fediverse

You guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #sockPuppet

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-28

Servers

- Hollo v0.9.13
- gush! v0.0.41
- tootik v0.25.0
- Mitra v5.10.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.9
- Hollo v0.9.15
- Funkwhale v2.0.10
- PieFed v1.7.13
- tootik v0.25.1
- NeoDB v0.17.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.8.1
- Fedilab v3.43.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.6

Protocol

- FEP-49eb: Batched Inbox Delivery

Articles

- A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
- The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a0269e-d9e5-7a03-a62d-6ef77099e4a7

Stay cool indoors with a #WatchParty 📺️& the THU-THU July 9-16 weekly #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar screencaps ⬇️

📅LiveCal at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️️All times US Eastern

⚽️FIFA Hiatus for #ReMonsterdon till 7/26

#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #scifi #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

TY hosts🌼 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde @greenpepper22 @kamikat @lilymarswrites @LisaMarieBowman @AlsoPaisleyCat @klu9 @silverseasun

@raccoonforfriendicaapp version 1.1.0 has been released!

This version includes better support for quotes on Mastodon, a totally revamped navigation system (with better support for foldables and tablets) and some important bug fixes that solve issues you reported.

Thanks to all testers and users! And remember to live fast and eat trash 🦝🦝🦝

#kotlin #multiplatform #compose #kmp #foss #fediverse #raccoonforfriendica

Retro.pizza is a nerd culture Mastodon server where we strive to uphold the values of the fictional heroes we admire: to value diversity like the X-Men, to be as kind as the Doctor, to defend the weak like Optimus Prime and fight against fascism like Princess Leia.

This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters.

https://retro.pizza

You can find out more at https://retro.pizza/about or contact the admin account @trixter

#FeaturedServer #Nerds #SciFi #Mastodon #Fediverse

One thing I keep coming back to when comparing #ActivityPub and AT Protocol: ActivityPub is basically a convention on top of the #web stuff we already have. An actor is a JSON-LD document you GET. An inbox is an endpoint you POST to. If you already run a website, you can bolt this on without changing the site's basic shape. Ghost didn't set out to join the #fediverse, and then years later it could, just by adding an endpoint.

AT Protocol feels less like that to me. Running a PDS means a signed repo, a Merkle search tree, a firehose, a DID. It's not a layer you add to an existing site. It's closer to standing up another backend beside it.

I think that's why ActivityPub keeps making sense to me. You can join later. You don't have to have built the whole thing with federation in mind from day one.

#ATProto #ATProtocol #fedidev

#snac fam: did you know that you can share direct urls to snac users' posts and hide the bio?

just append the url with ?terse=true

behold and compare the results!
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true

#fediverse #snac2

Week in Fediverse 2026-07-10

Servers

- Betula v1.8.1
- Stegodon v1.8.6
- Ktistec v3.8.0
- Mitra v5.7.0
- Ibis v0.3.3
- Gathio v1.6.3
- NodeBB v4.14.0
- Wanderer v0.20.0
- Wafrn v2026.07.01
- Gush! v0.0.40
- PieFed v1.7.5
- Harmony v1.4.0

Clients

- Mastodon for iOS v2026.05
- tooi v0.27.0
- Voyager v2.47.4
- Aria v1.5.7
- Holos v1.14.0
- Rocinante v1.1.0
- chan-fe: Imageboard-style frontend for Mitra and Mastodon-compatible fediverse APIs

Tools and Plugins

- tag-federation.online: How Widely Do Hashtags Federate?
- Fedigraph: A dashboard for exploring the fediverse

For developers

- BotKit v0.5.0

Protocol

- FEP-4772: Representing bookmarks
- FEP-521b: Switch the default in FEP-521a to be 76171% cooler

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f29a4-78da-7a53-805d-72c8e43916c2

Which Fediverse photo platform do you use most?

#Pixelfed #Vernissage #Fediverse #Poll

🇬🇧 FediMeteo is also available in the UK.

If you live in the UK and would like to have the local weather forecast directly in your Fediverse timeline, have a look at FediMeteo.

Each supported place has its own account, so you can simply follow the one nearest to you and get the forecast without installing another app or visiting another website.

It is a small project, built around the Fediverse and open standards, and new places are being added over time.

🌦️ https://fedimeteo.com

If you find it useful, feel free to follow, boost, or tell someone else about it. That is probably the best way to help more people discover it.

#FediMeteo #Fediverse #Weather #UK

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'd like to create a custom #Fediverse t-shirt for my upcoming talk at #BerlinFediDay.

I thought of maybe using the Fediverse logo as the "O" for "HOPE". What do you think? Trying to gauge if it's cheesy or not, I'd love some external opinion 😅

littleFedi allows you to hide all posts that have images without alt text.
Because yes, that's how it should be.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

Nineteen days before the U.S. sanctions deadline, Autistici/Inventati is shutting down.

For twenty-five years, A/I built infrastructure for people who understood that privacy, autonomy and resistance require more than good intentions. Now a government order has made keeping that infrastructure alive untenable.

There is grief in this. There should also be fury.

Because fascism does not arrive only as boots in the street. Sometimes it arrives as a designation, a compliance deadline, a terrified service provider, a bank account that suddenly stops working. Bureaucracy has always been one of authoritarianism’s favorite costumes. The paperwork looks terribly respectable while the walls close in.

And this cannot remain a problem for “the nerds.” People organizing in every sphere need to understand what autonomous infrastructure means, why it matters, and what happens when we leave it to a tiny number of exhausted technical collectives to keep the lights on for everyone else.

We need to become the thousand servers. Now.

If one autonomous project can be isolated, there should be ten more behind it. A hundred. A thousand. This should be the moment radical hosting, federated services, community servers, privacy infrastructure and collectively controlled networks begin flourishing, not retreating. Build them in basements, social centers, infoshops, collectives, cooperatives and wherever else people can keep a machine humming and a cable plugged into the wall.

The lesson cannot be that autonomous infrastructure was too dangerous to maintain.

The lesson has to be that we did not have nearly enough of it.

We ❤️ A/I. We are heartbroken to see it end this way. And we refuse to treat its shutdown as the end of the idea it spent twenty-five years proving was possible.

Use the logo and banner provided by @subvertising to keep their memory alive. Let's not forget this by next week!

Goodbye, A/I. Not farewell.

Read our full report:
https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

campaign page: https://sabot.media/campaigns/autistici-inventati

#AutisticiInventati #Antifa #DigitalRights #Privacy #MutualAid #AutonomousInfrastructure #Fediverse #SelfHosting #RadicalTech #NoBlogs #SabotMedia

We're going to livestream the installation of a new PieFed instance The ‘Works on my machine’ livestream describes itself like this: We put developers and their docs through the test to see how idiot proof it is. Installing their application live on stream for everyone to watch, ask questions, get to know the project and the developer. JOIN US! See https://womm.live for more info and follow @[email protected] I’m not sure how this will go, it might be fine, it might be a trainwreck. Tune in to find out! Event · piefed.social

The ‘Works on my machine’ livestream describes itself like this:

We put developers and their docs through the test to see how idiot proof it is. Installing their application live on stream for everyone to watch, ask questions, get to know the project and the developer. JOIN US!

See https://womm.live for more info and follow @[email protected]

I’m not sure how this will go, it might be fine, it might be a trainwreck. Tune in to find out!

We're going to livestream the installation of a new PieFed instance

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_promo@piefed.social/p/2317662/we-re-going-to-livestream-the-installation-of-a-new-piefed-instance

recurring problem: found something interesting on the fediverse, opened in browser, want to go back to the post to boost it, cant find it anymore.

is there a way to recursively search for links? #fediverse i'm using #fedilab

I don't know if #FediHood will be adopted by the #Fediverse community, but I am still doing my best for it. Three new features have been added:

- Emoji reactions to messages (federated)
- Theme customization (with presets available)
- An option to automatically delete your own posts

FediHood lets you build timelines based on people near you and on topics. More: https://fedihood.social/about

PS: feel free to share

There now is a poll plugin for #WordPress that has full #Fediverse support.

Since a few minutes it is finally officially available on WordPress.org.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/polls-for-activitypub/

Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for support the initial development of this piece of software. And thanks to @pfefferle for his ongoing work on the WordPress ActivityPub plugin @activitypub.blog !

I am happy to receive reviews and am ready to fix stuff in case issues should arise!

#Sunflower with a #Busy #Bee by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/sunflower-with-a-busy-bee-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#flower #yellowflower #honeybee #stamen #pollen #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

RE: https://graz.social/@linos/116935715739512526

Congratulations @pfefferle and @activitypub.blog, and thank you @nlnet and @NGIZero for all the ways you support the #Fediverse and #SocialWeb 💝

I WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎

I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.

I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.

Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.

THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.

You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.

But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.

IT'S BULLYING.

And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.

AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.

I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.

HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.

I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool

I TESTED THE WATERS.
PEOPLE WERE KIND 💎

Over the past few days, I’ve been talking openly about something quite personal.

AI is not a novelty for me. It is an indispensable accessibility tool. Because I am paralysed and type with one hand, voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing without exhausting myself.

I wasn’t entirely sure how people would react when I said that plainly. A few people were awful. But only a few.

THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WAS THOUGHTFUL AND KIND.

People understood that you can have serious concerns about AI and still treat the person using it with decency and dignity. People understood that accessibility matters. People understood that context matters.

And some people shared their own experiences of using AI to read inaccessible screens, instructions, packaging, or simply to remain more independent.

I found that unexpectedly moving.

WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE PEOPLE ARE ON THE INTERNET.

Yet when I actually tested the waters, most people behaved like decent human beings. They listened. They disagreed without attacking. They made room for another person’s circumstances.

THAT HAS LEFT ME FEELING TRULY GRATEFUL.

Not grateful that everyone agrees with me. They don’t. Grateful that disagreement has not erased kindness. Perhaps human beings are still rather better than the internet sometimes makes us believe.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #Kindness #Fediverse #GRATEFUL #THOUGHTFUL #KIND

What are the most important issues and discussions about the Open Social Web we need to have this late summer and fall?

#FediForum #FediForumFriday #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Fediverse #atproto

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14

Servers

- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

For developers

- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians

Articles

- Deploying your own Vernissage instance

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma