#fediverse Timeline

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Boosting too much ? Hide boosts for an account without blocking or muting them :

https://fedi.tips/hiding-someones-boosts-in-mastodon-without-blocking-or-muting-them/

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#Daisy #Bud ready to #bloom by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/daisy-bud-ready-to-bloom-kaye-menner.html

#flower #flora #yellowflower #yellowgreen #greenbokeh #delicate #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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@elaine is building a new #fediverse server called #EchoCrate
https://ap.elaine.is/users/elaine/statuses/mkk63yzyftt9q0uznij
#ActivityPub #fedidev

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Happy to announce that federation bit is complete! Next step is purchasing a domain and spinning up a flagship instance which should happen in upcoming days :)

#fediverse #fedidev #activitypub #prismodev

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Does anyone have a way to keep their #neodb in sync with their #letterboxd or vice versa?

#fediverse

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Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world:

https://hcommons.social

You can find out more at https://hcommons.social/about or contact their admin account @hello

#FeaturedServer #Humanities #Academics #Scholars #Research #Mastodon #Hometown #HometownMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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Migrated from Sharkey to GoToSocial, because I wanted something more light-weight and less feature-rich (though I do have to say that Sharkey is excellent and has tons of features and control. I highly recommend it to somebody who really wants a lot from their Fediverse software). I probably sent out some unnecessary notifications by mistake while backloading my posts. Sorry about that.

I wrote this python script for doing the actual backloading. It's clunky, doesn't handle many common cases, breaks on mentions, and has tons of little flaws, but it did get the job done.

#GoToSocial #Sharkey #Fediverse #Python #Migration

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Loops APK Update: fixing the last bugs and finishing the final screen so I can ship the APK before I go to bed.

The long-awaited APK release is almost here.

Our community has grown so much this year — this one’s for the early adopters, the trendsetters, the pioneers.

We’re making history together. I couldn’t be prouder.

❤️

#loops #peopleNotPlatforms #fediverse

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Ich liebe es, dass snac2 jetzt auch reactions kann.
Die habe ich mir schon lange gewünscht für eine kurze aber differenziere Rückmeldung zu etwas das ich gesehen habe.
Nur schade das Mastodon das nicht sehen kann, deren Nutzer sind die deutliche Mehrheit in meiner Bubble.

#Mastoson #Snac #Snac2 #reaction #emoji #emojireactions #acticitypub #fediverse

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I just found a 4 minute video by Elena Rossini, @elena It's a really well-done intro video about the #fediverse.

https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

It describes what the fediverse is, where it came from and why you are just now hearing about it.

#foss #floss #openSoftware #socialMedia #video

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We just sent our first GoFedi newsletter!

GoFedi is coming soon—a fully managed Fediverse hosting service for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, Akkoma, and PeerTube. It’s built to make Fediverse hosting effortless.

All servers will be in Canada. No tech skills required. We’ll handle setup, backups, and maintenance so you can focus on your community.

Sign up for email updates here:

https://gofedi.com.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoFedi #ManagedHosting

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Scaling: ActivityPub over NNTP?

Usenet - Wikipedia Page · en.wikipedia.org

Here’s an interesting thought experiment.

Way back in the 1980s and 90s, Usenet was a sorta-federated discussion forum (using the NNTP protocol) that was very popular. It still exists and is distributing 400 million messages each day (mostly spam and trash as far as I can tell). Hard numbers are difficult to come by but it seems like Usenet is capable of significantly higher throughput. Why is that?

The big thing holding ActivityPub back is the fan-out. You know the story - someone with 50,000 followers causes their instance to send up to 50,000 HTTP POSTs every time they click the little spinny star or reply to something.

It’s basically a hub-and-spoke network topology. Except everyone takes turns being the hub, ideally, but not much in practice. And in this topology, the hubs are where the strain and bottlenecks are.

Back in the 1980s they had computers literally 1000 times slower than ours and network links to match. So how did they do this? With a peer to peer network topology! When a new post is made, they don’t send it to everyone they just send it to a handful of other servers. Those servers in turn forward the post on to a handful of other peers, and so on, until the whole network receives the post. No individual server is a single point of failure and none has to bear the full brunt of orchestrating it all.

Let’s do a picture. A creates a post and sends it to B and D.

A ─ B ─ C  
 \      /  
   ─ D ─

B sends it on to C.

Meanwhile D sends it on the C also but C already has it so does nothing more. IRL this would be a much larger mesh. Who peers with who can be a mixture of manual selection and random spiciness.

Posts can arrive out of order so each server would need to wait until the dependencies between posts are resolved before making them available to clients. That’s a bit tricky.

In the ActivityPub-over-NNTP idea, each NNTP post would be a thin wrapper around a data structure containing the HTTP headers (with signature and digest) and JSON that a normal HTTP POSTed Activity would have. Servers would use NNTP to distribute the activities and upon receiving one they’d POST it to their own /inbox to run the usual ActivityPub processing that their AP instance does.

{  
  "headers": {  
    "Signature": "...",  
    "Digest": "...",  
    "Date": "..."  
  },  
  "activity": { ... normal ActivityPub JSON ... }  
}

In this way there is no need to rewrite ActivityPub semantics as only the transport layer changes. Our existing inbox logic remains intact.

NNTP comes with a lot of historical baggage so we’d probably need to evolve the protocol a bit. Maybe use HTTP requests (even http2 streams?) instead of the original line-oriented text protocol using raw TCP sockets. But you get the idea.

Thoughts?

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Three years ago today, the idea of the Newsmast Foundation was born 🎂

Born from the pieces of what Twitter was, our founders knew that they needed to take action to help online communities come together to inform one another once again.

1/3

#Newsmast #Birthday #SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Technology #3Today

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If you're a Mastodon music lover, you may already know @elsemusic, as Leigh supports many musicians here on the #fediverse. But did you know the combo just released an album ? It's called "Space for you", and it's brilliant. I've had a real crush on "Vertical dead", may it be the darkest of the 10 titles of the album. And there is such a peculiar sound for guitar solos throughout the whole piece, I couldn't figure how it's produced : is it a synth guitar, paired with an electroacoustic sound ?

Listen to "Space for you", you'll get a full load of nice tunes and fine progressions, brilliant drumming, and Aelyth's really elegant voice.
https://mirlo.space/sidesister/release/space-for-you

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Vorweg: Wenn im #Fediverse etwas nicht perfekt läuft, sind nie die vielen, meist ehrenamtlichen Admins Schuld.

Ich beobachte gerade, dass meine Instanz, https://muenchen.social, über das Web-Interface schnell ist, über die App #Fedilab aber unbrauchbar lahm. Es dauert Minuten bis nach dem Klick auf einen Tröt der Thread erscheint. Auch der Retröt-Butten reagiert mit brutaler Verzögerung. Kann das jemand erklären?

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#fediverse mentions in Computer Architecture: from the Stone Age to the Quantum Age by Charles Fox, No Starch Press

snippet of book page

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in Intel NUC. These servers will enable non-technical home internet users to" easily host their own websites and media streams. They'll also enable fullyopen source search engines (YaCy), social media (Mastodon), video storageand streaming (PeerTube), video conferences (Matrix), and physical goodsarketplaces (OpenBazaar) to replace big tech equivalents by distributingand using cryptographic methods and currencies to

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Sciety is bridging preprints and open social networks. Our latest integration with @bonfire enables you to start a discussion on Sciety and federate anywhere; meeting researchers wherever they already are.

https://blog.sciety.org/bridging-preprints-and-the-fediverse/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #NLnet

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Release v3.1.3 of Ktistec

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Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

@selfhosted

Hello, I followed the "selfhosted" instance on LemmyWorld in order to be able to talk about my experiences having them in order, without confusing criteria into Fediverse. Hoping they can be useful to others.

Current setup: Hostinger vps kvm2 plan, Debian12, YunoHost, Hostinger's docker manager installed.

Personal background: blind since birth, (I don't see), I'm mostly a computer power-user, worked and studied with ms-dos since 1989 until late 90s. Basic GNU/Linux knowledge in 2002, then interrupted in 2004.

I don't care talking about disability when discussing unrelated topics but it's necessary in this case as my needs are quite different from others.

So, I've been scared by self-hosting and have had shared hosting web sites until now. Until @_elena started self hosting her digital echosystem from scratch using YunoHost.

Due to lack of drivers I stopped with Linux on my private machine, drivers for the Braille display I had, and then the uneffective (at least for my need) screen reader capabilities on Linux's GUI based distros.

Finally in January 2026 I jumped in the dark after reading Elena Rossini's blog about YunoHost and having explored their demo pages. At the worst, I'll cancel the contract...

In the end I've managed to run WriteFreely, WordPress, CastoPod and GoToSocial, just by YunoHost; but if someone says terminal knowledge is not needed, this is a complete lie.

Where a system (such as YunoHost) can do the dirty work configuring postfix and nginx, I'll support it but it has its disadvantages: not every app can be installed through it.

For me it's very difficult to create and look after a config file on my own, it's frustrating for a sighted to miss a punctuation sign, an apostrophe, an indent. Let alone for me! A single space skipped, can crash a system.

A lie even saying that AI completely helps. It does solve some small, simple, immediate tasks but it has some mistakes as well. The so-called allucinations which create a real mess if you can rely on no personal skill.

Such as "sudo yunohost tools cert-install", or similar. AI wrote "cert-install" while the real command is "cert install"! A power user can get rid of it and correct, a beginner with no command-line knowledge, just copies, pastes, and gets scared.

My late attempt has been Madblog, a static markdown-based blogging platform with Fediverse activitypub in it, so I learned what Docker is and how it basically works. But I gave up, due to several timeouts and activitypub slow-downs. I think I'm going to use WordPress for blogging then. In case of comments it'll be more intuitive for non-fediverse folks.

Hopefully share others' experiences as well!

#ActivityPub #blind #fediverse #introduction #selfhost #selfhosting #WordPress #YunoHost

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503016101266241

Congratulations to @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering on the 4.5 launch!

Also nice to see an updated roadmap!

https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

#mastodon #fediverse

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We would like to thank @gofedi for helping migrate over Bikers Go Social.

We will be putting out little updates through the next upcoming weeks, especially as the server sets in place.

Thank you all for an amazing journey the past year.

#Update #BikersGoSocial #Fediverse #Instance