Taking a quick detour from our 1.0rc3 milestone work! 🛤️ This morning we added a small but meaningful feature: 🔗 Link previews now display the author's fediverse account when available. ➡️ Next up: Author attribution controls in Bonfire's verification settings, so writers can decide exactly how they're credited when their articles travel across the fediverse. ✍️ It will be available in next release to test it out!
After a mental health break, release v2.4.7 of Ktistec is out. The biggest improvement is the addition of a command line switch/option to run garbage collection on startup. Garbage collection, in this context, trims down your database by deleting old ActivityPub objects that are not connected to your user through:
Attribution: Objects attributed to you or actors you follow
Activities: Objects referenced by your activities or activities of actors you follow
Collections: Objects in your timeline, notifications, or outbox
Content: Objects with hashtags, mentions, or in threads you follow
It reduced the size of my database ~24%. Details on usage, warnings, etc. are in the README.
Other changes:
Fixed
Use single quotes for string literals in SQLite queries.
Fix WITH RECURSIVE queries.
Fix broken CI workflow.
Changed
Present local internal URLs as external URLs in posts.
Limit pagination size for unauthenticated users.
Better convey actor/object deleted/blocked status on index pages.
Improve presentation of inline code and code blocks.
Added
Option for garbage collection on startup (see README).
Fixed
Use single quotes for string literals in SQLite queries.
Fix WITH RECURSIVE queries.
Fix broken CI workflow.
Changed
Present ...
i appreciate your asking! yes, i was reaching burnout around february of this year, so i had to step back. i'm feeling much better and in balance now—unfortunately moderation isn't my default setting 😕
What if you could keep using the tools built for your needs while opening them to your community or the broader fediverse on your terms? With Mosaic, we partner with you to build custom Bonfire extensions that connect your existing tools to the fediverse. 📣 Details: bonfire.cafe/post/01K06RMXVE6A…
Connect your existing tools to the fediverse with Mosaic
Your organisation's favorite apps, now with superpowers.
We all navigate a constellation of specialized tools daily. Organisations depend on CRMs, project management platforms, and financial systems. Communities coordinate through forums, chat and event platforms, and resource-sharing databases. Individuals track their lives across fitness apps, reading lists, streaming services, knowledge management tools and more.
Each app serves its purpose, but they each create isolated silos where valuable activities, insights, and connections remain trapped behind separate logins and walled gardens.
What if you could keep using the tools built for your needs while opening them to your community or the broader fediverse according to your specific rules and boundaries?
🧰 Bridge your tools to the open web
Through our Mosaic initiative, leveraging the Bonfire modular framework, we offer like-minded organizations and communities the opportunity to build custom extensions that connect their homegrown or third-party applications to the fediverse. These bridges:
Import data from your existing tools
Transform it into rich ActivityPub activities for federation
Enable meaningful, two-way interactions
Respect your privacy boundaries and governance needs
The result? Your isolated tools become part of a connected, collaborative ecosystem.
Real-world examples: your tools, federated
Project management meets community feedback
Imagine your team uses a kanban board to manage development sprints. With a custom Bonfire extension, we could connect the service's API and monitor specific triggers like completed tasks, cards tagged with #feedback, or comments added.
When triggered, the extension would create ActivityPub objects with rich metadata: task description, relevant links, and progress context. Your fediverse followers would receive these as native posts they can react to, boost, and comment on. Their feedback would flow back through the extension as comments on the original card.
You would control the boundaries granularly, e.g. public for open source projects, followers-only for beta features, restricted to your instance for internal work, or anything in between. The two-way sync would ensure your project management tool remains the single source of truth while your community becomes an active participant in the development process.
Community resources go network-wide
Your mutual aid network could maintain a resource spreadsheet or database tracking offers, needs, and availability. Our extension would poll for new entries or status changes (by connecting to an API, listening to webhooks, or even directly reading the database or spreadsheet itself), converting them into structured ActivityPub objects with standardised properties for location and resource type taxonomy tags, and custom properties for quantity and urgency.
When someone marks "10 wool blankets available" or "urgent: need baby formula," it would federate as a rich post that other instances can parse intelligently. Neighboring mutual aid groups would see these in dedicated feeds or maps, filtered by resource type or geographic proximity.
The extension could handle resource matching across networks, suggesting possible connections between needs and offers while respecting each network's autonomy.
Events that travel beyond platform borders
Your organisation's calendar contains everything from public conferences to internal meetings. The extension would connect via calendar APIs (CalDAV, Google Calendar API, etc.) and intelligently parse event metadata: detecting whether events are public, extracting registration links, and identifying capacity limits.
Public events would become rich ActivityPub Event objects that federated platforms can display natively—Mobilizon and Bonfire instances would show them in event listings, Mastodon users would see them as interactive posts. RSVPs would flow back through via ActivityPub federation, updating your attendee count in real-time.
The extension could handle timezone conversions, recurring events, and last-minute changes. When you update event details, it would send an update to ensure all federated copies stay synchronised.
The possibilities are endless
Imagine federating your collaborative playlists to spark music discovery across communities. Or sharing fitness milestones that inspire distributed workout challenges. Or creating transparent financial reporting that builds trust with your supporter network.
Ready to give your tools superpowers?
The examples above showcase just a glimpse of what's possible when we bridge isolated tools to the fediverse. While these specific integrations are just ideas, they represent the transformative potential of Bonfire, and we're ready to build them with you.
Mosaic is a unique service where the Bonfire team works with you to co-design and build custom extensions entirely shaped around your community's needs.
Mosaic is perfect for you if:
You're frustrated by data trapped in isolated platforms
Your community wants to participate more but faces too many barriers
You believe in transparency and collaborative approaches
You're ready to pioneer new models of digital cooperation
What we offer:
Custom extension development tailored to your specific tools and workflows
Full control over privacy boundaries and federation rules
Ongoing support as your needs evolve
The opportunity to be among the first to explore federated tool integration
Let's start a conversation.
Whether you want to federate your project management, open up your resource database, or imagine entirely new possibilities, we're here to build it with you. Your use case could become the next example inspiring others to break down their digital silos.
Grazie a @Ska de @Le Alternative abbiamo rinnovato la veste grafica di #fedinews che oggi può integrare non più soltanto i feed dell'istanza #Lemmyfeddit.it ma anche i contributi pubblicati su citiverse.it e potenzialmente di qualsiasi altra istanza del #Forumverso (Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, NodeBB, etc)
Hello #BSDCafe friends! After some thorough testing, I've decided to introduce @nileane 's TangerineUI ( @TangerineUI ) as an optional interface for our #Mastodon instance. In my opinion, its lovely colors bring a cheerful and calm vibe to the interface, and I truly hope you'll enjoy it. Rest assured, all other current interfaces - the Mastodon Bird UI ( by @rolle - which is set as default theme for many languages) and the stock - remain unchanged. Enjoy!
Il primo #FediCon è un evento di due giorni che prevede una selezione di relatori selezionati, conferenze e dimostrazioni su app e funzionalità del protocollo.
#fediscoverer è un provider di Fediverse Discovery che consente ai server del #Fediverso di condividere account e contenuti pubblicamente rilevabili per migliorare la ricerca e l'individuazione sui singoli server.
L'interfaccia si ispira alle app native, con una barra degli strumenti più accessibile e posizionata in basso per liberare più spazio per la visualizzazione dei contenuti.
Infine la barra laterale di navigazione è divisa in tre sezioni.
1) In alto si trova una sezione per le aree di navigazione principali, che rispecchia la barra di navigazione inferiore sugli schermi più piccoli.
2) Segue una sezione "Libreria", che contiene i tuoi contenuti curati - segnalibri, preferiti ed elenchi - e i tuoi hashtag seguiti, ora in una posizione più visibile (in risposta al feedback della community).
3)Infine, altri elementi si trovano nell'ultima sezione.
Comme chaque lundi, un coup d’œil dans le rétroviseur pour découvrir les informations que vous avez peut-être ratées la semaine dernière. Tous les liens listés ci-dessous sont a priori...
Deciding to use an external library for convenience can take its toll. My latest blog post explains what happened some days ago and why I moved away from Ktorfit, halting all my other (more needed) tasks.
@rvyhvn yes, open an issue please it will be doable! I am a little behind with the developments but I am going to release a beta in the following weeks!
Il primo rilascio dello staff esteso di mastodon porta ad alcuni interessanti miglioramenti dell'interfaccia e delle funzionalità
Abbiamo rinnovato l'interfaccia web mobile per imitare le app native, con azioni importanti facilmente accessibili in una barra degli strumenti inferiore che libera più spazio per la tua cronologia. Abbiamo anche iniziato a sperimentare modi per rendere la navigazione più coerente su tutti i dispositivi e per rendere i contenuti pertinenti (come gli hashtag seguiti e i contenuti di tendenza) più facilmente individuabili.
We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.
Improved profile features, enhanced list management, refreshed navigation, and the initial part of our Quote Posts implementation. All of these and more, in our latest release.
We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.
Improved profile features, enhanced list management, refreshed navigation, and the initial part of our Quote Posts implementation. All of these and more, in our latest release.
Mastodon 4.4 also contains the first part of our Quote Post implementation - display of incoming Quote Posts. Full support (including creation) will be part of the next version: Mastodon 4.5, coming later this year. We’re already hard at work on the next set of updates for that release.
We hope you’ll enjoy the enhancements in Mastodon 4.4, and we’re grateful for your support and feedback. We’re a small team, and we depend on your donations to continue making Mastodon better with features and updates. Please contribute to support our mission if you can.
@collectifission Ivory's quotes are not proper quote posts, but more of a rich preview when a post contains "RE: <status url>” We are implementing quote posts with full control for the user (choose if you want to be quoted, retract a previous quote…) which requires proper server and client support (see blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…) @Mastodon
Is it now possible to somehow create quote posts through the REST API, if I have some app or tool of my own using the API, or does it only work for now when the quote is coming from another (non-Mastodon) instance over ActivityPub?
@mackuba This is not yet possible. The only way to see quotes right now is with self-quotes from external ActivityPub servers that support part of our FEP.
I want to sincerely thank you and the whole team for making my life better through Mastodon. You all do so much good in the world. After X and the state of social media, this is very much still needed. Thank you for providing me my happy place.
Would be nice to get any explanations of the different post-install or depreciation messages of some update steps. I ignored all of them and it went well. However - in some cases additional steps might be required as per the hints after completion of a specific update step. Regardless of this, many thanks for the great work to the Mastodon team.
'... showing how many of the people you follow are following that person ...' This feature can be abused to detect someone's follow. [X] Drop it.
What happened to this? blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/ It's a very reasonable explanation to skip the quotes. Discussions don't become endless then.
Found this: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
'You will be able to withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time.' Sounds confusing.
Did anyone else experience hash changes for typescript@patch version 5.8.2 from hash 5786d5 as shipped with mastodon release 4.4.0 to hash 8c6c40 (and similar for version 5.7.3) in the `yarn install immutable` step?
And why did the original post provoke 50x errors on several mastodon sites?
@GambaJo yes, you need to follow an account to add it to a list. However, you can mark a list so that the members do not appear in the main feed, using the "Hide members in Home" option.
We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feed customisations...
We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing.
Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feeds customisations, plus plenty of interface refinements for both desktop and mobile.
A huge thank you to everyone who has set up a Bonfire instance, or joined the campground (our local-only testing space) to try out the app. Your suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable as we approach version 1.0. Please keep testing, sharing feedback, and helping us shape the future of federated social spaces!
✨ What’s new and improved?
Long-form publishing: Going beyond beyond short posts to read and write in-depth articles, ideal for essays, announcements, or detailed content. Article feeds are now available for RSS readers.
Smarter feeds: New feed options for events, books, and articles help you discover what matters to you most. You can now also filter out your own activities from your feeds when desired.
Multi-profiles overview: A new navigation menu can display all your profiles with notification indicators, allowing quick profile switching.
Private by default: New Bonfire instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.
Interface improvements: We've refined the user experience, enhanced notifications and ensured posts display properly across mobile devices.
More reliable: Tons of fixes for authentication, media uploads, mentions, moderation, and other core features.
Additional improvements include:
Better translation and localization workflow
Smoother OAuth/OpenID login and SSO support
Updated documentation and guides for admins and contributors
Enhanced S3 integration for uploads
Lots of small bug fixes on comment threads, messaging, settings, and more
For a comprehensive list of changes, see the full changelog.
🎪 Community contributions and other initiatives
We hosted our first install party using coop-cloud, with all participants who followed along successfully deploying their own Bonfire instances.
Seperately, ozoned from Fireside Fedilivestreamed their installation attempt, surfacing valuable setup challenges. This highlighted the need to simplify Docker deployment and improve documentation. Contributors are welcome to help make this easier!
Bonfire Social is built to be diverse and welcoming, which means making it accessible in as many languages as possible. Thanks to our amazing translators, Bonfire is now available in several languages.
- ...and several more, including Catalan, Cantonese and Taiwanese.
Want to help Bonfire speak your language? Please join us and make a difference for communities worldwide!
🤝 Help needed
As we push toward 1.0, we're facing some specific challenges where community support and contributions would make a real difference:
DevOps expertise: We need help streamlining the Docker installation process to make Bonfire more accessible to new users. If you have experience with containerisation and deployment workflows, your contributions would be invaluable.
Elixir developers: Join us in improving Bonfire's stability and performance. We're focused on eliminating bugs and enhancing the core extensions' reliability.
Financial support: As a small team of two working full-time on Bonfire, we need community support to sustain development. You can contribute through our Open Collective page.
Federation testing: We're seeking users willing to set up Bonfire instances and try out federation and interoperability with other fediverse platforms. Your real-world testing helps ensure Bonfire works seamlessly across the fediverse.
Translation: Please join us or share this with your multilingual friends!
These are our most pressing needs as we approach 1.0. If you can help with any of these areas, please get in touch via the fediverse, Matrix chat, or GitHub. Every contribution, big or small, helps make Bonfire better for everyone.
🙏 Thank you!
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed translations and reviews. You are lighting up Bonfire for people everywhere! Here are some of our awesome translators:
> Gilles Dutilh, Ahmad Dakhlallah, Lamparina Coletivo, alan ptm, Antonio Irre, Zulfikar A, CDN, cranio_is_thinking, Steven Bond, Diego KehrleSousa, Vrlo Vazno, Ed, Andrei Guliaikin, Hendra Wahyu T, Hippie Gschpängschtli, House of Olivier EU, Ivan Minutillo, Juan García, Lapineige, Pascal Schmid, Martin Frost, Duy, Mayel de Borniol, Sovversivo Anonimo, Peter Kvillegård, Poesty Li, Sergio Guidoux, Vaclovas lntas, Williams Melgar, and many more!
Thanks to those that are taking time to test drive Bonfire on our demo instance and provide feedback, such as @[url=https://pawb.social/u/liquidparasyte]liquidparasyte[/url], @[url=https://chaos.social/users/rincewind]🌈 🇺🇦 Jörg Matysiak[/url], @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/youronlyone]♾️ Yuki (스노 雪亮) 🐬 🦣[/url], @coyote...
Thanks to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for supporting the Bonfire development, all our Open Collective donors and our amazing community as a whole.
Hi, i had a transifex account (previous experience with Mozilla's tools) but I couldn't add myself to bonfire project, do you know if there's an easy way ? (when I tried with my account, project bonfire didn't appear)
I noticed your request for help testing federation with other platforms. I would love to help out.
In addition to a Mastodon account, I’m self-hosting GoToSocial, Friendica, PeerTube and Pixelfed. And I could even check interoperability with federated Wordpress blogs 🤗
@elena Thank you! Yeah if you're up for testing common flows (like follow/mention/reply/DM/post with CW...) and report back that'd of course be awesome (we did some testing of course, but there can always be exceptions), but since you're hosting them all yourself it'd be even more valuable if you're able check if things like flagging/blocks/edits/deletions work well and to get logs (or AP processing reports if they have that) otherwise. Thanks so much for offering!
hiya folks - will the usual Co-op Cloud sequence ''' # abra app undeploy foo.bar.org #abra app deploy --force foo.bar.org ''' work, or do I need to do something else? My sites say they are on 966c7176
Auf Plattformen wie X, Instagram oder TikTok nehmen Hass, Rassismus und Desinformation zu – während Tech-Konzerne massenhaft persönliche Daten sammeln.
🌱 Das Fediverse bietet echte Alternativen – offen, dezentral, gemeinschaftlich.
👉 Zum Lesen & Weiterleiten für alle, die ihr überzeugen wollt: Im Blogbeitrag haben wir zusammengefasst, was das Fediverse an tollen Alternativen bietet: 🔗 blog.wikimedia.de/2025/07/03/f…
Auf Social-Media-Plattformen wie X, Instagram oder TikTok nehmen Hass, Rassismus und Desinformation zu. Gleichzeitig sammeln Tech-Konzerne massenhaft persönliche Daten. Die gute Nachricht: Es gibt Alternativen zu den großen Netzwerken.
L'apertura di citiverse.it non è soltanto la creazione di un nuovo forum o, dal momento che a tutti gli effetti è federata con il Fediverso, di una nuova istanza. Citiverse.it, sfruttando la versatilità di NodeBB, vuole infatti realizzare un ambiente che sia utilizzabile sia da chi è già dentro il Fediverso, sia – soprattutto – da parte di chi è fuori dal Fediverso.
Chi è su Lemmy infatti può utilizzare le "categorie" del forum NodeBB come se fossero "comunità" Lemmy.
Vediamo quindi quali sono le categorie di citiverse.it e rendiamole navigabili per l'utente Lemmy:
Perché citiverse.it? In Italia, i gruppi Facebook sono diventati uno dei principali luoghi virtuali di aggregazione, scalzando i vecchi forum che tra la fine...
Sono passati 3 anni dal mio primo approdo nel fediverso, e credo che sia abbastanza per farmi un idea generale su cosa sia e delineare dei pregi e difetti. sicuramente la cosa che mi piace è che è in costante evoluzione anche se devo dire molto lenta. In
Sono passati 3 anni dal mio primo approdo nel fediverso, e credo che sia abbastanza per farmi un idea generale su cosa sia e delineare dei pregi e difetti.
Non avevo letto il tuo post namirblog@namirblog.altervista.org (ti menziono anche come peppenamir@www.foxyhole.io perché non so se funziona il commento a wordpress) ma mi è capitato di vederlo ora, a poch ore dal lancio di questo nostro progetto citiverse.it
Sono d'accordo con la tua analisi: il Fediverso va promosso fuori dal Fediverso e, possibilmente, bisognerebbe anche evitare di chiamarlo Fediverso 😀
Chissà se il nostro citiverse riuscirà ad avvicinare un po' di gente?
PS: intanto sono molto contento di aver potuto "prendere" il tuo post di Wordpress e averlo "spostato" all'interno della categoria "Discussioni sul Fediverso"
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
Ti piacciono i vecchi forum, ma vorresti che fossero collegati ai social network e ai blog? Ecco citiverse.it, la città dei social liberi e l’alternativa ai gruppi locali Facebook!
Abbiamo bisogno di un’alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per gli utenti italiani, in particolare i gruppi locali; ma non potendo competere con Meta, dobbiamo fare in modo che gli utenti del forum non siano da soli…
Abbiamo bisogno di un'alternativa ai gruppi Facebook per gli utenti italiani, in particolare i gruppi locali; ma non potendo competere con Meta, dobbiamo fare…
After procrastinating for more than a year, I recently migrated two KMP projects to AndroidX ViewModels and said farewell to Voyager's ScreenModels. Voyager is very convenient for its DI integration, but when you want to move away from it...
This week’s technical post is going to deal with state holders and the major overhaul which Raccoon apps have undergone here and here concerning how state is retained and managed.
[OLDIES BUT GOODIES] Visto il caldo torrido che si fa sentire soprattutto in città, ripropongo la traduzione italiana della bella guida #Riprendersi la città Guida per i cittadini, con 40 idee per riappropriarsi della città: roberto-marcolin.canoprof.fr/e…
Grazie a te 😊 La guida è il frutto di una traduzione collaborativa che ho fatto tre anni fa insieme alle ragazze di una quinta linguistico, all'interno di un'attività di educazione civica: poliversity.it/@bibliogadda/11…
I social network sono stati costruiti su post brevi, pensati per velocità e scalabilità. Ma cosa succederebbe se la prossima era del web fosse costruita per qualcosa di più profondo?
Due dei "longformer" del social web stanno lavorando su questo aspetto. @John O'Nolan , fondatore e CEO di #Ghost, e @Matthias Pfefferle lo sviluppatore del plugin #ActivityPub per #WordPress, sono all'avanguardia nell'integrazione delle funzionalità social con blog, newsletter, saggi e qualsiasi cosa che non rientri in uno spazio di 500 caratteri o meno.
In questa puntata di Dot Social, parlano con @Mike McCue CEO di #Flipboard, della riscoperta della magia della blogosfera, del perché formattazione, identità e interoperabilità siano problemi difficili da risolvere e del posto che la scrittura occuperà nel prossimo capitolo di Internet.
I punti salienti includono:
Importanza per scrittori e blogger
Modelli per la scoperta
Principi fondamentali per portare il formato lungo sul social web
Rediscovering the Magic of the Blogosphere, with John O’Nolan and Matthias Pfefferle
Social networks were built on short posts designed for speed and scale. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?
Two of the social web’s “longformers” are working on this. John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, and Matthias Pfefferle, the developer behind the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, are at the forefront of integrating social features with blogs, newsletters, essays — anything that doesn’t fit in a box of 500 characters or less.
In this episode of Dot Social, they talk with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue about rediscovering the magic of the blogosphere; why formatting, identity, and interoperability are tricky problems to solve; and where writing belongs in the next chapter of the internet.
Highlights include:
Importance to writers and bloggers
Models for discovery
Core principles around bringing long-form to the social web
Lessons from Web 2.0, email
Rough edges and need for collaboration
We invite you to watch the podcast on Flipboard’s PeerTube instance at flipboard.video:
We will continue to bring you new episodes with fascinating leaders as we record them. The best way to never miss an episode is to subscribe to the show. Please also rate, review, comment and share, especially if you like what you hear.
Technology Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Learn about the Internet’s next wave on the open social web and what it will unlock for how we connect, communicate, and innovate online. Hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue.
Distracted dolphin or frolicsome frog? Did you notice that in Raccoon themes are named according to a strange convention? Have you ever wondered why? My latest article explains the localization journey which has brought to this result.
Localization and customization are first-class citizens at Procyon, as already discussed. An feature in which they come together is the choice of the color theme to apply to the app.
A Milano, più di trenta esperienze di scuole aperte hanno cominciato a camminare insieme per rafforzarsi come scuole partecipate attente ai quartieri nei quali operano, ma soprattutto per sostenere le realtà al momento meno attive.
A Milano, più di trenta esperienze di scuole aperte hanno cominciato a camminare insieme non solo per rafforzarsi come scuole partecipate e attente ai quartieri nei quali operano, ma soprattutto per sostenere le realtà al momento meno attive
When working on Kotlin Multiplatform apps there are several choices for dependency injection but not all offer the same developer experience. Have a look at my latest blog post to know about what alternatives I used in Raccoon apps and why!
Dependency injection (or DI) has been the backbone of Android development for years, bringing flexibility, easier refactoring, and proper lifecycle management through decoupling and abstraction.
nice summary. I work on a Koin "big project" and while it's moderately easy to onboard new devs and explain how it works, I do not recommend Koin unless it's a small-mid size project (dunno about KMP) Sidenote: you made a typo:
"Java dependency: noth rely heavily on generated Java code,"
ORCID è uno schema di identificazione e un database bibliografico per accademici che mira a rendere le informazioni sui lavori dei ricercatori ampiamente e facilmente accessibili. Il Fediverse è un insieme di piattaforme social interoperabili in cui le persone possono seguirsi a vicenda oltre i confini delle piattaforme per leggere e condividere post di testo o altri media. Tra questi due ambienti, osserviamo norme sociali contrastanti sui "dati pubblici" e aspettative contrastanti su come le informazioni personali possono essere archiviate e ripubblicate. Durante la fase iniziale di progettazione di uno strumento per collegare i dati ORCID al Fediverse e rendere i record ORCID individuali consultabili su piattaforme social aperte, ci siamo trovati di fronte alla necessità di collegare e risolvere queste differenze per prevenire conflitti evitabili. Questo articolo documenta queste norme e aspettative, nonché il nostro approccio per collegarle e colmarle
Aiuta anche tu a curare questa lista . Suggerisci voci e apporta miglioramenti. Condividi l'URL con altri. Prenditi cura in particolare di tutti questi terreni incolti dove possono fiorire i fedi freschi, indicati da un'emoji:
⏱️ pianificare il supporto di ActivityPub o avere richieste di funzionalità aperte. ⚗️ indica le aree di innovazione fediverse, non sono contrassegnate come non mantenute. 🍀 in cerca di salvataggio o fork da parte di nuovi custodi manutentori. 👻 non mantenute e inattive da oltre un anno. Vuoi rivitalizzarle?
In questa versione di ActivityPub per WordPress, la maggior parte dei blocchi ha subito una revisione piuttosto radicale della propria infrastruttura tecnica, del design e della funzionalità.
In this version of ActivityPub for WordPress, most blocks received a pretty fundamental overhaul of their technical infrastructure, design, and functionality.
The biggest change is almost invisible—all blocks now use WordPress’ Interactivity API under the hood, shedding a substantial amount of load-heavy scripts. On well-optimized sites, this should lead to noticeably quicker load times and improved web vitals.
Let’s dive in and look at each block individually.
Follow Me Block
After updating, you might glance at your existing Follow Me blocks and think… “Did anything change?” That’s the goal! We’ve worked hard to keep things fully backwards compatible, so nothing should break—or even look too different—unless you want it to.
The “Follow” button was updated to use WordPress’ built-in Button block, so all those customization options you already know and love are right there. We also turned “Button Only” into a proper Block Style. You’ll see it right next to the default, complete with a hover preview, making it easy to switch between.
And speaking of style: there’s a new Profile style! This transforms the block into something that looks like an author card, complete with a description, header image, and post/follower stats. More social, more visual, still fully customizable. Not into the rounded corners and shadows? No problem—you can tweak those in the Styles tab.
But that’s not all! The Modal containing the follow information also received a slight makeover, making it more theme-agnostic in its appearance.
Followers Block
For this block we didn’t hold back on updating the design—subtler styling and better theme integration, so it looks at home wherever you drop it. Like we did with the Reactions block in version 5.9.0, we’ve updated the title to use WordPress’ native Heading block. That gives you more control over appearance, while keeping things compatible with existing content.
This block now benefits from the same Interactivity API improvements and renders server-side on first load, making it feel noticeably faster and more responsive right from the start.
We also introduced a new Card style here (you might’ve spotted it in the 6.0.0 announcement). It pairs nicely with the Follow Me block’s Profile style—rounded corners and a coordinated look that helps everything feel part of the same family.
They’ll be more changes to come soon, as we unlock font and background customizations to bring the block up to par with the rest of them.
Reactions Block
The Reactions block is a bit of a behind-the-scenes hero. Thanks to block hooks, it can automatically appear at the end of posts—no editor work required. But if you want to place it manually (like we’re doing here), you totally can.
Beyond receiving the same technical upgrades as the other blocks, this one now displays the actual reactions in the Editor, matching what you see on the frontend—no more stand-in data unless there are no reactions yet. It also includes a few subtle improvements, like rendering an HTML comment when there’s nothing to show (so you’re not left guessing), and displaying more avatars when the block is set to “wide” or “full”-width, making better use of the space.
Remote Reply
This one’s a bit niche, but clever: Remote Reply lets logged-out users respond to Fediverse comments directly from your site. It’s not a block you can add in the editor, but it now uses the same lightweight tech as the Follow Me button—so it loads faster and feels smoother.
If you’ve never seen it in action, you’re not alone—it only appears when certain conditions are met (logged out, looking at a Fediverse-sourced comment, etc.). Here’s a quick demo:
While most of what ActivityPub does happens quietly behind the scenes, this update puts a little more shine on the parts your visitors can see. The blocks are lighter, more flexible, and a bit more fun to work with.
As always, we’d love to hear what you think! Every improvement in this release was shaped by feedback from users like you—so keep it coming.
> "Inspired by @evan 's recent article on advancing long-form text in the social web, we've taken the leap and developed our first prototype for publishing and reading articles on Bonfire, based on the FEP-b2b8 draft specification."
Here the article on how we are implementing articles in bonfire 😅
Putting the entire article in the summary property twice (once in preview and once at the top level) seems a bit silly; since it's meant to be a summary maybe you should abbreviate it to a limit of say 200 chars?
also as a heads-up, <a> elements in summary properties tend to be rather messy on other servers (and in clients), so you're probably better off sanitizing those out of any summary property before sending it over the wire
another thing i just noticed, the url and id props of the object at https://bonfire.cafe/pub/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 are both https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1, so that other URL without /pub/ in it is not present on the article. For consistency you probably wanna use https://bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 as the id and https://bonfire.cafe/post/01JYRX7HCGME693BGCZF6AGGK1 as the url.
@dumpsterqueer thanks a lot for the feedback ❤ we tried to push a bit the limit with this very first prototype and see how it looks like in different platforms, we will fix the various bugs in the next release!
@dumpsterqueer I wonder if an optional textarea to add a proper summary, or defaulting to the first n characters, would be better than repeating the title in the summary as well? wdyt?
text area probably makes sense. On a ux level you probably want to have people enter either a summary (for articles) or a cw/summary (for notes). I'd say if no user-entered summary is present on an article, use the first x characters with ellipses at the end (converted to plaintext from the interpreted html). Just my onion though!
🔥 Bonfire Install Party #1 – Get your fediverse instance running!
Inizia:Venerdì Giugno 27, 2025 @ 5:30 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Venerdì Giugno 27, 2025 @ 7:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Join us this Friday at 15:30 UTC for our first Bonfire Install Party!
A casual peer-led session where we’ll set up Bonfire instances together, ask questions, and tackle challenges in real time.
This session will focus on deploying Bonfire using Co-op Cloud — our recommended method, especially for fresh servers. Whether you’re ready to install or just want to follow along and learn, you’re welcome.
What to expect
• Hands-on walkthrough of live deployment using Co-op Cloud
• Real-world troubleshooting and debugging — we’ll learn together
• Shared note-taking to improve our documentation and install guides
• Help shape better tools and recipes by trying them out in the wild
• A no-pressure, collaborative learning environment
What to bring
Ideally:
• A domain or subdomain
• A publicly-accessible server (VPS, dedicated, or local) with SSH access
• DNS configured for your domain
• Your curiosity and questions!
Not ready? That’s fine too — join to watch, learn, and prep for next time. No experience required.
@devSJR do you mean campground.bonfire.cafe ? that's a testing instance, available for getting a feeling of the software and testing features, suggest/discuss improvements. - we will not run a flagship instance, but hopefully soon community-run federated instances will spin up 😀
No, I was wondering if you have an installation party which includes also federation between these instances and other Fediverse platforms for example. I know campground.campfire.cafe. I tested and liked it.
📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too!
@ElysianEve @ondra It would be nice if there was a federated/decentralized alternative that's as good as Signal (ease-of-use + security + feature set). Unfortunately there isn't.
Yes the spec is still open there are 2 different ways how to add stickers. One for element and schildi and one for the other clients, but it is missing a singular way.
The whole furry fandom is currently not able to move to matrix because of that single issue, but it is a real issue.
@Natanox @ElysianEve @ondra I found this an interesting site in order to make a decision on which messaging apps to use (a mix of Signal and Session for my own scenarios). Might be of interest to others too (?). securemessagingapps.com/
This site compares secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view. These include Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Signal, Simplex, Google Messenger, Threema, Riot, Wire, Telegram, and Wickr
@healthiswealth @ElysianEve @ondra That's nice, lacks a few though (e.g. Briar). Unfortunately if you want mass adoption you really need the jack of all trades. It's phenomenally hard work to combine all three aspects mentioned earlier, especially if you also want it to not use a classical centralized approach. Matrix attempted to do this and it's a buggy mess ever since. Other projects usually let go of either ease-of-use or features.
@Klimakipppunkt probably Threema Work. #Matrix is used by the German #Bundeswehr, and #XMPP by the German #police btw. Also Threema can see who writes who, while Signal technically cant, even if US based, sure there are other attackvectors, like via Cloudflare but one would have to trust Threema more than Signal. Also #Threema doesnt have #PostQuantumEncryption as of now. #SimpleX would potentially tick all the boxes, but it's still a bit small. @desirable_dialogue
I will say that the quivering effect on the resharing sticker (which I assume is meant to represent the mascot hitting the desk so hard) does make me feel a little queasy to watch, as if it were strobing. But it’s still quite adorable so I’ll probably use it anyway
@Pascal_dher there is another sticker (not shown in the image) holding a balloon featuring the m logo. We will leave it up to you to tell your friends where to find more cute Mastodons 🙏
@ElysianEve @ondra @dopatwo @signalapp @Mastodon Hi. It's a good start for some I thought especially since it's easy to visually compare the ones it lists. I've not visited it for a while to be honest so not sure it's fully up to date either (scrolling this site earlier on my phone was dreadful) & yes no Briar. There is also the privacy vs security aspect which are two different things of course 😀
btw, the mastodon banging on the computer with "error" on the screen when there is a mastodon error is a low-hanging fruit sticker material was expecting to find it in the pack 😁
@gianmarcogg03 there is a lot of #telegram packs available, the bot supports: signalstickers.org/ look for telegram packs there, in the future maybe #deltachat will support #lottie (#ArcaneChat client already supports it) and you will be able to export packs from telegram, there is a bot in telegram that allows to export packs
@gianmarcogg03 fun fact you can also send an emoji to get a random sticker from a random pack that is related to that emoji, or send text to search sticker packs, ex try sending "duck" or "telegram" to the bot to get packs that are originally from telegram
They are very nice but they should be available for the Mastodon app as stickers to post as a reaction to other posts and for internal messaging on Mastodon 🙁
@ElysianEve yep, absolutely the "fatigue" doesn't come from someone asking them to switch to Telegram, then Signal, when that one gets bad the next centralized phone-number based app that is "not enshitified yet"...
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" 😁
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!
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