Yay! My #Mastodon trifecta is now complete! My blue & orange (is it orange‽) #Plushtodon came in last night, & I opened it yesterday, but I was too tired to post about it as I just got off work.

But yes, I am excited that the two smaller Plushes arrived! Thanks @Mastodon for creating these!

Also…we need more #ActivityPub apps to create real world wearables or plushies, as they are great conversation starters for folks who are not familiar with the #Fediverse.

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated.

Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that one of these protocols must win, when both protocols can co-exist and have a lot to learn from each other.

The statement has been co-signed by various members of both Social Web CG, SocialCG, and the AT Protocol community.

“We do not win by tearing each other down, which only emboldens and empowers those who do not want either protocol to succeed.”

“Arguing between us only emboldens those that seek to derail and destroy efforts to build an open social web.”

You can read the full statement here:
writings.thisismissem.social/s…

This was originally in the swicg/general repository, and you can learn about that here:
github.com/swicg/general/blob/…

#activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

Foreword This statement was originally published on the swicg/general repository after I had been granted approval to merge.

^{Emelia Smith (Writings of Emelia)}

"There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump and pushed it to Github."

Happy 11th birthday, ActivityPub!

akko.erincandescent.net/object…

#ActivityPub #fediverse #anniversary

Erin 💽✨ (@erincandescent@erincandescent.net)

The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’t seem quite right though - its not as if the spec cam...

^{akko.erincandescent.net}

OK Fedifriends, I need your help with some complex ActivityPub stuff.

Mastodon won't show a list of followers for @colours

It has an orderedcollection at colours.bots.edent.tel/followe… which paginates properly.

The mimetype and JSON are all correct, I think.

You can check out the source code at gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

What magical incantation do I need to do to help Mastodon see the details of the account's followers?

Feel free to reply here or on the repo.

#ActivityPub #MastodonAPI #JSON

Terence Eden / ActivityBot · GitLab

A single PHP file which acts as a basic ActivityPub bot server.

^GitLab

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality

Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.

^{Open Rights Group}

@newyorktimes's veteran tech reporter @Markoff interviewed some of #TeamFediverse including @Gargron, @reckless1280 and our CEO @mike for a feature on the rise of decentralized social media. “It goes back to the original principles where the internet started out as decentralized,” Eugen Rochko told Markoff. Here's the full story [may be paywalled].

We're so excited to develop these conversations further at SXSW this weekend — check out the itinerary and sign up to join us at #FediverseHouse at the second link.

flip.it/NcjhLL

lu.ma/xbve5fa0

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocialWeb #SXSW #JohnMarkoff #EugenRochko #MikeMcCue #SXSW2025

Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms

Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.

^{John Markoff (The New York Times)}

!Friendica Support is there a reason i can't set notifications for new post of friends on #Bluesky (via the plug-in)

like I can for friends that are using #ActivityPub?

What are the *technical* steps behind moving a Mastodon account?

I understand how to do it from a user perspective (docs.joinmastodon.org/user/mov…) but what does the new server need to do?

Is it as simple as adding an "aliases" to the webfinger?

#MastodonAPI #ActivityPub

Todas hacemos del #Fediverso una red más conectada

Es el momento de revalorizar nuestra atención, enfocando nuestro interés y curiosidad en proyectos alternativos de redes sociales
😍
contribuye a que Internet sea un lugar más libre e igualitario para todas

#Mastodon #peertube #Pixelfed #ActivityPub

👇
sursiendo.org/2024/08/todas-ha…

Todas hacemos del Fediverso una red más conectada | Sursiendo

Es el momento de revalorizar nuestra atención, enfocando nuestro interés y curiosidad en proyectos alternativos de redes sociales…

^{sursiendo (Sursiendo)}

Hello fediverse!

This morning we shipped an exciting new version of #Flipboard that enables *anyone* on Flipboard to follow *anyone* in the fediverse.

This is the culmination of a ton of work to deeply integrate #ActivityPub into the product. The result is incredibly seamless.

Just tap on the search icon in Flipboard and tap the follow button for anyone featured there or that you find in search. You’ll soon start seeing their posts in all of your relevant Flipboard feeds.

Check the screenshots below and read this post to learn more:

about.flipboard.com/fediverse/…

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 79

This week's news:
- @mmasnick joins Bluesky's Board of Directors
- @bonfire shows some more information on Mosaic, another project of Bonfire, and puts out bounties for developers to help get to a 1.0 release
- A platform for football fans with CollabFC
- 3d printing platform @manyfold has added early #activitypub support

Read at: fediversereport.com/last-week-…

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 79

Mike Masnick joins the Bluesky Board, new ideas on microblogging focused on specific topics, and more.

^{fediversereport.com}

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a #SummerOfProtocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for #ActivityPub DMs, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/…

SoP 2024 PIG and POG Grantees

Introducing the PIG/POG grantees from the SoP 2024 application call. Congratulations! Protocol Improvement Grants 🐷 Protocol Orienteering Grant 🧭 While originally submitted as PIG proposals, these two projects have been awarded a rescoped PO…

^{Summer of Protocols}

The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.

activitypub.ghost.org/

Building ActivityPub

Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the world’s largest publishing network.

^{Building ActivityPub}

Post from @rabble on why he's chosen to use #Nostr and not #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse. He makes some compelling points. Personally I am not too worried about the server admin parts of his argument (I have enough control, even if I don't control the server), but I agree that this isn't ideal:

"You can’t use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one."
njump.me/nevent1qqsfqlx6wpl526…

Short Text Note by Rabble

seen on wss://nos.lol, wss://nostr.mom, wss://proxy-experiment.onrender.com, wss://relay.damus.io, wss://relay.mostr.pub, wss://relay.nostr.band, wss://relay.nostr.bg, wss://relay.noswhere.com, wss://relay.primal.net

^{Rabble (npub1wmr…g240)}

The Podcast Index has an ActivityPub implementation, and now I can follow some of my more irreverent non-techie podcasts directly on the fediverse. So cool! Hopefully they'll add a Follow button soon...but in the meantime:

1) Find your podcast on the site
2) Grab the numeric value at the end of the url
3) Search for the podcast with this name `{numericValue}@ap.podcastindex.org`

podcastindex.org/

#ActivityPub #podcast

Activitypub or Atproto ... one item that both Mastodon have in common with Bluesky is amount of "spam" links and accounts boosting those "spammy" accounts

Several "award winning art / photo" profiles I saw had 5 or more links including their pinned post

Win goes to Bluesky since they seem to have better control of that ... for now

#photography #mastodon
#pixelfed #misskey #lemmy #opensource #foss #bluesky #atproto #fediverse #activitypub

RE: Kuroneko incident

#fediadmins are advised to temporarily disable sign-ups for now, or implement some anti-spam measure to limit signups to not get spammed.
Currently they are targeting #misskey and #mastodon, but other #activitypub servers may soon be targeted.

More details will be posted soon. Stay tuned. #fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin#cybersecurity#spam

We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-exte…

We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.

#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia

I’m going to attempt to explain in general terms how I think about an #ActivityPub bridge.

I’m over on Bluesky. I see this interesting ActivityPub account coop-AT-cosocial-dot-ca. I’d like to follow it!

It has open follows, so the bridge subscribes to that account on my behalf. It’s kind of like a “bridge instance”.

Depending on how the bridge is implemented, maybe you see boris-bluesky-AT-bridge-instance

Ryan Barrett posted about his forthcoming #ATProtocol <> #ActivityPub bridge and had a lot of people lose their minds

fed.brid.gy/r/snarfed.org/2024…

He wrote a great article back in January entitled “Moderate people, not code” that is good background

> “Whether ActivityPub or ATProto or webmention, the underlying technical protocol a community uses to interact online is a poor way to judge who they are and whether you might like them.”

snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderat…

Moderate people, not code

Dixit / Marie Cardouat The scope of the fediverse has been hotly debated recently. Are we a big fedi? Or a small fedi? Are instances just nodes? Or networked communities? Which Camp of Mastodon are…

^snarfed.org

Image upload works! And those photos percolate through the #fediverse!

I still need to add proper alt text (just a static description for now).

And the UI is 💩

But I'm pretty pleased with how far I've got in a few hours of hacking away.

It is *totally* possible to build a location-based service on top of #OSM and #ActivityPub!

🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”

I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebui…
⸻
#ActivityPub #fediverse #FOURSQUARE #geolocation #OpenStreetMap

I think that fully integrating #ActivityPub into Flipboard's backend is going to be one of the best things we've done since we started the company.

There are three phases:

Phase 1 (Today): Federate 25 accounts to test and learn

Phase 2 (January): Enable anyone in the Fediverse to engage with any public curator on Flipboard

Phase 3 (April): Enable anyone on Flipboard to follow and engage with any public account in the #Fediverse

Check out my Medium post for more

medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-b…

Flipboard Begins to Federate - Mike McCue - Medium

Today we are beginning to open Flipboard to the Fediverse, a rapidly emerging part of the Web which includes social services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Firefish and PeerTube all built on a…

^{Mike McCue (Medium)}

Advocates for #ActivityPub - IF YOU HAVE A #WORDPRESS SITE, have you installed the ActivityPub plugin? wordpress.org/plugins/activity…

At the State of the Word address this week, Matt Mullenweg was asked about support for the plugin, and he commented that less than 5,000 sites had installed it. So he wasn't sure how interested people are in it.

So... if you have a WP site, let's start installing that plugin and making more sites available via ActivityPub! 😀

#StateOfTheWord #SotW

ActivityPub

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

^{WordPress.org}

Every now and then, technologists are able to translate their strongly held beliefs into action for the benefit of society. Sometimes these actions result in new features, apps or platforms but it's especially powerful when this happens at the protocol level.

In the latest episode of Dot Social I talk with @evan about how he helped get #ActivityPub started, how it's going, and what he hopes for next. Check it out here.

about.flipboard.com/inside-fli…

ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou (Dot Social Podcast) - Flipboard

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue interviews Evan Prodromou, a co-author of ActivityPub, the protocol powering the open social web.

^{Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard)}

Our CEO, @mike just launched a new podcast series titled "Dot Social" to explore the evolution of the internet and how new open standards, like #ActivityPub, can forever change the web and the world of social media.

Guests include:
@mmasnick
@WMitchellBaker
@coachtony
@evan
@cubicgarden
@tchambers
@Jbat

More info & episode 1 at about.flipboard.com/inside-fli…

#Fediverse #SocialMedia

Dot Social: Mike McCue Hosts Podcast About the Future of Social Media - Flipboard

Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Flipboard, launches a new podcast titled "Dot Social'' to shed light on the Fediverse and the future of social media.

^{Christel van der Boom (Flipboard)}

@sascha @heluecht @one

Ja, siehe:

#ActivityPub
#W3C #Recommendation 23 January 2018
w3.org/TR/activitypub/

#Activity #Vocabulary
#W3C #Recommendation 23 May 2017
w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca…

@heluecht @one @sascha

Weiß das W3C davon? 😉

Und ich dachte, #Diaspora unterstützt überhaupt kein #ActivityPub!?!

@heluecht @one @sascha

Bei #Pleroma sind mir neulich schon Unterschiede in der Implementation im Vergleich zu #Mastodon aufgefallen (an anderer Stelle).

Wenn #Pleroma #ActivityPub "erweitert", würde es die Kompatibilität zum Standard brechen...!?!

@one @sascha @heluecht

Könnt Ihr genauer erläutern, wo und wie #ActivityPub Emoji-Reaktionen unterstützen soll?

Das "Activity Vocabulary" kennt "Like" und "Dislike"...

w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca…

I've been working on the command-line API client, ap, for the #ActivityPub book I'm writing for O'Reilly Media. It's a Python program that implements commands like `ap inbox` (read the inbox) and `ap reject follower` (reject a pending follower).

github.com/evanp/ap

Originally, I was testing it live, just running it against onepage.pub. This weekend, I buckled down and wrote real unit tests with unittest.mock. It's been amazing; what a great tool.

GitHub - evanp/ap: command-line ActivityPub API client

command-line ActivityPub API client. Contribute to evanp/ap development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

@Friendica Support

Hi,
I'm working on my first #friendica #VPS installation, here you'll find my initial post about general thoughts like what distro to use, size and costs.
I'm using the tutorial "creating a friendica server - ubuntu" by @Hank G ☑️.

As of now I'm doing well in the process and want to start this post to document differences and questions while installing the server.

This server is going to host an already existing friendica node I have to move from another hosting provider. That means that for example the DB doesn't have to be created from scratch but moved and other smaller details.

I will try to address the different steps of installation in answers to this post and appreciate help, ideas and observations.

I'm doing this from a #linux desktop environment from the console but there shouldn't be differences if you want to do this from a #windows machine.

#fediVerse #tutorial #fediHelp #activityPub