ICYMI: yesterday I published the 6th post in my series #TheFutureIsFederated, showing how interoperability works between #Mastodon & #Pixelfed. In short: it feels like magic 🪄✨

An excerpt:
« The Fediverse has so much potential and is so much more sophisticated than anything made available by Meta, TikTok and X. But more importantly: not only is it technically superior, it is also ethical and user-centric. »

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #blog #socialmedia #FOSS

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: Mastodon ↔️ Pixelfed)

The secret ingredient of the Fediverse is the ActivityPub protocol and how it allows networks to talk to each other. See the magic in action!

^{Elena Rossini}

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.6 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: #Mastodon ↔️ #Pixelfed )

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

with shout-outs to @phanpy @tapbots @ivory @Tusky @dansup

✨ and special thanks to @evan @cwebber for your work on #ActivityPub, the magic protocol that is making all this possible ✨

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #RebelAlliance

Distributed Press ( @distributed ) is drafting a new FEP for #ActivityPub for "Peer-to-peer Identities". The general gist is that objects (such as Actors and content) can link to alternate versions of themselves, which can be hosted elsewhere, such as #IPFS. If the server goes down, data can be served from there instead.

You can read the draft proposal here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/commit/3efef8bffd9581a116135be4953ccb2ebdf4f482/fep/1024/fep-1042.md

fep/fep/1024/fep-1042.md at 3efef8bffd9581a116135be4953ccb2ebdf4f482

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

^Codeberg.org

I kinda really hate that Eugen is making his favorite activity of censoring people on Fedi, easier for other admins to join in as well...🤬

The hidden notifications "feature" for silenced users with no workaround to see who is trying to interact with you is toxic as fuck!😒

Open web, my ass. More like, "only open for me and people I like".

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

Anyone having this problem with Mastodon?

On my instance by @stux the version is v4.3.0-alpha.5 and can't follow back user

When I click on follow back it is showing message "are you sure you want to unfollow"

#activitypub #mastodon #pixelfed #fediverse #fedihelp #mastohelp #askfediverse #askfedi #askmasto #needhelp

The more I learn about the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub, the more flawed and broken it feels.
Biggest flaw: Comments are not properly federated. If no one from my instance is following the person replying, I don't get to see it. Why wasn't this fixed until now? Can this even be fixed?
This makes this place feel way more dead than it actually is.

It's not surprising that #BlueSky chose to develop their own protocol(#ATProto) because they saw the flaws and the refusal to fix them.

@pfefferle Yes. #WordPress (https://wordpress.org) links to their #Instagram account on the homepage: https://www.instagram.com/wordpress

In turn, their official handle links to their #Threads account.

Someone in the WordPress foundation needs to contact #Meta & have their account verified & activate #ActivityPub on their Threads account.

They also need to install the ActivityPub plugin so we can follow updates from the #Fediverse.

Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org

Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

^{WordPress.org}

OK folks, we need to stop assuming #Mastodon is the entire #Fediverse and expecting its idiosyncrasies to be mandated on everyone else.

There's no such thing as a "CW" in #ActivityPub. A Note can have a summary and a content and if Mastodon wants to display the summary and hide the content that's its problem. There are so many examples of this. Please stop screaming at people just because you think they've failed some kind of Mastodon purity test on an ActivityPub network when they're following the rules of their instance.

Is there a command similar to Mastodon's "tootctl self destruct" for Pixelfed?

Would like to "cleanly" delete the instance, if possible.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Pixelfed
#ActivityPub #FediAdmin

Two big new Mastodon Issues created today, to try to improve the reporting and moderation tools and experiences for both users and moderators alike:

Ability to exchange updates about Reports for Users and Moderators: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31083

Ability to discuss a Report with a local account: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31081

Relatedly, there's also Federation of Report Notes in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27562

#mastodon #activitypub

Support federation of moderation notes · Issue #27562 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch In 2018, we added the ability to have moderation notes on both reports and accounts, allowing moderation teams to better document actions taken and research into reports. In 2023, a major iss...

^GitHub

>> But ActivityPub is also largely underspecified

> ActivityPub is not underspecified. … It is a protocol for building all kinds of decentralized social applications.

Which results in it being underspecified for any specific application (especially if interop is a goal). But it’s an interesting spin. As others have noted over the years, #ActivityPub more of a sketch or outline of an idea than a protocol.

The essential ActivityPub toolset

https://pubkit.net will be sending invites to beta applicants early next week!

ActivityPub testing is about to get a lot easier ✨

#pubkit #activitypub #madeByPixelfed #developers

PubKit by Pixelfed

Empower your fediverse development with PubKit, the go-to ActivityPub toolkit for creators and innovators. Join the forefront of social platform development—get started with PubKit today.

^pubkit.net

Having second thoughts about creating a #Fediverse platform. I was not aware of the levels of toxicity on #Mastodon by users (even admins) who don't understand how federation protocols work and harass developers with false accusations and even uploading child porn to their websites to get them in legal trouble. No, thank you.

#ActivityPub
wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon’s Toxicity

Yesterday, Mastodon was abuzz regarding a strange new scraper that seemed to be pulling people's profiles and content streams into a platform designed around monetization. Dubbed Content Nation, the s

^{Sean Tilley (We Distribute)}

So, I've been trying to get this Pixelfed instance hooked up with Backblaze object storage.

I host it with Elest.io because it's managed and I'm not too versed in linux, though I get by.

When I started the instance and messed around in the Admin UI, I noticed these "cloud storage" settings, which I filled out as such. (First pic) but it kept giving me an error about the credentials being incorrect (they're not, i copied them directly from backblaze)

Then, while trying to get help for that, someone told me to edit the ENV with these options:

## S3 Configuration
PF_ENABLE_CLOUD=true
FILESYSTEM_CLOUD=s3
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=
AWS_BUCKET=
AWS_URL=
AWS_ENDPOINT=

But, when I go to my ENV file. Some of those options aren't even there. (second pic).

Can I just insert them at the bottom and put the info in there, and it would work?

Also, for AWS_URL and AWS_ENDPOINT, do I need to include https://?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

#Pixelfed #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FediAdmin

Last Week in #fediverse and #bluesky - ep 77

The news this week:
- Dutch government plans to expand their #Mastodon project
- Nomadic Identity (decoupling user identity from servers) over #activitypub comes to the fediverse
- @openvibe combines Mastodon, #nostr and now Bluesky into a single app and a single feed.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-and-bluesky-ep-77/

Last Week in Fediverse and Bluesky – ep 77

Dutch government's Mastodon pilot extended and expanded, a first implementation in the fediverse that decouples identity from your server, and a cross-protocol client with OpenVibe.

^{fediversereport.com}

From @bnewbold:

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3kwzl7tye6u2y

A relay of the entire Bluesky network can be run for $153/month. That’s mighty impressive!

Many #ActivityPub hosters are paying this amount for member counts in the low thousands.

Notes on Running a Full-Network atproto Relay (July 2024) | bryan newbold

These are some informal notes on setting up a full-network atproto Relay, using the bigsky relay software developed by Bluesky. This is the same software we run ourselves at https://bsky.network.

^whtwnd.com

The Future is Federated issue 4:

« Your data, your power: the Fediverse's big advantage over the walled gardens of Big Tech »

https://blog.elenarossini.com/your-data-your-power-the-fediverses-big-advantage-over-the-walled-gardens-of-big-tech/

with shout-outs to @dot_social
@mike
@johnonolan @PixelFed

#thefutureisfederated #Mastodon #Pixelfed #BigTech #tech #socialmedia #FOSS #ActivityPub #blog

Your data, your power: the Fediverse's big advantage over the walled gardens of Big Tech

On mainstream social media platforms connection is the illusion; ad targeting is the real objective. The independent social networks of the Fediverse offer a revolutionary alternative - where users hold all the power.

^{Elena Rossini}

Federation as a feature that helps to compete. This is first I think in the #Fediverse.

That's how I read this #Techcrunch headline about #ghost 's work on #ActivityPub.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/08/substack-rival-ghost-federates-its-first-newsletter/

/cc @Sarahp @index

My first post on @pixelfed — it’s awesome to see it pop up in my #Mastodon feed, it feels like magic.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub
✨🌳✨

🔗 https://pixelfed.social/p/elenarossini/716551270199376476

#thefutureisfederated #tech

I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.56 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes (all of them contributions by fellow developers):

Don't show instance announcements in public timelines (contributed by sarahpw).

Added auto boosting. If an account has this flag enabled, all mentions to that account are automatically boosted to all its followers (contributed by sarahpw).

Fixed typos in manpages (contributed by sergiodj).

Some minor performance improvements (contributed by Claire).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

#snacAnnounces

snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

^Codeberg.org

Finally, @ghost has open sourced their #ActivityPub implementation powered by #Fedify! For Fedify users, this means another production-grade example code.

If you'd like to follow updates on #Ghost's ActivityPub implementation, you can do so by following @index!

https://github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPub

#fedidev

GitHub - TryGhost/ActivityPub: A full-featured ActivityPub server for networked publishing with Ghost

A full-featured ActivityPub server for networked publishing with Ghost - TryGhost/ActivityPub

^GitHub

https://ditto.pub/ is great, it makes things easier.

#Nostr #Fediverse #Activitypub #Ditto #Soapbox

Ghost is beginning to publish federated content! @index

#ghost #activitypub

👋 Hello #fediverse ! Abelio is a new work-in-progress federated media publishing platform aiming to become a #tumblr and #photoblog alternative for #artists and any sort of #creators (#writers included).

I don't have any demo to show you yet but i needed a way to announce and ask for things - so if you care, please follow! Here is how admin panel looks so far.

Spreading the info and participating in discussion highly appreciated! ❤️

#activitypub #development #projects

Wow! So I just figured out why Fandom.ink thinks I don't deserve friendships from people on their instance...(had multiple follow relationships that were severed)

It's because I post AI art sometimes and am generally AI positive because it helps me with my day to day life, being disabled...😒

So, thanks for defederating me and breaking my follow relationships without even letting me or my people know beforehand!🙄

RE: https://alis.me/x/on-fandom-ink-and-algogen-content/

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FediAdmin #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

On fandom.ink and algogen content.

I'm pretty sure we now know to exactly which glossy, hollow, slurry-filled content hell

^alis.me

Kinda strange when people complain about something that's easily explainable and understandable...😳

How can an instance count followers and following from instances it doesn't know about or instances they block? They can't...soooo.....stop complaining? Cause I don't see how it could be done reasonably.

It's like you not knowing every single person in the world. It's not feasible, so stop worrying about it so much....

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/9v7up800mf

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

Mika (@irfan)

Bruh I need this _feature_ to be on other #Fediverse services as well but considering how even _basic_ Followers/Following numbers/info aren't ever accurate and shows a **significantly** different number based on where you're viewing it from (i.e.

^{Sakurajima Social (桜島SNS）}

My #FediverseThreads awareness post was flagged by #Facebook as spam.

I guess only #Zuck is allowed to raise awareness about the #Fediverse feature of #Threads. Everyone else are spamming.

:p

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Meta #SocialWeb #MycelialWeb #SNS #socmed

I don't care what anyone says. It's awesome to see fediverse replies appear on a Meta property.

Considering Threads isn't even a year old, this is enormous progress over anything Twitter ever did.

Jack claims that "Twitter should have been a protocol", but here we're seeing #ActivityPub interop being achieved as we live in breathe.