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  • vbreton@vincentbreton.frV

    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.


  • profpatsch@mastodon.xyzP

    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.


    @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

    Qué maravilla !!!

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

    acepta Follow/UnFollow y encima te saluda!!


  • sberson@app.wafrn.netS

    "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

  • amministratore@mastodon.unoA

    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


    @amministratore https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/
  • rexbron@mstdn.caR

    Now hosting one of twenty nine loops servers.

    -server


    https://fedidb.com/software/loops
  • fabio@manganiello.euF

    #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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    @julian @fabio oh interesting! this seems like something there should be a FEP for huh
  • reeeen@norden.socialR

    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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    @Tueddelmors :ubuntu: Hubzilla hier am Start ️
  • bob@epicyon.libreserver.orgB

    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.


    @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

    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


  • smallcircles@social.coopS

    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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    @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
  • admin@mstdn.feddit.socialA

    Ghost的联邦功能:https://activitypub.ghost.org
    我的Ghost ActivityPub账户: @jay
    我的Ghost博客(刚刚建立1天,无内容):https://lab.moe.pub

    Ghost 的发布者将能够像在社交网络上一样互相关注、点赞和互动——但这一切都将在他们自己的网站上进行。

    但是我不太满意的一点是Ghost使用的是Meta 公司在2024年创建:

    另一个图标是 Meta 公司在 2024 年创建的,用于在其产品 Threads 中代表联邦宇宙。它错误地描绘了一个中心化的网络,中间是一个巨大的星球,其他部分围绕着它。我们也不认为一个加入联邦宇宙如此之晚的大型公司应该来定义联邦宇宙的图标。
    —— https://symbol.fediverse.info

    建议使用五角星图标或者:⁂

    还有就是前几天才发现我一直特别喜欢访问的Selfh.st也是Ghost搭建的(


    @admin WordPress的ActivityPub插件是⁂,不过中间的星号略有不同(也许是字体差异?)抛除对于Meta阵营的抵制因素还有UI审美的考虑,其实就Ghost的实际情况来说,Meta的图标其实更合适一些,尽管这有悖于Fediverse的原始开放文化的哲学。个人见解是,Ghost这样的博客并不是类似于以Mastodon为首的SNS平台,博客还是中心化属性更强,这一前提因素使其和大多数其他软件采用Fediverse的性质都不一样,Ghost更像是为了获取更多访问流量和关注量的目的。当然,从媒体人的角度来看,这是“理所应当”的。对于一些不喜SNS式社交的发烧作者,也没什么不妥。同样WordPress还有Automattic也存在这个现象,之前据说还要把Tumblr接入Fediverse组网(虽然Tumblr的帖子结构几乎难以接入)也草草了事没有下文。不过目前为止WP的AP插件呈中立态度,并不像是炒作。
  • reeeen@norden.socialR

    Guten Morgen! ☀

    Kleiner Fediverse-Funfact zum Kaffee: Wenn du jemandem auf Mastodon folgst, kommunizieren im Hintergrund zwei Server miteinander – wie zwei Nachbarn, die Briefe über den Zaun werfen. Kein Konzern in der Mitte, der mitliest, Werbung schaltet oder den Zaun plötzlich kostenpflichtig macht. 🧱📬

    Dezentralisierung klingt tech-y, fühlt sich aber einfach nur... normal an.


  • jimedrand@fedinet.waltuh.cyouJ
    Bluesky aren't part of the #fediverse due to different protocols that they use, #ATProto aren't compatible with #ActivityPub and gladly we have Bridgy Fed to connect between them. But, only a few millions of Bluesky accounts are really connected to Bridgy Fed. Also, even though Bluesky does have more users than in fediverse, they somehow still do have limitations in their backend. 300 characters per post? Sounds like it's still limited.

    Also, most Bluesky users are coming from the U.S and then some countries like Brazil, Japan, and more. In Indonesia itself, Bluesky does have the same fate as the fediverse, being a minority. Well, centralisation still matters these days for anybody who doesn't give a damn about the social interactions.

  • revstanton@mastodon.socialR

    When not in Denver, improve mobile UI/UX?

    Southwest canceled my flight so I made Inkwell work on mobile. PWA with push notifications. App stores coming eventually.…

    https://inkwell.social/stanton/when-not-in-denver-improve-mobile-uiux


    @julian Ahh, thanks Julian! That makes sense. That’s pretty much the same guidance I got from Claude and ChatGPT too. If I go for Apple at some point, I won’t be able to just wrap the site and call it a day. I’d need to build out more native functionality, and I’m not going to pretend I fully understand that path yet haha.
  • stanton@inkwell.socialS

    Well, I’m not in Denver. I have had bad luck when flying Southwest, but this time it took the cake. After getting to the airport early in case lines were long from the DHS shutdown (they weren’t), my flight ended up getting delayed for about 10 minutes before it got canceled all together. I was rebooked for a flight the next day. That didn’t work since it was a short trip, so I decided to stay home and rebook for next week.

    Since I ended up having extra time, I’ve worked on a few things today. A few bugs and features, mostly, but I also started figuring out Inkwell’s mobile experience. I’ve focused on Desktop so far, since I feel most long-form writers would prefer to write on PC rather than mobile (or at least I do). But you can’t always have your PC, so it’s been on the to-do list to improve the mobile experience.

    I’ve been impressed by the adoption so far (thank you!), so I’ll likely try to get Inkwell into the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. But for now, I was able to get the site set up as a PWA (Progressive Web App) and even has push notifications. For anyone who wants to use (or test) Inkwell on mobile, you can add it to your home screen so it feels more like a traditional app. If anyone wants more instructions, I’m happy to set up a quick how-to page. I’m sure getting through app store hurdles will not be quick or easy.

    Testers are appreciated!

    #Inkwell #Fediverse #MobileDev #IndieWeb #ActivityPub


  • shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.euS

    Okey, so, and knowers: is there an established procedure for changing your server's domain?

    I understand this case is (unfortunately) not covered by the protocol, and thus is not doable optimally. I don't care about that, I just want to know the closest to optimal method.

    Is there some way to set up another instance on the new domain and migrate all the data over? Make some kinda redirect before ultimately abandoning the old domain some years down the road?


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    @shinmera when my main acces domain moved from mastodon to social I just changed the settings and made everything redirect there. Probably only broke the I stances that can't handle webfinger and the alias domain stuff thingy
  • s_h_@ruby.socialS

    I’ve created Tsuzuri (綴り), a plaintext-only blogging system written in Ruby.
    https://github.com/S-H-GAMELINKS/tsuzuri

    Tsuzuri supports the ActivityPub protocol, allowing you to publish blog posts directly to the Fediverse.