@fastfinge

You might take a look into #UWPX, a once promising, but later abandoned #Jabber/#XMPP client by #FabianSauter a.k.a. #COM8 (not on #fediverse?):

https://uwpx.org/

https://github.com/UWPX/UWPX-Client

Maybe you can even take over his work instead of starting from scratch?

IIRC, it does have #OMEMO, but no A/V calls, no message reactions, maybe #MAM, not sure.

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https://thewhale.cc/posts/mobilizon

Online platforms to create, share and find events.

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Online platforms to create, share and find events.

There are two common misconceptions on Mastodon about Mastodon. The first one is that Mastodon is the only free, non-commercial, non-corporate, decentralised social anything. Once Mastodon users are over this, they still think Mastodon is the best free, non-commercial, non-corporate, decentralised social anything.

I've seen Mastodon being advertised by users as a Fediverse alternative to literally everything, including Reddit (because, like, you can communicate, right?) and even YouTube (because, like, you can upload videos, right?).

But again, let me be honest: The only thing that Mastodon can hope to be an alternative to is 𝕏. Because it's a Twitter clone. A purist Twitter clone whose developers intentionally reject feature requests because the requested features don't fit into their image of purist, minimalist, old-school, original-gangsta microblogging. They want to keep Mastodon a slightly more glorified SMS than 𝕏.

Mastodon isn't even the only microblogging server application in the Fediverse. It isn't even the best at that. 80-90% of Mastodon's users don't and probably will never realise that Mastodon is an intentionally crippled resource hog. Many believe that Mastodon is the fully-featured be-all, end-all of social networking.

By the way, even the Mastodon developers claim that Mastodon is fully featured. I've had a Mastodon dev try hard to convince me that Mastodon is fully featured although I've told him that I'm on Hubzilla. He essentially tried to tell me that Mastodon has every last feature that Hubzilla has plus even more on top.

In reality, Mastodon isn't the fully-featured be-all, end-all of social networking. It isn't even a social network. It's social media, just like 𝕏 is social media. It's designed for pumping out content and being followed because it's designed as a Twitter-like microblogging application. And it isn't even the best at microblogging.

Almost everyone on Mastodon is fully convinced that Mastodon has to be the best. After all, it's the biggest. It's what everyone chose.

No.

Mastodon is the biggest because everyone who wants to leave 𝕏 or Threads or Bluesky is railroaded to Mastodon. It's the biggest because all the newbies are only told about Mastodon. It's the biggest because none of the newbies even learn upon on-boarding that other 𝕏 alternatives exist in the Fediverse, that anything else exists in the Fediverse other than Mastodon. It's the biggest because mainstream media, tech media and even Fediverse activists only ever talk about Mastodon, Mastodon, Mastodon. (Granted, it's also the biggest because it's the only one with an official phone app in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Even though that app sucks.)

All these Mastodon users who claim that Mastodon is the best choice don't realise that they themselves did, in fact, not choose Mastodon. They didn't know they had a choice. All they were told about was Mastodon. Seriously, if they'd had a choice, they'd probably be on Sharkey now and not on Mastodon.

I've read what people had to say who moved from Friendica to Misskey. Or to now defunct Calckey/Firefish. Or to Sharkey. Or to Akkoma. All these are microblogging server applications in the Fediverse. But none of them are intentionally crippled to stay close to Twitter, at least not to such a degree as Mastodon.

It was nothing short of eye-opening to them. Only by daily-driving something else than Mastodon did they realise what the non-Mastodon Fediverse can be like. And how crippled Mastodon actually is. That Mastodon is far from being the absolute pinnacle in decentralised social media.

They no longer had only 500 characters. They had thousands of characters. They would have had thousands of characters on every server running that software without having to ask around which one has more than 500 characters. It felt like a restraint being removed which they had never considered a restraint, at least not that much of it.

They saw text formatting which they considered technologically absolutely impossible in the Fediverse when they were on Mastodon. In fact, they had considered text formatting entirely impossible while on Mastodon until they had come across the first message from outside with text formatting. Actual text formatting, not Unicode trickery. Now they suddenly saw a lot of the stuff that Mastodon's HTML sanitiser removes. And they themselves could use it!

If they were on one of the *keys, they no longer had a timeline of single-message piecemeal. For the first time ever, they experienced what it's like to have something else than single-message piecemeal. Namely entire conversations right in front of them, right away. Without having to dig for them first.

They had features which they had always wished the Fediverse may introduce. They never knew that the Fediverse does have these features, only Mastodon doesn't. They had features that were completely unimagiable to them in the Fediverse.

There are users who have moved from Mastodon to something "minimalist" and lightweight like snac or GoToSocial, often on self-hosted, single-user, private servers. Even they suddenly had features they didn't have on Mastodon. Mind you, while not missing a single Mastodon feature (except maybe for a built-in Web UI).

And that's just the microblogging side of the Fediverse. None of this is actual social networking. You know, what Facebook does.

First of all, if it's about following and being followed, it's social media. A social network doesn't have followers. In case you don't know, Facebook doesn't have followers. It has "friends". Bidirectional connections. Not 𝕏/Mastodon-like mutuals which are two connections, one in each direction, but one connection that goes both ways.

Besides, there are even more important social networking features missing from the microblogging side of the Fediverse.

Where are the contact suggestions? Where does Mastodon suggest new contacts based on how many contacts you have in common with them? Where does Mastodon suggest new contacts based on what profile information you have in common with them?

Oh, right, the latter is impossible because Mastodon doesn't have profile fields with defined purposes. In fact, where are these? Every good social network has them! But Mastodon only gives you four all-purpose profile fields (just like Mastodon only gives you four of everything, four file attachments, four options in polls...).

Where is the list of unread posts, unread comments and other unnoticed actions? How are you to make sure you really catch everything your friends do? Because you can't do that if all you have is a timeline to scroll through until you no longer see new stuff. If you manage to scroll down that far. And only absolute newbies can do that on Mastodon because they hardly follow anyone.

Where are groups? Seriously, I've lost count of how many times Mastodon users said "the Fediverse" must introduce something like Facebook Groups. The huge majority of Mastodon users is fully convinced that the Fediverse does not have groups in any shape or form because Mastodon doesn't have them.

Where are all these things? In the Fediverse, no less? Where are they?

I'll tell you where they are.

Friendica. Hubzilla. (streams). Forte.

The actual social networking side of the Fediverse (although Hubzilla is more like a social CMS or a "social Swiss army knife" that you can also use as a Facebook-like social networking application). I mean, I've already explained that Friendica was created in 2010 as a Facebook alternative. Not a faithful Facebook clone, though, but better than Facebook.

Mike Macgirvin took over from Facebook what social networks really need. And Farmville isn't that, and spying on your users and passing that data on to the NSA and selling it to the highest bidder isn't that, so he didn't take over that. He didn't want to build a clone that also adopts the bad sides just to be as close to the original as possible.

He took over the detailed profiles with profile fields with dedicated purposes. He took over profile privacy settings. In general, he took over a lot of privacy features. He took over advanced user discovery and connection suggestions. He took over bidirectional connections, only without that silly name "friends". He took over groups with moderation, only that a group on Friendica is just another account with a special automated reposter. He took over enclosed threaded conversations with one post at the top and otherwise only comments. He took over a "timeline" of full conversations as the default. He took over the event calendar. And so forth.

Instead, he added useful stuff on top. He gave Friendica all the posting features to make it fully capable of long-form blogging with all bells and whistles. No character limit (except for in the database, but I think that was over 65,000 back in the day already). All HTML text formatting features (only that Friendica only used BBcode back then; now it can optionally also use Markdown). A post/thread title. Summaries. Embedded images and other media with no limit in number. He even added a spoiler tag like in forums that can hide parts of a message.

He took care of privacy beyond what Facebook had to offer. He introduced a permissions system. Friendica got multiple profile per account, only one of which is public, so that you can show different sides of yourself to different connections.

Now, if you want to embed images or other media in your messages, you have to store them somewhere. And not everyone could be expected to set up a little file space somewhere. So he built a file space into Friendica, one that can even be used as a Dropbox alternative, all the way to restricted access to certain directories.

Mike also added a content warning system that automatically generates content warnings on the reader's side, based on a keyword list. If you need something behind content warnings, add the keywords to the list, and you'll have the respective content warnings, but the next user receiving the self-same post or comment does not have these content warnings if they don't need them.

One important part of what makes Friendica Friendica is being able to connect to a whole lot of stuff. For example, Friendica could federate with StatusNet via the OStatus protocol from the get-go; this is also how it immediately federated with Mastodon when the latter was launched. Mastodon generates an RSS feed, something that many users don't know. Friendica not only generates an Atom feed, but it can subscribe to feeds. Friendica can "federate" with e-mail. Over time, more and more connection features were added, including Tumblr, Twitter (!), Facebook (only for a few years before Facebook crippled it) and a WordPress cross-poster.

Lastly, he made it possible for third parties to add extra features by implementing an add-on system.

I dare those who are fully convinced that Mastodon is the best Facebook alternative possible to use Friendica for a year. Not only dip one toe in to the water, but use it as their one and only daily driver for everything they've used Mastodon for. Not scratching the surface and using it like Twitter while ignoring any and all features the Twitter they remember didn't have, but going all in. In fact, I dare those who are fully convinced that Mastodon is perfect and fully-featured to do the same.

And then there's Hubzilla. It came to exist by Mike forking Friendica in 2011, then forking that fork the same year, then rewriting that fork of a fork in 2012, then repurposing, rebranding, repositioning and greatly expanding it in 2015. Long story.

Hubzilla adds even more stuff on top. Most importantly, it introduced nomadic identity (https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity) in 2012.

Hubzilla, or its 2012 prototype form named Red, became the first decentralised social software that uncoupled the identity from the login. This was necessary for nomadic identity, but it also introduced the option to have multiple independent identities, basically what's an account elsewhere, on the same account, the same login. This makes sense, given the many different roles and purposes a Hubzilla channel can have. The big advantage over having multiple separate accounts is that you can switch between the channels on your account without logging out and back in.

Hubzilla, or its 2012 prototype form named Red, got an even more advanced and fine-grained permissions system. Hubzilla has 17 individual permissions on three levels, channel level, contact level, content level. At channel level, each one has seven or eight permission options to choose from, depending on whether or not it makes sense to give a permission to everyone on the Internet.

Mike added optional features to Hubzilla that were previously unseen on social anything, features that you'd rather expect from a CMS and maybe not even from that. Non-federating long-form articles. Planning cards that are based on these articles. Wikis that can be formatted with BBcode or Markdown. Webpages that can be formatted with BBcode, Markdown or HTML, that can include dynamic content from elsewhere on the channel, and that can add extra content to the channel pages.

Hubzilla can even act as groupware. It has a CalDAV calendar server; the event calendar can double as a crude UI for the CalDAV calendars. It has an optional CardDAV addressbook server. Its built-in file storage can be accessed via WebDAV, so you theoretically even have some cloud file space you can mount as a network drive. Rather recently, there was even a way found to tie Collabora Office into Hubzilla.

If you should ever read about Bonfire: Bonfire is Hubzilla ordered from Wish.com. Whatever Bonfire promises to have or to introduce has been available as a rock-solid stable feature on Hubzilla for over a decade. Bonfire only gets away with what it's trying to do because nobody knows Hubzilla.

I think it's safe to say that those who "chose" Mastodon didn't choose it over the rest of the Fediverse because it's better. They "chose" it because they didn't even know they have a choice.

As for your post, the technology for redeveloping socialising is there. And it certainly isn't Mastodon, and it never will be Mastodon. Mastodon can't be that due to its design philosophy, due to it being a Twitter clone, due to its own developers intentionally crippling it.

If you want to move on from 1-way interaction, you have to move on from 1-way connections. Move on from Twitter followers to Facebook friends.

You have to offer better options for the users than shouting into the void, attaching a bunch of hashtags and hoping that some of their followers or someone who is following one of the hashtags happens to be bothered to scroll down their timeline far enough.

You have to make sure that people don't miss content due to basic design and philosophy decisions. You have to make sure that people don't miss content because they simply never know that this content is there in the first place, because they can't scroll down far enough their timelines until they reach that content. You need something else than a timeline of single messages to scroll down with the user not having an idea just how far down that timeline goes. You have to tell the user how much unread content there is, what it is, where it is, and take the user directly to that unread content.

You have to stop presenting content to users as a long list of single posts and more single posts with only tiny details telling them that these posts are, in fact, part of a longer conversation which they don't see. Where they have to click or tap themselves through various UI pages to see that post in its context. Users must see the whole conversation Right. Off. The bat.

You need groups. Not kluged onto something that had no group support whatsoever two seconds earlier, not intentionally crippled, not crippled by the technology they're built upon, not intentionally re-invented to be incompatible with whatever already exists (and this is how Mastodon would do them). But fully functional, on an appropriate base, interoperable, user-moderated, optionally private, optionally hiding from directories.

If you want to go "social", you really have to go social. You have to go Facebook, not Twitter.

Users must find other users based on common interests. Or users living close to them. Or users with lots of contacts in common with them. Not by being on the same local/regional server of the same server about a certain topic. Not by searching for hashtags in the main profile text. But by examining specialised profile fields and the contacts.

Users must have such users suggested to them as new connections. Users must have such users at the top of their directory. This is how Facebook does it. And this is one thing that Facebook has always done right.

Again, Mastodon will never offer any of this. But that doesn't mean that you'll have to compromise and lower your expectations. Because you don't have to. There are server applications in the Fediverse, fully federated with Mastodon, that offer literally all of that. They exist right now. And some of them have existed for longer than Mastodon.

If you need something better than today's Mastodon, stop wishing for a better Mastodon. Instead, use something that's better and more appropriate for the job than Mastodon right now. For it exists right now.

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It really bugs me that #Facebook is still the go-to platform for local information for most people.

Everything I’ve done with myLocal NewsBot project is intended to make Mastodon/the Fediverse equally useful for up-to-date local news and information, and for the most part I think it’s been successful; I’m able to stay up to date, even ahead of traditional news sources.

The remaining nuts that need to be cracked IMO are local business pages and groups (and maybe Marketplace). We need something on the #Fediverse side that speaks to those needs.

#FediAdmin #FediDev

@collective_truth

You might add an issue to their tracker to make them aware of that. I did that a lot in the past, or added info to existing issues. It works. Most recent project to implement #ActivityPub and join the #fediverse on this basis was #Vutuv, a jobs social network (LinkedIn alternative). I also just added an Instant messengers category to the delightful fediverse experience curated list..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116973510439074056

🫧 Social coding commons boosted

🫧 Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-07-24
@smallcircles@social.coop

Major updates were made to the delightful fediverse curated lists..

💎 delightful fediverse experience

- 52 new projects added
- 50 projects marked unmaintained
- 15 projects updated

New list categories:

- Professional networks
- Instant messaging
- Search engines
- Security and privacy

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

💎 delightful fediverse development

- 18 new projects added
- 20 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 7 projects removed
- Improved table of contents
- Listed SWICG / SocialCG task forces
- More improvements pending

New list categories:

- SWICG Task forces
- Data portability
- Developer hubs
- Data formats

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development

💎 delightful fediverse clients

- 16 new projects added
- 33 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 3 projects removed
- Separate section for unmaintained

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-clients

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

Strange Poll Time

Kind of a weird poll, but I’m hoping that people will participate and share!

In one sitting, can you eat half of a family-size, regular crust (non-stuffed crust) pizza?

#food #poll #pizza #question #fediverse

This was far from being the first time I've read this very demand or similar demands. It just was the most recent time.

Where this comes from? Well, it has two sides.

The Mastodon side

Some of these newbies think Mastodon is the network because they've never heard of the Fediverse. Others think the Fediverse is Mastodon and nothing else.

My estimation, and not only mine, is that more than 50% of all Mastodon users think the Fediverse consists of nothing else than Mastodon. A great deal of the rest thinks the Fediverse doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Not much anyway.

It doesn't help that Mastodon, unlike other Fediverse server applications such as Misskey, the Forkeys, Friendica, (streams) or Forte, does not tell its users which server app a message came from. It doesn't help either that Mastodon "sanitises" away quite a few things that'd make non-Mastodon messages a dead giveaway. So the huge majority of Mastodon users believe that if they see it on Mastodon, it came from Mastodon.

So these people are dropped into a network which they think is nothing but a purist, minimalist microblogging service with no more than 500 characters, and whose only differences from Twitter are the name, that it isn't just one website, that it isn't owned by Elon Musk, and that it isn't overrun by fascists.

They get used to it. They get used to only having a maximum of 500 characters. They get used to the CW field being the CW field. They get used to Mastodon's entire culture which they see as the be-all, end-all of online culture.

And then they come across a message with a whole lot over 500 characters for the first time. Something which, to their best knowledge, shouldn't exist in the Mastodon Fediverse. Something which mustn't exist in the Mastodon Fediverse.

Some don't have any idea how it could be possible to "toot" more than 500 characters "on Mastodon", and they ask how one can do that. Others believe that all these "long toots" come from hacked Mastodon servers. Either way, they often demand that these Mastodon users adhere to Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's unwritten rules and act like all good Mastodon users shall act. Including not "tooting" more than 500 characters "on Mastodon".

Both are being told that these "toots" aren't "toots" because they don't come from Mastodon. That the Fediverse is, in fact, not only Mastodon. That there's other server software in the Fediverse that has always been able to post way more than 500 characters.

That changes nothing for them. They still demand everyone in the Fediverse adhere to Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's unwritten rules and only to these, and that everyone in the Fediverse use whatever they use exactly like vanilla, unmodified Mastodon.

And they feel absolutely justified. According to their gospel, Gargron invented the Fediverse when he created Mastodon. And everything in the Fediverse that isn't Mastodon (once they discover that there is such stuff) has either been designed as an add-on glued onto Mastodon (Pixelfed, PeerTube), or it's an evil, savage intruder (everything that's capable of largely doing the same thing as Mastodon without being Mastodon).

The Fediverse is to Mastodon users what the ancient world was to the Romans. Mastodon is the Roman Empire. Literally the only place that has got something like culture. A few places have voluntarily joined the Roman Mastodon Empire. All the rest consists of primitive, savage, culture-less barbarians whose lands need to be conquered by force to bring them culture.

The non-Mastodon side

To non-Mastodon users, the Fediverse feels like the New World when the European conquerors and settlers arrived. They demanded the natives adopt European culture and convert to Catholic Christianty or face death. The natives actually already had cultures. Cultures that suited them and their surroundings much more than the culture lived in European cities. But the Europeans didn't acknowledge the natives' cultures as such, nor did they care.

From non-Mastodon users' point of view, Mastodon users act to them like the Europeans acted to the natives in their colonies-to-be.

A very good example, also because it's such an extreme example, has to be Friendica. In case you don't know, Friendica (https://friendi.ca; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica; https://joinfediverse.wiki/Friendica) is a free, open-source, decentralised, federated Facebook alternative that first came out as early as May, 2010. Friendica developed a wholly different culture from Mastodon's because it's vastly different from Mastodon.

Mastodon's culture was mostly coined in mid-2022 by those who escaped from Elon Musk's announcement to buy out Twitter in February/March, 2022.
Friendica's culture was coined by its early users in 2010 already.

Mastodon users are mostly used to living in a Mastodon-only network with no connection to anything that isn't Mastodon. They believe that Mastodon and the Fediverse were designed as such, and that Friendica is an illegitimate intruder.
Friendica users are used to being able to connect to everything that moves, including Mastodon, including the whole Fediverse, no matter which iteration of the Fediverse, including diaspora*, and the some. That's because Friendica was designed from the ground up to be able to connect to a whole lot of stuff. It's part of its concept.

Mastodon users believe that Mastodon was there before anything.
Friendica users know that Friendica was there long before Mastodon, even before diaspora*, and that Friendica still wasn't the first.

Mastodon users are used to only having 500 characters. They still consider that a lot in comparison with Twitter's 280 characters.
Friendica users are used to not having any character limit whatsoever. Friendica's actual technical character limit is imposed by the maximum size of the message text database field, and that's over 16.7 million characters.

Mastodon users are used to chopping long posts into threads. It's what they expect. Actual long posts irritate them.
Friendica users are used to posting long post in one piece. It's what they expect. One and the same post being chopped up into itty-bitty bits irritate them.

Mastodon users are used to putting CWs in a dedicated CW field.
Friendica users are used to the self-same text field actually being a summary field (Friendica calls it "abstract"). While Mastodon got that field in 2017 as a pull request from a user, Friendica had it from the get-go, i.e. since 2010. And Friendica actually adopted it from Evan Prodromou's decentralised Twitter alternative StatusNet from 2008 with which Friendica was able to federate with from the get-go as well.

Mastodon users "know" that Gargron invented the CW field.
Friendica users actually do know for a fact that they've had the same field as a summary field since long before Mastodon was even made. There are still enough Friendica veterans around from before 2016.

This also means that Mastodon users are used to poster-side CWs which all readers get just the same.
Friendica users are used to CWs being automatically generated on the reader's side, individually for each reader, by an optional text filter.
In fact, Mastodon can do the same. But nobody knows, it came way too late to become part of Mastodon's culture (Mastodon 4.0 in October, 2022), it's too tedious to use, it probably isn't supported by that many phone apps, and next to nobody uses Mastodon's Web interface. In the meantime, Friendica has had this feature for some twelve years longer, and it's only an on-off switch and one editable keyword list.

Mastodon users are used to only having up to four images and to images always only being file attachments dangling below a post.
Friendica users are used to being able to embed a virtually unlimited number of images to a post. And to actually embed them, as in, with text above the image and text below the image and another image below that text and more text below that image. Theoretically, they could insert tiny images into lines of text. By the way, Mastodon refuses to display embedded images. It also rejects any file attachments beyond the first four. And up to version 4.0 from October, 2022, it didn't support any kind of text formatting and "sanitised" all message texts down to plain text.

This also means that Mastodon users are used to only having plain text or mucking around with Unicode characters for bold type and italics.
Friendica users are used to being able to not only see, but also post all sorts of text formatting that HTML is capable of.

Mastodon users are often deadly afraid of quote-posts because they only know quote-posts as a means of harassment and dogpiling on Twitter.
Friendica users, their entire culture being entirely unfazed by whatever has ever happened on Twitter, are absolutely used to always having had quote-posts at hand and to using quote-posts as a means of forwarding content. They had what Mastodon calls "quotes" years before they had what Mastodon calls "boosts" (and what many Mastodon users refer to as "retoots").

Mastodon users are used to conversations being loosely tied together from toots and to having to visibly mention all those whom they want to receive a reply.
Friendica users are used to having enclosed threaded conversations with only one post and otherwise only comments. They're also used to everyone in the conversation, i.e. everyone who has received the original post, automatically receiving every single last comment. They're used to always seeing the entire thread immediately as opposed to single-message piecemeal.

Mastodon users are used to shouting into the void with hashtags attached if they want to talk about a certain topic. It's the only way for them to do so.
Friendica users are used to having groups. Oh, and full-text search.

The conflict

Mastodon users keep demanding that everyone else in the Fediverse live by Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's rules and only by these.

Mastodon users who have joined in 2026 keep ordering Friendica veterans who have joined in the early 2010s (before there was any Mastodon) to act like they're on Mastodon.

They demand these Friendica veterans fully adopt Mastodon's culture (which isn't even geared towards Friendica's set of features).

They indirectly demand these Friendica veterans give up their own culture (because they cannot comprehend that there can be any other culture in the Fediverse than Mastodon's, as in, that what Friendica has is a culture, even though it's different from Mastodon's).

They directly demand these Friendica veterans give up some 40% of the features they've been using for a decade and a half and indirectly demand they give up another 40% of these features.

They demand these Friendica veterans stop posting more than 500 characters at once.

They demand these Friendica veterans put CWs into their abstract field. (Again, they think that Gargron has invented this field from scratch as a CW field,)

They demand these Friendica veterans use their abstract field only for CWs.

They demand these Friendica veterans stop "spamming" hashtags that clearly aren't there for content discovery. (They cannot comprehend that these hashtags are there to trigger automatic reader-side CWs because the entire concept is completely alien to them.)

And so forth.

These Friendica veterans have been in the Fediverse for about a decade and a half. And suddently, these Mastodon newbies appear and tell them how to use Friendica.

Of course, these Mastodon newbies don't know a thing about Friendica. They think the Friendica veterans are Mastodon users, and they're telling them how to use Mastodon.

So the Friendica users tell them, no, they aren't on Mastodon. They're on Friendica which has got absolutely nothing to do with Mastodon.

Then the Mastodon newbies will believe that someone has created this weird Friendica thing after Mastodon was made (it can't possibly be any other way, right?9 and illegally hacked this Friendica thing into the Mastodon Fediverse. And whoever made Friendica omitted to make Friendica just like Mastodon.

Okay, now the Friendica users tell them that Friendica was launched in 2010, how long before Mastodon that was, and that they themselves have been around for much longer than Mastodon, too.

Now, either the Mastodon newbies will fail to comprehend that there can be anything in the Fediverse made before Mastodon if Gargron has invented the very technology. Or they think that the Fediverse was still created with Mastodon, and that Friendica still illegally intruded into the Mastodon Fediverse.

Either way, the Friendica veterans will have to adapt and act entirely by Mastodon's standards. This is the Mastodon Fediverse, Mastodon is the biggest software (if only by monthly active users, by the way), Mastodon has defined "the Fediverse culture", and thus it's the Mastodon users and only the Mastodon users who get to say how people have to act and behave in the Fediverse.

And then the Mastodon users wonder how there's so much Mastodon hatred on Friendica (and there actually is). How Friendica users complain about Mastodon users trying to force them to use Friendica like Mastodon. How Friendica users complain about Mastodon users chopping long posts into small bits. As if they had a choice. How Friendica users complain about CWs in whatever that abstract field is supposed to be. And so forth.

How dare the Friendica users complain? The Mastodon users are the good guys! It's them and only them who have a culture, who have rules, who know how to use the Fediverse!

By the way: It gets even worse between Mastodon and Lemmy.

Mastodon's culture is an idealised version of pre-Musk Twitter's culture with bits of Tumblr's SFW culture mixed in. That's because just about everyone on Mastodon originally came from Twitter, and most of them escaped from Elon Musk. They want Mastodon (and the Fediverse) be a better Twitter. It helps that Mastodon is still trying hard to be a Twitter clone.

Lemmy's culture, on the other hand, is a carbon copy of Reddit's culture. Lemmy is a Reddit clone that shares next to no features at all with Mastodon except for ActivityPub support. Next to all Lemmy users are former Redditors who left Reddit when Reddit started charging $20,000,000 for its client API, effectively killing off all third-party Reddit apps. They saw no reason in changing their culture because it wasn't the culture that drove them away. Hardly any of them were on Twitter, and almost none of them have ever been on Mastodon. Many think the Fediverse is Lemmy. Of the rest, many think the Fediverse is Lemmy with a side of PieFed.

Mastodon lives on hashtags even more than Twitter. Lemmy has zero support for hashtags because Reddit doesn't have any either, and neither does Hacker News.

Mastodon requires mentions to get replies to their recipients. One visible mention per recipient. Lemmy doesn't need mentions for this at all. Mentions on Lemmy only serve to, well, mention someone. Just like on Reddit.

And so forth.

It's actually easy to spot threads on Lemmy that were started by Mastodon users: The title is in the post text, or there's no title at all because the Mastodon users did as they always do: mention in the first line, then a new line because that looks prettier. Of course, there's a mention in the post text. And there's a bunch of hashtags strewn across the post text even though they don't even work. If you're very lucky, the hashtags are at the bottom, but most Mastodon users don't waste any of their 500 characters on that.

I hope you get a rough idea how much headbutting there is between Mastodon users who think that the Mastodon users rule supreme over the whole Fediverse and Lemmy community owners who do rule over the Lemmy communities which these Mastodon users have just posted into.

Countermeasures

On Mastodon's side, there are very few single users who block every single non-Mastodon server they come across.

Countermeasures on the non-Mastodon side vary. They start with single users who block each Mastodon user who doesn't behave like they want them to behave, e.g. they block everyone who chops a long post into a thread at first trike.

Then there's Hubzilla, reworked from a fork of a fork of Friendica by Friendica's own creator. Hubzilla has always been based on its own protocol, Zot6 (Friendica's creator calls it an older version of Nomad). ActivityPub support is optional, on by default on new servers and off by default on new channels. The current devs won't change anything about that. Not only doesn't Hubzilla's technology allow for moving it to ActivityPub as its base protocol, but ActivityPub being optional is seen as a last-resort "drawbridge" for those to whom Mastodon has become unbearable.

Nowadays, Friendica's creator is working on two other applications in the same family. (streams) is a fork of a fork of three forks of a fork (of a fork?) of Hubzilla, and Forte is a fork of (streams). Both have an admin-side user agent filter. It can block entire Fediverse applications without having to hassle around with a URL list. It was mainly created and advertised as a means to permanently lock Threads out, even if Threads should change URLs. But it's also being advertised as being capable of blocking all of Mastodon, all present and future servers. Mastodon being intentially made barely compatible with the rest of the Fediverse is only one reason for this.

(streams) and Forte also have another admin-side filter which, when turned on, locks everything out that doesn't support enclosed threaded conversations. That's because server applications like Mastodon mess with the way that (streams), Forte and their ancestors handle conversations. Granted, when this is activated only to get rid of Mastodon, it causes quite a bit of collateral damage.

Generally, (streams) and Forte are very similar. The main difference is that Forte is entirely based on ActivityPub whereas (streams) is based on the current version of Nomad with ActivityPub still being optional. The reason why (streams) is kept around is for there to still be one of these applications with the same protocol-level "drawbridge" as Hubzilla. And in fact, the most important (streams) group used to have ActivityPub off with the intention to keep Mastodon out.

I guess there are still Mastodon users who absolutely defend and support Mastodon's way being forced upon the non-Mastodon Fediverse, and who are irritated or upset about non-Mastodon users being very defensive of their own non-Mastodon ways and refusing to adopt Mastodon's (allegedly much superior) culture instead of embracing it.

And I guess there are Mastodon users who feel absolutely entitled to get to every last Hubzilla and (streams) and Forte user unhindered and force them to use Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte exactly like Mastodon in every way possible.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonFediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Lemmy #MastodonCulture #FediverseCulture #MastodonCentricity #MastodonNormativity

@icaria36

Have a look at the delightful fediverse experience curated list. There's a section on Blogging, and further down the list a section on Wordpress..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116973510439074056

#ActivityPub #fediverse #Wordpress #Blogging

🫧 Social coding commons boosted

🫧 Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-07-24
@smallcircles@social.coop

Major updates were made to the delightful fediverse curated lists..

💎 delightful fediverse experience

- 52 new projects added
- 50 projects marked unmaintained
- 15 projects updated

New list categories:

- Professional networks
- Instant messaging
- Search engines
- Security and privacy

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

💎 delightful fediverse development

- 18 new projects added
- 20 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 7 projects removed
- Improved table of contents
- Listed SWICG / SocialCG task forces
- More improvements pending

New list categories:

- SWICG Task forces
- Data portability
- Developer hubs
- Data formats

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development

💎 delightful fediverse clients

- 16 new projects added
- 33 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 3 projects removed
- Separate section for unmaintained

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-clients

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/11247

Started 2023; last activity I saw was 2 months ago.

#Fediverse #decentralization #gitForge #softwareForge

Week in Fediverse 2026-07-24

Servers

- WriteFreely v0.17.0
- Ktistec v3.9.0
- Vernissage Server v1.41.0
- GoToSocial v0.22.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.1
- PeerTube v8.2.3
- Lemmy v0.19.20
- ties v0.3
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.1.0
- NeoDB v0.17.2
- NodeBB v4.14.2
- PieFed v1.7.7
- FitPub v1.2.1
- ActivityForge: ForgeFed implementation in Rust

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.1
- Aria v1.5.9
- Pixelix v5.0.0
- Summit v1.83.0
- Jerboa v0.0.88
- Holos v1.15.0
- Rocinante v1.1.8

Tools and Plugins

- Superblock v3.1 (Hubzilla addon)
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.10 (WordPress plugin)

Protocol

- FEP-de8d: Emoji Catalogs

Articles

- I added ActivityPub to this blog

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f71c0-52f2-7b60-a0f7-a9df07a6fd66

@collective_truth That's a good, valid point. I don't share the same experience, but I can see it happening with other people. It wasn't always like that though, was it? I mean, if you look into what #SocialTools did in the late 90s and early 00s they would probably align more with what you're hinting above.

Now that we've lost them, both "older" and younger generations don't want to invest much energy, effort and intent when they know algos run the system. Don't see that happen in #Fediverse.

What does "the Fediverse" mean?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse

Autumn Boo - New to my collection. Take a peek here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/autumn-boo-lisa-s-baker.html

#autumn #fall #pumpkin #ghost #witch #halloween #holiday #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativetoots #puzzles #holidaydecor #cute

Alt...

A cute smiling white ghost wears an oversized purple witch hat decorated with orange pumpkins, a large autumn flower, and fall leaves. Set against a textured purple background with warm orange foliage, this whimsical Halloween illustration features a cheerful, friendly ghost with rosy cheeks, creating a cozy autumn and harvest season feel.

#Majestic #Mountain #View with #Aurora by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/majestic-mountain-view-with-aurora-kaye-menner.html

#digitalart #ai #landscape #stream #flowers #wilderness #colorful #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Alt...

A person stands on a cliff, gazing at a mesmerizing view of mountains and bright northern lights. A winding river flows through the lush valley. A lone adventurer stands atop a rugged cliff, gazing across a breathtaking mountain valley where a winding river meanders through mist-covered forests beneath towering snow-capped peaks. Above, vibrant ribbons of aurora-like light dance across the sky, casting a magical glow over the untouched wilderness. Golden sunlight illuminates rolling hills, colorful wildflowers, and evergreen trees, creating a striking contrast with the cool blue mountains.

It's been said a lot that tech people tend to think that every problem can be solved with a tech solution, and that that is often a wrong approach that ignores social dynamics and systemic causes.

That's true, but I can think of at least one problem here on the Fediverse that really, really needs a tech solution!

That being hashtags.

The whole point of hashtags is that you can tag your content with concepts it relates to, so that others who are interested in said concepts can discover your content.

Ideally, a hashtag should therefore contain all posts relating to the concept, and should not contain any posts unrelated to the concept. This is not the case.

The problem is that hashtags are plain text only. This causes two kinds of issues:

• False positives: One hashtag is used for multiple separate concepts, grouping unrelated concepts together.
• False negatives: Multiple hashtags are used for the same concept, meaning you might miss posts of a concept you want to see.

Common examples for false positives are homonyms (seating bank vs. financial bank, video games vs. board games), abbreviations (CNC, BBC, MTF), and multilingual issues (German handy vs. English handy).

False negatives are much, much more common, even. You're missing out on synonyms (horses vs. equines), grammatical and regional variations (colouring vs. coloring, horse vs. horses) and scope issues (gaming vs. games vs. video games) at least. Also, the whole thing about 'dogsOfMastodon' versus 'dogs'.

If you add to it that the Fediverse is multi-lingual, this is getting exponentially worse. If a German account posts about dogs using the hashtag 'Hund' (or Hunde, Hundes, Hunds, Hundi, Wauwau, Köter, Welpe, Welpen...), someone subscribed to the English hashtag 'dogs' should probably also see that post.

Rather than plain text which has all of these issues, a hashtag should therefore point at an individual unique ID of a concept, unique and unambiguous across all languages and grammatical forms.

Someone should be able to subscribe to the concept of a horse – the equine animal – and not just the letters 'horse' in that order!

That might sound daunting – who has a database of all concepts in the world? – but structured data actually is a super old problem that has been talked about for ages! The semantic web has it figured out.

Wikidata is an open data source for unique concepts, doing exactly what we'd need. Obviously it's easier said than done, but 'all' that the Fediverse needs to do is replace or extend hashtags with a system that allows you to link a Wikidata concept by UUID. And figure out what to do with things that don't have such a UUID yet, and how to handle UX. But it would be a vast improvement over plain-text hashtags.

I don't really want this post to just die in the ether, tbh, as posts are wont to do. I'd like to actually make this a thing. Is there anyone out there who knows what an implementation of this would take? I'd love to help (computational linguist).

#tech #technology #Fediverse #activityPub #socialMedia #hashtags #semanticWeb #wikiData #mastodon #goToSocial #fediSoftware #fediDev #fediDevelopers #fediDeveloperVerse #accessibility

@steve

You might be interested to check out my posts around the concept "Community has no boundary" I talked about 5 years ago, e.g. in this topic: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/standardizing-on-a-common-community-domain-as-ap-extension/1353

When I was still facilitator of #SocialHub I claimed that it wasn't a community in any real sense, with mostly #developers driving by on self-interested motives. It was just a discussion #forum, where a poor commons janitor (me) had to do the unthankful volunteer upkeep.

"Expectation mismatch" plays an important role when anyone mentions "community". A "community-driven #FOSS project" is partly the formal #governance that is in place, but mostly implicit cultural aspects. Knowing what you can expect is important, to not get disappointed.

A #fediverse instance to me isn't #community. I only use the Home timeline.

As we navigate fedi we 'weave' in and out of #communities seamlessly, without realizing it. A rich concept of inter-community #Social networking is possible, I think, but it should be carefully designed.

Major updates were made to the delightful fediverse curated lists..

💎 delightful fediverse experience

- 52 new projects added
- 50 projects marked unmaintained
- 15 projects updated

New list categories:

- Professional networks
- Instant messaging
- Search engines
- Security and privacy

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience

💎 delightful fediverse development

- 18 new projects added
- 20 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 7 projects removed
- Improved table of contents
- Listed SWICG / SocialCG task forces
- More improvements pending

New list categories:

- SWICG Task forces
- Data portability
- Developer hubs
- Data formats

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-development

💎 delightful fediverse clients

- 16 new projects added
- 33 projects marked unmaintained
- 5 projects updated
- 3 projects removed
- Separate section for unmaintained

https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-clients

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

If you want to give phanpy a try, I run an instance of it here.

#fediverse #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@amministratore/116967326136690873

Looks like there’s a Mastodon identity verification scam going around.

Good rule of thumb: if a web site asks you to verify your identity, you close that browser tab.

The scam letter looks like this (thanks to @amministratore):

***

We detected suspicious activity on your account and have temporarily restricted access. Your new posts are currently visible only to you. To restore full access, please complete the verification process using the link below:

🔗 ‪<shortened link removed but you can report UPDATENOTIFICATION.CLICK to https://globaldomaingroup.com/report-abuse for it to be taken down>

If you do not verify within 24 hours, your account may be deleted for guideline violations. Successful verification will grant you a badge to enhance your visibility.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Support Team

***

Do NOT click any links if you receive such a message and inform your server admin.

#mastodon #scam #updateNotificationClick #fediverse #warning

Trying to find more information on how the under-15 social media ban in France impacts Mastodon/fediverse servers, and while I can't see anything too concrete on that, I did come across this 2024 The Guardian article:

"The report said a 15-year-old should be able to access only what it called “ethical” social media, such as Mastodon."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/stop-children-using-smartphones-until-they-are-13-say-french-experts-in-report

#news #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #EthicalSocialMedia #fediverse #mastodon

It's time for our first Server Spotlight!

We want to help people find their communities across the #fediverse so we're featuring servers here on this account.

First up: The Mended Drum, a home for fans of all things Sir Terry Pratchett.

It is said that if you stay on The Mended Drum long enough, you'll meet every hero on the server: https://mendeddrum.org/directory

(keep an eye on your horse, though 😉)

#FeaturedServer #CommunitySpotlight #Mastodon #SocialWeb #GNUTerryPratchett

https://social.lol/users/andycarolan/statuses/116964349848671317

RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/116961593297443609

I may be sounding tongue-in-cheek, but I've been humouring the idea of "the email of social media" and/or "social media of email".

I'm trying to see just how viable such an interface will be.

Pretty much embrace the email-like nature of ActivityPub.

The folks who looooove acting competitive (you know, antagonism towards a competing ideas) love to scoff at ActivityPub (well, really, the Mastodon protocols overall).

I actually don't think they're wrong.

For this reason, I think ActivityPub is fine for what it is.

In fact, embrace it.

Treat it like email, with one added feature: the idea of "following".

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Email

I wonder what percentage of the Fediverse plays TTRPGs?

#TTRPG #Fediverse

🆕 blog! “Scattered thoughts on social geolocation”

I want to be able to share my location with my friends on social media. Twitter (RIP) had a way to attach an optional location to a post. Facebook still lets me check in to venues. But neither ActivityPub (Mastodon) nor AT Protocol (BlueSky) allow me …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/scattered-thoughts-on-social-geolocation/
⸻
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #FourSquare #geolocation #json #openstandards #OpenStreetMap

📢 Terminänderung – Hubzilla-Workshop #10

Aus organisatorischen Gründen wird der Hubzilla-Workshop #10 um eine Woche verschoben.

📅 Neuer Termin: Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2026
🕢 Beginn: 19:30 Uhr

Die zusätzliche Woche möchten wir nutzen, um noch mehr Menschen auf den Workshop aufmerksam zu machen und möglichst viele Hubzilla-Interessierte zu erreichen.

Der Workshop findet als offener Frage- und Antwort-Abend statt. Egal, ob ihr Hubzilla bereits nutzt, erste Erfahrungen sammeln möchtet oder einfach neugierig seid – jede Frage ist willkommen.

Wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Abend und auf den gemeinsamen Austausch!

Alle Informationen und alle bereits durchgeführte Hubzilla-Workshops:
hub.hubzilla.hu/channel/hz-wor…

#Hubzilla #Fediverse #OpenSource #Workshop #Community

adding another #sketching / #drawing to #Fediverse

Alt...

Abstract black and white #sketching / #drawing with bold, sweeping lines and dense cross-hatching, creating a sense of movement and depth. The mood is dramatic and intense. “#NOY” in the bottom right corner.

I just now found a self-hosted fediverse server that allows connection and administration via SSH. So far its setup instructions are the simplest I've seen for any ActivityPub server software.

https://stegodon.social/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SSH #stegadon #social #SelfHosted #WebMaster #WebLord

@yezanek

I mean, I think bsky has more people than we do (not that I care about that).

I'm not saying we should forget #Mozilla's wrongs or give them a mulligan, but we can at least give them credit for coming back, and hope that they might (with the #fediverse's encouragement) choose a more virtuous path than what they're on now.

But if all people do is drive-by snarking, how is anything going to improve?

Here's a crazy idea for my wonderful fedipeeps.

Now that #Mozilla is back on the #fediverse,

Maybe DON'T shit on them.

Maybe embrace them.

Maybe just remind them of what was good about them in years past, and encourage them to seek the good, rather than the latest #SiliconValley management brainrot.

You don't have to look for every opportunity to vent and fume.

@argv_minus_one

Llike you said, the #Fediverse is perhaps the only place left as "Social media" without adverts etc.

There is little other space to do this kind of expression elsewhere without big hazard and risk.

Even in-person or with people we've known a long time it has probably already been tried and exhausted. All are busy'/ distracted / online gaming to escape etc. We see our children addicted. But talking and working things out online is different / best of all the middle ground.

@argv_minus_one Ok but you're distracting away from the main points - about deeper talking.

So the number count + depth of those replies indicates something shallow about #Mastodon / #Fediverse (actually 'normal' peolpe that need improving)...

I'm not comparing or saying it's only numbers:

Talking here is not really talking much / too shallow.

I appreciate your reply and will see the others...

(Remember some of you / them / us are Twitter people and part of my point in improving social.)

Governments should host their own social platforms 🤷‍♂️

This shows a more clear way for information and also a more trusted source

The only way this can be done fully is with #Fediverse software

Some great examples are the Netherlands and Germany 👏

https://social.overheid.nl
https://social.bund.de

The #Fediverse is perhaps the only #socialMedia that still deserves to be called “social media”.

Because this is perhaps the only remaining social media whose primary function is socializing, not advertising.

Warum habe ich eigentlich einen Account im Fediverse?

Immer wieder lese ich Beiträge von Menschen, die nach kurzer Zeit enttäuscht sind. Sie hatten sich vom Fediverse etwas anderes erhofft oder vergleichen ihre Erfahrungen mit Facebook, Instagram, X oder anderen kommerziellen Plattformen.

Dabei lohnt es sich, einmal einen Schritt zurückzugehen und sich zwei ganz einfache Fragen zu stellen:

❓ Warum habe ich einen Account?

❓ Welche Erwartungen habe ich an das Fediverse?

Diese beiden Fragen erscheinen zunächst selbstverständlich. Doch die Antworten fallen oft sehr unterschiedlich aus.

Manche möchten einfach ihre Gedanken teilen oder ein digitales Tagebuch führen. Andere suchen Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten. Wieder andere möchten ihre Projekte vorstellen, Wissen weitergeben oder Menschen für ein Thema begeistern. Einige möchten Nachrichten lesen, neue Kontakte knüpfen oder einfach einer Community angehören.

Ebenso unterschiedlich sind die Erwartungen.

Erwarte ich viele Follower? Viele Kommentare? Sofortige Aufmerksamkeit? Eine große Reichweite? Oder wünsche ich mir vor allem einen respektvollen Austausch mit Menschen, die ähnliche Interessen haben?

Das Fediverse funktioniert in vielen Bereichen anders als kommerzielle soziale Netzwerke.

Hier entscheidet kein zentraler Algorithmus darüber, welche Beiträge möglichst viel Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Es gibt keine Firma, deren Geschäftsmodell darauf basiert, unsere Aufmerksamkeit möglichst lange zu binden. Sichtbarkeit entsteht vor allem dadurch, dass Menschen miteinander in Kontakt treten.

Deshalb lohnt sich vielleicht noch eine dritte Frage:

Was bin ich selbst bereit, in diese Gemeinschaft einzubringen?

Folge ich anderen Menschen? Kommentiere ich interessante Beiträge? Teile ich Wissen oder eigene Erfahrungen? Nehme ich an Gesprächen teil? Unterstütze ich andere oder warte ich hauptsächlich darauf, dass andere auf mich aufmerksam werden?

Das Fediverse lebt nicht von Algorithmen – sondern von seinen Menschen.

Je mehr wir miteinander kommunizieren, desto lebendiger wird diese gemeinsame Welt. Beziehungen entstehen oft langsamer als auf kommerziellen Plattformen, dafür sind sie häufig persönlicher und nachhaltiger.

Vielleicht liegt genau darin die größte Stärke des Fediverse.

Es ist kein Ort, an dem man nur konsumiert.

Es ist ein Ort, den wir alle gemeinsam gestalten.

Mich würde interessieren:

Warum habt ihr euren Account im Fediverse erstellt?

Und wurden eure Erwartungen erfüllt – oder haben sie sich im Laufe der Zeit verändert?

#Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Pixelfed #OpenSocialWeb #DigitaleGemeinschaft

Which of these privacy options have you used in the last 30 days?

#EvanPoll #poll #privacy #Fediverse

@mike @evan @kev @tatertot @matthartley @adamsdesk @cmccullough @haubles @Gina @joel @Greylinux @markwyner

Thanks, man! Fosstodon was my first long-term fedi home, and I have many good memories and friendships there!

Glad to know you, Kev, Joel, Gina, and everyone else on Fosstodon, and elsewhere on the wide fediverse.

To me, the #Fediverse is the real Internet we were promised.

Do you like the people on the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse

My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I'm experimenting with #LoRa off-grid #mesh communication 💁‍♀️

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116563099730866203

Just a reminder that if you're an admin or a moderator, it should be your responsibility to step in when someone is harassing a member of your community and claiming to be enforcing rules that don't apply to them.

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #moderators

#TIL about #Harmony, a bleeding-edge project to build a decentralised replacement for Miscord using ActivityPub, E2EE using Vodozemac, a cryptography library used in Matrix software;

https://joinharmony.app/

Source code is on GritHub, under AGPL;

https://github.com/zcharef/harmony

Anyone know anything about this? So far I haven't been able to find fediverse accounts for the project itself, or the creator.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Vodozemac #Matrix