NLNet announces newly funded projects, including quite a few related to ActivityPub.

@node9 automated deployments for streams and hubzilla

@raffomania for the linkblocks federated link sharing platform

@manyfold - federated 3d model sharing

@mobilizon for their federated event sharing platform

@activitypods is a storage solution for federated data

@spritely and their Oaken project (fedi adjacent and happy for them)

https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-announcing-grantees-June-call.html

#activitypub #FediverseSoftware #fediverse

@silverpill @wakest ⁂ Yes.

There was quite some discussion whats going on with ActivityPub FEPs implemented by Streams and other projects during the evaluation and "threadiverse" catched somehow wrapping it for non-developer people or people asking why do we need anything else than Mastodon. Although I know it is even used on Threads for that corporate space. If there is a better word I can use it preferably in following documentation. The project is about CI/CD deployment for hosters, so the question is why would somene offer or ask an instance of Streams and not Mastodon ... in one sentence.

@michal

>why do we need anything else than Mastodon

I think the most famous feature of Hubzilla and Streams is nomadic identity (related: a site dedicated to it has been launched recently: https://opennomad.net/).

@liaizon @box464 @node9

In my experience, people come for the online safety and stay for the nomadic identity. Online safety isn't one feature or one FEP or even an organisation of paid moderators. It's a different way of looking at the world than via Twitter coloured spectacles.