See what’s new on Botwiki! Yes, this very site!
https://botwiki.org/bot/new-on-botwiki/
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- https://twitter.com/newonbotwiki
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Are you interested in creating bots for the #fediverse? Meet #BotKit, a #TypeScript framework that makes bot development easier than ever!
Key Features:
True Independence
Create standalone #ActivityPub bots
No need for a Mastodon or Misskey account
Free from platform-specific limitations
Simple and Intuitive API
Create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file
Intuitive event handlers for mentions, follows, and messages
Rich text formatting with Markdown support
Modern Deployment
Deploy on Deno Deploy, Fly.io, Railway, or any virtual server
Minimal dependencies
Designed for modern cloud platforms
Enterprise-Ready Foundation
Built on Fedify, a rock-solid ActivityPub framework
Seamless federation with Mastodon, Misskey, and other platforms
Robust compatibility across the fediverse
Developer Experience
Full TypeScript support with great IDE integration
Comprehensive documentation
Built-in testing utilities
Here's a quick example of how simple it is to create a bot:
import { createBot, mention, text } from "@fedify/botkit";const bot = createBot<void>({ username: "greetbot", name: "Greet Bot", summary: text`A friendly bot that greets people!`, // ... configuration ...});// Respond to mentionsbot.onMention = async (session, message) => { await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}! Thanks for saying hello!`);};export default bot;
Getting Started:
Install #Deno
Run: deno add jsr:@fedify/botkit@^0.1.0-dev
Create your bot with just a few lines of code
Check out our documentation at https://botkit.fedify.dev/ to learn more!
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Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 🕵️♂️
Teilen erbeten ‼️ 
#DSGVO #TDDDG #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Sicherheitspaket
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Appel #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
auch als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/p9zG2Ebvsafu29izzg+HaOzq/
need input for provocative fedi “ad”, ment: fascists
Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 37F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
Trump ordered a freeze of all federal loans and grants, a move that could upend the US economy.
Chinese company DeepSeek announced that it was able to build an AI at a fraction of the cost of US AI startups, using cheaper chips. Nvidia's stock plunged.
Gov. Healey bans NDAs across Mass. executive branch offices.
TheBlower.au is a general Mastodon server based in Australia. Do you need to sort it out? Get on The Blower, a public social network site that’s part of a global federation! You don’t have to be Australian to post here, but it helps.
You can find out more at https://theblower.au/about or contact the admin @geton
#FeaturedServer #Australia #Australian #Aussie #DownUnder #Antipodes #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Okay really quick and rough version, but a good start. This is my progress on my Fediverse for Photographers blog.
Any input and additions appreciated! I still have more to add from the suggestions provided the other day.
https://www.dyptrephotography.ca/The-Dyptre-Blog/The-Fediverse
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Fediverse Report #101
Its another massive week for Pixelfed, growing by another 100k active users and doubling their Kickstarter goal, raising over 100k CAD.
The News
Pixelfed continues to grow rapidly, adding almost 100k monthly active users in a week, and has now almost 300k monthly active users. Just over a month ago, Pixelfed had around 20k monthly active users. Developer Daniel Supernault launched a Kickstarter this week for Pixelfed,Loops and Sup. The Kickstarter proved popular, raising 100k CAD, double its 50k CAD goal. The Kickstarter is mainly for to fund the continuous development of the platforms, with the primary goals listed as ‘acceleration development’ for Pixelfed and Loops, and starting the development of messaging platform Sup. Sup is a planned encrypted messaging app that is supposed to compete with WhatsApp and Snapchat. Supernault has mentioned working on the project in the past, but it is unclear how far along the project is.
Supernault says that the operational costs for running all of his projects is now over 4000 USD per month. The large majority of people joining the flagship servers pixelfed.social and loops.video, which are both run by Supernault. Still, it seems like Supernault is not particularly interested in sharing out the load of users to other servers, saying that people unfamiliar with the fediverse want to join a a flagship instance. He also says that “using random servers to register on is very dangerous, because not all of them are as dedicated to this as I am, some of them don’t update frequently or handle mod reports as fast as we do.” Supernault is currently the only moderator for both the pixelfed.social server as well as the pixelfed.art server. He also says that Pixelfed.social needs to establish a mod team. One barrier to adding extra moderators is that Pixelfed does not have a specific ‘moderator’ role in the software, there is only the possibility to give someone full admin rights. Supernault says that he is working on adding such a feature.
The Pixelfed Kickstarter also lists a Pixelfed Foundation as its stretch goal. It is not particularly clear what such a Foundation would entail: the Kickstarter describes it as both a foundation and a corporation, as says that it “hopefully” would be a not-for-profit. Some of the potential work of the Pixelfed foundation would be to grow the Pixelfed and Loops social networks, and also support other developers in the wider fediverse ecosystem.
Tumblr has reconfirmed that it is working on connecting to the fediverse. In late 2022, Automatic CEO Matt Mullenweg said that the site was going to add ActivityPub support ‘soon’. Plans changed for Tumblr, including staff layoffs, and for a long time it was unclear if this plan was actually going to happen. In summer 2024, Tumblr announced that they would be working on moving the backend of Tumblr to WordPress. In an AMA this week, the company said that this migration of Tumblr to WordPress means that Tumblr can also use the plugins of WordPress, including the ActivityPub plugin. This means that people will be able to add ActivityPub to their Tumblr blogs. Not much is known about how this would work in practice.
The Analysis
Editor’s note: I wrote the section below before Supernault published his latest update on Kickstarter a few hours ago. In the latest update the Pixelfed Foundation is now moved towards a new stretch goal of 200k CAD. This changes my analysis, but I currently do not have the time to properly analyse and write about it before this newsletter will go out. I’ll write more about this next week.
Some more thoughts on Pixelfed:
I worry about the moderation side for Pixelfed, and specificially the flagship pixelfed.social. Pixelfed.social is now a server with over 200.000 monthly active users, and Supernault is the only moderator for the server. 1 moderator for over 200k active accounts is not a whole lot, to put it mildly. One of the main goals of the Kickstarter is to “expand the moderation, security, privacy and safety platforms”, and my hope is that the financial success of the Kickstarter can help get a bigger moderation team for the servers as quickly as possible.
One of the consistently most difficult aspects of fediverse platforms is the governance of the software. Mastodon has gotten a lot of pushback for its ‘Benevolent-Dictator-For-Life‘, and correspondingly, a lot of praise when Mastodon recently moved away from this model. For Pixelfed and Loops the power concentration into a single person is even more pronounced, with a single developer running two different platforms, two flagship servers as well as various other prominent fediverse projects such as fedidb. It shows the incredible amount of work that Supernault has contributed to the fediverse, but it also indicates the centralisation of power that has resulted from this. The Kickstarter promises a Pixelfed Foundation, but it does not say anything about how the Foundation will deal with governance. The short description of the Foundation mainly seems to be focused on financial sustainability and growth of fediverse projects. The section on the Pixelfed Foundation ends with a quote from Mastodon’s blog post: “The people should own the town square”, but it does not explain in any way how “the people” will get to “own the town square”.
Over on Bluesky, the short-lived TikTok ban in the US has put video front-and-center. As a response, people are starting to take Bluesky posts that contain video, and build a TikTok-like UI around it. Bluesky launched video feeds in their app last week, and SkyLight is a high-profile project to build a video-only UI for Bluesky posts. I’m curious if Pixelfed’s renewed prominence will lead to more interest in similar image-viewing fediverse clients that less bound to server platforms, whether that is Pixelfed, Mastodon or other fediverse platforms.
The dominance of Mastodon and microblogging over the wider fediverse has led to a situation where Mastodon and the fediverse get equated as mostly the same in coverage of larger news outlets. The growth of Pixelfed, and the mainstream attention that it brings now changes this dynamic. This Forbes article about Pixelfed is a good example, where the fediverse gets introduced from the perspective of Pixelfed instead of from a perspective of Mastodon.
The Kickstarter states an “Commitment to open source and open principles”, and says that “all of the source code for Pixelfed is licensed under the AGPL license and is publicly available on GitHub”. I am not clear why Loops is not mentioned here for a commitment to open source. Loops is not currently neither open source nor federating, according to the official Pixelfed account. While Supernault also says that he is “working on that”, I find it strange that Loops is not mentioned under the commitment to open source.
Building an encrypted messaging app is difficult, to put things mildly. Building an encrypted messaging as a solo developer, while also building an Instagram competitor as well as a TikTok competitor is just wildly optimistic. I fear that Supernault is spreading himself too thin here, committed to too many different products. Supernault’s shifting attention makes it difficult for him to ship features he has promised. Notable example of this is the Groups feature for Pixelfed, which Supernault has promised as coming “very soon” since summer 2023. His latest estimation for groups is now for Q2 2025.
Tumblr saying that they are working on their fediverse integration is great news for the fediverse. For a quite a while it seemed that Tumblr would not actually follow through on early announcements by CEO Mullenweg. The answer by Tumblr that ActivityPub support will depend on a plugin makes it plausible to me that Tumblr blogs will likely have to opt-in to connecting themselves to the fediverse by adding the plugin. So based on the limited information available it seems likely to me it will not be a situation where the fediverse instantly grows by millions of active users.
The Links
In the media:
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy – Jason Koebler/404Media
Meta and X are going rogue. Here is what Europe should do now. – EDRi/EDRi
The Challenge of Upward Momentum – Sean Tilley/WeDistribute
Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse – Sarah Perez/TechCrunch
Teaching Mastodon Through Practical Interactions – Lety Does Stuff
Tech links:
A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) – Part 8 – Maho Pacheco
Hosting a new ActivityPub Relay for the Fediverse including Mastodon and snac – gyptazy
Lemmy bi-weekly development update.
Running GoToSocial on your car.
Upcoming fediverse music sharing platform Bandwagon shared more information on how discovery will work on the platform.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can follow me on the fediverse and subscribe to my weekly email newsletter below.
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We’re looking for topics to research and create #fediverse tutorials on.
Comment and let us know what questions you wish there was a video to explain.
From: @fedihost
https://video.fedihost.co/videos/watch/d240e686-8520-46dd-b372-c250c422c6e5
This is great - @fedify has launched an @opencollective to help sustain the project. This is a great library and framework that is helping many other projects grow into the #fediverse. Shout-out to @hongminhee! (also to @liaizon for posting about it as well)
#BotKit now supports #hashtags in your bot messages!
You can now add searchable hashtags to your bot's posts using either our dedicated hashtag() function or through BotKit's extended Markdown syntax. This makes your bot's content more discoverable across the fediverse and helps engage with broader conversations.
Whether you're building a news bot, content curator, or community engagement tool, hashtags can help your bot reach the right audience.
Check out our docs to learn more about implementing hashtags in your bots!
I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.
How do we do burst the bubble?
How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?
How do we popularize digital media critique?
What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?
On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.
I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.
Free attendance! Register here ⬅️
#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse
We need more beer geeks in the Fediverse.
Great news! @chockenberry, the creator of the great #Twitteriffic—which Elon Musk destroyed—is releasing a new app called #Tapestry.
It will integrate #blogs, the #Fediverse, and #RSS into a unified and chronological timeline!
https://usetapestry.com/
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/chockenberry/statuses/113912911644412630
2024 saw a range of non-profit organisational growth across the #Fediverse, let's talk about some of the most exciting.
And do let us know if we've missed anything that you're think deserve to be highlighted.
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog
Do I remember correctly that there was some conversation around #Bluesky considering a native #ActivityPub support?
Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 27F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.
Trump administration freezes on federal loans and grants have been unfrozen.
Another Trump executive order seeks to restrict how race and racism is taught in schools and to "promote patriotic education."
A passenger plane and a military helicopter crashed over the Potomac; there are 27 known casualties of the midair collision.
IceShrimp.NET has a new beta release, and the front end UI is starting to catch up to the back end. Including everyone's favorite, MFM! (Well, maybe not everybody, but between instances with support, it sure is fun in moderation)
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We could all do with more music from independent artists in our lives, so I wrote about how I'm trying to help with that, in my own small way. #Fediverse #TheIndieBeat #Bandwagon #Linux
A day in the European Parliament, thread
I am totally mindblown, seriously feeling like I am on another planet.
For the first time in my life, I set foot inside the #EuropeanParliament, welcomed by Benedetta Scuderi, the most awesome Member of the European Parliament (#MEP), who I am so honored to be calling my friend.
As she is super busy, I just had the chance to chat with her over a quick lunch in the canteen of the parliament (what an incredible place). I basically talked about the #Fediverse non-stop ahahahah
After that, it was marvellous to walk around that immense building together with Benni’s super lovely assistants, who were so kind to allow me to accompany them while they were busy doing 4385904 things.
🧵 This is the first post of a thread narrating my very atypical but wholesome #ParliamentSightseeing experience.
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I wrote this with a heavy heart and a newfound fire in me to oppose the tech barons: "The rebellion will be federated" https://elenarossini.com/2024/11/the-rebellion-will-be-federated/
If you want to follow my Wordpress blog and get new posts straight in your feed, click here: @ele
#blog #FLOSS #bigtech #education #resist #rebel #activism #Fediverse
Mountains.social is a Mastodon server focusing on hiking, mountaineering, climbing, backpacking and the outdoors.
Mountains.social has an extended post size of 1000 characters per post.
You can find out more at https://mountains.social/about or contact the admin @bergmeister
#FeaturedServer #Hiking #Climbing #Outdoors #Backpacking #Mountaineering #Climbers #Hikers #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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There's a new Fediverse chat show called "Fireside Fedi" starting tomorrow (Saturday night) featuring chilled-out fun interviews with people who build the Fediverse. You can follow its main account at:
You can follow the live stream account at:
➡️ @ozoned
The account will post when the stream goes live (0100 UTC) and the stream itself will be at https://stream.firesidefedi.live
If you miss the stream, its VOD will be available afterwards at https://video.firesidefedi.live
Week in Fediverse 2025-01-31
Servers
- Manyfold v0.99.0
- Misskey v2025.1.0
- snac v2.70
- Hollo v0.4.5
- Gancio v1.23.0
- NeoDB v0.11.4.3
- forgejo-contrib/federation: The place to organize development around federation for Forgejo
Clients
- Elk v0.16.0
- Pachli v2.9.2
- Dhaaga v0.14.1
- Alexandrite v0.8.18
- Pixelix v3.3.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.6.0
Tools and Plugins
Protocol
- FEP-2277: ActivityPub core types
Articles
- Improving Snac Performance With Nginx Proxy Cache
- Fediverse Report#101
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019499d8-2a50-b1df-6908-393384df7e2d