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At SXSW's Fediverse House, it didn't matter which platform or protocol you preferred — everyone was focused on the singular goal of building a better internet. We've uploaded videos and highlights of key conversations from the event and rounded them up in one post. Here you go:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-house-2025-roundup/
#SXSW #FediverseHouse #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Federation #Flipboard #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb
Free your Social Media/ Soziale Medien jetzt aneignen! – Kommt in's bunte selbstverwaltete #Fediverse!
Input und Workshop auf dem @dearfuture in der Volkshochschule #Dresden
dresden.network, @datenkollektiv und @BitsUndBaeumeDresden bieten im Rahmen des #DearFuture-Festivals am 14. Mai von 16:00 Uhr bis 19:30 Uhr in der VHS Dresden einen Workshop gezielt für Vereine, Initiativen und ähnliche Organisationen zum Fediverse an.
Alle wichtigen Infos findet ihr hier online:
https://dearfuturedresden.de/festival2025/programm/datenkollektiv-net
Revolutionary idea: What if social media platforms actually let you control your data?
@loops does, with full data exports, retention controls & opt-in analytics.
The future of social is open-source ❤️
(and federated 🚀)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 83
Bluesky and Brazil continues to be a great match, and lots of other smaller news items.
Programming note: I’m switching the release day for this weekly newsletter to a Wednesday. Over the last year and a half I’ve spend my free Sundays writing this, and this is not sustainable in the long term. So look for the next edition to arrive on Wednesday the 18th.
Bluesky and Brazil
Bluesky remains highly popular among Brazilians as an alternative to X, that got banned in the country last week. Bluesky has added 3 million accounts since the ban went into effect just over a week ago. When I reported on it last week Bluesky had added 1 million accounts. Of these new accounts, around 85% are from Brazil. The popularity of Bluesky in Brazil also shows up in both politics and the media: President Lula, his party PT Brazil, the Supreme Court, and House of Representatives all have their accounts validated by using their domain as their handle. The media is also paying attention, one of the most popular news programs in Brazil, Jornal Nacional, showed their Bluesky handle during the show. Some of the biggest newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo and Correio Braziliense covered Bluesky as well.
What stands out to me about both articles is that they do not mention Threads. Threads have not made any data available regarding the impact of the Brazilian ban on X on the platform. While Threads is likely to still get a large number of signups simply due to its massive size, it is not part of the conversation in the way that Bluesky is for Brazil.
The inflow of new people also shows up for the Trust and Safety team. In an update Bluesky’s head of Trust and Safety, Aaron Rodericks, shares that the team normally receives about 20k reports per week, a number that skyrocketed to 270k reports, predominantly in Portugese.
The News
Firefish has died another death. This February, the original creator of Firefish Kainoa transferred ownership to the maintainer naskya, without naskya being informed beforehand. Naskya has been maintaining Firefish alone for the last 7 months, while noting that this them taking over the project as unwillingly. Naskya says that this is unsustainable, putting the project in maintanance mode. IceShrimp provides migration instructions for server admins who want to transfer from Firefish to IceShrimp. I’ve got fond memories of the time period during which Firefish worked well, which is sadly a while ago now. It enabled me to build a community in a way that I’ve found much more difficult to do on Mastodon, and the community that I’ve build during the Firefish period is still one that feels like my closest community on Mastodon.
Truefans is a podcasting app that is building ActivityPub integration. It gives you the possibility to create a fediverse account as well (truefans.social), and activities that you take in the Truefans app (listen/comment/follow) are broadcasted into the fediverse.
The IFTAS Moderator Survey for 2024 is live. Last year’s survey led to an extensive report on the actual needs that fediverse moderators have.
Forgejo’s monthly update: “Federation is getting useful. There is now more than preliminary background work, and the first exciting things could be tried out by users. The work is not near the goal yet.”
The SocialCG held their monthly meeting, and decided on two new Task Forces: a task force to update the website activitypub.rocks, and a Trust and Safety Task Force. The goal for the website task force is to make sure that the activitypub.rocks website is a better entry point, as it is badly out of date, with the last post from January 2021. The Trust and Safety team from Threads has already expressed interest in participating in the task force.
Trending topics are a feature that is highly sought after by the Brazilian community, and the community has build two versions themselves: as a browser extension and as a separate site.
EDIT: Another unaffiliated developer has brought to my attention that the browser extension might not be completely safe. I have not been able to verify this information yet, but for now I’d recommend against using the extension until more information is known.
Peertube continues to make inroads with livestreaming, especially via the livechat plugin, which got a significant upgrade again.
Bluesky continues the tradition of 3rd party clients implementing features before the official clients does: this time the Skeets app already supports displaying videos, even though the feature is not released yet and only the developers can post (otherwise invisible) videos.
The developer’s site atproto.com got a major overhaul, including a Quick Start guide that showcases how to build a complete and different type of application on atproto, an extensive article ‘ATProto for distributed systems engineers‘ and more.
A research paper – An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises – provides a critical analysis of the extend that the fediverse can deliver on the promises of decentralisation. Worth checking out, I also find the framing of ‘techno-romanticism’ as to explain the gap between what is promised and what is actually happening in the fediverse.
The Dutch coalition of public organisations PublicSpaces is starting PeerTube Spaces to promote the usage of Peertube as as suitable alternative for public organisations.
The (unofficial) atprotocol.dev community held a talk with the creator of event planner Smoke Signal, the video recording is available here. The recording from the previous talk, by the creator of frontpage.fyi is available as well. This Thursday is the next event, ‘From Feeds to Labelers with Ændra Rininsland’
The Links
WeDistribute – A Brief History of the Fediverse Symbol
Making a Mastodon bot with Google Sheets and Apps Scripts.
Email platform Buttondown has added the option to automatically cross-post to Bluesky.
Hachyderm’s Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: The Report Feature and Moderator Actions.
Thoughts on the 📰 News Feed – by XBlock and News feed developer Ændra Rininsland.
This week’s ActivityPub software updates.
Fediverse for government organisations, a follow-up.
Nostr somehow managed to get a billboard advertising Nostr close to where I live.
A Bluesky client that makes Bluesky look like the old phpBB forums.
Brazil, Bluesky & the Fediverse, by Newsmast’s Michael Foster.
Brazilian Tech YouTuber Gabs Ferreira did a long interview with Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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The Website League shared their December update, with some exciting news about ongoing projects, which include forks of GoToSocial and Akkoma, a "cohost-inspired frontend", and a "best practices for moderation" guide.
https://buttondown.com/websiteleague/archive/website-league-update-for-december/
More about the League: https://websiteleague.org
#Fediverse-Workshop im @kursif
Ihr kennt Leute, die überlegen, ob sie sich im Fediverse anmelden wollen, aber ihr habt sie noch nicht ganz überzeugen können? Oder ihr seid selbst schon im Fediverse, aber wünscht euch nochmal einen Überblick, was es hier alles zu entdecken gibt?
Dann ist vielleicht unser Fediverse-Workshop am Montag den 2. Dezember im #KuRSiF genau das Richtige!
Es wird über Social Media im Allgemeinen, das Fediverse im Speziellen und verschiedene Dienste im Fediverse gehen und genug Raum für Fragen und gemeinsames Entdecken gibt es auch.
Wer: ich in Koop mit dem KuRSiF
Wo: KuRSiF (Oskarstr. 1 #Dresden)
Wann: 02.12.2024, ab 19:00 Uhr
Anmeldung: Bitte per Mail oder Nachricht beim KuRSiF oder bei mir anmelden
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Slurp is a new CLI tool for GoToSocial that is making post migration possible from Mastodon and Pixelfed archive formats.
Learn about the complexities of previous import solutions and how I slurped up my Pixelfed archive into a new GoToSocial account.
Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 51 starts NOW!
Special Guest: @anca #Connector, #Instigator, #Maker. #Slime #mold #farmer. #fediforum2025 #fediforum25
Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live
After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live
#Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@btfree_org
All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live
#stream #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree
If you're enjoying the show, please consider supporting our new nonprofit btfree.org at https://givebutter.com/btfree. We're currently running https://tubefree.org which is a moderated peertube open for signups right now!
Someone should tell Reddit that there is Lemmy (and mastodon, of course)
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🎉 Finally federated!
After a truly ridiculous amount of stubbornness, debugging, and duct-taping containers together, my Ghost blog is now fully ActivityPub enabled.
You can now follow my blog directly from the fediverse:
@laura 💜🌹
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #Ghost #IndieWeb #FediTech
Just saw the news that @schmaker is rebroadcasting the livestream of the #FOSDEM Social Web Devroom (the fediverse international HQ!) onto Peertube and it already has a live #fediverse url (https://vhsky.cz/w/dQ97cEum3V9QvWP8MS5JVe) so you can copy that into your home servers search field to interact with the stream that hasn't yet started
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"Desert Night" is next in my series of southwestern landscapes...
ART - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/desert-night-peggy-collins.html
#southwest #landscape #cactus #night #moon #newmexico #art #arte #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart
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A new release of TootSDK - 18.1.0 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/18.1.0
What's changed:
- Pleroma emoji reaction notifications support @luckkerr
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
Mastodon and Pixelfed got a short mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
#fedicat #fediverse support is made possible by admins running servers of various flavors (and interesting names) that I can test on, such as: wizard.casa, catodon.social, functional.cafe, gram.social, miraiverse.xyz, wienermobile.rentals, friendica.opensocial.space, plasmatrap.com, bytes.programming.dev, eggplant.place, and takahe.staging.django-cast.com
How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments
On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts or comments in the community. This can be helpful for giving a hint about someone’s background, interests or expertise.
However PieFed is federated and there are copies of the communities on multiple servers (instances). The way to use ActivityPub to create and maintain those copies is described in FEP 1b12 which makes no mention of flair. I have made some minimal additions to that FEP, described below:
For flair on posts, the Lemmy devs have already done quite a bit of work on this, which I added a little to, so that flair can have colors. Community actors have an additional type of tag:
{
"type": "Group",
"id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
"name": "piefed_meta",
/* ... */
"lemmy:tagsForPosts": [
{
"type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
"id": "https://piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
"display_name": "Some Post Tag Name",
"text_color": "#000000",
"background_color": "#dedede"
}
]
}
lemmy:tagsForPosts is a list of lemmy:CommunityTag objects.
So now all the different copies of the community will know which flair can be used there. When creating a post in the community we just need to add one or more lemmy:CommunityTag objects to the Page activity:
{
"id": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
"actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
"type": "Page",
/* ... */
"tag": [
{
"type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
"id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
"display_name": "Some Post Tag Name"
},
{
"href": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
"name": "asdf",
"type": "Hashtag"
}
]
}
In this example the post also has a #asdf hashtag on it.
User flair is simpler because it’s not managed by the community moderators and is not a fixed list. PieFed simply adds the author’s flair to every comment (federated as a Note activity) they make. When a Note is received the author’s flair is updated on the receiving instances.
{
"id": "https://piefed.social/comment/1",
"actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
"type": "Note",
/* ... */
"flair": "PieFed dev"
}
This means that when someone changes their flair it will take effect immediately on their instance but until they write a comment it won’t propagate to other instances. As flair is primarily used on comments and the people using flair will tend to be posting a lot of comments this is kinda “good enough”.
It would be trivial to add a “flair” attribute onto posts too and have receiving instances read that. User flair shows up next to the author’s name on their posts so arguably it makes sense to send it then too.
Let’s see how it goes.
#asdf #fediverse #Lemmy #piefed #threadverse
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The last #snac release fixes a problem with the Mastodon API. Now, apps (or webapps like Phanpy) properly work as the "inifite scrolling" has been fixed.
Thanks, @grunfink - this was one thing that kept some of my friends away from self-hosting with snac, and now I can help them to have their own digital home.
What is the best option to host a #Mastodon instance with its own domain name? Max four users, most possibly only me.
As #Fedify's author, I'm contemplating its adoption beyond Ghost's #ActivityPub implementation. Finding potential users for ActivityPub tools seems challenging—perhaps I'm addressing a very niche need?
While the technical complexity of ActivityPub makes tools like Fedify valuable, I wonder about the actual market demand for federation outside specific communities.
Open, decentralized systems make sense to many developers, but businesses often prefer closed ecosystems that align with traditional models.
Still, I see potential as the #fediverse grows and digital sovereignty concerns increase. Fedify aims to lower the technical barriers to federation.
I'm curious: Which projects would benefit most from Fedify today? What would make federation compelling enough for platforms to implement?
Would appreciate perspectives from both developers and platform owners.
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Fediforschung beginnt mit Dir!
Das Fediverse ist groß, bunt und manchmal ein bisschen rätselhaft. Doch das sollten wir nicht als Nachteil betrachten, sondern als spannende Herausforderung. Deshalb hat @digitalcourage ein kleines Mitmach-Abenteuer erstellt für alle, die das #Fediverse besser verstehen wollen: Denn Neugier ist der Anfang von Erkenntnis und Wissenslücken bieten Gelegenheit, etwas Neues zu lernen. Wir müssen nur wieder Lust entwickeln, Technik selbst zu begreifen und uns damit digital selbst zu behaupten. So gewinnen wir die Freiheit und Mündigkeit zurück, die uns Big Tech permanent abtrainieren will.
Auf der Seite
https://digitalcourage.de/fediforschung
findest Du kleine Aufgaben, Experimente und Beobachtungen, mit denen Du das freie, dezentrale und wirklich soziale Netzwerk Schritt für Schritt erkunden kannst.
Viel Spaß!
(Textgrundlage aus dem heutigen Newsletter von Digitalcourage.)
#Fediforschung #Fediverse #digitalcourage #Spiel #Rätsel #Abenteuer
We're now in Trakt migration 2.0.
The move by Trakt that triggered Trakt Migrtation 1.0 was understandable, they have to make money.
But in this latest move, messing with grandfathered accounts, no, not understandable.
You just don't mess with grandfathered accounts ever in any service. That's your way of saying, "Thank you for always being with us since the beginning".
My mobile network plan is a grandfathered account, and the network have been trying to get us to "upgrade" to a "better" plan. Ad that's to mention one such.
Even in gaming, grandfathered accounts are not touched ever. If they cancel, that's the only time things change. Why? Simple, the current contract/subscription ended. So, the next time the user subscribe, it will be under the current scheme.
In addition, owners of grandfathered accounts will do everything to keep it. They'll borrow money if it comes to that. You have grandfathered accounts that are paying you but the owners are rarely using it. Compare that to the owners cancelling their grandfathered accounts because it no longer has any value for them.
Just like right now. Many are cancelling because.
Time to move to #NeoDB or #SIMKL
Pick NeoDB if you want to be in the #Fediverse. Or, pick SIMKL if you want free "Pro" just by logging-in at least 20 days.
Both NeoDB and SIMKL combines various databases into one easy to use interface.
This is Postmodern, my concept for a #Fediverse platform. This mockup is a builder interface for making your own UI, timelines, and pages visually. It’s a weird and ambitious concept, but this is what I’ve been dreaming about for years.
Blog post dropping this week.
I just set up an easy to remember link for my #NeoDB shelf/catalogue/library account:
https://loomenji.youronly.one ( @youronlyone )
😁
It's in addition to the following:
* fediverse.youronly.one - @youronlyone
* atmosphere.youronly.one - @youronly.one
* gallery.youronly.one - @[email protected]
* wiki.youronly.one - youronlyone.tiddlyhost.com
* threads.youronly.one - @youronly.one.ofcl
If you have a personal domain name, use it for redirection (301 or 302). Easy to remember.
Another advantage, if you ever decide to move instances or change your accounts, you don't have to reprint business cards and update links everywhere, just change your redirect target setting. (It won't move your content of course.)
And if you're bridging to the #ATmosphere network, you can use your own domain as your handle for your #Fediverse network accounts (if supported by your bridging platform)!
Make use of your domain name! Redirect!
I said I would publish this week, I guess it happened earlier than expected. This is a high-level overview of Postmodern, the #Fediverse platform I hope to someday build. It is the culmination of years of study as the network has continued to evolve.