Echo for #Lemmy is now available! Goodbye #Reddit, Hello @LemmyDev. #Fediverse #ActivityPub 👋

echo.rrainn.com/download/iphon…

Thank you! I know a few of us had requested this sometime back, and this makes that graphic part of editorial process like you said, "as intended!"

You can haz #Cheeseburgers! 🍔

#tallship #WriteFreely #FOSS #ActivityPub #Fediverse

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Week in Fediverse 2024-10-11

Servers

- WriteFreely v0.15.1
- ActivityPods v2.0
- Mastodon v4.3.0
- Hubzilla v9.4.3
- snac v2.60
- PeerTube v6.3.2
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.3.3
- Misskey v2024.10.0
- tootik v0.12.5
- Mbin v1.7.2
- Trunk & Tidbits, September 2024
- Hamabē: Federated Chat Space

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.11.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.7.3
- TootRain v2.0.1
- Voyager v2.18.2
- Aria v0.15.0
- Phanpy changelog
- pl-fe: A social networking client app forked from Soapbox

Tools and Plugins

- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.0
- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.0
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v0.9.9
- wf-migrate: Tools for migrating between WriteFreely instances
- FediMod FIRES: A protocol and reference server implementation for storing and distributing moderation advisories and recommendations over time for the Fediverse

Protocol

- FEP-76ea: Conversation Threads
- FEP-1985: Signaling how an OrderedCollection is ordered

Articles

- Using a Permanent WebFinger Address for My Fediverse Profile
- Setting Up Mastodon Author Tags
- IFTAS Update: Content Classification, Moderation Tooling
- Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 87

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/019257ef-…

Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)

A deep dive into the mindful, considerate culture of the Fediverse, focusing on the use of alt text and content warnings

^{Elena Rossini}

Mario Vavti

2024-10-10 10:43:08

Hubzilla 9.4.3 Released!

Hubzilla 9.4.3
- Discard Add/Remove activities (Hubzilla 10 and (streams) compatibility)
- Fix HQ channel activities icons
- Fix saved search icons

#ActivityPub in #PHP?

Why not?

shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/activ…

ActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File

Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough! I wanted to create the simplest possible Fediverse server which can be used as an educational tool to show how ActivityPub / Mastodon works.

^{Terence Eden’s Blog}

I'm trying to debug an ActivityPub plugin problem, and so far the only thing I've found is this in the access_logs:

"POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/270596/inbox HTTP/1.1" 404

Any ideas? #wordpress #activitypub #mastodon

@renchap
Mastodon gGmbH is listed as a partner of the #SocialWebFoundation!
The mission of SWF does not match, if not contradicts the purpose and object of the gGmbH.
In my point of view this is the beginning of "embrace, extend and extinguish" of #activitypub like we saw with #xmpp

@aral @TomWellborn

I'm so happy to see #opensource #foss projects supporting non-corporate platforms like #peertube 😀 @Penpot :penpot:

Make sure to give them a follow using #activitypub to get alerted to all new videos that they post... and as an added bonus you can comment directly from the #fediverse client of your choice:)

#blender #dalaifelinto #b3d #blenderinstitute #penpot

Blender: Inside the 3D tool | Open Chat with Dalai Felinto. Ep. #5

peertube.kaleidos.net/videos/w…

Blender: Inside the 3D tool | Open Chat with Dalai Felinto. Ep. #5

To learn more about the most popular open-source 3D suites Blender’s long history and key moments, we invited Dalai, Blender's Product Manager, to our Penpot Open Chat. For a team full of Blender s...

^{Penpot Peertube}

⭐️ Spotlight ⭐️

This week in our Community tab, we've featured these inspiring voices from the fediverse, including experts on everything from British history to the NFL.

@greg_jenner
@Julia
@kateaconger
@noahshachtman
@rkrelentless
@profgalloway

On Flipboard, you can follow interesting topics, trusted content creators, prestige publishers and people from the fediverse.

Download the app here: about.flipboard.com/download-f…

#Flipboard #Fediverse #Federation #ActivityPub #Threads

Yes folks, there's a light. So grateful for the work of the Social Web Foundation.

socialwebfoundation.org

@evan

#activitypub #OpenWeb #fediverse

Social Web Foundation

Towards a bigger, better fediverse

^{Social Web Foundation}

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.60 here:

github.com/macports/macports-p…

All GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed OK.

I still am not in a place in my life where commit access is a responsibility I am willing to take on, so it is up to someone else to merge it.

Neat to see the improvements to Mastodon migration in this release! Maybe that will help facilitate more users?

Thank you, as usual! Also, nice to see a code push on a Thursday (in UTC at least?) not a Friday! ^_^

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

snac: update to 2.60 by artkiver · Pull Request #26129 · macports/macports-ports

Description Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 15.0.1 24A348 arm64 Command Line Tools 16.0.0.0.1.1724870825 Verification Have you followed our Commit Message Guideli...

^GitHub

Fancy a small preview of a BIG feature that's in the works?

#ActivityPub

🚀 Excited to announce MastodonBot.ex v1.1.0! Now with GitHub repository watching!
Easily track updates for your favorite repos. Add repos to the watchlist, get direct notifications on new releases, and post public updates with relevant tags.

This functionality helps you stay up-to-date on the latest features and improvements from the open-source projects you care about.
Check this bot @watcher and try these functions there 💻

github.com/kaimanhub/MastodonB…
#elixir #opensource #mastodon #activitypub

GitHub - kaimanhub/MastodonBot.ex: Elixir based multifunctional Mastodon Bot

Elixir based multifunctional Mastodon Bot. Contribute to kaimanhub/MastodonBot.ex development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.60 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Migration from a snac account to a Mastodon one has been implemented. Please see snac(8) (the administrator manual) for more information.

Fixed a bug in argument parsing regarding some special characters (contributed by ndagestad).

Fixed image emojis in the public profile bio.

comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: ko-fi.com/grunfink

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song State of Independence versioned by #DonnaSummer.

snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

^Codeberg.org

Le nouveau billet de #veille du SED de l'Inria Saclay est en ligne:
→ sed.saclay.inria.fr/posts/Veil…

#activitypub #réseaux_sociaux #docker #sécurité #reproductibilité #analyse_textuelle

SED Saclay : Veille

^{sed.saclay.inria.fr}

I'm building a public Autospam detection service that will be compatible with Pixelfed, Mastodon and other projects!

I'm leveraging my expertise* in Autospam, along with my 3 year old dataset to build the best fediverse Akismet alternative.

Are you interested? Boosts appreciated!

* - pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/a…

#pixelfed #fediverse #spam #autospam #activitypub #mastodon

Yay for cute emoji in commit messages (chef's kiss)!

"After several tests, migration to Mastodon seems to work 🎉🥳."

From:

codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/co…

#snac #Mastodon #ActivityPub #OpenSource

After several tests, migration to Mastodon seems to work 🎉🥳. · 6ffc31cc42

snac2 - A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

^Codeberg.org

@tom

yea trying to understand bluesky moderation. afaik it's potentially decentralized but not really. not yet at least. it's like if a much larger percentage of #ActivityPub users were all on mastodon dot social. and since bluesky is bigger, there must be a ton of human mods. where/who are they? since it's VC backed, are they paid well? obviously I do not understand their business.

New: Last Week in #fediverse - ep 87

This week's news:

- @Mastodon has launched their latest version, 4.3
- ClubsAll is a new Reddit-like build on #activitypub
- IFTAS is slowly launching their Content Classification System that allows servers that have opted in to scan for CSAM

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-…

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 87

Mastodon has officially launched a new version, a new Reddit-like with ClubsAll has launched, and IFTAS has started rolling out their content classifier system.

^{fediversereport.com}

Ich glaube das #ActivityPub Plugin für #Wordpress macht wohl gerade eine Pause. Kommentare vom Fediverse landen gerade nicht im Blog. Keine Ahnung warum. Ich habe nichts daran geändert, ein Wordpress Udpate gab es auch nicht und auch sonst hielten sich Updates für Plugins zur Zeit in Grenzen.

Ich glaube ich werfe den ganzen Kram wieder raus. Dann muss ich die Beiträge zwar wieder manuell teilen aber das habe ich ja vorher auch gemacht.

did you know that the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress supports "content warnings"?

wordpress.org/plugins/activity…

Almost finished writing my #OggCamp talk.

I'll be showing you how to quickly and easily build your own #ActivityPub based social network which can communicate with the #Fediverse.

Tickets still available at oggcamp.org/

#OggCamp2024

Want to run your own personal #ActivityPub server, but don't have the server specs to install Mastodon? Try #Hollo, a lightweight personal ActivityPub server!

docs.hollo.social/

I don’t think people understand that this is a WordPress blog, so their replies get converted to comments I have to approve. While your replies appear instantly on your instance, they have to be approved on mine. I trash all negative or antagonistic comments if I even read them.

If you are particularly persistent, I shadowban you by disallowing your comments. If your instance, as a whole, is problematic, I will just IP ban your entire host. This is my instance. I can do that. The way it works is that I can disallow your comments so that while they show up on your instance and the instances your instance is federated with, they are disallowed from even becoming pending comments. I don’t respond; I literally just delete your comments.

So, while your replies are visible on your side, they are not visible on my site because I’ve trashed them. How people waste their time is wild to me.

I just couldn’t imagine coming onto someone else’s site—this is a blog—and giving your unsolicited opinion to a complete stranger that no one asked you for, especially when they will just delete your reply.

While this is a blog and my posts are rather long-winded, make no mistake: I don’t write for a living. So, you are not affecting me in any way. You are just wasting your time because I will merely delete your reply.

If I am feeling particularly petty and it has no favorites or boosts, I might redraft the post so that your reply has been deleted on my end and is no longer linked to yours on your instance.

Nine out of ten times, I will not respond and will just think you are an idiot as I delete your reply without even fully reading it.

#Activitypub #election2024 #fediverse #Mastodon #openSource #politics #replyGuy #replyGuys #socialMedia #uspol #WordPress

All decentralised social networks in single timeline: #OpenVibe, for open social media.
Currently supported are: #Mastodon, #Bluesky, #Nostr, and #Threads

Truly useful and simply amazing app!

#OpenSource #OpenAccess #socialnetwork #socialmedia #ActivityPub #OpenProtocol #AggregatorApplication

openvibe.social/

Openvibe — Town Square for Open Social Media

Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.

^{openvibe.social}

Government communications should never be limited by commercial paywalls. Requiring sacrificing control of my data and privacy is no different than a paywall.

#ActivityPub is not the answer for everything; open RSS or @Mastodon feeds for happenings, POTS or @signalapp for comms. Most importantly, government presence online must be from an official domain like .gov

#Government #SMEM #OpenWeb

From: @Brendanjones
fosstodon.org/@Brendanjones/11…

Brendan Jones

2024-10-06 13:23:20

The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.

Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.

What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.

Public systems should not require use of private services.

#NS #Netherlands #FOSS #privacy

After getting to try the #Snac activity pub server developed by @grunfink on bsd.cafe thanks @stefano , I'm kind of tempted to spin up my own instance. Anyone here other than Stefano that runs their own instance ? Please share you pro's and con's plus any workarounds you have come up with.
Also how are you viewing / posting on mobile ? Are you just sticking with web or using the likes of #Tusky ?
#Fediverse #ActivityPub

codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

^Codeberg.org

I am following the situations with WordPress, WP Engine, and Mozilla Firefox. I more or less use WordPress just to access the fediverse and for personal blogging. I am a little concerned that this might affect ActivityPub-related functionality.

Here is an AI summary of a TechCrunch article:

WordPress is facing a major dispute between its founder, Matt Mullenweg, and hosting provider WP Engine. Mullenweg criticized WP Engine for disabling post revision history and misusing the “WP” brand, leading to confusion. WP Engine responded with a cease-and-desist letter, alleging Mullenweg tried to extract fees for the WordPress trademark. Mullenweg then restricted WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, causing disruptions.

WP Engine sued Automattic, accusing Mullenweg of abusing power. The controversy has raised concerns about control over WordPress, with 159 Automattic employees leaving in protest over Mullenweg’s leadership.

So, at the moment, I do not mind using it, but the hints at the enshittification of WordPress have me considering writing a CMS of my own more and more. Honestly, I don’t want to put forth the effort. Since CMSs are basically CRUD applications and WordPress is open source and has been around forever, AI would probably be really effective at writing the code, so I could just use AI to write the code for me.

Considering that ActivityPub is relatively easy to implement, I could just have it write my own module for that. At the moment, things are not bad enough, but if things continue to go south with WordPress, I will replace them with AI to write the code for my own CMS. How’s that for ironic?

I haven’t written anything in PHP in years, and honestly, I don’t want to try to relearn PHP just for the purpose of creating a CMS. The programming language I am fond of is Python. I am heading into my 40s, so I am long since past that age where I need to argue with complete strangers on the Internet or overshare for validation. To be completely honest, I use social media as a vehicle for sadomasochism and schadenfreude more than anything.

#Activitypub #AI #Automattic #blogging #capitalism #ChatGPT #CMS #cynicism #dystopian #enshittification #fediverse #Firefox #FOSS #journaling #journalism #Mozilla #openSource #PHP #programming #Python #socialMedia #TechCrunch #technology #WordPress #WPEngine

Actually, you know, I can make a pretty compelling case that #ActivityPub-as-a-standard-protocol is already dead and has been for quite awhile.

Again. Doesn't mean that it is useless to write in it. But it does mean that what you are writing in is almost certainly some specific flavor of the protocol, not AP-proper or your own variant.

O que o governo brasileiro poderia fazer ao invés disso:

social.vivaldi.net/@everton137…

O movimento de software livre do governo Lula anterior foi só moda e iniciativas de alguns gatos pingados que calharam de estar no momento e local certos:

social.vivaldi.net/@everton137…

#Brasil #SocialMedia #Google #Lula #Softwarelivre #OpenSource #Mastodon #Fediverso #privacidadededados #ActivityPub #BigTech

everton137

2024-09-01 20:20:47

Dá certa tristeza ver a escolha dos atuais assessores do presidente Lula, que em seus primeiros mandatos falava de boca cheia sobre software livre e tinha iniciativas nesse sentido, terem escolhido perfis oficiais no Bluesky e Threads.

Lembro de ter ido algumas vezes a Brasília, no contexto do movimento de dados governamentais abertos e hacking cívico, e ver muito servidor público literalmente puxando projetos e iniciativas voltadas ao software livre e código aberto.

Talvez fazendo um pouco de mea culpa, pois virei imigrante, mas todo mundo sumiu? E os funcionários públicos daquela época?

Me parece que um conceito que passou batido nesse movimento foi o perigo da centralização. Poderíamos ter servidores oficiais com Mastodon ou algo análogo, como alguns na Alemanha e União Européia, mas a primeira iniciativa é logo ir pra uma plataforma com os mesmos vícios que nos levaram a essa situação.

Editado: e descobri que também criou no Threads, mas ainda não ativou a opção de fazer parte do fediverso, o que mostra o despreparo dos assessores.

#softwarelivre #OpenSource #DadosAbertos #x #Mastodon #BlueSky #descentralização #federação #Lula #activitypub #Brasil

Frage: Warum wird in Friendica ein weitergesagter Beitrag von einen anderen Friendica Account anders als ein weitergesagter Beitrag von einen anderen via ActivityPub verbundenen Account behandelt?

Wenn ich einen Beitrag von einen Friendica Account normal weitersage, also nicht zitiere, sieht das so aus:

Wenn ich hingegen einen Beitrag der via ActivityPub kommt weitersage sieht das so aus:

Hat es einen Hintergrund das das so unterschiedlich gehandhabt wird? Die Variante mit dem weitergesagten Beitrag von einen Friendica Account sieht eher wie das Zitieren aus, dass man bei einen Diaspora Account hat.

#Friendica #Weitersagen #ActivityPub #Diaspora #Darstellung #german #2022-10-05 !Friendica Support

If you're an advanced user with programming skills who is wanting to do custom stuff with Fediverse connections (or even wanting to create your own Fedi platform), you might want to check out the activitypub.rocks SocialHub forum:

socialhub.activitypub.rocks

I'm not a software developer so I can't help with these topics, but enough people have asked that it seemed a good idea to give the forum a mention!

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediDev

Via ActivityPub Gespräche zurück ins WordPress-Blog holen

Welche Vorteile hat es, sein WordPress-Blog über das ActivityPub-Plugin mit Mastodon und dem Fediverse zu verbinden?

Ein ausführliches Interview von Annette (@annette) mit Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle).

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Interviews #Mastodon #MatthiasPfefferle

einstieg-in-wp.de/activitypub-…

Week in Fediverse 2024-10-04

Servers

- Mastodon v4.2.13
- Hubzilla v9.4.2
- Mitra v3.6.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v3.3.2
- Misskey v2024.9.0
- Gancio v1.19.4
- Castopod v1.12.10
- Lemmy Development Update 2024-10-04

Clients

- toot v0.45.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.7.1
- Pachli v2.8.2
- Fedicat 10-2-24
- Voyager v2.18.0
- Bluechirp: WinUI client for Mastodon, with the sleek design of modern Windows

Protocol

- FEP-0499: Delivering to multiple inboxes with a multibox endpoint

Articles

- Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers
- Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)
- How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01923528-…

Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)

The Fediverse has a different value system than commercial social media: striving for genuine connections, protecting privacy and championing accessibility

^{Elena Rossini}

We Distribute

2024-09-30 17:20:08

Mastodon Engineering has announced a new network-wide effort to create a framework for service providers offering a variety of capabilities.

wedistribute.org/2024/09/fediv…

Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers

One of the most difficult challenges that most decentralized social networks face is that of content and user discovery. Everybody and all of their stuff lives in different places on the network, and

^{Sean Tilley (We Distribute)}

Looks like Libre.fm, an open-software version of Last.fm by the GNU Project, is being reworked to support ActivityPub!

roadmap.libre.fm

#LibreFM #LastFM #Fediverse #SocialWeb #IndieWeb #ActivityPub #GNU #GNUProject #Music #FediMusic

If you're considering creating your own implementation of #ActivityPub, consider #Fedify.

Implementing ActivityPub from scratch requires more than you might think. WebFinger, HTTP Signatures, Linked Data Signatures, Object Integrity Proofs, NodeInfo, queues for sending and receiving activities, followers collection synchronization, remote object lookups, interoperability with Mastodon, Akkoma, Misskey, Threads, and more…

Just use Fedify and feel free to create your own ActivityPub implementation!

#fedidev

fedify.dev/

Actor dispatcher | Fedify

You can register an actor dispatcher so that Fedify can dispatch an appropriate actor by its identifier. This section explains how to register an actor dispatcher and the key properties of an actor.

^fedify.dev