soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Looks like a good option here for #RSS to Fediverse and other destinations:
https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/117287739821736827
Everybody else has probably seen this already, but just in case ...
ThreadBNC
ThreadBNC is a self-hosted social media feed aggregator/bouncer
https://youtu.be/wm3d4Hr2bP4?si=kXVdKj5UH-okn7qk
#rss #self-hosted #fediverse #activitypub #lemmy #piefed #bluesky #mastodon #archive #web-archive #docker
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.
IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Open Social, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.
The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.
We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.
There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.
Or you can scroll down to your favorite section.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.
This week marks the beginning of the earliest incarnation of this site, Symfony Station. It also began our cross-posting to Dev.to. That was five years ago when mass enshittification and AI menacingly loomed just over the horizon. The reason I had gone to web development bootcamp was that I knew they were coming and needed some skills to fight them.
Personally, I’m in a better place now. But, unfortunately tech isn’t despite our efforts here. So, let’s kick it up a notch.
Sabot Media writes:
For twenty-five years, Autistici / Inventati showed what it could mean for movements to build and control their own communications infrastructure. Its loss should not send everyone searching for the next single service to replace it.
It should send us looking in a hundred directions.
A/I may be ending. The story is nowhere near over.
This is what we preach weekly.
Brennan Day writes:
We can create a more human web right now. The world is in dire straits …
There are those who see the act of webmastery as “only” a hobby and pastime—and I say this is not mutually exclusive to world-saving. The personal is political. Our ability to maintain our joy and ourselves is, itself, resistance.
Start as you are, with what you have, while you still have time to do so.
Exercise your innate human right to create.
Be a developer. Be a designer. Be a writer. Be a systems administrator. Be a philosopher. Be a Webmaster.
It is the most punk rock, anti-establishment, liberating thing you can do in the 21st century. And yeah, it is fucking awesome.
WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone
We also preach this weekly.
Simon Tisdall writes:
It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think.
Wow, this is depressing up till the last 2 paragraphs. But, we have to keep fighting in order to preserve our sanity.
So, read from here till the end of the TAM and do your part to unfuck the world.
Soulcruzer says:
Take back the web. Make it weird again
Bob Sassone’s site’s 30th Anniversary inspired their article.
And it’s truly inspiring. Great to see.
Unfortunately, Cavalette shows us:
How to to back up your data (currently) on A/I services
The type of post you never hope to see. Fuck all the Trump clowns and cunts.
There’s a new ATProto competitor for Ghost and Substack:
Non-opensource and similar to Offprint. But, non-AI and European.
I will be at WordCamp Bretagne next week (mainly to scout Renne as a summer home) so say bonjour si vous sont cette-la. Sessions that I will definitely attend include the Gutenberg, Web Spaghetti, and Integrations ones.
It will be interesting to see what everyone thinks of Matt getting thrown out of AutoMattic on his ass.
Spectral Web Services explores:
Avoiding duplicates on complicated homepages
Framablog has a book review:
Publication : Alternatives & Struggles
About Signal reports:
Signal now lets you record much longer videos in the app
Movim announces:
Waterfox announces:
6.7.2 — Improvements to tree tabs and the vertical sidebar
There are similar improvements in its Android app.
Xamanismo Coletivo shares:
One guy in Sweden built a search engine to fight Google, and it works
Nextcloud shows us:
Tuta examines:
Tuta Mail, Tuta Calendar, & Tuta Drive: Development steps
Joplin explains:
You can publish a notebook as a website now.
On a related note, Glyphack has:
Share Obsidian Notes To A Blog
Libre shares:
GIMP announces:
Fedilab Apps says:
Fuck Google.
Alternative To reports:
GrapheneOS plans to overhaul the bundled AOSP apps, including messaging with RCS support
BentoPDF
The PDF Toolkit built for privacy is now opensource.
Sage Journals published:
‘Digital Public Infrastructure’: Cultural hegemony and states’ technological dependence
As this and the A / I situation demonstrate, we need to build our own infrastructure. So, pay attention to our More section each week.
Fedilab Apps shares:
So Google refuses to delete my dev account
Terence Eden says:
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
Ah, our online companions: techno feudalists, techno fascists, AI and Crypto Bros, and (the most honest) criminals.
On a related note, Erlend Sogge Heggen says:
That’s because unregulated capitalism will @$$-fuck up any and everything.
David Bushell exposes:
Tongue-in-cheek. 😉
Henri Bergius goes EUPL:
Justin Wernick is:
Saying Goodbye To My Git Server’s CGit Frontend
Jens Oliver Meiert reports:
2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
Since most “developers” are tech and AI bros, this tracks. Unfortunately.
Lea Verou says:
The best dark mode toggle is probably none
And the best dark mode is light mode.
Web Awesome thinks:
Your Design System Should Style Your Words, Too
Master.dev explores:
Custom Scrollbar Component In 2026
And:
React Now Rusted All The Way Out
It speeds up React builds. What speeds things up even more is not using the horseshit at all.
Benjamin Eberlei examines:
PHP to get the job done in 2026
Interesting and the most important point is this:
A second major benefit of PHP is its completly open governance model, its truly free software without corporate interests in control. As my friend Sebastian recently wrote: Digital Sovereignty is written in PHP.
In regards to ethical AI use in PHP, I wrote this article about it.
Sourcehut has:
Changes to SourceHut’s terms of service regarding LLMs
Fantastic!
Forgejo announces:
Forgejo Runner v13.1.0 is available
Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 were just released
XWiki has:
July and August Pro Apps updates
Release Notes for XWiki 17.10.13
OpenProject announces:
OpenProject integration app for Nextcloud released in versions 3.2.0 and 2.12.0
Twig is the fast, flexible, and secure modern template engine for PHP.
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG) works on ActivityPub standards:
Current SWICG Task Forces and their deliverables
It’s slow as fuck. But, at least its moving forward now. The end to end encryption, groups, and forums efforts are vital.
Matthias Pfefferle notes:
FEP-d1cb: Same-origin actor re-identification
Matthias does the most impactful work in the AP community IMHO. We need 200 more of him.
Terence Eden asks:
ActivityPub – Is it worth defending against replay attacks and message/signature time skew?
Spielleitung shares how to block a registration bot:
Prevent “BoomProtocolProbe” from registering
Starling
Starling is an ActivityPub server that can actually exchange posts, follows, profiles, replies, likes, and boosts across the Fediverse with Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, GoToSocial, PixelFed, and other ActivityPub-compatible platforms.
This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren’t able to comprehend ⬇️:
So, recognize their natures and don’t ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.
IFTAS has:
Updates to IFTAS Denylists and Access Options
Bonfire presents:
Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire
Jola.dev looks at:
Migrating your Bluesky account the hard way
Building AT Habitat shares:
Habitat’s road to release: 05 adopting opensocial
This appears to be a promising Atmosphere alternative to my Manade project.
Speaking of, atproto-spaces-alpha-updates has an update:
Breaking Changes around the simplespace API
Erlend Sogge Heggen explores:
Aaron Ross Powell examines:
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism
Which is why we need more private autonomous online communities. That’s what I’m exploring with Manade.
MeTacheles has:
W Social Netzwerk: Fake-Zahlen, Rassismus und Totenstille!
Plus there’s this kind of horseshit:
You can’t currently move from/to W without help from a dev
You may have to be logged into the Atmosphere to see this. Anyway, if you are a mark that got grifted into W, just delete you account. Hopefully, no one will ever find out you signed up. Except every company they will share your information with.
Atmosphere Conference News announces:
AtmosphereConf 2027 Organizing is Underway
Happening somewhere in Europe. ???
Bunnies in PCKT says:
RSS is still my preferred feed format
Mon aussi.
FreshRSS announces:
Internet Exchange looks at:
Building Online Communities We Can Keep
And please build something for a community! We’re painfully nurturing Manade.
7 #privacy tools experts actually use
https://proton.me/blog/privacy-tools-experts-use
#guide #Android #GrapheneOS #Graphene #Qubes #OrganicMaps #FDroid #RSS #Cape #Tor
Should publishing with ActivityPub be about as easy as publishing with RSS?
#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPub #RSS #publishing
| Yes: | 159 |
| Yes, but...: | 32 |
| No, but...: | 4 |
| No: | 5 |
Closed
First bugfix release for Liferea 2.0 release line: https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/releases/tag/v2.0.1
Please upgrade if 2.0 did not properly update feeds for you.
#lispyGopherClimate recalling that you can currently subscribe to the weekly shows such as the recent sunday-morning-in-europe (video): https://toobnix.org/w/m4AdkbJgRQ1prjSvSrirQG and preceding Tuesday-night-in-the-americas (audio w/ kmp and ramin) https://toobnix.org/w/1wbMEGRvVeRrbSviJVxy8H
(a) archives by #peertube #RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?videoChannelId=6574
(b) The peertube: @screwtape_channel
(c) This account tooting here which has announcement/notes toots.
Some kind of evolution coming as well.
Liferea 2.0 rinnova uno dei lettori RSS più longevi del panorama Linux con GTK4, LibAdwaita, supporto WebDAV e una nuova interfaccia moderna. #Linux #Liferea #RSS #GNOME #OpenSource https://www.linuxeasy.org/liferea-2-0-rinnova-il-celebre-lettore-rss-linux-con-gtk4-e-libadwaita/
𝗖𝘆𝗽𝗵𝘁:
https://thewhale.cc/posts/cypht
Cypht is a simple, lightweight, and modern webmail client that aggregates several accounts into a single view. Cypht (pronounced "sift") is like a news reader, but for E-mail. Cypht does not replace your existing accounts - it combines them into one. And it's also a news rss reader.
This is actually a cool idea !
In short: it’s a social, RSS-friendly radar for the open web, self-hosted, with magic-link auth, and connected to the fediverse (ActivityPub).
Liferea 2.0 which includes the GTK4 port has been released: https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/releases/tag/v2.0
I did extensive testing the last weeks and believe the 2.0 code is now stable enough to mandate the first stable release.
If you use Liferea 1.16.13 please upgrade to newest release 1.16.14 to get a fix for a bug that shows ""Account login for 'root' has not yet started." on every feed detail view.
I'm very sorry about the bad testing! I definitively should have caught this. I promise to better myself!
https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/releases/tag/v1.16.14
Also there are some good news: on the road for a final 2.0 - today saw another refactoring so the item list now uses GtkListView (and not GtkListBox as the first GTK4 porting was done with). This will help use cases loading thousands of items. Performance is not yet perfect, but quite acceptable. Additionaly work from last week that implemented deferred unread counting in the feed list reduced UI latency significantly. So you can already be excited about more performance in 2.0!
FeedFlow is an open-source RSS reader for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux. Keep your library local or sync with services like FreshRSS and Miniflux, with Reader Mode, offline reading, filters, bookmarks, and OPML import/export.
👉 https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=feedflow
Want more like The Cruelty of Many, The Grace of One? Follow my mailing list/newsletter at https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/ #Author #RSS #Newsletter #MailingList
#lispyGopherClimate #emacs #FSF CONFIRMED @bandali (note the new fediversal #snac account) will join us on the show tomorrow!
https://toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bhh5f2iT #archive - don't forget to follow bandali !
Remember it is every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas being 0UTC Wednesday, or 25 hours from this toot. (Every week since 2022.).
live - https://anonradio.net/
#RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 ( @screwtape_channel ). #peertube #lisp
Want more like My Refrigerator Thinks I'm in a Cult? Follow my mailing list/newsletter at https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/ #Author #RSS #Newsletter #MailingList
Last week in #FDroid (LWIF) in your #RSS inbox:
* #ReproducibleBuild huge repo study
* @gardiner_bryant makes lists
* @ferlagod and @allibragi blog on app inclusion
* @99managers #99managers first #Godot reproducible game
* #Matrix clients security updates
* #Odysee native app
* #SimpleX gets help from #AI
* #Mercurygram #Telegram translates
* #GithubStore gone, welcome #KomiStore
+ 72 new apps
& 328 updates
- 3 archived
Tag, you're it! https://f-droid.org/2026/06/26/twif.html
So, how would you feel?
| A fix is a fix, a tool is a tool: | 26 |
| I care who controls the tool: | 90 |
| I care how the tool was created: | 110 |
| I already blogged about F-Droid and AI, see my bio: | 2 |
Closed
new channel for #ArcaneChat, #DeltaChat and other #chatmail clients (encrypted email newsletter!)
Pluralistic - Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The channel is auto-generated from @pluralistic 's #RSS feed
here is the invite link 👇️
https://i.delta.chat/#EB87F92DC57303205E7F3ACB6DAA06D8FE761414&v=3&x=qGsBzEyxwfXZHdC3c_xgTSt4&j=dfmqdw31uNWGhZOWTmC9kt6m&s=V-0OT8cqMFvtYK5kH7E2Phcy&a=6j2tb0xyz%40arcanechat.me&n=ChannelsBot&b=Pluralistic
#newsletter #encryption #e2ee #privacy #decentralization #email #blog
I probably do need to cull them; they're not all active, nor probably even all up.
#Junited made me kind of fall in love with #RSS all over again...
Me on May 25th: "Oh no, don't open newsboat, so many unread things, anxietyyyyy"
Me on June 25th: "C'mon, c'mon you wonderful bloggers, WRITE SOMETHING, already!!" 😄
new channel for #ArcaneChat, #DeltaChat and other #chatmail clients:
heyokyay (content by @heyokyay )
Comics about life, love and all the cats in between. 🍪
(NOTE: the channel is auto-generated from heyokyay's official #RSS feed)
#comics #decentralization #encryption #resilience #Autonomy #anonymity
Anyone who logs onto to the fediverse slightly later than the show, this episode (scroll up for the archive) (and bonus 15 minutes extended cut on #peertube ) is a really really good one and significant, in Kent's historical document release beginning (scroll up). #boost the above toots if you are a
fan!
https://toobnix.org/w/1z43HJ2YboZUuE2U8LKRMj
https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185 #RSS
#lispyGopherClimate Sunday morning in Europe #peertube
Broadcast failed ;_;
800UTC Sundays as always.
#RSS: https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
#lisp #gopher #climate
but mainly
#bookstodon : Some notes on my reading of Computer Lib / Dream Machine by Ted Nelson https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116785660095724293
A list of #scifi mastorecommendations: https://gamerplus.org/@Binder@petrous.vislae.town/116785157517130760
Then if we need to fill out time, working on my lispy gopher climate zine concept I have slated for "next week".
two new Linux channels for you! now available in #ArcaneChat, #DeltaChat and other #chatmail clients!
basically encrypted email newsletters, how cool is that???
Channels name:
It's FOSS by @itsfoss
nixCraft by @nixCraft
You can discover the channels invitation link here:
https://arcanechat.me/channels
(NOTE: the channels are generated from the official RSS feeds)
#email #encryption #rss #OpenSource #linux #decentralization
𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁:
https://thewhale.cc/posts/newsletter-hunt
Follow your favorite newsletters : Newsletter Hunt allows you to create RSS-like feeds from your favorite newsletters.
Today's show - Friday Frivolity
Some great African sounds a bit of Dub, Funk, Soul, Hip Hop. All good vibes! Have a great weekend!
Mother Earth – Institution Man
Mother Earth – Jesse
AHC, AMS, SCQ – Garden Of Inspiration
Boards Of Canada – Oscar See Through Red Eye
3Head x Uncle Fester On Acid – New Acoustic Interceptions
3Head x Uncle Fester On Acid – Bloody Cash
The Weather
EPDM – It’s My Thing
Skeewif – Amen Brother
Large Professor - Spacey
JM Tim and Foty – Not So Bad
Orchestra Makassy – Molema
The Mandingo Griot Society – Africa
The Mandingo Griot Society – Junjungo
AHC, AMS, SCQ – Musical Medicine
AHC, AMS, SCQ – Topanga
https://pirate.mxtthxw.art/@thekalimerashow/episodes/friday-frivolity
#lispyGopherClimate (very) #live #podcast since 2022 : I currently have the flu, sorry everyone! Today my topic is:
Xanadu and The Madman, #ErikSandewall's side of #TedNelson's story.
https://toobnix.org/w/grQNigh7kFaE9QEjWDgthF
tl ; dl: the bifurcation is that where Ted Nelson picked #programming, Basic, not math and indie gamedevs, Erik Sandewall picked #lisp, math (KR) and *not programming*.
Also, the #environment and #KMP #haiku.
#lambdaMOO #liveChat as always. 0UTC Wednesdays! #RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
New security bugfix releases for Liferea 2.0-RC4 and 1.16.12 solve 2 possible RCEs in download manager and OPML import that were reported by Laurence Tennant. Please upgrade!
Just going to do a very brief Sunday morning in Europe #peertube #live
https://toobnix.org/w/6HtgQv4qGd127t1pN5kgZq
#lispyGopherClimate looking at my #McCLIM #MapEditor named #NicCLIM #commonLisp and briefly talking off my cuff about biblically accurate #lisp and #gamedev
#RSS
https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
Please urgently upgrade to Liferea 1.16.11 or 2.0-RC3 if you are using Reedah or TheOldReader sync! Sadly older versions have a security bug where one API request is done per http:// exposing your Reedah / TheOldReader auth token.
Today's show - Techno Honk
Continuing on with records bought in Oz there's The Comet Is Coming, Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef and more. Enjoy :)
Yusef Lateef – Love Theme From The Robe
Yusef Lateef – The Three Faces Of Balal
Mandingo Griot Society – Sounds From The Bush
Mandingo Griot Society – Appollo
Mandingo Griot Society – Chedo
Miles Davis – One And One
The Weather
The Comet Is Coming – Angel Of Darkness
The Comet Is Coming – Aftermath
The Comet Is Coming – Atomic Wave Dance
CAN – Little Star Of Bethlehem
Boards Of Canada – Oscar See Through The Red Eye
The Comet Is Coming – Code
The Comet Is Coming – Technicolour
https://pirate.mxtthxw.art/@thekalimerashow/episodes/techno-honk
#lispyGopherClimate #live weekly #technology #podcast every 0UTC Wednesday (Tuesday night in the Americas) since 2022.
https://toobnix.org/w/tFN3aeiUunJrU99yzWhHjq
#archive #RSS https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman
I want to tie the climatecrisis to an Alexandrian view of the crisis of, I guess, the hugely popular failure of modern industrial architecture.
The meteoric (good) impact Kents notes on my #NicCLIM #software https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/nicclim and #CLIM #GUI useage. #commonLisp #McCLIM
It's Sunday morning in Europe! #archive 8UTC Sunday as always #lispyGopherClimate #podcast since 2022.
https://toobnix.org/w/pU6zu95YDdyGKqsxxRf3Vg #peertube live
#RSS (recent times) https://toobnix.org/feeds/videos.xml?accountId=580185
@vnikolov 's Quality Without A Name toot #AI
As much as I can remember about the #lisp community #architecture and Christopher Alexander https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf https://alexandria.common-lisp.dev/
My NicCLIM #IDE demo and the #DL book I am #writing - loose bibliography and sketch of chapters
"For instance is there anything similar to RSS for gopher."The best way is likely to write a bash script to construct an XML file with a page per channel.
'cURL' should be useful since it support gopher, although you will have to custom script it.
'Lynx' browser also handles gopher quite nicely and you should be able to use the -dump feature and parse what you want.
'sfeed' may also help: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/man1/sfeed_gopher.1.html
gopherfeed: Convert RSS or Atom feeds to gophermap files.
https://github.com/lmaurits/gopherfeed
gopher_rss: quick rss news parser & headliner for gopher servers
https://soc.octade.net/octade/drafts
OFFPUNK
A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web by Ploum.
https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/
Debian / Ubuntu APT Package Manager
$ apt search gopher
$ apt-get install gophernicus bombadillo lynx curl kristall pygopherd sfeed
profit!
Lynx is great for browsing gopher and nntp.
Kristall is a graphical browser with gopher support.
Gophie browser:
"Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support. Gophie allows you to navigate the Gopherspace, read text, watch images and download files with the integrated download manager. If you don’t like what you see, then Gophie is also fully customisable!"
https://gophie.org/
Gopher Parser
https://github.com/zenshinji/gopher-parser
mari's Gopher Repository
https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v3/gopher/
Structure of a Gopher Menu
https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v3/gopher/structure-of-a-menu/
How To Gopher
https://www.davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/31/how-to-gopher.html
Reading RSS feeds from wacky protocols with newsboat
https://brokenco.de/2020/07/07/newsboat-wacky-feeds.html
Don't forget the RFCs. Gopher has a well-documented standard.
#gopher #RSS #XML #RFC #feeds #smolweb #text #plaintext #ascii