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@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 on the unicast internet an overlay network is planned, based on . See:

librecast.net/librecast-strate

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

librecast.net/live.html

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My Fediforum 2025 keynote is out: "Fun, the Fediverse, and Spritely"
youtu.be/jSOk8XQuqms
spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUc

This was definitely one of the most energetically received talks I've ever given

I talk about the technical and political challenges we're facing, why the current fediverse is not enough, but why there's hope, and why joy is essential to our success

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@theron29Stevez @simon_brooke @hosford42Aaron
@gse6erriet mit ie ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿง๐Ÿ“ #FuckAfD @hosford42Aaron

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

๐ŸŒฑ As you likely know and with great help of @NGIZeroNGI Zero open source funding - and @nlnet - the protocol extension of called @forgefed is maturing and evolving.

๐Ÿ’Ž The curated experience list taxonomy has a section with projects that are adopting specs. See:

delightful.coding.social/delig

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Got spam emails this morning by someone who opened an issue on GitHub with what was probably a very unsafe link and then just tagged dozens of users over and over and over. Why we needed 50 copies in a row of the same notification, IDK. Thankfully, the account is terminated already, but if this starts to be a regular thing, I might have to abandon GitHub altogether.




@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 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 federation in @forgejo works well, so that we can have reasonable discoverability in .

journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

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What should happen if an 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.

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โš ๏ธ Weโ€™re now entering the โ€œextinguishโ€ part of โ€œEmbrace, extend, extinguishโ€. Weโ€™ve had the first proposals in @socialcgSocial Web Community Group to remove requirements of that have been in place for 7+ years, and without an explanation how the removal improves anything.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrac

React if youโ€™d like a when there are proposals to change the requirements of ActivityPub as weโ€™ve begun to see the last couple weeks.

Join w3.org/community/socialcg/

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Join the Fedizens! Isn't it time to leave legacy social media and start afresh? ๐Ÿ‘‰ @fedizenFedizen โ‚ Fediverse News Fedizen.EU

,  ๐Ÿšซ Big Tech shapes opinions through targeted ads and polarizing content: empowers with transparent .

 ๐Ÿง  Research shows that algorithm-driven feeds fuel anxiety and addiction: platforms, like , avoid manipulative engagement tactics. (1/2)

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"At the heart of these alternative apps lies platform โ€” 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 ."

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/

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The 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). ๐Ÿคท

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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". ๐ŸŽบ

cottonbureau.com/p/5HW79D/shir

@vmstanMichael Stanclift

A blue t-shirt featuring a white graphic design with an upward arrow and a downward arrow, surrounding a circle.
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โ€˜ And โ€™ , And Alternatives Could Transform

from
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 ]

"At the heart of these alternative apps lies the Fediverse platform โ€” 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 ."

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/

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@BibliothecarisUniversityofGroningenLibrary

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

There's 2 lists I want to bring to attention. First one, the experience. It needs more open science entries ๐Ÿ’ช

delightful.coding.social/delig

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

delightful.coding.social/delig

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screenshot of fedialgo demo
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What's The 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

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

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

github.com/swicg/activitypub.r

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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.
pukeruabay.org.nz

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"In addition to the way servers communicate with each other across the Fediverse, also defines a โ€œClient-to-Serverโ€ API.
This 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 โ€” 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."

activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/ou

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"In addition to the way servers communicate with each other across the Fediverse, also defines a โ€œClient-to-Serverโ€ API.
This 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 โ€” 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."

activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/ou

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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

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@mapacheMaho Pacheco ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿป @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 ๐Ÿ˜œ)

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

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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.

sosyal.teknofest.app/about

sosyal.t3vakfi.app/about

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๐Ÿ“œ I wrote a new article: "Own Your Content"

๐Ÿ“ข In it, I discuss how the Fediverse, through ActivityPub, is the antidote against walled gardens, oppressive advertising, data-stealing, surveillance, and enshittification by Big Techโ„ข.

๐Ÿ”— derickrethans.nl/own-your-cont

๐Ÿ’ป I gave a keynote based on it at in Berlin last week. I hope to soon make a recording too.

:fediverse: I also have an ActivityPub version which you can read at phpc.social/@blog@social.deric

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

> Client-to-Server API (exploration)
> At this stage, weโ€™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

activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/ou

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

> Client-to-Server API (exploration)
> At this stage, weโ€™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

activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/ou

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Re: The Future is Federated!

@_elenaElena Rossini โ‚ 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: โ€žWhy 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.โ€œ

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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 to
- shutdown of a lemmy server provides opportunity for @piefedadmin

and much more!

read at: fediversereport.com/fediverse-

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

The existing implementation in 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 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.

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Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPressย Federation

ActivityPub for WordPress @activitypub.blog@activitypub.blog

<p>Weโ€™re excited to share this roadmap โ€” thereโ€™s a lot happening with the ActivityPub plugin, and we canโ€™t wait to show you whatโ€™s coming next.</p> <p>We often refer to this roadmap in GitHub issues and discussions, but until now, we havenโ€™t published a full roadmap post โ€” nor a formal changelog. This post is a first step toward keeping the community more informed about whatโ€™s planned and whatโ€™s coming up next.</p> <p>Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience [โ€ฆ]</p>

Read more โ†’
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Embarrassed to say I completely missed the publication of this project site for Mastodonโ€™s fedidiscovery project.

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

fediscovery.org/

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Le silence du .

Quand le protocole lui mรชme donne une partie d'une conversation au lieu de tous les posts rรฉpondant au billet initial.

Rรฉflexion sur comment y remรฉdier:
hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/q

By @hongminheeๆดช ๆฐ‘ๆ†™ (Hong Minhee)

,

โ€œ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์šฐ์ฃผโ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•: ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋ฐฑํ•„๋ง ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜

์ด ๊ธ€์€ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์šฐ์ฃผ(fediverse)์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” "์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์šฐ์ฃผ" ๋ฌธ์ œ, ์ฆ‰ ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋งŒ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ˜„์ƒ์˜ ์›์ธ๊ณผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ActivityPub ํ”„๋กœํ† ์ฝœ์˜ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ ํŠน์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋Œ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„œ๋ฒ„์— ๋ถ„์‚ฐ๋˜์–ด ์ €์žฅ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ๋‹ต๊ธ€ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ ํฌ๋กค๋ง๊ณผ ์ปจํ…์ŠคํŠธ ์†Œ์œ ์ž ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์š” ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ต๊ธ€ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ ํฌ๋กค๋ง์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋‹ต๊ธ€์„ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ทจ์•ฝ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž‘์—…๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋‹จ์ ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ปจํ…์ŠคํŠธ ์†Œ์œ ์ž ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๋Œ€ํ™”์˜ ์› ์ž‘์„ฑ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์•™ํ™”๋œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์ปจํ…์ŠคํŠธ ์†Œ์œ ์ž์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜์กด์„ฑ์ด ๋†’๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‹จ์ ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ชจ๋”๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„์˜ ์ถฉ๋Œ๊ณผ ์ƒ์œ„ ์ „ํŒŒ ๋ˆ„๋ฝ ๋ฌธ์ œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์ ์„ ์ง€์ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์  ํฌ๋กค๋ง, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ, ๋ฉ˜์…˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐฑํ•„๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋ฐฑํ•„ ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, FEP ์ˆ˜๋ ด ๋…ผ์˜์™€ ๊ตฌํ˜„์ฒด ๊ฐ„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์ด๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์˜ ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์ค‘ ์ „๋žต ๊ตฌํ˜„, ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ๋ฐ ๋กœ๊น…์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฒ” ์‚ฌ๋ก€ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ผ์ธ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธ€์€ ์—ฐํ•ฉ์šฐ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ์†Œ์…œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

hackers.pub ยท Hackers' Pub

Link author: ๆดช ๆฐ‘ๆ†™ (Hong Minhee)@hongminhee@hackers.pub

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The , a collection of web products, aims to provide a viable web alternative to corporate .

๐Ÿ’— While it has a user base, it remains a platform.

๐Ÿ“ฒ At , new apps like , , and were showcased, demonstrating progress in social graph migration, feed management, and monetisation for creators.

๐Ÿ‘‰ thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-ba

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The Work Continues: Whatโ€™s Next

Details will follow soon โ€” but the work on events in the 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 โ€” a modern and truly FLOSS community oriented WordPress event plugin โ€” 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.

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