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What are the most important issues and discussions about the Open Social Web we need to have this late summer and fall?

#FediForum #FediForumFriday #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Fediverse #atproto

#Mastodon is the powerful war rig in the #Fediverse army against the axis of biased social networks; #snac is the little buffon back there in the rearguard, playing their old-fashioned lute and making silly jokes.

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

Friendica Plausch Statt FAQ zu lesen oder sich Videos anzusehen, könnte man einfach ins Gespräch kommen.Der Termin richtet sich an alle Menschen, die von LinkedIn, Facebook, 𝕏 oder einer anderen unfreien Plattform weg wollen. Die sich für Friendica interessieren, beim Start noch etwas Hilfe benötigen oder konkrete Fragen zur Anwendung haben.Der Rahmen: Jeden Samstag 14 Uhr 45 Minuten Plausch Deine Fragen zur Anwendung Realisiert über meet.jit.si/FriendicaPlausch ohne Cam aber mit MikrofonKomm einfach vorbei. Wir lassen uns von den Themen tragen.#Friendica #Fediverse #DIDit #DUTgemacht #DIDAY Event · loma.ml

Statt FAQ zu lesen oder sich Videos anzusehen, könnte man einfach ins Gespräch kommen.

Der Termin richtet sich an alle Menschen, die von LinkedIn, Facebook, 𝕏 oder einer anderen unfreien Plattform weg wollen. Die sich für Friendica interessieren, beim Start noch etwas Hilfe benötigen oder konkrete Fragen zur Anwendung haben.

Der Rahmen:

• Jeden Samstag 14 Uhr
• 45 Minuten Plausch
• Deine Fragen zur Anwendung
• Realisiert über meet.jit.si/FriendicaPlausch
• ohne Cam aber mit Mikrofon

Komm einfach vorbei. Wir lassen uns von den Themen tragen.

#Friendica #Fediverse #DIDit #DUTgemacht #DIDAY

Friendica Plausch

https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-306a-8fe9-7434-bcb126908186

I TESTED THE WATERS.
PEOPLE WERE KIND 💎

Over the past few days, I’ve been talking openly about something quite personal.

AI is not a novelty for me. It is an indispensable accessibility tool. Because I am paralysed and type with one hand, voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing without exhausting myself.

I wasn’t entirely sure how people would react when I said that plainly. A few people were awful. But only a few.

THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WAS THOUGHTFUL AND KIND.

People understood that you can have serious concerns about AI and still treat the person using it with decency and dignity. People understood that accessibility matters. People understood that context matters.

And some people shared their own experiences of using AI to read inaccessible screens, instructions, packaging, or simply to remain more independent.

I found that unexpectedly moving.

WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE PEOPLE ARE ON THE INTERNET.

Yet when I actually tested the waters, most people behaved like decent human beings. They listened. They disagreed without attacking. They made room for another person’s circumstances.

THAT HAS LEFT ME FEELING TRULY GRATEFUL.

Not grateful that everyone agrees with me. They don’t. Grateful that disagreement has not erased kindness. Perhaps human beings are still rather better than the internet sometimes makes us believe.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #Kindness #Fediverse #GRATEFUL #THOUGHTFUL #KIND

⬇️THU-THU July 16-23 weekly #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar screencaps

📅LiveCal at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️️All times US Eastern

💥special GHOST WAR #Catitstu tonight at 6p ET
⚽️ #ReMonsterdon on FIFA hiatus till 7/26

#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #scifi #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

TY hosts🌼 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde @greenpepper22 @kamikat @lilymarswrites @LisaMarieBowman @AlsoPaisleyCat @klu9 @GrillChill

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14

Servers

- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

For developers

- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians

Articles

- Deploying your own Vernissage instance

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma

A new release of TootSDK - 23.3.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/23.3.0

What's changed:

- Fixed RelationshipSeveranceEvent in TootNotification @nixzhu
- Make avatar on Account optional @luckkerr

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

#presentation

#économie #politique #démocratie #souveraineté #internet, #fédiverse et #Esperanto
Article plus complet de présentation

https://aga.ovh/tofeo/p/index.php/pagero/v/presentation-du-compte-tofeo-mstdn-social

hello, fedi 🙂

the other day i took some time to install #snac2 on my small server. the whole experience was a breath of fresh air, and it made me excited to participate in the #fediverse again, this time owning and controlling my own data.

i just wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to @grunfink and other snac2 developers and contributors for this awesome human-made, human-scale software. i'm looking forward to trying to contribute to it in whatever small ways i can.

🔥 Short Hiatus Notice 🔥

Hey folks! 👋

Just a quick heads-up that there won't be any new Fireside Fedi episodes for about a month. I'll be having surgery followed by a trip to Vancouver for FOSSY!

While I'm offline, here are 5 great episodes to catch up on in the meantime:

E83 — Fedify & Futures: Building the Fediverse's Backbone Hong Minhee (@[email protected]) Deep dive into Fedify, Hollo, and Botkit tubefree.org/w/i1WNPWEVoDJe8...

E74 — The People‑First Platform: Hannah Aubry on Mastodon and the Fediverse Hannah Aubry (@[email protected]) A chat about people-first platform design tubefree.org/w/x715zm1Nkvqd8...

E73 — Ink & Open Source: David Revoy's Fantasy Webcomics in the Fediverse David Revoy (@[email protected]) Exploring webcomics and open source creativity tubefree.org/w/j2yFdBC8LtV5R...

Episode 8 — Paige (FediHost) Paige (@[email protected]) Early episode chatting with Paige from FediHost tubefree.org/w/oZsDbzuKFt2hZ...

Episode 45 — Weatherman (Weather Is Happening) Weatherman (@[email protected]) A lively conversation about weather and more tubefree.org/w/8BPyhJkxRkAu5...

You can find these and all our back catalog at tubefree.org/@firesidefedi 🎙️

Want to be on the show? We're always open to volunteers and welcome topic suggestions! Feel free to reach out if you'd like to sit down for a chat or have a suggestion for someone you'd like to see on the show.

I'm really looking forward to meeting many of you at FOSSY! I'll also be doing a panel for the Fedicon track — come say hi and let's chat!

Thanks for your patience. I'll be back with fresh conversations soon. 🧡 #FiresideFedi #FOSSY #Fedicon #Fediverse #Podcast #Vancouver

Periodic official communication, just to clarify a few things.

The BSD Cafe is an open, inclusive and friendly community. A community of people who try to be *“pro, not against”* and *“supporters, not haters”*: enthusiasts, friends, people who come here to share, to learn, to discuss. Not to hate each other.

This does not mean that we all have to think in the same way. Quite the opposite: it means that we can have different opinions, discuss them, defend them strongly, and question each other’s ideas.

What it does not mean is that it is acceptable to insult, threaten, attack people, or pretend that there can only be one morally acceptable position on every possible subject.

Calling the BSD Cafe a "Nazi Bar" from the outside simply because we do not automatically censor people who have an opinion different from yours is offensive towards the hundreds of people who are part of this community.

People are, of course, free to criticise what happens here. But expecting us to attack, ban or silence someone because you believe they deserve it, and then accusing the whole Cafe because we do not, is something different.

And I have seen something even worse lately: actual calls for hate. The equivalent of *“hey, everyone, go and attack this person”*, simply because that person does not share your position.

No. This is not acceptable.

And, dear friends, declaring yourself anti-Nazi while organising a crowd against somebody, intimidating them and treating them as an enemy who deserves to be attacked means using exactly the kind of methods you claim to oppose.

I do not say this lightly. I come from a family, and from a country, with a very real history of fascism and of the antifascism that immediately followed it. These are not just abstract words to me.

Hate is not tolerated, at any level, inside or outside the Cafe. The same is true for threats, intimidation and aggression. Believing that our cause is right does not make those behaviours more acceptable.

You disagree with someone? Say it. Explain why. Argue against their ideas. Support yours with all the conviction you want. But do not aggressively attack. This is not tolerated.

And expecting everyone else to attack that person too, or considering them somehow complicit because they do not, is something different. And it is not what I want for this community.

On any subject.

Even pineapple on pizza (!!!).

The Fediverse is a non-place, but it is made of real people. Wonderful people, very often. Let’s not turn it into version 2.0 of traditional social media, where every discussion becomes a war and anyone who does not think exactly like us automatically becomes the enemy.

In the last few weeks I have seen people stepping away exactly because of this. On different subjects, people accused of the worst things not because of something they had done, but because they had not said what someone expected them to say. Some of them, for their own wellbeing, simply decided to take a step back.

We all lost something because of that. Nobody gained anything.

So let’s keep supporting what we believe in. Let’s do it with conviction, and with firmness when needed. But let’s discuss ideas without turning people into targets.

From experience, I have learnt that real change also requires discussion, organisation, patience and concrete actions. We can disagree deeply without stopping considering each other as people.

This is the kind of place I want the BSD Cafe to continue to be.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

#BSDCafe #Fediverse #SupportersNotHaters

🐧 Milá komunito,
máme na vás velkou prosbu
V říjnu jedeme na LinuxDays – chceme tam osobně ukázat OSCloud lidem, co mají blízko k Linuxu, open source a Fediverse. A rádi bychom vás poprosili o pomoc.
Provozujeme třeba Mastodon, Pixelfed, VHSky, mákni.cz, Nextcloud nebo Ente Photos – a chceme ukázat, že takové služby můžou fungovat bez reklam, bez sledování a bez vendor lock-inu, jako komunitní projekt, ne jako firma s investorem za zády.
Účast na LinuxDays nás bude stát navíc k běžnému provozu serverů – tiskoviny, cesta a reklamní předměty. Odhadem 10–15 000 Kč. Pokud vám dává smysl to, co děláme, budeme rádi za jakýkoli příspěvek:

👉 Účet: 264043266/0600

Nemusí jít o velkou částku – i drobný dar nám pomůže náklady na propagaci posunout do přijatelnějších hranic.

❤️ Díky všem, kdo OSCloud používají, podporují, nebo o něm prostě řeknou dál.

Pomozte nám dostat OSCloud mezi lidi 🐧

#OSCloud #LinuxDays #OpenSource #Fediverse #Linux

We're now on Pixelfed.

We'll be using our new official account to share Pixelix updates, showcase features, photography and more.

Mastodon will still be our main account for development updates, announcements and engaging with the community. This account is more about showing off Pixelix and the things you can do with it.

Follow us: @pixelix

Our first post is coming soon.

#Pixelfed #Pixelix #Fediverse

I've sometimes thought about building a service combining #OSM and the #Fediverse, to talk with people in the same region.

It would be 100% anonymous: a dedicated account, with no link to your existing Fedi identity, and why not #E2EE for messages.

No exact location: posts are attached to the nearest town, so neither the server nor other users see your coordinates.

Anonymity could be what makes people comfortable enough to talk with people around them. Everyone stays in a safe place.

Week in Fediverse 2026-09-04

Servers

- Ktistec v3.12.0
- Mastodon v4.7.1
- Vernissage v1.43.0
- snac v2.95
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.3.0
- Owncast v0.3.0
- gathio v1.6.6
- NodeBB v4.15.2
- tootik v0.25.2
- NeoDB v0.18.0
- Bonfire v1.0.7

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.4
- Fedilab v3.43.3
- Tuba v0.11.1
- Pixelix v5.2.0
- Summit v1.85.0
- Shoot Web App v1.3.0

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.0
- Poduptime v6.3.2
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.3 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- APx v0.27.0
- Library progress report - September 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-eede-72b0-a5e9-f244c3ff2142

🌟 Friendica Plausch am Samstag, 05.09.2026 🌟

Du nutzt Friendica schon eine Weile – oder bist gerade erst dabei, die vielen Möglichkeiten zu entdecken? Dann schau doch beim wöchentlichen Friendica Plausch vorbei! 😊

Jeden Samstag um 14 Uhr lädt @feb zu einer lockeren Online-Runde rund um Friendica ein.

💬 Was kann Friendica eigentlich alles?
🔎 Wo verstecken sich praktische Funktionen?
💡 Welche Tipps haben andere Nutzerinnen und Nutzer?
❓ Und wie funktioniert dieses oder jenes überhaupt?

Beim Friendica Plausch gibt es kein festes Programm und keine „dummen Fragen“. Es geht ums gemeinsame Entdecken, Ausprobieren, Fragenstellen und Erfahrungen austauschen.

Und wie es sich für einen echten Plausch gehört: Manchmal schweifen wir dabei auch ganz entspannt in völlig andere Themen ab. 😉 Genau das macht die Runde oft besonders unterhaltsam und abwechslungsreich.

Egal, ob du #neuhier bist, schon länger Friendica nutzt oder einfach neugierig bist – komm gern dazu. Gerade die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen und Gespräche machen den Plausch spannend. 🌐✨

📅 Samstag, 05.09.2026
🕑 14:00 Uhr
💻 Online

Den Link zur Veranstaltung findet ihr im Kalendereintrag von Matthias.

Vielleicht entdeckt ihr dabei ja eine Friendica-Funktion, die ihr bisher noch gar nicht kanntet – oder landet am Ende bei einem Thema, mit dem vorher niemand gerechnet hat. 😄

Wir freuen uns auf euch! 😊

#friendica #neuhier #fediverse
RE: loma.ml/objects/373ebf56-206a-…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116183535316096143

Some news from #HolosSocial development. The latest release moves media processing to the device. Videos are transcoded locally before upload. Users can store media on their own S3 or WebDAV server, and the resulting URLs are used directly in #ActivityPub activities. The relay server handles neither transcoding nor media storage. Each user brings their own resources to the #Fediverse.

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Here's the tardy #Mastodon 🐘🦣/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar for FRI-THU, Sep. 4-10

📅LiveCal updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️️All times US Eastern

This Sat: monthly #ColumboTV

#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #scifi #Action #Comedy #anime #SilentFilm #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Tx hosts🌺 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @hyde @kamikat @lilymarswrites @LisaMarieBowman @rsmon77 @AlsoPaisleyCat @klu9 @GrillChill @greenpepper22 @heavydishongry

Pixelix is now free!

After two and a half years of developing Pixelix and having it as a paid app, we've decided to switch things up and make Pixelix free for everyone.

We’re really excited to see where this takes Pixelix, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us so far.

#Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Fediverse #OpenSource #Android #iOS

Hello Pixelfed, this is our first post here!

Pixelix is a client for Pixelfed and Vernissage. The app is available on the Play Store, the App Store, on GitHub and F-Droid.

We (@(@[email protected] @hiebeler05) have been developing Pixelix for more than 2 years and will share updates, features, and other things about Pixelix on this account.

#Fediverse #Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Android #iOS

Sometimes people like to say that the 'likes' in the FEDIVERSE don't mean anything. Maybe to some.

If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

#snac @grunfink #fediverse

Hello world!
We just shipped our first release, and opened the gates to our two instances, cookifed.net and cuisine.social !

https://cookifed.dev/blog/hello-world/

#cookifed #cuisine #fediverse