Dear Fedi friends,
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.
I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).
The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️
I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.
And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly
Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca
The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.
I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌
Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲
#TheFutureIsFederated
fediverse
Just added another batch of news accounts to the fedi.directory website. If you want to follow news sources on the Fediverse, you can find lots of them here:
➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media
- To follow an account, copy-paste its address into your search box on Mastodon etc.
- To find out more about an account, click on its address in the listing.
- If an account is posting too often, use Mastodon's Lists feature (more info: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon).
A #Celebration of #Flowers by Kaye Menner
A pretty #colorful floral image for all occasions. #enchanting display of #delicate flowers. Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
#flower #floral #spring #colorful #pretty #digitalart #ai #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
Elena Rossini, the film-maker who just did an excellent video introducing people to the Fediverse, has a PeerTube account you can follow at:
➡️ @ele
You can also follow Rossini's general accounts at @elena & @_elena and blog at @ele@elenarossini.com
Sorry, last one, I promise.
Built another @botkit bot, if you tag @tmnt w/ some text it will generate a TMNT logo for you using an API on a @glitchdotcom site:
https://tmnt-logo.glitch.me/.
Relevant XKCD
Bot Source Code
Glitch Logo Generator Source Code
Just realizing that the https://botsin.space domain has been memorialized just last week.
I see why everyone loved @elena's fediverse video when it premiered at the #fediforum.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
I'd be signing up myself!
via https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JXCDST00FXKN9KCAQJ1QCMRJ
I used fedi.directory by @FediFollows just this morning to find a couple of new (to me) podcasts. An increadibly valuable service, we all on the #fediverse owe them a huge thanks. Donate if you can!
A fedi explainer video you can share with your grandma. Thanks for your work on this @_elena
TurtleIsland.social is an Indigenous owned and operated Mastodon server for Indigenous people. TurtleIsland.social is ad-free, corporate-free, bigotry-free, and culture respectful.
You can find out more at https://turtleisland.social/about or contact the admin account @TurtleIsland
#FeaturedServer #Indigenous #FirstNation #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
The Work Continues: What’s Next
Details will follow soon — but the work on events in the #Fediverse is far from complete. Key upcoming milestones include:
Improvements and new features for the Event Bridge for ActivityPub plugin for WordPress
Continued development to maintain, fix issues, enhance, and expand functionality.
Work on Fediverse Enhancement Proposals (FEPs)
Ensuring a robust final status of FEP-8a8e and focus on recurring and irregularly scheduled events.
Support for event interoperability in other Fediverse applications
Contribute to other Fediverse applications and help them to explore and improve support for Event objects. For example, @linos has outlined a potential roadmap for Mastodon.
Contribution to GatherPress
Active involvement in the GatherPress project — a modern and truly FLOSS community oriented WordPress event plugin — to ensure full ActivityPub compatibility, including RSVP support and advanced federation features.
Community engagement and outreach
Participation in conferences, public talks, and direct conversations to foster knowledge exchange, gather feedback, and grow the ecosystem around federated events.
Additional updates and technical details will be shared soon. Input, testing, and collaboration from interested parties are always welcome. Or if you know any conferences we should attend, let us know.
#ActivityPub #Events #Fediverse #FEP #GatherPress #WordPress
Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology
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I already wrote about caching here.
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling the option to proxy media, I've seen access to the file paths /x/ and /y/ in addition to the path were snac stores the media that I include in my own posts ( /s/ ).
There are two locations to proxy media, depending if you requests the media via the mastodon api or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2.0 path too, because I've noticed it was queried all the time by a lot of instances and it gives me pleasure to see something cached handed out in the access logs. 🙂 (I guess it is actually irrelevant for the system resources)
This is the updated setup:
Enable the relevant modules:
a2enmod expires cache cache_disk
Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up the old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add this to the httpd Virtualhost config:
<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/[xys]/|^/social/nodeinfo_2_0">
CacheEnable disk
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public" "expr=%{REQUEST_STATUS} == 200"
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"
</LocationMatch>
Further reading and all options are explained under https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/caching.html (and ff)
The Header that I set here, on the condition of Status code 200, is needed for the path /y/, because snac set no-cache on that location and mod_expires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as mod_expires would. (I use mod_expires because it will additionally calculate the date and put that in the expires header. (hence the name I guess 😀 )
#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Debian #caching
Week in Fediverse 2025-06-13
Servers
- Manyfold v0.112.0
- flohmarkt v0.10.0
- Lemmy v0.19.12
- ActivityPub for WordPress v6.0.2
- NodeBB v4.4.3
- Trunk & Tidbits, May 2025 (Mastodon)
- Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPress Federation (ActivityPub for WordPress)
Clients
- Pixelix v4.1.1
- Fread v1.4.2
- Aria v1.2.0
- Phanpy changelog
- Flutter application development: feedback (1/2) (PeerTube Mobile)
Tools and Plugins
- PeerTube livechat plugin v13.0.0
For developers
- Fedify v1.6.1
- megalodon v10.1.2
- Fedialgo v0.72.0
- macgirvin/http-message-signer: RFC 9421 signer and verifier class in PHP
- APx: Minimalistic ActivityPub toolkit written in Rust
- mastodon-openapi: A tool for generating OpenAPI schemas from Mastodon API documentation
Articles
- Backfilling Conversations: Two Major Approaches
- Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
- I Posted to Mastodon 1 Mile Away from an Internet Connection
- Fediverse Report – #120
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019746fb-8918-8fd7-2c16-4c142ccf7387
this is insanely fediversish✨ ⁂Happy to be finding so many fediverse merchandise stores lately - I was sure I had them all when I setup the list originally. Glad to be proven wrong.
Here's an instance specific one - get the vmst.io logo on a t-shirt! The title of the shirt is "Toots In / Toots Out". 🎺
"Octopus Garden" is the first in a series of underwater images...hope you enjoy!
Available at - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/octopus-garden-peggy-collins.html
#octopus #underwater #neon #colorful #colorfulart #fish #ayearforart #buyintoart #art #arte #puzzle #puzzles #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart #psychedelic
More irises from my series...hope you enjoy!
Available at https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/yellow-and-purple-irises-peggy-collins.html
#iris #flowers #floral #flowerart #floralart #art #arte #ayearforart #buyintoart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart
"Bluebells in Spring"...created because I can't wait for spring!
Available at https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/bluebells-in-spring-peggy-collins.html
#flowers #flower #flowerart #floral #spring #landscape #landscapes #trees #art #arte #buyintoart #ayearforart #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart #puzzle
Taking a look at the Wordpress ActivityPub Roadmap, at the very end I see this:
> Client-to-Server API (exploration)
> At this stage, we’re exploring and evaluating this based on community interest and potential use cases.
Client to Server API for ActivityPub is not widely utilized (or at all?) so this would be of great benefit to all fediverse platforms.
SHOW YOUR COMMUNITY INTEREST!!! @activitypub.blog
https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/
Pixey.org is a general Pixelfed server for anyone who wants to share photos and images. You can share up to 20 photos or 1 video per post, and post text can be up to 2000 characters.
You can find out more at https://pixey.org or contact the admin @stux
Wafrn, a tumblr adjacent fediverse platform, has added an opt-in feature that replaces mentions of "artificial intelligence" with "cocaine" in all posts on your personal timeline. Makes for some humorous reading.
This is the fediverse I know and love. Reminds me of some of the quirky stuff people built with AiScript on Forkey platforms.
