Sorry for the 23,492 #activitypub messages but it turns out "Chadds Ford" has no apostrophe.
hamish campbell
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Outreach text for the #4opens
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The #4opens offers guiding principles for testing, evaluating, and promoting progressive social and tech projects. With these principles, people and communities prioritise paths of openness, collaboration, and the social good. The #4opens can be used to drive meaningful change:
Open Data
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tootik v0.19.9
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik
tootik is a federated nanoblogging service for the small internet.
tootik allows people to participate in the fediverse using their Gemini, Gopher or Finger client of choice and makes the fediverse lighter, more private and more accessible. tootik's interface strips content to bare essentials (like text and links), puts the users in control of the content they see and tries to "slow down" the fediverse to make it more compatible with the slower pace of the small internet.
It's a single executable that handles both the federation (using ActivityPub) and the frontend (using Gemini) aspects, while sqlite takes care of persistency. It should be lightweight and efficient enough to host a small community even on a cheap server, and hopefully, be easy to hack on.
tootik implements only a small subset of ActivityPub, and probably doesn't really conform to the spec.
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/releases/tag/v0.19.9
#Gemini #Gopher #Guppy #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Weiß jemand, warum das #ActivityPub #Plugin von #Wordpress keine #Updates signalisiert, wenn sich ein Artikel ändert?
Wenn man z.B. vergißt eine Kurzbeschreibung des Artikel zu setzen, wird automatisch eine bestimmte Anzahl von Zeichen des Artikel für den Beitrag verwendet.
Wenn man seinen Irrtum bemerkt und eine Kurzbeschreibung hinzufügt, bleibt der Beitrag für das Fediversum unverändert.
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tootik v0.19.9
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik
tootik is a federated nanoblogging service for the small internet.
tootik allows people to participate in the fediverse using their Gemini, Gopher or Finger client of choice and makes the fediverse lighter, more private and more accessible. tootik's interface strips content to bare essentials (like text and links), puts the users in control of the content they see and tries to "slow down" the fediverse to make it more compatible with the slower pace of the small internet.
It's a single executable that handles both the federation (using ActivityPub) and the frontend (using Gemini) aspects, while sqlite takes care of persistency. It should be lightweight and efficient enough to host a small community even on a cheap server, and hopefully, be easy to hack on.
tootik implements only a small subset of ActivityPub, and probably doesn't really conform to the spec.
Changelog:
=> https://github.com/dimkr/tootik/releases/tag/v0.19.9
#Gemini #Gopher #Guppy #Fediverse #ActivityPub
fedicat
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Week in Fediverse 2025-11-07
Servers
- Gush! v0.0.26
- Manyfold v0.128.0
- Wafrn v2025.10.02
- Hubzilla v10.6
- Ktistec v3.1.3
- Mastodon v4.5
- gancio v1.28.1
- Castopod v1.13.6
- tootik v0.19.8
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.4
- Lemmy Development Update October 2025
Clients
- IceCubesApp v2.0.9
- Mangane v1.18.5
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5
- Mastodon Bird UI v3.0.0
- PeerTube Mobile v1.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.2
- bleromo: A Windows 98-style Pleroma/Mastodon client
Tools and Plugins
For developers
- APx v0.20.0
- Fedialgo v1.2.32
- FIRES Server v0.4.0
- NGI0 Progress report #1 (GoActivityPub)
Protocol
- FEP-d8c8: BitTorrent Torrent Objects
- FEP-19b3: Specifying Properties of a Service
Articles
- Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
- Fediverse Report – #141
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a3c12-2a12-7683-592d-a0dec77f582e
Week in Fediverse 2025-11-14
Servers
- PieFed v1.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.6.0
- Ktistec v3.2.0
- Mastodon v4.5.1
- Mitra v4.13.0
- tootik v0.19.9
- Merp Relay v0.4.0
- shops v0.1.4
- Trunk & Tidbits, October 2025 (Mastodon)
Clients
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5.2
- Voyager v2.40.3
- Phanpy changelog
- NeoComment: NeoDB Client
Tools and Plugins
- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.2.0 (WordPress plugin)
- FIRES Server v0.5.0
For developers
- Schemas one can use to validate objects used in the Fediverse
Protocol
- FEP-22b6: Linking an ActivityPub Object to a HTML page and back
Articles
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a6010-28f6-7425-c378-064738e621a6
@ntnsndr
They are different in how they empower people as well.
#ActivityPub is based around servers whose admins have the power to do literally anything at their whim, as they are the source of truth.
#Nostr, OTOH, (and perhaps #ATProto as well; I need to learn more about it) is based around servers that are dumb relays that simply pass signed data between users' devices.
For a taste of what I've been working on this season, I have a new, tiny-little essay in the in-house journal of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, Rhythms: "Are Protocols Elite?" Based on a collab with Avery Edenfield. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/11/06/rhythms-fall-2025-counter-media
@ntnsndr
To my mind, an example of an elite internet protocol and a corresponding vernacular one is #ActivityPub versus #Nostr.
AP was created by the W3C whereas Nostr was created by some random guy under a pseudonym whose real name is a mystery.
Peer:
Unknown type of activity/object
I like what I've heard about Bonfire, and I like the emphasis on community-run servers over a central flagship server (e.g., mastodon.social), but this trend worries me a bit:
“…the movement of starting a new fediverse server was heavily tied to the Mastodon migration effect that started after Elon Musk took over, in the fall of 2022. After that period, much fewer communities have started a new Mastodon server. This poses a challenge for the approach of Bonfire: the Bonfire Social software is now officially released in a 1.0 version, but there is not a single publicly accessible server that runs Bonfire.”
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-142/
Week in Fediverse 2025-11-07
Servers
- Gush! v0.0.26
- Manyfold v0.128.0
- Wafrn v2025.10.02
- Hubzilla v10.6
- Ktistec v3.1.3
- Mastodon v4.5
- gancio v1.28.1
- Castopod v1.13.6
- tootik v0.19.8
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.4
- Lemmy Development Update October 2025
Clients
- IceCubesApp v2.0.9
- Mangane v1.18.5
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5
- Mastodon Bird UI v3.0.0
- PeerTube Mobile v1.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.2
- bleromo: A Windows 98-style Pleroma/Mastodon client
Tools and Plugins
For developers
- APx v0.20.0
- Fedialgo v1.2.32
- FIRES Server v0.4.0
- NGI0 Progress report #1 (GoActivityPub)
Protocol
- FEP-d8c8: BitTorrent Torrent Objects
- FEP-19b3: Specifying Properties of a Service
Articles
- Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
- Fediverse Report – #141
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a3c12-2a12-7683-592d-a0dec77f582e
Week in Fediverse 2025-11-14
Servers
- PieFed v1.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.6.0
- Ktistec v3.2.0
- Mastodon v4.5.1
- Mitra v4.13.0
- tootik v0.19.9
- Merp Relay v0.4.0
- shops v0.1.4
- Trunk & Tidbits, October 2025 (Mastodon)
Clients
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5.2
- Voyager v2.40.3
- Phanpy changelog
- NeoComment: NeoDB Client
Tools and Plugins
- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.2.0 (WordPress plugin)
- FIRES Server v0.5.0
For developers
- Schemas one can use to validate objects used in the Fediverse
Protocol
- FEP-22b6: Linking an ActivityPub Object to a HTML page and back
Articles
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a6010-28f6-7425-c378-064738e621a6
Björn Staschen
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Wir freuen uns heute von aktuellen Veröffentlichungen zu erfahren, die zeigen, dass das #Fediverse in der deutschsprachigen #Politikberatung langsam den ihm gebührenden Platz findet:
1. Torben Klause, Agora #DigitaleTransformation: „Aus der Plattformnische in den Mainstream - #Souveräne #SocialMedia-#Infrastruktur jenseits von #BigTech“
https://agoradigital.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ADT_Policy-Paper_Aus-der-Plattformnische-in-den-Mainstream.pdf
2. Björn Staschen et al. (Bertelsmann-Stiftung Hrsg.): „Dezentrale Social-Media-#Plattformen als Chance für ein #resilientes #Informationsökosystem“
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikationen/publikation/did/dezentrale-social-media-plattformen-als-chance-fuer-ein-resilientes-informationsoekosystem
Beides sind wichtige Publikationen und wir wünschen Ihnen, dass ihre klaren Analysen vom Versagen der sich als sozial bezeichnenden Medien und ihre Vorschläge für #ActivityPub-basierte Alternativen wie #Mastodon und #PeerTube möglichst bald umgesetzt werden.
Vielen Dank an die Autoren für die gute Arbeit.
Wir freuen uns heute von aktuellen Veröffentlichungen zu erfahren, die zeigen, dass das #Fediverse in der deutschsprachigen #Politikberatung langsam den ihm gebührenden Platz findet:
1. Torben Klause, Agora #DigitaleTransformation: „Aus der Plattformnische in den Mainstream - #Souveräne #SocialMedia-#Infrastruktur jenseits von #BigTech“
https://agoradigital.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ADT_Policy-Paper_Aus-der-Plattformnische-in-den-Mainstream.pdf
2. Björn Staschen et al. (Bertelsmann-Stiftung Hrsg.): „Dezentrale Social-Media-#Plattformen als Chance für ein #resilientes #Informationsökosystem“
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikationen/publikation/did/dezentrale-social-media-plattformen-als-chance-fuer-ein-resilientes-informationsoekosystem
Beides sind wichtige Publikationen und wir wünschen Ihnen, dass ihre klaren Analysen vom Versagen der sich als sozial bezeichnenden Medien und ihre Vorschläge für #ActivityPub-basierte Alternativen wie #Mastodon und #PeerTube möglichst bald umgesetzt werden.
Vielen Dank an die Autoren für die gute Arbeit.
Ulrike Hahn
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Release v3.2.0 of Ktistec
The major feature in v3.2.0 of Ktistec is thread analysis. The previous release, v3.1.2, added support for viewing threads from Lemmy communities. I follow the Open Source community, which leads to many large threads. The thread on FFMpeg and Google has 112 posts and is still growing.
Thread analysis helps me navigate these extensive conversations. It includes: top contributors, a timeline histogram, and notable branches.
The analysis applies several heuristics to identify interesting branches of the main thread. “Interesting” is subjective, but the algorithm currently looks for sudden bursts of activity and highlights those areas. Ktistec uses this to create a table of contents that links directly to those branches. Clicking on one of these links takes you to a branch-only view that focuses on the selected part of the thread.
It's fast—I anticipated needing to cache analyses, but analyzing a thread with over 400 posts takes only about 50 milliseconds on my production server.
Figure 1: Screenshot of the final design. Notable branches link to subsets of the thread.This release also addresses an object visibility regression that was introduced in a previous version.
Full Changelog
Added
- Thread analysis that displays key participants, a timeline histogram, and notable branches
- New MCP tools:
analyze_threadandget_thread - Focal point rendering support for image attachments
Fixed
- Regression in object visibility affecting replies to threads
Changed
- Enhanced MCP tool details for likes, dislikes, and announces
- Improved cookie security.
Ulrike Hahn
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" #Bonfire Networks is a tiny software org that has spent the past couple of years building a framework for communities on the open social web. At the end of last week, they released #BonfireSocial, a microblogging app. Like Mastodon, Bonfire Social runs on #ActivityPub, but it takes differently opinionated approach to sociability."
Check it out!
https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/
