StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
https://www.theverge.com/games/994371/starcraft-returns-in-2030-as-an-open-world-shooter?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/117259672594748990

Het was goed om er weer bij te zijn. Maar zou nog fijner zijn als het veel meer aandacht en vooral opvolging kreeg.
#klimaatmars

(En bij hoeveel demonstraties uit deze lijst bent u geweest?
https://github.com/Datagraver/Publieke-data/blob/main/demonstraties_NL_2026.tsv
10 voor mij.)

@axel @xmpp Ich habe vor vielen Jahren auch mal XMPP ausprobiert aber es löst leider nicht das Messenger Dilemma, was ja darin besteht, dass die meisten Leute WhatsApp nutzen und man deshalb derzeit nicht um WhatsApp umzu kommt. Solange niemand zu xmpp wechselt, bringt es für niemand Nutzen. Deshalb verfolge ich die Strategie, die verschiedenen Messenger datensparsam zu nutzen, die derzeit üblich sind. Unter #grapheneOS ist dies problemlos möglich. https://georg-rosenbaum.de/whatsapp-datensparsam-nutzen/

ActivityPub - How to send an updated user profile to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Let's suppose you've updated the description of your ActivityPub account from "World's Number 1 Taylor Swift Fan" to "This account is now a Nickleback Truther". How do you let the rest of the Fediverse know that you've changed your allegiance?

By default, most Mastodon instances won't periodically poll your account information just to see if you've updated it. So how does the information get from your server to your followers' servers?

This wasn't immediately obvious to me, but I got a clue from reading Evan Prodromou's book on ActivityPub:

The Update activity type is for updating the properties of an object represented by the object property.

The most common types of objects that can be updated are content objects, like Note or Image. Actor types (like Person) and Question activity types can also be updated.

Aha!

You need to craft an Update message which has as its object the new user information. That needs to be sent to the inbox of all your followers.

Something like this:

 JSON{
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"actor": "https://example.com/user",
"id": "6a9162a6-a8e5-ca0f-9c08-8e6b814acef8",
"published": "2026-08-31T12:34:56+01:00",
"to": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public",
"type": "Update"
"object": {
"@context": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"https://w3id.org/security/v1"
],
"id": "https://example.com/user",
"name": "My new name",
"summary": "A brand new description!",
…
},
}

Obviously the full user information is a bit more than that - it will include inbox details, public keys, avatars, etc. The published property in the Update activity should be when you changed your details - not when the account was created.

Once that was sent, Mastodon immediately reflected the changes.

Thanks to NLnet

This blog post was funded in part by the work I'm doing for my NLnet NGI0 grant to develop ActivityBot.

OpenAI just wants to win
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994255/openai-millennium-prize-problem-tristan-buckmaster-competition?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Digitale Abhängigkeiten sichtbar machen: parlamentarische Kontrolle & IFG
Saturday, September 12, 2026 16:30 GMT+02:00 (Europe/Berlin), Theatersaal

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/NELSYC/
📹 https://fair.tube/c/digiges_de_channel/videos
📼 https://fair.tube/c/fediday/videos

#fediday #fediday26 #fedi #fediverse #fahrplan @berlinfediday

Heute ist wieder FediDay! ⁂ Um 11:30 Uhr starten wir mit einer Opening Session. Der Rest des Tages ist voll gepackt mit Voträgen, Workshops und Netzwerkmöglichkeiten rund um Alternative Soziale Medien.

👉 Tickets online: https://berlinfedi.day/

👉 Tagestickets am Eingang (Bargeld)

👉 Livestream: https://fair.tube/c/fediday

Bis gleich oder später!

#Fediverse #Berlin

A lot of new people have joined #Vernissage recently - which is wonderful to see! ❤️ But I haven’t noticed many new patrons.

If you enjoy the platform, please consider supporting it on Patreon. Nothing online is truly free: Big Tech pays the bills with ads, addictive algorithms and your privacy. #Vernissage has none of that - but hosting still costs money.

I’ve also added new Patreon tiers for anyone who’d like to support the project even more. Thank you so much! 😊

https://patreon.com/Vernissage

apparently scientologists are using dating apps to try to recruit acolytes now

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1we0ufz/scientology_recruiters_are_using_hinge_and_fake/

Media companies USA Today and McClatchy have both laid off journalists in the past week, and hundreds of reporters already lost their jobs this year. For his blog, Morning Brew founder Josh Sternberg writes about how the crumbling of the media affects democracy. "We see the erosion of trust of the institution [of the press], while at the same time we have an authoritarian in the White House, a Supreme Court majority that lives by the “rules for thee, but not for me” philosophy, and Congress that is so neutered that its protagonist disappears (Where is Mitch, by the way?) and no one bats an eye."

https://flip.it/h0fkYt

#Media #Journalism #Politic

Week in Fediverse 2026-09-11

Servers

- Hubzilla v11.4.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.3
- Cookifed v0.1.0
- Ktistec v3.12.1
- Misskey v2026.9.0
- gathio v1.6.7
- NeoDB v0.18.2
- Appy v0.7.0
- PieFed v1.7.15
- Wafrn v2026.09.01

Clients

- Voyager v2.49.0
- Miria v4.0.1
- Aria v1.5.13

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.4 (WordPress plugin)

Articles

- Static ActivityPub Publishing

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a06eb0-8683-70d3-bb1d-19ef2967e02b

Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
https://www.theverge.com/tech/994087/matt-mullenweg-automattic-ceo-return?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Siamo in streaming per il FICEDL, l'incontro internazionale dei centri studi e di documentazione libertari, oggi a Bologna e fino a domenica.
Video: https://ficedl2026.vado.li/
Traduzioni simultanee dell'audio: https://ficedl.lattuga.net
Programma: https://ficedl2026.bida.im/
Si parte stasera alle 18 al Circolo Berneri con l'introduzione di Lorenzo Pezzica, poi cena e concerto. Domenica si chiude al VAG61.
#FICEDL #archivi #anarchismo #Bologna

Microsoft’s head of comms is leaving after almost 20 years
https://www.theverge.com/news/993791/microsoft-frank-shaw-leaving-head-of-comms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Ikea supersized its cheap Bluetooth speaker and added an optical input
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993910/ikea-badkruka-wireless-bluetooth-speaker-optical-input?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Insta360 launches a single-lens Osmo Pocket rival you can actually buy in the US
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/993837/insta360-luna-pro-steadicam-gimbal-release-price-specs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Playing the N*zi Card in the Third Reich (English captions burned in).

Don't worry, they are just concerned citizens.

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI

#comedy #satire #USpol #German #funny

RE: https://cultofshiv.wtf/@EmandEmz/117209082762862438

Please give my vinted a boost. Decluttering and selling everything i dont need to fund Emilys last year of gender affirming care and college. https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/3153566303-emmaw9399
Or if you can and want to you can help here https://www.paypal.me/EmmaWilliams166

Today's doodle for work for a thing about the Navier-Stokes equations