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At SXSW's Fediverse House, it didn't matter which platform or protocol you preferred — everyone was focused on the singular goal of building a better internet. We've uploaded videos and highlights of key conversations from the event and rounded them up in one post. Here you go:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-house-2025-roundup/
#SXSW #FediverseHouse #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Federation #Flipboard #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb
PeerTube results now show up in regular searches on Kagi, plus you can filter videos by "source" to see more PeerTube content.
Free your Social Media/ Soziale Medien jetzt aneignen! – Kommt in's bunte selbstverwaltete #Fediverse!
Input und Workshop auf dem @dearfuture in der Volkshochschule #Dresden
dresden.network, @datenkollektiv und @BitsUndBaeumeDresden bieten im Rahmen des #DearFuture-Festivals am 14. Mai von 16:00 Uhr bis 19:30 Uhr in der VHS Dresden einen Workshop gezielt für Vereine, Initiativen und ähnliche Organisationen zum Fediverse an.
Alle wichtigen Infos findet ihr hier online:
https://dearfuturedresden.de/festival2025/programm/datenkollektiv-net
My #Fediverse experiments as of November 23, 2024:
https://bsky.app/profile/cuthrell.com = Bluesky ( was @fudge.org previously ) is bridged as @cuthrell.com
@jay = Mastodon
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Revolutionary idea: What if social media platforms actually let you control your data?
@loops does, with full data exports, retention controls & opt-in analytics.
The future of social is open-source ❤️
(and federated 🚀)
Week in Fediverse 2025-10-31
Servers
- Mitra v4.12.0
- Manyfold v0.127.0
- snac v2.84
- Ktistec v3.1.2
- Misskey v2025.10.2
- Mastodon 4.5 for Developers
- Atlas: A social mapping app that lets you post geolocated notes on the Fediverse
Clients
- Pachli v3.1.0
- Mastodon for iOS v2025.07
- NeoDB You v1.0.5
- Thunder v0.8.0
Tools and Plugins
- feed2fedi v3.3.0
- Poduptime v5.5.6
For developers
- NGI0 Progress report #0 (GoActivityPub)
Articles
- Fediverse instances on weird hardware, networks and operating systems
- There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.
- A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different
- How *you* (librarians and those working in publishing, law, and government) should use ActivityPub and Why
- Fediverse Report – #141
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a17cf-e370-2278-c196-713c73e5cdea
Luister de #podcast van De Technoloog van @bnrnieuwsradio terug.
Over de toekomst van Bluesky en de #Fediverse.
"In deze aflevering bespreken Mark en Ben samen met hun gast Laurens Hof (@laurenshof) van Fediverse Report de toekomst van sociale netwerken. En dan in het bijzonder decentrale sociale netwerken."
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 83
Bluesky and Brazil continues to be a great match, and lots of other smaller news items.
Programming note: I’m switching the release day for this weekly newsletter to a Wednesday. Over the last year and a half I’ve spend my free Sundays writing this, and this is not sustainable in the long term. So look for the next edition to arrive on Wednesday the 18th.
Bluesky and Brazil
Bluesky remains highly popular among Brazilians as an alternative to X, that got banned in the country last week. Bluesky has added 3 million accounts since the ban went into effect just over a week ago. When I reported on it last week Bluesky had added 1 million accounts. Of these new accounts, around 85% are from Brazil. The popularity of Bluesky in Brazil also shows up in both politics and the media: President Lula, his party PT Brazil, the Supreme Court, and House of Representatives all have their accounts validated by using their domain as their handle. The media is also paying attention, one of the most popular news programs in Brazil, Jornal Nacional, showed their Bluesky handle during the show. Some of the biggest newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo and Correio Braziliense covered Bluesky as well.
What stands out to me about both articles is that they do not mention Threads. Threads have not made any data available regarding the impact of the Brazilian ban on X on the platform. While Threads is likely to still get a large number of signups simply due to its massive size, it is not part of the conversation in the way that Bluesky is for Brazil.
The inflow of new people also shows up for the Trust and Safety team. In an update Bluesky’s head of Trust and Safety, Aaron Rodericks, shares that the team normally receives about 20k reports per week, a number that skyrocketed to 270k reports, predominantly in Portugese.
The News
Firefish has died another death. This February, the original creator of Firefish Kainoa transferred ownership to the maintainer naskya, without naskya being informed beforehand. Naskya has been maintaining Firefish alone for the last 7 months, while noting that this them taking over the project as unwillingly. Naskya says that this is unsustainable, putting the project in maintanance mode. IceShrimp provides migration instructions for server admins who want to transfer from Firefish to IceShrimp. I’ve got fond memories of the time period during which Firefish worked well, which is sadly a while ago now. It enabled me to build a community in a way that I’ve found much more difficult to do on Mastodon, and the community that I’ve build during the Firefish period is still one that feels like my closest community on Mastodon.
Truefans is a podcasting app that is building ActivityPub integration. It gives you the possibility to create a fediverse account as well (truefans.social), and activities that you take in the Truefans app (listen/comment/follow) are broadcasted into the fediverse.
The IFTAS Moderator Survey for 2024 is live. Last year’s survey led to an extensive report on the actual needs that fediverse moderators have.
Forgejo’s monthly update: “Federation is getting useful. There is now more than preliminary background work, and the first exciting things could be tried out by users. The work is not near the goal yet.”
The SocialCG held their monthly meeting, and decided on two new Task Forces: a task force to update the website activitypub.rocks, and a Trust and Safety Task Force. The goal for the website task force is to make sure that the activitypub.rocks website is a better entry point, as it is badly out of date, with the last post from January 2021. The Trust and Safety team from Threads has already expressed interest in participating in the task force.
Trending topics are a feature that is highly sought after by the Brazilian community, and the community has build two versions themselves: as a browser extension and as a separate site.
EDIT: Another unaffiliated developer has brought to my attention that the browser extension might not be completely safe. I have not been able to verify this information yet, but for now I’d recommend against using the extension until more information is known.
Peertube continues to make inroads with livestreaming, especially via the livechat plugin, which got a significant upgrade again.
Bluesky continues the tradition of 3rd party clients implementing features before the official clients does: this time the Skeets app already supports displaying videos, even though the feature is not released yet and only the developers can post (otherwise invisible) videos.
The developer’s site atproto.com got a major overhaul, including a Quick Start guide that showcases how to build a complete and different type of application on atproto, an extensive article ‘ATProto for distributed systems engineers‘ and more.
A research paper – An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises – provides a critical analysis of the extend that the fediverse can deliver on the promises of decentralisation. Worth checking out, I also find the framing of ‘techno-romanticism’ as to explain the gap between what is promised and what is actually happening in the fediverse.
The Dutch coalition of public organisations PublicSpaces is starting PeerTube Spaces to promote the usage of Peertube as as suitable alternative for public organisations.
The (unofficial) atprotocol.dev community held a talk with the creator of event planner Smoke Signal, the video recording is available here. The recording from the previous talk, by the creator of frontpage.fyi is available as well. This Thursday is the next event, ‘From Feeds to Labelers with Ændra Rininsland’
The Links
WeDistribute – A Brief History of the Fediverse Symbol
Making a Mastodon bot with Google Sheets and Apps Scripts.
Email platform Buttondown has added the option to automatically cross-post to Bluesky.
Hachyderm’s Introduction to Mastodon Moderation: The Report Feature and Moderator Actions.
Thoughts on the 📰 News Feed – by XBlock and News feed developer Ændra Rininsland.
This week’s ActivityPub software updates.
Fediverse for government organisations, a follow-up.
Nostr somehow managed to get a billboard advertising Nostr close to where I live.
A Bluesky client that makes Bluesky look like the old phpBB forums.
Brazil, Bluesky & the Fediverse, by Newsmast’s Michael Foster.
Brazilian Tech YouTuber Gabs Ferreira did a long interview with Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
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The Website League shared their December update, with some exciting news about ongoing projects, which include forks of GoToSocial and Akkoma, a "cohost-inspired frontend", and a "best practices for moderation" guide.
https://buttondown.com/websiteleague/archive/website-league-update-for-december/
More about the League: https://websiteleague.org
Pol.social - Serwer dla osób polskojęzycznych, zlokalizowany w Krakowie, szybki, dobrze i przyjaźnie moderowany. Prowadzony przez Fundację Technologie dla Ludzi.
O serwerze: https://pol.social/about
Zarządzana przez: @ftdl
#FeaturedServer #Polska #Polski #Poland #Polish #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
#Fediverse-Workshop im @kursif
Ihr kennt Leute, die überlegen, ob sie sich im Fediverse anmelden wollen, aber ihr habt sie noch nicht ganz überzeugen können? Oder ihr seid selbst schon im Fediverse, aber wünscht euch nochmal einen Überblick, was es hier alles zu entdecken gibt?
Dann ist vielleicht unser Fediverse-Workshop am Montag den 2. Dezember im #KuRSiF genau das Richtige!
Es wird über Social Media im Allgemeinen, das Fediverse im Speziellen und verschiedene Dienste im Fediverse gehen und genug Raum für Fragen und gemeinsames Entdecken gibt es auch.
Wer: ich in Koop mit dem KuRSiF
Wo: KuRSiF (Oskarstr. 1 #Dresden)
Wann: 02.12.2024, ab 19:00 Uhr
Anmeldung: Bitte per Mail oder Nachricht beim KuRSiF oder bei mir anmelden
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The #Fediverse is not just posts from people who can confidently install Linux. It's full of posts on art, politics, cats, photography, activism, history, gaming, humor, cartoons, creativity and community from people who can confidently install Linux.
Slurp is a new CLI tool for GoToSocial that is making post migration possible from Mastodon and Pixelfed archive formats.
Learn about the complexities of previous import solutions and how I slurped up my Pixelfed archive into a new GoToSocial account.
🦣 Stegodon v1.6.0 brings boost support and major timeline fixes! 🎉 ✨ Full boost/unboost functionality in web & TUI 🔧 Fixed global timeline pagination & remote user visibility #fediverse #activitypub #golang
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Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 51 starts NOW!
Special Guest: @anca #Connector, #Instigator, #Maker. #Slime #mold #farmer. #fediforum2025 #fediforum25
Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live
After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live
#Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@btfree_org
All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live
#stream #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree
If you're enjoying the show, please consider supporting our new nonprofit btfree.org at https://givebutter.com/btfree. We're currently running https://tubefree.org which is a moderated peertube open for signups right now!
Someone should tell Reddit that there is Lemmy (and mastodon, of course)
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Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 🕵️♂️
Teilen erbeten ‼️ 
#DSGVO #TDDDG #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Appel #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification #Bloatware #TPM #Murena #Shiftphone
#LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture #FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
( Ich bitte euch außerdem um > #niewiedercdu #noAFD )
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/hfzvE2FX7wKg8kbtUScqrvqI/
🎉 Finally federated!
After a truly ridiculous amount of stubbornness, debugging, and duct-taping containers together, my Ghost blog is now fully ActivityPub enabled.
You can now follow my blog directly from the fediverse:
@laura 💜🌹
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #Ghost #IndieWeb #FediTech
I link to my personal web-site from my Mastodon account.
On my Mastodon account, that link shows up with the "verification" checkmark and highlight.
I did that by adding special HTML code to my personal web-site.
If you want to do the same — add similar code your personal web-site.
Just replace my URL with yours.
Ex:
<link rel="me" href="YOUR_PROFILE_URL_HERE" />
I've gone live!
Fireside Fedi - Episode 58 - Connector, Instigator, Maker
#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
Just an occasional reminder that disabling replies is the #1 requested feature from Mastodon.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc
(EDIT: Direct link, in case the above doesn't work for you: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565)
Limiting who can reply is also worth giving a thumbs-up to, currently at #10.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762
#mastodon #fediverse #ReplyControls #SocialMedia #TrustAndSafety
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For some months now I am actively hesitating to publish my work-related stuff on #LinkedIn (or any other centralized social network for that matter) so I am thinking of using the #fediverse for it.
Do you have any advice for using fediverse as your #work -related social network? My use case for such a network would be: inspiring others to do good work, building and maintaining my professional "brand," and helping myself or my employer attract new talent.
Some topics to consider: Same account, separate account? Server software (Mastodon, Pleroma, ...)? Discovering (potential) colleagues, being discovered by them? Pointing existing LinkedIn users to your fediverse account? Adjusting language/tone of communication based on fediverse nuances?
I am eager to learn. Boosts are appreciated.
How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments
On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts or comments in the community. This can be helpful for giving a hint about someone’s background, interests or expertise.
However PieFed is federated and there are copies of the communities on multiple servers (instances). The way to use ActivityPub to create and maintain those copies is described in FEP 1b12 which makes no mention of flair. I have made some minimal additions to that FEP, described below:
For flair on posts, the Lemmy devs have already done quite a bit of work on this, which I added a little to, so that flair can have colors. Community actors have an additional type of tag:
{
"type": "Group",
"id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
"name": "piefed_meta",
/* ... */
"lemmy:tagsForPosts": [
{
"type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
"id": "https://piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
"display_name": "Some Post Tag Name",
"text_color": "#000000",
"background_color": "#dedede"
}
]
}
lemmy:tagsForPosts is a list of lemmy:CommunityTag objects.
So now all the different copies of the community will know which flair can be used there. When creating a post in the community we just need to add one or more lemmy:CommunityTag objects to the Page activity:
{
"id": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
"actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
"type": "Page",
/* ... */
"tag": [
{
"type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
"id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
"display_name": "Some Post Tag Name"
},
{
"href": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
"name": "asdf",
"type": "Hashtag"
}
]
}
In this example the post also has a #asdf hashtag on it.
User flair is simpler because it’s not managed by the community moderators and is not a fixed list. PieFed simply adds the author’s flair to every comment (federated as a Note activity) they make. When a Note is received the author’s flair is updated on the receiving instances.
{
"id": "https://piefed.social/comment/1",
"actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
"type": "Note",
/* ... */
"flair": "PieFed dev"
}
This means that when someone changes their flair it will take effect immediately on their instance but until they write a comment it won’t propagate to other instances. As flair is primarily used on comments and the people using flair will tend to be posting a lot of comments this is kinda “good enough”.
It would be trivial to add a “flair” attribute onto posts too and have receiving instances read that. User flair shows up next to the author’s name on their posts so arguably it makes sense to send it then too.
Let’s see how it goes.
#asdf #fediverse #Lemmy #piefed #threadverse
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The last #snac release fixes a problem with the Mastodon API. Now, apps (or webapps like Phanpy) properly work as the "inifite scrolling" has been fixed.
Thanks, @grunfink - this was one thing that kept some of my friends away from self-hosting with snac, and now I can help them to have their own digital home.