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I've been wrestling with implementing #multilingual content support in Hackers' Pub, our #ActivityPub-powered platform for software engineers.

While ActivityPub theoretically supports multilingual content through the contentMap property, the reality is that most server implementations (Mastodon, Misskey, etc.) don't properly handle this content as of April 2025. This creates a significant challenge for us.

We want our users to share their knowledge in multiple languages, but we need to ensure compatibility with existing ActivityPub servers. I'm considering several approaches:

1. Creating separate posts for each language with clear language indicators, linking them through inReplyTo relationships (so translations appear as replies to the original post)
2. Using the primary language in content while storing translations in contentMap
3. Adding "View in other languages" links at the bottom of each post
4. Implementing inline language dividers that degrade gracefully on non-supporting servers, for example:

   <div lang="en">
     <h3>English</h3>
     <p>This is the English content…</p>
   </div>
   <hr>
   <div lang="ko">
     <h3>한국어</h3>
     <p>한국어 내용입니다…</p>
   </div>

I'm leaning toward a hybrid approach—showing content in the user's preferred language when possible while providing easy access to other language versions.

Has anyone tackled this problem effectively? I'd love to hear about your experiences or ideas for making multilingual content work well in the fediverse, especially when dealing with server implementations that don't fully support ActivityPub's multilingual features.

#fedidev #federation #i18n

@laurenshof @GargronEugen Rochko @andypiper

The difference here is that there is no ‘one’ Mastodon. So it would be much harder to control the presence of people on the Fediverse than with Bluesky.

And I think exactly this is the message that can be learned from this article: a true social and federated approach, the way the Fediverse works is superior to the centralized approach that Bluesky uses.

#federation = #freedom

Watching the Federation of our Mastodon instance in real-time: https://watch.burningboard.net

#mastodon #mastoadmin #fediverse #federation

The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.

With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac #snac2 #Mastodon #Pleroma etc.

More information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#fedi #community #fediworld #federated #opensource #fedirelay

Some links that didn’t fit in my bio, as #introduction

https://Moodle.com, https://Moodle.org, https://Moodle.Academy, https://Moodle.Net - not your grandmother’s Moodle
https://OpenEdTech.global - help us imagine how education will look for our grandchildren

#learning #openedtech #moodle #edtech #ai #mixedreality #verifiablecredentials #federation #science #astronomy #biology #ioniq5 #dad #musicproduction #graphics #gamer #scifi #drumming #baking #keto #vegetarian #fasting #hiking

#introduction #reintroduction

Hi all, Roel he/him.

An artist and designer with an interest in computer networks, materiality of the internet, digital community infrastructure, DIY/DIWO approaches, FOSS culture.

You might know my work from the LowTech Mag's solar powered server project https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com

Currently pursuing a #PhD in Interaction and Participatory #Design at Malmö University. As part of that research I work together with actors in the cultural sector to co-design alternative social media infrastructures with/for them. These are mostly based on fediverse applications, so I am also interested in aspects of #federation #governance #contentmoderation and more generally how to transition to and improve alternatives together etc. This space is far from perfect and in some cases insufficient but we need to start somewhere??

I'm a founding member of https://varia.zone, and also part of https://lurk.org. With LURK we've been running a fediverse instance called post.lurk.org since 2018, for which I am happy to be one of the co-admins! As part of that I boost #introductions, calls and questions..

This is introduction is really long because post.lurk.org has a character limit of 1337

I am very happy to announce that the new issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine, 'Fed Up!', is finally(!) out and can be consulted here: http://ilu.servus.at/category/13-fed-up.html
Many thanks to contributors @eliotberriot@mastodon.eliotberriot.com, @GargronEugen Rochko , @decentral1se@chaos.social, @entreprecariatslwr (and indirectly @rra𝓻𝓻𝓪 and @fcr), @pipLa Interdimensional Pirata Julia Janssen, Inge Hoonte and Louisa Bufardeci, Gui Machiavelli, and Martin Schotten.

#fediverse #federation #zine #labour

If they can’t see what we say, it’s not #federation.

If they can’t follow us, it’s not federation.

If it requires account duplication, it’s not federation.

@mosseriAdam Mosseri and the rest of you. #Threads, #bluesky, i’m talking to you. But you shut your ears, because all these tricks are ones you need... to continue your data-thieving business model!

The #GreatDataHeist of 2024, that’s you. Trying to do it to us, candidly, but I pay my dues in money, not privacy.

#fediverse, or don’t

Little known fact: @evanEvan Prodromou and I worked at a startup in 2020 that never launched. It wasn't a great experience for me, but I loved the team we had hired, including Evan. I didn't know much then about #activitypub or the social web.

I went back to @Flipboard in 2021 and in 2023 I started to learn about #federation because of @mikeMike McCue's vision. Fast forward to 2025, Flipboard + @surf are organizing #SXSW's first #FediverseHouse. Evan was one of the first people to sign on, which created a snowball from there, which helped the event be a success.

This week, we got to meet IRL for the first time! So when I think about "the purpose" of that hard 10 months at that startup, I now know what it was.

@newyorktimesThe New York Times's veteran tech reporter @MarkoffJohn Markoff interviewed some of #TeamFediverse including @GargronEugen Rochko, @reckless1280 and our CEO @mikeMike McCue for a feature on the rise of decentralized social media. “It goes back to the original principles where the internet started out as decentralized,” Eugen Rochko told Markoff. Here's the full story [may be paywalled].

We're so excited to develop these conversations further at SXSW this weekend — check out the itinerary and sign up to join us at #FediverseHouse at the second link.

https://flip.it/NcjhLL

https://lu.ma/xbve5fa0

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #SXSW #JohnMarkoff #EugenRochko #MikeMcCue #SXSW2025