Search results for tag #activitypub
Are you a Fediverse developer? Do you work with ActivityPub?
You should follow https://activitypub.space
And here is the awesome thing — you can follow it from your existing Fediverse account!
Follow these activitypub.space channels:
• @general
• @technical-discussion
• @faq
• @random
• @meta
(Thank you @julian )
Julian from NodeBB set up a new NodeBB instance for #ActivityPub technical discussions at https://activitypub.space in case you hadn't seen it.
It's a Forum, but also federated, you can interact with it from elsewhere.
I just followed @general from my Mastodon account, for example
New: SocialHub and the Substrate of Decentralised Networks
SocialHub, one of the primary forums to talk about the #fediverse and #ActivityPub, has been struggling how to continue the operation. Decentralised networks need a coordination layer, but how to build this in a decentralised manner?
https://connectedplaces.online/socialhub-and-the-substrate-of-decentralised-networks/
I've setup quite a few fediverse platforms. The instances are small, usually me and a few other fediverse devs that use them for testing.
It's quiet. Very quiet.
I've tried pulling in data from relays. But that's like opening floodgates to who knows what type of content.
FediBuzz was nice because I could follow specific hashtags ONLY. That cut down on the noise. But that is dependent on posts using those tags.
Is there a better way to curate content? I think so.
Fediverse in Action — Daniel Supernault - FediCon 2025
https://spectra.video/w/6UXQGVmkmhmDkREATxJ21b
> Daniel Supernault gave a keynote talk at FediCon 2025: "The Fediverse in Action: Building Social Platforms That Users Actually Want".
#DanielSupernault #DanSup #PixelFed #Loops #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FediCon
Taking Back Control: My Journey into Self-Hosting with Raspberry Pi
I am using Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 to self-host my blog, social media, and cloud storage. Here is why digital sovereignty matters, and how you can start your own self-hosti
https://beitmenotyou.online/taking-back-control-my-journey-into-self-hosting-with-raspberry-pi/
#SelfHosting #ActivityPub #Blogging #Cloudflare #Decentralisation #DigitalSovereignty #Docker #Nextcloud #RaspberryPi #SelfHosting #Web3 #WordPress
As @hongminhee recently posted about
A new drawing community called https://oeee.cafe (@oeee_cafe) made by @jihyeok and others just implemented #ActivityPub and joined the #fediverse. It's exciting to see niche art focused software using these tools and techniques to share in our weird network we have here.
via https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/0198e1eb-67ba-76dc-a5a6-934c20bf968b
announcement post: https://hackers.pub/@jihyeok/0198e00f-04e9-77dd-abb8-b3d6a2b42808
#Activitypub #Curious ...
just curious, wondering why did activitypub use json and not something more closer to html (such as xml)?
Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Teaching moments from @elena, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenArchiver - an #email archiving platform, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!
https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #privacy #development #app #apps #software #fediverse #activitypub
@rysiek #BlueSky isn't decentralized, in the same sense mastodon.social isn't decentralized. It's just one service on the #ATprotocol, just like mastodon.social is just one service on the #ActivityPub protocol.
Week in Fediverse 2025-08-22
Servers
- Mitra v4.8.0
- Manyfold v0.122.0
- yukimochi/Activity-Relay v2.0.10
- Ktistec v2.4.9
- NeoDB v0.12.0
- Wafrn v2025.08.02
- BadgeFed 0.1.1 — Breaking change: per-domain database filenames
- DiveDB: An open-source web application that allows Scuba Divers to catalogue and record their dives, dive sites, sealife and photos
Clients
- Fedilab v3.34.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.10.0
- Jerboa v0.0.83
- Blorp v1.9.12
- NeoDB You v1.0.1
- Relatica v1.1.0
- Fread v1.5.0
Tools and Plugins
- LemmyAutomod v2.22.0
- Bridge Browser: A Privacy focused and Fediverse integrated fork of Firefox
For developers
- Mastodon.py v2.1.0
- Fedialgo v1.1.0
Articles
- CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
- Relay: August 22nd, 2025: Something Brewing
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0198afad-07f9-188f-bb86-e6c7d1e7b3b1
Stories might be our most complex feature yet (harder than Collections, Groups, Portfolios combined).
But they're everywhere - Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn. People expect them.
Love them or hate them, they're how we share moments.
@pixelfed is doing Stories ethically - no tracking, no ads, just authentic sharing.
The future is federated. ❤️
#pixelfed #stories #ethicalAlternatives #theFutureIsFederated #fediverse #activitypub
The creators of WeDistribute have announced a newsletter, Relay, that will provide deep dive content by the core team as well as guest writers each week, about all things social.
Subscribe now, the first newsletter coming soon.
#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub
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html code in C - in a personal fork of snac by grunfink
How much can I extend an OrderedCollection?
Just an idle thought... A common UX is users copying the URL in the address bar and pasting it into their fediverse app to load it in their app.
Right now if you copy a NodeBB topic (/topic/12345) and paste it into something like Mastodon, you'll get nothing because it is an ordered collection and it doesn't know how to handle it.
But... what if I passed in a preview property a la @evan@cosocial.ca's b2b8 and it contained a Note? Maybe a note with a different id? Maybe with a name?
Waiting for @trwnh@mastodon.social to tell me this is a terrible idea.
http://gyptazy.com/fedi/gyptazy/
#mastodon #alternatives #fediverse #activitypub #customizing
I am going live in 1 minute!
🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 244 (Everest edition) ⛰️
a blog post that details some of the highs and lows I have been experiencing lately in my self-hosting adventures. I have a major challenge ahead - learning #Docker - in order to take advantage of #Ghost x #ActivityPub federation. It's my new Everest 🥲
Fediverse / ActivityPub experts, need some advice 🙂
I assume that subscribing to relays just pulls in posts to your server and doesn't affect your own posts' reach?
Is this a fair assessment, or does the relay subscription push your own posts to others in any way?
(Asking as some have claimed it does both?)
EDIT: Also, if anyone has any kind of links to official documentation for relays that would be useful.
Social Web Conferences
https://reiver.codeberg.page/social-web-conferences/
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I am working on creating a list of upcoming Social Web Conferences.
Using a broad definition of "Social Web" that includes the ActivityPub, AT-Protocol, ATmosphere, Bluesky, Farcaster, Fediverse, Matrix, and Nostr.
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These are conferences that I might want to attend. (And, perhaps you may, too.)
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Is there anything else I should add to this?
#ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #bluesky #bsky #farcaster #fediverse #matrix #nostr #SocialWeb
What's the difference between the Fediverse and corporate social media?
Hypothetically speaking, if Mastodon ever became evil, there is always Misskey, which can effortlessly communicate with existing Mastodon sites (no bridge needed).
That's the wonderful thing about the Fediverse. There is always another alternative. But corporate sites like Blue Sky — you're their bitch, and your only choice is to put up with their shit or go without.
That's the difference. On the Fediverse, you always have choice, and you always have a say. But with corporate social media, you're at their mercy and their whims.
Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!
The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.
#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python
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Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy
I have expanded my list of domain extensions I would recommend:
.be (Belgium)
.nl (Netherlands)
.is (Iceland)
.ch (Switzerland)
.at (Austria)
.tw (Taiwan)
.fi (Finland)
.se (Sweden)
.li (Liechtenstein)
.cz (Czech Republic)
All of these countries have strong protections for freedom of speech, including speech that defends and promotes minority rights — such as LGBTQ+ rights. Domain registration is open to everyone... You don’t need to be a citizen or own a business in any of these countries.
I would also add an optional, alternative:
.de (Germany, with registrar help * )
* Germany technically allows anyone with verified contact details within the country to register a domain. Many registrars offer this as a service. However, you should ensure your domain registrar is located outside U.S. jurisdiction.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #PexelFed #LGBTQ
If you're thinking of creating a Fedi site, I strongly recommend avoiding a .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, or .edu domain name.
You want to avoid U.S. jurisdiction entirely, which means choosing a domain name, registrar, and web hosting provider located outside of it.
I personally recommend the following domain extensions: .be (Belgium), .nl (Netherlands), .is (Iceland), .ch (Switzerland), .at (Austria), and finally, .tw (Taiwan).
All of these countries have strong protections for freedom of speech, including speech that defends and promotes minority rights — such as LGBTQ+ rights. Domain registration is open to everyone... You don’t need to be a citizen or own a business in any of these countries.
No solution is 100% perfect, but at this moment, we can say with confidence that the USA, China, and Russia are not ideal choices.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #PixelFed #LGBTQ
Week in Fediverse 2025-08-15
Servers
- Manyfold v0.121.0
- Hubzilla v10.4.3
- NeoDB v0.11.8.3
- Oni: A single user ActivityPub server that supports Client to Server API
Clients
- Tusky v30.0
- Tuba v0.10.1
- tinmop v0.9.9.14142135623730951
- Aria v1.3.6
- Blorp v1.9.11
- NeoDB You: A native Android App for NeoDB
For developers
- APx v0.16.0
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.16
Articles
- Big Updates Are Coming to Loops
- Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?
- Bridging identity with account links
- There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses
- Fediverse Report – #129
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01988be7-7a91-ee71-ece6-1684c60759e8
what are the main forum software that are #fediverse enabled? Has someone used reddit-clones (#lemmy) as forums for support?
I am evaluating creating something for #badgefed
Shoutout to @lain for creating Pleroma - arguably the most technically ambitious fediverse project.
From ActivityPub innovations to sponsoring ElixirConf, they've put their money where their code is.
The fediverse needs more builders, fewer critics.
Mastodon could really use tombstone placeholders when a reply is deleted so the tree/chain isn't broken or orphaned.
I've implementing this in Loops, and it is a bit tricky federation wise, but it makes the experience much better.
Bridge as a service...
Reflecting on justbsocial.eu's recent launch, I wonder whether @anewsocial@mastodon.social is thinking about creating a bridge as a service product to connect existing social networks to the fediverse.
Having them start from scratch is a barrier in many ways!
Some recent #Smithereen updates:
- Finished discussion boards in groups
- Server rules (with translations)
- New reporting flow, almost like Mastodon's
- Moderators can now exclude content from reports
- ...as well as add extra content via the new "content" tab in user moderation UI
- Admins can now specify custom CSS for their server
- Admins can create announcements that display under the main menu for all users
📢 CALL TO FEDIVERSE
Tons of discussion about seeking alternatives to #Microsoft #Github, now that it has become part of MS's #AI division.
What made GH so popular, we should ask? Well, a ton of features and services on top of #git and a huge platform that makes exploring millions of #FOSS projects easy, are among the reasons I suppose.
The #ActivityPub @forgefed project funded by #NGI0 via @nlnet is creating open standards to provide the same, *native* to the #fediverse!
Yet they need HELP.
The delightful #ActivityPub development list has been renamed. Now the 3 fedi-related lists are:
- delightful-fediverse-experience
- delightful-fediverse-clients
- delightful-fediverse-development
The #fediverse development list has largely been stripped of non-developer resources, which moved to fediverse experience.
The fediverse development list should now be reorganized to be most useful to the dev crowds who wanna join the fedi adventure.
Resources missing? File an issue or PR.
How to Block Meta AI?
You can’t.
But you can slow it down.
The first half of Meta’s bot behaves like any other bot — that part you can block. There are many scripts available that are effective at stopping bots, and they work well.
The second half of Meta’s AI is where the real problem lies.
Meta anticipated that people would eventually catch on to their AI scraping, so they designed a system that uses standard web browsers. The AI doesn’t directly visit your site — it interacts with a browser instance on another system. It just does this using countless small, distributed micro-instances.
#Meta #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey
A minor update to FEP-fe34: Origin-based security model
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/662
- Explained how to identify public keys. They can be identified by publicKeyPem and publicKeyMultibase properties ("duck typing").
- Added a warning for JSON-LD consumers. Even innocuously looking property can become publicKeyPem or publicKeyMultibase after doing JSON-LD transformations.
You can read more about this problem in this post: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/am-i-understanding-something-wrong-or-is-json-ld-remote-context-support-a-gigantic-security-vulnerability-if-any-dumb-c2s-server-implementation-tries-to-federate-with-the-current-network/5439/1
@kopper suggests possible workarounds there but I think they are way too complicated. Just don't do JSON-LD.
Week in Fediverse 2025-08-08
Servers
- PieFed v1.1
- Ghost v6.0
- Mastodon v4.4.3
- Hubzilla v10.4.2
- Hollo v0.6.6
- Ktistec v2.4.8
- NeoDB v0.11.8.1
- Wafrn v2025.08.0
- NodeBB v4.4.6
- kmyblue v19.4
- Lemmy Development Update July 2025
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2025 (Mastodon)
- Bridging the gap (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- jekyll-activitypub: A plugin for Jekyll to generate an ActivityPub feed
Clients
- Tuba v0.10.0
- Photon v2.0.1
- Aria v1.3.5
Tools and Plugins
- Fediverse Redirect v1.15.0
- fedidevs.com: Discover amazing developers across the fediverse
For developers
- APx v0.15.0
- Fedify v1.8.1
- Botkit v0.2.2
- Fedialgo v1.0.4
Articles
- Reflections on the social web
- Navigating the UK Online Safety Act
- Mastodon Defence Command: The Scam Wave
- IWF Offers Fediverse a Way to Block CSAM
- Fediverse Report – #128
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0198674a-03a6-4e5c-39fc-b934f3ee7708
Long-form articles
I was reading the Fediverse Report – #128 post by @laurenshof and several sentences caught my attention:
Ghost’s connection to the fediverse currently means that following a Ghost blog from your fediverse account results in seeing a post with the article headline and a URL
That's how Mastodon displays Article objects: only a headline and a URL (see issue #24079). However, Mastodon is the only fediverse platform that removes content from articles. According to funfedi.dev data, others don't remove content:
https://funfedi.dev/support_tables/generated/object_types/
GoToSocial, Hollo, Misskey, Mitra, Pleroma. These platforms either have full support for long form content or use graceful degradation. The dataset doesn't include some other popular platforms like Friendica, but I am sure they also display long form content just fine. So this really has nothing to do with Fediverse or #ActivityPub.
Fediverse platform developers (including Mastodon, Ghost, WordPress, WriteFreely and more) are collaborating on creating a space on the fediverse that suites the need of blogging and articles well
I keep seeing this again and again, it increasingly looks like an attempt to take credit for solving the problem with articles in ActivityPub. But the problem doesn't exist, it is literally a flaw in a single implementation that can be fixed with a single line of code.
There are, of course, real problems with rich content. How to prevent tracking when remote media is embedded in the page? What to do with CSS? What about interactive content? Unfortunately, I haven't seen anyone talking about these problems.
This is a long form article, by the way. You can read it from Mastodon.
Agenda Prep for August 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link (anyone can make comments for review.)
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025.
We will be discussing:
- FEP 7888/f228 adoption update
- Context Inheritance
- Context Ownership
- Merging of Contexts (aka "cross-posting")
Lots of talk about Ghost today, and rightly so, but don’t forget that a little open source framework @fedify made the ActivityPub plugin possible.
Support open source!
(Fun fact: had #ActivityPub been designed around an #XML representation of linked data instead of #JSON, most of the #Fediverse could be presented on the web via #XSLT, without requiring #JavaScript, directly from the source objects.)
🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 230 (disconnected edition) 🏝️
a micro blog post that celebrates the release of #Ghost v6 - and laments the fact I can’t upgrade to it at the moment (stranded in a remote place with spotty internet).
HUGE congratulations to @index @johnonolan and the whole Ghost team 🥳
I’m starting a countdown and hope I can type “ghost update” in Terminal in 12-13 days or so.
#MySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLifeInterrupted #selfhosted #ActivityPub
Haven't turned on Federation yet, but my Bonfire instance is looking good. My second install of Bonfire. I can tell you two things: Installation was much easier this time, and performance is much better.
One note, Bonfire recommends a hungry 8 GB of memory to run, but with that amount, it runs nicely so far. I'll keep you updated, hoping to turn federation on by next weekend. (This will be an invite only instance for brave individuals that want to assist with testing)
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Week in Fediverse 2025-08-01
Servers
- Mbin v1.8.3
- Manyfold v0.120.0
- Hubzilla v10.4.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.2.0
- Sharkey v2025.4.4
- snac v2.81
- Mitra v4.7.0
- NeoDB v0.11.8.0
- NodeBB v4.4.5
Clients
- Fedilab v3.34.0
- toot v0.49.0
- Mangane v1.16.9
- Pachli v2.15.0
- PeerTube Mobile v1.0.4
- P2Play v0.9.3
- Aria v1.3.0
- Blorp v1.9.9
Tools and Plugins
- fediverse.ooo: Generic Fediverse redirect service
For developers
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.5
Articles
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01984313-9820-11b7-06e3-a78721777ed0
Final thoughts re: FediCon 2025
As I write this, I'm sitting on an airplane flying over the Canadian prairies on my way home from Vancouver, BC.
What an amazing group of individuals, who took the time out of their extraordinarily busy lives to see, hear, and learn about the fediverse! The connections made and ideas discussed were so important, and you could feel the energy in the air.
You'd think after a solid six hours a day in a lecture hall would be enough, but at every opportunity in between, there were lively discussions about ActivityPub and the fediverse. It turns out when you get all of us in a group together we can talk and continue to talk about the open social web for ages.
I now have a to-do list about a kilometer long, they all need to get done ASAP!
Thank you to @reiver@mastodon.social for organizing this conference, all of those who helped out and participated, and all those who attended.
From now on, whenever someone points a camera to me, I'll picture @jaz@toot.wales saying "say FEEEEEEDIVERSE".
It’s interesting—I primarily use the #Fediverse for blogging, not microblogging.
People used to complain about that. But after two years, I haven’t received a single complaint. Which means people have got used to the notion that #ActivityPub does not need to be Twitter-like.
Okay, really interesting that rich text and out-of-band hashtags are supported in #ATProtocol but not the #Bluesky client.
Haha. I guess it’s not so different from #ActivityPub in some aspects.
If the propagate_local_purge configuration variable is set to true in server.json, purged local posts generate a Delete activity that is sent everywhere, instead of only deleted from the filesystem.
Included a small tweak to avoid being confused by implementations that return valid webfinger queries for non-account URLs (like i.e. the Wordpress ActivityPub plugin in some configurations). This helps in searching by URL.
Added Ukrainian translation (contributed by wincentbalin).
New command-line option muted, to list all MUTEd actors.
Mastodon API: Fixed metadata and follower approval flag when editing the account.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
Fedicon is happening in Vancouver, BC this weekend
An in-person conference centered around the fediverse is happening this Friday and Saturday at UBC Robson Square in Vancouver, BC.
Put on by @reiver@mastodon.social, it is bringing together a number of big names including Evan Prodromou (of AP fame), Dan Supernault (Pixelfed creator), and more!
🎉 FediCon is in 1 day!
If you already have a FediCon ticket, you should receive this reminder e-mail message.
See you there!
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🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 1-2
ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca
🎟️ https://lu.ma/p4bbb941
I'll be on stage speaking about some of ActivityPub's "hard problems", and what people are doing to fix them. It's a rehash and expansion of a talk I gave at FOSDEM this past February.
Are there threadiverse related problems? I'd imagine so. Would love to include them in my presentation.
If you're a fairly techy person and you're interested in all the different ActivityPub-based Fediverse projects out there, the "Delightful Fediverse" list is a pretty good place to start:
🌱 https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience
Source for the list is at:
🌱 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience
Note that the projects are in various stages, see the key at the top of the page for what the various symbols mean.
There are plentiful long discussions and history on the subject matter, and multiple solutions being discussed among which various forms of - what's current called but may have to be renamed - nomadic identity. #ActivityPub enhancement proposals #FEP's hopefully bring a measure of standardization.
See e.g. this long discussion on #SocialHub at https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/nomadic-identity-for-the-fediverse/2101/97
@jpmens I yes! And I think that's the big dichotomy at the core of the discussion when people talk about the pros and cons of the way Mastodon handles migrations.
We old web farts want cool urls that don't change but for many people the temporary nature of posts here (see also: the option to automatically delete posts after x days) is a feature and not a bug.
And from what I see in the world of ActivityPub or the Fediverse in general it seems to be a pretty even split.
Week in Fediverse 2025-07-25
Servers
- tootik v0.18.0
- PeerTube v7.2.3
- Manyfold v0.119.0
- Mastodon v4.4.2
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.1.0
- Wafrn v2025.7.2
- Vernissage Server v1.20.0
- kmyblue v19.3
Clients
- Mangane v1.16.3
- Smither v3.6.2
- Jerboa v0.0.80
- Voyager v2.39.2
- Blorp v1.9.5
- P2Play v0.9.2
- PeerTube Mobile v1.0.3
Tools and Plugins
- PeerTube livechat plugin v14.0.1
- Mastodon Bird UI v2.3.3
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.4.4
- Fedinesia v3.4.0
For developers
- TootSDK v17.0.0
- Fedialgo v1.0.0
Articles
- How to Install and Set Up Castopod for Your Podcast
- The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
- How To Improve Your Privacy and Security on Mastodon
- GoToSocial Adventures: migrate from Mastodon
- Fediverse Report – #126
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01981f4f-eb29-ebec-8d45-b694b9c12520
If you have a WordPress blog, you can optionally allow people to follow your blog from Mastodon etc. They will be able to see your posts in their timelines, and if they reply to your post on Mastodon etc it will appear as a comment on your blog.
There are complete instructions for how to switch on this feature here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server
This works for all kinds of WordPress-powered blogs including wordpress.com blogs and independently hosted blogs.
I'm pretty sure we have a problem when one of the most notable voices in the community responds to a "well, you could hire folks to implement things for you" like this:
And folks wonder why I'm on burn out leave at the moment. Like, we really need to have a serious conversation about just how much free and unpaid labour we're all relying on here. If I can't pay my rent, then I can't contribute to open source, it's that fucking simple.
#opensource #mastodon #activitypub
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Chat log from a discord I'm in:
renchap 18:03:
It helps if there is discussion with us first
Evan Prodromou 18:05:
Nice. I'll give it a try. There are a few small ActivityPub items l'd love to see tweaked.
Really active Open Source projects can get the majority of their code written by people outside the core team, but it requires a lot of effort on the part of the core team.
renchap 18:10:
Most Open Source projects are not user-facing products
If you want a strong and consistent product & user interface, it is very complex. This is why we ask that significant contributions first start by a discussion with us, so we can (maybe) assign some product design time to the contribution to ensure that it will be done in a way that can be merged
thisismissem@hachyderm.io 18:25:
Paying a developer familiar with the codebase can also help in getting things implemented, though the conversation with the Mastodon team is still necessary of course
Evan Prodromou 18:25:
LOL
(two people reacted with a confused reaction)
I should also note that I'm not the only frequent contributor to various fediverse projects who is struggling to make ends meet. I know of at least a half dozen other independent developers who do a tonne of work in standards and figuring stuff out for the fediverse who don't have stable income from well-paid jobs to rely upon.
So my comment wasn't me asking for money from someone, but rather, just saying that there's folks that have expertise in making changes, and they could be hired to make the changes you want to see in a reasonable manner.
We cannot rely on free labour to advance the fediverse. We live in a capitalist society, so folks need money to pay their rent, buy food and frankly exist.
After a few rough weeks where I did not know if I would be still employed afterwards, I survived, and it is shitty and everything, but I got some energy for my personal projects.
I started today with addressing feedback from @andypiper to embed badges from #badgefed into your own sites.
Hey folks, I'm trying to recreate the functionality of Teams using activitypub software so that a group of people outside of an organization can continue to chat, video and a small amount of file storage for minutes etc would be good, all in one would be fantastic but haven't found so far, nearest is ElementX but not ActivityPub, I'm sure someone must have already gone down this route and may be willing to share?
Appreciate boosts thanks.
#activitypub #teams #conferencing
Loops Studio is built for creators, allowing you to upload new content, review and manage your posts, comments and interactions as well as view analytics!
It just one aspect of the platform that will soon launch with federation support and easy self-hosting.
Follow @loops for updates, or join https://loops.video to be one of the first to experience this 🚀
#loops #loopsStudio #tikTok #fediverse #activityPub #shortVideoSharing
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Week in Fediverse 2025-07-18
Servers
- Mobilizon v5.1.5
- Hubzilla v10.4.0
- Mitra v4.6.0
- Ktistec v2.4.7
- PeerTube v7.2.2
- Hollo v0.6.5
- Misskey v2025.7.0
- NeoDB v0.11.7.5
- Vernissage Server v1.19.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, June 2025 (Mastodon)
- July 2025 (Bandwagon)
Clients
- Mangane v1.15.0
- Tusker v2025.2
- Photon v2.0.0
- Voyager v2.39.0
- P2Play v0.9.1
- Phanpy changelog
Tools and Plugins
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.4.3
For developers
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.14
- Masto.js v7.2.0
Protocol
Articles
- Privacy and Security on Mastodon
- Fediverse Report – #125
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0197fb3b-2d4c-073c-0694-edc1813866d0
boosted
!! VERY EARLY PREVIEW !!
KFediViewer (Preliminary name): An application for KDE Plasma, to view the personal data export of a Mastodon instance in a timeline-like manner.
Usefor if someone has exported the personal data as a .zip file from a Mastodon instance and want to view it locally.
Will be published sometimes 2025 on Codeberg under a free (FOSS) license 🙂
#fediverse #mastodon #kde #kdeplasma #linux #activitypub #opensource #foss
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The #fediverse-we-have is predominantly #AppCentric, and that rigid perspective is limiting the promise and potential of the #ActivityPub #SocialWeb protocol.
What would it mean to offer #services on the fediverse, that people can discover, obtain and compose into solutions that satisfy their #social networking needs?
By focusing more on the #ServiceOriented message exchange #architecture, the future fediverse can be one of versatile and interoperable Apps & Services.
Loops is built for the people, but we haven't forgot the admins.
We've added some pretty innovative features, like Pages that allow you to add/edit/publish rich pages and optionally add them to the main sidebar nav or footer and limit visibility to guests, users or both.
I appreciate your patience while we prepare Loops for you, and you'll soon see, it was worth the wait 🚀
I've been following ATProto’s development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716
"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.
In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."
It’s a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn’t be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky’s main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.
I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.
FEP-9098: Custom emojis has been published.
Your could talk about it here, if you use the hash-tags #ActivityPub and #FediDev — then other Fediverse developers will see it.
@paul ... full disclosure, I will rapidly run out of technical rope in this discussion, but I know there are other more qualified #ActivityPub *and* Mastodon internals folks who can answer more qs (plus my brain is tired).
Week in Fediverse 2025-07-11
Servers
- Mastodon v4.4.0
- Manyfold v0.117.0
- snac v2.80
- Hollo v0.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.0.0
- tootik v0.17.1
- NeoDB v0.11.7.4
- kmyblue v19.0
- wanderer v0.17.2
Clients
- TootRain v2.2.1
- Smither v3.6.1
- Voyager v2.38.0
- Tesseract v1.4.41
Tools and Plugins
- Mastodon Bird UI v2.3.0
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.4
- FBI: Fediverse Block Inspector
Protocol
Articles
- Taking Your Posts With You: Upon the closing of Oliphant.Social
- ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward
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#AskFedi do you know anyone with a federated Wordpress site who uses it extensively? Not just for publishing straight to the Fediverse, but also in a social way (aka as a fedi profile)?
I've run into a few roadblocks with mine and I could really use some inspiration 😊
Mastodon API: fixed a regression (introduced in previous version in the "boosts disappear in Tusky" fix) that interrupted timelines.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
Week in Fediverse 2025-07-04
Servers
- snac v2.79
- Mastodon v4.3.9
- Honk v1.5.2
- Activity-Relay v2.0.9
- Vernissage Server v1.18.0
- kmyblue v18.2
- Lemmy Development Update June 2025
- Mastodon 4.4 for Developers
- Forgejo monthly report - June 2025
- HTTP Signature Upgrades Coming Soon (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- Decodon: Media-focused fork of Mastodon that supports only private/followers-only accounts
Clients
- Pachli v2.14.0
- Voyager v2.37.0
- Blorp v1.8.2
- Tesseract v1.4.40
- pl-fe change summary
Tools and Plugins
For developers
- ActivityPods v2.2.0
- Fedialgo v0.79.5
Protocol
- FEP-c648: Blocked Collection (Final comments)
Articles
- Digital Belonging: Why Language and Locality Matter
- The State of Local-Only Fediverse Posts (WIP)
- Fediverse Report – #123
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0197b339-bed8-6a86-c62f-2e922ee73efd
Andreas Nedbal is giving a talk about using #ActivityPub with #TYPO3 in #Munich on July 14th
"The ActivityPub protocol is making its way into the social media sphere. In this talk, Andreas will discuss how the protocol could also be used by TYPO3 and what advantages it offers over other conventional tools. He will also provide a simple insight into how the protocol works."
https://www.meetup.com/munich-typo3-user-group/events/308809916/
What drew you to ActivityPub?
This question was asked by @mike@flipboard.social on Dot Social's latest episode about the blogosphere on Fedi.
@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz: "we wanted to connect Ghost blogs to each other, but then we discovered ActivityPub"
@pfefferle@mastodon.social: "we wanted to connect WordPress blogs to each other, and ActivityPub has been the most successful attempt"
[paraphrased for brevity]
Did you catch the subtext? Both those answers, and my own answer with NodeBB contain the same seed idea... that we originally wanted to connect our software with itself only. We went through years of building a company and vying for profitability that it never occurred to us to work towards cross compatibility with anyone besides out own software.
Then ActivityPub came along and quite literally expanded the potential for the entire endeavour a hundred-fold, because not only are you connecting your own software to each other, but every other ActivityPub enabled software in existence. Blogs, microblogs, forums, image boards, etc. all with a built-in user base ready from the get-go.
It's no wonder that after discovering AP, it becomes the protocol to utilise.
Added a server-wide Webmention hook; this way, if somebody out there (that supports Webmention) links to a user or post in this instance, a notification is sent (this is the complementary of what was implemented in version 2.76).
Fixed regression while sending email via pipe on OpenBSD.
Fixed Markdown parsing when the URL has parenthesis.
Always show the 'pending follow confirmations' section if there are any (even if the toggle is off).
If a metadata value is an account handler, it's also tried to be validated (rel="me" links).
Another search by URL tweak (this time for Pixelfed links).
Mastodon API: fixed a bug that made some boosts disappear after being shown in apps like Tusky, added followed hashtags maintenance, other minor changes.
Renamed command-line actions create_list to list_create and delete_list to list_remove.
The default favicon URL can be changed from the server configuration.
New command-line option export_posts, to export all posts by a user in a JSON format compatible with the one generated by Mastodon.
The command-line options to send notes also allow an optional -r argument, to set the URL of a Fediverse post this note is a reply to.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
My #ActivityPub developer guide moved to another repository: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/ap-next/src/branch/main/guide.md
It started as a FEP, but has evolved into something bigger.
About the repository:
As stated in the readme, ActivityPub Next is a project dedicated to evolving the ActivityPub protocol.
Currently it only contains the developer guide, but I think that more content will be added over time.
Week in Fediverse 2025-06-27
Servers
- PieFed v1.0.0
- Manyfold v0.115.0
- Mitra v4.5.1
- tootik v0.17.0
- Gancio v1.27.0
- Gush! v0.0.20
- Vernissage Server v1.17.0
- wanderer: A decentralized, self-hosted trail database
Clients
- Smither v3.6
- Thunder v0.7.3
- Blorp v1.8.1
- Aria v1.2.4
Tools and Plugins
For developers
- Fedify v1.7.0
- Fedialgo v0.78.0
Protocol
- FEP-b06c: ActivityPoll
- FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text (Final comments)
Articles
- Verified Media Accounts in the Fediverse
- The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption
- Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"
- Friendica: the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #122
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New NLNet Projects were recently announced, with a solid collection of ActivityPub related ones:
* Mastodon adding new features for institutional instances
* ActivityPub Polls for Wordpress
* Funkwhale Federation Improvements
* Making Events more interoperable between Fediverse Platforms
* Context Discovery in NodeBB
* Icosa 3-D Model Sharing with ActivityPub
Did I miss any?
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
My guess is #ReGex:
In regular expressions, the underscore counts as a "word character", whilst dashes, commas, dots, whitespaces etc. count as "non word characters".
This is a hugely important thing: All relevant APIs rely heavily on RegExes.
I'm afraid, your initiative won't succeed for that reason:
All #ActivityPub software would have to be revised and patched to solve a niche annoyance.
There is now a free open self-hostable Fediverse trail recorder called Wanderer. You can upload GPS data directly and it also lets you import your data from Strava and Komoot.
Wanderer is federated through ActivityPub so Wanderer servers can connect to other Wanderer servers and Mastodon etc servers too. More info at the official website:
Source code is at:
➡️ https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
You can follow the lead developer at:
➡️ @flomp