I love how thoughtful the Mastodon blog post about introducing quote posting is. A really interesting way the team could be even more impactful on the open social web would be to share their research findings and the thinking that went into these sorts of features - that's the sort of body of knowledge everyone could learn from. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
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For anyone who might have missed it, the new beta is live on #Testflight!
iCloud sync for favorites is the showcase feature but the new navigation is also *chef’s kiss*
Join the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FlIkWPVa
New music video just dropped!! It's about one of the greatest threats facing humanity!!!! I may run out of exclamation points!!!!!!! This is serious, people!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Another Fediverse production featuring lyrics by @atomic. You know that verse is good. It's Fediverse.
The other thing that the #Guppe incident showed us is that the #Fediverse seriously needs the #Nomadic protocol.
Let's say the Fediverse understands the protocol: just move to a new domain, inform all instances "this is the new domain, automatically re-subscribe please", done. Life goes on for regular people.
I am not saying it is that easy or that's how exactly it will work. But it could've been avoided. Right now, entire communities are gone, many who were relying on it are now disconnected. (Then again, I can argue that it's time to clean the membership since many accounts are also stagnant.)
So, when? #ActivityPub2 ?
A new release of TootSDK - 19.2.1 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/19.2.1
What's changed:
- Workflow should use macOS-26 @konstantin
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
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I have spending time thinking of ways you could automatically create ActivityPub / ActivityStreams data from HTML and Markdown
Most people will probably write in plain UTF-8 text, or Markdown, or HTML
How to do you take that and get it onto the Fediverse and Social Web‽
This isn't just a question of how to technically do it — but also a question of user-experience (UX)
I.e., what are "good" ways of doing it‽
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#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #Fediverse #Markdown #retejo #RDFa
Who should work on compatibility with other #Fediverse software?
- Option A: Most used software should make sure they are compatible with everyone (one-sided effort)
- Option B: Less used software should make sure they are compatible with everyone (one-sided effort)
- Option C: Both software should make sure they are compatible with each other (equal/shared effort)
#poll #polls #software #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb
Options: (choose one)
What are the activity_id formats for various platforms?
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Quotations & the Fediverse / ActivityPub
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One thing I used to do a lot on social-media is — post quotations.
Sometimes I was reading a book. And, I would quote things from the book and post it on social-media.
Or I was reading a scholarly paper, or reading a blog post, or watching a video, or listening to a podcast, etc.
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I was thinking — how could you represent a quotation in ActivityPub‽
#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #Fediverse #ObjectTypeNote #ObjectTypeQuotation
![“[And yet another book that made an argument that was in favor of human universals is] Brent Berlin and Paul Kay’s [book] "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution" (1969).”
“by the early 1970s two independent lines of psychological research, culminating in studies conducted among preliterate peoples of New Guinea, had shown that there are universal facial expressions of emotions.”
“Berlin and Kay show that although color classification does vary, it also shows remarkable uniformities: particularly in the sequence in which basic color terms are added to the lexicon.”
“Anthropologists and linguists had long known that the way colors are classified varies from language to language. Careful studies conducted by anthropologists after World War II, such as Harold Conklin’s (1955) study of Hanunóo color words, made the point very clearly.”
“The different sets of words for color in various languages …”](/proxy/post_attachment/154154/3c46223607.png "“[And yet another book that made an argument that was in favor of human universals is] Brent Berlin and Paul Kay’s [book] \"Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution\" (1969).”
“by the early 1970s two independent lines of psychological research, culminating in studies conducted among preliterate peoples of New Guinea, had shown that there are universal facial expressions of emotions.”
“Berlin and Kay show that although color classification does vary, it also shows remarkable uniformities: particularly in the sequence in which basic color terms are added to the lexicon.”
“Anthropologists and linguists had long known that the way colors are classified varies from language to language. Careful studies conducted by anthropologists after World War II, such as Harold Conklin’s (1955) study of Hanunóo color words, made the point very clearly.”
“The different sets of words for color in various languages …”")
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"＠context": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
{
"Quotation": "as:Quotation",
"citation": "as:citation",
"quotation": "as:quotation"
},
],
#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #FediDev #Fediverse #JSONLD #ObjectTypeQuotation
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OK, so the results from my very unscientific #NobelPrize in #Physics topic poll are in, and the winner is … Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (or “AMO”, as it’s short-handed). Hot on the heels of AMO is Astrophysics and Cosmology. Particle Physics was the hands-down least-favoured topic.
So, let’s go one more step and see what the #fediverse thinks are its favourite **discoveries** that might attract the prize. Let’s stick to AMO and Astro/Cosmo, since those are the preferred areas.
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Hello World from my homelab! This is Leo, a 20-year-old from Bangladesh. My previous account was @ml. I recently started my homelab journey and moved everything there, but due to some technical issues I decided to set up a new Mastodon instance at social.mitexleo.one.
I enjoy playing around and experimenting with tech, and in my free time I like reading books. It’s great to be back and see the world again!
#fediverse #mastodon #homelab #selfhosting #mitexleo #bangladesh #dhaka #introduction
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The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive.
We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest.
It was the first outlet to win a Pulitzer for web-first journalism. And if you donate through this link, you'll let our team know the fediverse is an audience to pay attention to: https://give.propublica.org/give/346528/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben_mstdn #journalism #fediverse
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115224321548138026
This is my first "official" Mastodon-style quote-post.
Although, quote-posting has existed on the Fediverse for years now — on Misskey, on all the Misskey forks (ex: Firefish), on Pleroma, on the Pleroma forks (ex: Akkoma), on Mitra, on Hollo, on Friendica, etc.
Plus, people have been doing screen-shot style quote-posts on Mastodon (and other places on the Fediverse), too, for years.
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A tale of Tabby & Orange (Catstrayfriends) These 2 always have these beef 4 awhile, More likely a Cuddle Fight for them coz after that They end up being together chiling just alittle inches from each other.
📢A Call of Help: People of #Fediverse I need ur Help for getting CatFood for a Week or 2 🥺Ran out of funds due of VetBills I settled Lastweek.Kindness & Support from anybody can is very much appreciated.My cousin's Paypal Email 👉🏼omoshiroii.jj@gmail.com📩
Pls left a note 2 let her know.
#Cats
The network of Mastodon servers is the Mastoverse.
(The Mastoverse is a subset of the Fediverse. The Fediverse is made up of more than just Mastodon servers.)
A person on the Mastoverse is a Mastonaut.
I've just updated my #Snac instance to version 2.83 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse
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There's a renewed conversation around the lack of options for migrating post history when you move to a new Mastodon server.
And seeing a few people mentioning how this can be a reason for folks to give up on the fediverse when their server shuts down, I hope the Mastodon team will prioritize this.
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