Piefed is seeing a surge. 📈
fediverse
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/116514953039588679
As some of you have already guessed: the progressive parties in German politics (and the social democrats 😉) have jointly decided to leave the manipulative and abusive cesspit that twitter has turned into. I‘m very happy and also a little proud of this.
If you want want to do me a favor, be ready to welcome an influx of mildly woke people.
#xit #fediverse
Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server mainly intended for people in Scotland or those who identify as Scottish:
You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet
#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scot #Scots #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Week in Fediverse 2025-02-14
Servers
- Mbin v1.8.0
- snac v2.72
- Lemmy v0.19.9
- flohmarkt v0.8.0
- GoToSocial v0.17.4
- Hollo v0.5.0
- Manyfold v0.100.0
- Mitra v3.17.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.2.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.4
- NeoDB v0.11.4.7
- tootik v0.15.3
- kmyblue v17.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025
- Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon
Clients
- Mangane v1.13.6
- Thunder v0.6.1
- Fediboat: Mastodon TUI client with a Newsboat-like interface
Tools and Plugins
- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.0.0 (WordPress plugin)
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.0.0
- LemmyWebhook v0.19.0
- Mastodon – Simplified Federation v2.2.1
- Utsukta Hub themes: A collection of custom themes developed for Hubzilla
For developers
- BotKit v0.1.1
- TootSDK v13.0.0
- apsig: Signature implementation used in ActivityPub (python)
Protocol
- FEP-efda: Followable objects
Articles
- Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes
- Last Week in Fediverse #103
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0194e1e4-74a9-17c1-c347-9674b1a3f9c9
We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing check-ins, calendars, events, opening hours - all federated. A living hub for what's happening there.
🔧 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444
This unlocks new possibilities for local organizing, let's explore together 🔥
#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.
v1.2.6 is available
- Localized in English, German, Spanish and French 🌍
- Add Explore page: trending posts, trending hashtags, trending links, and suggested accounts
- Add scheduled post feature
Looking through the list of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners, I wonder how many of these journalists and organizations have an active fediverse presence.
#pulitzer #PulitzerPrize #journalism #journalists #fediverse
with all the meta about the new social network called W going on I thought it was funny I just discovered a new flavor of #fediverse server at https://z.org. Looks like its author @maxfield got federation working last month and they named the software #Elektrine
#fedidev
🌐 Co děláme v rámci Oscloud
Budujeme a provozujeme komunitní služby pro Fediverse a otevřený internet:
• Mamutovo.cz – Mastodon instance pro komunitu
• VHSky.cz – PeerTube pro sdílení videí bez reklam
• Pixelfed – alternativa k Instagramu bez sledování
• MXChat – Matrix komunikace pro komunitu
• Oscloud – zázemí a služby pro provoz aplikací a projektů
Brzy představíme i naši novou službu.
Cílem je nabídnout svobodné, otevřené a soukromí respektující služby bez reklam, bez profilování a bez vendor lock-inu.
Vše běží jako komunitní projekt a je zdarma pro uživatele.
Za tím je ale reálná infrastruktura, čas a náklady.
Od dubna navýšil ceny serverů Hetzner, takže provoz je teď náročnější než dřív.
Pokud ti tyhle projekty dávají smysl a používáš je, zvaž prosím dobrovolnou podporu:
https://oscloud.cz/co-to-bude-stat/
Pomůže to udržet stabilní provoz, pokrýt náklady a posouvat věci dál.
Díky všem, kdo tu tvoří komunitu ❤️
#fediverse #oscloud #mamutovo #vhsky #pixelfed #mxchat #opensource #podpora
Now that Tapestry is finally an App Store reality, join us for a sneak peek into what went on behind the scenes of our successful product launch as well as some exciting news about what lies ahead. #TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb
https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/02/tapestry-by-iconfactory-past-present-and-future/
A new release of TootSDK - 21.1.0 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/21.1.0
What's changed:
- Introduce rendering options on AttributedStringRenderer @luckkerr
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
Open Lemmy comment threads in Mastodon?
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"The more the Fediverse can be baked into systems already in use, as with the Wordpress plugin and Ghost 6.0, the easier it will be to make connections without platform or protocol battles." - @michael
Part 2 of Michael's post-FediCon blog series, exploring growth with a grassroots vibe, is out now! Check it out below 👇
https://www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-in-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/
#Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediCon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Blog #ThirdSpaces #FediGrowth #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #LeaveX
#Indigenous #Brown #Latina family, #Homeless
#SabiLewSounds is disabled multidisciplinary #artist & #musician; #mentalhealth & #disability #advocate; 24/7 caretaker for elderly mom w/dementia & ESA bunny
1609 hotel, food, bills
459 hotel past due
273 covers Thu-Sat
650 more due Tue
🔗🌿SabiLewSounds
🔗🌿 toadlyturtle (note: Sabi)
#HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #LightWithin #Fempreneur #TraumaSurvivor #cPTSD #Mastodon #Fediverse #Boost #SupportDisabledArtists #Poverty
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
- FediAM v0.2
- Threativore v0.7.0
- Posty: This is How You Take Your Posts With You
For developers
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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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193e565-a77c-3eb7-5957-9d3d3367f05d
Thanks @raphael, well received!
They are so pretty 
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Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für Jedermann 🔐
Teilen erbeten ! 
als PDF Datei:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/kRgZ+fsPATHElnUKYE8ziTgT/
#DSGVO #TDDDG ( #unplugtrump )
#Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Leta
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Apple #Windows10 #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #OpenAndroidInstaller
#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
Fediverse Report – #117
Keynote speakers for FediForum announced, some new interesting updates for PieFed, and 15 years of the software group of Hubzilla, Friendica and others.
The News
PieFed, a link aggregator platform for the fediverse, has made some interesting updates recently. It is one of the first (if not the first) platform to add support for Passkeys to the platform. It has also added flair (community-specific tags) to posts, that are federated as well. PieFed has also made a image hashing service available that can be used by any fediverse platform. This service generates a unique fingerprint of every image, and that fingerprint can be used to identity other posts that use the same or fairly similar images. This can be used for content moderation, PieFed has a demo video available on PeerTube showcasing how it can find and take down multiple posts that all contain a similar image.
FediForum has announced three keynote speakers and published a tentative agenda. On Thursday, June 5, Ian Forrester will give the opening keynote. Forrester has been a driving factor for the BBC R&D department to get the broadcaster to experiment with a Mastodon server. Later on Thursday, Cory Doctorow will give a keynote. On Friday June 6, Christine Lemmer-Webber will give the opening keynote. On Thursday, I will be hosting a session on Whats New at the Open Social Web, where I’ll be going over all the news and events that have happened since 2025.
The branch of fediverse software that consists of Friendica, Hubzilla and more, is now 15 years old. The main developer Mike Macgirvin lists the large number of features that the platforms have, including groups, nomadic identity, comment controls, and much more. When it comes to the large variety of features, no fediverse platform comes anywhere close to what this branch of platforms offer. The software platforms have managed to create their own small self-sustaining communities. While a number of the software platforms such as Streams do not publish any statistics, extrapolating data from what some servers running Hubzilla and Friendica publish, together I would estimate the active accounts to be less than 10k MAU. Still, these communities have managed to find long-term sustainability, exisiting over 15 years in various forms is no mean feat. As Macgirvin says: ‘if you think that this “alternative fediverse” is going away any time soon, you must be new here.’
The Links
- Architecting a New Era of Community, with Blacksky’s Rudy Fraser – Flipboard’s Dot Social podcast
- My Dream Fediverse Platform – Sean Tilley/WeDistribute
- Ben Werdmuller has been writing a four-part series on strategies for the open social web, with articles on product strategies for Mastodon, Bluesky, starting fresh, and now his most recent article on various funding strategies for the open social web.
- A detailed overview of how federation between Lemmy and Mastodon works in practice. It is a good indication that using the same protocol does not automatically guarantee good interoperability. Nor is it clear what good interaction pattern between two different types of platforms (microblogging and link-aggregators) would even look like.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- Ghost’s weekly update on their fediverse integration, mentioning that ActivityPub is now also available at another vendor who offers Ghost hosting.
- Flipboard is federating another 124 accounts, this time from international publishers. Flipboard now federates over 1200 accounts of publishers.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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Organizers Log:
An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.
I have been trying to design a logo for FediCon.
(I am NOT a logo designer 🙂 )
I tried using the FediOrigami version of the Fediverse logo, to be part of it.
...
You can get the FediCon logo from here:
https://github.com/reiver/fedicon-logo
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🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 46F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
Mass. reversed course on the closure of Pappas Hospital, which provides services to children and young adults with disabilities. #disability
21 civil servants with the US Digital Service quit rather than work with Elon Musk's DOGE team.
Apple's shareholders have rejected a proposal to scrap the company's diversity programs.
Is anyone building cool stuff with @fedify ? I’ve been curious about diving in after I learn JavaScript, I think it would be fun to make some simple #Fediverse apps. I’d love to see what other people are making with it.
Fediverse Report #105
While the news in the world is louder and intenser than ever, the fediverse has had one of it’s most quiet news weeks in a long time. But as compensation I’ll have another article out tomorrow, that I did not manage to finish for today.
The News
Some updates for GoToSocial: GoToSocial published the documentation that would also allow other fediverse platforms to implement their Interaction Policies. And Slurp is a new CLI tool to import your posts from other fediverse servers into GoToSocial. A guide to import your Pixelfed posts into GoToSocial with Slurp is available here.
Last week I wrote extensively about Mastodon’s plan to implement quote post. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput confirmed in a follow-up that Mastodon will not display quote posts if they are made using another implementation than Mastodon proposes. This means in practice that even when Mastodon has added support for quote posts, it will not display quote posts made by Misskey, unless Misskey also implements Mastodon’s new proposed system for quote posts.
Elgg is an old-school open source social network that started in 2004. It added a plugin for ActivityPub this week.
John Oliver discussed content moderation on Last Week Tonight, quickly promoting Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky and Signal as alternatives.
The Identity Graph Explorer is a simple tool to find out how “identifiers on the Fediverse / Social Web are connected to one another”.
The Hexbear Lemmy community recently lost control of their domain, leading to a bidding war for the domain name for thousands of dollars. The admins now report that they have gotten back control of their domain.
The Links
- IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis – WeDistribute
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse – with unique controls – Elena Rossini
- How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server – WeDistribute
- Website League update for February
- Managing Mastodon Storage – FediHost
- Lemmy biweekly development update.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:
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Discover The Fediverse: Free Software Movement
Learn the key points of the free software movement in order to protect your freedoms along with exploring free and open source software highlights.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-free-software-movement/
#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss
Looking for #opensource #linux #fediverse #mastodon people in #Ireland #Eire - #hackerspaces included ... anybody out there?
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Good day folks! #FiresideFedi #Episode 18 starts NOW!
Joining me today is @nikclayton with the @pachli project!
Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live
After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live
All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live
#stream #owncast #live #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #fedicast #livestream #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease