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"...
I neither like nor love signalapp@mastodon.world, and I find it highly questionable that they still do not support interoperability or have done anything in this direction, despite all their capabilities. Just another silo.
Thank you for those beautiful stickers. Personally, I don't use Signal but I recognised that (when clicking the sticker URL in your toot using my #Android device) I can select the #XMPP client #monocleschat by @monocles to open the link. Afterwards, the stickers are available. @xmpp
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.
🔥 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...
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.
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.
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.
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…
Credo che questa sia una questione particolarmente delicata e applicabile ad una vasta gamma di situazioni (attuali e non), ovvero quella del "cosa fare quando la legge è ingiusta".
Non ritenendo che questo sia lo spazio migliore per dirimere la questione, dirò solamente che (secondo me, ovviamente) bisognerebbe adeguarsi alla legge in questione, e intraprendere nel frattempo le vie più adeguate per "raddrizzare" la suddetta legge.
@nepenthes @Sicofante Ci sono situazioni che, pur essendo formalmente al limite della legalità, non giustificano il blocco di un'intera istanza. Ad esempio, la promozione del download di materiale protetto da copyright è tecnicamente illegale, ma non bloccheremo mai un’istanza per questo motivo.
Lo stesso vale per account che parlano o promuovono temi come l’eutanasia, che in Italia è ancora in una zona grigia normativa e non pienamente accettata dalla legge.
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
Fediforum happened this week, porting your social graph cross-protocol with Bounce, Bonfire gets closer to release, a prominent Lemmy server shuts down, and much more.
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FediForum and related announcements
The FediForum unconference was this week, with three days of sessions, keynotes and demos. The event was originally scheduled for April, but got cancelled at the last minute due to drama around transphobic statements made by one of the co-organisers. The individual in question left FediForum, and instead FediForum set up an advisory board with a number of community members. This edition of FediForum had keynotes for the first time, by ActivityPub co-creator Christine Lemmer-Webber, author Cory Doctorow, and Ian Forrester, who lead a Mastodon instance at the BBC. There were also a large number of demos (list here) and unconference sessions about a wide variety of subjects. I’ll write more about both the demos and the keynotes once the videos of them will become available online, likely next week.
Bounce is a newly-announced tool that allows people to migrate their social graph across protocols. It is made by A New Social, the organisation behind Bridgy Fed. The ability to port a social graph from AT Protocol to ActivityPub reshapes what is possible within the Open Social Web. For that reason, I think Bounce is a meaningful release, with its power mainly being in altering the shape of these networks. I wrote an essay on that this week that goes into the philosophical side of Bounce. For more practical information I can recommend this coverage by TechCrunch and The Verge. Meanwhile, A New Social’s CTO Ryan Barrett has shared all the updates and new features that have happened to Bridgy Fed over the recent months.
Music sharing platform Bandwagon shared more information during Fediforum on their development work, and how they are working on integrating album sales. A dev blog by Bandwagon recently shared their plans on adding a premium subscription, and how album sales work. During a Fediforum session, developer Ben Pate shared some screenshots on what this looks like. WeDistribute has a deep dive into Bandwagon and the current state of development based on the latest FediForum session.
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that has slowly been reaching the end of the line for development, and they announced the release candidate version of Bonfire 1.0. It is a framework and platform for building communities on the fediverse, and has a large variety of features and extensibility. One of the standout features is circles and boundaries. Circles allow users to define lists of accounts, and boundaries allows users to determine on a per-post basis to what circles each post gets shared. This creates a significant amount of flexibility on how to handle private posts, something which is in huge demand within the open social web. Bonfire also gives users a large amount of control over how they see and filter their feed. For more of a philosophical take on that, I recently wrote about how Bonfire’s approach on custom feeds compares to Bluesky’s approach. The developers are inviting people to install their own instance and experiment with the new features. It is unknown when Bonfire will be ready for a full 1.0 release. For another look at Bonfire, TechCrunch also covered the story.
Filmmaker and fediverse evangelist Elena Rossini has released her fediverse promotion video, which was highly anticipated by the community. The video can be viewed here, and tells the story of why the fediverse matters for a lay audience. The video is worth paying attention to for two reasons: first of all, it is a well-produced promo video for the fediverse that explains some of the core ideas in an accessible manner. Secondly, the video has gotten a huge amount of support from within the fediverse community, with a large number of prominent people within the community supporting Rossini’s work. One of the challenges of analysing a decentralised community is that there is no singular decentralised community, there are a wide variety of different groups and cultures. However, by seeing how and who responded positively to the video, it becomes clear that Rossini’s video does represent a dominant and popular understanding of what the fediverse is, and why it matters. In that way, analysing the video does provide good insight into the one of the more dominant and popular cultures of the fediverse.
Shutdown of Lemmy and opportunity for PieFed
Lemm.ee, one of the biggest Lemmy servers, is shutting down at the end of June. The team says: “The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.” This has some significant impact on the wider Threadiverse community, as the lemm.ee hosted a significant number of popular communities. This makes server shutdowns on Threadiverse platforms signficantly more impactful, as they also impact people who do not have an account on the platform. Community migration is challenging, and there are no specific tools to help with a community with migrating to a different server.
The shutdown of the Lemm.ee server provides an opportunity for PieFed, a link-aggregator platform similar to Lemmy. PieFed is over a year old, that has seen significant development and new features beyond Lemmy, but has not managed to gain traction yet, with growth of users being slow. However, now that communities on the lemm.ee. server need to find a new place, PieFed is emerging as one of the main destinations. In turn, this is giving PieFed some much need promotion and awareness within the Threadiverse community, with PieFed doubling the number of accounts within a week. Lemmy clients are also starting to add support for PieFed, with the Lemmy client Interstellar already supporting PieFed. PieFed also uploaded two PeerTube video walking through all the moderation and administration features the platform has.
Platform updates
Ghost’s work on implementing ActivityPub is getting close to an official release. In their latest update, Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be part of the Ghost 6.0 release, which will come in ‘a few weeks’. The team has been working on ActivityPub for over a year, and have grown from 3 people to 8 people now working on their social web integration. For Ghost, the ActivityPub integration is more than just another connector, describing it as ‘a statement that the open web still matters’.
Mastodon is planning to release a new update, version 4.4, with the first beta now available. Some of the new features include the ability to set more feature content on user profiles, more list and follow management tools. For admins, there are better tools for setting legal frameworks, moderation tweaks and more. The biggest feature of the patch is that it will display quoted posts. The highly requested feature will only be fully available in version 4.5, which will include the ability for users to create quoted posts. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput says that he expects version 4.4 to be released at the end of June, with version 4.5 scheduled a few months later in September of October. The organisation also shared their monthly engineering update for May.
PeerTube released their latest version, 7.2, with a new design for video management and publication pages. PeerTube also now has more features for handling sensitive content. Creators can now add an explanation of why the content is marked as sensitive. Users also have more flexibility with how they want sensitive content to be handled, with various different configurations between hiding, blurring or warning about a video with sensitive content. PeerTube is also running a crowdfunding campaign for the mobile app, which has now crossed the halfway mark at 35k EUR. This milestone is for video management from the mobile app, with the next milestone being for livestream support in-app. The PeerTube app developer also shared a blog post with his thoughts on the technical framework considerations for building the app.
Hollo is a single-user microblogging platform, and their latest release has a significant number of new features, including better OAuth and various upgrades to the UX. Developer Hong Minhee also announced that independent fediverse developer Emelia Smith will join as a co-maintainer for Hollo.
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Changes
This release includes various minor improvements and bug fixes.
Backend
Fix Peertube federation by @flamingos-cant in #5652
Show NSFW content by default if content_warning exists by @xaegit in #5655
Register users in a transaction by @Nothing4You in #5608
Fix email notifications for denied applications by @Nutomic in #5641
Dont run scheduled tasks at startup by @Nutomic in #5732
Only use HTTP/1 for federation by @flamingos-cant in #5744
Update user count from local_user table instead of person table, and only count users with accepted application by @dullbananas in #5495
Decrement fail_count instead of reset to 0 by @Nutomic in #5737
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I haven't had any time to devote to it, but sleepless has been helping to re-organize the lemmy back-end so that other rust projects (like lemmy-rs-client and lemmy-ui-leptos), can more easily import its types and API.
We need a lot more front end devs on both it, and lemmy-ui. There are 500+ github issues for lemmy-ui and about 1/3rd of a dev able to work on any of them.
the Peertube federation works really well now, I copy-pasted a bunch of video links into my search bar and it pulled them all no problem
https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/c/die4everplays@spectra.video (Lemmy was forcing the link to stay local when clicked, so you gotta copy-paste to see how it looks on that instance) (if you want to follow: !die4everplays@spectra.video )
Imagine a digital space that aggregates, organizes, and empowers you to act on any activity published across the fediverse.
With Bonfire, you can now add an "Events" feed to your sidebar—pulling in all events from users you follow on #Mobilizon and #Gancio, unified in one place.
That's just a glimpse of what our modular architecture enables.
WordPress plugins on ATProto, managing digital badges and attestations, and more.
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The News
The Linux Foundation has announced FAIR, a package manager project for WordPress. It is “a federated and independent repository of trusted plugins and themes for web hosts, commercial plugin and tool developers in the WordPress ecosystem and end users.” To achieve this independent and federated repository of tools for the WordPress ecosystem, FAIR uses ATProto underneath. FAIR has build their own protocol, the FAIR protocol, on top of ATProto. It uses DID PLC as an identifier for the packages, and ATProto for indexing and discoverability. As the project has just launched and some of the final parts are still being ironed out there are no packages yet that use the FAIR system. As such I cannot give yet a good context for what discoverability of WordPress packages over ATProto actually looks like. The chaos of the last year around the management of WordPress shows a need for decentralised repository of packages and plugins, and FAIR does already show that ATProto can be much more than only a microblogging network.
Gnosco is a new tool for digital badges and attestations on ATProto. It acts as a secure middleman between the application that issues the badge and your PDS. This allows applications to create a signed record to award a badge of attestation for a user. This badge is then not yet placed into the user’s PDS, but instead held in escrow by Gnosco. Users can then log into Gnosco with their ATProto account and review the badges. If they approve, the signed badge then added to their own PDS.
Gnosco took me a while to wrap my head around what the tool is and what it does, but it tackles the following problem. Badges and awards and other attestations need to be accepted and signed by both the issuer and the receiver. But not for all attestations that are issued it is known in advance if the user actually wants to receive this attestation and store it on their PDS. So there needs to be a way for the user to accept or reject a badge or attestation that is issued. Gnosco provides this interface that is platform-neutral, where users can accept and reject any attestation or badge.
Photo-sharing platform Grain now has their own moderation system on their own infrastructure. Grain is building a social photo-sharing network on ATProto that is separate from Bluesky, using their own lexicon. One reason why image-sharing platforms so far tend to have been alternate Bluesky clients is that means that the client does not have to be responsible for moderation. For Grain, the goal is to build their own independent social network, and thus their own moderation system is mandatory as well. The Grain developer also released a stand-alone app to embed Grain galleries on your own website.
Blacksky is proposing to make a soft-fork of the Bluesky client for the Blacksky community. With their own forked app, Blacksky can set some default values that benefit their community, such as setting the default feed to the Blacksky Trending feed, and setting the Blacksky moderation as default moderation. The organisation is looking for 2500 USD in recurring monthly donations, and they are close to reaching that goal.
ATProto chatroom app Roomy has released the another alpha version. Besides offering public chatrooms, Roomy continues to experiment with features for collecting and aggregating chat messages into longer-lived places for text. In this update they included ‘boards’, where people can create simple markdown pages as well as collect ‘threads’ that are pulled out of the chat log. Roomy is on the bleeding edge of technology when it comes to using ATProto, by combining it with Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT). The Roomy blogs go into more detail on why they are building the architecture this way, but the current practical problem is that CRDTs are new enough that what Roomy needs is still in development.
Tech updates and news
ATStudio is a new developer-focused tool that allows people to interact with ATProto. It allows you to “experiment with the protocol and debug code paths by making direct XRPC requests and executing @ATProtocol SDK methods using the integrated dashboard.”
Boost Blue is a new Bluesky client for Android and iOS, that has a few in-demand features that the main Bluesky client is missing, such as repost muting by user, drafts and bookmarks.
Bluesky’s latest update adds a ‘share’ button on every post, and an announced update to get notification on likes on reposts is pushed back to the next update which contains more notification filters.
An update by Skylight on how they are building their algorithm.
Graze announced they are backing Party Starter with a 1k USD grant, a “toolkit for creating short-lived, location-aware events”. Not much else is known yet about Party Starter.
A “minor change to the PLC Directory service, with the aim of expanding compatibility with non-atproto apps and services”.
Alumni Ventures is one of the companies who invested in Bluesky’s series A last October. They’ll be hosting a webinar next week on why they invested in Bluesky.
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A whole bunch of first-pass features; A path towards Roomy/Weird convergence; Temporary Backend Pivot (building on jazz.tools 🎶 for production-readiness).
A circle is simply a list of people. Bonfire includes default circles like “local users” or “people I follow”, and you can define your own, e.g. "friends", "mutual aid crew" or "monster movie fans."
Circles are private by default but can be shared with others
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
I'm really excited to dig into this more! - I've been feeling that this is something that has been missing from #mastodon / the #fediverse and I'm excited to see how you're implementing it! ✨
Un articolo e un video che raccontano l'esperienza della 5M dell'indirizzo grafico dell'IIS Gadda di Paderno Dugnano agli archivi della Fondazione Istituto per la storia dell’età contemporanea (ISEC) di Sesto S.Giovanni. Complimenti vivissimi agli studenti e agli insegnanti della 5M👏👏👏 #storia #memoria #scuola #ISEC #archivi
Details will follow soon — but the work on events in the #Fediverse is far from complete. Key upcoming milestones include:
Improvements and new features for the Event Bridge for [strong]ActivityPub[/strong] plugin for WordPress Continued development to maintain, fix issues, enhance, and expand functionality.
Work on Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEPs) Ensuring a robust final status of FEP-8a8e and focus on recurring and irregularly scheduled events.
Support for event interoperability in other Fediverse applications Contribute to other Fediverse applications and help them to explore and improve support for Event objects. For example, @linos@graz.social has outlined a potential roadmap for Mastodon.
Contribution to GatherPress Active involvement in the GatherPress project — a modern and truly FLOSS community oriented WordPress event plugin — to ensure full ActivityPub compatibility, including RSVP support and advanced federation features.
Community engagement and outreach Participation in conferences, public talks, and direct conversations to foster knowledge exchange, gather feedback, and grow the ecosystem around federated events.
Additional updates and technical details will be shared soon. Input, testing, and collaboration from interested parties are always welcome. Or if you know any conferences we should attend, let us know.
Il prossimo martedì, 10 giugno 2025, si conclude questa serie di 3 incontri che negli ultimi mesi hanno ravvivato lo sportello Linux presso la Biblioteca di Rovereto
L’appuntamento è alle ore 18.00 presso la sala multimediale e l’ingresso è libero
Parleremo di tutti quei servizi alternativi ai social media a cui siamo abituati da anni e vedremo che un alternativa etica esiste e si può usare, con un piccolo sforzo. E che spesso è migliore sotto tanti punti di vista
Il Fediverso: una nuova era dei social media. Il video di Elena Rossini è il contenuto più coinvolgente e interessante mai pubblicato sul tema del web sociale aperto
«Questo video è un'introduzione colorata al #Fediverso, guidata dalla regista e sostenitrice del Fediverso @_elena. Guardalo ora per scoprire un mondo completamente nuovo di vivere i social media, dove la privacy è rispettata, gli utenti hanno potere e le Big Tech non hanno voce in capitolo.»
complimenti @_elena! Bello, coinvolgente, scritto e fatto bene. Lo condividerò fuori dal fediverso il più possibile. Piccolo appunto personale: ho trovato un filo troppo drammatico il passaggio a 1:30, ma è solo un momento, poi si riprende.
Mannaggia a #gotosocial che non federa con #Lemmy! Da lì non vedevo le risposte di @elena ! Spero sistemino al più presto
Italian film director, photographer and editor on a mission to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it. In my previous (film) life I made documentaries promoting media literacy, gend...
#FediForum premiere for my Fediverse promo film = done.
How did it go? So well that I've been fighting back tears for the past half hour.
Getting such warm, positive comments from builders and champions of the fediverse is EVERYTHING ❤️ Thank you @j12t for this opportunity.
I'm almost tempted to "deploy on a Friday" and share the link to the video now 😅 But nah, I know better. Tuesday it is! (Monday is a public holiday here)
Excellent! But so mean to us! Now the weekend will drag for us all. Just kidding. Gives us something positive to look forward to next week. We need positive.
If you star ⭐ this #ServicePost here you will get an automated personal message with the public link to @_elena|s Fediverse promo film which just premiered at #FediForum.
Quote: "Tuesday it is!" 🤩
PS: Boosting this post will help to spread the video.
I'm not in marketing, but I know enough to know that all of us who loved this video need a call to action for how to share it, beyond preaching to the choir. This is a promotional video for the #Fediverse! What would a marketing team do with it? Post on non-fedi networks, to start with, sure. What should people say? How to start those conversations?
Ti piacerebbe avere una barra delle notifiche #Mastodon in grado di distinguere le notifiche per tipologia?
Allora puoi andare sulla campanellina delle notifiche, cliccare sulla rotellina delle impostazioni in alto a destra e aprire il pannello di configurazione delle notifiche. Da lì, scendendo un po' in basso, puoi attivare l'interruttore che attiva la barra con le notifiche differenziate
Poliversity è una comunità dedicata alla ricerca scientifica e al giornalismo, all'università e all'istruzione ed è nata per promuovere il diritto alla conoscenza e la corretta informazione
🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!
Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?
Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
An instance of Bonfire (https://bonfirenetworks.org) for Social.coop to gather round :)
This is in testing, may disappear at any time, do not trust it with critical data yet -- but enjoy!
@django @arod @Matt_Noyes yep! I'm traveling this week but I'll be back next and plan to do this. If somebody else in the tech group wants to give it a shot, it's running on coop cloud in server hypha and updating/rebooting the setup should not be too hard 😀 @3wordchant @edsu @dphiffer
After a long stretch of co-design, development, and reflection, we’re excited to share the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate — a version ready for real-world testing and feedback before the official 1.0 release.
This is great. #ORCiD (campground.bonfire.cafe/openid…) and federation is not yet working (I know it is a release candidate). The overall impression is “impressive!”. A lot of features suitable for research. Easy onboarding.💪 There is even a Weather widget ☀️
It seems that #bonfire can export and import all data (incl. posts, messages … Ghosted).
@devSJR FYI federation is not enabled on the campground as we don't want it to become a "flagship instance".
And thanks for the report about ORCID! It was not meant to be enabled on that instance as we have openscience.network dedicated to testing the Open Science flavour. We'll try to fix the issue there in the next release.
features look very good, but does it fetch all posts (and show correct favorite counts) regardless of which server you’re on or does it miss replies in threads (leaving behind a confusing reading experience) like #Mastodon does?
@eobet Our ActivityPub code does *some* automatic fetching of threads, but we also give users control over that, by including options to fetch replies per nested discussion branch or for an entire thread
a slight improvement for sure, but still a manual operation that I suspect many users won’t realize they have to do… (and even for those who know it feels like it will become a ux papercut).
Hi! Don't worry Bonfire is compatible with Mastodon and dozens of other apps that all use the ActivityPub server-to-server protocol.
Mastodon implemented a custom client-to-server API (which is what enables Mastodon users to use third-party mobile apps like Fedilab) rather than ActivityPub's client-to-server API though, which means *client apps* need to implement that API if they want to be compatible...
related to #915 and #917 #918 logged in user info https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_ui_me/blob/main/lib/api/masto_account_controller.ex and https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_me/...
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •tobi is writing bugs
in reply to 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 wiretobi is writing bugs
in reply to tobi is writing bugs • • •urlandidprops of the object athttps://bonfire.cafe/pub/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1are bothhttps://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1, so that other URL without/pub/in it is not present on the article. For consistency you probably wanna usehttps://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1as theidandhttps://bonfire.cafe/post/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1as theurl.Bonfire
in reply to tobi is writing bugs • • •tobi is writing bugs
in reply to tobi is writing bugs • • •Long-form content in Bonfire: Part 1🤔 But that's just an opinionBonfire
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in reply to tobi is writing bugs • • •Hamiller Friendica
in reply to Bonfire • • •@Bonfire Unfortunately, Friendica's display is broken. The parser failed at the link in the summary.
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