Central Saanich councillor calls on leaders to 'elbow up' on social media

Coun. Zeb King wants to see Canadian political leaders adopt alternative social media platforms like the Fediverse

By Harry Corro, Peninsula News Review

https://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/local-news/central-saanich-councillor-calls-on-leaders-to-elbow-up-on-social-media-8125046

https://socialbc.ca

#canada #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #elbowsup #dst

@ZebKingZeb King 🇨🇦 @chrisChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@FediTips

@kfdmKungFuDiscoMonkey yes, the information needed to be scraped together. Don't hesitate to add a comment if you find more useful resources around C2S. There is an uptick in interest on the subject currently.

I may create a seperate #C2S section in the delightful #ActivityPub development list, which is to be revamped in similar way as recently the #fediverse experience list.

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful_activitypub_development

Lists like https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience show several server projects for #activitypub , a few that list #c2s but haven't had much luck finding a list of apps that support c2s. I guess it's a chicken/egg problem in many ways. I'd sometimes like to experiment with my own c2s+s2s server implementation, but it's a bit of a larger hurdle if there aren't any c2s desktop/mobile apps to help test with. 🤔

How to Host Your Own #Mastodon Server on a #VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)

This article provides a guide for how to host your own Mastodon server on a VPS.

Running your own Mastodon server on a VPS is an excellent way to enjoy an efficient and secure Mastodon experience.
What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is a #decentralized social media platform that enables users to post ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-to-host-your-own-mastodon-server-on-a-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #installguide #rubygems #activitypub #rubyonrails #selfhosting #selfhosted

@paulPaul Kinlan ... full disclosure, I will rapidly run out of technical rope in this discussion, but I know there are other more qualified #ActivityPub *and* Mastodon internals folks who can answer more qs (plus my brain is tired).

Week in Fediverse 2025-07-11

Servers

- Mastodon v4.4.0
- Manyfold v0.117.0
- snac v2.80
- Hollo v0.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.0.0
- tootik v0.17.1
- NeoDB v0.11.7.4
- kmyblue v19.0
- wanderer v0.17.2

Clients

- TootRain v2.2.1
- Smither v3.6.1
- Voyager v2.38.0
- Tesseract v1.4.41

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.3.0
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.4
- FBI: Fediverse Block Inspector

Protocol

- FEP-9098: Custom emojis

Articles

- Taking Your Posts With You: Upon the closing of Oliphant.Social
- ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0197d746-3ac7-6c66-4dc4-0a32e427d84c

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber

What a surprise. A protocol that largely depends on centralized sections, gets focused on by federal agencies and ends up needing to identify individual users (and not just their age) and collect their privite information.

It's almost like decentralization was actually a good idea... 🤔

#ATprotocol #ActivityPub #Bluesky

Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPress Federation – #ActivityPub for WordPress https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/

Vielleicht nutze ich ab 2026 eine zweite #WordPress Installation als meine hauptsächliche #Fediverse / #Microblogging Instanz. Vorteil: Ich könnte sie wirklich selbst hosten. Bin gespannt was 2025 noch so kommt.

First #ActivityInThePub in Montreal! Thanks to @paigePAIGE! 🍁 for organizing the event. Nice to meet the community.

#ActivityPub #montreal #quebec #canada #mastodon
https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige/114834778656548377

Anyone seen an #ActivityPub library written in #Scheme (any flavor) or #Smalltalk ?

I'm not finding any sign of either.

Fragmentation on the Fediverse is a real problem.

Hypothetically, let’s say I’m an admin. I don’t like "John Doe" (just a random example). Instead of simply blocking John Doe myself, I demand that "Billy Bob" — the admin of his instance — remove him entirely.

Billy Bob refuses, because John Doe hasn’t broken any rules. So, being an egotistical maniac, I blacklist Billy Bob’s entire instance — 5,000+ innocent users who had nothing to do with anything.

I also have 5,000+ users on my instance. Now you’ve got over 10,000 people who can’t communicate, all because of a personal disagreement.

This kind of thing happens far too often on the Fediverse. If you create more than one account (on different instances), you’ll likely discover people you didn’t even know existed — people you’d want to follow but previously couldn’t, due to the growing fragmentation across the network.

The scale of the problem becomes even more obvious when you move to a different instance. You’ll likely find that not everyone you currently follow can be followed from the new site.

The solution?

Right now, it means having more than one account just to keep in touch with everyone you want to follow.

How crazy is that?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey

Does anyone have experience with Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI)?

> “Could there possibly be a unifying #DID method that covers the use cases of all others?” This is precisely what #KERI attempts to be. What makes KERI special is also the fact that it is not just another DID method. The KERI protocol has a grander vision of being the #identity overlay for the internet.

In the quest for #NomadicIdentity and #ActivityPub fediverse KERI may be worth looking into.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/nomadic-identity-for-the-fediverse/2101/75

ActivityPub for WordPress
The 2025 Roadmap

»Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience — so that WordPress can be used as a first-class citizen of the Fediverse.«

This means:
- publishing to the network
- following
- reading
- interacting
- moderating
And all in a way that feels natural for WP users.

Really exciting what @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle, @obenlandKonstantin Obenland’s and the other contributors are creating.

#WordPress #ActivityPub #Fediverse

https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/

🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!

👏 @gaebalgom개발곰 tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.

🌟 @joonnotnotJoon enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.

Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!

#ActivityPub #opensource #fedidev

A question for #Fediverse devs: I’m thinking about better ways to document development of the #ActivityPub stack. This would include explanations, demo code, example snippets, and various sections explaining how to build a fully working Fediverse server, with consideration for all of the FEP documents as well.

What do you, as a developer, feel is currently missing? What information would make your life a lot easier?

I can’t know definitively yet…I have to babysit my server and keep an eye on logs. But, I think I may have found the culprit for why I get timeout issues with #ActivityPub and #WordPress.

It might be PHP-FPM. If you’re using Nginx, this is kind of a “glue layer” for making PHP stuff talk to Nginx.

I host most things with Nginx, which sometimes requires configuring workarounds with traditional PHP applications. I was digging around in my logs during the latest server slowdown, and I got some error messages about pm.max_children and pm.start_servers being way too low.

Anyway, raising the amount seems to be helping? More word on this as experiments continue.

#AskFedi do you know anyone with a federated Wordpress site who uses it extensively? Not just for publishing straight to the Fediverse, but also in a social way (aka as a fedi profile)?

I've run into a few roadblocks with mine and I could really use some inspiration 😊​

#Wordpress #ActivityPub #selfhosting

@nyquildotorgJer #Mastodon and #ActivityPub needs a mechanism where domain names can be recycled. The fact that WordPress alone has no mechanism to allow a domain to exit the fediverse is reason enough. Sometimes servers get bricked and there is no way to go back and self-destruct.

Domains could be validated with a text record in the DNS by the owner of the domain name. If text record ActivityPubKill is true, then it should be trusted as so and defederated.

I'm not sure how this could be done, I don't know the ins and out. Maybe software packages could poll the DNS of failing federated servers and look for a universal or software specific kill tag or a file could be placed somewhere on a server that it looks for when a server fails, esp after 7 days.

Either way, a dns entry or a file on a physical server can be a trusted source as it takes elevated permission by someone in charge of a domain to usually do such a thing. #MastoDev #MastoAdmin

wanderer: Decentralized trail database: #wanderer by @flomp is a new, #opensource, #decentralized #trail database where you can upload tracks (or import them from #STRAVA or #Komoot), create or share routes, and connect with communities through #ActivityPub-powered #federation.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/07/09-wanderer-decentralized-trail-database/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Small quality of life update in ActivityPub for WordPress 7.0.0: You can now auto-approve likes and boosts from the Fediverse! No more manual approval needed if you moderate new comments.

#WordPress #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Props @epiphyt for the inspiration.

Doctor and Patient in the Fediverse of Madness (love the title)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLyhUp-KKvQ&t=1201

Definitely worth your watch!

Thank you @wernerkeil and @javapro for this video.

Just follow the tags to see what it's all about

#Federation #Mastodon #BlueSky #ActivityPub #Matrix #Healthcare #Java

This is the first checkin I've done with the #ActivityPub API using the new checkin tool I've been working on for the SocialCG geosocial task force (https://swicg.github.io/geosocial/).

It is pretty neat. I will share more info when the tool is working better, but it feels cool.

https://onepage.pub/arrive/9lt7vKoZItLS5WYULIBkr

A question for all non-Note focused #ActivityPub developers and thinkers:

Should we ever think of a way how to embed ActivityPub objects into others (in the content)? E.g. embedding a Question object within a long Article?

@bonfire @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle @smallcirclesjust small circles 🕊 @evanEvan Prodromou

Feel free to tag more people in replies!

Updating Mastodon: 20 minutes
Updating snac2: 2 minutes

#fediverse #mastodon #snac #snac2 #activitypub

Important work happening around HTTP Signatures in the Fediverse. Stronger key validation, better digest handling, clearer test vectors—all steps toward more secure and trustworthy ActivityPub communication.
HTTP Signature Upgrades Coming Soon

https://activitypub.blog/2025/07/03/http-signature-upgrades-coming-soon/

#Fediverse #CyberSecurity #ActivityPub #DigitalIdentity #HTTPsignatures #Decentralisation #WebSecurity

Just now I added a list of #ActivityPub #SocialWeb protocol bridges to the delightful curated Fediverse Experience list. Check them out at:

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#social-media-bridges

The list was moved from delightful-activitypub-development, which will be overhauled (thanks to @nlnet) to fully focus on #development of new #fediverse applications and services and evolution of the open standards of the ActivityPub family of social web technologies.

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 204 (experimenting with Wordpress edition) ⚗️​

A "micro" blog post about how I'm turning my federated Wordpress site into a social hub - thanks to the amazing plugins by @alexAlex Kirk :

🔗​: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Wordpress #ActivityPub #longform

An excellent #fediverse and #activitypub explainer! (and it doesn’t even refer to any specific platform) https://youtu.be/VmSWPj0T9IQ

https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

#ActivityPub #micro #MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Hi @lproven,
nice! I'm using several #CGI​s #RFC3875 for personal (scaled to n=1) web applications - be it (ephemeral) #QRCode https://qr.mro.name, #GeoHash https://mro.name/g/u28br conversion, a #nodb guestbook https://codeberg.org/jugendhacktlab.qdrei.info/gaestebuch, a personal #ActivityPub server @aSeppoToTryA #Seppo! to try 👋 or the hacky video-office-hours reservation system https://mro.name/sprechstunde. Once there even was a #HaveIBeenPwnd proof of concept https://blog.mro.name/2022/08/pwned-diy.
They're #rootless deployments running on #shared #hosting (except qrcodes and HaveIBeenPwnd).

It's very annoying, but it's also good to customize your environment. At the moment I'm about to start #rdfpub with docker again and it's scary how many problems I have with the environment.
Although I test a lot, there are still gaps in the integration. Or rather gaps again, I already had integration tests that used test containers. It's just so time-consuming that I deactivated it at some point.

#activitypub

@liaizonwakest ⁂ @aschrijverArnold Schrijver

Thanks. I cross-referenced this in another #SocialHub post pointing out improvements for the #Discourse #ActivityPub plugin..

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/follow-profile-preferences-more-closely-in-activitypub-plugin/5411

I am looking for experts/#developers who are familiar with #ActivityPub and who might be willing to chat with me.

I have started talking with parts of my network (mainly in D and NL), about how we could make the #Fediverse more interesting for content providers and main stream media. This also means attracting ordinary users to join and to find fair and simple ways to support content providers (without #paywalls).
I have some ideas, but now need more expertise and a deeper look under the hood.

To follow up on my #ActivityPub C2S post from a few days ago, I wrote a blog article on my thoughts about improving the C2S protocol and a description of some related experimentation I've been doing.
https://www.stevebate.net/activitypub-client-api-a-way-forward/

@mariusormarius @rimu

This looks to be a fabulous candidate for an #ActivityPub #FEP 😃

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/c/standards/fep/54

Today I coded something I've been dreaming about for many months - a solution to the #ActivityPub scaling problem.

The problem is that if 20 people cast 5 votes and those votes are federated to 500 servers, the instance hosting the community needs to do 20 * 5 * 500 = 50,000 network requests.

The solution is to bundle the activity up into chunks. I describe the solution and how #PieFed does it here https://peertube.wtf/w/v5aWpxjS2P4pJSn62a2AYG (probably only of interest to developers).

#fediverse

@lispi314LisPi @SpaceLifeForm

I collected some notes on #ActivityPub C2S fyi..

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130

FEP-9098: Custom emojis has been published.

#FEP #ActivityPub

Sometimes it really does help if a lot of people comment. The #ActivityPub issue was reopened by #Gitlab:

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247#note_2603598572

Just installed the fedify CLI tool on my Mac. Very useful tool for AP developers and tinkerers alike.

You can ask to to look up an AP object and it returns the response. Cool!

`fedify lookup https://spark.box464.social/pub/actors/spark464`

https://fedify.dev/cli

Thanks, @fedifyFedify: an ActivityPub server framework

#FediDev #ActivityPub

OSC京都2025でどちらの発表を聞きたいですか？

8月3日のOSC京都で10分間のセミナー発表をすることになりました。二つのテーマで迷っているので、皆さんのご意見をお聞かせください！

どちらのテーマに興味がありますか？

#OSC2025 #ActivityPub #Fedify #BotKit #fediverse

"But under the hood, the #ActivityPub protocol doesn’t use full mentions at all. Instead, it uses actor IDs."

The actor ID for my main account is https://mastodon.social/users/crepels. In my case, there is a direct translation between the full mention and the actor ID, but that doesn’t have to be the case."

@crepelsSebastian Jambor, 2023

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/understanding-activitypub/

Intriguing. So in theory, the Actor ID for a fediverse account could also be represented in an app as @username@email.service or @username@xmpp.service 🤔

#XMPP #AP

OSC京都2025でどちらの発表を聞きたいですか？

8月3日のOSC京都で10分間のセミナー発表をすることになりました。二つのテーマで迷っているので、皆さんのご意見をお聞かせください！

どちらのテーマに興味がありますか？

#OSC2025 #ActivityPub #Fedify #BotKit #fediverse

Crisis averted, #GitLab reopened the epic on #ActivityPub / #ForgeFed implementation. :)

They made it clear, though, that they're not going to do it themselves in any foreseeable future, their "current focus isn't in this area", so it's up to the community to implement it. As I mentioned in the issue, I won't be able to come back to it until I'm done bootstraping the business I'm working on, so anyone who wants to see it done faster should feel free to jump in.

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247#note_2603598572

Week in Fediverse 2025-07-04

Servers

- snac v2.79
- Mastodon v4.3.9
- Honk v1.5.2
- Activity-Relay v2.0.9
- Vernissage Server v1.18.0
- kmyblue v18.2
- Lemmy Development Update June 2025
- Mastodon 4.4 for Developers
- Forgejo monthly report - June 2025
- HTTP Signature Upgrades Coming Soon (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- Decodon: Media-focused fork of Mastodon that supports only private/followers-only accounts

Clients

- Pachli v2.14.0
- Voyager v2.37.0
- Blorp v1.8.2
- Tesseract v1.4.40
- pl-fe change summary

Tools and Plugins

- FIRES Server v0.3.3

For developers

- ActivityPods v2.2.0
- Fedialgo v0.79.5

Protocol

- FEP-c648: Blocked Collection (Final comments)

Articles

- Digital Belonging: Why Language and Locality Matter
- The State of Local-Only Fediverse Posts (WIP)
- Fediverse Report – #123

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0197b339-bed8-6a86-c62f-2e922ee73efd

And just finished writing a comprehensive contributor guide for the #OSSCA mentees!

You can check it out here—it's Korean though: https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/ossca-fedify-contributors-guide.

It covers everything from setting up the #fediverse accounts and development environment to finding good first issues. While it's primarily for the OSSCA participants, anyone interested in contributing to @fedifyFedify: an ActivityPub server framework is welcome to use it as a reference.

Ready to onboard the next wave of #ActivityPub developers!

#Fedify #fedidev #opensource #mentoring

ICYMI: Ghost and WordPress announce deeper social web collaboration https://ppc.land/ghost-and-wordpress-announce-deeper-social-web-collaboration/ #Ghost #WordPress #SocialMedia #ContentCreation #ActivityPub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO99ok3glZU

Exciting!

#fediverse #dotsocial #ghostorg #activitypub @johnonolanJohn O'Nolan and @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle @mmccue.bsky.socialMike McCue