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<div class="article-body"> <p>I’m going to be participating in the <a href="https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/" rel="nofollow">Growing the Open Social Web</a> workshop at Fediforum on March 3, 2026. I’m excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub.</p><p>Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses about growth of the social web; I’ll try to summarise some of them here.</p><p>Growth can’t come at the expense of privacy. People currently on the Fediverse must have the tools they need to preserve their privacy as the network grows. This means privacy from other users, as well as privacy from new platform operators. Expanding the options for private interactions on the Fediverse, like <a href="https://socialwebfoundation.org/program-protocol-e2ee/" rel="nofollow">end-to-end encrypted messages</a> and <a href="https://github.com/swicg/groups" rel="nofollow">private groups</a>, is necessary for preserving privacy as the user base and platform list expands.<br>Connecting platforms to the Fediverse is our most efficient way to grow. There are already billions of people on social platforms across the Internet. Getting these platforms to let users publish to the Fediverse, as well as having two-way interactions with remote users, lets people share in the benefits of the Fediverse with a platform and interface that they’re already used to. Even when brand new social platforms adopt ActivityPub, they bring their new features and users.<br>Connecting communities helps us grow fast and stay cohesive. Bringing formal and informal communities onto the Fediverse is a great way to enable a lot of new users quickly. By formal communities, we mean organized groups like clubs, universities and schools, professional societies, enterprises, or local and regional governments. These groups can set up their own places on the Fediverse, like Mastodon servers, and provide user accounts for all their members. (One great way to connect formal communities is to Fediverse-enable the community platforms they already use.) These new Fediverse users have the kind of connections in place that retain active users, as well as the support they need to use the Fediverse. More informal communities, like people sharing the same profession, fans of a particular hobby, or users of a language or technology, can be great additions to the Fediverse, but these groups are less cohesive and less likely to bring their own infrastructure.<br>People come to social networks for existing social ties. Bringing on new users one-by-one is the most difficult way to grow this network. The best way to engage new users on the network, and to keep them active and interested, is to make sure they can connect to people they already know and care about. That may be friends, family, colleagues and neighbours, or brands, creators, and publications they recognise. Our onboarding processes for Fediverse users need to encourage the social contacts so that people feel a reason to stick around for day 2, 7, and 30.</p><p>We’re looking forward to engaging with the Fediforum community on these and other topics. We’ll see you on March 3!</p> </div>

<h4 class="article-title"> <a href="https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-request-roundup-26-aug-2026/">Mutual Aid Request Roundup 26 Aug 2026</a> </h4> <figure class="article-cover"> <img src="https://mutualaidspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/nikolas-gannon-wlAzDbfVSIg-unsplash-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy"> </figure> <div class="article-body"> 2,305 words10–15 minutes<a href="https://mutualaidspace.org/mutual-aid-request-roundup-26-aug-2026/#respond" rel="nofollow">No comments on Mutual Aid Request Roundup 26 Aug 2026</a><p>Flores Displacement Tops 180,327 as Kalimantan Burns</p><p>The death toll from the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck East Nusa Tenggara before dawn on August 15 <a href="https://en.antaranews.com/news/428395/east-nusa-tenggara-quake-death-toll-rises-to-100" rel="nofollow">reached 100 by August 24</a>, national disaster agency chief Suhartoyo confirmed, up from 48 in the first two days alone. Displacement climbed even faster than the death count: 92,735 people forced from their homes as of August 21 had become <a href="https://en.tempo.co/read/2118067/ntt-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-83-displaces-110785" rel="nofollow">110,785 by the same day</a>, then 180,327 by August 24, with 1,603 people still reported injured. The agency has logged 6,409 aftershocks across eight days and expects seismic activity to continue for up to four more weeks. That trajectory, nearly quadrupling in ten days, is what happens after the first week of international coverage moves on and the counting keeps going without an audience.</p><p>The same week, hotspots were burning across all five Indonesian provinces on Borneo and four on Sumatra: 38,310 hectares in West Kalimantan, 8,620 in South Kalimantan, 7,634 in Central Kalimantan, more than 2,700 hot spots detected in West Kalimantan alone and nearly 2,500 in Central Kalimantan. This was not weather. <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/police-crack-down-on-land-burning-in-kalimantan" rel="nofollow">On August 23, national police arrested 72 people across those nine provinces</a> (35 in Riau alone, 17 in South Sumatra, 11 in Central Kalimantan) in connection with 89 separate forest and land fire cases. Investigators seized matches and oil palm seedlings as evidence. Brigadier General Mohammad Irhamni, the police’s special crimes director, said plainly that “most of the suspects were accused of deliberately burning land to clear areas for plantations at lower cost,” and that <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/indonesian-police-arrest-72-people-suspected-of-starting-forest-fires" rel="nofollow">at least four companies in West Kalimantan are now under investigation for financing or ordering the burns</a>, facing possible permit revocation if it’s proven. “We will not stop at the perpetrators on the ground,” Irhamni said. “We will determine who benefited from these activities and who was ultimately behind them.” Underneath the arrests sits a second, quieter policy failure that The Jakarta Post documented separately: <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/22/kalimantan-fires-rage-as-response-lags" rel="nofollow">central government austerity measures have cut local firefighting budgets so deeply that districts can’t afford basic equipment like water pumps</a>, in the same province where a water shortage was already hampering the response. A fire lit on purpose for palm oil profit, met by a firefighting budget cut on purpose. Neither half of that sentence is an accident, and neither is a natural disaster.</p><p>Meanwhile the government’s own free nutritious meal program kept making people sick. <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/18/negligence-blamed-for-free-meal-poisoning-that-sickened-350-students" rel="nofollow">In North Sumatra, more than 350 students fell ill after a school kitchen left 200 to 300 kilograms of fish at room temperature for roughly twelve hours instead of refrigerating it</a>. It was negligence the head of the National Nutrition Agency himself called reckless: “such negligence can have life-and-death consequences.” That single incident sits inside a much larger pattern: 40,759 students, teachers, pregnant women, and toddlers have fallen ill from the program since it launched. One kitchen was suspended. The program itself was not.</p><p>Two days before this roundup goes out, on August 27, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/117157396448200607" rel="nofollow">the United Pati Community Alliance plans to march on Indonesia’s House of Representatives to demand asset seizure and the death penalty for convicted corruption offenders</a>. <a href="https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/10/20/protest-wave-challenges-indonesias-authoritarian-drift/" rel="nofollow">The alliance exists because of last year’s crackdown in Pati, Central Java, where a 250 percent property tax hike following Prabowo-administration budget cuts triggered protests, police killed motorcycle taxi driver Affan Kurniawan with a tactical vehicle, and the state’s response left 11 people dead and hundreds injured</a>. Lokataru director Delpedro Marhaen was detained on what rights groups called vague charges in the same crackdown, and Indonesia was subsequently placed in V-Dem’s “grey zone,” no longer meeting minimum standards for electoral democracy. Days before this year’s planned march, <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2026/08/24/mandiri-freezing-of-protesters-account-raises-alarm-over-civic-freedom" rel="nofollow">Bank Mandiri froze the account of the coalition’s coordinator, Supriyono: roughly Rp 80.9 million in personal savings and public donations meant to cover protesters’ food, transport, and lodging</a>. The bank says it acted on an unnamed law enforcement request and has not identified the agency or the legal basis. Rights groups including CELIOS, YLBHI, and Amnesty International Indonesia say the freeze likely violates Article 140 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which requires a court order for exactly this kind of coercive measure, and have called it what it is: an attempt to cripple a protest through economic pressure rather than argument.</p><p>The tool Bank Mandiri used against Supriyono is not unique to Indonesia. <a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/tortured-disappeared-executed-how-iran-is-using-war-as-a-shield-for-systematic-repression/" rel="nofollow">Since the war with the US and Israel began on February 28, Amnesty International has documented at least 750 asset seizures inside Iran through a digital system called Saham, alongside more than 6,000 arbitrary arrests, an 88-day internet shutdown, and 39 political executions, sweeping up protesters, journalists, labour organisers, students, and Ahwazi Arab, Baluch, Baha’i, and Kurdish minorities</a>. <a href="https://iranwire.com/en/news/150854-iran-moves-to-seize-assets-of-100-citizens-abroad-freeze-bank-accounts/" rel="nofollow">Tehran’s public prosecutor used a version of the same mechanism in April against a much narrower target: more than 100 Iranians connected to the London-based broadcasters Iran International and Manoto, accused of “supporting the enemy abroad”</a>. That specific case carries a complication worth naming plainly. Iran International is funded through a Saudi businessman’s holding company and has been described by Bloomberg as “explicitly monarchist” and “pro-israel”; Manoto’s finances are opaque but widely suspected of similar Gulf backing; both networks have spent years promoting exiled would-be monarch Reza Pahlavi, who addressed CPAC in March and met Netanyahu in 2023. A Saudi- and Gulf-funded broadcasting operation gets frozen for a very different reason than a Central Java protest fund does, and conflating the two would blur a distinction worth keeping sharp. What holds across both cases regardless is the mechanism itself: seize first, let a court hear the appeal later if it hears one at all. That mechanism is what connects the 750 Iranians caught up in Saham, whatever their politics, to Supriyono’s frozen donation account in Pati.</p><p>An earthquake response that can’t outrun its own displacement count, a fire season lit on purpose and met by a budget cut on purpose, a feeding program that keeps hospitalising the children it’s meant to feed, and a bank account frozen with the same seize-first mechanism Tehran has used against 750 of its own people this year: five angles on one state’s priorities, all visible in a single week. That does not make Flores and Kalimantan more urgent than whoever ends up listed below this piece. Austerity in East Nusa Tenggara and precarity in Manchester or Milwaukee happen on different continents, in different currencies, under different flags, and they still trace back to the same governing decision: a state, or a bloc of states, choosing in advance which lives get insured against catastrophe and which get a line item cut before the catastrophe even arrives. Most of the requests in this roundup come from disabled, unemployed, and otherwise structurally abandoned people across the globe: the same machine, running on different soil, in a currency that makes the neglect easier to miss. The Palestinians in this roundup’s spotlight section are living the sharpest edge of that same architecture from a different angle again, the same Washington weighing debt terms against an NTT earthquake is the Washington funding the siege this roundup covers elsewhere. Mutual aid runs on a different premise entirely: that a border does not get to decide who is owed solidarity and who gets a week of headlines instead. Give what you’re able to move directly, wherever on that list it lands. Where you can’t, carry the request further than your own feed reaches. Two funds are moving directly toward this week’s disasters: <a href="https://kitabisa.com/campaign/setarapedulintt" rel="nofollow">Setara Peduli NTT for earthquake relief across Flores and Lombok</a>, and <a href="https://kitabisa.com/campaign/urgentkarhutla" rel="nofollow">Urgent Karhutla for wildfire response across Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua</a>. And if the August 27 mobilisation inside Indonesia is reachable for you, showing up or helping fund those who are is the same re-distributive instinct this roundup runs on every week.</p><p>A note before the list: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/117148446427277853" rel="nofollow">mutualaidspace.org’s submission form is live</a>. Submitting a request there gets it federated as <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mutualaidspace.org/author/comrade/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>comrade</span></a></span>, automatically tagged for wider reach, and listed publicly under <a href="https://mutualaidspace.org/comrades-community" rel="nofollow">Comrades &amp; Community</a> or <a href="https://mutualaidspace.org/victims-of-empire" rel="nofollow">Victims of Empire</a>, whether or not the person asking has a Fediverse account of their own. No verification process, no proof of suffering required. 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The family’s campaign covers his treatment and their survival from hunger and violence; open it, give directly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998/117157886786862253" rel="nofollow">[View original post]</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>baraa1998</span></a></span></p><a href="https://chuffed.org/project/161145-abdo" rel="nofollow">REDISTRIBUTE</a><p>Help Lina’s family survive and secure medical treatment for her injured husband and her whole family</p><p>Lina is struggling every day to provide for her children while caring for her injured husband and her mother-in-law who has cancer. Only £3,857 of the £10,000 goal is raised so far. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sham00/117149613532290423" rel="nofollow">[View original post]</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sham00" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sham00</span></a></span></p><a href="https://chuffed.org/project/omsham" rel="nofollow">REDISTRIBUTE</a> Gaza Verified Archive Verified Palestinian campaigns under $200 These are verified Palestinian accounts whose campaigns received less than $200 in the past 7 days. Nine of many. 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<div class="article-body"> <p>This release is mostly made up of behind-the-scenes improvements, but one update you’ll notice right away is the refreshed Followers table. It now looks and feels much more like the standard WordPress admin tables: you can customize it with screen options to hide columns or change how many followers are shown per page, and you can now delete individual followers using inline action links. We also polished the layout by increasing information density and improving the readability of date columns.</p><p>We’ve made migrations easier to kick off by automatically resolving account aliases and saving their ID form. That means you can now paste in WebFinger IDs, profile URLs, etc. and the plugin handles the rest, as long as it resolves to an ActivityPub profile.</p><p>This release also fixes a long-time annoyance: unfederated posts (like those published before the plugin was activated or imported later) will no longer be sent out to followers just because they were updated. For now, we use a simple cutoff for posts older than a month, which should cover the majority of those cases.</p><p>Coming Soon: Following Others!</p><p>Most of the work that went into this release is still invisible, hiding behind a feature flag in Advanced Settings (you can find it by opening Screen Options in the ActivityPub settings screen).</p><p>There’s really no functionality around it yet, beyond following accounts from other instances, as we have yet to start processing incoming posts and adding the ability to interact with them. But if you just can’t wait to show your appreciation for other accounts by following them, go wild!</p><p>Behind the same feature flag, we’ve also added initial beta support for Fediverse Starter Kits. This lets new users follow a set of recommended accounts from a predefined list, following <a href="https://github.com/pixelfed/starter-kits/issues/1" rel="nofollow">the format proposed</a> by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/dansup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dansup</span></a></span> for Pixelfed. For now, only Actor objects are supporteded, but we’re hoping to expand that over time.</p><p>Full Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>Added a first version of the Follow form, allowing users to follow other Actors by username or profile link.<br>Added initial support for Fediverse Starter Kits, allowing users to follow recommended accounts from a predefined list.<br>Ensure that all schedulers are registered during every plugin update.<br>Followers and Following list tables now support Columns and Pagination screen options.<br>The featured tags endpoint is now available again for all profiles, showing the most frequently used tags by each user.<br>The following endpoint now returns the actual list of users being followed.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Follower tables now look closer to what other tables in WordPress look like.<br>Improved Account-Aliases handling by internally normalizing input formats.<br>Minor performance improvement when querying posts of various types, by avoiding double queries.<br>Set older unfederated posts to local visibility by default.<br>Step counts for the Welcome checklist now only take into account steps that are added in the Welcome class.<br>Table actions are now faster by using the Custom Post Type ID instead of the remote user URI, thanks to the unified Actor Model.<br>The following tables now more closely match the appearance of other WordPress tables and can be filtered by status.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Ensure correct visibility handling for Undo and Follow requests<br>Ensure that the Actor-ID is always a URL.<br>Fixed a bug in how follow requests were accepted to ensure they work correctly.<br>Fixed an issue where the number of followers shown didn’t always match the actual follower list.<br>Fixed a PHP error that prevented the Follower overview from loading.<br>Fixed missing avatar class so that CSS styles are correctly applied to ActivityPub avatars on the Dashboard.<br>Fixed potential errors when unrelated requests get caught in double-knocking callback.<br>Improved WebFinger fallback to better guess usernames from profile links.<br>Prevent WordPress from loading all admin notices twice on ActivityPub settings pages.<br>Removed follower dates to avoid confusion, as they may not have accurately reflected the actual follow time.<br>Stop purging Follow activities from the Outbox to allow proper Unfollow (Undo) handling.</p><p>Downloads</p><p>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.7.1.0.zip" rel="nofollow">activitypub.7.1.0.zip</a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/7.1.0" rel="nofollow">tag/7.1.0</a></p><p>Thank you!</p><p>Big thanks to everyone who contributed code, feedback, testing, or encouragement—this community helps make the fediverse more connected with every release. ❤️</p><p>Update to 7.1.0, try it out, and tell us what you think!</p> </div>