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With just 32 hours left to go...I can't believe it...they are less than $500 away from meeting the $55k goal, which will add in-app live streaming capabilities.

Let's make this happen. 💪🏼

https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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We’re excited to share this roadmap — there’s a lot happening with the ActivityPub plugin, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming next. We often refer to this roadmap in GitHub issues and discussions, but until now, we haven’t published a full roadmap post — nor a formal changelog. This post is a first step toward keeping the community more informed about what’s planned and what’s coming up next. Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience […]

We’re excited to share this roadmap — there’s a lot happening with the ActivityPub plugin, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming next.

We often refer to this roadmap in GitHub issues and discussions, but until now, we haven’t published a full roadmap post — nor a formal changelog. This post is a first step toward keeping the community more informed about what’s planned and what’s coming up next.

Our goal for this year is to finalize the full ActivityPub experience — so that WordPress can be used as a first-class citizen of the Fediverse. This means enabling not only publishing to the network, but also following, reading, interacting, and moderating — all in a seamless way that feels natural for WordPress users.

This roadmap is not set in stone — priorities may shift based on community feedback, WordPress updates, or changes in the wider Fediverse. But it should give you a good sense of where we’re going.

Followers/Following

This is what we’re currently working on. You can follow the progress on GitHub.

Right now, the plugin supports only Followers. It doesn’t yet offer a way for your site to follow others in the Fediverse. But with new initiatives like the “Reader Experience,” this will need to change.

To support true two-way relationships — both Followers and Following — we need a database model that can clearly represent both types of connections. The current system, which relies on GUIDs to track remote actors, wasn’t designed for this. At the moment, it can store a remote actor as a follower of your site, but it doesn’t easily support the ability for your site to follow them back.

Implementing Following cleanly will require rethinking how this data is stored and connected.

Actors

This ties into a broader challenge with how the plugin currently models actors — both local users on your site and remote users from other Fediverse servers.

Today, the plugin uses virtual users to represent these actors. This was a practical choice early on to get federation working without rewriting how WordPress manages users.

But as the plugin grows — especially with features like Following and the Reader Experience — this approach is creating friction. Virtual users don’t behave exactly like regular WordPress users, so each time we add new features, we end up writing special workarounds.

Over time, this adds complexity and makes the system harder to maintain. Moving toward a more unified model for actors — one that integrates more naturally with WordPress’s existing structures — will keep the plugin flexible and reliable.

Moderation

Currently, the plugin relies on WordPress’s built-in “Disallowed Comment Keys” system to filter unwanted content at the inbox endpoint — before any ActivityPub request is processed. This mechanism allows you to block activities based on keywords or domains, using the same rules you’d apply to comments.

However, this approach is fairly blunt: it’s a simple keyword filter, not a nuanced moderation tool. This limitation will become more important as the plugin expands — for example, when adding support for image-based comments or richer media interactions.

Building a dedicated filtering mechanism is an important step toward giving site owners fine-grained moderation tools that are tailored to the unique challenges of federated content.

More details:

👉 GitHub — Question: How does this plugin interact with moderation and trust & safety on the fediverse?

Reader

A full Reader experience is one of our long-term goals — it’s the final big feature needed to give WordPress sites a complete ActivityPub/Fediverse experience.

Today, the plugin lets others follow your site, but there’s no built-in way for you to subscribe to and read content from others — in other words, there’s no “timeline” yet inside WordPress.

We plan to start with a simple, flexible approach: focusing first on storing remote posts in a way that’s compatible with tools like the WordPress.com Reader or third-party plugins like Friends or the Event Bridge for ActivityPub.

Once this foundation is in place, we’ll iterate on direct support — making it possible for site owners and users to follow and read Fediverse posts right inside WordPress.

Direct Messages

As part of this evolution toward a full Reader experience, we’re also exploring support for Direct Messages.

This is a frequently requested feature and an important part of richer Fediverse interactions. We plan to start with an initial implementation that enables private messaging — and then build on it as we learn from real-world use.

Fully delete profiles

One key principle of the GDPR is the “right to be forgotten.”

Currently, the plugin supports remote deletions, but does not trigger Delete Activities for local user actions.

The challenge is that WordPress operates differently from most federated social networks. Users might expect Delete Activities for certain actions that could have major consequences — for example, deactivating the plugin.

But deactivating a plugin is also a common troubleshooting step in WordPress.

To address this, we first need to define different use cases and guide users on how to trigger Delete Activities appropriately.

More details:

👉 GitHub — User Delete Milestone

Client-to-Server API (exploration)

In addition to the way servers communicate with each other across the Fediverse, ActivityPub also defines a “Client-to-Server” API.

This API is mainly designed to allow apps and clients (such as mobile apps) to publish content to a Fediverse server.

In the future, this could open up interesting possibilities for WordPress — for example, allowing WordPress to act as a bridge or proxy, making it easier to bring in and federate content from other tools or platforms.

At this stage, we’re exploring and evaluating this based on community interest and potential use cases.

Staying Informed

We’ll continue to keep you informed about the progress of this roadmap.

For each new release, we’ll publish posts highlighting the latest features and improvements. For larger projects — like the Reader experience or expanded moderation tools — we’ll also share regular updates so you can follow along as the work evolves.

As always, we welcome your feedback and ideas — they help shape the future of the ActivityPub plugin and the growing WordPress Fediverse community! 🚀

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Ferrocarril.net - Servidor de Mastodon, operado por aficionados al ferrocarril, para aficionados al ferrocarril.

https://social.ferrocarril.net/about

Acerca de: https://mast.lat/about
Administrado por: @garridinsi

#FeaturedServer #Ferrocarril #Railways #Trains #Español #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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🌐 Fediverse-Sprechstunde – Sei dabei!
📅 Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2025
🕢 19:30 Uhr – online & mit Aufzeichnung

#Neu im #Fediverse oder gerade erst auf #Mastodon angekommen? Kein Problem – wir helfen dir beim Einstieg!

🔹 Profil einrichten
🔹 Erste Beiträge posten
🔹 Sicherheitstipps
🔹 Vernetzen mit anderen im Fediverse

Schwerpunkt dieses Abends:
🗣️ Mastodon leicht erklärt – mit @Doris

Was ist Mastodon (und was nicht)?
Mit praktischen Beispielen zu Profil, Posts, Listen & mehr.

💬 Wir freuen uns auf dich – und über jede Unterstützung von erfahrenen Mastodon-Nutzer:innen!

Eingeladen sind ebenso alle, die bereits Erfahrungen mit Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, Misskey, Hubzilla oder anderen Anwendungen haben und ihr Wissen gerne weitergeben möchten.

Wissensaustausch: Deine Kenntnisse im Fediverse könnten anderen Teilnehmern sehr nützlich sein, besonders denjenigen, die noch neu in der Community sind.
Networking: Dies ist eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, sich mit anderen engagierten Mitgliedern der Gemeinschaft zu vernetzen und neue Kontakte zu knüpfen.
Ideen und Inspiration: Deine Perspektive als erfahrener Benutzer oder Betreiber einer Instanz kann dazu beitragen, innovative Ideen zu fördern und die Zukunft des Fediverse mitzugestalten.

Der Raum wird 10 Minuten vor Beginn geöffnet.
Der Link: kommt hier vor Beginn der Veranstaltung!

Das Online-Treffen findet auf unserem BigBlueButton-Server statt. Du benötigst keine zusätzliche Software, sondern nur einen Browser – vorzugsweise Firefox oder Chrome – ein Mikrofon (es handelt sich schließlich um eine Sprechstunde) und, wenn du möchtest, eine Webcam. Wir freuen uns auf einen lebhaften Austausch! 🎙️ 🙋‍♀️

Der Ablauf der Sprechstunde sieht folgendermaßen aus: Zu Beginn geben wir Tipps und Hinweise für Anfänger und Einsteiger. Anschließend geht es um Ratschläge für Instanzbetreiber und Moderatoren. Ein solcher Austausch ist wichtig und notwendig für eine gute Vernetzung untereinander. Die Welt des Fediverse ist Größer und vielfältiger. Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander.

Je mehr mitmachen, desto besser!

#FediverseSpechstunde
#friendica
#MastodonBeginner
#Mastodon
#MastodonSprechstunde
#Fediverse
#socialmedia
#neuhier

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A shout out:
I don’t know about the rest of you, and perhaps it’s just the folks I follow, but Mastodon has become a damn good news feed—world-wide, comprehensive, varied, interesting, engaging. That is an addition to the steady stream* of wisdom, snark, perspective, humour, and commentary that you guys serve up every hour.
So thanks! Merci! ¡Gracias!
(* Pro tip: get your ‘following’ list up to several hundred quality Mastodonians and your feed will really percolate. )
#mastodon #fediverse

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Just added another batch of news accounts to the fedi.directory website. If you want to follow news sources on the Fediverse, you can find lots of them here:

➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media

- To follow an account, copy-paste its address into your search box on Mastodon etc.

- To find out more about an account, click on its address in the listing.

- If an account is posting too often, use Mastodon's Lists feature (more info: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon).

#News #Fediverse

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PeerTube results now show up in regular searches on Kagi, plus you can filter videos by "source" to see more PeerTube content.

#Fediverse #PeerTube #Kagi #Search

A screenshot of the Kagi search engine displaying video search results for the term "vegan." The results are filtered by the "PeerTube" platform. The page shows a variety of video thumbnails with titles such as "Vegan Nutty Thai Basil Pesto Pasta Recipe," "Vegan Kit Kat first impressions review," "Vegan Mom," "Liberal Vegans," "Trying Vegan Fast Foods," and more. Each video thumbnail includes details like the uploader, video duration, number of views, and likes. The dropdown filter menu for video platforms is open, highlighting "PeerTube."

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Am 6. Mai veranstalten wir gemeinsam mit @wikimediaDE und dem @bmuv den online-Workshop

📣 Das #Fediverse und seine sozialen Medien.

Mit @nic , @melaniebartos , @MoniKa , @digitalcourage , @cyber4EDU und @RoedigerRG wird das dezentrale Netzwerk 🕸️ vorgestellt und ganz praktisch in die Nutzung von #Mastodon, #PeerTube und #Pixelfed eingeführt.

Anmeldung hier
👉 https://www.bmuv.de/veranstaltung/teil-1-der-workshopreihe-sovereign-sustainable-digital-das-fediverse-und-seine-sozialen-medien

#SaveSocial #AlleInsFediverse

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Free your Social Media/ Soziale Medien jetzt aneignen! – Kommt in's bunte selbstverwaltete #Fediverse!

Input und Workshop auf dem @dearfuture in der Volkshochschule #Dresden

dresden.network, @datenkollektiv und @BitsUndBaeumeDresden bieten im Rahmen des #DearFuture-Festivals am 14. Mai von 16:00 Uhr bis 19:30 Uhr in der VHS Dresden einen Workshop gezielt für Vereine, Initiativen und ähnliche Organisationen zum Fediverse an.

Alle wichtigen Infos findet ihr hier online:
https://dearfuturedresden.de/festival2025/programm/datenkollektiv-net

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Fediverse Report #115 - This week's #fediverse news:

- @peertube launches v1 of their mobile apps
- @Mastodon shares more information on their team is growing
- @swf launches places.pub, a way to put OpenStreetMap data directly on #activitypub

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-115/

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The other day I finally got it. Why #Bluesky is so popular with "regular people" (aka non-techies). It's because it's CENTRALIZED (of course the Bluesky folks would never admit it out right).

One name: Bluesky.
One official URL to join / browse / post messages
One official app: "Bluesky Social" on app stores

In this post-literate society where people have been trained by commercial social media for 2 DECADES to choose the easiest, most frictionless option, of course they will pick Bluesky over the #Fediverse.

Try introducing the concept of servers / instances and names like Mastodon, Sharkey, Pleroma, GoToSocial, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy to people not familiar with them. They'd think you're speaking a foreign language.

The Fediverse is made up of thousands of independent servers. You can't log in to https://joinmastodon.org or https://joinpeertube.org to browse Mastodon or PeerTube. Conversely, when you log into Bluesky you see messages by Bluesky members.

People need to be educated first about defederated options and their numerous advantages.

I get it now. I'm still 1000% in when it comes to the Fediverse but I understand.

And I'm tired.

And I'm posting this here on my GoToSocial account because I wanted to say my piece in one go and I would have run into Mastodon character limits.

How many people have I convinced to join the Fediverse in my 9 months advocating for it through a blog? TWO. How many people are still active on it? One.

Off I go play with LEGOs with my little one - in 12 years, when she's old enough I will set up her own instance. So Fediverse, you gotta be thriving in 2037.

#TheFutureIsFederated

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I recommended #mastodon to a friend. But this time in stand of joinmastodon.org I gave him https://fedi.garden why ? Because if I give him joinmastodon.org I'm sure he will end up on mastodon.social
I started with this server but I shifted from it.
Thanks to @FediGarden for this amazing list.
#fediverse

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Some questions for all the #GoToSocial users out there.

How many gigabytes of disk space (roughly) does your instance use?

How long has it been online?

And does the growth in storage slow down after the first seven days (on the default configuration), when cached images start clearing out?

#FediHelp #SelfHost #SelfHosted #Fediverse

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I found this cool #Fediverse software called #NeoDB via @dansup 's awesome FediDB website.

https://fedidb.com/software/neodb?version=latest&registration=open

It's a tracking / shelf platform for #TV / #drama, #movies / #films, #books, and #games

Automated import from #Goodreads work well. Just provide the required URL and voila. If it doesn't appear immediately, it is probably waiting for server workers or waiting for the server load to lower or Goodreads request limit, just be patient, only submit the same URL once! If in doubt, contact the admins instead of resubmitting.

Unfortunately, the software doesn't support import (automated, API, or manual) from Trakt, SIMKL, MyAnimeList, and other popular tracking/shelf services for TV/drama and movies/films. There is one, Douban or something, which I think is popular in the Chinese and Japanese speaking markets.

Anyway, what if the item you want to add doesn't exist in the database yet?

Worry not! There are three ways NeoDB software populates its database.

* Method 1: You can add the details yourself

* Method 2: Search the other NeoDB instances for existing similar items

* Method 3: Search for the item from TMDB, IMDB, IGDB, Steam, Goodreads, and other supported sites (no TVDB), and paste the URL to NeoDB's search box and it will import it to your instance

Method 2 is already sweet. That is the entire idea of the #SocialWeb. But Method 3 is even sweeter!

Methods 2 and 3 are the best because it's a win-win for everyone. Regular users can forget about manually re-entering new data. Seriously, who wants to manually duplicate data from one DB to another? I certainly don't! I contribute to #TMDB but I'm definitely not repeating the same effort in #TVDB.

Secondly, there's no need for instances to duplicate large databases just to ensure their site is useful for any user. Items are added as local users interact with the items. It keeps the db small instead of having thousands of items no one has interacted to yet (or probably not).

Check my accounts:

* Flagship server: @youronlyone
* Instance: @youronlyone@eggplant.place

~~Hmm… I haven't checked but I think music is not supported (yet?). NeoDB can use the largest #OpenDB for music: #Musicbrainz ~~

UPDATE: Music is supported, as well as, #podcasts .

🖖🏽🙇🏽

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Noch auf der Suche nach #News und offiziellen Accounts von Medien hier auf #Mastodon und im #Fediverse?

Meine immer aktuelle Tabelle enthält jetzt nicht nur Accounts auf Mastodon und anderen Fediverse-Diensten, sondern auch welche auf #Flipboard, #Threads und #Bluesky – allesamt von hier abrufbar.
Insgesamt sind es jetzt 942.
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

(hinter dem "Custom Search Builder" links darüber gibt's eine mächtige Suche)

#SocialMedia #Media

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Fediverse Icons

https://github.com/reiver/fediverse-icons

Free, and in SVG format.

#DeSo #Fediverse #FediverseIcons #Calckey #Castopod #Forgejo #Friendica #FunkWhale #Gitea #GreatApe #Hubzilla #Lemmy #Mastodon #Misskey #Pixelfed #Pleroma #WordPress #WriteFreely

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As someone who has developed several #ActivityPub software implementations (Fedify, Hollo, BotKit, and Hackers' Pub), I believe one of the most frustrating features to implement in the #fediverse is #custom_emoji.

The challenges are numerous:

First, there's no standardization. ActivityPub specifications don't define how custom emoji should work, leading to inconsistent implementations across different servers like Mastodon and Misskey.

Rendering is particularly problematic. Emojis must display properly across different contexts (in text, as reactions, in emoji pickers) while maintaining quality at various sizes. Animated emojis add another layer of complexity.

Perhaps most concerning is the poor #accessibility. Most implementations simply use the emoji code (like :party_blob:) as the alt text, which provides no meaningful information to screen reader users (in particular, non-English speakers) about what the emoji actually depicts or means.

What really dampens my motivation to implement this feature is knowing I'm investing significant effort into something that ultimately creates accessibility barriers. It's disheartening to work hard on a feature that excludes part of the community.

#fedidev

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3 THINGS I'm grateful for when it comes to the #Fediverse:

1: I (almost) never see any AI slop. I'm subscribed to @404mediaco and I'm constantly horrified by their articles on AI slop - so common on Meta platforms. Not here. So #ThankYouFedi.

2: I'm never force-fed content by people I don't follow – so common in other places where algorithms rule. My time & attention are treated with RESPECT.

3: People here protect the privacy of children / don't post their pics. Consent is BIG. #ThankYouFedi

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Just rolled out some fediverse-related improvements:

- Now you can follow Write.as blogs from Ghost! There was a tiny bug with this that we just fixed. (WriteFreely PR: https://writefreely.org/pull/1373)

- We now support the `preview` property as a fallback for Articles. This will make your posts look much nicer as more platforms support it! (WriteFreely PR: https://writefreely.org/pull/1374)

#WriteAs #WriteFreely #WriteFreelyDev #Ghost #fediverse #ActivityPub

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Since #NeoDB also has a "social" feature, it's awesome that we can login in #Fediverse apps. For users who prefer to use their NeoDB account beyond just a shelf/tracking/library can do so.

For example, this post was made via the #Fedilab #Android app.

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Excited to be collaborating with this incredible group of people to advise @fediforum and help push the #SocialWeb and #Fediverse forward.

https://fediforum.org/people/

See you at #FediForum (June 5-7, online)!

Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/fediforum-june-2025/tickets

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I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp

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#fedicat #fediverse support is made possible by admins running servers of various flavors (and interesting names) that I can test on, such as: wizard.casa, catodon.social, functional.cafe, gram.social, miraiverse.xyz, wienermobile.rentals, friendica.opensocial.space, plasmatrap.com, bytes.programming.dev, eggplant.place, and takahe.staging.django-cast.com

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How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments

On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts or comments in the community. This can be helpful for giving a hint about someone’s background, interests or expertise.

However PieFed is federated and there are copies of the communities on multiple servers (instances). The way to use ActivityPub to create and maintain those copies is described in FEP 1b12 which makes no mention of flair. I have made some minimal additions to that FEP, described below:

For flair on posts, the Lemmy devs have already done quite a bit of work on this, which I added a little to, so that flair can have colors. Community actors have an additional type of tag:

{
"type": "Group",
"id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta",
"name": "piefed_meta",
/* ... */
"lemmy:tagsForPosts": [
{
"type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
"id": "https://piefed.socia1/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
"display_name": "Some Post Tag Name",
"text_color": "#000000",
"background_color": "#dedede"
}
]
}

lemmy:tagsForPosts is a list of lemmy:CommunityTag objects.

So now all the different copies of the community will know which flair can be used there. When creating a post in the community we just need to add one or more lemmy:CommunityTag objects to the Page activity:

{
"id": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
"actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
"type": "Page",
/* ... */
"tag": [
{
"type": "lemmy:CommunityTag",
"id": "https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/tag/whatever",
"display_name": "Some Post Tag Name"
},
{
"href": "https://piefed.social/post/1",
"name": "asdf",
"type": "Hashtag"
}
]
}

In this example the post also has a #asdf hashtag on it.

User flair is simpler because it’s not managed by the community moderators and is not a fixed list. PieFed simply adds the author’s flair to every comment (federated as a Note activity) they make. When a Note is received the author’s flair is updated on the receiving instances.

{
"id": "https://piefed.social/comment/1",
"actor": "https://piefed.social/u/rimu",
"type": "Note",
/* ... */
"flair": "PieFed dev"
}

This means that when someone changes their flair it will take effect immediately on their instance but until they write a comment it won’t propagate to other instances. As flair is primarily used on comments and the people using flair will tend to be posting a lot of comments this is kinda “good enough”.

It would be trivial to add a “flair” attribute onto posts too and have receiving instances read that. User flair shows up next to the author’s name on their posts so arguably it makes sense to send it then too.

Let’s see how it goes.

#asdf #fediverse #Lemmy #piefed #threadverse