@fromjasonfromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 Do you know of a good article that compares the advantages and disadvantages of #ActivityPub and the other protocol?

Has anyone coined a colloquial term for #Bluesky's flavor of decentralization? #ActivityPub is often associated with the “federation" flavor, but that term doesn't feel applicable to Bsky/ #ATProtocol

@mray @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber would love to know as well.

For people not in the know, @librecast is a R&D initiative that's innovating the internet stack with support of @NGIZeroNGI Zero open source funding and @nlnet

First, to enable #multicast on the unicast internet an overlay network is planned, based on #WebRTC. See:

https://librecast.net/librecast-strategy-2025.html

#Librecast LIVE will bring all the technology together, to demonstrate and be a reference implementation. With #ActivityPub support being planned. See:

https://librecast.net/live.html

The username for your #ActivityPub enabled #ghost or #wordpress feed account should be the same as the name of your site, so that when it is shortened (shown without the domain name), we can still understand who it is referring to. Please.

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I'd love to know what you think about #librecast (if you heard of it) in terms of what we "miss, now that there is #ActivityPub ".

@theron29Stevez @simon_brooke @hosford42Aaron
@gse6erriet mit ie 😁🐧🍓 #FuckAfD @hosford42Aaron

Yes! Among others. Delightful developments are underway. Not just in #Gitlab and #Forgejo but more code #forge softwares to follow.

🌱 As you likely know and with great help of @NGIZeroNGI Zero open source funding - and @nlnet - the protocol extension of #ActivityPub called @forgefed is maturing and evolving.

💎 The curated #fediverse experience list taxonomy has a #SocialCoding section with #FOSS projects that are adopting #ForgeFed specs. See:

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

@hosford42Aaron I have copies of all my public repositories on GitHub still, because on GitHub they're discoverable. But GitHub is no longer a safe place for #OpenSource people; it's increasingly an engine of exploitation, and it's increasingly a place where malefactors are tolerated.

I am really looking forward to the point where #ActivityPub federation in @forgejo works well, so that we can have reasonable discoverability in #Forgejo.

https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-03-08-installing-forgejo/

What should happen if an #ActivityPub Like activity uses direct addressing (no as:Public)? It seems the intent is that you want to send a "private" Like notification to the activity recipients. Should the public like count be incremented or not as a side-effect? If not, Like counts would be dependent on the authorization of the actor fetching an AP object. I hope ActivityPub 2.0 has better authorization guidance.

⚠️ We’re now entering the “extinguish” part of “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. We’ve had the first proposals in @socialcgSocial Web Community Group to remove requirements of #activitypub that have been in place for 7+ years, and without an explanation how the removal improves anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

React if you’d like a #ActivityPubSpecAlert when there are proposals to change the requirements of ActivityPub as we’ve begun to see the last couple weeks.

Join https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

Join the Fedizens! Isn't it time to leave legacy social media and start afresh? 👉 @fedizenFedizen ⁂ Fediverse News https://Fedizen.EU

#NoAds, #NoManipulation 🚫 Big Tech shapes opinions through targeted ads and polarizing content: #Opensource #socialmedia empowers #communities with transparent #moderation.

#Better #MentalHealth 🧠 Research shows that algorithm-driven feeds fuel anxiety and addiction: #ActivityPub platforms, like #Mastodon, avoid manipulative engagement tactics. (1/2)

With just 32 hours left to go...I can't believe it...they are less than $500 away from meeting the $55k goal, which will add in-app live streaming capabilities.

Let's make this happen. 💪🏼

https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub

"At the heart of these alternative apps lies #theFediverse platform — a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe" that represents a radical reimagining of how social media can work. Unlike traditional platforms where users are locked into isolated ecosystems, the Fediverse operates as an interconnected network of independent servers that communicate with each other through a standard protocol called #ActivityPub."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2025/01/25/open-source-and-ethical-tiktok-whatsapp-and-instagram-alternatives-could-transform-social-media/

The #ActivityPub spec says "sharedInbox endpoints SHOULD also be publicly readable OrderedCollection objects containing objects addressed to the Public special collection". Has anybody seen any implementations of this? The spec doesn't specify if the public objects are local to the instance being queried or should only include federated objects (or activities?). Given it's an "inbox" endpoint, I'd guess it's a collection of federated activities (since that's what's posted to the sharedInbox). 🤷

Oh, the #Gravatar / #Automattic team wrote about federated social networks, but they did not mention #ActivityPub for #WordPress.

https://blog.gravatar.com/2025/06/13/decentralized-social-media/

@rabble

What is the state of key-based identities in ActivityPub? Or applications that utilize key-based identities on top of ActivityPub? #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #nostr

Happy to be finding so many fediverse merchandise stores lately - I was sure I had them all when I setup the list originally. Glad to be proven wrong.

Here's an instance specific one - get the vmst.io logo on a t-shirt! The title of the shirt is "Toots In / Toots Out". 🎺

https://cottonbureau.com/p/5HW79D/shirt/toots-in-toots-out#/17589602/tee-men-premium-lightweight-vintage-royal-tri-blend-s

#FediMerch #Fediverse #ActivityPub @vmstanMichael Stanclift

For today at #DevConf_CZ I highly recommend @Tobias 's talk "about:#Fediverse - An introduction to the decentralised social network" at 11:00 in room A112! Learn more about #activitypub , get a good overview about the concept of the fediverse and how @Mastodon @pixelfed @friendica @wordpress and other services work in a decentralised way.

https://pretalx.devconf.info/devconf-cz-2025/talk/R9P8M3/

Week in Fediverse 2025-06-13

Servers

- Manyfold v0.112.0
- flohmarkt v0.10.0
- Lemmy v0.19.12
- ActivityPub for WordPress v6.0.2
- NodeBB v4.4.3
- Trunk & Tidbits, May 2025 (Mastodon)
- Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPress Federation (ActivityPub for WordPress)

Clients

- Pixelix v4.1.1
- Fread v1.4.2
- Aria v1.2.0
- Phanpy changelog
- Flutter application development: feedback (1/2) (PeerTube Mobile)

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v13.0.0

For developers

- Fedify v1.6.1
- megalodon v10.1.2
- Fedialgo v0.72.0
- macgirvin/http-message-signer: RFC 9421 signer and verifier class in PHP
- APx: Minimalistic ActivityPub toolkit written in Rust
- mastodon-openapi: A tool for generating OpenAPI schemas from Mastodon API documentation

Articles

- Backfilling Conversations: Two Major Approaches
- Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
- I Posted to Mastodon 1 Mile Away from an Internet Connection
- Fediverse Report – #120

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019746fb-8918-8fd7-2c16-4c142ccf7387

‘#OpenSource And #Ethical’ #TikTok, #WhatsApp And #Instagram Alternatives Could Transform #SocialMedia

from #Forbes
ByEsat Dedezade, Contributor.
Esat Dedezade is U.K.-based journalist who covers Big Tech for Forbes
Jan 25, 2025, 12:23pm EST

[a very well-written article with a favorable yet realistic angle on the #Fediverse]

"At the heart of these alternative apps lies the Fediverse platform — a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe" that represents a radical reimagining of how social media can work. Unlike traditional platforms where users are locked into isolated ecosystems, the Fediverse operates as an interconnected network of independent servers that communicate with each other through a standard protocol called #ActivityPub."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2025/01/25/open-source-and-ethical-tiktok-whatsapp-and-instagram-alternatives-could-transform-social-media/?ref=blog.elenarossini.com

#Pixelfed #PeerTube #Mastodon #Loops #Sup #FreeSoftware #SocialWeb #technology #news #press

@BibliothecarisUniversityofGroningenLibrary

Re: #AcademicMastodon + #OpenScience. I'm initiator of Delightful #commons for people to keep curated directories. Similar to Awesome on #github except only for open resources.

There's 2 lists I want to bring to attention. First one, the #ActivityPub #fediverse experience. It needs more open science entries 💪

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/

2nd list needs co-maintainers with #academic background because this list requires quality and rigour I can't deliver:

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-open-science/

#FediAlgo will now let you filter your feed by the server your timeline toots are originating from. You can also choose whether to color highlight hashtags you've participated in or favourited and some other fun stuff.

* Try it w/your browser: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/
* Code: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed
* Video of FediAlgo in action: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114395249311910522
* Release notes: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/fedialgo_demo_app_foryoufeed/releases

#activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #nodejs #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #webdev #mastojs #hashtags

What's The #Fediverse experience?

Good question. Fedi sheds delight, informs, connects people. Brings hope, inclusion, spreads awareness, protects, loves and supports. This is a fedi to care for, foster, nurture and grow. Towards a #peopleverse

Built on foundations of free software projects, now we must build cohesive ecosystems in order to take our next steps.

W3C #ActivityPub is getting a fresh portal. It awaits your input and ideas. I just gave my 2cts: a #FX list.

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/issues/24

@andypiper BIG FAN of both @johnonolanJohn O'Nolan ‘s #Ghost and @pfefferleMatthias Pfefferle ‘s #ActivityPub for #Wordpress plugin - happy to give them shoutouts at any opportunity ❤️✨🚀

I host the Pukerua Bay website using self-hosted WordPress, and I've noticed its ActivityPub feeds have stopped updating. Does anyone know how I might figure out what's going wrong? The webfinger and nodeinfo seem to be fine. It's puzzling.
https://www.pukeruabay.org.nz
#activitypub #wordpress

Is this what my Wordpress blog should look like?
Bringing my Domain name, my primary blog and my SocialWeb stuff together into one united page? (they would stack in mobile)
🤔
#SocialWeb #WordPress #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@josemuriloEcologia Digital yes, remarkable.

I keep track of a list of #ActivityPub #C2S implementations at the newly revamped https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

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

PS. @box464Jeff Sikes also tooted about this today and I dropped off the codeberg issue too. I hope to find more C2S implementers or would-be ones.

"In addition to the way servers communicate with each other across the Fediverse, #ActivityPub also defines a “Client-to-Server” API.
This #API is mainly designed to allow apps and clients (such as mobile apps) to publish content to a Fediverse server.
In the future, this could open up interesting possibilities for #WordPress — for example, allowing WordPress to act as a bridge or proxy, making it easier to bring in and federate content from other tools or platforms."

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

# Setting up ActivityPub server snac in under 15 minutes

Just a few notes on setting up snac, which was remarkably straightforward.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/06/setting-up-activitypub-server-snac-in-under-15-minutes/

#snac #ActivityPub #fedimeta

When I made my Fediverse list, I wasn't too focused on how things looked or read, so long as I got my list out as quickly as possible - Not knowing how fast things may happen in the world.

Things in the world are still getting, worse, that has, unfortunately, not changed, but I had time to finally get around improving the repo:

https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/The_Fediverse_Outside_United_States

#Fediverse #Fedi #Misskey #Mastodon #ActivityPub #CherryPick #Sharkey

The 2025 #roadmap for the #ActivityPub #WordPress #plugin aims to finalise the full experience: seamless publishing, following, reading, interacting, moderating in the #Fediverse. https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

@mapacheMaho Pacheco 🦝🍻 @box464Jeff Sikes @activitypub.blogActivityPub for WordPress @badgefedThe BadgeFed Project

Ah! The LGPL / Language totally forgotten during the monster job of the full list overhaul I did.

Would it be possible for you to PR or file an issue? (Codeberg account always comes in handy for submitting that #ActivityPub #FEP 😜)

I will take a note on my backlog, but will be some time before I get to that.

The pro-government technology R&D NGO T3 Foundation in Turkey has launched its own social media platform by forking Mastodon without giving any credit. Although it claims to be a decentralized social network in its server description, posts from accounts registered on sosyal.teknofest.app cannot be viewed on other Mastodon servers.

https://sosyal.teknofest.app/about

https://sosyal.t3vakfi.app/about

#Mastodon #ActivityPub

📜 I wrote a new article: "Own Your Content"

📢 In it, I discuss how the Fediverse, through ActivityPub, is the antidote against walled gardens, oppressive advertising, data-stealing, surveillance, and enshittification by Big Tech™.

🔗 https://derickrethans.nl/own-your-content.html

💻 I gave a keynote based on it at #ipc25 in Berlin last week. I hope to soon make a recording too.

I also have an ActivityPub version which you can read at https://phpc.social/@blog@social.derickrethans.nl/114671233891315879

#fediverse #enshittification #activitypub

@box464Jeff Sikes @activitypub.blogActivityPub for WordPress

Nice! I have a #codeberg issue in https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience where I track #ActivityPub C2S ongoing work, or plans thereof. Will add this.

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

Taking a look at the Wordpress ActivityPub Roadmap, at the very end I see this:

> Client-to-Server API (exploration)
> At this stage, we’re exploring and evaluating this based on community interest and potential use cases.

Client to Server API for ActivityPub is not widely utilized (or at all?) so this would be of great benefit to all fediverse platforms.

SHOW YOUR COMMUNITY INTEREST!!! @activitypub.blogActivityPub for WordPress

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

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #WordPress

Re: The Future is Federated!

@_elenaElena Rossini ⁂ is who the Fediverse needed like 10 years ago. A great communicator with an unbelievable talent, not only to tell a story, but also to visualize it in a way, that everyone watching her four-minute video should ask themself: „Why in the world am I still wasting my life in capitalist-social-media bunkers instead of using the second-greatest thing since Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet.“

This is how it looks when a reasonably big account boost a WordPress ActivityPub post.

#wordpress #ActivityPub

»Nextcloud as first cloud software to get the Blauer Engel ecolabel for green IT« https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-as-first-cloud-software-to-get-the-blauer-engel-ecolabel-for-green-it/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Nextcloud #News

Remember when the web was fun? @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber does, and she reminded users of that in her keynote speech at last week's FediForum, in which she talked about how the fediverse can't succeed without joy. Here's @ricmacRichard MacManus's writeup of the event, which included presentations from @_elenaElena Rossini ⁂, @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja, @mikeMike McCue, @michaelMichael Foster, @benpateBen Pate 🤘🏻 and more.

https://flip.it/ft862s

#Fediverse #FediForum #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #OpenSocial

Fediverse Report - This week's fediverse news:

- @fediforum happened, with a ton of demos, sessions and keynotes
- @bonfire gets close to a formal 1.0 release, and is already available for usage
- @anewsocial announces Bounce, a tool to migrate your social graph from #atproto to #activitypub
- shutdown of a lemmy server provides opportunity for @piefedadmin

and much more!

read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-120/

I think the theoretical existence of "reply guys" on #Mastodon has very simple technical explanation.

The existing #activitypub implementation in #Mastodon has critical flaw in displaying only small subset of replies to any given toot (status). This is because only subset of replies is shown: only those existing in already cached federated timeline are shown. This is typical example of state-of-the art primitive algorithm (actually: there is currently no algorithm, where there should be one: not shady and manipulating algorithm, but rather deterministic and transparent one).

And if we don't see all replies (which is true especially on small, self-hosted instances, which cache very limited subset of federated content), than we tend to answer. And because we don't see other like us, we don't know there are many like us explaining the same thing. And poor author of original toot sees it all - and don't understand, why we all repeat more or less the same thing. Why we don't just fav the other replies, like we did on Xitter? Well... because we don't see them! We would need to "open original page" each time we want to reply.

To make #Mastodon really useful tool of public discourse, we would need a chance to see all replies. Of course, we would like to apply our own sort criteria, not be manipulated by algorithm choosing "personalized best replies for us" like on late Xitter - but really, we need chance to see them all. Well, limitations may apply, like "only replies from first hour, only replies with most favs and boosts". But we need a chance to seem them all . Reply spam would become an issue, of course.

I wonder, if upcoming new releases of Mastodon are going to fix this issue... and to be true, it is not an easy engineering problem, as distributed information systems are really a hard problem. We are now merely confederated, we are not really federated.

Embarrassed to say I completely missed the publication of this project site for Mastodon’s fedidiscovery project.

It aims to improve searching and discovery of content across instances work in an opt-in, decentralized manner.

https://www.fediscovery.org/

#ActivityPub #Mastodon

PeerTube will add live streaming to the mobile app if they reach their next milestone. Let’s make it happen! Share this post and donate if you can!

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub
https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/114664231712788428

Nicely put #Ghost
https://activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-up-for-expansion/
#SocialWeb #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Le silence du #fediverse.

Quand le protocole #ActivityPub lui même donne une partie d'une conversation au lieu de tous les posts répondant au billet initial.

Réflexion sur comment y remédier:
https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/quiet-fediverse-two-approaches

By @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

#fediverse #fedidev #Mastodon #Pixelfed #conversations #NodeBB #Discourse, #WordPress #Frequency #Mitra #Streams #Lemmy #Piefed

The #fediverse, a collection of #decentralised web products, aims to provide a viable #open web alternative to corporate #socialmedia.

💗 While it has a #passionate user base, it remains a #niche platform.

📲 At #FediForum, new apps like #Bounce, #Surf, and #Bandwagon were showcased, demonstrating progress in social graph migration, feed management, and monetisation for creators.

👉 https://thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-back-to-the-web-fediverse-vs-centralized-apps/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

The Work Continues: What’s Next

Details will follow soon — but the work on events in the #Fediverse is far from complete. Key upcoming milestones include:

• Improvements and new features for the Event Bridge for ActivityPub plugin for WordPress
  Continued development to maintain, fix issues, enhance, and expand functionality.
• Work on Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEPs)
  Ensuring a robust final status of FEP-8a8e and focus on recurring and irregularly scheduled events.
• Support for event interoperability in other Fediverse applications
  Contribute to other Fediverse applications and help them to explore and improve support for Event objects. For example, @linos@graz.social has outlined a potential roadmap for Mastodon.
• Contribution to GatherPress
  Active involvement in the GatherPress project — a modern and truly FLOSS community oriented WordPress event plugin — to ensure full ActivityPub compatibility, including RSVP support and advanced federation features.
• Community engagement and outreach
  Participation in conferences, public talks, and direct conversations to foster knowledge exchange, gather feedback, and grow the ecosystem around federated events.

Additional updates and technical details will be shared soon. Input, testing, and collaboration from interested parties are always welcome. Or if you know any conferences we should attend, let us know.

#ActivityPub #Events #Fediverse #FEP #GatherPress #WordPress

I wonder how close Tumblr is to that ActivityPub support

A fedi explainer video you can share with your grandma. Thanks for your work on this @_elenaElena Rossini ⁂

https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FediverseForFreedom