📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too!
Tonight, this repo was discussed in a thread and I am so glad I clicked on it. Among free fediverse sticker designs you can print yourself and other artwork, there are also fediverse mascot paper toys! Really cute. Now if I only had a color printer...
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/distributopia/src/branch/main/papertoys
(🇮🇹 Versione in italiano qui sopra ⤴️)
📍La Pigna, Sanremo (IM), Italy
🗓️ 20–24 August 2025
🫶🏻 Scambi is a participatory festival entirely organised by under-30 volunteers, where we share ideas, passions, insights through interactive laboratories and activities on several guiding themes:
• August 20 → public events, with labs a live music night featuring @kenobit, Mano Manita, and Dietro l’Angolo.
• August 21–24 → Communal life among participants: assemblies, discussions, focus groups, pauses at the beach, and hikes in the woods in the area.
👉🏻 If you’re interested, apply to the Call for Participation, ⚠️ open until July 20! ⤵️
✨ We’re looking forward to meet you! ✨
(boosts are welcome)
#ScambiFestival#Scambi#Scambi2025 #degrowth #economics #economy#Italy #event #camp #festival#CfP#openCall #invite#TechnoFeudalism#Technology #tech#Fediverse#OpenKnowledge #education #assembly
We're pleased to share that Encyclia has joined our success stories.
@encyclia bridges academic research to the #fediverse by making #ORCID researcher profiles and publications discoverable through #ActivityPub—built with #Fedify for seamless interoperability across Mastodon and other fediverse platforms.
This demonstrates Fedify's versatility beyond traditional social networking, helping specialized domains connect to the federated web.
We're also grateful for #Encyclia's sponsorship support, which helps make Fedify's development possible.
Learn more about Encyclia at https://encyclia.pub/. 📚
We are pleased to announce the release of #Fedify 1.7.0. This release was expedited at the request of the Ghost team, who are actively using Fedify for their #ActivityPub implementation. As a result, several features originally planned for this version have been moved to Fedify 1.8.0 to ensure timely delivery of the most critical improvements.
This release focuses on enhancing message queue functionality and improving compatibility with ActivityPub servers through refined HTTP signature handling.
This release introduces support for native retry mechanisms in message queue backends. The new MessageQueue.nativeRetrial property allows queue implementations to indicate whether they provide built-in retry functionality, enabling Fedify to optimize its retry behavior accordingly.
When nativeRetrial is set to true, Fedify will delegate retry handling to the queue backend rather than implementing its own retry logic. This approach reduces overhead and leverages the proven retry mechanisms of established queue systems.
Current implementations with native retry support include:
DenoKvMessageQueue — utilizes Deno KV's automatic retry with exponential backoffWorkersMessageQueue — leverages Cloudflare Queues' automatic retry and dead-letter queue featuresAmqpMessageQueue — can now be configured to use AMQP broker's native retry mechanismsThe InProcessMessageQueue continues to use Fedify's internal retry mechanism, while ParallelMessageQueue inherits the retry behavior from its wrapped queue.
Alongside Fedify 1.7.0, we have also released @fedify/amqp 0.3.0. This release adds the nativeRetrial option to AmqpMessageQueueOptions, enabling you to leverage your AMQP broker's built-in retry mechanisms. When enabled, this option allows the AMQP broker to handle message retries according to its configured policies, rather than relying on Fedify's internal retry logic.
The new FederationOptions.firstKnock option provides control over the HTTP Signatures specification used for the initial signature attempt when communicating with previously unknown servers.
Previously, the first knock for newly encountered servers always used RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), falling back to draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 if needed. With this release, you can now configure which specification to use for the first knock when communicating with unknown servers, with RFC 9421 remaining the default.
This release maintains Fedify's commitment to reliability and compatibility while laying the groundwork for more efficient message processing. The native retry mechanism support will particularly benefit applications using queue backends with sophisticated retry capabilities, while the double-knocking mechanism addresses real-world compatibility challenges in the ActivityPub ecosystem.
For detailed technical information about these changes, please refer to the changelog in the repository.
Okay, #Fediverse, here’s my long-winded reply to @tchambers about “The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins”. I mainly wrote this because it’s a really interesting subject, and I believe there’s a lot of positive things we could do together.
https://deadsuperhero.com/mitigating-the-7-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins/
Man, I’ve missed @radiofreefedi so much. I’m listening to the temporary Comfy channel right now, and it really hits the spot. #Fediverse#FediMusic
New NLNet Projects were recently announced, with a solid collection of ActivityPub related ones:
* Mastodon adding new features for institutional instances
* ActivityPub Polls for Wordpress
* Funkwhale Federation Improvements
* Making Events more interoperable between Fediverse Platforms
* Context Discovery in NodeBB
* Icosa 3-D Model Sharing with ActivityPub
Did I miss any?
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
Your points are absolutely valid, and I would certainly hope, that somebody finds the time to implement your suggestions. Very nice to know, that Mastodon is already at some.
The thing is, I think right now, #Bluesky is just hotter than #Mastodon & the #Fediverse. But that will change again, and it would be really great, when this stuff is fixed by the time an new wave of incoming people arrives. If we like it or not, many people were thrown away by exactly what you're describing.
🚀 @nlnet will fund @Mastodon
features for institutional instances. This will help make the #Fediverse a home for many organizations ✨
"This proposal aims to enhance its suitability for institutional use deploying their own server by introducing features such as customizable branding & landing pages, stronger security options like enforced 2FA + WebAuthn, the ability to embed timelines on external websites, and email-based post subscriptions for broader public reach."
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
