wanderer - #Strava meets the #Fediverse. A self-hosted trail database built on #ActivityPub. "Save your adventures!"
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CrowdBucks is:
🛠 100% open source
🧩 Fediverse-native
💡 Self-hostable
🛡 Privacy-conscious
👉 https://crowdbucks.fund
Try it. Improve it. Fork it. Make it yours.
And yes — we use Crowdbucks to fund Crowdbucks →
https://crowdbucks.fund/@crowdbucks@mastodon.social
I am creating a #ActivityPub minimalistic implementation of a badge system similar to Credly, built using #dotnet and leveraging the #Fediverse
I have issued a first badge, the idea is to decentralize the verification systems, and allow organizations to self-certify. It is incredible that organizations like Microsoft or Non-Profits pay thousands of dollars to companies like Pearson to just provide "verified" badges. Similar to mastodons installed in social-dot-something, thinkg of badges<dot> mozilla<dot>com , certifications<dot>myschooldistrict<dot>com. Or even a podcast emitting a badge for its guests, with the verification in the domain.
ActivityPub already offers a secure way to sign artifacts and interact between actors. The fediverse already have people with profiles, a social graph as @mike says, ready to use. Think of how LetsEncrypt disrupted that market of few actors selling certificates for websites.
I have a functional poc,
@fediverse is not a mastodon, pledora or blog, it is an actor in a badge system, but you can follow it in Mastodon. Its badges will show in #mastodon but they are not notes or articles. If you want to learn more, follow me, I will be sharing the progress here. Or follow the github project here: https://github.com/tryvocalcat/activitypub-badges
Who wants a badge of early adopter?
Arabi.gay is a Glitch Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.
You can find out more at https://arabi.gay/about or contact the admin account @ishraaf
#FeaturedServer #Arabic #Arab #LGBTQIA #Gay #SWANA #SouthWestAsia #NorthAfrica #العربية #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities:
You can find out more at https://dads.cool/about and https://cooler.mom/about or contact the admins @alex & @sydney
#FeaturedServer #Parenting #Parents #Kids #Children #Families #Hometown #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Today I'm celebrating a personal milestone: 3 MONTHS of #selfhosting thanks to the magic of #YunoHost.
I'm posting a quick message because I need to leave home in 5 minutes to pick up my little one from nursery school. But I didn't want to let this anniversary pass without my acknowledgement.
Thank you @yunohost team for changing my life in the best possible way and empowering me to self-host my own #Fediverse instances.
I hope I'll be able to give back one day and help you out on your amazing mission ❤️
Want to try out Bonfire? There's an install party going on right now - get help from the devs as you setup your own instance!
https://mobilizon.libretic.fr/events/c0c0b536-5216-412b-a277-1dadead06997
Rail.chat is a Mastodon server for anyone interested in passenger and freight trains, their connection to transit and other non-car options, and their benefit to society:
You can find out more at https://rail.chat/about or contact the admin @conductor
cc @trains
#FeaturedServer #Trains #Rail #Railways #Railroads #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
I started working on #fedicat two years(!) ago just to play around with making a UI that I want, and now I'm spending all my time on it because I'm fascinated by the creative diversity in #fediverse platforms
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience
In exciting #FediForumFriday news that technically was last Friday but it was so close to the wire I'm sharing anyway, @fediforum got their keynotes and demos uploaded along with the notes from June's #FediForum so you can go and check out all the amazing things that happened there for free: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/ .
Week in Fediverse 2025-06-27
Servers
- PieFed v1.0.0
- Manyfold v0.115.0
- Mitra v4.5.1
- tootik v0.17.0
- Gancio v1.27.0
- Gush! v0.0.20
- Vernissage Server v1.17.0
- wanderer: A decentralized, self-hosted trail database
Clients
- Smither v3.6
- Thunder v0.7.3
- Blorp v1.8.1
- Aria v1.2.4
Tools and Plugins
For developers
- Fedify v1.7.0
- Fedialgo v0.78.0
Protocol
- FEP-b06c: ActivityPoll
- FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text (Final comments)
Articles
- Verified Media Accounts in the Fediverse
- The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption
- Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"
- Friendica: the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #122
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01978f30-5295-cb5b-38cc-a151f08fd9f1
@SabiLewSounds & fam are #disabled, #BIPOC, #homeless
$686 Hotel by tomorrow 03/18 at 11AM ET
$936 All Needs
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#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #SabiLewSounds #SupportDisabledArtists #WeKeepUsSafe #CommunityCares #CollectiveCare #IndigenousMutualAid #Mastodon #Fediverse #Boost #Indigenous #Disability #MentalHealth
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BigShoulders.city is a Hometown Mastodon server for Chicagoans, current, former and future. All sexualities, gender identities, races, levels of mobility and ages are welcome. A community of friends and neighbors across the Windy City.
Find out more at https://bigshoulders.city/about or contact the admins @moderation & @alex
#FeaturedServer #Chicago #Illinois #Chicagoan #Chicagoans #Hometown #HometownMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
New: Fediverse Report #108
This week's news:
- Ghost's (@index) connection to the #fediverse is now availabe in public beta for Ghost Pro users, with both an #ActivityPub connection to send long-form posts into the fediverse, and a reader app to read/comment/interact with the fediverse
- @anewsocial , the organisation that manages the bridge between the fediverse and #bluesky shared their upcoming plans
Toot.Kiwi is a brand new Mastodon server for anyone with connections to Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Pōneke in New Zealand / Aotearoa:
You can find out more at https://toot.kiwi/about or contact the admin @fancypants
cc @aotearoa
#FeaturedServer #NewZealand #Aotearoa #Wellington #TeWhanganuiaTara #Pōneke #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Ghost’s @johnonolan and WordPress’s @pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @mike for the latest edition of Dot Social.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/
#DotSocial #Ghost #WordPress #Fediverse #FederatedMedia #ActivityPub #Federation
I've spent a lot of time in the Fediverse and I've noticed something important.
Here, people genuinely want to interact. On commercial social media, they’ve become mere spectators, passive to what bots and algorithms impose on them. But here, they come to talk, debate, and engage.
Here, we are human again, with other humans.
#Fediverse #SocialMedia #HumanConnection #DigitalFreedom #Community
Here, people genuinely want to interact. On commercial social media, they’ve become mere spectators, passive to what bots and algorithms impose on them. But here, they come to talk, debate, and engage.
Here, we are human again, with other humans.
#Fediverse #SocialMedia #HumanConnection #DigitalFreedom #Community
Excited to see some new apps for the fediverse drop recently.
This one is a cool - similar to how there are now Bluesky image centric apps like Flashes, the fedi dev @me has introduced Myo. It creates timelines of image and video from your fediverse accounts. Lists, hashtag timelines, etc. are supported.
TurtleIsland.social is an Indigenous owned & operated Mastodon server for Indigenous people. TurtleIsland.social is ad-free, corporate-free, bigotry-free, and culture respectful.
You can find out more at https://turtleisland.social/about or contact the admins @TurtleIsland, @Yehuda or @Tzipporah
#FeaturedServer #Indigenous #Native #FirstNations #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Kind.Social is a Mastodon server with a broad community - queer, disabled, neurodivergent, crafters, techies, friends of all sorts. Our aim is to foster a genuinely enjoyable shared social experience.
This server has been operating since 2018.
You can find out more at https://kind.social/about or contact the admin @Texan_Reverend
#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #Disabled #Neurodivergent #Crafters #Techies #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
I always gush about @ZLabe and his account, because for one thing it makes the data he works with more accessible (via #ActivityPub), but secondly because the #infographics he stares are very informative - and consistent.
Are there any other #science, #edutainment and #infographic accounts on the #fediverse that has similar consistent and qualify of posts? Think content that is fairly easily digestible during a scroll.
We're looking for the accounts that #TeachTheFediverse.
https://fedihost.co #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.3.9
Learn more about this release here:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9
#hosting #SelfHosting #GetFederated #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediHost
I've been MIA for awhile because I went to Bali but I'm back at work now. Hope you enjoy my semi-abstract nautilus shell... https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/nautilus-shell-stained-glass-peggy-collins.html
#shell #beach #colorful #nature #buyintoart #ayearforart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart
Odd. Noticed that when viewing @mosseri from Mastodon his last post was on April 23, despite posting on Threads many times since and within the last 24 hours.
And if I follow him from here, his account doesn't show under my following list, despite indicating that I'm following on his profile.
Glitch? Intentional? How many other federated @threads accounts are like this? (Other threads.net accounts that I'm following seem okay.)
Here's to the crazy ones. The digital revolutionaries. The #fediverse builders. The ones who see social media differently.
They're not fond of #BigTech. And they have no respect for the #SurveillanceEconomy.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people crazy enough to think they can change social media, are the ones who do.