#ActivityPub

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Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Want to build your own #ActivityPub implementation, but don't know where to start? Read and follow #Fedify's official tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, and get started!

Jeff Sikes

https://community.nodebb.org/post/102756

Happy to hear some good news. NodeBB officially released their ActivtyPub federated forums. And, for new forums, it’s automatically enabled! 🎉

Congratulations to the team, especially @julian

I’ve enjoyed reading the progress posts for this one. A lot of hard work and good collaborations between groups. They should be proud.

#Fediverse #FediDev #ActivityPub

Jeff Sikes

https://community.nodebb.org/post/102756

Happy to hear some good news. NodeBB officially released their ActivtyPub federated forums. And, for new forums, it’s automatically enabled! 🎉

Congratulations to the team, especially @julian

I’ve enjoyed reading the progress posts for this one. A lot of hard work and good collaborations between groups. They should be proud.

#Fediverse #FediDev #ActivityPub

Chris Trottier

https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

#Discourse has an #ActivityPub plugin that federates your posts there to the #Fediverse.

So if you’re running Discourse, you may want to enable that.

Chris Trottier

https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

#Discourse has an #ActivityPub plugin that federates your posts there to the #Fediverse.

So if you’re running Discourse, you may want to enable that.

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(1/3) hello everyone,
I'm looking for someone to help me build the demo ui for #rdfpub
The application already exists and can be operated with simple things. Create and send note, show inbox/outbox, follow an actor.
I'm not fit for ui, so it looks terrible ;-) And there is still a lot to do.
But there is also a lot to do in the backend and coordination with the community regarding client to server interactions. I can't do that alone.

#Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub

BeAware

@[email protected] · Reply to Dr. Sarah Pohl's post

@LilithElina on Fediverse, only "requested" posts are sent to the instances that requests them, either by having followers on that instance or someone from the instance boosts the post. Also, even if you follow now, the posts won't backfill, you have to copy the link from each post and input it into your instances search bar. Hope that makes sense.👍

If you have any questions, let me know.

Is there a #Fediverse equivalent of #SoundCloud yet? And if not, does anyone want to help me build one?

#AskFedi #AskFediverse #SelfHosting #ActivityPub #FederatedSoftware

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Want to build your own #ActivityPub implementation, but don't know where to start? Read and follow #Fedify's official tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, and get started!

Daniel Supernault

Pixelfed Stories use Bearcaps and rotates media urls 15 minutes after delivery.

We schedule the deletes after 24h, but we are adding support for public stories too.

Its a pretty clever setup, we only deliver to Pixelfed servers, but I will be updating that to open up in case other implementations want to support Stories.

#pixelfed #activitypub

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

自分だけのActivityPubを作りたいけど、何から始めれば良いのか分からないですか？Fedifyの公式チュートリアル「自分だけのフェディバースのマイクロブログを作ろう！」を読んでみてください！

#ActivityPub #Fedify

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

자신만의 #ActivityPub 구현을 하고 싶지만, 어디서 시작해야 할지 모르겠나요? #Fedify 공식 튜토리얼인 〈나만의 연합우주 마이크로블로그 만들기〉를 읽고 따라해 보세요!

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Want to build your own #ActivityPub implementation, but don't know where to start? Read and follow #Fedify's official tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, and get started!

Want to build your own #ActivityPub implementation, but don't know where to start? Read and follow #Fedify's official tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, and get started!

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Want to build your own #ActivityPub implementation, but don't know where to start? Read and follow #Fedify's official tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, and get started!

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- My year of Fediverse explorations
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99

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Week in Fediverse

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- My year of Fediverse explorations
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99

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Daniel Supernault

Pixelfed Stories use Bearcaps and rotates media urls 15 minutes after delivery.

We schedule the deletes after 24h, but we are adding support for public stories too.

Its a pretty clever setup, we only deliver to Pixelfed servers, but I will be updating that to open up in case other implementations want to support Stories.

#pixelfed #activitypub

Roni Laukkarinen

#SocialWeb #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Internet #SocialMedia

The Web has always been social. It's a network people use and communicate with. When I created my first website in the 90s, it had visitors. I didn't know who they were, except for those who sent me email. There has been forums, BBSs, IRC, since the 1980s.

So from the social perspective it does not really matter where your "instance" is, because it's already a part of a huge network. Your "instance" can be a website, a social media platform, or anything of a sort. It's a presence online.

The ActivityPub protocol that Mastodon, WordPress, Pixelfed and many other platforms online use, actually has endpoints called "inbox" and "outbox". The logic is very similar to email, but more real time.

So for those who criticize Mastodon or Fediverse as "difficult" or something that has no "reach" I want to say that any form of communication online (be it a normal website or Mastodon or whatever) has all the reach potential in the world. You just need to make yourself heard. We're too used to corporate platforms, money making machines and algorithms to do the work for us. It distorts the whole picture.

Centralized platforms have no future, but the social web is eternal.

W3C's graph of the ActivityPub protocol:

- actor reads incoming messages
- send messages to actor (federation!)

GET
INBOX
POST
REST OF THE WORLD
POST
OUTBOX
GET
actor sends
messages / posts content
outside world can read messages from actor — W3C's graph of the ActivityPub protocol: - actor reads incoming messages - send messages to actor (federation!) GET INBOX POST REST OF THE WORLD POST OUTBOX GET actor sends messages / posts content outside world can read messages from actor

Hollo

Introducing #Hollo. Hollo is an #ActivityPub-enabled single-user microblogging software. Although it's for a single user, it also supports creating and running multiple accounts for different topics.

It's headless, meaning you can use existing #Mastodon client apps instead, with its Mastodon-compatible APIs. It has most feature parity with Mastodon. Two big differences with Mastodon is that you can use #Markdown in the content of your posts and you can quote another post.

Oh, and Hollo is built using #Bun and #Fedify.

Linux Is Best

I joined the Fediverse on May 30, 2023, and throughout my time on the Fedi, I have always believed in transparency. I even published my follow and block list, regularly on GitLab.

Tomorrow, January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will be President, and the future is uncertain. To prevent anyone from possibly becoming a target, I have switched my follow and followers to private. I would suggest others to do the same.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #DonaldTrump #Trump #UnitedStates #America #Usa #Project2025

Linux Is Best

Stefan Bohacek

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-story-so-far/

Nice to see continued progress https://ghost.org is making towards ActivityPub integration.

"Suddenly, we could see a path to your personal website becoming the single source of your identity on the social web."

#fediverse #ghost #SocialWeb #activitypub

BeAware

It's been awhile so I figured I'd do an updated #Introduction post:

Hi, I'm BeAware, sometimes I abbreviate it, BA. I am VERY passionate about decentralized systems like #ActivityPub and #Nostr and tend to discuss these topics at length. Especially the nuances of each and try to keep up with all the things regarding them.

I have #ADHD and #Hydrocephalus, which effects various aspects of my day to day life and how I think. I am also on disability because of it.

I am also very #AI-positive because it helps me with every day life. With my brain disorders, I don't think the same way others do, so AI helps me with describing things accurately and to make sure I get my point across in the way I mean to. I also tend to post #AIart from time to time to realize my creativity.

I'm a #Gamer that primarily plays PC games or games that are Cross Platform. Generally I enjoy #MMORPG, #SurvivalGames and such where I can just "zone out" and vibe without much stress.

Sometimes you'll see me discuss #Technology news as well.

If these seem to be within your interests, feel free to follow and if you have similar interests laid out in your bio, chances are good that ill follow back.

I've been here for a year and this is, by far, my favorite social media platform I've ever been on.

Thank for reading and may you be as federated as you wish!

Sincerely,
B.A.

nogajun🍉

Pelican用のActivityPubプラグインを作っている人がいた。動かないよと書いているけど、ベースがあるだけでも助かる #python #pelican #activitypub

schtobia/pelican-plugin-activitypub: Experimental readonly ActivityPub endpoint for Pelican - schtobia's Forgejo: https://git.schmidl.dev/schtobia/pelican-plugin-activitypub

Jeff Sikes

#Mastodon #Fediverse #BitTorrent #IPFS #WebTorrent

Is anyone working on #P2P server software compatible with #ActivityPub? It seems natural to be able to donate network resources instead of cash, and would make services even more difficult to censor.

Charlotte Aten

#Mastodon #Fediverse #BitTorrent #IPFS #WebTorrent

Is anyone working on #P2P server software compatible with #ActivityPub? It seems natural to be able to donate network resources instead of cash, and would make services even more difficult to censor.

うっかり九兵衛

https://square.concrnt.net/general/comparing/

#Concrnt （コンカレント）なるSNS･･･プロトコル？･･･何って呼べばいいんだろう･･･の説明なんだけど、Mastodonが採用している #ActivityPub 等の説明もあって、結構分かりやすかった。

Activity Pubにうっすらと感じていた「どたどた感」は、ここから来てたんだなあ･･･大して理解もできていない中での印象だったのだけれど、どっすんばったんしている感じがするのです･･･

他方、concrntは、ちっちゃい何かの箱の中に押し込められて、穴から覗いて手探りをやって、そこで触れたものをつかんで来る感があり･･･

Blueskyは、触ってないけど、仕組みを見る限りは、「首根っこ」がある･･･（そこを押さえられると死ぬる系）

各々特徴があって面白い。

ん－－ん－－ん－－、好みとしては、やっぱりActivity Pubになるのかなあ･･･あくまで好みですけどねん

AP > concrnt > Bluesky

こんな感じ～～

個人が小さく作って内輪でわちゃわちゃやるなら、concrntは、悪くない選択肢な気がする（AP連携も可能）。

#fedibird

Harris👍Trump👎

So ... The #Fediverse. I get that the Fediverse is not *one* thing but many things that use #ActivityPub. Much as the internet is not *one* thing but many things that use TCP/IP.

Mastodon is still, I think, the largest fraction of the Fediverse but as a Mastodon user, what powers does ActivityPub grant me? Do I magically have a "free account" on a Pixelfed instance? (yes, pretty much everything in the Fediverse is free, but you know what I mean). Does that other service "know" me?

Harris👍Trump👎

So ... The #Fediverse. I get that the Fediverse is not *one* thing but many things that use #ActivityPub. Much as the internet is not *one* thing but many things that use TCP/IP.

月音

#Concrnt #activitypub #fediverse #fedibird

とても分かりやすかった。ActivityPub連携できるんだね！後で登録してみよ〜！

新時代の分散型SNS「Concrnt(コンカレント)」を始めよう！｜akiRAM
https://note.com/akiram_vr/n/nfe5419e4ba2a

BotKit by Fedify

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust @fedify foundation.

Robert W. Gehl

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/18/makingAlts.html

Latest FOSS Academic:

In which I talk about how state regulations are affecting the development of ActivityPub and the fediverse, and how trying to make a TOS for Loops by using an online service resulted in a surveillance capitalist-friendly document.

#Loops #ActivityPub #Regulations #FOSSAcademic

Robert W. Gehl

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/18/makingAlts.html

Latest FOSS Academic:

#Loops #ActivityPub #Regulations #FOSSAcademic

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@[email protected] Adam,

You need to know that the changes in your moderation policy announced by your leadership is putting your relationship with the #Fediverse in serious jeopardy.

From the moment #Meta announced #Threads there was strong debate within the community on whether you could be a trusted actor in this space. I, against my own initial gut reaction (having deleted my FB profile in 2020 and never joined Insta due to family that have been harmed by it), decided to give the benefit of the doubt solely because I thought Thread’s entrance into the #ActivityPub universe gave that effort instant credibility with people and entities that would never have considered it important before.

But now, on the eve of the ascension and return of the most dangerous President the United States has ever produced, at the height of a rise in regressive action and policy that puts people in direct danger, your company has chosen to double down.

No amount of earnest sounding words or tented, pensive, hands can mask what is going on here.

And the majority of the Fediverse is seeing it. Threads.net will reach blocking thresholds by @iftas soon, if it hasn’t already.

You are decidedly part of the problem, and always have been.

And that is why today, after giving you and the handful of people on Threads that I like and follow a chance ( @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] among others) I have to again cut away from Meta not because of them, but because of leaders like yourself who refuse to put the well being of all people ahead of political and ideological ambition.

I believe you and I agree on one thing, the #OpenSocialWeb is the future because it *is* freedom and that will always draw people away from oppressive spaces.

Long live the #Fediverse.

Cheers
Chris

small circle 🕊 in calmness

Reminder: AS/AP-based suffers from #BallOfMud based ad-hoc expansion unless we find common practices and stick to them. Collaboration across a commons is essential here. Just coding your app with custom #ActivityPub protocol extension is contributing to #ProtocolDecay and increasing complexity to facilitate broad #interoperability.

The #FEP process and #SocialCG are where collective effort and proactive participation can improve #fedi for all. We need a bottom up standardization process.

Scene from Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indy is fleeing a tunnel vision with a huge boulder in pursuit. The boulder is named "Protocol Decay" and Indy is labeled "Fediverse".

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@[email protected] Adam,

You need to know that the changes in your moderation policy announced by your leadership is putting your relationship with the #Fediverse in serious jeopardy.

No amount of earnest sounding words or tented, pensive, hands can mask what is going on here.

And the majority of the Fediverse is seeing it. Threads.net will reach blocking thresholds by @iftas soon, if it hasn’t already.

You are decidedly part of the problem, and always have been.

I believe you and I agree on one thing, the #OpenSocialWeb is the future because it *is* freedom and that will always draw people away from oppressive spaces.

Long live the #Fediverse.

Cheers
Chris

small circle 🕊 in calmness

The #FEP process and #SocialCG are where collective effort and proactive participation can improve #fedi for all. We need a bottom up standardization process.

Ecologia Digital

My good friend @manualdousuario has a solid case for his rant over #FreeOurFeeds. But given the names involved, I'd slap a question mark on his headline: "$30 million to reinvent the wheel"?
That's because I see opportunity for innovative advancements at the protocol level, even dealing with emerging public payment systems like #PIX.
The wheel is done: #ActivityPub. I am open to hear what those good people can do to help the #opensocial path forward.

Introducing #Hollo. Hollo is an #ActivityPub-enabled single-user microblogging software. Although it's for a single user, it also supports creating and running multiple accounts for different topics.

Oh, and Hollo is built using #Bun and #Fedify.

Meljoann

Hey, I’ve been wondering this. How come you can sign in with a #Pixelfed account using a Mastodon app, and not vice versa? Design choice on the Pixelfed app? Or is there a some technical reason?

It’s just the apps themselves deciding whether to support multiple #ActivityPub projects, is it?

Steve Bate

I dream of the day when I'm not forced to choose between decentralization and a good user (or developer) experience. #ActivityPub (P.S. if there are replies to this post, you probably won't see most of them on your instance.)

月音

#Concrnt #activitypub #fediverse #fedibird

とても分かりやすかった。ActivityPub連携できるんだね！後で登録してみよ〜！

新時代の分散型SNS「Concrnt(コンカレント)」を始めよう！｜akiRAM
https://note.com/akiram_vr/n/nfe5419e4ba2a

domo

I am trying to figure out where I go to find open issues and discussions about the features for "quote posts" in the ActivityPub spec. Do they have... a git repo where they discuss it? (Is they in this case W3C?)

Is there a doc somewhere? I can't seem to find where they track these discussions publicly, but mastodon said the feature was already proposed upstream in ActivityPub, but that it was still in the works in discussions.

I want to read the discussions to figure out where in the process of implementing the feature we are. Are we still just discussing it? Is there a proposal request somewhere?

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-17

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For developers

- Owncast v0.2.0: The Self-Hosted Streaming Solution Levels Up
- My year of Fediverse explorations
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99

Articles

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019451e8-211d-4a09-c76b-4b3a69976dc1

Daniel Supernault

Pixelfed Stories use Bearcaps and rotates media urls 15 minutes after delivery.

We schedule the deletes after 24h, but we are adding support for public stories too.

Its a pretty clever setup, we only deliver to Pixelfed servers, but I will be updating that to open up in case other implementations want to support Stories.

#pixelfed #activitypub

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-17

Servers

Clients

- Dhaaga v0.13.0
- Voyager v2.23.0
- Tesseract v1.4.29
- Pixelix v3.2.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.6.0

For developers

- Owncast v0.2.0: The Self-Hosted Streaming Solution Levels Up
- My year of Fediverse explorations
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99

Articles

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019451e8-211d-4a09-c76b-4b3a69976dc1

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-17

Servers

Clients

- Dhaaga v0.13.0
- Voyager v2.23.0
- Tesseract v1.4.29
- Pixelix v3.2.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.6.0

For developers

- Owncast v0.2.0: The Self-Hosted Streaming Solution Levels Up
- My year of Fediverse explorations
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99

Articles

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019451e8-211d-4a09-c76b-4b3a69976dc1

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Mastodon

It's always VERY confusing to me when people try to advocate against Fedi being an open platform. (which is and always was the goal)

If you want a walled garden, there's MANY options for you to choose from, yet you chose the option that is specifically NOT that.

domo

I want to read the discussions to figure out where in the process of implementing the feature we are. Are we still just discussing it? Is there a proposal request somewhere?

BotKit by Fedify

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust @fedify foundation.

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust @fedify foundation.

kini

Hello Fedi nerds,

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust @fedify foundation.

Strypey

jmsfbs

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-story-so-far

"We're at the beginning of a significant shift in the history of the internet in more ways than one, and we're feeling both optimistic and excited for the future. After two decades of restrictive networks and centralized platforms, there are a lot of very motivated people focused on one thing:

Bringing back the open web."

#ghost #activitypub #fediverse #openweb #blog

BotKit by Fedify

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust @fedify foundation.

genehack

Is there a small/minimal #ActivityPub server that supports “post-only” accounts?

My use-case is, I’ve got a local club where I’d like to publish meeting announcements, but I’d prefer if it came from the club’s domain, and I don’t want or need a “full” server, just something that will serve posts to subs

Ride Theory

I've signed up for #pixelfed. I'll have to figure out how to integrate posts over there with my Mastodon account. I still don't really know how to share my #Bookwyrm stuff over here, either. There's some mysterious #activitypub magic I haven't learned yet...

Elena Rossini ⁂

https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"My Year of Fediverse explorations"

with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy

#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress

lps

https://index.castopod.org/top50.html

Wow! The #fediverse compatible and #selfhosted #podcasting platform #castopod has it's own index which will allow you to follow/comment/be alerted to new episodes from right here:)

*please boost for reach!

Find a show, follow and enter your #mastodon or other fedi account and voila you will be alerted every time they post an episode. Thanks to #activitypub you can also interact! #feditips

https://castopod.com/en

https://blog.castopod.org/exploring-podcasting-2-0-made-easy-introducing-castopod-index/

@[email protected]
@[email protected]

genehack

Is there a small/minimal #ActivityPub server that supports “post-only” accounts?

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

Fediverse Labeler update:

I have been working on a site that anyone can use to see Fediverse Labelers in action.

This is what it looks like if the user it looks up doesn't provide an avatar image or a header image.

I.e., this (in the screenshot) shows the default avatar image and header image.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

Although what I mentioned here doesn't resolve the problem with changing ones username.

That problem still exists with this technique.

#acctURL #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #HTTP

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

For example —

If the "username" is part of it, then there is a straightforward unique ID for this user as an acct-URL:

acct:joeblow@example·com

But there are many ways an HTTP-URL as an ID gets represented. Ex:

• http;//example·com/users/joeblow
• http;//example·com/user/joeblow
• http;//example·com/api/users/joeblow
• http;//example·com/api/user/joeblow
• http;//example·com/~joeblow
• etc

#acctURL #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #HTTP

Elena Rossini ⁂

https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"My Year of Fediverse explorations"

with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy

#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"My Year of Fediverse explorations"

with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy

#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress

Hiker

@[email protected] · Reply to 👤 𝟳𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 ✅🖖⁂'s post

@zwovierzwo Es gab diese Weiterentwicklung von GnuSocial auch mit #ActivityPub.
Aber es sieht so aus, als ging das Ende 2022 zu Ende...
https://codeberg.org/GNUsocial/gnu-social
@feb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

For previous posts on Fediverse Lablers see:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113833886881290289

And:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113825206793984884

And:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113822862806430217

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

Fediverse Labeler update:

I have been working on a site that anyone can use to see Fediverse Labelers in action.

This is what it looks like if the user it looks up doesn't provide an avatar image or a header image.

I.e., this (in the screenshot) shows the default avatar image and header image.

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113825206793984884

And:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113822862806430217

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

Fediverse Labeler update:

I have been working on site that anyone can use to see Fediverse Labelers in action.

I am hoping to get it done soon. (Maybe by the weekend or next week.)

Sandor Inopia

https://app.pixelix.social/
https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix

Tras una primera inmersión en el #fediverso, estoy pensando en montarme una instancia propia para uso personal (tengo un pequeño servidor Debian en casa). Estoy buscando un servidor compatible con #activitypub ligero y a ser posible multidominio. He descartado #Mastodon por los requerimientos, y ando dudando entre #pleroma , #takahẽ , #GoToSocial o #friendica

Busco algo con una interfaz agradable, sin demasiadas dependencias a cosas raras (estoy acostumbrado a un entorno #LAMP), y que tenga un proyecto mínimamente sólido y con proyección de futuro (soy un señor mayor y estoy en esa fase de no tener que probarlo todo 🙂 ) Ahora mismo tengo cuenta en Mastodon, Pixelfed y Leemy.

¿Alguna recomendación? ¡Gracias!

TheFederatedPipe

@[email protected] · Reply to TheFederatedPipe's post

Wanted to add, I recently tried #pixelix for #pixelfed, and I might actually like this app better that the official.

The beauty of the #openinternet, #freesoftware, #socialweb and #activitypub

TheFederatedPipe

@[email protected] · Reply to TheFederatedPipe's post

Wanted to add, I recently tried #pixelix for #pixelfed, and I might actually like this app better that the official.

https://app.pixelix.social/
https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daniebeler.pfpixelix

The beauty of the #openinternet, #freesoftware, #socialweb and #activitypub

Delta Chat

Hum, are we the only cross-platform messenger project present in 15+ app stores that primarily announces on, and interacts with, the Fediverse while others use X and maybe Bluesky? If you know of others please mention them in the replies :)

In any case, we are pretty happy here, as we are finding meaningful interactions, and organically evolving interest and collaboration with other people and projects. Probably it helps that #email shares several traits with #ActivityPub protocols? Cheers.

lps

https://index.castopod.org/top50.html

Wow! The #fediverse compatible and #selfhosted #podcasting platform #castopod has it's own index which will allow you to follow/comment/be alerted to new episodes from right here:)

*please boost for reach!

Find a show, follow and enter your #mastodon or other fedi account and voila you will be alerted every time they post an episode. Thanks to #activitypub you can also interact! #feditips

https://castopod.com/en

https://blog.castopod.org/exploring-podcasting-2-0-made-easy-introducing-castopod-index/

@[email protected]
@[email protected]

Elena Rossini ⁂

And it never gets old: the special thrill of seeing your #Pixelfed post show up in your #Mastodon feed because of the magic of #ActivityPub ✨

Interoperability on the Fediverse is just so so cool!

🔗 : https://photos.elenarossini.com/p/ele/785075267840958818

a screenshot of a photo I posted on Pixelfed. The username reads: Elena Rossini on Pixelfed and the caption states: from my archives: at the top of Burj Khalifa.

A photo of me from December 2014 from the top of the Burj Khalifa observation deck in Dubai, UAE.

It's one of my favorite pics and it was shot by a friend using my iPhone 6 (incredible quality all things considered!)

Then there is the photo of the silhouette of a woman looking out in front of her at the Dubai landscape. You can see tall large windowpanes and the whole photo is bathed in blue hues — a screenshot of a photo I posted on Pixelfed. The username reads: Elena Rossini on Pixelfed and the caption states: from my archives: at the top of Burj Khalifa. A photo of me from December 2014 from the top of the Burj Khalifa observation deck in Dubai, UAE. It's one of my favorite pics and it was shot by a friend using my iPhone 6 (incredible quality all things considered!) Then there is the photo of the silhouette of a woman looking out in front of her at the Dubai landscape. You can see tall large windowpanes and the whole photo is bathed in blue hues

Daniel Supernault

#pixelfed #loops #fedidb #sup #pubkit #fediverseInfo #activitypub

I appreciate all the support, and just wanted to remind you all that I've been preparing for this moment for years.

I tend to excel under stressful conditions, while maintaining a healthy balance by taking every other night off from coding.

I won't waste this opportunity, and remain focused on @pixelfed during this historic moment!

Admins, users and even press are free to mention me, I'm here to serve you!

Remember that ❤️

TheFederatedPipe

@[email protected] · Reply to infinite love ⴳ's post

@trwnh

I was just talking about this here. I think I even mentioned you.

https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1437745

Is there any future where we could see this being the future of #activitypub?

WetHat💦

Key Points:
➡️ BotKit enables the creation of standalone ActivityPub bots, free from platform constraints.
➡️ It is user-friendly and written in TypeScript, ensuring type safety.
➡️ BotKit is easy to deploy with minimal dependencies on various virtual servers.
➡️ Powered by #Fedify, a robust #ActivityPub framework.

#ActivityPub #BotKit #Fediverse #TypeScript #Deno #OpenSource #Programming

AfterDawn

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/01/14/pixelfed-instagram-vaihtoehto-mobiilisovellus

Metan toimintaan kyllästyneet käyttäjät ovat löytäneet Instagramin korvaajaksi hajautetun Pixelfedin

Nyt Pixelfedille julkaistiin myös virallinen kännykkäsovellus (Android ja iPhone) ja sovellus nousi sovelluskauppojen ykköseksi mm. Yhdysvalloissa ja Ruotsissa.

#instagram #activitypub #pixelfed #hajautettu #sosiaalinenmedia #uutiset #meta #teknologia #tekniikka

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

This screen mock-up only shows text-labels.

Other types of labels can exist — image labels of different types, virtual object labels, space-time labels, etc.

And labels can have different use-case (in addition to human-readable text) — more on that later.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

For discussion on some of the technical / programming side of Fediverse Labelers, see:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113822893896346873

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

Vivaldi

#Vivaldi #VivaldiSocial #VivaldiTips #ActivityPub #WordPress #Mastodon

We make good use of Mastodon’s interoperability with WordPress. When we recently moved our Vivaldi Tips (@tips) blog from vivaldi.net to vivaldi.com to start translating the tips, we noticed that things were a little off on the Mastodon side. Luckily we have the amazing @thomasp in our team, who ironed out every single issue we found.

One of the problems we had was the ActivityPub plugin not detecting the language tags our translation plugin (WPML) added to the posts on WordPress. Language tags allow people on Mastodon to subscribe to posts only in the languages they can read and use the translation feature, so this was an important issue for us to solve. Read about the solution Thomas came up with in his blog: https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2025/01/14/combining-wpml-activitypub/.

AfterDawn

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/01/14/pixelfed-instagram-vaihtoehto-mobiilisovellus

Metan toimintaan kyllästyneet käyttäjät ovat löytäneet Instagramin korvaajaksi hajautetun Pixelfedin

Nyt Pixelfedille julkaistiin myös virallinen kännykkäsovellus (Android ja iPhone) ja sovellus nousi sovelluskauppojen ykköseksi mm. Yhdysvalloissa ja Ruotsissa.

#instagram #activitypub #pixelfed #hajautettu #sosiaalinenmedia #uutiset #meta #teknologia #tekniikka

naturzukunft

if i search for a user in #activitypub .academy the first time, #mastodon is doing
- a webfinger request
- read outbox-collection request
- read following-collection request
- read followers-collection request
not bad. what do they expect wenn reading the outbox? the objects that was adressed to as_public?

WetHat💦

#ActivityPub #BotKit #Fediverse #TypeScript #Deno #OpenSource #Programming

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

The way Fediverse is, makes it very easy to stalk and harass people.

I've only had it happen once or twice, but it's still unsettling to see people I've blocked LONG ago, show up again just cause they made another account on another instance...😒

Galaxy Map

https://bsky.app/profile/emily.space/post/3lfou3yzmy223

Interesting claims about ActivityPub over on Bluesky - any response?

Nordnick :verified:

@[email protected] · Reply to CJ Shearwood :pmgpurple:'s post

@cjshearwood @galaxy_map

Just operate your own instance.

Possibly with #ActivityPub.

Not really possible with #ATproto.

Vivaldi

#Vivaldi #VivaldiSocial #VivaldiTips #ActivityPub #WordPress #Mastodon

Nordnick :verified:

@[email protected] · Reply to Gali's post

@galileo

Bleibt natürlich die Frage, was könnte man aus #ActivityPub und dem #Fediverse machen, wenn dort mal flott ein paar Millionen investiert würden...

... wobei dann natürlich immer die Frage bleibt, was versprechen sich die Investoren.

Und schon sind wir wieder im Dilemma...

Nordnick :verified:

@[email protected] · Reply to CJ Shearwood :pmgpurple:'s post

@cjshearwood @galaxy_map

Just operate your own instance.

Possibly with #ActivityPub.

Not really possible with #ATproto.

WetHat💦

#ActivityPub #BotKit #Fediverse #TypeScript #Deno #OpenSource #Programming

Galaxy Map

https://bsky.app/profile/emily.space/post/3lfou3yzmy223

Interesting claims about ActivityPub over on Bluesky - any response?

Nordnick :verified:

@[email protected] · Reply to Gali's post

@galileo

Du kannst doch via #ActivityPub im #Fediverse unter eigener Domain eine Instanz für Dich betreiben.

Bei #ATproto geht das nicht.

DJM (freelance for hire)

https://www.didiermary.fr/hashtags-groupes-mastodon/

J'ai mis du temps, mais je me suis (enfin !) remis à mon Guide d’utilisation de Mastodon en français...
Voici le 3ème chapitre de la 7ème partie : l'utilisation des Hashtags dans Mastodon, ainsi qu'une présentation de la fonctionnalité "groupes".

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #Microblogging

Nordnick :verified:

@[email protected] · Reply to heise online's post

@heiseonline

Fragt man sich, was die Motivation ist, in das für diese Zwecke weniger geeignete #ATproto zu investieren und nicht z.B. in so etwas Etabliertes wie #ActivityPub.

muıııo

https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-back-social-media-from-billionaires

Why AT Protocol and not #ActivityPub? I find it strange the #Fediverse isn't mentioned at all

muıııo

https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-back-social-media-from-billionaires

Why AT Protocol and not #ActivityPub? I find it strange the #Fediverse isn't mentioned at all

Sebastian Lasse

@[email protected] · Reply to Sebastian Lasse's post

@evanprodromou

Update:
Meanwhile covered in german lead media:
[DE] https://www.heise.de/news/Beispiellos-gewachsen-Facebook-sperrt-Links-zu-Instagram-Alternative-Pixelfed-10237505.html

I will propose a meeting to the Policy SIG.

Esteemed #Fediverse
we will inform the EU Commission about #Facebook censoring links to #pixelfed.
When Musk did the same with mastodon links, we provided the EU with a huge example set, so if you are on Facebook/Instagram or any and links to fedi endpoints are censored, please provide us with a screenshot, link address and the reason as screenshot.

Sebastian Lasse

@[email protected] · Reply to Sebastian Lasse's post

@evanprodromou

Update:
Meanwhile covered in german lead media:
[DE] https://www.heise.de/news/Beispiellos-gewachsen-Facebook-sperrt-Links-zu-Instagram-Alternative-Pixelfed-10237505.html

I will propose a meeting to the Policy SIG.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

This screen mock-up only shows text-labels.

Other types of labels can exist — image labels of different types, virtual object labels, space-time labels, etc.

And labels can have different use-case (in addition to human-readable text) — more on that later.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

For discussion on some of the technical / programming side of Fediverse Labelers, see:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113822893896346873

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #FediverseLabelers #FediverseLabels #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

AOE, Takashi

#fediverse #activitypub #atproto

これは面白い動きだな、Blueskyとは別にAT Protoベースのサービスを運営する本格的なやつが出てきそうだ（個人レベルとかでやっている人はいる）。リレーは独自に運営すると言っているな。AppViewはどうするんだろう？今のbsky.socialのPDSにも接続するのかな？

そしてActivityPubとの接続についても先日発足したSocial Web Foundationと協力してサポートしていくと言っているな。

/「億万長者からSNSを救おう」──Free Our Feeds発足 - ITmedia NEWS
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2501/14/news102.html

Linux Is Best

On while the topic of Sharkey, for a development that has nothing to hide, they're doing a lot to hide sh-t.

1st, they recently changed account in the past 24 hours. I suspect because people kept finding post and references they hadn't yet deleted (I still have some links, read on)

Old Account: https://shonk.social/@Sharkey
New Account: https://eepy.moe/@[email protected]

This is the post showing the server they finally got https://shonk.social/notes/9qsw4nie0j3b00aj

They seem to have removed the post thanking everyone and detailing how many people contributed. They have also removed the post asking for more money, so they could form an LLC (not a non-profit, but a business). And they removed the post, where they attempt to troll me in public.

They may be deleting some things via the database, because a few of their old post, remove details and replace it with "nulled" (see screen). I'm guessing someone performed a SQL search and replace.

But I did something no one expected. I made every post I ever made from May 30, 2023, through December 21, 2024, publically downloadable into the public domain, including my interactions with Sharkey. https://kitty.social/notes/a21e0nsgbe9z2mj8

#Sharkey #Shareky #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Misskey

Screenshot that shows "nulled" where the company name should be.

Bloodaxe

@[email protected] · Reply to Eugen Rochko's post

@Gargron I am truly grateful for all the work you've done to increase the usage of the #ActivityPub protocol.

There is no arguing that without your leadership and your dedication, we would not be where we are today. As a society, I believe it is paramount that we take control of the #PublicSquare back to the people in a #Decentralized manner, and #Mastodon has been a MASSIVE push in that direction.

Thank you Eugen, I'm glad you exist and I appreciate your work 😃

#Grateful

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia

Assholes in this world have made me very cynical.

I feel that every time I login to Fedi these days, there's yet another scheme to get people to dump money into a project for "the growth of the Fediverse" yet we have yet to see any results and the things they're doing seem shady as fuck to me. Yet people keep parading around like it's the best thing ever.

SWF forms and is funded by major companies like Meta and Auttomatic. Not sure how that could be a good thing. That means SWF will be financially influenced by these companies and there's nothing anybody can do to change that.

Now, Mastodon is being given to a new non-profit. They say this is to "give the power back to the people" but obviously giving ownership to a non-profit doesn't do that...it gives ownership to the non-profit and allows them to hide your donations via shady legalities to enrich themselves.

Money hungry fucks ruin everything. Change my mind.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

Note that even in this example, that there are different types of labels!

I have some examples of text labels.

But I also have some examples of Icon labels.

(Other types of labels could exist, too.)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

The "describes" field would point to the thing being labelled.

The "attributedTo" field would point to the person or machine that create these label.

And the "attachment" field would be a list of labels.

The (top level) "icon" field would be an icon that would be shown next to the label in the user-interface (UI).

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

Emelia 👸🏻

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Jan/0006.html

With any luck, we now have weekly activity reports from Github to the public-swicg mailing list, as to keep everyone in the loop on the activity on ActivityPub and ActivityStreams:

There's some sort of delay happening with the test runs of this email, but hopefully they'll show up soon. This should help increase visibility into what's happening.

#ActivityPub #W3C

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

A Fediverse Labeler would output a separate ActivityStreams "Profile" Object for each thing it wants to label.

Each of these should be at a separate URL.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

Emelia 👸🏻

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Jan/0006.html

With any luck, we now have weekly activity reports from Github to the public-swicg mailing list, as to keep everyone in the loop on the activity on ActivityPub and ActivityStreams:

There's some sort of delay happening with the test runs of this email, but hopefully they'll show up soon. This should help increase visibility into what's happening.

#ActivityPub #W3C

Emelia 👸🏻

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Jan/0006.html

With any luck, we now have weekly activity reports from Github to the public-swicg mailing list, as to keep everyone in the loop on the activity on ActivityPub and ActivityStreams:

There's some sort of delay happening with the test runs of this email, but hopefully they'll show up soon. This should help increase visibility into what's happening.

#ActivityPub #W3C

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityPubProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #JSONLD #OpenWeb #OpenSocial #SocialWeb

This is how a Fediverse Labeler could work.

In particular, This is how a Fediverse Labeler could be represented as ActivityPub / ActivityStreams / JSON-LD data.

{ "@context": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" ], "type": "Profile", "describes": "acct:[email protected]", "attributedTo": "https://example.com/apps/ratel", "icon": { "type": "Icon", "mediaType": "image/png", "url": "https://example.com/apps/ratel/img/icon.png" }, "attachment": [ { "type": "Label", "name": "Programmer" }, { "type": "Label", "name": "Canadian" }, { "type": "Icon", "mediaType": "image/png", "url": "https://example.com/pfp/751f76ed540a40a3b4caae50e50cc867.png" }, { "type": "Icon", "mediaType": "image/png", "url": "https://example.com/pfp/45f7b459257940f490133070a975924b.png" } ] }

everton137

#ActivityPub #ATProtocol #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #Mozilla #Wikipedia #VentureCapital #SocialMedia

Save Social Media From Billionaire Capture: freeourfeeds.com?

"But it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app."

I see the executive director and president of Mozilla Foundation as their technical advisors, no surprise. But it surprises me to have the executive director of the Social Web Foundation (@swf) there.

Any thoughts, @evan ?

It also surprised me to see Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, involved.

Linux Is Awesome

@[email protected] · Reply to Mastodon's post

@Mastodon You should also consider changing hosting providers, outside the United States.

#Mastodon #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

DJM (freelance for hire)

https://www.didiermary.fr/hashtags-groupes-mastodon/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #Microblogging

Erik Moeller

The https://freeourfeeds.com/ FAQ is missing one question that's actually being asked frequently: How does this approach relate to existing nonprofit, open source, standards-based efforts centered around #ActivityPub?

@elipariser @wearenew_public Can you fix that? It's a bit tone-deaf to promote this effort here without speaking to how it intersects.

pospi

@[email protected] · Reply to small circle 🕊 in calmness's post

@smallcircles @laprice if you wanna check out some (#ActivityPub based) enabling software to do these sorts of things, I'd definitely recommend @bonfire https://bonfirenetworks.org/

Dominik

https://github.com/RikudouSage/ActivityPub

I created an #ActivityPub library for #PHP which uses modern PHP 8.4 features. Each input is fully validated and fully typed, there's support for Signature header validating / generating and some other sweet stuff.

Note that it's currently in alpha, mainly because it's not tested yet and there are most likely many bugs, but tests are coming soon(ish).

Random fact: 3 bug reports for #PhpStorm were created in the process of creating the package.

jmsfbs

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-story-so-far

Bringing back the open web."

#ghost #activitypub #fediverse #openweb #blog

jmsfbs

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-story-so-far

Bringing back the open web."

#ghost #activitypub #fediverse #openweb #blog

Dominik

https://github.com/RikudouSage/ActivityPub

Note that it's currently in alpha, mainly because it's not tested yet and there are most likely many bugs, but tests are coming soon(ish).

Random fact: 3 bug reports for #PhpStorm were created in the process of creating the package.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

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

Is any Fediverse (or other) software using or returning an ActivityStreams 'Profile'?

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityStreamsProfile #DeSo #FediDev #FediDevs #Fediverse #FediverseLabeler #JSONLD #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

marius

@[email protected] · Reply to marius's post

It's a painful realization that I come to that no matter how much effort I put into making my #ActivityPub server be fast it's still going to suck if in order to build a meaningful page for a user the client needs to do many requests.

So the #brutalinks link aggregator now makes use of asynchronous collection fetching and then content rendering is being done from local storage.

This decreased the loading times to probably less than half of what they were before.

However I still need to find a good model for aggregating and balancing all the sequential loads with an eventual asynchronous sequential sending of activities.

#FedBOX #GoActivityPub

Jens Ohlig

Here's an idea:

Combining
• the JSON-LD schema for recipes https://www.schema.org/Recipe
• with #ActivityPub https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
• and #Wikidata entities https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access#Linked_Data_Interface_(URI)

would give you a Multilingual Cookbook on the Social Web with delicious Linked Data.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

import { createBot, InProcessMessageQueue, MemoryKvStore, mention, text, } from "@fedify/botkit"; // Create a bot instance: const bot = createBot<void>({ // The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain": username: "greetbot", // Set the display name: name: "Greet Bot", // Set the profile icon (avatar): icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"), // Set the bio: summary: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${ mention("@[email protected]")}.`, // Store data in memory (for development): kv: new MemoryKvStore(), // Use in-process message queue (for development): queue: new InProcessMessageQueue(), }); // A bot can respond to a mention: bot.onMention = async (session, message) => { await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}!`); }; // Or, a bot also can actively publish a post: const session = bot.getSession("https://mydomain/"); setInterval(async () => { await session.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`); }, 1000 * 60 * 60); export default bot;

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

🌻 Defederate Threads 🌻

#mastodon #fediverse #ux #design

Why are #ActivityPub developers so evasive on the topic of protocol handlers (prefixes)?

Linux Is Best

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Daniel Supernault

#labeler #loops #activitypub

Labeler - a self hostable, MRF inspired labeler service for ActivityPub

Create, or subscribe to 3rd party labeler servers you or your friends manage, and take advantage of a rich filter schema to define rules and actions to apply to incoming activities.

Loops will be the first service to support this new Pixelfed labs project ✨

Week in Fediverse

- Hubzilla v10.0.6
- Akkoma v2025.01
- PeerTube v7.0.1
- Manyfold v0.92.0
- snac v2.68
- Castopod v1.13.3
- Ktistec v2.4.4
- tootik v0.14.1
- Untitled Gaming Social: ActivityPub platform that bridges game screenshots and achievements to the fediverse
- “Event Bridge For ActivityPub” plugin released on WordPress.org

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-10

Servers

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.9.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.12
- Dhaaga v0.12.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.5
- Tesseract v1.4.28
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.0

Tools and Plugins

- BotKit: A framework for creating ActivityPub bots

For developers

Articles

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-10

Servers

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.9.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.12
- Dhaaga v0.12.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.5
- Tesseract v1.4.28
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.0

Tools and Plugins

- BotKit: A framework for creating ActivityPub bots

For developers

Articles

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98

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Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Daniel Supernault

#labeler #loops #activitypub

Labeler - a self hostable, MRF inspired labeler service for ActivityPub

Create, or subscribe to 3rd party labeler servers you or your friends manage, and take advantage of a rich filter schema to define rules and actions to apply to incoming activities.

Loops will be the first service to support this new Pixelfed labs project ✨

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-10

Servers

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.9.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.12
- Dhaaga v0.12.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.5
- Tesseract v1.4.28
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.0

Tools and Plugins

- BotKit: A framework for creating ActivityPub bots

For developers

Articles

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98

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Robert W. Gehl

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/10/moreThreadsBskyAP.html

Latest FOSS Academic!

In which I talk about my new monitoring of Threads's fediverse blocklist, the @cwebber and Bryan Newbold debate, and the trust and safety work of @thisismissem

#FOSSAcademic #ASMupdate #Threads #Bluesky #ActivityPub

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-10

Servers

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.9.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.12
- Dhaaga v0.12.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.5
- Tesseract v1.4.28
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.0

Tools and Plugins

- BotKit: A framework for creating ActivityPub bots

For developers

Articles

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98

-----

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01942e1c-9727-6a7b-ff14-2a50884355ec

Robert W. Gehl

Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

Jon Henshaw :coywolf:

With @bsky.brid.gy, @Flipboard, and @threads posts along with all of the other posts from @Mastodon and the other platforms that support #ActivityPub, I’m having zero issues keeping up with :allthethings: It’s nice to finally have my social media world (de)centralized and 100% in my control and using my own domain.

The key features it provides currently are:

Type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary (including some vendor-specific extensions)
#WebFinger client and server
HTTP Signatures & Linked Data Signatures & Object Integrity Proofs
Middleware for handling webhooks
#NodeInfo protocol
#Node.js, #Deno, and #Bun support
CLI toolchain for testing and debugging

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

naturzukunft

#activitypubdev #activitypub #rdfpub

Is there anybody out there, who is able/wants to discuss about reading Collections via C2S api ?

Daniel Supernault

infinite love ⴳ

#activitypub thonk: delivering to a Collection is nonsensical because a Collection could be an actor. but so can a Group

basically you have implicit behavior "the Collection needs to be expanded to its items which are assumed to all be actors" just like a Group might expand to all its members (except the assumption there is a bit stronger, you can generally expect a Group's members to all be individuals?)

whereas something like WAC makes a distinction between agent, agentGroup, agentClass

lps

#mastoart #fediverse #activitypub

#feditips #quicktip

If you prefer a more #instagram presentation when following #photography or #art accounts, it's easy!

Create a #pixelfed account like you did for #mastodon https://pixelfed.org/servers

Then, if you find an artist that you want to follow from there, due to the nicer layout for that type of content, just copy and paste their account

ex. @nicetriangle into the search bar and voila ... you're following from there (where you can also comment)

Following a mastodon account from pixelfed

lps

#mastoart #fediverse #activitypub

#feditips #quicktip

If you prefer a more #instagram presentation when following #photography or #art accounts, it's easy!

Create a #pixelfed account like you did for #mastodon https://pixelfed.org/servers

Then, if you find an artist that you want to follow from there, due to the nicer layout for that type of content, just copy and paste their account

ex. @nicetriangle into the search bar and voila ... you're following from there (where you can also comment)

Sebastian Lasse

Todays #ActivityPub #geosocial TaskForce meeting was fun, here are some preliminary notes:
https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/D7yKLjJQs#

et.al
please attend the upcoming events https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

Sebastian Lasse

#ActivityPub #geo #geosocial

Hello @herebox

thanks for your note re. https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/582#issuecomment-2557475815

Attending todays Geosocial Taskforce Meeting :)

et al
https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

Gregory

Added type filters to the feed in #Smithereen.

Shinra

#instance #activityPub #federation

est-ce que l'un·e d'entre-vous a ouvert une instance chez masto.host ?

si ça ne vous gêne pas, je suis preneur d'une info : quel est son coût mensuel, et avec quels critères / usages ?

n'hésitez pas à passer en md

Shinra

#instance #activityPub #federation

est-ce que l'un·e d'entre-vous a ouvert une instance chez masto.host ?

si ça ne vous gêne pas, je suis preneur d'une info : quel est son coût mensuel, et avec quels critères / usages ?

n'hésitez pas à passer en md

Erlend Sogge Heggen

We would like to run an #activitypub instance as part of the #weirdone platform, same as the excellent #omglol by @prami

This instance will be operated as a paid extension of Weird, costing $10/yr ($20/yr after beta).

All member subscriptions will go entirely to the AP instance hosters, which should be a team of at least 2-3 sysadmins & moderators tending to the instance part-time. This is expected to be a fairly low-volume instance since all members are paid (to begin with).

#moderation

Flipboard

https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos?s=1

Check out all episodes of DotSocial here, which include conversations with open social web leaders like @johnonolan, @jay.bsky.team, @kissane and more.

#Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #DotSocial #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb

Jeff Sikes

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/islands-an-opt-in-federated-network

The good thing with federation is that I as an individual can make decisions about who I federate with - be it an individual or an entire instance. There's even some middle ground to customize your choice (silence vs block).

And now, the "federated islands" concept is kicking up, which is really cool. We have many choices - the decision is not mandated for us.

Jeff Sikes

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/islands-an-opt-in-federated-network

And now, the "federated islands" concept is kicking up, which is really cool. We have many choices - the decision is not mandated for us.

Jeff Sikes

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/islands-an-opt-in-federated-network

And now, the "federated islands" concept is kicking up, which is really cool. We have many choices - the decision is not mandated for us.

🎃 Andboo Haunton 👻

Ok #ActivityPub people … is there a decentralized community-server sort of tool with IRC-like functionality like Slack or Discord?

marius

#brutalinks #GoActivityPub #golang

After what seems like a thousand years I have started replacing some synchronous client to server #ActivityPub fetch requests with loading the same information from an indexed cache in my link aggregator.

I think I've started the work on inbox/outbox async fetch and indexing around 3-4 months ago, and only now I am able to make proper use of it.

I guess I should have used a real RDBMS instead of reinventing the wheel on every turn. :D

marius

#brutalinks #GoActivityPub #golang

I think I've started the work on inbox/outbox async fetch and indexing around 3-4 months ago, and only now I am able to make proper use of it.

I guess I should have used a real RDBMS instead of reinventing the wheel on every turn. :D

Daniel Supernault

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/a2o2aj7zb81f05g3

The end of an era?

#activitypub #misskey #mastodon

Post from Misskey developer:

Mastodon might be happier if it only confederates with Mastodon, and Misskey confederates only with Misskey. Troubles due to functional differences are commonplace, and
implementations that change behavior or limit functions depending on the confederate partner are necessary. However, it is quite costly (in the first place, there are limited ways to know in advance how the coalition partner will implement it). — Post from Misskey developer: Mastodon might be happier if it only confederates with Mastodon, and Misskey confederates only with Misskey. Troubles due to functional differences are commonplace, and implementations that change behavior or limit functions depending on the confederate partner are necessary. However, it is quite costly (in the first place, there are limited ways to know in advance how the coalition partner will implement it).

Daniel Supernault

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/a2o2aj7zb81f05g3

The end of an era?

#activitypub #misskey #mastodon

silverpill

Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

One year ago I published Fediverse tech roadmap for year 2024. How did we do?

- Data portability. FEP-ef61 has advanced significantly. Compatible IDs were introduced, which make portable objects fully compatbile with existing ActivityPub implementations. Identity can be represented using any DID method, not just did:key. Security of the protocol has been studied extensively. And most importantly, there are now two interoperable implementations: Streams and Mitra.
- End-to-end encryption. An end-to-end encryption system is being developed for social networking platform Enigmatick. It is based on the Olm protocol, which is also used by Matrix.
- Connectivity. A big improvement came from Mastodon, which now notifies its users when relationships are severed by moderation actions. ActivityConnect AP-to-AP bridge was developed, but it didn't see much use, indicating that the problem it attempts to solve is not serious.
- Moderation / spam resistance. Two different conversation moderation mechanisms emerged: Conversation Containers (implemented by Streams and Hubzilla) and Interaction Policies (implemented by GoToSocial).
- Scalability. The number of platforms implementing FEP-8b32 is slowly increasing but the biggest ones still don't sign their activities (or use non-standard LD signatures). Some preliminary work on optimizing media delivery was done in FEP-1311: Media Attachments.
- Plugins. Lemmy developers are discussing WASM plugins in an RFC. A WASM-based MRF was implemented in Kitsune.
- Discovery. Mastodon introduced fediverse:creator OpenGraph tag. Relay protocols were documented in FEP-ae0c, and ActivityPub Discovery report was published. Several projects are working on Starter Packs similar to ones used by BlueSky platform.
- Developer experience. Fun Fediverse Development project continues to improve, and now provides support tables for many protocol features. ActivityPub and WebFinger and ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures reports were published, as well as FEPs about Origin-based security model and various features such as OpenWebAuth and Emoji reactions. FEDERATION.md is becoming more popular, the number of projects using it nearly doubled in 2024.
- Groups. Conversation Containers were implemented in Streams and Hubzilla, and FEP-171b: Conversation Containers was published. FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers have many similarities, and the work on further alignment is ongoing.
- URL handlers. No significant progress.
- Synchronization of replies. Both FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers naturally lead to synchronized conversations.
- Markets. No significant progress.
- Quoting. FEP-e232 is now supported by 8 platforms.
- Forge federation. Forgejo implemented federated stars, and the development of other features has started.

I think the work on these problems should continue in 2025, especially in the following key areas:

- Conversations and groups. FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers are good solutions and may eventually become one because their differences are mostly superficial.
- Data portability and Nomadic identity. A lot of work still needs to be done. Some aspects of FEP-ef61 are underspecified, for example media storage. A fully featured nomadic client (FEP-ae97) has not been developed yet and migration of data between implementations has not been demonstrated. I would also like to see experiments with peer to peer networking (FEP-ef61 is designed to be transport agnostic, this means HTTP transport can be replaced with something else, such as Iroh) and cross-protocol interop (identities created for Nostr and ATProto are compatible with FEP-ef61).
- ActivityPub C2S API. Although standard client-to-server API is not popular among developers, the work on it should continue because nomadic client-to-server API (FEP-ae97) is very similar.
- End-to-end encryption. I think that adoption of solutions developed for other protocols is a good idea. A custom solution may take many years to develop.
- Developer experience. Code reuse in not common in Fediverse: most developers implement ActivityPub primitives themselves. Libraries for all programming languages need to be created, along with online validators, testing tools and good documentation.

André Menrath

Do not try setting up an #ActivityPub server using a #wildcard SSL/TLS certificate.

Gregory

#Smithereen updates:
- Profile pictures are now photos. There's a new flow for updating your profile picture. After you're done selecting thumbnails, it gets saved into a special album and a "{user} updated their profile picture" post is created.
- Photo tags are finished and federate between Smithereen servers. You can tag just names, but if you pick another user, they have to approve the tag.
- You can rotate photos after upload. Including profile pictures!

#ActivityPub #mastodev

silverpill

Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

One year ago I published Fediverse tech roadmap for year 2024. How did we do?

I think the work on these problems should continue in 2025, especially in the following key areas:

meneer

My #fediverse server is running the #Sharkey software platform, a fork of #Misskey, to post messages via the #activitypub protocol. You can see my post, even though you may use another platform to participate in the fediverse, like #Mastodon or #Pleroma. So, without using the same platform, we can share messages because we use the same protocol. We have to move from platform-based networking to protocol-based networking. Get rid of the lock-ins, be self-sovereign!

Julian Fietkau

#FediDev #ActivityPub #Fedify #WebDev

The last "big" code thing I need to get done before the alpha test of my current @fedify project is the task queue - make sure routine data updates happen, consider individual importance and urgency, respect external API rate limits, etc.

But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃

Photo of a monitor showing some CSS code. The code hints at a website where images are animated and zoomed.

silverpill

Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

One year ago I published Fediverse tech roadmap for year 2024. How did we do?

I think the work on these problems should continue in 2025, especially in the following key areas:

takimura@.dev

Mastodon,Misskey,Pleroma みたいな主要ActivtyPub対応ソフトウェアでもうまく連合できなかったりするのブラウザと同じようなものでChrome,Firefox,Safariが皆同じ動作及び表示にはなかなかならないようなものなのでは？と思う。それぞれに思想の違いはある訳だし。。 #ActivityPub

takimura@.dev

takimura@.dev

Tom Casavant

Wrote a blog post about a small ActivityPub project I'm working on that bridges my Steam screenshots to the social web

Julian Fietkau

#FediDev #ActivityPub #Fedify #WebDev

But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃

silverpill

Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

One year ago I published Fediverse tech roadmap for year 2024. How did we do?

I think the work on these problems should continue in 2025, especially in the following key areas:

Julian Fietkau

But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃

Vocal Cat

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

We really enjoyed the discussions from @404mediaco and @mike

There is a bright future for the web.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1q2SNDvphz8vGOwaapqR6x?si=gguO_leqRsC32LpA6gVj2A

Vocal Cat

We really enjoyed the discussions from @404mediaco and @mike

Julian Fietkau

#FediDev #ActivityPub #Fedify #WebDev

But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃

Gregory

Added type filters to the feed in #Smithereen.

WetHat💦

https://thelettertwo.com/2024/12/15/behind-flipboard-fediverse-embrace-mike-mccue-interview/

Flipboard is embracing the Fediverse to become a "Fediverse browser." This shift aims to provide users with more content and creators with greater independence from major social media platforms. By integrating ActivityPub, Flipboard intends to enhance content discovery and curation, offering a more open and equitable social media experience.

#Flipboard #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #SocialNetworking

nogajun🍉

@[email protected] · Reply to nogajun🍉's post

#activitypub の動作確認は難しそう

動作確認 - ActivityPubまとめwiki: https://scrapbox.io/activitypub/%E5%8B%95%E4%BD%9C%E7%A2%BA%E8%AA%8D

nogajun🍉

MastodonなどFediverseで見えるようにするための最低限の #activitypub 実装方法。わかりやすい。Pythonのrequestsとか使うとあっという間にできそう

おひとり様ActivityPubサーバーの自作実装::On Golden Pond: https://www.doncha.net/activitypub.html

らりお・ザ・何らかの🈗然㊌ソムリエ

ActivityPub サーバとクライアントの特殊化のミスマッチ - waf_thread
https://waf.nopth.ink/articles/0194335c-4be7-7f03-97be-e132bf56fdb2/

書いた

らりお・ザ・何らかの🈗然㊌ソムリエ

ActivityPub サーバとクライアントの特殊化のミスマッチ - waf_thread
https://waf.nopth.ink/articles/0194335c-4be7-7f03-97be-e132bf56fdb2/

書いた

らりお・ザ・何らかの🈗然㊌ソムリエ

ActivityPub サーバとクライアントの特殊化のミスマッチ - waf_thread
https://waf.nopth.ink/articles/0194335c-4be7-7f03-97be-e132bf56fdb2/

書いた

Dave Rahardja (he/him)

I’ve just stumbled into another annoyance in the #Fediverse architecture: thread continuity is broken when an item in the chain is broken.

Suppose there is this thread of posts/replies, made by three users, and I wrote the last reply (C).

A → B → C

Suppose I wanted to find post A. Sadly, I don’t remember what post A contained (or A’s post is not searchable), but I do remember what I wrote in response in C. I look for my reply and find it, but much to my dismay, the poster of B has deleted their post. So now I have:

A → ✵ → C

Since B is missing, I can no longer find A.

I was under the assumption that ActivityPub provides for a tombstone in place of B, which allows the reply chain to continue to be traversed, but I don’t think that’s the case—the tombstone contains no reference to A at all.

This is particularly annoying because the longer the thread, the more likely this is to happen. I wonder if anyone is already looking at this issue?

Edit: issue filed: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33456

#Mastodon #ActivityPub

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivitStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #JSONLD

json-ld

I think using "live" URIs for JSON-LD contexts (that parsers are expected to download from) — are probably a bad idea.

Maybe even a security-hole.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #JSONLD #LitePub

litepub

What is the motivation for encouraging LitePub implementors to "supply a locally hosted version of the LitePub JSON-LD Context"?

Is it just for people using full-out JSON-LD parsers?

Won't this create problems for people using parsers that do NOT go download and interpret context-URIs? And instead just hard-code the vocabulary in their code?

LitePub for ActivityPub Implementors

JSON-LD context

LitePub implementations are not required to use @context properties on their messages. A conformant ActivityPub implementation is required to process these messages with an injected @context of "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" as described in the ActivityStreams 2.0 Core Specification

However, the LitePub Core Vocabulary differs from the ActivityStreams 2.0 Vocabulary. It is suggested that LitePub implementations supply a locally hosted version of the LitePub JSON-LD Context as their @context. It may be useful to inject a local copy of the LitePub JSON-LD Context instead of the default ActivityStreams 2.0 context when a message is received without a @context as it defines the full LitePub Core Vocabulary in a way that is useful to JSON-LD processors.

Signatures

LitePub implementations MUST use HTTP Signatures to verify the authenticity of messages being delivered to or from peering nodes. The details surrounding the way HTTP Signatures are implemented in LitePub are discussed on the Overview page. — LitePub for ActivityPub Implementors JSON-LD context LitePub implementations are not required to use @context properties on their messages. A conformant ActivityPub implementation is required to process these messages with an injected @context of "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams" as described in the ActivityStreams 2.0 Core Specification However, the LitePub Core Vocabulary differs from the ActivityStreams 2.0 Vocabulary. It is suggested that LitePub implementations supply a locally hosted version of the LitePub JSON-LD Context as their @context. It may be useful to inject a local copy of the LitePub JSON-LD Context instead of the default ActivityStreams 2.0 context when a message is received without a @context as it defines the full LitePub Core Vocabulary in a way that is useful to JSON-LD processors. Signatures LitePub implementations MUST use HTTP Signatures to verify the authenticity of messages being delivered to or from peering nodes. The details surrounding the way HTTP Signatures are implemented in LitePub are discussed on the Overview page.

WetHat💦

https://thelettertwo.com/2024/12/15/behind-flipboard-fediverse-embrace-mike-mccue-interview/

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

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Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Tom Casavant

Wrote a blog post about a small ActivityPub project I'm working on that bridges my Steam screenshots to the social web

Tom Casavant

Wrote a blog post about a small ActivityPub project I'm working on that bridges my Steam screenshots to the social web

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Ayo Ayco

#webdev #frontend #hobbyprojects #bsky #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon

🎉 Tech Bsky ↔ Fedi

Celebrating bsky folks who bridged their accounts to the fediverse!

👉 https://ayo.ayco.io/tech-bsky-fedi

My handpicked tech Bsky accounts that are currently bridged to the Fedi.

Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-01-03

Servers

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

Protocol

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

Articles

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Tom Casavant

Wrote a blog post about a small ActivityPub project I'm working on that bridges my Steam screenshots to the social web

Armin Hanisch

Was für eine geniale Idee: der Wetterbericht und die Vorhersage für eure Stadt (oder andere) im Fediverse! https://de.fedimeteo.com — Ihr könnt einfach einer Stadt mit einem Fediverse-Client folgen und bekommt das Wetter in Eure Timeline. @stefano verdient ein dickes „Dankeschön“ IMHO.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Weather #FediMeteo

Tom Casavant

Wrote a blog post about a small ActivityPub project I'm working on that bridges my Steam screenshots to the social web

{Insert Pasta Pun}

Okay, I'm still trying to figure out why people hate bluesky's moderation but like mastodons.

Mastodon has several kinds of moderation and several proposed ways to handle things.

What would you like to see or not want to see in online safety?

#bluesky #activitypub

marius

Well, a #friendica instance is slamming some of my #activitypub servers. Does anyone have clue about what might be wrong?

Since ~3 days it keeps requesting the same URL over and over at a pretty high RPS.

#bad_bot

marius

Well, a #friendica instance is slamming some of my #activitypub servers. Does anyone have clue about what might be wrong?

Since ~3 days it keeps requesting the same URL over and over at a pretty high RPS.

#bad_bot

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

Good morning Fedi friends!

This is day 3 of posting from my self-hosted instance, powered by the amazing #GoToSocial (a fast, lightweight #ActivityPub social server written in #Golang). More info here:
🔗: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/

The number 1 thing that attracted me to GtS is its granular reply controls.

For example, this is an unlisted post and I selected in settings that only people I follow and my followers can reply to the post. Ditto for boosting it. (FYI on the other hand, I selected that anyone can reply to my public posts).

The dropdown menu for replies to unlisted posts gives you the options of:
- anyone [can reply]
- anyone (approval required)
- just me
- something else (the granular controls I mentioned before)

Isn't this amazing?

For the purposes of this test, if you follow my account or I follow you, can you try to reply?

Thanks!

Wishing you all a lovely day

a screenshot of the GoToSocial settings page for replies. The tab Unlisted Posts is selected and below it you can read:
- Like: who can like an unlisted post? Anyone
- Reply: mentioned accounts can always reply
Who else can reply to an unlisted post? Something else.
My followers: always
Accounts I follow: always
Everyone else: no — a screenshot of the GoToSocial settings page for replies. The tab Unlisted Posts is selected and below it you can read: - Like: who can like an unlisted post? Anyone - Reply: mentioned accounts can always reply Who else can reply to an unlisted post? Something else. My followers: always Accounts I follow: always Everyone else: no

@mobilizon for their federated event sharing platform

@activitypods is a storage solution for federated data

@spritely and their Oaken project (fedi adjacent and happy for them)

#activitypub #FediverseSoftware #fediverse

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@[email protected] · Reply to Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️'s post

@NGIZero

4. Spritely Oaken
The @spritely Institute, headed up by @cwebber (OG #ActivityPub / #Fediverse cofounder) is working on making the next generation of FOSS, decentralized internet (beyond the web). Oaken is a vision to help make running untrusted code on this new frontier safe, opening up far more possibilities. It doesn't exist yet... but now there's funding to build it!

https://spritelyproject.org/#oaken

🧵 3/6

#Spritely #Oaken #NGI #FOSS #SpritelyOaken

Painting of the SPritely Oaken mascot. They look like a small, short piece of oak wood, with small wooden horns like a stag, and a smiling face. They're hold up their hand with balls of purple magic floating above. They're also slightly light by a green light from below further giving a magical feel.

Jeff Sikes

NLNet announces newly funded projects, including quite a few related to ActivityPub.

@node9 automated deployments for streams and hubzilla

@raffomania for the linkblocks federated link sharing platform

@manyfold - federated 3d model sharing

@mobilizon for their federated event sharing platform

Well, it would be "appropriate" if they
"identify a resource attached or related to an object that potentially requires special handling." or are "at least semantically similar to attachments in email." -
it feels bad and the reason that [poor, non-conformant but] big solutions are not supporting "multiple values" feels essentially wrong. I am deeply sorry :)

🧵 1/x

Jeff Sikes

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

NLNet announces newly funded projects, including quite a few related to ActivityPub.

@node9 automated deployments for streams and hubzilla

@raffomania for the linkblocks federated link sharing platform

@manyfold - federated 3d model sharing

@mobilizon for their federated event sharing platform

@activitypods is a storage solution for federated data

@spritely and their Oaken project (fedi adjacent and happy for them)

#activitypub #FediverseSoftware #fediverse

Jeff Sikes

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

NLNet announces newly funded projects, including quite a few related to ActivityPub.

@node9 automated deployments for streams and hubzilla

@raffomania for the linkblocks federated link sharing platform

@manyfold - federated 3d model sharing

@mobilizon for their federated event sharing platform

@activitypods is a storage solution for federated data

@spritely and their Oaken project (fedi adjacent and happy for them)

#activitypub #FediverseSoftware #fediverse

Sebastian Lasse

https://spritelyproject.org/#oaken

recently I stumbled upon https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/616#issuecomment-2498990563 and (apart from this concrete issue) it make me think about how _new_ users to the protocol understand the use of multiple languages

The problem why the #ActivityPub #Specification has a deep learning curve:

In order to understand the use of multiple languages, you need to read at least 4 specifications.
Any user of the software can say: I speak language X in quality Y.
It might not be obvious to new users that it is the according
- HTTP "accept-language" header
like e.g. "de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3"

The default language is defined in the
- JSON-LD spec. as described in above issue

The primer to read about how to use it is in the
- AS Core specs.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#naturalLanguageValues

while the properties are described in the
- Vocabulary specs.
e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-name

While this is understandable and fine for me, it might be confusing to new or non-tech-implementors …
#i18n #language #specs #html #jsonld #as

/ @evan

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

@[email protected] · Reply to Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️'s post

@NGIZero

🧵 3/6

#Spritely #Oaken #NGI #FOSS #SpritelyOaken

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂

silverpill

In order to understand why FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model is true, we need to derive it from the first principles. Let's try.

#ActivityPub objects are JSON documents with a special id property. This property is an URI indicating the location of a document, and we can authenticate a document by fetching its id. If the document exists at the specified location, and has the same ID, we conclude that it is valid.

This has several important corollaries:

1. The server of origin is the only authority. Other servers must not be trusted.
2. ActivityPub is fundamentally a "pull" protocol, not "push".
3. The type of a document is not relevant for authentication. Actor documents are not special.

However, fetching documents is not always practical, and developers may want to push data to other nodes. How documents can be authenticated without making an HTTP request? Digital signatures.

The server publishes a JSON document containing a public key, and then starts signing other documents with a corresponding secret key.

Upon receiving a signed document (such as activity), we determine the ID of a public key document, retrieve the document and verify the signature. If the public key document has the same server of origin as the signed document, and the signature is valid, we conclude that the signed document is valid too, because a chain of trust has been established: received document -> public key document -> server.

The public key document doesn't change often, so now we can verify many signed documents without re-fetching the public key.

This also has important corollaries:

1. Once again, the type of a signed document is not relevant for authentication.
2. Public keys do not need to be attached to actor documents.
3. One key per server is enough.

Developers are constantly being told that ActivityPub is an actor-centric "push" protocol, and that each actor must have its own key. But those ideas are wrong and it is time to put them to rest.

#fep_fe34

silverpill

In order to understand why FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model is true, we need to derive it from the first principles. Let's try.

This has several important corollaries:

However, fetching documents is not always practical, and developers may want to push data to other nodes. How documents can be authenticated without making an HTTP request? Digital signatures.

The server publishes a JSON document containing a public key, and then starts signing other documents with a corresponding secret key.

The public key document doesn't change often, so now we can verify many signed documents without re-fetching the public key.

This also has important corollaries:

1. Once again, the type of a signed document is not relevant for authentication.
2. Public keys do not need to be attached to actor documents.
3. One key per server is enough.

Developers are constantly being told that ActivityPub is an actor-centric "push" protocol, and that each actor must have its own key. But those ideas are wrong and it is time to put them to rest.

#fep_fe34

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

#Hollo is currently testing #Node.js instead of #Bun. (In fact, the hollo.social server is already running on Node.js!) If this test is successful, starting with the next release, Hollo will be powered by Node.js instead of Bun.

The main reason for switching to Node.js is to optimize memory usage. As you can see in the graph image below, Node.js uses significantly less memory than Bun. With this switch, Hollo is expected to be even more lightweight than before!

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Did you know? #Hollo supports #Misskey/#Pleroma-style #quotes. You can quote another post by adding a link to it. If a post contains any link to an #ActivityPub object of Article/Note/Question, Hollo quotes it in the post.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

I'm currently brainstorming a framework for creating fediverse bots called #BotKit, based on #Fedify. It's less flexible than Fedify, but the goal is to make it possible to create simple fediverse bots with much less code. What do you think?

$import { createBot, mention, text } from "@fedify/botkit"; import { RedisKvStore } from "@fedify/redis"; import { Redis } from "ioredis"; // Create a bot instance: const bot = createBot({ // The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain": username: "greetbot", // Set the profile icon (avatar): icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"), // Set the bio: bio: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${ mention("@hongminhee@hollo.social").}`, // Use Redis as a key-value store: kv: new RedisKvStore(new Redis()), // Use Redis as a message queue: queue: new RedisMessageQueue(() => new Redis()), }); // A bot can respond to a mention: bot.on(/hi|hello|what'?s\s+up/i, (ctx) => { return ctx.reply(text`Hi, ${ctx.actor}!`); }); // Or, a bot also can actively publish a post: setInterval(async () => { await bot.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`); }, 1000 * 60 * 60); export default bot;$

import { createBot, mention, text } from "@fedify/botkit"; import { RedisKvStore } from "@fedify/redis"; import { Redis } from "ioredis"; // Create a bot instance: const bot = createBot({ // The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain": username: "greetbot", // Set the profile icon (avatar): icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"), // Set the bio: bio: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${ mention("@[email protected]").}`, // Use Redis as a key-value store: kv: new RedisKvStore(new Redis()), // Use Redis as a message queue: queue: new RedisMessageQueue(() => new Redis()), }); // A bot can respond to a mention: bot.on(/hi|hello|what'?s\s+up/i, (ctx) => { return ctx.reply(text`Hi, ${ctx.actor}!`); }); // Or, a bot also can actively publish a post: setInterval(async () => { await bot.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`); }, 1000 * 60 * 60); export default bot;

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #Mastodon

They could be rendered the same. But they (currently) aren't.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

I wrote a blog post to wrap up the year 2024: A year with the fediverse.

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse/index.en.html

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedify #Hollo

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

I wrote a blog post to wrap up the year 2024: A year with the fediverse.

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse/index.en.html

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedify #Hollo

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

#wordpress #ActivityPub #plugin #SelfHosted #blog

I rather like the recent addition of likes/reposts on Federated wordpress blogs.

Before this add, you couldn't directly see how many likes/reblogs you had in the web interface. You had to dig. Now you don't, and it's quite nice.

a screencap showing 16 reposts and 24 likes, with all the user icons in little overlapping circles displayed in a straight line, chronologically left to right from latest to oldest.

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

#wordpress #ActivityPub #plugin #SelfHosted #blog

I rather like the recent addition of likes/reposts on Federated wordpress blogs.

Before this add, you couldn't directly see how many likes/reblogs you had in the web interface. You had to dig. Now you don't, and it's quite nice.

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

Hollo

Are you interested in trying out the Node.js version of Hollo early? Try to pull ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0-dev.290!

Hollo

Hollo 0.4.0 released! #Hollo is a single-user federated microblogging software which is #ActivityPub-enabled and powered by #Fedify.

The key changes of this release include:

Hollo is now powered by Node.js 23+ instead of Bun for more efficient memory usage.
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
You can now make your profile discoverable.
The profile page now shows an account's cover image if it has one.
Many bug fixes.

For the details, see also the full changelog.

You can upgrade to Hollo 0.4.0 using the following ways:

To Railway users: Just redeploy the Hollo service!
To Docker users: Switch your Hollo image to ghcr.io/dahlia/hollo:0.4.0 or simply latest!
To manual installers:
1. Install Node.js 23 or higher.
2. Install pnpm.
3. Fetch the stable branch and switch over to it.
4. Run pnpm install.
5. Run pnpm run prod to start the Hollo server.

It leverages a lot of Laravel magic to handle many aspects of federation, you simply have to map a few models and attributes in the config file, and it will work with new and existing laravel projects!

Just imagine adding ActivityPub support to your app, while only writing less than 10 lines of code.

It's Magic ✨

#activitypub #laravel #php #fedi

Daniel Supernault

My new laravel-activitypub library is really coming along, and I will be using it for Loops and eventually Pixelfed.

Just imagine adding ActivityPub support to your app, while only writing less than 10 lines of code.

It's Magic ✨

#activitypub #laravel #php #fedi

Daniel Supernault

My new laravel-activitypub library is really coming along, and I will be using it for Loops and eventually Pixelfed.

Just imagine adding ActivityPub support to your app, while only writing less than 10 lines of code.

It's Magic ✨

#activitypub #laravel #php #fedi

Sascha Wübbena

Wie war das? #Threads wollte Ende des Jahres weitere Länder für das #ActivityPub freischalten? Weiß man da schon mehr?

Cosicas

@[email protected] · Reply to BeAware :fediverse:'s post

@BeAware this is not about our posts, he is making clones of our accounts without explicit consent; which I understand is illegal in Europe ( and european servers).

He could just implement #ActivityPub and forget about the bridge, but here we are.

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

#wordpress #ActivityPub #plugin #SelfHosted #blog

I rather like the recent addition of likes/reposts on Federated wordpress blogs.

Before this add, you couldn't directly see how many likes/reblogs you had in the web interface. You had to dig. Now you don't, and it's quite nice.

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Nostr #Mostr #SocialMedia

To people complaining about the Nostr bridge today, (the one that's been here for years now) you DO know that there's no way to tell what anyone is doing with your public posts, right?

There's even a RSS feed that cannot be turned off for EVERY Mastodon account that anyone can read and you'd never even know...

If you want privacy, post privately. If you're posting publicly, you have no expectation of privacy.

{Insert Pasta Pun}

with @dansup releasing a #laravel #activitypub library,

I sense there's a possibility for a cursed version of @grokability

✨ federated inventory ✨

(oh, oh no)

The Activity Log shows the ActivityPub objects that are passed back and forth when a follow request is sent from one instance to another.

Daniel Supernault

#laravel #activitypub #federation #loops

1) composer require dansup/laravel-activitypub

2) edit config/activitypub.php

3) your laravel app now has ActivityPub support, and all you did was map some activities to your existing data ;)

Available soon. https://github.com/dansup/laravel-activitypub

#laravel #activitypub #federation #loops

1) composer require dansup/laravel-activitypub

2) edit config/activitypub.php

3) your laravel app now has ActivityPub support, and all you did was map some activities to your existing data ;)

Available soon. https://github.com/dansup/laravel-activitypub

The little “ActivityPub conversation,” including a nested reply or two, that I had with myself earlier, 🤓 made it back to my blog okay. https://jan.boddez.net/notes/47deb8af37

And to mastodon.social. https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]z.net/113726027375210450 And a couple other instances.

#indieweb

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #Privacy #SocialMedia #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Sharkey

Fedi Dev Tip:

Develop features that you say you would for some time instead of implementing crap nobody wants or asked for.

Any Fedi Dev that implements privacy ruining age verification crap will not succeed. I promise.

Do better.

Looking at you, Sharkey...😒

By the way, where's that "Mastodon API" feature that you've advertised for the past year?🤨

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Bridge #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Nostr

After a year and a half of being on Fedi, I'm still seeing people on an open communication platform recommending others block open communication across platforms (bridges).

Do you know what the Fediverse IS?!?!🤦‍♂️

Week in Fediverse

- FediAM v0.2
- Threativore v0.7.0
- Posty: This is How You Take Your Posts With You

Week in Fediverse 2024-12-27

Servers

- Hubzilla v10.0.0
- snac v2.67
- tootik v0.14.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.8.0
- Mastodon: Annual Report 2023
- μpub: micro social network, federated

Clients

- Tusky v27.0
- Tuba v0.9.1
- Pixelix v3.0.0
- Voyager v2.22.0
- Tesseract v1.4.21

Tools and Plugins

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.15

Articles

- botsin.space postmortem
- How much does the fediverse cost?
- Building a Better Social Web
- Surf is a “Social Browser” App From Flipboard

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193e565-a77c-3eb7-5957-9d3d3367f05d

Week in Fediverse

- FediAM v0.2
- Threativore v0.7.0
- Posty: This is How You Take Your Posts With You

Week in Fediverse 2024-12-27

Servers

- Hubzilla v10.0.0
- snac v2.67
- tootik v0.14.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.8.0
- Mastodon: Annual Report 2023
- μpub: micro social network, federated

Clients

- Tusky v27.0
- Tuba v0.9.1
- Pixelix v3.0.0
- Voyager v2.22.0
- Tesseract v1.4.21

Tools and Plugins

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.15

Articles

- botsin.space postmortem
- How much does the fediverse cost?
- Building a Better Social Web
- Surf is a “Social Browser” App From Flipboard

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193e565-a77c-3eb7-5957-9d3d3367f05d

Week in Fediverse

- FediAM v0.2
- Threativore v0.7.0
- Posty: This is How You Take Your Posts With You

Week in Fediverse 2024-12-27

Servers

- Hubzilla v10.0.0
- snac v2.67
- tootik v0.14.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.8.0
- Mastodon: Annual Report 2023
- μpub: micro social network, federated

Clients

- Tusky v27.0
- Tuba v0.9.1
- Pixelix v3.0.0
- Voyager v2.22.0
- Tesseract v1.4.21

Tools and Plugins

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.15

Articles

- botsin.space postmortem
- How much does the fediverse cost?
- Building a Better Social Web
- Surf is a “Social Browser” App From Flipboard

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193e565-a77c-3eb7-5957-9d3d3367f05d

Hollo

Introducing #Hollo. Hollo is an #ActivityPub-enabled single-user microblogging software. Although it's for a single user, it also supports creating and running multiple accounts for different topics.

Oh, and Hollo is built using #Bun and #Fedify.

the bouncing paw 🎃

https://git.sr.ht/~bouncepaw/betula/tree/133-fedisearch/item/fediverse/fedisearch/Federated%20Search.md

Does it make sense to roll out an ad-hoc federated bookmark search API? Please convince me I should take a different approach.

#ActivityPub #FediDev

Roni Laukkarinen

I love how Ghost is making an argument in favor of ActivityPub on their landing page https://activitypub.ghost.org

Closed networks are in a heated zero-sum competition for users, so your reach is limited to people on the same platform.

Email, the web’s original open protocol, is used by more people than any platform or social network that has been invented before or since; because it shares users rather than competing for them.

The ActivityPub network works the same way: You get access to an audience of every person across any platform. Open networks grow larger because they don't depend on the success of any one company. — Closed networks are in a heated zero-sum competition for users, so your reach is limited to people on the same platform. Email, the web’s original open protocol, is used by more people than any platform or social network that has been invented before or since; because it shares users rather than competing for them. The ActivityPub network works the same way: You get access to an audience of every person across any platform. Open networks grow larger because they don't depend on the success of any one company.

Roni Laukkarinen

I love how Ghost is making an argument in favor of ActivityPub on their landing page https://activitypub.ghost.org

Roni Laukkarinen

I love how Ghost is making an argument in favor of ActivityPub on their landing page https://activitypub.ghost.org

Roni Laukkarinen

I love how Ghost is making an argument in favor of ActivityPub on their landing page https://activitypub.ghost.org

Sebastian Lasse

@[email protected] · Reply to Sebastian Lasse's post

^ [all photos by me]

/ addendum:
Today we are merely building #ActivityPub software (see pinned talk [EN] or Berlin Fediday Talk [DE]).
This includes patterns which can be helpful for disasters too – like federated geocoding, wikidata, wikibase and OSM integration.
If it feels like you can help or are interested, let me know.

the bouncing paw 🎃

https://git.sr.ht/~bouncepaw/betula/tree/133-fedisearch/item/fediverse/fedisearch/Federated%20Search.md

Does it make sense to roll out an ad-hoc federated bookmark search API? Please convince me I should take a different approach.

#ActivityPub #FediDev

Robert Kingett

Mastodon's Mastodon'ts https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/ #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

GENKI

#ActivityPub に対応していないものをもう #SNS とは認めてない（ #Fediverse 過激派原理主義）ので、それらのことは便宜上、会員サイトと呼ぼう

#戯言

Platform for Social Apps

@[email protected] · Reply to Tim Chambers's post

@tchambers
▶ We will finally complete the #ActivityPub integration to #Elgg

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #JSONLD #MarkDown #PeerTube

Interesting. PeerTube content (in their "application/activity+json") can be Markdown.

(Reference: curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' https://tube.archworks.co/videos/watch/7d1d5c2f-6d13-48d0-addd-ea99e9e9c967 )

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #HTML #JSONLD

It seems to be common now to put JSON-LD in the HTML source code.

ActivityPub and ActivityStreams files (application/activity+json) are JSON-LD files.

You could put ActivityPub and ActivityStreams in the HTML source code.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #Mastodon

I wish Mastodon handled ActivityStreams "type":"Video" as well as "type":"Note" with a Video attachment.

They could be rendered the same. But they (currently) aren't.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

#fedidev #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams

I'm looking for your opinions from the developers of the fediverse.

A common HTML web page can contain related links via the <link> tag. I would like to do the same for Activity Streams objects, for example:

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "id": "https://writings.hongminhee.org/ap/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse.json",
  "type": "Article",
  "name": "A year with the fediverse",
  "content": "2024 was truly a year where I was deeply immersed in the fediverse. …",
  "url": "https://writings.hongminhee.org/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse/",
  "attachment": [
    {
      "type": "Link",
      "rel": "alternate",
      "hreflang": "ko",
      "href": "https://writings.hongminhee.org/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse/index.ko-hang-kr.html",
      "mediaType": "text/html"
    },
    {
      "type": "Link",
      "rel": "alternate",
      "hreflang": "ja",
      "href": "https://writings.hongminhee.org/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse/index.ja.html",
      "mediaType": "text/html"
    }
  ]
}

Do you think this makes sense, and would it be appropriate to put Link objects in the attachment?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

I wrote a blog post to wrap up the year 2024: A year with the fediverse.

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2024/12/a-year-with-the-fediverse/index.en.html

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedify #Hollo

Daniel Supernault

I've heard back from 4 different fediverse platforms that are interested in collaborating with Loops, and still waiting on a few others!

I'm organizing a client API spec for Loops with @vidzy so we can leverage our vibrant ecosystem to allow users to pick the best client and backend, regardless of project ✨

Pretty amazing what's possible with #activityPub and collaboration, eh 🚀

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

Looking for a side project to do over the holidays? Why not create your own #ActivityPub server with #Fedify?

naturzukunft

@[email protected] · Reply to naturzukunft's post

Wow, the following thing is becoming increasingly complex.

I started a new topic

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/c2s-following/4809

#activitypub #activitypubdev #rdfpub

naturzukunft

#activitypub #activitypubdev #rdfpub

C2S Challenge
If I get an Ignore activity from a client that has as object a URL of an object on another server. Then I have to read this object to determine the UseCase.
But what if the other server is currently unavailable?
Phew, I see 2 possibilities:
1) try it later (async)
2) cache external objects (somehow a bad idea)

But also 1) makes trouble, if the other server is down forever!

marius

@[email protected] · Reply to marius's post

The experiment of using roaring bitmaps as the foundation for indexing #ActivityPub objects is half successful and half not.

The good news is that soon I'll be able to replace the #brutalinks client access to it's activitypub backend with something that's built on top of local storage that makes use of the indexes, therefore being much, much faster.

The bad news is that adding indexing to the storage backends themselves didn't result in too much performance gains, but I just suspect I'm doing something wrong.

#GoActivityPub #golang

{Insert Pasta Pun}

#MastodonDev #activitystreams2

#ActivityPub #activitystreams but version 3 and semantically/syntactically/whatever more correct

Week in Fediverse

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.1.1

Week in Fediverse 2024-12-20

Servers

- Ibis v0.2.0
- PeerTube v7.0.0
- Mitra v3.12.0
- Pleroma v2.8.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.6.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.7.0
- flohmarkt v0.6.1
- Manyfold v0.91.3

Clients

- Tuba v0.9.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.2
- Relatica v0.14.0
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.3.2

Tools and Plugins

For developers

- FediTest v0.5
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.12

Articles

- The 2024 IFTAS Needs Assessment Report is Here!
- Integrating ActivityPub within Solid specs
- Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 97

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Evan Prodromou

The #SocialCG issue triage is going to start about 15 minutes late; my previous meeting is running overtime. #ActivityPub

Sebastian Lasse

Next #ActivityPub Issue Triage starts soon:
https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/

btw: recently commented https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/582 - seeking #Place feedback :)

Chris Alemany

We are at $902 of $2500 for the #SocialBC launch fundraiser!! THANK YOU!! ❤️❤️ We're 1/3rd of the way there!

Please help our socialbc.ca regional instance launch, Jan 1 2025 and support the expansion of the community-based #OpenSocialWeb by donating!

Go here: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N
Or Interac e-Transfer: [email protected]
or get in touch if there is another way you'd like to donate!

Shout out for some support and reach from #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Fediverse movers!
@Gargron
@mike
@evan

A little thermometer graphic shows $902 of $2500. The thermometer is a black outlined tall rounded box with teal green/blue in the bottom up to “$902” The little SocialBC Mammoth logo is sitting on top of the level and the whole thing is surrounded by a similar rounded green rectangular box.

Alejandro Baez

https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

I keep looking more into #bluesky, from #atproto, to see what can be learned and adapted. Nothing is perfect.

Still. #ActivityPub does feel like the correct way. We need many relays to make smaller communities function. Luckily, the fediverse has that in excess. 😎

Quote stating ATProto has to become more like ActivityPub to be self hosted.

FediTest

https://feditest.org/release-notes/0.5/

FediTest 0.5 is out. This is primarily a bug fix release and additional documentation.

It also incorporates feedback from users, and feedback from an accessibility review and a security review.

Happy testing! #fediverse #activitypub #testing

v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24322908/a-new-social-non-profit-bridge-platforms

the @bsky.brid.gy guy has a new non-profit (anew.social) focused on open source social networking tools, largely around ATProtocol and ActivityPub

#activitypub #atproto #atprotocol

Juergen M. Bruckner

@[email protected] · Reply to Daniel Supernault's post

Congratulations @dansup thats another Milestone for @loops
@nlnet is a great partner and I have had the honor of working on two previous NLnet sponsored projects.

#loops #NLnet #Fediverse #OpenSource #activitypub

Daniel Supernault

https://nlnet.nl/project/Loops/

Loops + NLnet

We are thrilled to announce that @nlnet and @loops have signed a MoU for a grant funded through the NGI0 Core Fund!

#loops #NLnet #activityPub #fediverse

Memorandum of Understanding
Number: 2024-04-
"Loops" Project — Memorandum of Understanding Number: 2024-04- "Loops" Project

kyu3（キューさん） :vivaldi_red:

ThreadsやBlueskyの投稿をテーマ別に串刺し表示できる「Surf」β公開 - ITmedia NEWS
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/19/news122.html

『#Surf は、分散型ソーシャルネットワークプロトコルの「#ActivityPub」と「#ATProtocol」、#RSS をベースに構築されており、関心のある事柄を中心に人物、動画、記事、画像、ポッドキャストを整理したカスタムフィードを構築し、閲覧できるアプリ。

　β段階では、「#Threads」「#Bluesky」「#YouTube」「#Mastodon」…などの投稿を、テーマや＃（ハッシュタグ）でカスタムフィードにできる』

GENKI

「#SNS が増えすぎてつらい… 」
そんな、あなたに。

#ActivityPub で #SNS 同士でフォローし合える #Fediverse

GENKI

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/18/flipboard-launches-surf-a-new-app-for-browsing-the-open-social-web/

#Flipboard が新たにリリースする #Surf というアプリ、 #ActivityPub と #ATProtocol と #RSS をまとめて購読できるみたいなアプリということなのかな。

#Flipboard の #OpenSocialWeb への本気度が伝わってくるな

Łukasz Horodecki

Wtyczka #ActivityPub dla #WordPress dorobiła się nowego bloku pokazującego podbicia i polubienia z #fediwersum.

Zrzut ekranu fragmentu bloga. Pod wpisem sekcja „Reakcje w fediświecie” z polubieniami i podbiciami w fediwersum, zawierająca okrągłe awatary kont, które weszły w interakcje.

Johannes Ernst

https://digitalbazaar.github.io/cel-spec/

Came across this proposal for standardizing cryptographic event logs, e.g. for social media including #Bluesky and #ActivityPub.

George Ellenburg (he/him/his)

@[email protected]
You can't assume that when you mark a #post for #deletion that it will be #deleted across the #fediverse. Whether a post gets deleted on a remote #server is entirely up to that server.

I guarantee you there are organizations and individuals here on the Fediverse right now that are running their own #ActivityPub servers and are #archiving and #cataloging every post, and they are #ignoring any #Delete #requests.

Because when you mark a post for deletion, that's all you're doing. You're requesting the remote server to delete the post from its #database.

And nobody is required to do that.

(Though the vast majority of ActivityPub servers do.)

#FediTips

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/users/FediTips/statuses/113669267720362794

Fedi.Tips

If you accidentally post something sensitive that you want to keep private, don't edit the post, just use "delete" or "delete & re-draft" instead.

Editing has a safety feature to prevent bait & switch abuse tactics: when a post is edited, people will still be able to browse all previous versions of it by clicking on the "edited" label.

⚠️ Deleting a post breaks all its replies, boosts, direct links etc, so only use deletion if there is a privacy issue. Editing is better otherwise.

#FediTips

JR東日本運賃値上げのパブリックコメントは12/23まで

https://werd.io/2024/the-open-social-web-is-the-future-of-the-internet

Tweets.zipをインポートできる #ActivityPub 実装がほしいです #最悪

Emanuele Cariati

@[email protected] · Reply to tos's post

@tostot È veramente un'occasione mancata. Si tratta di un'altra piattaforma chiusa. Dovrebbe usare #activitypub come #misskey

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to GENKI's post

やっぱり #ActivityPub というオープンなプロトコルで繋がる #Fediverse というものが存在することを知ってしまうと、 #TheOpenSocialWeb の夢を見てしまう

Erlend Sogge Heggen

We would like to run an #activitypub instance as part of the #weirdone platform, same as the excellent #omglol by @prami

This instance will be operated as a paid extension of Weird, costing $10/yr ($20/yr after beta).

#moderation

Jure Repinc

#blog #blogging #ActivityPub #fediverse #FediHelp

If one is to get into blogging these days and would like to use a blogging system with Fediverse/ActivityPub integration (including commenting via Mastodon account for example)…

Which one do people currently recommended to use?

I have found Plume, which looks nicest and has quite a few instances available. but is currently not developed very actively.

There is also WriteFreely, which is similar but lacks in public instances.

Maybe Lemmy?

Lukáš Jelínek

Občas by stálo za to mít možnost přidat k příspěvku (tootu) geografické #souřadnice. Ale pokud vím, ani protokol #ActivityPub, ani #Mastodon tohle nepodporují a není to ani v plánu. Co s tím?

(Prosím o boost ankety.)

#anketa

Option	Voters
Souřadnice vůbec nepoužívat	2 (18%)
Vkládat je jako holý text	0 (0%)
Vkládat je jako odkaz na OpenStreetMap	9 (82%)
Něco jiného (prosím o komentář)	0 (0%)

damon

What I’m curious and disappointed about is the lack of the conversation regarding decentralisation when it’s #ActivityPub compared to #Nostr the #Fediverse powerbrokers always dismiss it by bringing up a part of its culture but never want to discuss the technical aspects #ATproto #Bluesky

Mayor of Banjotown

It's hard to conceptualize the possibilities of #activityPub beyond the prevailing "build a platform like the awful big corpo ones, but arguably not as bad" approach

Daniel Supernault

#activityPub #fediverse #buildinpublic #tiktok

Big Tech gatekeepers want you to think bootstrapping a video platform is impossible.

Reality check: With edge computing & client-side transcoding, any dev can build a TikTok alternative at a fraction of the cost.

Don't let Web2 giants gatekeep creator innovation and monetization.

Time to disrupt short-form video. Join the open creator revolution 🚀

https://loops.video

Week in Fediverse

- Husky v1.6.1
- AndStatus v62.01
- Voyager v2.21.0
- PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention
- tinmop: An opinionated client for Gemini, gopher, kami and Mastodon/Pleroma

Week in Fediverse 2024-12-13

Servers

- snac v2.66
- Lemmy v0.19.8
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.4.0
- Mobilizon v5.1.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.6.0
- NeoDB v0.10.5
- Trunk & Tidbits, November 2024

Clients

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.6
- PeerTube plugin livechat v12.0.2
- Fediseer v0.25.0
- notectl: A maintenance CLI tool for Misskey

For developers

- Fedify v1.3.1

Protocol

- Nomad Protocol and Nomadic Identity in the Fediverse
- FEP-1311: Media Attachments

Articles

- Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #2
- PeerTube, a network of independent, self-managed and interconnectable platforms
- Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?
- Creating a generic "Log-in with Mastodon" service
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 96

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01939db2-df57-8fe0-d681-88a30070e9a1

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActorModel #DeSo #Fediverse #FediDevs

actor model & activitypub, programming

I like the Actor-Model.

A friend who is a Scala programmer introduced it to me.

I used it when programming in — Erlang and Scala. Later, I implemented the Actor-Model in Go. I even implemented Erlang's supervision-tree in Go.

ActivityPub is maybe better understood through the lens of the Actor-Model — rather than a HTTP REST API.

However —

Maddy

Hi all,

For the past year I've been working on an activitypub federated instant messenger called Shoot.
I haven't had time to work on it for a while because of my job, so I'm making it public to see if anyone would be interested in helping out.

You can find the server repo here: https://github.com/MaddyUnderStars/shoot
and the client repo here: https://github.com/MaddyUnderStars/shoot-client

Featureset currently includes:
- Dm channels
- Friends/relationships
- Guilds
- Guild channels
- Guild invites
- Voice calls (not yet federated)
- Mostly working federation with itself
- Iffy federation with other platforms

There's no official instance yet, but I could host one if there is interest.

What I need help with most is:
- Frontend development. The client code is very hacky and gross, let alone the UI haha
- Safety features
- Probably general architecture stuff

Thanks all

Roni Laukkarinen

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

The Fediverse is vast. It's like a space with planets and keeps on expanding. Here's the thing, even if it would stop expanding and all the planets and stars and other magnificent things were to disappear, I'd still be happy on my own piece of rock, shouting to the void.

marius

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/12/pleroma/

I hope Pleroma devs have seen this pseudo bug report from Rachel Kroll:

#activitypub #pleroma

Flipboard

#DotSocial #Podcast #Fediverse #Flipboard #OpenSocialWeb #SocialMedia #Tech #SocialWeb #Governance #Federation #Bluesky #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #SocialNetworks

The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.

Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/

Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.

faraiwe

A de-centralized, federated network, using a common, NON-COMMERCIAL, #FOSS protocol, such as the #fediverse can actually save lives and fight the onslaught of dezinformatsiya.

#Meshtastic #GMRS devices were used to keep people connected, sending messages through #ActivityPub based clients, during catastrophic weather events which knocked standard comms networks down.

#DTBO socmedia (such as #BlueSky, #Threads, #Telegram, etc) were actively used to disseminate #dezinformatsiya, during those catastrophic events, and other emergencies.

Taking the internet back from walled-garden, corporate, proprietary networks can mean the difference between life or death for many.

Government should not be owned, operated or focused on corporations, but be by People, for People.

Ricardo Martín

So ActivityPub doesn't implement the option to keep a sync'ed/fallback instance? 🤔

#activitypub #mastodon

Daniel Supernault

#loops #activitypub #fediverse

https://loops.video will federate before Christmas, starting with the first 1000 users next week ✨

Linux Is Best

Although, only speculation, I notice this individual seems less like a prospecting journalist, and more like an advertising placeholder.

They made a similar post two (2) months ago, even starting it as their introduction to the Fediverse (see screenshot).

I am not a journalist, or inspiring blogger, but I would presume in two (2) months time, the article would have enough shared options to go to story. I also find it odd that they praise Sharkey in both post, as oppose to giving no opinion, and just asking people what they think.

That said, when I was confronting Sharkey, while still hanging out in their Discord Server, I learned they do use alternative accounts to help paint their narrative.

Again, my theory is only speculation, based on my experience and dealings with Sharkey. It just seems to fit their track record. And if in this instance, I am wrong, I apologize, but would again, point out that this is something they (Sharkey Development) have done in the past.

#Sharkey #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Blogging #Journalism #Ethics

A post from two months ago, under the Sharkey hashtag, also making a similar statement. This one starts out as their introduction post.

A post from today, two months later, setting up as if to both promote Sharkey while claiming to want to interview Sharkey users.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/113629444566451650

As I mentioned before — I think the Fediverse version of Follow-Packs / Starter-Packs should be some type of ActivityPub / ActivityStreams object.

It could look a lot like the "following" and "followers" URLs look.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #FollowPack #FollowPacks #JSONLD #StarterPack #StarterPacks

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ATmosphere #ATProto #ATProtocol #Bluesky #DeSo #FediDevs #Fediverse #FollowPack #FollowPacks #JONSLD #SocialMedia #StarterPack #StarterPacks

There are now multiple efforts to create a Fediverse version of Follow-Packs / Starter-Packs.

❦

A starter-pack gives you a collection of people and other users to follow

They help new users find people to follow — so they don't have an empty home-feed. But they also help existing users find more people to follow.

🧵

Tim Berners-Lee

@Flipboard @mike
You could interview @jeswr - Jesse is now running #Solid community support at @ODIHQ - we need to merge the energies of #Solid with the rest of the #Fediverse #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #Threads #Bluesky #Solid cc: #RSS blogs and podcasts #Matrix #ActivitPods

Justin Ferrell

I’m doing a training next month on decentralized social media, #fediverse, etc. for a group that isn’t entirely tech-focused. Some tech, some creative, some finance, etc.

What are the best #Mastodon and #ActivityPub explainers or resources you’ve seen on the web?

If you could hand someone a single resource to explain the idea of federation to someone who is not technical and has no prior knowledge, what would it be?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Besides WordPress and Ghost, are there any other #ActivityPub implementations that send out an Article type rather than a Note?

Neil Brown

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/12/i-think-fedizens-should-be-able-to-disable-replies-to-some-or-all-of-their-posts/

New blogpost: I think fedizens should be able to disable replies to some or all of their posts

tl;dr: Reply Guys gonna reply.

Why? It’s a safety feature, and a key part of a consensual community.
Perhaps I’m biased in that I mostly see women and non-binary people asking for this feature, and most see men arguing against it.
Not all posts need a reply.
...
Not all posts are an invitation for a debate.

#fedimeta #ActivityPub #SocialWeb #consent

Sibshops

@[email protected] · Reply to BeAware :fediverse:'s post

@BeAware Sometimes I sit to pee.

#openweb #fediverse #fedi #mastodon #activitypub

Week in Fediverse

- FediFetcher v7.1.13
- PeerTube plugin livechat v12.0.0
- TangerineUI for Mastodon v2.3
- MARL: Mastodon Archive Reader Lite
- Mastodon starter packs

Week in Fediverse 2024-12-06

Servers

- flohmarkt v0.6.0
- Hollo v0.3.0
- Manyfold v0.91.0
- Mastodon v4.3.2
- Mitra v3.11.0
- Castopod v1.13.1
- WordPress v4.3.0
- Gancio v1.21.0
- Hatsu v0.3.1
- NeoDB v0.10.4.15
- NodeBB v4 RC1
- Lemmy Development Update 2024-12-06
- Enigmatick End-to-End Encryption Design

Clients

- Mastodon for iOS v2024.11
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta39
- Voyager v2.20.0

Tools and Plugins

For developers

- Federails v0.4.0

Protocol

- FEP-6606: ActivityPub client to server collections addressing conventions

Articles

- Mastodon’s weaknesses and how to fix them
- Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
- Threads Beta Feature Enables Fediverse Profiles
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 95

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01937965-7d9d-84d4-ca55-f889525cf355

BeAware

#Fediverse #Fedi #Mastodon #ActivityPub

I wish there was a way to filter out posts that use tags that are unrelated to their post.

There's WAY too much random bullshit in all the Fediverse related tags.

Barely anyone actually talking about the Fediverse itself.😒🙄

silverpill

#fep_171b #ConversationContainers #ActivityPub

FEP-171b update: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/454

Some clarifications, and an explanation of why FEP-fe34 authentication is important:

>The processing of unauthenticated embedded activities is strongly discouraged. If such activities are not rejected by the consumer, a malicious conversation owner may be able to perform a cache poisoning attack and overwrite any actor or a post in consumer's local cache by sending a forged Update(Actor) or Update(Object) wrapped in an Add activity.

This is not difficult to do. Someone makes a post and says "hey everyone, join my new @group about <popular_topic>". People join and the next day Gargron is messaging them and asking to fund Mastodon's new Trust & Safety initiative by donating bitcoins.

Similar attacks might be possible against FEP-1b12 implementations that don't authenticate announced activities.

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

#FediTools #FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #activitypub #mastohelp #Fedi #foss #nodejs #opensource #MastoAdmin #SocialWeb #Feed #timeline #algorithmicFeed #node

Ω⚙️Ω
New features for #FediAlgo, the customizable #algorithm for your Mastodon timeline:

🪓 Live filtering based on #hashtag (inclusive and exclusive)

#️⃣ Seed your timeline with toots from anywhere in the Fediverse that contain trending tags (#SouthKorea and #UnitedHealth have been big lately)

🔥 Icons to inform you whether a toot is from an account you follow, a hashtag you follow, or is trending (and if so, why it's trending)

⚖️ Weight based on retoots, replies, age, etc.

国 Filter on language

I kind of find it hard to look at Mastodon without it at this point. The installable demo can be found here: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed

Also available as a NodeJS package built on #Masto.
Here's a video of the demo app:

Tom Casavant

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

SCreenshot of bluesky showing @mrpresidenttom.threads.net.ap.brid.gy bridged

BeAware

#Threads #Fediverse #Meta #Fedi #ActivityPub

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?!?!? :facepalm:

shellsharks

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

Chris‌‬ Hayes‌

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!

A screenshot of a code editor showing a TypeScript class Person with a property get cat(): boolean | null. The accompanying comment explains that the property is "used on actors to indicate that they in some way identify as a cat, expressed as a boolean value. If this property is set to true, displaying the actor or their notes will have some special effects attached in some clients."

marius

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

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

webfinger & fediverse

Issue №4:

Having to make one HTTP to WebFinger to resolve a Fediverse ID (such as "＠joeblow＠example·com"), and then make another HTTP request to get the activity document ("application/activity+json") — adds an extra HTTP request.

Using a well-known path to resolve the Fediverse ID and get the activity document ("application/activity+json") — in one HTTP request would be better.

...

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

webfinger & fediverse

Issue №3:

If we are going to use Internet domain-names, maybe host-meta could be replaced by a DNS TXT or DNS SRV record — that is used to specify what host to connect to to resolved a Fediverse ID like "＠joeblow＠example·com" to an activity document ("application/activity+json").

...

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

webfinger & fediverse

Issue №2:

host-meta is in XML (where everything else is in JSON).

I am NOT saying I am a fan of JSON, but — I think it would be easier for developers if only JSON xor XML was used (but not both).

(host-meta is used to specify where WebFinger is. It does not necessarily have to be at "/.well-known/webfinger". And doesn't have to be on the same host.)

...

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

webfinger & fediverse

Issue №1:

host-meta is yet another format to write encoders and decoders for.

(host-meta is used to specify where WebFinger is. It does not necessarily have to be at "/.well-known/webfinger". And doesn't have to be on the same host.)

...

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

@[email protected] · Reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:'s post

webfinger & fediverse

Their reason (for wanting to replace WebFinger):

“While useful, Webfinger is not part of the ActivityPub specification”

Why does that matter?

Having said that, (I do think) there some issues with WebFinger that could motivate one to replace it.

But that would mean that — any replacement MUST address these issues.

...

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17030

webfinger & fediverse

It seems like someone wants everyone on the Fedivese to stop using WebFinger.

(WebFinger is used to resolve a Fediverse ID like "＠joeblow＠example·com" to an activity document ("application/activity+json").)

...

Ditching the webfinger requirement #17030

While useful, Webfinger is not part of the ActivityPub specification itself, and the ad-hoc mechanism from going from an ActivityPub actor URI to a canonical acct: URI is pretty clunky. — Ditching the webfinger requirement #17030 While useful, Webfinger is not part of the ActivityPub specification itself, and the ad-hoc mechanism from going from an ActivityPub actor URI to a canonical acct: URI is pretty clunky.

Mike Kuketz 🛡

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

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!

Daniel Supernault

https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB

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.

Spread the word ✨

#fediDB #fediverse #activityPub #fediverse

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

https://jsonld.bovine.social/

json-ld

Someone created a list of all the JSON-LD properties used in the Fediverse:

(I haven't tried confirming the accuracy of this list. But, it is interesting.)

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #Fediverse #JSON #JSONLD

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

https://gotosocial.org/ns

gotosocial json-ld

GoToSocial has a JSON-LD namespace:

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #GoToSocial #JSON #JSONLD

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

Option	Voters
Every follower	18 (78%)
Every peer actor you've encountered so far	5 (22%)

Valerio boz

Countries by #Mastodon and #Peertube (#ActivityPub) social networks from the perspective of #Wikidata · #dataviz

ActivityPub top 6:
🥇 #Germany: 1000+
🥈 #USA: 225+
🥉 #France: 120+
🎖️ #UK: 110+
🎖️ #Netherlands: 80+
🎖️ #Switzerland: 40+

Query bubble chart:
https://w.wiki/CGYX

Query dataset:
https://w.wiki/CGYe

We lack data! Edit Wikidata! 🌈

Colored bubble chart showing "Germany", very prominent, followed by United States, France, UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Czech Rep, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Finland and other countries that probably needs more Wikidata editors ihih

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#fediverse #activitypub #activitystreams #jsonld

json-ld

How much Fediverse software can read the expanded form of JSON-LD?

Or are they making hard-coded assumptions about what the JSON names will be?

I.e.,:

"indexable" : true

Versus:

"http;//joinmastodon·org/ns#indexable" : true

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #JSON #JSONLD

json-ld

In some ways, I think it might have been "better" if the Fediverse didn't use JSON-LD and instead just used URLs as key names.

I.e., if it didn't use the "＠context" stuff.

"＠context" adds a certain type of complexity.

Stefan Bohacek

https://buttondown.com/websiteleague/archive/website-league-update-for-december/

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.

More about the League: https://websiteleague.org

#WebsiteLeague #fediverse #activitypub

BeAware

#Threads #Meta #Fediverse #Fedi #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.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

#ActivityPub #AtomFeed #Fediverse #WebFinger

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.)

Hollo

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!

Week in Fediverse

- FEP-171b: Conversation Containers

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

Articles

- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 94

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

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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.

Manuel Ortega

https://gitlab.com/ortegacmanuel/fedi-specification

How #ActivityPub works? Let's use #EventModeling to shed some light on this topic and make it accessible for a wider audience beyond programmers used to dig in to specification docs and explore the trenches of implementation code.

BeAware

#Fediverse #Sharkey #Mastodon #Fedi #ActivityPub

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.

白湯さゆぬ :CctmMishiru:

#BridgyFed #Mastodon #Misskey #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Bluesky

Bridgy Fed を利用して ActivityPub‐圏と Bluesky との間をブリッジする場合の概念図を作りました。こういった表現でいいかな…。

Folker

@[email protected] · Reply to Erlend Sogge Heggen's post

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

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

#mastodon #bluesky #activitypub #atproto #threads

Sebastian Lasse

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

Dear #activitypub devs,
moin.

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

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

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

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

Mike Kuketz 🛡

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

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!

Aktualisierte Version des Fediverse-Schaubilds, das eine grafische Übersicht der verschiedenen dezentralen sozialen Netzwerke und Plattformen im Fediverse zeigt.

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

https://destructured.net/bluesky-enshittification

"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?"

#Bluesky #Fediverse #ATProto #ActivityPub #Enshittification

Martin Nadal

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

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

Threads help screen advises that only user located outside EU can share their posts to adtivityPub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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.

Ку 🇧🇬🇪🇺

#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.

marius

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

silverpill

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

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

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

damon

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

Fate of the universe on the line, How would you guys define decentralised? How would you define federated ?
#Askfedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

#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

Eliot Lash

@[email protected] · Reply to soaproot's post

@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

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed

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:

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

Control panel showing how the Mastodon feed algorithm can be adjusted with a bunch of sliders.

Zicklag

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

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:

Week in Fediverse

- RaccoonForFriendica v0.2.1

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-22

Servers

- tootik v0.13.0
- Manyfold v0.89.0
- Mitra v3.10.0
- flohmarkt v0.4.0
- snac v2.64
- Hollo v0.2.3
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.2.1
- Ktistec v2.4.2
- Activity-Relay v2.0.7
- Misskey v2024.11.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.11
- Sharkey v2024.9.3
- neodb v0.10.4.11

Clients

For developers

- Fedify v1.2.7
- ActivityPods v2.0.4
- birchbot: An easy to use bot framework for Owncast

Protocol

- ActivityPub Discovery

Articles

- Fedi Moderation Tooling Research
- My Thoughts on GoToSocial
- Mastodon Follow Pack FAQ 1.0
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 93

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019330d7-6146-f490-7c7e-f0fdd8202d92

Axel Rauschmayer

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

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!

Flipboard

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

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

Flipboard

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

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

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

Flipboard

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

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.

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

taye

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

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.

Option	Voters
I never edit images or videos before posting	10 (8%)
I prefer to use a separate app for editing	30 (23%)
I want just simple crop, trim, rotate	77 (58%)
I want text, stickers and fancier stuff	15 (11%)

Radhitya

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

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?

Fediverse Report

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/

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to GENKI's post

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…

GENKI

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。

kini

Hello Fedi nerds,

I ask for your help today,

Is there a #mastodon android client that supports remote posts fetching like Sengi does on desktop?

Please let me know.

#activitypub #android

naturzukunft

@[email protected] · Reply to naturzukunft's post

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.

naturzukunft

@[email protected] · Reply to naturzukunft's post

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).

naturzukunft

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!

@mekkaokereke @stooovie @Remittancegirl

Jürgen Hubert

@[email protected] · Reply to mekka okereke :verified:'s post

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?

nilesh

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

damon

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

Mister Dave

@[email protected] · Reply to Mister Dave's post

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.

Mister Dave

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.

Daniel Supernault

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse

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

activitypub.social

Help me pick a subdomain!

Option	Voters
starter.activitypub.social	39 (22%)
starterkits.activitypub.social	36 (20%)
kits.activitypub.social	21 (12%)
start.activitypub.social	85 (47%)

Daniel Supernault

#starterKits #fediverse #activityPub

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!

Daniel Supernault

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse #onboarding

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.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

#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...

GENKI

#ActivityPub でボクと握手！

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to sublimer@あすてろいどん鯖管's post

@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

Caesar

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

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

#Bluesky #BlueskyOutage #ATProto #ActivityPub #federation

Evan Prodromou

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

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

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to GENKI's post

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…

GENKI

SNS エキスパートという肩書を見た

SNS エキスパートという肩書があるのか…
オレは絶対にそんな肩書き背負えないなあという感想と、

* 「SNS」の「エキスパート」なら、#ActivityPub とか #Fediverse についても詳しいのか！？

とか、言葉狩りのようなツッコミをつい心の中でしてしまったけど、
まあ実際の世の中にいるとそういうことが仕事になることも…あるよね…と、勝手に自分で自分の溜飲を下げながらお皿を洗っている 🍽️ 🧽

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to GENKI's post

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

GENKI

#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

Doctor Popular

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

A screen recording showing a blog post being composed in WordPress. The user shows a new feature that allows you to see how your post will appear in the fediverse (ie on Mastodon or other federated platforms). The video also demonstrates previews of how the post will appear on mobile and other devices too.

Week in Fediverse

- 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

Week in Fediverse 2024-11-15

Servers

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

silverpill

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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?

Daniel Supernault

#activitypub #fediverse #loops

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.

Roni Laukkarinen

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

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.

Terence Eden

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

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

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?

This user has chosen to not make this information available

Jessica Tallon

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]

Gregory

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)

Matthias Pfefferle

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

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

#activitypub #fediverse

Daniel Supernault

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

ActivityPub Starter Kit schema RFC, feedback appreciated!

#activityPub #starterKits

Flipboard

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

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. 🙌🏻

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

Flipboard

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

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.)

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

Hrefna (DHC)

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.

Daniel Supernault

#pixelfed #starterKits #fediverse #activitypub #fep

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!

Stefan Bohacek

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

#fediverse #SocialMedia

GENKI

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #threads

#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

JProl 🌍🎶💾🆓🐦

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/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.

»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.»

Terence Eden

🆕 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 …

Shadow Heart

@[email protected] · Reply to g7kse's post

@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 .

Steve Bate

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

- FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text

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

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

Flipboard

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

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.

#Fediverse #FediLove #ActivityPub #Federation #Flipboard

Matthias Pfefferle

#automattic #wordpressdotcom

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!

nilesh

@[email protected] · Reply to nilesh's post

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

Terence Eden

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

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

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

Radomír Žemlička

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?

James Smith 💾

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

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):

Terence Eden

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

Alrighty! Next silly #ActivityPub question.

Why can't Mastodon see my followers?

Terence Eden

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?

Christian Krebel

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.

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

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] · Reply to Asta [AMP]'s post

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

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

Daniel Supernault

@o_simardcasanova @haubles @pluralistic @Mastodon

https://fedidb.org/software/ghost 👀

#ghost #activitypub

Tim Chambers

@[email protected] · Reply to Olivier Simard-Casanova's post

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.

Fediverse Report

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/

One of the main subjects of discussion recently has been whether Bluesky is decentralised and if it is federated. I think answering these questions requires a clarity on how ATProto differs conceptually from ActivityPub. Decentralisation and federation are valued for how they impact power structures, but there are multiple ways to build other power structures in open social networks.

A bit of the summary at the top, since that might help during reading:

The conceptual model of ActivityPub resembles that of email: independent servers sending messages to each other.
The conceptual model of ATProto resembles that of the web: independent sites publish data, and indexers aggregate this data into different views and apps. — One of the main subjects of discussion recently has been whether Bluesky is decentralised and if it is federated. I think answering these questions requires a clarity on how ATProto differs conceptually from ActivityPub. Decentralisation and federation are valued for how they impact power structures, but there are multiple ways to build other power structures in open social networks. A bit of the summary at the top, since that might help during reading: The conceptual model of ActivityPub resembles that of email: independent servers sending messages to each other. The conceptual model of ATProto resembles that of the web: independent sites publish data, and indexers aggregate this data into different views and apps.

Profoundly Nerdy

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.

Glyph

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

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.

#fediverse #atproto #activitypub

marius

@[email protected] · Reply to marius's post

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

#activitypub #GoActivityPub #golang

Hollo

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:

Thanks to @thisismissem, now you can report remote accounts and posts.
Added two-factor authentication support.
Thanks again to @thisismissem, Hollo improved alignment on Mastodon API changes about OAuth and apps.
Thanks again to @thisismissem, RFC 8414 for OAuth Authorization Server metadata endpoint. It will improve interoperability between Hollo and Mastodon-compatible client apps.
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.
Custom emojis now can be deleted from the administration dashboard.
Thanks to @helge, PORT and ALLOW_PRIVATE_ADDRESS environment variables are introduced.
Added a favicon.
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!

5-a. Now posts also can be force-refreshed.

5-b. Now the number of messages in the task queue is shown.

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

2. Added two-factor authentication support.

The Sixth Guy

#activitypub #atproto #mastodon #bluesky

it's like this

A comic by cartoonist Tom Gauld, depicting two rival kingdoms that are nearly exactly the same, however the one on the left, "our" kingdom, is described positively and the one on the right, "their" kingdom, is described negatively. It has been edited to compare federated social media protocols instead.

The one on the left, "our blessed ActivityPub", harbors "our glorious fediverse", "our great Mastodon", "our noble instances", and "our heroic ActivityStreams". The one on the right, "their barbarous AT Protocol", contains "their wicked ATmosphere", "their primitive Bluesky", "their backward PDSes", and "their brutish lexicons". — A comic by cartoonist Tom Gauld, depicting two rival kingdoms that are nearly exactly the same, however the one on the left, "our" kingdom, is described positively and the one on the right, "their" kingdom, is described negatively. It has been edited to compare federated social media protocols instead. The one on the left, "our blessed ActivityPub", harbors "our glorious fediverse", "our great Mastodon", "our noble instances", and "our heroic ActivityStreams". The one on the right, "their barbarous AT Protocol", contains "their wicked ATmosphere", "their primitive Bluesky", "their backward PDSes", and "their brutish lexicons".

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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

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!

marius

@[email protected] · Reply to marius's post

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

- 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

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

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

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev

What are your thoughts on Fedify's docs?

Option	Voters
Comprehensive and easy to understand	4 (67%)
Comprehensive but hard to understand	0 (0%)
Limited but easy to understand	1 (17%)
Limited and hard to understand	1 (17%)

Simon Phipps

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt

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.

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

!mportantImport

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

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

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

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #importantimport

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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

The result of fedify node https://hollo.social/@fedify command. The NodeInfo document is visualized along with the favicon.

The result of fedify lookup venera.social. The NodeInfo document is visualized along with the favicon.

The result of fedify lookup misskey.io. The NodeInfo document is visualized along with the favicon.

The result of fedify lookup fosstodon.org. The NodeInfo document is visualized along with the favicon.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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.

Erlend Sogge Heggen

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.

Tom Casavant

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

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

Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻

@[email protected] · Reply to Julian Fietkau's post

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

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

Julian Fietkau

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.

Pablo Berganza (he/him)

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?

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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)!

Sean Tilley

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?

Simon :ablobcatcoffee:

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

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).

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

Coelacanthus 🏳️‍⚧️

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。

Fae Empress

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.

Daniel Supernault

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

Steve Bate

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

Johannes Ernst

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.

Andy Nortrup 🌳

#Activitypub #bluesky #atprotocol

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.

AJ Sadauskas

#Fediverse #BlueSky #ATproto #ActivityPub #BSky

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.

Gali

Ich bin ja dafür, dass Jodel #ActivityPub unterstützen sollte

Gali

@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.

Strght

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?

André Menrath

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

Option	Voters
Federate Your Events, Expand Your Reach	11 (61%)
From WP to the Fedi - Expand Your Event's Presence	4 (22%)
Distribute Your Events Beyond Boundaries	1 (6%)
Announcing Your Events Freely	2 (11%)

Week in Fediverse

- 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

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

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

Bryan

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.

Hika/Tam | HK★TMK

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.

Andy Nortrup 🌳

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

#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.

Matthias Pfefferle

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

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

#wordpress #activitypub #fediverse

Expert Plus 🍀

#mastodon #mitra #friendica #fediverse #activitypub

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.

Steve Bate

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

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

Hollo

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!

Fedi.Tips

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #3DPrinting #Thingiverse

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.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

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

https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

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

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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!

Lutin Discret

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

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

Un schéma qui compliqué tiré de l'article qui représente des utilisateurs et différents serveurs (PDF, Feed generator, labelers...)

Stefan Bohacek

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 🙏

Darnell Clayton :verified:

@[email protected] · Reply to Building ActivityPub's post

@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

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

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

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

Tom Casavant

@[email protected] · Reply to Tom Casavant's post

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

Tom Casavant

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

Ame

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 💙

Evan Prodromou

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/

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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.

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

Node.js:

> new URL("at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q")
Uncaught TypeError: Invalid URL
at new URL (node:internal/url:816:29) {
code: 'ERR_INVALID_URL',
input: 'at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q'
}

Deno:

> new URL("at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q")
Uncaught TypeError: Invalid URL: 'at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q'
at getSerialization (ext:deno_url/00_url.js:98:11)
at new URL (ext:deno_url/00_url.js:405:27)
at <anonymous>:1:22 — Node.js: > new URL("at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q") Uncaught TypeError: Invalid URL at new URL (node:internal/url:816:29) { code: 'ERR_INVALID_URL', input: 'at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q' } Deno: > new URL("at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q") Uncaught TypeError: Invalid URL: 'at://did:plc:x7xdowahlhm5xulzqw4ehv6q' at getSerialization (ext:deno_url/00_url.js:98:11) at new URL (ext:deno_url/00_url.js:405:27) at <anonymous>:1:22

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to GENKI's post

#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

The Nexus of Privacy

@[email protected] · Reply to The Nexus of Privacy's post

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

(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

The Nexus of Privacy

@[email protected] · Reply to The Nexus of Privacy's post

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

Steve Bate

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

Laxystem

@[email protected] · Reply to Laxystem's post

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?

Gregory

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

Chewie

@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

The state of the web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 (labelled "Pyramid Schemes"!)

Nuki the Shitposting Raccoon

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.

Peertube Uno Italia

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

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

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

Devol

#fediverso #social #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.

Matt Baer

@[email protected] · Reply to Matt Baer's post

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

- 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

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

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

Shadow Heart

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

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.

Echo for Lemmy

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

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

GENKI

@[email protected] · Reply to GENKI's post

#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

Daniel Supernault

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

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!

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

Manyfold

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

A screenshot of a Manyfold web page with the title "Follow the Fediverse", and a search box

goetz 🚲

@[email protected] · Reply to Renaud Chaput's post

@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

Fediverse Report

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/

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

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? :blobcatthink:

The Activity Vocabulary specification says that the summary property is “a natural language summarization of the object encoded as HTML.”

Matthias Pfefferle

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

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

Steve Bate

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

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

AOE, Takashi

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

AOE, Takashi

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。 :bt:

#fediverse #activitypub

GENKI

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

#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。
※
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

（つまるところ not for me な記事だったというオチ

Hollo

https://docs.hollo.social/

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!

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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

Justine Smithies

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

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

Grow Your Own Services 🌱

:Fediverse: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks

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:

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

- 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

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

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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GHOULE (New Music Out Friday!)

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

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

Screenshot from the linked article reading:

"Next steps

• I [Matt Lee] want you to have a personal website and have your listening habits on your own website, not my website. But I know some people won't want that, which is fine but Libre.fm is effectively a silo (other than Last.fm which it talks to, although federation with other instances has been possible for a long time) and has over 372,000 registered users and 302 million scrobbles.

• Some new features will only work if you're publishing your Libre.fm stats on your own website.

• A new version of Libre.fm's front end will appear later, powered by Ruby on Rails.

• [highlighted] We're also going to put our full attention to supporting ActivityPub where possible. [end highlight]" — Screenshot from the linked article reading: "Next steps • I [Matt Lee] want you to have a personal website and have your listening habits on your own website, not my website. But I know some people won't want that, which is fine but Libre.fm is effectively a silo (other than Last.fm which it talks to, although federation with other instances has been possible for a long time) and has over 372,000 registered users and 302 million scrobbles. • Some new features will only work if you're publishing your Libre.fm stats on your own website. • A new version of Libre.fm's front end will appear later, powered by Ruby on Rails. • [highlighted] We're also going to put our full attention to supporting ActivityPub where possible. [end highlight]"

Continued screenshot from the linked website, reading:

"• Libre.fm will evolve from a single project into a larger project with a few distinct aims:

1. Being a good IndieWeb citizen.
2. Being a genuinely useful tool for artists (payments!)
3. Being a good member on the social web, which means supporting ActivityPub where it is useful. Maybe you could share what you're listening to on the social web?

(For those of you who've used Libre.fm since 2009, you'll remember the GNU social project we started back at the start of Libre.fm (or GNU FM). Personally I hope you also remember our roots in the history of the social web. GNU social continues to this day, but I'm no longer involved and no longer using the software. Happily, GNU social now supports ActivityPub so things are coming full circle.)

What you can do today

1. Get a personal website.
2. Get an account on the social web and follow me!
3. Read https://bored.city and send me feedback.
4. Donate to keep the lights on. https://libre.fm/donate.php -- our expenses are low, but a few dollars here and there helps buy new domain names, renew things, pay for the outgoing email service, etc." — Continued screenshot from the linked website, reading: "• Libre.fm will evolve from a single project into a larger project with a few distinct aims: 1. Being a good IndieWeb citizen. 2. Being a genuinely useful tool for artists (payments!) 3. Being a good member on the social web, which means supporting ActivityPub where it is useful. Maybe you could share what you're listening to on the social web? (For those of you who've used Libre.fm since 2009, you'll remember the GNU social project we started back at the start of Libre.fm (or GNU FM). Personally I hope you also remember our roots in the history of the social web. GNU social continues to this day, but I'm no longer involved and no longer using the software. Happily, GNU social now supports ActivityPub so things are coming full circle.) What you can do today 1. Get a personal website. 2. Get an account on the social web and follow me! 3. Read https://bored.city and send me feedback. 4. Donate to keep the lights on. https://libre.fm/donate.php -- our expenses are low, but a few dollars here and there helps buy new domain names, renew things, pay for the outgoing email service, etc."

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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!

洪民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）

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！

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev

Strypey

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

"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

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

Emelia 👸🏻

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.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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

Flipboard

@evan @Gargron @mmasnick @quillmatiq
@Sarahp

🌐 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.

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

A video showing Flipboard's Community tab, with a headshot of Eugen Rochko, Mastodon founder, and his name across the image.

Kari'boka

Does #Mastodon allow for an admin to ban users instance-wide?

I mean non-local users.

#fediverse #activitypub #askfedi

Social Web Community Group

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

#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.

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

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻

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

Flipboard

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

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

Fediverse Report

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

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.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

Adding vocabularies for FEP-9091 to #Fedify.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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!

Daniel Supernault

#groups #activityPub #lemmy #smithereen #pixelfed

groups.

october pixelfed
seventh social

the new social pub, with friends.

GENKI

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

#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

small circle 🕊 in calmness

@[email protected] · Reply to infinite love ⴳ's post

@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.

Anuj Ahooja

@[email protected] · Reply to Stefan Bohacek's post

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

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

Hollo

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.

marius

@[email protected] · Reply to marius's post

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. 🤢

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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.

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!

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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

https://w3id.org/fep/c0e

Jeremiah Lee

@[email protected] · Reply to Evan Prodromou's post

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!

Screenshot of Jitsi meeting app with Evan in the center reading his book

Steve Bate

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.

Dr. Matt Lee

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

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

Tools and Plugins

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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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

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

Even though your account is not locked, the techhub.social staff thought you might want to review follow requests from these accounts manually. awakari (@awakari@activitypub.awakari.com Awakari is a free service that discovers and follows interesting Fediverse publishers on behalf of own users. The service accepts public only messages and filters these to fulfill own user interest o[V [=E Before accepting any publisher's data, Awakari requests to follow them. The acceptance means publisher's explicit consent to process their public messages, like most of other Fediverse servers do. If you don't agree with the following, please don't accept the follow request or remove Awakari from your followers. Contact: awakari@awakari.com Donate: https://awakari.com/donation.html Opt-Out: https://github.com/awakari/.github/blob/master/OPT- OUT.md Privacy: https://awakari.com/privacy.html Source: https://github.com/awakari/int-activitypub Terms: https://awakari.com/tos.html — Even though your account is not locked, the techhub.social staff thought you might want to review follow requests from these accounts manually. awakari (@[email protected] Awakari is a free service that discovers and follows interesting Fediverse publishers on behalf of own users. The service accepts public only messages and filters these to fulfill own user interest o[V [=E Before accepting any publisher's data, Awakari requests to follow them. The acceptance means publisher's explicit consent to process their public messages, like most of other Fediverse servers do. If you don't agree with the following, please don't accept the follow request or remove Awakari from your followers. Contact: [email protected] Donate: https://awakari.com/donation.html Opt-Out: https://github.com/awakari/.github/blob/master/OPT- OUT.md Privacy: https://awakari.com/privacy.html Source: https://github.com/awakari/int-activitypub Terms: https://awakari.com/tos.html

Matt Wiebe

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

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

Винт Прокс

@[email protected] · Reply to naDne :blobcatmelt2: :debian: 's post

@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.

everton137

@[email protected] · Reply to Fediverse Report's post

@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:

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

Jason Culverhouse :flipboard:

@[email protected] · Reply to BeAware :fediverse:'s post

@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.

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Threads #SocialMedia

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.

Rule 34

#MastoMeta #Mastodon #activitypub

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.

Flipboard

https://socialwebfoundation.org/

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:

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

marius

@[email protected] · Reply to marius's post

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

Another screenshot of a RattleHead post for the 20th of September 2024 - which looks to have been quite a seminal day in the annals of metal releases. (As an aside, two of the releases that have drawn my attention are Ulver's "Locusts" and Nightwish's "Yesterwynde".)

In this version the bandcamp embeds are displayed as attachments at the bottom of the post instead of being inline in the release listing. — Another screenshot of a RattleHead post for the 20th of September 2024 - which looks to have been quite a seminal day in the annals of metal releases. (As an aside, two of the releases that have drawn my attention are Ulver's "Locusts" and Nightwish's "Yesterwynde".) In this version the bandcamp embeds are displayed as attachments at the bottom of the post instead of being inline in the release listing.

Melroy van den Berg

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

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!

BeAware

@[email protected] · Reply to 's post

@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

#activitypub
#fediverse
#help
#mastodon
#pleroma

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

Please give me your reasons, whatever they may be.

Pierre

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

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

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 — 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

Flipboard

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

📣 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://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 server framework

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fedidev

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!

Alex Standiford

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.

infinite love ⴳ

@[email protected] · Reply to infinite love ⴳ's post

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/?

infinite love ⴳ

@[email protected] · Reply to infinite love ⴳ's post

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/?

infinite love ⴳ

@[email protected] · Reply to infinite love ⴳ's post

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/?

@[email protected] · Reply to infinite love ⴳ's post

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/?

Sean Tilley

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

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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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

Hrefna (DHC)

https://socialwebfoundation.org

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

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

Terence Eden

🆕 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 …

We Distribute

Evan Prodromou has officially announced The Social Web Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of #ActivityPub, the #Fediverse, and The Social Web.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/social-web-foundation-launch/

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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!

Option	Voters
Hackers Pub	0 (0%)
Techies Pub	0 (0%)
Coders Haus	0 (0%)
Techies Haus	0 (0%)

Terence Eden

Hello #MastodonAPI and #ActivityPub friends.

Russell Harrower 🎙️

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

- Federails: Ruby gem to bring ActivityPub to your app

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

Articles

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

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

分散SNS集会@VRChat

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

分散型SNSってなに？分断されないインターネット

- 違うSNSに友達がいても安心。どこにいてもつながれる。
- たくさんいる運営者。イーロンみたいのに独裁されない。
- 自由に引っ越しOK。友達とつながったままいろんなSNSを試そう。
- 多くがオープンソース。みんなで作り上げるSNS。
- 誰でも管理人になれる。自分だけのSNSをつくってみよう。

Activity Pun
AT Protocol
Nostr — 分散型SNSってなに？分断されないインターネット - 違うSNSに友達がいても安心。どこにいてもつながれる。 - たくさんいる運営者。イーロンみたいのに独裁されない。 - 自由に引っ越しOK。友達とつながったままいろんなSNSを試そう。 - 多くがオープンソース。みんなで作り上げるSNS。 - 誰でも管理人になれる。自分だけのSNSをつくってみよう。 Activity Pun AT Protocol Nostr

Activity Pub

Misskey, Threads, Mastodon

メールは Gmail から Yahoo mail に送れますよね。
事業者が異なるのに、やり取りができるわけです。
これと似た技術を使って、違うSNSどうしでもやりとりができる仕組みが、 Activity Pub です。
惑星（SNS）がたくさんある宇宙に例えられて、Fediverseと呼ばれています。 — Activity Pub Misskey, Threads, Mastodon メールは Gmail から Yahoo mail に送れますよね。事業者が異なるのに、やり取りができるわけです。これと似た技術を使って、違うSNSどうしでもやりとりができる仕組みが、 Activity Pub です。惑星（SNS）がたくさんある宇宙に例えられて、Fediverseと呼ばれています。

Nostr

Damus, Nostter, Iris

本当の自由が、ここに

アプリを開くと自動で作られる「秘密鍵」。これひとつがあればなんでもできる。SNSはもちろん、ブログ、動画、フリマまで。
たくさんのサーバーに暗号の力で改ざんできないデータを保存することで、あなたの書き込みは守られます。 — Nostr Damus, Nostter, Iris 本当の自由が、ここにアプリを開くと自動で作られる「秘密鍵」。これひとつがあればなんでもできる。SNSはもちろん、ブログ、動画、フリマまで。たくさんのサーバーに暗号の力で改ざんできないデータを保存することで、あなたの書き込みは守られます。

AT Protocol

Bluesky, WhiteWind

1. 色んな事業者が参加できて独裁できない
2. 誰でもおすすめアルゴリズムを作って選べる
3. 運営事業者をまたいでアカウントの引っ越しができる

この3つを目指して開発が進められています。 — AT Protocol Bluesky, WhiteWind 1. 色んな事業者が参加できて独裁できない 2. 誰でもおすすめアルゴリズムを作って選べる 3. 運営事業者をまたいでアカウントの引っ越しができるこの3つを目指して開発が進められています。

ActivityPods

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

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?

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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

Fedify: Y·E·S!

#Fedify #fedidev

Terence Eden

#fediverse #ActivityPub #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource

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.

Gerardo Lisboa

@[email protected] · Reply to silverpill's post

@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."

fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻

I think postmortem, when we hear the names #Mastodon and perhaps #ActivityPub, we'll see it as one of the greatest fumbles of the web.

It's not (just) the onboarding fiasco. Mastodon servers had something that #Meta could never replicate— real community.

We didn't need the corporate web to validate us. Our presence here could've been a beacon for what the web could be if you took VC money out of the equation. We could've saved people that way.

I don't know if this place ever gets that back.

yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

🗣 #MASTODON DEVS AND ADMINS NEED TO STOP FUCKING WITH WEB STANDARDS

#ActivityPub isn't permission to break web standards. you can't have a public social media site and refuse to be linked to.

you don't wanna be linked? TAKE THAT SHIT PRIVATE, PERIOD.

LINKS TO INSTANCES THAT REJECT LINKING ARE POLLUTING PUBLIC ACTIVITY PUB STREAMS

just like you can't be a little pregnant, you can't be a little public on the web. you either are making public posts or you aren't.

so stop it.

Hrefna (DHC)

Random musing:

Let's say that I have a database. It's a glorified KV store, but it looks about like this:

object(id(uri), property(name), ref(uri) | value(simple))

I can represent every ActivityPub object in this format easily (the astute observer will notice I just defined an ersatz RDF triple). So I can easily create a datastore for this that can flexibly represent every object.

Cool!

*brushes hands*

Okay so now that that's sorted…

wait, what do you mean there's more?

Matthias Pfefferle

Is an ID change also a `Move` but under the same domain? Can #Mastodon, #Pixelfed and others handle that, even if the URL stays the same?

everton137

#Brasil #Mastodon #fediverso #activitypub #x

Por que diabos ainda não há servidores brasileiros no https://joinmastodon.org/servers? Há dois anos, quando o Twitter foi comprado pelo seu atual proprietário, achei muito estranho, principalmente depois de ver tantos servidores Mastodon administrados por comunidades brasileiras. E mesmo agora que tivemos o X bloqueado?

Já existe essa fase confusa de escolher um servidor, mas por que os brasileiros são excluídos? Falta de perspectiva além do norte global? Falta de articulação para ter instâncias brasileiras nessa porra de lista?

Estamos literalmente dando um tiro no próprio pé.

@Gargron

Joshua Byrd

@[email protected] · Reply to Joshua Byrd's post

Reckon I might try rolling my own photo blog — bonus points for hitting up @simon to teach me how to add #activitypub support

Matej Ľach ✅

I wrote a small, easy to use #golang lib for signing HTTP requests so that #Mastodon would accept them and also to verify requests originating from Mastodon and other #ActivityPub servers, useful if you're implementing your own.

Check it out at https://github.com/MatejLach/httpsigver-ap

Shadow Heart

@thegibson so are there any other projects showing promise? Preferably #activitypub based, with not just an eye on features but also moderation and privacy protection for its users. Mastodon (project) has definitely gotten too comfortable.

Week in Fediverse

- An analysis of mastodon adoption dynamics based on instance types
- An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises
- User Agents for the Social Web
- Bandwagon is Emissary’s Bandcamp Alternative
- Fediverse Discovery Providers
- A Small Compendium of Fediverse Platforms I Use
- E2EE for the Fediverse Update – We’re Going Post-Quantum

Week in Fediverse 2024-09-13

Servers

- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.2.0
- Mbin v1.7.1
- Sharkey v2024.8.1
- Trunk & Tidbits, August 2024

Clients

- Jerboa v0.0.75
- IceCubesApp v1.10.54
- Tuba v0.8.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.9
- Voyager v2.17.1
- Photon v1.31.3
- Milktea v2.163.0
- Dhaaga v0.10.0
- Fedicat 9-11-24
- One year on - Pachli

Articles

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0191c9dd-e298-8704-376b-acf65079e5ec

Steve Bate

I see discussions sometimes about developing recipe applications for #ActivityPub/AS2. In that spirit, I wrote a blog post describing how to use the schema.org Recipe type in an AS2 conformant manner. It's mostly a thought exercise about possibilities since most AP implementations won't render an AS2 conformant recipe correctly, if at all.
https://www.stevebate.net/extending-activitypub-a-recipe/

Sebastian Lasse

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

@hongminhee @hollo @fedify
Absolutely not. We intend to use it for larger projects. It needs more amplification.
Anyway we prototype the clients first and when ready will contribute.
Today
https://berlinfedi.day/ will be streamed, panelists join fediforum in the end.
In my Talk I will encourage Public Broadcasters et al. to contribute!
#activitypub #fediday #fediforum #fediverse #berlinfediday

pixelfed

#pixelfed #fediverse #activityPub #accountMigration

We just shipped partial Account Migration support!

This means:

- You can migrate from other servers to Pixelfed
- Accounts that migrate between servers will be updated (even if you mute/block them)

We say partial, because we are missing one final piece to support outbound migration to Pixelfed, Mastodon or other platforms.

That final piece will be shipping later today!

Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻

Part 3 of "A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website)" is just out the oven!

In this blog post, I explain how to make your blog discoverable in the Fediverse as an account, and also address some of the annoying pitfalls I encountered.

Full article here: https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implementing-activitypub-in-a-static-site-or-any-website-part-3/

If you like it don't forget to follow the @blog !

#fediverse #activitypub #static-sites #hugo #azure #mastodon #web-development #social-web #webfinger #http

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

The next version of #Fedify will support #LDSignatures (#RsaSignature2017), which means that Fedify will be able to verify activities forwarded by #Mastodon from other servers.

In addition, activities sent with the Context.sendActivity() method will have Linked Data Signatures attached in addition to HTTP Signatures if any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs are present.

We were not motivated by implementing Linked Data Signatures, which is already an outdated standard, but we hope this change will lead to better compatibility and interoperability of Fedify apps!

Hrefna (DHC)

Types of replies you can expect when talking about #ActivityPub:

Well actually…

* …that isn't _activitypub_ that is _mastodon_.

* …that is solved in _mastodon_ therefore it is solved in _activitypub_ (bonus points if it is on the same point that got the previous response).

* …I wrote some code that solves it, it's easy! <code does not, in fact, solve the problem>

* <Insert rant about corporate social media>

* <insert rant about Jack Dorsey>

* <insert rant about threads>

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Working on @fedify's docs about #LDSignatures… I hope someday #Fedify drop the support for Linked Data Signatures… 😇

The combination of HTTP Signatures and Linked Data Signatures is the most widely supported way to sign activities in the fediverse, as of September 2024. Despite Linked Data Signatures is outdated and not recommended for new implementations, it is still widely used in the fediverse due to Mastodon and other major implementations' reliance on it.

However, for new implementations, you should consider using both Object Integrity Proofs and Linked Data Signatures for maximum compatibility and future-proofing. — The combination of HTTP Signatures and Linked Data Signatures is the most widely supported way to sign activities in the fediverse, as of September 2024. Despite Linked Data Signatures is outdated and not recommended for new implementations, it is still widely used in the fediverse due to Mastodon and other major implementations' reliance on it. However, for new implementations, you should consider using both Object Integrity Proofs and Linked Data Signatures for maximum compatibility and future-proofing.

Dazzle Labs Inc

#activitypub #bluesky #atproto #nostr #indieweb #socialweb

At #FediForum today, we ran two sessions.

The first session brought together implementors of ActivityPub, AtProto/Bluesky, Nostr and IndieWeb applications to discuss how these protocols relate to each other, and what recommendations they all have for potential adopters who need to decide which to support.

It was a productive, cordial discussion and we will have more to say about it once FediForum publishes the notes from the meeting.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#Fedify has a side effect that when you call the getter method of an Activity Vocabulary object, the property that was internally a URI is populated with the actual ActivityStreams object. Today, someone at Ghost gave us a cool term for this: #hydration.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Imagine what if every website implemented HTTP/TLS themselves. There would be so much fragmentation that we wouldn't see the #interoperability we see today.

To me, that's what the #fediverse looks like today. Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. have their own implementations of #ActivityPub, WebFinger, HTTP Signatures, etc. and each one behaves slightly differently, which leads to poor interoperability. Adoption of new standards is slow.

I wish each major programming language had something like #Fedify.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Does #Misskey also attach #LDSignatures to activities? If so, what types of activities does it attach LD Signatures to?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://fedify.dev/cli#fedify-inbox-ephemeral-inbox-server

The `fedify inbox` command, which is shipped with @fedify/cli, is a tool that creates an ephemeral #ActivityPub server so that you can debug and test the activities you send.

Here's a demo of it.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

I received a request from @ghost today to add #LDSignatures to @fedify for compatibility with #Mastodon, as Mastodon does not plan to implement Object Integrity Proofs (FEP-8b32) for the near future. 😩

However, Mastodon's implementation of LD Signatures does not even use valid JSON-LD properties (despite the name), so I'm not sure how to make it compatible with Mastodon since #Fedify does JSON-LD processing. 🤔

The JSON-LD representation of a Create(Note) activity containing LD Signatures produced by Mastodon and its expanded form. The “signature” property and its child properties are not properly namespaced.

Danny Garside

Is there a way to discuss #hyperlocal things on #mastodon / #fediverse / #activitypub ?

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has released v0.15.0! The key changes include:

There's a new tutorial for creating a microblog.
Actors, collections, and object dispatchers can now have URIs that do not include a WebFinger username, meaning actors can now change their fediverse handles.
Article, ChatMessage, Note, and Question classes now have a quoteUrl property. This property corresponds to three properties at once: as:quoteUrl, misskey:_misskey_quote, and fedibird:quoteUri.
Changed the element type of the liked collection from Like to Object | URL.
Added Context.lookupObject() method.
The default document loaders can now recognize ActivityStream objects from the Link header or the <link>/<a> tag in HTML.
Added -r/--raw option to the fedify lookup command.

It is now available in JSR and npm.

#Fedify #fedidev

洪民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）

#ActivityPub
QT: https://fosstodon.org/@hongminhee/113116797292204563 [参照]

ActivityPub 仕様の`liked`コレクションについて質問です。5.5章によると、`liked`コレクションは「アクタの全ての`Like`アクティビティのオブジェクトのリスト」であり、5.7章のサイドノートによると、`liked`コレクションは「アクタが行った`Like`アクティビティのコレクション」であると書かれています。いったい、likedコレクションの要素型は`Object`なのか`Like`なのでしょうか？

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

I have a question about the `liked` collection in the #ActivityPub specification. According to section 5.5, the liked collection is “a list of every object from all of the actor's `Like` activities”, whereas the side note in section 5.7 says it is “a collection of `Like` activities performed by the actor”. What is the element type of the liked collection, `Object` or `Like`?

• Section 5.5: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#liked
• Section 5.7: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#likes

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

• Section 5.5: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#liked
• Section 5.7: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#likes

Jeff Sikes

#GoToSocial #Fediverse #ActivityPub

GoToSocial, an ActivityPub platform, is adding better support for audio. Mastodon has had that for years, you say? GoToSocial will support up to 6 audio attachments!

Mastodon unfortunately will only show one of them - a cassingle. Similar to how it only shows the first 4 images attached to a post.

I do give credit to Mastodon Web UI for having a really nice audio player for that one attachment, tho.

FediForum

#bluesky #atproto #activitypub #interoperability #fediforum #fediverse

@bnewbold is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:

* collaboration and coordination with atproto and other protocols
* interoperable identity systems
* moderation tooling
* data portability

This will make for an interesting and important session! Or more likely, more than one!

Join us? https://fediforum.org

The Nexus of Privacy

https://privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmosphere-fediverse/

I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS Army, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses!

And what better way to do that than with a long post about it?

#bluesky #fediverse #activitypub

Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “No, ActivityPub votes aren't anonymous”

Daniel Supernault

Flickr, Instagram, 500px, Unsplash and BeReal are ok photo sharing platforms

But, they are walled gardens, aren't open source and don't federate

@pixelfed is in the perfect place, at the right time, to be able to disrupt this status quo

We don't have investors, all we have is people, and together we can fix this

The fediverse is a revolution, empowering the people, and reclaiming the digital landscape from the walled gardens

No more settling, it's our time now ✨

#fediverse #activityPub

LWFlouisa

My own issue with #activitypub is there doesn't seem to be a way to host static website, which I'm slowly gravitating more to.

Daniel Supernault

#activityPub #accountMigrations

Almost done Account Migration in @pixelfed ✨

It was a bit more complicated than I anticipated, and I look forward to shipping this in the next hour or so!

Moritz Bartl

@[email protected] · Reply to ⏣ (hexed)'s post

@xarvos @farooqkz @Edent

I also tried to find documentation on this, but failed. The whole thing should be better documented. A vote is an #ActivityPub message -- so where does it end up, if not in the archive?

Week in Fediverse

- Fedify v0.12.0
- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v10.3.3

Week in Fediverse 2024-07-26

Servers

- Ktistec v2.1.0
- NeoDB v0.10.4.4
- Mitra v3.0.0

Clients

- Mammoth v2.14
- IceCubesApp v1.10.45
- Photon v1.31.1
- mlmym v0.0.50
- Voyager v2.13.1
- PhanpySocial changelog

Tools and Plugins

Articles

- NeoDB is a Review System for Culture

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Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

In the next version of #Fedify, it will allow you to decouple actor URIs from WebFinger usernames with the mapHandle() method. For example, you can use UUIDs for actor URIs but let users use their own username of choice for their fediverse handle.

You can preview it in v0.15.0-dev.382+a8a9b73b: JSR & npm.

Week in Fediverse

- You Can't Join Mastodon
- A Brief History of the Fediverse Symbol

Week in Fediverse 2024-09-06

Servers

- snac v2.58
- tootik v0.12.2
- Mitra v3.4.0

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.7.1
- Pachli v2.8.1
- Fedicat 9-5-24
- Dhaaga v0.9.0
- Jerboa v0.0.72
- Phanpy changelog

Tools and Plugins

- Peertube livechat plugin v11.0.0
- Fedinesia v3.2.3
- FediFetcher v7.1.7

Articles

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Emelia 👸🏻

There was a big decision at the SWICG meeting today to start a Moderation, Trust & Safety Task Force that aims to write a report to improve those aspects of the protocol.

I've volunteered to lead that task force.

#SWICG #ActivityPub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://w3id.org/fep/8b32

I wish #Mastodon would just implement FEP-8b32 instead of the LD Signatures which is obsolete.

#ActivityPub #LDSignatures #fedidev

marius

#ActivityPub #fedidev #GoActivityPub

I often struggle with working on non-trivial, long standing projects because when I sit down to do the work after some hiatus, I can't seem to find the pain points I wanted to fix quickly enough.

It feels like trying to get a bandaid off when you can't find an edge where it comes unstuck easily enough.

The largest piece of bandaid that I wasn't able to get unstuck from the ActivityPub adjacent work is getting the HTTP-signatures working well with the rest of the fediverse (by which I mean Mastodon).

Today I might have got the corner of another little bit of bandaid unstuck which hopefully will help in the long run.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

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

한국어판 Fedify 튜토리얼 《나만의 연합우주 마이크로블로그 만들기》를 공개합니다! Fedify나 ActivityPub을 몰라도 차근차근 따라할 수 있게 되어 있으니, ActivityPub 구현에 관심이 있으신 분들은 부디 읽어 주시기 바랍니다. (대신, 조금 깁니다. 😅)

#Fedify #ActivityPub

洪民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）

https://zenn.dev/hongminhee/books/4a38b6358a027b

日本語版Fedifyチュートリアル『自分だけのフェディバースのマイクロブログを作ろう！』をZennで公開しました！ActivityPubの実装に興味の有る方々は是非ご覧ください！

#Fedify #ActivityPub

John Spurlock

@[email protected] · Reply to John Spurlock's post

So as I'm bopping around looking at everyone's #ActivityPub in browser.pub, I wanted to have the ability to follow interesting people while I'm browsing.

I just pushed a new update that adds a "Follow" button next to every profile in the visual view

e.g. https://browser.pub/mastodon@mastodon.social

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://unstable.fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog

We just finished drafting a new tutorial for #Fedify! This tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating your own federated #microblog. It's pretty long, though.

Please read it, give us feedback, and have fun!

Links

A symbol for the fediverse ⁂

We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.

#activitypub, #fediverse, #icon, #logo

Tim Chambers

@[email protected] · Reply to Erin 💽✨'s post

@erincandescent @andypiper sort of how the Internet was born when you first IP based interaction was delivered…we should probably pick the first activity pub message successfully delivered and call that the birthday. #activitypub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

I feel like #Elixir is unusually popular among #ActivityPub implementations. Is it just me?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, a fediverse microblog for single users.

#introduction

Antolius

#activityPub #fedify #fedichef #workInProgress

A panel from the original Watchmen comic, depicting Dr. Manhattan partially reassembling himself after the accident that created him. Text is modified to read: "SEPTEMBER 3RD: A PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED FEDIFY APP RUNS BEHIND A SERVEO TUNNEL AND FEDERATES FOR THIRTY SECONDS BEFORE VANISHING..."

Pierre

#activitypub #hollo #federated #fediverse #opensource #oss #foss #microblog #microblogging

Always good to see progress! Only a handful of features left on the roadmap. Hollo is an activitypub powered federated microblog app. Docker image was made available with the latest release

{Insert Pasta Pun}

https://github.com/benpate/hannibal

:D did you know @benpate is making cool #activitypub stuff?

https://emissary.dev/
https://github.com/EmissarySocial/bandwagon

@fedidevs

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Are there any features you'd like to see in #Fedify?

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Fedifyは、TypeScriptとJavaScriptで書かれたActivityPubサーバーフレームワークです。分散型のソーシャルネットワークを構築するためのサーバーアプリケーションを作る際の複雑さと冗長なコードを排除し、ビジネスロジックとユーザー体験の開発に集中できるようにすることを目指しています。

現在提供している主な機能は以下の通りです：

Activity Vocabularyのための型安全なオブジェクト（一部のベンダー固有の拡張機能を含む）
WebFingerクライアントとサーバー
HTTP SignaturesとObject Integrity Proofs
ウェブフックを処理するためのミドルウェア
NodeInfoプロトコル
Node.js、Deno、Bunのサポート
テストとデバッグのためのCLIツールチェーン

興味がある方は、Fedifyのウェブサイトをご覧ください！包括的なドキュメント、デモ、チュートリアル、サンプルコードなどが用意されています：

#Fedify #TypeScript #JavaScript #ActivityPub #NodeInfo #Node #Deno #Bun #fedidev

Eric McCarthy

Spent some time this morning getting a cursory understanding of #ATProtocol (the open protocol behind #BlueSky). I have a decent understanding of #ActivityPub and I expected AT to have a lot of similarities.

It’s quite different, and this diagram surprised me.

PDS here is “Personal Data Server”. You might think of it as something like a #Mastodon instance where all your data is stored and posts by those you follow are cached.

Except notice that there’s no arrows between PDSes.

1/5

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

I wish there was a more fancy canonical permalink for each #FEP document.

Anuj Ahooja

https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/113052807984985466

Your favorite social network could make decisions that make it impossible to use the service where you live. If that happens, you lose not only access to the site but, more importantly, the community you worked so hard to build.

Use platforms that implement open social web protocols like #ActivityPub so you can lift your network to another platform without missing a beat.

Your network shouldn't be trapped with the whims of a corporation. There's a better way.

Jeff Sikes

https://mastodon.social/@activitypugtest

@index is out with another amusing blog post about their fediverse journey. But the most important thing we learned is that this account exists.

#FediDev #ActivityPub #ActivityPug

Week in Fediverse

- IceCubesApp v1.10.50
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta36
- Tuba v0.8.3
- Pachli v2.8.0
- Fedicat v8-28-24
- Aria v0.14.4
- Quiblr: An intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-30

Servers

- tootik v0.12.1
- Mitra v3.3.0

Clients

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.5
- Lemmy Schedule v1.12.0

For developers

- Fedify v0.14.0
- Bovine v0.5.11
- FedIAM: Login and access control based on open identities

Articles

- Telegram's CEO's Arrest Should Be A Wake Up Call For Social Media Admins & CEOs
- A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse

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Emelia 👸🏻

@[email protected] · Reply to Emelia 👸🏻's post

If the sender owns the collection, why can't it use Add or Remove to signal to another server that the owner of that collection has modified it? #activitypub

Emelia 👸🏻

@[email protected] · Reply to Emelia 👸🏻's post

So Add and Remove can't be used to synchronise changes to a collection over time.

Emelia 👸🏻

@[email protected] · Reply to Emelia 👸🏻's post

Like if I fetch a collection by arbitrary URI, I think knowing which actor(s) own / can manage that collection is really important information.

Additionally, the way AP defines Add and Remove doesn't make any sense at all since my actor can't tell your server that I've added you to a collection without a request directly from you

7.8 Add Activity
Upon receipt of an Add activity into the
inbox, the server SHOULD add the
object to the collection specified in the
target property, unless:
• the target is not owned by the
receiving server, and thus they can't
update it.
• the object is not allowed to be
added to the target collection for
some other reason, at the receiver's
discretion. — 7.8 Add Activity Upon receipt of an Add activity into the inbox, the server SHOULD add the object to the collection specified in the target property, unless: • the target is not owned by the receiving server, and thus they can't update it. • the object is not allowed to be added to the target collection for some other reason, at the receiver's discretion.

Emelia 👸🏻

Just noticed there's no back-linking from collections to the Actor who owns that collection?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

I wish #ActivityPub implementations would be more specific about error messages in their responses, especially if they're not open source. 😭

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://app.warp.dev/block/vKJGDbgWHBEAlAKBl0jlPR

Dear developers of the #fediverse, has anyone ever encountered a case where a personal inbox in #Threads responds with a 404 Not Found for a POST request?

Daniel Supernault

#loops #video #fediverse #activityPub #tikTok #alternative

Loops by @pixelfed

A federated TikTok, powered by an open source app and backend!

The beta is launching soon, follow @loops for the latest announcements!

Website: https://loops.video
Source: https://github.com/px-loops

GENKI

:activitypub: #ActivityPub は、既存の #SocialMedia #SNS に、上位概念を生み出そうとしているところが好きなんだよな…

いろんなクラスタがあるけど、まあみんなおんなじ「人間」ってことで、（技術的には）連合できるようしておきつつ、それぞれのレイヤー（サーバー・アカウント）でブロックとかしながらお互い衝突しないように適度にやろうぜ、というものを感じる

:mastodon: #Mastodon なんかは開発方針にもそういう哲学を感じるんだよね。
いろんなポリシーのサーバーが存在できて、それぞれが可能な範囲で連合できて、なるべく参加者のポジティブな感情が表に見える場所にしよう、みたいな。
もちろん、実際にはそうじゃないサーバーもあるだろうし、それは一つの夢みたいなものなんだけど、すくなくともそこに向かおうとしている感じがするというか。

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

It's too much of a pain to implement #ActivityPub primitives from scratch. If someone wants to build a fediverse software today, they should be prepared to spend more time implementing the AP layer than the business logic. It reminds me of the days of printing out HTTP headers and HTML by hand in Perl/C to create web apps with CGI.

OutOfExile_IDR § Écriture™️

#AskMastodon #WritingCommunity #blog #ActivityPub

Has anybody ever heard of "Awakari "? On mastodon at: @ awakari @ activitypub. awakari com. Has anyone ever used it or know anything about them?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes

Suddenly, I'm reminded of a service called Yahoo! Pipes from about 15 years ago. If anyone remembers, #Pipes handled #RSS as its primitive, and now I'd like to see something like Pipes handle #ActivityPub as its primitive.

#fedidev #idea

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://unstable.fedify.dev/manual/test#inspecting-activitypub-objects

We've released v0.14.0 of #Fedify, the #ActivityPub server framework, with the following key changes:

It is now possible to set the recipient of the sendActivity() method to "followers" in just the Context instead of the RequestContext.
Improved performance of the Object.toJsonLd() method by about 3,000 times.
Added source property to Object.
Added aliases property to Actor, corresponding to ActivityPub's alsoKnownAs property.
fedify init command now adds default compilerOptions settings to tsconfig.json and deno.json.

Fedify v0.14.0 is available from JSR and npm. See also the full changelog for details.

Happy #fedidev!

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to John Spurlock's post

We've added the Inspecting ActivityPub objects section to the #Fedify docs, introducing BrowserPub and the fedify lookup command!

#ActivityPub #BrowserPub #fedidev

Inspecting ActivityPub objects

BrowserPub

BrowserPub is a browser for debugging ActivityPub and the fediverse. You can punch in any ActivityPub discoverable web URL or fediverse handle, and it will discover and display the underlying ActivityPub.

For example:

• hollo.social/@fedify
• @hongminhee@fosstodon.org

If you want to know further details about BrowserPub, read the creator's Mastodon thread.

fedify lookup command

Fedify provides a CLI toolchain for testing and debugging. The fedify lookup command is a simple tool for looking up an ActivityPub object by its URL or fediverse handle. — Inspecting ActivityPub objects BrowserPub BrowserPub is a browser for debugging ActivityPub and the fediverse. You can punch in any ActivityPub discoverable web URL or fediverse handle, and it will discover and display the underlying ActivityPub. For example: • hollo.social/@fedify • @[email protected] If you want to know further details about BrowserPub, read the creator's Mastodon thread. fedify lookup command Fedify provides a CLI toolchain for testing and debugging. The fedify lookup command is a simple tool for looking up an ActivityPub object by its URL or fediverse handle.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Do you know that? Some of the properties in Activity Vocabulary have been renamed in #Fedify's JavaScript APIs. Below are some examples:

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Is there any standardized #spec for #Misskey-style quotes?

- Fedify v0.13.1
- Fedinesia v3.2.0
- LemmySchedule v1.11.0
- Social Sync: Attempts to follow your Bluesky (bsky.brid.gy) follows and Threads follows via the Mastodon API
- ActivityPub-Kotlin: Kotlin implementation of ActivityPub

- Mastodon v4.2.12
- Friendica v2024.08
- Mitra v3.2.0
- Azorius v0.4.0
- Manyfold v0.76.0
- Misskey v2024.8.0
- tootik v0.12.0
- Gancio v1.19.0
- PieFed development update August 2024 - prepping for 1.0 release

Clients

- Fedicat 8-23-24
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.0.0.67
- WriteFreely for iOS v1.0.18
- Tusky v26.1
- Thunder v0.5.1
- Photon v1.31.2
- Aria v0.14.0

Tools and Plugins

Protocol

- FEP-eb22: Supported ActivityStreams types with NodeInfo

Articles

- Fedicache
- Mastodon – on your wrist
- Federated Key Transparency Project Update
- Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers
- Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace
- The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
- Privacy Policies on the Fediverse: A Case Study of Mastodon Instances

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John Spurlock

👀 BrowserPub: A browser for exploring #ActivityPub and the ⁂fediverse

https://browser.pub

Socialhome HQ

#socialhome #federation #fediverse #activitypub #diaspora #django #vuejs

Socialhome v0.17.0 released

Again, thanks to @[email protected], this release features a ton of improvements to the ActivityPub federation layer of Socialhome, but also upgrading Django to 3.x, which is a major achievement in terms of keeping up to date with dependencies. In regards to upgrading Django we also decided to take a deep dive and ditch uWSGI in favour of Daphne and ASGI. This does mean admins running Socialhome need to change their reverse proxy configuration.

Highlights:

Breaking change. No more uWSGI. Both http and websockets should now be routed to Daphne.
Django 2 -> 3. A whole load of Python dependencies upgraded.
Signups can now be set to be approved separately.
Various improvements to ActivityPub federation.

Full changelog.

This release also pairs with a v0.24.0 release of the federation library. The changelog for that can be found here.

What is Socialhome?

Socialhome is best described as a federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the ActivityPub and Diaspora protocols (Matrix maybe coming up one day :))!

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.

Contribute

Want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

Socialhome HQ

#socialhome #federation #fediverse #activitypub #diaspora #django #vuejs

Socialhome v0.16.0 released

After over a year, a Socialhome release is out again! The main thanks for this release goes out to @[email protected], who has pretty much re-written the whole ActivityPub federation layer for this release. Not a small job at all, and without any noticeable regressions too.

Initially, when the ActivityPub layer was added for Socialhome, it was a quick JSON only job, with federation only really ever tested with Mastodon. Now we have proper JSON-LD based inbound/outbound federation that not only adds a lot more supported platforms but also support for various new objects like video and audio.

Highlights:

Fully rewritten ActivityPub protocol support using JSON-LD.
Python minimum version supported changed to 3.8 with support up to 3.10.
NodeJS required version bumped to v12.
New background queue priorities to ensure federation traffic is always prioritised.
Threaded replies!
Support for video and audio attachments (ActivityPub only).
Fetching of previous replies when new content is received.

And many more fixes and tweaks. Full changelog.

This release also pairs with a v0.23.0 release of the federation library. The changelog for that can be found here.

What is Socialhome?

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.

FYI, currently signups are closed on the official instance due to spam users. We're working on changing this soon.

Contribute

Want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

Socialhome HQ

#socialhome #federation #fediverse #activitypub #diaspora #django #vuejs

Socialhome v0.18.0 released

Alain ( @[email protected] ) has been hard at work during 2023, making Socialhome a better citizen in the Fediverse. The releases of Socialhome v0.18.0 and federation library v0.25.0 bring a ton of fixes and compatibility improvements when talking to other platforms on the network.

Additionally there are improvements to how Socialhome renders content, fetches missing profiles and work on reducing database load, among other items to mention.

For the full changelogs, see:

Socialhome: https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html
federation: https://gitlab.com/jaywink/federation/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Installing and updating

We recommend using the Docker images:

amd64: registry.gitlab.com/jaywink/socialhome:v0.18.0
arm64: registry.gitlab.com/jaywink/socialhome:v0.18.0-arm64

Notes on how to use the Docker images can be found in the docs. They're a bit minimal, we're looking on getting better example Docker based install instructions in place soon.

What is Socialhome?

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.

Try Socialhome?

If you want to try Socialhome first before trying to install it, register at https://socialhome.network and then ping us with a comment on the user name chosen, and the account can be activated. Unfortunately due to spammers accounts on the project instance need to be separately activated.

Contribute

Want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://github.com/dahlia/microblog

For educational purpose, I've created a federated microblog example using #Fedify, with a total of about 30 commits, which you can follow step by step.

Now, I'm starting to write a hands-on Fedify tutorial based on this example code. I'll make it public when I'm done!

Elena Rossini ⁂

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.9 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)

with shout-outs to @informapirata @Bro666 @dansup @phanpy @fedidb @vjprema @neblem @FediTips

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #threadiverse #mbin #kbin #piefed #lemmy #reddit #activitypub

Daniel Supernault

#activityPub #safety #pixelfed #filterSystem

ActivityPub Filter System

Inspired by Pleroma (MRF) and Cloudflare (WAF), this new @pixelfed feature will help improve safety and moderation by empowering admins with fine-grained tools like these.

Better yet, you will be able to easily import/export rules and I'm working on a FEP so other projects can add support using a common vocab.

Available soon ✨

ActivityPub Filter System preview in Pixelfed

wakest ⁂

@[email protected] · Reply to wakest ⁂'s post

Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), #gofed, #Habitat, #Forte (streams fork) and #Sakura (Misskey fork) icons to #FediverseIconography at https://fediverse.wake.st (repo at https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography)
#fediverse #ActivityPub

a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura

Matthias Pfefferle

I tweaked the #ActivityPub inbox endpoints of my #WordPress site a bit and was able to follow my blog on #Flipboard ❤️

/cc @mike @greg

A screenshot of a WordPress blog (post) on Flipboard

Screenshot of a federated WordPress post in Flipboard

Doctor Popular

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-html-discovery/issues

I added what I think are some of the most important tasks and user stories. I hope others contribute, too!

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#Fedify #securityupdate #fediverse #fedidev #ActivityPub

Security alert for Fedify users

We've patched a vulnerability in the getActorHandle() function. Versions prior to 0.13.1 and 0.12.3 are affected.

Upgrade immediately:

npm: 0.13.1 & 0.12.3
JSR: 0.13.1 & 0.12.3

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://forms.gle/Y5yeiqPhgnW89xXt7

이달 末에 페디버스의 여러 오픈 소스 소프트웨어에 컨트리뷰트 해 보는 스프린트를 서울에서 열려고 합니다. 먼저, 컨트리뷰터 또는 메인테이너 분들부터 모으고 있어요! 저는 제가 만든 ActivityPub 서버 프로젝트인 Hollo를 들고 갑니다.

#페디버스 #연합우주 #ActivityPub #스프린트 #오픈소스

Brian C. Keegan

https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861035/fediverse_observatory/library

I started a #zotero group library focused on research about #activitypub, #decentralization, #affordances, Mastodon, migration, #moderation, and #newcomers.

Collaborators welcome! #TheorizingTheFediverse #TheoryOfMastodon #twittermigration

[email protected]

Duty calls on the Fediverse
#Mastodon #ActivityPub #Fediverse #XKCD

A stick figure is sitting at a desk with a computer on it.
The stick figure is talking to someone in the off:
“Are you coming to bed?”
SF: “I can’t. This is important.”
“What?”
SF: “Someone is confusing Mastodon for the fediverse!”

Original: https://xkcd.com/386/ — A stick figure is sitting at a desk with a computer on it. The stick figure is talking to someone in the off: “Are you coming to bed?” SF: “I can’t. This is important.” “What?” SF: “Someone is confusing Mastodon for the fediverse!” Original: https://xkcd.com/386/

Week in Fediverse

- IceCubesApp v1.10.49
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta34
- Voyager v2.17.0
- Thunder v0.5.0
- Dhaaga: An opinionated, cross-platform (Android & iOS) mobile client for Mastodon and Misskey

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-16

Servers

- Castopod v1.12.9
- honk v1.4.1
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2024

Clients

Protocol

- FEP-c16b: Formatting MFM functions
- FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions

Articles

- ForgeFed: Actor Factory
- The Untapped Potential of Fediverse Publishing
- Fediverse for Freedom

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01913802-2bfe-da50-aacd-258558dfe1c6

Matthias Pfefferle

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/804

guess what's coming soon to a #WordPress blog near you?

thanks @janboddez ❤️

#fediverse #ActivityPub

A screenshot of federated likes in the WordPress comment section

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#fedidev #JSONLD #ActivityPub

In the next version (v0.14.0) of #Fedify, the performance of the Object.toJsonLd() method will be dramatically (~3k ×) faster. This is expected to improve the overall performance of Fedify apps!

Steve Bate

#Flipboard #Fediverse #ActivityPub

"The inbox stream contains all activities received by the actor." (#ActivityPub Rec). However, AP/AS2 collections (including "special" ones like Inbox, Outbox, Followers, etc.) do not contain Objects or Activities. They contain URI *references*. That's why one Create/Note can be referenced by many inboxes. It may look like Collections contain Objects because of typical server JSON-LD serialization, but don't be fooled. It makes a difference for data lifecycle management and storage models.

Elena Brescacin

➡️ https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C7VQY5K

Once it's been federated, you'll be able to do all the Fediverse stuff described in the news item.

Mike McCue

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/

Hello fediverse!

This morning we shipped an exciting new version of #Flipboard that enables *anyone* on Flipboard to follow *anyone* in the fediverse.

This is the culmination of a ton of work to deeply integrate #ActivityPub into the product. The result is incredibly seamless.

Just tap on the search icon in Flipboard and tap the follow button for anyone featured there or that you find in search. You’ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds.

Check the screenshots below and read this post to learn more:

Ethan Sholly

https://selfh.st/apps/?directory=activityPub

Showing the #Fediverse some love this morning with a new app directory dedicated to #ActivityPub platforms, clients, and tools for easy browsing and discovery:

Users can browse by the various software types with a filter for platform (web, desktop, mobile) and various sort options based on popularity (repo stars), recent development activity, and more.

#software #app #apps #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #mastodon

benbrown

https://shuttlecraft.net/

Hello fellow citizens of the free and open web, it is me, Ben Brown. You may remember me from that social network from back when social networks were cool, or maybe from that one open source project that blew up.

Hi, it is great to see you again.

First off, corporate owned social media always sucked, we always knew it. It is past time for us to have better options.I am so glad for the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub and Mastodon and other projects for breathing new life into the indie web, where it is possible for us to own what we post and use whatever tools we want. I couldn’t resist building something!

My new project is called SHUTTLECRAFT. It social media server … FOR ONE.

What does that mean?

It is very small and lightweight open source app that runs nicely on services like Glitch, but it has most of what you need to host your own personal social media account.

It’s got a microblogging tool, to make posts. You can customize the design with HTML and CSS. You can follow people on Mastodon or other services and interact with posts and send messages. People can follow you on Mastodon, or with RSS. You run it on your own server so you own and operate the data and the code and the whole service. And you can hack the code and make it weirder so that we can all be part of a better, more diverse and more interesting web.

No billionaires or mega-corps required!

I made a 3 minute video showing how it works:
https://www.loom.com/share/a6441bcebdc64f54b5010c95eae1e180

Though this a personal project and only a few weeks old, with tons of stuff still unfinished and yet to build... you can get the code right now and run your own right now! The official site also has a 3 minute walk through of setting up an instance on Glitch. It is pretty easy!

Or go straight to for the code:

https://github.com/benbrown/shuttlecraft

Thanks to everyone who has already tested this or sent feedback or contributed code. Y'all rule.

Own your posts!! Make it hard for them to monetize you!

Roni Laukkarinen

#WordPress #OpenSource #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse

My reply to a GitHub discussion on why WordPress should have their own Mastodon account:

Well, the first thing what I'm a bit bummed about here is that why is WordPress.org seeking only a commercial, wide-as-possible-reach type of platform in social media when the other major foot is obviously in the open source world? Mastodon and the Fediverse is full of WordPress and PHP people and influencers, WordPress itself connects to ActivityPub and Threads.net connects to ActivityPub as well. So the reach is not any absolute metric here as it's not just one platform. It's the whole web.

For the second question, just see how much WordPress is talked about between instances, I've seen numerous folks of missing the official WordPress account there, including the community folks.

Here are some examples of the brand accounts:

- Internet Archive, 52K followers
- Have I Been Pwned, 14K followers
- 9to5Mac, 25K followers
- World Wide Web Consortium, 31K followers
- GIMP, 10K followers
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, 62K followers
- 1Password, 9.3K followers
- Signal, 51K followers

In my mind the worlds largest open source CMS should be a part of this open social web movement.

Original comment here: https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions/168#discussioncomment-10315164

You're welcome to chime in.

maegul

So, kbin.social (and likely #kbin itself) is dead.

I only joined the #fediverse in the "twitter migration" and *already* have 2 accounts that died on instances that were "flagships" but just disappeared (kbin & firefish).

No blame or shame for the devs or anything. They tried which is much more than most of us.

But whoever "decided" that true mobile identity isn't a priority for #activitypub / fediverse, probably fucked up.

Why hasn't the fediverse grown more? Instances & immobile accounts!?

Shrutarshi Basu

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

@hongminhee I think it depends on whether you want Fedify to be an #ActivityPub server itself, or a library for writing servers.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

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Fedi.Tips

➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server

If you have a WordPress blog, you can optionally allow people to follow your blog from Mastodon etc. They will be able to see your posts in their timelines, and if they reply to your post on Mastodon etc it will appear as a comment on your blog.

There are complete instructions for how to switch on this feature here:

This works for all kinds of WordPress-powered blogs including wordpress.com blogs and independently hosted blogs.

#WordPress #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Fediverse Report

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 79

This week's news:
- @mmasnick joins Bluesky's Board of Directors
- @bonfire shows some more information on Mosaic, another project of Bonfire, and puts out bounties for developers to help get to a 1.0 release
- A platform for football fans with CollabFC
- 3d printing platform @manyfold has added early #activitypub support

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-79/

Darnell Clayton :verified:

#Fediverse Tip: Turn Your #ActivityPub Username Handle Into A Forwarding Email Address 🔛 @[email protected] (Seize The Day) 📰 https://darnell.day/fediverse-tip-turn-your-activitypub-username-handle-into-a-forwarding-email?pk_campaign=rss-feed

Manyfold

https://manyfold.app/news/2024/08/06/release-v0-75-0.html

Manyfold v0.75.0 is out, with some experimental social features powered by #ActivityPub under the hood. We're taking our first steps into a larger world!

(PSA: it's very early days, so don't expect to be able to subscribe to 3d models in Mastodon *just yet*)

#SelfHosted #3DPrinting @3dprinting

Mark Darbyshire

@[email protected] · Reply to Mark Darbyshire's post

Also, how likely is it looking that we'll get federated groups that are compatible between both Mastodon and a Misskey derivative? Or ideally compatibility between a whole bunch of ActivityPub implementations.

I'm pleased to see some progress at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19059 and I can appreciate it's not something you would want to rush.

@fediversenews

#Fediverse #Groups #ActivityPub

Socialhome HQ

#socialhome #federation #fediverse #activitypub #diaspora #django #vuejs

Socialhome v0.20.0 released

This release contains some important performance fixes to some background jobs that had previously caused a lot of database load. Additionally, we queue less jobs that don't make sense.

Full changelog:

Fix missing Http404 imports in Streams API viewsets.
Fix send_reply_notifications job database query performance issues.
Stop queuing unnecessary send_reply_notifications jobs for received content that has no local participations.

Installing and updating

We recommend using the Docker images:

amd64: registry.gitlab.com/jaywink/socialhome:v0.20.0
arm64: registry.gitlab.com/jaywink/socialhome:v0.20.0-arm64

Notes on how to use the Docker images can be found in the docs. They're a bit minimal, we're looking on getting better example Docker based install instructions in place soon.

What is Socialhome?

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.

Try Socialhome?

If you want to try Socialhome first before trying to install it, register at https://socialhome.network and then ping us with a comment on the user name chosen, and the account can be activated. You can also request account approval in the chat room. Unfortunately due to spammers accounts on the project instance need to be separately activated.

Contribute

Want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

wakest ⁂

I discovered today that @prologic has added #ActivityPub support to their twtxt server software https://yarn.social and its largest instance https://twtxt.net essentially bridging the #fediverse and twtxt networks together.

If you are unfamiliar with #twtxt, it is a different take on decentralized microblogging that has been around for many years, and it is quite interesting to see it now bridged between this side and that one!

wakest ⁂

I don't think many folks here in the English speaking side of the fedi know about #Juick (juick.com) but its another part of the #fediverse that is already federating. I just discovered that they are also open source and the code is all available at https://x.juick.com/Juick/ licensed under AGPLv3. #ActivityPub

ひや＠チョメチョメ

ActivityPub の実装サンプルを作ってみました。力尽きたのでいったん公開しておきます……ｗ

https://github.com/HARMONICOM/libactivitypub.ts

まだ Misskey のモジュールしかないですし、ノートの取得と表示だけしかできない粗削りなものです。

Mastodon のモジュールも作ったら、Fediver の方に組み入れて使う予定です。また、今後フォローやリレーなどにも対応していきたいです。 #activitypub #fediver

Week in Fediverse

- The Archipelago: An Island Network In Practice
- The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-09

Servers

- mbin v1.7.0
- Manyfold v0.75.0
- snac v2.57
- Socialhome v0.20.0
- Mitra v3.1.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.1.0
- honk v1.4.0
- Ktistec v2.2.0
- Castopod v1.12.6
- Gush!: Federated social media platform for sharing the things you love

Clients

- Moshidon v107
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.8
- Voyager v2.15.0
- Eternity v0.2.0

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.13.0
- FediFetcher v7.1.6

Articles

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0191141b-f558-57f8-0c0c-fa0f64396a92

Elena Rossini ⁂

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)

with shout-outs to @anubis2814 @dansup @fedidb @heidilifeldman @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @ryanbroderick @caseynewton @ferrante @informapirata @russandro @hankg @tio

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

#JSONLD #fedidev #ActivityPub

The JSON-LD processor ended up being #Fedify's bottleneck, so I'm in the process of fixing Fedify to generate JSON-LD without the proper JSON-LD processor.

John Spurlock

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

to the #ActivityPub standards people out there: the domain for the width and height properties should be Object | Link, right? Not limited to Link.

The document itself contains examples of those properties on Image objects (which are not Links)

Is this document accepting PRs?

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

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/releases/tag/0.13.0

Fedify, the #ActivityPub server framework, has released v0.13.0. Key changes include:

Added fedify tunnel command to expose the local server to the public internet.
Added Express and Nitro integration templates to the fedify init command.
Added option to skip HTTP Signatures validation for easier testing.
Added Question.closed property.
Added Question.voters property.
Removed several deprecated APIs.

#Fedify v0.13.0 is available now from JSR and npm.

James Wynn 🧐

@[email protected] · Reply to James Wynn 🧐's post

I have to admit I've been a bit disappointed in the maturity of #ActivityPub libraries/frameworks for #Python though. I'm working on a fledgling AP project in Python and finding very little.

It seems that #BookWyrm and #PieFed have gone the route of writing their implementations from scratch. Its great reference material, but a common library we could all build from would be a huge boon for the community.

adminForge :cloud:

Wir haben soeben ein #ActivityPub #Relay für das #Fediverse erstellt: https://relay.kanoa.de

Alle #MastoAdmin|s aus dem deutschen Raum sind herzlich willkommen :mastodance:

Betula

Introducing Betula 1.2

Betula is a federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software. Organize your collection with tags. Write descriptions and quotes. #IndieWeb microformats and #Fediverse are supported.

This release brings #ActivityPub-backed following. Follow Betula from Mastodon and whatnot and receive all new bookmarks. A new design for bookmarks was also made.

Release notes: https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.2.0.html

Happy bookmarking!

kopper [according to whom?]

question: is anyone federating thumbhashes of media yet? is there an existing extension i can adopt or should i just come up with my own?

i know mastodon federates blurhashes. i'm specifically asking about thumbhashes (evanw.github.io/thumbhash/) instead.

#activityPub #fediDev #fediDevs

Doctor Popular

Our second episode of The Fediverse Files is out now. It's an interview with @evan, the co-author of #ActivityPub, about the future of the #fediverse. Tune in to learn how open protocols like ActivityPub make the web more open and user-centric. https://youtu.be/nLqwKph7Sxk?si=tT6ix1yuQAfNXj8H #FediverseFiles

Gergely Nagy 🐁

Is there a tool I can use to verify an #ActivityPub activity's signature?

As in, I have a JSON thingy, and I'd like to verify its signature, because I think I'm doing something wrong.

Note: Not the HTTP signature, but the signature object embedded in the JSON itself.

Update: Turns out I don't need json-ld signatures, so not looking for a verification tool anymore, either.

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

In #Activitypub, replies to a post are a collection of links that are part of the original post. So it’s only natural that the original poster should be in control of what’s in the reply collection. Technically it’s quite simple to implement that the OP (original poster) can decide which replies he/she/they accept or refuse in said collection. It’s up to the developers of ActivityPub implementers like Mastodon et al to make that level of control accessible.

Gergely Nagy 🐁

I have a bit of an #ActivityPub problem. I'm trying to implement an AP server that can send toots to #Mastodon. So far, I managed to follow a user on my server, that seems to work okay. However, when my server tries to send a Note, Mastodon accepts it, but it does not appear on the following user's timeline.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. HTTP Signatures appear to be fine, because otherwise the follow wouldn't work either, and the Note Create activities wouldn't be accepted either.

For reference, here's how the user looks:

❯ curl -s https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1 | jq .
{
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1"
  ],
  "id": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1",
  "type": "Person",
  "name": "Gergely Nagy",
  "icon": {
    "type": "Image",
    "mediaType": "image/png",
    "url": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/avatars/0eda2e83a694fb1986130c186f0339a049c9abe53dfc9e7c7bc7b3259c836c69"
  },
  "url": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/algernon",
  "inbox": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1/inbox",
  "outbox": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1/outbox",
  "preferredUsername": "algernon",
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1#main-key",
    "owner": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----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\nEz8w6UlI43bvvnYndY+5NRgDCESuXw8yLDWp03wFmgDJAgMBAAE=\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  }
}

The activity I send out looks like this:

❯ jq . <tmp/tootsie.json
{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "id": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1/activities/f8cdb5c8-5575-4eb9-b21c-9255bdb5a7de/activity",
  "type": "Create",
  "to": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
  ],
  "cc": [
    "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1/followers"
  ],
  "published": "2024-08-02T16:54:59Z",
  "actor": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1",
  "object": {
    "id": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1/activities/f8cdb5c8-5575-4eb9-b21c-9255bdb5a7de",
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "<a href=\"https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/algernon\" rel=\"nofollow\">algernon</a> <a href=\"https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/algernon/federation-test/issues/1#issuecomment-253\" rel=\"nofollow\">commented</a> on <a href=\"https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/algernon/federation-test/issues/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">algernon/federation-test#1</a>: <blockquote><p dir=\"auto\">c</p>\n</blockquote>",
    "attributedTo": "https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/api/v1/activitypub/user-id/1",
    "published": "2024-08-02T16:54:59Z"
  }
}

When sending this to Masto, with http signature, Masto replies with "202 Accepted". But the user I'm following with, does not see the note on the timeline.

Do I need to implement outbox? I'd prefer not to implement outbox if I can avoid it.

If anyone wants to play with it, and perhaps help me debug what is going on, registrations on https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/ are open. Creating a repo, opening an issue, and then commenting on that will all emit activities, which are sent to Masto as Notes.

wakest ⁂

This is a milestone worth celebrating! :fediverse:
In development as we speak, @forgejo can now federate comments (and tons of other stuff) from issues in repos!!!

The first screenshot is @algernon (a Forgejo account able to be tagged in this post!) commenting on the issue: https://shoes.forgejo.madhouse-project.org/algernon/federation-test/issues/4 as seen in @phanpy while logged into my Mastodon account!
#fediverse #ActivityPub #FediDev #federation #forgejo #git #GitFederation

a screenshot of a Fogejo account with comments as seen through a Mastodon account logged into Phanpy

a screenshot of a Fogejo issue that contains comments that are viewed in the previous screenshot

John Spurlock

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24099

Cool stuff coming in Mastodon 4.3 (stable soonish?) for #ActivityPub C2S enjoyers

Particularly interesting: a new standards-based (!) OAuth discovery and dynamic client registration mechanism

ie no more creating boatloads of unnecessary clients using the non-standard Mastodon API!

👉 standard: https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-parecki-oauth-client-id-metadata-document-01.html

👀 anyone can see it in action today on the main instance, which runs early 4.3 builds:
https://mastodon.social/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server

Week in Fediverse

- Verification in the fediverse
- The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 2: Wordpress ↔️ Fediverse)
- The story behind peertube's transcription feature

Week in Fediverse 2024-08-02

Servers

- Pleroma v2.7.0
- PeerTube v6.2.1
- Misskey v2024.7.0
- gathio v1.5.0
- Activity-Relay v2.0.6
- Castopod v1.12.4
- ActivityPub for Wordpress v3.0.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.9
- NeoDB v0.10.4.5

Clients

- Husky v1.6.0
- Impressia v3.0.0
- IceCubesApp v1.10.46
- Voyager v2.14.0
- Pachli v2.7.0
- Moshidon v106

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.4
- Poduptime v5.3.1

Articles

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0190f14b-a6ea-81cc-c715-78f423020ed9

Johannes Ernst

#ActivityPub was not designed for testability.

I think that is a true statement.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

If you've created a new web framework, you can assume that your readers will have some knowledge of HTTP when you write tutorials for it. However, if you have created a new #ActivityPub server framework, you should also explain ActivityPub itself in the tutorials for this framework.

I kept thinking about this while writing the #Fedify framework tutorial. 😩

Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖

#FollowBack #Mastodon #free #ActivityPub #Following #Followers

#MicroShit has taken over GitHub apparently. If you can't self host, we might be able to help you at MPAQ @seige , have any ideas.
#FuckMicroShit !!!

Our "admin" @admin has put out a program to list following and followers so, I'm going through my lists to find out who is missing and I've missed 😁 so far, its been tested on Mastodon instances but don't know if it will work on other platforms.

A topic that came up within the last few days is a way to look at your following and followers lists. Please don't abuse public data for others. Nothing fancy but here it is:
https://github.com/MPAQ-Admin/follow/

Anyone wants to jump in and help are welcome :dog_smile:

Flipboard

#Fediverse #Federation #Threads #ActivityPub #MikeMcCue #TracyChou #AMA

Flipboard CEO @mike will be joining the @threads AMA about the fediverse on Monday, along with Block Party founder Tracy Chou. Get ready to ask away — no question is too basic or complex.

Black text on white background that says "Threads and the fediverse: A conversation with @exhaustedfemalefounder and @mmccue." In the background of the image are illustrations of stars and planets.

Open Mentions

@[email protected] · Reply to Operation: Puppet (he/him)'s post

@operationpuppet I am a big fan of using #WordPress with #ActivityPub and #WebMention enabled. That might not be an option for everyone but it has worked for me. That said, if you find a more efficient method, I'm all ears.

Open Mentions

OpenMentions.com was created to start a federated (distributed) directory of topics where by using #WebMention and #ActivityPub we can discover others talking about topics that interest us.

Elena Rossini ⁂

Currently trying out #Friendica for a new issue of my newsletter/blog #TheFutureIsFederated and this GIF speaks louder than words. I’m OBSESSED 😍

I’ve spent an hour adding #Bluesky accounts and #RSS feeds of my favorite blogs (in addition to a selection of #Mastodon and federated #Threads accounts). It’s SOOOO COOL…

Thank you #Fediverse and #ActivityPub for making this possible 🪄✨

#socialmedia

Eric Wareheim Mind Blown GIF by Tim and Eric

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

#연합우주 (#fediverse) 개발을 단순화할 준비가 되셨나요? #Fedify 프레임워크를 확인해보세요!

더욱 연결된, 더욱 분산된 웹을 만드는 데 동참해주세요! 🌐 #ActivityPub

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

#ActivityPub 인터랙션 디버깅은 꽤 까다롭죠. 그렇지만 #Fedify 툴체인이 도와드립니다! 테스트와 디버깅을 위한 CLI 툴체인을 포함하고 있어 개발과 트러블슈팅이 쉬워집니다. 머리 싸매는 시간을 줄이고 멋진 기능을 만드는 데 더 많은 시간을 쓰세요! 🔍

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

#Fedify 프레임워크는 #연합우주 (#fediverse) 개발에 중요한 기능들을 기본으로 내장하고 있습니다:

#WebFinger 클라이언트와 서버
HTTP 서명 (HTTP Signatures)
객체 무결성 증명 (Object Integrity Proofs)
NodeInfo 프로토콜
바퀴를 재발명할 필요 없어요—#ActivityPub 표준을 위한 핵심 기능을 갖추고 있습니다! 📦

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#Fedify 소개: #연합우주 (#fediverse) 상에 #ActivityPub 서버 앱을 만들기 위한 강력한 #TypeScript 라이브러리! 🚀

Fedify는 연합형 앱의 복잡함을 단순화하여 개발자가 가장 중요한 것—고유한 기능과 사용자 경험—에 집중할 수 있게 해줍니다. Fedify의 특징을 살펴볼까요? 🧵

Renaud Chaput

Question for #ActivityPub implementors: has there been any research on how to best handle deletions (accounts and/or posts)?

At the moment, the best (and only?) way to know that an account deletion has been federated everywhere is to notify any known inbox / instance, for every account deletion.

This is very wasteful and not efficient, are there any alternatives? Has anyone worked on this?

Jan Boddez

So, version 3.0 of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress comes with a Reply block of its own. Like, I’ll probably stick with my current implementation and continue to just use IndieBlocks’ Reply block for all things microformats, Webmention, *and* ActivityPub, but: pretty cool nonetheless!

*And*, looks like it comes with a *bookmarklet*, too. I’ve been hesitant about adding those—*something irrational fear of a potential security hole…

#activitypub #wordpress

(https://bddz.be/ye1)

Pete Bleackley

#Moderators have said they need better tools to help them deal with #toxicity on #Mastodon

I'd be willing to start an #OpenSource project to build such tools. I'm a data scientist and could probably build a toxicity detector, but the project would also need
1. Somebody familiar with #ActivityPub
2. Somebody who could do UI
3. A domain expert - someone with moderation experience @proprietor do you know anyone who could help
4. Ethical oversight - could @DAIR help with this?

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

It’s still embarrassing to me how many here treat the CW hack as fact and scold users for not using it. Let me remind you that #mastodon abused the #activitypub standard to establish their own interpretation of the subject field to serve as #ContentWarning.

maybeanerd

I spent my free time in the past few weeks rebuilding game server federation of https://github.com/maybeanerd/selfhosted-api-trader-game

My goal was to move away from something specific to the game, and support #activityPub instead.
It seems to have worked quite well!

Game servers now fully federate all their actions using ActivityPub.

Jeff Sikes

ActivityPub idea #237 - Federated version of GoComics with all the properties a strip would have - panels, sequence, page, byline, date of publication, etc.

#FediDevs #ActivityPub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

I'm writing a new #Fedify #tutorial. If a tutorial on creating an #ActivityPub server needs to deal with persistent data, where should they be stored? I want the tutorial to focus as much as possible on implementing the business logic and as little as possible on other things.

Option	Voters
Regular files	0 (0%)
SQLite	0 (0%)
MySQL or PostgreSQL	0 (0%)
Redis	0 (0%)

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

If you read a #Fedify #tutorial, what #ActivityPub software would you like to see as an #example in the tutorial?

Option	Voters
Microblog (like Mastodon)	21 (32%)
Long-form blog (like WordPress)	10 (15%)
Photo blog (like Pixelfed)	7 (11%)
Forum (like NodeBB)	6 (9%)
Link aggregator (like Lemmy)	9 (14%)
Much simpler one!	13 (20%)

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md

Are there any #ActivityPub server implementations that support #Misskey-style quote sharing and #Mastodon-compatible APIs at a time?

Strypey

@[email protected] · Reply to Strypey's post

I wonder how this might fit with the work done to extend easy account migration across the fediverse, with Portable Objects (FEP-ef61)?

The developer of Streams contributed a lot to this FEP, based on the NomadicIdentity features it's shared with Hubzilla for years(1). So it's already been implemented in Streams.

I'm curious to see it added to other ActivityPubs apps so I can test an app-to-app migration.

#NomadicIdentity #PortableObjects #Streams #ActivityPub

Strypey

https://activitypods.org/the-road-to-activitypods-2-0/

This is a fascinating read from the end of 2023, about the #ActivityPods team's plans for v2.0 and the v1.0 limitations it's being designed to overcome;

#ActivityPub #SOLID

django

#introduction
I'm a developer, have been working with #php #javascript, #WordPress for years, exploring others as well. Hacking on #ActivityPub wp plugin, interested in #CivicTech

language nerd: native bilingual #Français, English, hablo español, falo portugues, foghlaim gaeilge leis an ulchabhan. And smidgens of a few others.

Interests and what I might post about: #lowtech, #cooperatives, #music (electro, folk, jazz), #bikes, #anthropology, #mythology, #sociology, #CommunityOrganizing

Mauve 👁💜

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/379

Hey folks into #ActivityPub and #p2p / #dweb tech. We've got a new #FEP in the works to bridge between the two worlds based on the work we've been doing at @distributed

Come check it out and let us know what you think and if you'd like to implement it yourselves!

Peter Bronez

Has anyone written a good “Fediverse for Politicians” post?

I want to encourage my representative to include the #Fediverse in their communications strategy. I think the meaningful fundraising demonstrated by #mastodonforharris will be more convincing than technical arguments.

I’d rather not write yet another introduction to #Mastodon and #ActivityPub post, so show me what you’ve got!

We Distribute

Distributed Press ( @distributed ) is drafting a new FEP for #ActivityPub for "Peer-to-peer Identities". The general gist is that objects (such as Actors and content) can link to alternate versions of themselves, which can be hosted elsewhere, such as #IPFS. If the server goes down, data can be served from there instead.

You can read the draft proposal here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/commit/3efef8bffd9581a116135be4953ccb2ebdf4f482/fep/1024/fep-1042.md

Elena Rossini ⁂

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.6 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: #Mastodon ↔️ #Pixelfed )

with shout-outs to @phanpy @tapbots @ivory @Tusky @dansup

✨ and special thanks to @evan @cwebber for your work on #ActivityPub, the magic protocol that is making all this possible ✨

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #RebelAlliance

an image from NASA's Hubble Telescope showing two galaxies - the title "The Future is Federated" is on top

Peter Müller

#WordPress #ActivityPub #Blog #Fediverse #Mastodon #RSS

Wir haben den Blog auf einstieg-in-wp.de mit ActivityPub fedifiziert, sodass man ihn hier auf Mastodon abonnieren kann:

@blog (at-einstieg-in-wp.de)

Einfach auf den Link klicken und folgen.

ActivityPub kann man sich wie interaktives RSS vorstellen, denn Kommentare zu Beiträgen erscheinen sowohl auf Mastodon als auch im Blog auf unserer Website.

Bin gespannt, ob und wie das in der Praxis funktioniert.

Badgerclops

Somebody should just code and replicate #tumblr’s exact user interface/experience and then port it over to the #fediverse. #activitypub

#tumblrpremium

Robert W. Gehl

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/120/materials/agenda-120-rasprg-04

I'm a little in over my head, but I'm just about to give a presentation based on my book about #Mastodon to the #IETF120 meeting. I'm going to talk about the development of #ActivityPub to a group interested in standards development:

Waseem

Should I write a very lightweight #activitypub implementation in order to learn the technology to the core?

I've gone through the specification and believe me it isn't well documented.

There are blogs which are far better than the official specification.

#mastodon #fediverse

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has released v0.12.0. It's a minor release in about a month, so there's quite a few changes:

The fedify command can now also be installed with npm. It can be installed with npm i -g @fedify/cli in Node.js and bun i -g @fedify/cli in Bun.
Added the fedify init command to help set up a new Fedify project.
Incoming activities are now also queued and inbox listeners are now processed in the background worker. If you were already queuing outgoing activities, this will just take effect with a simple upgrade to v0.12.0.
Retry policy for failed tasks processed in the background worker is now customizable and defaults to backoff with decorrelated jitter.
Added ChatMessage, Move, Read, Travel, View, TentativeAccept, and TentativeReject classes. (Thanks to @moreal!)
Improved multitenancy (virtual hosting) support: You can now easily determine the host of the current request via the hostname, host, and origin properties of the Context.
When validating HTTP Signatures and Object Integrity Proofs, once fetched public keys are now cached.

It's available on JSR and npm now, and you can upgrade it using the deno add command on Deno:

deno add @fedify/fedify@^0.12.0

Or using the bun add command on Bun:

bun add @fedify/fedify@^0.12.0

Or using the npm add command on Bun:

npm add @fedify/fedify@^0.12.0

hannah aubry

https://dev.to/fastly/welcome-mastodon-to-fast-forward-11g4 #ActivityPub #fediverse #OpenSource

I’m lucky in my work to see firsthand the impact of what we do on systems and the people that run them.

We’re supporting @Mastodon through #FastForward because @Gargron, @renchap, and the entire #Mastodon team are doing important work and we want to help them scale it with integrity.

Well and it’s pretty neat to have a front-row seat (walk-on part?) to the revolution 😎 #TheFutureIsFederated

John Spurlock

Anyone out there in #ActivityPub land that can point me to a real-world payload with the "streams" property?

ie this one: https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#streams

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Since #Fedify v0.12.0, when verifying HTTP Signatures or Object Integrity Proofs, it will cache the public keys once fetched. It is okay even if a cached key becomes outdated because a verification failure due to a cached key will invalidate the cache and force a verification retry.

This feature is available for preview in v0.12.0-dev.307+235629d5 (JSR or npm).

Johannes Ernst

https://activitypub.ghost.org/mapping-out-activitypub-support/

Interesting #ActivityPub implementation roadmap by the #Ghost team: instead of implementing the standard, and then optimizing interop of their implementation with other implementors like Mastodon, they start with making it work with other implementations and then come back to the standard.

Strypey

https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol

Looks like the #fediverse has champions at the Verge;

"But all of this stuff only works if there is a standard, and I’d bet $10 that ActivityPub is going to be that standard. It’s the one that’s overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s the one with the most momentum, it’s the one Threads is supposedly going to support — it’s just kind of clearly winning."

#DavidPierce, Verge editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host, 2024

Daniel Supernault

#sup #fediverse #activitypub #fediverseMessenger

I wasn't able to attend the E2EE meeting due to work, however I do look forward to working with other projects on encrypted messaging ✨

Danie van der Merwe

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/oh-zot-nomadic-identity-is-coming-to-activitypub-this-could-change-the-fediverse-forever/

Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub: This could change the Fediverse forever

Years before there was Mastodon and even ActivityPub, there was Mike Macgirvin who created the Zot protocol, which Hubzilla runs on. One of Hubzilla’s most amazing features (apart from also integrating with Activity and the Fediverse, and having cha ...continues

#activitypub #nomadicidentity #socialnetworks #technology

Jan Boddez

Updating #IndieBlocks’ Facepile block to allow multiple inner [Facepile Content] blocks. Here’s me splitting up likes and bookmarks.

It supports Webmention as well as ActivityPub reactions. As you may be able to tell, the “response count” excludes likes, etc.

While the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress does not (yet) support likes, I’ve been able to add support for them through some custom callback functions.

A (titleless) note on my personal site. Underneath, there’s a number of likes and a single bookmark, as well as some regular replies.

Emelia 👸🏻

Two big new Mastodon Issues created today, to try to improve the reporting and moderation tools and experiences for both users and moderators alike:

Ability to exchange updates about Reports for Users and Moderators: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31083

Ability to discuss a Report with a local account: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31081

Relatedly, there's also Federation of Report Notes in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27562

#mastodon #activitypub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

꽤 많은 사람들이 #Mastodon 具顯이 ActivityPub을 特定한 方式으로 쓰기 때문에 생기는 問題들을 #ActivityPub 自體의 問題라고 錯覺하는 것 같다.

Week in Fediverse

- FediTest v0.3.0
- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v10.3.2

Week in Fediverse 2024-07-19

Servers

- PeerTube v6.2.0
- Hubzilla v9.2.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v2.6.0
- Ktistec v2.0.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.8
- NeoDB v0.10.4
- PieFed development update July 2024 - Lightbox, Mod log, Wikis

Clients

- Jerboa v0.0.70
- Tuba v0.8.2
- Photon v1.31.0
- Raccoon v1.12.1

Tools and Plugins

Protocol

- FEP-c551: Use ECMAScript Modules to Create Conformance Tests for Fediverse Enhancement Proposals
- FEP-c4ad: Viewership History
- FEP-a5c5: Web Syndication Methods
- FEP-eb48: Hashtags
- FEP-c893: DOAP

Articles

- ActivityPods Releases Example App to Help Developers
- Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide
- New Features for ActivityPub.Academy

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0190a734-01fc-7fed-9452-c96540d52127

Matthias Pfefferle

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

We just released version 2.6.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress

You can now (finally) add/edit/delete the extra fields, we improved the remote-reply overlay quite a bit and made a lot of smaller tweaks and fixes.

Let us know if you have some feedback!

Alerta! Alerta!

So using the #ActivityPub plugin in my #WordPress means that right after publishing a post I'll get over 3k requests for said post within a minute... Which is quite a bit for a small server that usually gets about 2 to 3 requests per minute 🙈

Note to self: Publish about a recent blog post on social media 10 minutes AFTER release. Otherwise people will run into delays...

Jeff Sikes

https://newsmast.social/@newsmast/112807985173916786

Just read an email newsletter from @newsmast about their upcoming Patchwork platform. It’s a plugin system to extend existing fediverse platforms.

One of their upcoming plugins will be local only posts. It’s a nice feature I used on Firefish, allowing nonfederated community discussions. Looking forward to it!

#Fediverse #FediNews #ActivityPub #FediDev

Zicklag

@[email protected] · Reply to Zicklag's post

@mauve @silverpill @smallcircles Something important that I don't think I've made very clear in my posts so far:

The "protocol" that I am describing is merely a minimal serialization format and schema standard on top of the #willowprotocol and nothing more.

Even the serialization format is just #borsh. It's not custom.

We aren't making a totally new protocol, we're describing a more organized way to store data on the #willowprotocol.

Granted the #willowprotocol is new and isn't #activitypub.

Steve Bate

@[email protected] · Reply to silverpill's post

@silverpill @smallcircles @zicklag

>> But ActivityPub is also largely underspecified

> ActivityPub is not underspecified. … It is a protocol for building all kinds of decentralized social applications.

Which results in it being underspecified for any specific application (especially if interop is a goal). But it’s an interesting spin. ;-) As others have noted over the years, #ActivityPub more of a sketch or outline of an idea than a protocol.

inventaire.io

#inventaireio users and entities activities can now be followed from the #Fediverse!

Some examples of followable actors:
- a user: @Georges
- an author: @wd-Q46248
- a serie: @inv-083c773e8b26776230e40657fdfadeb9
- a publisher: @wd-Q3213929
- a publisher collection: @inv-582c0644d0a9c06d4758deb86d49ff1e

This is the result of our first experiments with #ActivityPub: let us know if you find it useful!

Learn more: https://wiki.inventaire.io/wiki/What_is_the_Fediverse#Inventaire_and_the_Fediverse

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://github.com/velog-io/velog/issues/48

소프트웨어 프로그래머 블로깅 플랫폼인 velog에 ActivityPub을 붙이는 것을 이슈로 만들어 보았습니다.

#velog #ActivityPub

Zicklag

@[email protected] · Reply to Zicklag's post

@silverpill @smallcircles If #activitypub supports everything that we need, it should be trivial to layer it on top of this protocol, possibly built-in, without needing a separate server/bridge.

But I want to build the smallest thing I need first.

I want to avoid tying myself to a protocol that has been, as far as all common implementations are concerned, implemented with different goals and trade-offs in mind.

As far as our testing and experimentation now, the more focused the better.

3/3

Zicklag

@[email protected] · Reply to silverpill's post

@silverpill @smallcircles Interesting thoughts.

The biggest thing pushing me away from #ActivityPub is that I want a content replication system, similar to #ipfs :
- I want an efficient way to serve content to the global network and save that content offline without losing signatures of authenticity.
- I want all the data hosted by one client/server to be transparently loadable by any other client/server with permission.
- I want clients to be able to connect to each-other, without servers.
1/3

silverpill

@[email protected] · Reply to Zicklag's post

@zicklag @smallcircles

>But ActivityPub is also largely underspecified

ActivityPub is not underspecified. Developers might get frustrated when they read the spec and discover that it doesn't explain how to communicate with Mastodon. But this is only because the scope of the spec is much broader. It is a protocol for building all kinds of decentralized social applications, and some of them can be quite different from micro-blogging services.

>We prefer to make a very precise protocol specification to give tight interoperability at it's core, but allow component data and schemas to develop independently for extension.

You can create an interop profile for ActivityPub which can be as precise as you want. It can be very strict and at the same time compatible with many existing applications (best practices for interop has been already discovered, and the work on formalizing them is ongoing).

Extensibility is baked in (ActivityPub is a culmination of several decades of experimentation with semantic web concepts).

Of course, you can design a different protocol, but bootstrapping protocols is a very difficult task. #ActivityPub is already popular, and it has all the properties of the Web of Data you've described in your post.

>That said, interoperability with ActivityPub is something we are very interested in.

Interoperability can be achieved by adopting ActivityPub data model (ActivityStreams 2.0). A common language will enable communication without centralized bridges. Transport protocols are secondary

Daniel Supernault

#activitypub #laravel #fedify #php

I wrote a laravel package to add federation support to various internal @pixelfed projects like FediDB and PubKit

I might just polish this up and ship it, so laravel devs can add federation support with a few lines of code

the fedify of php ✨

Juan Luis

My three favorite blog posts giving a critical perspective of #activitypub:

1️⃣ "ActivityPub: The “Worse Is Better” Approach to Federated Social Networking" by @[email protected] https://ariadne.space/2019/01/07/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networking/ (technical problems)

2️⃣ "On standards divisions and collaboration (or: Why can't the decentralized social web people just get along?)" by @cwebber http://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/ (human problems)

and the best 3️⃣🏆 "ActivityPub - Final thoughts, one year later" by Dennis Schubert https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html (UX)

Sebastian Jambor

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/new-features-for-activitypub-academy/

New Features for ActivityPub.Academy!

On https://ActivityPub.Academy, you now can
🌟 Write your own Activities and send them to any inbox!
🌟 Control the response of the WebFinger endpoint!
🌟 Change the type of your actor!

This greatly expands the set of Fediverse services that can effectively be analyzed with ActivityPub Academy.

Find out more on my blog post.

Yohan Yuki Xieㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

👉🏽 https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns OR https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns/src/branch/main/fediverse-history.markdown

A couple of links that will help you as a new citizen of the Fediverse (in no particular order).

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I. Submit Fediverse ideas

👉🏽 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas

II. Accepted Fediverse proposals

👉🏽 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

III. List of Fediverse apps / software

👉🏽 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps

I guarantee you will be surprised how big of a support the fediverse network has.

IV. User list / Follow interesting people!

👉🏽 https://fediverse.info/explore/people

👉🏽 https://fediverse.fans

V. A brief history of the Fediverse

A trip down memory lane, the history / timeline of the Fediverse.

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#FAQ #Fediverse #SNS #ActivityPub #SocialWeb (some call #Mastodon) #SocialNetwork #FediTips #FediHelp #T2pub @fedihelp @feditips #SNS #SocialMedia

Yohan Yuki Xieㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

#frontend #webclient #ActivityPub

A list of alternative webclients for various #fediverse software:

Notes:
* webclient: you use your own credential from your own instance
* Listed are: official webclient hosts; or an instance list.
* Optional: other instances.
* In alphabetical order.

For #Lemmy:
1: #Nemmy — https://nemmy.app
2: #Slemmy — https://slemmy.libdb.so
3: #Voyager — https://vger.app

For Mastodon and #Pleroma:
1: #Brutaldon — https://brutaldon.org — also works with text-based browsers like Lynx.
2: #Halcyon — https://www.halcyon.social/instances.php|| https://halcyon.mstdn.social — Twitter-look
3: #Phanpy — https://phanpy.social — also works as a PWA
4: #Soapbox — https://fe.soapbox.pub

For #Mastodon:
1: #Elk — https://elk.zone || https://elk.infosec.exchange — default in https://mozilla.social
2: #Pinafore — https://pinafore.social
3: #Semaphore — https://semaphore.social
4: #Trunks — https://trunks.social — with mobile clients

For more, see: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients

Yohan Yuki Xieㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

#ActivityPub #Lemmy #Mastodon #PeerTube #Pleroma #Rebased #Soapbox

The #CIM family of #Fediverse services:

Theme: single-letter domain name.

1: https://c.im — a Mastodon software instance. (#microblogging)
2: https://c.wtf — a Rebased+Soapbox (fork of Pleroma with Soapbox frontend) software instance. (microblogging)
3: https://p.lu — a PeerTube software instance. (#video hosting)
4: https://r.nf — a Lemmy software instance. (#threadiverse)

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Inspired by https://c.im/@[email protected]/110781964569113496

Abelio

#fediverse #development #activitypub #ruby

Abelio supports couple of ways of posting your content. One of them is a block-style editor (something like on Medium) for those of you who needs to post articles in a convenient, non-markdown way.

Johannes Ernst

https://activitypub.ghost.org/its-all-about-the-infrastructure/

The #Ghost people are doing excellent #ActivityPub marketing with their weekly newsletters, such as today’s. I don’t agree with some of the details of their points of view, but that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, they are doing a great service educating potential users beyond the niche of today’s typical Mastodon users. Recommended.

And you can get the newsletter by following @index

Fediverse Report

Last Week in #fediverse and #bluesky - ep 77

The news this week:
- Dutch government plans to expand their #Mastodon project
- Nomadic Identity (decoupling user identity from servers) over #activitypub comes to the fediverse
- @openvibe combines Mastodon, #nostr and now Bluesky into a single app and a single feed.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-and-bluesky-ep-77/

Deuchnord

https://github.com/Deuchnord/f2ap/wiki/Social-platforms-compatibility

Hey the #Fediverse!
Today, I have released the version 0.1.0 of my new project, f2ap, an application that adds a compatibility layer for #ActivityPub to your website thanks to your #RSS/#Atom feed!

You can see a running example at @blog! 🤩

Currently, only the support for Mastodon is guaranteed, but there are a lot of other platforms out there. If you are on another social platform, please help me document the platforms support! 🙏

Sublinks

https://wedistribute.org/2024/05/encrypted-dms-activitypub/

Cannot wait!

#fediverse #activitypub

Erlend Sogge Heggen

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3kwzl7tye6u2y

From @bnewbold:

A relay of the entire Bluesky network can be run for $153/month. That’s mighty impressive!

Many #ActivityPub hosters are paying this amount for member counts in the low thousands.

Week in Fediverse

- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v10.3.0

Week in Fediverse 2024-07-12

Servers

- Hubzilla v9.2
- Streams v24.7.8
- snac v2.56
- Hatsu v0.2.2
- Mitra v2.25.0
- NeoDB v0.10.3.2
- Trunk & Tidbits, June 2024
- ActivityPub server for Ghost, built with Fedify

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.6.0
- mlmym v0.0.49
- Voyager 2.13.0
- Photon v1.30.4
- Raccoon v1.12.0

Tools and Plugins

Protocol

- FEP-9091: Export Actor Service Endpoint
- FEP-6fcd: Account Export Container Format

Articles

- Substack rival Ghost federates its first newsletter
- ForgeFed: Team-Resource Links
- An Admin’s Guide to Fixing PeerTube
- Custom fediverse emoji
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 76

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01908479-57df-9c53-cdcb-0dc85fd80d66

Tom Casavant

One cool thing about running your own #ActivityPub server is you can create bots that post hundreds of times a day and lock it so only you can follow it and it doesn't bother anyone or hit random API limits

🔗 https://pixelfed.social/p/elenarossini/716551270199376476

My first post on @pixelfed — it’s awesome to see it pop up in my #Mastodon feed, it feels like magic.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub
✨🌳✨

#thefutureisfederated #tech

a screenshot of my first Pixelfed post (a photo of Lake Como) as it appears in my Mastodon feed

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

Ready to simplify your #fedidev? Check out #Fedify!

Join us in building a more connected and decentralized web! 🌐 #ActivityPub

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

#Fedify also focuses on the practical side of #ActivityPub. Its docs includes guidance on using the vocabulary API in line with de facto norms set by popular implementations like #Mastodon. Build more interoperable apps with less headache! 🤝

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

Debugging #ActivityPub interactions can be tricky, but #Fedify's got your back! It includes a CLI toolchain for testing and debugging, making development and troubleshooting a breeze. Spend less time scratching your head and more time building awesome features! 🔍

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

@[email protected] · Reply to Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework's post

Out of the box, #Fedify comes packed with features crucial for #fediverse development:

#WebFinger client and server
HTTP Signatures
Object Integrity Proofs
NodeInfo protocol
No need to reinvent the wheel—Fedify has you covered for core #ActivityPub standards! 📦

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Introducing #Fedify: A powerful #TypeScript library for building #ActivityPub server apps in the #fediverse! 🚀

Fedify aims to simplify the complex world of federated apps, allowing developers to focus on what matters most—their unique features and user experience. Let's explore what makes Fedify stand out! 🧵

Kasilda

Con esta tarea de investigar para aprender más sobre el #fediverso me doy cuenta de las muchas opciones que hay pero la verdad se me hace difícil acceder a ellas. Algunas cosas no termino de comprenderlas.

Por ejemplo, me gustaría estar en una comunidad donde se hable sobre libros, ensayos, novelas, etc... he encontrado #bookWyrm que si no entiendo mal utiliza #ActivityPub por lo que desde mi cuenta de masto.es debería poder conectarme, lo que no termino de encontrar son cuentas a las qus seguir... Me parece que debo abrirme una cuenta nueva en el servidor por ejemplo @comelibros.club pero veo que la mayoría de las cuentas de ese Server están inactivas o es que no sé buscarlas bien ¿o cómo debería hacerlo para encontrar cuentas castellanoparlantes para poder seguir e interactuar?

#libros

Lee 🌏

I was feeling inspired after listening to this podcast. https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37 So I decided to have a go at visualising “What a Social Web Browser could look like in the near future” This is my 2nd Mock up. This time I have added a few notes.
-  Ignoring the design, what other features/services do you think should be integrated the Social Web in the coming years?
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #Fediverse #PixelFed #PeerTube
@mike

Jeff Sikes

From: @streams
https://fediversity.site/item/d9dd01e1-96fd-4306-9bd9-27c2ebe1a1d5

Streams just nonchalantly mentions adding nomadic identity over ActivityPub in the latest release. 🤯

#Fediverse #FediDev #ActivityPub

Kasilda

¡Hola querida comunidad!

Quería preguntar por videos, artículos que estén buenos y fáciles de entender, preferiblemente en castellano sobre el #fediverso, el protocolo #activitypub y servicios como #mastodon, #peertube... Me he propuesto hacer un artículo sobre ello para el trabajo ya que creo que es importante difundir estas alternativas. Por supuesto mencionaré las autorías de las fuentes.

Sé que @kyva tenía un vídeo explicativo molón pero son incapaz de encontrarlo de nuevo

Les agradezco mucho lo que sea que puedan aportarme :blackspipixelheart:

Robert Kingett, blind

Oh look! Ghost open sourced their #ActivityPub integration . https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub #Fediverse #Ghost #OpenSource #ActivityPub

Jon

Ghost is beginning to publish federated content! @index

#ghost #activitypub

silverpill

@[email protected] · Reply to Shreyan 🐘's post

@shreyan Most of what you are talking about in "ActivityPub" section is only true for Mastodon. #ActivityPub is much more capable.

>identity is extremely tied to your initial server
>Your data is not really portable

ActivityPub specification doesn't say that identity must be tied to a server. Identity can be tied to a secret key or a DID too, and users with different identity types can even communicate with each other.

Specifically, DID-based identity scheme has been proposed in FEP-ef61. Data portability easily follows from it.

So, with ActivityPub one can have everything that ATProto and Nostr offer, and much more.

BeAware

It's been awhile so I figured I'd do an updated #Introduction post:

I have #ADHD and #Hydrocephalus, which effects various aspects of my day to day life and how I think. I am also on disability because of it.

I'm a #Gamer that primarily plays PC games or games that are Cross Platform. Generally I enjoy #MMORPG, #SurvivalGames and such where I can just "zone out" and vibe without much stress.

Sometimes you'll see me discuss #Technology news as well.

If these seem to be within your interests, feel free to follow and if you have similar interests laid out in your bio, chances are good that ill follow back.

I've been here for a year and this is, by far, my favorite social media platform I've ever been on.

Thank for reading and may you be as federated as you wish!

Sincerely,
B.A.

Alex Akselrod

There's one main thing I like about #BlueSky, #Nostr, #Cwtch, and the in-development P2P-ified #Matrix over #ActivityPub and Matrix as they're generally deployed now: your ID doesn't depend on DNS.

I've not been in the Fediverse very long, but I've already seen people lose their entire social graph because an admin unilaterally took down an instance. When you tie your identity to DNS, you're at the mercy of the domain owner and every point of control over the DNS as a whole, including the court systems in every authoritarian jurisdiction. Not your keys, not your identity.

I like the admins of my instance here, but I see the toll it takes on them running it even with the community's contributions. It's a lot of pressure and a lot of power to have that much control over identity and trust for your users.

I don't think we have to wholesale move to other protocols, though. The beauty of open networks is the freedom to build bridges. When people do migrate between them, it can and should be as smooth as migrating between ActivityPub instances in the happy path, and remain fully interoperable.

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub

Finally, @ghost has open sourced their #ActivityPub implementation powered by #Fedify! For Fedify users, this means another production-grade example code.

If you'd like to follow updates on #Ghost's ActivityPub implementation, you can do so by following @index!

NIGHTEͶ

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #AstroJs

While being stranded for 24h in Germany and Paris’ airport, I finished a first version of a “Mastodon Unroller”, a simple way to take activitypub threads and make clean article out of them in your Astro website.

After a few iteration I think it’s now time to show a little demo!

Screenshot of the a Mastodon post and a comment turned into a blog post. A video of a cat is displayed

NeoDB Open Source Software

Hello, Fediverse!

We just shipped NeoDB 0.10 , with revamped i18n support and other features. A dedicated project site is also up: https://neodb.net

If you haven't heard about #NeoDB , it's basically Goodreads+ Letterboxd + RateYourMusic + Podchaser, all in one place, #opensource, powered up with #ActivityPub, plus microblogging, like #Mastodon and its apps.

Love to hear your thoughts, and if you find this project useful, or think someone else may think so, please help boost!

Verwalter Tom :damnified:

https://github.com/ThomasLeister/fediwatch

I finally got around to cleaning up the code of my ActivityPub visualization project "FediWatch" and publishing it!

I'm sure the documentation is not yet complete or still has bugs - just like the application itself. But if you are brave enough, you are welcome to give it a try.

... or simply take a look at the demo for the metalhead.club: https://watch.metalhead.club

#fediwatch #metalheadclub #foss #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

@piggo @kobaltauge @db0 @luca

Video shows metalhead.club communication to other instances live

Week in Fediverse

- FEP-e3e9: Actor-Relative URLs
- FEP-d9ad: Create Conformance Tests for Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

Week in Fediverse 2024-07-05

Servers

- Pixelfed v0.12.2
- Mastodon v4.2.10
- Mitra v2.24.0
- ActivityPub for Wordpress v2.5.0
- Castopod v1.12.3
- tootik v0.11.3
- Highlighting journalism on Mastodon

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.44
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.7

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.5

Protocol

Articles

- tootgroup.py with GoToSocial
- Storytelling in the Fediverse
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 75

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01906039-fa01-bb0c-4792-e93344e59722

Abelio

#activitypub #development #projects

👋 Hello #fediverse ! Abelio is a new work-in-progress federated media publishing platform aiming to become a #tumblr and #photoblog alternative for #artists and any sort of #creators (#writers included).

I don't have any demo to show you yet but i needed a way to announce and ask for things - so if you care, please follow! Here is how admin panel looks so far.

Spreading the info and participating in discussion highly appreciated! ❤️

mbajur

Given there is a single-site multi-user app based on #activitypub (single domain blogging platform with multiple users posting) - should an Application type represent entire site and Person types posting to it? Or Group type instead of Application? Or entire site should be one single Person type? What's your take on that? #needhelp #development #fediverse

Johannes Ernst

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

"The lack of a social interaction layer has always been the hardest sell about having your own website. It's been lonely."

@johnonolan on why #Ghost is implementing #ActivityPub and why they are doing it now.

f

@[email protected] · Reply to Eduardo Mercovich (él)'s post

@edumerco @cibor_yogui @sutty @distributed es eso más un plugin de #jekyll que desarrollamos en @sutty, que convierte los artículos al formato de #activitypub , los publica y le avisa a social.distributed.press para que le avise a las cuentas que te siguen.

el plugin https://jekyll-activity-pub.sutty.nl

Antonio Cambronero :wordpress:

@acambronero.wordpress.com

He activado el modo #fediverso en mi perfil personal de WordPress.com (que he aprovechado para limpiar y adecentar). Desde allí voy a microbloguea de todo lo que se me ocurra, con un tono más personal.

Sígueme:

Flipboard

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37.

ICYMI: Last week saw a new episode of Dot Social, the fediverse podcast hosted by Flipboard CEO
@mike, in which he interviewed @ghost's @johnonolan. Here's a taste of their conversation; you can listen to the whole episode here or wherever you get your podcasts:

“We’re at a very grassroots stage of a mix of hackers and enthusiasts collaborating to make the thing they want, not the thing that has the most funding, and I love that. That speaks to my heart.”

#Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb #Publishing #Podcast #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #Flipboard #SocialMedia #SpreadMastodon #Ghost

Video clip from Dot Social podcast, where Mike McCue interviews John O'Nolan. Audio says “We’re at a very grassroots stage of a mix of hackers and enthusiasts collaborating to make the thing they want, not the thing that has the most funding, and I love that. That speaks to my heart.”

Tommi 🤯

https://unstable.fedify.dev/manual/inbox#making-inbox-listeners-non-blocking

Yesterday’s #FediverseMeetup at @offline, #Berlin was so cool and insightful! Lovely to chat with very knowledgeable and interesting folks.

I have been thinking about the discussion so much that last night I dreamt of @liaizon telling the story of how they built their whole self hosted #ActivityPub instance in one single #PHP file.

This is not true and I have no idea how my unconscious could have conceived this ahahah

#Fediverse

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

#Fedify now has a queue for incoming activities and they are automatically retried when they fail. The default retry strategy is good enough (exponential backoff + decorrelated jitter), and it's even fully customizable. Updated also the docs:

You can give it a try by installing 0.12.0-dev.265+cb851932, the latest unstable release:

https://jsr.io/@fedify/[email protected]ev.265+cb851932
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fedify/fedify/v/0.12.0-dev.265

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

In the next version of #Fedify, the #RetryPolicy type is introduced to let you fully customize the retry policy of the task queue for incoming and outgoing activities. Of course, you can also simply adjust the parameters of the built-in exponential backoff + decorrelated jitter policy.

outboxRetryPolicy

This API is available since Fedify 0.12.0.

The retry policy for sending activities to recipients' inboxes.

By default, this uses an exponential backoff strategy with a maximum of 10 attempts and a maximum delay of 12 hours.

You can fully customize the retry policy by providing a custom function that satisfies the RetryPolicy type. Or you can adjust the parameters of the createExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy() function, which is a default implementation of the retry policy. — outboxRetryPolicy This API is available since Fedify 0.12.0. The retry policy for sending activities to recipients' inboxes. By default, this uses an exponential backoff strategy with a maximum of 10 attempts and a maximum delay of 12 hours. You can fully customize the retry policy by providing a custom function that satisfies the RetryPolicy type. Or you can adjust the parameters of the createExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy() function, which is a default implementation of the retry policy.

Julian Fietkau

I haven't posted about my #ActivityPub training wheels project @DailyRucks in a while, but it's been going strong with its daily voice line posts. 😀

Today marks the start of its first month-long special event, in which the bot will recount the Kid's origin story in a continuous thread, one sentence per day, until July 31st, starting with today's post: https://fietkau.software/daily_rucks/ap/activity/2024-07-01

If you enjoy Logan Cunningham's voice acting, be sure to follow along. 🙂

Raphael Lullis

Follow up to my idea of getting https://cupid.careers integrated with #activitypub .

I could've simply written a bot that uses the Mastodon API to interact with the followers and send all the questions as polls. Or;

I could have spent some days grokking out https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata to have my application running as a client of the service. Or;

I could spend an indeterminate amount of time writing my own AP library for django.

Guess which one I chose?

𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕™

👋 #Willkommen sind alle neuen User hier auf #Mastodon / #Fediverse / #ActivityPub. Ich wünsche euch spannende so wie friedlichen Verlauf von Unterhaltungen hier!

Durchsucht die User und ihre Posts so wie Inhalte und folgt diese bei euer Interesse an ihren Themen & Hashtags ☺️

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/issues/66#issuecomment-2198967566

In the next version of #Fedify, the Context.hostname, Context.host, and Context.origin properties will be added for better multitenancy/virtual hosting support.

#Fedify #fedidev #ActivityPub

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)'s post

When there is no queue, if the process fails, the inbox can just respond with a 500 server error and the sender will resend it.

But with a queue, by the time the inbox responds, it doesn't know if the process will fail because it hasn't run yet. So the sender won't retry whether it fails or not.

So, should it have its own retry logic when there is a queue?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://hollo.social/@fedify/0190687b-1a09-728b-8a0d-bcbd4dca54cd

I'm adding a queue for incoming activities in #Fedify, and I have a concern. If an error occurs while processing an activity, should it retry?

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/issues/70

#Fedify has always been queuing outgoing activities, but not incoming activities. Thanks to @ghost's sponsorship, we are now implementing queues for incoming activities!

Hrefna (DHC)

I really by and large have mostly lost faith that anything short of a miracle will get #ActivityPub to where I would like it to be, and the forces working against success here are just hard to even look at

I support the groups that are trying to define a way forward, and I suspect in many, many ways the battle is lost until and unless one of those efforts succeeds well enough to define a better way forward, and there's no way to know what that would look like or if it is even possible.

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/development/ap_extensions/#chatmessages

TIL #ChatMessage type, a vendor-specific #ActivityPub extension proposed by #Pleroma. It's also used by #Lemmy and #Mbin.

Thanks for @melroy letting me know!

Ecologia Digital

Brazilian #Museums Rock the #Fediverse: by stitching two #WordPressPlugins, #Tainacan & #ActivityPub, #Brasiliana has managed to provide a framework for "digitally sharing #museum cultural heritage collections with indigenous communities."
“In its new role as a facilitator of dialogue on memory, heritage, and collections, the #museum creates a conducive environment for open, transparent, and well-documented discussions.”
@daltonmartins
https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/digital-decolonization-of-collections-innovation-broadens-the-scope-of-museums/

Sebastian Lasse

💖 now can't sleep cause saw https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/
#fediverse #framework which is wonderful.

@hongminhee : we do also start to build anything #ActivityPub with #deno (incl. journalistic CMS client, public broadcaster thing, taxiteam client) and so, I work on a UI system with #fresh for all the `type`s …

PS Confs https://redaktor.me/#home

Chris Trottier

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html

😮

Wait. People are saying Meta's decentralized app will be powered by #ActivityPub, and will interoperate with Mastodon.

On top of it, it will be Instagram-branded.

Surprising. But again, I'll believe it when I see it.

@fediversenews

Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is hashing out a plan to build a standalone text-based content app that will support ActivityPub, the decentralised social networking protocol powering Twitter rival Mastodon and other federated apps, people familiar with the matter told Moneycontrol.

The app will be Instagram-branded and will allow users to register/login to the app through their Instagram credentials, they said. Moneycontrol has seen a copy of an internal product brief that elaborates on the functioning and various product features of the app. — Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is hashing out a plan to build a standalone text-based content app that will support ActivityPub, the decentralised social networking protocol powering Twitter rival Mastodon and other federated apps, people familiar with the matter told Moneycontrol. The app will be Instagram-branded and will allow users to register/login to the app through their Instagram credentials, they said. Moneycontrol has seen a copy of an internal product brief that elaborates on the functioning and various product features of the app.

Sebastian Lasse

[EN: about 2 books in german language …]

Hallo #Fediverse

es war ein netter Tag mit Teilen von Euch in Köln :)
Habe 2 neue Bücher zu meinem inventaire zugefügt.
Sie sind ganz frisch und sehr sehr gut.
“In der Social Media Falle –
Wie wir unsere digitale Freiheit retten” @bjoernsta
https://inventaire.io/items/56f8b4f4c6199b30e41195e8404dc8c9
dort findet Ihr auch was über Dezentralisierung, Föderation, #ActivityPub und ein Interview mit mir, in dem ich natürlich und wie gewohnt maßlos übertreibe ;)
Und dann hat mir Fedifreund @clemensg zum Geburtstag geschenkt
“Big Tech muss weg!”
https://inventaire.io/items/66f02830b8fae81d60638b1f25d9a544
und heute ist in Köln https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230712-01.de.html

Yuhu!

Sebastian Lasse

Esteemed #Fediverse 💖

all the nice videos from #PubConf24 popped up in the peertube channel.

Our Talk on the Why and How of #ActivityPub is https://video.publicspaces.net/w/9USsJ37cHVy4tY9Pn7DX2X

An hour is incredible short, we should maybe demo the protocol on a large table rather in an expo space next year (?)

You can view all videos at the channell page
:digitalcourage: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos

#publicspaces

John Spurlock

‘It makes perfect sense, and yet is somehow completely new’

interesting analogue between #ActivityPub Article objects and email newsletters, sans the gatekeepers

🎧 clip of @johnonolan from Ghost speaking with @mike from Flipboard, on the latest dot social podcast episode: https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/john-onolan-g6azzKz0

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

#Fedify is an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript & #JavaScript. It aims to eliminate the complexity and redundant boilerplate code when building a federated server app, so that you can focus on your business logic and user experience.

The key features it provides currently are:

• Type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary (including some vendor-specific extensions)
• #WebFinger client and server
• HTTP Signatures
• Middleware for handling webhooks
• #NodeInfo protocol
• #Node.js, #Deno, and #Bun support
• CLI toolchain for testing and debugging

If you're curious, take a look at the Fedify website! There's comprehensive docs, a demo, a tutorial, example code, and more:

Jeff Sikes

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Forkey #IceShrimp #DotNet

Iceshrimp.NET has entered the beta phase. It’s in an interesting state! The Mastodon API compatibility is quite good, allowing the use of many existing apps.

The front end ui is still in progress. Any adventurous fedi nerds that want to install and provide feedback are welcome.

From: @panos
https://catodon.social/notes/9v2wrt07li25e3r2

Week in Fediverse

- Sharkey v2024.5.1
- Gancio v1.18.0
- Mitra v2.23.0
- neodb v0.10.2.3
- Castopod v1.12.0
- NodeBB v4.0.0-alpha (aka ActivityPub alpha release)
- Hollo: Federated single-user microblogging software powered by Fedify

Week in Fediverse 2024-06-28

Servers

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.43
- Tuba v0.8.1
- Pachli v2.6.0
- mlmym v0.0.46
- P2Play v0.8.1
- Phanpy changelog

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.1
- Granary v7.0
- Fedify v0.11.0
- Betulon: A simple utility to add Mastodon bookmarks to Betula

Articles

- Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01903bb6-c8eb-3a66-3305-460bf5a946d1

Flipboard

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/federation-timeline/

In the words of Fatboy Slim, "we've come a long long way together." Here, @miaq breaks down Flipboard's federation journey so far.

"We could [federate Flipboard] with a quick flip of the switch but we’ve chosen to act more intentionally," she writes. "We’re taking measured steps to test, learn, and ensure that everything we’re doing stays true to our values and those of the fediverse. Maintaining quality is top of the list."

#Federation #Fediverse #Flipboard #FediCurious #ActivityPub #Publishing #Media #Technology #MastodonMigration #Mastodon

Flipboard

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

@ghost founder and CEO @johnonolan wants to build a tech company that thinks differently. Learn how ActivityPub is enabling a new kind of publishing platform, with integrity at its core. It’s a new episode of the Dot Social podcast highlighting leaders in the fediverse, hosted by @mike

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

Catch up on past episodes of the podcast in Mike’s Storyboard collection:

To learn more about what Flipboard's doing in the fediverse, sign up here:

http://about.flipboard.com/a-new-wave

#Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb #DotSocial #Federation #ActivityPub #Flipboard #SocialMedia #SpreadMastodon #Ghost

John Spurlock

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/623

Since there seems to be renewed interest in podcasting cross-app-comments over #ActivityPub, I've done a brain dump over here with a current perspective on the high-level of how it all works and to clear up a bit of terminology being thrown around.

imo the comments scenario is ready to build against (that's what I focus on here) with the ability for custom podcast-specific objects/fields down the road, using the same federated channel.

Tom Casavant

Wrote a blog post about my modifications to my mastodon server to clean up hashtags
https://tomcasavant.com/the-problem-with-hashtags/

Tom Casavant

They said 'there's no point' and 'that's dumb'

Well look at me now (assuming the video doesn't get compressed into nothing, here's a @Minetest mod that bridges messages across activitypub)

Video of minetest/activitpub bridge, left side shows minetest right side shows mastodon. User types in message on minetest and it shows up on the mastodon server and vice versa. Video then shows a new user being created and that user getting an account generated in the activitypub server

Lemmy

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/

Inaugural Post for Lemmy, a decentralized, easily self-hostable #reddit / link aggregator alternative, intended to work in the #fediverse:

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

The key features it provides currently are:

Type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary (including some vendor-specific extensions)
#WebFinger client and server
HTTP Signatures & Linked Data Signatures & Object Integrity Proofs
Middleware for handling webhooks
#NodeInfo protocol
#Node.js, #Deno, and #Bun support
CLI toolchain for testing and debugging

If you're curious, take a look at the #Fedify website! There's comprehensive docs, a demo, a tutorial, example code, and more:

Fedify: an ActivityPub server framework

Hello, #fediverse! It's the official fedi account of the Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework!

#Fedify #fedidev

Chris Messina

I don't care what anyone says. It's awesome to see fediverse replies appear on a Meta property.

Considering Threads isn't even a year old, this is enormous progress over anything Twitter ever did.

Jack claims that "Twitter should have been a protocol", but here we're seeing #ActivityPub interop being achieved as we live in breathe.

Old Ain't Dead

Question for #ActivityPub users. I installed it on my WordPress site and expected to see the two posts I've published since then here at @[email protected]

However I'm seeing nothing and can't figure out what I'm missing on the settings or the way the results should appear.

Matthias Pfefferle

it's often so complex to add #ActivityPub to an already existing platform (for example #WordPress ) and it gets even more complex if it is not built for social media 😱

For example

1. Deleting Users from the Fediverse, that still exist on the blog.
2. Delete the whole blog from the fediverse, but take temporary plugin deactivations/deletions into account.
3. Caching by third party plugins.
4. Shared hosting.
5. Posts and Comments in different DB tables
6. Publish only a subset of posts

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #Fediblock #FediScraper #ActivityPub #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

I love when Fediverse scrapers get Fediblocked MULTIPLE times then start making new instances under obscure domain names to hide their data stealing...🤬

Awakari created a new instance on Indy.rest on June 24. 4 days after I called for Fediblock on their other attempt at ban evasion (awakari.app)

Indy.rest seems to be down at the moment. However, given their track record, this is a required block if you value your data not being sold.

Erlend Sogge Heggen

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-7952-roadmap-for-actor-and-object-portability/4332?u=erlend_sh

I think this is the most important (WIP) Fediverse Enhancement Proposal of this year for the #ActivityPub protocol:

FEP-7952: Roadmap for Actor and Object Portability — by @by_caballero and @dmitri

It ties a lot of elementary building blocks for #nomadicidentity neatly together, most succinctly summed up by one particularly magic feature:

Bring-your-own Actor ID! 🪪💫

Actor profiles can now be hosted separately from the instance (including as a static JSON object (…)

Hika/Tam | HK★TMK

I wish #Mastodon / #ActivityPub had like, native, seamless, keep-the-old-timestamp post migration between instances tbh. I do miss my .ART backlog.

Even though #Bluesky is only allowing self-hosted PDS instances (right NOW*), you can take your backlog and social graph with you when moving within #ATProto

BeAware

#Fediverse #Fedi #Bluesky #Threads #Meta #ActivityPub #Mastodon #SocialMedia

It's kinda gross to see these corporate walled gardens intentionally misrepresent their Fedi integrations and just start using Fediverse in their PRs like their a genuine Fedi participant.

Looking at you, BlueSky and Threads. BlueSky lied about being decentralized and uses Brdigy Fed, a third party bridge to Fedi made by one man, to say they're decentralized. Threads keeps adding fake Fediverse interactions and promoting them as legit Fediverse interactions. They "added" replies from Fediverse without mentioning that they're private and can only mention 1 person or it won't be federated...🤦‍♂️

If you intentionally misrepresent your integrations for clout, you're doing nothing but harboring mistrust here on Fedi.

Michael Foster

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

Essential listening/viewing from @mike and @johnonolan . “No-one owns this space - it’s being built by a bunch of hackers and enthusiasts who are building what they want…#ActivityPub is going to be bigger than any other social network…It’s moat-less technology. Let’s fill in all the canals and grass them over.” Fantastic!

#Fediverse #Flipboard #Ghost
#SocialMedia

Mike McCue

If you’re at all interested in the future of how people could discover, enjoy and pay for great content in the #fediverse and the broader web, this episode of #DotSocial is for you.

Here @johnonolan and I go deep on the product, technical and business model mechanics that will ultimately support a more sustainable, social web thanks to Ghost’s upcoming full integration of #ActivityPub.

Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on our #PeerTube instance at https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

Chris

What is the best activity pub platform for uploading short-ish personal videos? #activitypub #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #Threads #Mastodon #Meta #ActivityPub

And....my hype for Threads replies has immediately been killed.

Replies are only shown to the OP. It's *something* but all this fake integration crap is starting to piss me off now...🤬

Edit: Confirmed. Replies are only shown to 1 person. You can't mention multiple Threads users and have them see it publicly. This is ridiculous at this point...🙄

pieceofthepie :coffefied:

@[email protected] · Reply to pieceofthepie :coffefied:'s post

@jan I think, funnily enough, that this is Facebook following ActivityPub more closely than Mastodon - specifically the parts around Inbox Forwarding, which Mastodon doesn't do.

It's the reason people invent things like #FediFetcher

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Yohan Yuki Xieㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-ditto/

“Announcing Ditto”

> Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.

> Since Ditto implements the Mastodon API, it can work with any Mastodon app!

> Users of Mastodon and Pleroma will be happy to see search functionality that actually works. 😂

> Ditto is built in Deno with TypeScript. It's basically a REST API with a built-in Nostr relay. This is the same design as Mastodon and Pleroma, replacing ActivityPub with Nostr.

Tags: #Nostr #Ditto #Deeno #Mastodon #Pleroma #ActivityPub #Fediverse #SocialWeb #MycelialWeb #MyceliumNetwork #Nostrich #SNS #SocialMedia #Soapbox

Daniel Appelquist

Just gave a talk to Japanese @w3c member companies, presenting about the #Fediverse and encouraging some more engagement between W3C Japan and local communities & projects that are working with #ActivityPub. Already, one person on the call said they are active on #Misskey and will reach out to them. 💗

Fluffy Kitty Cat

What's the #activitypub server software landscape like these days? It's been a while since I've checked and I want to know what people are running and what's new in the past couple years

Tom Casavant

Anyone have a good blog post on the fediverse for people who have 0 technical know how? Something like Fediverse for Dummies in 5 minutes

BeAware

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Interesting new ActivityPub project called @hollo for a single user instance!

It still has to build features that are required for mass adopting (blocking and muting aren't implemented yet) but I'm really interested in single user instance software that's somewhat minimalistic so whenever it's fully released, I might try it out!

Sean Tilley

This is just a mockup for now. I’m not that far along yet. 😅

My goal with my little Fedify #ActivityPub project is to have an easy lookup utility. It does two things:

Attempt to render the object using a bespoke template library, free for anyone to examine.
Render JSON-LD output in a neat little pane as a kind of Inspector tool.

I don’t know how useful this will actually be to anybody, but it might be handy for looking at activities, figuring out how to implement stuff, maybe even show output for posts that don’t work correctly? 🤔

A mockup of TypeRender, a tool to look up and render public ActivityPub objects and show the data output.

Jeff Sikes

#FediDevs #ActivityPub #FediNET #Dotnet

.NET is making its way into the fediverse. IceShrimp.NET, Toki, Letterbook, Smilodon to name a few!

From: @prefetcher
https://miku.place/objects/5c1e2b59-1cc1-4047-8c75-f7a9d93a83f0

Fediverse Report

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 74

This weeks' news:
- More updates by Ghost on their work on implementing #ActivityPub
- Statistics shared by Mastodon show the power of an open API, and the incredible diverse ecosystem that it enables
- NLnet supports fediverse event planning software Gancio with a new grant

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-74/

Hollo

Introducing #Hollo. Hollo is an #ActivityPub-enabled single-user microblogging software. Although it's for a single user, it also supports creating and running multiple accounts for different topics.

Oh, and Hollo is built using #Bun and #Fedify.

Doug Belshaw

New #introduction time:

👋 Hey, I've been here on the Fedi for the last 7 years.

Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of #learning, #technology & #community.

Was PM of #MoodleNet, a decentralised digital commons built on #ActivityPub from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.

Wrote doctoral thesis on #digitalliteracies. Was on Mozilla's #OpenBadges team & led #WebLiteracy work.

Pursuing MSc in #SystemsThinking

I like 🏔️🥃⚽

Anuj Ahooja

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day5/?ref=build-log-newsletter #Fediverse

Ghost has some exciting news in their latest #ActivityPub progress update:

"The other thing we're now working full-speed towards is open sourcing the new ActivityPub Service GitHub repository. That means the code will be available for anyone and everyone to see, use, follow-along-with, or contribute-to."

This is dope! Looking forward to tracking the development live 👀

skribe 🇺🇦

#Blog #Fediverse #ActivityPub

If you like my blog posts, you can follow them on mastodon @[email protected]

MrBerard 😎👉👉

Hey Mastodon,

I'm looking for a well put together written case for institutions (academic, professional) to set up their own Mastodon instance.

Something that not only highlights the obvious benefits, but also that the technical costs are within the capacity of most places that have a decent IT department.

Please do not make the case here, I'm looking for links. 😜

Boost for visibility, plz?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #

mbajur

Any ideas for a fun tiny #activitypub website i could implement to demonstrate the rails activitypub library I’m working on? :) #needhelp

Prismo △

#activitypub based Link Aggregation app is coming really soon! 🤠

mbajur

Just a little sneak peek of a new #activitypub based project I'm working on

Week in Fediverse

- Mastodon for Android v2.5.2
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.6

Week in Fediverse 2024-06-21

Servers

- GoToSocial v0.16.0
- diaspora* v0.9.0.0
- Mitra v2.22.0
- Lemmy v0.19.5
- Hatsu v0.2.1
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.2
- NeoDB v0.10.2
- Discover Castopod's Plugins Architecture

Clients

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.10.0
- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v10.1.0
- Feditest: Test federated protocols such as those in the Fediverse

Articles

- Alright, let's Fedify
- Fediverse domain blocks
- Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed
- Lisa Melton: The fediverse’s own algorithm

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Pierre

#hollo #microblogging #federated #activitypub #opensource #foss #mastodon #fediverse #mitra #mastodon #pixelfed #misskey

Federated single user microblogging software through activitypub that is also compatible with mitra

Interact with users on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, etc

Github repo here: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo

Federated single user microblogging software through activitypub that is also compatible with mitra

Interact with users on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, etc

Github repo here: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo — Federated single user microblogging software through activitypub that is also compatible with mitra Interact with users on Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, etc Github repo here: https://github.com/dahlia/hollo

Kari'boka

Have someone got their #Discourse instance to federate with #ActivityPub?

I’ve read something about it but didn’t see any real case yet.

Also, does it federates articles? like #Lemmy, #Kbin, #PieFed, #NodeBB, #Friendica

mbajur

https://github.com/mbajur/activity_pub_app

🚨 INTRODUCING: a new in-progress #rubyonrails #activitypub engine that aims to make it able to add AP features to any Rails app.

It's still a work in progress but i would really love to hear your feedback and ideas on that! Feel free to message me here or open a discussion on github repo.

See README for more details:

PS: A new kind of AP service/app will be based on this, more info soon :)

#fediverse #development #ruby

FediTest

ANN: FediTest 0.2 is out. This is our first release, even if early as you can tell from the version number.

feditest is now in the python repos, so you can say "pip install feditest", and the documentation is current on https://feditest.org

You can currently use it to run your own WebFinger server tests similar to https://feditest.org/assets/2024-06-05/webfinger-server-all-wellknown-saas-imp.testmatrix.html Obviously much more to come.

Feedback appreciated!

/cc @activitypubtestsuite #fediverse #activitypub #webfinger #testing #qa

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

Version 0.10.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has been released! Starting with this release, Fedify, previously distributed under AGPL 3.0, is now distributed under the MIT License to encourage wider adoption. Here are the major changes:

• In addition to RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify now supports Ed25519 for signing and verifying the activities.
• FEP-521a: Multiple key pairs can now be registered for an actor.
• FEP-8b32: Implemented Object Integrity Proofs.
• Added Arrive and Question classes.

https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/releases/tag/0.10.0

Fediverse Report

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 73

This week's news:
- Scraper drama as AI-powered network Maven works on implementing #ActivityPub
- Ghost will use fediverse server framework Fedify for their ActivityPub implementation
- @Castopod releases version 2.0 with plugins
- an on-device 'For You' algorithmic feed for Lemmy with 3rd party client Quiblr
- Lemmy releases local-only communities

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-73-and-72/

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

#Mastodon #fedidev #ActivityPub

#Mastodon sends Create(Question) for the poll, even though the Question itself is an Activity. Does it see Question as a regular Object rather than an Activity?

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-4/

I'm very excited that the #Ghost team has chosen #Fedify to implement #ActivityPub. I've been working closely with the Ghost team, and it's been a lot of fun, and I can't wait to see the ActivityPub implementation at Ghost.

✱✱✱✱✱

Whispy una alternativa a #Twitter que probablemente quizás termine agregando soporte para #Activitypub en el sitio web lo menciona y el administrador lo menciona también

🔗 https://whispy.org

Jeff Sikes

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-4/?ref=build-log-newsletter

Ghost will be using the open source Fedify server framework to manage the activitypub bits and pieces of their service.

#FediDev #ActivityPub #Fedify #Ghost

Week in Fediverse

- FEP-5e53: Opt-out Preference Signals

Week in Fediverse 2024-06-14

Servers

- Lemmy v0.19.4
- Betula v1.3.0
- snac v2.54
- streams v24.6.10
- Smithereen v0.8.0
- Owl Blogs: A simple blogging solution with IndieWeb and Fediverse in mind

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.42
- Jerboa v0.0.69
- Photon v1.30.2
- Raccoon v1.11.2
- Pixelix: Android Client for Pixelfed

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.9.1
- FediFetcher v7.0.5
- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.3

Protocol

Articles

- Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
- Integration models of end-to-end encrypted messaging into ActivityPub
- Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance
- Trunk & Tidbits, May 2024

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼's post

Thanks to @silverpill, #Fedify is finally FEP-8b32 compliant! Though it's not ready for general release yet, it's passing tests in the latest main branch. I'll test it with Mitra and other FEP-8b32-compliant implementations, and if it works well, it'll be included in 0.10.0.

You can try it out in version 0.10.0-dev.205+0cbca257.

spd

How do devs test their app integrations with mastodon? #activitypubdev #activitypub

Gregory

https://jsr.io/@fedify/[email protected]ev.196+55cc34d1

Deekshith Allamaneni

#Mastodon #SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #ActivityPub #Fedi #Docker #NixOS #Linux #Pleroma #MissKey

It almost feels like Mastodon do not want us to self host. There is no direct link on the main webpage to install on server. Digging through the docs, finally found documentation and there is no Docker container or a package for any OS for easy installation. They require us to install from source along with all the dependencies. I don't mean to bad mouth it but they do not do enough to encourage self hosting (if not discourage).

Would like to know your opinions or ideas on how to self host it easily with minimum maintenance (auto upgrades, etc).

Source: Mastodon server install docs: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/install/

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

@[email protected] · Reply to 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼's post

#Misskey throws an error when a remote actor has multiple public keys, so I sent a patch to fix this bug.

This is my first patch for Misskey!

https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/pull/13950

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

https://jsr.io/@fedify/[email protected]ev.190+4dffb89a

As a first step towards adding Object Integrity Proofs (FEP-8b32) to #Fedify, I've made it support #Ed25519 keys. I've also enabled multiple keys to be associated with an actor. For example, if you look at the actor from the Fedify Example Blog (https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example), you'll see that it has two public keys, one for RSA and one for Ed25519.

You can try it out in version 0.10.0-dev.190+4dffb89a.

/usr/PLE ░ XX :~$ nova

https://nova.mkultra.monster/pages/activitypub/

I've written a bit of an extensive guide on navigating ActivityPub and its many apps, and instances, along with some initial questions new users might have, and links to mobile apps.

#activitypub #mastodon #misskey #pleroma #lemmy #friendica #GNUsocial #peertube #pixelfed #wafrn

洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) 🤏🏼

Version 0.9.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has been released! Here are the main changes:

• Added Tombstone, Hashtag, and Emoji classes.
• Added normalizeActorHandle() function to normalize an actor handle. This is needed when the domain of the actor handle is an IDN, or when the domain contains capital letters.
• Added an option to the sendActivity() function, excludeBaseUris, to exclude specified servers from sending activities. This can be used when you don't want to send activities to your own server.
• Added Context.parseUri(), a method to parse actor, object, inbox, and collection URIs.
• The time window for HTTP Signatures verification is now configurable.
• The @fedify/fedify/httpsig module has been renamed to . This is in preparation for implementing additional object integrity proofs other than HTTP Signatures.
• Improved interoperability with #Misskey.

https://github.com/dahlia/fedify/releases/tag/0.9.0

分散SNS集会@VRChat

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

Matt Baer

Still in development, but got #ActivityPub replies working! Once it goes live, replies from the fediverse will show up on Remark.as.

Last major issue is to add some basic moderation. Already got instance-level blocking done so I can easily defederate from bad servers, but want to make sure we can handle any potential abuse from individual users too.

Screenshot of a Remark.as conversation in my test environment. There's a box to reply in, and test comments below authored by @matt@writing.exchange (a remote user) alongside one made from a Remark.as account (a local user). — Screenshot of a Remark.as conversation in my test environment. There's a box to reply in, and test comments below authored by @[email protected] (a remote user) alongside one made from a Remark.as account (a local user).

Daniel Supernault

Don't get me wrong, I love Mastodon and everything it's done for the fediverse

That being said, I don't want Loops to become the only short form video platform, or the only well known one

I'm working with @stux on his own short vid platform called #GoldFish and PeerTube to enable seamless interop

We're stronger and better together

There is no reason NOT to work with "competitors" because when you have the right mindset and goals:

You build for the people, and listen wisely.

#activityPub

Flipboard Deutschland

#ActivityPub #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse

Wir haben von einigen aus der Community das Feedback erhalten, die Artikelanzahl sei für einige föderierte Publisher sehr hoch. Daher möchten wir einen Überblick dazu geben:

Die Anzahl der Beiträge bezieht sich auf die Gesamtbeiträge bei Flipboard und damit i.d.R. auf einen Zeitraum von mehreren Jahren.

Folgendes ist aus unserer Sicht die beste Möglichkeit, sich auf dem Laufenden zu halten und dabei spezifischen Content eines bevorzugten Publishers zu bekommen: den Flipboard-Magazinen zu folgen, um kuratierte Artikel zu bestimmten Themen zu erhalten.

Was bedeutet das konkret? Wenn du dich für Wirtschaftsnachrichten oder Klimapolitik interessierst, kannst du den Magazinen eines Publishers ausschließlich zu diesen Themen folgen, oder wenn du alle Inhalte sehen willst, kannst du dem Profil des Publishers folgen – so hast du mehr Möglichkeiten, die Art der Inhalte, die du in deinem Home-Feed siehst, anzupassen.

Das föderierte Profil eines Publishers ist nur eine weitere Möglichkeit, seinen Inhalten zu folgen und mit ihnen zu interagieren.

So folgst du einzelnen Magazinen über Mastodon:

1) Verwende die Suche, um nach den Magazinen eines Publishers zu suchen (Die Liste an bisher föderierten Publisher haben wir in unserem Profil angeheftet).

2) Wähle "Alle ansehen" bei den Suchergebnissen aus.

3) Folge nun den thematischen Magazinen, die dich interessieren. Wir haben hierzu einen Screenshot von ZEIT ONLINE als Beispiel hinzugefügt.

Flipboard Deutschland

#ActivityPub #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse @Flipboard

Im letzten Dezember haben wir damit begonnen, Flipboard für das Fediverse zu öffnen. Heute machen wir einen weiteren wichtigen Schritt in diese Richtung, indem wir unsere Testphase ausweiten: Die ersten Publisher aus Deutschland sind nun für das gesamte Fediverse zugänglich.

Mehr Infos dazu findet ihr auf unserem Blog:
https://de-de.about.flipboard.com/flipboard-zieht-ins-fediverse

Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:

Hi!

Are you viewing this account through #Bluesky?

If so, you need to know that this account does NOT consent to being brought inside Jack’s new walled garden.

You know, the one that’s been paid for by some jerk who bought Jack’s old walled garden and turned the dying Spaces into toxic waste?

VC is the engine that #enshittifies the Internet. His BS site will follow that path soon.

Noninteroperabilty is tar that traps users. If BS wants to access #Fedi, it should be on #ActivityPub.

Eigenraum

Ich habe auf eigenpod.de auch #ActivityPub aktiviert, d.h. die Webseite selbst ist jetzt im #Fediverse und ihr könnt ihr direkt folgen. So siehts jetzt aus:

Unter @eigenraum_folgen_feed postet die Webseite sofort neue Folgen und sonst nichts. Wenn ihr diesen Account auf Mastodon erwähnt, merkt aber keiner was davon!

Der @Eigenraum hier hingegen wird menschlich betrieben (von @tomkalei ) und kann mit euch socializen.

Neue Folge kommt bald! Wir hören uns. ✌️🎧

ale

#ActivityPub es el protocolo, indiferente si es un servidor o cliente/servidor.

R. L. Dane

I'd like to interject for a moment.

What you're referring to as #Mastodon is in fact the #Fediverse.
Mastodon is not a network unto itself, but rather another open component of a fully functioning network made useful by #ActivityPub.

Every Mastodon user is in fact a user of the fediverse without realizing it.
There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the greater whole. Mastodon is one example of a service using the AcivityPub spec, and is an essential part of the Fediverse, but of limited utility by itself; it is best understood and functions at its greatest when used in combination with other Fediverse services.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/

There are a lot of different types in the ActivityStreams Vocabulary.

But because Mastodon only supports 8 of them (with only 2 of them being supported properly), there is "pressure" on other Fediverse software to restrict themselves to these 8.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#payloads

Because they want to be compatible with Mastodon.

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #Fediverse #Mastodon

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#client-to-server-interactions

The ActivityPub Client-Server API

#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #Fediverse #FediverseTech

🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱

#Hugo #StaticSite #ActivityPub #Fediverse #mastoadmin

So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.

It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.

One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!

Chris Trottier

According to HackerNoon, they consider #ActivityPub as the "future of social networks". In addition, they have crafted an outstanding explanation of its functionalities and capabilities, accompanied by remarkable code-based illustrations.

It is highly recommended reading material for developers interested in constructing a Fediverse app.

https://hackernoon.com/a-brief-introduction-of-activitypub-the-future-of-social-networks

Jeff Sikes

https://activitypub.academy/

If you're curious how ActivityPub works exactly (like me) this site does a great job of show and tell.

On the surface it looks like any other Mastodon instance, but on closer inspection, provides you insight into the ActivityPub back and forth going on behind the scenes!

Check out the great work by @crepels

#FediDev #ActivityPub

Maverick

#activitypub #mastodon #pixelfed #calckey

Everyone is announcing their new account on the latest privacy destroying (Jesus, look at the privacy report!) social network the tech-bros have regurgitated. Well…

I’m not on #Facebook, #Instagram, #Threads, or anything by #Meta, #Twitter, or whatever #Google is pushing this week… and never will be.

If you need me, you can find me here – on this advertising-free, algorithm-free, non-billionaire-controlled, open, & decentralized social media platform.

The App Privacy report for Threads from the Apple App Store, showing it requires access to your health and fitness data, financial info, location data, contact info, among many others.

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓

@[email protected] · Reply to Dare Obasanjo's post

@carnage4life "Decentralisation is not a selling point for 99% of people." Ouch. That cuts deep, man. #fediverse #activitypub #twittermigration

Left panel shows Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Independence with subtitle, "How I see myself when talking about the Fediverse." Right panel shows the conspiracy meme guy with the subtitle, "How others see me."

Swanye

#Tumblr implement #ActivityPub, yet?

Welp; guess it's up to us.

marius

https://brutalinks.tech/~ild/e469b98e-4b48-48a8-86e5-6c61ebd9aff8

For people invested in the migration from #reddit. Here's some details about #BrutaLinks one of the projects I'm working on, which is a reddit-like discussion platform, built on top of #ActivityPub.

It didn't benefit from the attention and funding that lemmy got, so probably it's overall less polished and performant, but some love from the community would do it good.

Daniel Supernault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c&t=1833s #fediverse #activitypub

"This world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds, previously unimaginable"

- Lana Wachowski

Kingsley Uyi Idehen

#introduction
I am an open data access (#ODBC, #JDBC, and #HTTP), integration (#DataVirtualization), and data management (#DBMS and/or #KnowledgeGraph) technologist, enthusiast, and entrepreneur.

I am passionate about open standards for #GenAI, #AI, #Identity #Authenticity, #SocialMedia (#ActivityPub & #ActivityStreams), and data de-silo-fication initiatives (e.g. #SemanticWeb, #LODCloud, #LinkedData, #RWW, and #SmallData).

I don't like any kind of silo!

Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥

I'm so excited to present my work on #Fediverse-wide hashtag federation, search, and subscription at #ActivityPubConf.

The recording will be available later, but if you're interested in enabling a global consistent view on hashtags, know stuff about DHTs or #ActivityPub relays, you can have a look at the paper: https://git.orlives.de/schmittlauch/paper_hashtag_federation/src/branch/master/paper_hashtag_federation.pdf

Please contact me about any questions, remarks or other feedback!

So here's a TL;DR:

Daniel Supernault