Added a new admirations entry point to the web UI, containing a timeline of liked, boosted and reacted posts. Please take note that, after installing the new version, it will start empty, and be filled with subsequent reactions (contributed by violette).

It's now possible to disable showing posts in a given set of languages.

Nested quoted posts are limited up to 3 levels.

New configuration knob: by setting keep_replies_posts to true in server.json, remote posts that a local user has replied to are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).

New configuration knob: by setting keep_replied_me to true in server.json, remote replies to local posts are retained in the public timeline, preventing them from being purged (contributed by hanchan).

Ensure actors' public key PEM never includes anything after the end marker.

Fixed some memory leaks (contributed by inz).

Several additional keyId checks (many thanks to lainsoykaf for bringing this to my attention).

Fixed crash in the JSON parser (many thanks to nullenvk for bringing this to my attention).

Mastodon API: fixed lost custom emojis after edition (contributed by e0w0e).

Updated French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish translations (contributed by dragondaddy, daltux, zen).

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3/3 Participants will take part in talks, workshops, and hands-on collaboration exploring what a more resilient, open, and decentralised web could look like in practice.

DWeb Camp is a space for building, not just talking about, the web we want.

@brewsterkahle @internetarchiveeurope @dweb #DWebCamp #DWeb #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Fediverse

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A large group of DWeb Camp attendees seated in a circle on a patterned rug inside a white open-sided tent, engaged in a structured group discussion, with a flipchart easel and sunny outdoor landscape visible behind them.

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DWeb Camp attendees relaxing and conversing in inflatable lounge chairs among tall redwood trees, with teal paper lanterns strung overhead and a hammock visible in the background.

Summer is here, and sadly it is peak season for pet abandonment.
#PawFed is a federated map for animal welfare built on #ActivityPub and #OSM.

It already shows shelters and vets near you. Found an abandoned animal or need help? Mention @PawFed from any #Fediverse account: a pin lands on the map, and your call is relayed across the #Fediverse, whatever your instance.

More: https://pawfed.org/how-it-works

The #HolosSocial relay is now stable enough to be tagged and published in production.

If you're interested, there is an interactive installation script and full documentation to do all the steps yourself with Docker on the #Codeberg project.

Running a relay is not like running an instance. They provide infrastructure. People with custom domains and Cloud for their media don't depend on a relay to keep their account. That's the whole purpose of this project, owning an #ActivityPub identity.

#Lazyweb When I want to spin up my own #Fediverse instance that supports #Markdown when composing a post and that can handle my significant amount of followers with a seamless migration from my current #Mastodon instance, which #ActivityPub Implementation would you use? Ideally it should be a simple rootless container setup that JustWorks™ with podman. Perfection would be a single, self-contained container without the need to spin up several ones for databases or other stuff.

In the #Fediverse, most software is built around a specific platform model. One for microblogging, one for video, one for photos... and new ones will keep coming.
With #Holos, your phone runs your own #ActivityPub server. You control your data and can use your own domain as your identity.
Built on the protocol, not a platform model, Holos is not limited to a single use case. One account that adapts to your needs.
That's where we're heading, and we hope for your support.

#HolosSocial

How does Write Freely compare to Mastodon? Do you get any sort of user interaction? As a series of interconnected platforms, is it growing?

#askfedi #fediverse #writefreely #mastodon #activitypub

Following threads will be available in #HolosSocial 1.10.0. You can subscribe to a thread and get notified when new replies arrive, even from accounts you do not follow. It works with standard #ActivityPub activities by sending a Follow targeting a post, with a polling fallback for servers that do not support it yet.

How it works: https://tom79.dev/posts/follow-a-note/

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/115572783993063223

This post is about 7 months old, and #HolosSocial went far beyond it since. It now has #E2EE DMs with the Signal protocol, and real identity portability. You can use a custom domain so your identity rests on your own name and keys, and keep your media on your own cloud. Leaving a relay is no longer a migration, you just point your domain elsewhere and keep going. This remains optional, you have time to discover the app and enable things later that will give you full independence on #ActivityPub.

0. The first line of moderation should not be the instance admin. Each user account should be able to moderate mentions of their ID, or replies to their comments.

1. The top poster of a comment thread should be able to moderate all reply comments under that thread.

2. Instance admins should only delete posts that are clearly designed to offend, hurt, or viciously attack, bully, harass, gaslight, annoy etc. but should never delete a post simply on ideological grounds or heated but honest disagreement or debate. Telling the difference is very simple in almost all cases: tone and mindless repetition being the biggest giveaways of the respondent's intent. If it becomes an unwanted or unproductive argument the top poster should be able to quash replies.

3. Users should be able to click a button to block and entire thread regardless of who posts to it.

These things are not a major problem for me since I'm on a simple instance and I can add users to my personal blacklist via CLI. It would be nice to see this kind of stuff as standard, basic button functions in activitypub and fediverse since not everyone wants to run an instance and use CLI scripts to moderate.

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #postDeletion #activitypub #social

#Mastodon #UX #GUI #Productivity #Interfaces

Is there facility to run the phone app via TOR network, to hide user IP from the relay?

#Holos #Tor #Fediverse #Privacy #Anonymity #ActivityPub

Quoted posts are now shown.

Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

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Why on earth was the #ActivityPub protocol even let out the door without a well-specified and mandatory graceful, non-destructive key rotation scheme?

Yes I know the privacy issues. Those are not valid reasons to not have such a mechanism; it's a valid reason to not enable or use one.

What we're stuck with now is a ton of instances with absurdly long, legacy-algorithm keys (RSA-4096) with no way to replace them with shorter/better keys without effectively losing everything ever posted on the instance.

The protocol is only 7 years old! EC crypto was well-established at the time, and should have been the default.

And what happens once everyone has to replace the keys, because RSA is broken by quantum computers (I know, probably 100 years to go)? The #Fediverse will be a wasteland, with no instances trusting anything from any other instance, so all #Federation breaks down.

Sorry if I got some details wrong about what the protocol says. If I get flamed to death for being wrong, then I'll consider that a Good Thing(TM). I've been trying to find a way to rotate/replace keys for a while and all my searching turns up is either 1) confirmation that most people don't know or care about cryptography, or 2) https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/key-rotation-notification/562 - which really isn't helpful.

If it is possible to gracefully rotate the key(s) of an instance/user, there really has to exist some documentation that explains clearly how to implement this in a server and how to exercise it as a server operator.

#Cryptography #Rant #Mastodon