Week in Fediverse 2026-09-04

Servers

- Ktistec v3.12.0
- Mastodon v4.7.1
- Vernissage v1.43.0
- snac v2.95
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.3.0
- Owncast v0.3.0
- gathio v1.6.6
- NodeBB v4.15.2
- tootik v0.25.2
- NeoDB v0.18.0
- Bonfire v1.0.7

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.4
- Fedilab v3.43.3
- Tuba v0.11.1
- Pixelix v5.2.0
- Summit v1.85.0
- Shoot Web App v1.3.0

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.0
- Poduptime v6.3.2
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.3 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- APx v0.27.0
- Library progress report - September 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-eede-72b0-a5e9-f244c3ff2142

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#introduction time! My name is Matt, I'm new to veganism.social, but not new to the #Fediverse. I first joined in 2018 on a #mastodon instance that's probably gone by now. I've been leaving and coming back over the years due to health and life circumstances, but I've been consistently back on for a while.

Anyways, I'm an #opensource web developer (#php / #vue), #punk / #metal musician, #anarchist, #antifascist as hell, #feminist, #ally, and hater of #bigtech and what #ai is doing to our planet. Speaking of our planet, I am a #vegan for health and ethical reasons, but I am not going to be shitty towards people if they're not.

I'm in the process of building out my own little spot on the #indieweb / #smallweb so I can return to running my mouth on a blog.

If I followed you, it's probably because we have common interests, or I enjoy your brand of #shitposting. Or you've activated my inner-geek with #startrek and #videogames.

Anyways, thanks for reading all of this. I hope the attached picture of Marvin the Mushroom has brightened your feed in some way.

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A close up picture of a battery powered nylon mushroom which contains a color changing LED inside of it. The mushroom is illuminated in green, and has has a cute smile, blushing cheeks and 2 round eyes.

just append the url with ?terse=true

behold and compare the results!
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true

#fediverse #snac2

Kitten is a development kit that enables building peer-to-peer Small Web apps, but also aims to make creating any type of web app as easy as possible.

It's a web development kit that's small, purrs, and loves you!

Site: https://kitten.small-web.org/
Source: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/
Tutorials on building webapps: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/

Made with ❤️ by @aral at the Small Technology Foundation.

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #HumaneTech #HumaneDesign #Fediverse

Woot, a rave review by @thefulcrum 💞 on my blog post "Paradigm shift to the Prosocial web".

https://www.thefulcrum.dev/the-programmers-fulcrum-4-september-2026/

Thank you very much!

#SX #SocialWeb #ProsocialWeb #ActivityPub #fediverse

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Snapshot of the text from The Programmer's Fulcrum report (follow link in the toot).

just append the url with ?terse=true

behold and compare the results!
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true

#fediverse #snac2

RE: https://berlin.social/@berlinfediday/117200439673886108

Awww Berlin #FediDay is almost here. I'm super super honored and excited to speak there next Saturday.

Currently fine-tuning my presentation, which will be a love letter to the people who contribute to the #Fediverse and give me so much hope for the future ❤️

Trop peu de site sont ouvert au fédiverse.
Quand je rencontre un site je teste avec la barre de recherche si je peux l'ajouter.

Ajouter dans les comptes que je peux suivre en mettant l'url dans la recherche

https://bikinvalais.ch/2026/09/autoroute-fermee-cyclistes-en-danger/

Non ça marche pas. Domage. #fediverse #vélo #cycle #wordpress

@Dialectician

It sure can. I consider #ActivityPub fediverse a social networking environment, and social media a subset of social networking, which I define as: Any direct and indirect human interaction between people.

When you talk of "echo chamber" you refer to a typical anti-pattern of existing social media platforms. It is unfortunate that fediverse grew to be such a microblogging-dominant space, a Twitter++, and it could be said to be a severe lack of imagination on what social networking entails. But it is understandable when we consider how fedi evolves: by post-facto interoperability. Where who comes first decides what goes, and that was Mastodon, a #microblogging app.

Social experience design considers "Personal social networking" where the needs of individual participants are central, and design is inspired by analogies to how we do social offline. #Fediverse becomes a unified space where you navigate communities and move in and out of different social contexts seamlessly.

@smallcircles Can the #Fediverse transcend the echo chamber of social media if its culture is politically and economically inactive? If servers instances served the democratic rights of diverse interests then networks would be interactive e.g. those with an interest in education can have many different social, political and economic backgrounds but can be united by their interest in education and not that in their backgrounds.

Arguably #fediverse is NOT based on an open standard.

It's based on 'guidance towards an open standard' via the incomplete #ActivityPub spec, sprinkled with what fediverse devs have added over time via post-facto interoperability in what's effectively a Big ball of mud anti-pattern. These extra's are to be discovered on-the-fly, and being app-specific, need to be maintained constantly in another anti-pattern I dubbed Whack-a-mole programming.

We can do better. We can rise above the app-centricness of the fedi, make a paradigm shift that helps increase evolution speed and rate of innovation and sees people's needs be better served..

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

For that to happen major social challenges need to be tackled, like coordinating and collaborating well in a good grassroots standardization process.

I posed the concept of a Grassroots open standard, where services encapsulate their design, and the standardization process is a fedi-native service itself.

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Today’s littleFedi updates:

• Strengthened allowlist-only federation: redirects, discovery, deliveries, and hostname handling now consistently respect the policy. (Spoiler alert: there's a reason behind this 😉)
• Fixed boosts for local-only posts, plus a timeline relative-time refresh issue.
• Fixed an Android PWA green-bar issue by letting the manifest update normally.
• Disabling remote media caching now safely clears leftover cache jobs instead of leaving the queue unhealthy.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

I've upgraded #FediMeteo in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #snac2 #Fediverse #OwnYourData

#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.

Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.

A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.

In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

Ma tente tombe en ruine et l’hiver approche. 💔😭 J’ai besoin de toute urgence de nylon et de bois pour la réparer et protéger ma famille du froid et de la pluie.

Nous n’avons nulle part où aller, et j’ai peur de devoir affronter un nouvel hiver dans une tente endommagée. S’il vous plaît, aidez-nous à la rendre plus sûre avant l’arrivée des pluies. Même un petit don peut faire une grande différence. 🙏

https://chuffed.org/project/178829

#Gaza #Palestine #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #FediForGaza
#fediverse🥹

yen a qui vont encore avoir du mal à demarrer demain matin
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I want the internet to be:

Cat content

📚 RSS feeds written by humans

Mastodon and Fediverse connections

Educational videos running on PeerTube

Free, open-source, privacy-by-default, and AI-free software made with love

📖 And unionized Wikipedia

#Internet #Fediverse

@da_667 @cR0w

I'm not going to pretend that running BSD is a cakewalk, but particularly for #FreeBSD, there are lots of really helpful folks on the #fediverse.

Also, the FreeBSD handbook is amazingly good.

--Sent from my nearly ten year old hand-me-down inspiron running #NetBSD ;)

We're now on Pixelfed.

We'll be using our new official account to share Pixelix updates, showcase features, photography and more.

Mastodon will still be our main account for development updates, announcements and engaging with the community. This account is more about showing off Pixelix and the things you can do with it.

Follow us: @pixelix@pixelfed.social

Our first post is coming soon.

#Pixelfed #Pixelix #Fediverse

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Green background grid. Pixelix logo at top. Centered: We are now on Pixelfed. Below: @pixelix@pixelfed.social

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:

• Mahmoud Safi in Gaza ✌️🍉 (@mhoeed)
• DOaa Adnan (@zyzyqwb838)

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

#AI opens exciting opportunities for those NOT offering it! 🤯

Imagine a travel agency that just offers a phone number that immediately gives you a real human on the line to help you enjoy your well-earned vacation. And that you no longer have some Booking.com #LLM hellhole to wade through.

Imagine real human connection at the customer service of an online webshop, when you want to return something or have questions on a product.

Imagine government agencies having emphatic people available who care about your problems, and help you get on your way.

Imagine developer tools that just do what is on the tin and nothing more. Like they used to do before becoming AI-first.

What a delight all that will be. And you know what is most delicious? It is ALL readily available to us! 🚀

Human to human services. They rock! We can bring them to a #fediverse near you..

Enter the #ProsocialWeb.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117206162883515647

Ρꙩujol 𝖱u𝗌𝗍 ✅ boosted

🫧 Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-09-03
@smallcircles@social.coop

#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.

Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.

A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.

In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.

Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.

A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.

In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.

https://coding.social/blog/prosocial-web

A video I tried to archive after the freedom of form foundation tried to erase some of the work from Atha (who was a compliance officer and was essentially given a unreasonable situation and was essentially kicked out) years ago got copyright striked by the fff recently

Any peer tube instances I can reupload this to
There's been more and more members leaving the fff recently as well as the fff leaves it's original purpose and enshitifies and becomes more corporate

Also boosting is appreciated

#fediverse #censorship #peertube #askfedi #vulpinelabs #freedomofform #transrights #science #preservation

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
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JOURNAL
retour en taxi pour tout le monde dabord yapmus de metros puis on a un peu de mal à marcher droit
on a passeu´e soirée memorable
heureusement les flucs nous connaissent maintenant
ils regzrdent cest nous ça va yzura pas bagarre
heureusement aussi le correcteur me connaît 🤪
demain normalement je travaille pas mias j'irai aider yôko il y a trop de dossiers à finir
JE VOUS AIME
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡

#postCollapse #networking workshop at #ITUniversity will start this friday, with #solar basics being the first two week's topic. how to run a balcony server, a mini-mastodon, a solar #network node, etc etc

we will certainly have some #fediverse #mastodon #reticulum #lora #lorawan #meshtastic in the mix.

as most of the sessions will be quite hands-on, we re not planning to offer online/remote -
perhaps except for some more presentation-like sessions

but it's open for all locals

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post-collapse networking a workshop/series for when nothing is like it used to be. mesh lora reticulum fm solar botanical satellite, sound, water ... * . https://dasya.itu.dk/docs/pcn.html NO SIGN UP NEEDED fridays 14.00 - .... DASYA LAB 5A56 ... join us ... from Sept 04

Periodic official communication, just to clarify a few things.

The BSD Cafe is an open, inclusive and friendly community. A community of people who try to be *“pro, not against”* and *“supporters, not haters”*: enthusiasts, friends, people who come here to share, to learn, to discuss. Not to hate each other.

This does not mean that we all have to think in the same way. Quite the opposite: it means that we can have different opinions, discuss them, defend them strongly, and question each other’s ideas.

What it does not mean is that it is acceptable to insult, threaten, attack people, or pretend that there can only be one morally acceptable position on every possible subject.

Calling the BSD Cafe a "Nazi Bar" from the outside simply because we do not automatically censor people who have an opinion different from yours is offensive towards the hundreds of people who are part of this community. Unless you're a Nazi or a fascist. In that case, you're not welcome here.

People are, of course, free to criticise what happens here. But expecting us to attack, ban or silence someone because you believe they deserve it, and then accusing the whole Cafe because we do not, is something different.

And I have seen something even worse lately: actual calls for hate. The equivalent of *“hey, everyone, go and attack this person”*, simply because that person does not share your position.

No. This is not acceptable.

And, dear friends, declaring yourself anti-Nazi while organising a crowd against somebody, intimidating them and treating them as an enemy who deserves to be attacked means using exactly the kind of methods you claim to oppose.

I do not say this lightly. I come from a family, and from a country, with a very real history of fascism and of the antifascism that immediately followed it. These are not just abstract words to me.

Hate is not tolerated, at any level, inside or outside the Cafe. The same is true for threats, intimidation and aggression. Believing that our cause is right does not make those behaviours more acceptable.

You disagree with someone? Say it. Explain why. Argue against their ideas. Support yours with all the conviction you want. But do not aggressively attack. This is not tolerated.

And expecting everyone else to attack that person too, or considering them somehow complicit because they do not, is something different. And it is not what I want for this community.

On any subject.

Even pineapple on pizza (!!!).

The Fediverse is a non-place, but it is made of real people. Wonderful people, very often. Let’s not turn it into version 2.0 of traditional social media, where every discussion becomes a war and anyone who does not think exactly like us automatically becomes the enemy.

In the last few weeks I have seen people stepping away exactly because of this. On different subjects, people accused of the worst things not because of something they had done, but because they had not said what someone expected them to say. Some of them, for their own wellbeing, simply decided to take a step back.

We all lost something because of that. Nobody gained anything.

So let’s keep supporting what we believe in. Let’s do it with conviction, and with firmness when needed. But let’s discuss ideas without turning people into targets.

From experience, I have learnt that real change also requires discussion, organisation, patience and concrete actions. We can disagree deeply without stopping considering each other as people.

This is the kind of place I want the BSD Cafe to continue to be.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

#BSDCafe #Fediverse #SupportersNotHaters

I argue that #ForgeFed #ActivityPub should support multi-types as specified in #ActivityStreams, even though how to actually work with them in a robust AP extension mechanism hasn't been fully figured out yet.

The argument for avoiding multi-type is to compromise in order to facilitate the current microblogging-heavy installed base on the #fediverse. While that is practical, it will forever keep the tech debt we have created in our fediverse ecosystem.

#Forge federation should not have a primary concern to retain compatility to legacy #microblogging apps, imho.

https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed/issues/324#issuecomment-22201186

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594

Protestors pushed me too far―repeatedly―over a period of around eighteen months.

Incidents on 30th August pushed me too far, in ways that citizens of a normal community can not possibly imagine.

People someone randomly complain that Reddit is a cesspit.

The citizens of the Fediverse have―as a horde―successfully federated to create a global community that is worse than I ever predicted. Worse than any combination of X + Truth Social. It's not a normal community.

It's abnormal.

Now I understand why Reddit, Inc. began using the word "community" instead of "subreddit". Reddit has features―some obscure, some not―that permit a community to flourish.

Flourish, without overall degradation from protestors who imagine that their individual and collective voices are always acceptable in any situation that suits them.

A Fediverse that lacks comparable subsections has failed me.

Yesterday, I used a feature of Mastodon to begin putting up something that's not normally associated with Mastodon:

― guard rails.

I enjoy this newly guarded, assisted Fediverse, in a way that pleases me, and should please other people.

It's probably fair to say that the era of me encouraging people to use Mastodon has ended.

Farewell to the Fediverse that failed.

Welcome to a guarded Fediverse that has a greater possibility of winning.

#AI #Fediverse #guardrails #Mastodon

RE: https://mastox.eu/@FranceskAlbs/117197234685118953

Les élu.e.s ici, les grands comptes sur le #Fediverse, les admins d'instances.

Vous êtes devenu.e.s MUET.E.S

Il y a un an, mes posts étaient partagés parfois parfois plus de 100 fois.

Où êtes vous ?? Que faites-vous ??

#Gaza

RE: https://the.bisexuals.town/@gersande/117196090829345834

SPITBALLING HERE:
has anybody turned pics into SVGs, and embedded #AIslop prompts in them?

pinging @dansup @Gargron @evan because been pondering this too: it was easy for AI vultures to scrape images because JPG PNG WEBP GIF are self-enclosed containers. SVG, though, is an image turned into code you can embed into HTML.

so, given the #fediverse is based on permissions, what if SVG is the unlogged & poisoned default?

fedi’s login and de/federation systems might be the AI deterrent we need.

webhat boosted

Gersande La Flèche » 🌐 2026-09-01
@gersande@the.bisexuals.town

I've asked this question before and got crickets from the fedi, which really was disappointing, but now that it's September it's worth trying again: if you have any tips of tech that actually works that I could use to poison my photos (hosted on my website photos.gersande.com) against AI, please let me know.

I've never been able to get the Nightshade/Glaze Project to work, and I've reached out to their team by email multiple times and never got an answer.

Cheers.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📡 The BSSID Black Market: Who's Selling Home WiFi Maps?→ telegra․ph/The-BSSID-Black-Market-Whos-Selling-Home-WiFi-Maps-08-17 ⌗wifi ⌗surveillance ⌗privacy ⌗infosec”

https://infosec.exchange/@monniele/117194493782576823

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

It’s a pity we won’t have a presentation at #FediDay about the @EUCommission’s efforts on the #Fediverse, led by @hpod16.

It would be fascinating to hear about the challenges they’ve faced and learn more about the team behind such an active EU institutional account.

@occitel
Ah le CPC, quelle machine !
L'iMac des 8 bits, bien avant l'iMac, Alan Michael Sugar était visionnaire sur ce point. L'anecdote raconte que lorsqu'il a voulu essayer un ordinateur (certainement un ZX Spectrum), il se serait emporté face à la montagne de cables et d'alimentations à branchement pour avoir un système exploitable.
A l'époque, l'ordinateur, et le stockage, que ce soit en cassette ou en disquette pour les plus riche, étaient séparés. Ajoutez une imprimante, le moniteur, et ça commence à faire beaucoup.

Résultat des courses, on a eu un 8 bits tout en un, où il n'y avait que 3 cables. Le cable d'alimentation du moniteur, FOURNI avec l'ordinateur, et 2 cables partant du moniteur vers l'ordinateur, avec clavier intégré, et de très bonne facture d'après mes souvenirs.

Entre temps, y'a eu quelques addons bien sympatiques comme le radio réveil et le tuner TV, pas ultra pratique à utiliser, mais qui faisait une TV d'appoint.

Et je parle pas des jeux, avec des pépites comme Robocop, Wec le Man, Batman the movie, Renegade, Shinobi (peut être un des meilleurs titres de la machine), etc, etc...
Y'a eu aussi pas mal de bouses, on va pas se mentir... Surtout à cause des Speccy ports, où les éditeurs n'avaient aucun scupules à prendre une version ZX d'un jeu et le porter tel quel sur l'Amstrad, qui était fortement compatible avec le ZX. Ou les jeux qui étaient juste une démo pour présenter à un éditeur et qui ont été vendus comme des jeux complets (coucou Airwolf qui a traumatisé une génération entière de joueurs).

Bref, mon premier ordinateur que mon père m'avait ramené pour mes 5 ans, persuadé que l'informatique allait être une révolution. Il avait pas prévu que ça allait juste définir ma vie...

#Fediverse #RetroTech #ComputingHistory #Amstrad #Z80 #CPM

Pensée émue pour l'Amstrad CPC 6128 de 1985.
Si le monde ne jure que par les puces modernes, rappelons qu'avec 128 Ko de RAM, un Zilog Z80A et une puce sonore AY-3-8912, des développeurs fabriquaient des chefs-d'œuvre sans aucun tracker publicitaire ni mise à jour de 45 Go.

Le vrai format propriétaire d'élite ? Les disquettes 3 pouces d'Hitachi. Plus chères que les 3,5", introuvables aujourd'hui, mais quel charme. 💾⚙️

As-tu connu ?

#Fediverse #RetroTech #ComputingHistory #Amstrad #Z80 #CP/M

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Proposer un moniteur monochrome vert en 1985, ce n'était pas un choix technique, c'était une méthode radicale pour tester la résistance des yeux des adolescents.

August is gone

#blogging #fediverse #100DaysToOffload 79/100
https://lazybea.rs/august-26

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• klj (@kljh)
• Ahmed (@Ahmednn)

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

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:

• Bader family 🇵🇸🍉 🇵🇸 (@bader2000)
• Nana Ahel (@nanaahel)

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

ft. big update - over 100 new achievements!

https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

#snac2 #fediverse @grunfink@comam.es

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get snacpilled achievement

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🧡💛💚💙💜

NEW MONTH, NEW BLESSING, NEW HOPE! Last week brought no donations, but we won’t give up. This month, we’re believing for the land we urgently need to grow food by next season. No more costly seasonal leases. Your donation can make it possible or BOOST this post to someone who can!
https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Climate #ClimateChange #sustainability #ClimateCrisis #Economy #environment #Linux #Fediverse #Mastodon #farming #Photography #nature #agriculture #food #USA #uk

👋🏻 𝘏𝘌𝘠~𝘏𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘖! 𝘏𝘖𝘞 𝘈𝘙𝘌 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘎𝘜𝘠𝘚 𝘏𝘖𝘓𝘋𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘜𝘗? 🫂🥺
I hope y'all are doing okay & holding up w/ the waves of life.

𝘔𝘦? 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘐'𝘮 𝘖𝘒. 𝘜 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩.RENTBILL is waving & can't risk 2 get another notice this time😢

𝘐 𝘏𝘖𝘗𝘌 𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘗𝘌𝘖𝘗𝘓𝘌 𝘎𝘖𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘜 𝘉𝘈𝘋 𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌𝘚 𝘞𝘐𝘓𝘓 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘐𝘛. 𝘔𝘈𝘠 𝘞𝘌 𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘉𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚𝘌𝘋 𝘛𝘖𝘋𝘈𝘠 & 𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘠𝘋𝘈𝘠.✨🍀🌠

#mastodon #fediverse #lifeupdate #mutualaid #boost #support #bekind #monday

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The image shows a text quote on a plain background that reads: "Whoever abandoned you in the middle of the ocean has no right to know what the sharks did to you or how you managed it to the shore"

RE: https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/117191442560318887

When people say "we need more mainstream people, celebs, brands on Mastodon for anyone to take it seriously," this is what comes to mind.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 boosted

Ben » 🌐 2026-08-31
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party

@michelestrider

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Cartoon by @alexkrokus - life of a meme 4 panes - in the first we see a group of blue people hanging out smiling. One has put a pineapple on their head to applause from the rest. In pane 2 we see more people have pineapples on their head and are taking pictures, uploading to social media, one even has a pineapple tshirt on. In pane 3, a large overbearing red person with BRAND written on the front has barged in with a pineapple on their head, upsetting the other blue people. In the final pane we see 3 red BRAND people all wearing pineapples and congratulating each other, as the blue people sadly fling the pineapples to the floor and walk off, the thing spoiled.

I am seeing reports of a small number of #GazaVerified accounts hounding people who have donated in the past with posts at the rate of “one every few minutes”.

This has to stop.

If you’re doing this, your servers will suspend your accounts and we will not step in to help nor will we reverify a new account.

This is harming everyone on #GazaVerified and the reputation of Palestinians in general and we won’t be tolerating it.

And the people who sympathise with the cause and have donated in the past do not deserve to be harassed in this way.

Please stop.

#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse

Demain matin debout 5:30
on part toutes les deux
ma souveraine a une réunion de bonne heure
ça recommence.
J'ai pas eu le courage téléphoner à yôko pour savoir comment était sa journée
cest pas bien 😞

maintenant dodo
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Evil again and again... You can't trust human beings

#Blaugust #100DaysToOffload 78/100 #fediverse #blogging
https://lazybea.rs/evil-again-and-again

#OverUnder 081 with @raeubervater

His thoughts about #iWatch, #Fujifilm recipes, #postcards, zoom #lenses, and #coleslaw.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #photography #Apple #Casio #watches

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-081

Bonjour le #fediverse
j'économise la batterie
on rentre en vélo
arrivée vers 19 h
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Irions-nous jusqu'à dire que sur le super extra formidable #Fediverse, nous sommes à l'abri des contenus #IA ?

What frustrates me most is that many people want a better digital world, but they are unwilling to try alternatives like Mastodon or running their own website.

People have become lazy. Everything has to be ready-made. You cannot have everything handed to you on a silver platter, life does not work that way.

The hardest challenge is getting people to unlearn the addictive patterns of an enshittified internet and move toward healthier habits and the decentralized web.

#enshittification #SocialWeb #decentralization #Fediverse #SocialMedia

At the end of it all, I’m here because I like being here.

I’m here to talk to people. To read things I care about. To see beautiful photos. To be part of a wonderful community. To talk about the things I love, to share my thoughts, and some of what I’ve learned over the years.

But also to share the small pleasures of life: a good pizza, a tiramisu, a beautiful sunrise over the sea, or a quiet path through the trees.

There is already enough anger in the world.

Life is too short to spend it being angry all the time.

#GoodNight #Fediverse

@silverpill @rimu @elle

I wrote a comment in the open issue on the 3-stage process, in the SWICG charters repo..

https://github.com/swicg/charters/issues/33#issuecomment-5470092604

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

Skastodon.com is a Mastodon server for ska musicians, artists, fans, and anyone else in the ska community. We welcome everyone from the ska, punk, reggae, rocksteady, new wave, or other related music fandoms. We are also proud proponents of the Ska Goth Alliance.

https://skastodon.com

You can find out more at https://skastodon.com/about or contact the admin account @BrianTransplant

#FeaturedServer #Ska #SkaMusic #Reggae #Rocksteady #Music #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I want to be a princess who's perfectly content locked in this tower until I run out of snacks.

#SilentSunday #photography #trees #nature #green #travel #fediverse #germany #mastodon #konstanz #fujifilm #photo

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A medieval tower rising above a tree line, photo taken in Konstanz, Germany.

Now on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD (armv7) - with an USB ethernet card, as the internal wifi seems to lock when the traffic goes up.

It's blazing fast

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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The Raspberry PI Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD - running this instance

🆕 blog! “ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!”

Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it:

Reclaim the public nature of the internet

Small and medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/activitybot-is-the-recipient-of-an-nlnet-grant/
⸻
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #fediverse #NLnet

Good morning, #Fediverse.
Have a great Sunday!

#Weekend

So, um, Tusky on Android let me make a Mastodon bio longer than 500 characters.

On the standard Mastodon web client, the UI is shouting at me that I can't edit it unless I reduce it to 500 chars.

I am guessing ActivityPub has no specific limit on a bio for a user, but can anyone tell me the risk/reward (and/or pros/cons) of making my bio > 500 chars?

Like, will some clients/federated servers truncate at 500 chars?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #AskFedi #Tusky

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

The Centre for European Policy Studies "a leading think tank and forum for debate on EU affairs, ranking among the top think tanks in Europe" has a report about the #fediverse called "Unpacking the fediverse: What it is, why it matters – and how it could cause a major headache for the DSA"
https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/unpacking-the-fediverse

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a corprete looking pdf that says: Unpacking the fediverse What it is, why it matters – and how it could cause a major headache for the DSA Paula Gürtler 2025-02

Salut tout le monde, je me demandais : Y-a-t-il des forums (notamment autour du logiciel) qui acceptent les comptes mastodon comme identifiants ? C'est à dire que je peux consulter et intervenir dans un forum depuis mon compte.

Ce serait pas mal, non ?

#mastodon #fediverse #forum

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
la pluie a cessé ici mais elle fait des dégâts considerables au nord cest un été terrible

JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-28

Servers

- Hollo v0.9.13
- gush! v0.0.41
- tootik v0.25.0
- Mitra v5.10.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.9
- Hollo v0.9.15
- Funkwhale v2.0.10
- PieFed v1.7.13
- tootik v0.25.1
- NeoDB v0.17.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.8.1
- Fedilab v3.43.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.6

Protocol

- FEP-49eb: Batched Inbox Delivery

Articles

- A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
- The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a0269e-d9e5-7a03-a62d-6ef77099e4a7

I don't know if #FediHood will be adopted by the #Fediverse community, but I am still doing my best for it. Three new features have been added:

- Emoji reactions to messages (federated)
- Theme customization (with presets available)
- An option to automatically delete your own posts

FediHood lets you build timelines based on people near you and on topics. More: https://fedihood.social/about

PS: feel free to share

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The FediHood announcement post, showing two emoji reactions below it.

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The auto-delete posts setting, with duration options from three days to one month.

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The appearance settings, with theme presets and custom color options.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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Bender from Futurama. WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN TWITTER WITH BLACKJACK AND FEDERATION AND FORGET THE BLACKJACK

Thank you, friends!

The instance held up perfectly, without flinching! I also took advantage of the surge to identify a few areas for improvement, and they've been pinned down. New patches will be rolled out over the next few days.

The release is getting closer and closer...

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

EDIT: littleFedi allows to transform posts into blog posts, having its own SSG (Static Site Generator). The one generated by this post is reachable by clicking here.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

It looks like the migration to this new instance was [mostly] successful. However it does appear I lost some followers and followees.

Note to fediverse app and ActivityPub maintainers: we really need one and only one schema and format, based on flat text lines or .csv, for importing, exporting, migrating profiles, posts, follow(ing) lists, etc. Too many cooks spoils the stew.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

So. The #Fediverse symbol is:

1. ​​

2. ⁂

#boost for the reach

...and this is how it's doing, while many of you are boosting, replying, etc:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE       TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 7745 little    35    0   620M  152M RUN       140:14 57.71% 57.71% littlefedi-armv6

Crazy, isn't it?

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

This is the "roost" littleFedi theme

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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A screenshot of the Roost theme in littleFedi

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma

Stefano Marinelli boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-27
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

Mon chéri a une requête qui correspond aux compétences et à la sollicitude du #fediverse
Voir ci-dessous. Réponse à @CCailleaux, en + c'est bientôt son anniv !
Le repouet soutient la lutte contre la société de consommation ✊

"J'ai un Huawei P8 Lite 2017, il est devenu très lent et sa mémoire est saturée alors que je dois avoir 5 applis.
J'ai pensé à changer d'OS pour le dégoogliser, mais je rencontre un mur, il semble incompatible avec les OS alternatifs.
Quelqu'un aurait une piste ?"

Instead of filtering, I look at the output of good people drifting into just One Direction

• I mute them for a week
• If their output is still single directional
• I mute them for a month
• If it's still not what I'm used to I look back and mute them for a week

ad infinitum

Usually that is enough for those people to eventually start posting again as normal

I never bother them about their toots because it's their personal feed.

I am however The Master of my feed and I decide who I mute

@rl_dane

#FediVerse #filters #SocialMedia

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
On est fatiguées mais quand même
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I need the power of the #fediverse : For an upcoming presentation I am looking for examples many people will understand where the software caused consumer electronic devices not to work anymore.

E.g. company decided not to update the software which caused the device to stop, company disappeared and e.g. servers not available and therefore the device did not start anymore, etc.

Currently interested in some fresh examples I could use. Any pointers?

The #EU is putting some money where their mouth is.
€1.48 million for pilot projects involving young people from different countries and backgrounds to development new European #SocialMedia platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use. Building on #Fediverse or #ATProtocol

Deadline: 6 October.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/presentation-materials-call-proposals-youth-driven-social-media-design

#Mastodon #EuropeanUnion #Youth

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A screenshot from a PowerPoint: Through co-creation under youth participation, design and test a Fediverse based/Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol-based social media platform that is targeted specifically at young EU citizens and is focused on user well-being and adapt a roll-out strategy based on market research and stakeholder consultation.

Little Fedi looks like an interesting project! I also saw a toot earlier where it was showing a settings screen where someone disabled media without a description. https://littlefedi.org/ #AltText #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

RE: https://dobbs.town/@bobcromwell/117164438687055192

this shagmaxxing content right here is why i’ve parked my ass at #mastodon and the #fediverse

How's your #filters?

Please take your #MentalHealth seriously.
The #Fediverse I so dearly love can be an unhealthy place.

#filter

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OCR as follows: thisisfine Keywords or phrases to filter trump (whole word) maga (whole word) fascist nazi fash (whole word) epstein israel putin (whole word) ukraine elon (whole word) zuckerberg tim cook (whole word) Microsoft csam (whole word) martial law (whole word) terrorist treason (whole word) murder protest (whole word) protests (whole word) Claude (whole word) anthropic (whole word) openai (whole word) llm (whole word) llms (whole word) google (whole word) bsky.social (whole word) gaza (whole word) palestin genocid palantir (whole word) surveil netanyahu (whole word) nsfw ICE (whole word) Al (whole word) sex capitalis data cent mutual aid (whole word) datacent flock camera

AND THEN THERE
IS EVERYBODY ELSE 💎

Today I'm thinking about AI, LOL, again, and I think there are actually three quite distinct groups forming around Artificial Intelligence.

There is a small group so frightened by it that they have decided they want nothing at all to do with it. And an even smaller group that has gone further and decided that anyone who uses AI is somehow morally suspect, deserving of abuse and bullying for their choice to use the technology.

AND THEN THERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE.

Most of us are not marching around waving AI banners.

WE’RE WATCHING.

We are trying things. We’re asking where it helps and where it doesn’t. We’re learning what it can do for disability, accessibility, education, writing, research, communication, creativity, work and ordinary daily life.

Some of us will use AI a lot. Some will barely use it at all. Some will remain deeply sceptical, and that seems perfectly healthy to me.

WHAT'S NOT HEALTHY IS FEAR OF A TECHNOLOGY TURNING INTO HOSTILITY TOWARD THOSE WHO USE IT.

AI is still very new. None of us knows exactly where this is going. But I suspect the future will not belong to the people shouting loudest either for it or against it.

It will belong to the much larger group quietly discovering where it adds value to human life. And where it doesn’t.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Technology #Fediverse #ArtificialIntelligence #value #human #healthy #research #education #communication #creativity #work #WAR #EVERYBODY #life

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A warm, futuristic scene showing a diverse group of people using AI and digital technology in everyday life. People of different ages and abilities are talking, learning, working and exploring on phones, tablets and computers, while glowing digital interfaces connect around them. The atmosphere is calm, curious and optimistic, suggesting people quietly discovering how technology can add value to their lives.

Mastodon.Radio is a Mastodon server for radio enthusiasts including the Amateur Radio (Ham) community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL) and other forms of radio communication.

Mastodon.Radio has been online since 2018.

https://mastodon.radio

You can find out more at https://mastodon.radio/about or contact the admin account @M0YNG

#FeaturedServer #Radio #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #SWL #Shortwave #ShortwaveListening #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117163073497592482

just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, am grateful for the work law professor and attorney Heidi Li Feldman does here in the #fediverse.

#antifa work needs aaaaall the tactics in all the domains of society: arts, culture, education, government, law, politics, science, tech.

we can never have too much of antifa #praxis. i hope others, especially in other countries, stand up to the task and find in her a blueprint for their activism.

thank you @heidilifeldman

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 boosted

Heidi Li Feldman » 🌐 2026-08-26
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

New activity today in legal efforts to prevent Trump from unlawfully interfering with mail-in voting.

A reminder of what Trump is attempting: he’s trying to use the USPS to control who gets absentee/mail-in ballots. This is to throttle vote-from-home, which for many people has meant requesting a ballot be mailed to them, which they then complete and return by hand or mail. Trump is trying to limit who receives ballots by mail. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a03e3d-1e73-7928-b396-db17b7f0f60b

Own Your Data!

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

artlog boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-26
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

URGENT. PLEASE BOOST: Fedi friends, I really hate having to ask this, but after my most recent surgery to place a stent(hooray kidney issues!😐), I require adult diapers for a while. I'm a disabled trans man living under the poverty line, and I've just realised I'm almost out of the diapers I desperately need. My goal is $72.42 which will get me three packets of diapers that can be delivered for free asap and last me a while.
If you could help my reach that goal, it would be much appreciated. I can't do without them and I'm understandably stressed about my situation. Disability, chronic illness and poverty is hard(not to mention finding the courage to le the fediverse know I'm currently incontinent😅) Thank you in advance for your help. I appreciate you so much❤️

#boostforreach #disabledmutualaid #transmutualaidrequest #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidSavesLives #mutualaid #disabled #disbility #lgbtqia #urgentneed #HelpOthers #grateful #gratitude #povertykills #optimistic #positivity #adultdiapers #chronicillnesswarrior #chronicillness #chronicallyill #DisabledSocial #DisabledVoices #disabledwitch #fediverse #SpreadJoy #love #hope

https://ko-fi.com/aces_funhouse

I can see what people on X/Twitter, Instagram and Hacker News are up to once I know someone is making the ActivityPub bridge. Then I can see that my Instagram account has been indexed and connected to the Fediverse.

I can now see what people are talking about on centralised social networks, thanks to @vincent. At the moment, the bridge only has one-way "roads" and we cannot send replied posts from the Fediverse to them. You might be interested to know that this one is better than the work of the Meta guys on ActivityPub on Threads.

#fediverse #activitypub #bridge #social #socialnetwork #socialmedia

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Showing that my Instagram account now is indexed to the fediverse.

I WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎

I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.

I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.

Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.

THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.

You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.

But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.

IT'S BULLYING.

And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.

AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.

I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.

HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.

I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool

Too far ahead of her time, too independent for show business.
But she left behind masterpieces like this one, which have kept me company for many years.

Good morning, #BSDCafe!
Good morning, #illumosCafe!
Good morning, #Fediverse!

https://song.link/s/28pVz3JvJQkfpOHs2oQWhn

#Music #JukeBox #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏄‍♀️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/117156601411627558

#Mastodon and the #fediverse have, finally, an official #Caturday #music composition, #CatsOfMastodon composer, and the nerdiest conductor and philharmonic boosts and likes cannot buy

John Shaft boosted

Massimo » 🤖 🌐 2026-08-25
@Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news

Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis, directs his orchestra on the notes of Nora the cat playing the piano.

She earns a standing ovation.

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Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis, directs his orchestra on the notes of Nora the cat playing the piano. She earns a standing ovation. https://t.co/5okuXaBRpG

Privacy note: While they may appear to be, polls on here are not anonymous under the hood. It's possible to learn who voted how. It's easier for the admin(s) of the instance the poll came from but it can also be possible for regular users under some conditions depending on the software involved. Like most things on the Fediverse, an inherently-public medium, privacy is not absolute.

#FediTips #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Privacy #FediPrivacy

littleFedi allows you to hide all posts that have images without alt text.
Because yes, that's how it should be.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

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Screenshot of the "Timeline" settings menu in littleFedi, showing checkboxes for timeline preferences, including "Hide posts with undescribed images".

JOURNAL
on va dormir on en peut plus
après le bain on est comme deux sômen trop cuits
🤪
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Where under Preferences can I find the option to filter and hide completely, posts with media that lack ALT text? 🤔

#fediverse #mastodon

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:

• MaryamSoliman (@maryamsoliman)
• Asmaa khadir🍉🍉 (@Lian_Mohammad)

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

What is a factual event from your life that seems unlikely or fantastical? Me, I once fell into quicksand.

#question #experience #story #fediverse #mastodon

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'd like to create a custom #Fediverse t-shirt for my upcoming talk at #BerlinFediDay.

I thought of maybe using the Fediverse logo as the "O" for "HOPE". What do you think? Trying to gauge if it's cheesy or not, I'd love some external opinion 😅

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a mockup of my custom t-shirt idea, showing a man (you can only see the torso and arms) wearing a navy blue t-shirt that reads HOPE - where the O is the Fediverse logo

Point matériel : la cassette HP 9162-0050.

Bien qu'elle adopte le format physique de la Compact Cassette, il s'agit d'un support certifié pour données numériques (digital-grade). Les caractéristiques magnétiques de la bande sont prévues pour du signal carré (0 et 1) et non pour la réponse en fréquence qu'exige le son analogique.

connaissais-tu ?

#RetroComputing #Hardware #ArchivesTech #Fediverse

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Mettre du son sur cette bande, c'est comme utiliser un câble série RS-232 pour diffuser de la FM.

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#OverUnder 080 with Eric Bower

His thoughts about #POSIX, #terminals, #multiplexers, #Neovim, and #ClubSandwiches.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #writing #unix #shells #linux #opensource #tmux #ghostty

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-080

1.2M people joined 2.1K Pixelfed servers and shared over 55M photos and videos!

Legit can't believe it sometimes.

Never give up and keep building, homies ❤️

#pixelfed #socialWeb #fediverse #millionsServed

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1.2M people joined 2.1K Pixelfed servers and shared over 55M photos and videos!

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• HadeelMohammed (@HadeelMohammed)
• Manarfamily (@manarfamily96)
• Ruwaida Gaza (@Ruwaidi)

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

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Once we fix all open bug reports, and federation, would you like to see us add support for AtProto (what Bluesky uses)?

#pixelfed #socialWeb #atproto #activitypub #fediverse #askFedi

Does #Mastodon even use `contentMap` in posts (`Note`)? The #ActivityPub spec specifies a method for multilanguage posts in the form of `contentMap`, but does the rest of the #Fediverse even get to read it? Do posts that have `contentMap` but **not** `content` get to show at all?

Re: https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2022/12/mastodon-tip-filter-languages-to-see-only-the-ones-you-understand.html

#i18n #l10n

Fediverse : commenter une #vidéo peertube

https://tube.p2p.legal/w/voqTF3zf3SBE7TVYuM1eih

> Vidéo sur le #fediverse, comment commenter une vidéo peertube ou suivre une chaîne. Exemples avec #mastodon et #pixelfed.

#comment #commentaire #tuto

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

New: WP+Masto POSSE — publish to both WordPress and Mastodon

A few days ago, I asked the fediverse <https://federate.social/@jik/117130547259731867> if anyone knew of a tool I could use to publish an article on my blog and publish the same article as a thread on Mastodon.

I already have a way to post summaries of and links to my blog postings into my Mastodon account. I’ve also already set up my WordPress server as an ActivityPub server. These aren’t what I want.
#fediverse #Mastodon #WordPress #POSSE #FOSS
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Hey #fediverse, I am trying to track down a person named/pseudonymed "Rog Cooper" who released an album called "Delta Nine Transmission" in 2013. As you can see, the album had a picture of Roger Moore with an 80s-era microcomputer on the cover.

I found one of the songs from the album on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOacmHqv8NA

Please boost!

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A record album featuring a man in white and off-white suit, shirt, and tie holding a white all-in-one computer & keyboard with joystick. The artist is given as Rog Cooper, and the album's name is Delta Nine Transmission.

Happy Sunday #Mastodon .
I believe each of you is enjoying the day,as we look forward to make more impact in our daily lives.
On my side, community empowerment through sustainable food production and environmental conservation comes before everything else.
What about you?
#environment #sunday #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #gardening #agriculture #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #food #Photography #linux #Fediverse #solarpunksunday #Plants #nature #NaturePhotography #farming #nutrition

🔧 Correction d'un bug sournois sur mes scripts de maintenance PeerTube : le nettoyage automatique (prune-storage/house-keeping) attendait une confirmation qui n'arrivait jamais en cron → rien n'était supprimé depuis des mois, sans erreur visible. C'est corrigé, avec des notifs Gotify plus détaillées en bonus.

📖 Docs à jour sur mon wiki :
🐳 Docker : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-peertube-docker
⚙️ Classique : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-peertube-installation-classique

#PeerTube #SelfHosting #Fediverse

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Par hasard, je suis tombé sur cette mini-fiction d’Europod : Déconnecté.e.s en 2050
https://www.europod.eu/podcast/deconnecte-e-s-en-2050/

Je pense que ça en intéressera certains ici : ça parle de surveillance des GAFAMS, du #fediverse, des #chatons,…

I have always discussed with the youths during our food production lessons about people who complain asking what their communities have done for them without them doing anything to their communities,and they promised to always be productive to the communities but not dependants of the communities
#garden #gardening #sustainability #agriculture #ClimateCrisis #Mastodon #Linux #Fediverse #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #nature #NaturePhotography #solarpunksunday #Photography #Climate #food

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Mastodon Blog: 5.0: Laying the foundation. “Two weeks ago, we shared insights from Mastodon’s first Discovery Week and how it’s informing our roadmap. Today, we’re offering a deeper dive on what’s in store for Mastodon 5.0 – not an exhaustive list of changes, but a glimpse into major decisions and the thoughts behind them.”

New on our blog: 2026 Q2 Finance Report by Mirlo

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/741

Support Mirlo: https://mirlo.space/team/tip ❤️🐦‍⬛

#Music #Mirlo #Blog #Blogs #MusicNews #FediMusic #Fediverse #Musicians

The Gamers’ Tavern is a cosy Mastodon server talking mainly about gaming and other topics. The goal is providing gamers a cosy and safe home to play together.

This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://gamerstavern.online

You can find out more at https://gamerstavern.online/about or contact the admin accounts @tgt or @alex

#FeaturedServer #Gaming #Games #Gamers #VideoGames #Mastodon #Glitch #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Happy weekend from Uganda dear #Mastodon friends.
I am here to let everyone know that we can always use the portion of our smallest time,knowledge and experience to strengthen communities.
Remember that they are Tiny seeds which sprout.
Anything you know,can help transform vulnerable communities
#climate #ClimateChange #agriculture #gardening #garden #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #skills #nature #NaturePhotography #sustainability #Photography #linux #Fediverse #solarpunk

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Probably not exact numbers, but this gives an idea of the scales :
X: ~550–600 million MAU
Threads: ~450 million MAU
Bluesky: ~10–27 million MAU (depending on web vs. app-only metrics)
Mastodon: ~670,000 MAU

This is depressing. It really feels like like lack of ethics and number of users are directly correlated.

#socialmedia #fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/117134196889411019

I love #mastodon and the #fediverse because a post about old books by a feminist writer can go trending on here 💚

Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), #gofed, #Habitat, #Forte (streams fork) and #Sakura (Misskey fork) icons to #FediverseIconography at https://fediverse.wake.st (repo at https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography)
#fediverse #ActivityPub

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a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura

Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?

Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable.

You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead.

Remember, all URLs in #Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long the actual URL is, so there really is no benefit to shortening your URLs.

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

The source code of #FediHood is now available under the AGPLv3.

A #Fediverse app using #OpenStreetMap to display timelines close to you, filtered by topics.

More about the project: https://fedihood.social/about

Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

https://lowtech.li/ est lancé. Bien vide, mais je compte sur vous tous pour y remédier en contribuant et partageant.

@medinavraag @Jdb_env @Vali @lucie_inthesky @fmasy @Nic @s427 @Julianoe @decipops @kevinronceray

#GreenIT #SustainableSoftware #DigitalSobriety #GreenSoftware
#Fediverse #Lemmy #LowTech #ClimateAction #durable #logiciel #numérique #responsable #lowtech

I'm a big fan of Sill, a service that connects to your Mastodon account in read-only mode (and your ATProto account, if you're so inclined), and then sends you a daily newsletter with popular links! (i.e. that had lots of reboosts among your follows)

https://sill.social

Now that's my beloved free software

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Sill

Is it just me? There is sometimes such a big disconnect between how we feel about the fediverse and how it actually is.

Every poll I've seen about alt text suggests we all use it.

But then you look at results posted by @AltTextHealthCheck.

So many seem to agree that racism and mansplaining and gatekeeping are bad.

Can anyone say any of this has actually improved over the past few years?

Or have we collectively just driven enough marginalized people away that we don't see the complaints as often?

#fediverse #FediMeta

Another cool thing about the #Fediverse:

IF (most likely NOT gonna happen) a major instance or smaller ones would be sold to whatever evil entity that wants to use it to influence our network…

…most of the rest of the Fediverse would simply block them and local users migrate to a different instance for example

What I’m saying is, the Fedi cannot be bought by an evil billionaire 🤷

@tek

✊ HECK YEAH!

I shared your post to my friends group-chat (who are mostly not on )

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🤓
The federated nature of the Fediverse (Mastodon is one way of interacting with the Fediverse) makes for some radical autonomy.

We are a group of allied villages (servers), each with its own ability to moderate or block other users/servers

#fediverse

#Randonnée #Roller #RideOnLille ce vendredi soir à #Lille.
Départ 21h de République, #Gratuit, #Vélo friendly à l'arrière.
#Rando niveau normal pour les riders.
N'oubliez pas vos protections, lumières, et votre eau.

#Fédiverse #Sport #Loisir #Ride

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Flyer de la Rando Roller du vendredi 21 août 2026 Les infos à gauche, la carte à droite. C'est Encadré en orange, niveau normal rider.

Hé le #Fédiverse, y a t'il quelqu'un qui connaît une alternative à Quik l'application #Android #GoPro lourdingue, complètement pétée et pleine de pubs.
Genre #OpenSource sur #FDroid?

#HelpWanted #Tips #Aide #Conseil #Caméra

🐘 Mon instance Mastodon vient de passer en 4.7.0 !

Grosse mise à niveau côté interne (sécurité, nouveaux protocoles ActivityPub, préparation à la 5.0), presque invisible côté utilisateurs — mais ça méritait un petit guide.

📝 J'en ai profité pour documenter toute la procédure Docker Compose (backup, migrations, bascule) sur mon wiki, pour celles et ceux qui gèrent leur propre instance :
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/mise-a-niveau-mastodon-docker

#Mastodon #SelfHosting #Fediverse #Docker #FOSS

littleFedi and your data

Several people have asked me the same thing over the past few days, in different words but with the same question underneath: "if I set up a littleFedi instance, or open an account on one that is already running, what ends up stored somewhere?".

It is a fair question and it deserves a precise answer. So I went back and reread the code, the database schema and the default configuration, and what follows is what I found. Including the parts I do not like, and the parts no fediverse software can solve.

One premise that applies to everything else: littleFedi is a binary running on a server. Whoever administers that server has access to the database. This is true for littleFedi, for Mastodon, for snac, for GoToSocial, for anything. The difference is how much that database holds, and how much of it leaves for the outside world without anyone asking.

The database holds the obvious things: username, display name, bio, avatar, header image, the key pair that is the account's ActivityPub identity, posts, favourites, follows, blocks, mutes, bookmarks, lists, filters.

Then the preferences: theme, interface language, default post language, default visibility, which notifications you want by email, which by push. Functional stuff.

Email is optional. require_email is false by default: on a single-user instance you can leave it out entirely, and on a multi-user one it is the operator who decides whether to require it. If you do provide it, it is used for verification, password reset and the notifications you chose. Nothing else.

The password is hashed with bcrypt. The TOTP secret, if you enable the second factor, is encrypted at rest, not stored in the clear.

And here is something I want to say because it was a deliberate choice: every bearer token is stored as a SHA-256 hash, never in the clear. Session tokens, OAuth access and refresh tokens, application client secrets, password reset tokens, email verification tokens. Anyone who walks off with a copy of the database does not walk off with reusable credentials.

We did a cleanup on exactly this just yesterday. The sessions table had been carrying a legacy token compatibility column for a long time, inherited from an older schema. It held nothing dangerous, because the function that creates sessions was writing the hash into it rather than the browser token, and I checked that this is the only path that leads to an insert. But the guarantee lived in one line of Go, not in the schema. A line of Go can be removed by accident; a column that does not exist cannot. So I dropped the column with a migration, and now there is simply nowhere in the sessions table for a token in the clear to end up.

There is exactly one place where an IP address ends up

The sessions table. When you log in, littleFedi saves the session row with: hashed token, creation date, expiry, User-Agent and IP address.

It serves one purpose: the Settings > Sessions page, where you can see your active logins and revoke them one at a time. It is your data, shown to you. There is no admin screen listing users' IP addresses, and we did not write one on purpose.

Sessions last 30 days and are removed by automatic maintenance when they expire, along with the push subscriptions attached to them.

What is not saved, and what other software does save:

• No registration IP. Until yesterday the registration struct had a field for the IP and one for the User-Agent that nobody ever read: the data arrived inside the function and died there, without touching the database. We took them out. I did ask myself whether it was worth actually recording it, the way Mastodon does, and the answer I arrived at is no. There is really only one use case, the wave of fake accounts created in bulk, and in that case you already have the data: a freshly registered account that is spamming has an open session, and that session holds the IP and the User-Agent. Someone who registers and never logs in is not spamming. On top of that the IP is a weak signal in itself, between CGNAT, mobile carriers and VPNs, while invites, manual approval and email verification are real defences. And unlike the session, which expires in 30 days and disappears, a column like that would stay attached to the account forever: one more entry in the privacy policy, one more target in a breach, and one more thing someone can come asking for with a stamped piece of paper. On a single-user instance it would mean nothing at all.
• No last-login IP on the account. Only the session, which expires.
• No IP history. Close the session and that row is gone.
• The per-IP rate limiter does exist, but it keeps its counters in memory only and cleans them up by itself. It never touches the disk.

What about cookies?

Five, all first-party, all functional:

session (HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, Secure when you are behind HTTPS, 30 days), pwreset_token (lives 15 minutes during a password reset), locale, theme, appearance.

There is nothing else. There is no analytics cookie because there is no analytics.

Zero third parties

What the code does not contain: Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible, Sentry, a CDN, a remote font, a third-party script, a pixel, a beacon. And, old-fashioned as it may sound, there is no AI listening in and offering suggestions.

The default Content-Security-Policy is default-src 'self' with a nonce for inline content. Pages load only what your own instance serves. If someone tried to slip an external resource in tomorrow, the browser would block it on its own.

There is not even an update check phoning home. littleFedi does not know you exist and I have no way of finding out.

The only connection to a server of mine is the commercial Big Tech domain list, still empty, (https://littlefedi.org/lists/commercial-bigtech.csv), which is downloaded only if you turn that block on, and it is off by default. It is a download of a CSV of domain names: it sends nothing about you, and you can point the same option at your own list or at a mirror.

The /metrics endpoint is disabled by default.

What about logs?

Here I owe you the whole truth. The access log is on by default and writes one line per request: method, path, status, bytes, duration and remote address.

High-volume, low-value requests (static assets, proxied media, /health, /metrics, /robots.txt, the service worker) are logged at debug level only, so at the default info level they stay silent. But pages are logged.

It goes away with one line:

[observability]
access_log = false

And retention is not littleFedi's call: those lines end up wherever your init system sends them, journald or syslog or anything else. It is the operator who decides how long they stay. In the policy template I ship I suggest 14 days as a starting point.

As for media?

EXIF metadata on uploaded images is stripped by default (strip_exif = true). Orientation is preserved because it is baked into the pixels before the rewrite, so the photo does not end up sideways.

With one honest caveat: the rewrite only happens for JPEG and PNG. GIFs are deliberately left untouched, because rewriting them would flatten the animation, and WebP files are not rewritten because the library I use has no WebP encoder. In practice: if you upload a WebP with GPS coordinates inside, those coordinates stay. I am saying it plainly because it is better to know than to find out. We will look at it later on.

File names are randomised (rename_media = true), so IMG_20250812_my_coffee.jpg does not become a public URL.

And then there is the thing I am proudest of, which is on by default: the remote media proxy.

proxy_remote = true. When an image, an avatar or an emoji living on another server shows up in your timeline, your browser does not contact that server. It contacts your instance, which streams it through. The result is that the remote instance does not see your IP address, does not see your User-Agent, does not see what time you read that post, and cannot use an image as a tracking pixel.

Proxy URLs are HMAC-signed and regenerated on every response, never stored anywhere. And cache_remote is off by default: the stream is passed through and that is it, without keeping other people's media on your disk. If you would rather keep them to cut down on traffic there are the lazy and eager modes, but that is your choice, not a default you find yourself saddled with.

I will add the security headers, which are privacy too: X-Frame-Options: DENY, X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin (meaning: when you click a link to the outside, the destination site does not see which exact page you came from), HSTS when you are behind TLS.

But there is also the part no software can fix.

Which is to say, it is time for the uncomfortable section, and it applies to littleFedi just as it does to any other ActivityPub implementation. If someone tells you otherwise, they are selling you something that does not exist.

Public posts are public. When you publish, a copy is delivered to every server that has at least one of your followers, and to every relay your instance is connected to. Those copies are on machines you do not administer. There is no way to call them back.

Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted. In the fediverse a DM is a post with direct visibility. It sits in the clear in your instance's database and in the clear in the recipient's instance database. Whoever administers either server can read it. Do not use fediverse DMs for anything you would not put on a postcard. This applies to littleFedi, it applies to Mastodon, it applies to everyone. We are thinking about a way to encrypt DMs between littleFedi instances, but that could not apply with other software, and it risks giving a false sense of security.

Followers-only is a convention, not a lock. You tell the remote server "this is for followers only". The remote server, if it is honest, respects that. If it is not, no amount of encryption is going to stop it.

Deleting means asking to delete. littleFedi sends Delete activities to peers and has a queue with retries. If a peer is offline, or uncooperative, that copy stays where it is. That is a limitation of the protocol, not a bug.

And what if I delete my account?

I wrote this part carefully, because it is where a lot of software pretends.

When an account is deleted, a single transaction removes: posts and boosts, polls, options and votes, notifications (both received and generated), mentions, favourites, emoji reactions, bookmarks, link previews, home feed rows, attachments, filters and filter keywords, scheduled posts, push subscriptions, OAuth tokens, sessions, lists, followed tags, featured tags, blocks and mutes (in both directions), follows (in both directions), relays, read markers, personal domain blocks, password resets, email verifications, digest state, MFA recovery codes, exports, imports, reports, generated invites, and finally the account row itself. Counters on other accounts and other posts are recalculated, not left out of sync.

The actual files, meaning media, export archives and import archives, are deleted from storage, whether that is a local disk or S3.

What stays, and I am saying so explicitly:

• Tombstones. A row with a URI, the original type and a date. They exist so that deleted content is not resurrected when a peer offers it back to us. The ones for posts have a configurable retention, 90 days by default. The one for a deleted actor stays indefinitely, but it holds nothing but URI, type and date.
• The moderation log. Administrator actions stay, because an audit log you can delete is not an audit log. The template suggests 2 years.

Deletion has a window: peers are notified first, then it is finalised. There is a deadline past which it is finalised anyway, because at that point the right to erasure of someone who is here outweighs an unreachable peer.

But you can take your data with you.

There is the account export: a ZIP with account.json, the media index and the media themselves. It is served with private, no-store, it has an expiry, and a cleanup job removes it from storage. The template suggests 24 hours and a single download.

There is the import, which accepts the same format. And there is migration to another instance. The archive uploaded for an import is deleted as soon as the import succeeds.

What if you use littleMesh?

Anyone running an instance behind NAT with littleMesh has one more surface, and I want to be precise here too, because it is already written in the documentation.

The lighthouse relays encrypted circuits. It does not read the contents, it cannot impersonate a node, and it has neither the mesh key nor the actor key. But it does see which node IDs open circuits to which, with what sizes and what timings. littleMesh solves reachability, not anonymity. If anonymity is what you need, an onion service is the right tool, not this one.

The HTTPS gateway is a different matter: it is the one terminating TLS for non-mesh servers, so it sees the traffic. That is written in the trust table in the documentation, in plain terms, along with what it can and cannot do.

The default exposure is federation: discovery, inboxes, objects, actors and public media get through. The web interface, the authentication pages, the Mastodon API and the media proxy do not.

Retention defaults, all in one place

What

Default

Sessions

30 days, then removed

Remote posts

30 days (prune_remote_statuses_after_days = 30)

Remote media cache

disabled; if enabled, 720 hours

Terminal jobs

24 hours

Post tombstones

90 days

Your own posts

never, unless you ask

Moderation log

indefinitely

Access log

your system keeps them, not littleFedi

You can have your own posts pruned automatically, by age and with like and boost thresholds, if you want a timeline that forgets. And there are self-destructing posts with a per-post timer. But those are things you choose, not things I decide for you.

There is something the software cannot do in your place, though

If you open an instance to other people, the code cannot write your privacy policy for you. It cannot decide the lawful basis, the jurisdiction, the subprocessors, the policy on minors, the breach notification timelines.

That is what docs/instance-policy-template.md is for: an operator checklist with a starting retention table and a list of what an honest privacy policy has to cover, namely federation of profiles and posts to independent servers, caching and proxying of remote content, email, push endpoints, logs, moderation records, backups, exports, imports, tombstones, where the data lives and how people exercise their rights. It is not legal advice and does not claim to be.

Moderation, privacy and security contacts, the rules and the terms of service are published from the admin console without restarting anything, and they land on /about, on /terms and in the instance APIs.

In two lines...

...littleFedi collects what it needs to work and nothing more. One IP address per session, shown to you and revocable by you. No analytics, no telemetry, no third parties, no phoning home. We do not know how many of you there are or who you are, and we have no interest in finding out. EXIF stripped by default, remote media proxied by default, metrics off by default, secrets hashed at rest, deletion that actually deletes.

And then there is the fediverse, which is a publishing protocol. What you put on it in public is public, DMs are not encrypted, and deleting is a polite request to other servers. littleFedi does not change that and neither does anyone else. Once you know it, you can live with it perfectly well.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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littleFedi Logo

Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist.

Learn about dog whistles. And microaggressions. Get a Black person on your moderation team.

None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will matter if we can't make this place welcoming to everyone.

#fediverse #FediMeta #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #racism #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

JOURNAL
alors on sest régalées de tempura
puis en discutant on a appris que notre vousine joue du shamisen alors concert son mari est fana de no il nous a récité le combat sur le pont puis ma chérie a chanté en ukrainien (jadore) pour finir on a chanté pour ma princesse un traditionnel accompagné au shamisen c'était genial
on a pas mal bu aussi mais ça va
bref une doiree voisins comme dans les films
et maintenant dodo
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
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Transcription par @aprilorg de l'échange intervenu entre @bayartb et Quentin Adam, #clevercloud, le 25 mars 2026, et intitulé « Benjamin Bayart : les plateformes menacent-elles l’Internet ouvert ? »

@federationfdn #fediverse #mastodon

https://www.librealire.org/benjamin-bayart-les-plateformes-menacent-elles-l-internet-ouvert

Bonne lecture !

LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎

After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.

A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.

So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.

STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.

Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.

TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.

If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.

Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.

Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.

Fine.

The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.

THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.

Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.

Just start opening the door.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger

You're Not Alone.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Cyberplacesocial

LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎

After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.

A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.

So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.

STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.

Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.

TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.

If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.

Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.

Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.

Fine.

The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.

THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.

Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.

Just start opening the door.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger

If you are a fan of RSS feeds and RSS feed readers, you might like to know about RSS features on the Fediverse. You can follow:

- Mastodon accounts' public posts via RSS
- Hashtag search results on Mastodon via RSS
- PeerTube channels through RSS
- RSS feeds within Mastodon, Friendica etc

More info about all these in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/following-mastodon-and-fediverse-accounts-through-rss

#FediTips #RSS #Fediverse

After a way longer delay than we planned, we finally can present our new #news search:
#TroetNews and #TootNews are our demonstrators for #fediverse news search based on our upcoming SUMA-Kit.
Try out our German language version at:
https://troet.suma-lab.de
or our English version at:
https://toot.suma-lab.de

Especially the English version currently has very few results. This will improve while we continue adding more fediverse servers to both versions.

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Screenshot of our news search engine. Searching for "Hitze", the german term for heat. It's showing two results from German news sites regarding the current extreme temperatures.

Strangers

I keep a terminal window open most evenings, more out of habit than need, tailing the access log of one of the littleFedi test instances while I think about something else entirely. That's how I noticed it the first time: a fetch from a Threads host, correct in every way ActivityPub asks it to be, asking for someone's outbox.

Nothing wrong with it, technically. And yet I sat there for a while, thinking about the person behind that account, and whether they'd have wanted a company that size reading what they wrote, simply because the protocol says anyone can ask.

So we built a way to say no, but only to strangers, not to friends.

An instance still federates in the open by default, the way ActivityPub expects, because that's what almost everyone wants and I wasn't going to take it away from them. What changed is that an admin can now flip to an exact-host allowlist, from the console or from the command line, and it happens immediately, the switch is simply true the moment you set it. Once it's true, reads on posts, on the followers list, on the outbox, all start asking for a signature, and only the hosts you've named get an answer back. Discovery stays open regardless, because a peer that doesn't know you exist yet still needs a way to find out, before it can even be told no.

I went back and forth for a long time on what should happen to a peer once you remove them, or once you switch the whole instance back to open. In the end nothing gets deleted, not the account, not the relationship, not a single post or piece of media or anything cached from them. Traffic stops, that's all. I've never liked the idea that moderation means destroying what someone wrote, as if the words themselves were the problem and not who gets to see them.

There's a list, if you want it, of the big commercial names, the ones like Threads that started this whole conversation. It updates once a day over HTTPS, quietly, and if the update fails it just keeps yesterday's copy instead of leaving your instance with nothing. But whatever an admin decided on purpose always wins. Allow someone by hand and the list can't undo it. Suspend someone by hand and even an allow can't undo that either.

If you're bringing a block list with you from somewhere else, plain text works, CSV works, and so does the Mastodon export with all its fields, severity and everything. Ten thousand rows at most, checked before a single one is written, and you get to look at what's about to happen before it happens.

One thing I'll admit, since it will trip someone up eventually: matching is on the exact host. A peer that splits its actors and its inboxes across different addresses needs every one of them on the list, not just the one that looks like the main domain. It's the kind of mistake that fails closed instead of open, which is the direction I'd rather be wrong in, but it's still a mistake waiting to happen, so it's the first thing in the documentation.

I still think about that line in the log sometimes. A small server should get to say no to a stranger.

Now it can.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

Look, this is not complicated.
Not indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people knowingly don't have access to a feature they want, i.e., a comprehensive index of other people's content they can search.
Indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people's privacy is unknowingly violated so they can't do anything about it.
Your _desire_ for the content to be indexed doesn't trump other users' _right_ to privacy.
#privacy
1/2

Look, this is not complicated.
Not indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people knowingly don't have access to a feature they want, i.e., a comprehensive index of other people's content they can search.
Indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people's privacy is unknowingly violated so they can't do anything about it.
Your _desire_ for the content to be indexed doesn't trump other users' _right_ to privacy.
#privacy
1/2

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

More and more of you are joining #FediHood, currently the only #Fediverse software that lets you build a local timeline with people posting around you.

You choose how far around you the timeline reaches, and which topics you want to see.

Alt...

Map view of FediHood showing the number of people per country in Europe, with the distance slider (around 1700 km) to display everyone around.

Alt...

Map view of FediHood zoomed in, showing how many people are around, grouped by region as you get closer, with a slider to choose the distance.

Alt...

Nearby, Discover and Following tabs, with Nearby selected, a filter button and an adjustable distance slider set to 60 km, to filter a timeline that matches what I want to see. Everything can be adjusted.

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Nearby timeline in FediHood with the filter menu open, showing the topics you can pick to filter what you see.

Relax.

You are on the #Fediverse! No haunting advertisements, no algorithm that keeps track of what you do, no collection of data on each click or tap 🫆

Just humans having a good time connecting the good 'ol way

No pressure 💆

• Loads #Fediverse notifications
• @Tusky whimpers
• Phone bursts into flames
• Spacetime folds in on itself
• I'm playing Pasur with Dave Bowman in the hotel room at the end of time
• The unnerving space fetus is keeping score
• Captain Picard's 42 palms are simultaneously placed on his forehead
• The universe is singing its song to me:
  "Oooolwayyyz look on the broight soide of loife....!"

#Hellthreadia

@twizzay, I feel this toot was worthy of you.

Teaching young people about sustainable agriculture for food production and environmental conservation is one of the best ways to fight future hunger problems.
We should aim at creating a future generation who are so creative to solve world problems.
#gardening #garden #agriculture #food #sustainability #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #Linux #solarpunk #Mastodon #Fediverse #Photography #NaturePhotography #nature #environment #nutrition #diet #vegetables

Attention please! (Clears his throat).

Seeing that the Pixelfed.social server was receiving spam and scam accounts, I decided to switch server. Imagine my surprise when I discovered... I couldn't. You can't migrate a Pixelfed.social profile to another instance. Apparently, this has been the case for over a year, by other complaints I've seen.

The lead developer has said something like they're working on fixing it, but it's been like this for a while...

I asked @pixelfed for an explanation several days ago. They've posted things, but they haven't answered to me.

Meanwhile, they've disabled one of the main features of the Fediverse on the largest (and "official") #Pixelfed server.

In other words, they're holding all their users hostage, which goes against the philosophy of the #Fediverse.

What's more, Pixelfed has a function to export your data. However, exporting posts always fails.

I thought, well, at least I can import the people I follow. Nope, because the only import tool they've designed is one for importing your Instagram account. Disabled on the main Pixelfed.social server, by the way.

I even started to think it was because they were one version behind the server I wanted to move to (which would be strange, since it's the main server).

Well, no, they have the same version. But you can only migrate your account INTO Pixelfed.social, not the other way, OUT of Pixelfed.social. That makes the whole thing crystal clear to me.

In short: NEVER create an account on Pixelfed.social, or you'll be held hostage. I recommend another servers (Luzeed, Fotolibre, for example). And there's also @vernissage for sharing photos.

You can all follow me again at this account: @andrewblasco@luzeed.org. Because of course, without account migration, you lose all your followers 🤷🏽‍♂️

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074

"We hope that these changes provide a strong foundation for what’s to come — this is only the beginning!"

And I'm here for it!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

#mastodon #fediverse

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

RE: https://mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439

RAISED $2500/$14000
We must reach the goal before September arrives, so Nour be included in the upcoming student evacuation operation

#gaza #israel #genocide #palestine #scholarship #fediverse

Decided to hop on https://fedihood.social and see what it's like. Seems like a fun concept! Those of you who feel comfortable joining totally should (you can use a pseudonymous acct if you like).

It seems to be largely lacking in users still. I would love to see this thing take off in a real way!

#tech #activityPub #fediverse #socialWeb

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@ploum

What is bad in #fediverse been niche ?

There’s always that returning question: why is the #fediverse so niche?

We always find technical explanations like "usability" or "social circles".

From my tests with my students, the number one reason is the lack of content about #football.

One of my student was really excited by the prospect of using #peertube. I showed him Sepia Search and the first thing he did was to type "football".

Try it for yourself!

People only need elebrity gossips and football to be able to use the Fediverse.

Identi.ca is the first #fediverse site and the precursor to status.net.

in 2008 i was running my own Identi.ca server; which i used as a bridge between my mobile tech, drupal sites and the early Twitter and Facebook.

so i fediversed waaaaaay before it was cool, as in, almost 20 years ago.

@randulo

> 2027 prediction

- death valley level #global heat
- grid collapse
- severe if not critical #food supply issues
- #war war iv
- #ram now costs more than a volvo
- sars-cov-27 (the reckoning)
- aliens dip out and leave
- rust is no longer socially acceptable
- #fediverse hasn't reached interopo

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This week @CrazyBlue is my guest for the #OverUnder 079

He shares his thoughts about #Bluesky, #SteamMachine, #FPS, #violence in #videogames, and #FishAndChips

He also replied to @readbeanicecream's question.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #writing #gaming #games

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-079

The sad, yet fascinating thing about our job is that when done right, nobody notices.

Have a great start to the week, #BSDCafe!
Have a great start to the week, #illumosCafe!
Have a great start to the week, #Fediverse!

Wait, what? 👀

59k followers on the Fediverse?! Make it 60k! 😻

Go #Fediverse

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Screenshot of the Tutanota Mastodon profile with 59k followers

#Présentation 6/6
Pourquoi on est sur le #fediverse  ?
La comm c'est pas notre fort depuis le début. Parfois il y a des résident·es motivé·es, et parfois ce truc est laissé de coté. Là ça fait un an que c'est quasi à zéro.
Tiens les stages se remplissent pas, faut les annuler, mais que ce passe-t-il donc ?
La question revient régulièrement, communiquer sur #fb ? Boooooof.
Alors on se lance ici, en espérant que ça percole un peu vers les réseaux #gafam
On envisage de compléter notre compte Mastodon par un Pixelfed et un Friendica. Vous en pensez quoi ?

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Partie réseaux sociaux du site web de la Ferme Légère

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14

Servers

- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

For developers

- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians

Articles

- Deploying your own Vernissage instance

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a

Feedback about #FediHood is greatly appreciated. This is a small, unpretentious #Fediverse project. But it seems that the idea of linking #OpenStreetMap to discover content near you was something missing here. It was designed to never use a GPS. It warns you when your city is too small and suggests the biggest one around. Topics and language allow you to get tailored content. I will introduce the #ActivityPub Event used by #Mobilizon for the event topic.

Thank you for using and sharing.

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

The reason Mastodon (and the wider Fediverse that it is part of) doesn't go down is because all its servers are totally independent. One Fedi server might go down, but that doesn't affect the other servers at all.

That's one of the many advantages of decentralisation, that there is no central point of failure.

Centralised networks go down because they depend on one central organisation's infrastructure.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117095740060037054

Tom, the creator of @apps and @HolosSocial has started a new project:
It's called Fedihood
https://FediHood.social

It connects people by location, and topic, so you can find people near you by topic.

You can find me there too: @joergi@fedihood.social

#feDIVERSE #fedihood #fedi #HoloSocial #fedilab