In today’s session of #IMadeAThing: #Songhive

This is a project that has taken me quite some work in the past months and it’s finally ready to be announced.

Imagine a fully federated (compatible with #ActivityPub and #Webmentions) social network built on top of your music collection.

Not something like #Funkwhale, which only allows individual tracks, albums or playlists to be federated, but a real social network where you have a real profile that can comment, like, boost and quote tracks and anything and follow anyone on any server.

Add custom user-managed audio streams on top of it, with support also for #Icecast and #Snapcast, so you can play your radio with your favourite songs in loop and share an .mp3 link with your friends.

Add support for flexible storage, so you can hook an S3 bucket, a Google Drive, a Dropbox account, a Nextcloud folder, and your music from that storage will be immediately available to be streamed and shared through your server.

Add support for external music services, so you can hook your Jellyfin server or TIDAL account and get your collection all in one place.

Add support for podcasts synchronized over gPodder because why not.

Add support for the #Subsonic API so you can stream your music from your server from Substreamer or any compatible Android/iOS app, and a #mopidy extension to allow you to plug Songhive into your existing music server.

And, most importantly, add support for payments. On two sides:

• For sysadmins: hosting a media server isn’t free, and often it’s not even cheap. Many open-source solutions lack integration with Stripe or crypto and handling of subscriptions. This doesn’t give many incentives to someone to run a small media server for their friends or their band. Songhive provides a paid mode for registration_mode. Admin can set how much they want to charge their users to upload content on their server and how often (weekly, monthly, yearly…)

• For musicians: Songhive supports Stripe Connect integration with the ability to wire any number of payout accounts to the main account on the server. It means that musicians can connect their Stripe account, and set any songs or albums they want for sale for any price they want. Call it the federated #Bandcamp killer if you wish

Links:

• My personal instance: https://manganiello.music
• My federated Songhive profile: @fabio
• Source code: https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/songhive

@PeterBlok ok its your feed personally I don't see any difference between putting the link here or the body of text here

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

Blocks on the fediverse have a consistency problem.

When a Block or Undo Block gets lost between servers, the two sides quietly disagree about who blocked whom. Sometimes that means a blocked account can still reach you.

Our fix, FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers, is now accepted as a draft. Pixelfed is the first implementation, merged and shipping in our next release.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/070c/fep-070c.md

#pixelfed #pixeldev #activityPub #fediverse

How should we support #ActivityPub creators who want to see their engagement metrics, while ensuring user privacy?

I've got some ideas (https://rochebit.net/posts/analytics), but I'd really love to hear some other perspectives and approaches

Can someone explain to me why was Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup being singled out for AI use?

There's no shortage of Fediverse software that are either built with AI assistance (including vibe coding), or welcomes AI contribution, but I'm not seeing the same level of outrage.

Did Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup specifically promise to be AI-free?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

Pixelfed has never federated Blocks, which can cause some issues, so we came up with a Block Synchronization FEP that is heavily inspired by the Mastodon Follower Collection Sync FEP!

Blocks will soon federate, and Pixelfed will be the first implementation to support this Block Sync FEP.

PR: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/7583

#pixelfed #blockSynchronization #activitypub #fep

Wrote and submitted my first FEP!

FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers

Just wrapping up the implementation in Pixelfed as we speak.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/7583

#pixelfed #blockSync #fep #activityPub

@berlinfediday @julian I did not know about SciOp.

Great project and they are making a #FEP (https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/d8c8/) to allow #BitTorrent data types in #activitypub - cool!

#FEPd8c8

Hola! We're Protopia: a regenerative farm and co-living lab on 14 hectares of jungle in Costa Rica.

Artists, activists and digital nomads live, work and have fun together: sociocratic governance, pro social tech, evidence based thinking.

Our members work on ActivityPub tools, which is partly why we're here. If you do too, reach out, and come and work from here.

protopia.community

#Introduction #CoLiving #Regenerative #CostaRica #activitypub #community

Blocked domains really should mean blocked domains.

I don't want to see their post even boosted by someone else, and I do not want them to see mine either.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #Akkoma #GoToSocial

RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/117344978702165876

I decided to donate €527.04 to GoToSocial (€509.66 is going to GoToSocial, and €17.38 in processing fees), lump sum.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #GoToSocial

The scam group known as Gaza Verified continues to do what scam groups do. That includes pressuring people — especially the elderly and disabled — into giving them large sums of money.

Unfortunately, reporting this behavior, even when it seems obvious, may not personally win you any favors, as someone recently learned.

The Fediverse has a scammer problem!

Concerned user:

" Linux have you seen this guy: USER NAME @ mastodon.social?

He seems to be giving a lot to these accounts. I had a look at one of them, and he's given just one of them over £4k in about a month
(eg: https://chuffed.org/project/184394-hanadi-is-a-nurse-graduate-who-need-help-for-her-family).

I hope he's loaded, and he's giving wierd amounts, £9, £8, £50 and then lastly £500! 😕 "

" I already have them on my block list because they were boosting the scam groups post and trying to help them raise money. They're one of their so-called supporters. Although, I haven't yet updated the GIT. The next update will have over 50 or so new accounts. "

" Linux :( he's giving them serious amounts of cash even though they keep guilt-tripping him :(
I did msg him to be careful, but never got a reply.

When I reported https://ieji.de/@hanadinurse88, and told them to stop harrasing the USER NAME guy, some modertor from leji.de reported me, just tagging random posts from me in the report... weird! "

" That whole domain is in my blocked domain list for a reason. There are some sites that are complicit and other sites I suspect are in on it. The Internet and by extension the Fediverse is anonymous, and just became someone is a mod or admin, does not make them a good person. "

" post 2 of 2 (follow-up)

It seems they have removed hanadinurse88, but since they also reported you (to you, not knowing you are the admin of your own site), you see what I am dealing with.

Many scam groups show two sides... a legitimate side and a scammer side. It is how they manage circumstances to their advantage and manipulate moderation systems to evade accountability.

You did the right thing, and it was obvious, so someone couldn't ignore it. But you were also inconvenient to their operation, and so you were reported for voicing yourself.

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The screenshot is of a private message between myself using my alternative account Linux @ fairy.id and a concerned user. The alt text is already included in the post. The names were removed to protect the innocent (the person being taken advantage of and the person who brought this to my attention).

The wanderer app is now in public beta for iOS and Android!

Your self-hosted trail database, in your pocket:
- Find trails across federated instances
- Plan routes on the map
- Record hikes with GPS, no network needed
- Download map regions for offline use
- Turn-by-turn navigation, even offline
- Recordings sync as soon as you're back in range

Admins: the app needs the v0.21.0-app images. Setup guide: https://wanderer.to/run/backend-configuration/mobile-app

It's a beta, so expect rough edges and always carry a backup map. Install via TestFlight, Google Play or APK:
https://wanderer.to/app

#wanderer #selfhosted #hiking #FOSS #ActivityPub #fediverse #OpenStreetMap

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wanderer app map screen

If I made a Federated Search system, and it required 10 gigabytes on a server and 1 gb on a PC using it (caches). Would you host this? Would you use it?

#Activitypub #search

🌐 Es ist wieder Fediverse-Sprechstunde!

Am Montag, 28.09.2026 um 19:30 Uhr treffen wir uns online zu einem Thema, das sehr schön zeigt, wie vielseitig das Fediverse eigentlich ist:

„Was kann man mit ActivityPub noch alles machen? – vutuv und abuuba“

Zu Gast ist @wintermeyer

Mit vutuv schauen wir uns ein berufliches Netzwerk an, das als Alternative zu LinkedIn gedacht ist und bereits mit dem Fediverse verbunden ist.

abuuba verfolgt dagegen einen ganz anderen Ansatz: ein technisches Experiment mit dem Fokus auf Geschwindigkeit und der Frage, was bei einem Fediverse-Server technisch noch möglich ist.

Zwei sehr unterschiedliche Projekte – und genau deshalb dürfte es spannend werden. 😊

Wie immer gilt: Die Fediverse-Sprechstunde lebt nicht nur vom Vortrag, sondern auch von Fragen, Diskussionen und dem gemeinsamen Austausch.

📅 Montag, 28.09.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
💻 online : campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…

Wer neugierig ist, was mit ActivityPub jenseits der bekannten Anwendungen möglich ist, ist herzlich eingeladen.

📢 Bitte gern teilen – und morgen einfach dazukommen!

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #vutuv #abuuba #FediverseSprechstunde

#ActivityPub

How important is it to have nodeinfo, x-nodeinfo2 and host-meta? (And why is there three of them?)

Is it bad for discovery not to have it/them?

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Log of inbound HTTP(S) requests searching for either /.well-known/nodeinfo or /.well-known/x-nodeinfo2 and getting 404'd.

FediSuite 1.6.4

Deine Fediverse Management Plattform

Gerade habe ich Version 1.6.4 meiner FediSuite released. Ab sofort wird auch vutuv unterstützt, als neue Plattform in FediSuite!
Viel Spaß! :-)

https://www.fedisuite.com

#fedisuite #vutuv #newversion #neueversion #update #mastodon #friendica #peertube #pixelfed #mastodonapi #activitypub @nebelspecht @vutuv

@slesa @christin @nebelspecht @vutuv Maybe they're implementing a protocol with extensible data types that would benefit greatly from soft/duck typing. It's called #ActivityPub you might have heard of it

Don't try to reply, you're blocked for being an unbearable reply guy

RE: https://berlin.social/@berlinfediday/117337512329875864

Yep, here's my presentation at Berlin FediDay 2026, where I talked about SciOp and its federation plans. 🙂

That was a really nice environment and audience for this exchange. Good Q&A too. I'm looking forward to the recording of the “research on the fediverse” panel at the end of the session.

#FediDay #ActivityPub #SciOp

Berlin FediDay » 🌐 2026-09-26
@berlinfediday@berlin.social

🧪 @julian — SciOp & decentralised research data rescue
https://fair.tube/w/uQCVZArwr6BitUCbmTfeWJ

📢 Have a look, share the videos and help carry the ideas and discussions from #Fediday further into the Fediverse! 🚀

❤️ And: Fediday should continue!
If you would like to support #Fediday2027:
https://digitalegesellschaft.de/weitermachen/

#Fediverse

That might explain why I have a single instance snac
server, and still get basically spam posts.

I know I get something similar to that when there is
like a secondary relationship thru someone i am following.
But these things I see seemingly have no connecting relationships.

#activitypub

#snac2
#snac

Week in Fediverse 2026-09-25

Servers

- Pixelfed v0.14.0
- Ktistec v3.13.0
- XWiki ActivityPub Extension v1.7.12
- Misskey v2026.9.1
- NeoDB v0.19.3

Clients

- Fedilab v3.44.0
- Smither v3.6.7
- Pixelix v5.2.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.1
- Aria v1.5.14

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.1

Protocol

- FEP-c0d0: Context Locking

Articles

- The Algorithm, Apparently Chronological

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a0b604-9fbd-7213-b1c1-8084f3f2447b

The event calendar should be released any moment now, but so far I can confirm that my talk proposal for #OmniOpenCon 2026 Bucharest was accepted, so I'm going to have a presentation on #ActivityPub and #ATproto!

„Klickwege die keinen Sinn ergeben“, @ueckueck hält nicht viel von Instagram.

Unser komplettes Gespräch über die Alternativen zu Instagram, Twitter und Co findet ihr hier: https://gultsch.video/w/kqhyU8g3ToUYYuKT3t7A4m

Oder für den Nachhauseweg in der Podcast App über diesen RSS Feed: https://gultsch.video/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=1504

#Instagram #Pixelfed #Mastodon #PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Podcast #DigitalIndependenceDay

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Ückück fasst sich an den Kopf darüber wie unlogisch die Instagram UI ist.

Mengubah website personal yang sepi menjadi simpul jaringan sosial yang aktif! 🚀

Kenalkan FPDP (Federated Personal Digital Platform) solusi personal website yang terintegrasi secara native dengan protokol #ActivityPub.

Sekarang tulisan di blog sendiri bisa langsung masuk ke timeline Fediverse, dan balasan dari pengguna lain masuk kembali ke website secara real-time. Kepemilikan data penuh + jangkauan jaringan global.

🔗 Live Demo: https://kukuhtw.com
🐙 Source Code: https://github.com/kukuhtw/fpdp

🌐 Einladung zur nächsten Fediverse-Sprechstunde

Am Montag, 28.09.2026 um 19:30 Uhr ist es wieder so weit – wir treffen uns online zur nächsten Fediverse-Sprechstunde.

Diesmal freue ich mich besonders auf unseren Gast @wintermeyer . Gemeinsam schauen wir auf zwei seiner Projekte, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten:

🔹 vutuv.de – eine Alternative zu LinkedIn, die bereits heute von vielen Menschen als berufliches Netzwerk genutzt wird und dabei auch die Verbindung zum Fediverse mitdenkt.

🔹 abuuba.com – ein ganz anderes Projekt: technisch, experimentell und bewusst als „Weckruf“ in Richtung Mastodon gedacht. Hier geht es vor allem um die Frage, was bei der Geschwindigkeit und technischen Umsetzung eines Fediverse-Servers möglich ist.

Unser Thema lautet deshalb:

„Was kann man mit ActivityPub noch alles machen? – vutuv und abuuba“

Wir möchten die beiden Projekte ganz bewusst getrennt voneinander betrachten, denn sie verfolgen unterschiedliche Ziele und richten sich an unterschiedliche Nutzergruppen.

Stefan wird uns erzählen, was hinter den Projekten steckt, wie sie entstanden sind und welche Ideen ihn dabei antreiben.

Und natürlich soll es wieder keine Einbahnstraße werden. 😊
Fragen, Gedanken, Erfahrungen und Diskussionen sind ausdrücklich erwünscht. Gerade davon lebt die Fediverse-Sprechstunde.

📅 Montag, 28.09.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
💻 online Konferenzraum: campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…

Wer neugierig auf ActivityPub, neue Fediverse-Projekte oder einfach auf einen spannenden Austausch ist, ist herzlich eingeladen.

📢 Bitte gern weitersagen und teilen!

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #vutuv #abuuba #FediverseSprechstunde

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Grafik zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde am Montag, 28. September 2026 um 19:30 Uhr. Thema: „Was kann man mit ActivityPub noch alles machen? – vutuv und abuuba“. Zu Gast ist Stefan Wintermeyer. Links wird vutuv als LinkedIn-Alternative mit Fediverse-Anschluss vorgestellt, rechts abuuba als technisches Experiment mit Fokus auf Geschwindigkeit und neue Ansätze für Fediverse-Server. In der Mitte symbolisieren vernetzte Punkte und Sprechblasen Austausch und Föderation. Unten stehen Hinweise zu Termin, Online-Veranstaltung sowie Fragen, Diskussion und Austausch.

FediForum Fall 2026 starts in four weeks, exactly.

Registrations and proposed topics are coming. Check some of what has been proposed so far on https://fediforum.org/2026-10/

#fediforum #opensocialweb #event #activitypub #atproto

I don't know how to get the eyes or ears of any big #Fediverse movers or shakers, but if someone out there who is good with code wants to jump on a golden opportunity, one is presenting itself.

A couple of days ago, Tapas warned all their creators that they were going to be shutting down. If you're not familiar with it, Tapas is a webcomics platform, and basically the only decent-sized alternative to Webtoon.

If we could throw together some sort of ActivityPub-backed Webcomics platform, we could use it as a way to get a lot more people using Fediverse-adjacent technology.

I don't have the time or energy to do any of this myself, and I am not good at coding, but I have been doing webcomics since the 1990s, and have watched the rise and fall of Keenspot, Drunk Duck, Wordpress and the RSS era, and now the modern "Walmart for Webcomics" era. This is a huge opportunity to present the Fediverse as a viable alternative.

#webcomics #webtoon #tapas #artists #activitypub

I made my plea for such a setup in the #fediverse three years ago, but since then most of the innovation in this space has happened in and around the AT protocol, which consequently pulled my attention towards that space.

However what's emerging here isn't specific to any one protocol, and #ActivityPub is neatly aligned IdP-agnostic web logins.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/autonomous-identity-for-the-pluriverse-based-on-oauth-oidc/3675?u=erlend_sh

#oauth #fedcm #decentralized #indieweb

Is there a #mastodon or #activitypub mobile or web client which will show you the latest post from each account you follow? So I can more easily see the latest updates from my less frequently posting friends more than my timeline allows?

It's fucking scary: Within less than an hour I was able to #vibecode a #Activitypub server in Rust that uses CouchDB as it's database (remember that #Nightboard83 uses PouchDB?)

I surely have to massively test and audit it over the coming days, but so far it looks very, very promising...

I was scrolling @pixelix and discovered @ghostbyte is getting the instance statistic data from new fediverse tracker they built called https://fedisea.surf

Also open source with their own crawler https://github.com/ghostbyte-dev/fedisea-web #fedidev #fediverse #ActivityPub

Week in Fediverse 2026-09-18

Servers

- Wafrn v2026.09.11
- TinyAP v0.2.0
- Mastodon v4.7.2
- PeerTube v8.3.0
- NodeBB v4.16.0
- NeoDB v0.19.0
- Gush! v0.0.42
- PieFed v1.7.16
- Lemmy Dev Update August 2026 and 1.0.0-beta.2
- Trunk & Tidbits, August 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Fedilab v3.43.4
- Smither v3.6.5
- Voyager v2.49.1
- mlmym v26.4.0

Protocol

- FEP-22cd: Attributing translations
- FEP-7628: Move actor (Final)

Articles

- People, Algorithms, Social media and the Fediverse

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a091f1-ecbc-7923-ad6a-e9bd3bae78e3

Quick heads-up for other Mastodon admins: this registration spam wave isn't over yet.

On lsbt.me, we first saw a flood of API registrations using Python/aiohttp. The telltale signs were usernames following the pattern bp plus 16 hex characters, and the sign-up reason was always "Automated protocol deliverability probe". A narrow block on that user agent stopped the first wave.

Today, however, five new registrations came in with the same usernames and the same sign-up reason. This time the bot simply identified itself as Chrome 126. That's exactly why a user agent is only useful as a short-term filter. It's a header the client can set to anything.

The requests go to POST /api/v1/accounts. This endpoint lets client apps create a new local account directly in the app. No app needs it for OAuth connections to existing accounts. #FediSuite doesn't use it either. It registers itself via /api/v1/apps, obtains consent via /oauth/authorize, and then works with a user token. Regular sign-up through the Mastodon website is also handled separately via POST /auth.

So I've completely disabled API account creation on lsbt.me. Web sign-up, OAuth, and existing clients keep working as before. Anyone who wants a new account just signs up once on the web as usual and can then use any client.

If you'd also rather not offer this optional native sign-up path, you can add the following to your Nginx server block, before the general location / block. The example assumes the @proxy location that many Mastodon Nginx configs already include:

location = /api/v1/accounts {
  limit_except GET {
    deny all;
  }
  try_files $uri @proxy;
}

This returns a 403 only for POST /api/v1/accounts. The read-only GET endpoint remains reachable. As always, run nginx -t afterwards and only reload once the test passes.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediMod #FediBlock #Moderation #Registration #Spam #Nginx #SelfHosting #SysAdmin #ActivityPub

Just finished listening to this interview with Eli Mallen (@iameli) of https://stream.place (from last year) talk about taking on Twitch in the open social web. He talked about his history in other protocol spaces like SSB and Ethereum and why he chose to work with #ATProto and not #ActivityPub
https://devtools.fm/episode/140

Laravel + PHP gains a batteries included package for ActivityPub support, with both draft-cavage and RFC 9421 HTTP Sig support and the ability to extend every aspect, with before() and after() hooks for easy custom processing.

It's quite amazing.

I'll be tagging a new release this week.

#laravel #php #activitypub #pixelfed #loops

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laravel-activitypub

laravel-activitypub, a batteries included ActivityPub package for laravel.

Soon will power @pixelfed and @joinloops

Shoutout to @FediverseSymbol

https://github.com/dansup/laravel-activitypub

#laravelActivitypub #laravel #activitypub #pixelfed #loops

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laravel activitypub readme header image

Okay, laravel-activitypub is near ready to ship!

I'll be testing it with shutter, a single user activitypub server for image sharing.

#laravel #activitypub #Pixelfed #Loops

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laravel-activitypub test suite, all tests passing now 😮‍💨

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screenshot of shutter.social

Making real progress on laravel-activitypub, a batteries included ActivityPub package for laravel.

This will replace federation logic in @pixelfed and @joinloops and make it really easy to implement AP in your own laravel apps!

#laravel #activityPub

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Laravel ActivityPub

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.

Wow, there's way more apps connecting to the fediverse than I thought.. This list is really great, thanks mostly to @smallcircles

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps

#fediverse #federation #activitypub