Week in Fediverse 2023-03-31

Servers

- Pixelfed v0.11.5
- Mitra v1.19.0
- Misskey v13.10.3
- Gancio v1.6.8

Clients

- Fedilab v3.21.2
- Elk v0.8.0
- SubwayTooter v5.525
- IceCubesApp v1.6.12
- bovine: Python modules for building ActivityPub Servers and Clients

Tools

- Granary v6.0
- FediFetcher: A tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances

Articles

- The Fediverse Report: The roundup – episode 11
- Feed Overload
- More on Mastodon and Portable Identities
- Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

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Week in Fediverse 2023-03-24

Servers

- Socialhome v0.17.0
- Funkwhale v1.2.10
- PeerTube v5.1
- Mobilizon v3.0.4
- Mitra v1.18.0
- honk v0.9.9
- Castopod v1.2.0
- Gancio v1.6.5
- Misskey v13.10.0
- Hubzilla v8.2
- activitypub-federation v0.4.0: Major rewrite with improvements to usability and documentation

Clients

- Fedilab v3.21.1
- Jerboa v0.0.29
- IceCubesApp v1.6.8
- Macstodon: A Mastodon client for vintage (pre-OSX) Macintosh computers

Articles

- Ideating organization structure for the Grassroots Fediverse
- Making the Social Web a Better Place: ActivityPub for WordPress Joins the Automattic Family
- The Fediverse Report: The roundup – episode 10

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Week in Fediverse 2023-03-17

Servers

- Akkoma v2023.03
- Mastodon v4.1.1
- Mitra v1.17.0
- BirdsiteLIVE v0.23.0
- Calckey v13.1.3

Clients

- Fedilab v3.21.0
- IceCubesApp v1.6.7
- Whalebird v5.0.2
- Fedistar v1.1.0
- Relatica v0.2.0

Protocol

- FEP-7888: Demystifying the context property

Articles

- The Fediverse Report: Episode 9
- Fixing The Reply Count

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Week in Fediverse 2023-03-10

Servers

- snac v2.25
- Mitra v1.16.0
- Misskey v13.9.2
- Mobilizon 2023 Roadmap

Clients

- Whalebird v5.0.0
- Fedilab v3.20.0
- Elk v0.7.5
- toot v0.36.0
- IceCubesApp v1.6.0

Articles

- Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perk
- Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network, will support ActivityPub

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Week in Fediverse 2023-03-03

Servers

- Pleroma v2.5.1
- snac v2.24
- Mitra v1.15.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v0.17.0
- Misskey v13.9.0
- Mostr: A bridge between Nostr and the Fediverse
- End-to-end Encryption for Mastodon DMs

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.523
- Fedilab v3.19.0
- toot v0.35.0
- Jerboa v0.0.28
- Fedistar v1.0.0
- IceCubesApp v1.5.10

Articles

- Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub
- What the Mastodon ecosystem needs to scale
- A collection of guides for setting up and deploying various fediverse enabled apps

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Week in Fediverse 2023-02-24

Servers

- Takahe v0.8.0
- snac v2.23
- GoToSocial v0.7.1
- Mitra v1.14.0
- Lemmy v0.17.2
- feditext v0.1.2
- ActivityPub for WordPress v0.16.4
- Misskey v13.7.0
- Gancio v1.6.4

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.522
- toot v0.34.1
- Jerboa v0.0.27
- IceCubesApp v1.5.8
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta23

Protocol

- FEP-2e40: The FEP Vocabulary Extension Process (replaces FEP-1570)

Articles

- Last Week in the Fediverse, ep 6

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Week in Fediverse 2023-02-17

Servers

- Akkoma v2023.02
- Mastodon v4.1.0
- Misskey v13.6.0
- snac v2.22
- GoToSocial v0.7.0
- Discourse is adding ActivityPub support

Clients

- Fedilab v3.18.0
- Soapbox v3.2.0
- Subway Tooter v5.518
- Husky v1.4.3
- Fedistar v0.8.3
- Mastodon Android v1.2.0
- tooot v4.8.8

Protocol

- FEP-1570: The FEP Ontology Process

Articles

- The Breadth of the Fediverse

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Week in Fediverse 2023-02-10

Servers

- Lemmy 0.17.1
- snac v2.21.
- Mitra v1.13.0
- Socialhome v0.16.0
- Misskey v13.5.0
- Calckey v13.1.2
- What 2023 will bring for PeerTube

Clients

- Tusky v21.0
- Fedilab v3.17.0
- Jerboa v0.0.26

Protocol

- FEP-1b12 has been finalized

Articles

- We're Missing Half ActivityPub's Potential!
- Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1

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Week in Fediverse 2023-02-03

Servers

- Lemmy v0.17.0.
- Calckey v13.1.0.
- ActivityPub for WordPress v0.16.0.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.16.0.
- Jerboa v0.0.24.
- Elk v0.7.0.
- Fedistar v0.6.6.
- Husky v1.4.2.
- toot v0.34.0.
- tooot v4.8.5.
- AndStatus v60.02.

Tools

- Lemmy community browser.
- StreetPass: a browser extension that detects rel="me" verification links.

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Week in Fediverse 2023-01-27

Servers

- Epicyon v1.4.0.
- Misskey v13.2.4.
- Mitra v1.12.0.
- snac v2.19.
- ktistec v2.0.0-8.
- BookWyrm v0.5.4.

Clients

- tut v2.0.0.
- Elk v0.6.2.
- SubwayTooter v5.510.
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta22.
- WebAP Browser Extension: implements the Web Activity Pub API, exposing it to web applications.

Protocol

- Sequence diagrams of how ActivityPub works.

Articles

- Groups in the #fediverse.
- When to use Friendica over Mastodon.
- Mastodon relationship graphs.
- Full RSS feeds for Mastodon Instances with OpenRSS.

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Week in Fediverse 2023-01-20

Servers

- Friendica v2023.01.
- snac v2.18.
- Misskey v13.0.0. Changelog.
- Mitra v1.10.0.
- Takahē v0.7.
- Hometown v1.1.1.
- Gill: a free and open-source git-service based on ActivityPub and ForgeFed.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.15.0.
- Soapbox v3.1.0.
- Elk v0.6.0.
- Husky v1.4.1.
- AndStatus v60.01.

Protocol

- FEP-c118: Content licensing support.

Articles

- Finding Fediverse Feeds.
- How to use Mastodon's built-on oauth provider as the authentication provider for WriteFreely.
- Searchtodon: Adventures in Mastoland

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Week in Fediverse 2023-01-13

Servers

- ActivityPub for WordPress v0.15.0.
- Mitra v1.9.0.
- Answering Forgejo federation questions.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.14.0.
- SubwayTooter v5.0.7.
- Elk v0.4.0.
- Pinafore v2.6.0.
- Husky v1.4.0.

Articles

- Discovering Content on the Fediverse.
- Tightening Controls over Public Activity Feeds on Mastodon.
- Medium embraces Mastodon.

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Week in Fediverse 2023-01-06

Servers

- BirdsiteLive v0.22.0.
- Takahe v0.6.1.
- Hometown v1.1.0.
- PeerTube v5.0.1.
- Bounty to make Nostr-ActivityPub bridge.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.13.6.
- tut v1.0.32.
- toot v0.33.0.
- SubwayTooter v5.0.5.
- Kaiteki v2023-01.
- Jerboa v0.0.23.
- Dokieli: clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
- Fediview: Aggregate the recent popular posts from your Mastodon timeline.

Tools

- Relay List: a site that indexes and tracks various ActivityPub relays.

Articles

- Mastodon: Privacy and Search.
- Explore the fediverse, but use block like it's a machine gun in a zombie apocalypse.
- Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub.

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Week in Fediverse 2022-12-23

Servers

- Friendica v2022.12.
- Calckey v13.0.0.
- Mobilizon v3.0.2.
- Snac v2.16.
- Mastodon Roadmap.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.12.0.
- tut v1.0.29.
- Jerboa v0.0.22-alpha.

Articles

- Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative.

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Week in Fediverse 2022-12-16

Servers

- GoToSocial v0.6.0.
- snac v2.14.
- Akkoma v2022.12.
- PeerTube v5.0.0.
- Mitra v1.7.0.
- Gancio v1.6.1.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.11.0.
- Sengi v1.2.0.
- toot v0.32.1.
- tut v1.0.26.
- FediAct: Chrome/Firefox extension that simplifies interactions on other Mastodon instances than your own.

Articles

- Fediverse History.
- Get your Eleventy site onto the Fediverse.

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Week in Fediverse 2022-12-09

Servers

- Hometown v1.0.8.
- Misskey v12.119.2 (security fix).
- Bridgy Fed: turns your web site into its own fediverse account.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.9.7.
- toot v0.31.0.

Protocol

- FEP-fb2a: Actor metadata.

Articles

- The Fediverse unlocks a world of composable distributed apps.
- Community is not enough.
- A Creator of ActivityPub on What’s Next for the Fediverse.

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Week in Fediverse 2022-12-02

Servers

- Funkwhale v1.2.9.
- Pleroma v2.4.5.
- Mitra v1.6.0.
- Chatter Net: a web of self-signed semantic documents.

Clients

- Fedilab v3.9.0.
- tut v1.0.24.
- toot v0.30.0.
- Pinafore v2.4.0.
- Tusky v20.0.
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta20.

Protocol

- FEP-cb76: Content Addressed Vocabulary.
- W3C Social Web community group was restarted.

Articles

- Flickr weighs support for ActivityPub.
- Scaling Mastodon with systemd template units.
- A better moderation system is possible for the social web.

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Week in Fediverse 2022-11-25

Software

- PeerTube v4.3.1
- Mobilizon v3.0.1
- Mitra v1.5.0.
- Sengi v1.1.6
- Fedilab v3.7.4
- Pinafore v2.3.0

Protocol

- FEP-c390: Identity Proofs. Forum thread.

Articles

- Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub.
- Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse.

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#WeekInFediverse 2022-11-18

Software

- WriteFreely v0.13.2.
- Mastodon v4.0.0.
- Fedilab v5.7.0.
- Soapbox is preparing for 3.0 release.
- Akkoma v3.4.0.

Protocol

- FEP-1b12: Group federation. Forum thread.
- FEP-8b32: Object Integrity Proofs.

Articles

- XSS vulnerability in Mastodon.
- Takahē: New ActivityPub server written in Python.

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