What a lovely article by @kissane on the achievements of the @bonfire team who - helped like many other fedi projects by #NGI0 @nlnet funding - mustered the huge effort and perseverance to explore new and exciting areas of social networking. To glimpse the future of the social web certainly give Bonfire's website a visit. 💕
What a lovely article by @kissane on the achievements of the @bonfire team who - helped like many other fedi projects by #NGI0 @nlnet funding - mustered the huge effort and perseverance to explore new and exciting areas of social networking. To glimpse the future of the social web certainly give Bonfire's website a visit. 💕
Enshitification is a real $h!T
Great talk "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" by @pluralistic at #websummit2025 #lisbon
Free and Open Source #floss really contributes to a free internet.
Although it is very good to have #ngi0 grants and support (among other initiatives) it is still not enough.
We need to work together, as a society.
📢 On November 18, 2025 at 10:00-11:00 Chișinău time, the Online #Infoshare for the Moldovan community on NGI Zero Commons Fund Calls will take place. 🤓
#NGIZero provides financial and practical #support for free and open source projects. 🤝 This session will cover the scope, eligibility, and assessment procedures, and give an opportunity to ask your questions. 🎯
Join us and register to participate 👉 https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wi108u-k7eoBMbS88LSDNDvNPE1H9MGBWEm4UqpcB1Y/
📢 On November 18, 2025 at 10:00-11:00 Chișinău time, the Online #Infoshare for the Moldovan community on NGI Zero Commons Fund Calls will take place. 🤓
#NGIZero provides financial and practical #support for free and open source projects. 🤝 This session will cover the scope, eligibility, and assessment procedures, and give an opportunity to ask your questions. 🎯
Join us and register to participate 👉 https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wi108u-k7eoBMbS88LSDNDvNPE1H9MGBWEm4UqpcB1Y/
You are very welcome to join OW2's Open Source webinar with talks from @CryptPad and @decidim
Cryptpad is a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted office suite which conrtributes to digital independence. Decidim an open source participatory democracy platform that enables citizen participation in democratic processes.
Organized by @ow2 the webinar takes place Thursday 6 November at 16:00 CET. It is free for everyone but you do need to sign up: https://www.ow2.org/view/webinar/webinar_6
You are very welcome to join OW2's Open Source webinar with talks from @CryptPad and @decidim
Cryptpad is a fully open source, end-to-end encrypted office suite which conrtributes to digital independence. Decidim an open source participatory democracy platform that enables citizen participation in democratic processes.
Organized by @ow2 the webinar takes place Thursday 6 November at 16:00 CET. It is free for everyone but you do need to sign up: https://www.ow2.org/view/webinar/webinar_6
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Hubzilla awarded NLnet NGI0 grant for performance and moderation work
@ Harald Eilertsen is going to use a NLnet NGI0 grant to advance the development of Hubzilla! Great work, Harald!
Harald Eilertsen wrote the following post Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:59:59 +0200
Hubzilla awarded NLnet NGI0 grant for performance and moderation work

I'm really happy to announce that I've qualified for a grant from @NLnet and their @NGI Zero open source funding programme for implementing performance profiling for Hubzilla, and to improve the Superblock addon! These are projects that has been pushed around for some time already, but thanks to NLnet I can now afford to set of the required time to get this out of the way.
This work will help us understand and fix performance issues both during development/testing and in production. The work on the Superblock addon will improve it to gain modern moderation features required by the fediverse today.
Hubzilla is a fediverse platform with a strong focus on owning and controlling your own data. It is one of the longest running active projects in the fediverse, and has pioneered features like cross-site authentication, nomadic identity, comment controls and granular permissions enforced by the server. With functionality way beyond mere sharing of status updates and posts, Hubzilla is an extensible platform that aims to be a more complete home on the web.
# hubzilla # fediverse # nlnet # ngi0 # funding
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Hubzilla awarded NLnet NGI0 grant for performance and moderation work
@ Harald Eilertsen is going to use a NLnet NGI0 grant to advance the development of Hubzilla! Great work, Harald!
Harald Eilertsen wrote the following post Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:59:59 +0200
Hubzilla awarded NLnet NGI0 grant for performance and moderation work

I'm really happy to announce that I've qualified for a grant from @NLnet and their @NGI Zero open source funding programme for implementing performance profiling for Hubzilla, and to improve the Superblock addon! These are projects that has been pushed around for some time already, but thanks to NLnet I can now afford to set of the required time to get this out of the way.
This work will help us understand and fix performance issues both during development/testing and in production. The work on the Superblock addon will improve it to gain modern moderation features required by the fediverse today.
Hubzilla is a fediverse platform with a strong focus on owning and controlling your own data. It is one of the longest running active projects in the fediverse, and has pioneered features like cross-site authentication, nomadic identity, comment controls and granular permissions enforced by the server. With functionality way beyond mere sharing of status updates and posts, Hubzilla is an extensible platform that aims to be a more complete home on the web.
# hubzilla # fediverse # nlnet # ngi0 # funding
Happy to announce 29 projects have been selected in round 6 of the NGI Zero Commons Fund.
It is a great selection of Free and Open Source projects covering the entire stack from open hardware to apps that improve user autonomy. Together they help to build the digital commons.
Some projects even already have #hex stickers \o/. Come check it out!
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251016-selection-NGI0CommonsFund.html
(and if you'd like to work for the internet as well, the current call closes December 1).
On this topic, calling all #Go #developers interested in lending a hand.
I have two major goals for increasing the unit-test coverage in the individual packages that #GoActivityPub is comprised of.
These are tasks that are very accessible even for people new to the #ActivityPub spec and I would prefer to support new developers that want to give it a try than wait until I have time to do them myself.
The only requirement I have is that if you want to help, you already have some public Go projects that I can have a look at.
Point of contact is on this email (after you "deobfuscate" it): goap@federated·id
Well, after an initial failure, my #NLNet grant application for #GoActivityPub has been accepted under the NGI0 Commons Fund. 💪
This means that for the next months my main focus will be fully on making #ActivityPub in the #Go programming language easier for other developers.
If you're one of them, reach out, I want to know what you struggle with and how I can help with that.
On this topic, calling all #Go #developers interested in lending a hand.
I have two major goals for increasing the unit-test coverage in the individual packages that #GoActivityPub is comprised of.
These are tasks that are very accessible even for people new to the #ActivityPub spec and I would prefer to support new developers that want to give it a try than wait until I have time to do them myself.
The only requirement I have is that if you want to help, you already have some public Go projects that I can have a look at.
Point of contact is on this email (after you "deobfuscate" it): goap@federated·id