Anyone know if Threads accounts that haven't enabled fediverse sharing are able to follow fediverse accounts? I assume not

Ha, figured out out to bridge my Threads account to Bluesky. Not that I'll use it, but it is possible #threads

Threads is mocking AP users at this point.😒

Threads users can now "follow" Fediverse users that have replied to a post already existing on threads.

-Cant search for Fediverse users and follow them normally.

-Cant see Fediverse posts if they're not a reply, even if you follow.

-Cant reply or mention a Fediverse user

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN DO?!?!?

#Threads #Fediverse #Meta #Fedi #ActivityPub

Woah, just followed my #Fediverse account from #threads . They actually did it 😅

#activitypub

I was looking at the properties on the Person #ActivityPub object implemented by #fedify, and wasn't expecting this one, haha!

I'm presuming this is #Misskey related? The quirks of having to implement many different versions of a spec!

I've finally got off my ass and created a Codeberg account in order to submit my first PR to the #FEP repository.

I'm not very familiar with the FEP submission etiquette so any pointers from more experienced people would be helpful.

The PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/452

Mailing list thread for feedback: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub-discuss/%3Cwecobrezdaeqzfsukst42hncuuimomii5oeixonirrksrvs4md@4l76dr4obisi%3E

#activitypub #activitypubdev

Wir haben das Fediverse-Schaubild noch einmal überarbeitet. Ein herzliches Dankeschön an @imke für die Aktualisierung und die wertvolle Unterstützung. Hier ist die neueste Version des Fediverse-Schaubilds – schaut es euch an! 👇

Gerne teilen!

#fediverse #schaubild #mastodon #pleroma #misskey #hubzilla #diaspora #lemmy #kbin #friendica #bookworm #funkwhale #peertube #pixelfed #activitypub

Fediverse developers: Want to update your https://FediDB.org listing, or add a logo?

Introducing the communityDB - a human curated software repository that is used to update our Software index.

https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB

Spread the word ✨

#fediDB #fediverse #activityPub #fediverse

If you update an account profile in the fediverse, who should you send the Update(Person) activity to?

#ActivityPub #fedidev

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

#WebsiteLeague #fediverse #activitypub

Well...30 more days till I'll have to defederate from Threads for not fulfilling their promise of fully federating by the end of the year.

Will they pull it off? Doesn't seem likely at this point.😒🤦‍♂️

Proving us all right in the end, it seems.

#Threads #Meta #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub

The Fediverse's usage of rel-self in WebFinger, to point to an ActivityPub Activity file (application/activity+json), seem different than how Atom feeds uses rel-self.

The semantics seem different.

(I am assuming ActivityPub borrowed rel-self from Atom feeds.)

#ActivityPub #AtomFeed #Fediverse #WebFinger

Hollo 0.3.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

• Thanks to @joschi, Hollo now support local filesystem storage for media files. You can configure DRIVE_DISK=fs and FS_ASSET_PATH to store media files in the local filesystem. For users who've used S3, no further action is required—but, it's recommended to configure DRIVE_DISK=s3 as DRIVE_DISK will be required in the future releases.
• Added support for Sentry. If you want to see error reports and instrumented traces in Sentry, please configure SENTRY_DSN.
• Added pagination to the profile page.
• Minor performance improvements and bug fixes due to upgrading Fedify to 1.3.0.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.3.0 using the following ways:

• To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
• To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.3.0 or simply latest!
• To manual installers: Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it!

We are a little more than 24 hours away from the deadline for FOSDEM 2025 proposals. If you work on Free and Open Source software for the Fediverse, especially #ActivityPub servers and #Mastodon clients, please consider proposing a talk:

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/01/fosdem-2025-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/

Finally got done listening to the For A Better Web #podcast with @brucelawson and @evan - really good episode talking about the importance of #ActivityPub and the standards and practical work going into the #Fediverse right now. 👏🏻 https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/evan-prodromou-social-web-foundation-for-a-better-web/

Is it somewhat concerning that the current Twitter owner also owns a Rocket company and can monopolize interplanetary communications?

ActivityPub needs cross planet support long term, and satellites so we don't need to rely on adversarial competitors

#activityPub #future

I believe that Starter Kits need explicit Opt-In inclusion.

There are too many examples of well intentioned services like these that end up getting abused

I've reached out to a few other #activityPub projects, and Lemmy for example stated that Communities are their primary use case for this, so I will be adding support for Community Starter Kits eventually!

Notice, these aren't Pixelfed or Loops Starter Kits, something this impactful belongs to the whole fediverse!

Kits = Better, Safer, Open

Oh! Is the #fediverse the reason I see posts that are longer than the #mastodon character limit? Am I seeing posts from other systems that implement #ActivityPub or do I misunderstand what is happening?

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-29

Servers

- Manyfold v0.90.0
- Pleroma v2.7.1
- Akkoma v3.13.3
- snac v2.65
- Sharkey v2024.9.4
- Mbin v1.7.3

Clients

- Sengi v1.7.1
- toot v0.47.1
- Pachli v2.9.0
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.3.1

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.14
- Fedify v1.3.0
- Federails v0.3.0

Protocol

- FEP-171b: Conversation Containers

Articles

- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193553b-c77c-7bff-9394-60b52cd166c6

The version 1.3.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, released! The key changes include:

• Instrumented spans for OpenTelemetry are added. In most cases, it's automatically enabled if your application configured OpenTelemetry SDK.
• Since Fedify 1.3.0, you can configure different MessageQueues for incoming and outgoing activities.
• Fedify now allows you to manually route an Activity to the corresponding inbox listener. It is useful for invoking an inbox listener for an Activity enclosed by another Activity.
• Context.sendActivity() and InboxContext.forwardActivity() methods now reject when they fail to enqueue the task.
• Thanks to @robin_maki, @fedify/fedify/x/sveltekit module is added for integrating with SvelteKit hook.
• Fedify now makes HTTP requests with the proper User-Agent header, e.g., User-Agent: Fedify/1.3.0 (Deno/2.1.2).

For details, see the full changelog as well!

Fedify 1.3.0 is available at JSR and npm.

Anyone know if Sharkey has properly implemented the Mastodon API yet so that apps like Ivory and IceCubesApp can be properly used?

I tried back in May and despite their advertising of the feature, it was basically non-existent and I haven't been keeping up with development.

#Fediverse #Sharkey #Mastodon #Fedi #ActivityPub

@erlend Yes, protocols are a technical tool, not an end in themselves.

https://mastodon.social/@folkerschamel/113520588752933378

#mastodon #bluesky #activitypub #atproto #threads

Dear #activitypub devs,
moin.

We need some feedback of how to #Place – please :)

https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/582

i added the ability to weight toots containing hashtags you follow to the customizable timeline #algorithm for Mastodon in #FediAlgo.

find it here: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed

#FediTools #FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #activitypub #mastohelp #Fedi #foss #nodejs #opensource

Wir haben das Fediverse-Schaubild erneut aktualisiert! Ein herzliches Dankeschön an @imke für die Überarbeitung und die wertvolle Unterstützung. Hier ist die neueste Version des Fediverse-Schaubilds – schaut es euch an! 👇

Gerne teilen!

#fediverse #schaubild #mastodon #pleroma #misskey #hubzilla #diaspora #lemmy #kbin #friendica #bookworm #funkwhale #peertube #pixelfed #activitypub

"The Bluesky features we covet are almost always built on structures that were designed in anticipation of eventually treating the network’s users as a resource to be mined for profit. The question we should ask before incorporating any given feature is not: Can we do that here? but rather: Can it be done without replicating the exploitative structures it’s built on there?"

https://destructured.net/bluesky-enshittification

#Bluesky #Fediverse #ATProto #ActivityPub #Enshittification

#Threads blocks #EU residents from posting using #activitypub / #mastodon protocol.

그 證據로, AUTHORIZED_FETCH를 要求하는 #ActivityPub 오브젝트는 `fedify lookup -a` 커맨드로 아주 쉽게 照會할 수 있다.

https://fedify.dev/cli#a-authorized-fetch-authorized-fetch

As proof, #ActivityPub objects that require #AUTHORIZED_FETCH can be easily looked up with the `fedify lookup -a` command.

https://fedify.dev/cli#a-authorized-fetch-authorized-fetch

所信發言: #ActivityPub 소프트웨어들이 #AUTHORIZED_FETCH, 이른바 시큐어 모드(secure mode)를 갖추는 것은 이름과 달리 정말로 시큐리티가 나아지게 하지 않으며, 오히려 安全하다는 錯覺(false sense of security)을 주기 때문에 나쁘다고 생각한다.

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/#authorized-fetch

Hot take: It is bad that #ActivityPub software implements #AUTHORIZED_FETCH, also known as secure mode, because, contrary to its name, it does not actually contribute to security and instead gives a false sense of security.

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/#authorized-fetch

#Debugging #activitypub implementations seems to be quite hard. I've got a pretty simple server set up that for now only serves information for one Actor of type Service. My goal at some point is to have this be a working bot that does things. But for the time being I'm still struggling to get other servers to actually consume that actor from my server. I've got #webfinger working I believe correctly (here) and the ID it returns responds with what seems to me like a valid Actor json-id (here). However the several instances I've tried accessing it from all seem to not be able to consume that for any reason. Misskeys end up with an An error has occurred message, mastodons just say they're not finding anything.

With the misskeys at least I see a request coming in to /.well-known/webfinger, but mastodon instances don't seem to attempt to make any call, even if I search directly for the URL of the actor object. Meanwhile fedify lookup seems to be fine with what it gets from the webfinger request since it then proceeds to hit the actor URL as well and prints out the json-ld it gets from it.

There don't seem to be any tools that I can point at a resource and have them tell me what it is I haven't implemented properly which is a bit frustrating.

Well, @Mastodon has started closing stale bugs on their tracker telling me to reproduce on a newer version and resubmit, even though the ticket invites them to a theoretical discussion rather than being a technical problem. It's clear to me that the dude that closed it hasn't even read the issue.

A good time to link Drew's wisdom about bug tickets: https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html

> ...a different way of thinking about issues:
> a place for motivated users to collaborate on narrowing down the problem and planning a potential fix.
> A space for the community to work, rather than an action item for you to deal with personally.

#mastodon #activitypub

"FEP-171b: Conversation Containers" finally has been published:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/171b/fep-171b.md

Conversation Containers are conceptually very similar to FEP-1b12: activities are sent to a conversation owner, who manages the conversation and synchronizes it between participants. Differences are mostly superficial and may disappear in the future.

#FEP #ConversationContainers #ActivityPub

#ActivityPub 서버 만들 때 디버깅하기 어려우신가요? #Fedify CLI의 숨은 피처들을 소개합니다!

• authorized fetch가 걸린 API도 쉽게 테스트
• 받은 액티비티의 디테일 보기
• NodeInfo 데이터 비주얼라이제이션
• 로컬 서버 터널링

https://velog.io/@hongminhee/hidden-gems-of-the-fedify-cli-tips-tricks-you-might-have-missed

@soaproot Also as part of my effort to learn more about #Bluesky, I've found a few resources I'm trying to digest.

This talk by Dan Abramov, an engineer I greatly respect, has been great so far but I only had time to watch the first half this morning: https://youtu.be/F1sJW6nTP6E

On the other side, this is also an incredible thread/blog post about #ATProto vs. #ActivityPub, decentralization, and how both Bluesky and the #Fediverse can improve (by one of the authors of AP): https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

Ω⚠️🐘⚠️Ω
I did some hacking at @pkreissel's implementation of a customizable algorithm for your Mastodon feed. I fixed some bugs and added a few features but maybe most importantly I streamlined the process of installing and running the demo app so you can experience the magic of his invention reshaping your Mastodon timeline for yourself with ease.

Seriously everything about having an algorithm adjust my feed to make sure I see stuff I might otherwise have missed has made my Mastodon experience like 1,000x better. The fact that it's (extremely) granularly customizable is the icing on the cake.

Setup should be trivial for anyone vaguely familiar with the command line. Even if you're scared of the command line you should be able to copy/paste the 3 commands listed in the installation instructions, all of which are in the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed

#Fediverse #feditips #Mastodon #FOSS #opensource #nodejs #node #Feditools #activitypub #mastohelp #algorithm #Fedi #socialmedia

Slowly while working on our #leafprotocol we've realized that it shares a lot of similarities with both #activitypub and #atproto.

We just finished a blog post that explains how Leaf compares with its alternatives:

https://blog.muni.town/leaf-atproto-activitypub/

I asked an #ActivityPub question: “Posts and profiles—how to fix the disconnect between local and remote data?"
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/newbie-question-posts-profiles-how-to-fix-the-disconnect-between-local-and-remote-data/4765

Did you know the #Fedify CLI can help debug #ActivityPub federation?

Learn about hidden features like:

• Smart object lookup with content negotiation
• Interactive inbox testing with a web UI
• NodeInfo visualization
• Local development tunneling
• And more!

https://dev.to/hongminhee/hidden-gems-of-the-fedify-cli-tips-tricks-you-might-have-missed-54af

Who do you think @mike should interview next year? We're all ears 👂

#Fediverse #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #Podcast #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #WalledGardens #Threads #Bluesky

We also cut up some YouTube Shorts for newbies: Here's a playlist that includes @Gargron, @jay.bsky.team, @johnonolan, @molly0xfff and @ben.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOZLwweDAo&list=PLtZ3QXAltC7wdAaUkwlLqvZkVELsJ2fdq

#Fediverse #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #Podcast #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #WalledGardens #Threads #Bluesky #YouTubeShorts

Our podcast about the fediverse, Dot Social, is one today! 🎉 It’s been such an honor to host the builders of the social web on this show and to learn from them. We have one more episode coming up in 2024 (read the blogpost to find out who @mike will be chatting with) then rest, then back at it in 2025.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/dot-social-podcast-about-the-fediverse/

#Fediverse #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #Podcast #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #WalledGardens #Threads #Bluesky

Hi folks! Would you benefit from image and video editing built into Fediverse Web apps like Mastodon, GoToSocial and Pixelfed?

I'm a Web developer working on media editing tools with funding from @NGIZero, and I'm looking for feedback.

#OpenSource #NGI0 #ActivityPub #Mastodon #GoToSocial #Pixelfed

My question is pretty simple. I want to create my own social media based on activitypub for learning purposes.

I usually prefer C or Python for programming languages, even though I'm not an expert.

The question is, would someone create a list or to-do list? What should I do?

#C #Python #ActivityPub #programming #askfediverse #askfedi

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 93

This week's news
- With Bluesky the main topic of conversations, people are experimenting with Starter Packs on the fediverse as well
- @subclub can now turn any RSS feed into a paywalled #activitypub newsfeed
- Pixelfed will not pursue an #atproto integration following negative feedback from the community

Read at:
https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-93/

ちょっと追記、
この観点でいうと、自分から見ると #BlueSky は結局「#BlueSky へおいでよ」にしか見えないんだよな…

その点、 #Mastodon は 「 においでよ」とは言ってない。
あ、いや、言ってるかもしれないけど、それだけじゃない。
別に じゃなくてもいい、#Misskey でも #Pixelfed でも #Threads が #ActivityPub に完全対応すれば #Threads だっていい。

「#X から #BlueSky に大移動！これからは #BlueSky の時代！」とか「いまこそ #Threads でインフルエンサーになっておくべき！」みたいな「どこの #SocialMedia にいくべき」みたいな語り口をみると、たとえるなら「いつまでメールのプロバイダーはどこがいい、みたいな話するつもりなのか。全部メールなんだからメールでいいじゃん。」みたいな気持ちになる…

この「メール」という上位の言葉にあたるのが #Fediverse なのであって、いまは便宜上それに対応しているサービスとしてないサービスがあるから #Fediverse って呼んでるだけで、つまりは汎用的な相互に連携できる #SocialMedia のことだし、しかもその仕様は ちゃんと #W3C で #ActivityPub という形で標準化もされてるわけで、さらに実際にそれで連携したいろんなサービスやソフトウェアが存在している（#BlueSky の #ATProtocol とはちがって）んだから、これからはそういう「標準化されたソーシャルメディア」の時代にしようぜ！という気持ちのほうが強い。

全然追記がちょっとじゃなかった…

やっぱり「#X から引っ越す」ということになると #BlueSky が選ばれやすいんだろうなー

分散型といいつつ実際には 1 つのサーバーに集中してるし、そうなってることで #X から引っ越してくるユーザーにとっては分散型がどうとかプロトコルがどうとかそういう #Twitter 時代にはなかった概念を覚える必要もなく使えるし、なおかつ UI も #Twitter にかなり寄せてある。

リアルな引っ越しでも、言葉とか習慣が違う慣れない土地より、土地勘のある場所のほうが気楽だろうし。
#BlueSky にいまひとが増えてるというのもまた「人が多いところにだったら行ってもいい」みたいな、誰もが持ってる「群にはついていきたい」という気持ちが背中を押すところもあるんだろうな…

そう考えると、自分は #Fediverse という夢をみているのかもしれない。その夢を重ねてこの場所を見ているから素敵な場所に見えているのかもしれない。
でも #Fediverse は夢としてはなかなか悪くない夢だし、実際のところ現実に今存在する というこの場所は、なかなか良い場所なんだよ、少なくとも自分にとっては。

たとえ人が集まらなくたっていい、なぜなら #ActivityPub でほかのサーバーとも繋がれるんだから！というのは、なんというか、すごく肩の荷が降りる世界観なんだよな…
もう、どの #SocialMedia に登録してる・してないということを気にしなくていいんだ… みたいな気持ちになるんだよ。

それこそ、#X にいこうが #BlueSky にいこうが #Threads にいこうが、それぞれにいるアカウントはどこからでもフォローできるんだ、という世界観。
分散型がどうとかプロトコルがどうとか、本当は自分もそういう話をしたいわけじゃなくて（そもそも自分もそんなに詳しくないし）、そういう #SocialMedia 同士の壁が無くなる世界観の話がしたいんだよな、きっと。

3/3
AND:
Suppose max changes his name to @[email protected]. And @[email protected] notices this and is happy that max is finally free and changes his name to @[email protected].
Now @[email protected] sends a note to @[email protected] and since the profile is cached, the wrong max now gets a create note activity, right?

So somehow this is either not quite right yet, or there is a knot in my head.

#activitypub #activitypubdev

2/3
And then there's a huge crash, because some instances cache max's profile and therefore have old URLs.

Now there are claims that (if you work properly) you send a delete activity before deleting the DB.

OK, yes I could understand that somehow. But where do I send this delete activity (or update activity if the inbox URL changes, for example? Because I get a lot of delete activities from whoever).

#activitypub #activitypubdev

1/3
At the moment I'm questioning the whole webfinger story.

I use uuid internally to identify actors.

and with webfinger you can currently find an actor URL using the preferredUsername.

here some verifiers are already complaining that the URL doesn't match the requested name. <- I really question that.

But now I'm so cheeky and sometimes delete my dev database. So @[email protected] gets a new uuid!

#activitypub #activitypubdev

@mekkaokereke @stooovie @Remittancegirl

While #Mastodon is the giant of the #Fediverse , I am curious if any of the other projects have made better strides with onboarding, moderation, UX and so forth.

How is #Friendica on these issues? Or #Misskey ? Ideally we should have a number of _different_ #ActivityPub -based systems which all compete to make their user experiences better. I mean, isn't tying ourselves too closely to any single platform how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place?

It's time #Mastodon supported multiple domain names per instance, allowing the users to use their own domain name for identity.

The issue has been open for 7+ years now: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

I’m curious about a couple of things and answers to this question will surely provide insights. What is decentralisation as defined by a social protocol and social network(s)? #fediverse #ActivityPub #Socialweb #Mastodon #Askfedi

if you want to understand what's wrong with #mastodon, listen to some black people. listen to some women. listen to some queer people. I'll post some links in a bit for those who don't know, but I'm not here to convince mastodon apologists. I'm interested in joining the conversation on how (if?) #ActivityPub can be used in a way that overcomes mastodon's problems.

What does a safe, inclusive microposting protocol on top of #ActivityPub look like? #mastodon is very clearly not it; there are flaws baked in, and the questionably-BDFL is not interested in feedback from marginalized people.

Which just means that we'll have to build it ourselves, without him.

@hongminhee yeah he is pretty iconic

but so are you, you one of my heroes for all the amazing work you are doing for #activityPub and your projects.

Keep slaying dude 😎

I have the perfect domain in reserve for ActivityPub Starter Kits:

activitypub.social

Help me pick a subdomain!

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse

I don't want to duplicate efforts with other Starter Pack/Starter Kit projects, so if you are building one for the fediverse, we should chat!

I'd love more help, and plan to release the source code under the established Pixelfed banner!

#starterKits #fediverse #activityPub

ActivityPub Starter Kits update:

I'm making exceptional progress and am wrapping up a few things before I prepare to launch this exciting new service!

ICYMI: I'm building an open source/self-hostable Starter Kit service that will allow fediverse users to safely build kits and share/use them with ease.

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse #onboarding

Some interesting data from @tree.fail

https://burningtree.github.io/bsky-dominance/

#Moderator Issues.

New #report comes in.

No description.

Posts are all part of a thread criticizing the Mainstream Media, with focus on slanted reporting of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Nothing advocating any violence, nothing racist, nothing that seems like blatant misinformation.

No description.

Report was from another server so can't ask for one.

Forced to move on because there's no information about what is being reported.

Perhaps some ability to send internal messages in response to #reports, regardless of server, should be added to #ActivityPub? I know I've seen people talk about adding the ability to share moderator notes, and it would really help with moderation between servers on the #fediverse to be able to ask these questions and see what other #moderators are thinking...

#ActivityPub でボクと握手！

@sublimer あ、やっぱり #Mastodon 独自の機能なんですね〜 💦
おっしゃる通り、より汎用的な仕様として、例えば #Fediverse #ActivityPub 側で同様の機能を取りこんでもらうとか、そもそも使う人が増えてくれると良いですよね

Here's a few things you can expect when there's a #Fediverse outage:

- oh wait, there's no such thing, the Fediverse is actually federated
- there are over 30k totally independent servers
- if one of them goes down the rest of the Fediverse works just fine

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3lawdqryaws2q

#Bluesky #BlueskyOutage #ATProto #ActivityPub #federation

The first draft of the #ActivityPub HTML Discovery report is available.

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-html-discovery/

実際のところ、日本での SNS マーケティングという文脈で #Fediverse とか #ActivityPub が話題に上がることなんてほぼないんだろうな…

というか、自分にとっては #Fediverse が眩しすぎて、#BlueSky とか霞んでよく見えない、みたいな感じかもなー

#BlueSky の界隈の盛り上がりはよく知らないけど、#Fediverse は #ActivityPub がすでに標準技術としてあって複数のソフトウェアとそれを使ったサーバーが建っている（実際に分散運用されている）というだけじゃなく、最近は

* いろんなクライアントがある（#PhanpySocial 推し
* #Flipboard みたいなメディアも #Fediverse に積極的にコミットしてる
* 企業がサーバー立てる例もふえつつある（一方で #Mozilla とかは閉じちゃったりもしてるけど）
* テック系のアカウント（特に英語圏）は結構いる
* 推しの #Vivaldi もサーバー建ててる

みたいに、#Mastodon の中の人だけじゃなく、いろんな人や企業が参加・コミットし始めてて、そこに広告的メリット以上の何か（そもそも #Fediverse は広告的なメリットは既存の SocialMedia に比べれば大きくない）意義を見出して関わっている感じがあって、そこに自分の理想みたいなものを重ねて応援している部分もあるので、あんまり他の場所に興味を持ててない。

そういう意味では全然フラットじゃなくて #Fediverse 贔屓な意見だし、そういう自覚もある。
それくらいには を応援していますという宣言を、ここに置いておこう…（そっ

#Bluesky は、分散型を謳うからには実際に分散して、あと標準化団体がちゃんと標準化した技術であるところの #ActivityPub に対応してから出直しておいで…と、2億年前から思っている。
横目で応援はしてるけど、not for me という感じ

The ActivityPub for WordPress plugin now allows you to preview how your post will appear in the Fediverse. Great work, @pfefferle! #ActivityPub #WordPress

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-15

Servers

- Pixelfed v0.12.4
- snac v2.63
- Lemmy v0.19.7
- Ktistec v2.4.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.2.0
- PieFed development update Oct/Nov 2024
- Trunk & Tidbits, October 2024
- ActivityBot: A Simple ActivityPub Bot Server in a Single PHP File
- Letterbook: Sustainable federated social media built for open correspondence

Clients

- toot v0.47.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.9.0
- Mangane v1.13.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.1.0
- Voyager v2.19.0

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.5

For developers

- Fedify v1.2.5
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.6.0

Protocol

- FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model

Articles

- A bare-minimum ActivityPub server from scratch
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 92

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01930d04-d0b2-a2a2-9b84-90a91046a329

FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model has been published. It supersedes FEP-c7d3: Ownership and describes authentication of ActivityPub objects in simpler terms.
I think ownership is still useful for authorization and access control, so that part was copied from FEP-c7d3.

#fep #activitypub

I have a question about signature handling in #ActivityPub relays. As I understand it, relays forward activities between instances that aren't directly connected. Let's say we have this flow: foo.com (source) → bar.com (relay) → baz.com (destination). The activity created by foo.com includes HTTP Signatures, but when bar.com forwards it to baz.com, wouldn't the original signature become invalid since the Host header needs to change? How do relay implementations handle this issue?

#fedidev

I should probably get in touch with the #PeerTube developers

It would be cool to support following PeerTube accounts in Loops and seeing their videos in your Following feed.

#activitypub #fediverse #loops

Microblogging social media before:

- Twitter

Microblogging social media today:

- Threads
- Bluesky
- Mastodon
- Nostr

The SOCIAL WEB in the future (I want to believe):

- It doesn't matter, they all connect to each other, use whatever service you prefer.

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #ActivityPub #Bluesky #Nostr #Mastodon #Threads

Can someone who is better at #ActivityPub syntax tell me what I've done wrong?

My bot @colours has a list of all its followers at

https://colours.bots.edent.tel/followers

But they're not being picked up by Mastodon.

The MIME type is correct, the JSON is valid, the pagination works, it responds to signed requests.

What super-obvious thing am I missing here?

Jag tänker göra en sån #introduktion / #introduction (igen, jag kommer inte ihåg om jag gjorde det förut faktiskt).

Hej 👋 Jag heter Jessica Tallon, och jag jobbar med peer-to-peer-teknologi och hjälpte till som medförfattare på #activitypub. Jag jobbar på Spritely Institute, där vi försöker bygga och standardisera framtidens sociala medier (bland annat).

När jag inte är vid datorn tycker jag om att vandra, plocka svamp, odla och läsa lite.

Jag flyttade kontot hit från @[email protected]

I finally translated my #ActivityPub tutorial to English: https://grishka.me/blog/activitypub-from-scratch/

(several people at this year's FOSDEM asked me about this)

have you already tested the "fediverse preview" in #WordPress 6.7?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

#activitypub #fediverse

ActivityPub Starter Kit schema RFC, feedback appreciated!

https://github.com/pixelfed/starter-kits/issues/1

#activityPub #starterKits

Big thanks to the people who went on camera first — like @quillmatiq, a writer and builder, who explains how it finally allows us to own our online relationships. 🙌🏻

https://www.tiktok.com/@fedi.curious/video/7434314336350326058

#Flipboard #WalledGardens #ActivityPub
#OpenSocialWeb #Federation #Fediverse

We love hearing your lightbulb moments when it comes to the #fediverse! In our new short video series, we want the unconverted* to see its tremendous power through your stories. (*Which is why we’re posting these clips to “walled gardens” like TikTok.)

https://www.tiktok.com/@fedi.curious

#Flipboard #WalledGardens #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Federation

With respect to #ActivityPub:

Simply, having now seen more into the guts of the process and how it is managed both historically and today, and understanding how the w3c works, I have no faith in their ability to define a clear consensus way forward out of the current set of problems.

Not "no faith in <timeline>" but no faith in the ability to define a clear way forward here.

This doesn't mean that someone outside of w3c couldn't define a better way forward, even one using AP, but w3c won't.

I could make start.fedi.pub a landing page for Starter Kits, allowing users to select the client of their choice, aside from Pixelfed.

Lots of possibilities with Starter Kits, and I look forward to working with other projects to establish a shared spec, aka FEP!

#pixelfed #starterKits #fediverse #activitypub #fep

Do I remember correctly that there was some conversation around #Bluesky considering a native #ActivityPub support?

#fediverse #SocialMedia

#Mastodon から #Threads アカウントのアドレスを検索してもアカウントが検索結果の候補に出てこないけど \@[email protected] とかユーザー ID 形式で検索するとでてきたりするの is 何

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #threads

«As you may have read, #BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated #bot accounts living on the #Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work.

»I write my own #ActivityPub server? Why, yes! Yes I did!

»I took the code and stripped it down to the bare essentials. All you need to do is upload two files- index.php and .htaccess - fill in your details, and you're done.»

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/introducing-activitybot-the-simplest-way-to-build-mastodon-bots/

🆕 blog! “Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots”

As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/introducing-activitybot-the-simplest-way-to-build-mastodon-bots/
⸻
#ActivityPub #bot #fediverse

@g7kse trying to get the hardware together to build this particular project. Want to see if I can link it to the web and federate with #activitypub .

Is this valid in #ActivityPub / AS2 ?
{
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
...
"tag": [
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"name": "example",
"href": "https://example.com/tag/example"
}
}
Note that "Hashtag" is not a term in the normative AP/AS2 context. It seems to break linked data processing, but it also seems to pass the JSON-LD compaction requirements of AS2 (based on the JSON-LD Playground). If true, this means you can use extended types without extending the context. 🤷‍♂️

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-08

Servers

- Hollo v0.2.0
- Sharkey v2024.9.1
- GoToSocial v0.17.2
- Hubzilla v9.4.4
- Manyfold v0.87.0
- snac v2.62
- Mitra v3.9.0
- Lemmy v0.19.6
- Ktistec v2.4.0
- Gancio v1.20.0

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.8.0
- Tesseract v1.4.20

Tools and Plugins

- FediBlockHole v0.4.6

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.13
- Fedify v1.2.3
- ActivityPods v2.0.3

Protocol

- FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text

Articles

- ManyFold: A Decentralized, Open Source Platform for 3D Model Distribution
- Mastodon’s Account Recommendations Explained
- Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 91

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0192e941-03f3-61de-e8f7-7c7cf62ddaf1

People who’ve figured out the fediverse understand its power. Hear from early adopters who explain their lightbulb moments in our new short video series. The use cases and potential of the system are awesome, and these stories are just the beginning. Tell us: what's your favorite thing about the fediverse? We're listening and looking for more people to feature.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/best-thing-about-the-fediverse-short-videos/

#Fediverse #FediLove #ActivityPub #Federation #Flipboard

We just released version 4.1.0 of the #ActivityPub Plugin for #WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

Some handpicked features:

* Custom Preview for “Fediverse” (needs WordPress 6.7)
* Support `comment_previously_approved` setting
* Add title to content if post is a `Note` (cc @davew )
* Fallback to blog-user if specific user is disabled (cc @cdevroe )

Happy federated blogging!

The version on WordPress.com will also be updated soon!

#automattic #wordpressdotcom

How is AT / #Bluesky different from #ActivityPub : https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3l7oxg72zd22t

I *think* I've got this #ActivityPub syntax correct.

http://colours.bots.edent.tel/followers

That should be paginated followers, but I can't see the followers in any Mastodon client.

Trochu jsem zabředl do toho, jak vlastně funguje #BlueSky, konkrétně jejich #ATProto protokol, na kterým to celý stojí. Některý věci jsou fajn, např. jednodušší oddělení identity (klidně na vlastní doméně) od dat (a jednodušší přenos účtu, kterej je možnej i v případě, že server zanikne). Z toho by si #ActivityPub (AP) protokol (pohání #Fediverse/#Mastodon) mohl vzít příklad. Problém AP je taky to, že se uživateli kolikrát nezobrazej všechny komentáře, lajky apod. Na BlueSky tohle funguje. Proč?

If anyone wants to see a talk I did on #ActivityPub, @manyfold and #Federails, here's the one I did at #LRUG in October (and also at #OggCamp the day before):

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/425d9267-2bb9-48bf-ac60-eeecfb78ab5d

Alrighty! Next silly #ActivityPub question.

Why can't Mastodon see my followers?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/list-of-followers-isnt-available-to-mastodon/4717

OK. What is going on here?

A bunch of people can see the posts sent out by @colours - but lots of people can't.

As far as I can see, Mastodon.social isn't sending me back an HTTP response when I send to a shared inbox. But other Mastodon-based servers happily accept it.

Here are the headers
https://gist.github.com/edent/1f41d1b2a50ab497e5d5f8d9e851caf1

Any help #ActivityPub friends?

I like the idea of providing paid content on the Fediverse (even though I do not pay for such anywhere currently). https://sub.club/ implements it via premium accounts and DMs but I wonder if we could (and should) enhance the protocol to allow for payment.
At the start only two clients will support it natively because of that.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

It's true that a lot of servers in the fediverse are probably run by cool people, but remember that everything you say is copied many, many times over to many, many different databases. For example, my single user instance here federates with like, 11,000 fucking instances, I am not joking. That means this little post could be copied into 11,000 databases, give or take, depending on the nature of the instances I'm federated with.

So in theory, let's say I posted something, like, I dunno, "fuck dtolnay". Any one of those servers could take offense with that and be shitty to me about it. And I don't control their retention policies.

So! While we don't have to worry about Mark "My Cold Dead Eyes Are The Mark of the Beast" or Elon "I fucked my own cybertruck and liked it" being shitty about our stuff here, it's not a bad idea to consider the nature of the fediverse when writing spicy things that could be prone to misinterpretation.

#activityPub #fediverse

모두들 스스로만의 #ActivityPub 소프트웨어을 만들어 봅시다! #Fedify 프레임워크를 쓰면 쉽게 할 수 있습니다!

https://hackmd.io/@hongminhee/fedify-tutorial-ko

Let's all build your own #ActivityPub implementation! #Fedify makes it easy!

https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

https://fedidb.org/software/ghost 👀

#ghost #activitypub

@o_simardcasanova @haubles @pluralistic @Mastodon

Well, to be fair, you CAN download and upload your posts here and not lose them on Mastodon, but point taken that the migration is still getting there, but #ActivityPub is working that out for future version.

I'm still confused how BlueSky migration of social graphs would work IF there were another non-BlueSky entirely other ATproto service overall - and how that would work in terms of interoperablity with those users on the BlueSKy service.

New: A Conceptual Model of ATProto and ActivityPub

You might want to know a little bit more about how #Bluesky and #atproto works, without needing to know all the technical details. This is a high level overview of how to think about how atproto works, and how it differs from #ActivityPub.

It is also a reflection on the concepts of decentralisation and federation, and what they bring to both the #fediverse and the #atmosphere

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/a-conceptual-model-of-atproto-and-activitypub/

Is the #Diaspora social network still alive?

Some people list it as part of the #Fediverse but others do not. I'm not sure if it has an #ActivityPub protocol plugin or not, which tends to be the litmus test for being part of the Fediverse.

The Fediverse MUST grow to encompass all websites and apps that want a future without centralized gatekeepers that are soft targets for authoritarian takeovers.

The protocols are TOOLS for doing this they are not ends in themselves, and they MUST be SECONDARY to the goal of an interconnected, open social web. To do that, we need to find ways to work together and stop yelling at each other so much.

We'd better, or we are all screwed.

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/11/the-federation-deathmatch.html

#fediverse #atproto #activitypub

The full(working) example can be found here: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-ap/filters#example-AggregateFilters

#activitypub #GoActivityPub #golang

Hollo 0.2.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

1. Thanks to @thisismissem, now you can report remote accounts and posts.

2. Added two-factor authentication support.

3. Thanks again to @thisismissem, Hollo improved alignment on Mastodon API changes about OAuth and apps.

4. Thanks again to @thisismissem, RFC 8414 for OAuth Authorization Server metadata endpoint. It will improve interoperability between Hollo and Mastodon-compatible client apps.

5. Renamed the Data menu from the administration dashboard to Federation, and:

   • Now posts also can be force-refreshed.
   • Now the number of messages in the task queue is shown.

6. Custom emojis now can be deleted from the administration dashboard.

7. Thanks to @helge, PORT and ALLOW_PRIVATE_ADDRESS environment variables are introduced.

8. Added a favicon.

9. Dropped support for Redis, which was an optional dependency.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.2.0 using the following ways:

• To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!

• To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.2.0 or simply latest!

• To manual installers: Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it!

it's like this

#activitypub #atproto #mastodon #bluesky

Have you heard of Val Town? Val Town is a kind of code pastebin + serverless function.

Actually, #Fedify works just fine with Val Town. Here's a piece of ActivityPub software, implemented in about 170 lines of code, running on Val Town. Of course, it's built with Fedify!

Give it a follow @demo, and it will follow you back.

Curious to see how it was implemented? Check out the source code!

https://www.val.town/v/minhee/FedifyOnValTown

#ActivityPub #fedidev

I'm sure I made plenty of mistakes, but I have to admit I find it surprisingly satisfying to be able to operate on a data type that I can overlay on top of the existing #FedBOX storage engines and get native and *fast* querying for them.

The indexes are quite chunky despite being built on top of roaring bitmaps because there's so many "indexable" elements in an #ActivityPub object. (Currently I'm indexing the type, the content, summary, name, preferredUsername, the recipients, the actor and the object)

As I explore some more, I hope I streamline some of these issues, and make the whole thing more robust.

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-01

Servers

- PeerTube v6.3.3
- Hatsu v0.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.0.2
- ActivityPods v2.0.2
- NeoDB v0.10.4.9

Clients

- Pachli v2.8.3

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.1.1

For developers

- Fedify v1.2.0
- pl-api: A JavaScript library for interacting with Mastodon API-compatible servers, focused on support for projects extending the official Mastodon API
- WebFinger Split-Domain Canary

Protocol

- FEP-7952: Roadmap For Actor and Object Portability

Articles

- One year after X: Embracing open science on Mastodon
- Request for Comments: The Fediverse Schema Observatory
- Diving Into the World of Lemmy
- Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 90

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0192c4f8-a18b-911e-3605-83248ab4737b

What are your thoughts on Fedify's docs?

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev

I've been testing a federated classified ads server, flohmarkt ("Flea Market") which I think is a promising idea for promoting a circular economy among friends. Details on my hub.

It raises quite a few questions for me though - it's going to need more trust & safety features than other #Activitypub applications for example.

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Fediverse #SelfHosting #CircularEconomy #Yunohost

Hatsu v0.3.0 "Strobe Nights" has been released!

https://github.com/importantimport/hatsu/releases/tag/v0.3.0

#Hatsu is a self-hosted bridge that interacts with Fediverse on behalf of your static site, written in #Rust .

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #importantimport

Visualize your server in the fediverse with the fedify node command and share it with us using the #FedifyNode hashtag!

(See also how to install the fedify command.)

#ActivityPub #fedidev

The version 1.2.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, released! The key changes include:

• Added InboxContext.recipient property. It's useful for determining whether it is a shared inbox or a personal inbox, and whose personal inbox is invoked.

• Added getNodeInfo() function, a NodeInfo client.

• Added followedMessage property, which corresponds to _misskey_followedMessage, to Actor type in Activity Vocabulary API.

• Log messages now can be traced using LogTape's implicit contexts, which means you can filter log messages by requestId (an HTTP request identifier) or messageId (a background task identifier).

• Now you can choose an AMQP driver (which supports RabbitMQ) for the message queue in the fedify init command.

• Added the fedify node subcommand, which fetches the given instance's NodeInfo document and visualizes it in neofetch-style.

For details, see the full changelog as well!

Fedify 1.2.0 is available at JSR and npm.

#fedidev

It makes me sad that some #fediverse and #activitypub
advocates don’t believe a pluriverse of social web protocols is possible;

that’s literally all the web has ever been. Additive, composable stacks.

It was never that *one* protocol. It’s the mixing and matching of multiple protocols - like http+html ad infinitum - that makes the World Wide Web so resilient.

Plurality is the web’s superpower; the more you fight it the more the pluralists will route around you instead of with and through you.

Are there any ActivityPub projects that do anything with Location? I think Pixelfed lets you assign a location to a post and I'm sure Flohmarkt needs to use location for a lot of what it does.

I ask because when I went to get lunch today the whole road was shutdown about a quarter mile away from where I work with a dozen police vehicles surrounding the area- it'd be interesting to have location based news articles when a local news org has the exact location of an event that could just show up on my maps or something.

Even outside of the news space, Google maps uses their restaurant reviews and places those on their map, I'm not sure if we have a yelp-like service on the fediverse yet but it'd be neat

Hi @julian @canary,
what problem are you solving? Why should the domains have to match? And bad implementations happen. #Webfinger

https://dev.seppo.social/2024-03-19/apchk.cgi/webfinger?redirect=self&resource=@[email protected]

P.S.: Are you aware #webfinger isn't part of #activitypub?

I am publishing a small #ActivityPub / #fediverse project: https://fietkau.software/webfinger_canary and @canary 🙂

It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.

So this project, aimed at devs and power users, is part test case, part feature recommendation/advocacy. The bot's website at https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ has all the details.

Continued my experiments with #Fedify and #ActivityPub yesterday and I think I’m confused.

I was trying to make an extension for an Object, and if I understand #JsonLd, the context property contains the definition of any extra property added. I see e.g. the activity streams ns resolves to a nice JSON LD that contains all the properties, but the mastodon one doesn’t resolve to anything? Is it not necessary?

Starting with the next release of #Fedify, v1.2.0, we will support traceable logs for easier debugging. Fedify's traceable logs are implemented using the implicit contexts introduced in LogTape 0.7.0, and most of the logs that Fedify records are given a requestId or messageId. This means that logs can be grouped into requests or background tasks for better analysis.

Want to try it out in advance? Try Fedify v1.2.0-dev.468+2e17cd69 (JSR & npm)!

#fedidev #ActivityPub

I think a major source of disillusionment that I’m dealing with involves coming to terms with the shortcomings of #ActivityPub, especially as most of the network implements a Mastodon-centric version of the spec.

To be clear, I think the hackers building the cool, innovative, bleeding-edge stuff with it will be fine, will continue to develop, and will ultimately be the ones to move things forward in the long term.

However, I make no illusions about the protocol itself, The Social Web Foundation, or any of the working groups involved with it. To me, these are slow-moving, incapable of examining the true faults of the spec, and unwilling to accept hard criticisms. We have floating proposals for encrypted messaging, some half-baked concept for migrating identities around (LOLA), and maybe some vague promises about making the process of onboarding and building more palatable for corporations and businesses.

To me, this is a categorical failure at the highest levels. It has almost completely demoralized me from reporting on or participating in this space. I don’t think Evan is particularly suited to building a community or evolving the spec or even acting as an advocate. His repeated interactions over the last few months have done more harm than good.

Do you know what it’s like to be an advocate and a champion of a space for 15 years, to see upward mobility and evolution, to watch adoption hit a peak, and watch everybody in positions of authority just absolutely squander it over and over again, because they can’t see past their own myopic views?

posting yet another little thing, this time about a prevalent problem in the AP world: "view more replies on {origin instance}", AKA the "source of truth" problem (as I've dubbed it).

https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l7mnsf7p2s27

#activitypub #atproto #fediverse #tech #technology #protocols

In #Misskey, does the icon for the server information that I see in the remote note come from the favicon for that server?

#fedidev #ActivityPub

这些 #ActivityPub 的实例软件似乎都没有和邮件类似的重发机制，鱼塔实例挂了两周多，重新上线之后那两周的时间线还是空的。

The alpha version of Raels is now hosted at https://raels.online #fediverse #ActivityPub #tiktok
This is ALPHA software, expect bugs, problems, account deletion, etc.

BlueSky: Profit powered protocol
ActivityPub: People powered protocol

The choice is simple when you consider one is funded by a crypto VC firm, and the other is truly decentralized

#activityPub

I've been developing an #ActivityPub C2S-based (with extensions) API facade/proxy proof-of-concept for Mastodon. It runs as a separate process that supports proxying the Masto operations but also adds a postable C2S outbox with support for AP C2S activities. These activities are converted into upstream Mastodon API calls. This extended C2S API also supports search, streaming events, managing bookmark collections, and retrieving timeline collections. 1/2

Made it through @evan’s #activitypub book. Lots of good and useful stuff for implementors there.

Particularly intriguing: his chapter on “Far Horizons”: ideas on what else could be built with ActivityPub that goes beyond today’s typical social media functionality. Need an idea for a new project or startup? There are several interesting ones in there.

Should we have ActivityPub's big relay era? I think about what distinguishes Bluesky and ActivityPub.

1. Trust and Safety - ActivityPub and Mastodon need to do more here.
2. A big relay - The distinguishing feature of BS is that every one is on a common relay, even if you are hosting your own data.

This big relay helps to solve a lot of discoverability challenges that plague ActivityPub ecosystems.

#Activitypub #bluesky #atprotocol

Plenty of posts recently questioning whether BlueSky is actually a decentralised, federated social network like the Fediverse.

(Yes, the following description of ATproto is a gross oversimplification. I realise this. Bear with me a moment.)

Basically, under BlueSky's AT Protocol, you can opt to have your data hosted on your own personal data server (PDS). But these servers all need to connect to a central relay, and at present the only central relay is BlueSky.

Any account that follows Bridgy Fed @bsky.brid.gy also gets federated into the Fedi.

Now.

Let me introduce you to WhiteWind. https://whtwnd.com/

What's WhiteWind?

It's a longform blogging platform, where all your blog posts are saved to your BlueSky PDS.

So right now, today, you can set up your own PDS. Allow BSky access and store your BSky posts in it. And also grant WhiteWind access and allow WhiteWind to store its files there.

And any BlueSky posts replying to your WhiteWind blogs are visible — on WhiteWind.

So potentially, in the future, you could be storing data from multiple social networks and apps — including photos and videos — in your PDS.

In effect, federating across multiple networks doesn't happen at the level of BlueSky. It happens at the level of your account.

#Fediverse #BlueSky #ATproto #ActivityPub #BSky

Ich bin ja dafür, dass Jodel #ActivityPub unterstützen sollte

@feb @strght die gibt es eben nicht. Wenn du dich neu anmeldest musst du sehr aktiv deine Timeline aufbauen und du findest deine ggf. vorhandenen Freunde erst mal nicht. Hier ist alles manuell, das ist auch so gewollt aber hat halt Konsequenzen.
Das hat imho auch nichts mit #activitypub oder #Fediverse zu tun, das ist einfach Mastodon-Style.

Fediverse quo vadis?
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Die Idee des #Fediverse’ ist gut.

Die Idee von #Mastodon ist gut.

Die Idee der #ActivityPub ist gut.
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Dennoch fliegt die Kiste noch immer nicht.

Kulturschaffende, Politiker usw. ziehen sich zurück, sind Cross-Pister, bridgen.

Die inhaltliche Vielfalt nimmt ab.
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Stattdessen werden commercielle Datenschnüffler (Threads u.a.) angeflanscht u Plüschtiere (Merch) verkauft.

Die Strategie ist gescheitert. Kein quantitatives o qualitatives Wachstum.
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Was fehlt?

What slogan should we choose for our #WordPress plugin that integrates Events with the #ActivityPub plugin?

Week in Fediverse 2024-10-25

Servers

- GoToSocial v0.17.1
- Manyfold v0.86.0
- Mastodon v4.3.1
- Hollo v0.1.0
- snac v2.61
- Ibis v0.1.4
- Mitra v3.8.0
- Castopod v1.13.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.0.0
- NeoDB v0.10.4.8
- rdf-pub: An activity-pub server implementation, that is not limited to the activity-stream vocabulary, but supports RDF per se

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.11.2
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.10
- Aria v0.15.0
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta38
- Voyager v2.18.3
- Tesseract v1.4.19

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.14.0
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.2
- TootPal: An app to discover people on a Mastodon instance that share your interests
- Fediverse Signatures: Collect signatures for an article on your blog or a website page

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.12
- Fedify v1.1.0
- FediTest v0.4
- Masto.js v6.10.0

Protocol

- FEP-ae0c: Fediverse Relay Protocols: Mastodon and LitePub

Articles

- revealing the fediverse's gifts
- Selfhosting Snac2 on Tailscale Funnel
- Helping to build the open social web
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 89

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0192a124-e90c-93c4-a440-99271a2cec4c

What I don’t like about the #Wordpress implementation of #ActivityPub is that I see the whole damn post, long-form and unformatted, in my feed. Let’s hope #ghost does it better.

I'm not interacting with #BlueSky FUD anymore. I'll despair when any shit actually starts happening and until then I'll keep using both #ATproto and #ActivityPub cause I like both 😋

I know most ActivityPub loyalists are burned from repeat after repeat of the VC enshittification dance, but if people cared to understand how ATproto actually works, I feel like an ATproto account can survive enshittification, but my Masto accounts can't even survive mods having beef.

#Bluesky raising a series A round from #Blockchain really makes me want to keep my primary home in the #ActivityPub ecosystem. Blockchain is a grift and a plight upon the world (in the literal global warming sense as well as the figurative scam perspective).

Eventually these investors will want to make their money back.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

you are asking what features the new ActivityPub plugin version has?

thanks for asking! ☺️

* Support for post visibility - you can choose between "public", "only followers" and "no federation".
* Attribution-Domains - that should fix the fediverse:creator issues, if you had issues https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32574
* Improved compatibility with caching plugins

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/4.0.0

#wordpress #activitypub #fediverse

Mitra, honestly, isn't a bad social network.....the problem is, as well as with Friendica, that Mastodon killed Fediverse.

Which means small amount of users for other social networks that use Activity Pub protocol.

#mastodon #mitra #friendica #fediverse #activitypub

I submitted a draft FEP describing the Mastodon and LitePub/Pleroma #ActivityPub relay protocols. Comments and corrections are welcome.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ae0c/fep-ae0c.md

Finally, Hollo 0.1.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

Hollo has the most of features that Mastodon has except for moderation tools, and also include:

• CommonMark (a.k.a. Markdown) and up to 4,096 characters per post
• Misskey-style quotes (compatible with Misskey, Akkoma, Fedibird, etc)
• Misskey-style emoji reactions (both Unicode emojis and custom emojis are supported; compatible with Misskey, Akkoma, kmyblue, etc)
• Generally much relaxed limitations (more poll options, more attachments, and so on)
• … and many more!

If you're interested in Hollo, please give it a try! There are several ways to install it: using Railway, using Docker (and Docker Compose), or manually.

If you're already using Hollo, please upgrade it to v0.1.0:

• To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
• To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.1.0 or simply latest!
• To manual installers: Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it!

Hey 3D printing people on the Fediverse!

There's a new Fediverse-compatible 3D model manager called Manyfold, which is sort of a self-hostable alternative to Thingiverse. You can follow Manyfold's account at:

➡️ @manyfold

The Manyfold website is at:

➡️ https://manyfold.app

It's a free open source self-hostable site for storing 3D models, especially 3D printing models. Accounts on Manyfold servers can now be followed from Mastodon etc.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #3DPrinting #Thingiverse

Want to build your own #ActivityPub software? Follow the tutorial for #Fedify, the ActivityPub server framework!

https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

나만의 #ActivityPub 소프트웨어를 만들고 싶으신가요? ActivityPub 서버 프레임워크인 Fedify의 튜토리얼 우리말 버전을 따라해 보세요!

https://hackmd.io/@hongminhee/fedify-tutorial-ko

The version 1.1.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, released! The key changes include:

• Added uility functions for traversing remote collections. See also the Traversing remote collections section in the docs.

• Added EmojiReact class to Activity Vocabulary API. [FEP-c0e0]

• Added successor property to the Actor types in the Activity Vocabulary API.

• Added DidService class to Activity Vocabulary API. [FEP-9091]

• Added Export class to Activity Vocabulary API. [FEP-9091]

• Added service property to the Actor types in the Activity Vocabulary API. [FEP-9091]

• The default time window for verifying HTTP Signatures of incoming requests is now an hour (was a minute). This new default window is according to the ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures document.

• In the fedify inbox command's web interface, the Raw Activity tab is added to show the raw JSON object of the received activity.

For details, see the full changelog as well!

#fedidev

Un article qui présente l'architecture de #bluesky et du #ATProtocol (avec une petite comparaison avec #ActivityPub, #nostr et #farCaster).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

EDIT: I think I should have enough datapoints for now, thank you all so much for sharing and replying!

Hey, is there anyone who uses the #ActivityPub #WordPress plugin? I'd just like to check how it handles a few things.

Boosts for visibility would be very appreciated 🙏

@index Great news indeed! After you successfully implemented #ActivityPub inside #Ghost, will you consider creating official iPhone, iPad & Android apps for the platform‽

Week in Fediverse 2024-10-18

Servers

- Manyfold v0.82.0
- Ibis v0.1.2
- GoToSocial v0.17.0
- Mitra v3.7.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.3
- Misskey v2024.10.1
- tootik v0.12.6
- Castopod v1.12.11
- NeoDB v0.10.4.7

Clients

- tootgroup.py v1.5.0
- RaccoonForFriendica: A Kotlin Multiplatform client for Friendica

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.4

For developers

- Fedify v1.0.3
- Federails v0.2.0
- Masto.js v6.9.0

Protocol

- FEP-268d: Search consent signals for objects

Articles

- how to buy shoes in the fediverse
- The Challenge of ActivityPub Data Portability
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 88

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01927d0a-35f7-3994-5862-0c43d821fb63

An ActivityPub server that only federates with instances that refuse to federate with it

An ActivityPub server that has open federation but if your server has the gall to send any request to it then it is immediately placed on the instance block list

With many people joining #bluesky now, please follow @bsky.brid.gy to bridge your posts from Mastodon, Misskey, etc. over to the other side of the fediverse as well!

Being able to follow #activitypub accounts from bluesky makes the all of Fedi more attractive!

Let's make the #fediverse the best place it can be 💙

Has anyone built an #ActivityPub server using just Postgrest? I don't think it'd be easy but it could be very fun. The tricky part would be making the delivery job queues work; don't think Postgrest has them built in.

https://postgrest.org/

The value of the form at://… in the alsoKnownAs property of the actor generated by @bsky.brid.gy is not actually a valid URL? It cannot be represented as a URL object in Node.js or Deno.

#ActivityPub #fedidev

#ActivityPub のここがだめだ（だから #BlueSky の #ATProtocol だ）とか、いろいろ技術論書くひともいるし、多分それは技術の面でみたら正しいのかもしれないけど、
結局それがどういう技術で作られてるかより、どういう場所で居心地がどうなのかとか、雰囲気とかそういうよくわからない定性的なものから人間そう簡単には逃れられないというか、単純にいまはもうここが一番居心地が良いのでここにいるだけという感じがする、自分。
自分も自分の決断とか振る舞いに自信がなくなると、つい定量的に説明できる理由が欲しくなって、あーだこーだいろいろ考えることもあるけど、 #ATProtocol からみた #ActivityPub の問題、みたいな記事がいくつか流れてくるのを斜め読みしてたらなんかそういうのどうでもいいなという気持ちになってきた

More questions than answers: another post about the Social Web Foundation and the fediverses

https://privacy.thenexus.today/swf-questions/

(Part 4 of "I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS Army, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses!", but like other posts in the series it hopefully stands on its own)

#fediverse #ActivityPub #swf

On second thought, an even better way to welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS Army, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses is to write a series of posts about it ...

Here's part 2: Is Bluesky part of today's Fediverse?

Spoiler: it depends on your definition of "Fediverse"

https://privacy.thenexus.today/is-bluesky-part-of-todays-fediverse/

#fediverse #bluesky #activitypub

Does anybody know which #ActivityPub relay implementation is the most widely deployed?

And on that note --- I'm ditching #ActivityPub proper.

That is, actually parsing JsonLD.

I'm working months on getting it to work. I've now got a runnable thing within 5 minutes.

Protocols are made to make implementation easier. When the protocol makes it harder, why bother?

I wasn't posting much news about #Smithereen lately — fixing that!

The core functionality of photo albums is now done. You can create albums, upload photos, comment on them, and like them. It's all properly federated (between Smithereen servers only). There's a brand new photo viewing UI too. Two of them, actually, desktop and mobile.

Remaining features for 0.9 include:
- "System" albums — profile pictures and saved photos
- Tagging
- Profile picture update posts
- Groups feed

#activitypub

@Floppy gave a talk at #OggCamp2024 about how #ActivityPub works, and some software he has created for 3d print objects (https://manyfold.app/) that will interface with the fediverse

You know, if someone wants to make an #erotica #publishing #website that integrates #activityPub, I would not only be happy to get in on programming that, but could bring a couple hundred followers with me there. I wouldn't necessarily get rid of this account, but I would move the long-form stories there.

Che cos'è Peertube: la presentazione video alla piattaforma di #videosharing #open, #etica, #libera, #decentralizzata

https://peertube.uno/videos/watch/c79e7ec9-40c6-4f28-bda4-ca043946a236

La trasmissione video su PeerTube è peer-to-peer (attraverso #WebRTC): le persone guardando video su PeerTube condividono parti di quel video partecipando alla sua trasmissione verso le altre persone sullo stesso video. I video ospitati su #PeerTube possono essere visualizzati direttamente da #Mastodon e da altre reti #Fediverse via #activitypub

Il nostro sogno per il fediverso è un mondo in cui non sia più necessario dover dipendere da social frammentati che non comunicano fra di loro, ma poter comunicare su un'unica grande rete libera e unita. Il fediverso è l'unica grande rete in cui è tutto collegato.

#fediverso #social #activitypub

Maybe it's devs implementing the C2S side of #ActivityPub, or a multi-protocol client, or built-in browser support for the #fediverse. Maybe we need a single entry point to the fediverse, with a smooth interface, easy setup, and a server behind the scenes.

Either way, making "decentralization" central to the user experience here is keeping a ton of people off the network.

Week in Fediverse 2024-10-11

Servers

- WriteFreely v0.15.1
- ActivityPods v2.0
- Mastodon v4.3.0
- Hubzilla v9.4.3
- snac v2.60
- PeerTube v6.3.2
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.3.3
- Misskey v2024.10.0
- tootik v0.12.5
- Mbin v1.7.2
- Trunk & Tidbits, September 2024
- Hamabē: Federated Chat Space

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.11.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.7.3
- TootRain v2.0.1
- Voyager v2.18.2
- Aria v0.15.0
- Phanpy changelog
- pl-fe: A social networking client app forked from Soapbox

Tools and Plugins

- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.0
- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.0
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v0.9.9
- wf-migrate: Tools for migrating between WriteFreely instances
- FediMod FIRES: A protocol and reference server implementation for storing and distributing moderation advisories and recommendations over time for the Fediverse

Protocol

- FEP-76ea: Conversation Threads
- FEP-1985: Signaling how an OrderedCollection is ordered

Articles

- Using a Permanent WebFinger Address for My Fediverse Profile
- Setting Up Mastodon Author Tags
- IFTAS Update: Content Classification, Moderation Tooling
- Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 87

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019257ef-60b9-8669-582d-c5c54eda938f

Looking more into #Meshtastic for emergency communication, I've come across a few projects:

Meshtastic SAME EAS Alerter- which uses an SDR to share local alerts

TC²-BBS Meshtastic Version- a Meshtastic BBS

So I'm starting to get an idea of what all I'll need. I love the BBS idea as it is great for press release information and situational updates. I also saw a BBS that integrates with #Activitypub called Xibalba BBS. Has anyone used Xibalba BBS cause I can't find much on it?

Edit: Getting closer to an answer now.

https://l33t.codes/2023/02/03/WebFinger-ActivityPub-BBS-Extensions/

Echo for #Lemmy is now available! Goodbye #Reddit, Hello @LemmyDev. #Fediverse #ActivityPub 👋

https://echo.rrainn.com/download/iphone

#BlueSky はよくわからない。平和そうではあるけど、存在そのものが Web の標準規格 #ActivityPub と競合していて、いつか統合される日のために技術的可能性を模索してねと応援する気持ちもあるし、結局流行りのフレームワークみたいな感じでそのうち廃れていく気もする。

前に長い感想書いたし、これ以上の感想が出てこないし、例えるほど中の雰囲気を知らない

https://social.vivaldi.net/@nibushibu/113266475304222211

I'm building a public Autospam detection service that will be compatible with Pixelfed, Mastodon and other projects!

I'm leveraging my expertise* in Autospam, along with my 3 year old dataset to build the best fediverse Akismet alternative.

Are you interested? Boosts appreciated!

* - https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

#pixelfed #fediverse #spam #autospam #activitypub #mastodon

Fancy a small preview of a BIG feature that's in the works?

#ActivityPub

@renchap
Mastodon gGmbH is listed as a partner of the #SocialWebFoundation!
The mission of SWF does not match, if not contradicts the purpose and object of the gGmbH.
In my point of view this is the beginning of "embrace, extend and extinguish" of #activitypub like we saw with #xmpp

@aral @TomWellborn

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 87

This week's news:

- @Mastodon has launched their latest version, 4.3
- ClubsAll is a new Reddit-like build on #activitypub
- IFTAS is slowly launching their Content Classification System that allows servers that have opted in to scan for CSAM

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-87/

According to the Activity Vocabulary specification, the summary property should be HTML encoded, but #Mastodon is putting plain text in the summary property. #Hollo is putting #HTML in the summary, but should I change Hollo's behavior?

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-summary

#ActivityPub #fedidev

did you know that the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress supports "content warnings"?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

#ActivityPub hasn't changed in six years. That's very good.

#ActivityPub hasn't changed in six years. That's very bad.

おー、オライリーからActivityPubについての本が出たのか

/ ActivityPubの共作者エヴァン・プロドロモウがソーシャルウェブ財団を設立し、ActivityPub本を出していた - YAMDAS現更新履歴
https://yamdas.hatenablog.com/entry/20241001/evan-prodromou-activitypub

#activitypub #fediverse

そそ、ActivityPubにおける「グローバルビューの欠如」は不必要な文化の衝突を防ぐための意図的なものであるのよね。最初から全ての人がつながっているとそれだけ衝突が発生しやすくなる。 ​​

#fediverse #activitypub

#Bluesky は #Fediverse の課題点を技術的に克服し得るものとして #ActivityPub に変わる新たな #ATProtocol を作ったという流れは理解してるけど、その #Fediverse の課題点がそもそも従来のように「SNS はグローバルビューをもつべき」という世界観から見たときの「課題感」だと思っていて、#Fediverse はそもそも「適度に分断し、適度に繋がる」ということを前提として設計されていて理想像がそもそも違うし、それを「#Fediverse には投稿の無断収集に文化的抵抗がある」という話だけでなんとなく「ネガティブで保守的な文化がある」という感じにしか書かれていないのが少し残念だった。

なぜ #Fediverse にそういう文化があって、なんでそれが一定数そこで支持されてるのかということまで深堀りしていくと、そこにはもうちょっとポジティブな見方もできることもあるはずなんだけどなーと。

ただ、どこにでも原理主義的な考えはあるように、たしかに #Fediverse には「勝手にクロールされる」ということに強烈に拒否反応を示す人がいたり、そういう人の声で串刺し検索サービスが「もう無理ー」と潰れてしまったことは、事実、自分が #Mastodon #VivaldiSocial 始めたあとにもあったし、#Mastodon に現状の検索機能にも結構強く反対している人がいたのは見ているので、確かにそういう文化的「傾向」というのはあるとは思うし、対抗する #BlueSky が目指す理想もわかるところはある。

じゃあ #Bluesky が「良い」のか？といえば自分にとってはそんなことはなくて、現状ではむしろ #Bluesky こそ稼働しているインスタンスはほぼ中央集権だし、結局「技術的に分散可能というだけで実質中央集権」みたいな「分散型という傘をかぶっただけの存在」になる可能性はあると思う。
その点、標準化団体が標準技術としてすでに定めている #ActivityPub に対応した複数のソフトフェアがあって、またインスタンスの大小があるにせよ、それらのソフトウェアが使われた複数のサーバーを個人や企業が運用していて、それがすでに連合しているという実績も #Fediverse にはあって、それを無視して従来の SNS の視点でみた「グローバルビューがない」という観点だけ（※）で過小評価するのはフェアじゃないような。
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アカウントポータビリティは少なくとも にはあるし、スケーラビリティーについても、理論的限界はそうであっても、実際には時間が改善・解決していく部分もあるし、今必要なスケールに対応できているのであればそんなにクリティカルな問題じゃないと個人的には思っている

https://whtwnd.com/boobam.bsky.social/entries/Bluesky%E3%81%8CActivityPub%E3%82%92%E6%8E%A1%E7%94%A8%E3%81%97%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8B%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F3%E3%81%A4%E3%81%AE%E7%90%86%E7%94%B1

（つまるところ not for me な記事だったというオチ

Want to run your own personal #ActivityPub server, but don't have the server specs to install Mastodon? Try #Hollo, a lightweight personal ActivityPub server!

https://docs.hollo.social/

So now that Chrome (Google) has redefined the web to serve ads instead of content and Mozilla happily follows suit, because, well, Google pays most of their bills, the W3C shrugging — what’s the next big thing? Can we evolve #ActivityPub to the #InternetOfPeople or will it also be eaten by ad money? #Goodnight and #GoodThoughts

After getting to try the #Snac activity pub server developed by @grunfink on bsd.cafe thanks @stefano , I'm kind of tempted to spin up my own instance. Anyone here other than Stefano that runs their own instance ? Please share you pro's and con's plus any workarounds you have come up with.
Also how are you viewing / posting on mobile ? Are you just sticking with web or using the likes of #Tusky ?
#Fediverse #ActivityPub

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

If you're an advanced user with programming skills who is wanting to do custom stuff with Fediverse connections (or even wanting to create your own Fedi platform), you might want to check out the activitypub.rocks SocialHub forum:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks

I'm not a software developer so I can't help with these topics, but enough people have asked that it seemed a good idea to give the forum a mention!

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediDev

Week in Fediverse 2024-10-04

Servers

- Mastodon v4.2.13
- Hubzilla v9.4.2
- Mitra v3.6.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.3.2
- Misskey v2024.9.0
- Gancio v1.19.4
- Castopod v1.12.10
- Lemmy Development Update 2024-10-04

Clients

- toot v0.45.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.7.1
- Pachli v2.8.2
- Fedicat 10-2-24
- Voyager v2.18.0
- Bluechirp: WinUI client for Mastodon, with the sleek design of modern Windows

Protocol

- FEP-0499: Delivering to multiple inboxes with a multibox endpoint

Articles

- Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers
- Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)
- How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01923528-3fb5-77ad-286d-a75a1c736b09

Looks like Libre.fm, an open-software version of Last.fm by the GNU Project, is being reworked to support ActivityPub!

https://roadmap.libre.fm

#LibreFM #LastFM #Fediverse #SocialWeb #IndieWeb #ActivityPub #GNU #GNUProject #Music #FediMusic

If you're considering creating your own implementation of #ActivityPub, consider #Fedify.

Implementing ActivityPub from scratch requires more than you might think. WebFinger, HTTP Signatures, Linked Data Signatures, Object Integrity Proofs, NodeInfo, queues for sending and receiving activities, followers collection synchronization, remote object lookups, interoperability with Mastodon, Akkoma, Misskey, Threads, and more…

Just use Fedify and feel free to create your own ActivityPub implementation!

#fedidev

https://fedify.dev/

独自のActivityPubの実装を作りたい方は、Fedifyを検討してみてください。

ActivityPubをゼロから実装するには、想像以上に多くの物を作る必要が有ります。WebFinger、HTTP Signatures、Linked Data Signatures、Object Integrity Proofs、NodeInfo、アクティビティの送受信のキュー、フォロワーコレクションのシンクロ、リモートオブジェクトの照会、MastodonやMisskey等との相互運用性の為の雑多な処理まで…Fedifyを使えば簡単に自分だけのActivityPubの実装を作る事が出来ます！

https://fedify.dev/

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev

"there is a recurring refrain about implementers deciding they don't care to implement AP as specified, and that this indicates a problem with the spec, not a problem with implementers."

@trwnh

https://trwnh.com/unstable/fedi-vs-web.html

It does. The point of a technical standard is to document the best practice of a group of implementers. It is, by nature, a living document that needs to be updated, as the experience of implementing reveals problems and finds better approaches.

#TechnicalStandard #ActivityPub

This article on Web Components by @leaverou nicely encapsulates a fair few of my feelings about where we are at with ActivityPub / ActivityStreams in the standards process:

> the focus is still on making things _possible_ rather than making them _easy_

Is a fantastic sentence.

#activitypub

TIL: #ForgeFed is an #ActivityPub extension to make decentralised software development and communication within projects possible by enabling inter-forge communication. #Forgejo is working on implementing it. Just imagine! Issues, PRs, Updates on releases all with ActivityPub!

https://forgefed.org

🌐 Curious about the fediverse and the open social web?

In this week's Community tab, we're spotlighting developers, journalists and experts who will help you learn how the fediverse is shaping a more open and connected internet, and what this means for the rest of us.

@evan @Gargron @mmasnick @quillmatiq
@Sarahp

Follow their accounts in the Flipboard app to see their posts right alongside content from your favorite publishers.

Download the Flipboard app to check it out:

https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/

#Flipboard #Federation #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonMigration

#SocialCG will be talking about the future of #ActivityPub -ish work items governance processes at W3C in two days at 5pm UTC (10am PT) and YOU are invited.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2024Oct/0000.html

You may also want to peruse some potential CG/WG charter ideas.
e.g. if there is another WG (unlike CG, usually only open to W3C Member Organizations and a few IEs) should it be a focused ActivityPub WG or a more big tent 'SocialWG 2.0' with many work items unrelated to ActivityPub?
https://github.com/swicg/potential-charters/pulls

Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.

They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS

#ActivityPub #IndieWeb

Bluesky founder and CEO @jay.bsky.team says social media is stagnating because "we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out." She talked to @mike for the Dot Social podcast about building a healthier internet, how Elon impacted Bluesky's trajectory, innovating on social identity, and how different protocols can come together.

Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jay-graber/

Watch the video and listen to the podcast on PeerTube here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://flipboard.video/w/ophhJTECuL7fcBNbUitV3q

Discover past interviews here: https://flipboard.com/@mike/dot-social-the-future-of-the-social-web-3r0pl8ge5dju9965

#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #Bluesky #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #OpenSocialWeb #JayGraber #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 86

This week's news:
- Threads degrades their #activitypub integration, delaying posts by 15 minutes before they appear in the rest of the fediverse
- Website League is a new ActivityPub-based Island network, outside of the rest of the fediverse
- Ghost discusses their beta plans and pricing.

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/

Adding vocabularies for FEP-9091 to #Fedify.

https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/issues/146

#fedidev #ActivityPub

Did you know that? The #Fedify CLI has a command called fedify lookup, which can easily look up ActivityStreams objects on servers with authorized fetch (a.k.a. secure mode) enabled by turning on the -a/--authorized-fetch flag.

Here's demo!

#fedidev #ActivityPub

groups.

october pixelfed
seventh social

the new social pub, with friends.

#groups #activityPub #lemmy #smithereen #pixelfed

#Mastodon なんかは時間制限なくあとから編集できて、かつ編集履歴も残るけど、 #Fediverse ⁂ というか #ActivityPub で繋がる他サーバーにおける自分の投稿の編集操作の同期は他サーバー側の挙動に依存するんだっけ？（なんかそんな情報を昔見た気もする。幻かもしれない）

#Threads はいまのところ、投稿の編集が可能な間は #Fediverse へは投稿を発信せず、投稿の編集ができなくなって内容が確定したタイミングで #fediverse に共有されるようになってるのかな

https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/DAltcc9v1ye

@trwnh @dmitri

Now that you mention #XMPP.. at the time that https://openengiadina.net dropped #ActivityPub support for XMPP I was tempted to follow along. So many things are better documented in that open standard and the subsequent XEP's.

Yet also both XMPP and #Matrix are first and foremost instant messaging / chat protocols, and to me using them to build other abstractions on top of felt forced, plus being among the first and only ones to do so.

@stefan Ever since they announced that they're switching to WordPress in the backend I've been hoping for some kind of #ActivityPub integration 🤞🏼

Let's create your own #ActivityPub implementation using #Fedify!

This is what the future of publishing looks like 🚀

It makes me feel so happy to log onto my #Wordpress site & see this new #ActivityPub menu item about the number of followers of my blog from the #Fediverse. And comments awaiting moderation, which are usually Fediverse replies to my federated blog post. It's just so cool!!! (Yes, I will probably keep gushing about this for another month or so, please bear with me) 🤗

Where it all began: https://elenarossini.com/2024/07/hello-fediverse/

You can follow my blog here: @ele

You can now see #emoji #reactions in #Hollo (but you can't leave emoji reactions yet). We've implemented the FEP-c0e0 spec and tested it on #Misskey, #Akkoma, and #Fedibird.

#ActivityPub #fedidev

Caveat, probably most of the frustration comes from the dynamic nature of the #ActivityPub specification which, alongside having most library developers throw their hands in the air and giving up, makes that every property of an object needs to be checked if it is a list of things, a thing itself, a reference to the thing, or, why not, a list of things and references mixed together. 🤢

Introducing Fedify: Build Your Own Fediverse App with Ease! 🚀

Are you excited about the #fediverse but find implementing #ActivityPub daunting? Meet #Fedify, a #TypeScript framework that simplifies building federated server apps. Whether you're creating the next Mastodon, Pixelfed, or something entirely new, Fedify has you covered.

#fedidev

What Fedify Offers:

• 🧩 Type-safe Activity Vocabulary objects
• 🔍 WebFinger client and server
• 🔐 HTTP Signatures, Linked Data Signatures, and Object Integrity Proofs
• 📨 Easy-to-use inbox listeners
• ℹ️ NodeInfo protocol support
• 🛠 CLI tools for testing and debugging

Fedify abstracts away the complexities of ActivityPub, letting you focus on your app's unique features. It's designed to work seamlessly with popular web frameworks like Hono, Express, and Fresh.

Get Started Today!

Check out our step-by-step tutorial to create a microblog: https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

Explore the discussions, contribute, or just star us on GitHub: https://github.com/dahlia/fedify

Join the Fedify community! Questions? Ideas? Find us on Matrix: #fedify:matrix.org.

Let's build a more diverse and interoperable fediverse together with Fedify!

I'm adding the #EmojiReact (FEP-c0e0) class to #Fedify… It will be coming in Fedify 1.1.0.

https://w3id.org/fep/c0e

#ActivityPub #fedidev

Am I up at 3 am in Stockholm for the first virtual book-signing party for the first book about ActivityPub by a major publisher? You betcha! Congrats, @evan!

#ActivityPub

Mastodon doesn't implement the #ActivityPub "API" (C2S). They don't conform to either the client or server profiles in the AP Recommendation. They implement a very small subset of AP/AS2 and they don't conform to the AS2 Recommendation for the parts they implement. Their software supports > 80% of the MAU in the Fediverse (all protocols, not the SWF definition). And Evan uses this as evidence of ActivityPub's success? I think Mastodon has thrived despite ActivityPub problems, not because of it.

Libre.fm registration is now open to the public again.

Read more on the future of the project: https://roadmap.libre.fm/ and get an account at https://libre.fm/

#indieweb #activitypub #socialweb #librefm

@pfefferle I look forward to seeing this federated future! Ironically, the main reason I signed up with @wordpressdotcom was because of the #ActivityPub plugin.

I think with a few tweaks, #WordPress could become the super app within the #Fediverse.

I do hope the #BuddyPress & #bbPress teams jump on board, as greater ActivityPub integration could help rejuvenate these social WordPress “projects” (as they would provide competitive balance against #Facebook & #Reddit).

ここでも #fediverse ⁂ や #ActivityPub を Email になぞらえて説明してる。
"Platforms by number of users" という図も、こういうふうに「切り取れば」（という言い方は語弊あるかもだけど）こういうふうに見えるのか、という意味で面白い

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

The first iteration of having #BandCamp embedded albums in a #RattleHead post as attachments.

https://releases.bruta.link/outbox/1727511721936/object

Mind you, all of that is achieved with vanilla #ActivityPub 🥳

The fediverse is a strange place to be sometimes. It's an open network where progress happens in fits and starts in random, often hidden, pockets. And the rest don't often hear what's really going on. In the 6 years I've built on #ActivityPub, we've all had to fight for some kind of coordination.

Especially re: the new #SocialWebFoundation (which I've backed as an outside supporter via my tiny company @write_as), you can see something new is happening.

Week in Fediverse 2024-09-27

Servers

- Sharkey v2024.8.2
- Hubzilla v9.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.3.0
- PeerTube v6.3.1
- Mobilizon v5.0.1
- Gancio v1.19.3
- PieFed development update September 2024 - not prepping for 1.0 release

Clients

- Elk v0.15.0
- IceCubesApp v1.11.0
- Fedicat 9-27-24
- Jerboa v0.0.77
- Photon v1.31.4

Tools and Plugins

- FediPhoto-Lineage v7.4
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v0.9.6

For developers

- Fedify v1.0.0

Articles

- Launch of Social Web Foundation
- The Social Web Foundation Launches, to Much Confusion
- the disconnect between activitypub and the fediverse
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 85

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01921076-085b-7aed-8f7f-0a4265c091aa

Interesting...

I just got a follow request from #Awakari, with its own detailed and formatted message, and it never occurred to me that that's the sort of thing that #ActivityPub supports, though it does make sense.

I'm also a little surprised because my understanding has been that the main reason they are controversial is because they don't get permission to crawl people's profiles, but here they've sent a customized agreement type thing for me to look at...

#crawler

Nearly a year later, this number has grown right around 1K/month, for a fresh total of 11453 sites opted-in to the fediverse on WordPress.com #WordPress #ActivityPub https://mastodon.social/@mattwiebe/111256730476464370

@FiFachik @rf Для тех, кто хочет потестить федерирование для своего бложика с поддержкой #ActivityPub, могу только посоветовать #Fedify. Там есть встроенная команда для подключения к сервису на выбор, который может дать временный домен для тестирования.

@fediversereport the Brazilian government could follow this example instead of empty words about digital sovereignty.

P. S. Its account on Threads is still closed for platforms compatible with Activity Pub.

In Portuguese:

https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/113209148435479958

#Brazil #digitalsovereignty #Threads #fediverse #Lula #Mastodon #ActivityPub

@BeAware @forteller

I totally follow your reasoning...

But if i post a link to a fediverse post without a comment on the post it is equivalent to a mastodon boost or in #activitypub terms an Announce.

But what if i want to share the post to my followers with my commentary that is not a "reply to" to original?

That is a "quote post" where I add my opinion not as a comment but as a new top level post for my followers to comment on.

There's something I've been wanting to talk about for awhile.

Quote posts, limiting of quote posts, and how those features might be added to core AP.

As it is now, the way Threads does quote posting is when a person adds a link to another Threads post, it automatically turns into a "quote post".

They also have the option to limit posts from being quoted, which in turn completely stops anyone on Threads linking to that post.

To me, that is wild, but I can see it making sense on a closed platform.

However, given the way Fediverse works and a ton of people have their own instance/website, I think it would be absolutely asinine to attempt to stop someone from simply posting a link to another post.

Links have been part of the internet for awhile now and there's no other platform that stops people from using links, AFAIK.

So, to those working on AP, please consider another route for quote posts because if I cannot link to something on my own website, I'll be pretty livid honestly.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Threads #SocialMedia

It is a bit crazy to me that links to toots don't open in the official web client for Mastodon, but in a new tab, so that you have to

- copy the URL
- paste it into search
- and then click to open it

if you want to open it in your client and be able to like, retoot or comment.

This breaks the whole interoperability point of ActivityPub a bit too much, to my liking.

#MastoMeta #Mastodon #activitypub

The Social Web Foundation launched today. This non-profit is dedicated to making connections between social platforms with ActivityPub, and was co-founded by @evan @mallory and @tomcoates.

The foundation's focus is educating the public and policy makers about the social web, enhancing and extending the ActivityPub protocol, and building tools and plumbing to make the social web easier to use. “With this program, The Social Web Foundation can catalyze more growth on the Fediverse while improving user experience and safety,” says Prodromou. “Our goal is to unblock users, developers and communities so they can get the most out of their social web experience.”

We are proud to support the work of the foundation. Read more about the it here:

https://socialwebfoundation.org/

#ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWebFoundation #SpreadMastodon

I moved the embeds from being inline in the release listing to being distinct attachments.

The inline list has gathered the capability of linking to the Bandcamp album instead.

The display is a little crowded, but feels much better than before.

Any #feedback?

#css #ui #webcomponents #activitypub #fediverse

We are searching for open-source software **developers** for Mbin. Do you like PHP and the fediverse? Please join our project: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin. And join our matrix via: https://matrix.to/#/#mbin:melroy.org. Thank you!

Edit: good first issues https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

Please boost for more reach!

#mbin #lemmy #fediverse #developer #opensource #software #engineer #softwareengineer #php #reddit #activitypub #federated

@kakafarm I own my own website and nobody can tell me who I can and can't converse with nor can anyone tell me what I can or cannot say.

I am in my space and can communicate with millions.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Why do you use the Activitypub federation rather than Twitter or Facebook or the likes?

Please give me your reasons, whatever they may be.

#activitypub
#fediverse
#help
#mastodon
#pleroma

activitypub typescript server framework called Fedify announces first stable release. It is being used by the open source Ghost CMS platform. Can't wait to see what other apps are created with Fedify

Github repo here: https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/releases/tag/1.0.0

#fedify #framework #typescript #activitypub #foss #opensource #oss #ghostcms #ghostblog #fediverse

📣 It's been a while since we've federated a batch of publishers — so to make up for it, here are 250, and they're big ones.

Today, we're bringing names like @abc, @RollingStone, @forbes, @BleacherReport, @NationalGeographic and @newyorktimes to the fediverse. They join the 174 profiles we've already federated, which include everyone from @19thnews to @Vox

Here's a blogpost with more details on this latest batch of publications that cover news, business, cooking, home design, politics, sports, science and more. Follow their Magazine feeds if you're only interested in one topic, or their whole profiles if you want the lot. The spreadsheet below lists out all federated accounts.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU

#Flipboard #Federation #SpreadMastodon #ActivityPub #Media #Publishers #Journalism #News #Politics #Sports #Entertainment #Food #Lifestyle #Science

Fedify, an ActivityPub framework, has finally released its first stable version, 1.0.0! Here are key changes:

Deprecation of the term handle

From this version, the term handle across Fedify will only be used to refer to fediverse handles (e.g., @[email protected]). An actor's internal unique ID (e.g., b379dbdc-3b4f-4ef4-88c2-fc25632d1c22) is referred to as an identifier, and the WebFinger name (e.g., hongminhee) is referred to as a username.

The term handle in the API will be maintained for a while for backward compatibility, but deprecation warnings will be logged, and it is planned to be removed in the future.

For more details, please refer to the related documentation.

Linked Data Signatures

Linked Data Signatures is an outdated standard, but it's still relied upon by major fediverse implementations such as Mastodon.

In addition to HTTP Signatures and Object Integrity Proofs, Fedify now supports Linked Data Signatures from this version, thus supporting all types of signature methods used in the fediverse. This makes Fedify an ActivityPub implementation with the best interoperability.

However, Fedify users don't need to do anything special to use Linked Data Signatures. If an incoming activity has Linked Data Signatures, it automatically verifies the signature, and all outgoing activities will have signatures in three formats: HTTP Signatures, Linked Data Signatures, and Object Integrity Proofs.

For more details, please refer to the related documentation.

Activity forwarding

From this version, you can forward activities received in the inbox to other actors using the InboxContext.forwardActivity() method.

At first glance, you might think that you could just resend an activity received in the inbox using the Context.sendActivity() method. However, if you do this, the original signature is removed before the activity is delivered to the inbox, and when sending it, the signature of the forwarding actor is attached instead, causing the receiving side of the forwarded activity to not trust it.

On the other hand, when using the InboxContext.forwardActivity() method, the activity is forwarded with the original signature preserved, avoiding this problem. (Of course, the original activity itself must be signed with Linked Data Signatures or Object Integrity Proofs.)

For more details, please refer to the related documentation.

Sending Delete(Application) on fedify inbox termination

From this version, fedify inbox will send a Delete(Application) activity to all peer servers it encountered when terminated. This is typically an activity sent when deleting an account, which will help prevent residual data related to temporary actors from remaining on other servers.

PostgreSQL drivers

The @fedify/postgres package, which implements PostgreSQL drivers for the KvStore and MessageQueue interfaces, has been released alongside this version.

The PostgreSQL driver is a backend that can be sufficiently used in production, especially recommended for projects already using PostgreSQL.

Additionally, an option to select the PostgreSQL driver has been added to the fedify init command.

Celebrating Fedify 1.0.0

With the release of version 1.0.0, Fedify will now maintain API backward compatibility as much as possible. (Of course, in the long term, there may be a 2.0.0 that breaks backward compatibility.) This should be good news for those who have been hesitant to use Fedify because there hasn't been a stable version until now!

So, hoping that more services will support ActivityPub in the future, I conclude this post!

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev

So I have some questions about the state of the #fediverse on #WordPress.

Is it possible to migrate this account’s followers/following to my WordPress site (assuming I’m using it as an #activityPub source)

Is it possible to actually follow people and get some kind of feed, interacting with that account with other users?

I think the answer is still solidly “no” to both of those, but it would be good to get some context on how people are dealing with this today.

it is my personal belief that this whole "closed-world social network" vs "open-world social Web" thing is leading to a big disconnect that makes addressing people's needs harder.

because, to be on the "network", you neglect being on the "Web".

sure, your software might still publish your "posts" as Web resources, but that's it. you're not actually granted control or ability to manage Web resources for yourself.

and that's why #ActivityPub C2S is being neglected, among many other things

29/?

are these things part of the "protocol"? how far does the "protocol" extend to cover? because, as we established, #ActivityPub is not enough to build a fully functional #fediverse -- and a lot of extensions and additional specs are things that ought to be included in this "protocol", insofar as this "protocol" is desirable.

the other thought:

if you ignore things, that means there are cases you're not handling, losing out on robustness. ignoring context is to ignore shared understanding.

23/?

this is the fundamental divide between #fediverse thinking and #Web thinking, where #ActivityPub straddles the line between both.

i've seen it said that the "open-world assumption" at the foundation of the Web is actually an undesirable thing for a "social networking protocol", and as a consequence, specs built on that open-world assumption are "completely unsuitable" for that "protocol".

but do we need a "social networking protocol"? do we even need "social networks" in the first place?

9/?

but before you build a "protocol" for a "network", consider: what even is a "network", in this context? and, here's the hot take: do you even *want* that kind of "network"? do you want a separate reified #fediverse network?

because the answer that #ActivityPub gives is actually a different one. There is no "AP network", because AP as a protocol is not enough to build a concrete network. it is intended to provide, and exists in context of, the larger #Web.

8/?

but beyond that, what does #ActivityPub actually do for #fediverse as a "network" "protocol"? basically nothing. you have a basic mechanism for delivering activities directly to subscribers, but no specified shape or structure for that payload. and you still need a lot of other specs to end up with something that talks to the "network". even with AS2 vocab, you need more vocab extensions to express things you want to.

simply put, AP is not enough for a "protocol" to build a "network".

7/?

when #ActivityPub was being standardized alongside AS2 it basically had two compelling reasons for what would become the #fediverse to adopt it:

- it was built on AS2, which was an evolution of AS1, which was already being used. so it wasn't hard to make the jump.

- it made followers-only posts possible, because while atom feeds *could* do this, it was wildly inconvenient to actually do it that way. posting something private to an inbox is a lot simpler, no juggling access control tokens.

6/?

which is to say: the primary reason that #ActivityPub is used (to the extent you can say it is being used at all) in the #fediverse is mostly historical.

fedi grew out of a long line of open protocols, and before AP was adopted, it was at the point where people primarily used "activity streams" as their vocabulary and data model, stuffed into atom feeds. atom feeds don't do private posts unless you make an entirely new access-controlled feed, possibly with a token of some sort. hence, AS2.

5/?

but this assumption starts to break down when you look a little closer.

first, consider #ActivityPub C2S. why is there close to zero usage of this in #fediverse software? simple: it doesn't solve any needs for building a "network" "protocol".

now consider S2S. why are there zero compliant impls in fedi? because AP as specified doesn't address the needs of fedi. what does fedi need? well, i find it telling that the "real" reason AP was adopted was... to implement followers-only posts.

4/?

i think this disconnect between #ActivityPub and #fediverse honestly goes a lot deeper than people might realize. and that is because the problem AP tries to solve is actually completely different from what fedi is trying to do.

the concept of a nebulous but mostly singular "network" or "protocol" (made up of partially overlapping parts) is core to what i'll call "fedi mindset". the assumption is that you can join the fedi "network" by implementing the fedi "protocol". and that AP is this.

3/?

the main contention is a disconnect between #ActivityPub as a spec and #fediverse as a protocol/network. a lot of problems cited were with the fediverse as implemented, wishful thinking about what could be changed in spec, many backwards-incompatible, mostly in service of making fediverse impl less painful.

there is a recurring refrain about implementers deciding they don't care to implement AP as specified, and that this indicates a problem with the spec, not a problem with implementers.

2/?

Look, I’m going to be completely honest. Some aspects of today’s events, and some elements leading up to it, have given me bad vibes. I’m not trying to assasinate Evan’s character or make him look like a bad person, but I want to characterize some of the dynamic problems I’m seeing from coopting “The Social Web” as a term, and equating it, #Fediverse, and #ActivityPub as all one-and-the-same.

I might get flamed for sharing this, but I have to be honest about what I really think, and why I have some problems stomaching how things are happening.

https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/09/swf-icky-feeling/

Corporate social media locks you in to their platforms, but projects like the Fediverse put you in control to build a more free, more private, and better moderated web. It's exciting to see more people working to make independent social media even better.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/as-the-open-social-web-movement-grows-a-new-nonprofit-launches-to-expand-the-fediverse/
#fediverse #activitypub

Tbh I hate everything about this and it makes me want to run far, far away from AP and never look back:

https://socialwebfoundation.org

ATP or just doing a ground-up version of my own protocol becomes more and more tempting by the day. Which leaves me sad, but here we are.

#SWF #SocialWebFoundation #ActivityPub

🆕 blog! “Social Media Blocking Has Always Been A Lie”

What does it mean to block someone on a social media site? Way back in the mists of time, we dealt with trolls on Usenet with the almighty PLONK - PLaced On Newsgroup Killfile. It meant your newsreader never downloaded their posts. They could rant at you all day long, and you'd never …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/social-media-blocking-has-always-been-a-lie/
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#ActivityPub #BlueSky #mastodon #SocialMedia #twitter

I'm trying to #build a blogging, question-answering, and news site for software engineers, which is #ActivityPub enabled. What should I name it? (The options below are just the ones available to buy a domain.)

Other ideas are also welcome!

Hello #MastodonAPI and #ActivityPub friends.

I've created a bot which has several test cases for you to try: @test_posts

If you've built something which consumes posts, this will (I hope) give you some confidence that everything renders correctly.

Are there any other types of posts you think it should have?

Looks like #Fedify v1.0.0 will be released this week! Is there anything you'd like to see added or fixed before then?

#fedidev #ActivityPub

#IndieWeb integration for #Elgg is out 🎉

🔥 Under the hood: Webmention, Microformats, IndieAuth, Micropub, Microsub, JF2 feeds, WebSub PuSH.

⚡ Available for Elgg versions 4 and 5 both.

Download plugin 👉 https://elgg.org/plugins/3292492

Stars, issues and PRs on GitHub 👉 https://github.com/RiverVanRain/indieweb

#ActivityPub for Elgg coming soon 💪

I'm polishing the #docs and filling in the gaps before releasing #Fedify v1.0. Is there something else you'd like to see in the @fedify docs?

#fedidev #ActivityPub

The next version of #Fedify, v1.0, adds ParallelMessageQueue, which makes it easy to parallelize sending and receiving activities without increasing the number of processes or nodes.

It's available for preview in v1.0.0-dev.408+f4e245b4 (JSR & npm).

https://unstable.fedify.dev/manual/mq#parallel-message-processing

#ActivityPub #fedidev

Hopefully this has rolled out to all our servers by now.

It’s part of our push into the #activitypub and will give every podcast and radio show its own unique voice.

It uses banners, icons and in the next few days we will publish the total number of views / listeners for each episode. We went with the word view because it’s 5 digits nothing more.

Thanks to @samsethi who suggested we allow the banner to have a sound button.

#podcastBanners in the wild.
https://podtoo.com/@jackedradio

Week in Fediverse 2024-09-20

Servers

- snac v2.59
- Mitra v3.5.0
- PeerTube v6.3.0
- Ktistec v2.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.2.5
- Gancio v1.19.1
- tootik v0.12.4
- Sharkey v2024.8.1
- Lemmy Development Update 2024-09-20

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.58
- Dhaaga v0.10.2
- Fedicat 9-18-24

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.12

For developers

- Federails: Ruby gem to bring ActivityPub to your app

Articles

- Extending ActivityPub: A Recipe
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 84

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0191ed15-e22d-4c34-1e4b-070a805e86cb

Misskeyをはじめとする #分散型SNS の紹介ポスター第2版を作りました。常識の範囲内で自由にお使いください。
#activitypub #atprotocol #nostr

We are writing a blog post about ActivityPods v2.
For that, we need your help!

What is it about ActivityPods that feels confusing to you? What do you want to know or understand?

#Fediverse #AskFedi #ActivityPub #ActivityPods #SolidProject #survey

Q: Which does your #ActivityPub implementation implement, HTTP Signatures, Linked Data Signatures, or Object Integrity Proofs?

Fedify: Y·E·S!

#Fedify #fedidev

OK friends! Could you please follow @blog and let me know if you see a new post from it at 12:34 BST today?

I've added the new #ActivityPub plugin to #WordPress and want to see if it has worked.

@silverpill

You should have disclosed this: "Content subscription service. Subscriptions provide a way to receive monthly payments from subscribers and to publish private content made exclusively for them.

Supported payment methods: Monero, a peer to peer digital cash system where transactions are private by default."

#fediverse #ActivityPub #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource

Based on this thread we should not expect #diaspora to adopt #activitypub and join the #fediverse unfortunately.
I'd really want to see all existing (and new) social networks join the Fedi for cross-posting and cross-following one day.

https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/lets-talk-about-activitypub/741

Fedifyの次のバージョンであるv1.0.0がリリースされれば、APIは安定化される予定です。APIが安定化する前に入れて欲しい機能は何か有りますか？

#Fedify #fedidev #ActivityPub
QT: https://hollo.social/@fedify/019208ce-cf81-717e-9239-6757a5494510 [参照]

Once the next version of #Fedify, v1.0.0, is released, the API will be stabilized. Are there any features you'd like to see before the API is stabilized?

#fedidev #ActivityPub