Week in Fediverse 2024-05-24

Servers

- Mitra v2.19.0
- Akkoma v2024.04.1
- Pleroma v2.6.3
- gancio v1.16.0

Clients

- Voyager v2.11.0
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.5
- Milktea v2.162.0

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v10.0.0
- Lemmy Webhooks v0.16.0

Articles

- A Plan for Social Media - Rethinking Federation

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Week in Fediverse 2024-05-17

Servers

- snac v2.53
- tootik v0.11.2
- NeoDB v0.9.6.7

Clients

- Tusky v25.2
- IceCubesApp v1.10.40
- Photon v1.29.0
- Voyager v2.10.0
- Raccoon v1.10.2
- P2Play: Working for an updated app

Tools and Plugins

- FediPlan v1.2.0
- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v9.0.3
- Fediverse Sharing Button: Let your site's visitors share your work with the fediverse!

Articles

- Making fediverse apps for everyone
- ForgeFed: Happy Families - Project Nesting
- You Can Now Bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts
- Impact of fediverse clients on the use of alt text

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Week in Fediverse 2024-05-10

Servers

- tootik v0.11.0
- snac v2.52
- Pixelfed v0.12.1
- Mitra v2.18.0
- Sharkey v2024.3.3
- Trunk & Tidbits, April 2024
- Self Hosted Api Trader Game: A game server that offers a client API to play a city building and resource trading game

Clients

- Tusky v25.0
- IceCubesApp v1.10.37
- mlmym v0.0.44
- Voyager v2.9.0
- Raccoon v1.10.1
- Friendiqa v0.6.9
- Moshidon v2.3.0
- Fedicat: iOS fediverse client

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.8.0
- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v9.0.2
- Lemmy Migrate v1.3.0
- feed2fedi v3.1.0
- PeerTube premium users plugin
- Subtitle editor for Peertube

Articles

- The Trouble with Forking Mastodon
- Data on sending a post into the fediverse
- The ways we keep the fediverse sustainable
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 67

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-05-03

Servers

- Akkoma v2024.04
- PeerTube v6.1.0
- Mitra v2.17.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.0
- ActivityPub for Wordpress v2.3.1
- Firefish v20240430
- Ktistec v2.0.0-11
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.7
- tootik v0.10.4
- humungus - an hg server (federates via ActivityPub)

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.36
- Voyager v2.7.0
- mlmym v0.0.43
- Pachli v2.5.0

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.2
- auth-lemmy.py: Script designed to run as an ejabberd external auth program, and validate Lemmy user accounts
- LemmyWebhook: Add webhook support to your Lemmy instance

Protocol

- FEP-7458: Using the replies collection
- FEP-0391: Special collection proofs
- FEP-db0e: Authentication mechanism for non-public groups

Articles

- Conversations and Articles
- Owncast Newsletter April/May 2024
- Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork
- How to Stream to PeerTube or Owncast with OBS Studio
- Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
- The Fediverse has a DDoS problem
- Encrypted DMs Are Coming to ActivityPub
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 66

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Week in Fediverse 2024-04-26

Servers

- Adding activitypub to humungus
- Fedi-Games: Framework for Games running on ActivityPub

Clients

- P2Play v0.7.0
- Voyager v2.6.0
- mlmym v0.0.41
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.4

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.7.0
- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v9.0.0
- Fediverse Iconography

Protocol

- FEP-3b86: Activity Intents
- ActivityPub Miscellaneous Terms (Draft Community Group Report)

Articles

- Social Siloes: On Post, Artifact, and the future of closed networks
- April 2024 PeerTube newsletter!
- Ghost: Building ActivityPub
- Cross-server Interactions in ActivityPub
- ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods
- One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 65

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-04-19

Servers

- ActivityPub for WordPress v2.3.0
- Mitra v2.16.0
- Castopod v1.11.0
- tootik v0.10.2
- NeoDB v0.9.6.5
- Mbin v1.5.3

Clients

- Elk v0.14.0
- toot v0.43.0
- IceCubesApp v1.10.35
- Voyager v2.4.0
- Podcast AP: Search for and follow Podcast and Music feeds with your Mastodon or Pleroma account

Tools and Plugins

- Fedinesia v3.1.0
- Fedify v0.6.1

Articles

- Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse
- A Content-Fallback Mechanism for the Fediverse
- Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be
- Bytedance: Add ActivityPub to Tiktok Notes
- Fediverse World Sight Day and Global Accessibility Awareness Day

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Week in Fediverse 2024-04-12

Servers

- Owncast v0.1.3
- Mitra v2.15.0
- GoToSocial v0.15.0
- Smithereen v0.7
- NeoDB v0.9.6.4
- Hamabē: Federated Audio Space

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.5.0
- Jerboa v0.0.66
- Tuba v0.7.2
- Thunder v0.3.0
- Voyager v2.3.1
- Pixelfed (React Native): The official Pixelfed mobile app

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.1
- Fedify v0.6.0
- feed2fedi v3.0.0
- kbin Enhancement Suite v4.0.0

Articles

- Mapping Fediverse Communities
- Installing the FediBuzz relay
- DSA Guide for the Fediverse
- Evergreen content gardens
- Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On
- ForgeFed Teams
- Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 63

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-04-05

Servers

- tootik v0.9.5
- Akkoma v2024.03
- Sharkey v2024.3.2
- Mitra v2.14.0
- PeerTube v6.0.4
- snac v2.51
- Gancio v1.15.2
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.6
- Mbin v1.5.2

Clients

- Elk v0.13.2
- Jerboa v0.0.65
- Voyager v2.3.0
- Raccoon v1.9.0

Tools and Plugins

- ActivityPhp v0.7.2
- Fedify v0.5.0

Protocol

- FEP-e229: Best practices for extensibility
- ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures (Draft Community Group Report)

Articles

- Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”
- Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server?
- Analyzing fediverse followers

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Week in Fediverse 2024-03-29

Servers

- Hubzilla v9.0.1
- Ktistec v2.0.0-10
- Mbin v1.5.0
- Forgejo: Ui-Work for Sending Like Activities

Clients

- Jerboa v0.0.64
- Tuba v0.7.1
- Mastonaut v1.9.1
- IceCubesApp v1.10.33
- Pachli v2.4.0
- Voyager v2.2.4
- Mangane "peaceful-panther"
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.3
- PixelDroid: List of some changes and improvements

Tools and Plugins

- Fedify v0.4.0
- Fedinesia v3.0.0

Articles

- The elephant in the thread
- FEP for supported ActivityStreams types
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 61

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-03-22

Servers

- Hatsu v0.1.1
- lotide v0.15.0
- Friendica v2024.03
- snac v2.50
- Hubzilla v9.0

Clients

- Fedilab v3.28.2
- Tuba v0.7.0
- Husky v1.5.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.2
- Photon v1.28.4
- Voyager v2.0.0

Tools and Plugins

- Granary v6.2
- Fedi badge: A badge generator for ActivityPub-enabled social media platforms

Articles

- Bonfire Launches Open Science Network for Academics and Researchers
- Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App
- Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub
- The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub
- Threads has entered the fediverse
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 60

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Week in Fediverse 2024-03-15

Servers

- GoToSocial v0.14.2
- Castopod v1.10.5
- Mitra v2.13.0
- tootik v0.9.4
- Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative
- Apas: ActivityPub via email

Clients

- Sengi v1.7.0
- Elk v0.13.0
- Jerboa v0.0.63
- toot v0.42.0
- Mastonaut v1.9.0
- Voyager v1.47.0
- Photon v1.28.3
- Shitter v3.5.6

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v8.4.0
- FediFetcher v7.0.4
- Fediverse Redirect v1.13.0
- Fedify: A fediverse server framework in Deno
- LemmyAutomod: A tool for Lemmy that allows instance admins to set rules that will take action in certain scenarios

Protocol

- FEP-6481: Specifying ActivityPub extension support with NodeInfo
- FEP-9fde: Mechanism for servers to expose supported operations

Articles

- The playground schematic analogy for designing a fediverse service
- Owncast Newsletter, March 2024
- Tiktok and the Fediverse
- How updates work in ActivityPub / Mastodon
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 59

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Week in Fediverse 2024-03-08

Servers

- tootik v0.9.1
- snac v2.49
- Pixelfed v0.11.13
- streams v24.03.06
- GoToSocial v0.14.0
- honk v1.3.1
- Misskey v2024.3.1
- Sharkey v2024.3.1
- nodeBB: February Update on ActivityPub Development
- The path to Funkwhale 2.0: more federation!
- Threativore: A Fediverse/Threadiverse bot to fight against spam and help with moderation

Clients

- Elk v0.12.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.4.1
- Voyager v1.44.0
- Photon v1.28.0
- Alexandrite v0.8.13
- Raccoon v1.8.0

Tools and Plugins

- activitypub-federation-rust v0.5.1

Articles

- Rethinking Moderation: A Call for Trust Level Systems in the Fediverse
- Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon’s Toxicity
- Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)
- We’re Hosting Our Own Fediverse Instance. Here’s Why

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-03-01

Servers

- Mastodon v4.2.8
- Hatsu v0.1.0
- Akkoma v2024.02
- Mitra v2.12.0
- snac v2.48
- Hubzilla v8.8.8
- Honk v1.3.0
- Mobilizon v4.1.0
- Misskey v2024.3.0
- Castopod v1.10.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v2.2.0
- gathio v1.4.0
- Mbin v1.4.1
- ActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File

Clients

- Mastodon v2.4.0 (announcement)
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta32
- Jerboa v0.0.60
- Photon v1.27.2
- Shitter v3.5.5
- mlmym v0.0.40
- Voyager v1.42.0
- Thunder v0.2.9
- Phanpy v2024.02.25
- Pachli v2.3.0

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v8.3.2
- Lemmy Migrate v1.2.0

Protocol

- ActivityPub and WebFinger (Draft Community Group Report)

Articles

- Newsmast Brings Huge New Features in 3.0 Update
- Open source meets open science - announcing the Open Science Network initiative

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-02-23

Servers

- Misskey v2024.2.0
- Sharkey v2023.12.1
- Castopod v1.10.3
- Pleroma v2.6.2
- Mitra v2.11.0
- tootik v0.9.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.5
- The path to Funkwhale 2.0: a new API
- Pixelfed: Introducing Curated Onboarding - A Personal Touch to Community Building

Clients

- Elk v0.11.0
- Voyager v1.41.0

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v8.3.0
- StreetPass v2024.1
- FediPhoto-Lineage v7.3

Protocol

- FEP-96ff: Explicit signalling of ActivityPub Semantics

Articles

- Internationalise The Fediverse
- Breaking things and having fun with ActivityPub
- Who is welcome to my Inbox? (ActivityPub)
- Comparison of Misskey forks
- Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 56

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Week in Fediverse 2024-02-16

Servers

- Pixelfed v0.11.12
- Bovine v0.5.10
- snac v2.47
- Mastodon v4.2.6, v4.2.7
- GoToSocial v0.13.3
- Honk v1.2.3
- ActivityPub for WordPress v2.1.0
- Immers Space v6.0.3
- tootik v0.8.3

Clients

- Jerboa v0.0.59
- IceCubesApp v1.10.32
- Mastodon for Android v2.3.0
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta30
- mlmym v0.0.38
- Mastodon Bird UI v1.8.5
- Photon v1.27.0
- Raccoon v1.7.7

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube Livechat Plugin v8.2.0
- Substitoot v0.7.2
- Lemmy Schedule v1.8.0
- Kbin KES v3.3.0

Protocol

- Private Communities Lemmy RFC
- Activity Streams/Primer/Place type

Articles

- Fediversity at O₄FFDEM
- Bonfire Offers Framework for Next-Gen Fediverse Platforms
- Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
- Can we improve the Fediverse Allow-List Model?
- CVE-2024-23832: Remote User Impersonation and Takeover via Cache Poisoning
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 55

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Week in Fediverse 2024-02-09

Servers

- WriteFreely v0.15.0
- GoToSocial v0.13.2
- Firefish v20240206
- Takahē v0.11.0
- tootik v0.8.0
- Bovine v0.5.9
- Mitra v2.9.0
- Gancio v1.14.1
- Activity Relay v2.0.5
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.3
- Funkwhale 2024 January update
- Mostr - Zapping Across the Bridge

Clients

- IceCubesApp v1.10.30
- Jerboa v0.0.56
- Tuba v0.6.3
- Voyager v1.39.0
- Raccoon v1.7.4

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v8.1.0
- Substitoot v0.7.0

Protocol

- FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol
- FEP-73cd: Migration User Stories

Articles

- A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP
- Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 54

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Week in Fediverse 2024-02-02

Servers

- tootik v0.7.0
- snac v2.46
- Mitra v2.8.0
- Bovine v0.5.8
- Castopod v1.9.0
- Mastodon v4.2.5
- Hometown v1.1.1
- Immers Space v6.0.2
- Gancio v1.14.0
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.2
- Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events
- Betula: A single-user self-hosted bookmarking software with optional Fediverse support

Clients

- Fedilab v3.28.0
- IceCubesApp v1.10.29
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta28
- Whalebird v6.0.1
- Voyager v1.38.0
- mlmym v0.0.37
- Raccoon v1.7.1
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.1
- Pachli v2.2.0

Tools

- FediFetcher v7.0.3
- Lemmy Schedule v1.6.0
- Styles for snac

Protocol

- FEP-3264: Federated Work Coordination
- FEP-c5a1: To-do's
- ActivityPub/Primer/HTML
- ActivityPub/Primer/proxyUrl endpoint

Articles

- Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse
- Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap
- Lemmy ask you anything (again)
- Mastodon Exploit Allows for Remote Impersonation and Takeover
- Last Week in Fediverse – episode 53

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-01-26

Servers

- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.2.5
- Lemmy v0.19.3
- Epicyon v1.5.0
- Mastodon v4.2.4
- Honk v1.2.1
- Mbin v1.3.0

Clients

- Fedilab v3.27.1
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta27
- IceCubesApp v1.10.27
- Whalebird v6.0.0
- Voyager v1.37.0
- Photon v1.26.0
- Raccoon v1.6.0

Tools

- kbin KES v3.2.3
- poduptime v5.2.0

Protocol

- FEP-ceee: Instance-Level Actor Discovery using WebFinger

Articles

- Open metaverse platform Viverse announces fediverse support
- Moderate people, not code
- Lemmy Needs to Fix Its Community Separation Problem
- Concept: a new Mastodon UX for asking questions
- An update on Bonfire
- The fediverse for media organizations

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-01-19

Servers

- PeerTube v6.0.3
- snac v2.45
- Hubzilla v8.8.7
- Castopod v1.8.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v2.0.1
- tootik v0.6.0
- pi-activitypub-server: An ActivityPub bridge for the Podcast Index API
- Activity Connect: ActivityPub to ActivityPub bridge
- Exploring Podcasting 2.0 Made Easy: Introducing Castopod Index

Clients

- Fedilab v3.27.0
- Leanish v0.0.4
- Raccoon v1.5.3
- IceCubesApp v1.10.23
- Tuba v0.6.2
- Voyager v1.36.0
- Thunder v0.2.8
- Milktea v2.161.0

Tools

- Fediverse Redirect v1.2.1
- feed2fedi v2.0.0
- ActivityPubSharp: Modular implementation of ActivityPub in C#
- activitypub-testing: a test runner for ActivityPub Actors

Protocol

- SocialCG Meeting 2024-01-12
- ActivityPub/Primer/HTTP status codes for delivery

Articles

- Where is all of the fediverse?
- Forkey Pages
- ActivityPub and DDOS
- Using the WordPress ActivityPub plugin – what can go wrong?
- Welcome to the Decentered Podcast
- Fediverse: An overview for government agencies
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 51

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2024-01-12

Servers

- lotide v0.14.2
- ActivityPub for WordPress v2.0.0
- Bovine v0.5.7
- snac v2.44
- GoToSocial v0.13.1
- Lemmy v0.19.2
- Hubzilla v8.8.6
- Mitra v2.7.0
- ActivityPods v1.5
- tootik v0.5.14
- Thank you for making Owncast a success in 2023

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.545
- IceCubesApp v1.10.20
- Voyager v1.34.0
- Lemoa v0.5.1

Tools

- TootSDK v2.0.0
- Lemmy Migrate v1.1.2
- Kbin KES v3.2.0
- Rebuttals on the Fediseer

Protocol

- Activity Streams/Primer/Link type
- ActivityPub editor's draft

Articles

- The Pirate Ship Model of Federated Social Media
- Podcasting news
- How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 50

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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