#fediverse Timeline

Including voluntary donations to your server admins, fediverse apps and other software, your own server, etc. Any money you spend directly towards keeping the fediverse going.

#fediverse #poll

27% It's completely free!
27% Less than $5
9% $5-10
23% $11-50
5% $51-100
9% $100+
0% $1,000+

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Can't believe this site is (almost, for some of us) free!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-much-does-the-fediverse-cost/

#fediverse #SocialMedia

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🦃 Note 🇺🇸 holiday schedule changes! 📺 It's the weekly THU-THU🐘 #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar 📅 for Nov. 20-27, 2025

NEW: #HarryOrwell (HARRY O) #LeverageTV (LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION)

🚨UPDATES 🔗 &c.➡️ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️All times US Eastern

#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thanks to the hosts! 💐 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde
@greenpepper22 @revmagdalen
@lilymarswrites
@GrillChill

Watch party event listings for THU-SAT, Nov. 20-22

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Watch party event listings for SUN-TUE, Nov. 23-25

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Watch party event listings for WED-THU, Nov. 26-27

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We'd like to introduce the #Fedify project family—a set of related tools that make building #ActivityPub applications more accessible:

@Fedify

@Fedify (@fedify) is a #TypeScript library for building federated server applications powered by ActivityPub and other #fediverse standards. It provides type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary, WebFinger client/server, HTTP Signatures, and more—eliminating boilerplate code so you can focus on your application logic.

@Hollo

@Hollo (@hollo) is a single-user microblogging server powered by Fedify. While designed for individual users, it's fully federated through ActivityPub, allowing interaction with users across the fediverse. #Hollo implements Mastodon-compatible APIs, making it compatible with most Mastodon clients without needing its own web interface.

Hollo also serves as our testing ground for bleeding-edge Fedify features before they're officially released.

@BotKit

@BotKit (@botkit) is our newest family member—a framework specifically designed for creating ActivityPub bots. Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, #BotKit creates standalone ActivityPub servers that aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations (like character counts).

BotKit's API is intentionally simple—you can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file!

All three projects are open source and hosted under the @fedify-dev GitHub organization. While they serve different purposes, they share common goals: making ActivityPub development more accessible and expanding the fediverse ecosystem.

If you're interested in trying any of these projects or contributing to their development, check out:

Fedify: https://fedify.dev/
Hollo: https://docs.hollo.social/
BotKit: https://botkit.fedify.dev/

#fedidev

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I have been trying to think of ways of making the Fediverse more Friendly and Welcoming.

To people outside the Fediverse.

To people thinking of joining the Fediverse.

To people who recently joined the Fediverse.

And more.

...

What do YOU think could make the Fediverse more Friendly and Welcoming?

(Reply with your answers.)

#Fediverse #FriendlyFediverse #SpreadFediverse #WelcomingFediverse

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Happy 17th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, by @evan

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

#fediverse #history #FediverseHistory #OnThisDay #OTD #identica #FirstPost #FirstFediversePost

A screenshot of the first fediverse post from Evan Prodromou dated May 18, 2008, posted on the early fediverse platform Identica.

The text of the post is: "This is my first post."

Below the post is a partial list of people who liked and shared the post. Further below are license information about the Identica platform:

Identi.ca brought to you by E14N.
pump.io available under the Apache License 2.0.
JavaScript license information

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My latest effort at creating art with a stained glass look is "Summer Garden Abstract"...

ART - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/summer-garden-abstract-peggy-collins.html

#abstract #abstractart #flowers #flowerfriday #floral #colorful #art #arte #kunst #wallartforsale #wallart #artprints #artforsale #fineart #decor #gifts #giftideas #interiordesign #homedecor #contemporaryart #modernart #creativetoots #artbooster #fediverse #fedigiftshop #mastodonart #mastoart

Colorful artwork of an abstract summer flower garden, by artist Peggy Collins.

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Come see @dansup give his keynote at FediCon

"The Fediverse in Action: Building Social Platforms That Users Actually Want"

...

🎟️ https://lu.ma/p4bbb941

🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver, Canada
🗓️ August 1–2

ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca

#FediCon #FediCon2025 #Fediverse

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Week in Fediverse 2025-02-14

Servers

- Mbin v1.8.0
- snac v2.72
- Lemmy v0.19.9
- flohmarkt v0.8.0
- GoToSocial v0.17.4
- Hollo v0.5.0
- Manyfold v0.100.0
- Mitra v3.17.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.2.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.4
- NeoDB v0.11.4.7
- tootik v0.15.3
- kmyblue v17.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025
- Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

Clients

- Mangane v1.13.6
- Thunder v0.6.1
- Fediboat: Mastodon TUI client with a Newsboat-like interface

Tools and Plugins

- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.0.0 (WordPress plugin)
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.0.0
- LemmyWebhook v0.19.0
- Mastodon – Simplified Federation v2.2.1
- Utsukta Hub themes: A collection of custom themes developed for Hubzilla

For developers

- BotKit v0.1.1
- TootSDK v13.0.0
- apsig: Signature implementation used in ActivityPub (python)

Protocol

- FEP-efda: Followable objects

Articles

- Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes
- Last Week in Fediverse #103

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0194e1e4-74a9-17c1-c347-9674b1a3f9c9

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We're experimenting with federated geosocial features in Bonfire, free from surveillance capitalism.
Check into your local community garden. Add location to mutual aid requests. Find tools nearby.
Imagine your local fablab or community center sharing check-ins, calendars, events, opening hours - all federated. A living hub for what's happening there.
🔧 https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/1444

This unlocks new possibilities for local organizing, let's explore together 🔥

#Geosocial #CommonsEconomy #Fediverse

Location page, that shows a map with all the nearby locations

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1y

Now that Tapestry is finally an App Store reality, join us for a sneak peek into what went on behind the scenes of our successful product launch as well as some exciting news about what lies ahead. #TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2025/02/tapestry-by-iconfactory-past-present-and-future/

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"The more the Fediverse can be baked into systems already in use, as with the Wordpress plugin and Ghost 6.0, the easier it will be to make connections without platform or protocol battles." - @michael

Part 2 of Michael's post-FediCon blog series, exploring growth with a grassroots vibe, is out now! Check it out below 👇

https://www.blog-pat.ch/third-spaces-in-the-fediverse-fedicon-thoughts-part-ii/

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediCon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Blog #ThirdSpaces #FediGrowth #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #LeaveX

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#Indigenous #Brown #Latina family, #Homeless

#SabiLewSounds is disabled multidisciplinary #artist & #musician; #mentalhealth & #disability #advocate; 24/7 caretaker for elderly mom w/dementia & ESA bunny

1609 hotel, food, bills
459 hotel past due
273 covers Thu-Sat
650 more due Tue

🔗🌿SabiLewSounds
🔗🌿 toadlyturtle (note: Sabi)

#HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #LightWithin #Fempreneur #TraumaSurvivor #cPTSD #Mastodon #Fediverse #Boost #SupportDisabledArtists #Poverty

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Thanks @raphael, well received!
They are so pretty

#Fediverse #FediverseStickers @FediverseSymbol

Pack of stickers designed by Raphaël Bastide: 3 Fediverse stickers + 1 Work Les Think More.
I'm holding a small silver circle with iridescent highlights, which bas the words “Welcome to the Fediverse” around the Fediverse symbol ⁂

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1y

Fediverse Report #105

While the news in the world is louder and intenser than ever, the fediverse has had one of it’s most quiet news weeks in a long time. But as compensation I’ll have another article out tomorrow, that I did not manage to finish for today.

The News

Some updates for GoToSocial: GoToSocial published the documentation that would also allow other fediverse platforms to implement their Interaction Policies. And Slurp is a new CLI tool to import your posts from other fediverse servers into GoToSocial. A guide to import your Pixelfed posts into GoToSocial with Slurp is available here.

Last week I wrote extensively about Mastodon’s plan to implement quote post. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput confirmed in a follow-up that Mastodon will not display quote posts if they are made using another implementation than Mastodon proposes. This means in practice that even when Mastodon has added support for quote posts, it will not display quote posts made by Misskey, unless Misskey also implements Mastodon’s new proposed system for quote posts.

Elgg is an old-school open source social network that started in 2004. It added a plugin for ActivityPub this week.

John Oliver discussed content moderation on Last Week Tonight, quickly promoting Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky and Signal as alternatives.

The Identity Graph Explorer is a simple tool to find out how “identifiers on the Fediverse / Social Web are connected to one another”.

The Hexbear Lemmy community recently lost control of their domain, leading to a bidding war for the domain name for thousands of dollars. The admins now report that they have gotten back control of their domain.

The Links

IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis – WeDistribute
GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse – with unique controls – Elena Rossini
How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server – WeDistribute
Website League update for February
Managing Mastodon Storage – FediHost
Lemmy biweekly development update.
This week’s fediverse software updates.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:

Subscribe to our newsletter!

#fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-105/

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Discover The Fediverse: Free Software Movement

Learn the key points of the free software movement in order to protect your freedoms along with exploring free and open source software highlights.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-free-software-movement/

#blog #FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #foss

An autumn scene at dusk with stars in the sky, a field of grass with one tree loosing its leaves gravitate toward a person running in the fresh air of freedom.

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Good day folks! #FiresideFedi #Episode 18 starts NOW!

Joining me today is @nikclayton with the @pachli project!

Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live

After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live

All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live

#stream #owncast #live #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #fedicast #livestream #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease

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Nice, the button to load new replies on Mastodon might be coming soon!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/35210

via https://vmst.io/@mergebot/114902880772682826

#mastodon #fediverse

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Urbanists.video is a PeerTube server about urbanism and public transport, for anyone interested in walkable, livable places.

https://urbanists.video

You can find out more at https://urbanists.video/about/instance or contact the admins @alex and @mattcaff

cc @urbanism

#FeaturedServer #Urbanism #PublicTransport #Cities #Urbanists #PeerTube #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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<p>This release introduces a redesigned Followers table that’s easier to navigate and customize—hide columns, change how many entries you see, or remove followers directly. Migrations are now simpler: just paste in a WebFinger ID or profile URL, and the plugin takes care of the rest. We’ve also fixed an issue where old, unfederated posts could be mistakenly re-sent—those will now stay quiet unless they’re recent. Plus, lots of behind-the-scenes improvements for a smoother experience.</p>

This release is mostly made up of behind-the-scenes improvements, but one update you’ll notice right away is the refreshed Followers table. It now looks and feels much more like the standard WordPress admin tables: you can customize it with screen options to hide columns or change how many followers are shown per page, and you can now delete individual followers using inline action links. We also polished the layout by increasing information density and improving the readability of date columns.

We’ve made migrations easier to kick off by automatically resolving account aliases and saving their ID form. That means you can now paste in WebFinger IDs, profile URLs, etc. and the plugin handles the rest, as long as it resolves to an ActivityPub profile.

This release also fixes a long-time annoyance: unfederated posts (like those published before the plugin was activated or imported later) will no longer be sent out to followers just because they were updated. For now, we use a simple cutoff for posts older than a month, which should cover the majority of those cases.

Coming Soon: Following Others!

Most of the work that went into this release is still invisible, hiding behind a feature flag in Advanced Settings (you can find it by opening Screen Options in the ActivityPub settings screen).

There’s really no functionality around it yet, beyond following accounts from other instances, as we have yet to start processing incoming posts and adding the ability to interact with them. But if you just can’t wait to show your appreciation for other accounts by following them, go wild!

Behind the same feature flag, we’ve also added initial beta support for Fediverse Starter Kits. This lets new users follow a set of recommended accounts from a predefined list, following the format proposed by @dansup for Pixelfed. For now, only Actor objects are supporteded, but we’re hoping to expand that over time.

Full Changelog

Added

Added a first version of the Follow form, allowing users to follow other Actors by username or profile link.
Added initial support for Fediverse Starter Kits, allowing users to follow recommended accounts from a predefined list.
Ensure that all schedulers are registered during every plugin update.
Followers and Following list tables now support Columns and Pagination screen options.
The featured tags endpoint is now available again for all profiles, showing the most frequently used tags by each user.
The following endpoint now returns the actual list of users being followed.

Changed

Follower tables now look closer to what other tables in WordPress look like.
Improved Account-Aliases handling by internally normalizing input formats.
Minor performance improvement when querying posts of various types, by avoiding double queries.
Set older unfederated posts to local visibility by default.
Step counts for the Welcome checklist now only take into account steps that are added in the Welcome class.
Table actions are now faster by using the Custom Post Type ID instead of the remote user URI, thanks to the unified Actor Model.
The following tables now more closely match the appearance of other WordPress tables and can be filtered by status.

Fixed

Ensure correct visibility handling for Undo and Follow requests
Ensure that the Actor-ID is always a URL.
Fixed a bug in how follow requests were accepted to ensure they work correctly.
Fixed an issue where the number of followers shown didn’t always match the actual follower list.
Fixed a PHP error that prevented the Follower overview from loading.
Fixed missing avatar class so that CSS styles are correctly applied to ActivityPub avatars on the Dashboard.
Fixed potential errors when unrelated requests get caught in double-knocking callback.
Improved WebFinger fallback to better guess usernames from profile links.
Prevent WordPress from loading all admin notices twice on ActivityPub settings pages.
Removed follower dates to avoid confusion, as they may not have accurately reflected the actual follow time.
Stop purging Follow activities from the Outbox to allow proper Unfollow (Undo) handling.

Downloads

WordPress.org: activitypub.7.1.0.zip
GitHub: tag/7.1.0

Thank you!

Big thanks to everyone who contributed code, feedback, testing, or encouragement—this community helps make the fediverse more connected with every release. ❤️

Update to 7.1.0, try it out, and tell us what you think!

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User Experience Study on BookWyrm – Looking for Your Feedback

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if you are not following @FediFollows and checking their timeline for new people, communities and organizations to follow, you are not doing the bare minimum of #fediversing

yes, i verbbed #fediverse

if y’all have the coins, throw some their way, BUT! if y’all are part of the sundry organizations giving money to #FOSS initiatives, i urge you to think outside of the software development box. please fund the work of people and groups like FediFollows. without it, FOSS is just lines of code.