Here's a thought, the more I make my blog compatible with the fediverse, at some point I can just use my blog instead of mastodon right? What would the benefit be to have a separate mastodon account? #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon
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Thanks @raphael, well received!
They are so pretty 
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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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Nice, the button to load new replies on Mastodon might be coming soon!
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/35210
User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback
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
We'd like to recognize the valuable contributions from two developers who participated in Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) program. Both contributors identified important gaps in #Fedify's functionality and documentation, providing thoughtful solutions that benefit the broader #ActivityPub ecosystem.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #365, addressing issue #353 regarding NodeInfo parser compatibility, originally reported by @andypiper. The issue arose when Fedify incorrectly rejected #NodeInfo documents from snac instances due to overly strict version string parsing that required semantic versioning compliance. Their solution improves the fallback behavior in the parseSoftware() function to handle non-SemVer version strings by parsing dot-separated numbers and defaulting to zero for missing components. The implementation includes thorough test coverage for various edge cases, including single numbers (3), two-part versions (2.81), and malformed version strings. This fix provides immediate compatibility improvements across the fediverse while maintaining backward compatibility, and will be included in Fedify 1.9. The contribution serves as an interim solution, with a more comprehensive fix planned for Fedify 2.0 (issue #366), where the NodeInfo software.version field will be changed from the SemVer type to a plain string to fully comply with the NodeInfo specification.
@z9mb1 contributed PR #364, resolving issue #337 by adding practical examples for Fedify's custom collection dispatchers feature. Custom collections were introduced in Fedify 1.8 but lacked clear documentation for developers seeking to implement them. Their contribution provides a comprehensive example demonstrating how to set up custom collections for tagged posts, including proper routing patterns, pagination handling, and counter functionality. The example includes mock data structures, shows how to configure collection dispatchers with URL patterns like /users/{userId}/tags/{tag}, and demonstrates the complete request/response cycle using federation.fetch(). This work provides developers with a clear, runnable reference that reduces the complexity of implementing custom collections in ActivityPub applications.
We appreciate these meaningful contributions that help make Fedify more accessible and robust for the entire ActivityPub community.
🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 53F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.
An American Airlines flight discontinued a landing at DC's National Airport to avoid a collision. The past few weeks have seen 4 major air disasters in North America.
Au revoir, Party City: the chain is declaring bankruptcy and closing its doors.
The Trump administration sent a memo telling federal agencies to plan to cut more jobs.
🌌💀 The Keepers of Hollow Worlds — Four skeletons, one suited reaper, and galaxies sealed in glass. Who truly guards the void? 🎃✨
https://rafaelsalazar.com/featured/the-keepers-of-hollow-worlds-rafael-salazar.html
#RafaelSalazar #CosmicArt #CollectorVision #BuyIntoArt #art #artmatters #ayearforart #fediverse #fediart #fegiftshops #mastoart #mastoartist #mastodon #flipboard_user_group #flipboard #artmatters #fineart #fineartamerica #Halloween
Get Ready for FediCon!
Tick-tock! ⏰ FediCon is just 11 days away!
Join us in beautiful Vancouver, Canada on August 1st & 2nd for an incredible event.
Whether you're a seasoned pro or curious about the decentralized Social Web, FediCon is the place to connect, learn, and explore the future of the fediverse.
🎟️ Grab your tickets now: https://lu.ma/p4bbb941
ℹ️ More info here: https://fedicon.ca
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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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
If you want to discover more nice videos and livestreams on the Fediverse, you might want to follow my other account Fedi.Video:
➡️ @FediVideo
It regularly boosts #PeerTube vids, which you can interact with from Mastodon etc just like any other post.
It also boosts #OwnCast streams, you can sign in on OwnCast chat with your Mastodon etc account.
Fedi.Video also has a website which provides a safe, high quality way to explore and search PeerTube:
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#FediAlgo, the customizable timeline algorithm / filtering system for your Mastodon feed, is now deployed on Github Pages and can be used from your web browser.
* Link: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #Masto #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #MastoJS #nodejs #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev
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Obviously due to the distributed nature of the Fediverse it's never going to be possible to tell how many UK users have joined Mastodon/Firefish/Fedi in the last week or so.
But I'd be curious to know if anecdotally anyone thinks there have been an uptick in new UK accounts here.
Hey book fans, did you know there is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads called BookWyrm?
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
Just like Mastodon, there are lots of different BookWyrm servers that talk to each other:
➡️ https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances
You can also follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc.
BookWyrm lets you import your existing data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary & Calibre:
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/
with shout-outs to @anubis2814 @dansup @fedidb @heidilifeldman @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @ryanbroderick @caseynewton @ferrante @informapirata @russandro @hankg @tio
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr
I really like the proposed asterism symbol, ⁂, U+2042 to represent the Fediverse. “In astronomy, it refers to groups of stars in the sky, akin to constellations.”
https://symbol.fediverse.info
I might just add it to my fonts, (and perhaps boot the bitcoin, ₿, U+20BF, while I'm at it) Now to see whether I like hexacles (the bestagons) or pentacles..
#charactersetpolitics #fediverse #fonts #typography
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Pretty neat. I've now seen three examples of fediverse bots that run as independent fediverse servers, rather than using some platform's (most commonly Mastodon's) API.
- https://castling.club: "Challenge someone to a game of chess"
- https://transit.alerts.social: transit alerts
- https://fedimeteo.com: real-time weather updates
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Me 2 weeks ago: oh I will just do a post about #Lemmy interoperability with the rest of the #Fediverse for my blog series #TheFutureIsFederated.
How hard can it be? I already federated my Wordpress blog and figured out #Friendica.
Me today: I now have accounts on #Lemmy PLUS #PieFed AND #Mbin because my initial federation tests had mixed results. Reading my notes makes me go 😵💫😅
Despite all this I still LOVE the #Fediverse and I’m in awe of #Mastodon’s interoperability (it comes out shining)
NLNet announces newly funded projects, including quite a few related to ActivityPub.
@node9 automated deployments for streams and hubzilla
@raffomania for the linkblocks federated link sharing platform
@manyfold - federated 3d model sharing
@mobilizon for their federated event sharing platform
@activitypods is a storage solution for federated data
@spritely and their Oaken project (fedi adjacent and happy for them)
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html
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Discover The Fediverse: Together United
Understand how businesses have shifted and how the community united together will protect user rights by using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-together-united/
@powerampache @davx5app @moememos @k9mail
#blog #FollowFriday #Fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS
