️ 🙄

                                Infographic in DIN A4 format titled “Dog Network – Decentralized. Local. For Dogs and Their Owners.” The infographic visualizes the concept of a decentralized dog platform based on ActivityPub. At the center, a network diagram connects several independent communities (e.g., animal shelters, dog training schools, local communities, or breed groups) that communicate with one another via a federated infrastructure.

On the right, a smartphone app with a map view is shown as an example. Surrounding it are potential features: dog profiles, walks and meetups, warnings about hazards and poisoned bait, dog parks and local spots, missing or found dogs, as well as groups and discussion forums.

Other sections explain data protection, data sovereignty, self-hosting, open-source technologies, and an optional, privacy-friendly meeting mode that uses intentionally imprecise location data. The design primarily uses shades of green and natural tones, featuring illustrations of dog owners, dogs, maps, and network symbols. The graphic serves as an initial concept sketch and does not represent a finished product or final design.

                                Alt...Infographic in DIN A4 format titled “Dog Network – Decentralized. Local. For Dogs and Their Owners.” The infographic visualizes the concept of a decentralized dog platform based on ActivityPub. At the center, a network diagram connects several independent communities (e.g., animal shelters, dog training schools, local communities, or breed groups) that communicate with one another via a federated infrastructure. On the right, a smartphone app with a map view is shown as an example. Surrounding it are potential features: dog profiles, walks and meetups, warnings about hazards and poisoned bait, dog parks and local spots, missing or found dogs, as well as groups and discussion forums. Other sections explain data protection, data sovereignty, self-hosting, open-source technologies, and an optional, privacy-friendly meeting mode that uses intentionally imprecise location data. The design primarily uses shades of green and natural tones, featuring illustrations of dog owners, dogs, maps, and network symbols. The graphic serves as an initial concept sketch and does not represent a finished product or final design.

                                  [?]Ethan Black » 🌐
                                  @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                                  I low-key feel like a operator, when I'm using this server and chatting with people who-knows-where. So cool.

                                  There are nice things in this "timeline", so let's find opportunities to be grateful!


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                                    [?]Elena Rossini 🌈 » 🌐
                                    @_elena@mastodon.social

                                    Good morning Fedi friends,

                                    I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.

                                    My way of coping?

                                    Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb ) via .

                                    Chapter 1 in this series is available here:

                                    🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie

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

                                      Loops + Direct Messages

                                      Shipping soon 🎉

                                      Loops Direct Messages feature

                                      Alt...Loops Direct Messages feature

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

                                        Summer is the worst season for animals. As the holidays get closer, shelters fill with pets left behind.

                                        My cat and dog came from there. Haru (the cat) waited two years in a shelter, and our dog (Tanos) is one a relative could no longer keep. A black cat and a malinois, now sharing the same stairs.

                                        Out of conviction, I built pawfed.org/how-it-works, a service working with and .

                                        It is not the perfect solution, but if you can help your local shelter, please do.

                                        Tanos, a tan Malinois, sits alert on a step while Haru, a small black cat, rests calmly on the step above, looking off to the side. Both are settled and at ease.

                                        Alt...Tanos, a tan Malinois, sits alert on a step while Haru, a small black cat, rests calmly on the step above, looking off to the side. Both are settled and at ease.

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

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

                                          Loops now supports enforcing AI, Ad and NSFW labels on videos from specific accounts (local + remote), with the ability to backfill the labels!

                                          github.com/joinloops/loops-ser

                                          Loops Admin Dashboard Profile page, showing the Enable AI Auto-Label modal

                                          Alt...Loops Admin Dashboard Profile page, showing the Enable AI Auto-Label modal

                                          Loops Admin Dashboard Profile page

                                          Alt...Loops Admin Dashboard Profile page

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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 .