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<p>Are there any <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> meetups in southern Germany? Maybe something in university towns that have CS programs?</p><p>I think München, Erlangen, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, ... I know of the IndieWeb events in Karlsruhe.</p><p>Pointers appreciated ... or people who might be interested.</p>

<p>guess what&#x27;s coming soon to a <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#WordPress</a> blog near you?</p><p><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/804" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/804"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/Automattic/wordpres</span><span class="invisible">s-activitypub/pull/804</span></a></p><p>thanks <span class="h-card"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@janboddez" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>janboddez</span></a></span> ❤️ </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a></p>

<p>Me 2 weeks ago: oh I will just do a post about <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> interoperability with the rest of the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> for my blog series <a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a>. <br>How hard can it be? I already federated my Wordpress blog and figured out <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#Friendica</a>.</p><p>Me today: I now have accounts on <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> PLUS <a href="/tags/piefed/" rel="tag">#PieFed</a> AND <a href="/tags/mbin/" rel="tag">#Mbin</a> because my initial federation tests had mixed results. Reading my notes makes me go 😵‍💫😅</p><p>Despite all this I still LOVE the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> and I’m in awe of <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a>’s interoperability (it comes out shining)</p>

The <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.funkwhale.audio/@funkwhale" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>funkwhale</span></a></span> music platform is alive and in active development, and they&#x27;re working on a feature to prevent far-right artists from using or benefiting from the Funkwhale platform. Some <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> self-hosters are divided on letting a third party decide what should be allowed in their library.<br><br><a href="https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkwhale-filter/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkwhale-filter/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkw</span><span class="invisible">hale-filter/</span></a>

<p>Dresden.Network ist eine Mastodon Instanz für alle aus Dresden und Umgebung, dennoch offen für alle.</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://dresden.network" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dresden.network</a></p><p>Über: <a href="https://dresden.network/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dresden.network/about</a></p><p>Verwaltet von: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dresden.network/@markus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markus</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/dresden/" rel="tag">#Dresden</a> <a href="/tags/deutsch/" rel="tag">#Deutsch</a> <a href="/tags/deutschland/" rel="tag">#Deutschland</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#Germany</a> <a href="/tags/german/" rel="tag">#German</a> <a href="/tags/sachsen/" rel="tag">#Sachsen</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>

<p>Hello, I&#x27;m an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in <a href="/tags/seoul/" rel="tag">#Seoul</a>, <a href="/tags/korea/" rel="tag">#Korea</a>, and an avid advocate of <a href="/tags/floss/" rel="tag">#FLOSS</a> and the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a>.</p><p>I&#x27;m the creator of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hollo.social/@fedify" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedify</span></a></span>, an <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> server framework in <a href="/tags/typescript/" rel="tag">#TypeScript</a>, and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hollo.social/@hollo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hollo</span></a></span>, a fediverse microblog for single users.</p><p>I&#x27;m also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called <a href="/tags/cjk/" rel="tag">#CJK</a>) and <a href="/tags/unicode/" rel="tag">#Unicode</a>. Feel free to talk to me in <a href="/tags/english/" rel="tag">#English</a>, <a href="/tags/korean/" rel="tag">#Korean</a> (<a href="/tags/한국어/" rel="tag">#한국어</a>), or <a href="/tags/japanese/" rel="tag">#Japanese</a> (<a href="/tags/日本語/" rel="tag">#日本語</a>), or even in Literary Chinese (<a href="/tags/文言文/" rel="tag">#文言文</a>/<a href="/tags/漢文/" rel="tag">#漢文</a>)!</p><p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a></p>

<p>The FediDB CommunityDB project is a curated list of apps and projects for the fediverse that powers <a href="https://fedidb.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedidb.com</a></p><p>We just merged a PR for a new promising <a href="/tags/neodb/" rel="tag">#NeoDB</a> app called NeoComment!</p><p><a href="https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB/pull/42" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/fedidb/communityDB/pull/42"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/fedidb/communityDB/</span><span class="invisible">pull/42</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fedidb.com/apps?projects=neodb" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedidb.com/apps?projects=neodb</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fedidb/" rel="tag">#fediDB</a> <a href="/tags/communitydb/" rel="tag">#communityDB</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activityPub</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a></p>

<p>For us, 2024 was a year of building on the social web.<br>✔️ Expanded federation in the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Germany, and the U.K.<br>✔️ Enabled following accounts from the social web in the Flipboard app.<br>✔️ Announced <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@surf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>surf</span></a></span>, a new browser for the social web.<br>✔️ Produced new episodes of Dot Social, the fediverse podcast hosted by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@mike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mike</span></a></span> </p><p>Thanks for being on this journey with us! 🚀</p><p>Did you do cool stuff in the fediverse this year? Tell us all about it in the comments, where we&#x27;ll also link to the Dot Social PeerTube account and our Surf signup page.</p><p><a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/federation/" rel="tag">#Federation</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/surf/" rel="tag">#Surf</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/dotsocial/" rel="tag">#DotSocial</a> <a href="/tags/socialweb/" rel="tag">#SocialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/opensocialweb/" rel="tag">#OpenSocialWeb</a></p>

<p>Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities.</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://dads.cool" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dads.cool</a></p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://cooler.mom" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cooler.mom</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://dads.cool/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>dads.cool/about</a> and <a href="https://cooler.mom/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cooler.mom/about</a> or contact the admin accounts <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dads.cool/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://cooler.mom/@sydney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sydney</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/kids/" rel="tag">#Kids</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/hometown/" rel="tag">#Hometown</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>

<p>Hey <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>, do you love <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#TV</a>? I&#x27;ve launched a new app to track your tv in a single user app with <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> support!</p><p>After you watch give my github repo a ⭐ ! <a href="https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmarks" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/stefanhayden/tvmarks"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/stefanhayden/tvmark</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p>

<p>En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for people active in the OpenStreetMap community.</p><p>This server has been operating since 2018.</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://en.osm.town" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.osm.town</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://en.osm.town/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.osm.town/about</a> or contact the admin <span class="h-card"><a href="https://en.osm.town/@compass" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>compass</span></a></span> </p><p>cc @openstreetmap </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/openstreetmap/" rel="tag">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="/tags/osm/" rel="tag">#OSM</a> <a href="/tags/geospatial/" rel="tag">#Geospatial</a> <a href="/tags/gis/" rel="tag">#GIS</a> <a href="/tags/maps/" rel="tag">#Maps</a> <a href="/tags/mapping/" rel="tag">#Mapping</a> <a href="/tags/cartography/" rel="tag">#Cartography</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>

<p>🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.10 👩‍🚀</p><p>&quot;My Fediverse summer &amp; the top 3 lessons I learned&quot;</p><p><a href="https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.elenarossini.com/fedivers</span><span class="invisible">e-summer-3-lessons/</span></a></p><p>with shout-outs to: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@poliverso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>poliverso</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@phanpy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phanpy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://tapbots.social/@ivory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ivory</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MonaApp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pixelfed</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tusky" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Tusky</span></a></span> @MoogleMaestro </p><p><a href="/tags/thefutureisfederated/" rel="tag">#TheFutureIsFederated</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#bigtech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#Wordpress</a> <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#Friendica</a> <a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#Pixelfed</a> <a href="/tags/lemmy/" rel="tag">#Lemmy</a> <a href="/tags/kbin/" rel="tag">#Kbin</a> <a href="/tags/mbin/" rel="tag">#Mbin</a> <a href="/tags/firefish/" rel="tag">#Firefish</a> <a href="/tags/ivory/" rel="tag">#Ivory</a> <a href="/tags/phanpy/" rel="tag">#Phanpy</a></p>

<p>There&#x27;s a lot of new <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> stickers! We should create a little directory page with them all! </p><p>New ones to include:<br>Antifacist Fediverse by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pan.rent/@tommi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tommi</span></a></span> <br>Just announced ones by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@raphael" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>raphael</span></a></span> <br>Space themed for Hubzilla, Friendica, Pixelfed etc from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/@digitalcourage" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>digitalcourage</span></a></span><br>Hexigon stickers for a ton of fediverse platforms from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nlnet</span></a></span><br>Friendly <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Mastodon</span></a></span> official ones<br>FediverseForFreedem stickers by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://macaw.social/@andypiper" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andypiper</span></a></span> <br>What am I forgetting?!</p>

<p>Week in Fediverse 2025-05-30</p><p>Servers</p><p>- <a href="https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/v0.21.0/changelog.html" rel="nofollow">Socialhome v0.21.0</a><br>- <a href="https://sharkey.team/notes/a8c7fg7w1wkc000w" rel="nofollow">Sharkey v2025.4.2</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio/releases/tag/v1.6.0" rel="nofollow">gathio v1.6.0</a><br>- <a href="https://ibis.wiki/article/Ibis_Changelog#version-031" rel="nofollow">Ibis v0.3.1</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/neodb-social/neodb/releases/tag/0.11.7.3" rel="nofollow">NeoDB v0.11.7.3</a><br>- <a href="https://vernissage.photos/news/7504383493426645980" rel="nofollow">Platform update - May 2025</a> (Vernissage)<br>- <a href="https://piefed.social/post/799354" rel="nofollow">PieFed development update May 2025 - Passkeys, Flair, Image hashing &amp; much more</a><br>- <a href="https://activitypub.ghost.org/metabolizing-mentions/" rel="nofollow">Metabolizing mentions</a> (Ghost)<br>- <a href="https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmarks" rel="nofollow">Tvmarks: a TV tracking site connected to the Fediverse</a></p><p>Clients</p><p>- <a href="https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/releases/tag/v2.13.0" rel="nofollow">Pachli v2.13.0</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/BDX-town/Mangane/blob/v1.14.0/CHANGELOG.md" rel="nofollow">Mangane v1.14.0</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/0xZhangKe/Fread/releases/tag/1.4.0" rel="nofollow">Fread v1.4.0</a></p><p>Tools and Plugins</p><p>- <a href="https://github.com/fedimod/fires/releases/tag/%40fedimod%2Ffires-server%400.1.0" rel="nofollow">FIRES Server v0.1.0</a></p><p>For developers</p><p>- <a href="https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo/blob/v0.55.0/CHANGELOG.md" rel="nofollow">Fedialgo v0.55.0</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/social-web-foundation/ap-components" rel="nofollow">ap-components: A collection of Web Components for showing ActivityPub objects in a browser</a></p><p>Articles</p><p>- <a href="https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-118/" rel="nofollow">Fediverse Report – #118</a></p><p>-----</p><p><a href="/tags/weekinfediverse/" rel="tag">#WeekInFediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a></p><p>Previous edition: <a href="https://mitra.social/objects/0196feaa-e902-fdfb-9628-0a17333c6da5" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mitra.social/objects/0196feaa-e902-fdfb-9628-0a17333c6da5"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mitra.social/objects/0196feaa-</span><span class="invisible">e902-fdfb-9628-0a17333c6da5</span></a></p>

<p>As 2025 starts we can expect a lot of change to many social media platforms with the rise of AI</p><p>We will never ever take such steps!</p><p>I keep our services running purely by donations from people on <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> and the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> and sometimes that&#x27;s a little hard but it is and will be the only way</p><p>If you can and want, we can do this together❤️</p><p><a href="https://paypal.me/stuxOS" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>paypal.me/stuxOS</a><br><a href="https://patreon.com/mstdn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>patreon.com/mstdn</a> <br><a href="https://ko-fi.com/mstdn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ko-fi.com/mstdn</a><br><a href="https://bunq.me/stuxhost" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bunq.me/stuxhost</a><br><a href="https://stux.me/donate" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>stux.me/donate</a> </p><p>It can be different 💪</p>

<p>📢 Diese Woche haben wir einige spannende Persönlichkeiten, Initiativen und Museen aus der Mastodon-Community auf Flipboard vorgestellt! </p><p>Falls du es verpasst hast: Du kannst jetzt allen aus dem Fediverse in der Flipboard-App folgen. Wir freuen uns, wichtige Stimmen aus den Bereichen Wissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus, Klima, Kultur und Geschichte dabei zu haben, darunter <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@dieKadda" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dieKadda</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@nicholaspotter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nicholaspotter</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dresden.network/@ueckueck" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ueckueck</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@pneutig" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pneutig</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@digiges" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>digiges</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NatureMC</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@lenaschimmel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lenaschimmel</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://troet.cafe/@DerLeiermann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DerLeiermann</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pfefferle</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hessen.social/@histmus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histmus</span></a></span> und <span class="h-card"><a href="https://berlin.social/@nszwangsarbeit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nszwangsarbeit</span></a></span>.</p><p>Lade die App herunter, besuche den Fediverse-Tab unter Entdecken und folge diesen Accounts. Ihre Beiträge findest du im neuen Fediverse-Aktivität-Karussell im „Für dich“-Feed. <br><a href="https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.flipboard.com/download-f</span><span class="invisible">lipboard</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/wissenschaft/" rel="tag">#Wissenschaft</a> <a href="/tags/politik/" rel="tag">#Politik</a> <a href="/tags/journalismus/" rel="tag">#Journalismus</a> <a href="/tags/klima/" rel="tag">#Klima</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/kunst/" rel="tag">#Kunst</a> <a href="/tags/kultur/" rel="tag">#Kultur</a> <a href="/tags/geschichte/" rel="tag">#Geschichte</a></p>

<p>After Meta&#x27;s rather disturbing actions today, would you like to move to a Fediverse server that defederates Meta and Threads?</p><p>Fedi.Garden is a directory of well-run servers that have all blocked Threads:</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://fedi.garden" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi.garden</a></p><p>All of them are compatible with the requirements listed at <a href="https://fedi.garden/about-this-site" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi.garden/about-this-site</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/threads/" rel="tag">#Threads</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/zuckerberg/" rel="tag">#Zuckerberg</a></p>

<p>Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98</p><p>Welcome back to Fediverse Report! I’ve had a great holiday break spending time with family and friends, and that has given me some more time to think about why I care about the fediverse, the open social web and why I spend all this time writing Fediverse Report. Explaining to family members what I do was helpful to make this clear: telling an uncle that I write about decentralised technology mainly leads to confusion. But even extremely offline family members easily understand and agree with the idea that having all of our big social platforms being owned by billionaires leads to significant social problems.</p><p>As such, it has helped for me to make it more explicit that I care about decentralisation insofar it is a tool to get somewhere else: I care about better forms of governance and ownership of the social web. I want a social web where people are in control, not a few billionaires (nor nationstate governments, for that matter). Building social networks with decentralised technology is a way to get there.</p><p>The idea that the value of alternative social networks is in governance is far from new. I’ve regularly posted hot takes on my Mastodon to the same effect as well. But for 2025 I want to bring this more into focus for this newsletter. Writing a newsletter that is a weekly update tends to amplify shiny new software that has recently been released. In contrast, explaining how governance works on the fediverse does not align well with ‘this happened in the last 7 days’, as it involves more structural and slower moving forces. I’m experimenting with ways to bring coverage of governance in the fediverse better into focus. Expect more like this newsletter, where I zoom in on an offhanded comment by Misskey developer Syuilo as an illustration of the issues that come with interoperability between different places on the open social web.</p><p>The News</p><p>Mastodon has belatedly published their <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/reports/Mastodon%20Annual%20Report%202023.pdf" rel="nofollow">Annual Report for 2023</a>. The organisation acknowledges the delay, and says that the Annual Report for 2024 is planned to be released in Q1 of this year. Mastodon had a total of 545k euro in donations in 2023, with 476k in costs. The large majority of costs go to personnel expenses, in total 343k was spend on salaries, 72% of the total budget. The popularity of Mastodon’s own servers also come with significant costs, in 2023 they spend 75k on servers and hosting. With a rough estimate of averaging around 250k active users on mastodon.social, this means mastodon.social costs roughly 30 cents per active user per year. The Annual Report also looks at the updates Mastodon has made to the site and apps. Mastodon also shares more about their hiring process, and in a great move for transparency, also published all the salaries of everyone in the organisation. </p><p>Back in the present, Mastodon is <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/113782664417082619" rel="nofollow">hiring again</a>, this time for a senior front-end developer. The organisation also held a <a href="https://givebutter.com/givingmastodon" rel="nofollow">crowd-funding campaign</a> in late last year to fund and hire a Trust and Safety lead. The community seemed to have had little appetite for funding such an endeavour, with funding barely pushing past the 12k after a month. It is an indication of the difficult spot the organisation is in; the community has been asking for more safety features in Mastodon, but is not funding a Trust and Safety Lead. The organisation could clearly use someone who writes clear policy and design goals for the direction the software should go in. Currently, not even a Mastodon employee can explain why a <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18468" rel="nofollow">safety feature</a> for Mastodon that is fully developed and waiting to be approved has been waiting for approval <a href="https://social.coop/@graue/113523873101355124" rel="nofollow">for over 2.5 years</a>. It turns out that writing the code is often the easy part of making changes in the fediverse, and navigating the social structures to get the code used by people is much harder, and a dedicated Trust and Safety Lead could have certainly helped here. Instead, even after large community outcry we still do not know why Mastodon has not merged this safety feature developed by their own employee.</p></p><p><a href="https://about.surf.social/" rel="nofollow">Surf</a> is a new app by Flipboard for the open social web. It is a beautifully designed app that allows people to build their own custom feeds. The power of Surf is in that it supports many networks, and you can combine posts from Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, YouTube and Flipboard all into a single custom feed. How Flipboard markets Surf is interesting, describing it as a ‘browser for the social web’. The way Flipboard CEO Mike McCue <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24323903/flipboard-surf-fediverse-social-web-app" rel="nofollow">sees</a> it, Surf pulls in content from the social web, and gives you the possibility to display that content in custom feeds of your choice. Surf also allows you to filter a custom feed by content: for example, you can scroll through an entire feed, or switch over to a different tab that shows only videos in that feed, for example.</p><p>For more info on Surf, <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/12/surf-social-browser/" rel="nofollow">WeDistribute</a> has a closer look at all the features, and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24323903/flipboard-surf-fediverse-social-web-app" rel="nofollow">The Verge</a> has more context and comments by McCue. Custom feeds on Bluesky have mainly gone in the direction of the power user and community builder: tools like <a href="https://www.graze.social/" rel="nofollow">Graze</a> offer an huge potential in programmability and flexibility. This is especially useful for those who want to build custom feeds that other people will also use. Surf takes a different approach, by instead prompting people to build their own feeds as much as possible. It’ll be interesting to see which approach will gain traction, and if there is space for both ways of building custom feeds.</p></p><p>Misskey developer Syuilo made some <a href="https://misskey.io/notes/a2o2aj7zb81f05g3" rel="nofollow">comments</a> contemplating breaking federation with Mastodon. Misskey is mainly used in Japan, and has a wide feature set that differs notably from Mastodon. The main reason that Syuilo gave is that she feels Misskey development is constrained by having to meet the needs and requirements of maintaining federation with other (types) of software. That Misskey is considering letting federation between Mastodon and Misskey break is an indication of one of the downsides of how ActivityPub is designed: You can send out anything you want with ActivityPub, but it is exceedingly difficult to know how other software will actually receive and display the things you send out with ActivityPub. There is a significant freedom for fediverse software in how they implement and support even more basic functions. For example, see this comparison table for how the different platforms support <a href="https://funfedi.dev/support_tables/generated/hashtags/" rel="nofollow">hashtags</a>, and how many variations there are. </p><p>Personally, I think it would be healthy for the fediverse as a whole if more fediverse software would start publishing what they deem as necessary for other software to federate with them. The fediverse mainly currently works on the assumption that any form of federation between projects is fine, even if that means that another federated platform will stripping out all markup and images of a post. It might be healthy for a platform to state minimum functional requirements, such as ‘we only want to federate with software that also shows the emoji reactions as we view this to be an integral part of a message’. For now, Syuilo’s post mainly seems to be to vent some frustrations, so it remains to be seen where any of this will actually go.</p><p>The Links</p><p>A <a href="https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/" rel="nofollow">guide</a> for small websites regarding the UK’s Online Safety Act, with some extra clarification for fediverse sites.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mizkirsten/113760653630014273" rel="nofollow">TheIndieBeat.fm</a> is a new radio station for showcasing indie music from the fediverse, that picks up where <a href="https://radiofreefedi.net/" rel="nofollow">radiofreefedi</a> left, and will use upcoming fediverse audio platform <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/bandwagon-music/" rel="nofollow">Bandwagon</a>.<br><a href="https://blog.castopod.org/castopod-first-12-plugins/" rel="nofollow">The first 12 plugins of Castopod</a>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/113758416011174664" rel="nofollow">FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse</a>.<br><a href="https://event-federation.eu/2025/01/04/event-bridge-for-activitypub-plugin-released-on-wordpress-org/" rel="nofollow">“Event Bridge For ActivityPub” plugin released on WordPress.org</a>.<br><a href="https://rdfpub.org/index_en.html" rel="nofollow">rdf-pub – generic Activity-Pub Server</a> that focuses on using C2S.<br>Manyfold got a new round of NLNet funding, and <a href="https://manyfold.app/news/2025/01/01/manyfold-nlnet.html" rel="nofollow">published a roadmap</a> of what they’ll be working on.<br><a href="https://piefed.social/post/394576" rel="nofollow">PieFed development update for December 2024.</a><br><a href="https://mitra.social/post/019437a2-a2e5-ed6f-ebff-dcbb6bc6aba4" rel="nofollow">Fediverse tech roadmap reflection on developments in the past year</a>, by Mitra developer Silverpill.</p><p>That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a></p><p><a href="https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-98/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-98/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fediversereport.com/last-week-</span><span class="invisible">in-fediverse-ep-98/</span></a></p>

<p>2 questions for the <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> experts out there,</p><p>1. Is there a way I can migrate my account? I think my server disabled downloading videos but this is also causing issues for the people that follow me in their podcast apps.</p><p>2. What good PeerTube instances exist that are not tied to Crypto, AI, any right wing thing?</p><p>My channel is at <a href="https://spectra.video/c/robertkingett/videos" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="spectra.video/c/robertkingett/videos"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectra.video/c/robertkingett/</span><span class="invisible">videos</span></a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FediGarden</span></a></span></p>

<p>If you&#x27;re interested in building your own <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> server but don&#x27;t know where to start, I recommend checking out <a href="/tags/fedify/" rel="tag">#Fedify</a>&#x27;s <a href="/tags/tutorial/" rel="tag">#tutorial</a> <a href="https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog" rel="nofollow">Creating your own federated microblog</a>. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a>!</p><p><a href="/tags/fedidev/" rel="tag">#fedidev</a></p>

<p>Snac2 is an excellent software solution for accessing the Fediverse. It is lightweight, very easy to compile and install, has minimal dependencies, and the development is progressing along a clear, clean, and logical path - thank you, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://comam.es/snac/grunfink" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grunfink</span></a></span></p><p>Since last December, BSD Cafe has had, among its services, a snac instance - <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>snac.bsd.cafe</a> - which has been used sparingly, mainly by some for testing purposes. I’ve kept it as a &#x27;testing&#x27; option.</p><p>In light of the interest it is generating (we now have stable users) and given that development is evolving to allow for both inbound and outbound movement, I have decided to designate it as a stable solution for accessing the Fediverse and to consider it a primary service of the BSD Cafe.</p><p>It has always received the utmost attention, I have consistently updated it promptly, and it has always been accessible, but I have also modified all the descriptions to clarify that it is a stable and definitive solution.</p><p>For more information, there is always a dedicated page on our wiki: <a href="https://wiki.bsd.cafe/snac.bsd.cafe" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>wiki.bsd.cafe/snac.bsd.cafe</a></p><p>Stay Tuned!</p><p><a href="/tags/bsdcafe/" rel="tag">#BSDCafe</a> <a href="/tags/bsdcafeservices/" rel="tag">#BSDCafeServices</a> <a href="/tags/bsdcafeannouncements/" rel="tag">#BSDCafeAnnouncements</a> <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a></p>

<p>This is what the future of publishing looks like 🚀</p><p>It makes me feel so happy to log onto my <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#Wordpress</a> site &amp; see this new <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> menu item about the number of followers of my blog from the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>. And comments awaiting moderation, which are usually Fediverse replies to my federated blog post. It&#x27;s just so cool!!! (Yes, I will probably keep gushing about this for another month or so, please bear with me) 🤗</p><p>Where it all began: <a href="https://elenarossini.com/2024/07/hello-fediverse/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="elenarossini.com/2024/07/hello-fediverse/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elenarossini.com/2024/07/hello</span><span class="invisible">-fediverse/</span></a></p><p>You can follow my blog here: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://elenarossini.com/@ele" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ele</span></a></span></p>

<p>Wie können sich Serverbetreibende im <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> miteinander vernetzen?</p><p>Darum geht es in meinem neuesten Artikel für <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@gnulinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gnulinux</span></a></span>, in dem ich näher auf die Projekte <a href="/tags/fediversemoderationstreff/" rel="tag">#FediverseModerationsTreff</a> und <a href="/tags/fedimins/" rel="tag">#Fedimins</a> eingehe.</p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/wie-vernetzt-seid-ihr" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gnulinux.ch/wie-vernetzt-seid-ihr"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/wie-vernetzt-seid-</span><span class="invisible">ihr</span></a></p><p>Grüße und ein großes Danke für eure Arbeit an dieser Stelle auch an <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bildung.social/@ebinger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ebinger</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.lukas-schieren.de/@lukas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lukas</span></a></span> und <span class="h-card"><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/@Tealk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Tealk</span></a></span> &lt;3</p>

<p>RaveNation.club is a Mastodon server for all the ravers in the universe. Anyone who listens to electronic music (or not) is welcome:</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/Fediverse.png" class="emoji" alt=":Fediverse:" title=":Fediverse:"> <a href="https://ravenation.club" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ravenation.club</a></p><p>You can find out more at <a href="https://ravenation.club/about" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ravenation.club/about</a> or contact the admin <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ravenation.club/@main" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>main</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredserver/" rel="tag">#FeaturedServer</a> <a href="/tags/raves/" rel="tag">#Raves</a> <a href="/tags/rave/" rel="tag">#Rave</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#Music</a> <a href="/tags/electronicmusic/" rel="tag">#ElectronicMusic</a> <a href="/tags/electronica/" rel="tag">#Electronica</a> <a href="/tags/techno/" rel="tag">#Techno</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/freefediverse/" rel="tag">#FreeFediverse</a></p>