Hum, are we the only cross-platform messenger project present in 15+ app stores that primarily announces on, and interacts with, the Fediverse while others use X and maybe Bluesky? If you know of others please mention them in the replies :)

In any case, we are pretty happy here, as we are finding meaningful interactions, and organically evolving interest and collaboration with other people and projects. Probably it helps that #email shares several traits with #ActivityPub protocols? Cheers.

Tech news websites are really starting to notice Pixelfed 😊 androidauthority.com/pixelfed-…

"Unlike today’s Instagram, Pixelfed defaults to the chronological feed, is decentralized, shows no ads, and is open-source. While the app itself doesn’t feature a dedicated tab for Reels, the developer is testing a separate app called Loops for short video sharing. Otherwise, Pixelfed supports private messaging, 24-hour expiring stories, albums, likes and comments, photo filters, and more. It’s similar to the old Instagram, prior to Meta’s acquisition and the consequent downgrades."

#Pixelfed #Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Meta #Instagram

Seen this @dansup?

Pixelfed launches mobile app for those missing classic Instagram - Android Authority

Pixelfed, a decentralized Instagram alternative, has launched an official mobile app on Android and iOS. Here’s what you should know.

^{Mahmoud Itani (Android Authority)}

And it never gets old: the special thrill of seeing your #Pixelfed post show up in your #Mastodon feed because of the magic of #ActivityPub ✨

Interoperability on the Fediverse is just so so cool!

🔗 : photos.elenarossini.com/p/ele/…

Pixelfed stands proudly on the shoulders of giants

Without the pioneering work of these people, Pixelfed wouldn't exist:

- @evan
- @cwebber
- @erincandescent
- @Gargron
- @Claire
- @trwnh

I can't take all the credit, these pioneers helped make this all possible ❤️

#activitypub #pioneers

If you sign up for their newsletter you'll get regular, extremely funny no less, updates on how they are progressing (and when they are not). Well worth signing up for the newsletter just for the amusement factor, but if you are interested in #ghost and/or #activitypub it is likely worth reading their newsletter.

activitypub.ghost.org/archive/

what I'd love to see covered is the different visions between #ActivityPub and #ATproto.

so I understand the independence offered by the AP model. govts and media orgs can have their own social media servers like they have websites and email servers today. it's already happening. anybody on any other server can then get their posts without a middleman.

but what is the equivalent of this for AT? afaict the model is that there will always be a middleman relay. no real independence.

The way Fediverse is, makes it very easy to stalk and harass people.

I've only had it happen once or twice, but it's still unsettling to see people I've blocked LONG ago, show up again just cause they made another account on another instance...😒

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

Just operate your own instance.

Possibly with #ActivityPub.

Not really possible with #ATproto.

Interesting claims about ActivityPub over on Bluesky - any response?

bsky.app/profile/emily.space/p…

#ActivityPub

We make good use of Mastodon’s interoperability with WordPress. When we recently moved our Vivaldi Tips (@tips) blog from vivaldi.net to vivaldi.com to start translating the tips, we noticed that things were a little off on the Mastodon side. Luckily we have the amazing @thomasp in our team, who ironed out every single issue we found.

One of the problems we had was the ActivityPub plugin not detecting the language tags our translation plugin (WPML) added to the posts on WordPress. Language tags allow people on Mastodon to subscribe to posts only in the languages they can read and use the translation feature, so this was an important issue for us to solve. Read about the solution Thomas came up with in his blog: thomasp.vivaldi.net/2025/01/14….

#Vivaldi #VivaldiSocial #VivaldiTips #ActivityPub #WordPress #Mastodon

Combining WPML & ActivityPub | Thomas Pike’s other blog

Making the ActivityPub WordPress plugin publish posts under the correct language with WPML.

^{Thomas Pike (Thomas Pike’s other blog)}

Why AT Protocol and not #ActivityPub? I find it strange the #Fediverse isn't mentioned at all

usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30…

FreeOurFeeds is a $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires

A new project seeks to build an alternative social media ecosystem free from billionaire control, with support from Eli Pariser, Roger McNamee, Alex Winter, Jimmy Wales, and more.

^{Taylor Lorenz (User Mag)}

Assholes in this world have made me very cynical.

I feel that every time I login to Fedi these days, there's yet another scheme to get people to dump money into a project for "the growth of the Fediverse" yet we have yet to see any results and the things they're doing seem shady as fuck to me. Yet people keep parading around like it's the best thing ever.

SWF forms and is funded by major companies like Meta and Auttomatic. Not sure how that could be a good thing. That means SWF will be financially influenced by these companies and there's nothing anybody can do to change that.

Now, Mastodon is being given to a new non-profit. They say this is to "give the power back to the people" but obviously giving ownership to a non-profit doesn't do that...it gives ownership to the non-profit and allows them to hide your donations via shady legalities to enrich themselves.

Money hungry fucks ruin everything. Change my mind.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia

The people behind #FreeOurFeeds seem great, but I don't think #ATproto is the way to go. imo it's a wasted opportunity to have an effort like this get behind such an inherently centralized protocol, instead of #ActivityPub which is already doing what everybody wants. It only lacks adoption, which is exactly what publicity like this can provide.

govts and media orgs already have their own servers on fedi, allowing them direct access to constituents/consumers. like the web and email. #SocialWeb

the two aren't equivalent, though.

#Bluesky / #ATProto and #ActivityPub / #Fediverse are based on fundamentally different designs particularly with regard to the role of instances, not to even mention details of protocol signaling.

It's not the case that they could simply invest here rather than there. This place has its own issues that arguably make Bluesky the more attractive path to develop.

Just because people have dedicated their lives to one particular path doesn't mean it was the right path to take.

"Let's spend $30m to fight the VC invested folks at #bluesky to make #ATproto what we want it to be, instead of giving that money to the people who have dedicated their lives to making #ActivityPub what we claim we want."

The fedi was built on blood and sweat. We can improve all the shortcomings people complain about for a fraction of what #FreeOurFeeds plans to invest.

If they are unsuccessful in this fight, do they admit it? How would that reflect on decentralized social media generally?

freeourfeeds.com

Interesting concept, but why not use activity pub

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Technology #SocialPlatform #bluesky

Free Our Feeds

Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.

^{Free Our Feeds}

Ok, let's see if this is easier to setup than any of the #activitypub / #mastodon clones ... Which tbh seems to need an #ai assistant to even get started. Oh, and no, I don't like using docker and such.... That just creates it's own set of issues... Like learning docker. (;

Ref:
github.com/bluesky-social/pds

GitHub - bluesky-social/pds: Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation

Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation - bluesky-social/pds

^GitHub

I agree, we need much more promotion so it can take traction, that seems to be the biggest hurdle at the moment.

In it's current state #peertube and it's connection to the #fediverse via #activitypub is already far superior to #youtube ! In addition to so many other features:)

One thing I think that is really needed is perhaps a way to "boost" content that could point to a central database on #joinpeertube so we would have a way of discovering popular videos.

Labeler - a self hostable, MRF inspired labeler service for ActivityPub

Create, or subscribe to 3rd party labeler servers you or your friends manage, and take advantage of a rich filter schema to define rules and actions to apply to incoming activities.

Loops will be the first service to support this new Pixelfed labs project ✨

#labeler #loops #activitypub

:botkit: Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!

Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.

Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.

botkit.fedify.dev/

So, #Threads and #TruthSocial are gonna federate now, right?

#Meta #Facebook #WhatsApp #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediPact

Yes, #SocialBC is connected to Threads. You can search for Zuck and he pops right up, including his statement today that Meta is reducing fact checking on their services...😦

#Threads is a legitimate part of the Fediverse using #ActivityPub. The beauty of the #Fediverse is that you can filter and block at many levels: hashtag, user, image content, server.

We're not blocking threads.net because there are good accounts there, but if you see someone peddling misinformation, do let the team know.

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Good morning Fedi friends!

This is day 3 of posting from my self-hosted instance, powered by the amazing #GoToSocial (a fast, lightweight #ActivityPub social server written in #Golang). More info here:
🔗: docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/

The number 1 thing that attracted me to GtS is its granular reply controls.

For example, this is an unlisted post and I selected in settings that only people I follow and my followers can reply to the post. Ditto for boosting it. (FYI on the other hand, I selected that anyone can reply to my public posts).

The dropdown menu for replies to unlisted posts gives you the options of:
- anyone [can reply]
- anyone (approval required)
- just me
- something else (the granular controls I mentioned before)

Isn't this amazing?

For the purposes of this test, if you follow my account or I follow you, can you try to reply?

Thanks!

Wishing you all a lovely day

Home

None

^{docs.gotosocial.org}

4. Spritely Oaken
The @spritely Institute, headed up by @cwebber (OG #ActivityPub / #Fediverse cofounder) is working on making the next generation of FOSS, decentralized internet (beyond the web). Oaken is a vision to help make running untrusted code on this new frontier safe, opening up far more possibilities. It doesn't exist yet... but now there's funding to build it!

spritelyproject.org/#oaken

🧵 3/6

#Spritely #Oaken #NGI #FOSS #SpritelyOaken

I'm currently brainstorming a framework for creating fediverse bots called #BotKit, based on #Fedify. It's less flexible than Fedify, but the goal is to make it possible to create simple fediverse bots with much less code. What do you think?

#fedidev #ActivityPub

I love how Ghost is making an argument in favor of ActivityPub on their landing page activitypub.ghost.org

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Ghost

Just another of the gotchas about ActivityPub: Mention derives from Link.

This means you can mention a person twice! Once with the mediaType text/html. Second with the mediaType application/activity+json. One can be interpreted by a human. One can be interpreted by your Fediverse application.

A better solution would be to use a similar scheme as, I propose here. Then the Mention information could contain both pieces.

fep/fep/1311/fep-1311.md at main

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

^Codeberg.org

Loops + NLnet

We are thrilled to announce that @nlnet and @loops have signed a MoU for a grant funded through the NGI0 Core Fund!

nlnet.nl/project/Loops/

#loops #NLnet #activityPub #fediverse

@Mike McCue What are the chances that the ActivityPub side will get full (or any) support for Pleroma and its forks, Misskey and its forks, Friendica and other things that use the Mastodon client API?

Or even server applications that can speak ActivityPub, but that don't have the Mastodon client API implemented?

I sincerely hope that Surf isn't built against only Mastodon so hard that it's impossible to add more than just incidental and unsupported compatibility with anything that isn't Mastodon.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse