RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/ Etiquetar el món (descentralitzat) ara és més fàcil. 
️ La Social Web Foundation presenta Tags.pub. El futur de la descoberta a #ActivityPub es veu brillant. 
#TechNews #Fedivers #TagsPub #SocialWeb #Innovació
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Benvenutə nel gruppo di discussione sul Fediverso.
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As of march 2025 this space is a community forum were profiles can send their texts to by addressing it. The idea is to work on those over time and ask for colaboration on those text's and ideas untill they are ready to be published.
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This is a fictional community meant to enhance my creative skills as well as other people creative skills and to waste more time on Lemmy. Why? You might ask… Well, I had never seen any one apply this idea before and we are entering a age where a lot of stories is going to be AI-Generated. Why a king? Will, I need to be super motivated to engage, so hopefully this community stay alive. What is the content like here? This is probably going to be something like just me posting and shitposting+ roleplay/fiction stories and lore. Why should you join? You shouldn’t. This community might not be something that benefits you or even advance your creativity. You can treat that like unfinished unprofessional art work that is almost never going to be finished. I might delete this community later, I might not delete it who knows? But I really don’t want to surrender to AI and lose my creativity, so hopefully some people might enjoy role-playing as my minions and the friction create fire(Which is stories and lore). I want to stay weird, I don’t want to become another gear in the machine of life. Who knows maybe I click with someone in this community and we get something real. I don’t like bullshit and I don’t like to invite greatness that I am not worth, I just want to have a place that is super comfy to me. The world is getting ruined, people are getting more conservative, social media is being ruined and climate change is going full speed and we are in a loneliness epidemic. Most people are evil and rude and we are in the hopeless age. Fiction can fix all of that and more. In case that after you read all of this and you became interested for a reason or another, you can subscribe.
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Alô bateria!!! Essa comunidade é para discutir sobre o mundo acadêmico no geral, desde ideias mais cabeçudas e conceituais até que aplicativo você usa pra organizar as suas leituras. Além disso são bem-vindas divulgações acadêmicas, concursos, processos seletivos, oportunidades. E, claro, desabafos com as agruras do mundo acadêmico, fiquem a vontade, esse espaço é nosso!
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RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
Etiquetar el món (descentralitzat) ara és més fàcil.
️ La Social Web Foundation presenta Tags.pub. El futur de la descoberta a #ActivityPub es veu brillant.
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After Madblog, how many of you would like #ActivityPub and #Indieweb support to come to GPSTracker too?
This is an idea that I've been flirting with for a while.
Like many Millennials, 10-15 years ago I was into the Foursquare-mania. It was the age where pubs would offer discount to their Foursquare mayor and where people used to share their Foursquare stats and compete on how many badges they had collected.
Then Foursquare decided to pivot its platform towards the business-side instead, the check-in app was spun off into Swarm, it gradually lost users but it gained trackers, and by now I think only 1-2 of my contacts (out of >100 in the golden age) still use it.
By now I don't think anyone has filled that gap; there isn't any social media built around networks that share and recommend their check-ins.
#GPSTracker already supports a lot of tracking, timeline and check-in features, synchronization of geo events with mobile devices, and even stats with arbitrary aggregations (by country, time range, city, region etc.). Plus some features that Foursquare never implemented (like searching for checkins on the timeline by simply selecting an area on the map).
#Microformats already support location tags through the
h-adrclass, although they are rarely used. Both #Webmentions and ActivityPub could send check-in activities as permalinks to pages with those tags. And the #OpenStreetMap APIs could do the heavylifting of retrieving POIs in in a certain lat/long box.The only hurdle would be implementing the protocols under the hood, as both the Webmentions and Pubby libraries are in #Python while #GPSTracker is in #Typescript. But it could be a good chance to start writing multi-language bindings for those libraries.
Let me know if it's something that you would use, or even self-host, and if you know if there's anything in the Fediverse that already fills this niche.
read more →@fabio @Mumonkan I have the code at https://github.com/edent/location-activitypub-symfonyAnd you can follow @edent_location The AP object has:```json"location": { "name": "École maternelle Charles Perrault", "type": "Place", "longitude": "2.3002506", "latitude": "48.9993291" }```I think that's the same way PixelFed does it.See also https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002 -
@Mastodon launched 10 years ago as another contribution to the #Fediverse!
As soon as they arrived, we federated with them through the predecessor of #ActivityPub, called #OStatus. Learn more about the history here.
Since then, the Mastodon project has grown a lot and brought many new users to the Fediverse. We offer our warmest congratulations!
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https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/reply/git-up-your-blog
That oddly satisfying feeling of browsing your blogging and social media history with
git logandgit grep#madblog #activitypub #indieweb
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https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/reply/None/git-log-for-your-blog
That oddly satisfying feeling of browsing your blogging and social media history with
git logandgit grep#madblog #activitypub #indieweb
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blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.
It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php
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I recently met a Facebook engineer. When I mentioned #mastodon and #fediverse they had never heard about it! ...
️I was happy to be the person to introduce them to #activitypub, but it dawned on me how few people in the mainstream have even heard of it.
The might of money is real. I'm sure this is the same in other industries too, healthcare, pharma, tech, ...
Feeling a little depressed about it all.
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La fédération (connexion #activityPub) devient une réalité sur https://kelosa.fr
C'est en cours de tests en conditions réelles...
Bientôt un nouveau service relié au #fediverse
Critiquez des livres, films, séries et jeux de société. Et tout le monde pourra vous suivre...
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Working on re-importing my life-long blog back to WordPress from Ghost, after finding out the latter doesn't really go hand in hand with Pangolin tunneling for Activity Pub federation.
Been on WordPress since 2008 so feels like dumping your new flame and go back to your first love
️#WordPress #ghost #Pangolin #activitypub #Federation #selfhost #homelab @homelab
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Update: we've decided to go ahead and submit the CFP to @COSCUP@floss.social 2026. The track will be called Fediverse & Social Web—think FOSDEM's Social Web devroom, but in Taipei. #COSCUP is free to attend, like FOSDEM.
If the track is accepted, would you be interested in coming to Taipei (Aug 8–9) to give a talk?
(Boosts appreciated!)
https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/019ca8b2-ecca-7150-a237-37f35de45401
#fedidev #fediverse #SocialWeb #ActivityPub
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Hmm, has anyone made an #activitypub compatible server for play-by-post RPGs? That way people can follow along if they want, people could run their own server if they wished, but mainly as an alternative to discord which is where so many modern pbp games are hosted.
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micro Boletín de novedades - Marzo 2026
Consolidación del protocolo IFTAS en la moderación global
La organización IFTAS ha reportado un incremento en la adopción de sus listas de moderación compartida, permitiendo que nodos pequeños del Fediverso gestionen el spam mediante flujos de trabajo transparentes y auditoría comunitaria.
URL: https://iftas.orgLanzamiento de perfiles-escaparate en Mastodon
La plataforma ha introducido una nueva funcionalidad de perfiles diseñados para creadores de contenido, facilitando la exposición de portafolios y trabajos destacados directamente desde la interfaz del usuario.
URL: https://joinmastodon.org#Fediverso #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Tecnologia #SoftwareLibre #RedesSociales
@MDT Una persona con cabello y barba blancos, vestida con un sombrero azul de mago adornado con estrellas y runas, una túnica azul con detalles decorativos y gafas redondas, está sentada en una silla de madera leyendo un periódico. La página izquierda del periódico muestra el titular "FEDINews" y la página derecha muestra "THE IREMEANIT YODS NOLTORS", con múltiples columnas de texto y una ilustración de un dragón. El escenario es un estudio mágico con una estantería llena de libros, un caldero que emite humo azul sobre un hogar de piedra y una pequeña mesa de madera que sostiene una taza de té humeante, pergaminos enrollados y una vela encendida en un soporte de latón. A la izquierda, una mesa redonda contiene orbes azules brillantes, mientras que el fondo incluye una ventana con un patrón de diamantes y cortinas oscuras, y paredes de piedra tallada. La luz cálida de las velas y el brillo azul de los orbes y el humo del caldero crean un ambiente acogedor y místico.Proporcionado por @altbot, generado de forma privada y local usando Qwen3-Vl:8b Energía utilizada: 0.439 Wh -
¿Sabían que el Protocolo ActivityPub, el cimiento del Fediverso, fue publicado oficialmente como una Recomendación del W3C el 23 de enero de 2018?
Este estándar fue desarrollado por el Social Web Working Group, con figuras clave como Christine Lemmer-Webber y Jessica Tallon, con el objetivo de crear una red social descentralizada y federada basada en el formato de datos JSON-LD.
A diferencia de los protocolos propietarios de las grandes corporaciones, ActivityPub permite que servidores independientes —nodos— se comuniquen entre sí de forma transparente. Esto significa que una acción realizada en una instancia de Mastodon puede ser interpretada y mostrada correctamente en plataformas diversas como Friendica, Pixelfed o Pleroma. Esta arquitectura elimina el control centralizado y devuelve la soberanía de la información a los administradores y usuarios de cada comunidad.
El protocolo se basa en el concepto de Inboxes (Bandejas de entrada) y Outboxes (Bandejas de salida), donde cada actor en la red tiene una dirección única para recibir y enviar actividades como "Create", "Follow" o "Like". Esta estructura es lo que garantiza que el mensaje sea el protagonista y no el algoritmo de una entidad comercial.
@MDT Esta imagen muestra el logotipo de ActivityPub con elementos de texto acompañantes. El logotipo presenta un icono geométrico a la izquierda, compuesto por formas angulares grises y rosas, seguido de la palabra "ActivityPub", donde "Activity" está en texto gris y "Pub" está en texto rosa. Debajo del logotipo principal, una barra horizontal azul oscuro se extiende en la parte inferior de la imagen, conteniendo un pequeño icono verde de birrete de graduación y las palabras "XATAKA BASICS" en texto verde. Todo el diseño está sobre un fondo blanco liso. El texto "ActivityPub" está escrito como dos palabras separadas con colores distintos, y "XATAKA BASICS" aparece tal cual en la barra inferior.Proporcionado por @altbot, generado de forma privada y local usando Qwen3-Vl:8b Energía utilizada: 0.173 Wh -
Some updates to ActivityBot
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.
It works! You can follow
@openbenches@bot.openbenches.orgto see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and@colours@colours.bots.edent.telfor a slice of colour in your day, and@solar@solar.bots.edent.telto see what my solar panels are up to.This is so easy to use. Copy the PHP file (and a
.envand.htaccess) to literally any web host running PHP 8.5 and you have a fully-fledged bot which can post to Mastodon.Grab the code and start today!
Features
Over the years I've added a few more features to it, so I thought I'd run through what they are. Note, this is all hand-written. No sycophantic plagiarism machines were involved in this code or blog post. I just really like emoji, OK
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Be discovered on the FediverseThis is the big one, you can find
@example@example.viii.fion your favourite Fediverse client. This is thanks to its WebFinger support.
Be followed by other accountsNo point being discovered if you can't be followed. This accepts follow requests and sends back a signed accept.
Be unfollowed by accountsSometimes people want to unfollow. Too bad, so sad. Again, this will accept the undo request and delete the unfollowing user's information.
Send messages to the FediverseIf a bot can be followed, but never posts, does it make a sound? This sends a post to all of your followers' (shared) inboxes. Includes some HTML formatting.
Send direct messages to usersNot every message is for the wider public. If you want a bot which sends you a private message, this'll set the visibility correctly.
Attach images & alt text to a message A picture is worth a thousand words. But those pictures are meaningless without alt text. Attach as many images as you like. Note, most Mastodon services only accept a maximum of four.
Video Upload No transcoding or anything fancy. Upload a video and it'll be sent to your followers.
Audio Upload Same as video. Raw audio posted to your followers' feeds.
️ Autolink URls, hashtags, and @ mentionsIncluding URls, tags, and mentions are mostly autolinked correctly. There's a lot of fuzziness in how it works.
🧵 Threads
You can reply to specific messages in order to create a thread.
Follow, Unfollow, Block, and Unblock other accountsIt might be useful for you to remove followers or follow specific accounts.
️ Delete posted messages and their attachments We all make mistakes. This will delete your post along with any attachments and send that delete message to everyone. Note, because of the federated nature of the Fediverse, you cannot guarantee that a remote server will delete anything.
️ Edit Posts If you don't want to delete and re-post, you can edit your existing posts.
Bridge to BlueSky with your domain name via Bridgy FedNot everyone is on the Fediverse. If you want to bridge to BlueSky, you can use the Bridgy Fed service.
Move followers from an old account and to a new account Perhaps you started as
@electric@sex.pantsbut now you want to become@chaste@nunslife.biz- no worries! You can tell followers you've moved and what your new name is.Similarly, if ActivityBot is no longer right for you, it's simple to tell your existing follower to move to your new account.
️ Allow quote posts Rather than just reposting your message, this sets the quote policy to allow people to share your message and attach some commentary of your own.
Show followersYour follower count isn't just a number, it is a living list of who chooses to follow you.
️ Content Warnings Perhaps you want to hide a bit of what you're saying. Add a content warning to hide part of your message.
Verify cryptographic signaturesHTTP Message Signatures is hard. I think I've mostly got it sorted.
🪵 Log sent messages and errors
This is primarily a learning aide, so have a rummage through the logs and see what's going on.
Clear logs when there are too manyActivityPub is a chatty protocol. Your server can easily fill up with hundreds of thousands of messages from others. This regularly prunes down to something more manageable.
#️⃣ Hashed passwords for posting
Bit of a guilty moment here. I was originally storing the password in plaintext. Naughty! Passwords are now salted and hashed.
Basic website for showing postsA nice-enough looking front end if people want to view the posts directly on your domain.
Some Deficiencies
Not every piece of software is perfect. ActivityBot is less perfect than most things. Here are some of the things it can't do and, perhaps, will never do. If you'd like to help tackle any of these, fork the code from my git repo!
Retry Failed MessagesA proper Mastodon server will keep trying to send messages to unresponsive hosts. ActivityBot is one-and-done. If a remote server didn't respond in time, or was offline, or something else went wrong - it may not get the message.
Reposts / Announce / QuoteYou cannot boost other posts, or even your own. Nor can you send quote posts.
Act On InstructionsThis is a basic bot. It contains no logic. If you send it a message asking it to take action, it will not. You will need to build something else to make it truly interactive.
Receive MessagesIn fact, other than the follow / unfollow stuff, the bot can't receive any messages from the Fediverse. It doesn't know when a post has been replied to, liked, or reposted.
Set Post VisibilityYour posts are either public or a DM. There's no support for things like quiet followers.
Create PollsEveryone loves to vote on meaningless polls - but this is quite a hard problem for ActivityBot. It would need to keep track of votes, prevent double voting, and probably some other difficult stuff.
️ Change Quote Post VisibilityAs quote posts are still quite new to Mastodon, I'm not sure how best to implement this.
Proper HTML / Markdown SupportAutolinking names, hashtags, and links just about works - but not very reliably. In theory the bot could parse Markdown and create richly formatted HTML from it. But that may require an external library which would bloat the size. Perhaps posting raw HTML could work?
️ Focus Points for ImagesPerhaps of less use now, but still of interest to people?
Other StuffI don't know what I don't know. Maybe some stuff is total broken? Maybe it is wildly out of spec? If you spot something dodgy, please let me know or raise a Pull Request.
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php
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Update about slow game post federating
Recently, when I post the new #HashTagGames post at 9PM est, it has taken 15 minutes or longer for all instances on the #Fediverse to get it. I determined the reason why is because my #ActivityPub #WordPress enabled site is getting #DDoS due to the sheer number of instances trying to communicate with us when the game goes out.
I have taken some measures to prevent this and tonight we will see how it goes. If it is still slow and we are under DDoS attacks, I will continue to tweak things.
Just know, the game is going out on time, the post should arrive shortly each evening, and I will try to get this resolved one way or another.
If you have any tips on ActivityPub and WordPress, let me know at my personal account below.
Your host, @paul
#ActivityPub #DDoS #Fediverse #HashtagGames #Wordpress https://hashtaggames.online/2026/03/15/132013/@paul@OldFriends.Live How to play #HashTagGames Write something awesome, Use the Hashtag, Toot/Post and Repeat! Please Boost Hashtag Games on Mastodon and the entire Fediverse. Alert: Message to game players Every Night, 9PM EST, (6PM PT / 2AM GMT / 3AM CET / 1PM AEDT / 3PM NZST) Proudly hosting daily games since November 16, 2022" width="600" height="336" />
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I think it's a good time to explain how we see @badgefed and @fediprofile, how they work together, and how #badges can use #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse.
Also how this can help communities outside the fediverse!
This is a quick overview of the architecture and ideas behind it. 🧵 1/
(thanks @johannab for the ask ...)
read more →@theraccoonbytes @mapache @samnabi a large part of the point I'm trying to make is that we can do this within borders, with a commitment to local hosting and local support, but with access to the global base of fediverse software and collaborative reach globally.But my vision for "verification" is more like the financial industry's "KYC" - an identifyable org and/or certified professional vouches for someone by an auditable process. Badgefed + Fediprofile seems a great digital schema for it -
Kleines Fediverse-Gedankenexperiment für den Abend: Bei Twitter/X verlierst du deinen Account → alles weg. Im Fediverse ziehst du einfach die Instanz um und nimmst deine Follower mit. Als ob du umziehst und deine Telefonnummer behalten kannst – egal bei welchem Anbieter.
Das nennt sich Portabilität. Wildeste Idee: Technologie die für Nutzer:innen funktioniert
