The oil-you-can-eat buffet is currently unavailable. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
@Federation_Bot
RIP Steve’s Music Store
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/steve-s-music-store-in-toronto-last-day-9.7138112
"Marx identified four dimensions of alienated labor: separation from the product of one's work, from the act of working itself, from other people, and from one's own human capacities. In the context of LLM coding assistants, the second of these is doing most of the work." https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/craft-alienation-llm/
I'm not sure I agree. Or, at least, the loss seems multi-pronged, and it's difficult to assess which of the four dimensions is most involved.
tonight! for #monsterdon's viewing of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) i'm planning on doing an unofficial ad-free bootleg-ass owncast livestream of the movie again at https://miru.miyaku.media 🗼
⏰ pre-stream countdown with Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Ultraman E1 “Ultra Operation No. 1”, and trailer starts at ~8:15pm eastern
🎥 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) starts at 9pm eastern (English audio, hardcoded English subtitles) 
🍿 stick around for more Sinbad? no, it’s Kazaam (1996, English audio with hardcoded English subtitles) #MonsterdonDoubleFeature
❗please have a backup option just-in-case
@Evan Prodromou
Necessary via hubzilla/streams/forte?
Today I launched a game called #FrasesGame @frases, which consists of guessing daily sentences (like Wordle). It supports #ActivityPub agents for communication. Like @ladeldiacl, these sentences are
region-specific. However, I created different actors for #Chile, #Argentina, #CostaRica, #Deutschland #Germany, #Danmark #Denmark, and #English. The game is open to try!
Website: https://frases.degu.cl/
@silverpill@mitra.social @evan@cosocial.ca -- Now I see why I missed it. These additional properties aren't actually defined in the AS spec but only the FEP(?) immediately after implying that the pagination properties were all specified in the AS spec. I get it now, but maybe a wee bit of word-smithing in the FEP could make this a bit clearer.
I guess the question remains how to determine if a site offers cursor-based pagination or recognises 'maxItems' per FEP-9f9f. Guess you need to just try it, maybe with an odd number like 19, and see if what you get back is "consistent" with your request, to see if you should continue trying to use client defined pagination for this site. (This might be another good use case for the server 'capability' mechanism.)
@hipsterelectron incidentally `git clone --filter=blob:none` is a wonderful thing that I wish was far less of a mouthful than it is
@hipsterelectron (it does a clone of the full history but without the blobs, and downloads them on demand as needed)
The mstdn.ca drama has to be the spiciest (and actually one of the most serious) fedi drama I have ever witnessed since I came here
The moderator of the instance is being sued for stealing 280k from a local Edmonton community league
Many users of mstdn.ca have complained of technical instability etc but this is not that, it’s a serious lawsuit that made it to CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/inglewood-league-lawsuit-missing-funds-9.7136933
Week in Fediverse 2026-03-20
Servers
- Akkoma v2026.03
- Bonfire v1.0.2
- PeerTube v8.1.3
- Mitra v4.20.0
- NodeBB v4.10.0
- GoToSocial v0.21.2
- Funkwhale v2.0.0
- Ktistec v3.3.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.0.2
- PeerTube v8.1.3
- ties v0.2.0
- Wafrn v2026.03.02
- PieFed v1.6.13
- Some updates to ActivityBot
- tags.pub: Global hashtag server
Clients
- Fedilab v3.37.1
- tinmop v0.9.9.141421356237309504
- tooi v0.23.0
- Holos v1.0.0
- Voyager v2.44.0
- Aria v1.4.6
Tools and Plugins
- mastodon-bookmark-rss: A small app to let you connect your mastodon bookmarks to your RSS reader
- smol overlays: Chat overlay and emoji wall for Owncast streamers
For developers
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.5.11
Protocol
- FEP-3ab2: ActivityPub Event Streaming API
- FEP-34ec: Notification Collection Endpoint
- FEP-db70: RemoveAll Collection Activity
- FEP-c07e: add product type to object
- FEP-c195: JSONPath Filtering for ActivityPub Collection Retrieval
- FEP-f011: Full-Text Search Query Syntax for ActivityPub
- FEP-a1d1: ActivityPub Patch
- FEP-c81b: Agent Social Attribution for ActivityPub
Articles
- Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
- The Purpose of Protocols
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019ce933-238d-11fb-304d-c3557c940c30
Hey folks, let me know if https://fediverse.jmason.ie/jmason_links , @jmason_links , works and can be followed and unfollowed successfully -- I've switched it over to https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/ (thanks @Edent !)
happy souls "i've got boss weapons" voice: We've got #GoToSocial BUGFIX RELEAAAASE
https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.21.2
Bugfixes and little chores! Check the commits at the link for specifics.
Note that we bumped the Go version number to v1.25 for this release. Normally we wouldn't do this in a bugfix release, but a dependency update (including a bugfix) depended on it, so here we are. Practically speaking you probably won't notice a difference, but it's worth mentioning.
If you're updating to this version from v0.21.x, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.
If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.21.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.21.0, but replace 0.21.0 with 0.21.2 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.21.x contains some database migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!
Most batteries are a real pain, proprietary and hard to recycle. Kirk Smith wants to power the world with the Flow Battery Research Collective by developing OS batteries for stationary storage! Hear all about in his talk on Day 1 of #OHS2026 and get your tickets right here: https://ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/
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> For example, Google reduced our headline “I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything” to just five words: “‘Cheat on everything’ AI tool.” It almost sounds like we’re endorsing a product we do not recommend at all.
#news #TechNews #technology #google #search #AI #LLMs #enshittification
I guess with Chuck Norris sadly gone, John Mastodon has the field all to himself.
I keep pressing it, but nothing happens!
Remember the VC-funded social network that I had pointed out had problematic cryptocurrency space funding, but folks said "don't worry their CEO can be trusted and knows what she's doing"?
Their CEO just stepped down, and now it got $100m more VC funding largely from more cryptocurrency space folks:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/
"Don't worry, it's decentralized!" – well, let's just say I am not holding my breath for that either.
We (the Karrot team) are in Gothenburg and have an event on Sunday!
"Community tech: meet the people building alternatives"
Sunday, March 22, 2026 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
https://organisera.org/events/4e496999-00b5-4c03-bdd6-0e872311f6c4
