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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.9 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/
with shout-outs to @informapirata @Bro666 @dansup @phanpy @fedidb @vjprema @neblem @FediTips
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #threadiverse #mbin #kbin #piefed #lemmy #reddit #activitypub
Week in Fediverse 2025-05-09
Servers
- Owncast v0.2.2
- Mastodon v4.3.8
- Mitra v4.2.0
- snac v2.76
- Misskey v2025.5.0
- NeoDB v0.11.6.7
- tootik v0.16.0
- kmyblue v18.1
- Vernissage Server v1.12.0
- Gush! v0.18.0
- May 2025: What’s In The Pipeline (Bandwagon.fm)
- Blocking users (Ghost)
- Trunk & Tidbits, April 2025 (Mastodon)
Clients
- Voyager v2.34.0
- Blorp v1.4.0
Tools and Plugins
- Lemmy Schedule v1.15.0
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.4.6 (WordPress plugin)
- peertube_recomendation_algorythm: A browser extension that monitors the peertube videos your watch and stores them locally
For developers
Articles
- When decentralization can get too big!
- Town squares, backyards, better metaphors, and decentralised networks
- Il Fediverso a scuola: uno strumento didattico per la cittadinanza digitale
- Fediverse Report – #115
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Hey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome @mellifluousbox to his new role as Executive Director of Mastodon 🎉
We've had the pleasure of meeting Felix a couple of times now, he's a great guy, and we're so excited that the Mastodon team came together to put him at the head of their operations.
We can't wait to see what is next for Mastodon and to continue working with Felix and the team!
Am Mittwoch hat unser Bündnis " @offene_netzwerke und demokratische Öffentlichkeiten" unsere 4 Forderungen zum 🇪🇺 „Europäischen Gipfel zur Digitalen Souveränität“ vorgestellt.
Hier das Video in 26 Sprachversionen
🔗 https://displayeurope.video/w/1xijkEtEd4dMnvJD386s7C
Mit dabei:
@bjoernsta
@rstockm #savesocial
Trying to find more information on how the under-15 social media ban in France impacts Mastodon/fediverse servers, and while I can't see anything too concrete on that, I did come across this 2024 The Guardian article:
"The report said a 15-year-old should be able to access only what it called “ethical” social media, such as Mastodon."
#news #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #EthicalSocialMedia #fediverse #mastodon
If you'e been wondering how to monetize your fediverse posting ... https://sub.club has good news for you!
"If you post quality content and you've developed a loyal audience, you should be able to ask your most passionate followers to support you with a premium subscription.
That's a promise not available on the Fediverse ...until now."
@dimillian has a short threa announcing availabiilty in @IceCubesApp and sub.club advisor @quillmatiq has more info here.
sub.club's a project of The BLVD, Inc, the makers of @mammoth. I know there was a lot of skepticism when Marc Benioff, Mozilla, Long Ventures et al, funded Mammoth ... with so many good apps out there, how are they expecting to get VC-level returns on their investment? But if sub.club can tap into the creator economy, there's clearly money to be made!
Huh, Laurens Verhagen noemt #threads in de @volkskrant onderdeel van de #fediverse. Ik kan het me niet voorstellen.
On the #Korean #fediverse, there's a word called #聯親 (yeonchin; literally “fedifriend”) which stands for #聯合宇宙 #親舊 (yeonabuju chingu; literally “fediverse friend”). It means someone who follows each other or frequently exchanges replies. It's only used on the fediverse!
Mapstodon.space is a Mastodon server for cartography & geospatial professionals and enthusiasts. Ask questions, share your maps, chat around, enjoy the emojis!
You can find out more at https://mapstodon.space/about or contact the admin @jeremy
#FeaturedServer #Maps #Cartography #Mapping #GIS #Geospatial #Cartographers #Geography #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
A new release of TootSDK - 21.0.0 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/21.0.0
What's changed:
- Use Authorization header when establishing websocket connections @dale_price
- Quote post @nixzhu
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
PeerTube results now show up in regular searches on Kagi, plus you can filter videos by "source" to see more PeerTube content.
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 89
Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
The News
Loops is an upcoming fediverse platform for short form video, build by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. On the loops.video site there has been a countdown over the last month that ended this Monday, and with it, people can now sign up for Loops. Loops is currently still being worked on, with Supernault working on getting the apps out to release. The Android app will be made available as an APK, and the iOS app is waiting approval for TestFlight. Loops is currently developed as a mobile-first platform, and does not have a webUI yet, with Supernault saying that a webUI will come later. He also reports that emails welcoming people after they have signed on are rate-limited by the email provider, resulting in a long delay before people can be onboarded. Moderation services for Loops are currently being worked on as well, and Supernault is looking for moderators to help moderate the platform.
Mosaic is a new service by the Bonfire team, where the Bonfire team will help organisations build and set up their own digital federated spaces. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that focuses on customisation and extensibility, that people and organisations can customise to meet their needs. Mosaic is a way for the Bonfire team to help onboard organisations and customise the platform to their needs. Extensions and other improvements made with Mosaic are then available for the rest of the community to use as well, as part of their AGPL license, so that everyone benefits from contributions made by others. Bonfire is currently available for testing, but not for official release yet. The main blocker seems to be slow performance of Bonfire, and the developers have put out a bounty for other developers to help them improve performance.
An update by Newsmast on what they are working on with Channels.org. They relate Newsmast’s Channels to Bluesky’s custom feeds (as DYI algorithms) and Farcaster’s channels (‘Cozy corners’). For Newsmast, Channels are a way to onboard public organisations, giving them their own place (the channel) to distribute their content, where the space is clearly their own, but still part of the larger fediverse network. Newsmast also notes that they’ll focus on Channels for now, and that Patchwork, the plugin system for Mastodon servers is postponed to early next year to prevent the team from stretching themselves too thin. Newsmast’s Michael Foster also blogged about how we can build a different web together as well, reiterating my point that the current trend seems for AT Protocol to be used for public and global conversations, and ActivityPub for (semi)-private networked communities.
IFTAS held a 2024 Survey among fediverse moderators, and while they are preparing a full report they give some early highlights on the results. Based on their survey data IFTAS estimates that there are 5500 users per moderator on the fediverse, which is between three and ten times as many moderators compared to other Big Tech platforms.
An article by Techpolicy.press goes into detail on ‘The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media’. It draws attention to pravda.me as an example of the expanding threat landscape on decentralised social networks; a large Mastodon server that bears all the hallmarks of inauthenticity, but is barely blocked on or on the radars of the larger fediverse community. The article also makes a distinction between moderation questions where decentralisation empowers communities (often related to political or sexual content), and issues where centralisation is more beneficial, such as spam and CSAM. Accompanying the article is also a podcast interview with Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi about their fediverse governance report.
Fediverse event planning platform Mobilizon got transferred from developers Framasoft to a new organisation, Kaihuri, who have gotten a grant from NLnet to further expand the platform. They have now released v5 of Mobilizon, with new features such as a homepage redesign, a monthly calendar view, better management of recurring or ongoing events, and more. You can test out the new version of Mobilizon here.
The Links
revealing the fediverse’s gifts – Erin Kissane.
How Decentralization Benefits Publishers, with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller – Dot Social Podcast.
ZonePane is an Android app that supports Mastodon, Misskey and Bluesky, and remembers your last place on the timeline.
A blog post by a in response to Bengo’s ‘The Challenge of ActivityPub Data Portability’.
A fediverse invitation for artists – Stefan Bohacek.
A new allowlist-only instance for Black folks.
Lemmy development updates for the last two weeks.
A fediverse musicians starter pack.
This week’s fediverse software updates.
Write.as is reopening itself to free accounts.
An app to discover other accounts to follow based on hashtags you both like.
Helping to build the open social web – Ben Werdmuller.
Adding Lemmy comments to a blog.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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@loops is looking so freaking good. I’m super excited about the new updates coming in. #Fediverse
https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/
Week in Fediverse 2025-08-08
Servers
- PieFed v1.1
- Ghost v6.0
- Mastodon v4.4.3
- Hubzilla v10.4.2
- Hollo v0.6.6
- Ktistec v2.4.8
- NeoDB v0.11.8.1
- Wafrn v2025.08.0
- NodeBB v4.4.6
- kmyblue v19.4
- Lemmy Development Update July 2025
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2025 (Mastodon)
- Bridging the gap (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- jekyll-activitypub: A plugin for Jekyll to generate an ActivityPub feed
Clients
- Tuba v0.10.0
- Photon v2.0.1
- Aria v1.3.5
Tools and Plugins
- Fediverse Redirect v1.15.0
- fedidevs.com: Discover amazing developers across the fediverse
For developers
- APx v0.15.0
- Fedify v1.8.1
- Botkit v0.2.2
- Fedialgo v1.0.4
Articles
- Reflections on the social web
- Navigating the UK Online Safety Act
- Mastodon Defence Command: The Scam Wave
- IWF Offers Fediverse a Way to Block CSAM
- Fediverse Report – #128
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Stories are coming to our Pixelfed app, and they are AMAZING!
Not everyone likes them, and they can hide them if they prefer.
But for the rest of us, you will get all the familiar features like Story Reactions, Comments and even who viewed your story/view counts.
Favorite iOS mobile app for #Lemmy...and why you like it? #fediverse #apps #iosapps
Is ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net fear de dh’iomadh frithealaiche Mastodon neo-eisimeileach as urrainn dhut cleachdadh airson pàirt a ghabhail sa cho-shaoghal. Tha am frithealaiche seo ann do luchd na Gàidhlig.
https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net
Mu dhèidhinn: https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/about
Rianachd le: @gunchleoc
#FeaturedServer #Gàidhlig #ScottishGaelic #ScotsGaelic #Gaelic #Alba #Scotland #Scottish #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Thanks to @DavidRGardiner I was able to fix some issues in the #ManfredApp. I am currently testing the next release which will feature:
- Pasting images from the clipboard into posts
- Better scrolling experience in threads
- Stopping any video playback when leaving the app, because it would kill background music re-entering (there is still an issue with GIFs unfortunately).
Thanks for all the feedback.
#PSA
#Mastodon, nor the #Fediverse in general will never ask you to "verify" with payment details, especially not from a non-moderator account. If you get a message asking you to verify, it is a #Scam #Bot, and you should block and #report it to #moderation.
We are currently getting a wave of #spam from bots like this. Again, do not even click the link, just block and report.
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Here's another cool feature of Bonfire. One account, many profiles.
When you create an account, you can create multiple profiles, each with it's own unique followers, content and settings (and emojis!).
1 account. 1 password. Many profiles.
Ownership of profiles can be shared with others. A news publication can share posting responsibilities, for example.
2025 was huge for the #fediverse
Mad respect to all the devs, artists, and community members making this movement unstoppable
I think that there is a real case for developing a #webcomics platform for the #fediverse. I am going to start trying to make this, but my dev skills are 20 years old at best. I need all kinds of help from #developers and #designer.If other people want to see this happen, please let me know.
So after a little over 3 years on #Mastodon I hit the "milestone" of 200 followers. It's been a fun and pretty chill ride here in the #Fediverse.
Thank you all for keeping this a fun and interesting place. Twitter has always felt really argumentative and hostile (even before Musk), but this was never the case here.
Feels good to call this /home 😁