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ActivityPub 5.8.0 for WordPress is out now! 🎉
This update includes two things I’ve been especially excited about: new email templates and user-specific notification settings.
Emails now have way more information—mentions and direct messages embed the full post, and the refreshed design looks more modern and polished. New follower emails come with a profile card to help you get a sense of who’s engaging with your content.
👉 Full changelog: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/#developers
Another highlight from 5.8.0:
You can now embed any Fediverse post in the WordPress editor—even if it doesn’t support oEmbed! When no oEmbed handler is available, we automatically fall back to our custom embed view.
Basically: if it’s on the Fediverse, you can embed it. ✨
Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:
“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”
Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW
Does anyone know of a Common Lisp activitypub library that is complete enough to implement subscription to accounts, tracking subscribers and posting messages?
I want to build a small service which allows users to tag it in a message (or users can ask the serviceto subscribeto it, in which case it will absorb all mesaages), and conaume those messages, and then post updates to its main feed.
I added some basic #activitypub support to humungus based on the #forgefed vocabulary. Repository, Commit, etc. And of course updated #honk as well. So now you can follow the honk repo from within honk itself and see all the commits fly by. Still a work in progress, but it’s live now. Probably do a longer write up next week.
Added support for scheduled posts (for this to work correctly, users will have to set their time zone, see below).
The user can now select a working time zone. This will be used to correctly parse the local date and time of a scheduled post.
Fixed incorrect poll vote format, which was causing problems in platforms like GotoSocial.
Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/instance/peers.
Added a new snac-admin helper script (contributed by shtrophic).
In the web UI, posts are separated by the <hr hidden> tag; it's invisible in graphical browsers, but it separates post clearly in text-based browsers.
Some Finnish, Spanish, Czech and Russian translation updates and fixes.
If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.
This release has been inspired by the song Pictures on the Wall by #MichelleGurevich.
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)
My PeerTube account: @elena
mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @paige @srosset @MakerTube
#ActivityPub #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog
Good morning Fedi friends!
I just added a new link to my Mastodon profile: @elena 🤗
How many #ActivityPub profiles do I have now? I don't want to know 😆
Off I go continue writing about #PeerTube for #TheFutureIsFederated (part 2, showing what it's like to use the software from the POV of a creator). I look forward to doing some tests and seeing what it's like to embed PeerTube videos on my website. Article coming tomorrow.
Wishing you all a lovely day!
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a screenshot showing my Mastodon profile description:
Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who hearts #FOSS. Director of: The Illusionists documentary. Soon: a Fediverse video series. self-hosting newbie (with a link to my GoToSocial account). Photos - followed by a link to my self-hosted Pixelfed. And a PeerTube link that is circled in red
Underprivileged people are apparently especially easy to target on #ActivityPub , or so I have been told, and I believe it. They have been complaining about it to the Mastodon developers over the years, but the Mastodon developers at best don’t give a shit, at worst are hostile to the idea, and have been mostly ignoring these criticisms. Well, now we have “Nicole,” the infamous “Fediverse Chick”, a spambot that seems to be registering hundreds of accounts across several #Mastodon instances, and then once registered, sends everyone a direct message introducing itself.
You can’t block it by domain or by name since the name keeps changing and spans multiple instances. It is the responsibility of each domain to prevent registrations of bots like this.
But what happens when the bot designer ups the ante? What happens when they try this approach but with a different name each time? Who is to say that isn’t already happening and we don’t notice it? This seems to be an attempt to show everyone a huge weakness in the content moderation toolkit, and we are way overdue to address these weaknesses.
#fediverse #ContentModeration #FediverseChick #Mastodon #Spam #SpamBot
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A screen grab of a list of search results for "(at)Nicole" showing the same avatar and name registered under many names across many instances, showing that it must be a spambot.
The screen grab is from a browser connected to an Akkoma instance running the Mangane front-end.
Added Spanish (default, Argentina and Uruguay) translation (contributed by gnemmi).
Added Czech translation (contributed by pmjv).
Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (contributed by daltux).
Added Finnish translation (contributed by inz).
Added French translation (contributed by Popolon).
Added Russian translation (contributed by sn4il).
Added Chinese translation (contributed by mistivia).
Added German translation (contributed by zen and Menel).
Added Greek translation (contributed by uhuru).
Added Italian translation (contributed by anzu).
Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/custom_emojis (contributed by violette).
Improved Undo+Follow logic (contributed by rozenglass).
Reverted (temporarily) the Markdown code that converted text between underscores to italics, because it was causing more problems that what it was worth.
Fixed bug in bookmark CSV import.
Don't indent Twitter-like "threads" (i.e. chains of short posts from the same author that are self-replies).
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
I joined my first Mastodon instance in the fall of 2022 and I have been having so much fun with it ever since. Since #Reddit did their IPO and started selling my personal data to AI companies without my permission or consent, I have stopped using all corporate-owned social media. But to be honest, Reddit had such an immense community of diverse people that Mastodon has never been quite as interesting as Reddit… until now.
Thanks to the Unite States’ biggest tech company CEOs publicly supporting Donald #Trump, people have finally started taking serious the threat that is corporate owned social media. #ActivityPub services like #Mastodon, #Frendica, #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #Lemmy, #PixelFed, and #PeerTube are experiencing another major surge in the number of users as people abandon #Facebook and even more people abandon Twitter. The same thing happened in 2022 when Elon Musk bought #Twitter.
I follow close to 550 people and almost 200 hashtags now and this has kept my feed interesting enough for me to enjoy logging on to the Fediverse every day. But since Trump’s second inauguration, my feed has started overflowing with new posts — the new posts are coming in literally non-stop now.
In 2022, I feel like Mastodon hit a critical mass where it became interesting and fun to use. In 2025 now, we hit another point of critical mass of users where it has actually become better in quality than corporate-owned services such as Reddit. More importantly, I think people are starting to realize that they can’t trust corporate ownership of any public service, the re-election of Trump has shocked people out of complacency. So this is tiny bit a of good news in the otherwise dense fog of horrifying current events.
You, people, are GREAT. Thank you very much.
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
#PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)
mentioning @Framasoft @peertube @fedihost@mstdn.social @fedihost@video.fedihost.co @paige @veronicaexplains @ewen @docpop @hikingdude
P.S.: this is the 20th article for The Future is Federated 🤗
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #ActivityPub #video
Added support for customizing and translating the web UI language via simple .po files. For more information on how to install language files or create new ones, please see snac(8) (the administrator manual).
New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.
The Content-Security-Policy HTTP header is now always sent to disable any JavaScript, instead of just being suggested in the documentation.
Image attachments in SVG format are now disabled by default; you can enable them back by setting the enable_svg value to true in server.json.
Several fixes (contributed by inz).
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
This is quite interesting [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
#selfhosting advocates may undermine their own goal of better privacy and data ownership. By promoting open-source, self-hosted tools as the solution for those concerned about their privacy, they provide an escape valve for companies and regulators alike
Meta’s #Threads, with its integration of #ActivityPub, can claim to be open and competitive, deflecting criticism and regulation—despite this openness being largely flowing from Threads to ActivityPub and not the other way around.
Its free #labor
https://matduggan.com/self-hosting-isnt-a-solution-its-a-patch/
an important addendum to my previous toot: to enjoy all the benefits of the Fediverse you only need ONE account – because projects "talk to each other" thanks to the magic of #ActivityPub.
That said, the 2 things I find really empowering are:
1) being familiar with major projects, so I can make an informed decision about which one(s) to use
2) being able to self-host. It's the greatest feeling when it comes to digital sovereignty
And I'm just a filmmaker / creative person with 0 dev skills
Each post can have more than one attachment from the web UI. The maximum number can be configured in server.json via the max_attachments value (default: 4).
Each notification includes a link labelled Context, that leads to a page with the full conversation tree the post is a part of.
Each followed hashtag has now a directly accesible link.
Fixed a search bug (some matches were missed).
Fixed more crashes (contributed by inz).
Fixed link detection in posts (contributed by inz).
Allow multiple editors for command-line posts (contributed by inz).
Separated maximum and default timeline entry count, allowing larger timelines to be requested without having to increase the default (contributed by lxo).
Turned message date into a link to the local post, so that it can be loaded into a separate tab for interacting with (contributed by lxo).
Special thanks to fellow developer inz for bringing my attention to code places where I should have been more careful.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
This release has been inspired by the song Songe d'un ange by #KyrieKristmanson and #BrendanPerry.
Absolutely loving my Social Media life these days.
As I say to many, your mileage may differ. I think it all comes down to who you chose to engage with, and the topics you reply to.
We all have the choice to be on certain services and not on others. We should all abide and respect the choices others make in this regard.
My main Social Media area these days is the Fediverse, particularly through a GoToSocial ActivityPub instance named Polymaths.social. Wonderful software, instance, admin, and neighbours!
Since 2009 I was on a Mastodon instance named LinuxRocks.online. It started off really well with good chats on the local timeline. However, over the past year certain people and their followers came in, the local chats got strained, and quite painful at times, and I knew I needed to move on. I was friendly with the owner, and moderators, but the time had come.
To access Polymaths.social I use Phanpy on a browser, and Tusky on my Android Phone.
For browser access I did use Semaphore for a while. Very clean and effective, but Phanpy is like KDE vs Mate. To me this is a good thing. I do use Semaphore at times to check on Follow Requests and to currently "Delete and Redraft" as needed.
Telegram is a large part of my life. I use it to talk with many friends, including Arianna and my Sister Catriona, podcrawl and Linux groups, as well as my own Christian group.
I'm still on Facebook, and yes I question that daily.
For now I am there.
As I said at the start, this is my choice, and I am there for really good friends, family, and groups.
A few weeks ago I activated my Instagram account, which had been set up for no follows and privates, just so I could view content as needed.
I was getting so many requests from good friends if I was on there, and ok... "caved in", but my involvement is relatively minimal. Mostly posting my own photos and commenting on those of friends.
Well, that's my online life, and it is good.
Feel free to reply back with questions, and DM as needed.
#SocialMedia #Fediverse #GoToSocial #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Phanpy #Tusky #Semaphore #Telegram #Facebook #Instagram
The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!
Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.
Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…
#networking #activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #gotosocial #snac #snac2 #opensource #community #socialmedia #relay #abuse #moderation
Fixed memory leak (contributed by inz).
Fixed crash.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
And it’s a wrap for my first (EPIC) day at #FOSDEM.
It’s hard to put into words how incredible - and energizing - it feels to be around the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol, founders of #Fediverse software, admins of popular instances and developers of tools I use every day.
I took the opportunity to thank them in person for their incredible work 😊
It’s also been amazing to finally meet IRL lots of cool people I had been corresponding with for months on the Fediverse.
The best day 💛
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A photo of a large group of people (basically, Fediverse and ActivityPub royalty) standing in front of a slide from John O’Nolan talk about Ghost that shows their “ActivityPug” (an AI-generated pug in a space suit) with the word The Fediverse under it
✨ EPIC selfies from #FOSDEM part 2 ✨
with two legends: @johnonolan (founder of Ghost) and @pfefferle (creator of the Wordpress #ActivityPub plugin)
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A photo showing John O’Nolan with Matthias Pfefferle and Elena Rossini (me)
Notifications are now shown in a more compact way (i.e. all reactions are shown just above your post, instead of repeating the post ad nauseam for every reaction).
New command-line option unmute to, well, no-longer-mute an actor.
The private timeline now includes an approximate mark between new posts and "already seen" ones.
Fixed a spurious 404 error in the instance root URL for some configurations.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
This release has been inspired by the song The Answers to the Questions by #Christabell and #DavidLynch.
#HowTo install & run #snac on #FreeBSD - run your own #ActivityPub instance in the #Fediverse!
In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.
#opensource #fediverse #fediworld #alternatives #community #FreeBSD #RUNBSD #BoxyBSD #activitypub #mastodon #relay #community #federated
https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/
When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».
The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.
B for the effort, but please editors do better!