fediverse
🔥 Short Hiatus Notice 🔥
Hey folks! 👋
Just a quick heads-up that there won't be any new Fireside Fedi episodes for about a month. I'll be having surgery followed by a trip to Vancouver for FOSSY!
While I'm offline, here are 5 great episodes to catch up on in the meantime:
E83 — Fedify & Futures: Building the Fediverse's Backbone Hong Minhee (@[email protected]) Deep dive into Fedify, Hollo, and Botkit tubefree.org/w/i1WNPWEVoDJe8...
E74 — The People‑First Platform: Hannah Aubry on Mastodon and the Fediverse Hannah Aubry (@[email protected]) A chat about people-first platform design tubefree.org/w/x715zm1Nkvqd8...
E73 — Ink & Open Source: David Revoy's Fantasy Webcomics in the Fediverse David Revoy (@[email protected]) Exploring webcomics and open source creativity tubefree.org/w/j2yFdBC8LtV5R...
Episode 8 — Paige (FediHost) Paige (@[email protected]) Early episode chatting with Paige from FediHost tubefree.org/w/oZsDbzuKFt2hZ...
Episode 45 — Weatherman (Weather Is Happening) Weatherman (@[email protected]) A lively conversation about weather and more tubefree.org/w/8BPyhJkxRkAu5...
You can find these and all our back catalog at tubefree.org/@firesidefedi 🎙️
Want to be on the show? We're always open to volunteers and welcome topic suggestions! Feel free to reach out if you'd like to sit down for a chat or have a suggestion for someone you'd like to see on the show.
I'm really looking forward to meeting many of you at FOSSY! I'll also be doing a panel for the Fedicon track — come say hi and let's chat!
Thanks for your patience. I'll be back with fresh conversations soon. 🧡 #FiresideFedi #FOSSY #Fedicon #Fediverse #Podcast #Vancouver
The #Vernissage financial report for August 2026 is now available: https://vernissage.photos/news/7681636639113743034
Many new users have joined us recently, which is wonderful to see! If you enjoy #Vernissage and would like to help keep this independent, ad-free platform running, please consider supporting the project. Every contribution makes a real difference. 💚
🐧 Milá komunito,
máme na vás velkou prosbu
V říjnu jedeme na LinuxDays – chceme tam osobně ukázat OSCloud lidem, co mají blízko k Linuxu, open source a Fediverse. A rádi bychom vás poprosili o pomoc.
Provozujeme třeba Mastodon, Pixelfed, VHSky, mákni.cz, Nextcloud nebo Ente Photos – a chceme ukázat, že takové služby můžou fungovat bez reklam, bez sledování a bez vendor lock-inu, jako komunitní projekt, ne jako firma s investorem za zády.
Účast na LinuxDays nás bude stát navíc k běžnému provozu serverů – tiskoviny, cesta a reklamní předměty. Odhadem 10–15 000 Kč. Pokud vám dává smysl to, co děláme, budeme rádi za jakýkoli příspěvek:
👉 Účet: 264043266/0600
Nemusí jít o velkou částku – i drobný dar nám pomůže náklady na propagaci posunout do přijatelnějších hranic.
❤️ Díky všem, kdo OSCloud používají, podporují, nebo o něm prostě řeknou dál.
Pomozte nám dostat OSCloud mezi lidi 🐧
mookie's #introduction / #reintroduction
it's me, hi. i'm the mookie, it's me (again).
i'm the father of two awesome kids. i love watching and talking about #movies. i'm a #gamer. i #run to eat. i'm a giant #starwars, #startrek, #predator, #alien and #tron nerd. i'm a born and raised #engineer.
i'm a serial #fediverse instance creator (and destroyer) and have been doing this since 2018.
my home is at https://ultramookie.com where i should be spending time writing.
will this be permanance?
We're now on Pixelfed.
We'll be using our new official account to share Pixelix updates, showcase features, photography and more.
Mastodon will still be our main account for development updates, announcements and engaging with the community. This account is more about showing off Pixelix and the things you can do with it.
Follow us: @pixelix
Our first post is coming soon.
I've sometimes thought about building a service combining #OSM and the #Fediverse, to talk with people in the same region.
It would be 100% anonymous: a dedicated account, with no link to your existing Fedi identity, and why not #E2EE for messages.
No exact location: posts are attached to the nearest town, so neither the server nor other users see your coordinates.
Anonymity could be what makes people comfortable enough to talk with people around them. Everyone stays in a safe place.
Options: (choose one)
🌟 Friendica Plausch am Samstag, 05.09.2026 🌟
Du nutzt Friendica schon eine Weile – oder bist gerade erst dabei, die vielen Möglichkeiten zu entdecken? Dann schau doch beim wöchentlichen Friendica Plausch vorbei! 😊
Jeden Samstag um 14 Uhr lädt @feb zu einer lockeren Online-Runde rund um Friendica ein.
💬 Was kann Friendica eigentlich alles?
🔎 Wo verstecken sich praktische Funktionen?
💡 Welche Tipps haben andere Nutzerinnen und Nutzer?
❓ Und wie funktioniert dieses oder jenes überhaupt?
Beim Friendica Plausch gibt es kein festes Programm und keine „dummen Fragen“. Es geht ums gemeinsame Entdecken, Ausprobieren, Fragenstellen und Erfahrungen austauschen.
Und wie es sich für einen echten Plausch gehört: Manchmal schweifen wir dabei auch ganz entspannt in völlig andere Themen ab. 😉 Genau das macht die Runde oft besonders unterhaltsam und abwechslungsreich.
Egal, ob du #neuhier bist, schon länger Friendica nutzt oder einfach neugierig bist – komm gern dazu. Gerade die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen und Gespräche machen den Plausch spannend. 🌐✨
📅 Samstag, 05.09.2026
🕑 14:00 Uhr
💻 Online
Den Link zur Veranstaltung findet ihr im Kalendereintrag von Matthias.
Vielleicht entdeckt ihr dabei ja eine Friendica-Funktion, die ihr bisher noch gar nicht kanntet – oder landet am Ende bei einem Thema, mit dem vorher niemand gerechnet hat. 😄
Wir freuen uns auf euch! 😊
#friendica #neuhier #fediverse
RE: loma.ml/objects/373ebf56-206a-…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116183535316096143
Some news from #HolosSocial development. The latest release moves media processing to the device. Videos are transcoded locally before upload. Users can store media on their own S3 or WebDAV server, and the resulting URLs are used directly in #ActivityPub activities. The relay server handles neither transcoding nor media storage. Each user brings their own resources to the #Fediverse.
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Here's the tardy #Mastodon 🐘🦣/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar for FRI-THU, Sep. 4-10
📅LiveCal updates at http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️️All times US Eastern
This Sat: monthly #ColumboTV
#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #scifi #Action #Comedy #anime #SilentFilm #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon
Tx hosts🌺 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @hyde @kamikat @lilymarswrites @LisaMarieBowman @rsmon77 @AlsoPaisleyCat @klu9 @GrillChill @greenpepper22 @heavydishongry
Pixelix is now free!
After two and a half years of developing Pixelix and having it as a paid app, we've decided to switch things up and make Pixelix free for everyone.
We’re really excited to see where this takes Pixelix, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us so far.
#Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Fediverse #OpenSource #Android #iOS
If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.
#snac @grunfink #fediverse
Hello world!
We just shipped our first release, and opened the gates to our two instances, cookifed.net and cuisine.social !
do australian fedi conferences exist? I've seen a few but they're always at like, 1am aest
#FediHood now has a better composer. You can post three types: messages with topics, events and communities.
There is also a bot that can put anyone from the #Fediverse on the map (a remote filter is available). More about how to appear: https://fedihood.social/locator
This affects the Fediverse.
This affects the Internet.
This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.
All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.
You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.
Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.
Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)
You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.
The EFF is promoting the Fediverse in an online event next week!
We've put it on our community calendar: https://fediforum.org/events
Instapix.org is a general purpose Pixelfed server for photos, images and videos, with the main languages being German and English.
You can find out more by clicking the "About", "Rules" and "Features" sections on the front page of the website at https://instapix.org
#punk #fediverse #meworst #music @punk @punxsocial @UnterDruck
ein neuer Versuch den Mainstream abzuleiten 🤞🍀
Interesting to see the fediverse and the Atmosphere starting to take up similar shape, as with FASPs, fediverse servers will be able to connect to shared infrastructure.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/building-shared-infrastructure-for-the-fediverse/
via https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01M1KV6AVGVKJMXZ1309NW20S0
Week in Fediverse 2026-09-04
Servers
- Ktistec v3.12.0
- Mastodon v4.7.1
- Vernissage v1.43.0
- snac v2.95
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.3.0
- Owncast v0.3.0
- gathio v1.6.6
- NodeBB v4.15.2
- tootik v0.25.2
- NeoDB v0.18.0
- Bonfire v1.0.7
Clients
- PleromaFE v2.11.4
- Fedilab v3.43.3
- Tuba v0.11.1
- Pixelix v5.2.0
- Summit v1.85.0
- Shoot Web App v1.3.0
Tools and Plugins
- FediFetcher v8.2.0
- Poduptime v6.3.2
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.3 (WordPress plugin)
For developers
- APx v0.27.0
- Library progress report - September 2026 (GoActivityPub)
Articles
- A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-eede-72b0-a5e9-f244c3ff2142
Pixelix is a client for Pixelfed and Vernissage. The app is available on the Play Store, the App Store, on GitHub and F-Droid.
We (@(@[email protected] @hiebeler05) have been developing Pixelix for more than 2 years and will share updates, features, and other things about Pixelix on this account.
#Fediverse #Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Android #iOS
#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.
Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.
A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.
In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.
