In previous years, I published two "fediverse tech roadmap" posts:

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2024
- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

However, I didn't publish such post this year because not much has happened in 2025. Many problems I talked about require complex solutions, but unfortunately proposed solutions are often very limited or lead to centralization. Or worse, there is no solution but only an imitation of work. I don't want to write about that.

I saw a thread today where ATProto ecosystem was compared to #ActivityPub. Things are happening in the Atmosphere, but not in Fediverse. MAU graphs are flat. What's going on?

There are multiple factors at play, but I think fake activity may be the biggest contributor. Trivial developments presented as breakthroughs. Features that already exist somewhere in Fediverse presented as new inventions. Vaporware. Specs written by people who have no idea how to implement them. Working groups that do nothing but meetings.

Real work is ignored, competent developers see that and quit.

We need to fix this.

For my part, I will continue to document #Fediverse development at @weekinfediverse. But this newsletter doesn't have much impact.

I couldn't get pixelfed to work under #NixOS. That's why I'm building pxvoid now. A simple, self-hosted web gallery with #ActivityPub integration. No multi-user management, no filters, no stories, and a local upload script. Follows and likes from the #Fediverse are possible. It's an early alpha version, but the basics work in under 1800 LoC #Python. Now all that's missing is the final design and code cleanup 🥳🎉

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Screenshot of pxvoid. A federated webgallery.

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Screenshot of pxvoid. A federated webgallery.

What does a Discord replacement look like, and how might the open social web play a part? @laurenshof looks at what needs to happen — different apps built on the same protocols, active collaboration to make sure it all fits together — and how that's already fundamental to the Atmosphere and fediverse.

https://flip.it/QdL.FX

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #ATProtocol #Bluesky #Blacksky #Discord #Technology #Tech

After quite some time, I’m finally ready to share this.

MastoBlaster is now available in public testing on TestFlight.

It is a lightweight, privacy-first Fediverse client for iOS, built around a simple idea: fast, small, predictable behavior, and first-class support for snac.

What makes it different:
• snac-first by design, not "compatible by accident"
• Works with all Mastodon API compatible software, including Mastodon, snac, GoToSocial, Akkoma, and others
• EXIF stripping on upload (HDR and orientation preserved)
• Optional on-device alt text generation via Apple Intelligence for your uploads and for images in your timeline
• Markdown posting for snac
• Granular notifications, grouping, multi-account
• Blocking and moderation tools
• Very small footprint, very low RAM usage

Alt text generation happens entirely on device via Apple APIs on supported hardware. Nothing is sent to external services.

It is built around my own workflow and priorities. It may not be for everyone, and that is perfectly fine.

Important note:
MastoBlaster will always be free for BSD Cafe users, illumos Cafe users, and for anyone connecting to a snac instance, including self-hosted ones.

The app is already usable, but this is still a test phase. I am looking for feedback, bug reports, and real-world usage insights.

TestFlight link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/Pkxa5R1k

Stay tuned.

#MastoBlaster #iOS #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #Akkoma #GoToSocial #ActivityPub #OwnYourData

#Phanpy failed at saving alt-text to an image on a new post for a logged in #WordPress #ActivityPub account. I must do more testing and investigate why tomorrow. It may be my settings or it could be Phanpy. I shall see.

Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom? @ben says the value is in protocols that allow people — all people around the world — to build and own communities that address their needs. "The only way to achieve that is to not just co-design with them but distribute equity. They must be full co-owners of the open social web," he writes.

https://flip.it/zjR0kR

#OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Mastodon

Maybe something to clarify with #HolosSocial. There is a full moderation system like on any Fediverse instance. Moderators can ban accounts. But relays are dumb by design: your identity and data belong to you, not to the relay. A ban is like a relay going down, you don't lose everything. You can move to another relay and keep all your followers, following, and data. With a custom domain the transition is seamless, otherwise it works through standard #ActivityPub migration.

Also, thanks to: byte, dandelions, oxzi, davidrv00, ag-eitilt, pmjv, zen, daltux and anyone else I may have missed for contributing to this release!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.90 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31230

1 of 3 GitHub Continuous Integration checks completed successfully.

Fingers crossed the other two go off without a hitch. If so, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

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

Before I drive myself mad and try to build something I'm incapable of…

Has anyone built an #ActivityPub server for embedded devices?

Not a Raspberry Pi, but like one of those tiny ESP32 devices which can run MicroPython or similar.

I built a *full* AP server in around 64KB of PHP
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

Now I'm wondering if a tiny sensor could be a fully-fledged ActivityPub node on the Fediverse.

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

3 platforms in the 2 comma club across 1 federated protocol.

Mastodon, Misskey and Pixelfed now have over 1 million people each.

This calls for a celebration 🥳

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #MillionsServed

FediForum "Growing the Open Social Web" Un-Workshop position statement

https://thenexusofprivacy.net/fediforum-growing-the-open-social-web-un-workshop-position-statement-2/#position-statement

The iink goes directly to the position statement ... if you want the narrative (and an explanation for the image), feel free to start at the top!

#fediverse #ATmosphere #activityPub

Minor tweak to improve signature key retrieving for some Wordpress configurations.

Fixed web UI incorrect links to actor public pages for some configurations.

Fixed mismatch in the accounts being followed number in the public and people pages.

Notifications can be filtered by category (contributed by byte).

Dates are shown adjusted to the account's time zone (contributed by dandelions).

Configurable limit for poll items (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed incorrect scope when editing a post (contributed by dandelions).

Change the strip_exif logic to work with the already existing OpenBSD sandbox (contributed by oxzi).

Mastodon API: Add poll creation (contributed by davidrv00), fixed a voting bug (contributed by davidrv00), added a fix to verify_credentials (contributed by ag-eitilt).

Updated Czech, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish translations (contributed by pmjv, zen, daltux).

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

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

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Heh, heh. Tonight I stumbled upon a hidden little feature in Fedify's CLI.

If you run `fedify nodeinfo mastodon.social -b` you get a cute little ascii art representation of the instance's logo.

Happy to see a bit of fun mixed into these fedi tools!

@fedify #ActivityPub #Fediverse

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A terminal, with the command `fedify nodeinfo {serverName} -b` entered, it shows an ascii art representation of the logo.

Kattokaa hyvät ihmiset. Sain sen toimimaan! Vai sainko? Miten muutan taustakuvan? #activitypub https://mementomori.social/@minna@www.minnamoira.com

It's probably less of a problem now that the fediverse is much bigger (than it was 5 years ago). But one of the things I've heard puts newbies off alternative social apps/ networks is too much meta-discussion about development and deployment of the apps/ networks themselves.

Maybe we could agree on a standard way of tagging this stuff (eg #DevMeta)? Then the DevMeta tag could be filtered out by default for newbies.

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#fediverse #FediverseDev #ActivityPub

In #ActivityPub, once a post is federated, you lose control over how remote instances handle interactions on it. Some servers like #GoToSocial are working on interaction controls, but non-compatible instances simply ignore your rules.
With #HolosSocial, we're considering a "safe mode" available at publishing time. Your post would only be delivered to followers on instances that respect interaction controls. Not enabled by default, but there for those who need it.

For everyone curious about what’s coming next in #Vernissage, here’s the updated roadmap for 2026:

https://github.com/orgs/VernissageApp/projects/5

It outlines the planned work for the coming year, but it doesn’t include everything. Along the way, libraries will be updated, important bugs fixed, and other improvements addressed as they come up.

The roadmap shows the direction rather than a fixed promise for every single change.

#Vernissage #Roadmap #ActivityPub

The fediverse now has a TikTok alternative called Loops by @dansup. Open source, federated via ActivityPub, funded by NLnet and community donations instead of venture capital. You own your content and can self host. Beta is live and the iOS app just hit the App Store.

https://joinloops.org

#Loops #JoinLoops #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSource #ShortVideo #TikTokAlternative #TikTok

#weeklyreview 07/2026

February 8th – 14th, 2026

Summary

Somehow super hectic week. That’s why I only got to post last weeks review yesterday. Struggling with project management or the lack thereof in the office. More AI fiddling that I’m rather happy with. Good progress on #project25 and the China vacation plan. Also still enjoying the book about the Vienna Circle a lot.

AI, AI and more AI

This is a big topic for me right now. At the office of course but also in personal experiments.

Fediverse journaling plugin

With help of AI coding I’m getting to realise many small ideas I had but would never have had the time to realise. This week I’ve create a little WordPress plugin to use the fediverse as a journaling assistant.

I spent a lot of time in my fediverse clients (mostly Mona, IceCubes or the Mastodon web interface). So why not use that as an input channel for my weekly blogging. I tried different other approaches over the last few months to recollect what I was busy with during the week. Having scripts collecting my Mastodon posts over the weeks and compiling them into a weekly overview page for instance. So I thought it might be useful to just sent message in the Fediverse to my blog for journaling.

I’ve got the ActivityPub plugin installed and thus my Blog is just a normal account in the fediverse that I can mention or sent messages to. I’ve wrote a plugin in which I can authorise specific fediverse users in a WordPress author profile. If these fediverse users mention the WordPress author profile, that post gets appended to a weekly draft post on the Blog.

Now whenever I have something noteworthy, I’ll mention my blog account in my fediverse post and it gets automatically appended to a weekly review draft. At the end of the week I already have a list of things that bothered me during the week.

The code can be found here.

Some snippets from this weeks journal:

2026-02-11 17:37:06

I’d call it “vibe project management” where you just pretend to have a project plan. It visually looks like project plan. But factually it doesn’t make any sense because it has been created with Photoshop for Powerpoint …@falko

2026-02-12 12:59:10

@Nico prinzipiell läuft es. Genutzt wird das Modell jetzt von einem Pi Coding Agent der in einer Debian VM läuft 🙈 @falko

I’ve tried my luck with an open weight coding model and the Pi Coding agent. Downloaded the qwen3-coder-next:latest model for Ollama. That’s a whopping 51GB in size as barely fits into my physical memory. The Pi coding agent was running inside a virtual machine. It works in principle… but is so slow that a reasonable test wasn’t really practical for the moment. Have to play a bit more with it. With that setup one could theoretically realise a fully offline coding agent. But I guess some more beefy hardware is needed. Although an Apple Silicon M2 Max isn’t really a slow machine.

Project Management in the age of vibe everything

To be honest, this has started much before AI and vibe coding became popular. The tendency to make up project plans with tools that are not meant for project planning. Most notorious in this field are Project Plans in Excel, Powerpoint or JIRA.

Why am I so upset about it? In my eyes a project plan helps you prioritise and visualise work by listing the tasks and milestones and putting them in chronological order. You define dependencies between tasks and maybe even resources. Once that has been established (and I don’t say this is trivial to collect) you can use proper project management software to identify the critical path of your project. That is the one sequence of events that you have to focus on. All the others will not move you necessarily closer to your project end (because they’re not on the critical path) until the items on the critical path are not finished.

It will also help you assess the effects of time lines slippage. How does that the affect to overall project timing? Or you can identify bottlenecks in your plan due to resources overload. So all good things that you management usually wants to see and from you as a project manager.

Yet, many project plans are just vibe fiddled with the likes of office software. So it just looks similar to a project plan visually. But these tools don’t help you actually manage your project. They just visualise what you think your project plan is. Not backed by hard data.

The most hilarious experience in this context was my conversation with the Atlassian Rovo AI assistant on the topic this week. Asked whether JIRA can be used for project management it of course answered that JIRA is actually best for this. Then probed how chronological order and critical path can then be managed it needed to back off and admit that you can’t do that in JIRA without lots of add-ons and/or paid extensions.

What puzzles me is, that this kind of “let’s just wing it” project management is accepted in many companies. My theory is, that management knows precisely that their demand for speed, quality and resource usage is completely unrealistic. Too much work get’s committed with too little resources. Milestone be set before the actually planning happened because it was promised to a customer or C-suite guy. Proper project management would proof with hard data that the timeline is totally unrealistic.

But with just vibe coded project plans they can just press and demand. And people obey with over-hours and compromises in quality and features.

Rural restaurants

On Sunday we’ve been at the lovely Kastanienhof in Flieth. A traditional village restaurant with traditional German food. It was really delicious and at a very affordable price range. For the three of us we payed something around 60 EUR in total including drinks and my starter. That’s about as much as I pay for me alone in Berlin when having BBQ ribs at Chicago Williams 😉

That Sunday morning I was helping a friend to put a new hard disk into his laptop. I needed more space and fortunately bought the new NVMe SSD already back in November. The same 4 TB disks now costs more than 100 EUR more thanks to the AI hype.

It had to be a Windows 11 installation as that’s what he had to use for his work. I’m not judging. It went surprisingly smooth. We’ve created a bootstick from the existing installation with the Windows 11 installer. He had already looked up a video on how to disassemble the laptop. That was a huge timesaver as the HP Laptop had 5 hidden screws that we had to uncover under the rubber feet.

New disk in, booted from USB and started the installation. After about 15 min the new OS was running and could start to install the needed software from scratch. He knew all his accounts and password and so we were done in a few hours with the whole setup. I honestly expected more fiddling needed.

China here we come

The planning of the upcoming China trip progresses. I’ve contacted a few friends in Beijing and established communication via WeChat with them now. We had stayed in contact loosely via Facebook and LinkedIN. Both services are just bad … for various reasons. But we switched to Chinas most popular chat app. They immediately offered pick up service and are generally excited to meet again. We’ve also got the rest of the schedule mostly sorted and now need to book the hotels and tours. It’s getting real.

#project25 update

This week the insulation material for the attic arrived and work is supposed to start next week. We quickly unloaded the stuff and placed partially into the attic and living room for convenience.

Unfortunately I noticed that the heating seemed to have stopped. It’s hopefully “just” because of low fuel level in the oil tanks. I had initially only bought 1000L back in June 2025 expecting this to last about a year.

I really have no experience with this kind of heating system. We didn’t spent much time in the house yet so the heating was set to winter mode most of the time. But then we also had a pretty cold winter so far and not insulated attic is kind of open to the lower floor norw. I’ve tried to seal it as good as possible with styrofoam plates. Still the heating seems to guzzle a lot of oil… that soon needs to be replace by a proper heat pump system.

still ice on the lake

14 at last

Kiddo turned 14 this week … of course they grow up so fast 🙂

Learning

Learned (rather got it confirmed) this week from our doctor that ADS & depression is much harder noticed in women because they’re much better at blending in and make an effort to just play along to expectations. That of course is taxing and taking lots of energy which makes their symptoms even worse.

Reading

no changes over last week

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screenshot der MacOS Activity App welche die RAM Auslastung anzeigt. Von 64GB physischem Speicher werden 62,18GB genutzt und ca. 17GB SWAP

There's a lot of energy on the #Fediverse right now to discuss/find a #Federated alternative to #Discord using #ActivityPub.

@strypey suggested that I put this out there to anyone who's thinking about it. We could probably rebuild most of Discord's features as an #Emissary inbox without doing a lot of back end code.

I'm too swamped to start on this right now. But if you're a great HTML+CSS designer, I'm able to give some time to a team who wants to take this on.

🚌 🚌 Surf builds are like buses — you don't see one for ages, then two come along at once. This week's second release, version 1.0.358, has an eye-catching new wave icon in the sidebar so you can discover other surfers' feeds more easily, plus bug fixes and performance improvements.

#SurfSocial #SurfFeeds #SurfApp #Flipboard #ActivityPub

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Screenshot of Surf app showing the sidebar menu.

Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is that it's a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

Week in Fediverse 2026-02-13

Servers

- Stegodon v1.7.1
- Hollo v0.7.2
- Manyfold v0.132.1
- Mbin v1.9.1
- tootik v0.21.0
- Mitra v4.18.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.9.1
- flohmarkt v0.14.4
- PieFed v1.6.4
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2026 (Mastodon)
- OpenSimulator ActivityPub Bridge

Clients

- Fedilab v3.36.1
- toot v0.51.1
- tooi v0.21.0
- Jerboa v0.0.85
- Interstellar v0.11.2
- Pixelix v4.3.0
- Fedi Reader: A link-focused Mastodon news reader for iOS and macOS

Tools and Plugins

- ap-thread-reader: ActivityPub-compatible Thread Reader (not only for Mastodon)

For developers

- Progress Report - February 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- On fediverse content warnings and filters
- Trusting Trust in the Fediverse
- Adding Fediverse Comments to a Pelican Blog

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c3449-e714-29e9-b9f6-03cc6804b4aa

After shutting down #HolosDiscover, we're rethinking the approach with #HolosIndex: users explicitly opt in by adding #HolosIndex to their bio with interest tags, then submit their profile. No assumptions, no default settings.
This will power interest-based discovery across the #Fediverse, helping people find each other through shared interests. Still all through #ActivityPub of course, with real-time deletions and updates.

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com is a tech related relay instance that connects over 100 instances, focussing on things like #FreeBSD, #BGP, #IPv6, #Proxmox, #Homelab, #Linux and many other things! You can easily add a really when using #snac / #snac2, #mastodon, #pleroma and many other ones!

#community #activitypub #socialmedia #fedi #fediwall #relay #opensource #tech #federated #social

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Overview of the fedi-relay gyptazy instance for the Fediverse

@dansup

are there any fediverse projects using more than one type of federation?

what are some good resources for implementing activitypub validly and what languages should i learn?
i'm good at c, python and that's about it.

#fediverse #activitypub

Never before has it been this easy to leverage the fediverse across the web.

With @webintents and @socialwebgraph, you will be unstoppable 🚀

Available Soon.

#WebIntents #SocialWebGraph #Fediverse #ActivityPub #ActivityIntents

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WebIntent event join button, showcasing the power of web intents

Hello World!

We're building a social web alternative to open graph, powered by @webintents and @fedidb

The website and documentation will be published soon, stay tuned 🚀

#SocialWebGraph #WebIntents #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@NebulaTide@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Besides #LinkedIn, there still exist #Xing (founded as #openBC), based in #Europe. But this is also a commercial platform, that isn't federated.

An #ActivityPub enabled approach would be nice.

#Fediverse

This morning I promoted nolto.social, a platform that was made - at least I thought so, to be a Fediverse based alternative to LinkedIn. As I'm getting more and more annoyed by LinkedIn and all the useless posts over there, I was happy to find an independent alternative.

nolto.social still worked this morning, but when I came back later; i found the project deleted and at least when you are viewing the website from your smartphone, you see a message from the developer of nolto.social where he states that this project was never meant to grow. Obviously this was just a one person project who became overwhelmed by the success of the platform and by the fact, that companies started creating profiles and nearly 1000 people joined within a short time period. But now it seems that this project ran out of control and the maintainer decided to pull the emergency break. He is also talking about negative feedback he received for the platform and even personal harrassment.

It is sad that a promising project like this had been terminated, but I can understand what made the maintainer doing so. Managing a business platform can become a fulltime job quite fast and it also requires technical ressources and money to run these resources.

I firmly believe that we need an alternative to LinkedIn. I believe that people don't want all this bullshit posts just created to please the algorithm and to generate likes and feedback. And I believe that people would like a business network which is nothing else than a business network - no space for bursting egos and self promotion, but a space for connection and serious discussion.

Fediverse would be the ideal space for this. But as we know, if business networks are successful, they require more and more attention, more ressources, more money. And at this is the problem. When you need money to run your social network, it's tempting to ask yourself how you could generate money by using the ressources you already have, which are user data...

I don't see a solution for this now, just sharing some thoughts.

#shutdown #activityPub #fediverseMoments #digitalCommons

Der Ghost Blog https://BLOG.BAYERWALD.SOCIAL hat inzwischen auch sein Fediverse Handle bekommen.

@index

und ist damit als Instanz vollständig ins Fediverse eingebunden.

#fediverse #activitypub #ghost
#bayerwaldsocial #blog

@andycarolan did it again and now #FedBOX, the generic #ActivityPub server, has a fresh of the press logo. :) Thank you Andy! 🥳

https://mariusor.srht.site/fedbox/

I'm playing around with Offer activities in Fedify. The AP Vocab provides this, easy peasy.

✅ Alice OFFERS Book to Bob
✅ Bob ACCEPTS Alice's OFFER

Or:

✅ Bob OFFERS Rotten Tomato to Alice
❌ Alice REJECTS Bob's OFFER

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But I'm not clear if this is right:

❓Alice ANNOUNCES OFFER of Labubu to Followers?

❓Bob OFFERS $10 for Labubu to Alice?

❓ Alice ACCEPTS Bob's OFFER of $10 for Labubu?

✅ Alice OFFERS Labubu to Bob

✅ Bob ACCEPTS Labubu

#ActivityPub

I would even host it at home, but it seems like huge parts of the Fediverse are IPv4-only, and #ActivityPub behind Dual-Stack Lite doesn't sound like fun.

Hubzilla Beginner's Workshop Today, Feb 11 (German)

Great to see these type of events popping up!.

https://f.termine.di.day/events/e037c6a5-362c-4231-bcbd-2ffb2eb3d70f

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

With https://discover.holos.social we may have highlighted that many Fediverse users don't pay attention to their default settings. We built a fully respectful search engine that only relies on #ActivityPub, with instant deletion, updates, and indexing only consenting users. We will likely shut down the service, but the source code will remain available as we believe the approach is ethical. That same indexable setting already lets Google index your posts and keep them cached long after deletion.

I started using a service called Concert Archives (it is what it sounds like) and I really like it! It’s helped me remember live shows that I had forgotten I even went to and artists I didn’t even recall seeing until looking at the archive entries.

I wish it was federated with #ActivityPub, something like that on the fediverse would be very cool.

Here’s my profile (still working on adding concerts, lots more to go…) https://www.concertarchives.org/jonathan-rollans

#Music #Live #Concert

@dansup Can I request a @pixelfed feature to be able to pin a post?

#pixelfed #activitypub #fediverse

Anyone in my followers list on a server that has secure fetch enabled? I want to use it to test my proxyUrl implementation for client to server #ActivityPub. :D

FEP drafting: Am I using “side effects” here the same way as other ActivityPub developers? I've seen the term used a bunch in casual conversation, but my personal understanding of it is kinda fuzzy.

#ActivityPub #FediDev #FEP

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The "side effects" of an activity are everything caused by the activity other than it being visible in its actor's outbox and getting posted to its audience's inboxes. For example, a like or reply being represented in the affected object's `likes` or `replies` collection is a side effect, as is likes or replies being shown on a web page corresponding to the object.

there is currently a #Piefed Hackathon going on if anyone is interested in partaking. There are groups working on spanish, german, french and japanese translations, and a bunch of other things.

https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/fediverse/p/221411/hackathon-this-week-7-8-febuary #fediverse #fedidev #activitypub

RE: https://social.coop/@django/116019244368171843

Dear #Fediverse developers, please do more cool things with #ActivityPub C2S.

Just note that "Direct Messaging apps" are way more complex than you might realize and that #XMPP has solved most of the problems you might encounter.

fedicat boosted

django » 🌐 2026-02-05 / 2026-02-05
@django@social.coop

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

RE: https://badgefed.org/grant/badgefedorg_135_8_81bd973ba9611087987c50769193a675

@fajfer has helped #badgefed by deploying it to its first Kubernetes environment, smoothing out the rough edges to make it work properly, and now I’m proudly quoting his badge to test quotes!

Comment if you can see this quote in #mastodon!

#activitypub #fediverse

@hongminhee I'm reading this thread as a relative noob, but what I see again and again: almost no one "properly" implents #ActivityPub largely because #JSONLD is hard but also because the spec itself is unclear. Most people who get stuff done have to go off-spec to actually ship.

This seems a fundamental weakness of the #fediverse - and that disregarding the limitations coming from base architecture. Seems to pose a mid/long-term existential threat.

What can we do to help improve things?

Loops now supports FEP-3b86: Activity Intents ✨

If you have a Loops.video account, try it out:

https://loops.video/intents/follow?object=https://pixelfed.social/loops

cc @benpate @silverpill

#Loops #FEP3b86 #ActivityPub

Will Mastodon, the platform that keeps the #Fediverse alive, miss a strategic opportunity to bring official institutions on board at scale?

By watching how #EuroSky is being marketed compared to #Mastodon, it certainly seems that way.

I wish the folks at Mastodon would invest in more professional marketing, similar to what we're seeing from its rival, Bluesky.

There was a major meeting in the EU Parliament focused on this topic, yet there was no announcement or microblog post from Mastodon. Zero engagement.

Compare these two approaches:

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ituoear7k6qx3smjfoxhufm4/post/3me7pxwrgerri

#ActivityPub #ATProtocol #EU #lobby

Week in Fediverse 2026-02-06

Servers

- Gush v0.0.29
- PieFed v1.6.0
- Bookwyrm v0.8.4
- Mastodon v4.5.6
- Mitra v4.17.0
- Stegodon v1.7.0
- Hollo v0.7.1
- Wafrn v2026.02.01
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.9.0
- Castopod v1.14.1
- Ktistec v3.2.9
- Wanderer v0.18.4
- Forgejo monthly report - January 2026
- Fedisky: ActivityPub extension for Bluesky PDS

Clients

- Tusky v32.0
- Fedilab v3.36.0
- Mangane 1.19.3
- Aria v1.4.2
- Phanpy changelog
- Coho: A fast, offline-first Mastodon client

Tools and Plugins

- Fedimap: An independent map for the Fediverse

Articles

- The best Mastodon client now has an iOS version!
- PkgFed: ActivityPub for Package Releases
- Statistics for Lemmy Instances and Communities

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c10b9-e3f7-b6da-ef96-350864d2f791

It’s really surprising to me that the #fediverse hasn’t agreed on a standardized way to open cross-instance #activitypub objects and instead relies on links that open in the browser. #urischeme

I found this proposal and what’s thinking… https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/07d7/fep-07d7.md Which one would be your favorite?

(If anyone has updates on the progress, feel free to point me in the right direction)

FediMTL, on the fedi at @info is a new 1-day fediverse related conference in Montreal in just a few weeks on February 24 (is it Fedi-conference season or something?)

There's a streaming option, too! And the sessions look good. Check it out, and spread the word.

https://fedimtl.ca/#about

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

Loops is working on comment controls (beyond just disabling comments) that will be compatible with Pixelfed and other projects who implement it!

#ActivityPub #Pixelfed #Loops

Having some silly fun with @stegodon a new fediverse platform with an SSH TUI interface. The first screenshot is the web profile, the second is the TUI interface.

This is the first command line UI for ActivityPub client I've seen that has an actual backend server platform tied to it.

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

Alt...

The web profile for my Stegodon user, Captain Caveman. It looks very terminal-esque.

Alt...

The SSH UI showing the Home timeline.

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

I dream of being able to store my online social presence, identity, and history just as — an (organized) set of static files.

A set that I control.

And, I can (if I want to) host myself. (I.e., I am the "source of truth" / "origin" for my files.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583

#ActivityPub #FediDev #FediDevs #FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX

https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi

becomes

https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss

how cool is that? 😎

• 12 posts
• 60 following
• over 9000 files (sic!)

$ du -hd0 /var/snac && find /var/snac | wc -l
61.8M	/var/snac
    9532
$

$ curl -s https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss | wc -c
    9999

Piefed is seeing a surge. 📈

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=2000

#Fediverse #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.