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In previous years, I published two "fediverse tech roadmap" posts:- Fediverse tech roadmap 2024- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025However, I didn't publish such post this year because not much has happened in 2025. Many problems I talked about require complex solutions, but unfortunately proposed solutions are often very limited or lead to centralization. Or worse, there is no solution but only an imitation of work. I don't want to write about that.I saw a thread today where ATProto ecosystem was compared to #ActivityPub. Things are happening in the Atmosphere, but not in Fediverse. MAU graphs are flat. What's going on?There are multiple factors at play, but I think fake activity may be the biggest contributor. Trivial developments presented as breakthroughs. Features that already exist somewhere in Fediverse presented as new inventions. Vaporware. Specs written by people who have no idea how to implement them. Working groups that do nothing but meetings.Real work is ignored, competent developers see that and quit.We need to fix this.For my part, I will continue to document #Fediverse development at @weekinfediverse. But this newsletter doesn't have much impact.

Listening to that podcast about a forky fediverse and it kicks off with the idea that EXPLAINING it must be super hard and complex.I don't see that at all. I see journos trying to overthink a very simple idea. There was once a time when using a "computer" meant going into the office and connecting your screen to a big machine. But things changed and people started using computers in the home. And eventually, even in the palm of your hand. Computing became "distributed" instead of "centralised".That's the difference between the Fediverse and the Zuckerverse. It's pretty simple really. I think journos just look for complexity sometimes instead of getting to the point.I'll agree that getting started as an individual can be awkward. Not complex even, just awkward. It's a new frontier. New rules. New tools. But none of this is unfamiliar really. We just need a friend to help us log on and get started. The internet was always like this.#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SearchEngine

the time is now...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GY9DWIfpwc#fediverse #atproto #activitypub

@julian Yeah thanks for quicker and more simple setup process as well, Discourse was not simple to get running on a janky network like mine.

@joel@gts.tumfatig.net I am on NodeBB, and it parses the Markdown if sent, but uses the HTML more or less as-is (with sanitization for safety). So — yes. I can also see your italics <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=03884acde30" title="" />

Bonfire has just released a new version, which includes initial support for Mastodon API endpoints (interested how this will work, as Bonfire has sooo many more post control options) And…initial work on an ActivityPub C2S API! https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-1-0-1-building-momentum/#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Bonfire

@elaine is building a new #fediverse server called #EchoCratehttps://ap.elaine.is/users/elaine/statuses/mkk63yzyftt9q0uznij#ActivityPub #fedidev

A gimmick on the #fedi to boost engagementhttps://blenderdumbass.org/articles/introducing_the_fediverse_fandomhood_gimmick#fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #freesoftware #opensource

I often see posts on LinkedIn about EuroSky. The MEP @alexandrageese often likes them. If our MEPs finally decide to leave X, will they mainly go to BlueSky or a European server?It's better than nothing, but I wonder how they will adapt to the #Fediverse. We shouldn't forget that the EU Commission is active on the @EUCommission@ec.social network.#LeaveX #BlueSky #EuroSky #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Europe #EU

@nopatience i've been thinking about this a lot lately. Specially because i would like https://coapp.io to join the #fediverse #activitypub I do think that different "accounts" are usefull, since people could follow only one type of content created for a specific community. I currently have several accounts that i use for different content. #pixelfed allows login with #mastodon (OAuth)Looking forward I did find some discussions about using DIDs, OIDC, etc. Let's talk

@SimonTB @javahippie no fosdem for me unfortunately. Keep an eye out for the first commits. Still mulling over a testing strategy that is manageable and not too complex.

I love sharing photos to my #PixeFed instance, but I hate manually typing in the year, location, and tags every single time. I automated the boring stuff so I can just focus on the story. Clean posts, zero effort. #PhotographyLife #Pixelfed #ActivityPub #Fediverse https://fediversestudio.zero.vedfolnir.org/

Livestream from room H.2215 (Ferrer) Topic: Social web Schedule: 10:40 JSON Databases and Small ActivityPub Servers: A Perfect Combination (Darius Kazemi) 11:00 Democratise the Fediverse (Matthias Pfefferle) 11:30 Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon (Hannah Aubry) 12:00 Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse (Benjamin Bellamy) 12:30 Reaching out to the wider society: Why the open social web needs to matter to more people – and how we can achieve that goal (Björn Staschen) 13:00 tags.pub - following hashtags globally (Evan Prodromou) 13:10 Increasing Long Term Stability of Relations Between Fediverse Identities using SSI (Paul Fuxjäger) 13:20 Unlocking development with ActivityPub Client to Server API (Django Doucet) 14:00 Federated Bookmark Sharing (Rafael Epplée) 14:10 Are digital rules a show stopper for the Fediverse? (Rebecca Sieber) 14:30 The Social Web and Digital Sovereignty: Building Social Advocacy Networks in and for Europe. (Sandra Barthel) 14:40 Building a sustainable italian fediverse: overcoming technical, adoption and moderation challenges (Fra - OpenForFuture, Filippo Della Bianca, Valentino Spataro) 15:10 How to level up the fediverse (Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon) 15:40Fediverse Integration into (EU) Public Administration - A Fantastic FediVariety Circus (Peter Mechels, vishnee) 16:00 ActivityPub at Scale: Institutional Entry Points into the Social Web (Melanie Bartos) 16:10 The needs of civil institutions for The Next Socials (Pepijn Lemmens) 16:20 A wild FASP appears! Integrating your app with Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers (James Smith) 16:30 Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed: Implementing ActivityPub-based Credentials for Non Profits (Maho Pacheco) 16:50Splinter - Split long articles into Mastodon threads (Eyal Ron (Neiman)) 17:20 Bonfire: Building Modular, Consentful, and Federated Social Networks (Mayel de Borniol, ivan minutillo) 17:40 Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain (Hong Minhee) 18:00 Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025 (Tobias Diekershoff) 18:10 Fedi legacy (Ian Forrester, Samuel Margerison) 18:20 Mobilizon - share events on the fediverse (Stéphane, Alexandra) 18:30 Emissary and the Fediverse (Ben Pate)

@snoopy TIL I had no idea who actually controlled #ActivityPub . Concerning to hear that #Fediverse developers don't really have a hand in it.

@schoenswetter @jnrs @stadtteilzentrum benutzt ihr beide die neuste version vom plugin? 7.8.5?

If you post duplicate content to multiple Fediverse accounts, please reconsider. For users following hashtags it means we have duplicate content cluttering the hashtag timelines. It's arguably a bit spammy.Yes, I know I can block those accounts if I want (and I have in some cases), but I prefer not to do that.#Fediverse #ActivityPub

Week in Fediverse 2026-01-16Servers- Mobilizon v5.2.2- Owncast v0.2.4- Epicyon v1.7.0- Wafrn v2026.01.03- PieFed v1.5.0- snac v2.88- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.8.3- Sharkey v2025.4.5- NodeBB v4.8.0- NeoDB v0.12.8- Trunk & Tidbits, December 2025 (Mastodon)- WordPress Federation: Recap of 2025Clients- PleromaFE v2.10.1- Mastodon for iOS v2026.1- TangerineUI for Mastodon v2.5.3- Aria v1.4.0- Voyager v2.43.2Tools and Plugins- Fediway: Recommendation engine for MastodonProtocol- FEP-f15d: Context Relocation and Removal- FEP-ee3a: Exif metadata supportArticles- The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters- List of RSS feeds distributed by each software on Fediverse- Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance- Mastodon for ActivityPub development-----#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPubPrevious edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019ba420-e45f-3802-6e4f-5f0767dcc2d4

J'essaie de m'abonner à des communautés de #Lemmy à partir de #Mastodon. J'ai peur que tous les commentaires apparaissent individuellement dans mon fil, mais jusqu'ici, ina pas assez d'activité pour que je voie de posts quand même.#fédivers #fediverse #activitypub

The most exciting thing to me about #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse is that they also connect #blogs, #RSS, and #indieweb social mentions to #socialmedia in an open, interoperable way. Frustrating, though, that mainstream users tend to ignore noncommercial solutions that aren't aggressively trying to attract them, especially when the onboarding experience is so confusing to newbies. Even if our tech platforms are ready for prime time, the human networks are only early adopter types.

Ein von Gemini (by Google) und Nano Banana erstelltes Artikelbild.Wie in einem anderen Artikel schon erwähnt, bin ich gerade am experimentieren, dass ich diesen WordPress-Blog mittels dem ActivityPub-Plugin „Fediverse-tauglich“ mache. Das ist eine recht interessante Reise, bei der es immer wieder Hürden zu nehmen gibt. Aktuell verwende ich das WordPress-Plugin „Indieblocks„, um „Kurzmitteilungen“ (aka „Notes“ für kurze Texte wie bei Twitter) und „Likes“ (für URLs zum Merken) zu veröffentlichen. Diese unterscheiden sich von „normalen WordPress-Posts“ hauptsächlich durch ihre Länge bzw. den Umfang. Das funktioniert für mich schon soweit ganz gut und ich nutze diese „Kurzmitteilungen“ auch oft, um für mich selbst Seiten, Themen oder URLs zu merken. Praktisch ist hierbei auch, das ich direkt über meine Webseite mir auch wieder eine Übersicht der Notes und Links anzeigen lassen kann.Jetzt kommen wir zu meinem Erste-Welt-Problem: Wir hat die Ansicht, wie die Einträge angezeigt werden, nicht gefallen. Zum einen brauche ich bei dieser Art von Mitteilungen keine Überschrift und dann war mir die Trennung zwischen den einzelnen Posts nicht offensichtlich genug. Daher habe ich etwas mittels eigenem CSS-Code rumprobiert und habe die Ansicht für mein Empfinden etwas optimiert. Den zusätzlichen CSS-Code habe ich im WordPress-Backend unter Design → Customizer → zusätzliches CSS eingefügt. Ich füge euch im Anschluss den Code hier ein, welchen ich verwendet habe. Evtl. müsst ihr diesen noch für euch anpassen. Ich verwende das Neve-Theme hier auf meinen Blog und ich kann nicht sagen, ob dieser Code auch mit anderen WordPress-Themes 100%ig funktioniert. Da ich mit CSS auch nicht so richtig fit bin, habe ich mir bei der Erstellung von Gemini helfen lassen. /* Rahmen und Abstände für die einzelnen Notizen auf der Übersichtsseite */ .post-type-archive-note .nv-index-posts .content-wrap, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_note .nv-index-posts .content-wrap, .post-type-archive-note article, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_note article { border: 1px solid #e1e8ed !important; border-radius: 12px !important; padding: 15px !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important; background-color: #ffffff !important; box-shadow: 0 5px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.1) !important; } /* Entfernt den Standard-Abstand des Themes, damit der Rahmen bündig sitzt */ .post-type-archive-note .nv-index-posts article, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_note .nv-index-posts article { border: none !important; background: transparent !important; } /* --- 1. Auf der Übersichtsseite (Archiv) der Notes --- */ /* Wir sprechen den Body der Note-Archive an */ body.post-type-archive-note .blog-entry-title.entry-title, body.post-type-archive-indieblocks_note .blog-entry-title.entry-title { display: none !important; } /* --- 2. In der Einzelansicht einer Note --- */ /* Falls du den Titel auch öffnen der einzelnen Notiz ausblenden willst */ body.single-note .entry-title, body.single-indieblocks_note .entry-title { display: none !important; } /* 1. TITEL AUSBLENDEN auf Notes und Likes */ .post-type-archive-note .entry-title, .post-type-archive-like .entry-title, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_like .entry-title, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_note .entry-title { display: none !important; } /* Rahmen für Notes und Likes Archiv-Seiten */ .post-type-archive-note .nv-index-posts article, .post-type-archive-like .nv-index-posts article, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_note .nv-index-posts article, .post-type-archive-indieblocks_like .nv-index-posts article { border: 1px solid #e1e8ed !important; border-radius: 12px !important; padding: 20px !important; margin-bottom: 25px !important; background-color: #ffffff !important; box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.05) !important; display: block !important; overflow: hidden !important; } /* Verhindert, dass das Theme innere Abstände erzwingt, die den Rahmen sprengen */ .post-type-archive-note .content-wrap, .post-type-archive-like .content-wrap { padding: 0 !important; margin: 0 !important; }