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@mike I think you’ll like this :-) #Fediverse https://mastodon.cloud/@wfryer/113915119550324476

My FOSDEM 2025 social web lightning talk is out!

🎉 Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025 | https://ayos.blog/elk-fosdem-2025

#SocialWebFosdem #fosdem #FOSDEM2025 #fediverse #mastodon

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @rileytestut

Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 05 February 2026 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree/@firesidefedi

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

I've had requests for accounts to follow on here for specific countries/regions. There are many listed at:

➡️ https://fedi.directory/local-and-regional

This has accounts from most European countries, all US states, all Canadian provinces etc. (Some have fewer accounts than others though.)

To follow an account listed on the site, copy-paste its Fediverse address into the search box in Mastodon, then click follow.

To find out more about an account on the site, click its Fediverse address.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

So, 2025 is going to be a huge leap forward for the #Fediverse in general, and #Bandwagon specifically. I've finally made enough progress on the search engine that it's finally worthy of sharing a screenshot.

There's TONS more to do, but I'm so excited about getting this into your hands in January that I couldn't wait to share this now.

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Sharing one of my newer winter piece, Snowy Winter Moose. Displayed in a frame. Have a good one. https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/snowy-winter-moose-lisa-s-baker.html

#moose #winter #snow #snowy #forest #whimsical #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #artforsale #wallartforsale #framedart #winterscene #buyintoart #CreativeToots #animals #wildlife #swirls #fun #giftideas

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Please forgive me for asking Help & Kind Support, I'm at the bottom right now, I have an urgent notice of Unpaid Bill that I need to pay before the 15TH. I'm still short of funds & Tbh I'm running out of Food for my Cats & as for myself. I've been asking for extension but was declined since its Last Month for 2024. Please if you can, Any amount spare is a big Help🙏🏼 Pls kindly Boost.

paypal.com/paypalme/nekoow77

#Mastodon #Fediverse #CatsOfMastodon #kindnessmatters #BoostWelcome #UrgentHelp

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She found the coziest little spot in the house 🐷🌸 Flowers on her head, pink chair beneath her, and not a single worry in sight. Happy Sunday! https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/in-her-little-pink-chair-lisa-s-baker.html

#pig #pigs #pink #chair #polkadot #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativeToots #flowers #floral #Sunday #digitalart #animal #animals #mammals #swine #hog #cute #pretty #Whimsical

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Patterns of My Heart: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/patterns-of-my-heart-lisa-s-baker.html

#heart #patterns #pattern #Love #hearts #Valentinesday #Valentines #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #creativeToots #pink #pinkheart #heartart #Valentinesart #whimsical #pretty #greetingcard #valentinesdaycards #holiday #holidayart #geometric #stripes #wordart #text

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Cotton Candy Floral Pop: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/cotton-candy-floral-pop-lisa-s-baker.html

#flower #flowers #floral #pink #green, #pretty #beautiful #nature #spring #summer #bloom #blossom #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #soft #bedroomdecor #kitchenart #painting #paintings #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creative #creativeToots #artist #lovely #romantic

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Hi everyone👋 hope you guys see & noticed my posts 😔😢😖 If anyone might able to lend a little hand of support.. Just for anyone that able to:cwy:🙏 Please your kindness & support will be lifesaving 4 me & my cat jury for couple days or even a week which I really appreciated alot. 🫂💚 Boost will be a big hand of help too 🙏🫶
Thank you guys very much.💚

omoshiroii.jj@gmail.com—PP📩

#fediverse #mastodon #mutualaid #silentSunday

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Greetings! 📺 It's the weekly #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar for Jan. 8-15 (Thu-Thu)

⭐️New:
#Catitstu - ALIAS
#SPNwatchparty - SUPERNATURAL weekdays st 5pm ET

📅Details, 🔗& updates ➡️ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️All times US Eastern

#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thank🐑 hosts! @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde
@lilymarswrites
@GrillChill @greenpepper22 @kamikat @JanineFromPgh @bunnyhero

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Fediverse tech roadmap 2025

One year ago I published Fediverse tech roadmap for year 2024. How did we do?

- Data portability. FEP-ef61 has advanced significantly. Compatible IDs were introduced, which make portable objects fully compatbile with existing ActivityPub implementations. Identity can be represented using any DID method, not just did:key. Security of the protocol has been studied extensively. And most importantly, there are now two interoperable implementations: Streams and Mitra.
- End-to-end encryption. An end-to-end encryption system is being developed for social networking platform Enigmatick. It is based on the Olm protocol, which is also used by Matrix.
- Connectivity. A big improvement came from Mastodon, which now notifies its users when relationships are severed by moderation actions. ActivityConnect AP-to-AP bridge was developed, but it didn't see much use, indicating that the problem it attempts to solve is not serious.
- Moderation / spam resistance. Two different conversation moderation mechanisms emerged: Conversation Containers (implemented by Streams and Hubzilla) and Interaction Policies (implemented by GoToSocial).
- Scalability. The number of platforms implementing FEP-8b32 is slowly increasing but the biggest ones still don't sign their activities (or use non-standard LD signatures). Some preliminary work on optimizing media delivery was done in FEP-1311: Media Attachments.
- Plugins. Lemmy developers are discussing WASM plugins in an RFC. A WASM-based MRF was implemented in Kitsune.
- Discovery. Mastodon introduced fediverse:creator OpenGraph tag. Relay protocols were documented in FEP-ae0c, and ActivityPub Discovery report was published. Several projects are working on Starter Packs similar to ones used by BlueSky platform.
- Developer experience. Fun Fediverse Development project continues to improve, and now provides support tables for many protocol features. ActivityPub and WebFinger and ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures reports were published, as well as FEPs about Origin-based security model and various features such as OpenWebAuth and Emoji reactions. FEDERATION.md is becoming more popular, the number of projects using it nearly doubled in 2024.
- Groups. Conversation Containers were implemented in Streams and Hubzilla, and FEP-171b: Conversation Containers was published. FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers have many similarities, and the work on further alignment is ongoing.
- URL handlers. No significant progress.
- Synchronization of replies. Both FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers naturally lead to synchronized conversations.
- Markets. No significant progress.
- Quoting. FEP-e232 is now supported by 8 platforms.
- Forge federation. Forgejo implemented federated stars, and the development of other features has started.

I think the work on these problems should continue in 2025, especially in the following key areas:

- Conversations and groups. FEP-1b12 and Conversation Containers are good solutions and may eventually become one because their differences are mostly superficial.
- Data portability and Nomadic identity. A lot of work still needs to be done. Some aspects of FEP-ef61 are underspecified, for example media storage. A fully featured nomadic client (FEP-ae97) has not been developed yet and migration of data between implementations has not been demonstrated. I would also like to see experiments with peer to peer networking (FEP-ef61 is designed to be transport agnostic, this means HTTP transport can be replaced with something else, such as Iroh) and cross-protocol interop (identities created for Nostr and ATProto are compatible with FEP-ef61).
- ActivityPub C2S API. Although standard client-to-server API is not popular among developers, the work on it should continue because nomadic client-to-server API (FEP-ae97) is very similar.
- End-to-end encryption. I think that adoption of solutions developed for other protocols is a good idea. A custom solution may take many years to develop.
- Developer experience. Code reuse in not common in Fediverse: most developers implement ActivityPub primitives themselves. Libraries for all programming languages need to be created, along with online validators, testing tools and good documentation.

#ActivityPub #Fediverse

Help SocialBC.ca launch in 2025!!

Right now, it's just me, @PhotographyElf, @arbutus, @kevin, and @jrenken but on January 1st we're going to open registration and welcome (hopefully!) a whole bunch more people!

We’re going to need the help of the #Fediverse, and our future members of the instance, to make this thing go!

We have $50 in our bank account. Our launch goal is $CAD2500 to get us through 2025!
#PleaseBoost #PleaseDonate #Fediverse #Mastodon #BCPoli
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NYQ8LSFB5GP6N

A quick #fediverse refresher:

🔄 Boosts = Like
⭐ Favourite = Silent nod from a far

Einige meiner Kundinnen sind Tattoo-Artistinnen, deren Hauptmarketingkanäle aus Gründen Instagram und Tiktok sind. Was meint ihr, könnten sie auch im #fediverse ihre Arbeit zeigen und Kund:innen finden? Sie sind nämlich echt unglücklich mit dem Algorithmusgame und den techbros. #followerpower

Phanpy and GoToSocial is a killer combination.

GoToSocial has some great privacy controls, but has no front end by default. https://gotosocial.org

Phanpy, the alternative Mastodon web client, looks really sleek. https://phanpy.social

And it seems pretty easy to run them side by side.

https://phanpy.gotosocial.social

#fediverse #phanpy #gotosocial #SocialMedia

Link at end but Literally the best underutilized feature of Mastodon is the ability to schedule posts. I am looking forward to the day, if ever, that this will become a part of the main UI so I can finally get rid of things like Buffer. I utterly hate influencers as much as you can possibly imagine, but this wouldn’t just be used by influencers. I’m sure you’re an adult with friends all in different timezones and you have an offline life as well, so you can’t be posting all the time, but you check your feed at the end of the day. You seriously mean to tell me that even though you’re not an influencer, you would not have any use at all for this feature? I don’t beleive for one second that no influencers would never utilize native post scheduling. The request to make this a native interface is https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10088 #Fediverse #Mastodon

感觉好多帖子还是看不到，需要给部分fedi用户创建一个“特别关注”列表了

#fediverse

TW Blue got an upgrade and I am loving the new Mastodon features! https://github.com/MCV-Software/TWBlue/releases/latest #Mastodon #Fediverse

@fedicat I just stumbled over your Fedicat app for #fediverse on iOS. I use it for friendica.dk and it is very promising!

Thank you - we really need this! ❤️

One thing I’m really appreciating about Mastodon is that it doesn’t make me anxious. Since there’s no algorithm that penalises me if I don’t post for two consecutive days, I feel much more relaxed and enjoy the experience more. It’s nice to be able to enjoy social media 😄

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MindfulSocial #NoAlgorithm #MentalHealth #SlowSocial

Mastoart.social is a friendly international creative Mastodon server that welcomes all skill levels of visual art, crafts, music, writing and more. (AI is not allowed.)

https://mastoart.social

You can find out more at https://mastoart.social/about or contact the admin account @artmin

#FeaturedServer #Art #Creative #Artists #Creatives #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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