Thanks @raphael, well received!
They are so pretty 
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fediverse
Week in Fediverse 2025-02-14
Servers
- Mbin v1.8.0
- snac v2.72
- Lemmy v0.19.9
- flohmarkt v0.8.0
- GoToSocial v0.17.4
- Hollo v0.5.0
- Manyfold v0.100.0
- Mitra v3.17.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.2.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.4
- NeoDB v0.11.4.7
- tootik v0.15.3
- kmyblue v17.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025
- Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon
Clients
- Mangane v1.13.6
- Thunder v0.6.1
- Fediboat: Mastodon TUI client with a Newsboat-like interface
Tools and Plugins
- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.0.0 (WordPress plugin)
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.0.0
- LemmyWebhook v0.19.0
- Mastodon – Simplified Federation v2.2.1
- Utsukta Hub themes: A collection of custom themes developed for Hubzilla
For developers
- BotKit v0.1.1
- TootSDK v13.0.0
- apsig: Signature implementation used in ActivityPub (python)
Protocol
- FEP-efda: Followable objects
Articles
- Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes
- Last Week in Fediverse #103
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0194e1e4-74a9-17c1-c347-9674b1a3f9c9
We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing check-ins, calendars, events, opening hours - all federated. A living hub for what's happening there.
🔧 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444
This unlocks new possibilities for local organizing, let's explore together 🔥
A new release of TootSDK - 21.1.0 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/21.1.0
What's changed:
- Introduce rendering options on AttributedStringRenderer @luckkerr
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
"The more the Fediverse can be baked into systems already in use, as with the Wordpress plugin and Ghost 6.0, the easier it will be to make connections without platform or protocol battles." - @michael
Part 2 of Michael's post-FediCon blog series, exploring growth with a grassroots vibe, is out now! Check it out below 👇
https://www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-in-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/
#Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediCon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Blog #ThirdSpaces #FediGrowth #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #LeaveX
Week in Fediverse 2024-12-27
Servers
- Hubzilla v10.0.0
- snac v2.67
- tootik v0.14.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.8.0
- Mastodon: Annual Report 2023
- μpub: micro social network, federated
Clients
- Tusky v27.0
- Tuba v0.9.1
- Pixelix v3.0.0
- Voyager v2.22.0
- Tesseract v1.4.21
Tools and Plugins
- FediAM v0.2
- Threativore v0.7.0
- Posty: This is How You Take Your Posts With You
For developers
Articles
- botsin.space postmortem
- How much does the fediverse cost?
- Building a Better Social Web
- Surf is a “Social Browser” App From Flipboard
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193e565-a77c-3eb7-5957-9d3d3367f05d
Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann 🔐
Teilen erbeten ! 
als PDF Datei:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/kRgZ+fsPATHElnUKYE8ziTgT/
#DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Leta
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows10 #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #OpenAndroidInstaller
#Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
Fediverse Report – #117
Keynote speakers for FediForum announced, some new interesting updates for PieFed, and 15 years of the software group of Hubzilla, Friendica and others.
The News
PieFed, a link aggregator platform for the fediverse, has made some interesting updates recently. It is one of the first (if not the first) platform to add support for Passkeys to the platform. It has also added flair (community-specific tags) to posts, that are federated as well. PieFed has also made a image hashing service available that can be used by any fediverse platform. This service generates a unique fingerprint of every image, and that fingerprint can be used to identity other posts that use the same or fairly similar images. This can be used for content moderation, PieFed has a demo video available on PeerTube showcasing how it can find and take down multiple posts that all contain a similar image.
FediForum has announced three keynote speakers and published a tentative agenda. On Thursday, June 5, Ian Forrester will give the opening keynote. Forrester has been a driving factor for the BBC R&D department to get the broadcaster to experiment with a Mastodon server. Later on Thursday, Cory Doctorow will give a keynote. On Friday June 6, Christine Lemmer-Webber will give the opening keynote. On Thursday, I will be hosting a session on Whats New at the Open Social Web, where I’ll be going over all the news and events that have happened since 2025.
The branch of fediverse software that consists of Friendica, Hubzilla and more, is now 15 years old. The main developer Mike Macgirvin lists the large number of features that the platforms have, including groups, nomadic identity, comment controls, and much more. When it comes to the large variety of features, no fediverse platform comes anywhere close to what this branch of platforms offer. The software platforms have managed to create their own small self-sustaining communities. While a number of the software platforms such as Streams do not publish any statistics, extrapolating data from what some servers running Hubzilla and Friendica publish, together I would estimate the active accounts to be less than 10k MAU. Still, these communities have managed to find long-term sustainability, exisiting over 15 years in various forms is no mean feat. As Macgirvin says: ‘if you think that this “alternative fediverse” is going away any time soon, you must be new here.’
The Links
Architecting a New Era of Community, with Blacksky’s Rudy Fraser – Flipboard’s Dot Social podcast
My Dream Fediverse Platform – Sean Tilley/WeDistribute
Ben Werdmuller has been writing a four-part series on strategies for the open social web, with articles on product strategies for Mastodon, Bluesky, starting fresh, and now his most recent article on various funding strategies for the open social web.
A detailed overview of how federation between Lemmy and Mastodon works in practice. It is a good indication that using the same protocol does not automatically guarantee good interoperability. Nor is it clear what good interaction pattern between two different types of platforms (microblogging and link-aggregators) would even look like.
This week’s fediverse software updates.
Ghost’s weekly update on their fediverse integration, mentioning that ActivityPub is now also available at another vendor who offers Ghost hosting.
Flipboard is federating another 124 accounts, this time from international publishers. Flipboard now federates over 1200 accounts of publishers.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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Organizers Log:
An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.
I have been trying to design a logo for FediCon.
(I am NOT a logo designer 🙂 )
I tried using the FediOrigami version of the Fediverse logo, to be part of it.
...
You can get the FediCon logo from here:
https://github.com/reiver/fedicon-logo
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🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 46F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
Mass. reversed course on the closure of Pappas Hospital, which provides services to children and young adults with disabilities. #disability
21 civil servants with the US Digital Service quit rather than work with Elon Musk's DOGE team.
Apple's shareholders have rejected a proposal to scrap the company's diversity programs.
Is anyone building cool stuff with @fedify ? I’ve been curious about diving in after I learn JavaScript, I think it would be fun to make some simple #Fediverse apps. I’d love to see what other people are making with it.
Fediverse Report #105
While the news in the world is louder and intenser than ever, the fediverse has had one of it’s most quiet news weeks in a long time. But as compensation I’ll have another article out tomorrow, that I did not manage to finish for today.
The News
Some updates for GoToSocial: GoToSocial published the documentation that would also allow other fediverse platforms to implement their Interaction Policies. And Slurp is a new CLI tool to import your posts from other fediverse servers into GoToSocial. A guide to import your Pixelfed posts into GoToSocial with Slurp is available here.
Last week I wrote extensively about Mastodon’s plan to implement quote post. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput confirmed in a follow-up that Mastodon will not display quote posts if they are made using another implementation than Mastodon proposes. This means in practice that even when Mastodon has added support for quote posts, it will not display quote posts made by Misskey, unless Misskey also implements Mastodon’s new proposed system for quote posts.
Elgg is an old-school open source social network that started in 2004. It added a plugin for ActivityPub this week.
John Oliver discussed content moderation on Last Week Tonight, quickly promoting Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky and Signal as alternatives.
The Identity Graph Explorer is a simple tool to find out how “identifiers on the Fediverse / Social Web are connected to one another”.
The Hexbear Lemmy community recently lost control of their domain, leading to a bidding war for the domain name for thousands of dollars. The admins now report that they have gotten back control of their domain.
The Links
IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis – WeDistribute
GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse – with unique controls – Elena Rossini
How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server – WeDistribute
Website League update for February
Managing Mastodon Storage – FediHost
Lemmy biweekly development update.
This week’s fediverse software updates.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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Discover The Fediverse: Free Software Movement
Learn the key points of the free software movement in order to protect your freedoms along with exploring free and open source software highlights.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-free-software-movement/
#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss
Nice, the button to load new replies on Mastodon might be coming soon!
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/35210
<p>This release introduces a redesigned Followers table that’s easier to navigate and customize—hide columns, change how many entries you see, or remove followers directly. Migrations are now simpler: just paste in a WebFinger ID or profile URL, and the plugin takes care of the rest. We’ve also fixed an issue where old, unfederated posts could be mistakenly re-sent—those will now stay quiet unless they’re recent. Plus, lots of behind-the-scenes improvements for a smoother experience.</p>
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User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback
Found 11 new servers and 20 servers died off since 7 hours ago.
22,813 servers checked. 14,892,241 Total Users with 1,036,257 Active Users today. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
misskey.tarohouse.net a #misskey server from Private
torikago-suki.net a #misskey server from Japan
tsundere.love a #pleroma server from Private
sloth.beepboop.city a #gotosocial server from Germany
caw.killtheradio.net a #mastodon server from United States
goto.queer.re a #gotosocial server from Finland
gay.byte.kiwi a #mastodon server from Australia
social.stroskler.xyz a #mastodon server from Germany
playingin.snowis.me a #sharkey server from United States
babar.petite-maison-orange.fr a #mastodon server from France
social.tracevectrics.com a #gotosocial server from Germany
Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
https://Fedi.Garden doesn't just list Mastodon servers, it also lists servers from other kinds of Fediverse platforms.
If you run a Fediverse server and it is compatible with the requirements (https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/), please message me if you would like to be listed.
At the moment people sign up via the list on JoinMastodon so they tend to only see Mastodon servers. I'm trying to create a platform-neutral alternative while still having some curation and listing requirements.
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Exactly one year ago, I launched the snac instance of BSD Cafe: https://snac.bsd.cafe
Some users gave it a try and decided to self-host. Others have kept it as a secondary account, while some use it regularly.
Happy anniversary, snac.bsd.cafe - and thanks to @grunfink for the ongoing development and improvement, always staying true to the principles of simplicity and integrity.
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafe #snac #snac2 #Fediverse #SocialNetworks
Some users gave it a try and decided to self-host. Others have kept it as a secondary account, while some use it regularly.
Happy anniversary, snac.bsd.cafe - and thanks to @grunfink for the ongoing development and improvement, always staying true to the principles of simplicity and integrity.
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafe #snac #snac2 #Fediverse #SocialNetworks
🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”
How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.
Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/
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#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics
So, 2025 is going to be a huge leap forward for the #Fediverse in general, and #Bandwagon specifically. I've finally made enough progress on the search engine that it's finally worthy of sharing a screenshot.
There's TONS more to do, but I'm so excited about getting this into your hands in January that I couldn't wait to share this now.
Cortex Implant is an international cyberpunk’ish LGBTQIA+ friendly Glitch Mastodon server for edgerunners, netrunners, cyberpunks and all who want to become one.
This server includes extended character limits, alternative front ends and additional features.
Find out more at https://corteximplant.com/about or contact the admin @lucy
#FeaturedServer #Cyberpunk #Netrunners #Cyberpunks #LGBTQIA #GlitchMastodon #Glitch #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Fun! I like this style of these live streams, more casual and more focused on the person rather than just the code. Check it out.
Found 11 new servers and 18 servers died off since 7 hours ago.
22,230 servers checked. 13,431,920 Total Users with 1,027,115 Active Users today. Check out the stats!
New #fediverse servers found:
hollo.ssig33.com a #hollo server from Private
diaspora.delaylama.de a #diaspora server from France
mastodon.mulesgaming.com a #mastodon server from Private
cabamacnagoya.harumaki2000.net a #misskey server from Private
pl.firelink.digital a #pleroma server from Private
kurage.homes a #sharkey server from Germany
social.seedoubleyou.me a #gotosocial server from United Arab Emirates
this-email-list.ispants.com a #wordpress server from United Kingdom
altair.nyoroooon.xyz a #nexkey server from Private
fedi.merta.xyz a #gotosocial server from United States
lvgaldieri.com a #wordpress server from United States
Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
It's January and that means @mastowatch has officially been out for two years! To celebrate, Mastowatch Pro is $2 all month. That’s the lifetime unlock, so no subscription either.
You don’t even have to send a birthday card!
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