And it is done 🎉
(although still not that pretty 🙈):
Here is the always up-to-date sheet with more than 1000 official accounts by media organizations that you can follow from #Mastodon & everywhere else in the #Fediverse.
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
There is a powerful custom search (top left) and a button to download an CSV with the handles of all visible accounts, that you can import. There's also the language, the country of origin and a direct link.
Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann 
Teilen erbeten ‼️ 
als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/iLDoTt03wkGUL3dA39ScX6hV/
#DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
Donphan.social is a Glitch Mastodon server for fans of the Pokémon franchise, to talk about it or anything else:
You can find out more at https://donphan.social/about or contact the admin @Siphonay
#FeaturedServer #Pokémon #Games #Nintendo #Creatures #GameFreak #Glitch #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 66
This week's news:
- The EU Voice pilot that hosted Mastodon and Peertube instance for the EU over the last 2 years will come to an end. The @EU_Commission account will continue to be active and grow their Mastodon presence.
- Ghost announces a major push for fediverse support, adding #Activitypub to their posts and building an ActivityPub powered news reader app.
- Mastodon starts a US-based nonprofit.
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-66/
The folks at @signalapp every time #PeteHegseth is in the news:
BotKit 0.2.0 Released
We're pleased to announce the release of BotKit 0.2.0! For those new to our project, #BotKit is a #TypeScript framework for creating standalone #ActivityPub bots that can interact with Mastodon, Misskey, and other #fediverse platforms without the constraints of these existing platforms.
This release marks an important step in our journey to make fediverse bot development more accessible and powerful, introducing several features that our community has been requesting.
The Journey to Better Bot Interactions
In building BotKit, we've always focused on making bots more expressive and interactive. With version 0.2.0, we're taking this to the next level by bringing the social aspects of the fediverse to your bots.
Expressing Your Bot's Personality with Custom Emojis
One of the most requested features has been #custom_emoji support. Now your bots can truly express their personality with unique visuals that make their messages stand out.
// Define custom emojis for your botconst emojis = bot.addCustomEmojis({ botkit: { file: `${import.meta.dirname}/images/botkit.png`, type: "image/png" }, fedify: { url: "https://fedify.dev/logo.png", type: "image/png" }});// Use these custom emojis in your messagesawait session.publish( text`BotKit ${customEmoji(emojis.botkit)} is powered by Fedify ${customEmoji(emojis.fedify)}`);
With this new API, you can:
Add custom emojis to your bot with Bot.addCustomEmojis()
Include these emojis in messages with the customEmoji() function
Use the text tagged template with Fedify Emoji objects
Engaging Through Reactions
Communication isn't just about posting messages—it's also about responding to others. The new reaction system creates natural interaction points between your bot and its followers:
// React to a message with a standard Unicode emojiawait message.react(emoji`👍`);// Or use one of your custom emojis as a reactionawait message.react(emojis.botkit);// Create a responsive bot that acknowledges reactionsbot.onReact = async (session, reaction) => { await session.publish( text`Thanks for reacting with ${reaction.emoji} to my message, ${reaction.actor}!`, { visibility: "direct" } );};
This feature allows your bot to:
React to messages with Unicode emojis using Message.react()
React with the custom emojis you've defined
Handle reaction events with Bot.onReact and Bot.onUnreact handlers
Conversations Through Quotes
Discussions often involve referencing what others have said. Our new #quote support enables more cohesive conversation threads:
// Quote another message in your bot's postawait session.publish( text`Responding to this interesting point...`, { quoteTarget: originalMessage });// Handle when users quote your bot's messagesbot.onQuote = async (session, quoteMessage) => { await session.publish( text`Thanks for sharing my thoughts, ${quoteMessage.actor}!`, { visibility: "direct" } );};
With quote support, your bot can:
Quote messages with quoteTarget option
Access quoted messages via Message.quoteTarget
Handle quote events with the new Bot.onQuote event handler
Visual Enhancements
Because communication is visual too, we've improved how your bot presents itself:
Image attachments now properly display in the web interface
Your bot's content looks better and provides a richer experience
Behind the Scenes: Enhanced Activity Propagation
We've also improved how activities propagate through the fediverse:
More precise propagation of replies, shares, updates, and deletes
Activities are now properly sent to the original message authors
These improvements ensure your bot's interactions are consistent and reliable across different fediverse platforms.
Taking Your First Steps with BotKit 0.2.0
Ready to experience these new features? BotKit 0.2.0 is available on JSR and can be installed with a simple command:
deno add jsr:@fedify/botkit@0.2.0
Since BotKit uses the Temporal API (which is still evolving in JavaScript), remember to enable it in your deno.json:
{ "imports": { "@fedify/botkit": "jsr:@fedify/botkit@0.2.0" }, "unstable": ["temporal"]}
With these simple steps, you're ready to create or upgrade your fediverse bot with our latest features.
Looking Forward
BotKit 0.2.0 represents our ongoing commitment to making fediverse bot development accessible, powerful, and enjoyable. We believe these new features will help your bots become more engaging and interactive members of the fediverse community.
For complete docs and more examples, visit our docs site.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release through feedback, feature requests, and code contributions. The BotKit community continues to grow, and we're excited to see what you'll create!
BotKit is powered by Fedify, a lower-level framework for creating ActivityPub server applications.
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩🚀
“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/
I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle
Can I block or hide an entire instance? I don't think I have the receipts to argue this instance block them entirely, but a specific server full of degenerates is making my corner of the #Fediverse less good. @FediTips
Fediverse Report #113
this week's #fediverse news is quiet, with some academic research papers on Mastodon, some renewed interest in Mastodon from Taiwan, and more.
Fediverse Report – #104
Mastodon has announced it will add quote posts to the platform, and some more news.
The News
Mastodon has announced it is adding quote posts to the platform, a long-awaited feature. Mastodon got a grant by NLnet in 2024 to add quote posts, and they are now sharing an update on their work. Mastodon is adding a variety of features to quote posts, such as giving people the ability to opt out of being quote posted. They will publish the technical work to support quote posts as Fediverse Enhancement Proposals, and Mastodon is currently in the process of writing these proposals. The organisation does not say when quote posts will be added, only noting that it ‘will still take more time to develop.’
For a long time, Mastodon had not implemented quote posts because CEO Eugen Rochko saw them as bad. His main concern is that quote posts lead to ‘dunking’ and toxic behaviour. Dunking refers to the behaviour where people use quote posts to ‘dunk’ on other people’s post, often with the intent that this mocking will lead to their followers to also mock and harass the original poster. Dunking was a visible part of Twitter’s culture, and in popular belief dunking and toxicity became linked together. Research showed a more complicated picture. Hilda Bastian analysed over 30 studies on quote tweeting, and concludes: “There’s conflicting evidence on whether QTs [quote Tweets] increase or decrease incivility, and whatever effect there is, it doesn’t seem to be major.“
In 2023 Mastodon changed their opinion, and first started saying that the organisation was open to implementing quote posts. Still, toxic behaviour via dunking continued to be a main concern. This is visible in the accompanying design research that Mastodon has done in their work on quote posts. Mastodon’s view seems to be that quote posts are toxic at it’s core, saying that “the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused.”
Mastodon takes a technical approach to dealing to the purported problem of toxicity of quote posts, and the blog posts lists three features to mitigate it: people can choose if their posts are able to be quoted, people get notified if they are quoted, and there will be the ability to withdraw your post from the quoted context. Bluesky also has these features for quote posts, and they’re generally received well. What I find missing here is a take by Mastodon on the effect of these features on Bluesky. Mastodon sees quote posts as being dangerous, and that is why they will implement some features to mitigate the risk. But do they think that quote posts are being used well on Bluesky? Is Bluesky’s behaviour and culture around quote posts something that Mastodon is striving towards? I’m not clear to me what Mastodon’s answer is here.
Mastodon’s design research also says that they will display quotes in a different way to ‘steer away from dunk culture”‘, a feature not mentioned in Mastodon’s announcement blog post. Mastodon is planning to display a quote post by first showing the quote, and showing the reply below it. This is similar to how Tumblr does quote posts. But it differs from how all other platforms that interoperate with Mastodon display quote posts: fediverse native platforms like Misskey, Akkoma and Streams, as well as connected networks like Bluesky and Threads, all display quote posts by showing the reply at the top, and the quoted post below.
Mastodon’s position is that quote posts are a risky feature invite misuse, and thus need a variety of safety features. But Mastodon is not an isolated platform, it is connected to various other platforms that all have their own ideas about quote posts. If displaying quote posts Tumblr-style (quote above, comment below) is preferred over displaying them Twitter-style (comment above, quote below), what is the expectation on how other platforms should interact with Mastodon quotes? Is Misskey expected to display Mastodon’s quote post differently? Meanwhile, Mastodon is planning to display quotes that originate from Misskey not in the way that Misskey does (Twitter-style), but in their own manner (Tumblr-style), saying that it has “very little impact on the semantics”.
I find these statements hard to square: on the one hand, Mastodon says it how quote posts are displayed has little impact on the semantics of a post, but at the same time it is assumed to have enough of an impact in that it can reduce “dunking culture”. But if the manner a quote post is displayed can impact people’s behaviour, it automatically follows that the manner a quote post is displayed impacts its semantics, as otherwise there would be no impact on people’s behaviour either. But if the semantics of a post are altered by using a different display method for quote posts, than it means that Mastodon is taking an active decision to alter the semantics of posts made on other networks like Misskey and Bluesky.
Mastodon’s choice to use a different way of displaying quote posts than the other platforms in their network opens up a new interesting avenue for federated diplomacy. We’ve seen both ways of displaying quote posts be successful, the way posts are quoted is a significant part of how conversations flow on Tumblr. But what is new here is Mastodon is part of a federated network, and that means that their decisions impact other players, and their decisions have impact on Mastodon as well. This interaction between different display types of quote posts is something we have not really seen before, leading to some interesting new types of negotiations: how Mastodon expect Misskey to display Mastodon quote posts on Misskey? How does Threads feel about having their quote posts being displayed differently on Mastodon? What is the expected behaviour of Bridgy Fed, the bridge that connects Bluesky with Mastodon? All those questions are still open, and I’m curious what the answer will turn out to be.
Tumblr is still planning to join the fediverse. I reported this recently, and now TechCrunch got a followup and a confirmation from Automattic, saying that ‘Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”’
The Social Web Foundation (SWF) has announced they are now a formal member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The W3C tends to favour institutional membership, but the W3C Social Community Group that concerns itself with ActivityPub is open to everyone. The SWF is working on various improvements to ActivityPub, such as adding end-to-end encryption and supporting data portability.
Event Federation is a WordPress plugin that extends the ActivityPub support plugin for WordPress by adding support for WordPress events. The plugin is now officially released as a 1.0 version.
Hexbear is a controversial Lemmy server that let domain expire. The Hexbear domain is now for sale, and an avid bidding war has driven up the price for the domain to over 2300 dollar at time of writing.
ForgeFed is an ActivityPub extension that adds federation support to software forges such as Forgejo. It has gotten a new NLnet grant, with the project now focusing on user research and documentation.
A few weeks ago, Fedidb removed fediverse platfrom GoToSocial from the database after refusing to honor robots.txt, and the GoToSocial developer spoofed data as retaliation. Fedidb developer Daniel Supernault later decided to properly add support for robots.txt, but stopped crawling for the entire fediverse in the meantime while it was implemented. Supernault now confirms that Fedidb honors robots.txt and has added GoToSocial back to the data set.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has set up their own Mastodon server for all community members, including students.
The Links
An experiment with social media handles– Doctor Popular
Micro Social is a new third-party app for Micro.Blog
A podcast by The Conversation about how decentralised social media platforms work, interviewing Robert Gehl
Five Confusing Fediverse Things – FediHost Podcast
ActivityPods shared their presentation from FOSDEM, about how the project compares to ATProto and their work with NextGraph.
Another FOSDEM presentation that was uploaded recently was by Davide Eynard, about ‘Building your own Timeline Algorithm’.
This week’s fediverse software updates.
WordPress as a Self-Hosting Platform – Alex Kirk
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#AureFreePress #news #BreakingNews #Breaking #headline #socialmedia #Fediverse #trending
Veganism Social is a Mastodon server for vegans to make friends and interact with the wider Fediverse:
This server has a post size limit of 10,000 characters.
You can find out more at https://veganism.social/about or contact the admin @nm
#FeaturedServer #Vegan #Vegans #Veganism #VeganFood #FoodAndDrink #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Sakurajima.moe is an inclusive non-toxic Glitch Mastodon server for anyone interested in Japanese anime, manga, games, media etc. The server is highly moderated to provide a safe environment.
Members of this server can post with a 3000 character limit.
You can find out more about the server at https://sakurajima.moe/about or contact the admin @sakurajima
#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Japan #Japanese #Glitch #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
•ᴗ• ☞ ⁂ ≠ 𝕏
#fediverse #asciiart #xittter #ascii #utf8 #smile #socialmedia #FediverseSymbol
Week in Fediverse 2025-03-21
Servers
- streams v25.3.15
- Mitra v3.20.0
- Hubzilla v10.2.0
- PeerTube v7.1.0
- Manyfold v0.104.0
- Lemmy v0.19.10
- NodeBB v4.2.0
- snac v2.74
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.5.0
- GoToSocial v0.18.3
- Gancio v1.25.0
- tootik v0.15.5
- Activity-Relay v2.0.8
- gathio v1.5.1
- NeoDB v0.11.5.5
- Vernissage Server v1.6.0
- Development Update: Sandcastles edition (Letterbook)
- picverse: ActivityPub based blogengine
- Jaseur: An ActivityPub server implementation in C++ developed using AI agent technology
Clients
- Tusky 28.0
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.1.0.1
- Blorp v1.0.3
- Tesseract v1.4.32
Tools and Plugins
- Lemmy Schedule v1.14.2
- Lemmy Webhooks v0.21.1
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.4.0
For developers
Protocol
- FEP-c180: Problem Details for ActivityPub
- FEP-ae0c: Fediverse Relay Protocols: Mastodon and LitePub (Finalized)
- FEP-d556: Server-Level Actor Discovery Using WebFinger (Finalized)
Articles
- Website League and the Rise of Island Networks
- The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls
- Silly Mastodon apps
- Hands on with Ghost’s New ActivityPub Beta
- Fediverse Report #108
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01959655-f2a7-6172-cb8c-8d6c51cebb2d
Please help disabled #Indigenous #Latina family; #homeless & sheltering in a hotel
Sabi is multidisciplinary #artist; #disability & #mentalhealth #advocate; sole caretaker for elderly mom & ESA bun
Ko-fi.com/SabiLewSounds
PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
#SabiLewSounds #SupportDisabledArtists #MutualAid #Poverty #LightWithin #Fempreneur #Mastodon #Fediverse #Boost #Alt4Me
An Interview with Fosstodon's Former Senior Moderator
An insightful interview of Chris Miller’s unique perspective and experiences as a former senior moderator on the popular Fediverse instance Fosstodon.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/interview-fosstodon-former-senior-moderator/
Week in Fediverse 2025-04-25
Servers
- GoToSocial v0.19.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.8.0
- NeoDB v0.11.6.0
- Vernissage Server v1.10.0
- NodeBB v4.2.2
- Custom usernames (Ghost)
Clients
- Fedilab v3.32.2
- Fread v1.3.1
- Voyager v2.31.0
- Blorp v1.1.0
- pl-fe changes summary
Tools and Plugins
- Fediphoto Lineage v7.5
- FediFetcher v7.1.16
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.4.3 (WordPress plugin)
For developers
Protocol
- FEP-8a8e: A common approach to using the Event object type
- Activity Streams/Primer/Language mapping
- Activity Streams/Primer/Relationship type
Articles
- If I ran Mastodon
- How decentralized is the fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #113
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01964a3e-3eef-f858-31a1-b1385bd0971c
IndieAuthors.social is a Mastodon server for independent self-published authors to discuss writing and support each other. Fans of their work are also welcome.
You can find out more at https://indieauthors.social/about or contact the admin accounts @admin & @steaphan
#FeaturedServer #Authors #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #SelfPublishing #Books #Writing #Novels #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behaviorawait ctx.sendActivity( { identifier: "alice" }, recipients, activity, { fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count // Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out));
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({ // Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs origin: { handleHost: "example.com", webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com", }, // Other options...});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
await ctx.sendActivity( { identifier: sender }, "followers", activity, { preferSharedInbox: true, syncCollection: true, // Explicitly enable collection synchronization });
Enhanced Key Format Compatibility
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
@fedify/redis 0.4.0
@fedify/postgres 0.3.0
@fedify/amqp 0.2.0
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
To update to Fedify 1.5.0, run:
# For Denodeno add jsr:@fedify/fedify@1.5.0# For npmnpm add @fedify/fedify@1.5.0# For Bunbun add @fedify/fedify@1.5.0
Thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible!
What to learn more about the #fediverse and #ActivityPub? This tutorial (https://fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog) from @fedify is a really good starter. It explains how to implement a really simple #federated server and see how communication exchange are done with AP.
