I have huge respect for everyone contributing to the Fediverse: the larger-than-life architects like @cwebber @evan (without whom we would literally all not be here), implementers like @dansup bringing photo & video to it, new projects like @newsmast @michael @FreddieJ @saskia @bonfire @ivan @mayel orgs like @Flipboard @mike @john @ghost @activitypub.blog @pfefferle bringing the media over to the Fediverse, and @rileytestut @altstore for trying out completely new things.
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Bellissimo progetto del collettivo @Bida: offrire supporto e infrastrutture tecniche per rendere semplice per chiunque creare una propria istanza Mastodon

https://nobigtech.social/

It’s so rare that somebody talks about care in a presentation about software! 🌻

Thank you @Bonfire ❤️

I love that @ivan and @mayel bring #anarchism to #SFSCON 🤟🏼

#Fediverse #Bonfire #care #software

"monito terrorista che la retta è per chi ha fretta"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgc0bfi_cuI

@kenobit@livellosegreto.it io utilizzo sempre la f minuscola. La motivazione principale è che imo resta fondamentale sottolineare che non esiste IL fediverso, ma ne esistono molteplici. Utilizzare la maiuscola mi da l impressione di riferirmi ad un nome proprio... una persona, una città, un'istituzione... ma il fediverso contiene moltitudini 😄

I wrote about tensions and troubles for Bluesky on @techpolicypress.bsky.social and then I wrote about the TPP piece on wrecka.ge and now I am posting about it the post on Bluesky. Look at this cloud. www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skie...

Clouded Skies for Open Network...

#GoToSocial has been approved for NLnet NGI Zero Commons funding for 2026! That is, among a number of other cool projects you can check out here:

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html

The blurb for what we'll be working on in 2026 is as follows:

GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Go. It complements existing ActivityPub implementations by providing a lightweight, customizable entryway into decentralized social media hosting. GoToSocial places a high value on ease of deployment and maintenance; this means low system requirements, minimal external dependencies, and clear documentation. GoToSocial empowers self-hosting newcomers to deploy small, personalized instances, from which they connect to others across the Fediverse, using low-powered equipment lying around at home. In this project, the GoToSocial team adds new moderation and federation features to GoToSocial, bringing it towards a version 1.0 release (projected end 2026).

Translated to something more concrete, that means we're going to be working on implementing: relay support, instance limits and mutes, old status cleanup, more easily configurable memory usage, tracking of unreachable instances, better search, and a bunch of performance improvements to keep GtS running well on lower-spec computers. And of course, fixing bugs, and likely implementing a few other cheeky features between the soup and the potatoes (kim is interested in looking at quote posts, for example, and tobi will likely do some silly things like the recent ListenBrainz integration).

If things turn out favorably, this chunk of work will bring us towards calling a proper v1.0.0 release by the end of 2026. Ie., we'll finally be able to say "it's good enough to recommend to people".

Thanks for reading! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

One more time it becomes clear to me that #flohmarkt (a fediverse market place), #bookwyrm (a decentral place for book, ratings and reviews) and events in the fediverse habe quite some problems in common. For example semantic hashtags, or call them categories, or focussing on non-note contents. I hope we can to collaborate more on solving these issues! #Fediday
@grindhold @jascha

tra 2h ho il compleanno di 5 anni di un compagno di scuola di mia figlia e il mio mood da stamattina è https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaqp8WaqtnA&list=RDO1hQScFDJkE&index=4

🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science Network 1.0, you can archive fediverse conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #DOI.

Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and @ORCID_Org integration can automatically publish it to your profile as well.

Join in co-designing community-owned infrastructure for open science! 🔥

Watch the demo 🔽

#openscience #opendata #oer

@kitten_tech @b0rk @cwebber I'm not sure if it helps (this is a long and jargon-y document), but I wrote up an overview of the AT moderation system recently

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3m2j6ccx2bs2t

Checking out Bonfire's latest release. This Federation Status dashboard is pretty cool.

And get this - it's not just visible to admins - end users can see the same, just filtered to their OWN processes.

That's really helpful if you're trying to debug an issue with another platform development team.

#ActivityPub #Bonfire

We are having the Scientists Responsibility Summit this weekend.

Experts from different disciplines will open the discussion on our role to act in a collapsing planet.

Join us in Berlin or online 😊
Registration is required (no fee)

🗓️ Saturday 11 October 2025
⌚ 9:00-19:00
📍 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, D-10117 Berlin

https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsresponsibilitysummit/

#ScientistResponsibility #ClimateCrisis

Your timeline is what you want it to be on fedi. You build it. You MOLD it, like a piece of clay. It takes time. It takes effort. You'll have to mute sometimes. You likely will have to block. Don't give up.

It's worth it. Art. Code. Gaming. Books. Pot Belly Pigs. Death Metal. Whatever your interest, you can find a community here, I promise. Smaller, perhaps, but more connected.

You might even have a real conversation with a human being. Give it a try!

#Fediverse

a helpful write-up on how content moderation on Bluesky is conceptualised

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3m2j6ccx2bs2t

🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.

Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cmg57fu7u00050bjj2skigzpn/embed?b=0&title=0&a=1&loop=0&t=0&muted=0&wt=0%22

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#enshittification #release #dataportability

🔥 Consent-based quoting has arrived in Bonfire!

The latest Bonfire Social release implements Mastodon's FEP-044f, enabling you to:
✨ Use boundaries to define who can quote your post, who must request first, or who cannot request at all.
✨ Quote — or request consent to quote — someone else’s post.
✨ Give or withdraw consent at any time.

A first step toward making quoting work smoothly and respectfully across the fediverse.

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

#quote

🔥 More Anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire

✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts.

✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to monitor migration progress in detail and troubleshoot issues.

Read more about 1.0 RC3: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/
#enshittification #release

As big weird primates, we tend to understand emotional intensity and high incoming comms volume and markers of status at a very low level, but we've mostly not had the chance to play with those dynamics in our online platforms in consent-forward and socially skillful (rather than shady or extractive or clumsy/all-acceleration-all-the-time) ways.

Before this escapes my contextual sphere, I should say that the things I'm ~thinking about would acknowledge that, for example, getting boosted by an account with a million followers is meaningfully different from getting boosted by an account with a few dozen.

Systems that allow custom discovery algos could build out feeds that surface not just "popular with friends" but "small or newer accounts that cover things I love and that have indicated that they want to be found."