BotKit 0.2.0 Released

We're pleased to announce the release of BotKit 0.2.0! For those new to our project, #BotKit is a #TypeScript framework for creating standalone #ActivityPub bots that can interact with Mastodon, Misskey, and other #fediverse platforms without the constraints of these existing platforms.

This release marks an important step in our journey to make fediverse bot development more accessible and powerful, introducing several features that our community has been requesting.

The Journey to Better Bot Interactions

In building BotKit, we've always focused on making bots more expressive and interactive. With version 0.2.0, we're taking this to the next level by bringing the social aspects of the fediverse to your bots.

Expressing Your Bot's Personality with Custom Emojis

One of the most requested features has been #custom_emoji support. Now your bots can truly express their personality with unique visuals that make their messages stand out.

// Define custom emojis for your bot
const emojis = bot.addCustomEmojis({
  botkit: { 
    file: `${import.meta.dirname}/images/botkit.png`, 
    type: "image/png" 
  },
  fedify: { 
    url: "https://fedify.dev/logo.png", 
    type: "image/png" 
  }
});

// Use these custom emojis in your messages
await session.publish(
  text`BotKit ${customEmoji(emojis.botkit)} is powered by Fedify ${customEmoji(emojis.fedify)}`
);

With this new API, you can:

• Add custom emojis to your bot with Bot.addCustomEmojis()
• Include these emojis in messages with the customEmoji() function
• Use the text tagged template with Fedify Emoji objects

Engaging Through Reactions

Communication isn't just about posting messages—it's also about responding to others. The new reaction system creates natural interaction points between your bot and its followers:

// React to a message with a standard Unicode emoji
await message.react(emoji`👍`);

// Or use one of your custom emojis as a reaction
await message.react(emojis.botkit);

// Create a responsive bot that acknowledges reactions
bot.onReact = async (session, reaction) => {
  await session.publish(
    text`Thanks for reacting with ${reaction.emoji} to my message, ${reaction.actor}!`,
    { visibility: "direct" }
  );
};

This feature allows your bot to:

• React to messages with Unicode emojis using Message.react()
• React with the custom emojis you've defined
• Handle reaction events with Bot.onReact and Bot.onUnreact handlers

Conversations Through Quotes

Discussions often involve referencing what others have said. Our new #quote support enables more cohesive conversation threads:

// Quote another message in your bot's post
await session.publish(
  text`Responding to this interesting point...`,
  { quoteTarget: originalMessage }
);

// Handle when users quote your bot's messages
bot.onQuote = async (session, quoteMessage) => {
  await session.publish(
    text`Thanks for sharing my thoughts, ${quoteMessage.actor}!`,
    { visibility: "direct" }
  );
};

With quote support, your bot can:

• Quote messages with quoteTarget option
• Access quoted messages via Message.quoteTarget
• Handle quote events with the new Bot.onQuote event handler

Visual Enhancements

Because communication is visual too, we've improved how your bot presents itself:

• Image attachments now properly display in the web interface
• Your bot's content looks better and provides a richer experience

Behind the Scenes: Enhanced Activity Propagation

We've also improved how activities propagate through the fediverse:

• More precise propagation of replies, shares, updates, and deletes
• Activities are now properly sent to the original message authors

These improvements ensure your bot's interactions are consistent and reliable across different fediverse platforms.

Taking Your First Steps with BotKit 0.2.0

Ready to experience these new features? BotKit 0.2.0 is available on JSR and can be installed with a simple command:

deno add jsr:@fedify/botkit@0.2.0

Since BotKit uses the Temporal API (which is still evolving in JavaScript), remember to enable it in your deno.json:

{
  "imports": {
    "@fedify/botkit": "jsr:@fedify/botkit@0.2.0"
  },
  "unstable": ["temporal"]
}

With these simple steps, you're ready to create or upgrade your fediverse bot with our latest features.

Looking Forward

BotKit 0.2.0 represents our ongoing commitment to making fediverse bot development accessible, powerful, and enjoyable. We believe these new features will help your bots become more engaging and interactive members of the fediverse community.

For complete docs and more examples, visit our docs site.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release through feedback, feature requests, and code contributions. The BotKit community continues to grow, and we're excited to see what you'll create!

BotKit is powered by Fedify, a lower-level framework for creating ActivityPub server applications.

#fedidev #emoji_reaction

黨的爆炸管理

https://technews.tw/2025/04/24/china-require-ev-battery-no-fire-explode/
#笑死

Hey folks! We're excited to share a preview of a new API coming in #Fedify 1.6 that should make structuring larger federated apps much cleaner: FederationBuilder.

As your Fedify applications grow, you might encounter circular dependency issues when registering dispatchers and listeners across multiple files. The new FederationBuilder pattern helps solve this by separating the configuration phase from instantiation.

Instead of this:

// federation.ts
import { createFederation } from "@fedify/fedify";

export const federation = createFederation<AppContext>({
  kv: new DbKvStore(), 
  queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
  // Other options...
});

// Now we need to import this federation instance in other files
// to register dispatchers and listeners...

You can now do this:

// builder.ts
import { createFederationBuilder } from "@fedify/fedify";

export const builder = createFederationBuilder<AppContext>();

// other files can import and configure this builder...

// actors.ts
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
import { Person } from "@fedify/fedify";

builder.setActorDispatcher("/users/{handle}", async (ctx, handle) => {
  // Actor implementation
});

// inbox.ts
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
import { Follow } from "@fedify/fedify";

builder.setInboxListeners("/users/{handle}/inbox", "/inbox")
  .on(Follow, async (ctx, follow) => {
    // Follow handling
  });

// main.ts — Only create the Federation instance at startup
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";

// Build the Federation object with actual dependencies
export const federation = await builder.build({
  kv: new DbKvStore(),
  queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
  // Other options...
});

This pattern helps avoid circular dependencies and makes your code more modular. Each part of your app can configure the builder without needing the actual Federation instance.

The full documentation will be available when 1.6 is released, but we wanted to share this early with our community. Looking forward to your feedback when it lands!

Want to try it right now? You can install the development version from JSR or npm:

# Deno
deno add jsr:@fedify/fedify@1.6.0-dev.777+1206cb01

# Node.js
npm add @fedify/fedify@1.6.0-dev.777

# Bun
bun add @fedify/fedify@1.6.0-dev.777

#ActivityPub #fedidev

Unbound 1.23.0 is now available. Our #DNS resolver now features ‘fast reload’, allowing it to read the new config in a thread, and when done only briefly pauses the server to update the settings. This version also contains redis replica support, DNS Error Reporting, and several bug fixes. https://nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Apr/24/unbound-1.23.0-released/

I've currently been doing a tonne of work on Doorkeeper, a Mastodon dependency for OAuth, and currently that work is mostly uncompensated.

I'm also doing a reasonable amount of work on the standards side (W3C & IETF), which is also uncompensated.

I'm not making ends meet at the moment, so if you can spare €5-10 a month, please do consider supporting my work on Mastodon, Doorkeeper, standards, and the wider Fediverse.

I'm currently running a deficit of about €1000-1600 per month, which is completely unsustainable.

(there's also one-time, but ongoing support is what enables me to do this important work)

https://support.thisismissem.social

#mastodon #fediverse

Now that #GoToSocial v0.19.0 is out, we're going to start the process of transferring our coding workflow from Github over to #Codeberg (@CodebergCodeberg.org), to get away from Microsoft's endless parade of crapola.

This means that some time in the next week or so, we will "lock" the Github repository so that only superseriousbusiness.org members can create new PRs and issues etc (similar to what we do when we're on holiday).

Then, we will migrate the repository over to Codeberg, using Codeberg's migration functionality to keep issues, pull requests, comments, etc intact.

Once we've validated that everything is in order, we will mark the Github repository as a read-only mirror of the Codeberg repo, and start using Codeberg for issues, pull requests, CI/CD etc.

To avoid breaking people's automated builds that rely on that Github repo, we are planning to keep it as a read-only mirror for a while (eg., 6 months or so, not sure yet) . At some point though we will fully remove it, to avoid contributing our code to Microsoft's "ai" garbage. But we will warn in advance about this so that people can update their scripts and stuff in time.

There will probably be some turbulence in our CI/CD pipelines and workflow and whatnot during this transition period, but nothing that should affect end users of the software: releases up to v0.19.0 will remain available on Github and Docker as normal, and snapshots should remain up to date on our Minio S3 bucket and Docker.

We're looking forward to the move, and to putting the sloth in its new home and seeing it wander around sniffing the furniture and exploring Thanks for reading!

I worked on adding support for VVC/H.266 in GStreamer 1.26 and blogged about it!

https://blogs.igalia.com/cadubentzen/vvc-h-266-in-gstreamer-1-26/

Hopefully that is useful as a guideline to adding new codecs in GStreamer :)

cc @igalia @gstreamer

彼女は募集中やで​​

Christiaan Huygens is ready to join the strike (bit less ready for a walk-out, tho).

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/tu-delft-on-strike-stay-updated-in-our-liveblog

#WOInActie
#KeepTheFlameBurning
#Strike
#HigherEducation
#KabinetSchoof
#Delft
#TUDelft
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
#Eppocalyps
#DoeHetNiet
#AcademicMastodon
#AcademicChatter
#Delta
#ChristiaanHuygens
#Huygens

엘랑(엘프줄행랑)

저...이거 팔아요 ....4/15일에 받았어요....
파는이유, ....5년전에 쓰던 프로모델, ....장롱에서 찾았어요........
처음에 서비스하는 이용권 사용해서 ... 확 깎을게요....
운포 11만에 팔아요.........인증은 사실분에게....직접드립니다.... 민트색이예요 .....

옛날 "컴퓨터"나 "스마트" 같은 접두사들 유행도 있었죠.

예전에 이명박때쯤인가 MOU라는 말이 일상에 들어오기 시작하더니 MOU가 한 때 유행처럼... 번지던... 뭔가 대단한 것처럼

블럭체인이란 용어도 여기저기 퍼지더니, 이젠 AI도 일단 여기저기 가져다 붙이는... 자체가 나쁘다는 게 아니라, 걍 아무데다 막 가져다 붙여서 쓰는 거 아닌가 싶은 의심이 들 때가 많다는 거;;;;

이게 마치 노암 촘스키, Noam Chomsky,의 Univeral Grammar나 Chunk, Generative Grammar등의 이론/개념 체계를 중학교 초등학교 가르치는 어학원들에서 어떻게 기존 학원들과 차별 적용해서 가르치는 건지... 앞뒤 설명은 없고 다짜고짜 청크..., 하도 청크 청크해서 학원 블로근 들어가보면 이미 영어를 좀 하는 사람이면 어느정도 의미단위로 체험적으로 가르치고 배우고 했던거에 그냥 말만 청크라고 붙인 거...

굳이?

또, 좀 있으니 corpus란 말이 유행을 하더니, 심리언어학, 언어심리학이 나왔다가 이젠 막 인지언어학이 어쩌고 그러던데... 막상 학원장이나 교사의 전공을 보거나하면... 그리고 인지언어학은 대학원 석/박사과정에서 그쪽으로 전공을 정하고 공부를 좀 제대로 해야 맛이나 볼... 여튼... 유행하는 용어만 싹 가져 와가지고 일종의 상술로만 써먹고 알맹이는 하나도 없는...

심지어 뉴로링귀스틱스 neurolinguistics를 언급하는 곳도 봤음. 영어학원이 말은 첨단이여 첨단.

너무 여러분야에서 봐서;;;;

오늘의 헛소리는 여기서 워워~

;-)

수확한 전호는 깨끗이 씻어 그대로 쌈으로 드셔도, 밥과 함께 먹어도 참 잘 어울려요. 샐러드로는 참기름과 허브솔트를 뿌리면 풍미를 더 살릴 수 있답니다. 혹은 가볍게 데쳐서 초고추장에 무쳐도 좋답니다! ​ 전호와 함께 맛있고 건강한 봄 보내세요🌿

미나리과의 독특한 향과 풍미를 가진 산채이지만 그 향이 강하지 않아 어린이들도 부담 없이 즐길 수 있습니다🌿 반대로 산채 특유의 강한 향을 선호하는 분들이라면 좋아하지 않으실 수도 있겠네요🥹

전호는 이른 봄에 싹을 틔워 부지런히 잎을 생산하다 5~6월 꽃을 피우고 한여름 종자를 숙성시킵니다. 그리고 시든 후에 가을이 오면 다시 싹이 올라와 잎을 생산하는데요. 봄 한철에만 즐길 수 있는 대부분의 산채들과 달리 봄과 가을에 두 번 맛볼 수 있는 특별한 산채입니다🍽️

참고로 전호의 잎 추출물은 관절 건강에 도움을 줄 수 있는 건강기능식품원료로 인정받기도 했습니다. 국립산림과학원의 연구 결과, 전호의 잎, 줄기, 꽃대, 뿌리 등 다양한 부위에서 항염, 항암 효과가 있다고 알려진 6가지 지표성분이 확인되었답니다🌿

전호는 남부 지역 섬과 내륙 깊은 산, 강기슭, 들판 등 습한 곳에서 무리 지어 자라는 미나리과의 여러해살이풀입니다. ​뿌리는 ‘아삼(蛾參)’이라는 한약재로 알려져 있는데 소화불량, 식욕부진 등의 처방에 사용된다고 합니다. 식물 이름 ‘전호’와 한약재 이름 ‘전호(前胡)’는 전혀 다르답니다!

아직은 널리 알려져 있지 않아 생소한 산채인 '전호'를 가장 먼저 소개하는 이유는 포근한 봄에 싹이 올라오는 다른 친구들과 달리 추운 2월부터 자라기 시작하는 꽤나 부지런한 산채이기 때문입니다🌿 덕분에 야생의 고라니 친구들에게 좋은 먹이가 되고 있죠~

#숲의_친구들 🌿🍴 따듯한 봄 햇살에 가장 먼저 푸른 싹을 틔워 우리 식탁을 더 건강하게 만들어 주는, 일 년에 한 번 봄 한철에만 즐길 수 있어 더 가치 있는, 저속노화를 위한 몸에 좋고 맛도 좋은 식재료~ 오늘의 산채를 소개합니다! 향긋한 봄나물 '전호' 어떠세요?😊

마비노기 m 재밌다던데 한번 해볼까...

SIM 교환을 고민하시는 분들께...
자기가 사고 쳐 놓고 책임을 고객에게 전가하는 SKT에게 풀프라이스(6-8천원대)로 유심을 사 준다는 선택지 외에도, 쿠팡에서 1-3천원에 알뜰폰 유심을 사서 번호이동을 한다는 방법도 있음을 알려드립니다...

I've currently been doing a tonne of work on Doorkeeper, a Mastodon dependency for OAuth, and currently that work is mostly uncompensated.

I'm also doing a reasonable amount of work on the standards side (W3C & IETF), which is also uncompensated.

I'm not making ends meet at the moment, so if you can spare €5-10 a month, please do consider supporting my work on Mastodon, Doorkeeper, standards, and the wider Fediverse.

I'm currently running a deficit of about €1000-1600 per month, which is completely unsustainable.

(there's also one-time, but ongoing support is what enables me to do this important work)

https://support.thisismissem.social

#mastodon #fediverse

@justiveKim Minsang 님, 안녕하세요!

細思極恐

거꾸로 상태 모나드로 강화 학습 하기 (1/2) 2편을 마저 써야하는데, 먼저 하스켈 세미나 시간에 전체 내용으로 동료들한테 발표를 했다. 근데 발표하면서 글에 해결해야하는 문제점이라고 써놓은게 되게 얼렁뚱땅이란걸 깨달았다. 실제로 코드를 짠지가 시간이 좀 되어서 정확히 뭐가 문제였는지 좀 까먹어서 실제로 쓰기가 힘들어서 중간에 좀 놨었다ㅋㅋ 암튼 발표를 해보는게 내용 점검에 도움이 많이 된단걸 알았다.

I could quote this entire article by Dan North: https://dannorth.net/best-simple-system-for-now

The final talk from #SotB2025
Oliver Schöndorfer - Typographer vs. Accessibility
Is now available for your viewing pleasure.
https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/oliver-schondorfer/
#Fonts #Typography #a11y #Accessibility

거꾸로 상태 모나드로 강화 학습 하기 (1/2) 2편을 마저 써야하는데, 먼저 하스켈 세미나 시간에 전체 내용으로 동료들한테 발표를 했다. 근데 발표하면서 글에 해결해야하는 문제점이라고 써놓은게 되게 얼렁뚱땅이란걸 깨달았다. 실제로 코드를 짠지가 시간이 좀 되어서 정확히 뭐가 문제였는지 좀 까먹어서 실제로 쓰기가 힘들어서 중간에 좀 놨었다ㅋㅋ 암튼 발표를 해보는게 내용 점검에 도움이 많이 된단걸 알았다.

When i am in home-office i use the company mac as a speaker-system.

This is not how apple intended but dear god this is the best use case i have for this heavy SSH terminal

感冒快好了？

Discourse에서 페디버스 지원...!!

기소권 수사권 너무 강한 권력이다. 경찰이나 검찰을 사냥개처럼 써 버릇 해온 한국 정치에서는 특히 그렇다. 이걸 잘게 잘라서 나눠야 할 것 같다.

🤯
https://youtu.be/yI6Zbs7IwWk?si=CAd_0TuIGIZBhHZB

Oh just seen AHOY! European Social Web Day
https://ahoy.eu/

번역기 들고 레딧 눈팅하는거 너무 재밌음

튀김 튀김

SIM 교환을 고민하시는 분들께...
자기가 사고 쳐 놓고 책임을 고객에게 전가하는 SKT에게 풀프라이스(6-8천원대)로 유심을 사 준다는 선택지 외에도, 쿠팡에서 1-3천원에 알뜰폰 유심을 사서 번호이동을 한다는 방법도 있음을 알려드립니다...

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 진짜 골때리네

中 "美와 무역협상 가짜뉴스…대중 관세부터 해제하라"

ニュース「Discourse、Fediverseと連合できるActivityPubプラグインを案内」公開 https://gihyo.jp/article/2025/04/discourse-activitypub-plugin

Do people starting an email with "Hey Stéphanie Walter" really expect me to reply?
2025 and you still can't encode my name properly? Why should I even bother?
So, here we go again: hello my name is St�phanie – a talk on “special characters”, inclusive design and user experience
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-my-name-is-stephanie-talk-encoding-special-characters-issues-poor-user-experience/
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-my-name-is-stephanie-talk-encoding-special-characters-issues-poor-user-experience/

듀랑고에 그거 뭐였지.. 튀긴 튀긴 누에였던가

A new version of https://artfeed.org (Rss reader dedicated to images) is now online!

It includes :
- a new home page (a preview of the pages to come)
- a few interface tweaks (feeds management moved)
- Profile pages!

Let's focus on the latter: activate your profile from the settings, fill in your bio and share your likes, subscriptions and photos from your feeds!

Hope you like it :)

#photography #rss #feeds #art

ニュース「Discourse、Fediverseと連合できるActivityPubプラグインを案内」公開 https://gihyo.jp/article/2025/04/discourse-activitypub-plugin

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