We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feed customisations...
We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing.
Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feeds customisations, plus plenty of interface refinements for both desktop and mobile.
A huge thank you to everyone who has set up a Bonfire instance, or joined the campground (our local-only testing space) to try out the app. Your suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable as we approach version 1.0. Please keep testing, sharing feedback, and helping us shape the future of federated social spaces!
✨ What’s new and improved?
Long-form publishing: Going beyond beyond short posts to read and write in-depth articles, ideal for essays, announcements, or detailed content. Article feeds are now available for RSS readers.
Smarter feeds: New feed options for events, books, and articles help you discover what matters to you most. You can now also filter out your own activities from your feeds when desired.
Multi-profiles overview: A new navigation menu can display all your profiles with notification indicators, allowing quick profile switching.
Private by default: New Bonfire instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.
Interface improvements: We've refined the user experience, enhanced notifications and ensured posts display properly across mobile devices.
More reliable: Tons of fixes for authentication, media uploads, mentions, moderation, and other core features.
Additional improvements include:
Better translation and localization workflow
Smoother OAuth/OpenID login and SSO support
Updated documentation and guides for admins and contributors
Enhanced S3 integration for uploads
Lots of small bug fixes on comment threads, messaging, settings, and more
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the full changelog.
🎪 Community contributions and other initiatives
We hosted our first install party using coop-cloud, with all participants who followed along successfully deploying their own Bonfire instances.
Seperately, ozoned from Fireside Fedilivestreamed their installation attempt, surfacing valuable setup challenges. This highlighted the need to simplify Docker deployment and improve documentation. Contributors are welcome to help make this easier!
Bonfire Social is built to be diverse and welcoming, which means making it accessible in as many languages as possible. Thanks to our amazing translators, Bonfire is now available in several languages.
- ...and several more, including Catalan, Cantonese and Taiwanese.
Want to help Bonfire speak your language? Please join us and make a difference for communities worldwide!
🤝 Help needed
As we push toward 1.0, we're facing some specific challenges where community support and contributions would make a real difference:
DevOps expertise: We need help streamlining the Docker installation process to make Bonfire more accessible to new users. If you have experience with containerisation and deployment workflows, your contributions would be invaluable.
Elixir developers: Join us in improving Bonfire's stability and performance. We're focused on eliminating bugs and enhancing the core extensions' reliability.
Financial support: As a small team of two working full-time on Bonfire, we need community support to sustain development. You can contribute through our Open Collective page.
Federation testing: We're seeking users willing to set up Bonfire instances and try out federation and interoperability with other fediverse platforms. Your real-world testing helps ensure Bonfire works seamlessly across the fediverse.
Translation: Please join us or share this with your multilingual friends!
These are our most pressing needs as we approach 1.0. If you can help with any of these areas, please get in touch via the fediverse, Matrix chat, or GitHub. Every contribution, big or small, helps make Bonfire better for everyone.
🙏 Thank you!
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed translations and reviews. You are lighting up Bonfire for people everywhere! Here are some of our awesome translators:
> Gilles Dutilh, Ahmad Dakhlallah, Lamparina Coletivo, alan ptm, Antonio Irre, Zulfikar A, CDN, cranio_is_thinking, Steven Bond, Diego KehrleSousa, Vrlo Vazno, Ed, Andrei Guliaikin, Hendra Wahyu T, Hippie Gschpängschtli, House of Olivier EU, Ivan Minutillo, Juan García, Lapineige, Pascal Schmid, Martin Frost, Duy, Mayel de Borniol, Sovversivo Anonimo, Peter Kvillegård, Poesty Li, Sergio Guidoux, Vaclovas lntas, Williams Melgar, and many more!
Thanks to those that are taking time to test drive Bonfire on our demo instance and provide feedback, such as @[url=https://pawb.social/u/liquidparasyte]liquidparasyte[/url], @[url=https://chaos.social/users/rincewind]🌈 🇺🇦 Jörg Matysiak[/url], @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/youronlyone]♾️ Yuki (스노 雪亮) 🐬 🦣[/url], @coyote...
Thanks to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for supporting the Bonfire development, all our Open Collective donors and our amazing community as a whole.
Hi, i had a transifex account (previous experience with Mozilla's tools) but I couldn't add myself to bonfire project, do you know if there's an easy way ? (when I tried with my account, project bonfire didn't appear)
I noticed your request for help testing federation with other platforms. I would love to help out.
In addition to a Mastodon account, I’m self-hosting GoToSocial, Friendica, PeerTube and Pixelfed. And I could even check interoperability with federated Wordpress blogs 🤗
@elena Thank you! Yeah if you're up for testing common flows (like follow/mention/reply/DM/post with CW...) and report back that'd of course be awesome (we did some testing of course, but there can always be exceptions), but since you're hosting them all yourself it'd be even more valuable if you're able check if things like flagging/blocks/edits/deletions work well and to get logs (or AP processing reports if they have that) otherwise. Thanks so much for offering!
hiya folks - will the usual Co-op Cloud sequence ''' # abra app undeploy foo.bar.org #abra app deploy --force foo.bar.org ''' work, or do I need to do something else? My sites say they are on 966c7176
Auf Plattformen wie X, Instagram oder TikTok nehmen Hass, Rassismus und Desinformation zu – während Tech-Konzerne massenhaft persönliche Daten sammeln.
🌱 Das Fediverse bietet echte Alternativen – offen, dezentral, gemeinschaftlich.
👉 Zum Lesen & Weiterleiten für alle, die ihr überzeugen wollt: Im Blogbeitrag haben wir zusammengefasst, was das Fediverse an tollen Alternativen bietet: 🔗 blog.wikimedia.de/2025/07/03/f…
Auf Social-Media-Plattformen wie X, Instagram oder TikTok nehmen Hass, Rassismus und Desinformation zu. Gleichzeitig sammeln Tech-Konzerne massenhaft persönliche Daten. Die gute Nachricht: Es gibt Alternativen zu den großen Netzwerken.
L'apertura di citiverse.it non è soltanto la creazione di un nuovo forum o, dal momento che a tutti gli effetti è federata con il Fediverso, di una nuova istanza. Citiverse.it, sfruttando la versatilità di NodeBB, vuole infatti realizzare un ambiente che sia utilizzabile sia da chi è già dentro il Fediverso, sia – soprattutto – da parte di chi è fuori dal Fediverso.
Chi è su Lemmy infatti può utilizzare le "categorie" del forum NodeBB come se fossero "comunità" Lemmy.
Vediamo quindi quali sono le categorie di citiverse.it e rendiamole navigabili per l'utente Lemmy:
Perché citiverse.it? In Italia, i gruppi Facebook sono diventati uno dei principali luoghi virtuali di aggregazione, scalzando i vecchi forum che tra la fine...
Sono passati 3 anni dal mio primo approdo nel fediverso, e credo che sia abbastanza per farmi un idea generale su cosa sia e delineare dei pregi e difetti. sicuramente la cosa che mi piace è che è in costante evoluzione anche se devo dire molto lenta. In
Sono passati 3 anni dal mio primo approdo nel fediverso, e credo che sia abbastanza per farmi un idea generale su cosa sia e delineare dei pregi e difetti.
Non avevo letto il tuo post namirblog@namirblog.altervista.org (ti menziono anche come peppenamir@www.foxyhole.io perché non so se funziona il commento a wordpress) ma mi è capitato di vederlo ora, a poch ore dal lancio di questo nostro progetto citiverse.it
Sono d'accordo con la tua analisi: il Fediverso va promosso fuori dal Fediverso e, possibilmente, bisognerebbe anche evitare di chiamarlo Fediverso 😀
Chissà se il nostro citiverse riuscirà ad avvicinare un po' di gente?
PS: intanto sono molto contento di aver potuto "prendere" il tuo post di Wordpress e averlo "spostato" all'interno della categoria "Discussioni sul Fediverso"
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
Ti piacciono i vecchi forum, ma vorresti che fossero collegati ai social network e ai blog? Ecco citiverse.it, la città dei social liberi e l’alternativa ai gruppi locali Facebook!
Abbiamo bisogno di un’alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per gli utenti italiani, in particolare i gruppi locali; ma non potendo competere con Meta, dobbiamo fare in modo che gli utenti del forum non siano da soli…
Abbiamo bisogno di un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per gli utenti italiani, in particolare i gruppi locali; ma non potendo competere con Meta, dobbiamo fare…
After procrastinating for more than a year, I recently migrated two KMP projects to AndroidX ViewModels and said farewell to Voyager's ScreenModels. Voyager is very convenient for its DI integration, but when you want to move away from it...
This week’s technical post is going to deal with state holders and the major overhaul which Raccoon apps have undergone here and here concerning how state is retained and managed.
Openverse è un motore di ricerca multilingue per oltre 700 milioni di immagini e file audio con licenza Creative Commons: openverse.org/it Con Openverse, gli utenti possono trovare, condividere, remixare e attribuire facilmente le opere con licenza CC in tutto il web.
[OLDIES BUT GOODIES] Visto il caldo torrido che si fa sentire soprattutto in città, ripropongo la traduzione italiana della bella guida #Riprendersi la città Guida per i cittadini, con 40 idee per riappropriarsi della città: roberto-marcolin.canoprof.fr/e…
Grazie a te 😊 La guida è il frutto di una traduzione collaborativa che ho fatto tre anni fa insieme alle ragazze di una quinta linguistico, all'interno di un'attività di educazione civica: poliversity.it/@bibliogadda/11…
I social network sono stati costruiti su post brevi, pensati per velocità e scalabilità. Ma cosa succederebbe se la prossima era del web fosse costruita per qualcosa di più profondo?
Due dei "longformer" del social web stanno lavorando su questo aspetto. @John O'Nolan , fondatore e CEO di #Ghost, e @Matthias Pfefferle lo sviluppatore del plugin #ActivityPub per #WordPress, sono all'avanguardia nell'integrazione delle funzionalità social con blog, newsletter, saggi e qualsiasi cosa che non rientri in uno spazio di 500 caratteri o meno.
In questa puntata di Dot Social, parlano con @Mike McCue CEO di #Flipboard, della riscoperta della magia della blogosfera, del perché formattazione, identità e interoperabilità siano problemi difficili da risolvere e del posto che la scrittura occuperà nel prossimo capitolo di Internet.
I punti salienti includono:
Importanza per scrittori e blogger
Modelli per la scoperta
Principi fondamentali per portare il formato lungo sul social web
Rediscovering the Magic of the Blogosphere, with John O’Nolan and Matthias Pfefferle
Social networks were built on short posts designed for speed and scale. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?
Two of the social web’s “longformers” are working on this. John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, and Matthias Pfefferle, the developer behind the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, are at the forefront of integrating social features with blogs, newsletters, essays — anything that doesn’t fit in a box of 500 characters or less.
In this episode of Dot Social, they talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue about rediscovering the magic of the blogosphere; why formatting, identity, and interoperability are tricky problems to solve; and where writing belongs in the next chapter of the internet.
Highlights include:
Importance to writers and bloggers
Models for discovery
Core principles around bringing long-form to the social web
Lessons from Web 2.0, email
Rough edges and need for collaboration
We invite you to watch the podcast on Flipboard’s PeerTube instance at flipboard.video:
We will continue to bring you new episodes with fascinating leaders as we record them. The best way to never miss an episode is to subscribe to the show. Please also rate, review, comment and share, especially if you like what you hear.
Technology Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Learn about the Internet’s next wave on the open social web and what it will unlock for how we connect, communicate, and innovate online. Hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue.
È il segnale che qualcosa davvero sta per cambiare oppure il fragile equilibrio del fediverso rischia di essere compromesso dall’arrivo di piattaforme con decine o centinaia di milioni di utenti (e che si reggono su modelli di business tradizionali)? Sognare che le logiche alla base dell’open web contagino infine anche il mondo social non costa nulla. Ma è bene essere pronti a un brusco risveglio.
Nonostante la sua complessità, l’ecosistema aperto e decentralizzato simboleggiato da Mastodon continua ad attirare grandi piattaforme come Threads o Flipboard: è la rivincita dell’open web o l’inizio della fine?
Distracted dolphin or frolicsome frog? Did you notice that in Raccoon themes are named according to a strange convention? Have you ever wondered why? My latest article explains the localization journey which has brought to this result.
Localization and customization are first-class citizens at Procyon, as already discussed. An feature in which they come together is the choice of the color theme to apply to the app.
A Milano, più di trenta esperienze di scuole aperte hanno cominciato a camminare insieme per rafforzarsi come scuole partecipate attente ai quartieri nei quali operano, ma soprattutto per sostenere le realtà al momento meno attive.
A Milano, più di trenta esperienze di scuole aperte hanno cominciato a camminare insieme non solo per rafforzarsi come scuole partecipate e attente ai quartieri nei quali operano, ma soprattutto per sostenere le realtà al momento meno attive
When working on Kotlin Multiplatform apps there are several choices for dependency injection but not all offer the same developer experience. Have a look at my latest blog post to know about what alternatives I used in Raccoon apps and why!
Dependency injection (or DI) has been the backbone of Android development for years, bringing flexibility, easier refactoring, and proper lifecycle management through decoupling and abstraction.
nice summary. I work on a Koin "big project" and while it's moderately easy to onboard new devs and explain how it works, I do not recommend Koin unless it's a small-mid size project (dunno about KMP) Sidenote: you made a typo:
"Java dependency: noth rely heavily on generated Java code,"
ORCID è uno schema di identificazione e un database bibliografico per accademici che mira a rendere le informazioni sui lavori dei ricercatori ampiamente e facilmente accessibili. Il Fediverse è un insieme di piattaforme social interoperabili in cui le persone possono seguirsi a vicenda oltre i confini delle piattaforme per leggere e condividere post di testo o altri media. Tra questi due ambienti, osserviamo norme sociali contrastanti sui "dati pubblici" e aspettative contrastanti su come le informazioni personali possono essere archiviate e ripubblicate. Durante la fase iniziale di progettazione di uno strumento per collegare i dati ORCID al Fediverse e rendere i record ORCID individuali consultabili su piattaforme social aperte, ci siamo trovati di fronte alla necessità di collegare e risolvere queste differenze per prevenire conflitti evitabili. Questo articolo documenta queste norme e aspettative, nonché il nostro approccio per collegarle e colmarle
Aiuta anche tu a curare questa lista . Suggerisci voci e apporta miglioramenti. Condividi l'URL con altri. Prenditi cura in particolare di tutti questi terreni incolti dove possono fiorire i fedi freschi, indicati da un'emoji:
⏱️ pianificare il supporto di ActivityPub o avere richieste di funzionalità aperte. ⚗️ indica le aree di innovazione fediverse, non sono contrassegnate come non mantenute. 🍀 in cerca di salvataggio o fork da parte di nuovi custodi manutentori. 👻 non mantenute e inattive da oltre un anno. Vuoi rivitalizzarle?
In questa versione di ActivityPub per WordPress, la maggior parte dei blocchi ha subito una revisione piuttosto radicale della propria infrastruttura tecnica, del design e della funzionalità.
In this version of ActivityPub for WordPress, most blocks received a pretty fundamental overhaul of their technical infrastructure, design, and functionality.
The biggest change is almost invisible—all blocks now use WordPress’ Interactivity API under the hood, shedding a substantial amount of load-heavy scripts. On well-optimized sites, this should lead to noticeably quicker load times and improved web vitals.
Let’s dive in and look at each block individually.
Follow Me Block
After updating, you might glance at your existing Follow Me blocks and think… “Did anything change?” That’s the goal! We’ve worked hard to keep things fully backwards compatible, so nothing should break—or even look too different—unless you want it to.
The “Follow” button was updated to use WordPress’ built-in Button block, so all those customization options you already know and love are right there. We also turned “Button Only” into a proper Block Style. You’ll see it right next to the default, complete with a hover preview, making it easy to switch between.
And speaking of style: there’s a new Profile style! This transforms the block into something that looks like an author card, complete with a description, header image, and post/follower stats. More social, more visual, still fully customizable. Not into the rounded corners and shadows? No problem—you can tweak those in the Styles tab.
But that’s not all! The Modal containing the follow information also received a slight makeover, making it more theme-agnostic in its appearance.
Followers Block
For this block we didn’t hold back on updating the design—subtler styling and better theme integration, so it looks at home wherever you drop it. Like we did with the Reactions block in version 5.9.0, we’ve updated the title to use WordPress’ native Heading block. That gives you more control over appearance, while keeping things compatible with existing content.
This block now benefits from the same Interactivity API improvements and renders server-side on first load, making it feel noticeably faster and more responsive right from the start.
We also introduced a new Card style here (you might’ve spotted it in the 6.0.0 announcement). It pairs nicely with the Follow Me block’s Profile style—rounded corners and a coordinated look that helps everything feel part of the same family.
They’ll be more changes to come soon, as we unlock font and background customizations to bring the block up to par with the rest of them.
Reactions Block
The Reactions block is a bit of a behind-the-scenes hero. Thanks to block hooks, it can automatically appear at the end of posts—no editor work required. But if you want to place it manually (like we’re doing here), you totally can.
Beyond receiving the same technical upgrades as the other blocks, this one now displays the actual reactions in the Editor, matching what you see on the frontend—no more stand-in data unless there are no reactions yet. It also includes a few subtle improvements, like rendering an HTML comment when there’s nothing to show (so you’re not left guessing), and displaying more avatars when the block is set to “wide” or “full”-width, making better use of the space.
Remote Reply
This one’s a bit niche, but clever: Remote Reply lets logged-out users respond to Fediverse comments directly from your site. It’s not a block you can add in the editor, but it now uses the same lightweight tech as the Follow Me button—so it loads faster and feels smoother.
If you’ve never seen it in action, you’re not alone—it only appears when certain conditions are met (logged out, looking at a Fediverse-sourced comment, etc.). Here’s a quick demo:
While most of what ActivityPub does happens quietly behind the scenes, this update puts a little more shine on the parts your visitors can see. The blocks are lighter, more flexible, and a bit more fun to work with.
As always, we’d love to hear what you think! Every improvement in this release was shaped by feedback from users like you—so keep it coming.
> "Inspired by @evan 's recent article on advancing long-form text in the social web, we've taken the leap and developed our first prototype for publishing and reading articles on Bonfire, based on the FEP-b2b8 draft specification."
Here the article on how we are implementing articles in bonfire 😅
Putting the entire article in the summary property twice (once in preview and once at the top level) seems a bit silly; since it's meant to be a summary maybe you should abbreviate it to a limit of say 200 chars?
also as a heads-up, <a> elements in summary properties tend to be rather messy on other servers (and in clients), so you're probably better off sanitizing those out of any summary property before sending it over the wire
another thing i just noticed, the url and id props of the object at https://bonfire.cafe/pub/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 are both https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1, so that other URL without /pub/ in it is not present on the article. For consistency you probably wanna use https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 as the id and https://bonfire.cafe/post/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 as the url.
@dumpsterqueer thanks a lot for the feedback ❤ we tried to push a bit the limit with this very first prototype and see how it looks like in different platforms, we will fix the various bugs in the next release!
@dumpsterqueer I wonder if an optional textarea to add a proper summary, or defaulting to the first n characters, would be better than repeating the title in the summary as well? wdyt?
text area probably makes sense. On a ux level you probably want to have people enter either a summary (for articles) or a cw/summary (for notes). I'd say if no user-entered summary is present on an article, use the first x characters with ellipses at the end (converted to plaintext from the interpreted html). Just my onion though!
🔥 Bonfire Install Party #1 – Get your fediverse instance running!
Inizia:Venerdì Giugno 27, 2025 @ 5:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Venerdì Giugno 27, 2025 @ 7:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Join us this Friday at 15:30 UTC for our first Bonfire Install Party!
A casual peer-led session where we’ll set up Bonfire instances together, ask questions, and tackle challenges in real time.
This session will focus on deploying Bonfire using Co-op Cloud — our recommended method, especially for fresh servers. Whether you’re ready to install or just want to follow along and learn, you’re welcome.
What to expect
• Hands-on walkthrough of live deployment using Co-op Cloud
• Real-world troubleshooting and debugging — we’ll learn together
• Shared note-taking to improve our documentation and install guides
• Help shape better tools and recipes by trying them out in the wild
• A no-pressure, collaborative learning environment
What to bring
Ideally:
• A domain or subdomain
• A publicly-accessible server (VPS, dedicated, or local) with SSH access
• DNS configured for your domain
• Your curiosity and questions!
Not ready? That’s fine too — join to watch, learn, and prep for next time. No experience required.
@devSJR do you mean campground.bonfire.cafe ? that's a testing instance, available for getting a feeling of the software and testing features, suggest/discuss improvements. - we will not run a flagship instance, but hopefully soon community-run federated instances will spin up 😀
No, I was wondering if you have an installation party which includes also federation between these instances and other Fediverse platforms for example. I know campground.campfire.cafe. I tested and liked it.
📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too!
@ElysianEve @ondra It would be nice if there was a federated/decentralized alternative that's as good as Signal (ease-of-use + security + feature set). Unfortunately there isn't.
Yes the spec is still open there are 2 different ways how to add stickers. One for element and schildi and one for the other clients, but it is missing a singular way.
The whole furry fandom is currently not able to move to matrix because of that single issue, but it is a real issue.
@Natanox @ElysianEve @ondra I found this an interesting site in order to make a decision on which messaging apps to use (a mix of Signal and Session for my own scenarios). Might be of interest to others too (?). securemessagingapps.com/
This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Simplex, Google Messenger, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr
@healthiswealth @ElysianEve @ondra That's nice, lacks a few though (e.g. Briar). Unfortunately if you want mass adoption you really need the jack of all trades. It's phenomenally hard work to combine all three aspects mentioned earlier, especially if you also want it to not use a classical centralized approach. Matrix attempted to do this and it's a buggy mess ever since. Other projects usually let go of either ease-of-use or features.
@Klimakipppunkt probably Threema Work. #Matrix is used by the German #Bundeswehr, and #XMPP by the German #police btw. Also Threema can see who writes who, while Signal technically cant, even if US based, sure there are other attackvectors, like via Cloudflare but one would have to trust Threema more than Signal. Also #Threema doesnt have #PostQuantumEncryption as of now. #SimpleX would potentially tick all the boxes, but it's still a bit small. @desirable_dialogue
I will say that the quivering effect on the resharing sticker (which I assume is meant to represent the mascot hitting the desk so hard) does make me feel a little queasy to watch, as if it were strobing. But it’s still quite adorable so I’ll probably use it anyway
@Pascal_dher there is another sticker (not shown in the image) holding a balloon featuring the m logo. We will leave it up to you to tell your friends where to find more cute Mastodons 🙏
@ElysianEve @ondra @dopatwo @signalapp @Mastodon Hi. It's a good start for some I thought especially since it's easy to visually compare the ones it lists. I've not visited it for a while to be honest so not sure it's fully up to date either (scrolling this site earlier on my phone was dreadful) & yes no Briar. There is also the privacy vs security aspect which are two different things of course 😀
btw, the mastodon banging on the computer with "error" on the screen when there is a mastodon error is a low-hanging fruit sticker material was expecting to find it in the pack 😁
@gianmarcogg03 there is a lot of #telegram packs available, the bot supports: signalstickers.org/ look for telegram packs there, in the future maybe #deltachat will support #lottie (#ArcaneChat client already supports it) and you will be able to export packs from telegram, there is a bot in telegram that allows to export packs
@gianmarcogg03 fun fact you can also send an emoji to get a random sticker from a random pack that is related to that emoji, or send text to search sticker packs, ex try sending "duck" or "telegram" to the bot to get packs that are originally from telegram
They are very nice but they should be available for the Mastodon app as stickers to post as a reaction to other posts and for internal messaging on Mastodon 🙁
@ElysianEve yep, absolutely the "fatigue" doesn't come from someone asking them to switch to Telegram, then Signal, when that one gets bad the next centralized phone-number based app that is "not enshitified yet"...
Tired of the endless tap-back-tap dance? There’s a better way to browse the Fediverse. Have a look at my blog blost about introducing the Swipe Navigation pattern in Raccoon apps! 🦝🦝🦝
Visto che ce lo chiedono in molti, quando usare l'avviso contenuti ⚠️?
Sulle istanze gestite da noi — 👉 servizi.devol.it — la regola è molto semplice: usa l'avviso di contenuto ⚠️ per tutto ciò che non mostreresti senza imbarazzo in un ambiente condiviso, tipo in ufficio, a scuola, all’università o a casa davanti a genitori, figli, compagn3 o capi.
Basta immaginare chi hai dietro le spalle mentre scorri la timeline e cosa vorresti che non vedesse (come foto di nudo)
Mastodon announces and retracts a new ToS for mastodon.social, Threads continues their streak of implementing ActivityPub in the most confusing way possible, and Wanderer is a new fediverse platform for sharing your hiking and biking trails.
If the State Department’s arguments prevail in FOIA litigation, the truth about US action against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks journalists will never be known
nemmeno io tollero i regini. Dal tuo messaggio non so se la mia intenzione di fare ironia sia stata capita. Anche lo stato usa che non dovrebbe essere un regime, perseguita delle persone.
🔥 Bonfire Install Party #1 – Get your fediverse instance running!
Inizia:Venerdì Giugno 27, 2025 @ 5:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Venerdì Giugno 27, 2025 @ 7:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Join us this Friday at 15:30 UTC for our first Bonfire Install Party!
A casual peer-led session where we’ll set up Bonfire instances together, ask questions, and tackle challenges in real time.
This session will focus on deploying Bonfire using Co-op Cloud — our recommended method, especially for fresh servers. Whether you’re ready to install or just want to follow along and learn, you’re welcome.
What to expect
• Hands-on walkthrough of live deployment using Co-op Cloud
• Real-world troubleshooting and debugging — we’ll learn together
• Shared note-taking to improve our documentation and install guides
• Help shape better tools and recipes by trying them out in the wild
• A no-pressure, collaborative learning environment
What to bring
Ideally:
• A domain or subdomain
• A publicly-accessible server (VPS, dedicated, or local) with SSH access
• DNS configured for your domain
• Your curiosity and questions!
Not ready? That’s fine too — join to watch, learn, and prep for next time. No experience required.
that sounds all good but after reading the Bonfire homepage, I'm confused: what capability does Bonfire offer? It's a fediverse component but does it do blogging, microblogging, images, videos, or something else?
@hamiller_friendica ah right, there are variants! I didn't see that on the mobile home page hence my confusion. @bonfire would it be worth clarifying this on the home page to help newbies understand what you're all about?
Could bonfire.cafe have open registration? I think it would help to be able to see what it is and how it works. For example I'm curious how interoperable it is with the rest of the fediverse.
@vagnretur We're not planning to have a flagship instance, but we're confident several community-run instances will emerge soon! To get a feel for what's included in Bonfire Social, you can sign up on our Campground (campground.bonfire.cafe), it's a testing instance (federation disabled) where you can explore features, discuss UX, and optionally report bugs or suggest improvements... @coopcloud
Buongiorno amici del Fediverso! Hello Fedi friends!
I hope you had a nice weekend.
I'm currently doing the sound mix of the Italian voice-over of my Fedi promo video.
I used to hate listening to recordings of my voice, but after endless hours of rewatching the English version and the French one, I'm now totally ok with that 😅
Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.
Il motivo per cui la nostra voce registrata (o amplificata, quando parliamo in un microfono) non ci piace è molto simile al motivo per cui non ci piaciamo quando ci vediamo in foto: non siamo abituati a sentirci (o a vederci) in quel modo.
Buona parte della nostra voce arriva al timpano passando dall'interno del nostro corpo, passando direttamente dalla gola al timpano. Una parte invece esce dalla bocca, rientra dall'orecchio e così arriva al timpano.
Quando sentiamo la nostra voce registrata invece arriva tutta al timpano passando dall'orecchio, ci perdiamo la parte che arriva dall'interno, questo ce la fa sentire diversa da come la conosciamo, e ci sembra più brutta.
Abbiamo presentato "non ve ne poteva importare di meno ma ve l'ho detto lo stesso" 😁
ahahaha beh io da Cuneo mi sono trasferito a Roma più di 20 anni fa: ora mi sentono il romano in Piemonte e comunque continuano a sentirmi il piemontese a Roma 😂
L'ho sentito ora, mi piace molto, non direi che si senta l'estero, oddio forse una punta di francese qua e là (che però abbellisce), e poi un po' di nord Italia (forse Friuli?)
Buongiorno! I hope your Italian voice-over mixing is going smoothly. It's truly impressive how you've adapted to hearing your own voice. The French version of your video is fantastic—I really enjoyed it! Have you considered adding an Esperanto translation? I would be delighted to offer my services to translate it into Esperanto, if you agree. It would be an amazing addition! 🌟
How a humanities background shaped the technical decisions behind the multilingual journey of Raccoon apps. Check out my blog post and stay tuned for updates!
🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language?
We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release!
Nous recherchons des traducteur·ices ou des personnes bilingues pour traduire les extensions et l’interface de Bonfire dans un maximum de langues — surtout avant la sortie de la version 1.0 !
Aucune compétence en code requise — juste un amour pour les mots.
@krafting We'd like to switch to an open source tool that can be more directly integrated so that translators can directly see where each piece of text is used: github.com/bonfire-networks/bo…
Buscamos traductores o personas bilingües para ayudar a localizar las extensiones y la interfaz de Bonfire a tantos idiomas como sea posible — ¡especialmente antes de la versión 1.0!
No se necesita saber programar — solo amor por las palabras.
Cerchiamo traduttori o persone bilingue per localizzare le estensioni e l’interfaccia di Bonfire in quante più lingue possibile — soprattutto prima del rilascio della versione 1.0!
Non serve saper programmare — basta amare le parole.
not really, an initial translation was done by MT, and some of the text was reviewed and corrected but the majority has not (if you have a go you can mark an individual text as reviewed in the transifex system)
🌐 Kannst du helfen, Bonfire in deine Sprache zu übersetzen?
Wir sind auf der Suche nach Übersetzenden und zweisprachigen Menschen, die helfen mögen, Erweiterungen und die Benutzer*innen-Oberfläche von Bonfire in so viele Sprachen wie möglich zu übersetzen. Insbesondere vor der Veröffentlichung der Version 1.0!
Keine Programmier-Kenntnisse nötig — nur eine Liebe für Wörter.
P.S. Du kannst auch helfen, indem du diese Nachricht übersetzst und/oder teilst. Je mehr Gemeinschaften wir erreichen, desto zugänglicher wird Bonfire. 🌍💬
We’re hosting online install parties, come set up your server alongside others! Bring your questions and curiosity, we’ll figure it out together and support each other through the process.
✅ Ideally have a (sub)domain + server with DNS set up, or just follow along and take notes.
@BjornW Apologies for missing that! The technical answer is that you can run it on most devices (including a Raspberry Pi) but the honest answer is that for a snappy experience you want to have enough RAM available (say 8 GB or more, depending of course on how big the instance will be).
We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvements.
It may take us a moment to consult with the right people, so please bear with us while we do so. As always, we appreciate your patience and support.
déjà agréablement surpris par la synthèse faite par email ^^ c'est rare de voir des Conditions d'Utilisation aller se bonifier en faveur de l'utilisateur 😃
my hot take is that while I wouldn’t trust a binding arbitration clause with a large corporation, I trust Mastodon and I don’t think they would ever abuse it. I think it’s more of a defense against detrimental lawsuits from big tech rivals. That being said, I think there must be a better way to implement this to keep good standing with users since some were turned off by it.
But rather than just focusing on the TOS verbiage, you should also scrutinize the people involved in creating them, as their values do not seem aligned with the community’s.
Not going to put any (more) effort into this except to point out that the Issue on Github is now closed to further comment, thus:
"I'm going to close this issue at this point - there is a lot of feedback we've gathered from it, and we will be consulting with those offering support as we're able to. Thank you."
"ha!
Wow, this is not the first time that Mastodon / Gargron / his proxy-of-the-moment has shut down a convo on Github that I've seen
Not going to bother trying to find them, but the general template runs something like:
"I've / we've read this thread. Your opinions have been received. We're going to go ahead and do what we had previously decided, out-of-band and without public participation, because this is our software and we're going to do what we want to with it."
Don't anyone forget who actually owns Mastodon dot * gGmbH software, people, all the lawyer-speak smokescreen about "non-profit" notwithstanding"
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
Twitter: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore moving up the change date and taking away your blue checkmarks.
Facebook: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore making changes retroactive to your tenth birthday and adding all your exes to your friends list. This cannot be undone.
Mastodon: We heard users complain about changes to our ToS. We are therefore pausing changes while we re-think this.
Good on you for listening to the plebs. Next steps should be talking to people STEEPED in libre software, open culture, etm like @richardfontana @bkuhn @pluralistic et all could be immensely helpful in this process. I wouldn't leave this up to the same ilk that the corporate social media companies use.
you should get rid of the permanent arbitration clause, and add a grandfather clause for people who already joined who are still under the new age limit. also, maybe stop banning people for simply being a palestinian from gaza, that’s racist.
Since many answers are asking what was the problem, here is a thread explaining it (it has to do with a "binding arbitration waver"): (Quoting @pluralistic) mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11470688…
I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.
These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
hi, is email id staff@mastodon.social working? Our team has been trying to reach but no response so far? How we get in touch with the admin of this instance?
And blocking just Vance is not defederation. It does nothing to isolate the instance that is hosting him and platforming him. If you want to defederate, you need to block the entire bsky.social instance.
We ingest the firehose directly, we interact with bluesky directly. You can even view bluesky accounts like, say, bluesky's own directly: app.wafrn.net/blog/@bsky.app
Notice how there's no bridgy in there? You can check my profile on the bluesky side at bsky.app/profile/alexia.at.app… too ← Notice how there's no bridgy here either?
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users
the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-ext / mary.my.id has a neat lil' GitHub repo that collects them all in one place: github.com/mary-ext/atproto-sc…
Now if we wanna specifically exclude content from the PDS that JD Vance is on, all I'd have to do is look up which one of these PDS instances vance's account is, nuke it from our database and stop ingesting content from that PDS through the firehose
For reference, we can use pdsls.dev to look up JD's server and determine it to be https://woodear.us-west.host.bsky.network/
problem is, unlike how fedi tends to work, the underlying PDS instances are assigned automatically; Vance didn't choose that PDS, it was chosen for him. As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him
Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable.
It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works, it doesn't quite make as much sense to block the server vance is currently on, it makes much more sense to block the account and associated did:plc identity ← This makes sure that even IF vance moves his account (although I'd doubt it) to another PDS, he will stay blocked on our infra.
"As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him"
...in other words, too big to defederate?
That's a copout answer, shame on you.
If mastodon.social was hosting Vance, other instances would be defederating them including mine.
"Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable."
"It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works,"
Maybe you shouldn't be using ATProto then?
It's designed to give large organisations more control than small ones or individuals, and you chickening out over this is an example.
@alexia This is an unnecessary focus on defederation imo: the line to be drawn is at an individual instance's discretion, not for you to specify when you aren't even a user of that instance.
In this case, they've assessed that there's sufficiently many innocent / good accounts which they want to maintain relationships with on bsky (or, equivalently, mastosoc) that it's worth the moderation overhead of banning the individual accounts instead to protect their users - something which is also a viable choice between ActivityPub instances, albeit rarely chosen.
Some instances are irredeemable: those whose purpose and entire user base is complicit in spreading hate and vitriol; that does not currently, ime, describe bsky overall, whose users have pushed back against Singal, Vance, and hell, even bullied Adobe off their platform (something fedi, in any other context, would usually be celebrating).
Freedom of association exists and should be one of fedi's greatest strengths. Would I agree with their assessment myself? Idk. But my opinion doesn't matter here as I'm not a user of their instance, so I'm unaffected. If I was affected, then my opinion would matter as to whether I defederated from them or not -- but again, thus far, their moderation has meant I've been unaffected by similar actors, so...
"the line to be drawn is at an individual instance's discretion, not for you to specify when you aren't even a user of that instance."
No.
This is absolutely the wrong approach to fascism and hatred. Once you leave it entirely up to individual discretion, you are opening up society to 1930s scenarios where hatred is mainstreamed.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
It's vital that we drive fascists out of all mainstream discourse. They are not participating in good faith, they are participating in order to radicalise people to do acts of the worst kind of hatred and violence.
They don't care if individuals block them, because all they care about are those who don't block them. Those who don't block them can be radicalised into spreading hatred themselves, which radicalises even more people.
I feel obligated to clarify, given that you have misrepresented my words in your reply.
I did not, at any point, talk about individuals blocking fascists. I talked about instances banning the individual fascists, rather than cutting off entire instances, as a choice of moderation style. I also agree that defederation is a valid option for instances, perhaps due to moderation burden, or because the remote instance in question is irredeemable.
An instance banning Vance means, on that instance, no user is capable of being radicalised by Vance's account. This is the same as if an open-signup instance banned Vance's account upon registration. This is the same result as defederating the entire remote instance for the sole reason that Vance is on there, except that otherwise innocent users on the remote instance are not caught in the crossfire.
Many of those remote users will not be aware of Vance's presence on their instance (especially when that instance is Bluesky), and therefore cannot be considered Nazis by mere affiliation: they have not interacted with him. Those users remain on that instance, and defederating will do nothing to protect them if he attempts to radicalise them; however, a moderation team can monitor the users of that instance and continually assess the risks and whether defederating later is reasonable to them. What can, in fact, sometimes happen is the opposite: the Nazi gets bullied out of there, or -- as in the Nazi bar analogy -- the users notice the Nazi and leave of their own accord (at which point I'm sure the calculus will shift in favour of defederation); perhaps such users move to fedi in this scenario, having not been ostracised for reasons they would not otherwise have understood.
Finally: Does your instance currently block mastodon.social? If not, as some instances have out of concerns for its moderation & size, then that is an example of what I was describing which you quoted and responded "No." to.
No instance should be hosting a fascist who has masked thugs literally kidnapping people off the streets without due process.
Any instance that hosts such a person is itself supporting fascism, and should be shunned by everyone. Admins should defederate it, users on that instance should leave it.
The idea is to isolate not only fascists but those who tolerate and help fascism.
Fascism has to be resisted in every way possible, while such resistance is still possible.
fedi tips, let me ask you something: despite all the warnings and continued bad decisions, how many instances are defederating fosstodon despite its size? The answer might invalidate your argument
If Fosstodon hosted Vance, you can bet it would be defederated by people who are on the fence.
I would personally defederate any instance that hosted Vance, including mastodon.social.
I've also spent lots of time trying to discourage large instances even existing, I run a site at fedi.garden and account at @FediGarden to promote good smaller instances.
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so, is it not a big enough issue that they've platforms rightwing extremists as moderators on their instance, and then defended both of them? I personally felt like that's reason enough to defed, but plenty of instances are choosing to wait and see
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Some did defederate Fosstodon over that, some took the approach that the admins and moderators had changed and did a "wait and see" because of the change of leadership and staff.
But there is an order of magnitude difference between that situation and hosting fascists who have direct control over the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
It should be obvious that Vance is an instant defederation.
Precisely. I saw a number of their moderators dismissing and gas lighting the concerns of LGBTQ people in my feed
I don't see that on Bluesky. In fact when there is a trans /homophobic user there, they are dealt with swiftly by the community. Here there are often crickets, or when marginalized groups bring up concerns there is much defensiveness.
I guess you care more about making a point then addressing valid concerns about trans/homophobia here on the Fediverse.
I find that sad.
JD Vance is not a moderator on Bluesky.
And believe me, the fediverse often platforms racism, transphobia, misogyny and homophobia. Here it can only be dealt with after the fact. On Bluesky its mostly dealt with proactively.
@alexia What happens when a wafrn.net user opts into Bluesky federation, then boosts a post from a different fediverse server? Is that post then passed to all of their Bluesky followers?
We eventually plan to automatically check whether the boosted post is available via bridgy, and boost that on the fedi end (and vice-versa), but that doesn't exist in the software yet.
I'm not being fucking smug, I'm being fucking angry and terrified.
People like Vance are threatening very vulnerable minorities who are shit scared of what will happen to them. People are living in fear and terror. If you're not even addressing this then you are the one who needs to do more research.
No one should have anything to do with anyone who welcomes people like Vance.
@gabboman @alexia listen, I don’t want to get embroiled in another argument, but let me provide my insights: I think Gabbo is allowed to have his instance and run it how he wants. Bluesky federation is currently opt-in, and I trust it’ll be completely removed if the situation gets much worse. secondly, some things aren’t worth arguing over. just block and move on. I like both of you, so please heed my advice.
Calling me a "smug cunt" for trying to warn against fascism is just... there's no words. What are you thinking?
Do you think this is some kind of childish tech vs tech dispute like Mac vs Windows?
I run these accounts purely to try to stop the spread of fascism and hatred. Any tech that helps in that fight, I promote. Any tech that hinders that fight, I warn about.
If you think I've got a tech wrong that's fine to discuss, I do discuss things regularly and I often message developers to find out more. But hateful name calling and patronising and avoiding mentioning the Nazi elephant in the room is not the way to do it.
@gabboman @alexia honestly, fair. I will probably be moving away from Wafrn in that case provided they don't get rid of Bluesky integration. I only have one major account over there and it already has an equivalent on another instance that I find works quite well. Thanks for the insight, FediTips!
@gabboman @alexia for the record, that “some things aren’t worth arguing over” bit was targeted mainly at Gabbo. I agree, fascism is DEFINITELY worth arguing over.
I can assure you I'm not. I am terrified about what is going on.
I don't care what protocol is used as long as it makes federation accessible and controllable by anyone including very-low-cost grassroots instances that can communicate without relays.
@gabboman @GroupNebula563 @alexia I don't really want to get involved in this disagreement but I have to say that the way Fedi.tips has been talking about how bluesky works seems to have some serious issues and it turns some people off. The blocking and defederation of instances works the way it does on fedi cause of how mastodon and most of the fediverse work but doesn't apply when you are talking about bluesky/atproto cause the way the whole system is designed is radically different
@gabboman Hi, question. If a user on your instance who is opted-in to Bluesky integration boosts a post from someone on another fedi instance, is the boost ingested by Bluesky?
Your insistence on believing there is a single bsky.social instance is commendable, for sure
Multiple people have explained to you over time how there is no singular bsky.social instance (as they have an entirely different technical model) and how blocking the server is less effective than deplatforming the user.
Because again, account moves are more powerful on Bluesky than they are on fedi.
Maybe you should do just a bit more research into how ATProto works
You're not really selling AT Proto if this is your approach.
Maybe you should take a bit more action against fascism instead of hiding behind technicalities and promoting something designed for corporations above individuals?
Using compulsory relays is hardly the way to democratise social networks.
"platforming fascists", it is an open protocol meant for everyone. In all reality, most people blocked him whether via manual blocking or mass moderation list for MAGA accounts. Plus, if he went a step further and hosted his own PDS, there would be no official way to de-platform him besides making the official relays disregard him (not including getting self-hosted relays to do the same). Which that would defeat the point of an open, decentralized protocol in the first place.
Gabbo hasn't been killing himself adding actual ATProto and firehose to Wafrn for you to dismiss them as a bridge. There's actual work there, there's a direct communication using the actual protocol. Wafrn is both a full-fledged AP server, and a full-fledged ATProto server
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users
the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-ext / mary.my.id has a neat lil' GitHub repo that collects them all in one place: github.com/mary-ext/atproto-sc…
Now if we wanna specifically exclude content from the PDS that JD Vance is on, all I'd have to do is look up which one of these PDS instances vance's account is, nuke it from our database and stop ingesting content from that PDS through the firehose
For reference, we can use pdsls.dev to look up JD's server and determine it to be https://woodear.us-west.host.bsky.network/
problem is, unlike how fedi tends to work, the underlying PDS instances are assigned automatically; Vance didn't choose that PDS, it was chosen for him. As such straight up blocking this PDS from being indexed has about the same impact as blocking a large Mastodon instance like mastodon.social or something along those lines would have: We would hit lots of people that have nothing to do with vance, or are even actively blocking and shaming him
Now you are right in the observation that Bluesky PBLLC is choosing to platform vance, jesse singal and others; Their moderation is very akin to centrist beliefs, and as such quite weak in protecting especially those most vulnerable.
It's just that from a technical standpoint with how ATProto works, it doesn't quite make as much sense to block the server vance is currently on, it makes much more sense to block the account and associated did:plc identity ← This makes sure that even IF vance moves his account (although I'd doubt it) to another PDS, he will stay blocked on our infra.
@alexia love how you try to tell them what they are. Eff off with your performative agenda. Have you defederated from Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online after years of Black and Brown folks pointing out the harassment, antiblackness, Islamophobia, etc You make a lot of noise but are you backing it up? There’s been CSAM on .social, did you defederate? Stop spouting as if you know what you’re talking about when you consistently look foolish
1. You're accusing me of being performative 2. You're saying people should defederate from mastodon.social 3. You're posting from an account on mastodon.social
I regularly post about how being on mastodon.social is a bad idea due to poor moderation and putting the network at risk, I have a whole article about this: fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…
Mastodon.social blocks my posts from trending there because they were so pissed off with this.
@McWabbit Bluesky invited somebody for a discussion. Discussions are good. Discussions help us to shape or rethink an opinion. They did not invite him to post propaganda (although it will be interesting to see, how Bluesky reacts, if he does)
If you want a fediverse, which blocks discussions, because you don't like the other person's (extreme) opinion.... Is then bluesky the problem? Or maybe it might be you?
@dideldum @McWabbit Get lost with that "tolerate the intolerant". How often do people have to point out the tolerance paradox? How often do people be reminded that right extremists don't care what your intentions are as long as they gain attention and power from it? Western societies atre past the time when we had enough freedom to discuss with those that have "different opinions". We've done that and look how well we dismantled them: they sit in every government.
@t_robinart @McWabbit Not everyone at Twitter is a Nazi. But those, who are attracted by ultra right ideology, will more likely join Twitter, if Vance or other fascists only post there.
If somebody like Vance now joins Bluesky, young politically disappointed people might join Bluesky, too. And there they are reachable for other opinions and ideas, which have no voice at Twitter. There is nothing more dangerous then isolated bubbles in social media.
"And there they are reachable for other opinions and ideas, which have no voice at Twitter. "
No, it doesn't work like that.
When you give fascists a broader audience, you simply get more fascists.
All you do is normalise fascism in mainstream discourse, and people who would have previously stayed away from it suddenly think it's okay to do fascist things.
The only effective response to fascism is to make its audience and reach as small as possible.
On Bluesky you can subscribe to a Maga block list. It's a seamless experience and automatically blocked him for me before I heard he was there.
Here on the fediverse I encounter more homophobia than on Bluesky and fewer people speak up about it sadly.
Here I'll stumble upon admins of an instance defending a moderator who blocks LGBTQ hashtags and quotes homophobes in their profile because of 'free speech'.
Fascists care about people who don't block them, because they can radicalise them into believing and spreading hateful lies about vulnerable minorities.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
You've literally responded to nothing I've brought up.
Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there. On the fediverse there is a moderator on a bigger server who has blocked lgbtq/trans related hashtags and quotes a homophobe in their profile.
If you are trying to protect people from fascism, and hopefully homophobia I hope you are calling out fosstodon too. I didn't stumble on jd Vance on BS, but stumbled on them dismissing LGBTQ people here
"Jd Vance is blocked by 30% of the users on Bluesky. He has no power there."
Having 70% of a platform to talk to is a tremendous amount of power. Even if it was only 10% that would still be millions of people to potentially radicalise.
It's the people who don't block him but listen to him that are the problem. He isn't speaking in good faith, he's trying to deceive people into doing bad things.
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
I wonder how long lefties now wait to leave and consider mastodon. There were some that joined but abandoned or left their accounts as soon as bluesky became a thing.
@t_robinart I sadly think many will just assume that wherever they move, the same will happen and they give up. I know too many who think Mastodon is too complicated for a « mass » move. But I’m crossing my fingers!
If you know someone who is interested but finds it intimidating or overwhelming, I would be happy to help. The website at fedi.tips is written for non-technical people for example, and I'm happy to directly answer specific questions 🙂
The final straw that made me delete my Facebook account was when Vance posts started getting shoved in my feed - I kept reporting and trying to block and they kept showing up. So I left.
That's a fair point and I did wonder for a while whether or not to link directly to the account.
I posted the link because it proves he's there and active (he had briefly been blocked because BS thought it was fake), it proves he's hosted by Bluesky and it proves he's been verified by Bluesky.
The link is a smoking gun of Bluesky's behaviour, so it seemed on balance best to post it.
@Eh__tweet If you don’t want to link directly to the account, you can link to the ClearSky page, which also gives you things like “How many people/Lists are blocking the account”
Thanks for providing the Link to JDV‘s BS profile. It is great to see how the community reacted. Actually I’m glad to see there’s almost only negative feedback to his posts. Great to see thinking people also outside the fediverse.
@Eh__tweet Screenshot would be a middle ground - easier to read than a user ID - if you wanted to avoid sending too many people to the posts of trolling (and bigotry).
No, he wasn't. Bluesky thought it was a fake account, but when they found out it was real they reinstated it, verified it and sent an email to Fox News welcoming him.
p.s. It isn't enough to say that individuals can just block stuff they don't like.
Fascists don't care about people who block them, they only care about those who don't block them.
Fascists use platforms to try to radicalise anyone who will listen. Fascists spread hateful lies about vulnerable minorities, and if someone believes those lies they may follow the fascist and spread lies too.
I've tried to explain this in a way that hopefully anyone can relate to:
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
p.p.s. No, Vance wasn't banned by Bluesky. That's why I included the link in the original post so you can see he isn't banned.
Bluesky had blocked the account briefly because they thought it was fake, but when they found out it was real they unblocked it, verified it and sent an email to Fox News saying that Vance was welcome on Bluesky.
Whenever I hear that a "new great very fine" new platform with "new management" is being advertised that would solve the issues of that bad last enshitificated platform, I think about this picture:
p.s. It isn't enough to say that individuals can just block stuff they don't like.
Fascists don't care about people who block them, they only care about those who don't block them.
Fascists use platforms to try to radicalise anyone who will listen. Fascists spread hateful lies about vulnerable minorities, and if someone believes those lies they may follow the fascist and spread lies too.
I've tried to explain this in a way that hopefully anyone can relate to:
Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
@claudegohier Yes! We have to fight them on the beach, and on the hills. We have to fight them in the net, and in any mass media. We have to fight them wherever we find these fascists.
I was talking to a close friend about the Fediverse a while ago. Her main reason to sticking to Meta platforms was mostly that she doesn't use social media for fun, but primarily for marketing. She's a singer, like me, and it's just sort of expected of you to use these things, because that's where your audience is.
But she also said that she's wary of dividing the world into different echo-chambers when using a platform that's more popular with left-wing users. Made me think of this.
No, here I have to disagree hard: I don't want the crazy hateful, fascist and / or simply cookoo voices to disappear. I want the tankie nutjob, the fascist white power lunatic and the vatnik idiot to be able to scream his or her vile bullshit into the void of the net. Because this is the freedom the net gives us.
Fascism and oppression has to be fought with dialogue, through teaching people and sometimes with fists and steel... but never through censorship and silencing of ideas.
Someone with millions of followers is telling people that you (not your group but you personally) are a murderer and rapist and all kinds of other untrue stuff.
People believe him, his speeches get carried on TV, on radio, and newspapers give him an easy time without questioning his allegations too much.
What would you do? Would you want even more people to hear his allegations about you? Would you want his audience to be even bigger?
"Fascism and oppression has to be fought with dialogue, ... never through censorship and silencing of ideas."
I'm sorry but that's a load of crap.
When the Nazis were defeated, their party was banned and their symbols were made illegal. Those who voted for them were made to march through death camps and look at the corpses to see the consequences of their votes.
Dialogue with fascists is like dialogue with rapists or murderers, it normalises stuff that should not be normalised.
I don't like being in an information bubble, myself. But I recall a quote about #Nazis and #Fascism (I do not recall where I heard it):
"The only thing that a tolerant society must not tolerate is #intolerance ."
There are a few things that should never be allowed a forum for discussion, because the uneducated and bigots do not debate; they merely jump straight to hate. Along the way, they pull others into their darkness.
It's not easy to walk the fine line between #FreeSpeech and justifiable #censorship , but we must be constantly straddling that line and holding onto it firmly.
We do not give pornography to children or spread it on social media. Nor should we give that same social media space to Nazis and hate.
I disagree. The Nazi party was banned because they ACTED upon their atrocious beliefs... purely talking about ideas - as much as I may despise them - has to stay possible.
Just think about it: If you start to censor ONE topic, what guarantees that this is not followed up with other topics?
This whole conversation is so important. And your argument with Graham Downs over on the original post is super interesting and I like that you both kept it respectful despite your obvious disagreement. And while I'm here, just wanted to say thank you for all the work you do for the Fediverse, it's truly appreciated.
This is *exactly* the reason I've never signed up for BlueSky! I.e. while it may look good now, there's nothing stopping the owners from going down the Twitter path or worse!
I realize that "I told you so!" is the least helpful thing ever uttered, but when Bluesky arose, I said to all the people fleeing Twitter that the same thing was going to happen there in a few years and that decentralization was the only viable solution.
It's one thing to allow openly fash trash to join your corporate social media platform. It's another thing to fucking send a welcome fascist notice to Fox News. Absolutely disgusted. Glad I only checked it out for 2 weeks & deleted it.
Moderation on BS is actually more decentralized than in the Fediverse - block lists managed by the community are a better tool than Fediverse instance admins being in command, especially since you can't yet switch fedi instances without changing identity.
How would that be different if Vance was setting up its own Fedi instance?
Yup, that's why I included the link so people could see for themselves.
If you do an internet search for "fox news bluesky vance" you'll find the article where Bluesky welcome him to the platform (I'm not going to link it).
Oh, the blocklist I already had activated months ago when I joined there has him already added before I even knew he was on there so automatically blocked for me.
@drew Tell ya what. If people stopped following these prominent right-wing politicians, nothing would ever come out of their plan. But as it is, folks want to hear what they have to say... Well, that's why they are being heard...
Another excellent reason why I'm not there, or on X. I normally block anyone cross-posting from Bluesky (BS?) and X. I'll make an exception for this one.
In a recent @WIRED interview, when asked "Would you welcome President Trump?" CEO Jay Graber responded "Yeah—Bluesky’s for everyone." So their welcoming of Vance doesn't surprise me. (I don't support this choice, to be clear.)
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
I guess Bluesky's unofficial motto is now "Bluesky: the social network that welcomes fascists".
That is even more disturbing. Total lack of morality from Graber and Bluesky, at a point in history where people need to be taking a stand. Spineless bunch of greedy cowards.
Follow-up question should have been about whether Graber supports neo-nazis being on there, for example the neo-nazis Trump pardoned.
Everything on Bluesky flows through a central relay system controlled by the Bluesky Corporation. In practical terms they have complete control over everything, which is dangerous if they decide to do bad stuff.
"I still don't understand federated social media very well."
This guide might help? It tries to explain why having lots of independent servers is really important for the health of a social network:
Vance's Bluesky post is attacking queer people. I'm not "roping in" anyone, Vance and the far right hate me as a queer person.
In my part of the world the word "minorities" is pretty general and also covers queer people, disabled people, language minorities etc.
I don't know if this is an American vs European english thing, but I'm talking about vulnerable minorities in general, not specifically ethnic minorities.
Bluesky's blocking and moderation tools are better than they ever were on Twitter. The culture is openly hostile to MAGA. This will be interesting to watch.
____ * couldn't find his account for some reason -- is it only available for logged in users? ** apparently a bot listing "bsky trending words" every ten minutes
It's not enough for individuals to block hatemongers, people spreading hate have to be de-platformed. Platform owners should be refusing to platform them.
Not everyone will block him, some will listen to him and believe his lies and become radlcalised. Then they will spread the hate even further, and it will kill people.
Ho vissuto a Venezia, per studio e durante la leva. Per questo, oggi mi unisco con convinzione ai comitati e alle associazioni cittadine che stanno contestando la presenza di Jeff Bezos nella città lagunare. Non è solo una questione simbolica: è una presa di posizione civile contro ciò che rappresenta.
Jeff Bezos non è un semplice imprenditore. È uno dei volti più potenti dell’oligarchia economica che gravita attorno a Donald Trump. Ha sostenuto apertamente la sua campagna elettorale, ha messo a disposizione il Washington Post quando faceva comodo, e si è presentato sorridente e in prima fila al suo insediamento, accanto a Elon Musk e agli altri signori del tecno-capitalismo.
Dietro la facciata dei servizi comodi e delle spedizioni veloci, Amazon è un colosso costruito sullo sfruttamento, sull’elusione fiscale, sulla distruzione del commercio locale e su un modello economico che concentra potere e ricchezza in pochissime mani. A scapito di tutti gli altri.
Ogni acquisto è un voto
Ogni volta che acquistate su Amazon, ogni volta che guardate qualcosa su Prime Video, che fate una diretta su Twitch o dite “Alexa”, state finanziando Bezos. State dando forza a un sistema che calpesta diritti, silenzia giornalisti e artisti, sfrutta lavoratori e svuota interi quartieri di botteghe reali.
Le condizioni di lavoro nei magazzini Amazon documentate in innumerevoli inchieste
George Takei l’ha detto chiaramente:
“Se Jeff Bezos si arrende di fronte al potere, noi consumatori dovremmo mostrargli il nostro. RIMANENDO FUORI DA AMAZON.”
Come vivere senza Amazon e i suoi servizi
Vivere senza Amazon è non solo possibile, ma liberatorio. Dopo più di un anno di boicottaggio, posso confermare che si vive benissimo senza dare un euro a Bezos. Ecco una guida pratica per liberarsi, passo dopo passo:
Quest’anno ho festeggiato i 25 anni da quando avevo aperto un account Amazon. Un pezzo d’archeologia digitale come l’email di Libero, ma era ora di dire basta. Non solo ho smesso di usarlo da tempo: ho deciso di chiuderlo definitivamente.
Se anche voi siete stanchi di finanziare un sistema che va contro i vostri valori, agite. Non limitatevi a lamentarvi. Disattivate. Cancellate. Scegliete.
Venezia non ha bisogno di miliardari in yacht che la trattano come una passerella di lusso. Il web non ha bisogno di un monopolio che distrugge ogni forma di alternativa. Il mondo ha bisogno di cittadini consapevoli, non di consumatori passivi.
Bezos può comprare di tutto. Ma non deve comprare anche noi.
È tempo di scegliere. Scegliamo il Piccolo Web. Scegliamo il locale, l’etico, il federato. Scegliamo di dire NO ad Amazon.
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Ciao, sto facendo una lista delle alternative ad uso dei gruppi per la Palestina. Ho trovato molto utile il tuo articolo. Volevo solo segnalarti che per quanto riguarda il "nuovo" i siti che indichi continuano a proporre prodotti dal market di Amazon, e per questo io suggerirei di usare (nei casi estremi) Aliexpress, come alternativa di ultima istanza ad Amazon
For the Digital Public Goods Alliance to achieve its mission, collaboration among governments, multilateral organizations (including UN entities), philanthropic foundations, funders, think tanks, and technology companies is needed.
“Over the past few years, we’ve shared annual reports that describe where our funding comes from: donations largely from individual / grass roots supporters (currently starting at $1 per month on Patreon).” - It seems the Patreon starts at $8/month, are lower recurring plans coming?
I genuinly hoped for improved tools for moderation and community safety, as well as onboarding*... 😢
I mean, if you want to grow, maybe we should work on user retention and making the experience a nicer one, including for others than white European dudes working in tech?
Sorry if that sounds harsh. Mastodon is great. But the priorities of the core developers seem not to align with what many of the community consider necessary.
* no, here I don't mean that mastodon.social should be the default instance. That could be replaced with randomly selected trusted instance from a pool.
@earthworm thanks for the comment here. This post is really on the non-technical, non-software side, to help to explain some of the other things you will have seen the team doing (events, etc). We are absolutely also working on improving Mastodon and the features you mentioned too. We hope you will see some of them in the upcoming version 4.4.
Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.
Developers of the WordPress ActivityPub talks about how they plan to make WordPress websites a full member of the fediverse, videos of FediForum available, and bridging to Bluesky op a per-server basis.
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Fediforum has published the videos of the keynotes and the software demos. For a list of all the demos, you can check out the website. Some thoughts on some of the demoes that stood out to me. For some of the other cool demos (such as Bounce and Bandwagon), check out last week’s news.
The keynote by Christine Lemmer-Webber talks about how the social media style of the 2010s is no longer good enough. With this, she refers to both the fediverse as well as Bluesky. Lemmer-Webber makes the case we live in an age of surveillance, and both Bluesky and the fediverse do not meet the need for safety and privacy that comes with that. She says that shame is not an effective way to get people to use better platforms, and that we need to bring joy to the new platforms. Lemmer-Webber is now working on different protocols with the Spritely Institute, that use Object Capabilities. I’ll go into more detail on that once Spritely gets closer to public usage, but to hugely oversimplify: with Object Capabilities, you can enforce who has access to your data that you send out. Seeing one of the co-authors of ActivityPub actively advocating for further development of new open protocols indicates to what extend the space of the open social web is still in active development.
BadgeFed is a platform for issues badges using the Open Badges standard and ActivityPub protocol, where the badges can later be verified cryptographically. There are some interesting parallels with how people are developing badges on ATProto, and it seems to me that both networks are now in the stage that there are solid proofs that you can build systems for credentials on decentralised protocols. The next stage is seeing how people will start using these new systems.
For developers: ActivityFuzz is an upcoming project from Darius Kazemi, and builds upon the Fediverse Schema Observatory. These tools give a much greater insight into how all the different fediverse projects have implemented ActivityPub in practice, and shows all the differences. This makes building fediverse platforms that are compatible with other platforms more accessible.
Gobo is a client that allows people to post to multiple different platforms, including Mastodon and Bluesky. One of the challenges with cross-posting tools is that these platforms have different character limits, which Gobo has some nice ways of setting the cutoff-point for a longer text thats different for each platform.
Encyclia is a recently-announced project to make ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) records connected to the fediverse, with the demo providing a first view of what this looks like in practice.
The Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm takes your Mastodon timeline and uses various customisable algorithms to create custom clusterings for the post, allowing you to sort your timeline into various different topics.
The team implementing the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress has posted a blog with a roadmap what they are working on. The team has plans to majorly expand the plugin, and make WordPress a full member of the fediverse. So far, the interaction has mainly focused on publishing to the fediverse, which will now be expanded to also be able to follow, read and interact with the rest of the fediverse directly via a WordPress account. The main feature will be a reader experience, which is effectively a timeline feed within WordPress. It places WordPress into even more direct competition with Ghost, who also offers a timeline reader as part of their ActivityPub integration.
The Social Web Foundation released a draft of their work to implement end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging over ActivityPub. Their plan uses Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a protocol for encrypting messages, that is designed to be used in combination with other protocols for sending the encrypted messages. One of the parts that is missing for ActivityPub is the ability to send real private messages to each other, and an integration with MLS can help with that. It might take a while before it gets there, this first version of the draft is now ready for proof-of-concept implementations and interoperability testing.
Bridgy Fed, the bridging software that connects ActivityPub with ATProto, has gotten an update where server admins can opt-in to the bridge for their entire server. For some context: Bridgy Fed was originally designed to be opt-out, meaning that every fediverse account could automatically be bridged to the Bluesky network and visa versa. After massive pushback from the fediverse community, this was changed to opt-in, where people have to actively take action to have their account be connected to the other network. The debate laid bare to what extend the fediverse struggled with being a decentralised network, where decentralised means that there are different communities with values that at times are incompatible with each other. Instead the debate got largely framed in terms of what the value (opt-in or opt-out) should be for the entire network. However, with this latest update individual communities can now be independently decide for themselves if they want to be connected to other protocols by default.
The Links
Bonfire has added the ability to create a separate ‘Events’ feed for Mobilizon and Gancio events.
Canvas is a yearly fediverse event where people can paint on a shared canvas, one pixel at a time, for 48 hours. This year’s Canvas event will start on July 12th.
Mastodon has made some tweaks to smaller screen layouts on web.
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How can you build modern, cross-platform applications that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving ecosystem of the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Friendica, etc.)?
Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform may be an interesting answer! Check out my blog post and stay tuned for more considerations stemming from my experience during the last 2 years maintaining the Raccoon apps.
The Fediverse represents the future of social media—decentralized, open, and user-controlled. As platforms like Mastodon, Friendica, and Lemmy gain momentum, developers face a crucial question: how do you build modern, cross-platform applications tha…
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Guillermo Movia ⭐⭐⭐
in reply to Bonfire • • •Bonfire
in reply to Guillermo Movia ⭐⭐⭐ • • •Guillermo Movia ⭐⭐⭐
in reply to Bonfire • • •Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂
in reply to Bonfire • • •congratulations!!!!! 🥳
I noticed your request for help testing federation with other platforms. I would love to help out.
In addition to a Mastodon account, I’m self-hosting GoToSocial, Friendica, PeerTube and Pixelfed. And I could even check interoperability with federated Wordpress blogs 🤗
Keep up the inspiring work! 🔥
Bonfire
in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂
in reply to Bonfire • • •of course! I'd be delighted to beta test for you. Just let me know how to get started.
Again, a reminder of my self-hosted software:
I also have an inactive Sharkey (that I may move to a self-hosted instance) oh and I'm also on Lemmy / PieFed and Mbin 🤗
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
in reply to Bonfire • • •hiya folks - will the usual Co-op Cloud sequence
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work, or do I need to do something else? My sites say they are on 966c7176
Many thanks as ever.
---WBTD.
Bonfire
in reply to Will Tuladhar-Douglas • • •Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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