With my latest project, you can create a customizable invitation for your fediverse community, with your favorite apps and even starter packs.

Like this one.

https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=hachyderm.io&apps=1,2,3,5&starterpacks=NjQ5,OTIw,OTAx,ODY4

Learn how to make your own: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #invitation

I was at an event last night and some people spoke about how without Fb they wouldn't have been able to reconnect with their school friends.
The #Networkeffect of the #socialgraph is so important to growth.

I am wondering how the #Fediverse could incorporate that in order to get more users.

#MastoAdmin #marketing #mastodon

@shlee @KathyReid follow @HolosDiscover @stefan @AdminTeam @tchambers

I was at an event last night and some people spoke about how without Fb they wouldn't have been able to reconnect with their school friends.
The #Networkeffect of the #socialgraph is so important to growth.

I am wondering how the #Fediverse could incorporate that in order to get more users.

#MastoAdmin #marketing #mastodon

@shlee @KathyReid follow @HolosDiscover @stefan @AdminTeam @tchambers

I’m building a new tool and looking for volunteers to test it! A #fediverse linktree.

It’s designed for two types of people:

Normies / newcomers – Think of it like a free, privacy-respecting Linktree. No trackers, no ads. But here's the cool par: it's a Trojan horse for the fediverse. Your profile link is itself an ActivityPub actor. That means people can interact with it directly in the fediverse, and it encourages exploration of open platforms.

Fediverse users, If you have multiple accounts ( #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, Loops, a federated blog…), you know the struggle: sometimes you just want one persona to follow. This tool gives you that. It doesn’t post on its own (read-only), but it boosts all your other accounts and even has its own #ActivityPub inbox. PLUS it can receive and show your badges issued by @badgefed !

Interested in testing? Reply here.

I’m building a new tool and looking for volunteers to test it! A #fediverse linktree.

It’s designed for two types of people:

Normies / newcomers – Think of it like a free, privacy-respecting Linktree. No trackers, no ads. But here's the cool par: it's a Trojan horse for the fediverse. Your profile link is itself an ActivityPub actor. That means people can interact with it directly in the fediverse, and it encourages exploration of open platforms.

Fediverse users, If you have multiple accounts ( #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, Loops, a federated blog…), you know the struggle: sometimes you just want one persona to follow. This tool gives you that. It doesn’t post on its own (read-only), but it boosts all your other accounts and even has its own #ActivityPub inbox. PLUS it can receive and show your badges issued by @badgefed !

Interested in testing? Reply here.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116138793186293277

In terms of alternatives to X, it's interesting to compare German and British universities. The former seem to prefer the Fediverse, while the latter prefer BlueSky.

How are things going in this regard with universities and research institutes in other European countries?

Cc @zolke.bsky.social @neuSoM

#Academia #Fediverse #Mastodon #BlueSky #UK #Germany #Science #Europe

On #Mastodon there are now
418 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
120 instances.

244 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@kulturagoiena (BAQ)
@t3n (GER)
@MakeMagazinDE (GER)
@9to5linux (ENG)
@AIB (GER)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Well then.

https://arewedecentralizedyet.online

#fediverse #bluesky #atmosphere #bluesky #SocialMedia

On #Mastodon there are now
418 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
120 instances.

244 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@kulturagoiena (BAQ)
@t3n (GER)
@MakeMagazinDE (GER)
@9to5linux (ENG)
@AIB (GER)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

What site or server will Meta be using to register these bots and “user” (employee) accounts?

Yours — meaning everyone else’s. These accounts are intended to blend in.

How do you detect these bots and “users”?

You do not — that is the point. We will be blending in with everyone else to increase backlinks.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #Lemmy #Pixelfed #FediAdmin #Facebook #Instagram

What site or server will Meta be using to register these bots and “user” (employee) accounts?

Yours — meaning everyone else’s. These accounts are intended to blend in.

How do you detect these bots and “users”?

You do not — that is the point. We will be blending in with everyone else to increase backlinks.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #Lemmy #Pixelfed #FediAdmin #Facebook #Instagram

Are there any teachers using #Mastodon or other #Fediverse tools, such as blogs, for educational purposes?

I started working as a software developer in 2006 to build a social networking platform for one of the largest universities in Brazil. One of the main goals was to share knowledge via blogs and discussion forums, and I think there were quite a few positive use cases.

While doing research in physics, I moderated an online forum on Orkut* with more than 15 thousand members, together with some other physicists. Even professors began engaging in the discussions, which were sometimes at a high level, and they helped students who wanted to pursue an academic career or become teachers. I found the experience quite positive, mainly for students - it was forbidden asking for doing their homework.

This could be a good use case for non-addictive social media and set a good example for its use in education. This is in contrast to Big Tech social media, which is harming our youth.

* Orkut was a social network of Google, quite popular in Brazil in the early 2000s.

#Education #Physics #Brazil #Blogs #BigTech #SocialMedia #Youth

"Add Comment Controls"

Love seeing Loops prioritize people's safety!

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.10

https://joinloops.org

#fediverse #loops #LoopsVideo #ReplyControls

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

Moving on with our next speaker Julian Lam @julian who shows how forums help overcome infinite scrolling news feeds.
He's the co-founder of @nodebb, an open-source community forum platform with built-in #ActivityPub support, connecting traditional forums to the #SocialWeb.

#FediMTL #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty

METTEZ DES HASHTAGS LES GENS la première chose que je fais pour convaincre quelqu'un'e de rejoindre le #fediverse, c'est de lui demander ce qui l'intéresse. La poterie ? J'ouvre le hashtag #poterie pour lui prouver dans la seconde qu'il y a du contenu pour elle, qu'elle peut trouver des gens avec qui partager, que ça vit. Si pas de contenu, je l'ai perdue.

Chaque hashtag est une vitrine qui doit montrer la vitalité du réseau.

Pensons-y et posons les #hashtags sur les meilleurs publications 🙏