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<p>Wanted to share something with this community and see if it’s useful to anyone. Inkwell (inkwell.social) is an open source, multi-tenant social journaling platform built on ActivityPub. The goal is to fill the long-form writing gap in the fediverse in a way that’s accessible to non-technical users, not just developers who can spin up their own instance of WriteFreely or Ghost. </p><p>What it does: users sign up, write journal entries or articles, and those posts federate as Article objects per FEP-b2b8 with preview Notes so they render cleanly in Mastodon and other microblogging clients. You get a title, excerpt, and link rather than a decontextualized URL. Follows, boosts, and likes all work bidirectionally with Mastodon. </p><p>It’s ad-free, algorithm-free, and the code is open source on GitHub (github.com/stantondev/inkwell). The hosted instance is at inkwell.social if you want to try it, or you can self-host your own. </p><p>Some things that might interest this community: ActivityPub federation with HTTP signature verification, Stamps (emotional reactions) instead of generic likes, a tipping system called Postage for supporting writers, newsletter delivery, custom profile themes, and data import from other platforms. Currently working on improving comment edit propagation and post scope handling for better fediverse compatibility based on community feedback. </p><p>Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone who’s been looking for a long-form option in the fediverse or anyone interested in running their own instance. What’s working, what’s missing, what would make this more useful to the ecosystem? </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/longform/" rel="tag">#longform</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a></p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1859983/inkwell-a-multi-tenant-long-form-writing-platform-for-the-fediverse-open-source-fep-b2b">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights: </p><p>What’s new</p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523426/labelling-or-hiding-ai-generated-content" rel="nofollow">Posts &amp; communities can be labelled as AI-generated</a> and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works. </p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523157/what-if-stack-overflow-except-federated" rel="nofollow">Comments can be marked as an Answer</a>, like on StackOverflow. </p><p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api/p/1596518/emoji-reactions-in-the-piefed-api" rel="nofollow">React to posts and comments with an emoji</a>. </p><p>Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author. </p><p>PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier. </p><p>When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities. </p><p>Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers. </p><p><a href="https://lemmy-federate.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lemmy-federate.com</a> integration, making PieFed communities get more exposure. </p><p>“Share on Mastodon” menu item on posts. </p><p>Vastly improve docs for new developers, see <a href="https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/b</span><span class="invisible">ranch/main/docs/developer_docs</span></a>. </p><p>Language selection is more visible during post creation. </p><p>Tag clouds can also be viewed as a list of tags. </p><p>View post/comment markdown. </p><p>Bot accounts are not included in community statistics. </p><p>Footnote support in markdown. </p><p>Polish translation. </p><p>Better HTTP caching, which <a href="https://join.piefed.social/2025/11/22/reducing-piefeds-dependence-on-cloudflare/" rel="nofollow">reduces dependence on Cloudflare</a>. </p><p>Bugs</p><p>Passkey fixes. </p><p>Polls can now have up to 15 options. </p><p>User profile performance improved. </p><p>Don’t allow bypassing minimum username length and post title with whitespace. </p><p>Polls and Events can no longer be posted into Lemmy communities. </p><p>API</p><p>Additional user settings can be set through the api, including Extra Fields. </p><p>Fetch url metadata. </p><p>Sort comments by controversial. </p><p>Comment search now works. </p><p>Hashtags. </p><p>Events. </p><p>Polls. </p><p>Emoji reactions on posts and comments. </p><p>See <a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>piefed.social/c/piefed_api</a> for more details. </p><p>To upgrade</p><p>To upgrade from 1.3.x: </p><p>git pull git checkout v1.4.x ./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh </p><p>There is a big database migration that will take a few minutes to run. How long will vary depending on how old your instance is - older instances will have more content to process. It took ~25 minutes on piefed.social so expect it to be less than that. </p><p>Donations</p><p>PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features. </p><p>Donations can be made via <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PieFed" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://liberapay.com/PieFed/" rel="nofollow">Liberapay</a> or <a href="https://ko-fi.com/piefed" rel="nofollow">Ko-fi</a>.</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1600132/piefed-1-4-is-released-emoji-federated-stackoverflow-and-ai-content-filters">See Original Page</a> </small>