Link at end but I am amused by the replies and discourse to this article for the bafflement regarding the existance of small Fedi, Fedi users that don’t want to interact with the whole of users. Small Fedi has people that honestly just want to be left the fuck alone. The more tech minded of the Fedi, big Fedi, as described here, is astonished such a thing could exist and my sides are splitting from them realizing not everybody wants to talk to you. https://wedistribute.org/2025/03/website-league-island-networks/ #Fediverse #ActivityPub #privacy

New: Fediverse Report #108

This week's news:
- Ghost's (@index) connection to the #fediverse is now availabe in public beta for Ghost Pro users, with both an #ActivityPub connection to send long-form posts into the fediverse, and a reader app to read/comment/interact with the fediverse
- @anewsocial , the organisation that manages the bridge between the fediverse and #bluesky shared their upcoming plans

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-108/

Can't find any reference about what I have to return on a Create Note (comment) activity.
- Is status code 200 enough?
- should I return an Accept Activity with the Request in it?

ping @pfefferle maybe?

#fediverse #feditips #activitypub

Hi all! I'm a concert organiser and musician and I'm planning to organise within the community a series of discussion events on the fediverse as a concrete alternative to fascist soc media. But, at the same time, to be able to meaningfully answer the questions many might have, I'm trying to wrap my head around how the ActivityPub works, in particular regarding cross-servers visibility, and how inherent certain beviours are. Any pointer is really welcome! <3

Kommende Woche findet die 2. Ausgabe von #Blogtastisch statt! Und ihr seid alle herzlich eingeladen! Matthias @pfefferle führt uns in das #ActivityPub Plugin für #WordPress ein. Und wir vernetzen uns in der #Bloggosphäre. Sei jetzt dabei! Weitere Infos findest du hier: https://bloggerkonferenz.de/blogtastisch-meetup-fuer-die-bloggosphaere/ #Blog #bloggen

Huch, wir haben ja hier einen Account! Dann sollten wir ihn vielleicht auch nutzen :-)

Also: Kommende Woche findet die 2. Ausgabe von #Blogtastisch statt! Und ihr seid alle herzlich eingeladen! Matthias @pfefferle führt uns in das #ActivityPub Plugin für #WordPress ein. Und wir vernetzen uns in der #Bloggosphäre. Sei jetzt dabei! Weitere Infos findest du hier: https://bloggerkonferenz.de/blogtastisch-meetup-fuer-die-bloggosphaere/ #Blog #bloggen

If anyone has enable this, how do I find you? I’d like to try following your blog on here. The social web beta is here https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/ #Ghost #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Congratulations to the #Ghost team – their #ActivityPub-powered social web beta launched today!

https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/

Well, it’s a lucky day . Our latest update contains a pot o’ gold for the Bluesky community especially. Take a look at what’s in this release, including linking your Bluesky account to Surf, a new Home Timeline that unifies your Bluesky and Mastodon, and Bluesky notifications in our app.

Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers.

Interesting how they name and describe it:

"Social Web - y/n
Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network"

https://activitypub.ghost.org/content/images/size/w1600/2025/03/activitypub-beta-1.png

Who are the finest #community builders in the #activitypub ecosystem, in your opinion?

The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.

Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.

This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/

My #ActivityPub bubble is not at all a bubble but a linear chronology of the things I am or might be interested in. I've never been so stress free from monetising algo as I've been in the last almost 3 years.

I keep the constant info blast from news outlets in separate accounts for instant sync with world events.

And I get to interact with plenty of differing perspective views in the comment sections of actual news websites and places like YouTube that have baseline moderation.

I am creating a #ActivityPub minimalistic implementation of a badge system similar to Credly, built using #dotnet and leveraging the #Fediverse

I have issued a first badge, the idea is to decentralize the verification systems, and allow organizations to self-certify. It is incredible that organizations like Microsoft or Non-Profits pay thousands of dollars to companies like Pearson to just provide "verified" badges. Similar to mastodons installed in social-dot-something, thinkg of badges<dot> mozilla<dot>com , certifications<dot>myschooldistrict<dot>com. Or even a podcast emitting a badge for its guests, with the verification in the domain.

ActivityPub already offers a secure way to sign artifacts and interact between actors. The fediverse already have people with profiles, a social graph as @mike says, ready to use. Think of how LetsEncrypt disrupted that market of few actors selling certificates for websites.

I have a functional poc,
@fediverse is not a mastodon, pledora or blog, it is an actor in a badge system, but you can follow it in Mastodon. Its badges will show in #mastodon but they are not notes or articles. If you want to learn more, follow me, I will be sharing the progress here. Or follow the github project here: https://github.com/tryvocalcat/activitypub-badges

Who wants a badge of early adopter?

Ich finde die Idee/das Angebot von #Bridgy grundsätzlich nicht schlecht, aber es ist einfach nur eine (schlechte) Symptom- aber nicht Ursachen-Bekämpfung.

Weshalb #Bluesky nicht auf #ActivityPub gesetzt hat (wo sie viel mehr Leute erreicht hätten), ist mir ein Rätsel.

The #fediverse is a fascinating place. I was using #nostr and came across a post by @cstross but I couldn't reply to it on Nostr and I couldn't find it on #mastodon

I suppose technically this isn't a fediverse issue as it isn't really related to the way #activitypub works, but rather more related to the way bridges work.

Now I'm guessing this occurred because the post in question was deleted by Charlie (though I saw nothing untoward about it) or because it was a very good imposter on Nostr.

If it's the latter , it doesn't explain why the post seemed to come from Mastodon, albeit not from Charlie's usually address.

If it's the former then that is more understandable but maybe worrying, because it means deletions on Mastodon are not respected elsewhere.

Now Charlie being charlie, there's no way he isn't already aware of this, but I think it might be worth spreading the word to others.

Hi @pfefferle ich habe hier eine interessante Entdeckung gemacht. Wenn ich den "Fediverse Reactions" Block in WordPress einfüge, scheint er sich an verschiedenen Stellen unterschiedlich zu verhalten. Im "Content" werden ALLE User die reagiert werden abgebildet. Im "Post loop" immer nur der LETZTE User. Ist euch das bekannt? Es sieht aus wie ein Bug…

Reflinks: https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/ (Kopf des Beitrags) und https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/goodbye-gamestop/ (unter dem Beitrag)

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

I’m still using Toot!, a client that hasn’t been updated in years. It’s still working fine, even thought lots of improvements have been made to mastodon. The underlying protocol hasn’t changed though and that’s why things still keep working. That’s why you want well thought out, well defined protocols that care about stability and interoperability. I love it. And that’s also why I love XMPP more than just whatever is hyped at the moment.