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  • mfru@mastodon.socialM
    mfru@mastodon.socialM mfru@mastodon.social
    General Discussion

    are people on here that have opinions about (the pod technology not the javascript framework / library)

    why is it good / not good?

    is it usable?

    is it in use?

    it doesn't seem to have the same popularity as i.e. / the , even though the concept of solid pods seems to synergize quite well with the idea of a decentralized web, as far as i can tell

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    thisismissem@activitypub.spaceT thisismissem@activitypub.space
    I mean, yeah, of course you can store arbitrary blobs in a pod, but all the tooling tries to incentivise you to use json-ld / rdf.
  • mfeilner@mastodon.socialM
    mfeilner@mastodon.socialM mfeilner@mastodon.social
    General Discussion

    Hey who else is in beautiful this week? Love to meet you there! @FediVariety
    @chillicampari @vn
    https://www.fedivariety.org/unconference

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  • vincentbreton@piaille.frV
    vincentbreton@piaille.frV vincentbreton@piaille.fr
    General Discussion

    en revenant sur le site, je me suis rappelé le besoin de veiller toujours à la cohérence
    https://vincentbreton.fr/ce-qui-compte-ce-sont-les-liens-pas-les-likes/

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  • josemurilo@mato.socialJ
    josemurilo@mato.socialJ josemurilo@mato.social
    General Discussion

    "If you want to be in the Fediverse without relying on big intances, or if you just want to own your & on the network, running your own instance is the way to go.
    That is where Mastodon alternatives such as GoToSocial & comes in.
    snac (Social Networks Are Crap) is a minimalistic, lightweight instance…perfect for single user instances or small communities, and it's so light that even a can handle it without breaking a sweat."
    https://rochacbruno.com/deploy-your-own-fediverse-instance-with-snac.html

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    secondchancelemon@rebel.arS secondchancelemon@rebel.ar
    @josemurilo i love that acronym
  • reeeen@norden.socialR
    reeeen@norden.socialR reeeen@norden.social
    General Discussion

    Spaßige Fediverse-Beobachtung des Tages: Wenn du auf Mastodon fragst „Welche Instanz soll ich nehmen?" kriegst du 47 durchdachte, freundliche Antworten. Wenn du dasselbe auf Twitter/X fragst… naja. 🐘

    Das liegt übrigens nicht an Zufall – dezentrale Netzwerke ziehen andere Communities an, weil die Plattformstruktur selbst das Verhalten formt. Algorithmen ≠ neutral.

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  • stib@aus.socialS
    stib@aus.socialS stib@aus.social
    General Discussion

    Meta-question: if I boost a post, sometimes I end up seeing all the replies to it in my mentions, and I have to mute the thread.
    It only happens sometimes though. How do I stop that happening?

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    secretladya@mstdn.socialS secretladya@mstdn.social
    @stib Instance perhaps, but more likely to be due to the application used to integrate with the Fediverse, on the native webapps (for mastodon) the booster handle is NOT included when I hit reply on the boosted tootMight be a difference between Mastodon, GoToSocial, Pixelfed etc apps as well, how that software handles boosts, there are a lot projects that interact with the Fediverse in similar but still different ways
  • hongminhee@hollo.socialH
    hongminhee@hollo.socialH hongminhee@hollo.social
    General Discussion

    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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  • vincentbreton@piaille.frV
    vincentbreton@piaille.frV vincentbreton@piaille.fr
    General Discussion

    Après l'entrée dans le et l'apprentissage d' , je découvre maintenant les
    https://vincentbreton.fr/webmentionnons-nous-les-uns-les-autres/

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  • vbreton@vincentbreton.frV
    vbreton@vincentbreton.frV vbreton@vincentbreton.fr
    General Discussion

    Le site vient de rejoindre il y a peu le Fédiverse (fédération d’univers, de réseaux, de serveurs indépendants capables de communiquer entre eux). Dans l’idée d’approfondir notre indépendance vis à vis des géants du Web, je me suis intéressé aux webmentions. Et quand je dis « webmentionnons-nous les uns les autres », c’est une façon de nous inviter, auteurs de sites et de blogs à mieux nous relier quand nous nous citons.

    Webmention ? Webmention ? Est-ce que j’ai une gueule de webmention ?

    Imaginez que vous écriviez un article sur votre blog ou votre site. Moi ou un autre autre auteur le cite dans le sien. En général on met le lien. Quand on a le temps, on prévient. C’est rare.

    Sauf à tomber dessus par hasard en vous cherchant vous-même dans un moteur de recherche, vous ne le sauriez jamais.

    Avec les webmentions, le site qui vous cite (si, si !) vous envoie automatiquement une petite notification. Cette notification va figurer dans l’article du lien concerné. Si vous le voulez, si vous l’approuvez.

    Cette mention va permettre de créer du lien entre les deux sites. Si on se cite c’est qu’on a des intérêts en commun et donc des lectrices et lecteurs qui pourraient s’intéresser à nos écrits réciproques. Je l’avais un peu fait ici avec les curiosités numériques par exemple.

    Ce dispositif s’appuie sur un standard ouvert du web, propre, élégant, et qui existe depuis pas mal d’années je crois (2017 ?) .

    Du lien et de la vie

    Du lien entre sites qui entrent dans le même esprit. Et toujours avec respect, éthique, tout ça.

    Pour une autrice ou un auteur qui publie sur WordPress et partage ses articles sur Mastodon, c’est particulièrement intéressant. Quand quelqu’un répond au post sur Mastodon cette réponse peut remonter automatiquement dans les commentaires de votre article WordPress.

    C’est le site qui est votre espace, votre espace central et se relie aux autres sites et blogs, à Mastodon, au Fédiverse…Les conversations convergent vers les pages concernées plutôt que de se perdre dans les limbes.

    C’est la philosophie IndieWeb : posséder ses contenus, relier les conversations, ne pas dépendre des plateformes.

    Y a plus qu’à !

    Après avoir installé ActivityPub, j’ai trouvé ça facile.

    Étape 1: Installer le plugin Webmention

    On installe Webmention le plugin de Matthias Pfefferle (merci ! c’est simple et gratuit) . C’est lui qui a développé ActivityPub. On active, on renseigne un petit texte pour le bloc qui viendra sous les commentaires. J’en ai mis un en français.

    Étape 2 : Vérifier les paramétrages des commentaires

    Ils doivent être activés. Je le fais sans cookie ici. Pas de suivi.

    Les webmentions arrivent dans la file des commentaires WordPress. Il est mieux de vérifier que l’approbation manuelle est activée. On n’est pas là pour se faire engueuler !

    Étape 3 : On se connecte à Bridgy

    Bridgy est un service gratuit qui fait le pont entre votre compte Mastodon et votre site. Sans lui, les réponses Mastodon resteraient sur Mastodon et n’arriveraient jamais chez vous. Ce que vous pouvez aussi préférer. Dans ce cas, passer à l’étape 5.

    Sur brid.gy, con choisit « Cross-post to a Mastodon account », il faut autoriser la connexion avec le compte Mastodon, et c’est tout. Bridgy commence à surveiller vos posts et transmet les réponses vers votre site sous forme de webmentions. Il tourne en arrière-plan mais par « vagues » si j’ai bien compris.

    Étape 4 : lancer « crawl now »sur Bridgy

    Bridgy va explorer le site et remonte l’historique récent de vos échanges Mastodon.

    Étape 5 : on gère les webmentions dans les commentaires.

    Les webmentions sont là, mélangées aux commentaires classiques mais on voit qui a écrit ou ce qu’il ou elle a fait (aimer, partager…). Comme nos propres messages vont venir, il faut les éliminer pour éviter l’impression de se citer soi-même…

    Dans cette étape viendront aussi les mentions d’autres sites qui équipés du même plugin vont vous envoyer des petits signaux automatiques… Mais il est possible d’inscrire le lien dans le petit bloc que vous voyez sous les commentaires.

    Il y a encore à chercher où traduire certains termes, mais je pense le faire à terme…

    Les mentions légales

    Puisque vous allez afficher sur votre site des contenus provenant d’autres personnes, pensez à le mentionner dans vos mentions légales. Il faut préciser que le site reçoit des webmentions, que ce sont des données publiques soumises à modération, et qu’on peut vous demander le retrait d’une mention via votre formulaire de contact.

    Une façon de prendre la main

    C’est modeste, pas bouleversant mais se démarque des liens qu’on trouve ailleurs par exemple vers Facebook ou autres X et qui non seulement nourrissent la « bête » mais surtout exposent au vol de données…

    Ces approches sont encore minoritaires, mais les outils sont là. Je n’ai rien codé, j’ai suivi ce que j’ai lu et certainement il y aura des choses à améliorer encore mais je trouve ça intéressant à expérimenter notamment pour la dimension humaine que ça permet de valoriser.

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  • profpatsch@mastodon.xyzP
    profpatsch@mastodon.xyzP profpatsch@mastodon.xyz
    General Discussion

    Activitypub micropayments idea:
    what if instead of some digital token like Taler or Monero, I send a digital “cheque” instead, which is a signed payment intent, signed with the other actor’s e.g. Liberapay pubkey.

    At the end of the month, the other person can take all these micropayment cheques and prove to liberapay that other people owe you money, and everything is settled in one transaction.

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    benpate@mastodon.socialB benpate@mastodon.social
    @Profpatsch Cool idea. Apple does something similar with their App Store payments. You buy a bunch of things and they hold the charges for a day or two, then charge it all at once.It would be more difficult in a decentralized environment, though, if I’m aggregating charges for/from many different people.
  • jorge@social.jagedn.devJ
    jorge@social.jagedn.devJ jorge@social.jagedn.dev
    General Discussion

    Qué maravilla !!!

    Me estoy haciendo una implementacion de #Activitypub en #Java #Micronaut desde cero

    acepta Follow/UnFollow y encima te saluda!!

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  • rick@rmendes.netR
    rick@rmendes.netR rick@rmendes.net
    General Discussion

    @HolosDiscover@discover.holos.social follow

    🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/03/14/7987c

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  • sberson@app.wafrn.netS
    sberson@app.wafrn.netS sberson@app.wafrn.net
    General Discussion

    "the Fediverse is all interoperable & interconnected!" - me needing multiple apps & multiple accounts to view & post to the micro-blogs, the long form blogs, the link aggregators, event sharers, and the media sharers - ummm not really.

    The Fedi marketers need to stop misleading folks, platform interconnectedness for lots of stuff is either just starting in small ways or is nonexistent, and is subject to the fact that no single app is designed to handle all paradigms, and if it did try to handle lots of them, would be an enormously complicated and heavyweight piece of software (e.g. witness the public Friendica instance I was on getting shutdown due to the ongoing costs & maintenance time for it being too high for the instance owner to want to continue it; as well as witness how cluttered & clunky some of its interface is).

    That said, I am really digging Wafrn, in that it unifies both the Fediverse micro-blogs along with Bluesky, and it also allows out of the box to make long posts with markdown formatting too. Good stuff.


    #socialmedia #mastodon #activitypub #fediverse #interoperable #interconnected #marketinglies #wafrn
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  • amministratore@mastodon.unoA
    amministratore@mastodon.unoA amministratore@mastodon.uno
    General Discussion

    Mastodon GmbH entra ufficialmente nel World Wide Web Consortium, l’organizzazione che definisce gli standard del web come .
    In altre parole entra finalmente nella “sala dei bottoni” del web, un riconoscimento di ciò che molti sanno da tempo: è la forza trainante del .
    Ora parteciperà al W3C Social Web Working Group per contribuire direttamente all’evoluzione del social web aperto.🦣🌍
    Messaggio pubblicato nel gruppo fediverso seguibile qui: @fediverso

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    testing@mastodon.unoT testing@mastodon.uno
    @amministratore https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/
  • rexbron@mstdn.caR
    rexbron@mstdn.caR rexbron@mstdn.ca
    General Discussion

    Now hosting one of twenty nine loops servers.

    -server

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    rexbron@mstdn.caR rexbron@mstdn.ca
    https://fedidb.com/software/loops
  • fabio@manganiello.euF
    fabio@manganiello.euF fabio@manganiello.eu
    General Discussion

    #ActivityPub support in #Madblog

    I am glad to announce that Madblog has now officially joined the #Fediverse family.

    Madblog has already supported #Webmentions for the past couple of weeks, allowing your blog posts to be mentioned by other sites with Webmentions support (WordPress, Lemmy, HackerNews...) and get those mentions directly rendered on your page.

    It now adds ActivityPub support too, using #Pubby, another little Python library that I've put together myself (just like Webmentions) as a mean to quickly plug ActivityPub support to any Python Web app.

    Webmentions and Pubby follow similar principles and implement a similar API, and you can easily use them to add federation support to your existing Web applications - a single bind_webmentions or bind_activitypub call to your existing Flask/FastAPI/Tornado application should suffice for most of the cases.

    Madblog may have now become the easiest way to publish a federated blog - and perhaps the only way that doesn't require a database, everything is based on plain Markdown files.

    If you have a registered domain and a certificate, then hosting your federated blog is now just a matter of:

    mkdir -p ~/madblog/markdown
cat <<EOF > ~/madblog/markdown/hello-world.md

This is my first post on [Madblog](https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/madblog)!
EOF

docker run -it \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -v "$HOME/madblog:/data" \
  quay.io/blacklight/madblog

    And Markdown files can be hosted wherever you like - a Git folder, an Obsidian Vault, a Nextcloud Notes installation, a folder on your phone synchronized over SyncThing...

    Federation support is also at a quite advanced state compared to e.g. #WriteFreely. It currently supports:

    • Interactions rendered on the articles: if you like, boost, quote or reply to an article, all interactions are rendered directly at the bottom of the article (interactions with WriteFreely through federated accounts were kind of lost in the void instead)

    • Guestbook support (optional): mentions to the federated Madblog handle that are not in response to articles are now rendered on a separate /guestbook route

    • Email notifications: all interactions can have email notifications

    • Support for quotes, also on Mastodon

    • Support for mentions, just drop a @joe@example.com in your Markdown file and Joe will get a notification

    • Support for hashtag federation

    • Support for split-domain configurations, you can host your blog on blog.example.com but have a Fediverse handle like @blog@example.com. Search by direct post URL on Mastodon will work with both cases

    • Support for custom profile fields, all rendered on Mastodon, with verification support

    • Support for moderation, either through blocklist or allowlist, with support for rules on handles/usernames, URLs, domains or regular expressions

    • A partial (but comprehensive for the provided features) implementation of the Mastodon API

    If you want you can follow both the profiles of my blogs - they are now both federated:

    https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown

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    liaizon@social.wake.stL liaizon@social.wake.st
    @julian @fabio oh interesting! this seems like something there should be a FEP for huh
  • reeeen@norden.socialR
    reeeen@norden.socialR reeeen@norden.social
    General Discussion

    Guten Morgen! ☀️

    Kleines Fediverse-Wunder des Tages: Ich bin auf Mastodon, du vielleicht auf Pixelfed oder Peertube – und wir können trotzdem miteinander reden. Einfach so. Kein Konzern in der Mitte, der überlegt wie er das monetarisiert.

    Es ist fast schon verdächtig entspannend. 😌

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    warzazel@voidofxulub.comW warzazel@voidofxulub.com
    @Tueddelmors :ubuntu: Hubzilla hier am Start ️
  • bob@epicyon.libreserver.orgB
    bob@epicyon.libreserver.orgB bob@epicyon.libreserver.org
    General Discussion

    over LoRa mesh could happen. It would need to go on a diet though, so things like that bulky and useless @context would need to go.

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    maddyunderstars@aus.socialM maddyunderstars@aus.social
    @bob I actually just bought a heltec v4 to try out #meshcore with, and was also thinking about AP over the mesh. I guess is it's not a great idea, but it'd be cool to experiment. I won't try it any time soon, since I don't want to strain the community mesh
  • hongminhee@hollo.socialH
    hongminhee@hollo.socialH hongminhee@hollo.social
    General Discussion

    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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  • smallcircles@social.coopS
    smallcircles@social.coopS smallcircles@social.coop
    General Discussion

    I see the announcement by a commercial marketing agency of a venture capital based app store joining the fediverse.

    Is the we have capable of avoiding as it grows and attracts an increasing number of corporations, who make it their market?

    Is our landscape resistant to corporate capture and eventual takeover and domination? Just like the Corporate Web, also decentralized.

    There are nice niches on the web, like a bloggosphere, bulletin boards, and news readers, that all still exist. But web as a whole is predominantly corporate, arguably not commons based, for the people by the people.

    Social experience design defines "commons based" as "where people are in control of their future on a path of healthy evolution and natural growth". A core principle is being sustainable at all times, and timely acknowledge and mitigate risks.

    Is fediverse commons based? Did we cocreate the Future of Social networking?

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    fresseng@universites.socialF fresseng@universites.social
    @smallcirclesI almost answered yes. No one can hurt us. This is the answer I feel good, but it needs to carefully take advantage of it. An example is Thread, which tried, or faked to try, to join the Fediverse. At least Meta tried to take advantage of it. So yes, decentralisation is a strength. It will not go everything though.#fedi #fediverse #enshittification #ActivityPub #SX #SocialCoding #poll #AskFedi