@hrast

Social coding commons at https://coding.social considers the online #SocialNetwork to offer a person integral social experiences. As they navigate the #SocialWeb their needs are satisfied by interoperable solutions, provided by apps and services that are delivered to the network. Social experience design #SX drives both the evolution of the technology base, as well as evolution of the ecosystem responsible for cocreating it. This results in a social-first approach focused on service delivery.

Current app-centric #fediverse follows a tech-first maturity model where app needs are leading. Individual app's requirements and features are source of truth, and secondary concern is 'pushing that on the wire'. Apps evolve as siloes independently of each other, and deal with interop issues later (and all the time, a continuous process as there is no real standard way).

So this merging will be very hard. The #ActivityPub API offers opportunity to improve ecosystem development methods.

RE: https://mastodon.design/@alx/109297075845956477

Hello #Fediverse ! There's been a surge in my followers & after 3.5 years it's probably time for a new #introduction.

I'm a designer, illustrator, and craft scholar.

My design stuff can be found here: https://alxfsl.com

My PhD stuff can be found here: https://sustainabilityinthemaking.com

I draw and get political, a lot. I rant about #politics #design #tech #academia and keep a #ClimateDiary. Some threads are archived here: https://buttondown.com/alx/archive/

Currently less online: https://mastodon.design/@alx/115923938740447686

#HolosDiscover is back, from a clean slate.
A #Fediverse search engine that uses standard #ActivityPub federation. It follows you like any account, respects indexable flags, #nobot, #noindex, locked accounts. Deletions, edits, blocks are processed instantly through ActivityPub.
You have full control. Block it, mention it with "unfollow", or disable indexing in your settings.
Source code under AGPL-3.0 on #Codeberg.

Details: https://discover.holos.social/how-it-works

Account: @HolosDiscover

#Mastodon, a #decentralised #socialmedia platform, is introducing #newfeatures to attract creators and make the platform more approachable for newcomers.

🎉 These updates include a #redesigned user profile, an enhanced compose experience, and new admin tools for server operators.

💆 The changes aim to #promote #smallinstances and make the onboarding process more understandable.

👉 https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/mastodon-a-decentralized-alternative-to-x-plans-to-target-creators-with-new-features/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

A couple days ago, I got a DM from a #Bonfire user. I happily replied and sent a follow request—but the Accept never came back, even though they hadn't enabled manuallyApprovesFollowers. My DM reply probably never arrived either. Classic interop bug.

I checked out the Bonfire source and dug in. Turns out Bonfire hasn't implemented RFC 9421 yet, so it was silently discarding any activity signed with it. That alone would be workable, except for one more issue: Bonfire was responding 200 OK even when signature verification failed, instead of 401 Unauthorized.

This matters because Fedify implements a double-knocking mechanism—if a request signed with RFC 9421 fails, it retries with the older draft cavage signature. But since Bonfire returned 200 OK on the failed first knock, #Fedify had no reason to send a second one.

I filed two issues on the Bonfire #ActivityPub repo—one requesting RFC 9421 support, and one about returning 401 on invalid signatures. For the latter, I also sent a PR, which got merged pretty quickly: bonfire-networks/activity_pub#9.

That said, individual Bonfire instances won't pick up the fix until they actually deploy it. So in the meantime, I patched Hollo and Hackers' Pub to use draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 as the firstKnock, so Bonfire instances can at least understand the first request.

One last thing: Fedify caches whether a given server supports RFC 9421, and the Bonfire servers I'd already talked to were cached as “supports RFC 9421”—because they'd been returning 200 OK. I had to manually clear that cache on both hollo.social and hackers.pub before everything finally worked.

After all that, the mutual follow went through and my DM reply landed. Worth it.

#fedidev #fediverse #Hollo #HackersPub

@hrast

Social coding commons at https://coding.social considers the online #SocialNetwork to offer a person integral social experiences. As they navigate the #SocialWeb their needs are satisfied by interoperable solutions, provided by apps and services that are delivered to the network. Social experience design #SX drives both the evolution of the technology base, as well as evolution of the ecosystem responsible for cocreating it. This results in a social-first approach focused on service delivery.

Current app-centric #fediverse follows a tech-first maturity model where app needs are leading. Individual app's requirements and features are source of truth, and secondary concern is 'pushing that on the wire'. Apps evolve as siloes independently of each other, and deal with interop issues later (and all the time, a continuous process as there is no real standard way).

So this merging will be very hard. The #ActivityPub API offers opportunity to improve ecosystem development methods.

A couple days ago, I got a DM from a #Bonfire user. I happily replied and sent a follow request—but the Accept never came back, even though they hadn't enabled manuallyApprovesFollowers. My DM reply probably never arrived either. Classic interop bug.

I checked out the Bonfire source and dug in. Turns out Bonfire hasn't implemented RFC 9421 yet, so it was silently discarding any activity signed with it. That alone would be workable, except for one more issue: Bonfire was responding 200 OK even when signature verification failed, instead of 401 Unauthorized.

This matters because Fedify implements a double-knocking mechanism—if a request signed with RFC 9421 fails, it retries with the older draft cavage signature. But since Bonfire returned 200 OK on the failed first knock, #Fedify had no reason to send a second one.

I filed two issues on the Bonfire #ActivityPub repo—one requesting RFC 9421 support, and one about returning 401 on invalid signatures. For the latter, I also sent a PR, which got merged pretty quickly: bonfire-networks/activity_pub#9.

That said, individual Bonfire instances won't pick up the fix until they actually deploy it. So in the meantime, I patched Hollo and Hackers' Pub to use draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 as the firstKnock, so Bonfire instances can at least understand the first request.

One last thing: Fedify caches whether a given server supports RFC 9421, and the Bonfire servers I'd already talked to were cached as “supports RFC 9421”—because they'd been returning 200 OK. I had to manually clear that cache on both hollo.social and hackers.pub before everything finally worked.

After all that, the mutual follow went through and my DM reply landed. Worth it.

#fedidev #fediverse #Hollo #HackersPub

Die Exotik meines Salamibroetchens am Frankfurter Bahnhof wird nur noch den Preis geschlagen: 5 Euro.
Wenigstens ist es dafuer schoen weich, da muss die Stammkundschaft nicht extra die Zaehne einsetzen.

Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Dienstag. Alles wird gut 🖖

Another pro-genocide Zionist reply-then-block bot to report:

@crumpet99@troet.cafe

This one was sent in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116119104805754025

#ZionistReplyBots #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #fediblock #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #Fediverse

I’ve been up since 5:30, even though I would have gladly slept a bit longer.
I found a regression in MastoBlaster, notifications on Mastodon, I’m checking it.
One of my secondary servers is down, I’m waiting for a KVM console.
It’s foggy outside.
There’s still fog inside the house too, unfortunately.

Let’s hope the day turns out to be a good one.

#GoodMorning

📢💰We will run an experiment of drastically reducing the price of our monthly subscription from $4.99/m down to a mere $1.99/m. That's a 60% price reduction! Of course, the 30-day free trial remains, too.

To make the lower price stick, we'd need to get as many people to try Murmel as we possibly can.

Please, help us spread the word throughout the #fediverse. We'd love to get a boost from you. Please, smash that 🔁 button! 🚀🙏

https://murmel.social/

#Mastodon, a #decentralised #socialmedia platform, is introducing #newfeatures to attract creators and make the platform more approachable for newcomers.

🎉 These updates include a #redesigned user profile, an enhanced compose experience, and new admin tools for server operators.

💆 The changes aim to #promote #smallinstances and make the onboarding process more understandable.

👉 https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/mastodon-a-decentralized-alternative-to-x-plans-to-target-creators-with-new-features/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Here's an idea I'm playing with: a semi-customizable fediverse invitation page.

Example: https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=hachyderm.io&apps=1,2,3,5

More about the project: http://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation

#fediverse #FediverseInvitation

Welcome to the #Fediverse ...

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116114454315002327

There are many great explainers for the fediverse, and they all fit different scenarios.

But the best way to invite someone to the fediverse is to tell them about a specific community that you think they should join.

My latest tool may help you do that.

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

Hallo #fediverse Power: ich suche für Bonn (Bad Godesberg) eine kleine Firma oder einen Selbstständigen, der ein kleines Windows-Netzwerk betreuen könnte. 5 Arbeitsplätze, 1 Server, 2 Drucker. Bei Interesse gerne DM an mich.

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116114454315002327

There are many great explainers for the fediverse, and they all fit different scenarios.

But the best way to invite someone to the fediverse is to tell them about a specific community that you think they should join.

My latest tool may help you do that.

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

What if we do a "Invite one person to the fediverse" day?

A day where everyone at the fediverse go and reach a friend, family, stranger, coworker, partner, mistress, neighbor, rival, coffee buddy, artist, business partner, etc... and invites them/onboard-them to any of the #fediverse apps.

I Love the Fediverse Day kind of a thing. Does that exists already? Any specific date in mind?

#askfedi