https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/11247

Started 2023; last activity I saw was 2 months ago.

#Fediverse #decentralization #gitForge #softwareForge

Oh, the Lemmy drama is insane right now. Spicy as fuck, but seasoned just right as I am learning a lot about ethics. There are a lot of personalities that are currently having a reasonably civil conversation despite the egregious actions of one particular user. Which, I honestly applaud and find myself learning from in this instance.

Never telling anyone about the hardcoded blocklist, never even planning on letting anyone know about the feature until the news broke out in a wild way.

Also getting some gallows humor in the comments that...I can admit tickle my dark humor bone.

https://fedia.io/m/lemmyapps@lemmy.world/t/4176130/Tesseract-has-been-deleted-following-the-banlist-debacle

#Fediverse #Tesseract #SocialMedia

Week in Fediverse 2026-07-24

Servers

- WriteFreely v0.17.0
- Ktistec v3.9.0
- Vernissage Server v1.41.0
- GoToSocial v0.22.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.1
- PeerTube v8.2.3
- Lemmy v0.19.20
- ties v0.3
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.1.0
- NeoDB v0.17.2
- NodeBB v4.14.2
- PieFed v1.7.7
- FitPub v1.2.1
- ActivityForge: ForgeFed implementation in Rust

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.1
- Aria v1.5.9
- Pixelix v5.0.0
- Summit v1.83.0
- Jerboa v0.0.88
- Holos v1.15.0
- Rocinante v1.1.8

Tools and Plugins

- Superblock v3.1 (Hubzilla addon)
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.10 (WordPress plugin)

Protocol

- FEP-de8d: Emoji Catalogs

Articles

- I added ActivityPub to this blog

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f71c0-52f2-7b60-a0f7-a9df07a6fd66

What does "the Fediverse" mean?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse

Major updates were made to the delightful fediverse curated lists..

💎 delightful fediverse experience

- 52 new projects added
- 50 projects marked unmaintained
- 15 projects updated

New list categories:

- Professional networks
- Instant messaging
- Search engines
- Security and privacy

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

💎 delightful fediverse development

- 18 new projects added
- 20 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 7 projects removed
- Improved table of contents
- Listed SWICG / SocialCG task forces
- More improvements pending

New list categories:

- SWICG Task forces
- Data portability
- Developer hubs
- Data formats

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development

💎 delightful fediverse clients

- 16 new projects added
- 33 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 3 projects removed
- Separate section for unmaintained

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-clients

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

@steve

You might be interested to check out my posts around the concept "Community has no boundary" I talked about 5 years ago, e.g. in this topic: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/standardizing-on-a-common-community-domain-as-ap-extension/1353

When I was still facilitator of #SocialHub I claimed that it wasn't a community in any real sense, with mostly #developers driving by on self-interested motives. It was just a discussion #forum, where a poor commons janitor (me) had to do the unthankful volunteer upkeep.

"Expectation mismatch" plays an important role when anyone mentions "community". A "community-driven #FOSS project" is partly the formal #governance that is in place, but mostly implicit cultural aspects. Knowing what you can expect is important, to not get disappointed.

A #fediverse instance to me isn't #community. I only use the Home timeline.

As we navigate fedi we 'weave' in and out of #communities seamlessly, without realizing it. A rich concept of inter-community #Social networking is possible, I think, but it should be carefully designed.

Major updates were made to the delightful fediverse curated lists..

💎 delightful fediverse experience

- 52 new projects added
- 50 projects marked unmaintained
- 15 projects updated

New list categories:

- Professional networks
- Instant messaging
- Search engines
- Security and privacy

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

💎 delightful fediverse development

- 18 new projects added
- 20 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 7 projects removed
- Improved table of contents
- Listed SWICG / SocialCG task forces
- More improvements pending

New list categories:

- SWICG Task forces
- Data portability
- Developer hubs
- Data formats

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development

💎 delightful fediverse clients

- 16 new projects added
- 33 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 3 projects removed
- Separate section for unmaintained

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-clients

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Hana from Gaza🇵🇸🍉 (@hanafamily1234)
• Sawsan Khalid (@sawsankhalid)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

My experience with the X4.

#Xteink #eink #reading #books #bookstodon #fediverse

https://lazybea.rs/x4

Arabi.gay is a Mastodon server for Arabs, people from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects) who are LGBTQIA+. Anyone over 18 is welcome to join.

This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://arabi.gay

You can find out more at https://arabi.gay/about or contact the admin account @ishraaf

#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #Gay #Arab #NorthAfrica #SouthWestAsia #Mastodon #Glitch #Fediverse #FreeFediverse #العربية

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@amministratore/116967326136690873

Looks like there’s a Mastodon identity verification scam going around.

Good rule of thumb: if a web site asks you to verify your identity, you close that browser tab.

The scam letter looks like this (thanks to @amministratore):

***

We detected suspicious activity on your account and have temporarily restricted access. Your new posts are currently visible only to you. To restore full access, please complete the verification process using the link below:

🔗 ‪<shortened link removed but you can report UPDATENOTIFICATION.CLICK to https://globaldomaingroup.com/report-abuse for it to be taken down>

If you do not verify within 24 hours, your account may be deleted for guideline violations. Successful verification will grant you a badge to enhance your visibility.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Support Team

***

Do NOT click any links if you receive such a message and inform your server admin.

#mastodon #scam #updateNotificationClick #fediverse #warning

Trying to find more information on how the under-15 social media ban in France impacts Mastodon/fediverse servers, and while I can't see anything too concrete on that, I did come across this 2024 The Guardian article:

"The report said a 15-year-old should be able to access only what it called “ethical” social media, such as Mastodon."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/stop-children-using-smartphones-until-they-are-13-say-french-experts-in-report

#news #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #EthicalSocialMedia #fediverse #mastodon

"A year ago I published an article about GoToSocial, a fediverse microblogging software (think of it as an alternative to Mastodon or Sharkey) that I had been using and loving. That is still very much the case, a year and a half after I first started using it:

I have a special soft spot for GoToSocial because it is the very first app I ever installed with YunoHost: the first stepping stone in my great self-hosting adventures. Therefore, no self-hosting guide for newbies would be complete without a tutorial about how to install and set-up the brilliant GoToSocial.

I initially thought I would cover everything in one post, but there is so much to discuss that I will break up the tutorial in different chapters, so that the information does not get too overwhelming. This first installment will discuss:
1) picking a domain name to use
2) associating the domain name to your YunoHost installation
3) installing GoToSocial
4) doing some essential tweaks to boost security"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

#SocialMedia #GoToSocial #Fediverse #Decentralization #SelfHosting

🆕 blog! “Scattered thoughts on social geolocation”

I want to be able to share my location with my friends on social media. Twitter (RIP) had a way to attach an optional location to a post. Facebook still lets me check in to venues. But neither ActivityPub (Mastodon) nor AT Protocol (BlueSky) allow me …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/scattered-thoughts-on-social-geolocation/
⸻
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #FourSquare #geolocation #json #openstandards #OpenStreetMap

I just now found a self-hosted fediverse server that allows connection and administration via SSH. So far its setup instructions are the simplest I've seen for any ActivityPub server software.

https://stegodon.social/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SSH #stegadon #social #SelfHosted #WebMaster #WebLord

This might be what enables the #fediverse to even exist

Alt...

A screenshot of a social media post by Nikhil Krishnan. The top of the post includes a profile picture, name, title "Founder/Thinkboi at Out-Of-Po Out-Of-Pocket: outofpock...", and a timestamp of "1m". The text content is as follows: "Core belief is you can't throw money at the problem when it comes to creating communities. We've seen several versions of that: > Company launches a community and it dies within a year or just becomes people asking for jobs/promoting things > Crypto tried to create communities around NFTs which were largely financially driven. > Lots of coworking/coliving offer discount rates to people that enable the community that live there The reality is that most communities thrive when someone just intrinsically enjoys getting people together and would do it without monetary incentive, pure love of the game. Once you make it a financial thing, you attract the wrong kinds of people".

A developer in Korea just built a Fediverse server that runs directly on CloudFlare.

/r/fediverse users responded:
"this is cancer"
"you are a horrible person"

???

Can you please help me with a genuine question: what would make the #Fediverse a more welcoming place?

Yes, humans are just grumpy sometimes. But a real solution can't just be more HOA members reading the rules at the door.

What do YOU think would make a difference here?

When I created #Fedle, it was mostly for fun. A #Wordle game across instances. Now it has reached more than 10k games played across the #Fediverse in six languages.

Each day, we play as a family, a small ritual where the children try to guess the daily word.

If you want to know more, follow @Fedle. In its bio there are links to bots to play in your language. And maybe you can help your instance climb to the top:

https://fedle.fedilab.app/leaderboard

75 000+ IP au tapis ! ⛔️🛡️
Et encore, ce chiffre ne montre que ce qui réussit à passer la première ligne de défense.

En amont, mon fichier de blocage #Nginx personnalisé fait déjà un gros tri sélectif :
🛑 #Scrapers #IA, faux Chrome et outils automatisés reçoivent un #403 immédiat.
🟢 Les instances du #Fediverse ( #Mastodon, #PeerTube... ), elles, entrent sans problème.

Nginx filtre les indésirables, #Fail2Ban verrouille le reste. Résultat : un serveur qui respire et des ressources préservées ! 😎🧹

@yezanek

I mean, I think bsky has more people than we do (not that I care about that).

I'm not saying we should forget #Mozilla's wrongs or give them a mulligan, but we can at least give them credit for coming back, and hope that they might (with the #fediverse's encouragement) choose a more virtuous path than what they're on now.

But if all people do is drive-by snarking, how is anything going to improve?

Here's a crazy idea for my wonderful fedipeeps.

Now that #Mozilla is back on the #fediverse,

Maybe DON'T shit on them.

Maybe embrace them.

Maybe just remind them of what was good about them in years past, and encourage them to seek the good, rather than the latest #SiliconValley management brainrot.

You don't have to look for every opportunity to vent and fume.

📣​ New post 📝​

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)"

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

Basically a visual guide showing how to install #GoToSocial via #YunoHost and set it up with some basic security.

⏱️​ From start to finish, it should take about 25-30 minutes.

It's my act of resistance against tech bros... I love the idea of teaching people how to self-host their own social media instance, connected to the fediverse ✌️​❤️​ ​

Thank you @yunohost  and @gotosocial for empowering us all!

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #newbie #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #resist

@dmathieu

NodeInfo isn't part of #ActivityPub and neither is it required to be implemented by fedi software.

What #fediverse is and isn't is an interesting question. Does following between actors make the software on both ends part of the fediverse? Should a fediverse app support #microblogging? Be compatible with Mastodon?

Perhaps being part of fediverse means if 2 independent 3rd-parties are able to interoperate with each other? Does that require sending Follow msgs?

If someone has a federated Product catalogue that federates with itself and a 3rd-party Order delivery service, is it part of the fediverse? Even when no Follow is sent?

It is undefined what being part of the fediverse means. There used to be a Federated Network Association (Feneas) as a major dev community besides #SocialHub, which defined fediverse as any software that implemented AP, #XMPP, or #Matrix protocol.

@steve even wrote that nothing even truly implements AP, and I tend to agree.

https://www.stevebate.net/nothin-implements-activitypub/

Hi, friends.

I wrote an article on being a Mastodon moderator. I talk about the process, our mental health, the challenges of mutual aid, and more.

It leaves me a little vulnerable, but I think it’s an important story to tell.

If you like it, boosts are welcomed. If you have questions, feel free to reach out.

Okay, here goes…

https://markwrites.io/being-a-mastodon-moderator/

#Moderation #Moderators #Mastodon #Fediverse #MentalHealth #IAmAnxiousWritingAboutThis

Wanted to share my love of the #Fediverse, thank you all for making me feel part of such a wonderful community 💙

That's all! Hope you are having an amazing day. Stay safe out there!

Love Janine

#Photographer #Positivity

Alt...

photo of girl with green and blue hair taking a photo of a red beetle in an abandoned garage

Today's #OverUnder 075 with @mre

He shares his thoughts about #TUI & #CLI, #textFiles, #Chrome, #Rust, and #currywursts.

he also replied to @afb's question.

And, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #BSD #Linux #shell #terminals

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-075

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Sereen (@leliaa)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Tiny Mastodon Tip About Globalisation 🌍

On Mastodon, there isn't an algorithm to restrict your reach to your own country or region when you post.

Additionally, many people post in English, even when it's not their native language.

If you post a comment or question
that is related to a specific region of the world, please specify which one, and don't assume people worldwide will know this acronym or reference.

You will have a better chance to
get the answers you seek, and more boosts from people living in different regions of the world.

Also consider adding a hashtag relevant to the country or region you are posting about.

Keep in mind the Fediverse is global! 🌏🌍🌎✨

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse #Global

I get folks want to use #activitypub to share what they write. I completely get it.

I tried it a few years ago with #WordPress

And I found that I did like flooding timelines without an excerpt. It seems rude to me.

I view it as obnoxious.

So I stopped. And for my peace of mind, I mute accounts to do it.

I mastodon on #mastodon . I read links.

Separation of teaser and content. 🤣

#fediverse

@fitpub

Hey there 👋 Great #ActivityPub project is #FitPub. I just added it to the delightful #fediverse experience curated list:

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#geosocial-networking

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116563099730866203

Just a reminder that if you're an admin or a moderator, it should be your responsibility to step in when someone is harassing a member of your community and claiming to be enforcing rules that don't apply to them.

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #moderators

@mike @evan @kev @tatertot @matthartley @adamsdesk @cmccullough @haubles @Gina @joel @Greylinux @markwyner

Thanks, man! Fosstodon was my first long-term fedi home, and I have many good memories and friendships there!

Glad to know you, Kev, Joel, Gina, and everyone else on Fosstodon, and elsewhere on the wide fediverse.

To me, the #Fediverse is the real Internet we were promised.

My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I'm experimenting with #LoRa off-grid #mesh communication 💁‍♀️

#TIL about #Harmony, a bleeding-edge project to build a decentralised replacement for Miscord using ActivityPub, E2EE using Vodozemac, a cryptography library used in Matrix software;

https://joinharmony.app/

Source code is on GritHub, under AGPL;

https://github.com/zcharef/harmony

Anyone know anything about this? So far I haven't been able to find fediverse accounts for the project itself, or the creator.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Vodozemac #Matrix

Week in Fediverse 2026-07-17

Servers

- flohmarkt v0.20.0
- Vernissage Server v1.40.0
- FitPub v1.2.0
- Wafrn v2026.07.02
- TinyAP v0.1.11
- NeoDB v0.16.5.0
- PieFed v1.7.6
- Catodon v26.7.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, June 2026 (Mastodon)
- matrix-appservice-activitypub: Turns your Matrix server into a fully functioning ActivityPub server
- Discord–Fediverse Bridge: A self-hosted bridge between Discord forum channels and ActivityPub community actors
- ~petersanchez/honk: Fork of honk

Clients

- PeerTube Mobile v2.2.0
- Photon v2.4.0
- Tesseract v1.5.5
- Aria v1.5.8
- Mitra Mini v0.5.0

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.1 (WordPress plugin)
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.9 (WordPress plugin)
- Telegram ↔️ Mastodon Bridge Bot: A Python bot that forwards text messages, photos, and albums from a Telegram chat to your Mastodon account

For developers

- @shootpub/activitypub-types: ActivityPub types package with support for FEP-2277 Activitypub core types (duck typing)

Articles

- The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f4de5-e808-73f3-96d7-1c4948c2a47a

Do you like the people on the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse

This is what i love about the #fediverse . Pop science “we have found a new planet!” Turns into an exam question for a graduate level astrophysics test. I barely follow what’s being said, because the people saying it have probably forgotten more math than I ever learned. But I’m following a little and enjoying it immensely.

@BashStKid @quadrivial @josh0 @kibcol1049

Bonjour la fédiverse !
Si vous êtes admin d'une instance de la fédiverse, regardez si des IPs du bloc 43.160.0.0/12 (plus précisément des IPs soit dans les plages 43.172.194 à 198 et 43.173.173 à 194)
ne font pas *énormément* de traffic sur votre instance. Si c'est le cas, c'est un bot maléfique, bloquez à vue !

stats récentes de mamot : (hits par bloc)
6434 66.249.
258917 43.172.
497379 43.173.

piaille :
28582 216.73.
230864 43.172.
443057 43.173.

#Fediverse #Bots #Mastodon

Le petit plus #fediverse :

• On m'a demandé de prévenir : si vous n'avez pas d'expérience/compétences #django/#python, vous serez surement en bas de la pile.
• C'est une #scop, ça a ses avantages et ses inconvénients, pensez-y bien fort avant de postuler/accepter
• Si vous êtes pris, vous ne pourrez plus dire du mal de vos collègues sur le #fediverse car on y est tous (non mais une bonne partie, enfin surtout moi et d'autres)... Ca peut jouer dans la balance, mais bon, vous aurez de nouveau followers et des supers* collègues !

**: non, ce n'est pas vrai, mais si je ne le dis pas, ils vont me tomber dessus :-p

https://soc.octade.net/sysop/

A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #sysop.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro